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From: arvidson@lagrange (John Arvidson  )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Mail won't recognize users
Summary: mail from outside gets user unknown error
Date: 7 Apr 92 17:05:27 GMT
Organization: Colorado State University, Fort Collins


                                                      
Hello, I am wondering if anyone can help me solve this problem.
We have several suns in our dept. here.  We just got a new  
sparcStation 2 and I can't seem to get mail to work right on it.
I am using the same sendmail.cf we use on all the suns and they
work fine.  The problem with this one is that when mail gets sent
to the new machine from another machine, sendmail seems to 
connect to
the new machine ok but the new machine always responds 'user
unknown' and it does so immediately (see example below).  The mail
works fine locally and mail gets sent out to other machines properly,
just this one problem.  One difference between this machine and the
other machines in our dept is that it is running sunos 4.1.2 and
the others are running 4.1.1.  Any help would be greatly appreciated!

John Arvidson
arvidson@lagrange.math.colostate.edu




riemann# /usr/lib/sendmail -v </dev/null arvidson@ritz
arvidson@ritz... Connecting to ritz via ether...
Trying 129.82.101.82...  connected.
220 ritz.MATH.ColoState.EDU Sendmail 4.1/SMI-4.1 ready at Tue, 7 
Apr 92 09:04:1T
>>> HELO riemann.MATH.ColoState.EDU
250 ritz.MATH.ColoState.EDU Hello riemann.MATH.ColoState.EDU, 
pleased to meet yu
>>> MAIL From:<root@riemann.MATH.ColoState.EDU>
250 <root@riemann.MATH.ColoState.EDU>... Sender ok
>>> RCPT To:<arvidson@ritz>
550 User unknown
arvidson@ritz... User unknown
>>> QUIT
221 ritz.MATH.ColoState.EDU closing connection
Saving message in //dead.letter
//dead.letter... Can't create output
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: todd@draco.macsch.com (Todd C. Williams)
Subject: Re: amd on the suns
Organization: MacNeal-Schwendler Corp.
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 92 02:52:23 GMT

In article <1992Apr2.184530.27461@news.Hawaii.Edu> julie@kela.soest.hawaii.edu (Julie Jirikowic) writes:
>
>I am looking into replacing the sun automounter with amd.  We have about
>75 suns, mostly sparc stations, that would be affected.  Does anyone have
>any experience with amd on suns?  How much harder is it to administer?
>Is it worth the extra hassle?

Some thoughts from the Jan 92 USENIX tutorial session on advanced system
administration by Rob Kolstad and Trent Hein:

  - Sun's automounter only works on SUNs, and is still buggy/fragile/etc.

  - amd runs anywhere, is more robust than automounter, is free, supports
    advanced features that SUN doesn't.

  - amd, however, is much more complex.

  Conclusion: It's worth it.

If you are a 100% SUN environment with simple problems only, maybe you
should make your own decision.  I'm not running amd yet, but I will be soon.
-- 
Todd Williams    UNIX Systems Coordinator     todd@macsch.com    (213) 259-4973
MacNeal-Schwendler Corp. ("MSC"),  815 Colorado Blvd.,  Los Angeles, CA   90041
"The Democrats stand for nothing except 'I wish I was a Republican' and the
Republicans stand for raw, unbridled evil and greed and ignorance smothered
in balloons and ribbons."  -Frank Zappa, 1991  (Zappa for president!)
Xref: sparky comp.sys.sun.admin:2479 comp.sys.sun.wanted:653
From: ignatios@theory.cs.uni-bonn.de (Ignatios Souvatzis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.wanted
Subject: which traceroute version should I use for SunOS 4.1.1 on SPARC?
Date: 13 Apr 92 22:40:57 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: /home/theory/ignatios/.organization

traceroute 4.0 compiles fine and stops with 'bus errors' or 'can't
find route address' on a Sparcserver 390. Is there a version on the
net which compiles-and-works without weeks of debugging?

			Ignatios Souvatzis

P.S. I know it works on SUN 3's. I have Sparcs.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: kshah@makalu.Stanford.EDU (Kishan B. Shah)
Subject: Telnet, rsh etc without updating the login data base (wtmp) ?
Organization: Turbulence Mechanics, Stanford University
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 23:00:39 GMT


 Is it possible to login without being entered in the login data
base (wtmp) ? I had login problems with long username and someone 
pointed out that it had something to do with updating of system
records, so just wondering if it's possible to login without
updating the data base. ?


-kshah
From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: in.tnamed under 4.1.1?
Date: 15 Apr 1992 00:56:42 GMT
Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: telecaster.think.com

In article <2385@news.duke.edu> ndd@sunbar.mc.duke.edu (Ned Danieley) writes:
>I just happened to notice that in.tnamed is running on a bunch of
>my machines, and I don't know why. the man page seems to indicate
>that I don't need it (it's used by the MIT PC/IP software and by
>Bridge boxes). anyone know why it might be running? could this be
>a security hole? should I disable it in inetd.conf?

Lots of random machines still use IEN-116 name servers.  Cisco terminal
servers will try this if it can't contact a domain server.

I wouldn't be too concerned about it; it doesn't seem like a likely place
for a security hole.  On the other hand, if you don't think any of your
machines should be using it, there's no harm in disabling it.  If some
machine at your site *is* using it, you'll find out soon enough when the
user complains that he can't translate names to addresses.
-- 
Barry Margolin
System Manager, Thinking Machines Corp.

barmar@think.com          {uunet,harvard}!think!barmar
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Ruth Milner)
Subject: Re: du and df difference
Reply-To: rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Ruth Milner)
Organization: National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Socorro NM
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 92 19:07:55 GMT

In article <BEN.92Apr10141338@cit3sun1.it3.crl.mei.co.jp> ben@it3.crl.mei.co.jp (Ben Reaves) writes:
>
>I tried "df /var" and see that about 7777 kb are used, 234 free.
>I tried "du /var" and see that it is about 620 kb
>[...]
>Until this 7MB disk hog is found, I can't use vi on large files.

I've seen a couple of similar situations, with different causes.

The first time, some process got into a strange state while it had a large
file open. "du" couldn't see it, but "df" did. The solution that time was
to reboot (thus killing the process) and let fsck do its thing. Note you may
need to run fsck manually to fix it, if this is your problem, as it will
very likely fail on reboot.

The second occasion was rather different. I had a partition mounted on /usr/tmp
(with /tmp and /var/tmp being symlinks to it). Frequently, the system would 
report

  /usr/tmp: filesystem full

df and du both reported the same thing, about 30% space used. df -i showed 
about 60% of the inodes used; lots left. It wasn't the same situation as above,
since the condition survived months' worth of reboots, including cases where
the building power failed and *everything* went down at the same time. Each 
time it showed up, a couple of times a week, the temporary workaround was to 
clear out all those da*ned .getwdxxxxx files that accumulated at SunOS 4.0.3, 
as well as anything else that could go. But I was never able to truly clear 
this up until we upgraded a little while ago, when I took advantage of that to 
run newfs on that filesystem (and, of course, the upgrade ran newfs on / and
/usr). 

/usr, where the mount point was, had lots of space and inodes too. For that
matter, so did / .

The one thing I noticed in this case was the size of the directory file for 
/usr/tmp itself: about 166K. It made me wonder whether directory files in UNIX 
have to be contiguous (as in VMS), or have some hard size limit, or some such 
restriction.  Even if it does have to be contiguous, there was about 30MB of 
free space; I find it hard to believe that the filesystem was so badly frag-
mented that the system couldn't find a couple of hundred KB to copy the 
directory file to. Certainly the stats fsck reported didn't seem that high.

If anyone has any ideas about what that might have been, I'd love to know.
-- 
Ruth Milner                          NRAO/VLA                  Socorro NM
Computing Division Head      rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: martin@datacomm.ucc.okstate.edu (Martin McCormick)
Subject: Still Having Trouble with Sendmail
Organization: Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 17:02:16 GMT


I am attempting to configure our Sun Sparc to use domain name
service to do its own mail routing.  I have had some very
good help on setting up the sendmail.cf file and am
reasonably sure that it is right.  The problem is that no
matter what I do, all non-local mail instantly bounces with
an unknown host error.
     All of the other Sun-supplied networking programs such
as Telnet and FTP do use the domain name service for their
connections and I know that many people in the world
successfully use sendmail.
     On this system, there is no /etc/resolv.conf because it
is running as a caching-only nameserver.  I did some
experimenting with changing the NIS domain name and found out
the following:  The hostname is  datacomm.ucc.okstate.edu.  I
set the NIS domain name to equal the host name.  This caused
 every host within the domain of okstate.edu to be resolved
as local.  Of course, that didn't work.  I, then, set the NIS
domain to  uccdatacomm  so that it would have nothing in
common with the host name, and got the present situation in
which all non-local mail is just bounced.
When I setup the system to route to another machine using
sendmail instead of  sendmail.mx and
/etc/sendmail.subsidiary.cf as  /etc/sendmail.cf,  the system
works perfectly.  It has to be using DNS to connect to the
relay mailer.  If there was any way to look inside the
process to see what is missing or misconfigured, I could have
this running in no time.
     I considered installing  ida sendmail,  which I hear is
very good, but the documentation which comes with the version
of bind needed for  ida sendmail  states that other programs
which use gethostbyname must be recompiled.  Right now,
everything works but sendmail.  It sounds as if I could
easily end up with a system where nothing works but sendmail.
I would much rather make this version of sendmail work right
than replace it since we aren't doing anything really unusual
 and it should work.  If anybody has successfully found the
magic configuration to make the Sunos compilation of sendmail
work, I would be glad to know and will be more than happy to
share it with anybody else.  I would also be appreciative of
any diagnostic suggestions since I really think the problem
is mainly one of not having enough feedback to know where
things are going wrong.

Martin McCormick WB5AGZ   Stillwater, OK
O.S.U. Computer Center Data Communications Group
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: shankar@rss.dl.nec.com (Uday Shankar)
Subject: Re: Unmounting of busy HSFS filesys causes panic
Organization: NEC America
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 21:20:38 GMT

In article <1992Apr10.185037.5541@zia.aoc.nrao.edu> 
     rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Ruth Milner) writes:

> I agree completely. In fact when I ran into this, I called the hotline and
> complained. Sun's response was most unhelpful, basically they said you 
> aren't supposed to use umount(8) on a CD-ROM, it doesn't work properly anyway
> (first I've heard, works fine if the device isn't busy). You're supposed
> to use eject(1) instead. Of course, this isn't documented anywhere ("you
> must use eject to dismount a CD-ROM filesystem" etc.).

That's interesting. When we had problems with a CDROM drive, the Sun
engineers told me very specifically to do a umount instead of an eject.

Uday
______________________________________________________________
Uday Shankar                 uday.shankar@rss.dl.nec.com
NEC - Supervisory Systems    (214) 907-4494
______________________________________________________________
"go flying, put a spin on life"
From: fwp@Jester.CC.MsState.Edu (Frank Peters)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: Solaris 2.0 to bundle C after all?
Date: 12 Apr 92 17:00:28 GMT
Article-I.D.: ra.1992Apr12.170028.21072
Organization: Computing Center, Mississippi State University

In article <tom.703093220@marsh> tom@marsh.cs.curtin.edu.au (kieronski tom) says:
>	I have heard a rummor that GCC for Solaris might be distributed
>	on the CD-ROM. The GCC is supposed to be developed/modified 
>	specifically for Solaris 2.0.
>
>	Anyone out can confirm/deny this ?

From a recent missive from Sun:

        Cygnus Software of Palo Alto has stated publicly that they
        intend to provide a free gnu c compiler for SPARC.  It is their
        plan to make this compiler available on Volume 4 of CDware
        that is due out in September 1992.

        This means that every SPARC system will ship with a free compiler
        on the CDware disk.  This should be a good solution for users who
        need to take source off of internet and compile them for use at their
        sites.  Cygnus also offers support for a fee.

        [Note that Cygnus is an independent company.  For official
        confirmation of release dates and schedules, please contact Cygnus.]
--
Frank Peters  -  UNIX Systems Programmer  -  Mississippi State University
Internet: fwp@CC.MsState.Edu  -  Phone: (601)325-7030  -  FAX: (601)325-8921
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.apps,alt.sys.sun,comp.windows.open-look
From: jmd@wrkgrp.COM (Joseph M DeAngelo)
Subject: Re: OpenWindows, tcsh, and arrow keys
Organization: The Workstation Group
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 92 21:18:45 GMT

>From uunet!math.psu.edu!sibley Thu Apr  9 16:00:23 1992
>I just read your corrected post on the net. Interesting. On my system
>the $OPENWINHOME/lib/.ttyswrc file does not have mappings for the arrow
>keys at all. Perhaps others don't either, and this is the problem?
>

This is embarassing.  I included those as just missing numbers in the
sequence.  I really ought to have looked in the purported working .ttyswrc .
These values match exactly what you see if you open a sunview cmdtool and
hit these keys from the cmd line.  They also match the arrow definitions
used by terminfo and termcap.  My apologies for mucking this up so much.

In the working .ttyswrc I have the following:

#map function keys

mapi F1 \E[224z
mapi F2 \E[225z
mapi F3 \E[226z
mapi F4 \E[227z
mapi F5 \E[228z
mapi F6 \E[229z
mapi F7 \E[230z
mapi F8 \E[231z
mapi F9 \E[232z
mapi F10 \E[233z
mapi F11 \E[234z
mapi F12 \E[235z
mapi R1  \E[208z
mapi R2  \E[209z
mapi R3  \E[210z
mapi R4  \E[211z
mapi R5  \E[212z
mapi R6  \E[213z
mapi R7  \E[214z
mapi R8  \E[A
mapi R9  \E[216z
mapi R10 \E[D
mapi R11 \E[218z
mapi R12 \E[C
mapi R13 \E[220z
mapi R12 \E[B
mapi R15 \E[222z
From: jel8@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Jason E Levine)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: date change
Summary: Date keeps changing itself on a Sun 3/60
Date: 7 Apr 92 21:33:19 GMT
Organization: _Spectator_, Columbia University

HELP.  I have a Sun 3/60, and the date is running about a month behind.
Whenever I try to change it (with the date command), it resets itself
once the computer is rebooted.  But it doesn't merely reset to a certain
number, or to some random number -- it resets itself to the date and time
that the computer would have read had I not changed it.  Weird.  Does
anyone know why this is?  Thanks for the help.

					/Jason Levine

  ____/|   +-------------------------------+  California: Every couple of
  \ o.O|   |  Jason Levine                 |   years, God tips America on
   =(_)=   |  jel8@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu  |   its side, and everything not
     U     +-------------------------------+   bolted down slides there.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.apps,alt.sys.sun,comp.windows.open-look
From: paul@econ.yale.edu (Paul McGuire)
Subject: OpenWindows, and function keys (was Openwindows, tcsh, and arrow keys
Originator: paul@oberon.econ.yale.edu
Organization: Economics Department, Yale University, New haven, CT.
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 20:45:18 GMT

In article <1992Apr9.211845.11611@wrkgrp.COM> jmd@wrkgrp.COM (Joseph M DeAngelo) writes:
>
>This is embarassing.  I included those as just missing numbers in the
>sequence.  I really ought to have looked in the purported working .ttyswrc .
>These values match exactly what you see if you open a sunview cmdtool and
>hit these keys from the cmd line.  They also match the arrow definitions
>used by terminfo and termcap.  My apologies for mucking this up so much.
>
>In the working .ttyswrc I have the following:
>
>#map function keys
>

lines deleted

>mapi R8  \E[A
>mapi R9  \E[216z
>mapi R10 \E[D
>mapi R11 \E[218z
>mapi R12 \E[C
>mapi R13 \E[220z
>mapi R12 \E[B
>mapi R15 \E[222z

Thanks for posting this the first time around in response to my original
question.  I found that I had to comment out the cursor keys as you
originally gave then to get them to work.  Someone else who thought
that a default .ttyswrc will be used is wrong:  it must be in your 
home directory.  The other error I noticed is still there:  you have
R12 instead of R14.

Now for my question.  Does anyone know how to get the number pad delete
back from OW?  I've tried various names for it in the .ttyswrc (del,Del,B10 
(loadmap says the the numpad delete is bottom function key 10)) without
any effect.  I've tried loadmap which changes its value as far as
dumpmap is concerned but is ignored by OW.  xmodmap -pk says that its
value is xffff, i.e. identical to the Delete key on the top of the 
keyboard.  Its value outside OW is ^E[249z, but I've found nothing
about what OW uses for a keyboard map or how I might change it to leave
this value alone.

I'd also like to assign values to shift-F1, etc.  Any ideas?

Paul McGuire
Yale Economic Growth Center
From: sidd@maui.cs.ucla.edu (Siddhartha Devadhar)
Subject: Printer Configuration
Originator: sidd@maui.cs.ucla.edu
Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 92 18:25:46 GMT

Hi:
   We are just setting up a new network at work
   and I need some pointers to setting up a HP Laserjet III
   for use in a heterogeneous DOS/UNIX environment.

   Essentially I do not want to use the unix2dos filter
   everytime I print a unix text file.  The printer has been set up
   for DOS because DOS has more users.  The print server itself
   is a SUN SparcStation.  Is there a way that the printer can 
   be configured so that it converts unix LFs to CR-LFs without
   using the printcap file.  I've tried many combinations of
   ms=onlcr,...onlret etc and none of them work coherently.

   It's either unix or dos files, and presently the filter 
   seems to be absolutely necessary.  (Postscript mode runs
   fine for either)

   ANY SUGGESTIONS??

   Thanks

Sidd
-- 
If you accept nothing you have nothing to give.


Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,culist.sun-managers,comp.sys.sun.misc
From: rjkoop@sebastian.business.carleton.ca (rjkoop)
Subject: xlock hanging problem with SunOS 4.1.1.
Apparently-To: sun-managers@eecs.nwu.edu
Organization: Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
Distribution: na
Date: 14 Apr 1992 23:14:15 GMT

Our Sparc 2s, running SunOS 4.1.1 and OpenWindows 2, use the xlock
program to lock the screen.  Occassionally, when someone tries to
unlock their screen, the moving image freezes and they cannot type
their password.  The workstation is frozen until I remotely login
and kill the lock process.  Does anyone know why?

Also, what should I kill when I kill the xlock?  I kill the xlock
process but then the user gets an NFS security violation from the
server.
From: msirota@ee.rochester.edu (Mark Sirota)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Inexplicable mail loss
Date: 15 Apr 92 18:26:16 GMT
Reply-To: Mark Sirota <msirota@socrates.ee.rochester.edu>
Organization: University of Rochester Department of Electrical Engineering

I've got a problem here that's happened twice, and I absolutely cannot
explain it.  I wonder if anyone has seen something similar before.

The visible symptom is that a handful of mailboxes appear to get truncated
to zero-length overnight.  People report in the morning that mail that had
been in their mailbox yesterday is no longer there.  New mail has usually
arrived in the meantime; we have no reports of people coming in to an empty
mailbox.  In both cases, it happened to perhaps a dozen people out of about
300-400.

The mailboxes are in a 4.2 partition on the domain server, and NFS-mounted
read-write by AMD everywhere else.  The domain server is the only machine
that ever calls binmail to do final delivery, so file locking shouldn't be
an issue.  People are not reading their mail when this happens, at least not
in general.

There are a number of possibilities.
(1) Perhaps new mail is coming in, and creating a new mailbox rather than
	appending.
(2) Perhaps the problem has nothing to do with the mail system; something
	else is truncating the files, then new mail comes in innocently.
(3) Perhaps they're all getting truncated at the same time, perhaps it's
	all within a small time window.
(4) Perhaps it's happened more than twice, but we haven't gotten reports.
(5) Perhaps it's not happening to just mailboxes, but we have no reports.
(6) If it's mail software, it could be the MTA or it could be the MUA, but
	as we believe it's happening when people aren't around, the latter
	is doubtful.

We can't come up with a way to find out exactly when it happened, largely
because we don't know about it until a few people report it.  We also can't
recreate it.

As a side issue, the second time it happened the clock on the server was in
the process of failing, and was several hours behind.  I strongly doubt
that has any *direct* relationship, because the clock was fine the first
time (approximately a year earlier).  I am currently trying to pin down the
exact date the first time, on the theory that perhaps it had something to do
with daylight savings time (it happened that weekend this year, I think).

Basically, I haven't got a clue at the moment, but I really don't want it to
happen again.  I have no leads, no information, no ideas.  In coming up with
ideas, I'm just brainstorming, daydreaming, grasping at anything that might
have anything to do with it.  I'd like to hear if anything similar has ever
happened to anyone else, and if you know how it happened.  I'm interested in
any theories anyone can come up with.

Thanks in advance for any thoughts on the matter.
-- 
Mark Sirota - Department of Electrical Engineering Systems Staff
University of Rochester, Rochester NY
 Internet: msirota@ee.rochester.edu
 UUCP:     rutgers!rochester!ur-valhalla!msirota
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: stevew@helios.unl.edu (Steve Wu)
Subject: in.named died.
Organization: University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Date: 14 Apr 92 22:08:51 GMT

  For some reasons our sun stations have problem with their name
servers. It seems to me, after running for a while in.named get
confused and doesn't resolve names. This problems happens to sparc1,
IPX, 4/280 and sparc2, and those machines are running SunOS 4.1, 4.1.1
and 4.1.2.

  Since the name server here is a HP machine, and I guess, HP may have
problem. Does anyone have any idea what is going on?

  steve
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