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From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: MDT error converting to Zulu
Date: 31 Aug 92 17:27:16 GMT
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara

> To identify the current file, I use the "date -u" command to provide 
>date and time in Greenwitch mean time (Zulu). However, all of our systems 
>are set to Mountain Daylight Time (MDT) which estimates Zulu time one-
>hour ahead.

The reason why "date -u" would give an incorrect value for UTC would be
if the system's clock were set incorrectly.  All "date" does, when
invoked with the "-u" flag, is:

	1) get the system time with "gettimeofday()"; the system time
	   is, on a properly-set-up system, kept in UTC.

	2) convert that time (represented as seconds+microseconds since
	   January 1, 00:00 UTC, 1970) to
	   day+month+year+hour+minute+second UTC.

	3) print it out.

If "date" is run with the "-u" flag, it pays no attention whatsoever to
the time zone for the system, as it doesn't have to.

UNIX systems don't get set to daylight as opposed to standard time; they
get set up with a particular set of rules for switching between standard
and daylight time (either by setting the TZ environment variable, or by
setting a variable in the kernel, or by making a "localtime" link to the
appropriate time zone file).

If your site is at a location where 1) Mountain Time is the timezone and
2) you observe DST according to the standard US rules, you should have
the system set up for that.  In the case of SunOS 4.x, that's done by
having the "localtime" link be a link to
"/usr/share/lib/zoneinfo/US/Mountain"; do "zic -l US/Mountain", as
"root", to do that.  (In SunOS 5.x, I think it's done by putting
"TZ=:US/Mountain" in "/etc/TIMEZONE".)

Then, once you've done that, type "date"; if the time isn't the correct
local time, then your system's clock is set wrong (which would explain
why you were getting answers that were off by an hour).  Set it
correctly.

The system will *not* require that you change the date when daylight
savings time goes into effect, or when it goes out of effect.
From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: Running out of processes
Date: 4 Sep 92 00:55:05 GMT
Distribution: comp.sys.sun.admin, comp.unix.admin
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara

>One thing you might look into is whether you have sufficient
>swap space.  If you run out of swap space you will see
>this message also.

If you run out of swap space, the only way you'll see "No more
processes" is if you are *also* running out of process table entries.

I.e., the error messages you get as a result of running out of swap
space aren't "No more processes" messages.

If you're running out of process table slots, you should increase the
number of process table slots.  The way you increase the number of
process table slots is to crank up the "maxusers" value in the "config"
file, re-run "config", rebuild the kernel, install the new kernel, and
reboot.
From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: Why doesn't Sun use version numbers in libraries?
Date: 28 Aug 1992 17:08:16 GMT
Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
Distribution: comp
NNTP-Posting-Host: telecaster.think.com

In article <THOMAS.TORNBLOM.92Aug28110817@beck.nexus.comm.se> Thomas.Tornblom@nexus.comm.se (Thomas Tornblom) writes:
>I've just installed the libc jumbo patch, 100532-2, and I can't figure
>out why Sun doesn't use the ability to have different versions of the
>same shared library active simultaneously.

Probably because different customers install different patches in different
orders, so they can't simply specify a particular version number in the
instructions.

>This patch replaces the old libc (v 1.7) with a new one with the same
>major/minor version number.

We ignored the instructions, and named the new libc 1.7.1.  This avoids
future conflicts when Sun comes out with their own 1.8.
-- 
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System Manager, Thinking Machines Corp.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: john@aquarius.unm.edu (John Prentice)
Subject: SparcPrinter BAD TRAP problems
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 92 19:21:11 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Physics & Astro, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque


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From: mikec@wam.umd.edu (Michael D. Callaghan)
Subject: Beginner needs guidance setting up UUCP mail & news
Originator: mikec@rac2.wam.umd.edu
Organization: University of Maryland at College Park
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 20:45:13 GMT

My Sun 3/60 is going to be on the 'Net soon, I hope. I have a
UUCP feed for mail and news, but I apparently need news software.

Once I get that, I will need some pointers to get the system
working. I've never been successful at getting UUCP to work,
so I'm going to ask in advance. Is there a document of some
sort I can turn to?

Any help appreciated.

Thanks,
MikeC
From: tyen@cs.utexas.edu (Anthony Yen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Exabyte 8500 Tapes
Date: 30 Aug 1992 12:08:31 -0500
Organization: Coffee R Us
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: ai.cs.utexas.edu


I just want to double check things before I tell my purchaser that he
botched up a tape order...

How can I tell if a Sony data grade 8mm tape is rated for 5 Gb
capacity?  I have tapes that come in these opaque white cases, and the
tape shell has orange lettering on them.  The tape length is listed at
112 metres, and the tape designation is QG-112M.  Earlier discussions
indicated that doubling the tape length parameter to dump will take
care of moving to 5 Gb tapes, but is the actual physical length of the
tape doubled or is the tape density increased?

I'm pretty sure I got 2 Gb tapes when I asked for 5 Gb tapes, through
empirical tests where I used the same dump commands as I've always
used before, only doubling the tape length parameter.  I just ran the
dumps until the drive complained of EOT, then tallied up the capacity
of the volumes dumped, and arrived at around 2.3 Gb.

Please respond through the newsgroup, because I suspect others might
be interested in this news, as well.

Tony
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From: jw@peanuts.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (Joerg Wedeck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: NFS Problem
Keywords: creat system call, NFS, Sun Sparc, IBM RS6000
Date: 4 Sep 92 08:03:27 GMT
Organization: "Lehrstuhl fuer Technische Informatik, Uni Tuebingen"


Hello,

I currently do not even know, if this is the right newsgroup.
we are running SparcStation 2, IPC and 4/470 with SunOs 4.1.2 in a
network with IBM RS6000 Machines, some of the IBM RS6000  are also used
as fileservers (the servers still run AIX 3.1.5).
Mounting file systems is done with the automounter.

The problem is that the creat system call is malfunctioning and damaging
the file-system on the RS6000 file server.
when i try to do a creat call on a directory an error should be returned.
on a sun, using a sun file server, this works correctly, also between the
rs6000 workstations. when i use creat on a directory on a sun with a
file-system mounted from an RS6000 machine, no error is return, instead the
directory is truncated to zero length (!!).
trying this the other way round (ibm rs6000 has mounted a file-system from
a sun) no problem occurs.

Now the question: Whose fault might it be ? IBM or Sun ?

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From: jonl@hal.COM (jon r. luini)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: Two ethernet cards attached to same physical network
Date: 1 Sep 1992 15:04:15 -0700
Organization: HAL Computer Systems, Inc.
Distribution: hal
NNTP-Posting-Host: gorn.hal.com

In <darren.2@hawkesbury.uws.EDU.AU> darren@hawkesbury.uws.EDU.AU (Darren Bovis) writes:

>Recently we have purchased an SBUS ethernet controler for one of our
>backbone SUN's under the pretense that we could route between two
>logical subnets on the same physical network. That is we have run out
>of IP addresses in the backbone subnet and were attempting to run 
>another gateway between the new subnet. This doesn't work due to the 
>ethernet controler not having its own MAC address (uses the internal 
>controlers address). This causes re-occuring broadcast storms on the
>local ethernet not to mention numerous other problems.

i encountered this problem when we had a machine with 4 different
interfaces, each on a different subnet. due to the way sun deals with
ethernet addresses and the way the particular router we had did, we 
had some major strangeness occur.

the workaround is to ifconfig the additional interfaces on the sun machine
to unique ethernet addresses. this can be done with
"ifconfig <interface> ether xxxxxxxx".  the problem is getting a unique
ethernet address to use there. in our case, we had some spare ones which
came with the standard router allocatation which we could use.  i have
been searching for a way to extract the on prom ethernet address which
should come with each ethernet card, but have been unable to get any
information about how to do so.  if anyone has information on doing this,
i'd love to hear about it!


-- 
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system administration
(408) 379-7000, x1276
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From: pkn@cs.utexas.edu (Kay Nettle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: maintenance
Followup-To: poster
Date: 26 Aug 1992 10:55:04 -0500
Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
NNTP-Posting-Host: deepthought.cs.utexas.edu
Keywords: need recommendations

Hi, 

	I just started a new job as systems manager this week and
found out that our maintenance contract runs out the end of this
month. :-( I need three bids before I can get the ball rolling.  I've
found one old quote, but that's it.  Could someone please recommend
some good maintenance companies?

Please reply by email.  If there is enough interest, I'll post a
summary.

Thanks,
Kay

pkn@tac.harc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Ruth Milner)
Subject: Re: Help!  Untarring a SGI tape on a Sparc
Reply-To: rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Ruth Milner)
Organization: National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Socorro NM
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 92 21:51:11 GMT

In article <wycn8yb@lynx.unm.edu> john@aquarius.unm.edu (John Prentice) writes:
>checksum error.  I have seen this problem before.  It has to do with SGI
>writing its integers with the byte order different than the Sun.  

   dd if=/dev/nrst0 conv=swab | tar xvf -
         ^^^^^^^^^^
        your tape name here

"swab" means SWAp Bytes. "dd" is a very useful program for a lot of things.

I thought that SGI fixed this a couple of years ago. Are you running an old
release of IRIX? Or did they not do what they said they were going to?
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: jens@seas.gwu.edu (Jens Johansen)
Subject: how do you back up to a remote tape drive?
Originator: jens@seas.gwu.edu
Organization: George Washington University
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 17:39:44 GMT

Hullo, there,

I would like to back up a disk on one host to an 8mm tape drive on another
host, and I'm a bit confused as to how this can be accomplished.  I'd like
to use something like dump to do this, but I don't know how to do this
across the net.

Anyone know?  Please respond by e-mail.

Thanks in advance!

Jens

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: borchert@titania.mathematik.uni-ulm.de (Andreas Borchert)
Subject: Re: Moving calendar info
Organization: University of Ulm, SAI
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 92 13:06:56 GMT

In article <1992Sep3.005604.21109@news.ysu.edu>, lou@yfn.ysu.edu (Lou Anschuetz) writes:
> I've just moved from one sun workstation to another.  I had my
> calendar tool nicely set up on the old machine, and wish to move
> that calendar data to the new Sun.  I had (falsely I guess) 
> assumed that I could move /usr/spool/calendar/callog.lou to 
> the new machine, fix up its permissions, do a sed to change
> machine ID's in the tag, and bring up calendar tool.  Much to
> my surprise it had no idea that the data was out there. :-)
> 
> Is there any way to do this?  

Probably, you've forgotten to restart rpc.cmsd after your changes
to your callog file.

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_______________________________________________________________________________

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Internet: borchert@mathematik.uni-ulm.de
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: joey@tessi.com (Joey Pruett)
Subject: 76800 baud on sparc
Summary: patches for stty, getty, uucico, and tip
Keywords: patch
Organization: Test Systems Strategies, Inc., Beaverton, Oregon
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 17:40:24 GMT

i recently posted some kernel patches to allow the zs8530 chips to run
at 76800 baud.  here are some more patches that will allow stty, getty,
uucico, and tip to understand what 76800 means.  these patches assume
that you have replaced 4800 baud (which is what i posted, and have
reposted below).  they also assume that you are running 4.1.2.

one thing that these patches to not fix is termcap padding.  if you are
running a terminal at 76800 and it needs padding, all the
curses/termcap programs are going to think you're running at 4800 baud,
and therefore not provide enough padding for 76800.

*** DISCLAIMER ***
i take no responsibility for any side effects these patches may
have.  if you blow up half of north america, it is not my fault.
look over these patches carefully, and make sure you understand
what they are doing.  keep backups copies of the programs you
are modifying.  pay attention to w/W differences.  be careful!
*** DISCLAIMER ***

here we go:
adb -w -k /vmunix /dev/mem
zs_speeds+0t24?w 0
zs_speeds+0t24/w 0

adb -w /usr/bin/stty
6c2c?W 0t76800
6c50?W '7680'
6c54?w '0'
615c?W 12

adb -w /usr/etc/getty
8aec?W 0t76800
8af0?W 0t12

adb -w /usr/lib/uucp/uucico
1d0d0?W 0t76800
1d0d4?W 0t12

adb -w /usr/bin/tip
0f00c?W 0t76800
From: igb@fulcrum.bt.co.uk (Ian G Batten)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Slight Strangeness with ``config''
Date: 2 Sep 92 14:37:56 GMT
Organization: Fulcrum Communications


I use Online:Disksuite to shadow my root but not the swapspace.  This is
because the machine is an NFS server but we can tolerate the odd break
of service as long as the machine can be back in a few minutes.  This
means I need to have a second kernel with its primary swap somewhere
other than its usual place, so I can reboot in the face of a broken
``first'' disk.

This works:

config	vmunix root on md0a	swap on id000b
config  vmunixbackup root on md0a     swap on id010b

This complains about a syntax error on the ``backup'' line:

config	vmunix root on md0a	swap on id000b
config  vmunix.backup root on md0a     swap on id010b

Anyone suggest why?  I only found the fix by trial and error...

ian
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: abcc@DIALix.oz.au (Adrian Booth Computing Consultants)
Subject: FAQ - Preventing console poweroff hanging system
Organization: DIALix Services, Perth, Western Australia
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 92 05:32:32 GMT
Summary: What cable pinouts do I need?
Keywords: cable console Sun server hang

I've seen this subject discussed several times in this newsgroup, but 
haven't encountered the problem until now -

I am looking after a Sun 670 server which has an NCD X terminal attached
as a console terminal (serial connection). When the NCD is turned off,
the machine hangs. (This is apparently a generic serial console problem
and is not NCD-specific).

Do I need a different serial cable? If so, what are the pinouts required?
If not, what do I do now?

Responses by email please, if there is enough interest I will summarise
and post.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: rich@gtsi.com (Richard Lawrence)
Subject: Kernel config - shared memory
Organization: GTSI - Govt. Technology Services Inc.
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 05:17:44 GMT

How does one specify a minimum amount of shared memory in a kernel
configuration under 4.1.2? It's not in the config file itself, so 
I tried walking through ~kvm/sys/shm.h among other things, and had
limited (well none actually) success. Where's the magic cookie? 
What bizarre command line parm will help me? :-)

I know that the GENERIC kernel has plenty of shared memory, but for
the life of me I can't think of what I commented out that killed it
(I'm editing from the GENERIC original).

Any help would be appreciated. Reply here or rich@halluc.com, either
will work.
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From: evan@fsg.com (Evan L. Marcus)
Subject: Re: Trackball for a Sun?
Keywords: Trackball
Organization: Fusion Systems Group, New York City
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 16:57:48 GMT

In article <1992Aug21.231118.13005@attain.icd.teradyne.com> jxh@certes.icd.teradyne.com (Jim Hickstein) writes:
>In article <1992Aug14.161543.24987@newsgate.sps.mot.com> mario@wdc.sps.mot.com (Mario Nigrovic) writes:
>>Hello out there.  I have a simple question:  I'm getting tired of
>>my sun mouse constantly gumming up and taking the pad with it whenever
					^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>it gets moved [...]

>We bought some rubber pads that are sold for use with mechanical mice,
>and stuck them under the optical pads.  Works great!  Who'da thunk it?

>Now, if someone could recommend a way to clear up "mouse grunge", my
>life would be complete.  Maybe an eraser or something...

I found a much simpler solution to the mouse pad movement problem.

I put some water on the rubber strips on the bottom of the mouse pads, and
stuck it to the table surface.  It never moved again.

As for mouse grunge, just use a regular pencil eraser.  It works great.

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From: glenns@nmsstage.pad.otc.com.au (Glenn Satchell - Uniq professional Services)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: page size
Date: 27 Aug 92 04:38:55 GMT
Reply-To: glenns@nmsstage.pad.otc.com.au (Glenn Satchell - Uniq professional Services)

In article <BtFAFx.8rs@gumby.ocs.com>, obi@gumby.ocs.com (Kuryan "Obi" Thomas) writes:
|> In article <9208221645.aa10159@q2.ics.uci.edu>, ahalim@ics.uci.edu writes:
|> > 
|> > How does one determine the size of the memory page?
|> > [For SunOS 4.1.2]
|> > 
|> getpagesize(2).

pagesize(1).
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: kevin@rodin.wustl.edu (Kevin Ruland)
Subject: Help me with yppasswdd and 4.1.2
Organization: Center for Optimization and Semantic Control, Washington University
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 16:27:32 GMT


I can't seem to get rpc.yppasswdd to work correctly.  The symptom is:
passwd will change the entry in the passwd input file but the make
is not being done.   I know the make isn't being done because the
timestamp, passwd.time, is always the old one.  My input files are in
/var/etc (non-standard place) and I've started yppasswdd in rc.local
with, rpc.yppasswdd /var/etc/passwd -m passwd .  The makefile in
/var/yp works correctly by hand (that is DIR is set right).  This is
exactly the same setup I used on my old machine running 4.1.1a.

Anyone have any ideas?

thanks for the support.

Kevin Ruland
kevin@rodin.wustl.edu
From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: ypserv not responding (Possible DNS failure)
Date: 24 Aug 1992 02:22:30 GMT
Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: gandalf.think.com

In article <1992Aug23.185953.16890@gmuvax2.gmu.edu> rauletta@sitevax.gmu.edu (R. J. Auletta) writes:
>BTW, is there a way to determine the active ypmasters for a particular
>NIS domain? Emulate the broadcast that ypbind generates?

"ypwhich -m" which ask the server to which you're currently bound where the
master servers are.  The broadcast that ypbind generates will find any
master or secondary servers on the local subnet, not just the masters (the
master might not even be on the local subnet).  "rpcinfo -b ypserv 1" will
emulate the broadcast, though, if that's what you actually wanted.

-- 
Barry Margolin
System Manager, Thinking Machines Corp.

barmar@think.com          {uunet,harvard}!think!barmar
From: tyen@cs.utexas.edu (Anthony Yen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: Exabyte 8500 Tapes
Date: 31 Aug 1992 12:25:11 -0500
Organization: Coffee R Us
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: ai.cs.utexas.edu


Got the info I needed, thanks to all who responded.  I didn't know
that the 8500's don't have density auto-sensing, and had to change
from /dev/nrst0 to /dev/nrst8 (or something along those lines) to
select the correct density (like on the nine-tracks).

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From: stevew@ilix.cs.uoregon.edu (Stephen M. Wynne)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: 690MP "pausing"
Date: 26 Aug 92 07:19:41 GMT
Article-I.D.: ilix.STEVEW.92Aug25231941
Organization: CS Dept, University of Oregon

Bob (and anyone else in this predicament),

I had an account on a 630 which displayed the awful "pausing" problem.
It was running TMPFS, which I strongly believed was the culprit. Other
machines I've used without TMPFS are more stable.

STEVE