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From: mhl@genco.bungi.com (Mark Levy)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards,biz.sco.general
Subject: Moving /dev/swap to a different drive
Keywords: swap SCO unix
Date: 10 Jan 93 00:53:13 GMT
Followup-To: poster
Organization: Gentry & Assoc. Excelsior Springs, Mo.


   Something that I just ran into this morning is a problem on a UNIX MP
system where the client is running out of space on the root fs.  They are
nominally configured to run at 50% capacity with a 90 MB fs.  The problem
is that they managed to spool 38MB of print jobs!  This would normally
be _NO_ problem whatsoever using CTAR.  Just backup, reconfigure, and 
restore.  The problem is that they are runnign Advanced Pick for SCO,
which uses a NON-UNIX pick filesystem (850 MB), and it takes about 6 hours
to do a complete pick backup, and another 7 to restore, not counting the 
time to reinstall it (even dd won't work properly).  what I want to do is
remove the 90MB swap device from the primary disk, and move it to the 
secondary disk, adding the 90MB to the root fs capacity.  I think I can
do it, but I'm not sure, and that's the reason for this post.  In this 
case, after running divvy -m on the primary and secondary drives, I think
I would just use the swap -a command to add a swap dev to the second 
drive, and then modify the defbootstr with hd(40)unix root=hd(40) swap=hd(XXX),
where XXX is the minor dev number of the new swap device.  Is that all
there is to it?  I don't think that I should run divvy -i, since I don't
want to touch the pick file system.  Afterwards, I think I need to run
mkfs on /dev/root.  Am I going about this the right way?  Are there any
problems with moving the swap device to a secondary disk?

   The system is configured as follows:
DEC 433MP, 64 MB Ram
DPT 2012B/90 SCSI HA, Dual mirrored Micropolis 1598, DEC (connor) 200 MB HD
   (secondary drive), Archive ST-250, WangDat 1300XL
SCO UNIX v3.2.4.1 (installed 4.1 Maint Sup.)

Thanks in advance,

Mark
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From: 092306@hyperion.lanl.gov (Jerry Weber IS-5 7-7410)
Subject: Disk trouble
Keywords: disk Conditional Success
Reply-To: 092306@hyperion.lanl.gov
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 21:15:25 GMT

Heres just a short taste of what our 4/490 is putting
out ....
Jan  2 05:19:58 pallas vmunix: id001h: block 903180 (983130 abs): read: Conditional Success. Data Retry Performed. 
Jan  2 05:46:03 pallas vmunix: /home/disk4: file system full
Jan  2 05:46:08 pallas vmunix: id000g: block 40998 (205818 abs): read: Conditional Success. Data Correction Performed. 
Jan  2 05:46:20 pallas vmunix: id000g: block 98766 (263586 abs): read: Conditional Success. Data Retry Performed. 
Jan  2 17:01:47 pallas vmunix: id000h: block 296758 (1022458 abs): read: Conditional Success. Data Retry Performed. 
Jan  2 17:02:12 pallas vmunix: id000h: block 296770 (1022470 abs): read: Conditional Success. Data Retry Performed. 
Jan  2 17:02:21 pallas vmunix: id000h: block 444366 (1170066 abs): read: Conditional Success. Data Retry Performed. 
Jan  2 17:02:39 pallas vmunix: id000h: block 296792 (1022492 abs): read: Conditional Success. Data Retry Performed. 
Jan  2 17:03:18 pallas vmunix: id000h: block 296758 (1022458 abs): read: Conditional Success. Data Retry Performed. 
Jan  2 17:03:34 pallas vmunix: id000h: block 374310 (1100010 abs): read: Conditional Success. Data Retry Performed. 
Jan  2 17:04:04 pallas vmunix: id000h: block 611654 (1337354 abs): read: Conditional Success. Data Retry Performed. 
Jan  2 17:04:05 pallas vmunix: id000h: block 834270 (1559970 abs): read: Conditional Success. Data Retry Performed. 
Jan  2 17:08:13 pallas vmunix: id001h: block 906712 (986662 abs): read: Conditional Success. Data Retry Performed. 
Jan  2 19:15:34 pallas vmunix: id000g: block 456734 (621554 abs): read: Conditional Success. Data Retry Performed. 
Jan  2 19:17:40 pallas vmunix: id000h: block 812158 (1537858 abs): read: Conditional Success. Data Retry Performed. 
Jan  2 19:18:21 pallas vmunix: id000h: block 810942 (1536642 abs): read: Conditional Success. Data Retry Performed. 
Jan  2 19:18:32 pallas vmunix: id000h: block 296792 (1022492 abs): read: Conditional Success. Data Retry Performed. 
Jan  2 19:18:49 pallas vmunix: id000h: block 444366 (1170066 abs): read: Conditional Success. Data Retry Performed. 
Jan  2 19:18:58 pallas vmunix: id000h: block 669450 (1395150 abs): read: Conditional Success. Data Retry Performed. 

 any ideas beyond formatting / newfs would be appreciated.


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From: ignacij@meishan.animal.uiuc.edu (Ignacy Misztal)
Subject: Utility to read IBM variable record tapes
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 21:20:21 GMT

We are moving from IBM/CMS to Unix and have to copy thousands of tapes.
Many tapes have variable-length records, which dd utility does not read.
Is there any other utility for variable-length records?
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1207 W. Gregory Dr.
Urbana, IL 61801
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From: abcc@DIALix.oz.au (Adrian Booth Computing Consultants)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Info on "SysAdmin" from Manix Systems wanted
Date: 11 Jan 1993 10:18:54 +0800
Organization: DIALix Services, Perth, Western Australia
NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.dialix.oz.au
Summary: How good is it; where can I get it?
Keywords: SysAdmin Manix
X-Newsreader: NN version 6.4.19 #1

I have read in a recent report about a package called "SysAdmin" produced by
Manix Systems. The package provides backup and security across multiple 
hosts from different UNIX vendors, plus (I think) other platforms such as VMS.

Does anyone have any experience with or knowledge of this product? Does it
work on Suns and RS/6000s?

Is there an Australian distributor for this product?

Please reply by email; if there is sufficient interest I will summarise and
post.

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From: dave@dhcs.demon.co.uk (Dave Hodgkinson)
Subject: Re: DialUps
Organization: IISC, dept of hackery.
Apparently-To: mail2news@news.demon.co.uk
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 18:45:14 +0000

In article <9JAN199300310821@elroy.uh.edu> st1y2@elroy.uh.edu (Gray, William W.) writes:
Path: dhcs.demon.co.uk!demon!pipex!uunet!gatech!paladin.american.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!menudo.uh.edu!elroy.uh.edu!st1y2

   It would be nice, if some really good person
   could write a FAQ about creating and managing
   dial up connections.  I, and others here, seem
   to be having problems in this department?!
   Great, I can write a device driver for UNIX but
   have yet to mount a modem for PC access. :(

Seconded absolutely. I gett getting needled to my the V32bis modem on
to our RS/6000's ...

   Thanks in advance...

Yea.



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From: vulture@imperial.ac.uk (Thomas Sippel - Dau)
Subject: Re: Help! How do I suppress vi tab substitution?
Keywords: vi tab hate
Reply-To: cmaae47@imperial.ac.uk
Organization: Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 15:20:36 GMT

In article <1993Jan11.202024.10292@elsouth.uucp>, john@elsouth.uucp (John White) writes:
- 	I'm in Unix Sys V Rel 3.0 Ver 4 and my vi editor has the
- annoying habit of substituting 8 spaces for 1 tab. This is cute,
- but since my indenting is based on 3 spaces and that doesn't
- divide cleanly into 8, I'm often more annoyed than fond of this
- "feature". Is there a way to tunr this off? I never had this problem
- with the BSD or SunOS versions of vi. Is it Sys V dependent?
- 
- 	Thanks, john (john%elsouth@concert.net)

Try playing with stty -tabs, and the tab settings in the files /etc/termcap 
or /usr/lib/terminfo/your-terminal.ti. The most difficult bit is to find
out where the actual control is.

                               Thomas
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From: ramana@brushfire.rutgers.edu (Ramana Isukapalli)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Help with attaching a modem
Keywords: Modem, Dialing
Date: 6 Jan 93 00:42:26 GMT
Followup-To: comp.unix.admin
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.



 Hi, I need some help regarding attaching a modem to an IRIS
 workstation. We have a SG Iris workstation, that is not on the
 internet.  We are trying to attach a modem (telebit trailblazer)
 to it.  The software we are using for dialing is /usr/etc/slip.

 As given in the manuals, I have changed the /usr/lib/uucp/Systems,
 /usr/lib/uucp/Devices and /usr/lib/uucp/Dialcodes files.  The changes
 basically indicate that a modem is attached to the computer at a
 specific port, and they also gives the dialing number, the hostname
 at the other end to login after successful dialing.

 The problems I have right now are :

   The computer can identify the device, but it cannot dial.  There
   are no errors that come up when I try to dial.  To debug, I used
   the following. (cu is similar to the tip on SUN workstations)

     cu -s 9600 -l /dev/ttym2  -- This comes out proplerly, and the
                                  computer can identify the device,
                                  ttym2.

     cu -d remote-host         -- Comes out correctly and there are
                                  no errors.

     /usr/etc/slip -cp comp -r remotehost. -- This just hangs.  It is
                                              supposed to dial the
                                              number given in the
                                              above mentioned files
                                              (or atleast that is my
                                              understanding).

  Can you please tell me :

    1.  Where am I making a mistake, and what is the reason for not
        dialing ?

    2.  Why are there no error messages atleast ?

    3.  How can I read/change the modem configuration ?  Slip does not
        seem to have any way to access/change the modem setup.  Is
        there something else that does it ? We did not buy any other
        software assuming slip does what is required.

    4.  What is a good source to know of slip on Iris apart from the
	manual pages ?

  Please let me know.  Thanks in advance

-------

 Ramana		 ramana@paul.rutgers.edu
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From: gauthier@fresnel.telecom.hydro.qc.ca (Jean-Benoit Gauthier)
Subject: Re: Shell script to invoke su and mount CD-ROM
Reply-To: gauthier@fresnel.telecom.hydro.qc.ca
Organization: Hydro-Quebec
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 19:39:10 GMT

glenn@popeye.genie.uottawa.ca (Glenn Warnock 789-3225 Algonquin Associate) writes:
: 
: We would like to allow all users to mount CD-ROM on our netwrok. It seems the only way to do this is to use mount which requires super user provileges.
: 
: We are trying to write a script which will invoke su and mount the CD-ROM, but we cannot invoke su in the script and automatically give it the password.
: 
: Any suggestions on how to solve this problem?
: 
: -- 
: Glenn Warnock
: mail:	glenn@popeye.genie.uottawa.ca
: Phone:	(613) 789-3225

Hello, Glenn. Try using the program called "cdmount/cdumount".

With it a  normal user can mount and unmount the cdrom.

Try locating it with archie and if you don't find it write me an e-mail
and i will send it to you.

Hope it help.

Jean-Benoit Gauthier
Hydro-Quebec
gauthier@fresnel.telecom.hydro.qc.ca
From: rjq@phys.ksu.edu (Rob Quinn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: Backup while device busy!
Date: 4 Jan 1993 14:52:49 GMT
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: bohr.phys.ksu.edu

In <61800002@acf3.NYU.EDU> zhangd@acf3.NYU.EDU (zhangd) writes:
>When I am doing backup of a user filesystem at midnight, I prefer to umount
>the filesystem
>and then mount readonly thereafter. However, the filesystem is often
>unmountable 
>because of "device busy" error!  The point is somebody uses open files on it
>via NFS
>and I can't detect and close them all.

 I have no problem umount'ing a filesytem that is being used over NFS. You'll
just cause 'Stale NFS file handle' errors on the client.

> Although I logout all current users on UNIX, those
>users on PC can still have open files via PC-NFS.

 More likely, there are still processes active on the filesystem such as long
running jobs. I use 'ofiles' to look for them. For instance:
#ofiles /usr/local
/dev/sd1g:      /usr/local
user     process command        type    inode(s)
rjq      10359   emacs          m       + 994 
rjq      214     xinit          m       + 1383 1935 
rjq      213     sh             f       1384 
root     203     vlmd           m       + 21269 
rjq      215     Xsun           fm      4183 4184 + 1338 
monitor  295     xterm          m       + 1388 
rjq      9763    tn3270         fm      16612 + 1023 
[.....]

 There's also 'pff'. Both are available for ftp somewhere.

>2. if there is a way to find out all opening files on a partition and close
>them forcefully? ( mount, showmount...)

 Kill the processes.

>3. Could  other backup commands ( like TAR ) handle this situation better?

 I do level 5 backups every day, level 3's on Fridays, and level 0's once
a month. I only shutdown for the level 0's.

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Locking removable media
From: jsteiner@anwsun.phya.utoledo.edu (jason 'Think!' steiner)
Date: 9 Jan 93 18:05:37 EST
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

the system i'm on just got a removable m-o drive. it's working fine
except that from time to time one of the users will get a little 
impatient & pop the disk out before it's had a chance to be unmounted.

my sysadmin tells me the drive has a software feature to lock the disk
in the drive, which he could use to keep this from happening. can
anyone help me find an sd ioctl that handles the lock/unlock 
functions? it's for a Pinnacle 660 meg magneto optical drive. we're 
using SunOS 4.1.2.

please mail replies.

aTdHvAaNnKcSe
jason

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From: kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov (Scott Dorsey)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: lp vs lpr
Date: 4 Jan 1993 13:56:38 GMT
Organization: NASA Langley Research Center and Reptile Farm
NNTP-Posting-Host: grissom.larc.nasa.gov

In article <1i89n4INN11s@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> cq377@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (David C. Williss) writes:
>
>
>PS:  Oh, specifics.  The Printer is on an SGI Iris running IRIX.
>The Other machine is a Sun IPX.

The System V and BSD line printer spoolers are completely different.  They
use different protocols to transfer files and won't talk to one another.

Many IRIX versions include a full BSD line printer spooler, but it's not
documented anywhere in the manuals.  There are man pages for it.  Blow away
all the horrible SysV garbage and install an /etc/printcap.  Then use "lpr"
to print your files on the IRIS and delete lp completely.
--scott
   (developing an intense hatred for System V these days)
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From: mikepb@lupus.dell.com (Michael P. Brininstool)
Subject: Re: Unknown filearchive
Reply-To: mikepb@lupus.dell.com
Organization: Dell UNIX Support
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 21:52:36 GMT

In article <C0JznI.LsF@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, lam@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Ken Lam) writes:
|> I have received an unknown file archive.  I can't seem to figure out what
|> program was used to create it.  the magic number says that it is ascii text.
|> 
|> below is the first couple of lines.
|> 
|> 0707010001aa74000041ff0000000000000003000000042a2d5aa600000000ffffffff00000001ffffffff0003a64d0000000400000000sdk0707010001aa75000081a40000000000000003000000012a2d558b00002c80ffffffff00000001ffffffff0003ff100000000b00000000sdk/pkgmap: 1 18266
|> 1 d none etc 0775 root sys
|> 1 d none etc/init.d 0775 root sys
|> 1 f none etc/init.d/nuc 0775 root sys 1294 32156 706492066
|> 1 i pkginfo 139 10505 707614087
|> 1 i postinstall 1320 44140 707610280
|> 1 i postremove 623 52180 707613495
|> 
|> Any ideas?

The pkginfo, postinstall, postremove stuff looks like a pkgadd from SVR4.
I assume the 070701001aa74..... is an octal dump of the file.  070701 is
octal at the beginning of a file looks like a cpio archive, kinda.
I looks like a pkgadd stream format for a pkg called "nuc".

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From: V.Spagnolo@massey.ac.nz (Victoria Spagnolo)
Subject: which type of workstation to purchase?
Organization: Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
X-Reader: NETNEWS/PC Version 2c
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 21:02:22 GMT

hello,

i would like some suggestions for a workstation whose main task is to
connect to two unix boxes, a decstation 3100 and a sun ipc, over an
ethernet. the workstation should be able to handle the window systems
of both machines. i would also expect this machine to be able to do
normal office work like wordprocessing and spreadsheet. my personal preference
for the office work is a mac of some type. are their macs that can interface
well (and easily) to decwindows and openwindows?

please offer lots of suggestions.

vicki

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
From: vulture@imperial.ac.uk (Thomas Sippel - Dau)
Subject: Re: How do you back up a terabyte?
Reply-To: cmaae47@imperial.ac.uk
Organization: Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 14:57:58 GMT

In article <1993Jan10.043714.6764@siswat.hou.tx.us>, buck@siswat.hou.tx.us (Lester Buck) writes:
- In article <1993Jan4.125908.28013@cc.ic.ac.uk> cmaae47@imperial.ac.uk writes:
- >I fear the "perfect, reliable backup" can no longer be achieved
.....
- >You should give up the notion that there is such a thing as a verifyably
- >correct filesystem backup and go for a "reliable enough backup set". 
.....
- No, reliable backups are achievable by several methods, though you
- may not like the price.
- 
- 1)  Applications log their transactions, so fuzzy backups can be
-     reconciled on an application by application basis.

This is exactly what I implied, serious applications must be able to recover.

- 2)  Use a transactional filesystem.  If necessary, consider the
-     data blocks and not just the file metadata as part of the
-     transaction.

Which is only as reliable as the media containing the transaction log.

- 3)  Or go whole hog and build your filesystem on top of a database.
-     Tandom's operating system takes this approach, and the filesystem
-     is extremely reliable.

"Verifyably correct" means (among other things) that the file system will 
continue to be correct and its applications can continue using it after, 
say, humanity has been wiped out by a global thermonuclear war. 

Thus it of similar universality as the statement "2 + 3 = 5", which  will
continue to be correct after such an event. 

My point was that it is futile to attempt to achieve such a level of proven 
integrity, or even to spend time arguing whether it can be achieved or 
would be useful if it was. That time is better spend improving the procedures
intended to cope with failures (and using them!).

                                    Thomas

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
From: dsra@netcom.com (DRSA)
Subject: yppasswdd daemon - Why can't I change my password?
Summary: Enabling users to change passwords under SUNOS 4.1.2
Keywords: password passwd SUNOS daemon
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 01:55:59 GMT

I just ran into an interesting problem the other day.
After upgrading to SUN OS 4.1.2 on a SparcStation, my users were not
able to change their passwords, and root was not able to change their
passwords either.  It reported "no such user".  This problem will occur
if you are using NIS (or YP).  The solution is that you need to start
a yp password daemon in your rc.local file on the NIS server.  This is
detailed in the man page on yppasswdd, near the bottom.

EXAMPLE
     If the NIS password file is stored as  /var/yp/passwd,  then
     to  have password changes propagated immediately, the server
     should be invoked as

               /usr/etc/rpc.yppasswdd  /var/yp/passwd  -m  passwd

Just thought some people might like to know this.
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
From: tma@encore.com (Thanh Ma)
Subject: REXX for UNIX
Organization: Encore Computer Corporation
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 16:34:07 GMT

Would someone tell me if there is a REXX implementation for Unix
and where I can get it ? Also what documentaion/book is available ?
Thanks in advance.

Thanh
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