I'd like to thank everyone in the chain between myself andBrent (whoever they are). There are some very minor points in thefollowing which weren't EXACTLY true in our case, but nothing whichchanges the overall validity of what Brent has to ...

This document explains how we converted Sun 2/50s into 'X terminals'.# This is a shell archive.# Remove everything above and including the cut line.# Then run the rest of the file through sh.-----cut here-----cut here-----cut here-----cut here-----#!/bin/sh# shar: Shell Archiver# Run the ...

A few days ago I posted a request asking what to do about disk blocksthat were unreadable. I got many (35+) replies and several requestsfor a summary.What to do about disk read errors can be broken up into two parts.        1) How to tell what file the ...

        Thanks to everyone who helped out on this one - it seems that theproblem has been solved in different ways, both at the system level and the user level.THE PROBLEM:        SUN cluster with one mail server. ...

For a change, a solution rather than a problem:The following bug report with analysis and fix was sent to both Sunand Solbourne. This should clear up at least *some* of the hungpty problems in the Sun bug list. One of my colleagues is pretty surethat this may solve the problem of mysterious ...

I originally asked:> So, my question is: are there different tapes required to install> 4.1 on a sun4c architecture (SS1 and SS1+)? I thought both of these> had been integrated into the general sun4 os release, and now I'm> starting to think otherwise. Will those who have ...

The summary of my original post:>If you have multiple swap spaces/files, how is it decided to>use one or the other? More specifically, if I have a local swap>partition and want to add more through NFS does this slow swapping>down to the speed of the NFS swap space or is swapper ...

The following does reflect that proxyarp is the answer to myquestion but as the kernel is finishing the boot my 3/50 hangs.It hangs after the following:hostname: rubydomainname: .cs.clemson.eduroot on ypmaster-gw:/export/root/ruby fstype nfsswap on ypmaster-gw:/export/swap/ruby nfs size ...

Thanks to everyone that took the time to respond to my query aboutperformance problems with a 4/370. No one had a solution to myproblem. A few basically said no one has an answer to my problems. Iwill give a brief synopsis of the responses below and thenfollow that with the actual ...

My apologies for taking so long to post this summary. I received onlytwo replies, the first, a rather detailed discussion of the relativemerits of SMD, ESDI and SCSI disks and controllers, indicated that interms of real performance, (ie. buffered read and write operations asopposed to raw disk ...

Original query:> Subject: Named Pipes & networking?> Named pipes are supported by some network file systems (i.e. Microsoft's Lan > Manager), but I have never heard of anybody using them in the Unix world.> SunOS supports named pipes on 4.2 filesystems, but when a named pipe is ...

In my query, I asked about the performance one might expect witha small memory machine running as a stand-alone under SunOS 4.1 and asthe only 4.1 machine among 4.0.3 machines. I got mostly positive feed-back. Cogent comments follow. Thanks, ...

The question:[Stuff deleted...]...But I am still getting the same error message when tryingto boot the client: >b        Booting from: le(0,0,0)vmunix        Got error packet: Error Code 1 Message: File not ...

My original question to the sun-nets mailing list was:> I've been asked to comment on a proposed wiring scheme for a new building that> NCAR is moving into. One of the items under discussion is how to provide> ethernet access in every office. NCAR is considering either wiring ...

Thanks to Paul Graham for the quick response:> from the liner notes.>> This CD-ROM contains the SunOS 4.1 binaries for the Sun-3, Sun-3x, Sun-4c,> and most Sun-4 systems; and the sunOS 4.1 PSR A binaries for SPARCserver 390,> SPARCserver 470, and SPARCserver 490.>> --> ...

Many thanks to ALL (and I mean ALL) that responded. There were a fewrequests for a summary so here it is.The easiest and cheapest solution is to use the "mtools" package.This is available from a variety of archive sites (and if you happento post a message like mine to this list, ...

Well, I did it!The first problem I had was my "mediahost" was standalone. So I used add_services to put the sun4c on it: at first the drive wouldn't read the tapes but aftera night of rest it eventually did it . Then I used add_client: if your machines are on a subnet you have to ...

I wrote:--------    Here's a baffler:    System: Dataless 3/60 running 4.0.3 (with X11R4 active)    /, swap, /var, /tmp, a scratch file system, and a file system    containing /usr/bin and /usr/ucb are all on the ...

Here is my summary of the responses to my query about calendar/cron beingunable to contact portmapper. #######################################################################ORIGINAL POSTING:I've been getting the following message mailed to me by 'cron' for months now but have ignored ...

Got numerous responses telling me to use netstat with -a option, butdon't see how to get process number from that. Got another suggestionto use netstat and ps together, which looks reasonable, and got a nicehacked version of ofiles from vik@fine (A. Dupuy's mod to ofiles program)that does ...

Got conflicting responses on this one all over the map, from peoplewho claimed they've done it and it seemed to work to Sun folks who arequite sure this is a dangerous thing to do to other Sun folks whosuspect it can be done but some utilities (like init) would have to be4.1 also.My suspicion: ...

On Saturday night I asked how to connect a diskless 3/50 under SunOS 3.2.Monday morning there were seven answers awaiting me. Almost all agreed thatwhat I had forgotten was to set up a symbolic link in the /tftpboot directoryof the server. It links the hex internet address of the client to ...

This is the summary of reponses about my inetd problem. Inetd died after startup, from both /etc/rc and from the command line.Responses suggested three things: 1) Check inetd.conf and /etc/services for blank lines. 2) Make sure portmapper is alive. If it's dead, then ...

Thanks to the 30 or so people who replied (you know who you are)The question was "what's involved in sticking an MC68881 in the Sun 3/50"The answers.Make sure it is a 16MHz chip. Plug it in.Make sure you are using anti-static gear.There is a jumper on the board to allow you to run at ...

I wrote:> I'm considering terminating idle processes after a given length of> time via cron script. Is there any particular caveat anyone has to> offer about doing this, or a reason not to do it at all?>---The advice I got was: 1) Be careful how "idle" is determined. ...

Thanks to the many who responeded to my question concerning incoming telnethangs. Those who responded include Mike Ames, Mark Erikson, Peter Galvin,Alexander Lopez, Craig Manning, and Tim Smith.It seems that this is a known bug in 4.0.1 and 4.0.3 (1024879), but ithas been fixed in 4.1. Becuase ...

My Original question:---------------------   Can somebody explain how we can enable Synchronous SCSI on a SS1 running   OS 4.0.3c. Also can you please explain if we have to change any   jumpers/settings on the Quantum 105 disk internal disk drives ...

This is a summary of all of the answers I received about my "silooverflow" message. Thanks to all who responded -- the list is toolong to mention everyone, but you all know who you are.Little did I know when I posted my 2 questions that they are verylikely related! Basically, a silo ...

I was experiencing many copies of this message on a 4/390 runningSunOS 4.0.3 (I neglected to mention the OS version in my originalposting.....sorry).This turns out to be a well known bug which manifests itself indifferent ways on different architectures. Fortunately, 4/390machines only report ...

Here's my summary of the responses for my request for information ondetermining an appropriate server/client ratio.As I suspected there is no easy answer.The only rule of thumb I could glean from the replies is this:        10-20 clients per server for ...

My original summary seems to have been truncated. Here is the continuation.        Daryl Crandall        daryl@mitre.org############################################################################Well, inasmuch as ...

Thanks to all of you who responded. The winning response came fromdavid@srv.PacBell.COM (David St. Pierre) who gave me the simplest (andtherefore the best :-) solution. Here is the body of his message:---Begin-message---------------------------------------------------------------I had a ...

Many thanks to all those who replied so quickly to my plea forassistance. Of course I found my simple/stupid mistake right after Isent the note... As was expected from the diagnostic, I knew that Isomehow lost the disk and the machine wanted to boot over the net... My emacs macro that I used ...

Sorry Folks,I don't know what's happening but my summary of the client/ratio responseswere truncated again! This will be my last attempt. If anybody wants theentire thing repeated drop me a note. If there are more than 10 requestsI'll re-post the entire thing to sun-mangers.The remainder ...

SUMMARY of responses to:OS 4.0.3 diskless client, NFS errors, hangs with large programsProblem:Between zero and five instances of the message occur during boot:NFS write error 13 on host utig fh 304 1 80000 46e84 1edd000080000 46e84 1edd0000 and the client will hang when a large program is ...

Many thanks to all who contributed to the plethora of responses onthis subject (the list would exceed the limitations of many mailers :-)The gist seems to be:1. They are pretty good to have around, especially if you have a new   generation system which can actually use them.2. ...

Better late than never. About a month ago, I sent this query:    Date: Sat, 23 Jun 90 15:13:34 -0700    From: Dana Roode <roode@anansi.acs.uci.edu>    Subject: NFS Monitoring     The nfsstat command ...

A while back, I sent this question out:    Date: Thu, 12 Jul 90 14:11:25 -0700    From: Dana Roode <roode@anansi.acs.uci.edu>        I'm trying to install SunOS 4.1c on a Maxtor LXT200S disk drive ...

Here is a summary of the replies to my question about the infrequent nfscacheing bug. I've restated the original question and shortened the replies.The situation is apparently widespread but infrequent. Since i have not beenable to recreate the situation at will, I haven't been able to test ...

Here is my original post:----------------------------------------------------------------------------      I just upgraded couple of Sparcstation 1s (4/60 and 4/65) to SunOS 4.1   and tcsh has been crashing the machine with DATA FAULT. The problem ...

Original message:======================================================================I am having problems building kernels under SunOS 4.1. I recieve thefollowing error message:        ps: /dev/mem: read error on ktextseg: Bad ...

Monday I sent a query about the fact that multi-homed Suns configure thesame ethernet (not internet) address for all interfaces. This was causingsome comfusion on our network.It seems that Suns have been doing this for quite some time (at least since3.x). For some reason we weren't bothered ...

This showed up a few minutes later. There is also a copy in /pub/sun-fixeson psuvax1.cs.psu.edu [130.203.1.6] along with a copy of the README foranonymous ftp.-- Dan------- Forwarded MessageThe patch kit is available for ftping from ads.com, login anonymous. The file is ...

I recieved the following from the Hackers_Guild mailing list and thought itwould be of interest.-- Dan Ehrlich------- Forwarded MessageSubject: NFS JUMBO PATCH README================================================================================Bug Fix ...

Quick summary:The problem: Neither Fortran 1.3, nor 1.3.1, worked for us. Imistakenly thought that 1.2 would not work under SunOS 4.1.The solution:1) A patch for 1.3.1 is being prepared and released now. Askyour sales rep about it.2) Sun Fortran 1.2 will run under SunOS 4.1. See below for ...

Yesterday, I posted:>We just upgraded our Xylogics 450 disk controller on our 3/160 to a 7053>controller. We have two Fujitsu M2351 Eagles attached to it. ... The first>drive had 83 defects and formatted properly. The second drive had 227 defects,>but when we tried formatting it, ...

So now that you both agree that the second-least significant bit in the firstbyte indicates a locally administered ethernet address, could you explain whythe following manufacturers have been assigned address blocks with this"locally administered" bit set? (I can understand the ...

Summary: Use of the Translucent File System under SunOS 4.1.I got a variety of responses, but the most complete was from Earle Poseur,and I am enclosing it for reference:------------------------------------------------------------------------>Has anyone used the Translucent File system that ...

On Jul 30, 5:24pm, I wrote:} Subject: Easy OS install onto 3rd party disks| I am about to install a new Sparcstation 1+. This machine is coming| from Sun in a diskless configuration and will have no floppy or tape| drive. However, I have purchased 2 Wren VI's from a 3rd party| supplier, and ...

I have compiled a list of disks and their geometries. If any of these arewrong, or one is missing, please send me the pertinent changes and as soonas it settles down, we can make this available for archive.I got these entries from several places including a cheat sheet from avendor, format ...