The most popular ways to recover from catastrophic disk failure without alocal high capacity tape are:A) Setup a server to boot the dead machine diskless, either before you needit, or after the failure occurs (refering to the notes you wrote yourselfBEFOREHAND on how to do it). This gives you ...

I got replies from the following people about my previous mailing andhave since updated the pertinent entries:From: Bill Vaughn <bill@cvs.rochester.edu>From: kncarp@wunoc.wustl.edu (Kevin N. Carpenter)From: maurice clement <mclement@pegasus.astro.utoronto.ca>From: ...

My original query:>We are contemplating the purchase of a new server to replace an>existing 3/180S, and the low-end Solbourne has a rather attractive>price tag. The configuration would most likely be two cpu's, something>around 2 Gb of disk, and 32 Mb of disk.It will probably wind ...

Well folks, as it turns out, the SLC WILL run SunOS 4.0.3c. The system willcomplain at boot time that it does not recognize the CPU, but will pretend thatit is a 4/60 (which it pretty much is).Thanx to everyone that ...

Summary [you can skip to the end if you already know the story]:25-May-90:   Upgrade from SunOS 4.0.1 to SunOS 4.1 on Sun-4/280's (with 1 ALM-II,  2 Hitachi disks on a xylogics 451 controller, 1 tape drive on a  xylogics 472 controller, 2 8 Mb and 1 32 Mb memory ...

------- Start of digest -------A while ago I posted asking for recommendations for optical scannersfor Suns. My original message was:Date: Fri, 20 Jul 90 11:44:05 MDTHi, I am seeking recommendations for optical scanners that attachdirectly to Suns. Specifically, I have a Sun-3/60 currently ...

        A number of people pointed to the LISA (Large InstallationSystem Administration) USENIX papers. There have been three workshops to date,(Another one coming up this October), contact USENIX :        USENIX ...

My original query was:> We've got one lonesome Sun 3/60 here, for which we're unable to locate> the manuals. We'd like to move it to thinnet, but we're unable to figure> out which internal switches (if any) or EEPROM locations (if any) need> to be modified. We have been able ...

I received several replies to my query regarding Sun file server options.Several people who responded indicated that the configuration I proposed isfeasible, though that opinion is not unanimous.The executive summary is:        Everybody's situation is ...

Sorry this is a few days late, I've stopped getting replies so I figure it is safeto put out the summary. Thanks to all who responded. There were too many to listhere.My original posting:***We just tried to install a 3rd party xylogics 451 controller and diskonto our sparcstation 370 system. ...

It seems that this is a problem with all Sun-3's under 4.0.3, not just 50'sand 60's as originally posted.The amount of swap and other configuration issues seem irrelevant.The good news is that it IS fixed in 4.1, but apparently there is no patchfor 4.0.3.Thanks to:bergan@balrog.horizon.com ...

Thanks to the following people who replied:            Andy Sherman - andys@ulysses.att.com            David Lee - ...

The fellow sysadmin for whom I posted this has solved his problem thanksto the help from the net. The info he put together for other soals bravingthis task is as follows (I also pass on his heart-felt thanks to allrespondants):        1. Make a Data ...

 It took several inputs but finally an explanation and fix were found. The problem was that a certain mail message was sending sendmail into hard loops with the only way out to kill the process. the culprit was the <> on the front of the two line. ...

The trick (in our case) to reset the keyboard was to login remotely and run% kbd_mode -aThis command comes with Xwindows. The command % setkeys resetshould work for those without Xwindows.The above brings up the question (to perhaps be discussed elsewhere): lackingremote access to the affected ...

Thanx for the great responce.I got several messages up till now.Unfortunaly I made some typo's that make things a bit confusing.The drive type is really the 94191-766 Wren VI.I received some different types of format.dat entries.That makes things even more confusing.Kathy's:disk_type = ...

 In my original posting I explained that I had moved some SMD drives from one 4/370 to another 4/370.  After the move I was unable to access the drives. Thanks for all the responses, lots of items to check I  never knew about. But the problem turned out to be a ...

I originally asked:> Can anyone think of why the patched versions [of the selection_svc]> are statically linked?[...]> The only reason I could think of is that the security problem might> have arisen from problems in the SunView libraries as well as the> selection_svc code ...

My original post:  Have anyone use tfs system successfully? I was not able to mount  a tfs system using mount_tfs. I kept getting the following error.  May be my entry in inetd is wrong?.....   mount_tfs: Internal error: Cannot connect to tfsd on ...

Many thanks to the all people who send me mail on this .. I got over60 replies ...!!! I wish I could answer you all back .. but time doesnot permit it.Almost all of the replies pointed out that there is a bug in SunOS 4.1that causes the rpc.yppasswdd command to lose the 2nd parm passed toit. So ...

Robert Kuhn <apple!zariski.harvard.edu!kuhn> writes:> We have users who like to reverse video, or otherwise change the console> setup on Suns. We also have users running a variety of ill-behaved> window systems (naming no names). I would lime to run a script to restore> the ...

From: era@ncar.ucar.edu (Ed Arnold)Path: ncar.ucar.edu!eraNewsgroups: comp.sys.sunSubject: 4.0.3 NFS lockup: summaryExpires: References: Sender: Reply-To: era@ncar.ucar.edu (Ed Arnold)Followup-To: Distribution: worldOrganization: Nat'l Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR); Boulder, ...

Original posting:>We've got a 2392 we are trying to put on a 753 controller with little luck.>Configuration is a 3/280 running 4.0.3. There are 2 Fuji 2382's on the>same controller that are and have been running fine. >The controller, the cable, and the 2392 have all been ...

Well, feeling industrious, I sat down and beat BIND 4.8.3 into submission onSunOS 4.1 today. Since I had several requests in response to my earlieroffer, I have put together a set of instructions for assembling a libc.sowhich uses the resolver routines directly instead of going through ...

On 8/23 I posted an article about encountering "Unreleased parts" withregard to a 4/280 --> 4/490 upgrade. (part #UG4/280-64X-R64).Shortly after that posting (well, 8/24) I had all 13 email responsesand phone contact from Sun corporate HQ to my posting.My *primary* objective in ...

Thanks for all the replies.The bottom line is that there is no way of avoiding this.Some mentioned that automounting would avoid this problem, which at this time is not practical.It was a messy morning (as expected), but we got through it.Thanks again for all the responses.Tony----- Begin ...

 I reported an error from named of "xfer returned 255" del@mlb.semi.harris.com (Don Lewis) provided the answer. in 4.1 your are required to supply a file name for any  zone that you are a secondary server for. such as secondary zap.jun.com 223.100.101.1 ...

The following is a (long -- sorry) amalgamation of various articles culled from Sun-Spots and Sun-Managers regarding what has come tobe termed 'The Pmeg Thrashing Problem' that seems endemic to SparcStations. We experienced severe performance degradation on ourmachines with high context ...

Here is the only reply I received. I will be happy to forward the patchthat Hal sent me to anyone that needs it. I have not tested the patchyet but thought that others may need it now.> it's a bug but i'm not sure there is a real patch available.> this is a definite bug in 4.1. it ...

Many thanks for all the replies, folks! Yes, there is already a formof restricted shell on SunOS, hidden away in sh.According to Jim Mattson <jmattson@UCSD.EDU>:>Unless Sun has severely broken sh, just make /usr/bin/rsh a link to>/usr/bin/sh. You should find that this is how your ...

Just yesterday I sent out a request for information concerning the "Waiting for tools to terminate..." message I would get on my screenalmost every day when exitting from SunView. I also mentioned that this dumped a core dump. Several people told me I could do a "filecore" ...

My original question was:> I've been fooling with nslookup (whose default is to give an internet> address for a hostname) trying to get it to do the reverse to no avail.> I did try reading the man page and experimenting, but no luck...> > Can anyone tell me how to use nslookup ...

My original question was as follows:> I need help in settling a dispute regarding backplane dividers (for> lack of a better word this is what I am calling the rectangular sheets> of metal that occupy the empty backplane slots).>> One of my co-workers feels that all backplane ...

As promised here is a summary of replies I recieved to my request for commentaries on the differences between 8mm and 4mm tape devices.First off, there is already an excellent summary out there that discusses most of this in a fair amount of ...

On September 7 I asked:> 1. Does anybody know whether vanilla 4.1 works with Rev. D ALM-1 boards?> 2. Has Sun released a patch to 4.1 that solves the ALM-1 problems?Several people asked me to post a summary, so here it is: nobody answered.If I ever find out the answers to these ...

Well, thanks to Greg Earle of Sun my problem seems to be fixed. My originalposting was:        I am encountering a problem with UUCP. At least that is what I believe        is the problem. My ...

BTW, folks, in my great saga of installing nameserviceon my Suns, I found a quirk I want to share.In our Sun-installed /etc/rc.local, there were thelines:ifconfig ie0 'hostname' -trailers up netmask +ifconfig le0 'hostname' -trailers up netmask +ifconfig ec0 'hostname' -trailers up ...

My thanks to all who helped me out. This whole thing turned out to bea comedy of errors.First, direct answers to my questions.All interfaces on a Sun use the same ethernet address. This is stillabiding by the letter of the Ethernet standard, although I personallyfeel that it is not in keeping ...

Hi,        It's been a while since I first asked for this so I'll includethe original question:> I'm currently in the process of installing a printer on the ttyb>port of an SLC (which of course, should have been out of the door last>week). ...

     I've received about a dozen responses, and the general consensus seems tobe that, since nobody (who responded) has filesystems as big as 2 Gigabytes,it doesn't matter what you use for the dump parameters, as long as theyindicate the tape can hold at least ...

  Thanks to all those who repied. This list comes through again.    Anyway, my orginal guestion was if anybody had gotten autobaud   to work on the SS1. Some people have gotten it to work and others  have had problems. I even got a message ...

My original question.I just upgraded a 4/110 from 4.0.3 to 4.1. I have upgraded a number of 3/60'swithout problems, so I was surprised to find the the users on that machineare having problems with Mail (or mail, they both work the same). It started out with sunview's mailtool aborting with ...

 The original question was regarding setting up fax/modem service on a sun. Of the several responses received there appears to be only three vendors supplying the needed software/hardware. The Bristol Group (software and hardware) P.O. BOX 910 londonderry, New ...

Hi everyone,        After so many weeks that I've inquired about the strange RPCerror messages problem on our file server 3/280 running 4.0.3, I've finally found out what had happened. Thanks to all who had respondedto my ...

I asked sun-nets for advice on network backup software, to meet the followingrequirements.---------------------------------------1 Automated, unattended, simple to use package2. Package can backup a running workstation, w/o going single user3. Maintains a logfile such that I can locate what ...

I reported problems with hung inbound SMTP connections to a machinerunning SunOS 4.1 + patches and sendmail 5.64 + IDA. Sendmail isrunning with frozen config files, and using a tried-and-true, albeitancient sendmail.cf file (not an IDA sendmail.cf) which runs fine onover a dozen other mail ...

Howdy. Someone forwarded to me a recent article about automatednetwork backup software and i was glad (being the author) to see8mmbackup mentioned as one of the two free software packages. Iwanted to clarify a potentially gray issue in the note about8mmbackup. It said:> This script does ...

My original message read:----- Begin Included Message -----Hello everyone,I am running a Sun 3/260, 4.0.3, with 8 megabytes of ram, 280 megabyte hard disk, and a PinacleMicro magneto-optical drive. I just had a system crash and was hoping someone might be able to enlighten me to the cause. The ...

Since a few people have written me asking about how to get 8mmbackup*and* there's a new (email based) access method available, i'm takingthe liberty to post brief instructions for retrieving the package.You can ftp it as 'pub/8mmbackup.shar.Z' from 'durer.cme.nist.gov'. Besure to use ...

The original question.> > I am interested in getting a color printer. The application> is printing color screens from a User interface we are working on.> We currently have on loan a Seiko CH5500. This printer connects> to the RGB video out of a 4/65.> > I would like ...