A while ago, I posted the question 'how to convert a Sun raster fileinto a TIFF format'.Follows is a summary of the replies:1. The majority of responses suggested using Jef Poskanzer's PBM bitmap   package (pbmplus).2. Others suggested using Sam Leffler's TIFF package ...

   From: Steven Lo <slo@ipac.caltech.edu>> Among all the replies that I received, there is only one person told>me that he has installed the 4.1.1. I guess it is a new release and>not too many people has chance to try it out yet. Given the situation>(and ...

This morning I asked if anyone had proper switch settings for the VME-Multibuscard as well as the Sun Multibus Ethernet card that would let me install a 3rd Ethernet interface on a Sun 3/180. By the time I returned from lunch the answer had arrived. Sun-Managers is great! I also received ...

Thanks to all the people who replied to my question concerning the SunOS 4.1.1 upgrade.Here is my original question:>> We are planning to upgrade all our machines to SunOS 4.1.1 either next week or>> sometime in Feb. next year. The decision of go or no go depends on number ...

Hello, Sun-Managers,as usual, people answered my query very promptly. Here is a copy of myinitial message :----- Begin Included Message -----Date: Tue, 4 Dec 90 12:05:42 CSTFrom: Fabrice Le Metayer <fabrice@sj.ate.slb.com>One of my diskless clients periodically reboots with the following ...

  A few days agoI asked this group about "disk sequencer" messagescoming from a Fujitsu off a Xylogics 451. The majority opinion was thatthe drive is indeed dying - that a reformat may postpone the inevitablefor a while but that the platter surfaces are deteriorating. ...

Last week I wrote saying that my exabyte caused my 4/490 grief with the exabytehanging up. I think the nail has hit the camel on the head. Steve Giuliano mailed me and said he had similar problems > I have the exact same setup except I have a third> party exabyte drive made by ...

A few weeks ago I mailed sun-managers asking about the availability of PMEGpatches under 4.0.3.Thanks to all that responded. I was offered PMEG patches under all architecturesexpect the one I really needed. The one I was after was for a sun4 under 4.0.3 Nobody could really supply me with ...

My original query:| | I have 3/80's and 3/50's running diskless from the| same server running SunOS 4.1 .| | When i for instance run 'trace date' , it produces| the correct output on the 3/50's but on the 3/80's| it just returns the date ( no trace ).| | Since the trace program is ...

        Thanks to those who responded, and sorry for the delay. Here arethe few I found. Not included are "biggies" such as Sun's DevGuide andpackages useable only under ...

Wow! By the size and quickness of replys, I have to believe that I'm not thefirst one to run into this...Original query: many ie0: no carrier and Dec 6 09:19:28 brillig vmunix: z53: silo overflowResponeses:loose connections; ...see that zs3 (my typo - xs3) is a SCSI port. The message is ...

The original question was:How do you handle user accounts (>500), in an heterogeneousenvironment with more than one system administrator?        - Home directory structure. ...

I wrote:>> A user reports that Sunview suddenly no longer works right for him.> Instead of coming up in half a minute or so with a console, clock,> shell, etc., it takes 2-3 minutes, and doesn't fire up any apps. The> popup menu doesn't act right either: it takes several ...

Yesterday, I asked if there would still be a separate version of SunOS version, PSR A, for the SPARCservers. I received many responses. The majority said that the support for the SPARCserversis part of Sun-4 SunOS 4.1.1. That's good news. But there were a couple people who claimed that ...

My original message was:    //Hello Sun Managers-    // I am trying to set up an anonymous ftp site, but I am having a    //problem. Everything seems to work okay (get, cd, login, ...), but when    //I try to do an ...

The consensus seems to be that setting up a diskless sun3 client running SunOS3.5 on a server running 4.0.3 is not possible. Thanks to all those thatresponded. I guess I'm stuck until we get a disk.> 3.5 is going to want to use nd, and 4.x has no concept of nd at all.Thanks to:Anthony A. ...

I wrote:                ================================================  (1) Does anyone know of decent spreadsheets available for Sparcs? Public-  domain ones with decent documentation would ...

Earlier today I posted the follwing message:------------------------------------------------------------------I have a sparc1+ running 4.1 with a cdrom drive attached to it (onlyother peripheral on the scsi bus is the internal disk). While I wasbrowsing (that means having mounted /dev/sr0 and ...

Well folks, now I learned that OSF/Motif ist not in the publicdomain, and that it may be rather expensive to get a license.Unfortunately, two program systems I'm interested in (Quintus Prolog 3.0and Knowlegde Engineering Environment (KEE)) do only have interfaces to Motif(installation of the ...

PROBLEM:        A printer attached to an ALM-1 port on a Sun 3/160 stoppedworking when the OS was upgraded from 3.5 to 4.1.1. It appeared Unixwas having flow control problems.SOLUTION: (note the patch is for 4.1 not ...

I got a lot of responses to my questions. I'm summarizing them below.Thanks to all those who took the time to respond.First of all, here is a copy of the questions:-------------- Start -------------------------Hi,I have two questions.1.We have a Sparcstation-1 with 8 Mb memory and 14 Mb swap ...

Hi Again Folks:Yesterday's query about problems with the boot sequence hanging on an SLCrunning SunOS 4.0.3c has already generated a good response.Most answers suggested checking /bin/sh and /dev/console forexistance, permissions and corruption. Alas, both were fine.Rick Preston suggested the ...

> I just upgraded our email/news gateway from 4.0.3 to 4.1.1. One of the> machines I dial up (lets call it "fakename") has been known by it's fakename> since the beginning of time, in fact all email & news return addresses use> fakename (i.e. fakename!blob!thing..). ...

Responses to my query regarding Optical Disk system for SparcStations havestopped coming in, so here's my summary.My original posting to Sun-Managers and alt.sys.sun:>We have a rather urgent need to find an Optical Disk system that works. The>environment consists of Sun SparcStations ...

On Wed, 19 Dec 90 19:30:47, I sent a query out about copying 1/4"SunOS distributions (given licensed right to do so). I've gottenover 40 responses - I thank everyone who took the time to reply.My conclusions follow:    - There is no blocking factor on cartridge tape ...

A while ago I asked :>>Date: Mon, 10 Dec 90 17:53:46 -0500>From: Thomas Yen <tom@Viewlogic.COM>>Message-Id: <9012102253.AA04886@rodeo>>To: sun-managers@eecs.nwu.edu>Subject: SunIPC gateway ?>Status: R>>>Hi Managers,>>I have a problem setting up a ...

-------        My original question was:        > We have a Sun-4/110 with a 327 MB drive. >It is not connected to a network, just a standalone.>Everytime I login in I get the following ...

First of all, a big thanks to everyone who overwhelmed my mailerwith replies. It turns out that such a problem can be attributed toany of the following:Being in >8 groupsHaving a blank line at the end of the NIS group fileNot having root access in /etc/exportsMy problem primarily was the ...

Cc: dvorak@ch.unibe.iam>> - hal stern <stern@East.Sun.com> indicated that the problem may be caused>> by the fact that a 4.0.3 NIS master is serving 4.1.1 slaves and clients:>> > if you're mixing 4.1 and 4.0.3 NIS masters, that's probably your>> > ...

Thanks for the responses. Problem has been resolved. This was myoriginal posting:*******************************************************************I just upgraded a SUN 4/280 from OS 4.0.3 to OS 4.1.1. The machinehas a telebit trailblazer connected to serial port B. I reinstalled the modem and ...

On January 10, I posted the following request:> For the past couple of months, my system has been experiencing> strange panics of various flavors. Here's a sample:> > > > Jan 9 11:44:52 vt vmunix: pid 116, `':> Jan 9 11:44:52 vt vmunix: vector 0x38, pc 0xe06f86e, sr ...

The problem was:> > With SunOS 4.1 I was able to boot a SS1 from a SS1+ server> and had only the swap at a local disk. I achieved this> with the following statement in the config file:> > config vmunix root generic swap on sd2> > With SunOS 4.1.1 I am unable to do ...

Well, I got the response I needed, and I'm going to be ordering some3rd party IPI drives. My original question was if I could use IPIdrives on some upgrade 3/180's, which will become 4/3x0's. I haven'treceived the spec sheets for the disks yet, but one of my vendorswarned me that that the ...

-----------------Original Posting:-----------------> Hi> > Yesterday one our 3/280 Suns crashed with the following message:> > Jan 10 09:37:18 ra vmunix: panic: segkmem_badop> > Does anyone know what this means? We are running SunOS 4.0.3.> Thanks.> > ...

>From article <9101092218.AA22964@nisc.jvnc.net>, by aggarwal@NISC.JVNC.NET (Vikas Aggarwal):- - A pretty comprehensive collection of patches for SunOS's are available via- anonymous FTP from:- - nic.funet.fi in pub/unix/sun- princeton.edu in pub/sun-fixes- - - A couple of people ...

Eric Pearce raises an important issue in his recent posting:}You can really hose your system by messing with shared libraries, as}most commands you would use to recover from a mistake are dynamically}linked themselves - this hazard should be made clear up front.}("mv" is statically ...

Yes, your efforts are "worth it". I was able to set up a cluster of SS1+'srunning 4.1 using the instructions in /usr/lib/shlib.etc/README andthe additional information posted to this group. The person I was doing thisfor didn't want to use NIS(YP) - each machine was ...

>ping has this problem if you integrate the bind routines into the>shared C library - i.e. the problem does not occur with the shared>library shipped with 4.1.1. (when will Sun learn that not *everyone*>likes sleeping with NIS).This remark is a non-sequitur. The "problem" ...

Yesterday, I described a problem I was having connecting an Exabyte to a SS2.As it turns out, the problem was a SCSI id conflict; both the external diskand the Exabyte were set at id 1. There are three jumpers on the back of theExabyte which control the scsi id (you may have DIP switches on ...

No big surprises here. Most people recommended Cisco. A couple ofpeople also mentioned ACC, of which I was already aware. The ACCproduct isn't nearly as versatile or as fast as the Cisco, but isconsiderably cheaper, and may be well suited for some sites.Following is an excellent discourse ...

The following is a summary of the responses I received:####################################################From: Rod Henry <henry@csd4330a.erim.org>High End:NEC - The GraphicSmart's projector - (708) 860-0335Barco - Barco Projections Systems - (404) 432-2346Panasonic - Panasonic ...

Thanks to all who responded about this, most of you got it right.netmask on the sparcs 'wren' & 'swift' was set wrong (255.255.255.0).The real problem here was as follows.    The yp master 'eagle' had been up for about 8 weeks, the last    time ...

My question was:  Last weekend I installed part of the C2 security features on our mixed  Sun-3 (4.0.3) Sun-4 (4.1.1) configuration with servers and diskless clients.  Due to space limitations I disabled the auditing (removed the auditd from  rc.local). ...

Since I last responded that I had received answers as to howto change the baud rate for an Apple Laserwriter IINT severalpeople have asked for a SUMMARY to the list:I received many, many suggestions, all essentially the same. Some werein the form of small C programs to postscript files that ...

Subject: SUMMARY: What are "header not found" disk errors?I thank you all for your thoughts on this problem. There were a variety ofexplanations, from disks, controllers, cables, and a controller ECO. Anumber of people have seen these on Fujitsu and CDC disk drives.I noticed later ...

Thanks to the 52 who replied to my request for help in setting up anauto-shutdown script. Almost everyone reminded me to redirect i/o andto background. So I set up a simple one line script/etc/shutdown $* </dev/null >& /dev/null &called qshutdown, and now I can ...

Hello,my original posting was:>I'm trying to set up PPP on my 4/20. When I start PPP it says:>>ppp: ioctl(I_PUSH, ppp_async): Invalid argument>>Therefore I got a few questions:>>1) does anybody know how to fix this ?>2) has anybody succeeded in installing PPP on a 4C ...

Well, we finally got the problem resolved. Here is the original problem:>I just recently upgraded a SUN4/330 server from 4.0.3 to 4.1.1. The upgrade>itself went pretty well however, I have a few irritation problems that have>not yet been resolved. The problem at this time is the tip ...

The problem "went" away today. Anyway, the best answer I got was thatping has this problem if you integrate the bind routines into theshared C library - i.e. the problem does not occur with the sharedlibrary shipped with 4.1.1. (when will Sun learn that not *everyone*likes sleeping ...

I got a few replies back but no definite answers:One thought it was the screenblank program, but it's not that;the problem is manifested by a white console screen with no text. It'salso happened on an SS1+.Another said:Do a netstat -m and look at the "allocation failures" column to ...