As I promised, here is the summary of the "Data Integrity Problems" on my4/280 server. A brief summary of the problem was:1. System utilities (such as f77, cc, ld) will occasionally bomb with aerror such as "segmentation fault". If the exact same command is re-issued,it ...
The following is my original question about determining floating pointcompile options when you only have the object file left.>Does anyone know how to tell what kind of floating point option was used to>compile a piece of source code by only looking at the object file that was>created. ...
Summary of my query: I need to put about 80 hosts in /etc/exports' access option. Configurationis SUN 4/370 running SUN OS 4.0.3 libc_resolv.so/named. YP seems tobe the only solution to this. However, I was concern about anonymous hostbinding to my YP server and get the password ...
###########################################################################Here is the summary to my posting about a tutorial on 1/4 inch tape drivesystems. I'll repeat the original question.###########################################################################Can somebody give me a ...
Thanks to everyone who responded to my query about assuring that a Sun 490doesn't act as a gateway between two nets that it is connected to.First, most people agreed that the system should not cause any problemsas long as it is not advertizing itself as a gateway via routed orproxyarp. But, ...
Thanx to all who replied re: the problem below>> PROBLEM --> newfs and mkfs both pay no attention to the nbpi (no. of bytes>> per inode) parameter. It always createsa filesystem with 2048 b/i . The problem is thatthe number of ...
Thanks to Sun-Managers, we were able to locate a cable to connect aSPARCstation 1 to a Sony SMO-S501 Magneto Optical Drive.The Sony uses the "Centronics" style 50 pin connector that is commonlyfound on many SCSI subsystems intended for use with Macs.The cable cost $75 from Pinnacle ...
PATELMS@duvm.ocs.drexel.edu writes:> Some time back I had posted to this list asking suggestions for> moving physically disk drives. I got quite a few replys and thanks> for all those replied.[tons of stuff about moving disk drives & systems in general deleted...]When we had our ...
Here's my summary of replies to the question:> I understand that the 699Mbyte SCSI disk that Sun is now shipping is> actually a Wren VI (I haven't touched one to find out). I have a rumour> that Sun have modified the firmware in these for some reason and are> keeping this firmware ...
About couple of weeks ago, I asked if anybody knew what "lpr out ofmemory" meant, when one of the users tried to print a file right after"tex" processing. This is really a known bug of lpr (bug id# 1020516).Three persons pointed this out. Sun also sent me the patch tape of ...
A few weeks ago I posted a request for information on formatting a Wren 71.2 GB disk drive on either a 4/280 or SS1. The vendor that was supplying mydrives finally admitted that they couldn't format it on either machine dueto a "timeout". I was looking ...
Here is the (long-awaited?) summary of the answers to my request for NFSload characterization information. In general, I'm not passing along namesor exact quotes, as some of the people I talked to didn't want their namesgiven out. If there is interest in seeing most of the ...
My question:>I'd like to hear from experts about what NFS options are recommended>for machines that must remain impervious to other machines crashing,>hanging, etc. The ones below have proven not adequate for some reason.>The retry=3 seemed to cure the things when a machine was ...
Well, I had a few responses on how swap works, and a ton of requestsfor a summary. Here are the explanations I recieved. Thanks to all.------------------------------------------------------------------------------From: ...
ok, I am convinced that rw,hard is the only way to go. intr probably too.but I suspect things will hang again when a machine goes down again.I get the distinct feeling NFS mounting is not yet very mature.Johnyates@a.chem.upenn.eduPart 1 of 3 of responses I got since my first summary ...
Part 3 of 3 of responses I got since my first summary posting.Johnyates@a.chem.upenn.eduFrom: IN%"fed!m1rcd00@uunet.uu.net" 25-APR-1990 10:17To: "YATES, JOHN H." <uunet!a.chem.upenn.edu!YATES@uunet.UU.NET>Subj: NFS optionsI picked this up off Sun's dial up information ...
Part 2 of 3 of responses I got since my first summary posting.Johnyates@a.chem.upenn.eduFrom: IN%"fed!m1rcd00@uunet.uu.net" 24-APR-1990 11:15To: "YATES, JOHN H." <uunet!a.chem.upenn.edu!YATES@uunet.UU.NET>Subj: Re: SUMMARY: fstab options for NFS mounts> My solution ...
Well, it looks like I am one of the few people left in the workd thathasn't heard about NTP. Actually, I did know about it, but it didn'toccur to me that (a) it was being used so widely or (b) that it wouldsolve this particular problem. But it will.NTP is the Network Time Protocol. It is ...
Summary of replacement disk setup for SUN-386i SUNOS 4.x--------------------------------------------------------Keywords: Installboot nightmares, disk block 0 black magic.If you don't have a SUN 386i (Roadrunner) count yourself lucky anddelete this mail message. If you are unlucky save this ...
A while back I posted a request for a tutorial about cartridge tapes and thensummarized the replies. I continued to get more replies on this subject andhave compiled them into this summary. I'll repeat the original summary andthen append the new ...
Thanks Sun Managers.As most of you pointed out, the problem was with SGI machines.We had two Silicon Graphic machines on the net and they wereresponding to the bootparamd request of our diskless client.We shutoff the bootparamd daemon on both the SG machines by ...
Hello, A few days ago I posted a query about the need to restrict the operatoruserid to the system console...while still allowing them to run sunview orX. I could write a rather trivial c program (mebbe 10 lines total) torestrict login to the console...but then ...
In reference to the solution I posted for NFS mountsto be harmless when machines are unreachable. I decided on:node:/u1 /u1 nfs rw,soft,noquota,retry=3,timeo=10,retrans=10,bg 0 0Several people have pointed out that rw should have hard, not softmounts. I don't think I want the tries to continue ...
I recently asked after services that would recovery data from trashed disksand services who lease disks. Here are the responses. Many thanks to thosewho reponded!-David-----Several services offer data recovery that advertise in both Computer Shopperand Computer Hot Line. I have no ...
Many thanks to the following people for their responses, some of whom gavedetailed, knowledgeable answers. Thanks especially to Mark McDonald of Apexwho patiently offered phone ...
Many thanks to all who replied, and to those who tried to replybut couldn't get through. Our gateway decided to have it's disk forlunch last week and I suspect some mail fell on the floor. In any case, I asked for tips on what I should be concerned withwhen I brought up ...
David Kovar said:> sa - Unix utility. I've got to cook up some scripts for massaging the> output into something presentable, but it's good stuff.Sa is good, but it processes the data too much. I wrote a little thingcalled pracct which basicly just prints selected fields from the ...
Thanks Sun Managers one again !!!!Yesterday I posted to this list that, after I connected my machine todepartmental ethernet, I could not telnet, ftp etc to machines outsideour campus. All those who replied, without exception asked me checkmy default router and the problem was as simple as ...
Ahh! I love this list!!I sent out my query and went out for a walk. The weather was beautiful. When I got back, an hour later, I had this from frew%crseo@hub.ucsb.edusitting in my mail queue.> Boy does this sound familiar -- we did EXACTLY the same thing a couple> of years ago. Here's ...
A few weeks ago I asked for help formatting a Wren VII. If you thinkthat there is even a slight possibility of getting one of these hummersin your shop, I would suggest that you save this summary; it will save you a lot of time watching a disk format.Original Post:> Has anyone had success ...
Thanks to everyone who replied. This mailing list is great. Anyway, my inetd problem seems to be a 2 part problem. The first part was that telnets weren't allowed. This was happening before I did a ...
Thanks to all the people who responsed.A while ago we had a problem with printing using the HP Laserjet III throughthe parallel port (/dev/pp0) of the Sun 3/80. As some of the folkspointed out, there is a bug (ID 1026987) in the parallel port driver pp.o.Last week, we finally got the patch, ...
This is a short note summarizing all the quick and useful help I receivedto a question I posed last Friday: "How can I talk to a Heathkit atomicclock via a serial line?"I did receive a few ways to tell the clock to raise RTS, and these diddo the trick. The most frequent (and the ...
This is a summary of the replies I got to my "Management Package"enquiry - thanks to all who replied.------------------------------------------------------------------------------From: G.D.Pratt <gerry@uk.ac.keele.seq1>Subject: WANTED: Network Management PackageDate: Wed, 25 Apr ...
I posted a question about the possible flakiness of the 4.1automounter last night. I got one reply which kind of backed upmy guess:Chris Barry's message dated: Tue, 15 May 90 00:32:56 EDT > Hmmm... sounds like SUN still hasn't got its act ...
After I posted the answer to my problem, a couple of people pointedout some possible ways around it. The first is a change in method, the second joins the ranks of the many hacks around Sun problems.Bob Cunningham's message dated: Tue, 15 May 90 ...
Thanx to all who responded to my mail.When reading the messages I realized that I forgot to mention that this SS1 indeed had something connected to the ttyb serial port, i.e. an AppleLaserprinter.Debbie's comment:>it appears that there is a bug in the SunOS 4.0.3c kernel which may ...
I received only a few replies to my query about 4/490 performance(with respect to the Auspex) but since there is general interest Ithought I'd post a summary.It should first be noted that such a rough measurement of performanceas a limited run of "nfsstat" should not be the final ...
Well, as they say, "This list is incredible". Remember my problem? I had a new Fujitsu M2372K disk as asecond disk on a Xylogics 451 controller; a M2361A Super Eagle as theoriginal disk. ...
This list is wonderful !!!My problem: I had to bring up a diskless SUN 3/60 client off a SUN 3.5 server. Repeated attempts to invoke "suntools" produced NO COLORThe solution: I need to include the color frame buffer (/dev/cgfour0) in order to get ...
Once again, the response from the list is tremendous.I have received 8 responses in the past 20 hours or so. Theyall offer the same advice, which is a reprint of Greg Earle'sposting about creating a libc.so with resolver support under SunOS 4.1 without YP/NIS. That posting follows this ...
Thank you to all who responded to my request concerning a public domainvt100 terminal emulator to access VAXes through the Ethernet...Here is a short summary of responses I got...Special thanks to those at the end... Claude Cantin ...
Evan Wetstone's posting to Sun-Spots about libc+resolv under 4.1 has remindedme to repost a slightly revised version of the instructions. This is promptedby 3 things:(1) The original, virgin /usr/lib/shlib.etc/README file has an oversight in it; The original mentions ...
A while ago I posed a question on this list. This is the result ...QUESTION : We have a Sun 2/170 running Sun OS 3.5 and *NOT* running YP.We wanted to use the campus nameserver instead of loading a (huge) statichost table in memory. We were only interested in using the resolver codeas we had no ...
A *long* time back, I posted the following note (text abbreviated):> I would like to compile an informal manual for low level (ethernet/tcp-ip)> troubleshooting using the standard tools available under SunOS (etherfind,> traffic, netstat, etc). ... It also seems> to me like there ...
This RFC came up in a recent posting, but I thought I'd pass this alonganyway, as I think it contains additional information. -Steve------- Forwarded MessageDate: Wed, 9 May 90 10:25:06 EDTFrom: stine@sparta.com (Robert Havens ...
I did not receive any answer, but several request for nfswatch.<p>The author of nfswatch is David A. Curry.<p>I have found it on icarus.riacs.edu (134.12.1.1) for anonymous ftp (I think <p>it's in the pub directory, but I'm not sure).<p>Regards,<p>Jiri Dvorak<p>
Here's the description of ie0/le0 console error messages that I promised inmy recent posting RE: a summary of available network troubleshooting info.I got this from an anonymous Sun engineer when I was fishing for ethernettroubleshooting info. I don't recall seeing it in either sun-nets or ...
About a month ago I asked for any help and/or experience in configuringsendmail. We run essentially a pure hub-and-spoke mailer (with a veryfew exceptions), with a centralized mail server that does all the work,and dumb workstations that mount a central /usr/spool/mail and whichdeliver all ...
Someone posted a program to either sun-spots or sun-managers which went and gotthe PROM revision from kernel memory. The motivation was that since 4.1required certain PROM revision levels, it was easier to run a program than torun around halting workstations and typing "kb<CR>" ...