Thanks to all 10 people who replied.Many suggested making sure the device address on the CD drive was OK.Some suggested trying to boot plain 4.1 instead of 4.1 PSR-A, whichwe did, proving that we were reaching the CD OK.The suggestion which worked was>b sd(0,30,3)vmunix -swwhich seems a bit ...

> > Today I've had two sparcstations (1 & 1+) crash after> their user defined a new swap area using> mkfile -n 16m /fewiofj> and modifying /etc/fstab to refer to the new swap and putting swapon -a> in /etc/rc.> > If the machine only crashed, I wouldn't mention ...

Original Problem:>We are now running SunOS 4.0.3 sendmail and uucp on our Sun 3/1xx machines,>dialling via TrailBlazers. Every time uucp sends a file it sends a report>via mail to the "uucp" account like this:>>uuxqt cmd () status (exit 0, signal 0)Solution from Bob ...

Enclosed is my summary of reading Mac floppies on Suns. In a nutshell, itcan't be done (unless they were written on a Mac SE/FDHD (or whatever themodel is that reads and writes DOS disks).First, my original request:| We are looking for software to use a SparcStation's floppy drive for ...

I had inquired whether it is possible to replace 1M SIMMs on the memory boardin a 4/330 with 4M SIMMs if the CPU board only has 1M SIMMs. The consensusfrom sun-managers and the memory vender was that this is possible. Each board has jumpers which specify the size of the modules on the board. ...

My original posting:> We have a mix of sun3, sun3x, sun4, sun4c machines. We also have a mix> of SunOS 3.5, 4.0.3, and 4.1. This last weekend we upgraded one> sun 3/280 from SunOS 3.5 to SunOS 4.1 along with its diskless clients.> Today we have had to upgrade a sun 3/80(sun3x) and ...

My question:> Just got a book offer. Want to know if anyone has used it and if> you think it is really a must-read for system managers.> > Title: UNIX SYSTEM Administration Handbook> Authors: Evi Nemeth; Garth Snyder; Scott Seebass> Publisher: ...

I assumed that such a simple and obvious solution as adding the -z or -nparameters to the uux entries in the sendmail.cf MUST work, so I sent outthe previous summary before I had checked it. Well, you guessed it, itmakes no difference whatsoever. It is an actual bug perhaps? This was becoming a ...

My inquiry to the net concerned what can be done with replaced 1MB SIMMsfrom 4/60 memory upgrades. What other Sun's, PC's, MAC's, etc. willaccept them? In particular, I was interested in the 4/110 and 4/300series memory boards. (I hate to do experiments on production-criticalservers.)The ...

I received several responses to my requests for informationabout Pinnacle Optical drives. None of these responses includedsufficient information to permit me to get my REO-650 drive runningon a SS1 running 4.1, although a couple of folks indicated they had donethis and couldn't recall the ...

Thanks to all who answered:jaysun@cs.clemson.educlyde@sirius.cc.utexas.eduRichard Elling <elling@eng.auburn.edu>zjat02@trc.amoco.com (Jon A. Tankersley)brendan@cs.widener.edu (Brendan Kehoe)david@srv.PacBell.COM (David St. Pierre)The concensus is that the "fixed" ypserv is ...

 Thanks to Jeff Nieusma for some good suggestions on how to check it out. Somehow 10 minutes after I mailed the message to sun-managers, it just 'fixed'itself. Lord knows. Jeff suggested a problem with /etc/magic (it was overNFS, so maybe something went funky with that ...

Here is my original posting...>>I need some help with setting up the new version on UUCP on our SUN 4/330>running 4.1. Basically, I have a similar problem to a previous net msg but>I don't know how to implement the suggested solution. My problem is in>the chat script of ...

Thanx all S.M. who replied.It seems that the modified scripts does not have proper argumentparsing, and thet the servercomm program for hooking up a telnet/ptysession to pscomm need some more modification.the pscomm program was mentioned to have a build in network socketsupport, but that is not ...

original message:>> Help.>> >> We have 2 4/490's running 4.1PSR_A. One (gracie) is a fileserver, the>> other (george) is the main machine.>> >> George's kernel has the PMEG patch, but this problem appeared before>> the patch went in.>> >> ...

My original question:> Question: Does the Hitachi (or any other) disk need to be> reformatted when we move the disk from the existing 450/451> to the 7053?The [great!] answers from multiple sources: YES. In addition,it is most wise to save the defects list for the disk, eitheronto ...

The original question:> We recently upgraded our mail server to 4.1, so our uucp switched> to HDB. Since then, we have had trouble with a site whose uucp> name is more than 7 characters. I know that some uucps had (or *still*> have) a seven character limit for sitenames, so I ...

>>Subject: vi in 4.1>>>>>>Using vi in 4.0.3 and having a terminal type of vt100,>>when a user was in the insert mode and hit an arrow key, it would>>take him out of insert mode on the first hit and move the curser on>>the next hits.>>>>Under ...

There's not much to summarize, I got 2 answers.ad. CDC Elite drives: Nobody reported having one.ad. C2 security: C2 is fine for shadow passwd and *reduced* auditing. C2    with full auditing requires huge amounts of disk space and CPU time.    Don't ...

---- Start of forwarded text ----> From coe%plato%uunet.uu.net%hwcs.uucp@uk.ac.hw.cs Tue Nov 20 23:42:59 1990> Received: from hwcs.UUCP by hades.cs.napier.ac.uk; Tue, 20 Nov 90 23:42:58 GMT> Received: from helios.cs.hw.ac.uk (helios) by brahma.cs.hw.ac.uk; Tue, 20 Nov 90 23:25:22 ...

Once again this is a great list. I got lots of replies. Lots of goodsuggestions, and sever requests for a summary.Thanks to all who responded.My original: >> Date: Tue, 20 Nov 90 10:12:42 EST >> >> SunOS 4.1, 4/380 server, 3/xx clients with 3's and 4's standalone on ...

Yesterday I asked about internet renumbering since we got a new internetnumber. Of the responses that I got, the overwhelming majority feel thatthe pain and agony of trying to do it incrementally doesn't match thatof just shutting everything down and renumbering. Barry Shein put ...

I asked a myriad of questions concerning installing a 200 MB driveinside of a SPARCstation pizza box. Thanks to this list I learnedthe following:1. According to Sun, it is not a good idea to put a 200 MB drive inside of   a SPARC 1/1+ chassis. Evidently the SPARCstation 2 ...

> > I have several users who occasionally get the above panic when exiting from> suntools. The problem has occurred on diskfull 3/50, 3/60, and 3/80 machines> running SunOS 4.0.3 and 4.1. It occurs less often under 4.1 than 4.0.3.> Sun has heard of the problem but does not have ...

Well, once again this list comes through.Original question:>We have an SS1 running SunOS4.1 as a standalone. We also have a serial line>hooked into ttya which carries an ascii data stream at 1800bps,7,1,even.>The problem is that whenever we go to reboot the machine, we get the ...

Thanks to all who replied.My original:> I need to run bootp service from my Sun 4/60 and can find no mention of it> in TFM. It is not even listed in the /etc/services file. Does anyone know of> a public domain version of bootp, RFC 1048 compliant, that works well on a > Sun under ...

My apologies to the list for taking so long to summarise.I received 9 replies, all of which provided more of a workaroundthan a solution to the problem (though I didn't explain it very well).Here is the original question:>The lpd system tells me that there is a lock applied to the ...

A while ago I asked if somebody on the net had an Omnistor drive and whatwas the installation involved. This drive can write WORM and erasable media.I got a few call for summary and only one answer. Here it is:< Installation was trival, alot like a SCSI disk. Set jumpers(I think, been afew ...

Thanks to all (17) who responded.The original problem:A few bytes where being read incorrectly in large files accessed via NFSthrough a 4/280 gateway. Further testing (after my post) showed that accessing the files on the gateway itself (via ie1) also didn't work reliably.Other network ...

My original request:> Is there an easy way to set up automatic logouts or exits for inactive> sessions. Specifically, I'd like any login or su session for root to> be discontinued after X minutes of inactivity.The most popular suggestion was the untamo daemon from j.cc.purdue.edu,a ...

This is the summary of question/replies to problem of setting up a Mac runningA/UX to run YP as a client in an existing network of Suns running YP.NOTE: We don't yet have the problem fixed, however, I'm not looking at setup_client anymore.Almost everyone said that setup_client is not to be ...

About two weeks ago (sorry for the delay...), I asked for advice aboutchoosing between a Solbourne S4000 and a Sun IPC. I got many replies(thanks, see below) and some good advice:   * Eduardo Krell pointed out I should not be looking at MIPS, but      at ...

In article <F.=tl9h3@cs.psu.edu> I wrote:Dan> While purusing the 4.1.1 release notes I came across the following on page 4:Dan> Dan> "Sun's SPARCserver 390 and SPARCserver 490 systems support only IPI disks.Dan> The SPARCserver 470 and SPARCstation 470 support both IPI ...

Last week I posted the following question:> On rather short notice, I may have to specify a LARGE file server to> provide NFS service to a network of Suns (and Vaxen running TGV Multinet> NFS). This file server will need to archive and make available> 100+ GB of "online" ...

My problem seems to stem from a set of experimental ip-multicast patches fromXerox Parc. The crux of the matter is that somewhere in the kernel mbufsare not being returned to the pool once used. It looks like this was aproblem before adding the two extra interfaces, but the rate of ...

Sun Managers,  Thanks for all of your replies so far. My original query:> After replacing the standard 1Mb simms in a 4/65 with>4Mb simms, I've been left with 8Mb of extra memory. Is>this memory compatible with the 4/110 systems?  It seems that this memory will do ...

I neglected to mention what version of SunOS I was running but several people where able to give good information anyway. Thanks.In SunOS 4.0.3 the the per process limit is 64. It cannot be changed (notwith out source anyway).In SunOS 4.1 the limit has definitely been raised. I got some ...

 Thanks to Seth Robertson (seth@ctr.columbia.edu), Per Foreby(perf@efd.lth.se), and Walter Rowe (cme.nist.gov) for their responseson this matter. My original question asked if anybody had a good wayto overcome the problem of having /etc/utmp world-writable (which hasmore implications than ...

Two weeks back I posted a note about being unable to reachsyn-gate.synoptics.com on the net in order to get the document"Improving the Security of Your UNIX System." Here's the summary.I am still unable to reach that site, and several other people had the samedifficulty; Robert ...

It was requested by several people that I post a summary, so...Thanks to the many people who replied. Here is the original question:------------  Date: Mon, 03 Dec 90 18:02:36 EST  Subject: Logins in Disk-Wait  Help! Our machine keeps crashing...  As ...

Thanks, Y'all,  I received over 25 responses to this one: after installing the resolvermy console window starting getting messages like:    nres_gethostbyname sun.irus.rri.uwo.ca != w.x.y.z.  This, it turns out, is a known bug, and thanks to many who ...

I don't know if it is necessary to post a summary, but I willanyway. If one checks /usr/include/sys/errno.h one willfind that Error 70 is /* Stale NFS file handle */Additional information is available through the commandman 2 intro (or by checking the appropriate manual.A quick solution is to ...

Thank you for all your responses. Now I know where to turn if I havea problem I cannot resolve. My original question:-------------------->Does anyone have or know of a patch for scanf. Or is anyone running>"at" jobs on a Sun 3 running SunOS 3.5? Any help would be ...

This morning, I wrote:} Subject: le0: Transmission stopped| We are loggin the following errors on a 4/60 (SunOS 4.0.3c):| | Nov 1 03:01:53 rick vmunix: le0: Transmission stopped| Nov 1 03:01:53 rick vmunix: le0: csr: 0x2e3<TINT,INTR,INEA,RXON,STRT,INIT>| | These seem to occur only ...

My original posting was:----- Begin Included Message -----Machine: 3/160, 4Mb memory, ALM-1 Serial expansion board.SunOS: 3.5I'm looking for an automounter that will run under SunOS 3.5 and willaccept the automount maps in the same form as the Sun automounter, andwill read the maps from ...

Well, I didn't receive any replies to my post, but I have found a placethat does data recovery from disks with unix filesystems. Originally Iposted about a Wren V that failed. Symptoms varied on a couple ofmachines. The 4/330 printed no sense errors to the console while theSPARC1 was able ...

I've gotten a couple of notes saying that my summary was truncatedafter the end of the original post. So, here is a repost of thesummary without the original posting part.The most of the suggestions involved:- Verifying the integrity of /vmunix and that I'm booting from /vmunix.- Verifying ...

Howdy folks,I've gotten many responses, thank you, thank you, thank you.My original post:----- Begin Included Message -----This concerns a 4/260 running SunOS 4.1.Yesterday, I issued a "ps -u" command as root and got:USER PID %CPU %MEM SZ RSS TT STAT START TIME COMMANDroot ...

There were a number of requests for summaries. It's a real easysummary -- basicly, everything we have will work -- the 70MBpseudo-scsi disks, the old disk and tape controllers. There werea few caveats, however. Many thanks for the replies from: rgb@lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu Mike ...

Thanks to all who responded. Although there may be (and probably are) better choices, SCCS my do the job if used carefully.Thanks again.Doug PetersonMy message to the NET:I am working on a large software management project, and SCCS has been chosenas the management tool. The user community is a ...