The original question was:> SunOS 4.1 comes with dynamic routing enabled (in.routed is uncommented in> rc.local), yet I have read in a couple of articles from Sun that for most> desktop machines, dynamic routing is inefficient. Commenting out the> route deamon in your rc.local and ...

I would like to thank everyone who replied with suggestions, solutions,advice, etc. The answer to my problems lies in the SCSI address of the newhard disk, which must be set to a different value from the existing one.My system configuration is as follows:   +-----+ ...

First, I want to mention that this was the first time I had written tosun-managers. I've only had my Suns for about a week. I want to thank allthe people who responded to my question. It was a real relief to get ananswer on a Friday afternoon within an hour of sending out my question. ...

I was having trouble changing passwords on the NIS Client machines.First, You have to add to your rc.local file a line to actually startupthe rpc.yppasswdd daemon. There is a bug in version 4.1; it fails torecognize the first argument passed to it so you might want to throw th-noshell ...

> Does anyone know the proper way to get /etc/printcap into NIS? I> tried a few things unsuccessfully. Is this possible? I'm running> Sun3's and 4's under 4.0.3, 4.1 and 4.1.1.Well, I've received 32 responses all saying approximately the samething: you can't do what I ...

The question was:How to boot a 3/60 from a SCSI disk other than 0.The solution is use HEX.The format of the boot should be b sd(0,a,0)where a = 8*SCSI target+unitOn disks with embedded SCSI controllers (like WREN,s), the unit number isalways zero.THis makes: a = 8 * 2 (for SCSI id 2 - in my ...

Thanks to all the people who responded to my request !! (at least 45 w/in 6 hours of posting :-) ) Next time I'll RTFM ...Thanks again.Rick NiziakSystems ManagerOntologic, ...

I needed more swap on a workstation low on disk space and ended up adding:         server:/usr/swap.client /swap/server nfs rw 0 0         /swap/server swap swap rw 0 0to "client"'s /etc/fstab ...

I filled in some holes today. any ideas on the rest?                ss1 ss1+ SLC IPC SS2 cpu 901 901 801 901 cy601cpu MHz 20 25 20 25 40 FPU type 3170 3170 3172 3172a ti8847 FPU ...

If you want to boot your Sun off CD-ROM, you must buy a Sun CD-ROMplayer. Kevin Sheehan of Sun sez:"Yes, you *can* use other drives with the Sun (NEC, Phillips, Hitachi cometo mind) for HSFS access, but you *cannot* use them for boot/loading - itrequires a firmware change to deal with ...

THE ANSWER IS.....is by invoking sunview in the following format:%sunview -i Easily found in the sunview man pages..Thanks to all who responded (over 50)Rick NiziakSystems ManagerOntologic, ...

Thanks to all those (many) who replied. The original message was:>Subject: duplicate IP address>Hello all!>We have a problem recurring at random times that has been causing>one of our 4/110's to hang for up to a few hours at a time. The>console message is:>>Feb 5 13:03:50 ...

In article <9102061811.AA03500@isis.berkeley.edu>, I wrote:>Script started on Wed Feb 6 09:53:46 1991>cimsim.Berkeley.EDU% passwd>Changing NIS password for mark on dynprod.>Old password:>New password:>Retype new password:>RPC: Server can't decode ...

Many thanks to Sun-managers !About 10 persons give me the answers. There is a bug in SunOS 4.1 (bugid 1029939). See the readme file from the patch some of you sent meat the end of this message. One of you say that the PMEG patchsolve the problem too, but it don't apply the two patches, ...

I asked:>In about 2-3 weeks I will be taking the giant leap from 3.5 to 4.1.1. >Any pointers, etc would be appreciated. The machine in question is a>3/160 with 4 Meg of memory, 1/4" tape drive, internal SCSI disk, ~300 Meg>Fujitsu Eagle on a Xylogics 451. It is pretty ...

The problem:  Every 5 minutes, the following error message under SunOS 4.1.1:    <date> <hostname> named[<pid>]: xfer returned 255The solution:  Add the name of a file (to hold data transferred from the primary  server) as a ...

Thanks to all of you who responded:Various ways of fixing the problem were addressed, eeprom settings,/etc/ttytab options, cable problems... etc.The one fix that did work was that my modem came configured w/ DCD high and I needed to turn it off like this:%tip cua0connectedAT&V Shows current ...

Original message:> I finally have the DNS server setup correctly and my resolver library> installed. Everything seems to work just fine; I can ping, ftp, and> telnet to anyone on the internet and our LAN. Problem: when mounting> a filesystem, the remote host must be defined in ...

My original question (part of it):> Hardware:> Sun 4/370 with SunOS 4.0.3> Fujitsu M2392K 2 GB SMD-disk> Xylogics 7053 controller (as second disk controller)> (Two 1 GB NEC's on the first controller)> > Problem:> Whenever I try to format the disk, I get error ...

I recently asked:   I urgently need some female db50 connectors for ribbon cables. I   checked the standard catalogs like Inmac, Misco, etc but they all seem   not to know what sun scsi conventions are....      Has ...

On Feb 6, 8:13pm, Sue Chichester wrote:} Subject: Printing from Sun to VAX printer} I have a bunch of suns connected to my campus backbone. I'd like to} be able to print from the suns to a LAT printer connected to my VAX/VMS} machine that is also connected to the backbone.}} I saw an article ...

(The summary went out before I finalized this, so I'm posting directly.)There's a fourth option for those running the resolver routines that wantto mount filesystems from hosts not listed in /etc/hosts. Obtain adynamically-linked mount from the Sun AnswerLine. It works for me!-- Jim Battan ...

>I have a directory /users on a large disk. I then have all my users>directories within /users. (/users/sue for example>What I want to do now is have this disk be /public and then have /users be>within /public. So my user directories would be /public/users/sue for>example. Is ...

Thanks to many (esp. Hal Stern). The essential checklist is:(a) have you checked /etc/ttytab to make sure the ttyh* devices are        turned on, have gettys running, and have "local" set ...

Hello,the question I posted last week was:Question> we have several Suns running OS4.1 in two domains. We areQuestion> desperatly trying to import into domain2 a NFS-filesystemQuestion> that is exported secure in domain1. After reading theQuestion> manuals, I thought that it would ...

At the beginning of last week, I had asked a question asking peopelif they knew if there was a public domain version of NQS out in thepublic domain, for SPARC-based systems.I got a number of responses:  - it is available from pemrac.space.swri.edu.  - it is available - ...

It appears that my problem was too much memory in the IPC. Fortunately,there is a workaround:> From: tgsmith@East.Sun.COM (Timothy G. Smith - Technical Consultant Sun Baltimore)> Message-Id: <9102131317.AA11134@fedps.East.Sun.COM>> To: Jim Mattson <jmattson@ucsd.edu>> ...

Thanks to all those who responded. In short the software I was referring to is NeWSprint which is currentlyavailaible from SUN for $495, as I could have found out from Sun if Icould have gotten them to call me back.The consensus is that the NeXTLaser interface is nonstandard and proprietaryand ...

I received many suggestions on what may have been the problem regarding theL-function keys not working on my SparcStation. First of all, many peoplekindly pointed out to me I did not say what windowing system I was using.Oooops, we are using SunView. The first suggestion I received worked, ...

Here is the summary to my recent posting about how to get biff notificationto users on clients that NFS mount a central mail spool.The original question was:> We have a central mail spool which is nfs mounted by all our workstations.> It works fine except that notification of new mail ...

It seems that I summarized too soon. Right after I sent outmy summary, I got a pile of messages, some of whichcontained some additional information that I thought wasuseful enough to warrant a follow-up, to wit:=================================================================>From Jim ...

I recently asked how SunOS handles its filesystem buffer cache.(I asked this question because we are doing some NFS performance testingbetween systems from several vendors, and I wanted to know how big a fileI'd have to read thru memory on each test run to make sure the file Iwas using for ...

Thanks to all (too many to mention) those who replied to my questionabout copying Sun OS 4.1.1 relese tapes. The solutionis to use the 'copytape' utility available from several sources on thenetwork (comp.sources.unix). A couple of kindlysouls actually sent me the code and saved me the ...

Last week I asked how to set the tuning parameters with newfs and tunefsfor different filesystems, in particular /export/swap, to achieve bothhigh performance and maximum space.I got just 1 answer, which is included below in full length.Many thanks to Bill Vaughn----- Begin Included Message ...

Here are the responses to my traceroute query. I've grabbed the versionfrom zerkalo.harvard.edu. It's running fine on our Sun 4's now. As ofSunOS 4.1.1 no kernel mods are required to run traceroute.Thanks to everyone who replied.--lyndon------- Forwarded MessagesFrom: emv@ox.com (Ed ...

Thanks to all who responded. Here are the first set of responses whichI believe will cover off the the majority of info I will receive on the subject...original posting...>>I've been informed that MS-KERMIT is a great little package that allows>>you to easily customize terminal ...

My original request was> I have just ordered a colour SS2 for the purposes of scientific visualization.> What I would like to be able to do is record on video single frames in a> sequence to build up a movie. From looking at the Sbus list and from> previous stuff it appears that the ...

Does anyone know the format for the Sun passwd exportation field<p>I have not seen it documented in the Sun Docs anywhere.<p>                -Pete<p>

In this case there was no resolution!Andy Sherman of At&T expressed a possible conflictbetween 4.1 and 4.0.3 NFS servers which could have been the causeof our problem. Another cause could have been timeouts due to LANmaintenance, i.e. ( an extended break in the cable ...

My sincere gratitude to all who responded. We are backup and running 24hours/day without any crashes and the managementis happy about Suns again. I apologize for the delay in summarizing but I wantedto wait until enough time had passed to make sure the fix we installedwas truly successful.Hal ...

A few weeks ago I asked the net about using a Sparc 2 as a high-volume, low activity, Unix fileserver. I was planning on loading the poor beast up with 3 SCSI host adapaters (1 standard, 2 SBUS)and running it maxed out with 1.2GB disk drives (Fuji M2266SAs).I received over a dozen request for ...

I originally wrote:    Sun still hasn't caught up to the rest of the world. Is there    any magic I can do in either 4.0.3 or 4.1 to tell ifconfig that    the default host part of a broadcast address is all 1's rather ...

In summary of my recent posting of help regarding SCSA device drivers.The best data I found was the existance of a maillist. Below is the addressI used to contact the moderator.>island!scsa-request@uunet.uu.net Basically before you attempt to write the SCSA drivers get two sun ...

Hi,Sorry for the delay........My original question:>> >> Can anyone tell me if there is a public domain software which allows me to >> measure the network traffic, collect statistics and produce graphical >> representation? I need a program which can tell me the network ...

I never saw the previous summary I had posted so I am resendingthis message.Original Problem: Couldn't send large ping packets through aCabletron box that divided one group of SPARCstations from another(on twisted pair ethernet). The message was sent on Feb 1, 1991.Solution: Turned out that ...

Last week i asked:> Sometime ago, i believe i read somewhere that some SUN OS> CD's were distributed that had some files in the wrong > directories.> > Does anyone know which SUN OS was involved, which files were> involved, and how a "bad" CD can be discerned ...

Well netland,thanks for your prompt help. It seems that cg6reg.h from 4.0.3(c) isno good abd it must be 4.1 (or later). There are however 3 ways to solvethis problem which I will include here. I have only tried number 3.However on examination I expect the others to work as well.Thanks to ...

Guy Harris (guy@auspex.com) pointed out that I had boo-boo'edin a summary of my request for info on how the filesystem buffercache works. Specifically:I had said that a *file open* causes a file to get memory-mappedinto virtual address space. What I meant to say was, *reading*or *writing* ...

In message <9102122031.AA21995@popcbr.rockefeller.edu> I wrote:>>>We have Zenith 286 PC's running PC-NFS Ver 3.01.>There are also other software running on them which>require more than 500K of base memory (won't use>extended or expanded memory). I was interested ...

Some times ago all my sparks crashed with DATA FAULT in _flush_windows.That was a known bug (BugID 1029939). But my local sun support give me the PMEGS patch, andall works well now=> The PMEGS patch also fixes this ...