Finally! A summary of the responses I receivedregarding relative performance of standalone andswapful SparcStation configurations.Here was my request:> Subject: SS-1+ performance: swapful vs. standalone> > Hi, everyone --> > My group of three Sun administrators is faced with the ...

I appologize for the long delay in posting this summary. I actuallythought I had, but a recent letter indicates that I probably didn't.My problem:> Date: 02 Feb 90 14:57:04 EST> > > From: "S. Holmes [Consulting Detective]" <sjh@helicon.math.purdue.edu>> ...

Thanks to the quick response I received to my plea (regarding badpseudo-terminals causing telnet failures), I now know what to look for:background jobs hanging around with the pty open and no one logged in onthe associated tty. Nuke the background job and all is well.Someone sent me a summary ...

  The original request (summarized): >I need to implement a custom program to change NIS passwords. It should >be a simple thing to do but the yppasswd system call does not do what I >expect. If I change several fields in the pw struct only one of these >fields actually ...

I wrote:>Running either the OpenWindows or Sunview mailtools on a SunOS 4.1>SS1+ gives:>>Mailtool not able to communicate with Mail!>(Perhaps Mail is not an executable appropriate for this machine.)>Aborting mailtool!Allen Myers (...!sun!sunkist!dasun!myers)Mark Day ...

     Well, the problem turned out to be that the HP drive I had needs afirmware upgrade to work with a Sparc 2. I don't know the details about whatthe incompatibility is, but several people mentioned this to me, and I calledmy vendor, and they've sent me (overnight) ...

My original posting:>> SunOS: 4.1.1>> Machine: 4/280 SS1+>> Memory: 32M 28M>> Swap: 90M 40M>> >> Problem:>> cc/ld core dumps while loading .o modules and X libraries (static).>> It happens when programs are larger than 200K bytes. ...

Original message:>I came in this weekend to upgrade the system from 4.0.3 to 4.1.1. When>I issue the>> b st()>>to boot from the distribution tape, I get:>> >b st()> Boot: st(0,0,0)> Error (PSR = 0x203) Timeout Bus Error:> Vaddr: 00800000, Paddr: ...

Original enquiry:> I remember simething flew past a few weeks ago on the topic of using subnet> masks other than 16 or 24 bit. If anyone out there has the summary I would> be grateful if they would send me it. We are contemplating this and it always> helps to know the traps in ...

Greetings!      Thanks for all of the replys. The general feeling is that automount or itsnon-Sun flavor amd is a good thing and has no more security holes than NFS itself on SunOS 4.1X. Here is a sample of the ...

 Thanks to this list which solved my problem; and thanks ...

    First here is a summary of the boot process    A diskless boot (ex: b le(,3940)) follows the following stepsrarp broadcast to find internet address for client, needs to have        a rarpd running on local ...

Well folks,I got there in the end. It is obviously a popular subject as I got a lot ofrequests for summaries. The problems seem to be caused by some adviceciprico give on using the tunefs command after newfs. From 4.1.1 themaximum contiguous space alllowed is 7 blocks whereas ciprico ...

Thanks for all your answers.The best tip came from Sun Support Germany.The problem is the keyboard:o if no keyboard is attached (neither SUN keyboard nor an ASCIIterminal on ttya), the CPU will not boot.o if the machine is running and you disconnect the keyboard, the CPU crashesbecause it ...

Thanks for all the helpful souls who responded. Basically, I wanted to set up a serial IP line over which to run X11 applications. The idea was to determine what sort of bandwidth was required. I was running SunOS 4.1.1 and OpenWindows 2.0 on a Sun 3/60 with 12 Meg of RAM and a Sun 3/50 with ...

Thanks for all the helpful souls who responded. My original question dealt with connecting Suns up to IBM mainframes using SNA. Most people reasonably assumed that I wanted to run a 3270 terminal or printer emulator on the Sun. In fact, that was not the case. We are doing that right now ...

        This is the summary of messages received about the exabyte tape drives and the warning messages "st: warning - tape may be wearing out or heads may need cleaning". First, it seems clearly a problem with Sun's st driver but not ...

Hello,last week, I posted the following question to the list:Michael> Hello,Michael> we have at our university several organizational units withMichael> their own small computer pools. Due to various reasonsMichael> (organizational structures of German universities are ...

Right after I sent my first summary (sorry about screwing up the subject line)I got two more repies from tkr@praxis.co.uk and trinity!miker@oddjob.uchicago.edu with many more vendors. Here they are:Thanks again Sun-Managers!-MarcII. Bus Adapters-----------------Vendor Name Product ...

(I'm also directing this to sun-nets because the discussion is morenetworking oriented than system management oriented.)   From: rlg@IDA.ORG (Randy garrett)   Date: 26 Feb 91 22:48:18 GMT   I also heard of two other serial line IP programs: ppp and ...

My original question : >>I'm trying to install a 2400 bd modem to ttyb on my SUN 4/390 running >>SUNOS 4.0.3 for dialup. In my Kernel zs0 looks like this:>> device zs0 at obio? csr 0xf1000000 flags 3 priority 3>>I created /dev/cua0 and looks like ...

ORIGINAL QUESTION:I manage Sun workstations running mostly SunOS-4.0.3 on Sun3 & Sun4 hosts andthese workstations are located in several different states, NJ, VA, MA, DCI thought I understood the machanisms that shutdown uses to notify"appropriate" hosts that it is shutting down. ...

I received three immediate responses, with sufficient information in them thatI needn't wait for more replies. Thanks to:        blknowle@frodo.JDSSC.DCA.MIL (Brad L. Knowles)        James J Dempsey ...

Tuesday I had a question about the remote installation of Sun OS 4.1.1.:> ... we got an error message:> get_software_info: '/etc/ifconfig le0 mickey -trailers up 2>>/etc/install/suninstall.log' failed.> > After that, we found in /etc/install/suninstall.log:> ...

Sorry this took me so long to post but since I still don't know the solution there has not been much to summarize. Some of the suggested solutions were1. boot single user and re-run ypinit -m2. set a default route prior to starting ypbind3. make sure the /etc/defaultdomain file is correct and ...

I asked:>>Is anybody out there using an SBUS 386 coprocessor, such as the one>by Puzzle Systems? Are you happy with the performance? Any compatability>problems? What are the limitations?>>Do you know of any other vendors besides Puzzle Systems?>and you replied ...

  (This is a repost, I don't think the original ever made it, but I don'twhere it got lost?).        When generating the aliases maps, a lot goes on behind thescene. The first bug I had:----- Begin Included Message ...

A while back, Jiri Dvorak <dvorak@iam.unibe.ch> observed:> In SunOS 4.1.1, newfs creates per default a lot more inodes than in 4.0.3 or> earlier versions.and asked about the advisability of creating filesystems withfewer inodes (which you can do with SunOS 4.1*). He has postedthe ...

Many thanks for the replies: I won't list them, to keep this short.Consensus: large SIMMs should go in the first bank (28M = 4x4 + 12x1)Surprising finding: when I opened it up, the 4M were in bank 3, but bank 2contained an amazing mismatch of odd 1M's (sometimes I wonder what goes onwhen I'm ...

My original question:>Greetings,>>In a recent message on "sun-managers", someone mentioned in passing that SunOS>4.1.1 supports reading/writing DOS floppies directly; that is, you don't need>DOS Windows or "mtools" or any other extra software. Well, I've ...

I posted a summary 2 hours after my original question, which asked whetheranybody knew of a way to read/write DOS or Mac floppies with the Sparcfloppy drives. The early responses seemed to all direct me towards 4.1.1 (which I haven'tgotten yet). Since 4.1.1 includes support for PC filesystems ...

This is the summary regarding nfs mounting /usr/openwin between two machines. All respondents said that it was perfectly OK to nfs mount /usr/openwinbetween two machines of the same architecture. The share directory in /usr/openwin is analogous to /usr/share -- this directory is not ...

Last week I described a problem whereby I couldn't add a Wren V to a3/60 that already had a Sun shoebox and two Pinnacle Micromagneto-optical drives. Whenever the Pinnacle drives were in the SCSIchain, the Wren wasn't visible.Virtually everyone who responded suggested that this was a ...

My question was:> I am using a SS1+ with SunOS 4.1.1, DNS, modified dynamic> library, no NIS.> > My problem is to export a filesystem to some other machine,> so that the access list is longer than 256 characters.> This happens soon because I have to use the the full ...

    There has been a lot of interest in the way I bring up 4.1.1 onremote machines (without cd-drives). It took me this long to reasonablytest everything and to stop adding features.    In this document, I'll try todescribe everything I did. It does ...

Last week, I posted a message with several questions about theestablishment of a new internet connection. This is a summaryof the replied I received.First, though, thanks to all those who responded:syd@dsinc.dsi.com (Syd Weinstein)jdr@mlb.semi.harris.com (Jim Ray)sundev!fletch!kevin@Sun.COM ...

This is a summary regarding a limit of 1024 characters to the group file.There seems to be several problems related to this issue:1. vi limits the length of a line to 1024 characters.2. There is a limit of 1024 characters to the group file. (bug #1050629)3. If you're using NIS, there is a dbm ...

I asked why installboot was failing:>I reboot from sd3, and run installboot thusly:> ># cd /usr/mdec># installboot -vl /boot bootsd /dev/rsd1a> >and it says:> >Primary boot: bootsd>Secondary boot: /boot>Boot device: /dev/rsd1a>bootfile /boot not on bootdeviceThe ...

The original message:>two of our monochrome 19" hitachi monitors have flaked out. our>diagnosis seems to indicate the flyback transformer as the culprit.>does anyone know of places that would repair these monitors, or a source>for replacement flyback transformers? names / ...

        This a summary of the question I posted few days ago regarding theusage of SOCK_RAW provided in BSD socket to implement a new transport protocolon top of IP. First, below are the partial text of the question posed:>Hi netlander,> I ...

       correctedThis is a ^ summary regarding a limit of 1024 characters to the group file.There seems to be several problems related to this issue:1. vi limits the length of a line to 1024 ...

By default, Suns come configure to use NIS (Network Information System),formerly known as YP (Yellow Pages). BUT we are using DNS (Domain Name Server).As a result, we had to rebuild a brand new shared library file, containingthe necessary routines to handle DNS.I have received over 25 ...

Thanks for all the replys. hogan@csl.sri.comdawei@eng.sun.comstern@east.sun.commmccann@eng.clemson.edufwp1@Ra.MsState.Edudaryl@dash.mitre.orgCCTR114@cantva.canterbury.ac.nzcheng@irss.njit.educhip@allegra.att.com SunOS 4.1.1 includes Sun4 for the SparcServer 4/390 andSunOS 4.1.1 for the ...

As most pointed out, it turned out to be conflictingSCSI addresses. This was due to improper jumpersettings at the factory. I was able to get the drivemanuals from the vendor and correct the settings.Thanks to all who replied:        Mark Galbraith ...

I wrote last week asking about internal 200Mb SCSI drives for the 4/60.Many respondents indicated that both the Quantum PRO210 and the Conner3200F were good drives. Other people reported good results with theMaxtor LXT200S (and now 213S) and the Fuji M2246.I ended up buying the Quantum drive ...

Sorry for the delay in summarizing responses to my problems, but I've been hoping to get an authoritative fix to at least one of them. Nosuch luck so far. Here's the scoop:1) yp problems on clients -- I've found that oftentimes sparcstations have to    be rebooted in ...

Hello all,Most people told me to use the netlib e-mail server. Problem is( so I am told ) that most the source is in fortran. I was hopingfor C. Well, beggars can't be choosers... Fortran it is...Here is the "quick summary" section returned by e-mail tonetlib@research.att.com with a ...

The original problem: Our SS1 could not read it's disk.The solution: Smack it.        The overwhelming majority of respondents indicated that I shouldtake the drive out and tap it lightly. Apparently the heads have atendency to get stuck in the parked ...

I received about 15 messages, 10 people told me how I could write one --which I already knew. 2 people asked for copies of what I received. 1person wrote a script (apparently in response to my message) and sent itto me untested.Daniel Trinkle (trinkle@cs.purdue.edu) of Purdue University ...

 My original question:  Anybody have a quick 'n easy fix for this? I have a 150Mb drive,but I use DC600A tapes (the dept head said it'd be better to back up a140Mb filesystem on 3 60Mb tapes than get one 150Mb tape. Don't askme.). Anyway, I've always done my backups with ...