OpenWindows version of Locktool

542 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:20:00
Many thanks to Brett Chapman of G.E. Medical Systems for providing me with theSunView sources for Locktool. I have ported Locktool to OpenWindows. All of thepersons that requested it have been sent my updated source.Anyone else who is interested can e-mail me and I will send them the shar ...

Summary of "Utility needed"

1587 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:20:00
     I am posting this to the entire list as an addendum to what IttaiHershman posted. I forgot to include the compress.mesg file in myinitial reply to him, and consequently it is not in his posting. Notethat the "FS", "BIG", "OLD", and ...

Problems with DNS going from IP to name

898 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:20:00
  Many thanks to *many* people for concice and prompt replies to my problem.I'm enclosing one reply for a summary, everyone said pretty much the samething. Thanks again!------- Forwarded MessageIt appears that there are problems with the setup of the"174.134.in-addr.arpa" ...

Failure summary, slip0 .. Sun 4/20, OS 4.1.1

12053 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:20:00
I have already posted this in newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ipSubject: cslip crashing Sun 4/20 4.1.1I nearly succeeded with cslip ( UofT SLIP 4.0 with cslipbeta and thesunos4 fixes ) working. I got connected onto a remote Tahoe-BSD VAX with the+e(?) compress flag. Did a: slattach dev ...

.cshrc variables

3920 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:20:00
        OK. Thank you for all your responses. I got over 90! (serves        me right for asking such a simple question I supose!).        The simple answer to my query about ...

tftp woes - summary

3930 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:20:00
Thanks to all who responded, namely    alexl@daemon.CNA.TEK.COM     Jim Battan <battan@sequent.COM>    stern@East.Sun.COM (Hal Stern - Consultant)    kuno@caen.engin.umich.edu (Harumi Anne Kuno ...

SIMM placement in SPARCstation-2 ?

6427 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:20:00
My original question:>I just received a SS-1 to SS-2 upgrade kit, and now I want to move my added>(i.e., those beyond the base 8 MB) SIMM modules to the new SS-2 box.>However, a neat little trick in the SS-2 Installation Guide is that the SIMM>installation instructions, which ...

SS2 GX accelerator, when is it used ?

3423 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:20:00
Here is my original question :-> > We have had some SS2 GX's for the past few weeks, and I have started> fiddling around with some visualization software on them (apE2.0), I> used to run the X11R4 X server, but since getting these machines have> started using OpenWindows, as I ...

yppasswd patch No. (4.1, 4.1.1)

643 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:20:00
Thanks to all those who replied. There were two answers :-1) Include a -single || -noshell || -nosingle before the -m passwd optionon the startup for rpc.yppasswdd in rc.local2) The patch is for both 4.1 and 4.1.1 and has a number 100201-01I neglected to say I was running C2 security, the fix ...

The Ultimate Printcap File

79093 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:20:00
And Glenn Carver comes thru within two hours with a copy of the"Master Printcap Listing - Volume IV". He in turn got it fromr.d. parachoniak, who got it from some unknown place. Many thanks,Glenn!>+---------------------------------------------------------------+>| ...

include file

2721 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:20:00
My Question was:>Has anyone ever heard of /usr/include/sbusdev/audioreg.h ? A SPARC>sound system I got off the net includes this file, but it isn't>available anywhere that I have looked... Thanks!  I found out that this is NOT part of any current distribution of SUNOS,it ...

4/470 + IPI = PSR release?

3593 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:20:00
My Question:>Does anybody know the difference between the regular SunOS>release and PSR release? I know that you have to use>PSR on SPARCservers such as 4/390 and 4/490 but regular>release on 4/370 and 4/470. Since the CPU board in>4/470 is the same in 4/490, What is the ...

drive not on cylinder error

4912 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:20:00
A few days ago, I descibed the problem:>>Last week, we got the following message on the console of our 3/160:>> vmunix: xd1a: write restore (drive not on cylinder) -- blk #64, abs blk #64>>It didn't look serious, so I just ignored it. However, we got the exact ...

- One kernel works, one doesn't

2868 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:20:00
Last week I posted a question about problems building a kernel. I hadone working kernel and one broken kernel which said "Truncated file".The only difference between the two was 9 bytes and that one was builtwith GNU utilities in front of system utilities in my path.The problem ...

rcp-ing to /dev/audio crash and Floppy om SLC

5627 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:20:00
Hi again Sun MGR's,This is a brief summary about the rcp to a remote device causing the remotesystem crashing and about the SLC and hooking up a floppy drive.First , the most important issue: the crashing system caused by rcp-ingan audio file to a remote Sparc.Several "Hey , this happens ...

LaserWriter IINT Summary

8216 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:20:00
First for the acknowledgements... Thank you all very much!holle@asc.slb.com (Kathy Holle)nicky@davinci.concordia.ca (Nicky Ayoub)loki@nazgul.physics.mcgill.ca (Loki Jorgenson)chris@boxhill.com (Chris Maio)bernards@ecn.nl (Marcel Bernards)slt%ilog@uunet.uu.net (Stephane ...

running out of inodes on a new disk partition!?!

2410 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:20:00
I originally wrote:> In the process of upgrading the os (to 4.1.1) on a 4/60, I newfs the> internal maxtor (third party - not sun) 200-lxt disk which had been> merrily working with the old os (4.0.3).> > When I went to do a restore I immediately ran out of inodes! Seemded> ...

interesting inode problem

11104 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:20:00
I had 4 people reply and they all said the same thing:unmunt the file systemuse "clri"use "fsck"remountNo one told me to RTFM, although I should have. I was not aware ofclri before now. The manual does say that clri is superseded byfsck for normal file system repair so my ...

Problems formatting Maxtor XT-8760S, SS1+/SunOS 4.1

7231 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:20:00
 On Mar 6, 12:25pm, I wrote:} Subject: Problems formatting Maxtor drive}} Configuration:}} o SPARCstation 1+} o SunOS 4.1} o Sun 104MB internal drive (sd0) - 1 partition mounted on /usr} o Maxtor XT-8760S (sd3) - with /, swap, and /home} o geometry ...

Exabyte tape and reliability

6303 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:20:00
I had asked for user experiences with the new(er) Sony QG-112Mseries 8 mm tapes for use with Exabytes.I have been using the Sony P6-120MP tapes for the last year or so, based onboth vendors and other users recommendations. However, I have found overthat time 2 or 3 tapes that were written ...

SS2 GX accelerator - Corrections

4351 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:20:00
Some errors and misinformation has been pointed out to me about my previousposting about the GX accelerator.Firstly my incompatibility problems between the xnews server and X11R4clients is probably due to sun's implementation of the Xt library (which isstill at R3 in parts). (Although this ...

write errors on swap partition / SS1+ with 4.1.1

3901 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:20:00
I've been slow about sending a summary, since the information I collectedwas pretty meager, but I've started seeing reports from others having similarproblems, so thought I'd share our experiences:The problem:> Recently, we swapped computers ("pizza boxes" only), keeping ...

postscript printer on Sun 3/80 parallel port

3036 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:20:00
My query:I'm trying to drive an IBM LasterPrinter E from a Sun 3/80 running SUNOS 4.1 ,attached to /dev/pp0, the parallel I/O port.I have the "transcript" package, but it seems to be configured to talk over aserial port, and get status messages back from the printer. This doesn't ...

disk error on Sun-4/490

2488 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:20:00
My original message was:> The following message was logged to the /var/adm/messages file:>> Mar 7 14:41:54 quad490: vmunix: id000g block 39664 (1219234 abs):> write: Conditional success. Data Retry Performed.>> Any idea what caused this? What exactly is this message ...

memory management ...

17557 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:20:00
For some reasons, I didn't see this summary ever appears, if it did or thisis not the first time you see this summary, please accept my apology. If youdo see this summary before, please let me know by email. Thanks.Hi everyone,My original question :> I am looking for some utilities and ...

ld-so wants wrong version of libc

3205 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:20:00
Greetings!  There were so many requests for the answer to this question that I'll postit to the net. The problem with ld.so not finding libc was that many ofSun's programs are now linking with the Sys V shared libraries instead ofthe normal libc stuff. My dumps didn't pick up my ...

UNIX groups

5709 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:20:00
On 23rd January, I asked some questions about UNIX groups.This is a very much delayed (apologies) summary of the replies.Information was provided by:   Ric Anderson <ric@edu.arizona.cs>   "Anthony A. Datri" ...

2 - .cshrc vars

6655 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:20:00
        My original message asked if anyone had a good way to set updifferent user environments, since the shell scripts which I had written tostart various bits of software in a friendly manner did not pass backenvironmental variable settings to the ...

ifconfig hangs on second Ethernet card

7749 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:20:00
For some reason my summary did not make it to the net, so I am sendingit again :I posted a problem some time ago about an Ethernet card not workingwhen moved from a Sun-3/160 to a Sun-4/370 (my complete message isappended at the end).The problem came from wrong dip-switches. The interrupt ...

Segmentation Faults

2603 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:20:00
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 91 21:11:15 ESTFrom: Duc Vu <duv@mlb.semi.harris.com>Message-Id: <9103140211.AA03453@pluto.mlb.semi.harris.com>To: sun-managers@eecs.nwu.eduSubject: Segmentation FaultStatus: ROHi,many thanks to the following peoples:stern@East.Sun.COM (Hal Stern - ...

NFSDs Hanging in "D" State

2389 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:20:00
I posted a message about nfsd processes getting stuck in D state:The message read:> We are experiencing a problem in which all the nfsd processes on our> Sun 3/280 server (SunOS 4.1) are getting stuck in the "D" state. > > We had this problem before upgrading to SunOS ...

Sun3 hanging in init

5875 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:20:00
A couple days ago I asked for help with a diskless Sun3 that was hangingin init while booting. The machine's boot server lost a drive and a bunchof stuff, including this client's swap file, was moved elsewhere. All ofthe relevant databases were updated, but still the client refused to ...

rpc.lockd patches

3324 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:20:00
> Anyone care to share their experience with rpc.lockd patch 100075-05> or 100075-06? We're several patches behind and thinking about installing> a later patch. But we've installed lockd patches in the past only to find> that performance with the new patch was worse than with the ...

binaries changing

1103 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:20:00
The problem turned out to be a bad disk controller. (I have neverseen hardware fail and not give ANY indication that there was a hardwareproblem.)Suggestions included NFS patch, 4.1.1, checking the cables and thecontroller.Many thanks to all who reponded:Gerald Justice ...

SunOS 4.1.1 sendmail-alias problem with other front-end then mail

1604 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:20:00
My query was:We have a sendmail-aliases problem in SunOS 4.1.1. on a Sparc IPC. Asummary of the problem description is below: The problem sparc has a subsidiary sendmail.cf. All works fine if we use mail as user-front end for posting mail messages. But if some program, does some ...

How do I lock the yppasswd master (LONG).

6095 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:20:00
        I apologize for the length of this posting. The responses lead me        to assume that locking the yppasswd master is possible. It uses the        technique that ...

problem with Fujitsu-M2382K

4837 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:20:00
My original query had to do with>> I've now taken the drive off-line and am trying to reformat it;>> unfortunately, I'm getting lots of messages about>>>> Warning: unable to pinpoint defective block.>>>> when doing surface analysis.Per Westerlund provided ...

Curses problem on a SUN...

126 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:20:00
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Adding a second SMD-controller on a Sun 4/260

8841 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:20:00
I had the following problem:> We have just got a Fujitsu 2382 with a Xylogics 753 controller> for our Sun 4/260 which has already a Fujitsu 2392 on a> Xylogics 7053 controller installed.>> The controller which has been already there sits in the tenth> slot of the backplane. ...

(UPDATE) : How do I lock the yppasswd master

2594 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:20:00
 I have more information on how to lock the yppasswd master file. Les <leh@manatee.cis.ufl.edu> confirmed a change of the locking locking mechanism from the earlier OS versions. Thanks Les. Bill Heelan has made two of his utilities that implement his ...

Problems with Carrier Detect on Suns

1336 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:20:00
Hal Stern (stern@east.SUN.COM) sent me a very informative PostScriptdocument detailing serial cabling and the applicable software configurationoptions for SunOS 4.0.3, which I have made available onprocyon.cis.ksu.edu via anonymous ftp in /pub/serial.ports.sunos4.0.3.ps.ZThe software part ...

Gigatape on 4.1.1

907 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:20:00
 The problem was that the Sun tries to use the Gigatape withthe SCSI synchronous mode. And it doesn't work! I hope our vendorwill setup the Gigatape to correctly use this new protocol!You can disable this mode with the following patch:        # adb ...

Sunview Dies With Bus Error After Locking Screen

3366 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:21:00
>We have a large number of diskless Sun3s, and we have been experiencing>this problem for some time now. A user will start sunview, and when>leaving each night will lock their screens. This works fine for about>a week, then when they exit lockscreen sunview and all its clients ...

DISPLAY Vanishing in OpenWindows

3512 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:21:00
Many thanks to the net! My original question:> After running OpenWindows for a while, connections> to the display suddenly don't work. This typically happens after> OpenWindows has been running for an extended period -- say 3 to 4 days --> without being restarted. Programs that ...

Ethernet collisions

2359 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:21:00
 There can be hardware and software problems.Hardware:. these could be due to faulty transceivers on the faulty hosts.. but I have no tool, except permutation, to test this!. uunet!mcc.com!vasey pointed me to an H-P Lanalyzer.. check that you have no products designed for Level 1 ...

who is using my disk

1069 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:21:00
well too many people knew the answer to mention here but thanks everybody,basicy which processes are using a file or disk use the utilitiy        fuser(8)        ofiles(pd)fuser is 4.1 => onlyofiles is O/S ...

How to reach Bob Greene, the Sun Spots Digest Moderator (SUMMARY)

1672 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:21:00
I recently posted a query about how to reach Bob Greene, the moderatorof the Sun Spots Digest. I received several replies. The one whichseemed to work was to use the address        rgreene%bnr.ca@mitvma.mit.eduBob has apparently left Rice U., and gone ...

SunOS4.1.1 on 3/75, 3/160, 3/180

2335 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:21:00
Thanks to the zillions of people who took the time to answer my query.Here are excerpts from my original query:>>>>I finally bit the bullet and spent the money to order enough RTU>>licenses to upgrade all of my Sun-3 systems to SunOS 4.1.1. >>Anyhow, we are planning to ...

hostname

8924 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:21:00
> As we upgrade all our machines, we are switching to using> DNS. The question is, should we be using fully qualified name (FQDN)> as hostname? Phrased otherwise, my machine is called sasun1, should> it be called sasun1.epfl.ch: should hostname return sasun1.epfl.ch?> > As ...

How to map keys under xview

738 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:21:00
The original question was:>I am wondering if any one knows how to make the <Alt/Shift/Ctrl>-<Function Key>>emit an escape sequence under Openwindows, i.e. how do I map say>> Shift-F1 to "f1~">>I want to do this in commandtool / shelltool when running ...