> I just tried to load 4.1.1 onto a Sun 3/160C using the 4.1.1 CD-ROM.> > It failed fairly soon with the following error> > Extracting the sunos 4.1.1 sun3 'root' media file.> 7+1 records in> 7+1 records out> Extracting the sunos 4.1.1 sun3 'usr' media ...

        My original query:> I am considering integrating non-Sun supplied color monitors on some black> and white machines I am upgrading to GX-based color SS2's (these monitors are much > cheaper than Sun's). I have figured out what cables to ...

In a posting recently I asked about passwd security, shadow passwd's and Sun'sC2 package.I received several answers, and the consensus was:        - the C2 pacakge runs only on Sun's, so it is not too helpful in ...

Thanks to all that responded. Most of the replies I received were "metoos" sothere might be a real benefit if there were a tutorial available.slipware.tar.Z can be obtained by anonymous ftp from ftp.cs.toronto.edu (internet:128.100.3.6 or 128.100.1.105.From: Bob Sutterfield ...

I got lots of replies to this one, most saying the same things. I willtruly summarize rather than just concatenating all the replies.biff(1) doesn't bark (that is, notify a user that mail has arrived)when that user is logged into some machine other than the host wherethe mail is actually ...

Thanks for all the replies! I stuck my foot in my mouth it seems; it wasa _long_ week last week and I wasn't thinking when I fired off my message.I was actually asking about XView/OpenWindows. SUMMARY:In short, while very well-behaved XView applications should work, thegeneral consensus was ...

  On May 14, I posted a request for help in integrating a SUN workstation into an IPX PC LAN. Of the replies I received, most were requests that I summarize my findings to SUN-Nets. It seems I am not the only one facingthis problem.  I got two helpful suggestions. One was ...

My original question> Configuration:> SPARC IPC 12 Mb RAM, 207Mb Disk, SunOS 4.1.1 RevB> SPARCprinter and NewsPrint 2.1> Problem:> Whenever files are sent to the printer the workstation hangs. Pinging> it from another machine says that the machine is ...

Early this week (too early on Monday, as it turns out), I posted thefollowing question to sun-managers:>I just obtained libc_resolv.so.sun3 from uunet and am attempting to>get it working on a Sun3 with SunOS 4.0.1. The notes with the library>indicate that the file should be copied to ...

Thanks to:Chris Hoover ch@lks.CSI.COMChip Christian <chip@allegra.att.com>Tom Conroy <trc@ESD.3Com.COM>Anthony A. Datri <datri@concave.convex.com>Steve Hanson <hanson@calvin.fnal.gov>Mark Harrow harvard!ames!da.amdahl.com!mdh20@EDDIE.MIT.EDUKenton C. ...

My original message:Our networks people just got a sniffer and now tell me that the four 4/60s on the segment they are looking at show _lots_ of CRC errors andmisaligns. These units connect to a Synoptics hub, at which the errorsare being detected. Apparently, Synoptics feels it is inherent to ...

Many thanks to all those who responded to my requests for assistance inconverting a Sun 3/50 into an Xterminal. The job is done and the thingnow works resonably well except for the normal X11R4/OW2.0 idiosyncracies,certainly much faster than it did as a workstation, and no moreadministration ...

There is a hardware ECO for synoptics 10BaseT cards that may be related<p>to collisions not being handled properly. I don't have the details handy,<p>but I know our Comms people are running around replacing cards...<p>-Doug-<p>

Yesterday, I asked for help getting HoneyDanBer UUCP to work with aGandalf V.32 modem on a Sun IPC. Incoming calls were working fine,but when I tried to originate a call, uucico complained about:    Alarm while looking for SYN -- request RXMITunless I disabled the modem's ...

A SUN sales rep just sent the attached message to one of our clients.He implies that even under OS 4.1.1 SCSI disks > 669 MB may havetroubles. This appears contrary to what has recently appeared onsun-managers and what some vendors (not SUN) are claiming.I believe from what I have found ...

THE ORIGINAL PROBLEM:> We have a sun 4/280 running 4.1.1 (unpatched) which becomes catatonic> every one or two days. When this happens, the only thing the machine> responds to is a break at the console. We have produced a crash dump > which shows 40 or more processes running when ...

Here is the problem and the responses received.From: brent@curie.ssctr.bcm.tmc.edu (Brent Alan Wiese)} Subject: kernel make error> loading vmunix> Undefined> _mem_ops> *** Error code 2> make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `vmunix'> > > This is the error that I ...

SUMMARY: Connecting printers to terminal servers...Well there weren't too many replies, but here they are in order ofpreference (what I think is most useful).- Pick up nd/tcpcon package from archive.su.oz.au. I took a look at the  software, but have not installed it yet. The README ...

I received many many correct and some incorrect answers and thank you all.Two scenarios exist and here are solutions for both:1) You are using direct maps with automount:the you probably have the following files:#fstab:# device mountpoint options/dev/sd0h /home/nodename1 4.2 ...

A couple of hours ago I posted this question:>Is there any way to use nslookup to map from an IP address to a host>name?>>Yes, I know about DiG. I also wrote a short program of my own to call>gethostbyaddr() using the resolver libraries. The guy who wants to>know the answer ...

Here is a summary of the responses that I received regarding the abovementioned problem. Unfortunately none of the suggestions so far have worked for me. Since a couple of people thought it might be thebridge that was causing problems, I disconnected the bridge fromthe concentrator so that the ...

Most people suggested that either the switchsettings on the drive were incorrect, or theformat.dat entry was incorrect. The actual problem was that on our machine (aSparc 370) had the cables to the disk driveswapped during a recent move. It's kind of aweird setup, the cable has one connector ...

Several responses came in in response to the first summary. They follow (editedfor bandwidth).The biggest revelation in this occurred to me yesterday: A transmitter-detectedcollision is probably going to be detected by most monitoring devices, especially a device not on the same piece of ...

The options LWP and ASYNCHIO were missing in the kernel.<p>Thanks for all your replies.<p>Danielle Heinzer<p>

Sorry that I haven't posted the summary earlier, but I wanted to wait toensure (to the best of my ability) that the problem had been indeed solved.------------------------------------------------------------------------PROBLEM: Apparent corruption of in-memory copy of ...

My problem:> Date: Sun, 26 May 91 17:37:48 EST> > Problem: after rebooting yesterday evening (due to planned power> upgrades) everything worked fine for several hours. Then the server> apparently crashed. Rebooting this afternoon everything appears ok,> except we have ...

 My situation: I obtained the npasswd code that allows me to enforce stricter passwords than the sun supplied passwd program. I am using NIS for my passwd file update with rpc.yppasswdd. I installed the npasswd program on my systems and removed the sun supplied ...

What-a-lot-I-got!49 Replies in all, most saying I should read the man pages! My message was far from clear, I now see, haven taken the text of the errormessage it showed, verbally, from the affected user. The error SHOULD havebeen "Copy file too large" and not "File too ...

My original question:Could someone please explain what:NFS write error #13 on host xyzmeans? I get this error during boot time of the workstations atvarious times when starting up the daemons. This error does notappear on the server at any time. My configuration is a 3/180 and 12diskless ...

Thanks to all who responded.The most efficient methods involve having read access to /dev/kmem.The following program is available from sun-spots archives. Oncecompiled it should have group set to kmem and setgid on executionif universal access is required. (I hope this isn't a security ...

Some people asked me to summarise any information I obtainedin response to my query as to wheter it is possible to run X.25on a Sun SLC using the serial connector on the reverse? This is whatI and a colleague here have found out.The answer appears to be *yes* it is possible. Exactly how ...

PROBLEM: my sparcs wouldn't complete booting on 4.1.1 when the kernelwas configured to swap locally to an internal disk. (specificallysd0b).SOLUTION:I had the wrong config line in the kernel. I was using the old formatof:  config vmunix root on type nfs swap on sd0band I should ...

My original question was;I have a question about rdist(1). rdist does not seem able to distribute links (I don't mean symbolic links.) I have a directorystructure which I would like to maintain of several differentmachines, and that structure already has many links within it. Is there a way ...

Sun-ManagersHere is the summary to my question about SCSI disks. I've gotten allmy new disks running but two of them had to be scaled back somewhat toaccomodate a limitation.These are quotes and paraphrases from numerous resopondents. The informationmay be inappropriate for other situations. ...

Thanks for the almost immediate replies!Summary of my question:Trying to disallow logins for all but a selected few managers but still knowingwho everybody was via NIS.Summary of solutions (in order of suitabilty for our situation):1. put the following entry at the end of ...

   From: nbc%inf.rl.ac.uk@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU   Date: 31 May 91 15:16:15 GMT   The IPC will *NOT* support X.25 at all.This is slightly inaccurate if you remember that there are other X.25implementations available for the SPARCstation besides SunLink. ...

Sun-managers,OK here's the summary of the replies to my "non-problems" question. I'veincluded the original question. The SUMMARY and CONCLUSION follows theoriginal question:#############################################################################ORIGINAL QUESTION:As an unusual ...

The question:> does the scsi driver in 4.0.3 support Exabyte drives?The answer is NO. There's a patch available from Sun:> nope - you need a patch for the kernel in order to use it. I believe> that the critter I had to get was CONSULT-SS1TAPE. You have to pay> for it :-(, but ...

Thanks to everybody for their responses to my posting about the existenceof a Sun program that would tie the running of background jobs to theactivity of the screen blanker.Their were two basic pieces of advice: one to use the package "condor",the other to set the kernel parameter ...

Sun-managers,OK, I goofed again. Some of you did not receive the complete summary becauseI inserted some lines with a "period" at the beginning of the line. This terminates the message early in some mailers. I've removed the offendinglines and am reposting it. You should see a ...

 <p>It's quite simple. There is the patch 100201-02 available on<p>any good ftp server.<p>It's necessary to bring the machine in single user mode. Of course<p>it's easier... but if you do things in a good order, you have<p>no trouble.<p>  --Jacques Beigbeder<p>

Thanks to everyone who has responded to my question about the SunMetadisk driver. The metadisk driver seems to be a working productthat does more good than harm, but one could imagine better. Betterin fact may be coming from Sun, something that I will look in to.Thanks again,Bob ...

Well, this should have been titled "heavy IO hangs system".I obviously mislead most readers.Most responders thought either:1) my problem was NFS paging.2) the problem was memory1) no NFS activity is occuring2) Larger memory will reduce paging rates, but these are IO ratesmasquerading ...

My original question----'afternoon all...When users try to log onto one of our IPCs they get the following message:clntudp_create: RPC: program not registeredLogin incorrectThe IPC runs NIS and SunOS 4.1.1b.The YP server is a Sun 4/280 running SunOS 4.0.3The IPC was set up as a client ...

My problem was:        I have recently attached a SCSI disk to our 3/470 (running 4.1.1), and        am getting lots of these ...

I recently posted the following message:>Once in a while I get the following error message during incremental>dump. Until today the partition that genereated this message was>always the one which did not have incremental file changes. Today,>one of the home partition which had ...

These people responded to my query about CERT. Thank you all.fuat@cunixf.cc.columbia.edumerlyn@iWarp.intel.comsmb@ulysses.att.comPat_Barron@transarc.comhasley@andy.bgsu.edurodney@snowhite.cis.uoguelph.cablknowle@frodo.jdssc.dca.milbyf@cert.sei.cmu.edu--------Here, is the summary of all the ...

My original question:> I have a real basic question about the patches that are> distributed by Sun. If a patch has a higher version number,> does it include all changes in patches with a lower version> number? The reason I'm asking is because the README for patch> 100075-06 ...

My most humble and profuse apologies for posting an incorrect summary but...The IPC in question has *no* rpc.pwdauthd daemon. So I rcp'd it from anotherhost. It worked fine but everybody was being logged in as root!! Thus I gotrid of it and the problem still stands. None of the other ...

I asked for experiences with Exabyte 8500 tape drives. Thanks for responsesfromdan@breeze.bellcore.com (Daniel Strick)jgotobed@hindmost.lpl.arizona.edu (Joe Gotobed x4549)Dave Sill <de5@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov>Mike Raffety <oconnor!miker@oddjob.uchicago.edu>Jonathan Corbet ...