[Since the flood of responses has subsided a little, and a few people have shown interest in the same subject, it's good time to post a summary. If different responses appear later, I'll post another summary].- Recently I posted an inquiry about dial-back units that hook up between ...

Sun-Managers,*** Here's the original posting ***I've come across an interesting (?) NFS problem that someone might beable to help with. We have the ever-present multi-vendor network withSun's, HP's, SGI's, IBM's, and DEC's. One of my users wishes to read aSun tar tape. He puts the tape ...

There seems to be a fair amount of interest in this; apparently,"dumb" line printers are not given any simple-minded filters toallow for accounting functions (unless several people and I missedsome files in the SunOS distribution tapes/disc).Solutions were broken down into three ...

Many thanks to all those who replied! The solution was to edit/usr/lib/lang_info and add the following line:        pascal 2.0 4.0This was not mentioned anywhere in the installation guide thatSun gives out (at least those that they hand out to site ...

Hi,I had asked the Sun- and the Dec-workstation-managers how manyX-terminals one workstation can serve.There was a consensus, that a SparcStation 2 or a DecStation 5000can serve at least 10-20 provided that there is a lot of memory anda lot of swap space. The more memory, the better.A second ...

>Please summarise your answers to the netO.K., and just in case anyone missed my original posting, I have includedit here first.I feel that Rusty's response is most closely related to the problem Ifound, and so I have included it in its entirety. If you wish to skipdirectly to it, search ...

Boy, talk about conflicting answers!!! I got everthing from "it's workedfine since 4.0" to "it's never worked, don't try it".Part of the discrepancy lies in the ambiguity of the question. Essentiallythere are two ...

My original posting was:> We have occasionally had processes lock on disk access -> a couple of times it was nemacs, a couple of times it was> an NFS disk read. Each time the STAT field of ps was 'D'> (Process in disk (or other short term) waits). But the> process never seems ...

Hi netters,A couple weeks ago I posted a problem I was having: SS2 client crashedwhile doing UNIXBACKUP's dump/compress on a fairly large partition ofa 1GByte, external Falcon drive. The summary is very simple: all of mytests, and our previous experiences with other SS2 backups showed ...

Hello all,First of all, thanks to those who responded to my query: "Ric Anderson" <ric@cs.arizona.edu>  yih%atom@cs.utah.edu (Benny Yih)  dan@breeze.bellcore.com (Daniel Strick)  stern@sunne.East.Sun.COM (Hal Stern - ...

Thanks to all the responses I received I have been able to get thisto work as it should have all along.Here is my original question:>I apparently did not include enough information in my original message.>I would like to thank the people who have thus far replied. I will re->ask my ...

Earlier, I requested info regarding a somewhat lowcost <3K$ and fast> 8ppm postscript printer, I reveices TONS of answers, ranging fromQMS to Apple and finally HP. We chost to go w/ the HP LaserJet III.Our cost from supplier w/ postscript cartridge and 1M Upgrade was ~2200.00 and will ...

original posting<<I am having problem with sendmail.mx (SunOS4.1.1)when I try to send mailto places like west.sun.com, swam1.enet.dec.com. The mail bounces backwith the error << unknown host for mailer ddn>>. I suspect the problem isin sendmail.cf with the following line:...# ...

Thanks to all who responded.It turns out that SunOS doesn't support IP multicasting. The best betseems to be some extentions to 4.3BSD and SunOS written by SteveDeering at Stanford. (This is available via anonymous ftp fromgregorio.stanford.edu as vmtp-ip/ipmulticast.tar, ...

Due to a personal emergency, I have to go out of town starting tomorrow(8/7) and thus will not be able to give a complete summary of the responsesuntil some time next week. In the meantime ....I asked:> I have 2 PCs that I have on a small network with my Sun SPARCStation. I> have been ...

Here is a brief summary about the usage of sticky(8)My Question was:We are working on an archive system which marks the file 'archived'by zeroing it and set the sticky bit on.Only root can do the chmod +1000 on regular files.On our Convex C220 a user can set sticky bit on regular filesHere ...

Shortly after having posted my summary consisting of one answer, Ireceived the following extra messages. I haven't tried the scissors,but everything else didn't work. The question I posted was regarding aproblem with a bad DAT tape which makes a restore abort in the middleof it. Any attempt ...

Original Questions:> I am interested in using using SCSI drives (such as the Wren 8) that have a> capacity > 1.2 GB on either a Sun 4/470 with a Ciprico Rimfire 3523 SCSI> controller or on a SS2 with Sun's SCSI controller. Both systems would be> running 4.1.1. I understood ...

Received only one response with a solution -- but you only need one if itworks! Thanks to dlg@skydesign.arc.nasa.gov.*********************Here is the response:We have noticed the same sort of zombie behavior. The answer is the way thersh's to start clients are handled. The local side hangs ...

Original question:------------------------------------------------------------------------I am at a loss as to how to manage the dynamic shared libraries anddirectories that come with Sun's unbundled compilers. At load time, thecompiler commands (eg f77) know where its libraries are, and adds ...

A while back I wrote:>I am not sure if this is an appropriate place for this but I have come>up with nothing from our sales Rep., of course.>We have just purchased a SPARC 2 GT, and we need a color monitor for>it that will support stereo, as well as a stereo syncing box. I ...

Hello,A while back I posted asking if anyone saw the following:vmunix: esp0: Current command timeout for Target 3 Lun 0vmunix: sd0: SCSI transport failed: reason 'reset': retrying commandvmunix: esp0: Target 1 now Synchronous at 4.0 mb/s max transmit rateI got 15 or so responses and I ...

Thanks to all who replied to my problems with the SPARCprinter and tinyFont Sizes. All of those who replied gave the same answer. Check themagnets on the side of the paper tray that indicate what the paper sizeis. The magnets had in fact been moved. Thanks again to the ...

At the end of May I posted the following: >Several of our Sun4s crash with the following error > 'tar': zero divide trap >This started when we upgraded to SunOS 4.1.1 It occurs with mt as >well as tar. As soon as you try and access the exabyte, the >system will panic. >On ...

Well thanks netlanders and to the ten or so of you who replied.They all said pretty much the same thing. So had I read the releasenotes I could have saved you the trouble.Here is one summary . The first I received.Mark Read ----- Begin Included Message ----->From fergus@capsogeti.fr Fri Aug ...

Again, the original inquiry was how to deny NFS mount access to a subset of systems without rebooting. Here is what I believe is the definitiveanswer. It was what I suspected, but not what I wanted to hear:        From: ...

> My original question:> When using our TrailBlazer+ to dial our UUCP site at 19.2K, it sometimes> hangs after transmitting "some" files. When the uucico is repeated, it> hangs on that same file repeatadly, with similar behavior as described> by Patrik (i.e. pkcget: ...

In my summary, I mentioned a couple of errors that appeared after formattingthe CDC 9720-1230 drives:> There was some strangeness. When restoring the system disk, I received> a couple of errors of the form:> > > xd0a write restore (drive not on cylinder) blk# 64 abs blk# 64> ...

My query has to do with immediately denying NFS mount access to machineswhich have currently mounted NFS file systems, but not having to rebootthe server to do so (I would reboot the clients if I could, believeme!)Keith Abbey at Sun sent me the following:>>make the changes to ...

Thanks again for the quick responses, and useful info. The answers were dividedinto several discernable groups:Answers came from:Group 1: Retension tape.tam2@bae.bellcore.com: Try mt -t /dev/rst0 retension (We had - no help)Group 2: Tarx and it's earlier variants. This was the first approach ...

Thanks for all the responses. The problem turned out to be an a partiallybroken wire. When connected to the SS2 the wire was not under any stressso things worked but with the IPC the wire was under stress and the IPC onlyoccasionally received the ^S. Anyways, here is a summary of the ...

   I received several replies, but unfortunately they were either notapplicable in our particular case or were too expensive to implement (oneperson said that he switched machines from an SS-1 to an SS-2).   Many thanks to those who ...

Following is a summary of the responses I got concerning my post abouta week ago abou some problems I was having with logins hanging nowthat I have C2 security installed.The original posting was as follows:>I'm having an intermittent problem (more often than not) during login>after ...

Thanks for all the responses. My original posting was:> I've got a user with a LaserWriter NTX on a SS1, using SunTranscript.> Most things work normally; but he only gets about six pages of> many-more page files. These are not large files (c. 14 blocks)> but many pages separarted ...

This is my original query:> Has anyone attached either a Fujitsu M2382K or a CDC 9720-1320 (1230MB)> drive to a Sun 7053 controller? If so, what format.dat entries did you> use? Were there any problems, in particular any data corruption or timing> problems? This has suddenly ...

        SUMMARY: Indeterminate problem reading 8mm tapes on a SUN 3/50         running SUN OSv3.5.        My apologies to everyone who tried to answer me; my posting waspoorly ...

>> My question:>> Is there a respository of perl scripts for system administrators?>> If so, where? If not, we need one!>> -Kathy Holle Schlumberger>> UNIX Systems Manager Austin Systems Center>> ARPANET: holle@asc.slb.com ...

Yesterday I asked :> I have been trying to get my network to believe that I want to do>subnetting of a class B address. However no matter what I do it keeps>defaulting to a standard class B address. I have the netmasks.byaddr set>correctly (I think) and I have enclosed my ...

  Many thanks to everyone who replied. Two approaches were suggested,patching the kernal with adb and making a new kernal. I chose the latter,added "option IPFORWARDING" to the config file, and rebuilt it. Lookingat the code, ip_forwarding defaults to off, not on, as some ...

Thanks for all the replies on moving the Sunview Calendar manager toOpenlook. Sorry it took me this long to summarize, I've been out of town.What I tried and the winner was to run :upgrade_cmwhich resides in $OPENWINHOME/bin/xviewIt moves the files into the correct place for openwindows. Out ...

First, thanks to everybody for their help on the DTR problem. Thesolution, as most people probably already found out, is to change thezsadtrlow variable to 5. The appropriate technique is:% adb -w -k /vmunix /dev/memzsadtrlow?W 5zsadtrlow/W 5$qSo far, it has been working for me. I'll find ...

Thank you for the replies from:        tom@sees.bangor.ac.uk        wyman@atherton.com        vasey@mcc.comPatience is a virtue, especially for a user of suninstall. My error ...

I recently asked about a problem we're having with a specific VME cardon our 4/360, which has quit working since we upgraded that machine'sCPU from a 3/260. I have received, to date, kind and helpful repliesfrom:pvo@oce.orst.edu (Paul O'Neill)vasey@mcc.com (Ron Vasey)kevins@Aus.Sun.COM ...

The problem appears to be a bug in the kernel for the SS2. There isa patch for it: Patch-ID# 100232-01Keywords: crash, cpu, light, goes, off, screen, black, sparcstation 2, sunos, 4.1.1Synopsis:Sparcstation 2 running SunOS 4.1.1 crashes under some applicationsDate: 28/Feb/91SunOS ...

 My original question was:> Can anybody give me a comparison of Sun's DOS Windows product versus> the SoftPC DOS emulator? We're running DOS Windows 1.0 here and aren't> very happy with it. Is there a newer version? Is it any better?> Is SoftPC recommended?Although some ...

I recently asked:   From: "Leonardo C. Topa" <leo@ai.mit.edu>   Date: Fri, 19 Jul 91 17:36:27 EDT   Subject: help with bad DAT tape      Hello everybody,      I think I ...

Well, the result is no clear data. There was no clearly definableusage or environment parameter which would account for or cure theproblem. Dean Long sent a brief note that the IPCs should be repairedas the SCSI controller is probably hosed, but since they are stillworking and no longer under ...

        I recently asked for information on how to getOpenwindows to work on a Sparcstation 2 with a GS graphicsboard. I would like to thank the many helpful people whoresponded. In addition, I did get some useful informationfrom ...

It seems that there aren't any hard and fast rules on how long to keep anExabyte tape around. My original message was:> I have an Exabyte drive and I am using Sony QG-112M tapes. They seem to> work just fine. Every week, I put a tape in my Exabyte drive, erase it, and> then allow ...

The original problem:I was having trouble getting a SparcStation 1+ to boot after attempting toupgrade from SunOS 4.0.3 to SunOS 4.1.1.On powerup, the machine displays the SUN logo, and the ROM revision (1.3).It also passes the "testing" stage. Next it saysBooting from ...