My original query was:>I am interested in replacing Quantum 105s drives in Sparcstation>1 systems with larger-capacity drives. I would like to solicit opinions/>experiences from the management community. My concerns are, among others,>the amount of usable space available, heat ...

  I originally asked how to make sure my modem reset itself to auto-answerafter UUCP dialed out with it. The settings that UUCP used to configurethe modem turned off auto-answer for some reason. I never did figure outwhy the settings in /etc/uucp/Dialers were causing auto answer to ...

INITIAL QUESTION:----- Begin Included Message -----i have a 3/60 running 4.1.1 with a trailblazer 2500 hooked up for dialin/out.every few days, the computer will drop dtr and never raise it again untila reboot. during this period, the getty process shows up attached to ttyainstead of ? ...

On 2 July I posted questions relating to running NFS between CA and NY insupport of a software development team. I would like to thank all whoreplied, especially bob@morningstar.com, Tom.Kessler@eng.sun.com, andbaeder@cadence.com> can we connect nfs usefully from california to new york?Not ...

Thanks to the following, who responded to my posting, which is reproducedbelow:datri@lovecraft.convex.comauto-trol!squid1.Auto-trol.COM!johbro@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU:ecl6rsh@sun.leeds.ac.ukbks@okeeffe.Berkeley.EDUbret@essex.ac.ukdangela@everest.tandem.com>TFM (SunOS 4.0.1) says: "A complaint ...

Several correspondants asked me to post a summary of myescapades with a Wren VIII on our SparcServer 4/470.Here is my initial posting (18 ...

Thanks to those who responed to my posting...> > I currently have an Opus 5120 SPARCstation I+ clone into which I want to> install a Sun SBUS ethernet interface. The documentation with the Opus> refers me to the SunOS documentation which I don't have access to.> > Can some ...

I posted a question last week recounting problems with running TFS filesystems in a C2 environment. What I had tried to make clear was that runningthe exact same setup (WRT to mount points, permissions, but minus C2)worked on a different machine.Based on the responses I received, I would ...

Apologies for previously posting this without a subject line, as someonerather rudely pointed out. Here it is again, in case you search for it bysubject line in the future.As an addendum, the only physical difference I notice between my cleaningtape (not Exabyte brand) and normal magnetic ...

Thanks for all the help. Unfortunately, the answers (of which therewere three or so types) were very contradictory, and I still don'tthink I have the perfect solution. I ended up using both answer oneand answer two, but when looking at the processes, there is still achild of rpc.yppasswdd ...

some time ago I asked the following question and I posted a summarywhich I haven't seen on the network. If you have received this messagealready, sorry.    From: "Leonardo C. Topa" <leo@ai.mit.edu>    Date: Tue, 2 Jul 91 11:34:59 ...

Thanks to the people who responded I now am able to run the TFS on my network.This will come in very handy for a project we have in mind.My current Hall of Fame:uunet!manatee.cis.ufl.edu!seeger (F. L. Charles Seeger)uunet!relay.EU.net!rcvie!cc_gucky (Gerhard Holzer)uunet!sasun1.epfl.ch!brossard ...

Folks,actually, the problem is still unsolved. Rodney mentioned patch 100279-01(which is intended for SYNC Error Reg 80<INVALID> and whichI installed some time ago without any effect) and usingthe GENERIC kernel (what I'm doing right now, and by now thesystem didn't crash (two trials ...

This one got solved quick--maybe you'll even see the summarybefore the original message. Problem was that I could notmount NeXT file systems onto a DEC machine through the automounter(though I could do so through a regular mount). Solution isto run rpc.mountd with the -n option on the NeXT ...

If you are concerned with security, but not so much that you want to breakworking systems, you can install an earlier version of the patch: 100305-01,which we did some time ago, and which works fine. It also doesn't require youto mess around with /dev/printer and /dev/lpd/printer. You can ...

My request:> Having installed the lpd security patch 100305-03 (CERT Advisory July 15),> remote printing does not work correctly any more.> > The problem is: if there is at least one file in a print queue, remotely> starting a print job to the same printer results in a print ...

A SUMMARY OF THE PROBLEM (posted Tuesday July 16, 1991): > System: Sun 3/180 running SunOS 4.1.1. > > Consider a Postscript printer---I've tried both a Dataproducts > LZR-1260E and a Sun LW220 (i.e., Apple LaserWriter)---attached > via a moderately long serial line ...

My question was:Does the NC400 work in Sparc3X0 systems (and not only in Sparc4X0)?The answer is yes, but in a Sparc3X0 it's called a NC300. The hardware ispresumably the same. The only limitation in 3X0 systems is that you can haveonly two NC300, whereas a Sparc4X0 can have up to 6 NC400 (or ...

Previously I wrote:>A user running 4.1.1 with NIS and BIND reports that FTP doesn't>resolve host names. I had him perform the following to confirm the>problem, which I was unable to duplicate under 4.1 w/o NIS.>># /usr/etc/nslookup bindtst>Server: ...

Earlier today I wrote: >I'm having YP (NIS) problems on a SS2 running SunOS 4.1.1. When I >try to do a "make" in "/var/yp", it just hangs there. I suspect it >has something to do with the "Makefile" in that directory, since I >copied it over ...

My original question:>We're trying to get some diskless Sun3/110s up as clients to a>Sun3/280 (?) fileserver. We installed the client software using>setup_exec (under SunOS4.0.3), and then used setup_client to add the>client. The 3/110's will rarp and boot tftp with tftp, but when ...

The problem:lpd sent mail for every job that was sent to a laserprinter, which said that the job could not be printed. The job was printed.The solution:Hack the filter code to force a 0 exit status.Thanks to those who replied:simon@Aus.Sun.COM (Simon Woodhead - Technical ...

A few months ago I asked for help installing the CAP (AppleTalk)software. Well, since then our LocalTalk<->Ethernet gateway box hasfried, a new release of CAP has appeared, and I've had zero time todeal with any of it.So, as a public service, and (hopefully) apology for not ...

Sun-Managers does it again! My original posting:-- When I do the usual 'b st()' to boot from the tape, the tape drive runs for a while and then I get the message: Panic: mmu_getpmg Rebooting...---The first correct solution came from Don Hooper (hoop@khonshu.Colorado.EDU):>Well known ...

My posting:> Recently, the server crashed with the following error message:>> Jul 11 13:16:12 digigw vmunix: le0: panic: RINT with buffer owned by chip> Jul 11 13:16:12 digigw vmunix: syncing file systems... [2] 4 [2] 1 [1] 1> 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 done>> Is ...

I've been waiting a while before writing a summary on NFS & large-scale backup and storage servers. I was hoping to get some more war-stories, and to have time to bone up on these issues myself. Looks bleak though. Hopefully this summary may prod others with more knowledge and hands-on ...

Sorry that this has taken so long but I was only recently able to trythe solutions suggested.My original request was....=========================================================================Hello all,We have a 3/260 work station that has been running fine for the lasttwo years. Just ...

Recently I sent out a request asking for info on third partySPARCprinter supplies. The only answer with some kind of informationis the following. If I find out any other info I will foward to this group.-----------------------REPLY------------------------------- Begin Included Message ...

   Problem: getting the message on the console like nres_gethostbyaddr hostname address != xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx FIX:  get sun patch 100141-02.tar.Z.  I got mine from princeton.edu in /pub/sun-fixes/sunos4.1.1Malcolm Strickland ...

This is a rather late summary. My apologies, but life's been quitebusy.Exabyte/SunOS4.0.3 summary:---------------------------Original question: does SunOS4.0.3 support Exabyte drives?Unfortunately, I didn't define what I meant by "support". I need to beable to use the full mtio ...

After a little prodding...my summary.My original message:> We just switched some systems to unshielded twisted pair (UTP) ethernet. On all> the Sun's on the UTP we see a lot of:>> le0: No carrier - transceiver cable problem?>> Both of our UTP hubs have the same problem. ...

PROBLEM: A Silicon Graphics "Personal Iris" machine running         IRIX release 3.3.2 did not find a nearby Sun nameserver         machine listed in "resolv.conf", even with the search ...

Sorry about the lateness of this, I haven't had a chance to playwith it until now. My original question was:        I have an IPC with a cgthree sbus card and the usual        monochrome port on the cpu. I hear ...

 Hi People,Thanks to all who replied.The original questions was :>>"Is there a solution for the forgotten cursor after>> exiting sunview and openwindows in color sparcs ?"The first thing is that is a bug in the GX software.In "Read This First" you'll find a ...

My original request:> We have a lone Sun 3/50 left among our SPARCstations. It is a poor diskless> relic among much faster and spiffier relatives and no one uses it any more.> I have been thinking about dragging it home and getting a cheap shoebox> for it.> > Our hardware guy ...

Sun Managers,Thanks for all the help. The original question:>>I have a user that thinks any problem with the computer should be fixed>>with L1-A reboot. I think L1-A should be used only as the next to>>the last resort. Is doing L1-A often bad for the computers? I ...

Original query:> Every few weeks we get a BAD TRAP crash, always involving sendmail. We> are running the IDA sendmail from UIUC, version 5.65 plus a few local> changes. Our machine is a Sun 4/280 with 128Mb memory running SunOS> 4.1.> > Here are the first few lines from the ...

My original question:> I have an application for data acquisition where 8 external devices will be> sending packetized data over 19.2 KB async modem lines to a single Sparc> II. The normal throughput will only be about 2400 baud per line, but in> peak mode all lines may run to full ...

I apologize for not thinking about this when the request went outand sending it in time to be in the summary. The shell programs aren't the only dangerous ones. You don't wantto give a person sudo access to the "nice" command either. Forthe user with (essentially) setuid root ...

Original questionWe are considering using 'sudo' in a production environment. We are especially concerned about security and the pitfalls of using this program. So, I would like to hear about problems Sun administrators have encountered using 'sudo'.Brief description'Sudo' is a program ...

Thanks to the few but important respondents regarding my question:>Has anyone successfully attached more than one system to a CDC dual ported>SMD disk drive?The best answer, which we have not yet pursued, was from yet anotherunnamed Sun CE:>Yes.>>You don't say which controller ...

Sorry for the delay in posting a summary, but my drive was delayed inshipment, and I just got it hooked up this weekend.I wrote:> Sorry to bother the list with such a mundane request, but Sun-Spots> seems off-the-air at the moment, and my Sparc will arrive much> sooner than expected. ...

Thanks for the 50+ responses, some with suggestions, some just to confirm thatthey're noticing it too.Some of the suggestions/comments were:   1) The Exabytes are known to be sensitive to tape tension. Try retensioning.   2) Power cycle the drive and/or the ...

Just as an FYI addendum, for those who have the same or similar setup as Ido (namely 9-track tape drives with Xylogics 472 tape controllers):Our original problem was that the Xylogics was apparently writing nulls atthe end of odd size tape blocks (overwriting the last character in thatblock), ...

This is a great list.Thanks to all who replied.Thanks in particular to:-Leonard E. Sitongia sitongia@ncar.ucar.edu-Bill Hart hart@ocean.ml.csiro.au-Gareth J. Barker gbarker@mph.sm.ucl.ac.uk-Dave Singletary daves@den.mmc.com-Mark Korinek mjk@bru.mayo.eduHere's an (abbreviated) ...

        Thanks for all the replys on the DNS documentation         question I had. Here is a summary of some of the replys:You can not bet much better the the sun 4.1.1 Systems/Network administrationguide ...-- ...

Earlier this week I asked about using a CD-ROM player on non-sun4cmachines. To briefly recap:> Sun claims that their CD-ROM drive does not work on 4/110, 4/140, > 4/260, 4/280 machines, and "MUST" be on a SS[12] on the network...]People were unanimous that any of these machines ...

1. How to print a formatted troff document under NeWSprint:   use the opost filter.   for instance to print a maunal page, enter:   troff -t -man <manual_page_file> | pl :opost 2. How to print a two columns ascii file in landscape mode ...

In short, the problem was that the SCSI tape device driver seems to hangif interrupted during a write - the only fix being a reboot.The suggested solutions were...  1. Get the tape synchonization error patch. I already have the patch which does fix the tape sync problems but ...

The easiet thing to do was to do the following in the/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi directory:Add the following two lines to ...