Ok, ok so the FMs do talk about it. Look in ftpd(8) said many-a-person.There is also a recommended book, see below. Last, there is a script(that's what I was really after :-) If anyone wants me to pass on the script,I will.Thanks, all! Especially:From: ...

charlie@umnstat.stat.umn.edu (Charles Geyer) writes:>In article <1992Jan21.134921.16411@uicc.com> putsch@uicc.com (Jeff Putsch)>writes:>> What is "S"?>S is to SAS, SPSS, BMDP, etc. as C is to Fortran.>S a the statistical computing environment from AT&T Bell ...

This was my original question. The summary follows. Essentially most people said to check portmap in some way or another. Well I did asum on /usr/etc/portmap. (actually /etc/portmap -> /usr/etc/portmap)on the sick machine and ona healthy one. They were different.So I just ftp the portmap ...

Thank you for all the quick replies.My question was about finding a supplier of Exabyte tapedrive cleaning tapes. A lot of the replies said that I could just call Exabyte at 1-800-767-TAPE and order them directly fromthem. A few other replies gave the name of suppliers local tothe person ...

Thanks to all who replied.SHORT SUMMARY:No cause found; resolution was to re-install OS.LONG SUMMARY:"Anthony A. Datri" <datri@concave.convex.com> wrote:        Look in /dev amd make sure that all 129 win* devices exist ...

This is my tentative summary for the Calendar Manager question I posted. I say tentative, cause no doubt a few of you are going toroast/amend/enhance what I say here.My original question:        Subject: Calendar ...

Original problem:> Has anyone performed a sunupgrade to 4.1.2 from the Solaris 1.0.2 (aka> 4.1.2) cd-rom? I tried to start my upgrade tonight, and discovered that all> of the executables in the directories> sunupgrade/shell > sunupgrade/toolkit> have permissions 444 ...

I just got a Phone Call from Uninet and an e-mail(Thanx Neil <neil%wizard.uucp@ics.uci.edu> )Uninet sells a SCSI -> RS232 boxes too tooThis is the info that was send:---BEGIN---Cut-Here----8<----8<----8<----8<----8<----8<----8<----8<----8<----You might want ...

Original problem (summary):I need to quickly establish whether you can force a new Exabyte 8500 towrite either 8200 or 8500 format on previously used tapes with Sun's st SCSAdriver on a Sparc2 running SunOS 4.1.1B.        According to the 8500 manual, ...

Sun-Folks,A couple of days ago I posted to this group about a problem with an ALM board:        I'm having a bit of a problem with an MTI 16 port serial board.        It is currently attached to a Sun 3/160 running ...

Thanks to         Mike Raffety <miker@sbcoc.com>        Karl A. Anderson <karl@thuja.gsfc.nasa.gov>        poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)The disk in ...

A case of RTFM. Sorry to bother everyone I jumped the gun!!I was supposed to rebuild the kernel with the module that Newsprintadded.        Jeff Martin        Sr. Support ...

All set! Sun-managers does it again. Thanks to all.The essence of my question was:+--------------------------------------------|We're running 4.1.1 on Sun3, 3x, 4 and 4c platforms, with the following|set of patches installed:|| 100173-06: NFS jumbo patch| <and many others - list ...

Thanx all Sun-MGR'sThis list is great...I received several suggestions and even a phone call about the serial port expantion problems we have.Some suggested a S-BUS card on my Sun SLC , but it does _not_ have a S-BUS, so I suspect they don't have any SLC or ELC at their site.Several mentioned ...

Wow, that was fast. Originally, I asked:+--------------------------------------------||The problem, simply put, is that we're being deluged, inundated, and|otherwise swamped by .nfs* files. Not only that, but we're generating|a lot of them.|+--------------------------------------------Tim ...

On Tues. Jan 28th I posted:---------------------------------------------Sun-managers:A user here seems to have uncovered a very basic bug. He writes:-------There appears to be a bug in the Sun-4 Fortran 1.4 compiler associatedwith specifying the values of logical variables in a DATA ...

Hi! I got one answer to my question and it comes from Bryant Eastham inUtah. I include his reply at the end of the article. He says that hewanted to work a while with the parser before releasing anything. Healso points out that he hasn't got time for support, so I guess that theparser comes ...

As many have pointed out, RRFS is a file system intended for useon CDROM. The claim that RRFS is 25% faster than UFS isa comparison of RRFS to UFS-on-CDROM. There won't be a wayto newfs a Rocky file system. The file system for magneticmedia is still UFS.-- Nick Sayer ...

I wrote the following script to mail a list of disk stats to me...#----------------------------------------------------------------------------#!/bin/csh -f## Used to perform a df of local 4.2 mounts on all servers,# then mails file to Howie (s4uhkm@sun330)# (taken from Mike Mohar's code...)## ...

In <1992Jan29.212656.22593@almserv.uucp> s4uhkm@almserv.uucp (Howie Michalski) writes:>I wrote the following script to mail a list of disk stats to me......>I would like the same report format but I only want to see dev's that are>over 70% full.Here is my dfcheck and netdf, ...

My original question: >I'm planning on mounting /var/spool/calendar on all workstations from >the same partition. If you know of any reason this shouldn't be done, >(ala /var/spool/mail), please let me know. > >On the same subject: Does rpc.cmsd still have to be run ...

My original posting :-> > > I saw the following memory error on the console of my> SS2 (OS 4.1.1b, 32MB RAM - 16MB from Sun, 16MB from ClearPoint) :> > Parity error reported at 0xffad9db8, actual address is 0xffad9db0.> Parity Error, ctx = 0x4, virt addr = 0xffad9db0> ...

Overwhelming acclaim. tcsh is a good thing. I haven't yet received mycopy of my posting to sun-managers and I've got 10 responses whole-heartedly endorsing this csh replacement shell. It's got far too many features for me to describe here. The latest release has a 12/19/91 issue date. tcsh ...

I am really sorry to bother everyone on the list, but we had a disk crash and<p>I lost both the name and the summary. <p>Would the kind person who sent me the summary of SPARC clones please resend it?<p>Ill even take a copy from somewhere else, or pointers to other places. <p>Thanks. Vince<p>

The original question (summary):>Yesterday I tried to install C2 security on a SS 1+ running SunOS 4.1.1.>This machine serves 4 SS-2's (all with a local swap disk). I followed>the manual in great detail. >After booting the server and one of its clients I got loads of ...

Hi10 days ago I posted the following to the list:-----------------------------------------------I'm trying to find out what's happening to my calendar manager...The fact is that, when called, displays on the console'XView warning: bad attribute, PANEL_LIST_NROWS' and wheneverI'm trying to ...

Since we had experienced 2 failures for 5 IPC's purchased within thelast year, I asked what experience others had. So far a rough countshows 55 failures for 426 machines. 30 of these were frame buffersbut one report of 25/100 biases this. 11 of the complaints areabout color monitors. ...

My original question:  From: Gregory Higgins <higgins@math.niu.edu>    When creating /export/root/WORKSTATION/etc/fstab, add_client makes  /usr an ro mount. This breaks /usr/games/fortune on the diskless   workstations. The fix is trivial, ...

Actually, this is an interim report more than a summary. Iasked about dialin/out modem lines with their getty blocked onrsockt, which doesn't make sense.First, a workaround furnished by robert@gar.no (Robert Andersson):simply add "to#60" to the gettytab entry used by the modems.The ...

Last week, I posted a question about some problemsI was having with RFS. Here is a portion of theoriginal message:>It seems that 3b2 cannot access files with inumbers greater>than 65535. At first, this would seem to be a 3b2 problem,>but the Sun is returning the error status. I've ...

Hello Folks..First of all, many thanks to all the ones that replied my posting, andfor the ones that didn't have the courage to ask, here are the answers  Source Dens.(bpi) Size (ft)- From HP guys: 6,250 (Try the maximum size, it must ...

How do I add a shoe box with a micropolis 1355 disk to an existingsun3 sun with disk/tape in its shoe box.I know that I should do :3/60 (CPU) -----> shoe box to be added -----> existing shoe box ...

Dear Sun Managers; It appears I must apologize for my last query to this group. This questionwas asked (and answered) recently, as a scan of the WAIS entries forsun-spots/sun-managers should have (and later did) show me. However, I will still summarize here, if for no other reason ...

Here is the summary:My question is:>> I have a very simple test program which is 10 or 20 lines long.>> I could not link statically. Here is the errror>> cc -o test test.o -Bstatic -lc -lXm -lXt -lX11>> Undefined>> _dlsym>> _dlopen>> ...

Sorry for the delay with this reply.I posted the following a while ago:] Our Exabyte 8200 drive on a Sun 4/370 has recently become quite disagreeable.] When I try to load a tape, the drive spins and whirs for a few seconds as if] it's trying to mount the tape, and then it spits the tape back ...

Thanks to everybody for taking the time to reply.These include ...

> From: Mike Raffety <miker@sbcoc.com>> X-Organization: SBC/OC Services, L.P.> > On MY SunOS 4.1.1 distribution, there is no alias for root, but our> NIS aliases map has one, so everything works well. When there's no> alias, but the mail is to a valid username, it is ...

A few days ago I asked the following question:>We are running NIS to resolve our local hostnames but use DNS to resolve non>local hostnames. I noticed a strange problem with reverse lookups where the>nameserver knows the hostname but sometimes NIS can not get the information.>As you ...

I complained about:________________________________________________________________________Our sun386i running 4.0.2 is reporting 'RPC: can't encode arguements'every few seconds. It seems to be coming from rpc.lockd, in that ifrpc.lockd is killed, the messages ...

It was pointed out to me by several people thatthere is an st driver patch which fixes the panicI posted about a week ago. The patchid is: 100262-01, which has been included in 4.1.2. Many thanks to:        stern@sunne.East.Sun.COM (Hal Stern - NE Area ...

Another tardy summary :-)I asked:] Suppose I want to do the following with lpd: I want host A to print to] a queue on host B, but I want host A to do the if filter before sending] to B. I tried the following printcap entry on host A, but the if filter] seems to be ignored.] ] ...

Hi,A while ago, I wrote:>One of the SMD drives (Fujitsu 2382K) is giving a lot of errors like:>xd1h: write retry (header not found) -- blk #1263541, abs blk #1263541>xd1h: write retry (header not found) -- blk #1263539, abs blk #1263539>xd1h: write failed (header not found) -- blk ...

My original query asked if there were any simulators for the Sun box thatsimulated the Apple Macintosh.The overwhelming answer is YES --> Quorum Software Systems out of MenloPark, CA, is supporting a product called "Equal" that amounts to aruntime interpreter, turning Mac calls ...

Like X-Gator from Cayman, InterCon has a product called PlanetXthat allows the Mac desktop to be brought up and accessed via awindow on the Sparcstation. PlanetX supports color.--edComputer Science Department, Yale University51 Prospect St., New Haven, CT, 06520Voice: 203-432-1254 FAX: ...

This is a SUMMARY of the responses I got to my posting:>I am trying to get a SPARCprinter (attached to a SPARCstation2)>to serve as a printer for AppleTalk and EtherNet connected Macs.>The reason is the SPARCstation supposidly can serve as a spooler>and the SPARCprinter is much ...

Thanks to all who sent advice on using a Sparcstation 2 as a server system.My original request:>We are contemplating using a Sparcstation 2 as a server for some dataless>clients. The system will have 32 MB of memory and will use SCSI disks>connected by either the internal controller, ...

We are using a Sparcstation 2 as a server for six Tek XN7 Xterminals andten Tek Xpress terminals without any problems. It has proven to berather effective. I haven't heard of any problems with it.=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=Alvin Cura ...

Don't want to interrupt the little flame-fest here about how exactly to breakthe sync account and get a uid=1 shell, but I deleted the sync account from theSuns here a few years back when I learned how to force a sync from the PROMmonitor:For old style PROMS ...

Hello Sun Managers,Thanks for the 22 responses over a 4 day period. The answer was very simple:The local network route comes from the ifconfig of the ethernet device and the default route comes from the bootparams packet from the server. I'llinclude the reply from Hal Stern here:>the ...

Thanks people,    Once again you have performed your Kirkian duty and saved theuniverse ( or was it humanity ) from destruction. As usual most ofthe replies arrived before my post did. As usual I am sorry for takingso long to reply. But the news is GOOD.My original ...