There is indeed a way to get around the NeWSprint 1.0 deficienciesregarding accounting, by modifying the engine_ctl program to do itanyway. Solutions for engine_ctl_SPARCprinter are described below.I installed the patches from eeserv.ee.umanitoba.ca and we are nowgetting the accounting ...

To refresh your memory, my problem was> As we pile more users on our timesharing box (sunos 4.1), I find> myself spending more and more time hunting down stray processes left> running accidentally when people logout.> Stray processes that spin and chew cycles are obviously a ...

It seems shortly after summarizing people were asking about ISA. I didnot include it at first because it is not available.So here it is for all of you who asked.p.s. Thanks again to all who replied.------------------------------------------------------------------------------Robert J Wolf, Sun ...

        I had posted a question about getting openwindows working inthe monochrome screen on a Sun 3/110 with a damaged cgfour card anda grey scale monitor. I got the following response from Tom Olin.>Date: Tue, 12 Nov 91 12:11:05 EST>From: ...

My original query had been in regard to system lockups that seemed to becaused by heavy activity on an SBUS SCUS bus. I got back a number of "itworks OK for me" messages, and a lot of real interest from folks withinSun, which I really appreciate.The problem, as it turns out, had ...

 I am extremely sorry for the delay in summarizing all the responsesI received regarding my query on a good color postscript printer. Ihad been tied up for a while... anyway here they are:Original question:> There has been a sudden urgent need for a color postscript printer> (laser ...

ken@sugra.uucp (Kenneth Ng) writes:> Where I work the upper management required a global execution method, but> refused to use /bin/sh. What we just got working today is a real hatchet> job. In /etc/passwd all occurances of '/bin/sh' are changed to > '.../signon-sh' and ...

 This is a summary posting that discusses the high zs? interruptcount that suddenly appeared on our machine several days ago andused about 20% CPU time to service. The zs? count displayed byvmstat was averaging 4100 over 5 seconds. It turns out thatsomeone had "borrowed" the ...

A brief summary of the replies..Thanks to:<hunter@phoenix.pub.uu.oz.au (James Gardiner)<wingard@scw.b11.ingr.com (Steve Wingard)<se@computing.lancaster.ac.uk> (Steve Elliot)<bob@nyssa.wa7ipx.ampr.org (Bob Finch)<wolfgang@netcom.com (Wolfgang Henke)<kathy@xn.ll.mit.edu> ...

 Hi folks,Some days ago I asked about what cure would apply to a slow harddisk.Well, actually our dealer had supplied the wrong disk (|) -- this indeedwas the reason it was so slow. Nevertheless I received three responseswhich may prove helpful to you too. Thanks to all who took the time ...

Sorry this one is SOOO late, but we've been a little tied up...Original Posting, circa 10/9:>I was wondering if anyone had come across a script, like what runs>during suninstall, to set the time zone? I've looked everywhere I can>think of for details on setting it. I know about ...

Here's my original post:> I'm trying to block a single user from using one of our machines. The> machines are running 4.1.1b and NIS. The machine's passwd file> contains a '+::0:0:::' at the end of it to allow all NIS users access.> Well I re-read the man page for the passwd ...

I posted a letter earlier this week asking if anyone knew of a utilityto restore deleted files. I got back 14 replies. Many people suggestedlooking into Norton Utilities for the Sun. The author of the firstletter below gives a review of it. He is not impressed. Another lettersuggested a utility ...

My original enquiry was about a FORTRAN routine giving the elapsedCPU time on a Sparcstation.The most obvious (and useful) answer was from Michael Pearlman<canuck@rice.edu>, who pointed out that in the Sun Fortran Librarythere are two routines (etime and dtime) which do the job.They are ...

Original Posting:> Since future versions of SunOS will only be available on CD, we have> been wondering how will do OS upgrades for our customers who have> systems (SparcStation 2 s) that are standalone, with only a 150M 1/4"> tape drive and NO CD drive. Some related ...

Only three responses so far. The third look like it would work (haven't tried it yet).I have SUN coming out to talk about a new backup software product. It sounds like what I'm looking for, but until I see and try... I will send info on the SUN productafter evaluating it, but I didn't ...

Took a while to resolve this.In my original request, I asked why I was seeing the message        Warning: disk not set for slip-sectoring.when I formatted a disk with what *should* have provided onesector per track for sector slip. The appearance was ...

My original question was:> Does anyone know of a product that runs on sparcs that is similar> to Hypercard on macs?> It would have to be VERY similar, so that s/w written under> hypercard can be directly ported.A couple of people suggested using HyperNeWS, this is available byanon ...

Most people pointed out that the config line should look like this:config vmunix root on type nfs swap on type spec sd0bI had left out the words "type" and "spec" in the swap specification in myinitial configuration. The client seems to ignore the bootparams ...

Hi EverybodyPardon the late summary. Our problem was conclusively fixed yesterday. My originalposting follows:==>==>==>==>Hi sun managers==>==>We run the Legato backup product Networker every night. Our backup ==>server is a Sparc 4/370 32 Megs memory and 137 Megs of swap. ...

 I will have a real summary on Monday; the consensus is it's either:        * heavy traffic on the network        * the clips for the AUI cable are loose        * the ...

If anyone at Sun or other vendors wants to pass this along, one smalland I believe harmless change in the file system would make recoverymuch, much easier: Don't zero out the block pointers in the inode orthe mode when a file is deleted, use some other indicator, likesetting the access time to ...

Few days ago I sent the following query:>> Since few days ago (possibly since the PDT/PST change) the>> openwindows' clock application stopped displaying the date in the>> title bar, and no seconds hand is available even when invoked with the>> -seconds option ...

Here was the original posting:We have a 4/280 with 128 Meg of physical memory and about 700 Megof swap. We often run large processes of around 512 Meg virtualsize. We are running SunOS 4.1.1 and DBE 1.1. The problem I havenoted recently is that while running the process and ps -avx, ...

The 3/80 DOES have a parallel port on the back! Facing the back,it is the rightmost connector. I confused it with a serial portbecause it looks like a DB25 PC connector. And I did not noticethe parallel (//) symbol below it.It can be accessed using /dev/pp.Thank you for all who have already ...

The replies from the net suggested that what I was doing should work andto reseat the SIMMS. NB the jumpers should be connected for all banks inuse. I connected the 8Mb jumper and it saw 8Mb. likewise 12Mb. 16Mb failed,so I reseated the top 4 SIMMS. It still failed. I replaced the top four. It ...

        I posted the following inquiry.> I am trying to get OpenWindows from the OS 4.1.1 CD.> I want it for the sun3 architecture. I have tried the command> /usr/etc/install/extract files sr0 OpenWindows_Users -a sun3> but I keep getting ...

The original question:=====================Problem: a Sun 3/60 running 4.0.3 occasionally gets into a weirdstate. I can telnet to the machine, but it takes several minutesbefore I get logged in. Once I get in, ps -axe returns only theheader line-- no info on the current status of the system. ...

I received only one reply to my query :----- Begin Included Message -----Dear Sun Managers,My SparcStation 2 under 4.1.1 crash (with ufs_putpage hole) when I create new database devices with sybase. Here is my configuration:Sparc2 with 16 Mb, 200 Mb disk + MicroPolis 1.6 Gb (1528-15)OS: 4.1.1 ...

Yesterday, I posted a request for information on an SNMP daemon for Sun 3'sand SPARCs running SunOS 4.1. A few people informed me that Sun has reducedthe price of SNM from $10K to $3K (still out of our budget, however). Threefree packages, and a number of commercial packages were ...

Thnaks to those who responded to my query on remapping SUN-4 keyboardkeys while running under X.The main purpose I had was to remap the top row of function keys so thatthey would return a different value when used eith the shift,control andmeta keys. I only needed this function when using ...

Mucho thanx to all who replied to my query about the existance/location of a global rc file for the SunOS 4.1.1 csh. The consensus is:1. There isn't one 8-(2. A lot of other sysadmins put a "source" line at the head of each users   $HOME/.cshrc or .login, or both to ...

Here is a summary of responses that I have received to my requestfor info about writing MSDOS disks on a Sun workstation. I have not yet gone hunting, or testing any of these (I didn't expect to get such a response so quickly!) There are apparentlytwo ways of doing this: the first is to ...

Lot's of interest on this one...Seems that many people have experienced similar difficulties but suggestedthat _if_ I would be patient the port would eventually clear. However, Idon't think that is the case if there is a host out there somewhere witha process trying to connect to it. ...

I asked:     If you do lpr -s to print a huge file to a local printer, it works fine.     But if you do lpr -s to print a huge file to a remote printer, it pukes;     it doesn't send the whole file through for some ...

Dear Managers,I sent a message last week requesting comments on some softwareI (and others) wrote to enable dataless workstations to havea choice of /usr servers at bootup time. Some methods were given for changing the /usr server on a datalessworkstation when the existing server is down (apart ...

Hi All. Sorry for the long delay - I've been waiting to make sure that thefix(es) are actually working. Our machines decided to stop showing thesymptoms of the problem for a while, which made it slow going.Thanks for all the many many replies, some even before I got my own message.It seems ...

Thanks for a quick and helpful response. Several people pointed outthat the MIT X11R5 distribution already have comments on the subjectin the and a stub dl*() implementation. See the release notes forX11R5, section section 3.4 (System Pitfalls), paragraph 4.(I should have read this already, of ...

>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Begin Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>From: mondics@tartan.com (Brian R. Mondics)>>>Configuration:>> Sun 3/60 > OS - SunOS 4.1.1> ROM - 1.6> DISK - ...

[The original post]I suspect this is either a real easy question, or a gnarly problem thatisn't easily solved. I appreciate comments/suggestions either way.Like many sites, we depend on NFS. For instance, /usr/local is mountedfrom a central file-server on a number of different machines to ...

I recentlyposted a summary on this topic which suggested tidy methods for lockingthe passwd file while it is being edited. Th lock file suggested was        <path of passwd text file>.ptmpfor a NIS environment.We tried this under SunOS 4.1.1, and ...

Original question:>Will a 1G SCSI drive work on a 4/490 running 4.1_PSR_A?It can be done, given the right format.dat entry. Hal Stern notes that theVME-based SCSI host adaptor has poor (about 3M/s vs. 4.5M/s) performance.Thanks!-- Scott Hazen Mueller +1 408 285 5762 ...

My original posting:----------------------------------------------------------In the latest roundup of prodcuts available on S-Bus cards,the last SunFlash listed modems from two sources:Helios, makers of HeliosCOM, which won't be available until theend of November, and XECOM, who told me they ...

I received a number of responses to my question:>> I have a SS2 with 2 framebuffers and monitors. Is there a function under> OpenWindows equivalent to the Sunview adjacentscreens?> The answer is:Yes, use something like:        % openwin -dev ...

Recently, I asked:>Will the SCSI version of the Seagate 2.5 gb drives work on a Sun? I remember>reading on this list that there were problems with large SCSI drives. My>system is a 4/380, and I'm running 4.1.1. Thanks.I was able to get the solution by calling the Sun 800 ...

  And .. here are the answers. Many thanks to Matt Crawford for the moreamusing reply, Hal Stern for the same reply without the amusing header,and to Casper H.S. Dik for the specific instructions on how to turn onNIS and DNS via the NIS makefiles.------- Forwarded MessageReturn-Path: ...

In article <1991Oct25.220840.12128@casbah.acns.nwu.edu> I wrote:>I fear this may be a FAQ.... Some of my users persist in running>sunview instead of OW under SunOS 4.1.1, and the selection_svc>processes never die. They just pile up, day after day, until all>the swap space is ...

Ok, everyone can stop now. Thanks to the 10 or so people who havesent me copies of gxcursor.c Somehow this problem didn't tickle mybrain in the right place to remember seeing gxcursor in the READ THISFIRST for openwindows (which I had).Thanks, too, to the one or two who suggested ...

Hi all,         WIth the great help of sun-managers, I've got Open Windows running. I neededto add a patch to my libresolv.a and remake my libc.so.x.y.z so it searches mylocal hosts file before looking to dns for "localhost". When I added the ...

Thanks for the responses regarding the issue of cables between differentstyles of SCSI connectors on Sun workstations.The consistent answer is "Yes, it works just fine". I got severalfirst-hand confirmations that while Sun don't necessarily support suchconfigurations, they are common ...