Many thanks to the people that responded! The most informative andauthoritative answer came, however, from Tim G. Smith at Sun...< We've been advised to get a copy of the syslogd from 4.3BSD which have< now produced these questions...< < 1) What is the relation between 4.3BSD ...

Hello,I had trouble installing a Maxtor-P0-17S (that's how the drive callsitself via SCSI, the data sheet says Maxtor-P1-17S).It turned out, that I don't need a format.dat-entry. I have to select"type other" in the format program and then enter the drive with1774 data and 2 ...

HI All,Solved in one hour from the NET! (My eyes are getting dimmer).>I'm getting in the console form inetd:>>rpc.cmsd: /usr/spool/calendar is not owned by daemon. Exited.> ...>rpc.cmsd: /usr/spool/calendar is not owned by daemon. Exited.>Oct 24 17:01:04 int ...

Hi everybody !The net was FAST this time ! Thanks to:Ric Anderson <ric@cs.arizona.edu>diab jerius <dj@astro.lsa.umich.edu>(I include his post, as it describes the fastest way to get going)Liam R. E. Quin <lee@sqlee.sq.com> and here comes the summary:here's a summary from ...

Thanks to all of you who took time to reply to my query about batch job controlon workstations. Sorry about the delay in summarizing.I had a large number of responses which directed me to several freely availablesoftware packages. Unfortunately I've not had the time to examine the capabilities ...

Earlier this week I asked:    Does OpenWindows run on a SPARC 2/GS (cgtwelve)? The OW install    guide lists other 24-bit framebuffers, but does not mention the    cgtwelve.    If the cgtwelve is not supported, ...

o Well sun-managers comes through again. I received 3 replies before I got  my own copy of the mail I sent.o After a reformat my disk is back to life, judging from comments it's not  clear for how long but it is back. This incident has spurred new  interest in ...

I had a problem getting the system to recognize a disk. I keptgetting on boot:> vmunix: esp0: Target 2 now Synchronous at 3.572 mb/s max transmit rate> vmunix: sd2 at esp0 target 2 lun 0> vmunix: sd2: Vendor 'QUANTUM', product 'P105SS', (unknown capacity)and the following (on the ...

Hi Everybody,Many thanks to the people who replied to my question, my question was:*************************************************************************>> This is my setup:>> >> Server: Sun 4/470, 64M memory, 4 SCSI disks of 1G, 3rf disks of 2.5G,>> and a network ...

A week or so ago I posted that our Sun workstations and servers runningSunOS version 4.0.3 were hit with some unusual network requests, whichgenerated some unusual console messages some campus hosts.The messages were not recorded in the system logs, this made it a bitdifficult to pinpoint the ...

Hi again! It is barely worth summarizing, so I'll give it a shot.============ Original article ============================Hello! A group in our physics department just got one of the new 32MBSS2's with a GX-Plus frame buffer and color monitor. The OS waspre-installed on its 427 MB ...

Last week, I posted the following:>Just having upgraded from 4.0.1 to 4.1.1 (on a 3/60), I'm having>trouble getting bind 4.8.3 to make. I was able to make it on>4.0.1, but am having trouble with the new release. Which set>of instructions in the README should be followed ...

My original query: =>  => Since this has happened on 3 of our 4/60M1's, I assume it is not uncommon, => but I have not seen a description/resolution of the problem before. =>  => Hardware: 4/60M1 with 2, 104MB disks => OS: SunOS 4.0.3 (some ...

 In SunOS 4.1.1:There is a variable called ip_forwarding residing in /usr/kvm/sys/netinet/in_proto.c. This variable is defined byIPFORWARDING definition.This variable has 3 settings:/* * ip_forwarding controls whether or not to forward packets: * ip_forwarding == -1 -- ...

From: REARDON@SWS@PSI%HDSRTR@MRGATE@SNDRTRTo: "sun-managers@eecs.nwu.edu"@M_INTERNET@MRGATE@SNDRTRPROBLEM:        Cartridge tape drive goes into write-protected mode for no        known reason and stays ...

Answerbook requires Openwindows; it doesn't work under vanilla X11R4 becauseR4 can't draw postscript, and the pages are stored as postscript.Nuf said.Larry Rogers-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| Internet: lrr@Princeton.EDU Manager, UNIX ...

I really hate to have to admit it, but my list of those wanting thesummary is gone. Not even multiple restores will bring it all back.Sorry for the noise, but if you still want a summary of responses to myrequest for help integrating Silicon Graphics machines into a Sun networkyou will have to ...

The answer is: yes, there is SunOS 4.1.1 for Sun 3's on the Sparc 4.1.1 CD,but to build using it, you must copy the miniroot to the Sun 3's file systembecause you cannot boot the Sun 3 remotely from the Sparc's CD. After that,installation can proceed as usual using the remote sr0.The other ...

My original query:----- Begin Included Message -----At this moment I have a 4/490 server with a load you wouldn't believe.Here it is (it was 20 points lower about a half hour ago):    sunshine up 13 days, 2:44, load average: 261.47, 258.00, 250.99I am not currently ...

I recently posted a query regarding newfs failing on on a Micropolis 1355disk partitioned to be 1 big partition. I got a lot of replies, that raisedsome interesting points. Unfortunately, I did not get to use any of them; Ihung the disk off of a different machine (a Sparc 2, it used to be on ...

My apologies for not being more explicit. I am suitably chastised.The problem arises in that the documentation for GNU Emacs (and other GNU packages) comes in dvi format (i.e., DeVice Independent code produced byTeX). In order to print this out, I needed to turn the dvi code into somethingmore ...

Well, I found my problem just after I posted my plea. as Dan Transue(odt@base.bellcore.com) put it:> NFS write error 13 means that you do not have permission to do what you> are trying to do. Since it is a diskless machine, the clients need to> have root access to their file systems ...

I originally asked about when/if higher capacitiy disk drives could be put intothe IPX. Primary motivation for this was to use the IPX's as demo machines.A summary of the responses:- It was agreed that 200 Megs just isn't enough, to which - I agree!- Several recommended 3rd party vendors, and ...

The votes are in, and the winner is....<p>        dvips from labrea.stanford.edu!!!!!!<p>Thanks to all who replied.<p>- Doug Kelley<p>

Sun-Managers is a funny list. At 18 hours and counting, I'd had one(count it, 1) response which said "don't fool around with high voltageunless you know what you're doing." At 19 hours another 8 or 9 messagesdropped in, between them containing all the data I could possibly ...

Sorry I took so long to summarise!My original query was how to connect macs to suns, bearing in mindI knew nothing whatsoever about macs.I recieved nearly fifty responses - thanks greatly to everyone,esp. Ted Hughes who invited me over for the day to show me howhe 'does it'.Loki Jorgenson ...

Thanks to:cdr@kpc.com (Carl Rigney)>I saw something similar while I was at AMD. In tracking the problem>you should note that some utilities use the netid YP map to check>group membership, not the group YP map.>Make sure that your NIS Makefile pushes netid when group changes, ...

Conclusion: upgrade to sunos 4.1.1, and see what happens.This was suggested by stern@sunne.East.Sun.COM (Hal Stern - Consultant)and rusty@groan.Berkeley.EDU (Rusty Wright).All of the suggestions I got would have been great to know when thenetwork was getting hammered, so I could try to find out ...

Well I finally got my 3/50 working again under X11 R5 as an Xterminal.I still don't know why the R4 server couldn't find the right fonts, butthe R5 server does. I've been running the Openwindows clients on topof the server and these seem to work fine, in fact better than they didunder the R4 ...

Recently I wrote...... .. > It appeared that the frequent updates to the passwd file on the NIS master> server caused chaos on the other systems. Most people trying to log in got> hung. Some users already logged in complained that some software was either> hanging up completely or ...

Thanks, people! I've got what I needed.tonytran@leland.stanford.edu said:>remove /usr/sunlink/inr/sys/sun4/OBJ/in_pcb.o before running install.inrand rasesh@sbcoc.com (Rasesh K. Trivedi) informed me:>From SunOS 4.1.1 release and Install Manual CHapter 11, page 11-4:>Installing the ...

Thanks to all who replied.The problem I had was to use an extension such as 2a so thatmy manX directory ( where X is 1, 2... ) could have the files        xor.2a        xor.2b and get man to recognize this.Many ...

On Sat, 21 Sep 91 I sent the following message:================================================================================Sun Managers,We have found a problem with attempting to upgrade our Sun systems fromSunOS 4.0.3 to SunOS 4.1.1 this weekend.The problem occurs with 4/330 machines which ...

[I haven't tried the suggestions yet, but I'm willing to believe that SCSIflakiness is the culprit.]MY ORIGINAL QUESTION:SS2, SunOS 4.1.1, Wangtek QIC-150 (in a SCSI shoebox from Andataco with a 669MBdisk).Has anybody ever experienced the following console error messages when tryingto dump to ...

                       Subject: Time:09:48 AM  OFFICE MEMO SUMMARY: Seagate ST83220K Date:10/16/91This is a summary of my posting ...

I complained that /dev/null permissions kept changing to rw root,nothing anyone else. a number of people had seen the same thing happensporadically, but no definitive reason. The only suggestion was thatsome cron job was doing it. One suggested that some suid root job mightbe at fault, and ...

> We have a sun4/470 running 4.1.1 which has one IPI> controller (idc0) on which sits 4 disks: CDC IPI 9720> > 5 times now, the label for disk id000 has found its way> to the disk id001 with of course very bad side effects for> anything using id001.As I'm not the manager ...

in a *very* recent posting (thanks Sun-Managers!), I was havingtrouble mmap(2)'ing a very large region (1-2Gbytes)I thought it was related to the datasize limit. So I tried toincrease the size of the data segment, without success Dave Probert (probert@cs.ucsb.edu) give me very usefull ...

Ok the main thing is that their is a Suyn consultance special whichyou can contsact from your local Sun office::>>>> SOFTWARE SPECIALS MONTHLY SUMMARY >>>>October, 1991 Announcements:>>>>>>>>New Special:>>>> ...

I complained that my version of sliplogin (U Toronto 1.15) was causingcoredump when run under cron, while under terminal control it was fine.The problem solved itself when I recompiled sliplogin, so I do not know(or now care) why it was dying before. However, the suggestions were that under ...

The original question was how do I get the kernel to tell me theamount of swap space left on a machine (under sunOs 4.1.1).I complained that there were missing elements in the vmtotal structuredefined by <sys/vmmeter.h>.The answer was given by Mike.Sullivan@EBay.Sun.com who said: > ...

Well, I received a number of responses. Most of them suggested the useof NTP or XNTP, available from several ftp-sites. Some people suggestedthe use of rdate (8C), but that require a fairy stable date-server.(Which I don't have....)Thanks to:Torsten.Lif@eos.ericsson.se (Torsten ...

As I mentioned before, most of what came out of my research intoperforming some kind of kernel version control had to do withinstalling some control in the procedure used to generate kernels. First, we began using RCS to keep track of kernel configuration files,embedding RCS $Revision strings ...

I asked earlier about some problems I had been having getting the parityconsistant when using a T1600 w/passwords enabled on a SPARCStation.In summary, the problem is that the T1600 talks 8 bits/none, and thedefault characteristics of the login port is 7 bits/even. My users haveto switch ...

> Be careful where you get memory for SS2s (and IPXs). The timing> tolerances for the SS2 memory are very tight. In fact they are so> tight that there are only a couple of vendors who build memory that> meets the tolerances.>................> Regarding the actual ...

I my recent summary about running xdm with OpenWindows I mentionedproblems with two things: OW cmdtool and SunView compatability. Ireceived a dozen very helpful replies.The cmdtool problem, which was that cmdtools invoked under an xdmsession didn't accept input, is solved by running cmdtool ...

Thanks to gup@auspex.com for pointing out the problem with calendarmanager to me. The original problem was after changing my zoneinfo fileto reflect new laws about daylight savings in my state and installing thenew file the calendar manager behaved erratically when inserting newappointments, ...

Sorry-There was a typo (or a brain glitch) in my correction!<p>The patch is at revision level 4 (i.e. 100174-04) and it's<p>that version I've got.<p>Steve<p>

I have worked this past week with Exabyte to resolve my problemswith 'st1: media failure' and there is a resolution.On OLDER Exabyte 8200's, especially those with the 4$23 MX proms and theB0 series SV proms, there exists some data patterns that the servoboard thinks is end of file and the ...

Original message:> > System: Sun Sparc-2 running 4.0.3 > several SCSI devices attached  Correction: The machine is a Sparc-2 (4/75) running 4.1.1.               (Sorry for the error, most ...