After considerable time spent researching this problem, and with thehelp of Hal Stern (stern@sunne.East.Sun.COM), my Sparcstation 2servers are no longer dropping packets in large NFS tranfers.The problem was diagnosed by turning on debugging for the le interfaceon the NFS server ...

Hi Managers,thanks a lot for the quick responses. Yes, all of you suggested a line like 'stty ...' in .cshrc,which should probably exist only in .login. That was exactly my fault. Now everything works well again.Many thanks to:Casper H.S. Dik <casper@fwi.uva.nl>Tim Pointing ...

Here is my original posting:----- Begin Included Message -----To: sun-managers@eecs.nwu.eduSubject: Too many disks on a SS2?Status: RI have (or should I say had) a Sparcstation 1 that was running 4.0.3c.It had two internal Quantum 105 disks (sd0 - scsi id3, and sd1 - scsiid0). It also had 4 ...

The original question was:>I often get SCSI bus timeouts while reading one of my SCSI disks during>a full dump to an EXB-8200 on the same adapter. I thought this was due>to the cable length, which is pushing 8 meters (if you count the cable>inside each of the boxes, which makes it ...

Please excuse my use of band width, but I need to clear something up.My original request, please note states that I have 40 MB of swap for eachof the diskless stations and 32MB for the server. In my summary I said thatthey were using 10 MB of swap. What I mean by this is they are, on the ...

SUMMARY of Multiple Saves on 1/4" or exabyte tape1. Thanks to all who responded I was convinced that it shouldwork and YES IT NOW DOES WORK.2. Seems that something funny was happening in the scsi interface Ipresume because after a reboot all is OKAY.3. By the way it appears that the ...

Thanks to the people who responsed. The original questions were:>Can I use the SUNOS4.1.1 CD from my SPARC 2 workstation to upgrade my>SPARC 1+ workstation (which is currently running SUNOS4.1)? Are there>any licensing ...

I got a response from a Sun engineer on my question about the NeWS PostScriptbug we were experiencing. In our particular case, using output from theSynopsys tool, both pageview and NeWSPrint generated a single blank pageinstead of properly imaging the PS source.The Sun engineer looked at a ...

First, I would like to thank everyone who patiently answered mymany novice questions during this evaluation. You assistance wasof immense help.There are three areas where the TEK and NCD terminals diverge:1. theory of administration2. speed of local window/data management3. ...

Hello,        I'm sorry it took so long for a summary, but until now the replies havenot even slowed down. We were hoping that there were some thing which we couldconfigure or set to speed up things. The CAD package we use is ARRIS by SigmaDesigns Inc. ...

Here is the summary of replies from this query: Two pointsI failed to make that I was interested in:1) I use Uniras on a sun3 manchine and at the moment using Tektronixsoftware I don't use the full resolution of the printer, I was interestedin if anyone had a driver for the 4693DX for ...

Sun Managers:I received many replies to my maintenance query. Most peopledid not use any of the Sun maintenance options, and insteadallocated the monies and set it aside for a rainy day. Whenthe end of the fiscal year came around, the two popular optionswere purchase an extra workstation or ...

First, my question:cdp>From: Chris Peckham <cdp@hertz.njit.edu>cdp>Date: Fri, 6 Sep 1991 17:35:50 -0400cdp>To: sun-managers@eecs.nwu.educdp>Subject: Sun 4/280, Exabyte 8200, Sun OS 4.1, Writeback error questioncdp>Cc: cdp@hertz.njit.edu, brw@hertz.njit.educdp>Status: ...

Well, it appears that 4.0.3c does not support exabytes, at least onthe sun4c architecture; I got one response indicating that it mightwork on a sun4 under 4.0.3. the two main suggestions were to upgradeto 4.1.x, or to purchase a third-party driver, such as the one fromDelta Microsystems. Thanks ...

OK, summary time. What a great list this is - most responses came in <12hours.1. Firstly, I wanted to know why my disc (a Micropolis 1548) wouldn'tformat.Everyone said for the format.dat entry "ncyl + acyl == pcyl", and on somediscs there is a mff (magic fudge factor :-) on the ...

Everyone told me it's safe to mount /var/spool/mail via NFS.Or as safe as lockd is... Which doesn't seem to be true! (why?)You just have to be careful that your mail will be deliveredonly once in your mailbox:1- you can have aliases or .forward files;2- you can modify sendmail.cf to redirect ...

As the title indicates, this question probably wins this month's prize forthe dumbest one asked in Sun-Managers. Hopefully, the shell/awk script Iwrote will somewhat redeem myself. The original post:   Here's another (I hope) easy one. I am interested in tracking modem ...

There seemed to be some confusion about my recent request for aformat.dat entry for a Fuji M2266S/H disk. Several persons setformat.dat entries for the 2266SA, which has slightly fewer cylindersand a few more sectors. Are Japanese disk makers out to emulate 50sAmerican car makers? It sure ...

A few days ago I asked for help in figuring out what thefollowing ping session ment:> stpserver1# ping -s -Rv sluggo> PING sluggo: 56 data bytes> ICMP Host Unreachable from gateway 192.20.31.254> for udp from bstpserver1 (192.0.2.20) to mcw (120.0.0.244) port 682> ^C> ----mcw ...

Earlier today, I posted two messages to the list, one about sendmailhanging on outgoing mail at the 'DATA' stage, the other about'babble' messages on my Sun3 console.It turns out that both were in fact related. I've received severalreplies. Thanks to those listed below and to those who ...

My original post:There are certian instances in which we would like to add, remove, or powercycle devices on a running machine's SCSI bus. Before this is done I make surenothing is active on the bus. This includes removing tapes and unmountingdisks. For the most part, disks are on a ...

Original posting:> Hello sun managers,> > I have an exabyte 8200 in my 4/470 (survis) which I also use to> backup my 4/330 (surver) both machines are running 4.1.1.> (I do backups multi-user)> > on the 4/330, I issue a > > /etc/dump $1ucbdsf 126 6250 28633 ...

(I posted this summary last week and didn't see it show up. If you get this twice, my apologies)My original posting:> I've got a HP LaserJet III w/ PostScript Cartridge hooked up to a Sun3/60> running SunOS4.0.3 and Transcript 2.2. This is a replacement for an> Apple ...

I apologize for taking a while to summarize this.. anyway, here it is:The Problem:-----------If I try to boot some Sparcstation 1's I have off of the SunOS 4.1.1CD-ROM, they load the kernel and then crash saying:assertion failed: pmg != NULL, file: .. http://sun4/vm_hat.c, line: 2316panic: ...

        First off... My apologies...         Anyway, more than one person sent me a note saying "you can't         get info if you don't give ...

My original query:> Has anyone else seen the following type of messages reported from ps:> > % ps aux> USER PID %CPU %MEM SZ RSS TT STAT START TIME COMMAND> root 98 16.6 1.2 96 368 ? S 17:47 0:02 (inetd)> root 1 0.0 0.0 104 0 ? IW ...

My original article said:>In July Sun announced enhanced products in the SPARC family (SPARC2,>ELC, IPX etc.). That announcement indicated that A SPARC2 could be>configured with up to 128 Mbyte. Does anyone know what the physical>configuration of this memory is? Does it require ...

I would like to thank everyone who answered my posting regarding HP35450A DATand SUN Sparcstation2. The answers were very helpful and I have been able to fix the Sparc into high level performance (150kB/s and more). These answerscould also be useful to others so I'll include a summary ...

Posted question:> I have a 3/280 CPU set-up for use with a high resolution (1600x1280)> monitor and would like to connect a standard Sun low resolution> 1152x900 monitor. The PROM users manual has an address offset for the> EEPROM change and it notes that "a hardware change on ...

Dear NetLanders,        Sorry for the delay, but I've been gathering answers. Several daysago, I asked how to avoid automount/broadcast storms induced by Sun's defaultfind cron entry,        15 3 * * * find ...

I recently asked how I could tell if my Sun 4/280 running 4.1 wasswapping as I thought it should. I gave some reasons why I suspectedit was not, including the fact that swapon was silent at boottime. Iincluded some pertinent documents such as this line from my config ...

Hello,I posted a message asking about the following messages :          Bad magic number in disk label!          The file just loaded does not appear to be executable.I received some responses, ...

The original question:     Is anyone experiencing strange problems with /bin/screenblank? I havehad problems with screens blanking and not coming back when a user types a keyor moves the mouse. The machine is perfectly fine otherwise. You can telnetinto the things ...

The bottom line is that it doesn't seem to be necessary to restart lpd afterupdating /etc/printcap as the lpd's that get spawned for individual printjobs read the current printcap themselves. Thus, all I really need to do isrdist the printcap file which seems to work just fine.It was also ...

The Question:>I have an NCD17C xterm connected to a SparcStation II/GX running 4.1.1 with>Openwindows V2.0. If the user on Xterm starts his/hers Openwin sessions>*BEFORE* the guy on the CPU which is running the clients for the Xterm, starts>his/hers openwin session. The user on the ...

Well, the responses have dwindled so it's time for the summary! First theoriginal posting:-> I have a curiosity question. This morning my /home filesystem began-> to fill as it is wont to do and I get the following message:-> Aug 20 08:35:02 phillies vmunix: /home: optimization ...

Original query-------------->One of our users wants to take a SUN IPC offsite for awhile.>His grant requires that the equipment be insured, but the local>insurance broker I spoke to did not know anybody who would underwrite>a policy covering just the computer.>>Another user ...

my original question:>Lately I've been seeing a problem with sending mail off-site: if the>connection times out three times, the control file disappears from>/var/spool/mqueue, and the text is left behind. this happens on the>mail server, which is a Sun 3/280 running 4.0.3. I mount ...

Thanks to all who replied to my request for information on any toolsthat allow 2 Suns to have identical displays by communicating overRS-232 ( NOT ethernet ). Many people didnt understand why anyone wouldwant to do this. I know its not really practical, but it really isnecessary for the ...

Briefly, my original question went something like this:I'd like to let Joe Random User mount and unmount a pcfs-format floppyfrom his built in drive.I then proposed two small programs, one for mounting and one forunmounting, and asked if there were any security problems which Imight have ...

A quick response on this one brought in half-a-dozen entries in twodays - not all the same mind you...Firstly a quick summary of the most common entry:# offical Fujitsu blessed entry with some additions# Date: Fri, 15 Mar 91 15:01:00 -0500# From: Eric A Pearce <eap@bu-pub.bu.edu># Disable ...

The QUESTION :> We are currently running YP in a Sun environment. We are considering moving our> YP master from a Sun to a DECstation, then making the Sun a YP slave. > > Are there any problems or caveats in doing this ? I thought I had seen> there may be some inconsistancies in ...

Well, for once Sun-Managers fell thru. But after playing telephone tagwith Maxtor "Automated Technical Support" and "Faxback" lines as wellas talking to technical support at Emulex, I got a working format.datfor the Maxtor XT-8380E, so, for those that collect them:disk_type ...

SLIP can be found in the following locations: --------------------------------------------uunet:/usr/spool/ftp/networkinguunet.uu.net:networking/cslipbeta.tar.Zai.toronto.edu (128.100.1.65) pub/slip-4.0.tar.Zcs.toronto.edutitan.rice.edu omnigate.clarkson.edu ...

You can also use my vttool program, as it includes a tn3270,<p>XView-based wrapper around any tn3270 emulation program. ftp it from<p>titan.rice.edu. file: vttol.shar.*<p>

Thanks for all the responses, I forwarded the info. to the guy interestedin pourchasing one, and he supplied me with this summary :------ Begin Included Message -----The following summarises the information that was received in responseto our message concerning software for read/write optical ...

I asked:> Does anyone have a HIGH performance tape-to-tape copy utility? I tried Sun's> tcopy, and only got ~35 Kbytes/second copying from a dat drive ( 184> kbytes/second) to a High density Exabyte (500 Kbytes/second). Right now, it> takes 15 hours to copy a 1.2 Gig tape, which ...

The original question was:|> Having just plugged in a SUN-CD and started to play around with the|> demo-cd, a questions pops up.|> Is there any way to output the audio-files to the internal loudspeaker|> in the SS2? ( Yes, I know how dreadful it sounds....)The answer seems to be No, ...

Original request for information:> I've asked my sales suport guy from sun and he is just a wee bit slow> in answering.The score was: yes: 1no: 3maybe: 2want answer also: 2The answer is YES. There was no need to do anything but plug it inand it worked. Wonders upon wonders!Thanks ...

Thanx all who replied.It seems that there is indeed a patch :Patch-ID# 100343-01Keywords: 1GB greaterSynopsis: SunOS 4.1.1 needs patch to access scsi drive capacity beyond 1GB.Date:01/Aug/91SunOS release: 4.1.1 and 4.1.1 Rev BTopic: 1.3GB Disk Drive EnhancementBugId's fixed with this patch: ...