Date: Thu, 28 May 98 21:28:30 EST From: Dwight McKay (The Moderator) Reply-To: Suns-at-Home@net-kitchen.com Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V11 #18 To: Suns-at-Home-List Suns-at-Home Digest Thu, 28 May 98 Volume 11 : Issue 18 Today's Topics: Finding a sun Sendmail config problem Solaris and inexpensive color printers (2 msgs) Sparc LX - makes "Clicking Noise" Toshiba CDROM with a SUN Sparc 2 Using your Sun from Windows 95. +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Submissions: suns-at-home@net-kitchen.com | | Requests: suns-at-home-request@net-kitchen.com | | WWW Archive access: http://www.net-kitchen.com/~sah | +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 17:44:29 -0400 (EDT) From: Wayne Hilliard Subject: Finding a sun To: Suns-at home Hi hey I hope you people can help me. I would like to get a sparc system to mess around with as I have fallen deeply in love with Unix after I have been running Linux for a couple of years on a intel box. However I can't seem to find a source for one that I can afford, (in other words as cheaply as possible.) I've contacted local collages etc. But no luck :(. So if any one has a suggestion for a source I would be forever indebted, well at least for a couple of days. Thanks in advance, Wayne Hilliard "If computers are making the world a global village, KA1CXD and I can't figure out how to use one, does that woody@sover.net make me the global village idiot ?" Shoe - ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 10:33:52 -0400 (EDT) From: Ronald Florence Subject: Sendmail config problem To: Suns-at-Home@net-kitchen.com The Big CaT writes: I'm trying to get sendmail v8.6 to work in a non NIS environment (only have one UNIX box) and I get this error message when I run it: May 4 08:40:59 corbu.kobeco.com sendmail[758]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): NIS map passwd.byname specified, but NIS not running Sounds like a Sun sendmail.cf file. In the contrib directory of the sendmail-8.* src distributions there is a very useful file on converting Sun sendmail.cf files. I've never liked the M4 output of the default sendmail-8.* cf configurations and have always used the guidelines in that file to hack Sun's sendmail.cf so it works with vanilla sendmail. You can also get the file on converting Sun sendmail.cf files from the sendmail WWW site. -- Ronald Florence Maple Lawn Farm, Stonington, CT ron@mlfarm.com http://www.connix.com/~mlfarm - ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 10:35:10 -0400 (EDT) From: Ronald Florence Subject: Solaris and inexpensive color printers To: Suns-at-Home@net-kitchen.com System Administrator writes: There are lots of expensive networked color laser postscript printers that probably work great with SPARCstations running Solaris, but is there any way of getting a cheap HP Deskjet color printer to work that only costs a tenth as much? Ghostscript will convert Postscript output to PCL, and includes options for the HP color printers. -- Ronald Florence Maple Lawn Farm, Stonington, CT ron@mlfarm.com http://www.connix.com/~mlfarm - ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 18:51:23 EDT From: Tom Fitzgerald Subject: Solaris and inexpensive color printers To: admin@validgh.com, Suns-at-Home@net-kitchen.com > There are lots of expensive networked color laser postscript printers that > probably work great with SPARCstations running Solaris, but is there any > way of getting a cheap HP Deskjet color printer to work that only costs a > tenth as much? > > It appears that if there were > a way to convert a Postscript file to PCL format, that would work, but I > haven't found any such. The Solaris 2.6 printed system administration > cover printing in about 200 pages, none of which really > seems to address the issues I'm interested in. Ghostscript will convert postscript to just about anything, including PCL. You'd need to get ghostscript from ftp.cs.wisc.edu:/ghost/aladdin/ (5.10 is current) and run it in a pipeline with something like: gs -q -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -r300 -sDEVICE=cdjcolor -sOutputFile=- - This outputs the dialect of PCL used by a color deskjet, at 300 dpi, just as an example. Run "gs -h" to find all the things it can output. With a little hacking you can even force this into a printer filter so you can freely throw postscript at lp; and if you want to get REAL fancy, pick up magicfilter and configure it to autodetect the file type, send ASCII and PCL through untouched and feed the postscript to gs. - ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 09:02:20 +0100 From: Kit Smithers Subject: Sparc LX - makes "Clicking Noise" To: Suns-at-Home@net-kitchen.com I have Solaris 2.6 Server running on an LX (overkill I know). I did a complete install using the "incredibly slow" webstart stuff to replace 2.3 which I had before. Since the upgrade every now and again there's a "click-click" from the sound system ? Similar to the one it makes during reboot. It didn't use to make this sound. Does anyone know whats going on? The only additional stuff I have running on the box beyond the basic server stuff is SunISDN 1.04 which is set to dialup to my ISDN. There's possibly a connection there if I'm right because the sound stuff and ISDN share the same chips? I've got DNS set up to use my ISP's name servers... and there's something running which keeps triggering the dialup. I've just pulled the ISDN cable out for now - until I have the time to track down what the problem is. I didnt get this problem under 2.3. I'm not surprised that there's something running thats doing this - I just haven't figured out what it is yet. The click-click is just driving me nuts.... -- Kit Smithers - ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 09:03:40 +0200 From: "John Cushnie" Subject: Toshiba CDROM with a SUN Sparc 2 To: "Suns-at-Home Mailing List" Hi folks, I have now got round to doing some stuff with my Sparcstation. I have ordered my new NVRAM chip - from Maplin here in the UK. The one in the box was a MK48T02B-25, and they stock a MK48T02B-20. Anyone know what is the difference ? I guess I'll find out tomorrow if I have ordered the wrong bit :-) Now I have looked at my CDROM drive and it is a Toshiba XM-5401B The only models I can find in the SUN CD FAQ are Toshiba 3301/3401/4101. Anyone know if/how I can get this XM-5401B to work with my Sparcstation ? Any pointer on the WWW ? Thanks in advance. John Cushnie cushnie@csi.com - ------------------------------ Date: 24 May 1998 12:43:08 -0500 From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Using your Sun from Windows 95. To: Suns-at-Home@net-kitchen.com >Hi All,I'm a bit of newbee to Networking and having just got my hands >on a Ethernet card + Cables for the PC I was wondering what I would need >to use Windows 95 in conjunction with the Sun 3/60 over Ethernet. >Anyone have any suggestions? Install samba (http://samba.anu.edu.au) and you can use the Sun box as a fileserver and printserver. Install squid (http://squid.nlanr.net/Squid/) and you can use it as a web proxy. -- This is The Reverend Peter da Silva's Boring Sig File - there are no references to Wolves, Kibo, Discordianism, or The Church of the Subgenius in this document | "Settle down, boys. There's pain enough for everyone in net.*." | | -- Kate Wrightson | - ------------------------------ End of Suns-at-Home Digest ******************************