Date: Sun, 2 Aug 98 14:56:35 EST From: Dwight McKay (The Moderator) Reply-To: Suns-at-Home@net-kitchen.com Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V11 #25 To: Suns-at-Home-List Suns-at-Home Digest Sun, 2 Aug 98 Volume 11 : Issue 25 Today's Topics: Crooked ELC Screen? Looking for a sethostid hack Micheal Coopers sysinfo program SAH V11 #24 - Central Data? Shoebox Whine Suns-at-Home Digest V11 #24 (4 msgs) xmodmap and xterm +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | 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: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 13:19:09 -0600 From: Bill Subject: Crooked ELC Screen? To: Suns-at-Home@net-kitchen.com I've got an ELC that looks like the screen is skewe a few degrees counter-clockwise. Is this an easy adjustment to make, or should I just learn to live with it? Bill -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- bill@xmission.com http://www.xmission.com/help/ "Set the controls for the heart of the Sun." -PTV - ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 17:49:37 -0400 From: bg814@yfn.ysu.edu (Paul W. Zibaila II) Subject: Looking for a sethostid hack To: suns-at-home-request@net-kitchen.com Some where not long ago I read something about a hack for changing hostid's on the fly. Either on suns-at-home or the roadrunner mailing list. Can't remember where is saw it. Might some one point me in the proper direction? Thanks in advance. pwz ii -- bg814@yfn.ysu.edu Paul W. Zibaila II The opinions expressed by me are mine. - ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 15:57:31 -0400 From: "Paul W. Zibaila" Subject: Micheal Coopers sysinfo program To: sun-386i@itc.yorku.ca, suns-at-home@net-kitchen.com I've been tinkering around with me old sun386i again. Rescued an old st4200N ~2 gig drive from the junk man. even though seems the best I can get working is about 1GB stiil much nicer than the old 91 megger. Now that I have some room to play with I've been tinkering around. Anybody had any luck with getting the device section of sysinfo to actually report the "wds" controllor and "sd"scsi hard drives and "st" tapes under devices? In debug mode it tells me it's finding "st" Unit 0-3 on device wds where the sd devices should be and then loops through the 2 tape drives as st unit 0 & 1 again. I've tried versions 3.0.6 & 2.12 with the same results. Am I missings a DEFINE of some type, just not holding my tongue properly, or what? Don't think I'll ever make it to full fledged hacker but I am an avid tinkerer. Thanks in advance pwz ii - ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:11:53 +0200 From: Johnny Olofsson Subject: SAH V11 #24 - Central Data? To: Suns-at-Home@net-kitchen.com In Suns-at-Home Digest V11 #24 gary@sabot.com (Gary Sabot) wrote: > I found a company called Central Data, www.cd.com, that makes all 3 > serial port approaches (PCI/ethernet/SCSI) for Suns. Anyone have any > experience with them? I have been using their SCSI-based products at work (telecom) for several years, mainly 16-ports units on IPX, SS10 and SS20 boxes running Solaris 2.x Must say I find them very reliable, efficient and thrustworthy. Throughput is good and CPU load due to packetized protocol on the SCSI channel - pending I/O for all ports on one unit is handled in one transaction. If the PCI and Ethernet based ones live up to same quality and performance I do not know but I see no reason why. Whether the price level is acceptable for SAH purposes might be a completely different question. Johnny Olofsson, SM6JIH johnny.olofsson@goteborg.mail.telia.com - ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 13:15:31 -0700 From: Bradford Castalia Subject: Shoebox Whine To: NeilMcNeight The "shoebox whine" produced by the spindle ground contact is infamous. Removing the grounding strap is the solution (this was confirmed by a well-respected Sun FSE). -- Bradford Castalia Castalia@Earthlink.net Systems Analyst 520-624-6629 idæim 520-792-4576 712 N. Seventh Avenue Tucson, AZ 85705 "Build an image in your mind, fit yourself into it." The log of Cyradis seeress of Kell. - ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 12:26:34 +0900 From: Steve Carter Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V11 #24 To: Suns-at-Home@net-kitchen.com For information about putting Linux on a Sun, try the Tokyo Linux Users Group (It's in English, many of the members are North American or European). The URL is http://tlug.linux.or.jp The mailing list page is at http://tlug.linux.or.jp/list.html The list is very good, and there are several Sun experts on it who are good with putting Linux on older Sun machines. It is a great way to leverage older equipment that won't run the latest version of Solaris, or at least not very well. Linux is small and fast enough to make these machines "better than new." Steve Carter - ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Jul 98 10:27:17 EDT From: gary@sabot.com (Gary Sabot) Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V11 #24 To: mowat22@bigfoot.com, Suns-at-Home@net-kitchen.com Date: Fri, 10 Jul 1998 11:48:53 -0400 From: "Matthew R. Williams" Subject: Solaris I.P. Masquerading and Solstice PPP 3.0.1 To: "'Suns-at-Home@net-kitchen.com'" Hello all I am new to the list but after going through the archives I never found any reference to this so here goes. 1. Has anyone found an inexpensive way to do I.P masquerading. The only solution that I have been able to find is the Solstice Firewall-1. And that is not really a option at $3,000(this is sun at home not an isp..) So After days/weeks of searching the internet for anything to do I.P masquerading I am at a loss. Any help would be appreciated. [Take a look at Darren Reed's IP FIlter, http://cheops.anu.edu.au/~avalon/.] [It does network address translation as well as filtering. It works well ] [for me here. --ddm ] Its aimed at Linux rather than a Sun, but if you are trying to put together a cheap firewall to go between your home machines and a cable modem, this FAQ is one way to go: rlz.ne.mediaone.net/linux/index.html --gary - ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 17:12:48 -0400 (EDT) From: Rick Leir EPS Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V11 #24 To: Dwight McKay > I have just installed an external cdrom to my SPARCstation 2 but when i > insert a disk, nothing happens, it's supposed to open the filemanager > but it doesnt. > On boot i did a probe-scsi wich detected the cdromdrive and a boot -r > which went fine but it does not seem to mount automatically. > Mabye this is an auto mount problem, but i'm not sure, What version of Solaris are you using? This was buggy in 2.3 and earlier. Volume Manager seems to work fine with 2.4. cheers -- Rick Rick Leir rleir@igs.net http://www.igs.net/~rleir 613-828-8289 In between 505's "Keep your head cool, your feet warm and you'll make the best doctor poor" - Hermann Boerhaave - ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 19:20:33 -0400 From: John DiMarco Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V11 #24 To: Suns-at-Home@net-kitchen.com In message <199807270207.VAA17752@net-kitchen.com>you write: >Date: Tue, 21 Jul 98 18:49:57 EDT >From: gary@sabot.com (Gary Sabot) >Subject: Central Data? >To: Suns-at-Home@net-kitchen.com > >I found a company called Central Data, www.cd.com, that makes all 3 >serial port approaches (PCI/ethernet/SCSI) for Suns. Anyone have any >experience with them? I've used their SCSI stuff before. Very solid, and the company was quite reasonable to deal with. Far nicer than Sun's rather limited serial ports, or Sun's abysmal SPC product. Regards, John -- John DiMarco Office: SF2101 CSLab Systems Manager Phone: 416-978-5300 University of Toronto Fax: 416-978-1931 http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~jdd - ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Jul 98 10:32:47 EDT From: gary@sabot.com (Gary Sabot) Subject: xmodmap and xterm To: Suns-at-Home@net-kitchen.com I remapped my type 5 keyboard under CDE/solaris 2.6, and everything works fine EXCEPT xterm, which can't seem to pass control charcters properly (i.e. if you run a kermit you can't send the C-\ C to escape, can't telnet and run an emacs, etc). ddterm and other apps have no such problems. Can anyone offer any advice? If it helps, here is my xmodmap .xmodmaprc. The last line is the one that causes the problem: ! type 5 .xmodmparc file ! This turns off the caps lock key so it does nothing. clear Lock !change "alt" key to an emacs meta key remove mod1 = Alt_L add mod4 = Alt_L !change left diamond to a control !NOTE: this screws up xterm so that emacs, kermit, etc do not !get to see any control chars typed at it! dt term does not mind. remove mod4 = Meta_L add control = Meta_L --gary _______________________________________________________ Gary Sabot | Voice: (781) 647-7776 Sabot Associates, Inc. | FAX: (781) 647-7779 10 Carroll Circle | Internet: gary@sabot.com Weston, MA 02493 USA | ------------------------------------------------------- - ------------------------------ End of Suns-at-Home Digest ******************************