Date: Sat, 19 Jun 99 08:38:43 EST From: Dwight McKay (The Moderator) Reply-To: Suns-at-Home@net-kitchen.com Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V12 #17 To: Suns-at-Home-List Suns-at-Home Digest Sat, 19 Jun 99 Volume 12 : Issue 17 Today's Topics: automatically logout an idle user after n amount of time Lexmark Software for Sale need help - setting up serial terminal and modem on IPX running Red Hat Linux need help with linux setup for adding serial terminal and modem on IPX Sparc Red-Hat performance question Subscribers and users??? What can I put in a SPARC-5 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | 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: Tue, 8 Jun 1999 11:44:02 +0600 From: "Thushara Wickramasinghe" Subject: automatically logout an idle user after n amount of time To: Please help me. I'll summarize the results and resend. how to configure solaris(2.5.1) to automatically logout an idle user after n amount of time ??? Thanks. thushara - ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 12:23:55 +0000 From: "Jan.Klingel" Subject: Lexmark Software for Sale To: "Dwight D. McKay" Hi there, anybody interested in Lexmark Virtual Jetprinter for Solaris 2.51/2.6? I bought version 1.100.4 and have the update to 1.100.7 too. This software package is supporting "cheap" Lexmark ink jet printers (1000, 3000, 5000, 7000) on SPARC Solaris workstations. For more information see http://www.lexmark.com/partners/sun/virtual_jp.html. The price for the software was and still is $ 86.94. Make an offer! cu Jan -- EDAG, Inc. Phone +1 248 588 3134 31701 Research Park Drive Fax +1 248 588 3259 Madison Heights, MI 48071, USA www.edag-us.com - ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 14:06:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Zachary Uram Subject: need help - setting up serial terminal and modem on IPX running Red Hat Linux To: post+alt.os.linux@andrew.cmu.edu Hi I finally got all the necessary hardware to attach AT&T 14.4 external modem (ttyb) and a terminal (ttya) to my IPX. I set the terminal speed to 9600 and the modem to 14.4k. When I boot up IPX headless the terminal will display the startup messages but when linux startup gets to a certain part (right after it displays free kernel memory) it hangs and I tried ctrl-break on terminal but cant get to EPROM. I think perhaps the kernel is checking for the frame buffer and since my monitor is unplugged its hanging. I heard there is way I can run just my terminal as console or run with monitor and have terminal as well. What files do I have to alter and what do I need to input to tell Red Hat Linux to see my terminal on ttya and my modem on ttyb. And any help on how to get PPP working would be good. I am running without X. ________________________________________________________ uram@cmu.edu "Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have faith." - John 20:29 - ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 14:18:38 -0400 (EDT) From: Zachary Uram Subject: need help with linux setup for adding serial terminal and modem on IPX To: post+comp.os.linux.misc@andrew.cmu.edu Hi I finally got all the necessary hardware to attach 14.4 extarnal modem (ttyb) and a terminal (ttya) to my IPX. I set the terminal speed to 9600 and the modem to 36,000 and if I boot up IPX headless the terminal will display the startup messages but when linux startup gets to a certain part (right after it displays free kernel memory) it hangs and I tried ctrl-break on terminal but cant get to EPROM. I think perhaps the kernel is checking for the frame buffer and since my monitor is unplugged its hanging. I heard there is way I cam run just my terminal as console or run with monitor and have terminal as well. What files do I have to alter and what do I need to input to tell Linux to see my terminal on ttya and my modem on ttyb. And any help on how to get PPP working would be good. I am running Red Hat without X. Thanks! Zach ________________________________________________________ uram@cmu.edu "Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have faith." - John 20:29 - ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Jun 1999 17:07:29 -0400 (EDT) From: James Schettine Subject: Sparc Red-Hat performance question To: zu22@andrew.cmu.edu in your note To: suns-at-home@tigger.net-kitchen.com > I have Red Hat Linux installed on my IPX... I just installed it on a 32megram SS1 (only slightly lower power than IPC/IPX?) and I am having problems with the speed of it. Not only is it sluggish, but overnight the update and syslogd processes loose there mind and drive the system load way up. (any clues?) I would just like to hear your experience (hopefully good) to see if I should keep trying or just go back to sunOS. - ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1999 23:51:37 -0400 From: Howard Huntley Subject: Subscribers and users??? To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com How many subscribers are there to this news letter??? How many sun at home users are there?? How many are in Jacksonville FL [ Completely accurate answers to those questions are hard to come by, I have ] [ 1120 subscribers but there are a few local mailing lists mixed in there so ] [ the actual number of people on the list is potentially much higher. I'd ] [ guess there are more people using Suns in a home or home office enviroment ] [ then there are subscribers. ;-) I have no idea how many are in Jacksonvile ] [ or anywhere else. :-) :-) --ddm ] - ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 20:23:32 +0100 From: Charles Lindsey Subject: What can I put in a SPARC-5 To: suns-at-home@tigger.net-kitchen.com I have a SPARCStation 1+ with 2 internal discs (well within the power limit that the SS1+ will tolerate). I am planning to upgrade to a Sparc-5 (or 10, or 20, or whatever I can get). Now I am told that I cannot just put a SS5 motherboard in the existing pizza box, which was no great surprise, so I have to buy a new SS5 pizza box. But it also seems that there is a problem with my existing discs. They cannot go in the pizza box because the SCSI connections on the SS5 are different? How come? Currently, the various SCSI devices in the pizza box are all connected together with ribbon cable - I thought that was the standard connection method for short range SCSI connections (I also have some external SCSI devices, of course). So what is different about the SS5? I had also hoped to put a floppy driver in at the same time. So exactly what can I put in a SS5 box? I presume there is plenty of power available for a reasonable amount of SCSery. Charles H. Lindsey ---------At Home, doing my own thing------------------------ Email: chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk Web: http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~chl Voice/Fax: +44 161 437 4506 Snail: 5 Clerewood Ave, CHEADLE, SK8 3JU, U.K. PGP: 2C15F1A9 Fingerprint: 73 6D C2 51 93 A0 01 E7 65 E8 64 7E 14 A4 AB A5 - ------------------------------ End of Suns-at-Home Digest ******************************