Date: Sun, 16 Jan 00 21:25:28 EST From: Dwight McKay (The Moderator) Reply-To: Suns-at-Home@net-kitchen.com Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V13 #2 To: Suns-at-Home-List Suns-at-Home Digest Sun, 16 Jan 00 Volume 13 : Issue 2 Today's Topics: choosing an old sun for day to day use NAT or IPFW under Solaris 6 or 7? Suns-at-Home Digest V13 #1 (3 msgs) Twin-heads & twin CPUs Warning: Internet gateway boxes at risk of attack! xvnews on Solaris 7 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | 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: Mon, 3 Jan 2000 14:23:08 -0500 From: jbl@andrew.cmu.edu Subject: choosing an old sun for day to day use To: suns-at-home@net-kitchen.com I am thinking about getting an old Sparcstation for daily use. In my case, daily use includes LaTeX, lynx, and e-mail as well as generous use of vi for editing code, reports, papers, etc. I would also like to use this with Samba to share my home directory with my own Windows machine and with the computers in the campus computing labs. However, I am at a loss as to what to get. I have a very low budget (~ $100). There appear to be a number of IPXen and LXs sold on eBay for about that price. What sort of maintenance burden and performance can I expect out of these machines? I had a 4/330 which I played around with for a while, but I do not think that it was fast enough for my tastes. Any help or direction would be much appreciated. Thanks. -- John B. Lee, Undergraduate Social and Decision Science; Carnegie Mellon University jbl@andrew.cmu.edu - ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 18:50:18 -0800 From: Dan Mahoney Subject: NAT or IPFW under Solaris 6 or 7? To: suns-at-home-list@tigger.net-kitchen.com I just acquired a couple of IPX's after a period of several months in which I went Sparc-less. I'm preparing to install either Solaris 6 or 7, but I need to check on whether my plans are reasonable first. I'd like to stick a 2nd ethernet card in one of the IPXs and configure it to route for the other IPX and couple of PC's in my home network. I know how to setup NAT under FreeBSD and I've stumbled through ipfw with Linux, but I don't know if Solaris even supports anything like this. Could anyone point me towards some documentation on this subject? Dan Mahoney dmahoney@pe.net - ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2000 15:50:15 -0500 (EST) From: Rick Leir EPS Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V13 #1 To: Dwight McKay > How did I realize something was up? I saw a message on the console that > su: rfcs succeeded for danz , neither of these accounts exist so I knew > something wasn't right. I immediately disconnected the DSL line and See this recent info: http://www.sans.org/y2k.htm It is not actually y2k per se, it is actually more intrusion related. And it points to the latest Trinoo stuff, which occurs mainly on Suns. cheers -- Rick Rick Leir rleir@igs.net 613-828-8289 http://www.igs.net/~rleir/ - Fight for web standards. http://www.webstandards.org/ The WaSP! "Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly." - Henry Spencer - ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2000 15:16:57 -0800 (PST) From: Dorothy Robinson Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V13 #1 To: (The Moderator) One thing you can try is to find an adapter and see if you have any better luck with the AAUI plug than with the 10-base-T plug. One of the Sparc10's I take care of at work has a finicky ethernet card, and I occasionally have to borrow the AAUI adapter from an ancient HP when I boot it. Once it's up it seems to be OK and I can put the HP back online. Dorothy On 02-Jan-00 The Moderator wrote: > I've been reading s-a-h for nearly a year now in anticipation of my > workplace retiring a SparcStation 10 I used to use. > > Tonight, I brought it home. I haven't talked to the person who used to > use it, but it seems to have a dead Ethernet connector . I connected it > to my small LAN (10 Mbs 10-Base T) and didn't receive any indications of > the connection being alive. A year ago, this machine was in my office > at work and was on the LAN. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Dorothy Robinson http://www.teleport.com/~mokuren - ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2000 14:41:53 -0700 From: Bradford Castalia Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V13 #1 To: huge@axalotl.demon.co.uk > Date: Sun, 26 Dec 1999 17:51:10 GMT > From: Huge > Subject: xvnews on Solaris 7 > To: Suns-at-Home@net-kitchen.com > > Has anyone ported xvnews to Solaris 7? It's far and away my favourite > newsreader (and I've made some small modifications), but I cannot > get it to compile any more since I upgraded from 4.1.3 to 7; > > axalotl{huge}120: uname -a > SunOS axalotl 5.7 Generic_10541-08 sun4m sparc SUNW,SPARCstation-10 > axalotl{huge}121: gcc -v > Reading specs from /usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.7/2.8.1/specs > gcc version 2.8.1 > axalotl{huge}122: cd ~/prog/news/xvnews > /home/huge/prog/news/xvnews > axalotl{huge}123: make > making all in ./guide/libguide... > cc -O -I/usr/include -I.. -c gio.c > gio.c: In function `gio_printf': > gio.c:994: `__builtin_va_alist' undeclared (first use in this function) > gio.c:994: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once > gio.c:994: for each function it appears in.) > *** Error code 1 > make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `gio.o' > Current working directory /home/huge/prog/news/xvnews-2.3/guide/libguide > *** Error code 1 > make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `all' > > I'm not a (professional) C programmer, and fixing this looks way beyond > my knowledge.... > > Regards, > > Hugh. > -- > "The road to Paradise is through Intercourse." > The uk.transport FAQ; http://www.huge.org.uk/transport/FAQ.html > > - ------------------------------ > The __builtin_va_alist is part of the compiler's "built-in" (i.e. not a symbol defined in an external object) implementation of the variable argument list mechanism. It is necessary that the source code #include which you should find in the gcc installation. This #includes the architecture-specific version of the implementation definitions (and generic definitions). This is where __builtin_va_alist is given as the value of the generic va_alist symbol used in the source code (see the man page for varargs). It's possible that there is a problem with your gcc installation. I would recommend upgrading (I found that installing the latest version - 2.95.x as of this date - eliminated numerous gotchas and added numerous capabilities) in any case. When make-ing it is recommended that the CC environment variable be set to gcc (if that's what you really want) so that cc is not used instead. -- Bradford Castalia Castalia@azstarnet.com Systems Analyst http://www.azstarnet.com/~castalia idæim 520-624-6629 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, 3 Jan 2000 13:06:58 GMT From: Huge Subject: Twin-heads & twin CPUs To: Suns-at-Home@net-kitchen.com Since I have enough parts to run my SPARC 10 (with Solaris 7 & Openwindows (Yes, yes, but I like it.)) double headed, what's involved, other than plugging in the second graphics adaptor and screen, that is? Also, I have a possibility of getting another CPU for this box. Again, what's involved in running it, other than just plugging it in? And what's the SPARCserver 10MP that the CPU's coming out of going to make of it? Pointers to FAQs gratefully accepted..... Regards, Hugh. - ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 2 Jan 00 15:01:53 PST From: perryh@pluto.rain.com (Perry Hutchison) Subject: Warning: Internet gateway boxes at risk of attack! To: costellob@asme.org > Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 22:25:56 -0800 > > I have been using a Sparc box running Solaris 2.5.1 as my DSL > internet gateway for about 5 months now. Besides being a router, > it is my smtp mail server and web server. Early this month it was > broken into. I still don't know how they got in ... If you haven't already, I'd suggest reporting the incident to CERT. Even if you aren't looking for assistance in dealing with it, there is public value in having such events logged centrally. Your experience might turn out to be a critical link in capturing the perpetrator(s). > I am currently writing a script that will summarize the log files > and mail it to me when run as a cron job. I am in need of a way to > determine the date of the day before the program is run. One solution to this involves setting the script's TZ environment variable to a time zone where it is still "yesterday". A more portable method is to have cron run the script at 23:59 every day, capture the then-current date in a temporary file or shell variable, then sleep for however long until the time when you want the rest of the script to run. - ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2000 19:22:35 GMT From: Huge Subject: xvnews on Solaris 7 To: Suns-at-Home@net-kitchen.com Much as I hate to followup my own posting.... There is already an xvnews for Solaris 2.5 at http://sunfreeware.com The matter has got slightly more urgent, since it isn't Y2K compliant, so I have to be able to recompile it on Solaris 2.... Regards, Hugh. - ------------------------------ End of Suns-at-Home Digest ******************************