Date: Wed, 9 Jun 93 09:17:22 EST From: Dwight McKay (The Moderator) Reply-To: Suns-at-Home@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V6 #16 To: Suns-at-Home-List Suns-at-Home Digest Wed, 9 Jun 93 Volume 6 : Issue 16 Today's Topics: SaH moved from orchestra to harbor! Print from PC thru Sun SCSI disconnect/reconnect Solaris 2.1: How much disk? Sun3 mono (Philips) 19" monitor repair sun part number list? X11R5pl25 for sun3/60 +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Submissions: suns-at-home \ @harbor.ecn.purdue.edu | | Requests: suns-at-home-request > -- or -- | | Archives: suns-at-home-archives / ...rutgers!pur-ee!... | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1993 08:43:10 -0500 From: mckay@gimli.bio.purdue.edu (Dwight D. McKay) Subject: SaH moved from orchestra to harbor! To: suns-at-home@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu The SaH account and mailing list has been moved from orchestra.ecn.purdue.edu to harbor.ecn.purdue.edu. The ECN staff has set the proper mail aliases so that the old address should continue to work, but please start using the new address as soon as possible. Thanks! --Dwight D. McKay, Moderator of Suns-at-Home ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 May 1993 14:00:46 +0400 (AST) From: Ahmed Bentiba Subject: Print from PC thru SUn To: Dwight McKay Hi everyone I am trying to print from a PC thru Sun (IPC) to which a Sparc printer is attached. I'm runninig telnet software on my PC. I added the PC IP on the file /etc/hosts on Sun station. I get always an error message on PC when trying to print. The error message is riemann(which is a sun station name):/usr/lib/lpd hostname for your address (139.103....) unknown the # 139.103.... is my Pc IP If you have any idea about the solution of that problem let me know, and thanks in advance. Ahmed Bentiba Universite de MOncton dept de math bentiba@umoncton.ca ------------------------------ Date: 25 May 1993 14:32:51 UTC From: mrapple@quack.kfu.com (Nick Sayer) Subject: SCSI disconnect/reconnect To: (null) Dwight McKay (The Moderator) writes: >Both. You need a (relatively) recent SCSI board for it to work. How >recent, I'm afraid I don't recall. SCSI boards that identify themselves as sc0 won't, si0 will. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 May 93 10:02:01 GMT From: chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk (Charles Lindsey) Subject: Solaris 2.1: How much disk? To: Suns-at-Home@ecn.purdue.edu Mark Sirota writes > I've got a SPARCstation LX at home with the 424-Mbyte disk, and I just > don't seem to have enough disk space to get anything real done. I'm > running Solaris 2.1, of course. Anyone else running 2.1 with a > 424-Mbyte disk? If so, what's your disk layout? I don't see why you have a problem. I am running Solaris 2.0 with one 207MB and a couple of ancient 141MB. Here is my df: filesystem kbytes used avail capacity mounted on /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 11527 8711 1666 84% / /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s6 117403 114455 600 99% /usr /proc 0 0 0 0% /proc fd 0 0 0 0% /dev/fd /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s5 48127 33600 9717 78% /var swap 55180 20 55160 0% /tmp /dev/dsk/c0t1d0s3 28967 25678 399 98% /spare /dev/dsk/c0t1d0s4 54439 48907 92 100% /home /dev/dsk/c0t1d0s0 7295 7153 0 100% /root1 /dev/dsk/c0t2d0s6 108185 45725 51650 47% /local /dev/dsk/c0t2d0s0 11513 10656 0 100% /root2 Note: I have some overflow of /opt into /var, so I would do things a bit different next time. Also, I was choosy about what I loaded from the release (let me know if you want to know exactly what). /spare is just that - dumping ground for odds and ends. /root2 is a cut down system so I can restore the real system from tape in a crisis (I have no CD-ROM). /root1 is junk, pending the next format. Hope this helps. Charles H. Lindsey ------------------------------------------------------------- At Home, doing my own thing. Internet: chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk Voice: +44 61 437 4506 Janet: chl@uk.ac.man.cs.clw Snail: 5 Clerewood Ave., CHEADLE, SK8 3JU, U.K. UUCP: mucs!clerew!chl ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1993 08:16:00 -0600 (MDT) From: tdonahue@nyx.cs.du.edu (Thomas Donahue) Subject: Sun3 mono (Philips) 19" monitor repair To: Suns-at-Home@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu I just purchased a 3/50 for use as an Xterminal at home. In the process of getting Xkernel running, the monitor went dark. I looked through the Sun-spots, but found only two references to this problem. I replaced C-209, which had no effect. My symptoms seem different from those referenced in the Sun-spots. When I first power it up, I hear a brief, high-pitched tone, that rapidly increases in frequency, until it is inaudible (to me). From what I gather, this probably indicates that there is high voltage, which would mean that the infamous fly-back transformer isn't dead (yet). The only similarity to the Sun-spots is that after a couple of minutes, a relatively loud whine starts up from the power supply. One Sun-spot message described this as the sound that a normal, functioning power supply makes when the load in incorrect. While swapping C-209, I noticed that there was no glow coming from the filament of the CRT. Of course, I initially suspected the power supply, but upon closer inspection noted that the filament seems to be driven from one of the video boards, which is connected to the other board and the power supply. Apparently Sun never supplied a schematic for this monitor, and "shotgun" troubleshooting would get expensive very quickly. ($100 for a fly-back, $15-20 for the "big" transistors) Has anyone fixed a monitor with similar symptoms? Is there some collection of Philips monitor problems/fixes available somewhere? Thanks ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 May 1993 22:49:59 +0200 From: eble@reardon.Freiburg.Sub.Org (Axel Eble) Subject: sun part number list? To: suns-at-home@orchestra.ecn.purdue.edu Hi folx, is there a compiled and annotated list of sun part numbers available anywhere? Regards, Axel -- Axel Eble, Mooswaldstr. 32, 7800 Freiburg (ZIP-code changes July, 1 to 79109) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 02 Jun 93 17:58:01 EDT From: snyder@utkux1.utk.edu Subject: X11R5pl25 for sun3/60 To: Suns-at-Home@ecn.purdue.edu some of your "listeners" may be very interested in this! whoa! -kim snyder ------- Forwarded Message Return-Path: To: xpert@expo.lcs.mit.edu Date: 2 Jun 1993 14:45:19 -0400 From: vincent@cad.gatech.edu (Vincent Fox) Organization: Deep Thirteen, Gizmonics Institute Subject: X11R5 pl25 for sun3 available for anon-ftp ############################################### # Pre-compiled Sun3 X11R5 patch 25 available! # ############################################### For those of you without the disk space to compile it yourself, I have made available my copy of X11R5 patch level 25 for the Sun3's available for anyonymous ftp. Remember to transfer in BINary mode! Step 0) Verify that you have enough space. You will need 9 megs somewhere to put the .tar.z file, and 32 megs in /usr to install it. The .tar.z can be remove afterwards, so /tmp would work okay. Step 1) Get the package ftp ftp.cad.gatech.edu (or 130.207.84.39) [logon] ftp> bin ftp> cd X11R5 ftp> get X11R5.pl25.sun3.gcc242.tar.z Step 2) You will need to get the Gnu Zip package to uncompress my file (from prep.ai.mit.edu:pub/gnu/gzip-1.0.7.tar). This will give you gzip, gunzip, a zcat that understand zip format and some other widgets. Step 3) Installing: The file is stored in Gnu Zip compressed format, not standard UNIX compress. The best way to unpack is to use the Gnu Zip version of zcat like so: /usr/local/bin/zcat /tmp/X11R5.pl25.sun3.gcc242.tar|tar xvf - This will directly create the /usr/X11R5 hierarchy for you, and avoids having to have intermediary space to hold the unzipped tar file. Now edit the /etc/rc.local so that ldconfig also checks /usr/X11R5/lib. Add /usr/X11R5/bin to your PATH and type "startx". My default setup starts twm. Pressing the left mouse-button over the desktop will give a menu of applications, the middle gives remote hosts, and the right is for window-manager operations. You will probably eventually want to change the contents of /usr/X11R5/lib/X11/twm/system.twmrc to more comfortably reflect your site. I prefer keeping a good system-default file to everyone having to roll their own .twmrc. By using tvtwm in the /usr/X11R5/lib/xinit/xinitrc, users can build on the system one just by adding their own changes and using the #include m4-directive that the new tvtwm has to include the system default file from their ~/.tvtwmrc. Notes: This copy was built under SunOS 4.1.1, and I can make no guesses if it will work under 4.1 or earlier versions. It was built as the name of the tar file indicates, on a Sun 3 under SunOS 4.1.1, using gcc 2.4.2. In addition to the core MIT distribution I include: xfig 2.1.6 xv 2.21b aXe 3.1 tgif 2.12p18 x3270 1.2 xpostit xloadimage 3 xnetload xlock xdbx 2.1 tvtwm pl7 xpm 3.2 dclock Also there are a number of additional bitmaps in my copy, mostly company logos like IBM, NeXT, etc. I use these as the icons for my xterms. - -- "If everything had gone as planned, everything would have been perfect." -BATF spokesperson on CNN 3/2/93, regarding failed raid attempt in TX. ------- End of Forwarded Message ------------------------------ End of Suns-at-Home Digest ******************************