Date: Sun, 11 Aug 96 15:56:13 EST From: Dwight McKay (The Moderator) Reply-To: Suns-at-Home@net-kitchen.com Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V9 #29 To: Suns-at-Home-List Suns-at-Home Digest Sun, 11 Aug 96 Volume 9 : Issue 29 Today's Topics: Help with 4/280 slip/ppp software for sunos 4.1.3 uucp problem +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Submissions: suns-at-home \ | | Requests: suns-at-home-request > @net-kitchen.com | | Archives: suns-at-home-archives / | | WWW Archive access: http://www.net-kitchen.com/~sah | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 6 Aug 1996 15:10:11 -0700 From: "James W. Birdsall" Subject: Help with 4/280 To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com Dan Lees wrote: >VME Chasis: >Slot 1 - 4/200 CPU >Slot 2-4- 8mb RAM cards (Sun manufactured) >Slot 5 - ALM-2 Board >Slot 6 - 32mb SNX2RAM board (Clearpoint manufactured) >Slot 7 - AVIV Xylogics 753 controller >Slot 8 - Xylogics 1/2" Tape controller Are you sure the SNX2RAM board is intended for use with the 4/2xx? Basically every line requires memory boards designed specifically for it; the exception is the 3/2xx, 3/4xx, and 4/2xx, which can share some memory boards, depending on rev level. If the boot ROMs on your CPU still have the memory tests in them (later rev ROMs dropped a lot of diagnostics in favor of additional boot devices), try those. Also, if you boot in diagnostic mode it should give you a lot of messages, including how much memory it detects (is it seeing the Clearpoint board? are memory boards overlapping?). -- James W. Birdsall http://www.picarefy.com/~jwbirdsa/ jwbirdsa@picarefy.com - ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Aug 96 08:15 EDT From: adh@an.bradford.ma.us Subject: slip/ppp software for sunos 4.1.3 To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com From: ead@ixian.com [] I'm running SunOS Release 4.1.1 (GENERIC SMALL) on my SPARCstation 1 and have a shell account at my service provider. I'd like to emulate a ppp connection. My understanding is that I can emulate a ppp connection by running slirp(1) on the remote host, my service provider's host, and any ppp software on the local host, my SPARCstation 1. If this is true, is there any ppp software that will run on my SPARCstation 1 whose installation *will not* require me to regrind my kernel? I do not have SunOS distribution media, and cannot afford to corrupt my kernel. Advice welcomed. unless you're -really- short of space, you can just -save- your present kernel; the boot syntax allows you to boot from -any- named file. 'vmunix' is just the default. i have done it frequently when i've been too lazy to fetch media from the sysadmin lab. i routinely saved a known good kernel for users that had to do atm-switch tests, in the course of which they had to rebuild their machines with a [buggy-flaky] card/driver. i've had so many kernels around that i used date/time suffixes... Andrew Hay +----------------------------------------------------+ Internet Rambler | I cannot say too little about brevity | adh@an.bradford.ma.us +----------------------------------------------------+ - ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 9 Aug 96 09:49:38 EDT From: gary@sabot.com (Gary Sabot) Subject: uucp problem To: Suns-at-Home@ecn.purdue.edu I'm using the uucp that comes with 4.1.3_U1, and I have encountered a very evil problem: When certain users send me mail, the uuxqt file logs an error message, "BAD USER", I don't get the message, yet the message does not bounce back to them! I wouldn't care about this if the message bounced back, but since it means that messages from many different people/machines might be vanishing into thin air (except for a tiny entry in a uuxqt log file), it is a real problem. My ISP tells me that the problem has something to do with the header of the vanishing message containing a bad username (instead of being "username@foo.com", it is "@gateway:username@foo.com"). The bad username occurs in the "From " field; the value in the "From: " is correct. My understanding is that most Unix mailers just ignore the "From " field, but apparently uucp does not. Does anyone know of a fix for this that will either let me receive the messages, or at least make them bounce? --gary - ------------------------------ End of Suns-at-Home Digest ******************************