Sun-Spots-Request@Rice.edu (William LeFebvre) (11/14/88)
SUN-SPOTS DIGEST Sunday, 13 November 1988 Volume 7 : Issue 12 Today's Topics: Question about virus fix for SunOS 4.0 Sun specific Internet Virus question Sun 4 system integration? 386i as fileserver and workstation? Looking for a UNIX-hosted Ada to 386 cross compiler Diskless SUN2 workstation problem Question about SunView Input handling How to discover screen depth? Sun background screens Problem with <exitting> processes Problem with Make and soft links Problem: keyboard buffer flushed when overflowed mail delivery and lockd Sun UNIFY SQL query MMDF Remote Mail Software? vt100 emulator? Termcap for Sun for Unix System V? CDC WREN-V's : any experience? eagle and super eagle on xy451? Color PostScript Printer on SUN? Send contributions to: sun-spots@rice.edu Send subscription add/delete requests to: sun-spots-request@rice.edu Bitnet readers can subscribe directly with the CMS command: TELL LISTSERV AT RICE SUBSCRIBE SUNSPOTS My Full Name Recent backissues are available via anonymous FTP from "titan.rice.edu". For volume X, issue Y, "get sun-spots/vXnY". They are also accessible through the archive server: mail the request "send sun-spots vXnY" to "archive-server@rice.edu" or mail the word "help" to the same address for more information. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 5 Nov 88 19:45:18 GMT From: peirce@gumby.cc.wmich.edu (Leonard J. Peirce) Subject: Question about virus fix for SunOS 4.0 I tried the little test line /bin/echo 'abcd' | /usr/ucb/strings -o to see if my strings(1) prints out in decimal or octal but it didn't produce any output. I made sure that the 'abcd' had the eight inbedded ^G's but still nothing. Am I missing something here? [[ Sun's strings doesn't seem to work the same way as vanilla BSD. I have received the "official" Sun patch to fix the sendmail debug problem and I will be passing it along very soon. --wnl ]] Leonard J. Peirce Internet: peirce@gumby.cc.wmich.edu Western Michigan University peirce@gw.wmich.edu Academic Computer Center Voice: (616) 387-5469 Kalamazoo, MI 49008 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Nov 1988 10:44:44 EST From: Ken van Wyk <luken@spot.cc.lehigh.edu> Subject: Sun specific Internet Virus question I've seen a lot (!) of reports on the Internet Virus now; most of which point to a compile-time debug option in sendmail that was exploited to obtain root privs on Suns. My question is this - which version(s) of sendmail were affected, and did Sun's sendmail (as distributed in binary form) contain this debug option? Specifically, I know that there's a Berkeley, a Rutgers version (?), as well as Sun's own version - were they all infectable? The sendmail on our Suns is the binary version as distributed by Sun, and our machines seem to have gone uninfected by the whole mess (knock on wood...), yet we do a lot of internet mailing, etc. (my VIRUS-L listserv group originates from an IBM here and I do a lot of mailing via the nets). Sorry if this is a duplication of what's already been stated ad nausium. Regards, Ken Kenneth R. van Wyk Calvin: (hammer hammer hammer ...) User Services Senior Consultant Mom: Calvin, what are you DOING to the Lehigh University Computing Center coffee table?! Internet: <luken@Spot.CC.Lehigh.EDU> Calvin: Is this some sort of trick BITNET: <LUKEN@LEHIIBM1> question? ------------------------------ Date: 3 Nov 88 05:31:32 GMT From: vsi1!tim@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Tim Richardson ) Subject: Sun 4 system integration? I'd like to know if anyone out there has attempted to integrate a SUN4 CPU into their own product or any non-Sun chassis/backplane. A brief synopsis of the experience would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. Tim Richardson VP Engineering VICOM Systems Inc. sun!pyramid----\ 2520 Junction Ave. uunet!ubvax-----!vsi1!tim San Jose, CA 95134 ucbvax!tolerant/ +1-408-432-8660 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 03 Nov 88 13:15:20 -0500 From: Steve Elias <eli@spdcc.com> Subject: 386i as fileserver and workstation? our configuration is starting with a 3/60 with big disk and a 3/50. we will be adding 2 more 3/50s and another fileserver/workstation. i'm considering a 386i instead of a 3/60 for this second diskful workstation... is anyone out there using such a configuration? i'd like to get a 386i with 4M -- but Sun won't sell them that way until they get a version of SunOS that runs nicely on the 386i (doesn't require 8M)... also -- any advice about the aftermarket memory and disk makers for Suns would be appreciated... ------------------------------ Date: 6 Nov 88 19:23:28 GMT From: Russ Byrne <byrne@eneevax.umd.edu> Subject: Looking for a UNIX-hosted Ada to 386 cross compiler We at Fairchild Space Company are intersted in doing some Ada programming for embedded real time systems employing the 80X86 line of processors. I have been unsuccessful in finding a UNIX-hosted cross development environment. I've found such systems for MS-DOS, and VMS hosts, but nothing for UNIX systems. I had assumed that getting a 386-based UNIX workstation would be a good idea for this, and I like the Sun 386i, but I can only find native Ada compilers for this machine. Is there anything out there, perhaps hosted on an HP workstation running `real time' UNIX? Any information regarding a UNIX-hosted Ada to 80X86 cross development environment would be greatly appreciated... Russ Byrne VOICE: (301) 428-6009 [Fairchild Space Co.] ARPA: byrne@eneevax.umd.edu UUCP: {seismo,allegra}!mimsy!eneevax!byrne ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 04 Nov 88 15:19:17 EST From: <marco@sunlite.concordia.ca> Subject: Diskless SUN2 workstation problem We have a diskless SUN 2 workstation gathering dust in our lab because nobody around seems to have the resources or time to support it. The machine's hardware works fine but all other SUN equipment in our installation is SUN3/4 and the software incompatibility is our main problem. I would like to know what other SUN2 users are doing about interfacing their machines with newer SUN equipment. In the worse case, if there is nothing we can do about using the machine, we would like to know if there is anyone out there interested in trading it for other types of goods. I have been told the following so far: a) In order for me to use the machine as a client I have to have a copy of the full SUNOS binaries for SUN2 loaded on to the server. Having just one such animal ( a SUN2 ), we can't justify the resource usage for its support. Can this problem be fixed in any way ? b) Get an upgrade from Sun to make it a SUN3. Is this still possible and how much would it cost ? c) To trade it in with Sun Microsystems for a newer model. I do not even know if Sun would take this monster back. Has anyone done this type of transaction with Sun Microsystems recently ? d) That it may be easier just to get a disk for it and make it a stand alone computer. This seems a good alternative, but will it be able to talk over NFS with other SUN machines ? Does Sun have any support for it what so ever ? I am writting this out of concern and on behalf of a poor little old forgotten SUN2 that wants to be useful again. The machine is question was the very first SUN system our university ever had, and there is some sentimental value on it, but life goes on and we can't see this good and expensive piece of equipment go to waste. Please reply to me personaly. Mailing Address: E-mail Address: Marco Zelada marco@concour.cs.concordia.ca VLSI Research Group Computer Science Department Concordia University 1455 De Maisonneuve Blvd. West Montreal, Quebec H3G 1M8 Canada ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Nov 88 10:29 EST From: Jason Wu <WUJ@QUCDN.BITNET> Subject: Question about SunView Input handling Has anyone ever had trouble with Sunview's window_set(win, WIN_GRAB_ALL_INPUT, 0); Everytime I use it, all the inputs are going nowhere, not even the designated window "win'. Just in case, the event_handler works o.k. without the aforementioned attribute setting. I had also tried to use window_loop(frame). Though the panel defined in the frame still has its button selectable, any input in the canvas defined in the frame is lost. Bacally, what I intended to do is to temperarily have all input directed to a specific window, preferably the window can be invisible (but this is not critical). One other question, is it possible to run SunView applications without having to run suntools first? Jason Wu ------------------------------ Date: 5 Nov 88 20:43:30 GMT From: mit-amt!turk@mit-amt.media.mit.edu (Matthew Turk) Subject: How to discover screen depth? I have 1-bit and 8-bit monitors hooked up to a Sun. Is there an easy way to find out the screen depth (under Suntools) without creating a new window? Matthew ------------------------------ Date: 5 Nov 88 23:39:06 GMT From: Kiron Bondale <se433@db5.cs.concordia.ca> Subject: Sun background screens Hmmm little while ago, I saw a message about their being five background Suntools screens...perhaps someone could point the general way? Thanks Kiron ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 5 Nov 88 01:04:07 EST From: Loki Jorgenson rm 421 <loki@physicsa.mcgill.ca> Subject: Problem with <exitting> processes I am running a 3/180 as fileserver to four clients with an ALM-2 multiplexor for 16 terminals and pc's. On occasion, the ports which host connections to the local VAX, modems or terminals become 'hung up' by processes which ps describes as <exitting>. This happens typically when the tip or kermit is crashed out of by the user. The process cannot be killed nor can the /dev/tty be reset by kill -1 1. The only recourse (since the dev is unusable) is to reboot the fileserver. Anyone who has a more pleasant fix, permanent or bandaid, please send mail to root@physicsa.mcgill.cs or me. LOKI ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3-Nov-88 09:17:00 PST From: portal!cup.portal.com!David_Scott_Masterson@sun.com Subject: Problem with Make and soft links I seem to have run into a bug with MAKE that I thought I'd pass on: Due to the haphazard way our Suns have come in and been set up (my fault, not anyone elses), people's accounts haven't been set up the same way on all systems. Therefore, when they were brought into a single network, I tried soft linking user's home directories to where YP thought they should be, so that the passwd file would be correct. CSH and SH seemed to have no problem with this, but MAKE may. When it tries to find a command in ~/bin, it comes up with 'No such file'. My theory is that MAKE does some preprocessing on the command line and can't find the command through the soft link. My makefile looks like: PRINT = lpr print: $(PRINT) $(FILES) "make print" works fine, but "make print PRINT=prfile" has problems (where 'prfile' is a command in ~/bin). Is this problem old territory (SunOS 3.5)? David Masterson DMasterson@cup.portal.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Nov 88 23:12:19 EST From: Loki Jorgenson rm 421 <loki@physicsa.mcgill.ca> Subject: Problem: keyboard buffer flushed when overflowed I have a SUN 3/180 acting as fileserver to four client 3/50's. It has a full 16 port multiplexor connected to terminals and pc's. Recently (last few weeks), possibly coincident with a power failure, it has begun 'hangin up' between 0 to 5 times per day, in such a way that none of the terminals (including console) is responsive. Rlogins from the clients has no response. However, it continues to faithfully act as fileserver for the clients. No particluar operating conditions seem to be coincident with a hang-up. The system message buffer consistently shows one or several messages deposited before the system is forcefully crashed: kbd: keyboard buffer flushed when overflowed. Debugging the vmcore from the crash, traceback shows the last calls (3 to 4) are all to _v_handler(). If anyone has any information on this problem, please send mail to me or root at physicsa.mcgill.ca. loki ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Nov 88 17:41:58 EST From: Philip Prindeville <philipp@opus.cs.mcgill.ca> Subject: mail delivery and lockd We haven't gotten source to 4.0 yet, though it is rumored to have support for mailboxes mounted on NFS partitions. I imagine this means that someone went through /bin/mail and /usr/ucb/Mail and fixed all the lock()/unlock() calls to use the RPC locking provided by fcntl(2). Anyway, some one our sites are quite committed to staying with 3.X (it seems), because of the performance/bugs horror stories that 4.0 carries. Not being one to wait, can someone send me the diffs to patch /bin/mail and /usr/ucb/Mail to work with the lockd(8) stuff (F_WRLCK, etc)? Much obliged (and somewhat disclaimed)... -Philip ------------------------------ Date: 3 Nov 88 18:31:07 GMT From: fedsys!scotty!dna@kodak.com (Dave Albertson) Subject: Sun UNIFY SQL query Greetings. I am having a slight problem using the ERIC procedure calls with Sun UNIFY, and I am hoping someone out there can help. I am working on a Sun 3/260, running SunOS 3.5 and Sun UNIFY 2.0. The problem occurs with the call 'query_open'. When I invoke this command, my program hangs for a few minutes, and then the program exists with exit code 99. (What is exit code 99?). Checking the error log file, the following transaction has been recorded: Program: unknown Calling function: error Offending function: see Notes Status: 0 Errno: 4 Notes: RPC error: timeout (prognum 1073741852, request sql_select()) /* what does sql_select do? */ Both parameters to query_open are valid (query, scan) and no other database activity is going on during this time. Any suggestions/answers to this problem are greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. Dave Albertson -- UUCP:..!rutgers!rochester!kodak!fedsys!alvar!dna ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Nov 88 14:15:47 MST From: wrl@ford-cos2.arpa (Bill Lewandowski) Subject: MMDF Remote Mail Software? I would like to know if anyone can point me to a person or company that can give me information on the Remote Mail program called "MMDF". As I understand it, a host can receive mail for the following address "Harry%Sun-Cos@Ford-Cos2.arpa". In this example Ford-COS2 would hold the mail. Sun-Cos would then call Ford-Cos2 and then retrieve the mail via an async line dial-up. I would like information on MMDF or if anyone out there knows of a program thats about like this, I would appreciate hearing about it. Bill Lewandowski Ford Aerospace Corp (719)594-1899 wrl@ford-cos2.arpa ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Nov 88 14:45:36 GMT From: Richard Tobin <richard%uk.ac.ed@nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk> Subject: vt100 emulator? Sorry to bring up this subject yet again, but I've been asked if there is a *complete* vt100 emulator available for sunview. It must have extended character set (the stuff for drawing boxes and so on). Please reply by mail and I'll summarise. -- Richard Richard Tobin, JANET: R.Tobin@uk.ac.ed AI Applications Institute, ARPA: R.Tobin%uk.ac.ed@nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk Edinburgh University. UUCP: ...!ukc!ed.ac.uk!R.Tobin (Please use the address in the signature, not the one in the headers) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Nov 11:05:52 1988 From: druco!cac@ihnp4.att.com Subject: Termcap for Sun for Unix System V? Is there a SUN termcap for UNIX System V that works with "vi". I currently have a SUN termcap that works weel with everything but vi. Could somebody post a good termcap? Thanks Curtis Conkey ihnp4!druco!cac 303-538-4544 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 04 Nov 88 09:33:02 +0930 From: Kevin J. Maciunas <munnari!cs.flinders.oz.au!kevin@uunet.uu.net> Subject: CDC WREN-V's : any experience? Is there anyone out there with a CDC WREN-V (574MB formatted) SCSI drive on a Sun? [3/60 especially..]. We have experience with WREN-[III/IV] but someone said there were problems with the V. Any pointers appreciated! /Kevin Kevin J. Maciunas ACSnet: kevin@cs.flinders.oz Discipline of Computer Science, Internet: kevin@cs.flinders.oz.au Flinders University, UUCP: ..uunet!munnari!flinders!kevin South Australia, 5042. 'phone: +61 08 275 2129 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Nov 88 12:14:13 est From: rich%idacrd@princeton.edu (Rich Schultz) Subject: eagle and super eagle on xy451? I would like to put a Fujitsu eagle and super eagle on the same Xylogics 451 controller. Does anyone know whether this will work? I know I can put two eagles or two super eagles on the same controller, but what about one of each? This will be on a 3/160 running 3.5. Rich Schultz uunet!idacrd!rich rich%idacrd@princeton.edu ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Nov 88 03:57 EDT From: "Chris Simatos Software Engineering (331)45372478" <SIMATOS@eps.sdr.slb.com> Subject: Color PostScript Printer on SUN? Has anybody connected a Color PostScript printer on a SUN? (like the QMS ColorScript 100 for example) C. Simatos simatos@eps.sdr.slb.com E.P. Schlumberger, 26 Rue de la Cavee, 92140 Clamart, France ------------------------------ End of SUN-Spots Digest ***********************