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- From: pirzyk@vinny.cecer.army.mil (Jim Pirzyk)
- Subject: Re: New system administration.
- Message-ID: <Bz6JDr.Fwu@news.cecer.army.mil>
- Sender: news@news.cecer.army.mil (Net.Noise owner)
- Organization: US Army Corps of Engineers Construction Engineering Research Labs
- References: <1992Dec11.171335.1@sep.vitro.com>
- Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 04:05:51 GMT
- Lines: 62
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- In <1992Dec11.171335.1@sep.vitro.com> eswgcs%v8.decnet@v7.vitro.com writes:
-
- >I have recently become defacto system administrator of a SPARCstation 2.
- >I am having a few problems that someone should either be able to easily
- >answer.
-
- >1. I am attempting to back up the file system using the dump command.
- > I am attempting to dump to /dev/rst0 which is a 150MB 1/4 in. tape.
- **^^^^^^^^^**
- > For example:
- >
- > dump 0suvn 700 /dev/sd0a
-
- > I get the message:
-
- > DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Fri Dec 11 17:04:07 1992
- > DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch
- > DUMP: Dumping /dev/rsd0a (/) to /dev/rmt8
- **^^^^^^^^^**
- > DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files]
- > DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories]
- > DUMP: estimated 13468 blocks (6.58MB) on 0.61 tape(s).
- > DUMP: NEEDS ATTENTION: Cannot open volume. Do you want to retry the
- >open?:
- >
- > Any suggestions???
-
- You need to add the f option to dump to tell it to dunp to /dev/rst0 instead
- of /dev/rmt8 (which is the default).
-
-
- >2. Our SUN is connected to Internet via a VAX Mini named VITRO. Everything
- > works fine as long as I use IP addresses. How do I fix up my SUN to use
- > Internet site names. I have hea/rd that there is a patch out there for this.
- ???
- Do you have the name and ip of the vax VITRO in the /etc/hosts file?
-
- >3. How do I go about making a bootable tape. Will the dump utility do this
- > for me?
-
- I would also like to know how to do this too.
-
- >4. One lsat item. I am using a program to connect our VAXstations to the sun.
- > When a user wants to run X applications on their VAXstations, they enter
-
- > xdnet vax &
-
- > where vax is the node name of their station. This program works fine,
- > except that xdnet does not get killed when the user logs out. If
- > multiple xdnets are running for the same vax node, problems arise. The
- > vendor is "aware of the problem". The recommended fix is to check that
- > an xdnet is running when a user logs in. If so, kill that xdent and start
- > up a new one. What is the best way to do this?
-
-
- > Thanks !!!!!!
- >
- --
- [Jim] pirzyk@uiuc.edu ------------------------------------------
- TAC System Administrator, US Army Corps of Engineers
- Construction Engineering Research Labs, Champaign IL USA
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