---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Florida SunFlash Non-Sun Information/Product Abstracts SunFLASH Vol 67 #63 July 1994 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Electronic Journal For Sun Users Since 1988 John J. Mclaughlin, Publisher & Editor - flash@sun.com ____________________________________________________________________________ 67.63 Non-Sun Information/Product Abstracts This article contains brief descriptions of several Non-Sun - that is, third Party, Articles. These articles have not been previously posted to SunFlash. They are available from flashadm@sun.com by email only. You may request the full text of any of these articles by sending mail to flashadm@sun.com with a list of 1 or more space separated article numbers (e.g. 63.87 62.32) in the Subject line. -johnj (8 articles, 200 Kb, 4,625 lines - about 71 US pages) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Article Size In Title 67.55 16 294 Introducing INFORMIX-NewEra 67.56 6 113 VERACITY: security/data-integrity tool 67.57 4 82 Aurora adds SBus features 67.58 55 1039 Updated Internet Services List (7/12/94) * Large* 67.59 56 1774 Updated Inter-Network Mail Guide * Large* 67.60 18 362 Sun Managers FAQ (1 of 3) 67.61 19 428 Sun Managers FAQ (2 of 3) 67.62 26 533 Sun Managers FAQ (3 of 3) WARNING: a couple of these articles are Very Large (> 50k). Please make sure that your mail system can handle such large mail messages before you request them. Note that these articles are in the ftp servers already (e.g. ftp://draco.nova.edu/pub/sunflash/1994/67.jul). 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If you suspect that your requested article is not getting to you because of an email address problem, then resubmit and add the keyword "email-to" in the body of the message: %mail flashadm@sun.com Subject: 63.39 63.40 email-to foo%bar@name.domain ^D % Replace foo%bar@name.domain with your email address. -johnj ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Abstracts ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 67.55 Introducing INFORMIX-NewEra From: Thomas Miller Informix introduced a powerful new client/server development environment at its User Conference in Tampa. INFORMIX-NewEra is an open graphical, object-oriented development environment designed explicitly for creating mission-critical, enterprisewide client/server database applications. NewEra offers an impressive set of next-generation features that include: productive visual programming tools, a powerful and flexible database application language, support for team-oriented development, and a framework for code/component reuseall within a client/server ready package that supports open connectivity to non-Informix relational databases. (294 lines) 67.56 Announcing VERACITY: New security/data-integrity tool From: ross@rocksoft.com (Ross N. Williams Veracity is a data integrity tool that detects changes in a directory tree. Veracity traverses the tree, reading each file, and generates a snapshot file containing the names and digests of the files in the tree. The snapshot file is usually about 1/300th of the size of the tree. Veracity can then compare the snapshot to the tree, alerting the user to any file creations, deletions, or modifications made since the snapshot was taken. If so much as a single bit in any file in the directory tree is altered, through any cause whatsoever, Veracity will detect it. Veracity is an excellent tool for virus and intruder detection, disk monitoring, file transfer verification, and notarization. It is suitable for use by both system administrators and users. (113 lines) 67.57 Aurora adds SBus features From: balasco@auratek.com (Alfred P. Balasco) Aurora Technologies, the leading manufacturer of UNIX workstation communications and connectivity products, has bundled a new set of productivity tools with its family of synchronous and asynchronous SBus terminal and communications servers. These tools enhance users' investment in SPARC system technology by increasing the utility and functionality of SPARC-based LAN and WAN configurations. (82 lines) 67.58 Updated Internet Services List (7/12/94) From yanoff@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Scott A. Yanoff) Excellent listing of various Internet services (telnet/gopher/mail/ftp/WWW/finger, etc) by categories: AGRICULTURE AVIATION BUSINESS/ECONOMICS/FINANCIAL COMPUTERS EDUCATION/TEACHING/LEARNING FTP GAMES/RECRETATIONAL/FUN/CHAT LITERATURE/BOOKS GEOPHYSICAL/GEOGRAPHICAL/GEOLOGICAL GOPHER GOVERNMENT/POLITICS LAW MEDICAL/HEALTH/BIOLOGY/GENETICS MUSIC RELIGION/BIBLERELATED NEWS SCIENCE/MATH/STATISTICS SOFTWARE/Information SERVERS SPACE/ASTRONOMY SPORTS/SPORTING USER LOOKUP SERVICES/WHOIS SERVICES TRAVEL TELEVISION and MOVIES/TV and MOTION PICTURES WEATHER/ATMOSPHERIC/OCEANIC SPECIAL INTERNET CONNECTIONS: Last Update: 7/12/94 Compiled By: Scott Yanoff - yanoff@alpha2.csd.uwm.edu Type "finger yanoff@alpha2.csd.uwm.edu" to find ways to receive this list! Hey, folks, there is an even more comprehensive version of this list written in HTML. You can access it via: http://www.cs.uwm.edu/~yanoff/yanoff.html (1039 lines) 67.59 Updated Inter-Network Mail Guide From yanoff@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Scott A. Yanoff) This file documents methods of sending mail from one network to another. It represents the aggregate knowledge of the readers of comp.mail.misc and many contributors elsewhere. If you know of any corrections or additions to this file, please follow the instructions in the section entitled 'HOW TO FORMAT INFORMATION FOR SUBMISSION' and then mail the information to me: Scott A. Yanoff . This guide is available via anonymous ftp to: ftp.csd.uwm.edu Also via WWW/Mosaic, URL is: http://alpha.acast.nova.edu/cgi-bin/inmgq.pl (1774 lines) 67.60 Sun Managers Frequently Asked Questions From jdd@cdf.toronto.edu (John DiMarco) This is collection of common questions posted to the sun-managers mailing list twice a month. It is intended to benefit Sun System Managers and reduce traffic to the list by providing quick answers to common problems. (I have broken the original article into three parts to keep the most restrictive mail programs happy :-) -johnj) Questions 1. The Sun-Manager's Mailing list 1.1) How do I read, join, post to, or remove myself from the sun-managers mailing list? 1.2) Are there any archives for the sun-managers list? 2. Getting Help Over the Net 2.1) How do I find out what patches are available from Sun? 2.2) What is "anonymous ftp" and how do I use it? 2.3) How do I find anonymous ftp sites? 2.4) How do I get help upgrading to Solaris 2.x? 3. NIS, NIS+, DNS, and NFS 3.1) How do I set up NIS/YP to use DNS? 3.2) How do I use DNS instead of NIS for hostname resolution? 3.3) What does the "nres_gethostbyaddr !=" error mean? 3.4) How come yppasswdd does not automatically update the yp maps? 3.5) What does "NFS write error X" mean? 3.6) What does NFS getattr failed/RPC: Authentication error mean? 3.7) How do I change NIS+ credentials for the root master server? (362 lines) 67.61 Sun Managers Frequently Asked Questions (2 of 3) From jdd@cdf.toronto.edu (John DiMarco) 4. Window Systems 4.1) Can I run both OpenWindows and MIT X11? 4.2) How do I run X11R5 on Solaris 2.x? 5. Disks, Tapes and SCSI 5.1) What is the format.dat entry for drive X? 5.2) Can I use a disk greater than 700meg? 5.3) How do I move disks from xy451 to xy753/7053 disk controllers? 5.4) Why does my internal 105 megabyte hard disk stop working? 5.5) Can I replace the 105 megabyte internal drive in a SS1/1+ with a higher capacity model? 5.6) How do I enable synchronous SCSI? 5.7) Is it okay to disconnect or connect SCSI devices while powered on? 5.8) How do I configure a sun to use its local disk(s) for swap but not for root? 5.9) My HP DAT drive is running very slowly on my sun running 4.1.x. How do I fix this? (428 lines) 67.62 Sun Managers Frequently Asked Questions (3 of 3) From jdd@cdf.toronto.edu (John DiMarco) 6. Resource Management and Performance Tuning 6.1) How do I tell what caused my machine to crash? 6.2) What can I do if my machine slows to a crawl or just hangs? 6.3) How do I find out how much physical memory a machine has? 6.4) How do I find out what my machine's memory is being used for? How can I tell if I need more memory? 7. Anonymous FTP Service 7.1) How do I set up anonymous ftp on my machine? 7.2) Where can I get a version of ftp that does logging? 8. Consoles, Keyboards and Key Remapping 8.1) How do I make the numeric keypad on a type 5 keyboard work with xterm? 8.2) How do I swap the CAPS LOCK and CONTROL keys on a type 5 keyboard under Openwindows 3.0? 8.3) How do I use the keyboard and display when the console is on ttya? 9. Sun models and OS Versions 9.1) Which Sun models run which version of SunOS? Will SunOS 4.x work on a SPARCclassic or LX? On a multiprocessor SS10? 9.2) How can my program tell what model Sun it is running on? 9.3) What sorts of MBUS CPU modules are there? How can I tell what module is in what model of SS10/SS600? 10. Miscellaneous Software 10.1) My rdump is failing with a "Protocol botched" message. What do I do? 10.2) My rpc.etherd keeps reporting "bad lnth" messages. Why? 11. Miscellaneous Hardware 11.1) How come my mouse occasionally doesn't work? 11.2) How can I turn my Sun3 into an X-Terminal? 11.3) How do I do hardware flow control on an ALM-2? 11.4) Is there a third-party source for SPARCprinter consumables? 12. Networking 12.1) Why do both my interfaces have the same ethernet address? (533 lines) ********************************************************************** For information about SunFlash send mail to info-sunflash@Sun.COM. Subscription requests should be sent to sunflash-request@Sun.COM. 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