Ooops! I didn't wait enough. The original summary was at all
not lost, but travelling. In the meantime (while my first re-summary
was also travelling) more answers arrived, unanimous as well as those
received by Jim Murff. And a copy was also kept by Chris Bulle... and
it wasn't 2 weeks, but 2 months ago!!! Going senile... ;-)
Also there exists a gopher archiver... I include the info
I received.
Thank you all. Now I recall it was Sunday evening when you
answered!
>From: Jim Davis <jdavis@cs.arizona.edu>
>From: <doug@perry.berkeley.edu>
>From: <tommy@boole.att.com>
>From: <nims@Andersen.COM>
>From: <era@ncar.ucar.edu>
>From: <root@irt.com>
>From: <chris@invmms.worldbank.org>
>From: <adam%bwnmr4@harvard.harvard.edu>
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From: <adam%bwnmr4@harvard.harvard.edu>
Subject: Re: SUMMARY: Previous summary on cons8
FYI, there used to be a gopher server on aurora.latech.edu
that had copies of sun managers summaries. I don't know if its still
up, our gopher services have stopped for political reasons.
Adam
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Adam Shostack adam@bwnmr4.harvard.edu
Systems Manager 617-732-7692
Surgical Planning Lab, Dept of Radiology Fax 732-7963
Brigham and Womens Hospital, Boston
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From: <chris@invmms.worldbank.org>
I believe this is it!!
Chris
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| I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure |
| is trying to please everybody! - Bill Cosby |
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From: root@irt.com (Jim Murff)
Subject: SUMMARY: Getty 4.1.3 and Openwin question.
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 10:37:34 PST
^^^^^^^^^ ;-)
Hi;
As usually you guys/gals saved my life. Thanks for everyone who took the time
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From: <root@irt.com>
hi;
I asked a question about getty about cons8. Here is the summary.
-Jim Murff
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Jim Murff (murff@irt.com) Voice # (619)622-8878
IRT Corp, San Diego, CA. (619)450-4343
System Software/System Admin. Fax #(619)622-8888
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Hi;
As usually you guys saved my life. Thanks for everyone who took the time to
answer.
I am posting a summary to the following questions ::
>> I.
>>I just got an IPX and configured and brought it up with 4.1.3. Everything
>>seems
>>fine except when I pulled my gettytab off tape into /etc.( I blew it because
>>I thought I'd save the gettytab that came with the release. :( ). It is
>>working but the login banner is gibberish. If I type characters and hit return
>>Password prompt comes up fine. If I give junk as a passwd the login prompt
>>is no longer gibberish. It is fine until login times out then back to
>>garbage. It doesn't stop me from logging in but I can't let people use it
>>until I know whats up. Any ideas? Here is a sample line which works in 4.1.2 >>::
>>
>>>default:\
>>> :ap:lm=\n\n\rWelcome to %h the IRT Server.\n\n\n\rlogin\72 :sp#9600:
>>
>> II.
>>I have a customer who blew away his /dev directory (Don't ask I can't believe
>>it
>>myself.) We have recovered from that but now Openwin gives this message whenit >>trys to come up ::
>>
>sv_add_screen: open failed for SCR_DEFAULTROOTDEV: No such file or directory.
>>
>>I'm sure its related to the /dev problem but is there an easy fix or is a
>>reinstall in order?
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The answer to number 1 was unanimous. 4.1.3 requires a new device for the
for the console. The device is in both gettytab and ttytab. I used these
and the problem went away ::
# This is a new entry to internationalize the console. It needs to be
# 8 bit clean so that ISO 8859 characters can be displayed without
# the window system.
#
cons8:\
:p8:lm=\r\n%h login\72 :sp#9600:
#
# @(#)ttytab 1.7 92/06/23 SMI
#
# name getty type status comments
#
console "/usr/etc/getty cons8" sun on local secure
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Question two was not so clear cut. I ended up having to reinstall windows.
Several suggestions were presented but I found that everything seemed to be
in order. I might have missed something however. Anyway the suggestions were ::
>>Sounds to me like your still missing one of the framebuffer device files. You have these?
crw-rw-rw- 1 root 22, 0 Nov 8 17:39 fb
crw-rw-rw- 1 root 67, 0 Nov 8 17:43 cgsix0
crw-rw-rw- 1 root 55, 0 Nov 8 17:43 cgthree0
>>Check permissions on /tmp (assuming you really did successfully restore /dev)
>>Check /dev/for regular files, that is, what shows up when you type
ls -l /dev | egrep ^-
there should definitely be a MAKEDEV file, and possibly one or two
others; but if anything that should be a device or socket is a file,
delete it and re-create it using the MAKEDEV script.
>>For your /dev problem boot from cdrom and get to the minifs. Mount your
old / partition on /a for exampl. Then copy /dev/MAKEDEV to /a/dev.
Then cd /a/dev and run "./MAKEDEV std". This should give you back all
your original devices *with the correct permissions*. I think that this
is likely to be your problem (wrong permisions on something).
>>Sounds like /dev/fb is still hosed.
Many thanks go to ::
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From: amp19263@garfield (John R. Kilheffer)
From: jdell@nefertiti.mit.edu (John Ellithorpe)
From: danny@ews7.dseg.ti.com
From: msf@fsg.COM (Michael Fischbein)
From: nedre@stavanger.sgp.slb.com (Svein Nedrehagen )
From: "/home/tau/weingart/.sig" <weingart@inf.ethz.ch>
From: Christopher Davis <ckd@eff.org>
From: blymn@awadi.com.AU (Brett Lymn)
From: jdavis@bordeaux.kpno.noao.edu (Jim Davis)
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From: Jim Lick <jim@pi-chan.ucsb.edu>
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Jim Davis writes from a new address!
Javier Fernandez
jfernandez@ugr.es
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