From nick at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Wed May 1 09:46:42 2002 From: nick at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (Nick Bannon) Date: Wed Oct 27 01:25:10 2004 Subject: [tech] [adrian@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au: [wheel] evil, evil irix nis] Message-ID: <20020501094641.F364739@morwong.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> (Forwarding to tech@ucc - it's not necessary to restrict this to wheel) Nick. ----- Forwarded message from Adrian Chadd ----- Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 21:06:44 +0800 From: Adrian Chadd To: wheel@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Subject: [wheel] evil, evil irix nis Hi all, I've managed to get NIS working on scarlet and azure. * setup NIS on azure as a client. Noticed it didn't ask for a server. Nothing worked. This involved chkconfig yp on; ypinit -c -d whalefish . * snoop'ed on azure. Found that it was actually doing broadcast/multicast NIS lookups. Hmm. * did lots of google searches. Didn't find anything useful. * wondered what ypservers in /etc/nsswitch.conf was for. Thought it was a list of nis servers. Realised that nsswitch is a map between files and where to get them from, so .. * did man ypservers . Discovered the magical file in /var/yp/bindings/domain/. Created /var/yp/bindings/whalefish/ypservers (it existed on scarlet), added morwong/mooneye to it. * added mooneye/morwong to /etc/hosts - just to help NIS along a bit * added ypservers files to the end of nsswitch.conf * discovered everything magically worked * (I think I did a ypset in there on scarlet for testing, but not on azure). * update /etc/passwd and /etc/group with the NIS magic, removing the user accounts on azure * rebooted, life was nice. I have also installed a bunch of freeware stuff from freeware.sgi.com on scarlet. bash, zsh, tcsh are on there w/ the relevant symlinks into /bin (this stopped me from logging in. oops :-) In other news - azure is now running 6.5.15 . Mustang and I had limited love when we tried installing 6.5.13 off CD w/ the development foundation and development libraries - inst was complaining about mismatched software versions. When I installed the 6.5.15 upgrade it complained that a bunch of prerequisites (the dev stuff) wasn't installed for it to upgrade. So, I added the two cds in before typing 'go' .. and inst went and installed it all for me. Nifty. This is something nice to remember when it comes time to reinstall azure. Adrian ----- End forwarded message ----- ----- Forwarded message from Adrian Chadd ----- Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 21:08:43 +0800 From: Adrian Chadd To: wheel@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Subject: Re: [wheel] evil, evil irix nis User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i On Tue, Apr 30, 2002, Adrian Chadd wrote: > * added mooneye/morwong to /etc/hosts - just to help NIS along a bit > > * added ypservers files to the end of nsswitch.conf > > * discovered everything magically worked * run nsadmin, and type restart to kick-start nsd to pick up the changes. adrian ----- End forwarded message ----- ----- Forwarded message from Adrian Chadd ----- Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 21:18:02 +0800 From: Adrian Chadd To: wheel@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Subject: [wheel] passwd map madness hi all, the shells in the nis passwd map were ... evil. Some were /bin/ .. some were /usr/bin/ .. which I picked up when installing azure. I've gone and moved all the shells (bar rc - sorry luyer!) to be prefixed with /bin/ . I backed up the passwd map beforehand (passwd.before.adrian) . If anyone can see any glaring problems with this, please tell me. If you find that a machine is missing /bin/${shell} for some reason, please put in the symlink. Adrian ----- End forwarded message ----- ----- Forwarded message from David Luyer ----- From: "David Luyer" To: "'Adrian Chadd'" , Subject: RE: [wheel] evil, evil irix nis Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 23:45:33 +1000 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 > * snoop'ed on azure. Found that it was actually doing > broadcast/multicast > NIS lookups. Hmm. > * did man ypservers . Discovered the magical file in > /var/yp/bindings/domain/. > Created /var/yp/bindings/whalefish/ypservers (it existed on > scarlet), > added morwong/mooneye to it. Note this is exactly as per Solaris. Not that it's particularly well documented there either :-) On Solaris you also need /etc/hosts entries for all YP servers. David. ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Nick Bannon | "I made this letter longer than usual because nick-sig@rcpt.to | I lack the time to make it shorter." - Pascal From trs80 at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Mon May 6 14:36:53 2002 From: trs80 at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (James Andrewartha) Date: Wed Oct 27 01:25:12 2004 Subject: [tech] UCC mirror Message-ID: -- # TRS-80 trs80(a)ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au #/ "Otherwise Bub here will do \ # UCC Treasurer http://trs80.ucc.asn.au/ #| what squirrels do best | [ "There's nobody getting rich writing ]| -- Collect and hide your | [ software that I know of" -- Bill Gates, 1980 ]\ nuts." -- Acid Reflux #231 / From trs80 at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Mon May 6 14:53:46 2002 From: trs80 at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (James Andrewartha) Date: Wed Oct 27 01:25:12 2004 Subject: [tech] UCC mirror In-Reply-To: Message-ID: On Mon, 6 May 2002, James Andrewartha wrote: Grr. Anyway, I was just going to say that I'm about to delete the UCC mirror, in order to give more space to /home. Does anyone else have suggestions on what to do with the space (8gig in total)? -- # TRS-80 trs80(a)ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au #/ "Otherwise Bub here will do \ # UCC Treasurer http://trs80.ucc.asn.au/ #| what squirrels do best | [ "There's nobody getting rich writing ]| -- Collect and hide your | [ software that I know of" -- Bill Gates, 1980 ]\ nuts." -- Acid Reflux #231 / From trs80 at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Tue May 7 15:33:26 2002 From: trs80 at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (James Andrewartha) Date: Wed Oct 27 01:25:12 2004 Subject: [tech] Disk space on morwong Message-ID: I've added 2 gig to /home, 1 gig to /services, 512meg to /usr/local and 256meg to swap. There's 256meg that's waiting to be allocated to /tmp, but I can't be bothered messing around with changing symlinks etc. (since you can't add volumes to the root filesystem's domain). There's still 4gig free, split fairly evenly between both disks (the /home extension is on one, the rest on the other). All advfs and lsm goodness. FWIW the mirror was using 4gig striped between the two disks, with 4gig unused. Also, AdvFS has a funky feature called trashcans, where you attach a directory to a trashcan directory, and any files you delete in the protected directory end up in the trashcan. It doesn't recursively protect directories however. -- # TRS-80 trs80(a)ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au #/ "Otherwise Bub here will do \ # UCC Treasurer http://trs80.ucc.asn.au/ #| what squirrels do best | [ "There's nobody getting rich writing ]| -- Collect and hide your | [ software that I know of" -- Bill Gates, 1980 ]\ nuts." -- Acid Reflux #231 / From mtearle at tearle.com Thu May 9 18:44:55 2002 From: mtearle at tearle.com (Mark Tearle) Date: Wed Oct 27 01:25:12 2004 Subject: [tech] upgrading mailman tonight Message-ID: As it says.... moving to a later development version... may be some wackiness on mooneye momentarily.... Yours Mark -- Mark Tearle - mark@tearle.com "E=MC^2 may, after all, be a local phenomenon" - Albert Einstein linux.conf.au 2003 - The Australian Linux Technical Conference http://conf.linux.org.au/ 22nd - 25th January 2003 in Perth From mtearle at tearle.com Thu May 9 19:32:49 2002 From: mtearle at tearle.com (Mark Tearle) Date: Wed Oct 27 01:25:12 2004 Subject: [tech] teapots on speed Message-ID: Hi all (try 2) If you get this email it means the mailman upgrade worked. Yours Mark -- Mark Tearle - mark@tearle.com "E=MC^2 may, after all, be a local phenomenon" - Albert Einstein linux.conf.au 2003 - The Australian Linux Technical Conference http://conf.linux.org.au/ 22nd - 25th January 2003 in Perth From recorders at start.com.au Sat May 11 13:58:30 2002 From: recorders at start.com.au (ker les) Date: Wed Oct 27 01:25:12 2004 Subject: [tech] macintosh hard drive Message-ID: UMMM Tech Question...... How does an extra hard drive connect to a SCSI it seems to have a smaller sized connection ...and to get the system to recognize the new drive HUG YOUR COMPUTER Love Kernan.. __________________________________________________________________ Get your free Australian email account at http://www.start.com.au From jlcox at start.com.au Sat May 11 21:05:42 2002 From: jlcox at start.com.au (James Cox) Date: Wed Oct 27 01:25:13 2004 Subject: [tech] macintosh hard drive Message-ID: Original message from: ker les < recorders@start.com.au> Tech Question...... How does an extra hard drive connect to a SCSI it seems to have a smaller sized connection ...and to get the system to recognize the new drive ??? It's hard to tell what you mean... If you want an external drive, then you need to get a DB-25 -> 50 pin SCSI cable. Internal drives are simple 50 pin IDC connectors crimped onto ribbon cable. To get the system to recognise it, make sure it is allocated a unique SCSI ID - on a Mac you'll probably NOT want to set it at 0, 2 or 7. Then pray to the SCSI gods, and see if your hard drive formatting program recognises it. Can you give use some more detailed info??? ~Coxy, acting very much as the [RME] __________________________________________________________________ Get your free Australian email account at http://www.start.com.au From proxy at zdlcomputing.com Sun May 12 01:17:05 2002 From: proxy at zdlcomputing.com (Riff) Date: Wed Oct 27 01:25:13 2004 Subject: [tech] macintosh hard drive In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1021137433.3383.4.camel@Epoch> On Sat, 2002-05-11 at 21:05, James Cox wrote: ~Coxy, acting very much as the [RME] Ok, when you said try to work out what your TLA stood for, is it Resident Mac Expert ?? --proXy Ps. The backspace key was definitely invented for drunk ppl. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Let me know if you want any of this stuff and I'll bring it around sometime soon. Cheers Paul ---------------------- Paul Frayne Assistant Computer Services Officer UWA Business School The University of Western Australia - CRICOS Provider No. 00126G Phone: (08) 9380 8028 Email: paul.frayne@uwa.edu.au ICQ: 108965025 ----- End forwarded message ----- From proxy at zdlcomputing.com Sat May 25 11:41:39 2002 From: proxy at zdlcomputing.com (proXy) Date: Wed Oct 27 01:25:14 2004 Subject: [tech] TLA Updating Message-ID: <1022298101.5648.25.camel@Epoch> At the committee meeting you may recall I offered to update everyone's TLA info, then add it to the finger information. In order to do this properly I would like to be able to have everyone email there TLA info to an address so that I can simply work through the list. Therefore, if an obliging wheel member could create a mailbox tla@ucc.asn.au or something similar, I can start the project by getting everyone to mail me there TLA's (cause lets face it, the current list is probably not totally correct). Also, feel free to volunteer to help me with this project. --proXy Ps. I apologise for bad grammer, spelling and sentance structure if applicable, I'm not entirely awake. -- http://davyd.ucc.asn.au/ PGP Fingerprints proxy@zdlcomputing.com 08B0 341A 0B9B 08BB 2118 C060 2EDD BB4F 5191 6CDA davyd@iprimus.com.au 8E89 7765 3AEC 4434 C05E 59DC 2CA9 6B89 108C D936 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://lists.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au/pipermail/tech/attachments/20020525/b0dfc51c/attachment.pgp