This is a multi-part message in MIME format.--------------E6B8D0539E1FF27D88D60430Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-asciiContent-Transfer-Encoding: 7bitSorry for the late summary as i just got to do the CPU testing oncustomer's site. Actually, the problem was due to customer's ...

Hello managers,is anybody using ispell with the german dictionary hk2?I have the problem, that ispell(-3.1.20) from the commandline withinan xterm (with iso8859-1 font) under solaris-7 does not show the upper 8-bit characters correctly that are in the input (for ispell).I do: "ispell ...

Hello,Thanks everyone for the responses.VasilisHere is the summary:May I include the boot disk for solaris 7 or solaris 8to a Solstice DiskSuite RAID 5 array? What is therisk to lose the whole system?======================================It makes your system slow. AND, if you use RM6 to add ...

Hi All,<p>I have around 35 m/c's of intel based x86 2.5.1 and want to upgrade to<br>x86 2.6, but i want to preserve users home i.e /disk/disk1/home. <p>Kindly can any one suggest the best methode. I have install server for<br>x86 2.6.<p>Thanks in advance.<p>Regards<br>thulasi<br>

Admins:I am planning o implement sendmail on 4 boxes 2HPux, 2 solaris.Do I need DNS for sendmail to send mail to each box ?What do I need to config to send emial vai sendmail to my regular email address in outlook located on my ...

Thanks for everybody who send me sugestions.My original question was :> We are having problems running a new aplication. The error message :> "too many open files" We are running Solais 2.6 in a E3500 machine,> 2x400MHz and 512MB Ram. Is there a way to solve this problem ...

Thanks to all who replied:David EvansDamon CassellTim CarlsonMike MeredithOkcha TeSelleAlex VinsonBlake MathenyPete GeenhuizenRolf GartmannChawla GirishBrian ScanlanAll the suggestions I recieved were in line with almost everything I tried.Many suggested checking to make sure/var was mounted ...

Hi List,I've got another question. This one is regarding sendmail. My server isdisplaying the following messages on the console. Started this morning:Dec 3 19:36:02 [192.168.202.37.128.21] sendmail[2524]: unable to qualifymy own domain name (cs-sun) - - using short nameNow, the first thing ...

Well, I got a lot of very quick responses to this question and I would like to thank everyone for they comments and suggestions. By far the most common (almost 100%) suggested rsync from http://rsync.samba.org with rdist a close second. Some also suggested using Veritas Volume Replicator and ...

I have a Sun E250 server running Solaris 2.6 with the latest recommendedpatch set applied.I am using some software that requires the ability to make hundreds of UDPtype connections with other hosts. Does anybody know how to change themaximum number of UDP connections allowed to be made to this ...

--openmail-part-3002a196-00000001Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCIIContent-Disposition: inline ;Creation-Date="Wed, 6 Dec 2000 09:34:39 -0600"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bitWe have 2 identical machines (described below), 1 of them crashes on a weekly basis and I have not been ...

I was cleaning and removing redundant files and somehow<br>deleted less. I have looked at various sites but somehow<br>cannot find where to download less from. Any help would<br>be greatly appreciated.<br>thank you<br><A HREF="/execute/ask/?codeinfoid=167">strom at acuson.com</A><br>

This is a multi-part message in MIME format.--------------9F921A1E70552FBFDD7FF2B0Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-asciiContent-Transfer-Encoding: 7bitSun Managers,I currently have a sun ISDN card in a sparc 5. The card is starting tocreate voltage spikes which disconnect our service, so ...

I have a dual boot Dell Precision 220 with Solaris 8 which loses the IP address every time the machine is rebooted. During the initial install the installed NIC did not get configured, so I continued with no network settings.After installation, I manually set up the NIC with ifconfig, created ...

Lads,Paul Wilkinson <Paul_Wilkinson at utsglobal.com> hits the nail on the headwith this one:---< cut here >---This is a common problem, the power supply is not faulty, unplug thesystem from the mains for 30 minutes or so and it'll most probablywork just fine. I don't have my ...

Admins,Stuck,I am trying to expand swap on solaris 2.5. currently the partition is200 mb, looking to increase swap to 500mb.Does any body have instructions to supply._____________________________________________________________________________________Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer ...

i inherited a large environment with various flavors of solaris machinesmounting filesystems exported from many NetApp filers via nfs and solarisautomounter. when the WAN link between sites goes down, servers mountinghome dirs across the WAN hang and exhibit strange behavior and I ...

Hello,<p>I have downloaded Solistcs AdminSuite 3.0.1 for Solaris 8. But I couldn't <br>installed it on i386 server running Solaris 8. It says that I have to <br>install SUNWseamj before installing adminsuite. So how can I install admin <br>suite ? please help me.<p>Thanks in advance<br>Anura<p>

Thank you all. I did not check the obvious. www.sunfreeware.com. Sincei did not know about this. I did try sun.com unix.com unix.org here are some other sources that people ...

Folks,I'm getting following error as soon as system tries to boot ....... /iommu/sbus/espdma at 4,8400000/esp at 4,8800000/sd at 3,0(can't deduct msgbuf from physical memry list)type help for more informationI tried swapping all memory out but still same error.....TIA ..will ...

Has anyone been told by sun that you need a REV -15 Ultra2 system board for<br>the SunATM-155 option x1061? If so what were some of the specifics that<br>-rev 15 had on it?<br>

Managers:This weekend I upgraded my E450 server to Solaris 7. It was the only unit inthe system thatwas upgraded. The rest on either 2.6 or 2.5.1. I now have a unit that when Iuse the command"xset q" I get the following error:xset qXlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by ...

Several of my servers (varying from 2.5.1 to 2.7) need patching... In theoutput of uname -a you get something along the lines of; Generic_106541-04How can I find out what this *should* say if I were patched up to the latestsecurity & recommended patches from Sun (without running the ...

Thanks to all for the suggestions and warnings.I had a mail server crash right after I sent the message, soI may have missed some responses.Thanks to:Tom Hinze <hinze at ties.k12.mn.us> murat.balkas at o2.com.trLuke Kanies <luke.kanies at bluestar.net>EG Keizer <keie at ...

The systax below is what I used to create additional swap space.below that that is a statement that I was looking for to determine ifI should create additional swap."you can add an additional swap device or partition, but you CANNOT make the existing swap space bigger! "Thanks to all ...

I have a 21" monitor that I would like to use as a console to my Laptop and<br>to my Ultra 10, via a KVM switch. Anybody has gone this route before? Any<br>recommendation?<p>Thanks in advance.<br>Mohammad<p>

Good afternoon guru's,I'm looking for some quick insite in anyone's experience with Solaris 8 andOracle v8.1.7.We are installing a new server which would (potentially) be our firstEnterprise class server with a Solaris 8 operating system and the latestversion of Oracle. I know of many ...

Has anyone successfully configured a ZIP drive on a Sun workstation (e.g.<br>Ultra 10) with Solaris Operating System?<p>Thanks,<br>Mohammad<p>

<br> May be simple , may be not... Has anyone ever seen " Arithmetic <br>Exception. Core Dumped " message when trying to open admintool?<p> <p>

Cheers to all who replied;The answer to my needs is patchdiag (which I last used in October last yearfor Y2K and totally forgot the existence off, so I now feel *really* st00pid;-p)Go to sunsolve.sun.com and get the patchdiag util' (written in perlaccording to cjoseph at onvoy.com) and the ...

Hello List, I am running an Ultra 5 at home with the default niccard which came from SUN. Is it possible to configurea third party nic card for the SUN box ( like an intelor 3com nic card ). Any insight would be helpful Basil Donlin__________________________________________________Do ...

Over a dozen people responded all pointing out that I needed a /etc/hostname.niccard, where niccard, on a i86 machine, is 'iprb0'. I neglected to mention that I had this already, but because I got so many emails all pointing to the same thing, I checked and I had 2 hostname.niccard files - I ...

Hello,I had just connected an A1000 to a 420R runnning Solaris 8 and the 420R isnot seeingthe disks on the A1000 -I have twelve 36gigs disks loaded on the A1000 and Ican notsee not even one of them. The A1000 has a LED on the back I'm not sure but I guess to indicate ifdisks on controllerare ...

unsubscribe <A HREF="/execute/ask/?codeinfoid=189">craig at chello.net.nz</A> sun-managers<p>-- <br>Craig Reynolds<br>Systems Engineer<br>Chello Broadband New Zealand<p>PGP: <A HREF=" http://members.chello.co.nz/~craig/pgp.key"> http://members.chello.co.nz/~craig/pgp.key</A><p>

Right now I have a Enterprise 4500 running Solaris 2.7. During the initialrush to setup the box for development, one of the developer accidently setthe root's starting shell as /sbin/ksh. She then logged off the session inwhich she made the change.There is no ksh under /sbin and she shouldn't ...

This question may have been addressed by several folks already, and maynot even be appropriate for the list; my apologies in advance - I haven'tmade an exhaustive search of the archives.I am thinking of moving from two independent hardware raid (JBODS) arraysconnected to two independent ...

Can anyone tell how to turn the Power Saving feature off on Solaris 8?<p>Thanks in advance!!!<p>Jianguo<p>

Thanks toskulp at lucent.comDan whiteThomas (uleth wardtj at uleth.ca)Jay lessertI re-seated SCSI connector & disk and memory in bank 0 (one in the rear) whichfixed the"can't deduct msgbuf from the physical memory list" error.Thanks,Responses attached ...

This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understandthis format, some or all of this message may not be legible.------_=_NextPart_001_01C05FCB.66C796D0Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"several differnt versions of Solaris here... I'mlooking for ...

Would everyone who wants to unsubscribe please just follow theinstructions in the FAQ and notify the LISTOWNER, not the list?!?!And, now stop posting administrative messages to the list! I'm sure all ofus get enough junkmail already without cluttering up a useful list likethis with "ack, ...

I am trying to install patches on one of my workstations.The /var directory is 98% full. Upon further investigation I found that the/var/sadm/pkg/*/save directories are taking up the majority of space. Is itsafe to remove those directories. If not does any have any suggestions asto what can ...

Hi, Managers,<p>what is the maximum SHMMAX value we can set in /etc/system under solaris<br>2.6?<p>Thanks.<p>Ying<br>

I have a need to log FTP connections, like who logged in to what site andsent/received what files. Going thru the archives, it looks like "wu-ftpd" was the choice in the past. Is that still the recommendation ?Anyone know where I can get a copy of this for Solaris 7 ? I pulled ...

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Folks,We have a new box running Solaris 8 on which we are getting "socket:permission denied" errors on any network application (ping, telnet,traceroute, etc) that is not executed by root. All such applicationswork correctly when executed by root.This is not a case of the ping ...

This is a multi-part message in MIME format.------=_NextPart_000_0023_01C05FAB.182EF1F0Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printableHi List,So I have joined the ranks of the galacticly stupid by editing the =nsswitch.conf file from=20passwd: ...

processing...<p>#!/bin/sh<p>tail -1 /etc/passwd | awk -F: '{print $1}' > plist<br>for i in `cat plist`<br>do<br> passwd $i <<EOF<br>$i<br>$i<br>EOF<br>done<p>the above gives me the following error:<p>"input not a tty"<p>any ideas on how to fix this. thank you, rf.<br>

Of course you all know that answer is "xhosts +" Thank you all so much, it's been an eventful day and you all made iteasier for this brain dead administrator. -- ORIGINAL MESSAGE -- Managers: This weekend I upgraded my E450 server to Solaris 7. It was the onlyunit in the system ...

Hi,I am trying to find the best way to go into single user modein sun solaris 2.5?. It is an old system and like to minimize therisks. I am reading conflicting steps for the older versions.What is the safest way to do ...

hello,when i use telnet <servername/ipaddress> from my NT machines it is not reaching, but from inside the login of other unix server, if i try to do the same opperation i am able to perform.when i try to use ping utility to check the connectivity, if functions fromboth NT and Unix ...