Hi guys,For some time I have had a Wyse WY55 terminal attached to an Ultra450 andit's never worked quite right. Particularly on boot I never get anythingon the screen until quite late in the boot process, i.e. 'the system iscoming up, please wait' is the first thing I get to see and it takes ...

Hi,I would like to know why on one solaris 2.5.1, U1 box a command runsgreat and on the other exact box runs with errors. Seems like there are some hidden discrepancies like missing libraries,...It is toss command i used before long time ago, i think.what is the excat command and syntax?. I ...

I have some updates.I identified the problematic patch (106942-17, one upgrading libnsl) and got the undo.Z file for that patch. But...How do I apply that undo file?-- Enrique Iglesias Rodriguez System Administrator http://www.intelideas.net Madrid, ...

I'm not sure if it went through, with my subscription ....Here is a net boot -v installThe target is an U1-170, the server is also a u1-170. This is theSolaris_8_1001 build.Initializing Memory -telnet> send brkok boot net -v installBoot device: /sbus/ledma at e,8400010/le at e,8c00000 ...

I just bought a Kingston 256MBytes upgrade for a Sun Ultra-1 machine.Since downtime for that machine should be the minimum possible, I'd liketo know if I need special tools in order to disassemble the machine andinstall the modules inside.I already have "standard" tools and I'm ...

Hi everybody,With solaris 8 (07/01), I configure a MultiPathing group of two interfaces(eri0 & eri1) where eri1 is a standby interface.In the MultiPathing /etc/default/mpathd configuration file, I set theparameter FAILBACK to no.So, no automatic failback when an eri0 repair is detected.Can ...

Hi,<p>I have Qlogic ISP 1040B, which is a Fast/Wide Differential SCSI Host<br>Adapter. I put it into an Ultra-60, but probe-scsi-all didn't detect<br>it. Are the any known compatibility issues for this adaptor?<p>Thanks<p>Igor<br>

Hi gurus,quick question: Is it safe to remove /usr/dt and /usr/openwin if I amnot using xwindows? What other dirs or packages are safe to remove (ifyou can think of any of the top of your head). I am running low onspace and these two dirs take up more than 100mb.Thanks, will ...

Hi,I am trying to find out all the interfaces on a givenhost. For this, I am using the ioctl() withSIOCGIFCONF set. I am able to get the information.But any call subsequent calls to gethostbyaddr() orgethostbyname() or getservbyname() fails with asegmentation fault. It seems to me like the ...

Does anyone know a procedure to transfer the calendar info (appts. etc..)from Solaris 2.6 to Solaris 8. Or where the appt list file is located? Ihave only been able to find the callog.user in var/spool/calendar. This filedoes not carry the appt list though. Thanks,Aaron FaceyMaxtor ...

Hello Gurus !I need urgent assistance.I have a E250 with a PCI JNI FCI1063 which is connected to a MA8000Compaq Array , I can see the array as one Giant disk(jbod) with format and I can create filesystems, Internally the arrayis using RAID 5, but when i try to use Veritas Volumne Manager to ...

Hey Sun Managers,I don't think I have done anything major on this Solaris 2.6 system since last time of normal reboot two weeks ago. It gave me the following error message when we moved it to another location this morning:"inetd: couldn't find ISTATE environment variable. Try -s ...

Thanks a lot to: Christian Nicca <cnicca at bluewin.ch>who hit the jackpot ! try 'vxdctl enable'Now I can create volumes on the compaq array, thanks a lot !the original question is below> Hello Gurus !> I need urgent assistance.> I have a E250 with a PCI JNI FCI1063 ...

Internet/Intranet Input Method (iiim) and why do i care?especially about the associated deamons.atokmngdaemon in /etc/rc2.d/S99atsv i believe to be part of this IIIM..Why can't I seem to find any docs on it.Thanks---Bob Krygerbobk at panix.com, bob.kryger at sac.comAIM: BobKryger, ...

Does anyone know of a Solaris program that works like Star Office for MSOffice? Something that will create diagrams and drawings and will savethem in MS Visio format?Thanks.-- =====================Jeff KennedyUnix AdministratorAMCCjlkennedy at ...

Is Solaris 8 supported (or does it work) as diskless client?<p>_________________________________________________________________<br>Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: <A HREF=" http://messenger.msn.com/default.htm"> http://messenger.msn.com</A><br>

When I was taking a NetworkApplinace class last year, they had us using acommand in the lab that would create a disk file of a given size. I cannotremember the name of the command, and I think that it was being used onLinux. Does anyone know what the command might have been and if there is ...

As always, a blazing fast response!!<p>The command I was looking for was mkfile.<p>Thanks to:<br>Laloo Yadav<br>Alan Reichert<br>Terry Ewing<br>Thomas Cannon<br>William Enestvedt<br>Rainer Heilke<p>And they continue to pour in....<p>Thanks<br>Erik<br>

Thanks to:Casper DikJay LessertPaul FrederiksenIn the immortal words of Mr. Lessert "open() is open() is open()"It works on NFS. And you do need to enable it on every system that theuser may be logged into.Thanks.~JKJeff Kennedy wrote:> > A couple questions:> > Does ...

I am trying to setup a network HP LJ 4 printer by IP on a system running Solaris 8. I get a page to print, but it just has garble on the first line and prints out a bunch of black pages. I have tried setting up via ldadmin and via Admintool. Do I need to add any particular packages ...

List:<p>Could I use a common FlashInstall archive for the above mentioned boxens....<br>For the older US-II, I could use one Flash Archive from the U-2 to the 10K.<p>Thanks.<br>

Thanks to:Greg Gallagher Mathew AtkinsonSimon McCartney Eric HorneSergio GelatoEveryone had some very interesting and clever tricks for patchmanagement using patchdiag and scripts. Much more clever than I haveever been I must admit.Special thanks to Greg for the following ...

Hello, Iam in a process of purchaing Veritas backup software for both solaris andwindows platform.Iam sure lot of people might be using this Veritas backup software.I wouldlike to know, if anyone as any thing to highlight. If you finding anydifficulties/problems/bugs and also i would like to ...

How do I get rid of RPC services on SunOS 5.8? I have a host where I'm not going to use any RPC based services any more.-- Enrique Iglesias Rodriguez System Administrator http://www.intelideas.net Madrid, ...

Hello,<p> Where is this list? I looked in comp.unix.solaris<br>FAQ and on sunsolve, but haven't been able to find it...<p>Brian<br>

Can anyone refer me to a quick and dirty step by step on how toconfigure an A1000 raid box with just any standard config via thecommand line i/f, or is that possible? We have it on a Sol 8 box withcorrect interface and it's visible to the system but unconfigured socan't format or write to ...

What kinds of modems have people in sun land had luck with?<p>Brian<br>

Thanks to all who replied.Dirk-Willem van GulikJeff KennedyNeil HuntJed DobsonCraig ReynoldsRic AndersonMatthew BoeckmanRyan (mattyml at daemons.net)eshafto at mac.comRich KulawiecHeilke, RainerChris HoogendykMast, ArtYura PismerovSeems a number of people are using iPlanet mail and calendar ...

solution: use /dev/rmt/0cn (no rewind) with ufsdumpthanks to the following:david evansnicolas dorfsmanjon haworthric andersoncarl schelinjohn benjaminssteve sandauyura pismerovjay lessertpeter stokessystem administrator account=)--Maria Aurora VT de la Vega (OCP)Database SpecialistPhilippine ...

excerpt from <man prtvtoc>: Name Number UNASSIGNED 0x00 BOOT 0x01 ROOT 0x02 SWAP 0x03 USR 0x04 BACKUP 0x05 STAND 0x06 VAR 0x07 HOME 0x08 ALTSCTR 0x09 CACHE ...

Hi,Does anyone know what's the maximum storage capacity that I can put into a X1? I'm thinking to put two100GB of IDE disks in it but I heard there's limitonly support to 137GB for the IDE interface. Is it correct? thanks__________________________________________________Do You Yahoo!?Check ...

Hi all,We have a E250 server running RAID 1 full mirror, that's why we havea pair of 28GB harddisk. Now we want to add one more harddisk, say 28GBso I want to know if I can put just one harddisk or I need to put a pair ofharddiskin the server as we are running mirror ?What should be the best ...

Thanks to everyone especially to Glass David.After adding TERM=vt100;export TERM to sysconfig.No more question from the Jumpstart now.Thanks,Pet--- Peter ng <petnghkg at yahoo.com> wrote:> Hi Professionals,> > Hope getting solution from your experience.> How to make the ...

I am keen to test some new functionality that is supposed to be released<br>in Solaris 9<p>In particular is the support of IKE.<p>Where or to whom should I corespond to arrange a beta copy?<p>Greg K<br>

Is there any way to shut these off?<p>Dec 19 22:53:25 host.domain.com ip: [ID 584404 kern.error] ip_fanout_tcp_listen: Policy Failure for the incoming packet (not secure); Source 172.16.001.002, Destination 192.168.010.010.<p>Brian<br>

Hi Gurus,How do i span hard disk in solaris 2.8 to store a database of 25gb in asystem with3 X 18gb disk?Thanks & Regards~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~Vishal MukherjeeIRSSL Vashi91.022.7896004.155 (voice) 022.7896004(fax)Cement website ...

Hi all<p>If i edit the /etc/defaultrouter file, do I need to restart the system to<br>make it effective or just by restart some daemons again ?<br>Sorry if such question is too simple for you guys<p>Best Regards,<br>Kenneth Hung<br>

Hi Gurus, How do i span hard disk in solaris 2.8 to store a database of 25gb in a system with 3 X 18gb disk? Thanks & Regards ~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~ Vishal Mukherjee IRSSL Vashi 91.022.7896004.155 (voice) 022.7896004(fax) Cement website ...

All suggested I should use command line to make /etc/defaultrouter effective<p># route add default 'cat /etc/defaultrouter'<p>Best Regards,<br>Kenneth Hung<br>

Hi allI had an experience our power supply in U10 has broken andI tried to replace it with a PC power supply. The U10 power supplyspec states it is 250W and different amperes and voltage rangesand I tried to search for a better spec in PC supply. My result wasone brand can boot up the system ...

Hi all,<p>As I am buying a new harddisk in E250 and U10<br>E250 may use 28GB and U10 uses 20GB<br>I wonder what would be the best partitioning if I install<br>either Sol7 or Sol8.<p>Any comment ?<p>Best Regards,<br>Kenneth Hung<br>

does anyone have an idea as to whether these can be fitted in the internalcabinet?The information contained in this e-mail is intended for the recipient orentity to whom it is addressed. It may contain confidential information thatis exempt from disclosure by law and if you are not the intended ...

Dear Sunmanagers,We want to use Gnome instead of CDE on our Sun Ultra 5.Gnome recquires a 24 bits display but when we set the Ultra 5 video card towork in 24 bits the resolution becomes much lower, the text becomesunreadeable ...We have looked at the price of a better Sun video card but it ...

Hi,We've setup interactive jumpstart installtion forSolaris 2.6/2.8 we want it to be automatic one so thatusers themselves can initiate it how can we proceedfor that I know there is rules.ok file or somethinglike that we need to create please tell me the syntaxfor the same we have ultra 10 ( ...

Hi,Why the differences between these commands?# arp -aNet to Media TableDevice IP Address Mask Flags Phys Addr------ -------------------- --------------- ----- ---------------hme0 obelix 255.255.255.255 08:00:20:f4:bd:9dhme0 192.168.215.254 ...

all,the conclusion is - yes the cabinet is quite happy to take the disksThe information contained in this e-mail is intended for the recipient orentity to whom it is addressed. It may contain confidential information thatis exempt from disclosure by law and if you are not the intended ...

Dear Sun Managers,Would highly appreciate if someone out there can enlighten me.I've 2 questions as in follow.[1] If my processes already terminated abnormally, how would I check or tracewhy does this process terminated? In Solaris, any command to track on this?[2] If the process is still ...

Hi,My initial question: The Solaris 2.6 system gave me the following error message: "inetd: couldn't find ISTATE environment variable. Try -s flag." during reboot. After reboot, inetd did not start. This error should come from the last line of /etc/init.d/inetsvc - '/usr/sbin/inetd ...

Hi dear partners and gurus.... i been install a ftp anonymus on solaris 7 whit the last patchs and all is fine but when i conencted to this ftp anonymous and give "ls" this is the answer:ld.so.1: internal: malloc failed226 ASCII Transfer complete.32 bytes received in 0.031 seconds ...

Thanks for the emails on AXiL boxes. I had not realised they had stopped being made a few years ago. Anyway, thank you to Olivier Masse [olivier at prosys.ca], Ben Tierney [ben at securitycomputer.com], James Abbuhl [JAEA at prodigy.net], willief [willief at base-2.com], and Bill Swenson ...