Hello,I have a few leased Sun boxes that we are sending back and therequirements are that they be able to boot an OS. Obviously, I want todelete the current install and any information my company has on it. Ihave 9 machines that will need to go back in this fashion. Whats thebest way to go ...

I was wondering if someone can confirm whether running remote shell or XDM(XDMCP), from a Windows 2000/XP client using software such as X-Win32 orExceed, transmits text userid/password? I'm in the process of evaluating packages for Windows clients and I was ableto capture userid/password, ...

Hello,I am writing documentation, in HTML, on CD-R. I am looking for an authoring program that optimizes the layout for either (a) reading directly from the CDROM, or, (b) after installing a layout on the hard drive (similar to the Solaris Documentation CDs). There is such authoring software ...

Thanks to those who responded. There are a few discussons on the net about this. Apparently the use statements are processed before ANY other perl code so... use lib $path is equal to use lib "NULL". You cannot use a variable yet because perl has not parsed that bit ofcode that ...

Well, I thought Buddy Lumpkin was onto something when he suggested thefollowing command syntax:ufsdump 0f /dev/rmt/0cbn /export/home ./foo1/foo2/test.kshwhen the path to the single file wanted is:/export/home/foo1/foo2/test.kshbut that dumps the entire filesystem at /export/home.One person ...

Dear Sunmanagers:The response to my posting yesterday was gratifying - too many too list byname. Thanks to everyone, and I'll certainly be following up with a few ofyou.1. It seems that for my needs (3 machines total), the way to go is to buildthe first server, then ufsdump the slices ...

Hi,I have a bit of a NFS problem. I have a server A, and a client B. server A is running Solaris 8, and client B is running Solaris 2.6.Server A exports:/export/oldand client B accesses it as/net/A/export/oldNow, I add a new filesystem to A as/export/newand share it as appropriatebut when I ...

Well I thought it was working but since I have compiled and installedthe modules and libs into their respective directories perl is nowloading ALL the lib paths disregarding all if statements. @#^^$&$@7 On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 09:53, scotrn wrote:> Thanks to those who responded. > > ...

Does anybody know a ref where I can get good information on MPxIO?<p>Thanks.<p>Will Summarise.<br>

Hi,First of all dropping wordperfect is not an option.. sorry :)I'm running Solaris 8 with worperfect 5.1 running in a terminalsession(CHEWY).Somehow wordperfect does not differentiate between a terminal and akeyboard. This is problematic since i need the DISPLAY features of anXTERM and a ...

Hi folksThe D1000 has four SCSI I/O ports on the rear.Question: If I install two dual channel ultra scsi host adapters in my server can I connect each port on the scsi cards (4 ports/2 on each card) into the four ports on the back of the D1000.This is so if one card fails then it will still ...

Hi all, I have an old sparc station 5, I had to reboot the system for somereason, after the system rebooted. The display stopped working. What couldbe the reason ? :( I changed the display card, I even changed the display card to adifferent slot. No luck All I get is " No Keyboard present ...

> Dear all,>> Thanks for all those who reply, I managed to find the problem. It was the> modification of the slice, Labeling which was not saved after formatingthe> H/D.....>>> Thanks again>> H. Makhlooq>>> ----- Original Message -----> From: ...

Thank to all for the advice and recommendations. Especially: Jim Southerd,Jeff Kennedy, Moti, Jed Dobson, Marcelino Mata, Penney Jaye Deeney,Christophe Dupre, Andrew Stueve, David Foster (who included a veryinformative white paper that I will share if anyone wants a copy), VincentMcIntyre, ...

Folks- We have just installed Veritas Volume Manager on a newSun Fire 880 running Solaris 8 (2/02). We've put 4 36Gdrives under VxVM control and set up several Raid-5volumes using default parameters of the administrator'sGUI (VxVM logging is turned on). UFS is the file systemon all the ...

Thanks to all who replied.Here is my original post:I have an E450 with aA5200 disk array which has 10 disk drivesof 18GB each.I'm running Solaris7 and Veritas Volume Manager 3.1.1.I want to add 4 disks of 36GB to theA5200.Is this possible, will I run into any problem having both 18GB ...

Hello,I'm using liveupgrade 2.0 to upgrade from solaris 7 to solaris 8 2/02.Everything works fine, but I would like to be able to install the packagesfrom the second cd before activating the new BE. I tried using the command# luupgrade -I -n <BE> -s /cdrom/cdrom0But this only gives me ...

Hi managers,I solved this problem thanks to Martin Hepworth, Justin Stringfellow, JoshGlover, Paul Greidanus. Thanks a lot for the quick answers.It seems like the raid drive was a bit to big. There is a 1TB limit and if Isliced the raid into two, 1TB, and 500GB then it worked just ...

Hi Gurus,I accidently deleted whole directory of /devices/pseudo on Solaris 2.6 at a Ultra5 when I tried to boot from harddisk, it hungs before the point "Configuring devices"how can I restore ../pseudo whithout rebuild the boxboot -r hungs on the same placethanksDaniel ZhuangUnix ...

System crashed and will not boot, even into single user mode, keepsgetting the following:panic: read_binding_file: /etc/name_to_major file not found...and the system goes into a loop of reboot, I don't have access tothe CD to boot into single user mode via CD, only console. Any suggestionsare ...

Dear managers,<p>Pls help me out regd the following. I want to have hands on Veritas.<p>Is Veritas available for Intel Solaris? Where can i download the trail<br>version of<br>Veritas for Intel/Sparc? Any websites etc?<p>Thanking u all in adv.<p>Venkatesh<br>

The unfortunately correct answer (from Matthew Stier, and actuallystraight from the tmpfs manpage on Solaris 8, where I'd missed it): Another constraint is that the number of files available in a tmpfs file system is calculated based on the physical memory of the machine ...

Folks,Briefly, the original question was: Is there any way to set the hme link mode (duplex) at the OBP level?There were only three responses, one of which was a clipping of theFAQ material on what to set in /etc/system, which isn't directlygermane to this problem.Darren Dunham helpfully ...

Hello Managers,I have installed the /dev/random patch 112438-01 on to an ultra5with 128Mb of memory. When I use Andrew.J.Caines script download from: http://halplant.com:88/software/Solaris/scripts/setup_randomI get the following output:# ./setup_randomPatch 112438 is installed.Making device ...

Dear Managers, I had executed each and every step as per the procedure, i hadmanually started the script S22acct to initate System accountingthen i add ckpacct in adm crontab the command that i added was something likethis0 * * * * /usr/lib/acct/ckpacctI also added runacct under root ...

On Wed, 15 May 2002, Kieran wrote:> Hi,>> I have just been asked to start looking after a new box.> First thing I see when I run dmesg is:>> May 15 02:04:58 box inetd[29061]: [ID 161378 daemon.error] exec/tcp:> bind: Address already in use> May 15 02:04:58 box ...

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Countrymen, lend me your eyes and fingers... It has recently come to my attention that there is a known hardwaredefect in the Netra X1 line regarding the LOM chip causing the box tocome down to the ok or LOM prompts fairly frequently and without userintervention. I recently purchased an X1 ...

Thanks to those who responded. There are a few discussons on the net about this. Apparently the use statements are processed before ANY other perl code so... use lib $path is equal to use lib "NULL". You cannot use a variable yet because perl has not parsed that bit ofcode that ...

Thanks to:Daron.BarndonDavorin BengezGreg GallagherMichael C. IbarraJim JonesDennis Peterson Eric ShaftoNo real answer that works with Solaris 8/F-Secure. Responses included:Scponly: http://sublimation.org/scponly/rksh - Restricts shell nicely, however sftp still can access ...

Hi Gurus,<p> I'm looking for a webmail application, running on Solaris 8, which<br>connects to an IMAP server. So, something like IMP but with less things to<br>install (IMP requires PHP, mysql, ....).<p> TIA.<p> I'll summarize.<p> Nicolas Dorfsman<br>

Hello Managers,I'm in a situation where I need both AP and DMP to coexist for a briefwhile. I'm running Veritas vxvm 3.2. I'm going to attach an E450 thatcurrently has A3500 disk arrays to our SAN fabric. This process willinclude enabling DMP on this machine. DMP is currently disabled, ...

Hate to post this here but I have no choice since google let me down.<br>Anyone know of a checkpoint FW-1 newsgroup or mailing list?<p>Thanks.<br>

Hi All,Trying to run Sun VTS on a netra (Sol 8, developer install, 04/01,VTS-4.3) and I'm getting the following error:root at web1:/opt/SUNWvts/bin# ./sunvts -tvtsk: svc_reg: Bad file numbersunvts: Can't start vtsk properly. Stop.any ideas? will ...

Fellow Managers,New member, first post.On a Sun Blade 1000, Solaris 2.8, CDE 1.4:When I run vi (or other apps) from a dtterm, some of the predefinedfunction keys override definitions I set up in my .exrc file (eg. F1 = helpno matter how I define it in the .exrc). I can define F2-F10, but not ...

Thans to Sal Serafino, Kevin Korb,John Malick, Francisco PuenteFabrice Guerini, Darren Dunham, Chris Kurtz ,Bolddin Bob, etcfirst it doesn't have to reinstall system;second, it does need to boot into single user mode through cdrom or net.most experts recommend the way below; some others say ...

Greetings,Does anyone happen to know what SUNW package the nddbinary is included in? In minimizing my system I mustinadvertanly took out that package.Thanks in advance,- dbLAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music ...

The package is SUNWcsu. I must have somehow deletedthe binary. SUNWcsu cannot be removed of course on aworking system.Thanks to all.- db--- Dan Barnes <barnesdan at yahoo.com> wrote:> Greetings,> > Does anyone happen to know what SUNW package the ndd> binary is included in? In ...

I needed a newsgroup or mailing list for checkpoint and I got greatresponses.Thanks all for the quick response.Most people referred me to the phoneboy site , which I was aware of but nevernew there was a mailing list associated:Alex Shepard,Moti (thanks)Steve MickelerWhat I find which I htink ...

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Fellows,I know you can search SunSolve for patch IDs, but somehow I can't seem to find a way to search it (or any other Sun site, for that matter) for bug IDs.Is there a publicly-accessible bug list?Thanks in advance!+===========================================================+| Fabrice ...

ManagersI am using Suns Web Flash / jumpstart to move several machines fromSolaris 2.6 to 8 .These are Ultra-5 270 ,333 & 400. I also hope to buildmy new machines Blades 100 from the same image.So here is my question what pitfalls await me if I use the same image onebuilt on a Blade (64 ...

Software Solutions:====================Got quite a range of suggestions, but we decided to go withJvrg Schilling's 'cdrecord-ProDVD' solution. Downside is itis available as binary only (alpha, irix, linux, solaris,solaris x86, aix, windows), it's not open-source. To makematters worse, the ...

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Hi,Just ran an upgrade on solaris 2.8 that i had andduring reboot i get these errors/warnings:/etc/mail/sendmail.cf line 77:fileclass cannot open/etc/mail/localsendmail[] NOQUEUE:SYSERR(root) :/etc/mail/sendmail.cfcan not open : /etc/mail/local-host-names[snipped]1)what is wrong on and how i ...

Error i get during reboot:solaris 2.8.A) "Failed to start sendmail : /etc/mail/sendmail.cf:line 77: fileclass: cannot open/etc/mail/local-host-names: Group writable directory" B) "Failed to start sendmail : /etc/mail/sendmail.cf:WARNING: dangerous write ...

Hello,I need some ammunition against a request to build out new systems usingonly one partition on the root drive. The argument given is thatupgrades are failing on undersized partitions. My arguments in favor ofmultiple partitions include issues such as security, fragmentation, hardlinks, ...

Hi,Thanks to all those who gave a solution .the solution is to use lsof which can be downloaded from www.sunfreeware.comThanks&Regards,A.K.Rasanthph: 91-80-8522507 Ext 1626--------------------------------------------------------------Velankani Information Systems Ltd, Bangalore, ...

Dear members,<p>Thanks for sending in replies. The KPIC is a cc flag and in order to run<br>gcc U nee fPIC. But if the gnu patch command and autoconf resides can patch<br>the source.<p>Thanks again<br>

Hi all...I'm trying to locate a copy of "sudo" for SunOS 5.4, (Solaris 2.4), for anold Sparc server.If anyone knows where I can obtain the binaries for this package, please letme know. Upgrading to a later version of Solaris is not an option (although,I wish it was!)Thanks in ...