> All,>> Here is my current dilemma. I built a new SCSI disk running solaris 7 on myUltra 10 workstation at my desk. However when I take this disk down to myworkstation downstairs it does not boot. It will see the disk and show thedisk info. I get the twirling pipe. Then I get the ...

Hi.. Im trying to install Sun Cluster 3.1 (two nodes, point to point) on2 Netra 440 each one with Sun Quad adapter... The first node installedok, but the second node can not see the other adapters (ce1 and ce2) fornetwork interconnect, I received the error:Adding adapter "ce1" to the ...

Hi Guys,I am facing problem with ARP in Solaris 9.0. This is a strange problemin the sense that it occurs intermittently and only whilecommunicating to network printers. Even through the arp entry existsin the arp cache, the system is unable to get replies from theprinter. However the moment i ...

Hello all, Im currently researching how to perform a minimal install for Solaris. (9 or 10)My goal is to perform an install to 1 given slice with that would fit on cd and allow enough room for my NetBackup Client to fit as well. This cd would be used to boot from with a client already ...

Well, I'm fairly embarrassed, although I did finally figure it out.the answer that no one hit on is that you have to have UFS in orderto mount anything. I had added fd support to a diskless kernel, soall it had was NFSCLIENT. adding UFS fixed things, and I can mountthe floppy just fine.thanks ...

Folks,        I'd like to take a little time to describe a problem that wastroubling us for a couple of months until we finally tracked it downyesterday afternoon.        We have a Sun 4/470 running SunOS ...

Thanks to all for the quick response to my SPARC assembly languagereference question!Original question:> We are looking into the possibility of teaching SPARC assembly language> as part of our Computer Organization course here at St. Olaf. Does anyone> know of any good references? ...

Well this isn't exactly a summary, since I re-discovered the solutionright after I made the posting... Most people suggested doing thingslike using dmesg or using ifconfig or using my /etc/ethers file.These solutions do not really fit since:1) There may not be any boot-up messages for dmesg ...

The list is great, as usual. I got my answer within hours.Many thanks to those who replied.I originally complained about NeWS not coming up right on an SS2/GXunder 4.1.1.----bice@atlantis.ees.anl.gov (Brent A. Bice) noted that they've neverbeen able to get NeWS 1.1 working under 4.1 or 4.1.1 ...

Thanks to all those who responded. Here's the original question:>Environment: Sun 4/490 running SunOS 4.1 with patch 100089-04> installed. /tmp is tmpfs, /usr/tmp -> /var/tmp -> /tmp>>Problem: Processes hang while swapped out. They are un-interuptible,>and ...

Well, I seem to have hit the jackpot on questions to ask. I receivedmany responses, some of which I've summarized here. My apologies toeveryone who's response I ommitted, or edited, but the file was wellover 1000 lines. Anyone who wants the complete file can email me, andI'll send it ...

I recently asked:>>A user has a CD-ROM intended for use under DOS, i.e., it has a DOS>front-end for accessing the data on the disk.>>How can this data be accessed on SPARCstation with a Sun CD-ROM drive>and DOS Windows? Can the Sun CD-ROM be accessed from within ...

I may have spoken too soon. I still saw system hangs on mouseevents after things have been idle. This was running a generickernel. Then I noticed the LWP option in the kernel config file.Are these threads connected to liblwp.a threads? I added themto the kernel on superstition. I'll watch ...

My original guestion:>Hello folks,>>Recently I have installed SPARCprinter & NeWSprint on my Sparc2>running 4.1.1. Plane text files are printed fine, but when I typed>following command:>> % troff -t file | pl :opost>>I encountered a problem. Printing started from ...

My original question:> In attempting to run TCP socket transfers between two processes>residing in the same SPARCstation host, I am experiencing system >lock-up after some number of transfers have taken place (the number>of transfers varys; it's usually between 950 and 2850 with ...

Thank's a lot for all who respond, and especially to vellani@aplexus.jhuapl.edu (Thomas Vellani) for the ie* questionEthernet specifications says that one host must have only oneethernet address. It's compulsory with XNS. Of course, the ethernet address may be changed by ifconfig if the two ...

I summarized my responses to sun-managers, saying     The answer I was looking for came from dhutches@UCSD.EDU, who said: >Well, this is a known bug (in tmpfs) for SunOS 4.1.1. Patch >number 100174-01 will fix it. As for SunOS 4.1, I don't know, ...

Thanks to the several dozen replies, you know who you are.Original Question:Our Sun manual says that the instructions for installing 4Mb SIMMS comewith Sun supplied 4Mb SIMMS. Of course we want to buy them somewhere else.Can someone please send me instructions on what is involved in ...

A few hours ago, I sent a message of help concerning the "SCSI hung" problem.It is now fixed, thanks to the net!!! MANY MANY MANY THANKS.My problem WAS related to the "sticktion" problem of some of the108 Meg internal drives: to confirm this, I took a drive from another ...

SUMMARY: 4.03 ypbinding to 4.1.1 YP MASTER SERVER# We have to keep a couple of our sun{3,4}'s at 4.03 to be compatible#with existing third party software/peripherals. Presently our YP master#is a 4/280 (using 4.03) but we are about to make our new 4/490 (using 4.1.1)#the YP Master and upgrade ...

I received several responses in a very short time (as many have said, thislist is great). Here's a summary:Thanks ...

I got some good responses once again! This list is really something...I originally asked about system(3) function which doesn't work ifthere isn't enough virtual memory left (ie. available swap space).However, with SunOS4.1 and 4.1.1 there was a lot of free swap spaceleft and the system() ...

Any setuid program to mount/umount the floppy written along the linesof the posted examples have a security hole.You have to set the PATH environment variable explicitly within yourc program, as "mount" executes a sub-process (mount_pcfs) using yourpath. If a user makes his own ...

Response is unanimous:The IPC has three banks of four sockets for SIMMS. So long as eachbank contains four SIMMs of the same size you're set. The OS will findthem at boot time and "do the right thing". Responses received from:etnibsd!vsh (Steve Harris)phillips%maui@QUALCOMM.COM ...

Once again, this net is great!Thanks to everyone who replied. I got more than 3 requests for a summary so here it is. This is my original question:> Hi,>> I saw floating on this net around a month ago messages concerning the problem> of root privilege required to mount and ...

Greetings,        A big thank's to all the people that have allready responded(even the guy who flammed me for not RTFM'ing - I would have, but I amnot in possesion of either the Sun or the manuals yet - makes RTFM'inga little difficult ...

This is the second time I've sent this summary. There was some problemthat caused the it to be returned to me. I apologize if you receive thismessage twice.This is a summary of responses to my question about Uninterruptible PowerSupplies for Sun computer ...

My posting was:> We've been using a set of locally-written shell scripts to back up> several dozen workstations over our university network to an Exabyte> tape drive, located centrally. The systems being backed up are mainly> Suns (all three varieties), with some PCs running Unix, ...

  My original question was how to get a Pacific Page postscript  cartridge working with our Suns thru an HP LaserJet III.  Thanks to everybody that responded:         xphyhofu@DDATHD21.BITNET (Joachim ...

Something was missing from eeprom, the fix was ..ok 7f fff0.0000 smap!The problem was>b st()Booting From st(0,0,0)panic: mmu_getpmgthanks for your help. +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Andrew Mellanby email ...

It appears that I was making a mountain out of a particularly small mole-hill!The problem was as most of you said due to my settings in the users' .mailrc.I had inadvertently put a rougue space in "set interval= 60" (should be"set interval=60". This caused mailtool not to ...

- A Few days ago I posted an automounter-related question (see below)  and I have been flooded with answers.- Thanks for all those who answered so far.- I'll summarize below. I tried to reply to each person, but some mails bounced,  so I'll honor all of them below.- I ...

My original plea:>From: Gary Casterline <casterln@are.berkeley.edu>>Subject: modem won't answer>Date: Wed, 15 May 91 23:37:41 PDT>>Oh experienced ones,>>This is my first time introducing a Sun to a modem. I can call out ok,>but when I call in the modem won't ...

Subject: Dimming monitors summaryI originally queried about fixing dimming monochrome monitors. Below are the responses I received. I was able to adjust all of mine. I did discover there are at least two types. The first which I assume is the newer has adjustments which can be made by ...

Sun Managers,        Thanks for all your help. The question was> I have a new 8mm Exabyte tape drive. I get the message> tape may be wearing out.... I called Sun and they said it was> a now bug. The mailed me a bug fix; however, the README ...

My query was:>Does anyone know of low cost or free Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)>software that runs on Sun workstations? I have a couple of bridges that I'd>like to monitor, and be able to summarize error statistics, and packets>transmitted.Yes, there are several SNMP ...

Thanks to the people who replied to my query. The problem *seems* to have gone away now, but I have kept the replies in case it recurs. (I dont knowwhat the problem was - maybe it just needed a break!).Time to lurch onto the next crisis...Here is a summary of the useful replies, for those of ...

 I've received a couple of additional answers to my recent question aboutsetting up mailing on a Sun Sparc. Thanks again to all who responded. Ewald JENISCH NIC-Handle: EJ51University Computer Center; University of Vienna, AustriaE-Mail: z00ejr01@awiuni11.bitnet or ...

In my original note, I said:>I have 4 SLC's which need to separate from the rest of the network.. They>currently are being served by a 3 series server.... Essentially we are now>CPU bound by the Server... and traffic is unbearable... My question is:>Is it possible to make one of ...

In order to put the Fujitsu M2263E onto an MD21 ESDI disk controller,you must have ROM rev A98E or higher. Contact Emulex, they have anROM upgrade program. You should also closely inspect your board revand have Sun upgrade it to the latest if your 3/160 is really old.I have not verified that ...

Sun Managers:  Thanks to all who replied with many wonderful suggestions.I also received enough "me too, what gives" messages to justifya general summary posting. My original message:> After upgrading to SunOS 4.1.1, every attempt to perform>an interactive restore, ...

>My 3/60 panics (bus error reg 80 invalid), intermittently (but high >probability - eg. 90% of the time), when I try to access the tape >drive (eg. to backup sd2 onto tape)...Apparently, the 3/60 vs. tape drive vs. 4.1.1 problem was "solved" bysun-managers in early April and ...

Folks:Many thanks for all the help. All but one respondent suggested that I get the Disk Controller card replaced. As long as we'reat it, we'll try to get it brought up to themost recent hardware revision level too!A few folks offered the technical insight that the ...

My query was:>Does anyone know of low cost or free Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)>software that runs on Sun workstations? I have a couple of bridges that I'd>like to monitor, and be able to summarize error statistics, and packets>transmitted.Yes, there are several SNMP ...

     From: palmer@gateway.mitre.org     Date: Fri, 19 Apr 91 10:53:54 -0400     Subject: Re: SUMMARY - SNMP software wanted           Are you sure about this price? My ...

Talk about fast... I haven't even received my original posting yet.Thanks to Ric Anderson (ric@cs.arizona.edu) and Mike Jipping(jipping@frodo.cs.hope.edu) for responding so quickly.For those who also missed the answer the first around:Question:>> We have some 1MB SIMMs which we want to ...

> Date: Fri, 19 Apr 91 10:53:54 -0400> From: palmer@gateway.mitre.org> Sender: Sun-Nets-request@umiacs.UMD.EDU>>>> >4) Sun Microsystems has a package:> >>"Depending on how you buy Sun stuff (e.g. university contract, GSA,> >>end-user) ...

The original question was this:>Our ypservs (both the master and the slaves) keep dying. We are running>4.1.1 (sun4's) and have uncommented the "-b" flag in /var/yp/Makefile.>This worked well in 4.0.3 but the problems seem to have started after the>upgrade. dbx says:[ dbx ...

        My original query concerned the possible use of rdist as an upgradetool. I received over twenty responses. Thanks to all of those who replied.        Various individuals suggested using dump/restore rather ...

        My original query concerned drive configuration information for theMaxtor LXT-340SY 3.5" 340MB drive.        Thanks to:        Kerien Fitzpatrick ...