Thanks to all the respondants.Unfortunately, I've had to loan out my transceiver for a week so I can'ttest any of the advice. BUT, the consensus seems to be that a jumper forJ800 on the CPU board needs to be put in to force the 4/110 to use thickethernet. Otherwise, the machine will try to ...

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I am greatful for all the quick responces.The question was what to do with a Hard ECC ERROR?Jan 30 14:32:04 doug vmunix: xy2h: read failed (hard ecc error) -- blk #64303, abs blk #64303The answers are1- From Sun's Answer line   Call hardware, this is a controller or disk problem ...

A short while ago I posted the following request for help:   I am having problem with a Sun 4/280 835E0598) server crashing due to    what appears to be an Ethernet problem. The Sun is running SunOS 4.0.3   and is a file and boot server for five ...

Thanks for all of the helpful responses! My problem turned out to be alittle more unique. There is a problem with the 892 Mbyte NECdisk. A Sun PAL Engineer, Rod Livingood, came up with my solution. I hadto rename, repartition, and relabel the disk. A lot of people pointedout that I ...

This was obviously an easy question -- everybody's repsonses werepretty much the same. Here's a typical one:        Eric --        A "silo overflow" happens when input to a serial line comes in ...

Thank you for all your suggestions. You have all been most helpful.Here is a summary my venture into finding a method of ftping filesautomatically:[ 1 ]The use of popen to pipe a script into ftp was suggested by<veum@atria.GSFC.NASA.GOV>. This may work but there are easierways of doing ...

  About a week ago I posted regarding difficulties exporting /usr from a serverto one of it's diskless clients, allowing root access.  3 things I failed to indicate in my original posting (apologies):    o /usr/local and /usr/src *are* separate ...

Here is my summary of my problem of finding numerical internetaddress of sites when only provided with Internet address names.I needed the numerical value because if I ftp using the Internet address name, it must be defined in my /etc/hosts file. Otherwise,I must use its numerical equivalent to ...

Earlier this morning, I asked for help for the problem of my SS-1 clientfailing to re-boot after I had moved /usr/share from internal disk to anew external disk. I got a few responses back. Here is the summary.1) With the client up and running, /usr/share should be re-exported(maybe rebooting ...

Last week I asked help for the problem of an external disk sd0c notrecognized by 4/330 while the other external disk sd4c is seen. Here isthe summary.1) The symptom 1 & 2(sd0 not seen at the boot time) is still there. Thesystem only goes out to search for that disk at the first attempt to ...

Well, I just got off the phone with Sun support in regards to our NFSproblems. The symptoms of our problems are: files viewed on NFS clientssometimes appear to be overwritten by the contents of another file.These files are intact, however, when viewed on the NFS server. The filesthat are most ...

I posted a message last week asking if it was kosher to run rdate at regularintervals from our workstations or there was a better solution. Sun-Managersanswered both questions.Everyone who answered the rdate ? said that they have been using rdatefrom cron with no problems.The better solution ...

Thanks sun-managers!My problem was: my server's syslogd didn't log the messages itreceived in any of the files specified in syslog.conf. Thishappened when I upgraded from 4.0.1 to 4.0.3.Sollution: As most people who answered my call for help guessed,I had a line "define( LOGHOST, 1 ...

Original Message:I have a problem doing my backups on a Sparc. I run the exact same scripton a 4/110 and it works fine. I am using the Sun Consulting SpecialSS1-Tape driver for the exabyte. The problem is as follows:...Any help that is offerred would be appreciated and I will summarize to ...

A few days back I asked> We are having problems with some processes going to disk wait state> (ps -aux shows status D) on our SUNs (4/280, 4/330 or 3/50's). The> processes most frequently affected are the nfs daemons and other daemon> processes. When a process is in the disk wait ...

I guess this question is the most frequently asked on earth! Here isa summary of what worked for me and ANOTHER QUESTION (so please don't move on just yet...:-)Our configuration: A Sun 3/160, running 4.0.3, with a 7053 controllerand a 688 Mbyte SMD disk.The problem: I needed more inodes and ...

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Thanks so much to everyone who responded to my query aboutNSE. I got a fair number of responses, and decided just to include them here:>From amdcad!cayman!randyd@ames.arc.nasa.gov Tue Feb 13 18:02:17 1990To: kam@titan.tsd.arlut.utexas.eduSubject: Sun's NSEStatus: ROHi!We reviewed NSE about ...

I'd like to amend the original question to ask about experiences inmixed environments (Vaxes and Suns). Most of our machines are suns, butwe have to build things on vaxen as well. Does NSE permit this in areasonable fashion? Or should we stick with RCS/SCCS (we have both) andwrite our own ...

Thanks for every one replied. The mistake I made was the conflictspeed between the 3/60 (19200 baud) and the lw printer (9600 baud).The printer works great after the fix.Many people pointed out the conflict of the speed. Other ideas were1) check the cabling, flow control, carrier detect, ...

Well, not much to be said here. "restore" just takes a god-awfullong time to complete. Thing is, I was aware of that. What I observedwas that "restore" from the miniroot takes approximately 3 - 4 timesas much time as "restore" when the system is booted ...

Once again sun-managers to the rescue... (where have I heard that one before :-)Many thanks to everyone who replied to my earlier request forexperiences adding third party memory to SS1's. While it seems thatmost respondents are *adding* memory to the existing Sun 1MB's, mostdid not ...

This a good explanation of the 7 groups bug. I thank all who answered, especially those that gave a good detailed explanation of the cause and why Ihad not experienced the problem.******************************************************************************From: Laura Pearlman ...

Since some people also requested the information, here is a summary tomy question on how you calculate the disk partition information.Earlier today I wrote:| Either:| 1) I am not reading the right manual (System Administraton: Chapter| 10 - Managing disks with format).| 2) I have the ...

On Mar 2, 3:04pm, I wrote:} Subject: Re: How to calculate partition table information (SUMMARY)| Since some people also requested the information, here is a summary to| my question on how you calculate the disk partition information....Since I posted my summary earlier today, other people have ...

On 3/5 I posted a query about a lost disk label and a breifsummary of the configuration.There were two trains of thought on the solution of the problem. Thefirst was that there may be a problem with the disk, the second thatthere is an application overwriting the disk label, which more ...

The problem turned out to be an incorrect link. For some reason, my/export/exec/sun3x, which is /usr of the client and should link to/export/exec/sun3, linked to /export/exec/kvm/sun3x. After this fix(and some other little touch ups for the local environments), the clientran great. Here is ...

A couple of weeks ago I asked sun-managers:> Does anyone know of any sources for Sun Type-4 compatible keyboards?>> I'm specifically looking for one that has:> - larger keys> - a less mushy feel> - something approximating the VT100 key layout I learned to type onSo far ...

Thanks for all the responses. Looks like the problem is fixed nowand the guilty party has been duly flamed by a number of people.It was a screwup at Millipore Corp, where the sysadmin set up an internal redistribution list that had the unfortunate behavior ofredistributing articles back to the ...

>> From: Joan Curry <bcstec!uunet!mcnc.org!bdrc!jwc> >> >> It was a screwup at [name deleted], where the sysadmin set up an >> internal redistribution list that had the unfortunate behavior of >> redistributing articles back to the parent list.I have ...

Here's the summary that I promised. The "ayes" definitely have it, atleast for our needs. That is to say, if you are looking for a very costeffective way of putting NFS "disk farms" on your net then 4/60 plusthird party SCSI drives are the way to go. I did my own some ...

This was my original mail:>[...]>>Which is the "real" diference between the SPARCserver 330 and 370? It looks>to me that they have the same performance only differing in disks space and >number of available slots. Am I correct?>>It's possible to connect an 8mm ...

Original question:It has been my impression that the Xylogics 7053 disk controller is supposed tobe "plug and play" compatible with the Xylogics 451, that is, you don't need toreformat the disks when you upgrade from a 451 to a 7053. Indeed, this issupposed to be its major advantage ...

        Thanks for all your help, folks.         A brief description of the original problem and the solution I adoptedfollows.The Problem:============        We have an ...

I have made the serial line document available for anonumousftp at eru.mt.luth.se [130.240.0.9] in pub/serial.ps.Z.Sven-Ove Westberg, CAD, University of Lulea, S-951 87 Lulea, Sweden.Internet: ...

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ok, i'm deluged with requests (400+ in the first 24 hours). attachedis a uuencoded, compressed postscript file with the Intro to SerialLines Guide. to turn it into something useful:        save this message into file ...

You read right.I'm not claiming that this archive is complete, comprehensive, or evenall that useful. For awhile now I have been trying to save allanswers and summaries that have been sent to this list. I have NOTbeen saving messages that are strictly questions (perhaps I shouldhave).This ...

        I found this on Usenet, and as I haven't seen it mentioned here, Ifigured I'd pass the info along to the rest of you. I haven't had time tolook at it yet, so I can't verify anything in this posting. I just wantedto let you all ...

Hello SUN managers,A few months agoo I purchased a exabyte for our 4/280 server.At that time our 4/280 was running 4.0 and the exabyte did not work properlywith that OS level. SUN advised to upgrade to 4.0.3.Apart from problems during upgrade , the current level seems to improve ...

Hi -   I found a loophole in sendmail in Sun OS 4.0.3 that lets someonewrite to a file (but not /etc/passwd) - can anyone help me closethat hole? I have the standard sendmail.mx, no source, but access tobsd source.        Wayne ...

Well, with the information everyone sent in it looks like i'll be inbusiness. A number of people described the parameters involved andhow they should look in the config file and one person mentioned thatthere are some specific details for tuning kernel IPC paramaters inthe sys admin manual. ...

Thanks to the many people who responded to my questions on Exabytes.The consensus is that Exabytes can, indeed, be mounted and used "sideways",and that many vendors actually mount the drive this way.(Actually, think about the 8mm drive in a SONY HandyCam and the sort ofrotational ...

Thanks again managers!Consensus is that Exabyte works well with the SS1. The followingpoints summarize what is needed to make it work.1) A special cable. The SS1 uses a mini connector. This is   relatively inexpensive (<$100) and easy to find.2) A modified scsi device ...

There are two popular approaches to determining memory size. I've includedexamples of each:FIRST APPROACH:        Examine the file /var/adm/messages that should have recorded the        memory size information as ...

Hi there, Time for a short summary considering the automounter and YP.After several trial and error sessions adding an YP map, it seemesthat after modification of the YP makefile the maps _are_ created butnot being propagated to slave servers. The fix was not creating theauto.*.{dir,pag} ( yp ...

I have compiled a 300 line summary of both commercial & public domainalternatives to buying Transcript from Sun in order to use a PostScript printer. There are references to anonymous ftp access to hoardes ofavailable filters. Its too long to post here, but it was posted ...

Hello Managers,Some time back I had posted to this list asking suggestions formoving physically disk drives. I got quite a few replys and thanksfor all those replied.To summerize what I received :1) Most of the newer disk drives come with some sort of electromechanical mechanism to park the ...

        First of all, the quality of responses more than makes up forhaving to go through 10-15 e-mail a day from sun-managers, thanks to allthose who answered.        Resume:    Upon copying ...