I have not had much luck so far in getting an answer. I do thank the 2 people who have replied. From those I recieved one that said he saw it a little slower, but he doesn't have as large of a database, and the other suggested good debugging tips, like starting off small and growing to a ...

I did get some good responses, but I still feel that my major concern ofthe maximum amount of swap is hazy. If anybody has more info on this pleasefeel free to mail me. Thanks for all of the responses.********************************************************************************Original ...

My original question:Presently all of our applications run under SUN's openlookwindow system. Since SUN has announced that they will conform to the OSF/MOTIF window system, some companies arereleasing their new releases of applications only under MOTIFfor the SUN platforms. As I understand it, ...

All:Thanks to any who might have responded to my question;I got an answer from a colleague here. The LX hasa sun4m kernel architecture...My question was simply that -- what is the kernel architectureof a SPARCstation LX?Sorry to waste bandwidth...Leslie Dreyer KalraAT&T Bell LabsAllentown, ...

My summary of two weeks ago needs revision due to an important messagereceived after the first summary and because my Canadian english earbadly mangled the name of someone that phoned in their contribution.Please refer to that summary for the original question and summary ofearlier responses ...

  Apologies for the time taken to submit this summary... For thosethat requested summaries, hopefully the "condensed version" belowis enough. If more detailed comments are wanted, please send meE-mail.  The original question:>---> We're thinking about ...

Not too much help .. I got the one answer below and someone else whowas willing to let me hire him to figure it out. I can confirm thebelow since I tried dd'ing the raw device and that didnt work toowell.I think the answer is more political than technical as SUN Supportwasn't too ...

I asked for help getting an Elite 3 (ST43400N) working on a 4/370 running4.1.1.Well I only got one reply but thats not surprising. I do not believe thereis a problem with this combination.I don't know what was wrong when I sent my request, but the followingmorning I re-checked the ...

jrc@flash.sra.com (Jim Chappell) writes:>Ted Gilchrist (tedg@well.sf.ca.us) wrote:>: I have some questions about setting up by 14400 baud modem>: for dialing OUT from my Sparc Classic running Solaris 2.1. Why stop at 19200?You should set the DTE speeds at both ends of the link at the ...

Sorry for the delay in posting this summary; I's been busy. Several weeks ago, I said:>Greetings, Sun Managers. I have a problem that all of the so-called tech>experts say shouldn't happen, but does nonetheless. So I figured I'd better >ask the REAL experts; here goes...> ...

Ok folks, here it is! The HP354XXA summary.I have had quite a few reaction on the question I posted last weekabout an HP drive I have.Today, two weeks after having consulted my dealer about the drive,I received a fax from him of HP documents about this matter. Ityped the fax over and included ...

I posted a question about DNS on SUN OS 4.1.3. The procedure inbindon41 wasn't quite working for me. Here are some of theresponses for getting name server running without NIS. The procedures are very simular. Thanks to all replied.From: Jim Davis <jdavis@cs.arizona.edu>To: Bill Wang ...

Sorry for the delay, things have been hectic around here.First, my original description of the problem.> I've been having some trouble with a SPARCstation IPC (SunOS 4.1.2).> > The system in question has been crashing repeatedly (about once> a night). A call to Sun gave the OK to ...

jrc@flash.sra.com (Jim Chappell) writes:>Ted Gilchrist (tedg@well.sf.ca.us) wrote:>: I have some questions about setting up by 14400 baud modem>: for dialing OUT from my Sparc Classic running Solaris 2.1. >..Stuff deleted.>: Here is me dialing a 9600 baud line in a couple of ...

In message <9307141534.AA02630@sws1.CTD.ORNL.GOV> I wrote:>Yes, I know it's impossible...but I'd like to try anyway.>>A Very Important User here lost a file and wants it back very badly.>He was editing the file in vi (first mistake) and got some kind of>"bad file ...

Original query:> Has anyone seen a version of lsof or ofiles for Solaris 2.2?The quick (and correct) answer:Version 2.19 of lsof is available at ftp.cc.purdue.edu:/pucc/lsof219tar.Z(If you prefer `ofiles', it looks like you're out of luck.)Thanks ...

ellis@nova.gmi.edu (R. Stewart Ellis) writes:>Why stop at 19200?Because Solaris 2.2 has problems accepting incoming characters over thebuiltin serial ports at higher speeds. Solaris 2.2 may work fine withan SBus Serial Parallel Controller, which is what Ellis wrote about. But watch out if ...

A week ago, I asked why OpenWindows 3.1 was producing this error on startup:         selection_service: Permission denied         Couldn't register selection serviceI received quite a few theories, and ...

This is a summary of the answers I was sent for the following twoquestions, for the benefit of anyone else who may be experiencing thesame symptoms. Many thanks to all those who replied.***** Question 1: frequent lockups in OpenWindows under Solaris 2.1 *****Eckhard R"uggeberg ...

----------X-Sun-Data-Type: textX-Sun-Data-Description: textX-Sun-Data-Name: textX-Sun-Charset: us-asciiX-Sun-Content-Lines: 35The original query was:> I have been running top-3.0 under Solaris 2.1 and 2.2 and it runs as> expected under root but for any user no processes show up. All of ...

My original message was:> compiling an X-program (I've gotten it via ftp)> under Solaris 1.1 and OpenWindow 3.0> I run into problems with the libraries.> > Using the libraries needed (in my opinion)> -lXaw -lXmu -lXext -lXt -lX11 -lm > I get the undefined symbols > ...

Dear all,The fix to my problems was to install the later patch (100452-41), which Idid and the problems went away.Thanks very much for your help to:brian@arthur.melpar.esys.com (Brian Decker)wschmidt@iao.fhg.de (Wolfram Schmidt)Birger.Wathne@vest.sdata.no (Birger A. Wathne)All suggested I ...

Apparently Part 2 contained some characters that reulted in themessage being truncated. Here it is again (completely I hope)Part 2/2As we run 4.1.2 we don't have either /usr/kvm/sys/scsi/targets/st_conf.cor /usr/kvm/sys/scsi/targets/stdef.h.However, I did find /usr/kvm/sys/sundev/streg.h which ...

ORIGINAL QUESTION:>Hello Sun mgrs,>Since SMCC requires Solaris 2.x to use the new 4mm DAT, I am looking for>a 3rd party drive. I've looked into the Exabyte models, which I think>Sun has used in the past.>Any information concerning good 3rd party DAT drives, as well as any ...

    Well, I've managed to combine my /usr (sd0g) and /home (sd0h)partitions and the system is alive and well. It was quite simple in theend (well, it should have been :-) - see below). This is what I did(and didn't) do.    To start with ...

The answer was in fact that the math.h is in a different package.SUNWlibm contains the math stuff, and as soon as I did a pkgadd, itshowed up plain as day!Thanks to: Frank Peters (fwp@CC.MsState.Edu) for the correct ...

I submitted a question a couple of days ago and as usual got a quick response.Problem : A Sparc 2 running Solaris 2.2 is getting errors about network locking when automounting from 4.1.1 machines.Answer : The message appears to be harmless but can be corrected by applying the following patch to ...

eggert@twinsun.com (Paul Eggert) writes:>ellis@nova.gmi.edu (R. Stewart Ellis) writes:>>Why stop at 19200?>>Because Solaris 2.2 has problems accepting incoming characters over the>builtin serial ports at higher speeds. Solaris 2.2 may work fine with>an SBus Serial Parallel ...

Well, I got many replies, a lot of which pointed me to earliersummaries and, to my shame, a FAQ. My excuse is that theanswer to question 11 includes information which is notreally an answer to the question.The important extra information I have to impart is that:1) the solution in the FAQ does ...

sucilla@ixstar.ih.att.com (John "C". Sucilla) writes:>I dunno if I would blame it on Solaris 2.2. I'm running 2.2 on an LX>and my 486DX/50 is connected to ttyb at 38400....>Could be the ELC's hardware thats giving you grief?It's not just the ELC's hardware, since the ...

------------------------------ Start of body part 1Gotten several answers. Only one really useful one. This isgiven by Leslie Dreyer Kalra (lbd@mhcnet.att.com). (for allthose who answered, I was running NeWS (not X11) and was settingmy DISPLAY env variable correctly). See below for the ...

My question was: > > We are looking for a CD-ROM Duplication system for distributing data. I > have found a company called Trace which sells software and repackages Sony's > DCW-900E for this purpose, but their software is designed for PCs. > We are talking about low ...

> > I can't find this error message in the manuals. I am doing a NIS make and > get the following error message;> > Cycle detected in /etc/netgroup: .> Cycle detected in /etc/netgroup: .> updated netgroup> > I can see no problems in my /var/etc/`domainname`/netgroup ...

I'd like to add to the Summary I posted, since what I now have tosay points to a deficiency in FAQ #11 response.I received 2 messages from Rick.Tilson@Corp.Sun.COM (Rick Tilson)which imply that A) The solution in the FAQ ASSUMES open boot prom < 2.6, there is a   different ...

My question was:> We have a SPARCstation 2 running Solaris 2.1 and last week we got the> following error repeatedly and eventually the machine crashed. And now it> wont boot.> > zs0: Silo overflow> zs0: ring buffer overflow> > Is this a hardware problem ? What does it ...

I received two replies with useful information. I'll be looking intoboth products. Many thanks for the replies, even though my Reply-Toaddress was screwed up (it should be miker@swissbank.com).----- Begin Included Message -----Date: Tue, 13 Jul 93 11:59:53 PDTFrom: bill@hobbes.access.com ( ...

I misposted a summary, which allows me to post a more complete one.Well, I got many replies, a lot of which pointed me to earliersummaries and, to my shame, a FAQ. My excuse is that theanswer to question 11 includes information which is notreally an answer to the question, and turns out to be ...

Recap: PC-NFS 5.0 on a 486 DX connected via ethernet to a Sun 4/470 as server.Server's filesystems could be mounted on the PC, but any operations wouldquickly lock up the PC, the only way out being complete reboot.The opinions on this were mainly divided between memory clashes and IO clashes ...

Thanks alot to people who responded to my quest for aworking undump. They saved me lots of time, and I amvery grateful.1. dan@diamond.bbn.com sent me their undump archive for almost   all the machines. undump.bsd.c in the archive should work for   SUN4. I have not ...

Hi Netters!This is a SUMMARY of my original post (included below) on howto add a signature block to email using the mailtool under OW3.I got super response (as always). All information was helpful.Most all said the easiest way was to create a template (Edit/Properties) then "include" ...

> We know several people with immediate (actually it may> be too late already) need for a 1280x1024 video card> for a SUN that is not ridiculously expensive like the> SUN GT graphics tower. We don't need great speed--> standard GX speed is quite sufficient. We also need > ...

Fellow Managers,I had suspected that mine was a FAQ, and indeed it was - the answer is "definitively" located in the FAQ for comp.sys.sun.admin Usenet group (item #24). Other than the "me toos", pretty much everyone who responded has suggested the "suntar" ...

According to phoff@panix.com (Phill Hoff):>>>Many thanks to those who replied to my orginal post of:>>>>>I was talking to a vendor and they suggested that in order to have high>>availabliity we should have all of our 140 clients be NIS slaves and bind>>to ...

Here is what I wrote:------- Forwarded MessageTo: Sun Managers <sun-managers@eecs.nwu.edu>Subject: PCNFS can't find YP serverDate: Mon, 12 Jul 93 10:47:52 -0400From: Tommy Reingold <tommy>The PC's on my net run PCNFS version 3.0.1. My YP master and slaveservers run SunOS 4.1.3 ...

>>>>>>I was talking to a vendor and they suggested that in order to have high>>>availabliity we should have all of our 140 clients be NIS slaves and bind>>>to themselves. This would get us around a problem of having an NIS slave go down>>>then ...

In article <221mag$3r9@panix.com>, phoff@panix.com (Phill Hoff) writes:|> |> Many thanks to those who replied to my orginal post of:|> |> >|> >I was talking to a vendor and they suggested that in order to have high|> >availabliity we should have all of our 140 ...

Last week I wrote:> Hi Sun managers,> I have a Sun IPX running 4.1.3 and when I tried to build a kernel this> is what happend:>> a) config ARCHES> Doing a "make depend".....No problems>> b) cd ../ARCHES> make>> This ...

I wrote last night ...> Over the weekend I upgraded my Sun SS1+ from 4.1.1B to 4.1.3.> Everything seemed to go well. I am running DNS without NIS. So, I> recreated a libc.so.x.y.z file per the summary a few weeks ago. That> fixed the problem of not being able to resolve the names of ...

Thanks to the helpful netters who responded to my posting aboutadding memory to an SS1. A couple of other netters asked me topost a summary, since they were also interested in adding RAM totheir Sparcs.Here are the major points: 1) Memory speed does not have to bematched, so long as the ...

The original question pertained to a change of host and the apparent lack of use of the new `mailhost' variable by clients. I had severalreplies (thank you) and the correct answer was:        change OR to ...