format.dat for Micropolis 2112

4129 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 8:23:00
Here is the summary of messages I received in response to my request forthe format.dat entry for the Micropolis 2112 disk drive.Thanks to the following people for your quick responses:  stevem@csdc02.orl.mmc.com  cc_gucky@rcvie.co.at (Gerhard ...

Sun scsi differential discs on Sun differential controller

4434 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 8:23:00
I recently asked:=======================================================From: lct@ai.mit.edu (Leonardo C. Topa)To: sun-managers@eecs.nwu.eduSubject: Sun scsi differential discs on Sun differential controllerDate: Tue, 13 Jul 93 13:44:26 EDTI have three scsi differential discs purchased from Sun ...

Which would YOU buy?

18726 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 8:23:00
Well, the replies to my post of June 24 have finally trickled off and we'vemade a purchase. The original message, in brief, requested net opinion onwhat YOU would buy for a document generation system. The votes ended upas follows...        Island ...

dump and raw partitions

6535 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 8:23:00
Here is what I asked:> > Any ideas if dump (either the normal one or the Backup Copilot version)> will properly dump a raw partition that doesn't contain a filesystem?> > The particular situation I have in mind is where the raw partition> contains oracle database data.> ...

Video Cable connectors for SS2 etc.

5141 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 8:23:00
Three replies, all mentioning NUDATA. My question and the repliesfollow. Thanks to those who replied.           __ | Dunstan Vavasour | Voice: (+44) 788 ...

HP550C printcap

3211 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 8:23:00
Original question - printcap for HP550C and serial cable.Cable is standard null modem. Some of the more useful answsersfollow, and kindest thanks to all who took the time to reply.From: tse@virgin.island.COM (Tech Support account)Printcap entry for ...

assertion failed (SparcPrinter)

3268 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 8:23:00
Hello,Thank you all for your kind relpies to my question. I apologize for notincluding a subject line, or various information about my machine.My original question was:> Hi,> > I have been having the following problem. I think it may be connected> with the fact that I have a ...

dns / sendmail problem

2686 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 8:23:00
Here was my problem:----- Begin Included Message -----Hi Everybody,To send mail to a host in my domain I had to add the following line tomy dns set up:        *.for.gov.bc.ca. IN MX 10 gumby.for.gov.bc.ca.The problem is once the record is in place local ...

what does it mean?

2355 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 8:23:00
Dear Sun Managers,Thanks so much to all who responded.To get it to work, most managers suggested to enter this line after telnetor rlogin to SS2 machine.        % setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH /usr/openwin/libI have included below the explanation from Jerry ...

3rd party service & maintenence? Opinion of Grumman?

10348 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 8:23:00
Sun Managers,    Thank you for your comments! Below are the comments of 3rd partyservice & maintenence users, which I found to be quite interesting.I have removed the names from the passages, as quite a few wished toremain anonymous.- Robert Freeman  Systems ...

bootpd - Internet Boot Protocol server on Sun

3035 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 8:23:00
> My original question:> Anyone have any idea what this would be called or how> I would implement it on Sun....The Answer:        booptd is available at your favorite ftp site...        I used the ...

Excessive collision patch

3663 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 8:23:00
Hey Folks -Thanks for the quick response! The patch I was looking for was # 100768.Randy Ott of Logicon on beatiful Bellvue, WA sent the README, so I will in my summary.The specific patch was designed to work with SS2, but you will notice inthe README that sun4m is supported.--- cut here ...

problem with rcp

2871 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 8:23:00
[ My original question:[ Our nightly backup routine copies a 400 Mb databse file to a [ development machine. Both machines are runing 4.1.2 mostly[ generic kernels (max users up'd). About one night out of five,[ the copy will fail and cause a spurious reboot of the source[ machine.[ [ The ...

Summary of audio CDs on Solaris 2.2

1489 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 8:23:00
In article <1993Jul23.161729.26168@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>, rince@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (James Bonfield) writes:|> |> Hello,|> Thanks to all the people who replied about audio CDs on solaris 2.2.|> The problem, as I already knew, what the vold. But I was really looking for a|> ...

mkalias man page

7985 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 8:23:00
Original Question:---------------------------------------------------------------------------    Does anybody have a man page for /usr/etc/yp/mkalias? I've RTFMed,    grepped AnswerBook and read the FAQs - all to no avail.    mkalias ...

Summary of audio CDs on Solaris 2.2

3027 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 8:23:00
In <235lvnINN503@signal.dra.hmg.gb> bilsby@hermes.mod.uk (David Bilsby) writes:> In article <1993Jul23.161729.26168@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>, rince@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (James Bonfield) writes:> |> > |> Hello,> |> Thanks to all the people who replied about audio CDs on ...

xdm Solaris 2.2? Worthwhile or not?

1273 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 8:23:00
Answer, yes.It's not as buggy as first impressions suggested. Still haven't got xlogintaking it's resources from /usr/openwin/lib/xdm/Xresources. Hmmph.--Rob.Thanks to ...poc@usb.ve Patrick O'Callaghangdmr@dcs.ed.ac.uk George D M Rossshevett@sparc.bighouse.unipress.com Dave ...

Summary of audio CDs on Solaris 2.2

1847 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 8:23:00
In <235lvnINN503@signal.dra.hmg.gb> bilsby@hermes.mod.uk (David Bilsby) writes:> In article <1993Jul23.161729.26168@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>, rince@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (James Bonfield) writes:> |> > |> Hello,> |> Thanks to all the people who replied about audio CDs on ...

Summary of audio CDs on Solaris 2.2

183 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 8:24:00
I got workman via anonymous ftp to ftp.hyperion.com<p>                   Mark Schmitt<p>

dns/sendmail problem (additional info)

3016 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 8:24:00
Here's some additional information that I received. With this little tweakto the /etc/sendmail.cf file and the sendmail patch listed below you shouldbe able to use wildcard mx records in your domain.Thanks to Brian Katzung....> From brian_katzung@lisle.swissbank.com Tue Jul 27 06:57:42 ...

SC100 memory

2266 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 8:24:00
Dear friends,     It appears that memory for the SC100 from third party vendors is not yetavailable.There were only two suggestions > Call Matt Chin at Helios. They will have SS1000 SIMM's in 2-3 weeks.> Phone # 1-800-366-0283 1-408-432-0232> Tell them you ...

socket FIN_WAIT_2 timeouts under Solaris 2.2

1841 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 8:24:00
My original message:> Under Solaris 2.2, I am having a lot of problems with sockets that> did not exist under SunOS. Notably, if a process crashes or a network> connection goes down, I get sockets left in LAST_ACK, FIN_WAIT_2, and> other states.> > Sun's patch 101027 which ...

Solaris 2.2 kernel panic: physio_unlock

9035 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 8:24:00
My original message:> I have an SS10/30 running Solaris 2.2 with the following patches:> > 100999-06> 101027-03> 101095-01> > I occasionally see a kernel panic on physio_unlock. The traceback is:> > complete_panic(0xf00b6c00,0x0,0xfffd,0xfc42a000,0x0,0x1) + ...

Getting Xsun to work with two xgsix frame buffers

2365 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 8:24:00
> My original question:> Dear Managers,>> I have two monitors, one 15ich and one 19inch sun monitors connected to sparc 10.> The 19inch monitor is connected to gx+ videocard and 19inch is connected to gx > card. The two cards are mapped to cgsix0 and cgsix1. >> I ...

Summary of audio CDs on Solaris 2.2

1113 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 8:24:00
Alexander P. Zijdenbos (alex@vuse.vanderbilt.edu) wrote:: I have been running WorkMan under Solaris 2.2 on a SPARC LX, and it's: a nifty tool. However, it hangs up more or less frequently, always: leaving an `unkillable' process behind that bogs the machine down to: the point it really has ...

Sharing VAX file system with Sun

10139 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 8:24:00
The question was:> Anyone out there who has ever managed to mount a remote nfs file system> from a VAX cluster? In a first attempt at it we got the following output > at the SUN side):> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------> sun1 ...

Dump problems with Backup Copilot

1430 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 8:24:00
I had stated earlier that I had a problem with locked filesystems arisingfrom failed backups using the backup-copilot version of 'dump'. Turns out,there is a program: /usr/etc/lockfs which can be used to manually lockand unlock filesystems. Lacking a manual for backup copilot, i was unawareof ...

NIS lethargy ?

3103 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 8:24:00
The essentials of my original posting:>>I've got some applications which use Tooltalk but the tt_open can take>>almost 3 mins to start. On interrupting the process with dbx at the>>slow point I find it is doing:>> ....>> clntudp_call() >> v2domatch() ...

Classing Engine

3858 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 8:24:00
This is only a partial summary. I only got a few responses and have notresolved my problems (unusual!). I have been unable to get ce_db_build to compile a database, even one that I created by using ce_db_build -to_ascii. Are there any classing engine patches for Solaris 2.2 yet ? I will leave ...

HELP - Permission denied on ALL files to ALL users!

3474 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 8:24:00
Well, the problem was so obvious that it eluded us for quite some time...The permissions on the root filesystem were somehow changed. We're now tryingto trace how it happened.Thanks to those who shed the light on this embarassingly simple problem...Melissa ...

odd settatr messages

4696 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 8:24:00
Yesterday I asked a question about odd messages appearing recentlyin /var/adm/messages. They look like this:Jul 27 00:00:05 egret0 vmunix: setattr: truncate or extend to non-zeronot supportedI received replies from guy@auspex.com and kevin@uniq.com.au.They pointed out that this is a complaint ...

690 Hangs requires power cycle to clear

2795 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 8:24:00
The problem was a 690/120 which was hanging adn requiring a power cycle toclear the hang. I had five replies from :-swanes@etswwmd.nyeq.gs.com"nrd@lenti.med.umn.edustrombrg@hydra.acs.uci.edumilo!nrchs016!blansing@texsun.Central.Sun.COMAROSSITE@us.oracle.comThanks.There are two patches ...

Summary of audio CDs on Solaris 2.2

688 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 8:24:00
> Solaris 2.2 vold gets in the way. I just killed it since I don't use it>>>Malteversion 1.0.2 works with vold on Solaris 2.2, fromftp.hyperion.com:/WorkMan/WorkMan-1.0.2.tar.{Z,gz}. i've been using it for a while now...-rajesh---Rajesh Godbole, Rajesh.Godbole@Eng.Sun.COMSun ...

SUN 4/390 server develops Alzheimers - The saga of Kerplop continues.

10051 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 8:24:00
Thanks to all who wrote in with an answer. Kerplop The Wonder Server nowcomputes happily in its hutch.I will not be taking up comedy writing. I am writing down my life experiencesin the event that I make billions on television. Kerplop is a big improvementover duh.-- ...

NIS lethargy ?

3090 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 8:24:00
The essentials of my original posting:>>I've got some applications which use Tooltalk but the tt_open can take>>almost 3 mins to start. On interrupting the process with dbx at the>>slow point I find it is doing:>> ....>> clntudp_call() >> v2domatch() ...

HELP - Permission denied on ALL files to ALL users!

3357 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 8:24:00
Well, the problem was so obvious that it eluded us for quite some time...The permissions on the root filesystem were somehow changed. We're now tryingto trace how it happened.Thanks to those who shed the light on this embarassingly simple problem...Melissa ...

Classing Engine

3834 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 8:24:00
This is only a partial summary. I only got a few responses and have notresolved my problems (unusual!). I have been unable to get ce_db_build to compile a database, even one that I created by using ce_db_build -to_ascii. Are there any classing engine patches for Solaris 2.2 yet ? I will leave ...

inetd terminating gopher service

6054 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 8:24:00
The problem :We have a Sparc 10/41 server running Sunos 4.1.3 dedicated to running agopher service.When we attempt to index the menus (using Jughead or gophertree)the gopher server is terminated with the following message : inetd[140]: gopher/tcp server failing (looping), service ...

690 Hangs requires power cycle to clear

2725 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 8:24:00
The problem was a 690/120 which was hanging adn requiring a power cycle toclear the hang. I had five replies from :-swanes@etswwmd.nyeq.gs.com"nrd@lenti.med.umn.edustrombrg@hydra.acs.uci.edumilo!nrchs016!blansing@texsun.Central.Sun.COMAROSSITE@us.oracle.comThanks.There are two patches ...

inetd terminating gopher service

5946 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 8:24:00
The problem :We have a Sparc 10/41 server running Sunos 4.1.3 dedicated to running agopher service.When we attempt to index the menus (using Jughead or gophertree)the gopher server is terminated with the following message : inetd[140]: gopher/tcp server failing (looping), service ...

Summary of audio CDs on Solaris 2.2

266 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 8:24:00
So is there any (free) program that would get the digital data from an<p>audio CD into the computer's memory? For playing it through te<p>internal Speaker (after some conversion)?<p><br>--<br> _ <br>| | ) <br>|/\| \ Wolfgang Ratzka<p>Status: RO<p>Status: RO<br>

Summary of audio CDs on Solaris 2.2

813 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 8:24:00
In article <23bc9aINN9q9@rrzs3.uni-regensburg.de>, c4080@rphs2 (Wolfgang Ratzka) writes:> So is there any (free) program that would get the digital data from an> audio CD into the computer's memory? For playing it through te> internal Speaker (after some conversion)?I believe ...

Anonymous FTP per request

9645 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 8:24:00
 Hello everyone,                Thank you so much for so many response. I have successfully setup Anonymous FTP. I love this dl. Following is the procedure that I followedwith few changes sent to me by Rick ...

Adding SIMMs to SS1 - Summary

2466 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 8:24:00
In article <CAJM55.5Ay@cantua.canterbury.ac.nz>, physadm@phys.canterbury.ac.nz (Andrew McGregor) writes:|> In article 190793161224@qd.bus.utexas.edu, tom@sparta.bus.utexas.edu (Tom Linsley) writes:|> >Thanks to the helpful netters who responded to my posting about|> >adding ...

Pixrect in Solaris 2.2.

4134 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 8:24:00
        Shalom, Managers !You are as usual great ! Thanks a lot for your help !My question was as follows:>>> Shalom, Managers !>>I have some very strange porblem while migrating to Solaris 2.2 ( with>OW 3.1 ). There is a software based ...

Temperature monitor

822 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 8:24:00
william.m.gilroy writes:   What follows is a long summary of various temperature monitors. One item missing from this summary is a clever idea that was postedsome weeks ago -- using the audio port on a Sparc to read the outputfrom a home-brew temperture sensor. If I recall, the ...

read error file 0... reported by cron accounting

4643 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 8:24:00
My original question:>Every morning I get mail from cron from each and every Sun Sparc on>my network complaining about read errors during accounting. I have>been deleting these mail messages for quite some time, not knowing>how to pacify this problem. In the /var/adm/acct/nite ...

Summary of audio CDs on Solaris 2.2

2067 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 8:24:00
In article <23bdnh$57r@uk-usenet.uk.sun.com>,Steve McKinty - SunConnect ICNC <smckinty@sunicnc.France.Sun.COM> wrote::In article <23bc9aINN9q9@rrzs3.uni-regensburg.de>, c4080@rphs2 (Wolfgang Ratzka) writes::> So is there any (free) program that would get the digital data ...

can I print LaTeX source somehow with NeWSprint 2.0

7066 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 8:24:00
My question:I just got some documentation off the net, and it's in "LaTeX source".I have NeWSprint 2.0 and a postscript printer -- how can I print thisfile? I don't see anything in the NeWSprint manuals or man pages (orthe FAQ's) about LaTeX.The answers were all the same basically, ...

[SUMMARY] Sun's SS-1000 -- experiences requested

1412 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 8:24:00
In article <23o7i9$272@fred.fwi.uva.nl>, janw@fwi.uva.nl (Jan Wortelboer) writes:|> blymn@awadi.com.au (Brett Lymn) writes:|> |> >time man csh > /dev/null|> |> >SS2 (4.1.3): 10.5|> >SS1000 (5.2): 3.5|> On a SS10/41 (5.2)|> turing[17]/tmp# /bin/time ...