Looking for disk expansion options on Sun-4/330

6390 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 8:28:00
Hi,I wrote -> We have some 4/300's in the field which have one internal 669 SCSI> disk each. Because of a change in our package we need to augment> this disk space by 1 Gbyte on each machine.> > Sun tell us that the newer/only (1.05 Gb and 1.3 Gb) SCSI disks are not> ...

VIG

2297 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 8:28:00
Hi everyone,A few days ago I asked where I could find the editor "vig" which is similarto "vi" but with the extension of writing characters beyond US-ASCII. I'd like to thank Birger A. Wathne (Birger.Wathne@vest.sdata.no) andJames Rae (rae@decux.nvg.com) for their ...

S2.2 network hangup

11946 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 8:28:00
Hi Sun Net Managers,Thanks to all who responded! A recap is included below. It's not very"summarized", but hopefully is informative. Apologies for thebandwidth hit.I tried paraphrasing my original message a few times, but I keep leaving out significant information, so here's the ...

SPARCWORKS and SPARCCOMPILER C++ problems on Solaris

2242 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 8:28:00
2.2Keywords: My original questions:|> I can't get either sparcworks or sparccompiler c++ to work on my |> Solaris 2.2 machine. |> The details:|> SS10 running Solaris 2.2.|> <...stuff deleted for brevity...>|> Script started on Wed Sep 15 08:38:55 1993|> calvin% ...

/etc/psdatabase

1009 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 8:28:00
Thanx to all responders - the answer IS in the `ps' manual page. I just have to stop licking those aluminium pans.     /etc/psdatabase system namelist, device, and wait ...

Shadowing the NIS passwd file

5638 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 8:28:00
My original posting was:Hi Sun Managers,We have about 3500 NIS accounts and very few users are aware of theimportance of using a password that can not be cracked. Also, we do notwant to enforce restrictions on what kinds of passwords they can usebecause we are moving from a VAX to an UNIX ...

Help! My sendmail is taking over the system.

2536 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 8:28:00
Hello again,Yesterday I had the problem with sendmail not bouncing e-mail tonon-existant users. I have finally got to the bottom of the problem,it turned out that the sendmail.cf file had a few spaces rather thantabs on a key line. I went through all the lines that we modify andeventually ...

HP-Managers List

9945 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 8:28:00
        I appreciate the overwhelming number of "ME TOO" responses I         received. I also received several that pointed out newsgroups and        on-line ...

Let a Process freeze?

4794 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 8:28:00
Hi fellow Managers,> a probably easy one this Time (probably not worth a Summary, say "Pleeeze"> if you disagree :-) ...... and three Mails saying it came back. So here we go. My Question was:> I have two Processes running in parallel. The Processes are "badly> ...

Idle Daemon script

4706 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 8:28:00
On Tues. Sep 14 I asked for help with an Idled Daemon script. I received 7 responses from the following people: Carl Springer <cmspringer@amoco.com>  gjones@cvedg.CV.COM (Greg Jones) perryh@pluto.rain.com (Perry Hutchison) Peter.Samuel@nms.otc.com.au (Peter ...

Sun format 1/4" tape reader

23666 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 8:28:00
Original Post :>Hi ->> This may not be totally appropriate for this list, but here>goes :>> As a result of my continuing ethernet problems (see ie0: Ethernet>jammed summaries at a sun-managers archive near you...) I have several>users with ASCII text files ...

ls ..

1869 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 8:28:00
Hi Sun Managers, thank you all.I posted last Friday a question about ls on a new filesystem (see orginal attached at the end of this message).It turns out the permissions of the directory before I mount on top of it is not okay. first umount the filesystem and check the mount point ...

Solaris 2 version of OW applications for SunOs 4

1175 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 8:28:00
- Does exists 4.1.x versions of new Solaris applications (textedit, pageview..) ?Solaris2.x versions of OW application are Solaris2.x versions only. Openwindows for 4.1.x has similiar tools, but they are not as functional.Thanks to :Keith Abbey (Keith.Abbey@Corp.Sun.COM)Phill St-Louis ...

Want to get my sun envrionment at home...

8031 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 8:28:00
Sorry for the late summary, I was holding out for better answers...========================================The original question:What I would like to do is get as close to my work environment aspossible - at home. Unfortunately, this won't translate to spending lesstime at work - but that's ...

ghostview malformed color property

1071 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 8:28:00
Several people mentioned that the problem I had making ghostview 1.5work with ghostscript 2.6.1 is a known bug (it's in the FAQ) and can befixed by applying 4 patches to gs:ftp.cs.wisc.edu:/pub/ghost/ghostscript-2.6.1.fix-0[1234].gzThanks to Paul Hirose pthirose@rosarita.engr.ucdavis.eduErwin ...

HP 1200C with Newsprint?

785 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 8:28:00
-> -> I need to make a quick purchasing decision. Is this printer supported-> by Newsprint? Will it connect to the parallel port on the SPARCprinter card?-> Do I need the PostScript cartridge if it is already supported by NewsPrint?-> I've gotten no answers from other sources ...

Hard disks: 10ms vs 15ms?

11345 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 8:29:00
    Hi,I posted a question recently on the practical difference in "speed"(response time, througput, etc.). for a 10ms vs. 15ms hard disk whichcontains a heavily used NFS file system. I received a quite a fewresponses which are listed below. Here is an additional ...

st_conf.c entry for 8205ST tape?

2991 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 8:29:00
ORIGINAL POST =======>Sorry. I forgot some important information.He's doing this on a Sparc 10. I believe the OS is 4.1.2 or 4.1.3.Thanks!--- Forwarded mail from "Doris Harrington" <djh@hobbes.Rational.COM>I have a user in the field who is trying to hookup an Exabyte ...

netid ypmap

3013 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 8:29:00
Original messages:------------------------------------------------------------------We would like to change our NIS master to a non Sun machine.A problem we have is that the map 'netid.byname' doesnot seem to have a corresp. source and it is generatedby a binary called $(YPDIR)/mknetid.An ...

x3270 for Solaris 2.x - Yes, Again

1014 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 8:29:00
This one keeps turning up like a bad penny. Fortunately, the storygets brighter each time.After all the hoopla about x3270 version 1.2 or version 2.65 orcombinations thereof, along comes x3270 version 3.0. A singletweak of the Imakefile is all that is required to compile version3.0 for either ...

BSD compatibility ptys in Solaris 2.2

5774 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 8:29:00
My original query was:>Is it possible to increase the number of BSD compatibility ptys in Solaris 2.2>from the default of 16, and if so, how? The general response to this query was: set "npty" in /etc/system to bethe number of BSD compatibility ptys desired. One person also ...

Problems with booting a client

649 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 8:29:00
Thanks for all who has respond me and also apologize me for this silly question. Of course there was a oldentry of the servers name in /etc/hosts. After changingit the client boots very well.THanks againWolfgang--------------------Wolfgang LeideckUniversity of MannheimChair of Practical ...

Sparc10 ISDN & PPP

1680 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 8:29:00
It looks like the jury is still out on this one. Butch Deal responds that hehas it in use, that it only runs sync and is bundled w/ Solaris 2.3. Onlytwo other responses, both of which were interested in the summary. Sorry Icouldn't do better, Mike & Robin. My client wants to pursue the ...

SS1000 running Solaris 1.1?

2869 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 8:29:00
I recently asked:> In a recent sunflash, Vol 57 #12, reference was made to a SPARCserver 1000> Model 1101. The article seemed to state that Solaris 1.1 was supported on> the machine if it had only a single processor. I thought that SS1000's> were stuck with running 2.x. Is ...

communications with Suns

17191 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 8:29:00
        SORRY response time was so long, someday I need to do a survey ...

Watchdog resets on 670MP after Viking upgrade

8518 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 8:29:00
My original problem:> From: shuque@spectre.sas.upenn.edu (Shumon Huque)> Followup-To: junk> Posted-Date: Thu, 16 Sep 93 17:20:07 -0400> To: sun-managers@eecs.nwu.edu> Subject: Watchdog resets on 670MP after Viking upgrade> Reply-To: shuque@spectre.sas.upenn.edu> > We are ...

problem creating symbolic links from suid scripts.

881 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 8:29:00
Sorry but I just pulled a couple of bone head stunts that I should have realized.1. I just deleted the original article.2. When I dumped the engineering home across the network ( about a week earlier and everything         seemed to work ) I had some ...

le0 giant packet received

10821 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 8:29:00
Enclosed are the responses which were considered valuable informationfor this problems consideration.Here is the origional problem:The following message is seen on the Sun OW3 Console window--What does it mean, and what should I do about it?-- le0: Receive: giant packet from ...

Sparc Console message

10821 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 8:29:00
Enclosed are the responses which were considered valuable informationfor this problems consideration.Here is the origional problem:The following message is seen on the Sun OW3 Console window--What does it mean, and what should I do about it?-- le0: Receive: giant packet from ...

Openwindows V3.x Problem (libXmu.a)

3101 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 8:29:00
Hi,        Thanks to all who replied to the message I sent. Using linking statically (-Bstatic) fixes my problem for now, but I will get the patches a number of people pointed me at.        Maybe Sun could disribute ...

alias in ksh

7963 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 8:29:00
Dear gurusMy original question:> And here's my problem: what's the syntax for \!* in ksh ?> Or in other words: how can I include the arguments into the alias ?> alias cd 'cd \!* ; set prompt = "$HOST [$USER] `pwd` \! # "'> alias ll '/bin/ls -alF \!* | more'> alias ...

HELP: Monitor Differences?!

4096 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 8:29:00
Thanks to all who responded:        Fereydoun Tavangary <ft@SSD.intel.com>        Robert Bonomi <bonomi@delta.eecs.nwu.edu>        searle@pts.mot.com (Stephen ...

Speed of SPARCserver 1000

4370 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 8:29:00
SUMMARY Speed of Sparcserver 1000Sorry for being late with this summary, but I was still trying tocollect the infos. The original mail was :> Hi,> really disappointed about the performance of our new SPARCserver 1000> for a single user, could give someone me ideas about the relation ...

Problem with CAP60

522 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 8:29:00
The original question concerned aarpd complaining about "Zone ... unknown".I did not find a solution. Being pressed for time, I decided to use anexisting Gator Box to access the Mac's on the Ethernet. I regret not havinganything more for those of you who expressed interest in this ...

a more usable Print Manager

2315 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 8:29:00
My original request was:> is there a more easily usable, integrated program for managing printers and> print queues, preferably with an X-GUI, for the functions supplied by > lpr/lpq/lprm/lpc?Everyone who replied (except for one "me, too") suggested printtool, which ispart of ...

Nuking a CLOSING TCP/IP Port

5429 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 8:29:00
Thanks to those who responded:        wallen@cogsci.UCSD.EDU (Mark R. Wallen)        Lars-Gunnar Olsson <Lars-Gunnar.Olsson@data.slu.se>        kevin@uniq.com.au (Kevin ...

Ping does not recognize fully qualified host name

2519 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 8:29:00
Thanks to Edsel Adap ( adap@andrews.edu ) for the quick reply/solution.============================= Original post ==================================System:=========Sparc 10/41SunOs 4.1.3.I am trying to set up an alias for our main machine that would allow folksto ftp to ftp.cch.com.I have ...

PC-NFS and 3com cards - shared memory address ?

2066 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 8:29:00
====================== Original Question =======================================>> Hello again.>>>> I am attempting to configure the PC-NFS Lifeline mail notification program >> to notify PC users when they have received new mail on the SUN mailhost.>> >> ...

How the /etc/X0.hosts works?

3511 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 8:29:00
Howdy,I posted following to the list couple days ago.>I have Sun SPARCstation 2 running Sun OS 4.1.3 and OW 3.1. I edited the>/etc/X0.hosts file and put one system's hostname with domain name in the>file. I restart the system. Then telnet to that system. Set the display.>Start the ...

3x password checking

2141 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 8:29:00
Original text:> I am looking for some software that will limit the number of login attempts.> If someone enters the wrong password 3 times, I want their account to be> disabled until the sys adm fixes it. I know that sun ARM/ASET is advertised> to do this, but I am having trouble ...

in.telnetd limit of 64

1012 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 8:29:00
Thanks for the help from all who responded.I had the number of ptys set up but I had to recompile in.telnetd (andby the way..."rlogind")>From: Piete.Brooks@cl.cam.ac.uk>>> Has anyone worked around the limit of 64 incoming telnet sessions. We>> have plenty of machine ...

route says "File exists" (revised)

8537 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 8:29:00
Here is the original question with some additional comments.> From: MARINIER "Claude Marinier" 23-SEP-1993 08:59:37.17> To: SMTP%"sun-managers@eecs.nwu.edu"> CC: MARINIER> Subj: route says "File exists" (revised)> > Hi,> > This is a ...

still more nawk problems

2738 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 8:29:00
I've been asked to post a summary of my nawk troubles. The problemwas:>setting variables on the command line, as in:>> nawk '> ....> ' var="foo">>Apparently, var no longer takes effect in BEGIN, but only in the>main body. To get the old ...

Printer Accounting for Postscript without NewsPrint

3639 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 8:29:00
Hallo,many thanks to all who have responded to my query. I received a lot ofresponses. It seems that the problem of counting printed postscript-pageshas been discussed by many installations.Some people told me, that they are extracting some informationfrom the postscript file (for example, ...

Piping local newsprint output to remote printer

3436 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 8:29:00
This is not really a summary. Acctually, I have on received one response which was a "me too" response.I am still looking for an answer and I am still accepting comments. Thanks.----- Begin Included Message ----->From sun-managers-relay@ra.mcs.anl.gov Tue Sep 21 06:55:06 ...

Apple Personal Laserwriter

1680 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 8:29:00
Sorry for this late delay. Now here are my summary for following question:----- Begin Original Question -----Hello.I'm looking for a printer-driver for the apple personal laserwriter. This printer doesn't support postscript.I'm also looking for a equivalent printcap entry forthat ...

Mouse Pads - Postscript surrogate

4971 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 8:29:00
My original posting:> I seem to remember that some while ago someone gave a pointer to a> source for a postscript file which, when printed, could be used as a> mouse pad for a Sun optical mouse.> > > Please could you remind me where it was - I will summarise.I have had several ...

Perl for Solaris 2.2

10479 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 8:29:00
hallo all, here is the summary of my adventures with perl and solaris 2.2.First of all, I want to thank all people who replied!You will see their replies, at the end of this posting.Now, after various, unsuccessfull, tries, i got it compiled and this times it passes "make test". The ...

Crttool: arrow keys but no PF keys

1612 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 8:29:00
Hi All.Sorry this is so late, but I guess I was hoping to get an answer.I didn't get many responses, just a few people asking me where I gotthe original source. that's the extent of it. Below is the original Question.Lisa Isaacsemail: isaacsl@pluto.crd.ge.com----- Begin Included Message ...

3.5Gb ST43400N

8186 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 8:29:00
I recently asked for info about the Seagate ST43400N disk drive.here are the answers to my 3 questions:> 1) Anybody ever had any problems with this drive, or is it a "good bet"?Nobody had a bad word to say, many people liked the drive, and consideredit to be reliable and to have ...