here is my summary - also has any one got a little program like ping that sends a message out and indicates how longit took to get back a reply from the host the message was sentto ? a bit like ping I guess..You didn't mention what sort of wire you're using. Thin-net, twistedpair, thick-net? ...

-------------------------O R I G I N A L-----------------------------------Hello Sun-managers    I am running sun3 machines SunOS 4.1.1 and sun4 machines SunOS 4.1.3    both with C2 security running.    The auditd is running on all ...

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Well, the package that was suggested the most was Synchronize. We will investigate this package first.Contact: Kevin ColgateCrossWind Technologies, Inc.6630 Hwy 9, Suite 201Felton, CA 95018(408) 335-4988kevin@xwind.comAlso suggested was:Sun, Openwindows calendar managerIXI Corporation, ...

----------X-Sun-Data-Type: textX-Sun-Data-Description: textX-Sun-Data-Name: textX-Sun-Content-Lines: 6I have been asked to summarize on the some of the additionalinformation I have received on firewalls. This is my last summary.Thanks to jvncnet!super.org!adamfox (Adam ...

Original question:> Someone mentioned recently that Sun has designated certain patches as > 'mandatory' for Solaris 2. Before that, I was not aware that Sun has > done this. Now I am faced with the need to get Solaris 2.1 running on > an LX. Can someone please tell me what ...

On Sep 21, 9:30am, The problem:> Symptoms:>> Every few nights, between 3:15 and 3:16 AM, the system gets in a "confused"state. Any command which pokes at the kernel structures, i.e. uptime, ps, dies.The system behaves exactly as if we had built a new kernel and moved it ...

A little while ago I posted asking for information about attaching athird party CD-ROM to a Sparc. I received many helpful responses; belowis a summary.I also received a long summary of responses to the question when askedby Darrell Schiebel (dschieb@muse.cv.nrao.edu) back in January. If ...

Richard Mitchell 1026 (mitchell@aol12.wff.nasa.gov) wrote:: nawks usage statement is:: Usage: nawk [-f programfile | 'program'] [-Ffieldsep] [-v var=value] [files]: ^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^: which would indicate that the offered solution would work, but it: doesn't (at least ...

----------X-Sun-Data-Type: textX-Sun-Data-Description: textX-Sun-Data-Name: textX-Sun-Content-Lines: 66Thanks to all who responded:        Kevin Elphinstone <kevine@vast.unsw.edu.au>        Andy Heaps ...

Thanks a lot to:vad@focushope.edu (Vicki A. Dorazio CTA)ju@compwr.com (Janet Ulrich)starcesk@noc.hfh.edu (Pete Starceski)johnm@sse.com (John Malick)rlyle@nl.oracle.com (Rob Lyle Wizard of Ozje)My origin question was:>> does anybody know, for what is the FMLI (form & menu language ...

My orignal question was :> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------> Does anybody know if it is possible to run Sun's 4mm DAT (reputed to be a> SOLARIS 2.x only device) from a SunOs 4.1.x machine ?> > A last minute change of plan has delayed ...

Thanks to everyone who responded to my plea. It turned out that I had a/tmp directory that I forgot to look under. I ended yp mounting / fromthat one machine to a solaris 2 machine on my desk, poked around, found allthe junk in /tmp and deleted it. everything is fine.Here's the winning ...

Last week, I wrote:>A Sparc 1 detects two disks on its second SCSI bus at boot time,>can mount filesystems on those disks, but format(8S) cannot>see one of the two. Can anyone explain this? (The two disks>were formatted/partitioned one at a time using the SCSI target>ID that ...

Hello,Regarding my original questions:> # cd /users/alberto/ftp/uu.net> # pwd> pwd: getwd: can't stat .> # cd /users/alberto/ftp> # du -s> ./uu.net/..: No such file or directory> # mv uu.net somethingElse> /users: bad dir ino 296960 at offset 0: mangled .. entryI ...

There were a few people who wanted me to summarize because they had seen the same problem.One person suggested I send the problem to CERT, I did and eventually got a response.My original post to cert:        The folowing is a message that I sent to the ...

A couple of weeks ago I posted the question of how can I read the BackupCoPilot tape label from a shell script. I want to check to see if thecorrect tape is in the drive and send a reminder notice to change the tapeif the wrong tape is loaded. The only Backup CoPilot Utility that would allow ...

Thanks to the following people for the info.Question:Anyone have info on Tidal Wave?jvncnet!netcom.com!guycole (Guy Cole)Uses On Line Disk Suite" which does disk mirroring.---------------------------------------------------------------Jim Ray Harris SemiconductorInternet: ...

Fsck indicated bad blocks on a number of new disks installed on 4.1.3systems. After having the disks confirmed good by two seperate agencies,the disk manufacturer advised us that SunOS 4.1.3 fsck, did not work.The question was:>I was told that fsck does not work on >4.1.3.. Is this ...

I am presently working on serial line communications with several flavours of UNIX(namely: SUNOS4.1, SCO UNIX, Chorus/MiX3.2) and I have problems understanding clearlyhow all this works. For example when perfoming the following:        Machine A Machine ...

Many thanks to:        - Bruce Kelly        - Rick Brode        - John Rowe        - Anna ...

Here's the summary of the answers I got to my request in comp.sys.sun.appswith the subject: "Which Motif to buy for SunOS 4.1.3?".My conclusion: Buy it from IXI. They even sell it to Sun.Thanks again to all who sent me a reply -- ...

>Question: can I use the parallel port of Sparc 10 for printing on>Solaris 2.2. I did not find anything in the Answer-Book.I was told:See /dev/bpp. There is a man page in section 7.--Randy Gregor, SunSoftWe've a Classic in work and we print from the parallel port no problem, thedevice ...

Hello all..Sorry for the delayed response. I got some responses and wantedto take the time to properly test them before I summarized. I'vefound one solution that works just ducky for me. To briefly summarize my original question, There are a coupleof from lines in a mail header:>From ...

Thanks for the responses!Original message:>I apologize if there are some of you that feel this is inappropriate for this>group. But with the recent mail to this list explaining no HP/Apollo discussion>lists available, I thought I would give you a try.>>>We are cursed with 2 ...

To All. I only received three responses to my message, one with what they felt was the answer. The winner is...Russ Walsh russ@issi.comInternational Software Systems, Inc."We had this error also when we switched to OW3, and it turned out to be because the X11R5 we have was compiled under ...

     Hi,thanks to everyone who responded to my query concerning my mail aliasesnot updating properly. This was my question:> Help! Some of the users in my alias file are not receiving their mail> and I am stumped as to how to continue. I make sure the NIS file ...

Dear Sun Managers,Thank you, thank you so much to all who responded. I created a file hosts.lpd as lots of managers suggested. I looked and looked and I don't see any hosts.lpd on any of my Sun machines so, oh stupid me, I thought Sun don't use that file. I also created a spool dir for the ...

Here's my original post: > Earlier today, I spilled coffee on my keyboard.> I tried to clean it off by popping off the keys affected> and wiping with a paper towel. However, some of the keys> (Not where I spilled coffee!) are stuck on. I rebooted, and> the 'm' key or the ...

Well, I feel rather sheepish about this. A few hours after sendingoff the cry for help, it occured to me that it would be good tocycle power on the sick machine. That fixed the problem.Anyway, I got several educational replies from:eeikhey@eeiua.ericsson.se (Kevin ...

----- Begin Included Message -----Thank you all SunManagers for the replies.Well, this is what I more or less expected, pity for that user.The general consenus is that it can't be done, unless running the Solaris 2.2 OW dbxtool from SPARCWorks.-----From: myk@artel.com (Mike Steadman)I read ...

Hi,The general concensus is that I should be using HP's jet direct software.Version B.00.00. works under solaris 2.2. Enclosed is a letter from Nicholas Brealey which sums up everything. Thanks also to:lct@ai.mit.edu (Leonardo C. Topa)nolfb@jcdbs.2000.disa.mil (Bill Nolf - ...

Thanks to all who replied!The answer was unanimous: hp2xx This utility is produced by the GNU group.Here was the winning post (First one received):>From uunet!vitsemi.com!vitsemi.com!chess Thu Sep 30 14:50:10 1993>From: uunet!vitsemi.com!chess (Julie Reilly)>Content-Length: ...

The question was (kind of):Do you install all patched programs provided with ODS on all clients?I have reveived few answers only. Either few people are using Sun'sOnline DiskSuite (ODS), or my Subject was too boring ;-). However, itseems to be usual practice to install the patched programs ...

Nobody seams to have a clue as to what caused my strange ftp activity.However three people replied to me after my first summary. All threesuggested that I install tcp-wrapper to monitor tcp requests. I installedtcp-wrapper on one of our DECstations to monitor some strange things onthat ...

Thanks to all!My problem is to try to capture console output on machines that reboot unattended. (Original posting at end of summary)Responses were of 3 varieties:        Use hardware...        Use ...

Thanks all for replying with many good suggestions. Finally, we do find thatour system has been compromised and the executable elm has been changed the permisssion. After restoring the elm from tape, everything goes normal now.Special thanks to:rn@research.att.com (Ravi ...

Original Question:> How do I go about logging Login failures? I need to be able to log> login failures to separate file. You should be able to do it thru> syslog.conf but I can't seem to get the right combination. Any> help would be appreciated.Summary:In ...

Hello Everyone,This is a very very late summary (two weeks). But I just got it working a minute ago.I was asking whether it was possible to put the Tahiti 2m optical drive on Suns.My problem was the probe-scsi at ok prompt said the device was there, but format utility could not find it. It ...

My original query...Would like to know if you have any comments on the commercial versionof PC Eudora and Mac Eudora. I am particularly interested to hear howwell they work over the serial [modem] line [both PC and Mac version]--------------------------->From jnm@ornl.gov Mon Sep 27 12:57:27 ...

original question: ____________________________________________________________________________        We have a SS10/41 running sunos 4.1.3 and would like to add a few hundred accounts at a time. I can do this by running the "add_user" script ...

Hi all, Following is a brief summary on my original request below:> We are looking for a way to connect a LocalTalk network (MAC's) to an> ethernet network which consists of a number of UNIX> machines (SUN and SCO UNIX).> The purpose is to receive and send mail between the MAC's ...

Hi all,Original question:>Is it possible to boot a SPARCstation 1 from a CD: it claims that the available>boot devices are fd, sd, st and le (ie floppy, hard disk, tape and network)?An overwhelming response, the answer was of course >b sd(0,6,2).Nigel Tuckey (esrdw@csv.warwick.ac.uk) ...

This is a *real* fast one this Time. Yesterday, I asked:> To make Things short, I would like the Shell or something relative-> ly "close" to it to virtually add the public Files from the corres-> ponding public Directory whenever a User looks up his private Di-> rectory, ...

Original Posting:> On our sparc 10, openwindows (version 3.0) is NFS mounted.> Everytime I open a cmdtool, it dies with an error message:> A command window has exited because it's child exited.> But if I enter windows as root, there's no problem.> > When I login on other ...

Original posting was to inquire about the possibility of utilitzing the audioport on a SPARCclassic X..The overwhelming answer is no way !!!One side note:        There were some responses that I could not check into yet that said thatNCD is coming out ...

Everyone suggested installing the FDDI/S jumbo patch. From the patchdescription, I'm not sure that this will solve my problem, but itseems like a good first step in any event.One person suggested installing:100172-04 FDDI 1.1: fddi problems with SunOS 4.1.1, 4.1, 4.0.3but I'm not sure how ...

Sun Managers:My original message went like this:> I have ordered a SPARCsystem 10 Model 514 that will be> running Solaris 2.2 (or maybe 2.3). This is the new four> processor system. I have a GS graphics card (24-bit accelerator)> in inventory that I'd like to stick in this new ...

Anyway the unanimous answer was to  1. boot -r from prom level 2. reboot -- -r from command line or 3. touch /reconfigure and rebootI guess the question was Dumb enough, since the answer seemed much too simple.I'm in the process of getting used to this Solaris 2.x and am no ...

I've been using Eudora 2.0 this past week (received it only about fourdays after I ordered it).I love it. I can't imagine LBF ("Life Before Filters") now that I havethis capability. Believe me, if you get even 10-20 messages a day,this is a blessing. The manual is very nicely done ...