Thanks to craig@Aus.Sun.COM (Craig Moore)gdmr@dcs.ed.ac.uk (George D M Ross)pauline@uniq.com.au (Pauline van Winsen)bukys@cs.rochester.edureynolds@icgmfg.mke.ab.com (Michael D. Reynolds)miker@il.us.swissbank.com (Mike Raffety)who explained me that the problem with my Sun LX with SunOs 4.1.3 ...

My original posting was:>When I boot my sun, it checks the memory,>access the disk briefly and gives this:>>Boot device: /sbus/esp@0,800000/sd@3,0>Checksum d4f4eda9 != 4d588702 Trying to boot anyway>Instruction Access ExceptionMy original posting was:>When I boot my sun, ...

Greetings:Well at long last I have managed to compile ghostview under SunOs 4.1.3 andI have also solved the problem of the missing alloca in the libc that isstock with SunOs.Okay so first:=========================================Problems compiling ghostview under ...

Thanks to the overwhelming number of people that responded to my post concerning whatto use to read and write PC disks on a Sun. A few different solutions were suggested,but the majority of responses suggested mtools.After getting mtools and trying it out (at least to a limited extent) I can ...

Thank you to those who responded to my post. The original post:> Help! I'm trying to set up PC-NFS 5.0 and am almost there... Everything> works except Windows. I can mount, telnet, ftp, etc. from the DOS> command line, but one user wants to do this from Windows. When Windows> ...

 I posted the following a week ago:> Does anyone have a quick program that returns the amount of physical RAM>on a SparcStation? I know you can get it from the messages log file, but>we rotate it weekly into the bitbucket, and the information isn't there if>the machine has ...

In article <PAT.93Oct26140445@crl-sc2.nmsu.edu>, pat@nmsu.edu (Pat Gioannini) writes:|> My experience with cm ( calendar manager ) indicates that the only|> way to make cm work with multiple machines where the users move|> from machine to machine ( as in a student laboratory ) is ...

I wrote: > Hi.. > > Over the weekend, our domain name server suddenly stopped working.. > I don't know what happened.. I didn't change any of the configurations.. I > even uploaded the domain name files from backup but this hasn't helped.. I > don't see any problems ...

I could get the HP to print form the parallel port (Sparc Lx, Solorias 2.2)by using the standard lp installation (using lpadmin, etc). I instead usedNewsprint, and it worked like a champ. Thanksthomas@wiwi.hu-berlin.de (Thomas Koetter)mdl@cypress.com (J. Matt ...

** > "Daniel" == Daniel Rubin <rubin@cbzoo.att.com> Daniel> I send out an article earlier this week asking how, meaningDaniel> where!, others are setting up their cm user.callog files. IDaniel> only received a few responses one of which was a request for aDaniel> ...

Thanks to all heartful responses. Most people suggest me the tcp_wrapperwhich can be ftped from either ftp.uu.net or cert.orgSome one send me the samples of their setup:Here is a sample line from /etc/hosts.deny under tcp_wrapper..in.fingerd: ALL: (/usr/ucb/finger -l @%h | /usr/ucb/mail -s ...

Sorry about being late. Been bery bery busy.Here is the original post:----- Begin Original Post -----Greetings fellow snm's...Let us consider for a moment a SPARCstation LX, running Solaris 2.2 mountingits mail from a Solaris 1.1 host. It is mounting /var/spool/mail onto /var/mail.I have the ...

Thanks to all who replied:>From: Aydin Edguer <edguer@alpha.CES.CWRU.Edu>>From: brewer@soltech.com (David J. Brewer)>From: Stefan Mochnacki <stefan@centaur.astro.utoronto.ca>>From: rwolf@dretor.dciem.dnd.caSorry for the mixup in the subject vs. message body in my ...

Every one who replied said go 'go for it'.Here are the cautions that were sent.joef@VFL.Paramax.COM======================================SRDB ID : 4627SYNOPSIS : reconfiguring 4.1.2 kernel fails with undefined symbolsDETAIL DESCRIPTION : This problem only happens if the ...

Dear Sun Managers,Thanks for the advice and suggestions; I figured out how to fix my problem.Here's my original message:>>>I'm having problems with NIS. I've got a "crontab" job set up to periodically>>>(every 5 minutes) change directories to "/var/yp" ...

Following up on my article <mcoi1pINNnkq@news.bbn.com> from clements@bbn.com:My original request (excerpted):  I could use some help getting my new HP 35470A DAT to run on  my Sparcstation 1+, under 4.1.3.    [The drive's manual ...

For those interested in using hard media to transfer files between Sunand Mac, bar(1) works well. All that's necessary on the Mac side is toget a copy of Suntar (Sperza's "untar", no relation to SunSoft folks)from umich or sumex and put it on your Mac. This works so well forlarge ...

 Original post:------------------------------Hello all!        Here's the problem: I can't seem to set up netgroup properly. I want to have a netgroup that I can put in my /etc/host.equiv files (like this +@csnet ) that will allow all the ...

I got quick answers and now the problem is solved.My original posting was: > Hi, > > I tried to install rdist on our SPARCstations to distribute files like > /etc/passwd, /etc/group, /etc/auto.tmp, /etc/hosts ... On the master > machine, named veilchen, I installed the file ...

Original question: Received the message... Fork failed ld.so: swap space exhausted for mmap data of /usr/lib/libc.so.1.8------------------------------------------------------And the jury is in. Thanks to the overwhelming and very consistent response,the problem was indeed caused by ...

Sorry if I may have been too brief. Almost all replies have toldme that I should just compile the source that comes with thedisks. I have tried that, and it is not trivial. (Header filesdifferent etc). (Undefined structs and the like). So I wanted toknow if anybody had already done all the hard ...

In article <PALM.93Oct28141544@jedc11.tokyo.rockwell.com>, |> A fourth way is to use proxy-cmsd .|> We have used it for several months with no problems.|> |> A clip from the README file says:|> |> Proxy-cmsd acts as an intermediate between the cm process on a ...

Thanks to all those who responded.Everybody pointed to the /etc/nsswitch.conf file. I tried all possible combinations of files and nisplus, and it still didn't work.In shear frustration I changed to field separator from a TAB to a SPACE inthe automount tables and Bob's your uncle it started ...

Original Message:> Hi folks,> > a short question:> > Is is possible to save stopped jobs, kill them and install them later> (in the stage as they was)?> > I will summarize.> Thanks a lot for your help.Unfortunately my question was not very precise. I want to know how ...

ORIGINAL QUESTION:------------------> I would like to install a Sparc10 SpeakerBox, but...> > ...we keep our CPUs in the machine room, with 50-foot> or 100-foot keyboard/monitor cables running to users'> desks. Is there such a thing as a 100' SpeakerBox cable?ANSWER:-------The ...

Thanks to all.The orignal problem is attached at the end of this message.The short version of problem: 2 min. ping (server to client)2 min. passwd resolve, ypcat hosts returned nothing, df worked greatand ps also. Ping from client to server, and other activity was normal.This was a NIS ...

------------------------------ Start of body part 1The right answer was concatenated from the various answersreceived.Essentially I needed to get Support Level Supplement lngxxx, andI can get it from ftp.uu.net (sco-archive/SLS/lngxxx.Z) (where xxx>230. (I think). (I'm in Trinidad, West ...

My original posting concerned "ghost" ttyp logins (visible inthe "w" or "who" listings) after a user exits openwindows.As many people pointed out, these are the result of stale utmpentries created by cmdtool. Two fixes were suggested. I've usedfix #1, and it ...

Hello,This was my original question:>I have a SparcStation IPC with SunOS 4.1.3 and OpenWindows 3.0>When I upgraded from 4.1.1b the problems with yppasswd began.>I keep my user passwords in a file other than /etc/passwd>When I change the NIS password for a user, the modification ...

My original question:> > When our users logout from X11 (either X11R5/Motif or OW3) > their console screens are frequently left with the text set to some arbitrary > colour on a white background - not a big problem until the colour is white or> almost white i.e unreadable. In ...

Hi,This was the original problem:> I am running a SparcStation IPC with SunOS 4.1.3 and OpenWindows 3.0> I cannot run my calendar manager! Even though I ran install_cmgr, I get> the following errors:> -console error:> Oct 14 10:44:54 cerebrum inetd[175]: 100068/rpc/udp server ...

Hello everyone,        Thanks for the great help. I used the suggestions to get mysystem running again. But I faced nother problem which I have included with the solution below.        Before anything, I don't know ...

Here's the summary to my question of a couple weeks ago. I originally wrote:> I have an HP LJ 4m that has a Sparc2 on its serial port, a 486PC on its parallel> port, and a Mac on its AppleTalk port. This works pretty well unless a user> on the Sun prints a large job which grabs the ...

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Original question was a request for jumper info for the ST4350NM / 94171-350M disk. I received a lot of excellent information in the reponses.Many thanks folks! As ever sun-managers came through with flying colours - would that some vendors could do this well...(credits at the bottom)I ...

Original post:------------------------------Hello all!        Here's the problem: I can't seem to set up netgroup properly. I want to have a netgroup that I can put in my /etc/host.equiv files (like this +@csnet ) that will allow all the machines in ...

G'day Sunners,the short answer is: Stay cool and ignore it.With better words from Zhishun Alex Liu:This is a wording bug in SC2.0.1's fpversion. It should have reported: A SPARC-based CPU is available. Mbus module's clock rate appears to be approximately 49.9 MHz. Kernel says ...

I would not normally send something directly to Sun-Managers, but thisseemed so useful both for system managers and for reducing the numberof questions on the list I decided to bit the bullet and go ahead. Flameme if you like. :-) It should go into the faq, but perhaps John hasbeen ...

Hi there, netfolk,A while back I posted:> I am interested in knowing what, if any, Used/Refurbished Sun> equipment dealers there are out there, and recommendations if you all> have any. I know of Suncoast Workstations -- anyone dealt with them?> They don't seem to answer questions ...

In article 2472@uts.uni-c.dk, ohnielse@fysik.uni-c.dk (Ole Holm Nielsen) writes:> I have set up anonymous FTP (Solaris 2.2) according to the manual page> for ftpd. It all works well, except that UID and GID don't get mapped> to user- and group names when I do a "dir" ...

Question was:> Is there any reason that I should not put a file system on partition c> of a disk? I have someone here who insists that it shouldn't be done> but cannot give me a technical reason.> > I am aware of handling cylinder 0 with care because of the disk label,> and ...

The following is a summary to the problem I posted concerning the wrong cmdtool, clock,etc. that came up when I logged into an account after performing a Save Workspacecommand. The problem turns out to be that my path was set so that /bin was searchedbefore /usr/openwin/bin when I logged in. ...

Hi netters,my original posting three weeks ago was:>I have a strange problem with my Sun386i.>>If I boot, I get the message: netconfig ie0 no intr, network down;>and any further network operation fails with a "network down" error.>>The configuration of the Sun (and ...

Sun Managers:Thank you very much for the useful replies. There were 3. The concensuswas that it is a known bug with automounter in 4.1.2 and that I am notcrazy. I'm so pleased to hear that. :-) Apparently there are patchesavailable or one can upgrade to 4.1.3. My plan is to upgrade the ...

Sorry for the delay in summarizing, but...The solution was easy enough. Upgrade to Newsprint 2.x. I have since tried it on NP 2.1 and 2.2 and it works perfectly. Jochen Bern gets an "A" for the correct answer. I had tried this while waiting for responses, and found that it worked, ...

My original question was:>As our main 690MP file server is close to maxed out on disks, and our disk>space requirements are growing rapidly, we're starting to look at adding an>Auspex file server to our network. This would replace one or more 690MP's>serving 30-40 workstations on ...

Dear all,My problem was silent non-delivery to a contiguous block of 40 addressesfrom a much larger included alias file. The actual user names in the block appeared to affect the outcome. No errors were logged anywhere.Replies are still comming in, but the problem seems to be fixed.100224-06 ...

Original query:> Given that it seems sensible to umount a partition before dumping it,> how does one force the umount?>> In particular, the partition is exported for use by NFS.>> I had thought that "exportfs -u <fs>" followed by "umount ...

>>>>> On 1 Nov 1993, David Pirmann (pirmann) wrote:   pirmann> This post is a summary of the replies I received. My thanks to all  pirmann> that replied, especially Mike Hucka for forwarding posts from  pirmann> comp.sys.sun.hardware that I ...

Question was:> Is there any reason that I should not put a file system on partition c> of a disk? I have someone here who insists that it shouldn't be done> but cannot give me a technical reason.> > I am aware of handling cylinder 0 with care because of the disk label,> and ...