Earlier, I posted the following to the list:| | I'm doing some work for a neighboring site here helping them to set| up a small network of Sun IPC's and one SS2. I don't have a lot of| experience with SunOS (4.1.1 by the way). Anyway, the SS2 has an Sbus| printer card (lpvi?). These drivers ...
I hesitate to post a summary - response has been underwhelming.One (1), repeat, one response from someone with a similar problem,who has learned to live with it.Attention Sun Managers, you *can* do better! I re-post the originalproblem below:Hello Sun Managers,We are experiencing a mysterious ...
ORIGINAL QUESTION:---------------------------------------------I'd like to be able to use my csh aliases in the .openwin* files.For example, say I have this csh alias: alias window1 'cmdtool -Wp 0 450 -Ws 980 415 -WP 1072 114 -Wt ...Then, in ...
Re: Printing to a Tektronix 4696 Ink Jet Printer Getting and using ghostscript was the answer. I am greatly indebted to the helpfulness and patience of Jim Craven of the Geological Survey of Canada, as well as help from Mark Anderson, Fabrice at UCLA, R.W. Paskin, Glenn Satchelland Paul ...
> We have several multi-homed hosts with drops into other DNS domains. We> presently have the reverse pointers setup so that the names reflect the> domains in which that interface resides, however, this is creating a small> mess for access lists and whatnot as we must be concerned ...
Hi everybody,here's a summary of the responses I've got so far. I hav'nt checked them out yet but many thanx to all who responded!ORIGINAL QUESTION-----------------<Q>: Hi netters,<Q>: <Q>: <Q>: HAPPY NEW YEAR!!<Q>: <Q>: here's my question:<Q>: ...
This problem as I stated in my last posting was caused by inetd. It seemsthat this has a limit of 40 connections per minute. This was explained as follows:> > The reason you get this is that inetd tries to be clever. If inetd sees> too many connections to the one service (40 per ...
Dear all,Happy new year! In response to the overwhelming number of requests forthe cm FAQ here is the copy I was sent originally by Tim Evans(tkevans@barkeep.es.dupont.com).Cheers,Rich=============================================================================Collection: Info DocsDocument: ...
My original question:>When I try to change fonts in an XTerm under openwindows, I get the>error "Error: Unable to load any useable ISO8859-1 font".>>When I run X11R5 without openwindows, it works. Can anyone tell me>why? Is there a way I can get it to work under ...
Folks,What a response!The basic answer is that the files from the Info-ZIP Project arePKZIP compatible and will do the job. There seems to be a bitof confusion about whether GNU's "gzip/gunzip" utility willwork on PKZIP compacted files. The answer, as far as I can tell, isthat the ...
The original problem was that su wouldn't, with a message of either: su: setgid: Not owneror: setgroups: Not owner su: initgroups failedWith my hat off ...
Greetings Sun-Managers,The problem still is not fixed ...But a valuable clue is: the problem certainly is caused by a message without aproper terminator - a single dot in its last line.I missed the first request for that problem, but I found the summary with gopher aurora.latech.edu (go to ...
Thanks to all who responded to my querry regarding Online:Disksuite 2.0. It seems that there must be a type-o in the 2.0 manual. All but one respondeeagreed that the Online:Disksuite does allow one to create filesystems > 2 GBytes.The one respondee who said otherwise got his information ...
In a previos article I asked about redirecting stdin within a shell script.In article <mike.kopp-030194150222@kopp.gatech.edu>,mike.kopp@gtri.gatech.edu (Mike Kopp) wrote:...> The nonWorking script file is> > #start> if [ `/bin/true` ]> then> at -s now + ${NEW_TIME} ...
>>>>> On 28 Dec 1993 17:50:58 -0500, phoff@panix.com (Phil Hoff) said:> NNTP-Posting-Host: panix.com> Around a month ago I posted that I had the following problem. >> 1. When I "rsh -n $host ls">> I got " connection refused">> 2. If I ...
> Around a month ago I posted that I had the following problem. > > > 1. When I "rsh -n $host ls"> > I got " connection refused"> > 2. If I rebooted the machine the problem seemed to go away> > After hours of troubleshooting and working with ...
Dear Sun-Mngs.The problem was isolated: the combination elm + emacs. When you edit a messageand forget to issue a return in the end of the line, nor emacs neither elmdeals with this and passes the message to sendmail without a '.\n' as lastline, and then sendmail waits for the '.\n' ...
Hi folks -- back, I don't know how long ago, I posted with a problemof our machines hanging. I posted one interim report, and this is thesecond. We are getting places. The problem is actually being workedby other folks at work, but since I posted the original problem Iam following up for ...
Dear fellow admins,This summary has been delayed until we could test solutions.The problem:Turning off an Annex (and many other brands) Terminal server which serves asthe console for approximately 32 Sun servers causes all the Suns connected tothe Annex to halt.The winning answer was from ...
Sun Managers, many thanks to all,The offered solutions included; Quorum's Equal application adapter, interfaces the Macintosh version of MS Excel and MS Word to Motif/OpenLook ...
On 31-Dec-93, I asked about the ability to play audio CD's on a SparcClassic. What a response! Fifteen votes for the "workman" program,three votes for either "xcd" or "xcdplayer". A few people emailedme copies of workman and xcdplayer. The consensus is that ...
Yesterday, I wrote:> Greetings.> > I have recently set up three systems to run DNS without NIS by using the> information provided in Answer #7 of the FAQ. Two of the machines are> Suns (Sparc 1+ and IPX) and the third is a Sidus Cheetah, all running SunOS> 4.1.3.> > ...
Excellent Response!! I don't use this forum that often, but when I doI always get good, timely responses.Original Post:> > What is the best way to get Mac PowerBooks connected to a Sun> 10-BaseT network? The PowerBooks run AppleTalk and connect into> an AppleTalk network at another ...
Though I got few answers, here a short summary. I'm still interestedhearing of experience with SCT and tools from Scopus!I had asked:~~~~~~~~~~~Q> We are going to take a look at Sun's CallTracker for tracking bugQ> reports for our software packages. We are interested in learningQ> ...
greetings,i got two responses telling me to try rebooting with the "-r" option toreconfigure my devices. that's what i did and it seems to have worked! # halt > boot -rThanks to:Marc K. Newman mknewman@pavlov.ssctr.bcm.tmc.eduEric ...
I asked:> From time to time users on machine osi (SunOs 4.1.3) get the error> message "lpq printer/tcp unknown service" when using the lpq> command.I got several responses and the result was that I have to check forblank lines in /etc/services on our NIS master delete them ...
mike.kopp@gtri.gatech.edu (Mike Kopp) writes:...text deleted...>Thanks to several people it now works. The solution is to put the end ! at>the beginning of the line, that is, this works:>#start>if [ `/bin/true` ]>then> at -s now + ${NEW_TIME} minute <<!> table.test ...
Hi Managers,I know I asked a easy one. when I came in this morning there were 17messages already. My thanks go ...
I asked:>We've got a SPARCprinter hooked up to a SPARCstation via an SBus card. What>are the restrictions on how longer the cable to the printer can be? We've>gotten indications in the past that our 15 foot cable (I think) is the max we>can do? Is that right? Is there a way to ...
OK, only a few people responded to my question and I found a solutionthru trial and error. The original question was:> I am trying to use JumpStart with Solaris 2.3 to automate the addition> of patches. For machines that already has 2.3 loaded (but with no> patches yet), my rules ...
Hello net,My original problem was as follows:I have a NFS-server running solaris 2.2 and want to do a fsck on partitionsbefore i do a full backup. The simple fsck relying on the stable bit isn't that trusty. Some time agoI got file system errors due to a firmware problem of the disk that ...
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----Thanks for the help with my BIND problem...I wanted to wait with my posting till this year because some people arenot reading news christmas->this year...The question was: In article <1993Dec16.184101.20536@solaris.rz.tu-clausthal.de>, ...
Netters! I guess I overlooked that one little thing, I edited type imake templates and the program compiled just great.Regards,----------------------------------------------------------------------| James Rae | || Systems Administrator ...
Hi!About three month ago, I posted a query about authoring softwareto develop computer-based training courses that will run onUNIX systems.I promised to post a summary of my findings. This is the summary.Contents:- Summary- Infos from local sources- Infos from The NetSummary-------No good free ...
Thanks to the many who responded to my post for help. It turned outthat all I had to do was press the reset button near the power cablesocket. Turning the printer on & off has no effect.I also found out that some early models of sparcprinters won't workeven after a reset and must be ...
Well.. I thought I had tried all the various suggestions onthe sleeve of the cd-rom.. and none had worked.. Well. by gollythe oneb sd(0,30,1) Did the trick! Now my next question is.. how to I get itto boot automatically from xd1a? It tries xd(0,0,0) eachtime, and the prom stuff is still a ...
The question was:>> I experienced a problem on 2 hosts. Both are NFS servers:>> - one is a big one: 4/490, 13 diskless, MAXUSERS=128, 48 nfsd.>> - the other is a small one: 4/75 (SS2), only users' files, MAXUSERS=16,>> 8 nfsd.>> Both are in SunOS 4.1.3. Messages ...
Since Solaris 2.2 with openwindows will only print to a postscript printer mydilema of attempting to print to nonpostscript is simplea) buy ghostscript and installb) buy a postscript printerThanks for all your responses.Bill ...
I'm using Solaris 2.2 with OPENWINDOWS. I have a problem with the screen blankbeing consistent. I polled other users on this net to see if anyone else hadthe problem or suggestions for work arounds. There were a few suggestions butmost importantly others had the problems. It appears to be ...
It turns out that the board is not a SCSI board but a Pertec controller board. Thanks to those of you that responded.Original question:> We have just received a used 4/370 from a different department which> has a SCSI board in the back. Out of the board comes some cables which> hook ...
Hi, The response that I have received were tremendous. I have summarizedthe responses below. I have not tried any of these my self yet. Hopethis helps others who are seeking the same info.Thanks to the following people for all their generous help:fraser@adseng.analog.com ...
My original post was:> Sun Managers,> > When I print out a file using mp:> > cat $FILE | mp | lpr> cat $FILE | mp -o | lpr> cat $FILE | mp -l | lpr> cat $FILE | mp -lo | lpr> > It always does the same thing: the first page prints 60 lines, all other> ...
I asked whether it is possible to extend the limit of 60,002 user ids underSunOS 4.x or 5.x.The short answer is `no'. With source it should be possible but I don'thave source. Some suggested trying to spread the load between severalmachines (not really an option for me). Others suggested ...
----------X-Sun-Data-Type: textX-Sun-Data-Description: textX-Sun-Data-Name: textX-Sun-Content-Lines: 104 SUMMARY: is a driver necessary for 3-1/2" MO drives?The original query was> Hi, > > we are planning to purchase a 3-1/2", 128 MB Magneto-Optical drive for one of> ...
----------X-Sun-Data-Type: textX-Sun-Data-Description: textX-Sun-Data-Name: textX-Sun-Content-Lines: 70Original Question:> Has anyone seen the following error on their machines;>> unix: WARNING: processor level 4 onboard interrupt not serviced>> What does this mean? What could be ...
Most managers said there is a problem with the memory module U312. The cheaperway is that I may need to reseat it first before replacing it. But since itis transient, I don't have to worry about it until I see that error messagerepeating again and again. Special thanks to Lars-Peter who sent ...
I asked whether anyone had a solution to the problem of users tryingto start a file manager and gettingmknod: permission deniederror messages.The general consensus is that this is caused by filemgr creatinga directory /tmp/.removable with permissions 700 and not subsequentlyremoving it. The ...
My original posting follows:>I created 3 Oracle accounts, one for an operational database, and>two (oracle7 and ORACLE7) for Version 7 testing purposes. These are>the only entries in /etc/passwd that use /bin/sh. All others ...
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Yesterday I asked:Mario Dorion - Sun Montreal SE (mario@canada.sun.com) wrote:: Does anybody have a version of kermit ported to Solaris 2?: A binary would be fine, but source would be prefered.Here's the scoop:>No porting is required; it compiles out of the box. ...