Hi:I asked why I could not get yp maps of anotheryp domain using "ypcat -d domainname mapname" ....My question was really out of curiosity and most peoplegave me answers that were a bit too advanced for me ....But they helped ....At any rate, most replies were referring to the fact ...

I have been asked by several people to give a more detailed summary(this may be an oxymoron, but none-the-less) so some of you mightfind this familar:I recently sent the following:> Hardware: Sun 670/41> OS: SunOS 4.1.3> > Hi,> > I have a program that ...

Hi everyone and thanks for all people who answered.All the people who answered agree on that the "file /etc/utmp is not cleared up properly when the user is log out"Thanks toRaymond Ballisti ballisti@ifh.ee.ethz.chDave Fetrow fetrow@biostat.washiPatrick Pawlack ...

Hi Netters!A few weeks ago I set out the post below asking about the interpretationof the "time" command. A user had generated some results from a sriptfile, and wanted to know what was being displayed.As always, this net came through with much useful information. I willattempt to ...

        Thanks to all those who replied to my original posting.>>> Is there anyway to have the .cshrc owned by someone other than the> user?>        The idea was to have the users .cshrc owned by root ...

Hi,    all the replies I received recommended the two public domain  tools RCS and CVS - CVS is a meat-layer over RCS, facilitating the  management of w/w packages.thanks to everyonecheers daveMarco Pineda ...

I recently sent the following:> Hardware: Sun 670/41> OS: SunOS 4.1.3> > Hi,> > I have a program that normally runs interactively but I want it to> run overnight. This should be a simple matter of sticking it into> an appropriate shell script and ...

Thanks people,My original posting, when I read it back, seemed to imply that everythingwas hunky when I rebooted (not the case). Lot's of replies suggested checking /tmp and /var/ and /var/spool, alwaysa good one but Tim Evans sent me in right direction and Marc Rinfret hitthe nail on the ...

----------X-Sun-Data-Type: textX-Sun-Data-Description: textX-Sun-Data-Name: textX-Sun-Charset: us-asciiX-Sun-Content-Lines: 7Hi all,        I don't remember how many times i try to send a summary last ...

The following is a summary to my posting a few weeks back regarding 8mm versus4mm tape storage devices. This summary is intended to be a general overviewof the comments I received.Tape Drive Costs----------------   8mm $3630   4mm $1650 (less than half the ...

In article <1994Mar4.153842.16813@venus.cmc.ca>, braida@cmc.ca (Gary Braida) writes:|> |> The following is a summary to my posting a few weeks back regarding I have a couple of things to add to the 8mm vs 4mm summary. I did not see thequestion originally, so I did not respond ...

A couple of days ago, I asked how to increase the number of ptys on one of our systems. I couldn't find it in any FMs that I'd read.Many thanks for the speedy responses! Turns out that this is a twostep process:1. Modify the kernel config file to change the line "pseudo-device ...

Almost all respondents suggested sox. It is a PD utility that converts among various sound formats. It is in version 7 now and runs on DOS, Unix (SysV and BSD) and Amiga. Check with your favorite archie server to find out where to getit (anonymous ftp). There is a "FAQ for the Internet ...

I got **LOTS** of suggestions after posting the SUMMARY...seems many ofyou only read and respond to summaries :)The answer is that on the 4.1.3 server, /etc/inetd.conf had the rquotadline commented, and the Solaris 2.3 client was trying to talk to rquotadon the 4.1.3 server. Once I uncommented ...

braida@cmc.ca (Gary Braida) writes:> Tape Drive Costs> 8mm $3630> 4mm $1650 (less than half the price of the 8mm)Is the Canadian exchange rate that bad? You should be able to get5 GB subsystem with compression, enclosure, cables, power supply, etc.,for around US $2100.>Media ...

In article <CM63wK.Bp1@twinsun.com> eggert@twinsun.com (Paul Eggert) writes:>braida@cmc.ca (Gary Braida) writes:>>>Media Costs>> 8mm $16 (112m data grade)>> 4mm $27 (120m data grade)>        One thing here too is, ...

mikeg@endgame.gsfc.nasa.gov (Michael Grabenstein) writes:> I am not up on the compression 4mm tape drives, but I know there is>an HP tape drive that can store up to 8gig, not sure on what tape. I assume >120M tapes.If you mean the HP35480A, yes the blurb says 8G on a 90M tape. ...

Michael Grabenstein (mikeg@endgame.gsfc.nasa.gov) wrote:: >In article <CM63wK.Bp1@twinsun.com> eggert@twinsun.com (Paul Eggert) writes:: >>braida@cmc.ca (Gary Braida) writes:: >>: >>>Media Costs: >>> 8mm $16 (112m data grade): >>> 4mm $27 ...

SUMMARY: Anyone use ZMODEM on a Sun?Thanks go to:Alan Hightower, Ben Taylor,Dave Lynn, David Beckemeyer, Donald Nichols, Leeling Ho, M.V.S. Ramanath, Michael Peppler, Rob Vassar, Steve Kelley,Thad Floryan and others.3 solutions were proposed:1. How to use tip with rz.2. How to increase ...

I don't think anyone got this. If this a duplicate, apologies in advance.        seanSorry for the delay in my summary. You know how busy us sysadmins are... Here's my original message:> I've run across an interesting problem that I can't ...

Sun-managers:Two answers came in to me:1) Steve Aldous writes:Just ftp the clear_colormap from a 4.x machine. this will work but is notthe "correct solution".2) Andy Feldt writes: You need patch 101362-06. It has cleared up the problem for me.I tried the second solution and so ...

Well, this must have sounded like a stupid question to all of you when you first read it. Mike Raffety <mike_raffety@il.us.swissbank.com> was the only person to respond. The HSI/S is a synchronous device. What I was trying to do was for an async port. When I mention that I might have ...

My question:> Open Systems Today, in its February 21 issue, advises removing support for> /dev/nit in SunOS 4.1.x by reconfiguring the kernel, to disallow promiscuous> mode and stave off eavesdroppers. Any tips on how to do this? If it matters,> the machine is a SUN ...

Thanks to all who responded to my question regarding Disk Benchmarking tools.The two most popular packages were: bonnie and iozone. Both are publicdomain packages available via the net.Thanks to:Eugene SimpsonRobert PekarskiTony KocurkoBrad WalkerEckhard ...

This summary encompasses two questions about DNS. The questions had todo with:A) One machine serving as primary for tow different domainsB) Maintaining the names of machine@domain after the machines have been   moved to machine@sub.domain.============================ Original ...

This is my original mail. The response is overwhelm, but becauseI got backup unit. So I've yet to try them out. BTW, I don't thinkdust is the problem for us since the tape drive is located ina clean room environment ( ~50k ). Thanks everyone for the help.> Hi,> I have a Exatape ...

Ok, the details:I've come up with the following thru testing, old and New Sun-Managersmail, and vendor support.With the included mods, found later, the following devices will producethe following results:/dev/rst0,rst1 : Exabyte 8200 mode - non-compressed/dev/rst8,rst9 : Exabyte 8500 mode - ...

Shoot... I knew I was forgetting something.. sorryOn the 8505, there are three led's. top, middle and bottom...If, while writing, the middle led is green, the drive is NOT doingcompression.If, it is amber, it IS doing compression...This is in the Exabyte manual, and I was able to verify this ...

Make sure you have "noac" as a mount parameter.And, of course, that the server's /var/mail has the following ownershipand permissions:drwxrwsrwt 4 root mail ..... /var/mail---Bob Cunninghambob@soest.hawaii.eduSchool of Ocean & Earth Science & Technology, University of ...

In article <1994Feb24.012944.23664@Mr-Hyde.aoc.nrao.edu> rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Ruth Milner) writes:>In article <1994Feb22.204835.19885@nlm.nih.gov> neve@nlm.nih.gov writes:>>>>In response to the question, "Can one automount /var/mail?", most>>folks ...

bob@soest.hawaii.edu (Bob Cunningham) writes: >Make sure you have "noac" as a mount parameter. >And, of course, that the server's /var/mail has the following ownership >and permissions: >drwxrwsrwt 4 root mail ..... /var/mail >--- >Bob Cunningham ...

ghazi@hardees.rutgers.edu (Kaveh R. Ghazi) writes:> Would you please explain why "noac" (no attribute caching) is>needed for mail and what tradeoffs you make by activating it?The noac attribute is needed so clients will ask the server forthe file attributes every time they ...

My original message:> Hi,> > I asked this question on comp.sys.sun.hardware several weeks ago and got> no response, so perhaps one of you can help me...> > I have a second ethernet board (an ie1) which I recently obtained for my> Sun 3/160. It's a Multibus ethernet board ...

Well, not really any answers to this yet. I got two responses frompeople who have experienced this same problem.esh@ibx.com (Bill Eshbach)z85030@uprc.com (Slezak L. P. (Paul))Their workaround is not to use the diskinfo agents to do anymonitoring. Paul Slezak said he had the same problem on SNM ...

Last week I asked:> A couple of weeks ago, someone posted a program, that resets the error > flag in the kernel of SunOS 4.1.3 indicating write media error of a QIC > drice (/dev/rst*). Thought I don't need it - but now I would like to > get a copy of it. Could someone mail me a ...

I received many answers to the following problem:> - server b has no maps maintained locally (yet). It does hourly> ypxfr's to server a in domain a.com to keep its maps up-to-date.> It keeps the maps in /var/yp/b.com.> - typing "passwd" on server b (in domain b.com) ...

        Hi everybody!        My original request:> > We've got Solaris 2.3, SS 10 as NIS+ server, several> Sparc Classics as NIS+ clients; and the following problem:> NIS+ passwd ...

Hi,Original question:> Hi people,> In the process of evaluating the performence boost due to the installation of> Weitec's SPARC POWER uP, I observed the following. I ran a tiny c program> which goes through a loop of floating point multiplications.> I got the following ...

Hello world,I got serveral responses regarding my problem:"ps" blocks indefinitely on a SparcServer 1000 running Solaris2.3The file /dev/bd.off was symlinked to "." which causes ps to block.Removing this file and "ln -s /dev/term/b /dev/bd.off" was thesolution.10E6 ...

Would someone please email me the summary of how to remove jobs spooled<p>to lpr? I forgot if it was to leave /etc/printcap entry ":lp=:" or another<p>parameter to set to null.<p>Thanks,<p>-Mike-<p>

Unfortunately, I got no suggestions and only one "me too" forthis issue. Someone outside the sun-managers group suggestedthat Solaris 2.3 may use NFS 3.0, which uses NFS over TCP ratherthan NFS over UDP (which is what NFS 2.0 uses). However, I can'tget a confirmation on this...If I ...

On Fri, 25 Feb 1994 16:10:39 GMT in comp.sys.sun.admin I wrote:> We are facing a dirty problem... I hope someone else got it... ans solved it!> Here's what's we get:> panic: mutex_adaptive_exit: mutex not owned by thread, lp f0181204 owner fc53de0> 0 lock ff waiters 0 curthread ...

I previously requested something to read/write mac floppies from a sparc.I was having problems copying to PCFS floppy, and unarchiving stuff on asparc.However, I just discovered that the PC extention stuff on my local machas a control panel. It lets you specify the type of document based on ...

My original question:> We are planning to purchase a couple of used, older SPARCstations to be used> as small dedicated servers. We're looking at the SPARCstation 1, 1+, 2 and> IPC. My question is:> > Are there any of these that will _NOT_ run SunOS 4.1.3_U1 a/k/a Solaris ...

QUESTION:> I'm *so* frustrated with 'tip'; are there any alternatives?> > * terse error messages documented nowhere> * a disconnect command that 'disconnects' me all the way > back to my login window, leaping gazelle-like past > any telnet/rlogin sessions ...

Original posting:: For the past several years we have been running several NeXT machines at: our site. Included with the NeXT is a very useful webster dictionary: facility. However our NeXTs a slowly disappearing from service. Does: anybody know if an application similar to webster is available ...

In article <2l2vb8$757@canopus.cc.umanitoba.ca> pam@cc.umanitoba.ca(Pat Macdonald) writes:> I received only three responses to this posting: one me too, one pointer> to xwebster, and a suggestion to look at the Oxford English Dictionary> on CD. I pursued the CD option a bit ...

Dear managers,If you want to map command strings or certain actions to funktionkeys in xterm tool, you have to edit ~/.Xdefaults or/usr/openwin/lib/app-defaults/XTerm.Following lines enable L6 and L8 for cut-and-paste and alias F1 to thels-command.XTerm*VT100.Translations: #override ...

Sorry for the delay in posting a Summary. I haven't beenable to look into any of the products but the informationis invaluable - THANKS!ORIGINAL QUESTION:Quick and Ugly question: Is there a product that willroute IPX and LocalTalk packets on a Sun server?Environment: Sun4/670, SunOS ...

Thank for everyone who replied to my question. Most peoplerecommended against running two automounts. However, patch 100249might solve the problem. I haven't had the time to test it, yet.Again, thanks.-- Kari ...