I just wanted to express my appreciation for all the help I got fromthe net concerning my Load Balancing software query.A brief summary for those interested:  NQS is a public domain load balancing product ftp-able from"minnie.zdv.uni-mainz.de in directory /pub/batch/NQS", cf ...

original request....> I have recently started using MX-10 micro-tranceivers on my Sun workstat> ions> and they have all started reporting the following message on the console> ..> > > > le0: Receive: giant packet from ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff> le0: Receive: ...

Hi Netters!Finally, got some time to post a summary. This job would be great ifit wasn't for all the students, faculty, users.......:>)My original post (included below) asked you fine folk for informationconcerning why I was noticing a load average of > 1 on only some of mySparc ...

Hi all,I have got lots of answers about my original post :How to connect a SPARCSERVER 1000 (Twisted Pair) to a DEC DELNI (AUI repeater) ?(See my original post at the end).Here is a list of hardware you could use to solve this problem :Allied Telesis CentreCOM Micro-repeatersMilan Microhub LE ...

I have tried posting this a couple times already, but haven't seen it yet,so once again: My original message was:> Help!> > I've created a problem for myself. I have a SPARCclassic running Solaris> 2.2 with an additional Sbus Ethernet interface. I tried to change the IP> ...

The tool I need is gunzip or gzip. Thanks to all who replied.Bob RutherfordChairman Puget Sound Sun User Group30214 54th Ave SAuburn, WA 98001-2332E-mail: rr6204@aaron.wa.comPhone: (206) 965-0546FAX: (206) 237-3739**************************************** Disclaimer: ** All ...

---------------- ORIGINAL REQUEST --------------------------------I'm looking for a modem that has password security fordial-in to a SunOS 4.1.3 machine. I need one that isreasonably priced and runs 14.4kbps. ----------------- SUMMARY ----------------------------------------In general, most ...

Original problem:> > > I get the following error message when trying to execute a remote> command using rsh.> > stty: TCGETS: Operation not supported on socket> stty: TCGETS: Operation not supported on socketSolution: Put stty commands in the ~/.login (or ~/.profile) ...

Thanks to:ljm@halsp.hitachi.com (Larry J. Miller)"Zbigniew J. Tyrlik" <zbig@wariat.org>Russell Ruby <russ@MATH.ORST.EDU>julian@syd.dwt.csiro.au (Julian Dryden)Robert Ogren <rmo@teltechlabs.com>Mike Raffety ...

I received the required information needed for the Sun to correctly recognisethe HP C1533A 4mm DAT drive. I have added this to the required files and it now appears as a 4mm DAT drive. Thanks to Dave Mitchell <D.Mitchell@dcs.shef.ac.uk> for his prompt reply to my query. Here is the ...

Sun managers,This summary has now been sent out for the fourth time. None of the othertrials were successful. (Have there been some problems with the list serverrecently ?):----------------------------------------------------------------------------It took me longer time than expected before I ...

About a month ago I asked a question about backups. What's best to do forbackup of a SparcCenter 1000. I got about 25 replies. Thank you everyone foryour fantastic support.All 25 replies had varrying answers. You probably know better than myself, onSolaris 2.2, there are many ways to ...

Many thanks to all who responded! This message summarizes:(1) I reported being unable to edit existing user entries with admintool.The problem was simply a bug in admintool. The solution was to installpatch #101384-01, which gives admintool the ability to read and modifyuser entries with -1 ...

Folks,I recently raised this problem, but didn't get a big response. Mike Raffety <mike_raffety@com.swissbank.us.il> pointed out that this errorprobably related to ... a standard system error number; from/usr/include/sys/errno.h:#define EROFS 30 /* Read-only ...

Original message:>> The following is the /var/adm/messages that we got after we bootedup> from a backup harddrive. My question is: Is the SCSI bus alright or> just the FUJITSU hard drive.> Thanks.>> Mar 9 23:04:39 kronecker vmunix: esp0: SCSI bus DATA IN phaseparity> ...

Here is all the information I have for using the HP 35470A on SunOS 4.1.x.MESSAGE 1 from Lyndon C. Lim solved my particular problem since I already had this addition to st_conf.c on my 4.1.3_U1 system. For straight 4.1.3ST_TYPE_PYTHON should be replaced by ST_TYPE_HPDAT and stdef.h needs to be ...

I still get the message:        /dev/rst1: no tape loaded or drive offlinewith an HP 35450A connected to 4.1.2 with the known patch to st_conf.c.Since this problem seems to be due to the switch set,can anybody explain what switch mask is using with this ...

In article <2mfesf$co5@serra.unipi.it>, tito@di.unipi.it (Tito Flagella) writes:|> I still get the message:|> |> /dev/rst1: no tape loaded or drive offline|> |> with an HP 35450A connected to 4.1.2 with the known patch to st_conf.c.|> |> Since this problem seems to ...

Hi! Thanks to Michael Sullivan <mike@trdlnk.chi.il.us> Mike Raffety <mike_raffety@il.us.swissbank.com> grevemes%VTC@TACOM-EMH1.Army.Mil Michael Betti/Development <betti@reston.raxco.com> rwolf@dretor.dciem.dnd.ca Russ Poffenberger ...

Thanks for all the help, we finally find a temporary solution to our pbm. Wesuspected that it is a bug in NIS+ (in particular the keyserv which cannotrelease file descriptor after resolving user). We add 'ulimit = 256' beforewe start keyserv in the /etc/init.d/rpc. (We haven't had time to ...

For those interested, here are the responses I got to my query regardingmcp silo overflow's. Below is the original message followed by the tworespones, thanks to Hal and Glenn for the answers. Both people suggested Iupgrade to 4.1.3, but unforntunately this is not possible at this time.Bret ...

This is to summarize the answers I got on my original question on howto get rid of the OpenWin mouse-pointer when leaving the environment:   1) Install the "gxcursor" program, and execute it when leaving OW.   2) Execute the "reset_colormap" ...

----------X-Sun-Data-Type: textX-Sun-Data-Description: textX-Sun-Data-Name: textX-Sun-Content-Lines: 46Thanks to all who replied! This one was a little trickier than it first appeared.I was unable to print from SunOS 4.1.3 to Solaris 2.3. I described howI added references to my new Solaris ...

To Jim:I was unable to reach you via e-mail, so I'm posting a response.(Your article originally appeared in this newsgroup).Hope you get this!----------> Yes, I would appreciate a little more info, such as an example or what> man page I can look at. I haven't found anything yet.The man ...

Thanks to everyone for the responses! ...

I have received numerous replies as always from the list members. I willsummarize the responses and offer to provide more detail (includingsupplied software) upon request. In retrospect, my question should have been somewhat clearer. My objectivewasn't just to keep unpriviledged users on my ...

The question I posed was how to get remote print access from a Solaris 2.3 client to a DEC3100 print server. The print server's name is "bones" andthe printer's name on bones is "lab". I had unsuccessfully tried to add it using the admintool.I had set up the printer ...

SOLUTIONIn three words: turn off routed. In more detail: most colleagues pointed me to either routedor my subnet mask. Hal Stern thought this looked like cmtgatereceiving bogus RIP packets. I turned off routed and addedthis line to rc.local:    /usr/etc/route add default ...

Original post:   Just recently, my SunOS4.1.2 machine started generated the   following message on console:   rpc.lockd: Cannot contact status monitor!   A ps indicates that both rpc.lockd and rpc.statd are up   and ...

I would like to thank the two people who responded to my original question, the first of whom I do not remember because I accidentally (ie without thinking) deleted the message after reading it, and Mike Raffety (mike_raffety@il.us.swissbank.com)The problem was with the message "Where are ...

I ASKED:===============I have a sizable archive of old Exabyte dumpssitting in my safe. The tapes date back to 1988.In all probability each tape was used just once.If I decide that I don't need 1988-era dumps anymore,is the tape medium reusable for a new level 0? In sum: what is the ...

>From my original (possibly mis-directed) post to comp.unix.solaris,here's the information I've obtained so far about what's needed to putSolaris on a laptop. Thanks to these individuals for answering myquestions:David G Hough at validgh <dgh@validgh.com>Antony Halim ...

Greetings,I got several responses to my query and although I have not had time toobtain the patches yet, I am sending out this summary so as to informothers who may be in the same situation as quicky as possible.The consensus seems to be that patches 100726-12 (or higher) and101408-01 are ...

Here is a list of Sparc clone makers or dealers in Germany (actually, one isin Austria). I put it together using tips from others and ads in iX, a German Unix magazine. There may be other companies that I missed, so those lookingfor a machine will want to check out iX. I have not (yet) dealt ...

Thanks!Answers were right on the spot!Original question:I get this message on the console of a SUN 3/260 running SunOS 4.0.3        rpc.statd: cannot talk to statd at sendmail.cfIt comes on the console every 15 secs or so.The computer serves as a mailhost ...

 Well, I've got yet a lot of answers, many thanks :-)    -JCT------------------------------------------------------------------------------ My question was: we've just received some 4.1.3_U1 SS10, but I'm afraid documentation didn'tfollow them. Where ...

Hello.Thanks for your replies. The reason for this message was that ourhosts aren't connected to world during the attempt to deliver a mail.So sendmail creates a lot of child processes until it couldn't forkanother child process anymore.Here is my original query:/ ...

A few weeks ago I asked for opinions on which exabyte to buy and whereto buy it. We now have an 8505 with hardware compression and it's a cracker! Very fast, faster than the old 8500 anyway, and so far veryreliable. It seems to dump 800 Megs of local disk in about 30 minutes.It's a half ...

Thanks to the many responders!! As usual, this is the fastestway to get solutions.The XGL library is in /opt/SUNWits/Graphics-sw/xgl-3.0/lib/libxgl.so.Also, several folks mentioned the /var/sadm/pkg/<pkg_name>/pkgmapas a method of detrmining paths.Thanks again to the many who've replied ...

Dear Managers,Thanks to people who sent me various responses. I will try to summarize my findings as bestas I can.Problem:If I were to send a file to be printed on a printer connected to a paralled port and theprinter was not ready to receive, my printing function would stop, even after the ...

Thanks to everyone to deluged my mailbox with replies! I ended up with a hugenumber of responses, most of which fell into 4 categories. These were:(1) Use 'uerf -R -r 300 | more'    This is probably the most obvious solution, but doesn't work on ...

On Sun, 27 Mar 1994, Huw Davies wrote:> I am attempting to reinstall Ultrix 4.2A on a DECstation 5000/240. This> system is used to support undergraduate teaching but has had its security> compromised (the elm autoreply bug) and we have decided to reinstall from> CD. This system is ...

On tuesday I asked about how to NFS mount a file system from a Convex file server, which migrates files to a tape robot if not accessed recently.The problem was not the mount itself or the access to files on the disk,but access to migrated files, because they can take 10 minutes to get ...

Hi Netters!I asked you a few days ago or so your opinions on which word processorand spreadsheet you use on the Sun platform. You responded, as usual, with great gusto (shouldn't there be a beer named like that?) andinterest. Below, please find a summary, including my original post.I hope it ...

Earlier, I wrote:>I posted the following message to the list 2 weeks ago today, and have>never seen it come out. Even with all the inappropriate postings>asking for CD-ROM players and such, it seems that it would have >appeared by now, so here it is again:>>>From tkevans ...

I should have given more information. The OS is 4.1.3 and I am not logging in as root. I do have all tty's and the console "unsecure" in the /etc/ttytab.What ended up working is to issue a "kill -HUP `cat /etc/syslog.pid` The eventual solution coming from ...

As I had thought, SS10 machines require a unique type of memory SIMM.IPX and SPARCClassic SIMMS will not even fit into the SS10 SIMM slots!Thanks to:Jack Mayo <uunet!ac.com!mayojoh>Steve Hanson <uunet!pogo.fnal.gov!hanson>Sean Ward <uunet!amgen.com!seanw>John DiMarco ...

I posted this just over 2 weeks ago and haven't seen it come through, sohere it is again.My original question was:We are currently looking at our backup strategy and whetherit is still necessary or recommended to do our level 0 backups while the machine is in single user mode. Have any of you ...

I'm sorry for late summary. Thanks to all who replyed.My original question is :> Our system is Sun4/330, and Os is 4.1.1.> We connect Lazer printer embedding postscripter to Sun4/330 system.> Which program is needed to the system for supporting ...

First, many thanks to all who responded. As always there are a whole bunch of peopleon this mailing list that really know what they are talking about.The solution to get tip working with a USRobotics Courier V.32 bis is 1. to turn on verbal mode. This is accomplished by giving the Hayes command ...