Stupid me wrote:> 15 Minutes ago, I came back into my Office just to watch the Screen> light up to spit out some panic Code "iinactive" and reboot.> I found that the CD had not been mounted,[after the Reboot]> and when trying to mount it, I got> mount: /dev/sr0 on ...

Sorry, folks, this was mostly a false alarm. I also apologize for sendingmy query out twice. The second was a mistake from trying to include myoriginal message in the summary.Basically, I had forgotten to terminate the 7213S drive in each machine.They had had their terminating resistor power ...

Sun Managers,I was having problems with random hangs with 10/51's running 4.1.3.This is a summary in addition to the summary from Dan Lorenzini (dal@gcm.com).For 10/51 ...

        Sorry, there is actually no such limit. With plenty ofptys, you can remote login to a Sun more than 64 times just fine.The problem we had was due to the rlogind, telnetd and rshd weinstalled for wrapper (a security checking package). Thosedaemons, ...

George Ross supplied the answer:->The shlib.etc Makefile is broken. Add "-ldl" to the ends of the two "ld">lines and rebuild.So the /usr/lib/shlib.etc/Makefile is now:------------------cut here-----------------## @(#)Makefile 1.2 89/10/04 ...

Well, the majority of all respondents said to look for pcomm thru archie servers. Some also suggested seyon as an X-based modem retrieval tool (available at ftp.x.org in the contrib directory). Other suggestions include ecu, xcmalt, and versions of Omen Technology software. However, the ...

Sorry for beeing so late, I just want to thanks you for responding me,perhaps it won't be so difficult to downsize the PRIME because it isacting as an PI OPEN server and it seems it is possible to have the samesoft on SUN machines.Thanks again for your ...

Sorry for being so late,I was asking the printcap entry for a HP500, I received some response,the one that is listed below comes from glenn@uniq.com :Thanks to glenn@uniq.com          baumann@proton.and some more that I loose after a machine ...

Many thanks to all who responded.Original Question:        We are a large heterogenous Unix site with 450 workstations        and servers, mostly Suns, HPs and DECs. We are currently ...

  Original problem:  Install WABI on an SS10 with Solaris 2.3. I try to install a Windowssoftware package, and when it is dome installing the 1st disk, I haveto press the META E keys to eject the floppy. When I do, the WABI sessioncrashs, then Openwindows crashs, then I get ...

        I would like to thank those of you that replied so quickly, butas it turned out I seemed to run into a problem with the serial connectionon the Sparc2. Once I tried the printer on an IPC it worked fine, using thestandard Laser Writer printcap ...

The consensus on this problem (5 for 5 with email responses) is that theproblem is a dying ROS (Raster Output Scanner). Apparently, for those whosewarranty has expired, Sun charges $1250 for a new one. A re-furbished ROS isavailable with trade-in, from:Dennis SchwindtDigital Computer Services, ...

Many thanks to all who responded.The correct answer was that a previous sysadmin had used the TCP Wrapper executable (ie. tcpd) in place of the normal in.rlogindinvocation.Ron Hall <thorn@cc.mcgill.ca> was first to suggest this to me.Also suggested was that the user's .cshrc file could ...

Original Post:>Last weekend, we upgraded a Sparc 1+ running SunOS 4.1.1B to a Sparc-10 running>Solaris 1.1.1. After the upgrade we used add_services to add support for sun4c>architecture clients. However, diskless sun4c clients no longer boot: they>simply hang at "booting ...

I received 4 answer with 2 add_user scripts. They work fine.Thanks a lot to:Mike Raffety <mike_raffety@il.us.swissbank.com>Jochen Bern <bern@kleopatra.Uni-Trier.DE>Claude Marinier <MARINIER@emp.ewd.dreo.dnd.ca>Roberto Wagner <sunuru!rwagner@Sun.COM>The add-user script is ...

Thanks for the responses!!General consensus was to use a pencil eraser to clean the pads on themice and then degrease the mouse pad (no suggestions on what to use).I used a big fat pink eraser that does work wonderfully (thanks A.Tefft) on the pads on the mouse and a liquid hand soap on the ...

Sorry for the delay, but I wanted to be sure of what we were going to do before I sent out the summary.As of this morning the cost exceeds the need. So we are not going to doit. However the net came thru with a lot of great information. First, myoriginal request, then the replies.> Sun ...

Hi Great ones,I appologize for ask a question that has been summarized before.But since 4 out of 11 people who responded wants a summary, I figure mightas well resummarize it. I think this should be included in the FAQ.The answer to my question:How to make a NIS printcap (without spend any ...

  The original question was: Is the a 4 Port S-bus Ethernet card that would work with an SS2 and SunOS 4.1.3.  The answer is: As far as anyone can tell, No.  Sun makes a 4 port ethernet s-bus card, but you need SunOS 5.X to use it.Noone had any recomendations for a ...

Hi!I waited a while for responses, but only got a few. Aparrently thereare not many managers out there using the Sun HSI boards. Theinformation I did receive said that the boards work fine, but that youneed a copy of Sun PPP to run them.Many thinks to the respondents. They ...

Sun Managers:Summary: Re: Sendmail.cf for an HP 715 into a Sparc 10/41I received several solutions to this problem and I appreciate each andevery one. I ended up using the first one I read this morning fromJonathan B. Horen of Applicon and the problem was resolved. (Thanks Jonathan!)Once I ...

Sorry for the delay with the SUMMARY but I was away all week.I would like to thank the following people for their respones:Crag KruckMichael HarringtonSteve SwaneyRon VaseyJohn HammersmithJeff KaisermanAllen A. Brown>From the respones there were two different packages mentioned that ...

This was my original question:: Hi,: I have a problem with ghostview 1.5/ghostscript 2.6.1 under Solaris 2.3.: Both seem to compile fine but whenever I want to view a postscript: file with ghostview I always get the error message: "gs: Malformed ghostview color property." I tried to ...

The original question:Date: Fri, 8 Apr 94 17:09:57 BSTFrom: Robert Evans <Robert.Evans@cm.cf.ac.uk>To: mauricio@hq.rnp.brSubject: Re: PAD server?> Hello, I have a SPARCstation with a X.25 connection to a PSDN. I use> Sunlink's pad to log into remotes machines across the PSDN. Any ...

Original question:-------------------------------------------------We run an old application using 'tektool' (available with Sunview).This is old fashioned, I know, but while writing new source toreplace this program (which will run under X), I'd really like toknow if there's a similar ...

Many Thanks to Ron Vasey (vasey@issi.com). He had two suggestions.1) not using -n option of rsh (are you sure you got `em all? ;^)   [We had done this and we had all of them]2) using the n option of rdump (to notify local users -- sigh!).*** No. 2 was the winner of the prize. ...

Question was :> Hi everybody,> > anybody out there who succeded in installing x3270 under solaris 2.3 ?> > My Version of x3270 is 3.0.1.3 - it should be the newest.> the problem was not to compile x3270 - this works fine ....my problem was to install x3270 - and the fonts for ...

My original question was:> > I'll try using scsiinfo to generate a format.dat; but if> someone has one that worked successfully, I'll appreciate it> if they send it to me.> I got 2 responses; probably this Seagate disk in not so popularin the Sun/Unix world.But I was able to ...

Sun-ManagersThanks to all those who responded to my posting which went as follows:>sun-managers,>I am trying to add a couple of libraries to my system, which is a Sun Sparc LX>running Solaris2.2. The libraries are libXm.so.2.13 and libX11.so.5.0, which I>found out on the internet ...

Hello helpful people...Thanks for all the suggestions and help. I was able to solve the problemby disabling vold daemon. First, I killed -15 pid-of-vold, then startedWabi and, sure enough, wabi could read/write on that diskette...Someone at the 94 Solaris developer's conference told me that ...

My original question was :>> We are receiving the following messages on our mail server (SS2, OS>> SunOS 4.1.1) :>> unexpected close, from <domain.name>: connection reset by peer during>> collect with <domain.name>>>>> Any ideaThanks to ...

My Original request was:> Hello Managers,>> I am trying to figure out what is going on when I run> the following rsh command:>> "rsh jaymes.penril.com -l viana cvs">> When I run the command above, I get the following output:>> "cvs: ...

Thanks for all of the quick responses!!!lct@ai.mit.edu (Leonardo C. Topa)Brad Burdick bburdick@radio.comMattiasPaul Humphreys (hydres!paul)Eckhard R|ggeberg eckhard@ts.go.dlr.deMike Myers mmyers@willamette.eduBrian D. Decker ...

My problem was removing a write lock from a local filesystem on aSunOS-5.3 system occasionally gives "permission denied" errors to root.The write lock was created as part of a dump sequence.Since my posting I've verified the following:    1) Of 17 filesystems ...

I originally asked:----- Begin Included Message -----Honorable Sun Managers,I have set up a psuedo-printer in my printcap that runs a job through ascript (via the of filter) before sending it to the "real" printer. Theproblem is that all the print jobs are now owned by daemon, and ...

Thanks to Swee-Chuan Khoo, who pointed out that I probably hadn't set thecorrect netmask in /etc/netmasks:        I'm trying to upgrade a Sun 4/110 to SunOS 4.1.3_U1 (ok, so it's        really <shudder> ...

Hello all,here's the RZ58 format.dat entry :disk_type = "DEC RZ58" \        : ctlr = SCSI : fmt_time = 4 \        : ncyl = 2114 : acyl = 2 : pcyl = 2112 : nhead = 15 : nsect = 85 ...

I would like to thank a lot of people that repplied to my request.Thanks to you all!The printcap entry is described bellow; a special thanks to Roger Graham, who helped me on the hardware configuration of theprinter also.NEC LC890 (it works!)We use the following printcap entry for postscript ...

Executive summary: it works. I now have my elite 9 drive running happilywith a single, 8.3 GB partition.The problem with fsck is weird. Before, I had typed (and gotten):        ale# fsck ...

Hi folks,Problem was: 'unable to graph sar data due to sag reporting terminal type unknown'.Resolved by starting an xterm session as follows: xterm -t -tn 4014This starts up xterm in tek mode and sets the TERM variable to 4014.I get a warning come up when I start xterm in this mode ...

I recieved two resonses. Many thanks togary@porsche.mce.com andperryh@pluto.rain.comHere is my original query followed by the extremely informative responses. --------Query--------------We have several Sun3/50s-60s configured as Xterminals running Xkernel. They have been working very well as ...

SETTING FILE DESCRIPTORS VALUE UNDER SOLARIS 2.3Thanks to all who responded. Problem resolved.PROBLEM:We've recently installed Sybase 10 on a Sun Sparcserver 1000 running Solaris 2.3 and are having problems trying to up the 'Sybase' user connections param.The message returned by the isql ...

Hello all, this problem has been resolved. The problem was theprivate network provider that my system connects to had the wrongnetwork address in the access list. Thats why they weren't seeingmy network. Thanks to all that replied and shared some useful techniqueson routed.terry white> ...

Thanks to everyone who responded, especially toHans Burkard, Donald McLachlan and Glenn Newell.The original question:> Subject says it all - i'd like to have a good (PD prefered)> emulator> for VT320 and/or VT340 terminals. We're using Bristol's IsoTerm> currently.The outcome ...

Hi,I posted the following message a couple of days ago:: I have a SPARC 10 that runs Solaris 2.3. Yesterday: I was trying to change the root login shell to "tcsh" by: modifying the passwd file but I had a typo in the pathname: to tcsh. Now I can't log in as root anymore; the ...

>>>>> "Ning" == Ning Qian <qian@peduncle.ai.mit.edu> writes:In article <2ohov1INN330@life.ai.mit.edu> qian@peduncle.ai.mit.edu (Ning Qian) writes:    Ning> Hi, I posted the following message a couple of days ...

Hi Sun Managers,I asked the following question:***************************************************************************How do I reduce the processes per user id (MAXUP) as shown in the sysdef-i? ***************************************************************************The answer is to put ...

My nis+ server problem was solved by updating the credentials for theserver, and update the keys in all the NIS+ directories, because I aspart of the troubleshooting had changed the root-passwd of the server:1) kill keyserv2) shutdown and restart the nisd with -S 0.3) nisaddcred des4) run ...

        I did the same thing a while back. If your machine allows it, try to ftp into it        as root. Your can then either put in a new version of /etc/passwd or create ...

Thank you to everyone who sent me this:disk_type = "Fujitsu-M2694ESA" \        : ctlr = MD21 \        : cache = 0x11 : trks_zone = 15 : asect = 5 : atrks = 30 ...