Thanks to all who helped me with this. The problem is still not100% solved. I could only manage to reduce the frequency from 20 or more timesa day to 1 or 2. Most of the answers pointed to the /etc/system file. Ishould set scsi_options=0x58. One ...
Greetings,My original post requested a list of Used Sun Dealers, and your resultswhen dealing with them. I have recieved and compiled over 30 responses.I decided not to cluter the airwaves with this info. If you would like a copy send me mail! Thanks to all that responded.Joe ...
Gentle Managers:Several weeks ago I posted a request for ProxyArp information.I got many helpful responses and once I put it together, I discovered that I'd made a type III error: solving the wrong problem. I'll initiate another, correct, query shortly. What I got out of the Proxy ARP query ...
Original posting:> Am I the only one that had problems when attempting to change my root> password on our NIS+ master? It freaked out afterwards...completely.> I had to restore all of /var/nis to recover.>> Awhile back, SUN sent me the fix below, however it still didn't ...
rhh@jolt.att.com (Robert Hu) writes: # 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 the # misstyped directory and put in a copy of shell. Hmm, not sure this ...
I am still looking for a more solutions to this. No one seems to have seenor remember this question or summary from the dusty past. I have still been thwarted in finding an answer in the archives. Anyway, I am posting the information that came my way. I see several possible solutions if I had a ...
original post > Greetings managers,> > I am trying to find out exactly how the > setsockopt SO_KEEPALIVE, functions. > > I believe it transmits a request (maybe an echo?) > for some timeout time. (how long?) and what happens > when there is no response ...
Original post:> I've read the man pages on routed but I couldn`t tell when> you start routed without any options is that the same as> using -q (quiet mode), or does the default cause routed> to transmit routing information ?>Thanks to the many people that responded(list ...
My original question:>Is there any reason the bytes per inode must be a power of>2? For my news spool, a number like 3072 (2048+1024) would>be ideal. Can it be done?The answer appears to be the value can be any number...Thanks for all the help.Replies ...
Original Post I am trying to find how to develope hardware and software for the SCSI bus. Is there such a thing as a Software Developers Kit etc... that can help. Any where you can point me will begreatly appreciated.Thanks to all who responded (listed below). Most respondedwith similar ...
I've now successfully gotten our Wangdat 3200SE working under SunOS 4.1.3.The switch settings on this drive ...
Well we got it going:(phaser II postscript under 2.3 bpp port)Don't use admintool.Use lpadmin set it up as printer type uknown, use the bpp0 port,and specifiy content type as any - do not even attemptto use the printer set up as Postscript. This seems to work fine.Thank you for using Email to ...
This was a tough one I guess :-)Only one reply but with a working solution :-)Thanx Doug:-----8<-------Marcel,I've been using the following syntax in the "auto.home" file and NIS mapon a SPARCstation 1 running SunOS 4.1.3 with patch 100249-09 installed:os2host ...
I wrote:> it seems that I managed to shoot myself in the Foot again ...Yes I did indeed. :-C> I am currently redesigning our Cluster.> The temporary Server is a SS10M51 running 4.1.3_U1. The Ser-> ver seems to be fine, but the Clients I run off it (only sun4c so far) have> ...
The original question was basically "Can I reconfigure the kernel so that Ican use all four disks in the Multipack plus two internal disks and a tapedrive all off one SCSI". (Complete question below). Six people sent replies very quickly. Even better they were unanimous: ...
Many thanks to all who responded. The combination sounds like it will work OK.Some points however:a) get your supplier to do the low-level formatting ( most do ), but if you need to do it the default 2 hour time out will have to be upped as 2 hours is not long ...
Thankyou to everyone who responded to this. I was interested in finding outhow PC backups could be done onto a central Sun server using PC-NFS.I will list the methods which can be used.* Use CLOCKER and TAR.Clocker is a scheduler which will shut down Microsoft Windows, run anapplication, and ...
Thank you for you all who answered my questions. I got messages from 33fellows. I succeed in changing the password. The following are the summaryfrom dabe@cs.UMD.EDU. Thank you again.What passwd does when it goes to change the passwd file is (essentially)the following: - Atomically ...
Some time ago, I posted a question about how to prevent the mail directory from filling up due to people subscribing to newslists, etc. Unsubscribing these people is not an option, moving the mail directory to another drive was not feasable either (disk space is limited *everywhere*) and ...
As always, the net came through. Curiously, I didn't get a huge number ofreplys, and all but one of these recommended not doing this at all. Becauseof the small number and because each has its own story to tell, I'll includethe body of all the replys below.For the impatient, I've added a ...
SUMMARY OF MACPPP AND SOLARIS 2.3 PPP PACKAGEQUESTION:Is anyone using the PPP (Point To Point) package that comes with Solaris 2.3 to communicate with Macs running MacPPP? possible?If anyone is doing this are there any funnies involved?RESPONSE:It appears as though there are a few people ...
[ To summarize, I am looking to find out if the new ss5's run solaris1.X. If so just what version/release do I need. ]My best answer came from rosley@ksm.my who sent me the BULLETIN belowthat tells me all that I ever wanted to know about the news machines.Most of the readers of sun managers, ...
This message summarizes my query concerning 9GB Seagate Elite 9 drives.Basically, the majority said that (given the drive is pre-formatted by themanufacturer or reseller) format is OK if you have the correct format.datentry (which I don't have as we don't have the drives yet). You should ...
In article <mkeCo9syp.w3@netcom.com>, Mike Miller Jr. <mke@netcom.com> wrote:>rhh@jolt.att.com (Robert Hu) writes:>> # 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 ...
In article <2oqvn6$d1f@xochi.tezcat.com> root@tezcat.com (Charles E. MacMillan) writes: > >Hmm, not sure this would work. Under sunos if the users shell isn't >in /etc/shells (or bourn/csh if there is no etc/shells) the user can't ...
----------X-Sun-Data-Type: textX-Sun-Data-Description: textX-Sun-Data-Name: textX-Sun-Content-Lines: 31Sorry to keep you all in suspense for so long, here's the long overdue summary.My original problem was that I couldn't get a ZOOM fax modem (14,400 V.32bis)to work on serial port A off an ...
Hi all!This was my Question: I am looking for the latest wais-sources.tar.Z-File. I don't find it on ftp.think.com anymore. Where can i find it now?I found some servers now and i think quake.think.com and ftp.wais.com arethe best one! (ftp.think.com != quake.think.com)Thanx ...
Many thanks to those of you who answered my questions.Casper Dik <casper@fwi.uva.nl>Birger.Wathne@vest.sdata.no (Birger A. Wathne)The way to setup the NIS is to:1) set your domain in /etc/defaultdomain2) run ypinit -c with your NIS servers3) run /usr/lib/netsvc/yp/ypbindAnd the piece that ...
Last week, I posted about my inability to NFS-mount Ultrix 4.0 filesystems on a Solaris 2.3 client.Kudos to Mike Iglesias <iglesias@draco.acs.uci.edu>, Charlie Orgish <orgish@cascade.Stanford.edu>, and Ian Allen <aa610@freenet.carleton.ca>for pointing out that Ultrix 4.0 RPC ...
----------X-Sun-Data-Type: textX-Sun-Data-Description: textX-Sun-Data-Name: textX-Sun-Content-Lines: 40Thanks for all responses!My original question:>Does anybody know what patches are needed/recommended for SunOS 4.1.3_U1?It seems that all the important patches have been integrated in the ...
Hi all,here is a summary of my original posting re: Sun keyboards:>do you have anything that can generate the keyboard scan>codes of a type 4 or type 5 Sun keyboard. Or do you have any>documentation that has a table listing all the keyboard scan codes?Here are a few of my ...
Hi,Here is my original query regarding the tracking of jobs for Sun management:> does anyone know of any (free) job tracking or job management> software? I would use this to track jobs that people ask me> to do like installing new software, updating their quotas,> anything that ...
Here is the definitive word on using the gateway option (-g) totraceroute under Solaris2.3 - you can't do it (easily). I asked:> In article <CoFI0L.2p3@cfanews.harvard.edu>, paul@head-cfa.harvard.edu (Paul Grant) writes:> > Has anyone succeeded in creating a traceroute under ...
Sorry for the delay, I've been working on this for a while.Basically, I needed a good R5 Xsun (which I didn't have) and usethe -query (or -indirect) flag to get XDMCP running on my Xserver.Also a new copy (post-1.4) of Xkernel helped alot too.Thanks to Swa Frantzen for all the help.Email me ...
A few hours ago I wrote: I have recently installed the full X11R5 software onto my sun systems running SunOS 4.1.3. After doing this, I noticed ...
Hi again,a few days ago I asked for US list prices for the new Suns sothat I could compare them with the UK pricing. I have to say thatthings seem to have inproved a little compared to a few yearsago.There is still some interesting variation. Below is a table ofModel numbers, US list prices ...
For all those people interested in using MacPPP with the PPP package that is included with Solaris 2.3 - IT WORKS FINE. I managed to get it going eventually.Note: You will need the PPP patch for Solaris 2.3 to enable a PPP link to be established (101425-03).I will summarise in detail next ...
My original question was :>>I'v recently connected a netcomm modem to a sparc2 and would dearly like to do>Z-modem transfers. I am connecting to the remote end (a PC normally) using>cu. The remote end only knows Z-modem.>>I have tried rzsz without success (and I don't think ...
Sun Managers:Sorry for the delay. I wanted to wait to see if a possible solution would work.Thanks for all that responded. May responses where from people that whererunning SunOS 4.1.x. Since I'm running Solaris 2.3 I didn't think theirsolution would help. The said that not putting a carriage ...
thank you for answer to:heha@biochem.mpg.de (Herbert Hanewinkel)jzeitlin@Ascend.COM (Jim Zeitlin)Greg Onufer <Greg.Onufer@Eng.Sun.COM>my original question was:> Hello> > I try to connect a PC running PC/TCP to a SPARCstation 10 over ISDN using ppp:> > On the PC side I use a ...
Thanks for the responses! What I did was to take out auditd andeverything works!The responses:>From john@BOTCC.Com Fri Apr 22 10:32:52 1994Return-Path: <john@BOTCC.Com>Received: from mach5.BOTCC.Com by futon.sfsu.edu (NX5.67e/NX3.0M) id ...
Original post:> We are running Openwin 3.0, and I have some users that want to be able to> double click on a file (in filemanager), and launch the application that> created it.> EG: Currently, you can double click on a .gif file, and snapshot will launch> and load that file, ...
Hello, Here's the format.dat info I used on our disk, which worked fine: #disk_type = "Seagate ST31200N" \ : ctlr = SCSI : fmt_time = 4 \ : ...
> > hi,> I have a script file (attached) I need to put in as a cronjob to run every> day before I come in to work. This script basically list all the partition> on the tape to a file. > > This is how the crontab file looks like.> > 0 7 * * 1-5 /bin/sh ...
This one was obviously too easy for my overly complex head. I confessI thought there was something special/different about the SunOS boot tapes.I did receive three types of replies so far.1. Use tcopy (overall favorite)2. Use dd if=input of=outputand 3. One fellow sent me a copy of a tape copy ...
----------X-Sun-Data-Type: textX-Sun-Data-Description: textX-Sun-Data-Name: textX-Sun-Charset: us-asciiX-Sun-Content-Lines: 15I received several replies to my questions:12 said that SUNWnskit was working just fine1 me tooEveryone but <af@biomath.jussieu.fr> had to pay ~100.00$US for the ...
My Original request:Hello Sun Managers, I am looking for some kind of software that willallow me to create network maps automatically. Right nowam using a flowchart software and everytime I changesomething on the local network, I have to change my ...
This was my original query:> > I have installed Sunos 4.1.3 in a Sparcstation1. The k-arch is sun4c.> As I had little space I just installed the required software and Openwindows.> Everything went fine until I tried to run openwindows. It refused to run and I> got the following ...
Sun Managers,On Friday, Apr 22, I wrote:> I'm seeking format.dat information for a Seagate ST31200N 1.06 Gb disk.> Anyone out there have one of these ?Here's what I ended up using:#disk_type = "Seagate ST31200N" \ : ctlr = SCSI : ...
Thank you for all of you who responded to my questions regarding the alloc table file system is full. Everbody suugested the same cure look for big files in root system and clean the files which are not needed.to do that use find / -mount -type f ...