Due to some temporary difficulties at the stpaul.gov gateway, a pieceof mail sent to you or from you, and involving, to the best of ourknowledge, the following people:         oday@hercules.calspan.com (Abdi M. ...

Hi,this summarizes the answers to the question whether NIS+ is needed to use *jumpstart* (SOLARIS automatic installation).- There is no need for NIS+ just to use jumpstart. = (Bob Dowling rjd4@ucs.cam.ac.uk) - It's the contrary. We've been doing it using a NIS instead of a NIS+ server for ...

Apparently my first send of this message did not have any body text!I'm trying it again now, sorry for the inconvience.     Grant W. Quinlan ----------We are using VT320 ascii terminals as the console devices for our servers.Sometime ago I participated in a ...

roy@issy.cnet.fr (Jean-Michel ROY) writes:[ Please, next time post with lines shorter than 75 columns ]>I had to set up /etc/hostname.le0 manually in my postinstall script.> = (Stefan Turowski turo@informatik.uni-erlangen.de)This is caused by a bug in the installation procedure: ...

Hi,Sorry for the late summary. This just a proliminary summary, since it's stillearly to claim the problem has been fixed. The short story is:    I almost break down and decide to upgrade the OS, then I found a patch    100645-01 4.1.2;4.1.3: swapon ...

-------------------- ORIGINAL MESSAGE -------------------------Okay, I took your earlier advice and bought a pair of TelebitT3000s for our Sparc 2 (running SunOS 4.1.3) server. Now I amhaving trouble correctly configuring them, the gettytab, andthe ttytab entries correctly.Does anyone have a ...

   Thanks for the quick response on the following:> I am looking for the format.dat entry for the Segate ST3655N (SCSI) drive.>I have already searched "ra.mcs.anl.gov:/sun-managers/format.dat" and talked>to Segate Tech. Sup. with no luck. Segate told me thay ...

  My original posting:========================================================================  Our Sparc-10, Model 512 is having some serious problems.Configuration:         Sparc-10, Model ...

In article <2pnrsf$8er@mail.fwi.uva.nl>, casper@fwi.uva.nl (Casper H.S. Dik) writes:|> roy@issy.cnet.fr (Jean-Michel ROY) writes:|> |> >I am specifically interested by experience of people using the network|> >in all three phases. (There is the additional question of ...

I received a reply which follows from Graham Irving offering to supply MOD drivers. Thanks to the individual who put me onto him.graham@instar.cuc.ab.ca MO-SOL/S is the product for the 3.5" MO SONY drive.The list price is $225 US, or $270 CDN.Graham ...

Thanks to all that responded. (too many to write names)Just add the following lines in your rc.local file in the/etc directory.   #   # start the screen saver for the console   #   if [ -f /bin/screenblank ]; ...

The peasants are appeased. Somewhat.Thanks to Dave Munro who actually MAILED me the 386i boot image(i dind't know our mailers could handle a 160k file, but it camethrough okay - who'dathunk?)Problem is, the 386i is sitting there broadcasting tftp requests:   64 udp ...

----------X-Sun-Data-Type: textX-Sun-Data-Description: textX-Sun-Data-Name: textX-Sun-Content-Lines: 30> I looked at the Sun-managers policy statement and want> to send a question to `comp.sys.sun.hardware'. To what> address do I send it, and do I have to be a member of> ...

Thanks to all who responded. Of the various options suggested, Iopted for the solution suggested by Ian_MacPhedran@engr.usask.ca.This involved making /home/quota mode 640, in a new group (called"quotas" for lack of anything original), and placed/usr/lib/fs/ufs/quota in that same ...

Hello and sorry for the long delay, but I had to do some other staff in the last two weeks.Original situation and question:My situation: We are running a lot of hosts with SunOS 4.1.3 and a few hosts with Solaris2.3In our environment we are using NIS ( still testing NIS+ ) and ourNIS master ...

Hi, Sun Managers:Thanks Jeff Kays jkays@msc.edu        Mike Wagner mike_wagner@il.us.swissbank.com        Roland Kaltefleiter kaltef@theo-physik.uni-kiel.d400.deThe summary of my question is ...

There were 9 responses to the enquiry including one asking for a summary.The format.dat entries they provided were not exactly the same, but shouldbe workable. I used the one provided by dick@netcom.com shown below:# From: dick@netcom.com (Richard Arnold)#disk_type = "Seagate ST12400N ...

Good morning, My original question is as follows:> From man st on our SunOS 4.1.3 server, a 4/670MP, there is an indication> that we can write stuff in compression mode with our Sun Extabyte drives.> The man page says nrst[16-23] are to be used for compression mode.> But we can't ...

Hello Managers, thanks for the quick reply.To forward or not to forward ? ( sounds familiar )My problem was how to make sure that a host connected to 2 networks(in my case - one local and one to the internet)won't forward tcp/ip packets between networks.The answer: It depends on the kernel ...

Hello Sun Managers, -----------------------------------------------------------My question .How to mount /pcfs without root privileges ?------------------------------------------------------------Thanks to all who responded .I got 37 answers which fall into mainly three categories.One of the ...

I posted this summary about 3 weeks ago. I got a message saying itwasn't delivered a couple of weeks ago. I have had these messagespreviously and they have turned up so I waited til now to resend mymessage. For those of you interested in the error message I gotback I have appended it on to the ...

Thank to all of you! (List below). Here the solution (original posting below) as stated by many of you:This patch has just been released for this exact problem.Patch-ID# 101610-01Keywords: csh variable characterSynopsis: SunOS 5.3: csh variable name limited to 18 characters, instead of 20Date: ...

Dear managers,Original posting:----- Begin Included Message ------->Hi managers,-->-->among others we have an SS1 runing SUNOS 4.1.1 and Openwindows 3.0.-->When a particular user (only this one!) tries to start openwin-->by typing "openwin" on the console, after a short ...

Hello Sun Managers,        On Apr 19 I asked a question regarding some problems that Iam having with syslogd and a modification to the /etc/syslog.conf file.        So far, I have got only 3 answers, and none of ...

hi, All Sun-managers...I would summarize all I recieved that I questioned...First I questioned that > > Who are you? You have no entry in /etc/utmp! Aborting...> > getwd: can't stat .> Everyone answered this question So many answer but ...My real Problem is that my X Program ...

 Yesteray I wrote :> Hello fellow managers !> > One of our users complains about the space that is reserved for > message queues in the kernel. There seem to be two limits, one for> a sigle queue (now more or less 2 K) and one for the sum of all queues.> Does anybody ...

My original question was:>Here is a real simple question. I have been unable to find anything in the>manuals about this, so here is my question.>We use the /bin/csh for our shell. Our network consists of several workstations>running 4.1.3 and a single workstation running Solaris ...

Hello Sun Managers,I posted a summary about this topic and get remarks about some security problems with using the "system" command.mikem@centerline.com suggested to not use this:   system ("/usr/etc/mount_pcfs /dev/fd0 /pcfs pcfs rw,suid") ;He proposes ...

Second go at a summary to include useful input receivedafter the first summary.Jon Valdes (valdes@geosun.uchicago.edu) pointed out thatthe SGI X Server doesn't have the Palatino fontsrequired for answerbook to display correctly. He suggesteda few ways of getting type1 fonts from PC's or ...

Thank you.Original question:>I am looking for some software to help me automatically extract>information from an on-line information database server such as >Compuserve or Dow Jones News Service. The database can be>accessed either via modem on using the Internet. So I am ...

My original request:    When sending mail from an NIS client using emacs to a destination mail    alias that is defined in the /etc/aliases file on the NIS master, I    get a return message from the Mailer-Daemon stating ...

Yet again the collective experience from the sun-managerstriumphs - well almost.A couple of days ago I wrote;> SPARC 10 with Solaris 2.3 & OpenWindows 3.3. Printing via a remote> SPARCPrinter using NEWSprint 1.0>> WABI 1.1 installed plus Microsoft Excel (v4), Microsoft ...

On Friday I wrote:Excerpts from internet.sun-managers: 6-May-94 3/80 keyboard troubles byDerrick Brashear@andrew. >A few weeks ago, the keyboard in my 3/80 finally called it quits. The>thin cable inside, with 5 metallic strips covered in some sort of tape,>broke. So, I first attempted ...

My original query:>Setup: Sun Sparc 1,1+,2,IPC,Classic; at least 16MB RAM; at least 200MB> local hard disk space; networked; Solaris 2.3 fully installed on> one test machine>>Question: Is there any support for pre-compiled SunView apps (no source> code ...

My original question:> We have a SS690-51 running 2.3 with 5 x 2.1G drives.> Three of these disks are concatenated together with ODS 2.0.1.> > We want to add another 51 processor but to do so we have to move> the sbus scsi card from slot 3 to slot 2 to make way for the> second ...

Original Posting: -------------------------------------------------------------Hi out there,Got a bit of a problem @ the moment.I have a headless SparcServer 1000 with the entiredistribution of Solaris 2.3 loaded.I need to view answerbook - so my immediate thoughts were - it's been ...

I sent this Summary last week. It did not appear so here it is again.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Thank you everyone who helped out on this one. It would appear that there isa considerable amount of software which exists to allow me to do what I want.I ...

  Sun-Managers:  This was a case of RTFM, but not realizing that compression required  a special option to enable.  Chuck Foley said it best:> You should be using /dev/rmt/0c to write with compression> turned on....The man page (Solaris 2.3) for ...

The overwhelming response (all 25 of them), said NFS is fuctioning correctly.When I export /projects I also export the /projects/a and /projects/b directories, not the mounted filesystems on those directories.Thanx to all, but in the interest of bandwith they shall remain ...

My Original question was:> I have just received a new SS10/512 and I'm having problems> during installation of Solaris 1.1.1 (with SunOS 4.1.3_U1).>> I turned the machine on and it stopped at the prom monitor prompt.> Then I issued the following command:> > boot ...

Looks like stopping and starting news fixed the problem....Still don't know why it failed, but at least it is workingnow.According to Dinah McNutt...||INNwatch failed sometime yesterday and our news disk got full. We|restarted INN, but now expire does not seem to be working because|the disk is ...

    Hello,Thanks to all who responded to my question:>> I need to install a second internal harddisk on eith a Sun 10 Model 30>> or a Sun 10 Model 40. I believe the 10/40 can handle 10MB/sec scsi>> dirves(?), but what about the 10 Model 30?>> >> ...

Original request:> Dear Managers,> > After upgrading to 4.1.3_U1 we have found that the environment variable> LD_LIBRARY_PATH gets undefined after an su to another user. This doesn't> seem to be mentioned anywhere - I can only assume it's intended as a> security ...

Thanks to those that responded. The way I usually brought up dual screens with one window manager was to go: /usr/openwin/bin/openwin -dev /dev/cgsix1 -dev /dev/cgsix0. So originally I thought that I could modify my .xinitrc and have olwm startup with -display :0.0 and mwm with -display :0.1. ...

ORIGINAL QUESTION:> I am currently trying to decide on how to communicate from my Novell> network to my Sun network (and vica versa) in the most effiecent way.> > Does anyone have NetWare Sunlink running?> If so, do you like it?> If you decided on a different design ...

My original question was:What command do I use to fix RPC credentials for NIS+?Responses from:ulf@dtro.e-technik.th-darmstadt.de (Ulf Schellin)grobi@uni-paderborn.de (Juergen Peus)elp@kodak.com (Gene Loriot)steve@cegelecproj.co.uk (Steve Kilbane)rogerio@bvl.pt (Rogerio Rocha)jose@we.lc.ehu.es ...

First of all, thanks for all that reply.Secondly, I should have mentioned that the error did associate with an IP address which supposed to be the address of the other PC that have the same license. However, the IP address that I got was its own address. Summary-------Everyone tells me that ...

        Hi managers!        My original question:> We have a problem about permissions on directories /tmp> and /var/mail> 1) /tmp> It is mounted on swap and its permissions ...

    Hello,thanks for eveyone who responded to my my query concerning accand the "-cg92" options. I was getting the following link error:>acc -pg -o main main.o .... -lm>ld: Undefined symbol> cg92_usedA lot of people suggested checking the LD_LIBRARY_PATH ...

Hello list:here is a very short summary: no, I did not botch up the kernel, but I hada superconducting short between the keyboard and the seat. there are too manySysVR4 hosts around here, and it had been a very long time since I had used a BSD like host. Yes, I wanted the user mn's processes. ...