Thanks to Chuck Foley (cfoley@arsenic.cray.com) for hisspeedy assistance with direct TPE machine connection. Ratherthan a crossover cable (which simply reverses the pinout orderon the jack), all that's needed is to cross connect pins 1 and 3and pins 2 and 6 for the direct connection.I was ...

Well after much struggle, I inadvertantly fixed this and got it working.This is my system:        SparcStations running SunOS4.1.3        PCs running DOS/Windows and ...

 It seems many other Solaris 2 users have encountered this problem. Sun is awareof the problem - apparently there are 2 patches for the problem - 101533 &101615. The trouble is Sun haven't yet released these patches!The solution (!) that several respondants mentioned, and the one I am ...

Hello,I asked if anyone had attached a postscript printer to the parallel port on an LX and managed to read Postscript errors wnd pagecounts back from theprinter (a la serial port). I got four replies.Two were if you hear anything let us know.One was you can do this because we've got a ...

Here's the summary, bootpd can be downloaded from :  firewall.mc.com : /pub/bootp-2.3.7.tar.Z (from Peter ...

Original problem at the end. Also a good explanation and suggestions aboutwhat to do when you get in this pickle.***************************************************************************SUMMARY:As many of you have suggested, the phase parity error was due to a duplicateSCSI id, cable ...

==================================================================ORIGINAL POST==================================================================>I'm having problems with a Sparc 2 acting as a server in an engineering dept.>I'm getting the standard message on the console:>> /var: ...

SUMMARY:Sun recommendations for building a firewallLast week I posted:| Sun-gods,| | I have heard that Sun provides a "guide" for setting up an internet| firewall. Unfortunately, our Sun rep has not heard of it.| | If anyone has heard of or seen this "guide", could you pass ...

        Thanks to all who responded to my questions. The answers arepretty uniform, Exabyte 8500 can not do compression. The rst24,25drivers merely send a density code to the tape drive, and 8500 can notunderstand this code. It does not have the required ...

Hi *,A while back, I posted a question to this list. In the letter,I asked why I got 'exec fault' once in a while. The responsesI got from the net can be classified into two cases:1. apply patch 101317 (printer jumbo patch)2. got similar problem. And even the patch is applied, ...

Thanks to all who replied. The solution is provided below.  --Eric-- ***************************************--- Grad. student ---** Obviousness is always the enemy of * \ Jui-Lin Lu (Eric) / ** correctness. -- Bertrand Russell * / jlu@cs.umr.edu ...

Well, it has been several Weeks by now, but Things seemingly are startingto be *predictable* at least.Hardware we're talking about: SS2 Clone, internal 1GB Disk, original SUNCD-ROM Drive, Pizzabox with 4 IBM 0664N1D Disks for wide-diff SCSI,Performance Technologies SBS440A D wide-diff SCSI ...

You may recall my request for feedback on replacing a 1.05GB system disk with a 2.1GBdevice.Following responses from various people, I've just completed what I believe to be asuccessful upgrade.I had a full complement of SCSI devices, but elected to temporarily replace anexisting drive (sd1) ...

Hi managers !My original question was: -------------------------QUESTION :My customer has asked me about the "keepalive" function of TCP/IP. Specifically, he wants to know if it is configurable for different times (send a packet more often than 2 hours, the default).For now, ...

Thanks to all who responded. The answer was to put the AUI adapter cable<p>on and plug in the thick net then reboot.<p>Thanks again,<p>Debby Shaffer<p>ACC SYSTEMS, Inc.<p>Columbia, MD<p>

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Wow! Quite a response. And my apoligies to those of you who scortchedmy shorts with RTFM's. I wish I had some FM's to read, aside fromthe man pages! :-) And since I didn't know where to look, man pagesare just 8MB worth of "stuff". :-) Anyways, to make this short and sweet, to set ...

Hi Sun Managerslbd@mhcnet.att.com (Leslie_B_Dreyer Kalra)steve@cegelecproj.co.uk (Steve_Kilbane)Steve Hanson <hanson@pogo.fnal.gov> They said NFS/TCP will be available in Solaris 2.4 or later.cecilp@vancouver.cantel.rogers.com (Cecil Pang) called it NFS+.perryh@pluto.rain.com (Perry ...

Hi,I guess maybe this wasn't exactly the best place to post this.A few reminded me that this is for SUN questions, not AIX questions.But I thought that since it was being plopped in the middle ofall my Suns, and had to interact with them (and coversely my Sunshad to interact with IT) that I ...

While I checked a recently posted sun-managers FAQ before postingthis question, I did not go through the WAIS summary archives.It appears that the answer was there, although for 2.2 ratherthan 2.3.The appropriate addition to one's /etc/system file to change thenumber of pseudo terminals is:set ...

All,It turns out this was a simple one. Apparently sun assigns the sameethernet address to all cards in a machine and makes the assumtionthat you would not be placing the cards on the same wire. Adding theline ifconfig le1 ether 48:0:20:10:9f:e0to the rc.local solved the problem. Thanks to all ...

Thanks for the quick responses (see below)There were two main groups, those who said use scsiinfo, availablefrom various ftp sites (use archie for a local one), and those who provided the format.dat entries.I have included most of the response from reilly@horta.shr.dec.comwhich appears to be ...

My question was:> how are the correct jumper settings when upgrading a SS10/20> to a SS10/402 ?The solution was to upgrade the eprom level to 2.12.With smaller level the machine was not able to boot.Thanks ...

My original question:>I am running Solaris 2.3 on a Sparc10 Model 51. I installed patch 101318-42.>After installing the patch, /usr/bin/truss no longer works. When you enter the>command, there is no response. You can enter cntl-c and the prompt returns but>there is no output from ...

My original question:>We have just installed a fast SCSI-2 controller and the disk on our system,>but I'm not sure if it's really running at its full speed. There is only one>disk on this Sun's FSBE controller card by the way. So, is there any utility>or anything can tell me ...

Solution:I created a /etc/shells file on all affected machines which includedan entry for his new non-standard shell. Problem solved.Thanks to the following people for giving me the solution. The originalproblem mail message is included below.Ric AndersonTimothy DryJim CravenJohn MizziMike ...

My question was: >Can anyone point me at software that will perform the function of a>"logical volume manager" for a Sun system running SunOS 4.1.3.>We would like to be able to treat a group of disks as a single unit.I received 29 responses; most were very favorable comments ...

Hello all,        I apologise for the delay in sending out a summary, but here it is.My Original message was :-{Hello,        I hope that somebody out there can help me.I am currently trying to find a structured ...

Hello Sun-managers;2 Months ago, I asked the following questions:|> I have had problems compiling free X software obtained from the net.|> Usually imake produces a Makefile that is not appropriate for our|> site since we don't have libraries installed in the standard places.|> ...

Original post:# Hardware: Tadpole SPARCbook 3# Software: Solaris 1.1.1# # How can I go about modifying the kernel using adb to do the following:# # Increase the shared memory size (SHMSIZE) to => 0x20000# Increase the number of semaphores (SEMMNS) to => 640# Increase the number of shared ...

Hi Managers,Thanks to all managers out there who responded to my questions.I got quite a few responses for my questions about setting up modemson Sun (IPX). Basically, the question was how to setup a modem on IPX,a modem connected to an IPX works inconsistently (sometimes can connect, other ...

Some time ago I posed a request regarding guest ftp access. Basically Iwanted to specify a guest ftp account that would do a chroot in asimilar fashion to the usual 'ftp' user - but I wanted to put a passwordon the guest user so 'ftp' wasn't good enough (wanted to have ananonymous login ...

Original statement:orig: Configuration:orig: Sparc 10, Solaris 2.3, no patches, no nis/nis+orig: orig: On this machine, when I ftp to a system that is not in the /etc/hostsorig: file, ftp reports that the host is unknown. Ftp to our local hostsorig: works fine, and name lookup with ...

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Request >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Hello Sun-managers    I am having ...

I sent this to the list almost a week ago, but never saw it comeacross. If you receive this twice, I appologize. (Of course, thefirst time I forgot to give credit to all those that responded to myquestion, so this is a better message anyway. ;)The original question:> Hello worthy ...

  I'm trying to add a Maxtor MXT-540S to a SUN-3/260 and retire the old  XY drive currently in the machine (because it is rapidly  degenerating).  When I opened the CPU tower, I noticed the SCSI board next to the tape  drive had a ...

My apologies for this late summary. Most of the respondents recommended looking in init.inetd. I did and found where I was getting the message. As the situation does not seem to be causing any problems and since I don't have anything on the serial ports (yet) I have decided to leave it for ...

************* original request *************Salutations:While no one was watching, a Classic running Solaris 2.2 felt compelledto reboot for reason(s) unknown. Further complicating the situation is the fact that the box can't boot from the disk now:(. . . stuff deleted)starting rpc services: ...

Here is the best ( and only ) working sollution offered:Jim;This e-mail message is comming to you thought a PPP dialup link.I'm a Sun user/admin/installer/trainer/.... how shall i say it "I LOVE MY SUN" but as jobs go I spend a lot of time away from home base!I'm currently in ...

Hallo SUN Managers,my original question was:----- Begin Included Message -----Hallo SUN Managers,we have figured out a problem with Berkeley Remote Printingand (at least, but it seems to be a design error) SUN OS 4.1.3(client) and ULTRIX 4.3 (server)The problem occurs when printing from a host ...

It seems many other Solaris 2 users have encountered this problem. Sun is awareof the problem - apparently there are 2 patches for the problem - 101533 &101615. The trouble is Sun haven't yet released these patches!The solution (!) that several respondants mentioned, and the one I am ...

Greetings sun managers:First and foremost many many sincere thanks to the sun managers who helpedme through this difficult and confusing ordeal of adding modems for bothdial-in and dial-out.Very briefly, I was having a great deal of trouble getting my modem to allowdial-ins. When I would edit ...

        Sorry this is so late in comming. I did get answers rangingfrom get more memory or faster memory to this is inappropriate forsun-man(Sorry Tim!).        The suggestion we took, or will take (haven't done ...

My Original question:>Hello Sun-Managers,>>I am looking for Fortran 90 compiler, for a Sun Sparc 4/690 server with>SunOS 4.1.3 (will move to Solaris 2.x next year).>>Any information regarding the availability of this product (from Sun or>other vendors), performance etc will ...

Guess I just needed patch 100444.Thanks to the following!!!Mr T Crummey (DIJ) <tom@sees.bangor.ac.uk>Leonard Sitongia <sitongia@zia.hao.ucar.edu>glenn@uniq.com.au (Glenn Satchell - Uniq Professional Services)Mike ...

The short answer is "Yes!" the SUN 32Mb Sbus memory can be used in the IPX, we have run sundiag and other apps for 4 days without a hitch. Memory now totals 80Mb (we only had simms for 48Mb)Even though the replies were of mixed opinion, we were persuaded by the presence of the ...

I recently asked whether anybody had experience with Digital Linear Tapedrives (DLTs) on Sun workstations. Some folks also wanted to hear more butnobody responded with information. I was able to borrow a DLT and try it onan IPX and a Sparc10-51 running SUNOS4.1.3. The IPX had external ...

My original question was:>>I have an HP color printer: HP DeskJet 1200CPS connected to a>>SPARCstation 2 running SunOS 4.1.3. The printer works fine. >>The problem is every time after the it prints a job, it will>>print an error message in a new page like:>>ERROR: ...

Thanks to Jonathan Loh. He pointed me to "scsiinfo" that can generate format.dat info for disk drives.Gautam---------- message ----------Date: Mon, 23 May 94 10:37:35 PDTFrom: Jonathan Loh <jloh@futon.SFSU.EDU>To: gautam@bwc.orgSubject: Re: Need format.dat ...

The question:The setup: Sparcstation 4/330 networked with a Sun386i. Since this local network was to be connected to the campus network, I had to change the Internet addresses as well as the name of these machines. As far as the 4/330 was concerned, that was no problem. After changing the ...