Dear Sun Managers,with solved original problem comes this summary (original post trailing). Not strange that this post triggered few responces. Yet it pleasantly rewardedme with several discoveries - which are summarized together with results oflocal searches:1st - Thanks to:Reto A ...

Many thanks to all of you including:Massimiliano Panichi [m.panichi@datapos.it]Graham Leggett [minfrin@sharp.fm]Nickolai Zeldovich David Evans Todd M. Wilkinson Asim Zuberi Salehi, Michael E Scott D. MacKay Tim Evans Gene Rackow Jason.WilliamsonMarco Greene 1. Some people suggest different ...

First of all I work like to thank the following people for all their GREAT input!Daniel Baker Tim CarlsonHarvey Wamboldt Frank PardoRobert J. Helferich Jr. Ray TrzaskaAndew Moffat A Space OdittyBobC Christopher HaggardAlex Finkel Steve BoykoMichael Zimmerman Christopher L. ...

Thanks to all that replied. The original problem:I was mounting a /faculty3 directory from our file server to a lab of16 workstations. Users with home directories under /faculty3 received a"pwd: cannot determine current directory!" when logged into the clientworkstations.The ...

thanks for the 26 respondents. the solutions areto apply a permanent license or back date thesystem's date.-----Original Message----- From: sun unix [mailto:sun_starfire@yahoo.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2000 6:27 AM To: sun-managers@codeprof.ececs.uc.edu Subject: Vertias Volume Manager Dear ...

THE QUESTION:>A Japanese user here is keen to use Mule (MUlti Lingual Emacs) on our>Solaris 2.5.1 environment. Mule itself doesn't look like being hard to>get going: it's just a slightly hacked emacs 19.28 and I've compiled>that in the past. The trouble comes when I try to ...

ORIGINAL QUESTION:> > I am facing the following problem :> I have a SparcServer 1000 with Solaris 2.5 which is our department's name> server. The /var partition is rather small, so I have to clean rather> often wtmpx , utmpx etc which are in /var/adm. > I tried to move them ...

Dear SUN Managers,All advice are valuable - advice from Arthur and Ganeshan are particularly useful for what we did.We managed to reconfigured the /var on the root disk.Thanks for all prompt responses and thanks for creating this mail server. My original email is - > Dear SUN Manager,> ...

     This is a great mailing list!!!, thanks to all the wonderful people      that responded - too many to list          1) Most people said the first problem was because the August 1997 cd ...

Hello Admins..Well...I found the bug....Here is the original question..>I have a problem with SLIP users who are using Eudora Mail to read>via POP their mail on a SOlaris 2.5 SS20.>>A SLIP user CAN do Netscape, READ mail with Eudora, but CAN'T SEND mail>with eudora....that ...

HiMy original question was:>I installed Solaris 2.5.1 on a Sun machine, and then I logged in and>ran Open Windows and FVWM, it worked just fine. Afterwards,>I applied the most recent 2.5.1_Recommended (version date: Mar/19/98)>patches.>>And now, when I try to start OW or ...

HiRebooting the workstation fixed the problem - I do not know why theother 4 workstations did not need to be rebooted.NickNicholas J. Brealey writes: > Hi > > I installed Solstice AdminSuite 2.2 on a SPARCstation 20 workgroup server > running Solaris 2.4 (I do not have time to ...

It seems that I have unintentialy offended some of you with a summery thatwas some what lacking information. For this I offer my humble apologizes andwill provide better and more informative summaries in the future. I havealso put out a more in-depth summery concerning my initial ...

> > We have our own stratum 1 timesync source that is unfortunately very> old and can't deal with daylight savings time. (We have to manually> change the hour offset from GMT. ugh). So we shut down NTP on the> stratum 2 servers that obtain their time from this clock, set the ...

Dear all,I have received two helpful replies from "Auteria Wally Winzer Jr." <wally.winzer@ChampUSA.COM>, andFischer Jens <jefi@kat.ina.de>Both of them suggested that the problem is caused by a change in the kernelstructures for hme. Yes, I did install the hme patch but I ...

Hello,i have found the solution at sunsolves home page. Please search at BugId 1121403.The solution was to install the latest patch cluster and the problem went away.Here the original question:Hello,in /var/adm/messages currently appear following NIS+ error:Apr 23 00:07:28 pi3 nisd[106]: ...

Hi SUN Gurus,my orginal question was:----- Begin Included Message -----We are running a NIS+ cluster and haved finished connectingthe systems via a network hub (a mix of10BaseT, FDDI and later on ATM). Now we plan to switchthe subnet address of each NIS+ system without changing their canonical ...

Thanx to :Kristian Forde, Karl Vogel, James Ford, and Roger Klorese.( Who after showing his response to certain "embarrassed"mangers, Gladly put together a order for Sendmail 8.10)Here is my original posting:Hello all:>> We are trying to configure sendmail on Solaris 2.6. ...

As usual the list comes through. The problem came from the wrongversion of the echo command being used.> From: Matthew Stier <mstier@hotmail.com>> > Sounds like the print system was stopped and restarted by someone> with /usr/ucb in thier path first.> > The script ...

Dear Sun managers;I have received a lot of responses and they are really helpful. Thanks for allpeople who responsed as follow and some one I may missed:Alex.De-La-Salle@nmp.nokia.comBrooke King jbking@sandia.govRajeev Kumar <rxk@fluent.com>David Evans ...

Thanks to:Markus Korth <mkorth@systline.de>Ross Lonstein <lonstein@bigfoot.com> Dale Wiles <dwiles@Buffalo.Veridian.Com>Dan Lowe <dan@scsiboy.com>Jed Dobson <jed@wgtech.com> Kevin Colagio <kevin@web.xcdg.xerox.com>Thomas Knox ...

Original question:--Environment:Ultra/SS20/SS5, running Solaris 2.5Problem:Suid or setgid programs won't find shared libraries underindirect automount points.-rwxrwsr-x 1 game games 1498161 Apr 23 11:36 nethack% nethackld.so.1: ./nethack: fatal: libXaw.so.6.0: can't open file: ...

Hi.My original question:I know this has been asked before, but I never found any summary forit.I upgraded 4 workstations from Solaris 2.5 to Solaris 2.6 by doing acomplete reinstallation of the OS. Afterthis upgrade printing from dtmail doesn't work correctly anymore.It seems that Carriage ...

Thanks to all replies, specially to Ray Trzaska.Original quetion:> > I'm working with a SUN Netra i machine. I need to compile some programs> like Perl5.003, but I don't have the C Libraies headers. So, how can I> get it? I've already seen onto the CD-ROM but I couldn't find ...

Thanks to:        Scott McDermott        Jim Robertori        Trent MacDougail        Gautam DasWho all had basically correct ...

Thanks to Michael Baumann for providing this timely solutionand to the rest of you for your helpful responses.> > > > One of my users has been tasked with verifying some 200 +> > tapes on which data that we've paid for supposedly> > resides. She was able to do this ...

Thanks to the following people:Thomas Anders, Brett Lymn, Charles Seeger, and Matthew Stier.Basically everybody seemed to be in agreement that there is no "easy" way ofchecking to see what patches are installed. There are a few files[/etc/install/patch*] where you can manually list ...

I originally asked:> I am looking for very specific patches, since I have to build a patch cluster> that has specific revision numbers of patches. I have a lot of them, but I> am missing a few sunsolve CDs so I couldn't get them all. I searched the> archives and visited patch ...

Thank you to Mr. Andrew Moffat. His answer is correct. I don't need worry about it. The following is his answer:Someone probably already pointed this out.... this error message is generatedby newer revs of the SSA software when it probes a slot with no drive installed.Double check the ...

Hi, allAfter sending the first summary, I still received reposonses. The following are the attachment. Thanks to all those who response. Also, I apologize for late summary.Date: Wed, 01 Apr 1998 18:27:33 +0200From: "Simon Convey" <simon@iway.nl>This is exactly the kind of thing ...

Special thanks to: Robert Hayne <robert.hayne@shaw.ca>                Vince Sabio <vince@vjs.org>Robert's reply aided in solving my network connectivity problem. Using'sys-unconfig' command ...

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----I received one somewhat hesitant response which contained nothing that Ihad not already garnered from the sparse man pages. ncsd, Name ServerCache Daemon, caches passwd, group, and hosts lookups, including networklookups (DNS, NIS/NIS+).Since then we have ...

Thanks to Nicky AyoubMichael PetersonMarc Michelsenfor information on patch 105362-19Johnny-- "All you need is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure." --Mark Twaintext/x-vcard attachment: Card for Hall, ...

Hi,Firt my question:One of my user want to run a very large an long simulation programs(about 60 Meg of Memory and perhaps two weeks long on a sparc 20 ).I wonder if there is a way to run this job the night, suspend it themorning (dumping all the memory on disk ) and restart it the next ...

Here's the original message.> > I have an E450 running Solaris 7, with most of the latest patches. I'm> trying to install Gnu Emacs 20.4 or 20.6.> > The compile went just fine, but when I run the executable, I get a core> dump. Truss tells me that the last successfully ...

Thanks for your replies        valerie@facade.cc.bellcore.com        mhkohne@moberg.com        bert@virtual.comYou have saved me countless hours of anguish. Now I can proceed ...

Thanks for all the responses, the general consensus suggested usinggnuplot in conjuction with perl to produce the outputThanks to:David Thorburn-Gundlach [david@bae.uga.edu] replyed:Michael --I haven't seen anything from sar that output graphs, but Concord'sNetHealth provides graphic info on ...

Thanks to all who responded. I received many ways to approach thissituation, and many work-arounds. My original question was:Hello all,    I have done quite a bit of reading in the archives, FAQ, & sun freeware,but have yet to get a good grasp on paths. I am running a ...

One thing I must add here:upon doing the install after using the "Operating Environment InstallationCD September 1999"disk, I needed to select the "all packages plus OEM" option. Otherwise Iwould be stuck with thesame problem once again.thanks to Leonid Massarsky and Sonic ...

I got one more response from Susan Thielen. This is the kind of answer Iwas hoping for. Thanks Susan. (Her response is included below.Can't you just run Patchdiag to find out what you've gotand what's missing.. It is the easy way.. It will tell you everything.Check it out with sunsolve ...

Hello admins...The original query was: |Hello admins... | |I need to delegate to an operator a certain function... | |that he can CHANGE or ASSIGN passwords for users, but nothing else. | |I tried changing "/usr/bin/passwd" permissions, and ...

Hi,> Can anyone point me towards a good detailed reference (besides the> man pages) for creating software packages with pkgmk?Thanks for all of the responses. The most helpful was one whichpointed me to a great web page on the subject. This url ...

The original problem was that the / partition, which was only about 14Megabytes, had the mail files on it and frequently filled up, causing thecomputer to have a problem, as you can well imagine. I installed a new hard drive and was able to do that because of this group. I then moved the ...

Dear Gurus,This summary has been a VERY long time in coming; sorry about that, but I just recently got the machine back, and just recently got the problem solved (I think).My original question:>Hi All,>>the error: "le0: No carrier - cable disconnected or hub link test ...

I receive several replies to my most recent post about the console being hung.Unfortunately, none of them worked and I had to reboot the system (it needed agood reboot anyway). I had the most luck w/Reply #3 (see below), but when Iexited out of openwin the terminal was still hung. I am ...

As pointed out by many on the list patchdiag is only for Solaris 2.x. Toobad but thanks to you all for pointing it out before I went to use it.Unfortunately I do not have any SunOS machines to test it on until I get tothe client site. Well the list saved me this ...

I have the basics of a captive login environment under CDE/Solaris 2.6.Now what I need to do some furthur customization.We have an application program which uses Motif to display a menufor the user. Is there any way to have the exit button on this menu force a ...

Thanks go to:        Harvey Wamboldt <harvey@iotek.ns.ca>        Jon LaBadie <jon@jgcomp.com>Who were the only folks to respond, but who each had a useful answer for me!Thanks!My first question was:> ...

Date sent: 26-APR-1996 09:07:49 Hello!Below is the answer to the problem that I was having with OpenWindows.After installing the kernel patch, I could successfully startup OpenWindows.Many, many thanks to Mike for all of his help in solving this ...

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