STOP! :)Due to the overwhelming responses (including phone calls - looks like thisis not a unique situation!) we're going to implement Samba and share outthe partitions and scan with software on an NT server.I'll post a more detailed summary of the various thoughts and solutions,after things ...

   Original post:      What process(es) need to be restarted or signaled in      order for a Sun to recognize changes to the /etc/resolv.conf      file? The machine in question is running ...

Original query attached below.passwd.org_dir had read permission for group nobody set. "nischmod n-rpasswd.org_dir" removed read permission for group nobody.A correspondent noted that the shadow column of the passwd table wasunreadable by everyone ... and that owner should have read ...

I am often amazed by the response time from this group. The sun never sets on the Unix empire. ;-) First of all, thanks to the following for responding (thanks, too, to anyonewho may have responded after I sent this out):Bruce ChengSean BeegBenjamin ClineSteve ...

Original problem: I wanted to install gcc 2.8.1, wihch requires compilingit... and the only C compiler on the system was gcc 2.7.2. I had seen awarning saying that using an older version of gcc to do the install couldcause it to put infinite loops in some functions. However, I was unable ...

Hi GurusMy original question, with the responses (Thanks you!), is below.The general opinion is that the person I've been talking to is mistaken, and there is no particular problem with Solaris 7 on an Ultra 1. On the contrary, some Admins have quite high uptimes.BTW, a couple of you asked if ...

Many thanks to the following and those whose responses may be on the way:Karl E. Vogel <vogelke@c17.wpafb.af.mil>Justin Young <justiny@cluster.engr.subr.edu>Ted Marigomen <tmarigom@trimedia.scs.philips.com>Peter Marelas <maral@phase-one.com.au>Brett Lymn ...

Thanks to all how responded anders@hmi.de (Thomas Anders)Vassilo Walluschnig" <vassilo@imail.mj.org.za>gibian@stars1.hanscom.af.mil (Marc S. Gibian)Todd Boss <boss@netcom.com>kcolagio@wc.eso.mc.xerox.com (Kevin Colagio)Colin_Melville@mastercard.comBrooke King (6532)" ...

Thanks for all the assistance; in fact I have it working. To keep this summary(sort of) short, I shall genuinely summarize, and suggest that anyone who wants a transcript of all of the mail on the subject request it of me.1. Follow Celeste's guide, generally speaking. (She is so nice, and ...

I've got only two replies<p>thanks to <p>Lefteris Skapetis<p>Reinaldo Luis Ono<p><p>In a few words prtdiag is only documented interafce to <p>enviroment and temperature values on ultra 250<p><p>Damir Delija<p>

Dear All,Thanks for all who replied:Chad Price,Timothy P. Peterman,Jochen Berg.My original question was the following:"We are using an MTA that can not write to a user's mailbox file whilemailtool is in use. No problems were detected by using other mail clients.It seems that mailtool ...

As of Solaris 2.6, dataless clients will not be supported, it seems that the diskless clients will be provided you use the Solstice Autoclient package...Thanks go out to :David Lee <T.D.Lee@durham.ac.uk>nagel@inf-wiss.uni-konstanz.de (Hans-J. ...

Unfortunately nobody had any further info on valid values for the'mfg-options' environment variable. > > > As part of the process of upgrading an E450 running Sol 5.6 to Sol 8 I've> just upgraded the OBP to v. 3.16.2 using patch 106122-06. That worked fine,> but...> > ...

Original Question:**************According to ftp and ftpd man pages:"/etc/ftpusers contains a list of users who cannot access the     system; the format of the file is one user name per line."This means that any new user, if it is not included in thisfile, ...

First, thanks to everyone that responded.My original question was:   Is it possible to boot a Sun box (e.g., and Ultra 5) withouta keyboard. I've never tried this and have no non-productionequipment to try it on. I was asked this by a client. The clientsaid that there may be ...

Original question> I have a setuid-root C program that needs to copy /etc/passwd and> /etc/shadow to make some changes and write them back. To do this, it makes a> system("cp /etc/passwd /tmp/xxx"). This frequently leads to a core dump,> caused by an "illegal ...

The original question is included at the end of the message, but the shortand sweet was that I could not get masquerading to work correctly. I gotseveral responses, and the first one that fixed my problems came fromDouglas Palmer (dpalmer@nyed.uscourts.gov) with the following .mc ...

Hi sun managers,First of all many thanks to:Laura Taylor <ltaylor@voom.bbn.com>as@uebemc.siemens.de (Andreas Schroeder)who responded to my question.Unfortunately I have no solution yet, but I am a little bit closer now.Here is my original query:> Hi sun managers,> > I have got a ...

This is a repost of a previous message that I was corrected on protocol, sorry.>From robbw Mon Apr 14 12:52:33 1997To: sun-managers@ra.mcs.anl.govSubject: Audio input/output summaryThanks to all who responded to the original posting of:"I am trying to get the SS5 to pass an analog audio ...

Special thanks to those who tried helping me mostly eveybody pointedto an SCSI id related problem or a cable related problem but it was noneof those.SUMMARY:What I endup doing was re-installing Solaris 7 again -BUT this time Iselected"Entire Distribuition" which is 964MB which let me ...

Hello !    There were lot of suggestions .   The problem is solved as per the suggetion given by Ajay Gautam .      I set the suid bit of the su executable . and it started working ...

hi,thanks to:        Wallie Leung        Kevin Sheehan        Singh Adrian A        Mike ...

Q: How you will find out the superblocks of your disk ?A:You may try this command, but remember to include the 'N'.Solaris 1.x========# newfs -N /dev/rsd2gSolaris 2.x========# newfs -N /dev/rdsk/c0t2d0s6Many Thanks to :Mark Parry, Stefan Voss, Davidson, T., William Teo, Fowler ...

Pete Zaitcev (zaitcev@impce.su) after seeing my recent summary told me that he wrote amouse driver that allows use of PC Mice via a serial port.It is at sunsite.unc.edu/pub/sun-info/admin-tools/rat_11.tar.zThanks,Mark ...

Hi,I believe the Ultra-1 in question is acting exactly as designed. The "trouble" is really from the network switch using full duplex. This particular Ultra-1 model can't negotiate to full duplex. Thanks for the good reading material: >Read up on how to set the sun ...

My inquiry was to find out about what was being use out there for pager software.A pager software is a software that enables you to send a message from a script or directly by email to your alpha-numeric pager through a modem attached to your Sun.Thank you to all that replied:Don Ballard ...

The cg12 was dropped from solaris 2.5.<p>The SPARC:Installation Notes for Solaris 2.5 (Page 37) states that <p>the GS and GT graphics devices are no longer supported in 2.5. <p>They have reached the End-Of-Life (EOL) cycle.<p>Y W HUI<p>

Well, I got far more answers than I ever expected, and it was hearteningto find that a few people thought things should work the way I thoughtthey did. The original question was:> This is a more general networking question, but I'm asking here because> the crowd here's pretty smart and ...

My question:I have this sort of forensics issue to deal with. I need to prove that aset of 2.6 boxes were slammed instead of being properly shut down. I havetried looking at the last output, but I'm looking for any other ideas on howI'd show this, beyond a doubt.thanks to all who ...

>>> On 14 Apr 1997 15:01:47 -0500, js@cctechnol.com (Johnie Stafford) said: js> I've noticed on one machine in the office (a Sparc 5 running Solars js> 2.5/CDE 1.0.1), that rpc.ttdbserverd runs away, taking up 80%-90% of js> the CPU. We kill it and it behaves ...

My appologies for not sending this out sooner. The awesome list deservesmore respect than that. I hope any SysAdmin will understand the feelingof being inundated with work.My question is stated below as the first attachment. It basically askedif IBM's AIX, HP's HP-UX and DEC's DEC ...

Original question:> I have a new problem. I recently loaded Solaris 8 on a SS20. Since> then, under CDE, if I hit the compose key, its LED stays on even after> I'm done with my compose key use. Hitting it again does not turn it> off. It works fine, it's only the LED behavior ...

Sorry about the late Summary.Thanks to Scott W. Adkins. His answer solved my problem. Here is hissuggestion to me:>What is your PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH set to? Do you have FSFMakeinstalled>as well? I would recommend it. If you do, make sure /usr/local/bin is in>your path *before* ...

Sorry for the initial post which was unclear.Sorry to those who thought that this was aninappropiate question.Thanks to the MANY people who responded It is MUCH appreciated.The most common suggestion and also easiest. dothe following; in the .forward file put\user,user@location2the \ prevents ...

Dear fellow Sun Managers,First of all, I would like to thank the following Sun managers for sharing their experience, interest, and hints to my quest for a higherresolution on an Entry Level Color Monitor for a SS4 110 Mhz.Deryck F Brown <db@scms.rgu.ac.uk>Kevin.Sheehan@uniq.com.au (Kevin ...

Hello Sun Gods-Thanks to all who responded in such a timely fashion [unlike thissummary ;-) ]John Reynolds [reynolds@acetsw.amat.com]Dave Foster [foster@bial1.ucsd.edu]Tim [tim@santafe.edu]Randall Floyd [FLOYDR@nebeng.otis.com]Dave McFerren [davem@solve.net]Claude Roy ...

Thanks to all those who replied...Turns out that the sbus NIC on the Ultra2 had gone bad. A simple call tosunservice got a replacement for this machine.Original posting below.Andy.-- Andrew Sit 1074 Dearness DriveUNIX Systems Administrator London, Ontario, ...

Original posting:-----------------I have some small 8-bit text files that have newline chars and i would like toreplace all those newline chars by a space ' ' keeping the 8-bit chars intact.I know i can do this in 1 minute with a C program but for some reasoni want to do this in a shell ...

My summary is so late because I was not able to resolve the problem. I tookCeleste Stokely's guidance and used a null MODEM cable. I could not get theprinter to work from either serial port (through admintool). I went so faras to take the SBUS card out of the SPARC 5 and install it in the ...

Original query:---------------> I have been having some problems with an Enterprise 2 server with dual> 200Mhz CPU modules. It is running Solaris 2.5.1 and is an AFS file and> database server. Under heavy loads it reboots and gives me the following> type of errors. It sounds like ...

Greetings Mgrs,My apologies for the tardiness in sending this back but I wanted to try afew things before I did.PROBLEM:>>Whenever I do a shutdown on our newly upgraded Solaris 2.5 sparc5 (from>>Solaris 2.4), I get the message:>>>>showmount: scholastica: RPC: Program not ...

Thanks a lot of people replied my question about installinggcc-2.7.0 on a Solaris 2.4 system. It is those people thatmakes the Sun Managers Interest Group such a valuable resourcein the UNIX world.Please also be advised that the newest gcc is gcc-2.7.2.My original question ...

All,Problem:I am running solaris 2.6 on an ultra 10 (brand new, just got ittoday). I tried two types of keyboards, one that came with the machine and an older style sun keyboard, both produce: loadkeys:ioctl (KIOCLAYOUT): Timer expiredSolution: Apply patch 105181. I tried ...

Original post:From: Andrew M TownsendTo: Internet:sun-managers@ra.mcs.anl.govDate: 4/8/98 12:56PMSubject: Critical Bootp problemHi Sun Managers,I was running the generic bootpd on a Solaris 2.5 machine. The machine crashed, and we had to move the services to a box running 2.4. We took a ...

I had some questions as above and once again, Casper came up with the goods. Infact, I think his answer came about five minutes after I got my copy of my question.I can't explain the five minute delay - perhaps he was on a coffee break :-)I can do no better than to quote him.Q1 I have a 670MP ...

Hi all,apologies for delayed summary.thanks to John White at triceratops.comfor trying to help.real problem was nothing to do with perl ( as such ) or libcthe fault lay in a bit of cack perl appliation code not handling'unexpected' returns from system calls ( i.e. not expecting 'accept' ...

Orig Question:> I have /bin/tcsh set as my login shell. Recently, without having made> any changes to my ~.login or .cshrc i've been getting this error message> upon login:> > SunOS 5.6> > login: tboss> Password: > Last login: Tue May 2 11:09:25 from ...

Thanks to all who answered (and quickly, too!). The general consensus isthat I should either use the DiskSuite or automount home directories. Ibelieve that the latter solution is unacceptable for my situation becausein our environment (purely development), each user needs to be able toget ...

Thanks a lot of people replied my question about installinggcc-2.7.0 on a Solaris 2.4 system. It is those people thatmakes the Sun Managers Interest Group such a valuable resourcein the UNIX world.Please also be advised that the newest gcc is gcc-2.7.2.My original question ...

 Thanks ...