Out of all the responses that I've received everyone that has a NetworkAppliance loves having it around. Very low maintenance, administration andsecure (passes ISS network scans), and very good tech support anddocumentation. It does its job very well as a file server (NFS and CIFS[SMB]), and ...

Hi Sun managers,My original question was:-------------------------I have a question concerning a Quantum DLT 4000 tape drive unit which is connected to a SPARCstation 10 with Solaris 2.5 installed. This tape unit should be able to store up to 20 GBytes in native format and up to 40 GBytes ...

I'm getting ToolTalk errors when I try to start the CDE text editor fromthe toolbar or try to open a file for editing by clicking on it. The error message is:TT_ERR_PTYPE_START The attempt to launch an application to handle a ToolTalk request failed.This may happen if the requested application ...

JUST A COMMENT FOR THE MANY COMMENTS I RECIEVED ON THE WAY I DID THIS LIST.FIRST I ASSUMED EVERYONE HAS THE LUXURY OF HAVING EVERY OS SITTING AT THEIR DESK LIKE I DO......THATS MY FAULT.I USE STAR OFFICE BUT ALSO WORD WHICH I PUBLISHED THE DOC IN.I WILL REPUBLISH THE LIST IN A STAR OFFICE WORD ...

Hello admins!.Thanks for all the answers, but I'm uncertainty yet.Sorry, but I forgot say that I'm working under Solaris 2.5.My original quetion was :What I keep, AMD or Automounter ?Which is better ? Why ?The answers :From: Leif Hedstrom <leif@netscape.com>I would say "it ...

        Original Question:        HI Managers,                 Does anyone know the where I can get a white paper ...

Below is a copy of my original post with answers inline -How do I determine which version of BIND is beingrun on Solaris V2.5.1 with a fairly recent patch set?Wales Wong provided this clever solution.nslookup -class=chaos -q=txt version.bind.If this can't work, ...

Original Question:>Netmanagers,>>I am getting a J3 error or my SPARCprinter. I have searched the>docs and browsed the netmanager summaries listing but can not>find the answer. Can you help me out.>>Thank you, and naturally, I will summarize.>SUMMARY:Thank you to all ...

Hi all,You guys just stump me. The turn-around on this kind of question (prettynew stuff like the SunSwift card I mean) is like nothing I have ever seenbefore.I have to apologize to everybody, if not in person then as a cenacle ofwisdom. I (unvoluntarilly) lead all of you, bar one, on a wild ...

Thanks for a quick reply especially1- Unixboy@aol.com2- Todd Herr [therr@va.rr.com]3- Marc Michelsen [marc@atmos.washington.edu]I commneted out the LD_PATH variable in .profile and it's works....Best Regards,Malahat QureshiUnix Solutions,Allstate Insurance Co. ILPh: (847) 402-5535Page: (800) ...

Problem:Ultra Enterprise 450sunfs# uname -aSunOS sunfs 5.6 Generic_105181-06 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-4Someone sent a 300 meg postscript file into the print spooler. That filled up the /var slice (also where the nis+ database reside) causing the system to grind. I removed the ps file and saw ...

Original Post:How does one determine what resolution (other than the manual) a monitor isrunning at on a Solaris 2.X machine. I am specifically concerned with anew Ultra 5 running Solaris 2.6. I thought I could determine this at theOBP prompt, but I have not been able to find any reference in ...

This summary is delayed, but I did not get too many notes on this one.I did get a number of "me too" or "I'm gonna do that, too" replies.Two replies of note:One from William lavery:> Make sure you get all the patches. There are a few patches. And becareful with ...

Thanks to the following for their prompt replies :-Leif Hedstrom <leif@netscape.com>Steve Simmons <scs@lokkur.dexter.mi.us>Tim Cannon/IS - 3356 <tcannon@senco.com>DVS <dvs@cdinet.com>tim.newman@amp.com (Tim Newman)The answer to resolving this message is to start up ...

Hi all,My original question is:>Is there any simple command to dump the whole memory content of a system>to a file similar to core dump of the system?Many thanks to following replies, we have the following solutionsLaw Hon Man <hmlaw@cse.cuhk.edu.hk>"K.Ravi" ...

Hi,        Over 50 replies over the course of a few hours. Thanks, thanks, andthanks, very quick and very responsive.The solution was for me to man share_nfs as opposed to share.The syntax solution to /etc/dfs/dfstab was:   share -F nfs -o ...

Original MessagesDoes anyone have a be driver for Sun BigMAC 10/100 mb/sec fast ethernet interface that can be install into Solaris 7 kernel?I have Sun sparc 10 model 20. Previously it has Solaris 2.6 and uses be0 device. I recently installed Solaris 7 and it configured to use le0 device. ...

Original message :-> Running Sol 2.4 and experimenting with xdm (using default files which> came with the OS, i.e. as root just type "/usr/openwin/bin/xdm").> > All I changed for my env was to create a .xinitrc file (from> /usr/openwin/lib/Xinitrc) which in turn called ...

Hello managers,Thanks to everyone who responded.To summarize, two people, Mark Thomas and Joe Doetzl,pointed out the qtool.pl script in the currentsendmail distribution that does what we want. Markeven sent me his script that uses the qtool.pl script.Thomas Wardman suggested using Exim ...

Hi Sun managers,My original question was:-------------------------I have a question concerning a Quantum DLT 4000 tape drive unit which is connected to a SPARCstation 10 with Solaris 2.5 installed. This tape unit should be able to store up to 20 GBytes in native format and up to 40 GBytes ...

Looking through my old notes I also found reference to the Frame Buffer FAQmaintained by David Tong from Sun. It can be found at http://sunsolve.uk/FAQ/FrameBuffer.html. This faq contains great information about frame buffers and utilities todetermine monitor and frame buffer ...

Good morning, Gurus. Thank you very much for your prompt reply and great suggestions:Lee Trujillo <leet@navidec.com>Harvey Wamboldt <harvey@iotek.ns.ca>Eric D. Pancer <eric@outlook.net>Jochen Bern <bern@penthesilea.uni-trier.de>Bertold Kolics ...

Yesterday I asked> We've just had Sun tell us that we need to add an extra fan into> our SS20s. Is this just us or is Sun doing this world wide ?The general consensus (from too many people to list) is that this isa problem with cooling in SS20 esp. when there are two internal disksand a ...

Original Question:I have NIS server running on SUNOS 4.1.4 with about 25+ NIS clients.The clients also run SUNOS 4.1.4.Will I be able to run Solaris 2.5 or 2.6 on the server with the same NIS enviornment.Will the NIS clients running SUNOS 4.1.4 be able to bind to the server with solaris 2.5 or ...

I'm sorry it's taken me so long to get this SUMMARY done. It has,however, been a very worthwhile experience, trying to get ourSPARCPrinter to work under Solaris and with ghostscript (gs). I hope Ican provide some answers to others.I had posted originally that we'd upgraded from Solaris 1.1.1 ...

Apparently this is not as uncommon as I thought. I've received quitea number of responses, so here's the summary:- Expect and rdist were the two big responses here. Looking at theweb sites and notes for each, I've had to opt for expect to fit oursetup, with their 'passmass' script a ...

Sorry for taking so long to provide a summary, but I wanted to make surewe got the radius server working before I posted a summary. First, thanksgoes to the following people:Deepak VaidyaDouglas PurdyBenjamin ClineAaron LinebergerBrian PlattDan PrittsAaron DewellKristine WagnerBrian ...

Apparently there is no port of the cslip software to Solaris, nor arethere any alternative slip packages that will work under Solaris 2.*.I received only 1 response, from Celeste Stokely, which suggested thatthere is SLIP capability built into the public domain pppd. I have sofar been unable to ...

I recieved an insane amount of email all day in regards to the memo that I posted.The two comments I would like to make are:1.thanks for all the feedback both positive and negative, I am glad so many people found this to be useful information2.the last people I want to make enemies with are ...

Thanks to:Matthew Stier <mstier@hotmail.com>Rob Davies (rob@trdlnk.com)Russ Poffenberger (poffen@San-Jose.ate.slb.com)Original question:Can I put the memory of one SPARC 4 in one SPARC 10?Answers:_______________No. They are physically different.4 <-> 5 are okay10 <-> 20 ...

My web server recently started exhibiting a problem that was due to reaching the listen() queue limit. The symptoms included broken images and taking forever at the "Contacting host" stage.It took a week or two of asking many questions in various newsgroups to determine what the ...

Seems like the NVRAM content was scrambled some how.Doing a "set-defaults" at the OK> prompt restored the content. All I had to doafter is reset the time and the machine seems to be runing as before.Thanks a lot everyone.Special thanks ...

Original question:>Does anybody have any clue where I can find a tcp wrapper that will>work with IPv4 and IPv6 on Solaris 8?>......This list again worked with amazing speed. The first answer arrivedafter 15 minutes and resolved my problem.The solution: use the tcp wrapper adapted by ...

I owe favors to several people for helping me here, and the whole list fortolerating this long thread and my prolonged sendmail incompetance...In the end, it took two seperate steps to get my solution going. RayDelaney and Jochen Bern both recommended the use of the mailertable to getthe ...

Sysadmtool is a Public Domain software written in Tcl/Tk and freely available in binary form as a SPARC Solaris 2 software package. It can be used as a supplement to Sun's own admintool (Solaris 2.4 or earlier) and AdminSuite for easing the Solaris system administration burden. Similarly to ...

Thanks to all the Sun Managers who responded with their valuablesuggestions. I ended up upgrading my sendmail. The Summary is too LongMy Question :Dear Sun Managers,I have a Sun machine running SMI-8.6I am having lot of problems with my sendmail, with the sendmail.cf I have.Tried lot of ...

Thanks for all your answers but I still need a solution.Terminal server vs. adapter card:Since we need this in an high secure environment with smart card readersattached to the serial interfaces I ranked a terminal server not firstbut second since this needs a network connection between the ...

Thank's to all who responded,question :1. While the system boots the console displays : syslogd : line 30 : unknown host loghost.    What is the source of this error message and how do I fix it.answer :Define 'loghost' in the local /etc/hosts fileexample: 192.129.116.3 ...

My original query had to do with the CMU bootp server (patched tosupport DHCP) under Solaris dumping core and dieing when it receiveda DHCP request from a Mac running Open Transport 1.1.1 or 1.1.2.DHCP requests from Win95 machines worked fine.The best answer was from Doug Hughes ...

SUMMARY:Most people reponded to my question have pointed me tothe /etc/hosts file. I need to provide the fullqualified domain name such as venus.test.comOlivier Giraud suggested to add just a "." in thehostname and not for a valid domainname. I havemodified the following entry in the ...

After last summary, I recieved someone else reporting theirUltra II problem. Does some sun gurus here give some advice ?Here it is :------------------------------------I believe Sun has problem for these 167 and 200 MHz CPUs for ULTRA2. Igotthese problem before. I just trade in old one to ...

This list is really great. My respect goes to all of membershelping each other. I haven't yet received my original askinge-mail from the list(maybe because of unstable TCP/IP connectionof our site ?), but I've already received 8 answers(I supposemuch more haven't arrived yet due to the ...

Many thanks to Arthur J. Byrnes for his reply. Here is theoriginal question, followed by Arthur's reply.===========================================Managers,    Has anyone out there ever successfully configured a Sun boxto print to a Tally Matrix line printer (model T6180)? ...

Hello All,  I would like to thank the following for their help:Tim Evans tkevans@eplrx7.es.dupont.comDavid R. Courtade drc@amherst.comCasper Dik casper@holland.Sun.COMDr. Micheal Albert albert@esther.rad.tju.eduRobert Fulwiler ...

Hello all,Thanx to all that answered me, It helped me better understand thepoint... becausethat is the point... understanding merroring and solaris booting :)My question was: once the system is up and running, is there a way to knwo whatpartition actually been booted up?Probably the ...

My original post was:> I intend to allow execution of few x-client programs only to user sitting> at console. All other should not be able to run those x-clients. The> user at console may be anyone having account on the machine. How to do this?I got many responses. Thanks to all of ...

The problem we were having was due to a DNS problem. That was fixed by another NEC office. Thank to all who wrote with suggestions:Reto Lichtensteiger <rali@meitca.com>"Christopher E. Olaes" <colaes@hercules.nhlbi.nih.gov>Ray Trzaska ...

If you have recieved this, please forgive me , cause I haven't recievedit ,soI repost it.>After last summary, I recieved someone else reporting their>Ultra II problem. Does some sun gurus here give some advice ?>>Here it is :>------------------------------------>I believe ...

Hello Sun Managers,Thanks to everybody how relpied, it was a hardwareproblem. Replacing the CPU board has apparentlyresolved the panic issue. Several people asked meabout the status of the patches, which I checkedand updated but nothing changed. And several moresuggested a crash dump, which ...

    I don't know if Sun officially has a patch for this yet, butCasper Dik suggested a successful workaround. The kernel moduleloader and /dev/ksyms can deadlock under certain conditions (it mayhave something to do with leftover NFS client state and lock filesafter a ...