Well, thanks, I have received A LOT of replies.Original problem:reading a suspect tape tar cannot be killed, not even by a kill -9 from root.explanation:tar is waiting for kernel I/O and cannot process signals until the I/Ofunction returns (which can take a couple of minutes or more)NOTE: I ...

Sun Managers:In my summary on monitor resolution I referenced the frame buffer faq at http://sunsolve.uk/FAQ/FrameBuffer.html. This is no longer a valid address. You can find the latest faq ...

Well, I didn't get much in the way of help ful information.I got several responses telling me to "bite the bullet" and just writeoff the expense of a simple dial-up.I have a leased line, and am just looking for a really cheeseballinternet access point which will just give me an IP ...

Greetings!Many thanks to everyone who responded to my post. After deleting all of the packages and adding them in order, including the 64 bit device drivers, for the fifth or sixth time, I finally did a boot -r and all the devices were built correctly. Not sure why this didn't work on ...

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 ...

Hello admins!.My original question was:A frind is trying install DB2 in a Sparc running Solaris 2.4This require add this variables to the /etc/system file :shminfo_semmni=230shminfo_semmns=230shminfo_semmap=232So, when run it, this error appear.Sorry variable 'shminfo_semmni' is not defined ...

Casper Dik was kind enough to pass along a little tip as well as someadditions."There's more to it than that (BTW, when running the pkgadd command above,care shoudl be taken *not* to reinstall packages that are present onthe system or you'll back out patches)The solaris FAQ says:6.2) ...

Hi all,a few days ago, i have mailed this question:[...]Hi all,i am looking for a SBUS card with 100Base-TX-Ethernet working on aSPARC 10 with SunOS 4.1.3.The problem is, a found only cards for Solaris 1.1.2 and Solaris 2.x and ican't update my server at this time.Are any 100Base-TX SBUS cards ...

Thanks all who replied.the answer was of course lsof.I downloaded it and got exactly what I needed.Thanks alotmatt> What you need is lsof> > lsof -i tcp:port or> lsof -i udp:port > > as root will tell you what program owns the port.> > James Ranks> ...

Thanks for the quick response my original post follows.The answer is that the TP interface on the Ultra is autosensing and can work for both 100Mbps and 10BaseT networks.Thanks toLeif Hedstrom <leif@netscape.com>andSydney Weinstein <syd@myxa.com>who responded before I even saw my ...

Thanks for all the answers.Here's the original question:!I have a sparc machine with Solaris 2.5.1 on that can't boot.!!The system begin the bootstrap and when it's going to read his kernel,I!have a grey screen in a few second and then it tries to reboot!but it never boot.!!Is it a hardware ...

Thanks to the many people who gave detailedanswers as to the probable state of theseprocesses. I hope I have listed all of you at the end of this summary.The answers came in 2 flavors:Addressing the hung processes, and addressing theTCP sockets that they are keeping open. Theconsensus was the ...

Prett much everyone had the exact same opinion on the maxed out IO waitproblem that I'm having.. To stripe the disk, or atleast move the dataacross multiple disks.However, I'm wondering if this means that I can't get more than 4gb ofspool on disk? Seems like a waste. The more and more ...

Sorry for the delay. Only two people replied. Rob Vahsen said that it works fine for him on2.4 and sent me a list of installed patches. He had not installed the ksh jumbo patch (whichI had). So probably it is the patch (102048) but I have not tested it by removing the patch.The original post ...

> Is there some way using Solaris and SunOS of getting the> Ethernet hardware address *without* doing the following:> 1. Rebooting and looking at the banner.> 2. dmesg | grep thernet> 3. cd /usr/adm ; grep ethernet *> 4. Using pd software 'sysinfo'> 5. ...

Original Problem (edited for Brevity):> Situation:> SPARCprinter II with Duplexer running under "enclosed" NeWSprint> (2.2 + SPARCprinter II Extensions)> Problem:> Now I finally got a new [Toner Cartridge], installed it ... and> can't get past the "Printing ...

<Sorry for the delay - this message was bouncing around awhile because of bad bulk address>Dear Friends:I asked you about the following problem> Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 11:40:31 -0300> I' m having problem with one (remote) SUN (SunOS 4.1.3)I support. The> local Sysad changed ...

Thanks to all who responded and offered their advice. Special Thanx to:Martin ScerriMONO@etoyMichael SalehiTim EvansDanny JohnsonJeff KennedyDan@dtnThe over all consensus was that not having firewall is a bad thing, and thatrunning ANY 揜?command without a firewall is asking for trouble. ...

All,Sorry for late summary,but I was trying to decide on which way to go and when?Most of the people suggested, I should upgrade to Solaris 2.5.1 11/97 or 2.6Some suggested, from 11/97 CD I can add packages SUNWluxa,SUNWluxdv,SUNWluxop,SUNWses, SUNWluxmn and add couple of patches it should ...

Sun Managers,Thanks to everyone who replied with suggestions and advice.Special thanks to Gary, who replied with the solution, as follows:----------------------------------------------------------------------From: Gary Mills <mills@cc.UManitoba.CA>There is a known problem with locking on ...

Original question:------------------I would like to be able to display 8-bit characters properly in my SolarisCDE environment, i.e. i currently i get \151 instead of ?using VI editor.I know what in /etc/TIMEZONE i have to set LC_CTYPE to something but i can'tremember well, or was it anything ...

Dear Managers,        My Original Question was;--------------------------------------------------------------------------Dear Managers,On a Solaris OS ,if the root password is forgotten,what are the optionsof recovery or changing it to a new one?Thanks ...

Original Problem:Hi all Can anybody Pls advice me how to start disk quotas for users? also , is there a way that one of the filesystems be shared by severalusers ( basically a group )but with some common quota that applies on to that...I mean that say the max usage that this ...

I found it on sunsolve.sun.com with the following warning:SKIT is missing the /var/yp/updaters Makefile andthe /usr/lib/netsvc/yp/rpc.ypupdatedThey have been removed due to security issues as notedin bug report #1237118. However, if you need theupdaters Makefile, here it is. (I hope it's ...

thanks to all who repliedthe source code is there with sendmail archives(I never looked in that directory!!!!)sajan__________________________________________________Do You Yahoo!?Send instant messages & get email alerts with Yahoo! ...

Hi, Friends:My original question was:=============================================================Hi, Friends:Another question about AFTER installing gcc-2.7.2:(1). After successfully installed gcc-2.7.2 on my Solaris 2.4 system,can I remove the source codes and/or libraries from the ...

Wow this is wat i call response !thanks for all the answers from u all. I have make磀 a doc with a sort oflisting with your answers for samba and for TotalNet. If u see this list usee the answer to the question Samba is the most popular smb software andthere are support for it also so why pay ...

Many thanks to those who reponded. Many suggested BINDv8, unfortunately<p>BINDv8 does not support DDNS. I guess there is no such thing as free DDNS<p>that works with Sun's DHCP server after all.<p>Khanh Vo<p>

1.Most people told me to enable savecore and obtain core files. byanalyzing core files i could track down the problem. modify /etc/init.d/sysetup, uncomment the last 6 lines. 2.others thought that i must make sure i don't have an old revision sun200MHz cup, for cpus with Part Number below ...

The concensus is that the /etc/.login file is the one to use, althoughmany use a common file that everyone must source. I found that onSunOS (4.1) that /etc/csh.cshrc was a good choice, and for Solaris,/etc/.login. Particularly useful was Karl Vogel's response to use the'strings' command ...

Thanks to these people :- "Duane R. Larkin" <duane@cris.com> Fedor Gnuchev <qwe@ht.eimb.rssi.ru> bleary@state.ma.us Colin Melville <iv08480@issc02.mdc.com>I started off by booting from cdrom and ran fsck on the root partition.There was a block ...

many replies indicated that the problem varis on memory, disk, motherboard.It's hard to find the real cause because the system is OK since then.Hopefully, it's a false alarm.>------------- Begin Forwarded Message -------------> > one of the our SunOS 4.1.4 system reboot automatically ...

In short, the concensus seems to be that my system(s) havesendmail configured correctly."sendmail -v -bv" verifies the address in two ways:1. If it's a local address, it checks for the existance of thatuser, and hence a full delivery of email.2. If it's a remote address, it only ...

Hi!This is a very short summary. I've got two answers. Thanks to- Seth Rothenberg- Daniel LorenziniBoth sugested to look at BlackBox. Dan also points to the correctnotation: 'You need an RS-447 to RS-232 adapter.'Thanks ...

Well, Chaps, thanks for the replies, however, the Virtual Beer goes to GaryFranczyk for understanding my inane scribblings. Problem is now solved!Once againThanks Guys!Here is the summary: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > I have a Sun ...

Thank you to all who replied. They were:Casper DikRenny KoshyRobert G. Ferrell **Paul H. YoshimunePeter L. WargoRob WindsorMike SalehiFrancois LeclercWolf SchaeferThe question I asked, along with the most complete reply I received (fromRobert Ferrell) are both below.>What's the byte order ...

I solved the problem myself.The problem was that the bootdisk was not on the default diskisp path.In fact, the default diskisp path has no disks associated with it, unlikeour other 6000. I created an nvalias to the proper path, set it as myboot-device, and all worked.Original question ...

Hi,I got 3 replies. Thanks to Mark Sowerby, Linuxmindcontrol & Ramindur Singh.- I cannot see any reason for it not being used for any other firewall as it is highly configurable, especially version 3.0 where you can specifywhat you monitor.We are using it only for HA and not for load ...

My original question was:> I am using sendmail that comes with Solaris 2.4.> I can get it to reciev email on multiple domains using> "Cm domain1 domain2" line in sendmail.cf file.> > How can I configure it to set up users for sending as if> from multiple ...

Hello,Well I got a lot of answers on this :-) Within about 1.5 hours I had the tapedeck added with no problems. It obviously seemed to be something that alot of you had done before; first time for me. I received two messages (seebelow) with additional information about this operation which ...

Thanks to all who responded.Finally I decided to change my config from RAID5 to RAID 0+1 which will givegood read and write performance.To improve my present setup there was only one response from Mr. BuddyLumpkinhe gave some idea to look at the SCSI performance and application setup.Thanks ...

Thanks to all who responded,I solved the problem with your help.Hermann Hofer Ozgur ErkGert MaraisRobert g.FerrellDmitry Dneprov,results:I changed value of variable in /etc/system.then reboot.Everthing is okeyThanks again System administratorDidem AYDINERKOC-SISTEM ...

Sun Managers, I beg your pardon.I thought that I could use nslookup on Solaris with NISwithout DNS.I work most of my time on HP-UX, and there nslookupqueries NIS tables also if DNS is not configured at all (nonamed daemon, no /etc/resolv.conf etc.)Thanks to all who responded (till now):Tim ...

Hello Nick:And just in the Nick of time :)Thanks a ton, I totally forgot about thatshells file.That fixed the problem.Thanks again, Nick.> > Do you have that user's shell in /etc/shells?> > nick> --------------------------------------Marc Summers SysAdminNEC eLUMINANT ...

Well, we have a concensus on the summary, but first the original question:*****************************************************************I have a SPARCstation 10 model 30 running Solaris 2.3. I perform backups every night to an 8mm tape drive using the ufsdump utility. I recently purchased ...

Thanks to all that responded.here are a few that helped the mostIt means if $inst not defined, use the value following the ':-', whichin this case is nothing. This will twig the -z flag without causing theshell to complain about null variables (not needed in ksh).TomMeans;if the varibale inst ...

My original questions:What is the maximum file size Solaris 2.4 can support? Can this limit beincreased?Answers:There is a 2G file size limit in Solaris 2.5 and under. There are somethird party products that may allow you to increase this limit and thefuture release of Solaris (maybe 2.6) ...

>Dear friends: >Most times I would like to capture a whole *text* session in >a file. >I mean, given a shell (csh or ksh, or even sh), I would liketo >log standard input, output and error into a file whose >progress could be shown on-line on another terminal >(through tail ...

I got a few respones and everyone said vmsa is slower because it's JAVA based.Nobody mentioned being able to view a picture of the disks and volumes as icons like you could do with vxva so I assume thisis no longer a feature.I preferred the old vxva to the new vmsa.Dave ...

     Thank you very much for all the incoming responses on this DNS error      messages. Again, this list members have shown me how wonderful this      list members ...