Dear managers,Tue Feb 14 I wrote about two problems: malfunctioning bootserver andproblems with my ypservice. My original posting is included below.Thanks to Ray Brownrigg <Ray.Brownrigg@isor.vuw.ac.nz>sandi@cs.uct.ac.zaAbout the bootserver: It turned out, that the clients used the ...

Here is my original question:   I am looking for a package that will enable us to talk from   Solaris to CMS 3270. If anyone knows of a package or has   any experience trying to communicate with that protocol   please let me know. I ...

All of the responses have been the same...check if x11.dev was used inthe makefile, and it was. BUT I did find my problem. A software packagewe have on the network has a copy of ghostscript in it's installationtree, and this copy was getting called up everytime. When I invokeghostscript with ...

original post:==============================================================================Flash-UrgentI'm trying to transfer a .ps file between machines so it can be printed.the local host is a Sparccenter 2000 running 2.3, the print server isa Novell Netware server connencted to a xerox ...

ORIGINAL POSTING:Gentle Folk:SS10/30, Sun OS 4.1.3I have a group of undergraduates who have an account with us occupying an entiredisk. We thought they were backing their own stuff up, and they (of course) thought we were. None of this would have mattered until today when...sd3d: Error for ...

----------X-Sun-Data-Type: textX-Sun-Data-Description: textX-Sun-Data-Name: textX-Sun-Charset: us-asciiX-Sun-Content-Lines: 98My Original question was:> > > > Folks --> > > > I have been given the task of setting up a WWW server in the next few > > days, but I am ...

I posted the following request> Advice needed, please> > Environment - Sparc 10 with two Ethernet cards running Solaris 2.3> > Problem - Keeps reporting its own second card as being a different > machine with duplicate address. Fills /var/adm/messages with> > hostname ...

----------X-Sun-Data-Type: textX-Sun-Data-Description: textX-Sun-Data-Name: textX-Sun-Content-Lines: 167Hello,Thanks to the following who replied (If I miss anyone, sorry)dwc@cs.strath.ac.uk (David Crust)du809@mfg.canadair.ca (Mario Dupuis)bismark@alta.jpl.nasa.govstevee@sbei.com (Steve ...

Morning everyone,I posted a question a week ago about having problems with installing GNUpackages downloaded from sunsite.unc.edu.I successfully uudecoded and gnu-unzipped them but then couldntinstall them using the swmtool, or any of the pkgadd, pkgtrans etcpackages..........Well (nervous ...

My original posting was about not being able to print to an HP 4M+from a SPARC 1000 but could print just fine from a SPARC 20 - bothhaving HPNP installed. Dan Costin hit the problem right on the money -the SPARC 1000 had NeWSprint installed:"Are you running NeWSprint? Then jetadmin is ...

Sorry about the delay in summarizing. Original posting :> Is there a way (apart from looking into /usr/kvm/sys/`arch`/conf) to > know the values for kernel parameters (like nproc, maxusers etc) > of a SunOS 4.x kernel ?> > I checked the FAQs but did not find anything.Everyone ...

First thanks the followings who all gave the great answers.Pablo Ruiz <ruiz@babbage.csee.usf.edu>grevemes@VTC.TACOM.Army.Mil (Steven Grevemeyer)Scott Spevacek <spev@badger.state.wi.us>The script below works for me!-------------------------------------------------#!/bin/csh#stty ...

Many thanks to all who responded!cope@gizmonic.plk.af.mil (Kenneth L. Cope)Steve.Hearn@BarwonWater.Vic.Gov.Aumatt@uts.EDU.AU (Jas (Matthew K))rauthenberg@HHI.DE (Stefan Rauthenberg)boenning@igd.fhg.de (Dirk Boenning)earl@texmemsys.com (Earl Manning)Wolfgang Leideck ...

Once again the list has come through in spades and inundated me withsolutions. The original question:>The problem is a CD that we want to eject (mounted under vold) keeps>telling us that the device is busy. We have checked to see that no>one appears to be connected to any of the ...

Hi Kerry, Sun-managersSorry for the delay in forwarding my responses, but here you go......(BTW.// I intend to use SAMBA as I have tested this with my setup in the office and Connected Windows '95 Beta (Microsoft TCP/IP) to Sun 4.1.3_u1 rev B)Hope it helps some......!Dave ...

My original question was:>>Due to medical problems (no, I don't know the specific condition), one of our>users is having trouble using the standard Sun mouse. What is available in the>way of alternative devices, stylus, track pad, etc? We've already tried a>Microspeed ...

Managers,My original question was on how to increase the format time within 4.1.3 above 2 hours to allow for the formatting of a Seagate 9GB drive.Some people suggested to use adb and some mentioned patch 101788 but this is for Solaris 2.3.The answer is to modify the /sys/scsi/targets/sddef.h ...

Original message:>I am looking for a product to allow a Sun to function as a client on a>Novell Network. (For occasional access to data controlled by an other>department.) Due to political reasons I can't put NFS (or anything) on the>Novell server.>>Does anybody know of a ...

Sun Managers:Many thanks for the multitude of replies to my problem. I've included myoriginal query at the bottom of this email. In brief - I'm attempting toinstall an NEC quad-speed CDROM drive (NEC MultiSpin 4Xe) to my Sunworkstation but only received I/O errors and a message saying ...

I asked a few days ago about why my Sparcs couldn't recognizemy 3/80. Several kind people pointed out that this was an easyone, and pointed me to /etc/exports, rpc.mountd, and nfsd.Unfortunately, I neglected to mention that we'd had to reinstallSunOS 4.1.1 on the 3/80 from the original tapes. ...

Hello again,        I received 30 responses to my query, all of them very useful. The responses ranged from "This is quite normal" to "Replace the disks immediately".        Since the data on my ...

<Original posting:>> Last week, CERT sent out an advisory regarding sendmail> vulnerabilities. I've installed the patch it recommended> for SunOS 4.1.3, but we are also running SunOS 4.1.4 on some> of our machines.> > Does anyone know if ...

Thanks to all who replied, listed below.Most of the answers suggested to use Exabyte hardware and Legato Networker software.If any are interested in the mails I received I can send you a copy.Best RegardsCarsten Carsten Jensen Email: cj@sophus.dkSoftware supportBerendsen Innovation Tlf.: ...

Hi !!Sorry for the late summary, but i took some time to test your suggestions...;-)What was my problem ? :>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Question ...

Original issue:-----------------------I am running the following PERL script and theresults should list out file info on a filenameargument passed to the script. Pretty simple, howeverthe output for the 'creation date' and 'last modifieddate' are always the same._______________________Many ...

Greetings once again:The IDS (Irritated Disk Syndrome) problem, namely excessive SCSIbus resets and warning messages at boot time, was apparently theresult of the drive's lack of tagged queueing support. As suggestedby Endre Polgar, adding the ...

Here is a question I posted:With the command 'hostname' should I set only the machine name like:   hostname earthor the complete domain name like:   hostname earth.IRCM.UMontreal.CAThank you to all that replied:David Zhu (wzhu@cse.unl.edu)Mike ...

I was asking if netscape(v1.0) works with PC-NFS(v5.1). I received severalreplies all saying it should work. I finally had to upgrade the PC-NFS fromv5.1 to v5.1a(you can get the patch from ftp.york.ac.uk/pub/pc-nfs/Patches.)and set the asyn DNS to NO in the netscape.ini file. I am still ...

Thank you for the reply mails. All the reply mails said I need to check the permition of /tmp, /tmp/.x11-unix /tmp/.X11-pipedirectories to make sure those directories are writable to everybody.I should have mentioned in my original mail that I did check thosepermitions. When I checked them, ...

Sorry this summary is a little late. I've been a bit busy latelybut I've got there in the end.Original post:-I've a Sun 2 running 4.1.1 on an internal network which accesses theInternet via a gateway machine. Everytime the machine is rebootedhowever I have to manully change the routing ...

----- Begin Included Message -----I may be going crazy, but I would have sworn that sometime in the past year,a note was posted to this list (perhaps as part of a SUMMARY) noting thatthe non-SPARCWorks C compiler -- i.e., the the compiler alluded to when youtry to invoke /usr/ucb/cc -- was ...

I'm running 4.1.4 now on my Sparc 5. When my ethernet adapters<p>acted up I loaded the le jumbo patch (101954) for 4.1.3_U1. The<p>problems cleared up and I've been running perfectly for over a<p>month. I also loaded up the Sendmail patch from 4.1.3_U1.<p>

Joe Hartley (jh@cadre.com) wrote:: It is. The ZS hardware isn't physically capable of doing this; we are: acutely aware of this and some future workstation will have better: built-in serial ports. You're much better off buying a Magma serial: card ($275) and using those ports.Where can you ...

Joe Hartley (jh@cadre.com) wrote::You're much better off buying a Magma serial card ($275) ...charles@backfire.mn.org (Charles) replied:>Where can you get a Magma card for $275? The cheapest I've seen the dumb>4 port card for is $395 and the 4 port DMA, $625.   $275 is ...

Charles <charles@backfire.mn.org> writes:> Where can you get a Magma card for $275? The cheapest I've seen> the dumb 4 port card for is $395 and the 4 port DMA, $625.  Has anybody ever designed a DIY serial board kit for SBus? it seemsto me, that the older Sun's are ...

Several weeks ago, I asked about scanning software to use on a SUN w/an HP ScanJet IIcx. Below are the reply's I received. Thanks to thosewho responded.It's kinda interesting that I received so many responses for so manydifferent products. PINT and ScanShop each received (2) votes.I have also ...

APUNIX has an is now selling the Sharp (325=300dpi, 330=600dpi) scannersfor $1500-$2000 including OpenScan software as well as PhotoShop for Sun.(Not a bad deal considering Photoshop lists for $1899!)I'll get mine Friday...        - Edward ...

Hi.I had the following problem:    Jack> Hi Sun Managers, I've just received a SPARCstation 5 with    Jack> Solaris 2.4 pre-installed. When you try to rlogin or telnet    Jack> into the machine (either from itself, or from a ...

Hi Sun-Managers,sorry for the late summary, but here is the solution:        cd /var/yp; makeinstead of         cd /var/yp; make groupsThere is one internal NIS-table called 'netid' which has to be updated along ...

Here is a summary, finally, of my problem with inetd.I got suggestions to "increase the NOPEN" value in the kerneland also to increase the "nprocs" and "nfiles" values. Thesearen't included in the standard configuration file but I sawthat they were set in ...

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Sorry for this late summary, a few days off, you know.....As stated by a lot of people, only the runtime librariesare bundled with Solaris 2.4. No mwm, no development kit.The package with the runtime libraries - SUNWmfrun.Matt Sherek also states that SUNWmfdev (Motif Development Kit) is on the ...

My question :~~~~~~~~~~~~Is it possible to modify, for example, the "default" value of ip_broadcast_ttl in the /kernel/drv/ip "object" file (like in /vmunix in SunOS ) ?====================================1)The easiest way to modify, for example, the ip_broadcast_ttl ...

Thanks for the quick responses. I was tryingto run admintool as root while /dev/consolewas owned by user. duh! Anyway, many of yousuggested "xhost" as another solution.Original message:----- Begin Included Message -----I'm getting this error when attempting to accessadmintool as ...

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Earlier, I wrote:>I'm attempting to get a Solaris 2.4 system to print to a remote>printer on an IBM RS/6000 running AIX 3.2.5. AIX purports to support>lpd-style printing, so the Solaris system is set up to use a>"BSD" type remote print server. lpstat, however, reports ...

I received a lot of good advice. My problem was a combination of thefollowing things:        /etc/fstab was incorrect/corrupted        The /fastboot file existed, which prevented needed ...

Sun Managers,My question was on the differences between the types ofSCSI terminators.>From the answers I received, three types exist.1) Passive terminatorsThey attempt to match the electrical voltage on the bus, but they are just a pass through device. Michel Pearlmanexplains:"The ...

The original question:>We have an adic DAT autochanger, Model 1200. The stacker has a>random access mode which we'd like to take advantage of. My problem>is what software is around that will let me talk to the stacker>giving it various commands, like advance 1 or x tapes. To go ...

I received several responses about my sendmail problem, all sayingessentially the same thing. I am including the answer that best describedthe situation.Now about that root canal...----- Begin Included Message ----->From jack@scope.dentistry.adelaide.edu.au Thu Mar 9 17:59 EST ...