Original posting:> Hi sun managers:> > How do you trim /var/adm/wtmp? It is a binary file.> > Mona Wong> UCSD>         I wanted to be able to do using crontab, so I've combined ...

My original question was:> Subject: Ethernet connection problems|| Sun Managers,|| One of the machines (A) (a Sparc 1 with SunOS 4.1.3_U1)| in my department had a faulty ethernet port| and was dropping more that 50 % packets. Thus it| had a lot of trouble contacting our NIS/NFS servers.| I ...

hionly Kevin.Sheehan@uniq.com.au told me a answer about my problem, but I wasn't able to do a bootable tape. I thinks is impossible.L. ...

Hi all,        After installing sendmail v. 8.6.11, incomming mail with full domainname bounced with the following error :     554 MX list for ii.uni.wroc.pl. points back to swiatowit.ii.uni.wroc.pl    554 ...

<hr noshade><br><ul><br><li>X-sun-attachment attachment: <a href="att-0688/00-part">stored</a><br></ul><br><!-- attachment="00-part" -->

One of the best mailing-lists ...Original question was:>>I'm trying to install Word 6.0a under Wabi 2.0 as a 'network installation'>>The result is:>>Unrecoverable Error in Application>Internal Error: Native Expection 11,1 Adr=4970A08>EIP=EF5565C0 running ...

Thanks to all who replied:Jackie CarlsonJohn Justin HoughBruce ChengKerry O'BryhimCindy YohoMy origianl post was:> > Folks --> > I am going to move an unused Prestoserve SBus board to a SS1 file server > that could really use it. However, the only drivers I have are for 4.1.2, ...

My original question was about fastread failures when trying to installminiroot (Solaris 1.1.1b) from the Toshiba 3501 CDROM on a Sparc1+. Aftermany helpful replies, we determined that the CDROM was not configuredcorrectly.The block size was set to 1024 bytes/sector (manufacturer's default) ...

The original question: > I have a SS1000 under SOLARIS 2.3 with recommended patches as> of April 1994 and 101318-68. I am becoming very alarmed at the> rate at which /var/adm/wtmpx is growing now that many people are> logging on and off this machine. Is there any way to ...

Original request follows:> I recently installed Weitek Power uP chips in 26 SS2's. While the installation> was remarkably simple, several of the machines have been very flaky lately.> They'll panic at random times in various manners. I've seen "bad trap",> "data ...

I originally asked:> > I am having a very odd problem with the automounter on my Solaris 2.3> > box. If I try to cd to any filesystem on the server "alexandria", I> > get a "No such file or directory." message after a lengthy pause for> > ...

>I was able to get satan and perl5 to compile and install on >solaris 2.3 SUN without any problems, however, when I run the>program it does not seem to scan what I select in the>entry. As a matter of fact I doubt if it's scanning at ...

I asked:> We've got two SS5 machines with 32megs of memory running Solaris 2.4> with the tcx0 24bit color displays. The problem is that both machines> are paging to disk furiously, all of the time. When we run "top" on> these machines, we discover that the problem is ...

Well, the number of requests for a summary was almost overwhelming(OK, so I'm exaggerating a bit), but I did manage to get one answer tomy question. Then again, one correct answer is all that is everneeded. ;->Gratitude (mine, and, I'm sure, that of those who asked for summaries)goes to: ...

numerous people responded with <p>use patch 101907-5 to fix this<p>I did, it worked, if you are running a 2.4 (or 2.3) system I<p>highly recommend applying this patch<p>

> I've already spent about 4 hourst RTFM on this, and could not come>up with a solution. What I want is apparently easy. I want to >GET the owner of a NIS+ table ENTRY. I know how to set it, but>I could not figure out the opposite.> Background: I set up my NIS+ maps under ...

I got one response and that was enough. Thanks.==============================================================================Paul> Do I have to boot from CD-ROM in order to tunefs the /usr partition?!?Chx> Hmm ... where's tunefs? Oh - that was one thing I forgot to mention. I copied it ...

My original question:> I've just created some new yp maps, put them in the NIS makefile,> sucessfully did a 'make' at the master server. But yppush hangs> when I use it to update the slave, etc..> > Any ideas?> > BTW, I I had this same problem on another NIS domain and ...

Hi Guru's,My Original Post:} Subject: Strange message ... (Help!!!)} } Hi Guru's,} } May be somebody there can explaine me the following:} } ==========================================================} DUMP: Writing 63 Kilobyte records} DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Fri Apr 14 00:17:11 ...

Thanks to all who have responsed for the orginal posting:> > Hi managers,> > We need a VME bus slots for some instruments which support vxi interface on our sparcstation 20. Does anyone know where can we get this vme expansion> subsystem ?> > Thanks> James Tsai> Stark ...

Archive-name: sun-managers-faqSun-Managers' Frequently Asked Questions$Id: faq,v 3.65 1995/04/03 18:52:01 jdd Exp $This is collection of common questions posted to the sun-managers mailinglist twice a month. It is intended to benefit Sun System Managers andreduce traffic to the list by ...

     Original inquiry:             I'm at a loss here. After scouring /usr/share/lib/zoneinfo, I        can't seem to find an appropriate timezone for Puerto ...

Hi,  I have asked the PPP software for DOS.Thanks to so many kindly responses.Summary in general:Check http://www.biostat.washington.edu/pc/pcnfs.htmlYou will get all the related informations.Thanks ...

Thanks to Glenn Satchell who points out that I should check the loadable module option (VDDRV) in the kernel. We did not have that option, no wonder modloaddidn't work. So the kernel was recompiled with VDDRV option and modload worksnow. Thanks again,Susan Feng--Susan Feng (aka. Xueshan ...

Well, the consensus was that using a swapfile as opposed toa swap partition is slower, mainly because you have to go throughthe filesystem and OS, whereas a swap partition uses a straightdump to the drive.Some people also warned about disk fragmentation, and how thatwould slow down the ...

Hi managersI mailed the summary netmask last week anddidn't realise the Attachments made with theMail Tool being uuencoded. I admit, it's a bitawkward to uudecode the mail before reading it.I apologise and send the summary again.original question was:>Hi>>We have a class B Network ...

Thanks again to all that replied! It turns out there is a large amount of info available from sunconcerning this topic. Steven Lee from OpenSystems, Inc. (a Sun VAR)provided a nice document of useful information he has obtained fromsun. It covers a variety of variables on all systems and is ...

What a great resource. And fast, too. Much faster than me in fact.But here is my summary, late though it is.========================================================================Original post:I have a wizard-wannabe on my network who fancies himself quite theexpert when it comes to ...

Original Question:=================== Hi all,  I am trying to debug some name server problems, and I can't remember if there is a way to purge the cache of previously looked up DNS information. I assume that restarting named would purge the cache ( wouldn't it ), ...

Hi there,Many thanks to epl@caps.kodak.com (Gene Loriot (epl@kodak.com))gunn@lardav.com (David Gunn)Here the two replies I got>From gunn@lardav.com Wed Apr 12 16:52:21 1995Date: Wed, 12 Apr 95 08:46:38 MDTFrom: gunn@lardav.com (David Gunn)To: alex@chbslu09.ch.swissbank.comCc: ...

Original problem description:>> I ran across an interesting "problem" yesterday and after extensive>> investigation using the standard sources I still have no answer...>> >> We are setting up our application to run in a "captive" account. One>> ...

ORIGINAL QUESTION:==================Subject: Solaris 2.3 Network Kernal params...?Could someone point me to the kernal parameters that would change the "ACK"timeout time for TCP/IP...We are having some network problems...The Solaris system is resending data because it does not see an ...

Thanks to all who replied:Jim Anderson        Suggested a pair of programs; one to run as user, passing        requests via a socket to a "trusted" server. (I've ...

Hello comp.sys.sun.admin-readers,some two weeks ago, I asked the following in this newsgroupabout experiences with Wabi. Below, you will find a summaryof the answers.In article <EEDBEW.95Mar31214717@teamos2.ericsson.se> I wrote:: Hello Administrators,: we would like to bring some ...

Hi SUN Managers,my original posting was:> Hi SUN Gurus,> > I have problems with a third-party disk (IBM 0663-E12) on SparcStation 5> running Solaris 2.3 or 2.4.> > In case of heavy disk load I see the following messages on the console:> > ...

        I realized this was an RTFM after I had sent it. mea culpa.The problem:------------        I just installed a SPC (Serial Parallel Controller) SBus        card and ...

original question.> Does anyone know what the recommended patches are for 4.1.2. I saw a list> for 4.1.3 which got posted so I was wondering if anyone knew of such a list> or where a list resides.patch lists are ...

Thanks to all who responded,Question was:->I want to use one of my existing SS2 sparc station as a ROUTER,>for that i have to install one more ethernet card on that SS2.>Does anybody knows the vendors who are currently supplying>these SS2 compatible ethernet cards?>>If you are ...

Thanks to everyone that replied. The basic concept from each responsewas to try dump | compress | dd.Here are the commands I used to get the root and /usr directoriesbacked up on a single tape.dump 0cdstfu 1250 620 18 - /dev/sd0a | compress -c | dd of=/dev/nrst0dump 0cdstfu 1250 620 18 - ...

The original question was:<p>Is it possible to get the cursor to blink or at least stand out as a <p>different color..<p><p>The answer was... No with the cmdtool but Yes with a xterm...<p>xterm -cr (color) will start an xterm window with a different color cursor but still no blinking.<p>

Original question:>>I am looking at purchasing a new server. I have priced out two>different configurations: one is a refurbished Sun Sparc 10/51>and the other is an Integrix Sparc 20/51. Both configurations>are using 64MB RAM, 1GB SCSI drive in a server configuration>(no ...

Sorry folks, I meant to have this out a couple weeks ago, but I've been busy..Orig message : > I'm thinking of getting SunOS 4.1.4, and was wondering what people's> thoughts/comments/ideas were..> what does it have over 4.1.3? Are there "improvements"? New ...

My original question:> From mark Wed Apr 5 22:24:45 1995> Subject: NFS server.. which is the best sun> Date: Wed, 5 Apr 1995 22:24:45 +1000 (AEDT)> > I want to make a NFS only file server, no user logins. I want> to get a sun with a couple of presto boards and fill each ...

My original question was asking why when I'd try to telnet to one machineI'd be connected to another machine, even if I'd use an IP address.I ended up working out what was wrong after doing a snoop on the networkpackets; the ethernet address was incorrect. This lead me to look at arp.The ...

Sorry Sun-managers for sending out incorrect commands!!! In my last Summary I pointed out that I was getting a write error afterdoing my dump. Mike Daffey from Fujitsu Australia was kind enough topoint out the error in my ways. My revised dump procedure is asfollows.dump 0cdstfu 1250 620 18 - ...

Thanks for all quick responses. Seems there are quite a number of programscan do the job. I have only tried 'mcvert', it works fine. I got it from thefollowing ftp site: sumex-aim.stanford.eduThanks again!Here is the summary of mails I've got. some are still coming..My ...

Original Question:> I have a Micropolis-1991 drive. I upgraded the firmware using their > ASPIUTIL program on a PC. When I tried to reboot the PC to format the > disk, the system came back telling me that there is no BIOS installed. I > can't reinstall the firmware or format the ...

Thanks for the prolific and verbose reply to my query. I feel as thoughI must be the only sun manager in the world who didn't realize thatSolaris requires twice as much core as old SunOS. There were a coupleME-TOOs but a HUGE number of GET MORE MEMORY FOOL relpies (about 40).Apparently Sun ...

Hi all,Sorry this is a late summary but the thing is *still* not fixed despite somegreat effort from the following to whom I owe *many* thanks:fred.salzberg@fi.gs.com (Fred Salzberg)"Peter A. Starceski" <starcesk@noc.hfh.edu>fromm@mdd.comm.mot.com (Randy Fromm)Jim Hoel ...

        The original problem:        Once in a while, users under control of NIS+, were unable tologin in the system, they got messages of incorrects logins, and Icouldn't see the users passwords with NIS+ ...