> Folks -->> Does anyone know where is can get "pine 3.89" or some close version > already compiled for Solaris 2.3?> > ThanksThanks to those who relyed:Philip MooseMohd Rosley OmarJeff CollyerJorge Portugal AndradeJeff VictorDaniel R. BidwellRyan CoxMost suggested ...

 Recently I asked: I would like to hear about anybody's experience using theSS1000 as an Oracle server running Oracle7 and Solaris 2.x.In particular, how well does Oracle7 make use of multiplecpu's?  Eight responses have been received as of now. Of these, three people are ...

In <ccfj.789307572@hippo.ru.ac.za> ccfj@hippo.ru.ac.za (F. Jacot Guillarmod) writes:>Running on SunOS 4.1.1, I get this problem when trying to distribute a>new /etc/group file:>=======================================================================>hippo:/var/yp# ...

Thanks alot for the replies! It turns out that the ZX GraphicsAccelerator card from Sun does not work wil X11R6, but, assomeone pointed out, the Openwindows Xsun does. It was a 2minute fix to call /usr/openwin/bin/Xsun in my .xserverrc andI was up and running. Thanks again!John>I have run ...

I am currently in search of network batch software for our network of Sunworkstation. As I am new to this kind of software, I have turned to the netfor information on the available packages.Freely available are: NQS, Monsanto-NQS, DNQS, DQS and ...

Hello Sun Managers,last week I asked the following question:> I am wondering if anybody out there has managed to hook up a Sony DAT drive> SDT 5000 (DDS-2) to a solaris box and would be so kind to send me the > drive's `tape-config-list'.Unfortunately I received only one `metoo' and ...

Sun Managers,Original query, in part_/|\_/|\_/|\_/|\_/|\_/|\_/|\_/|\_/|\_begin includedAs user "sysadmin" using admintool to add a new user, I failed -        The operation failed        with this ...

Original Message:> I'm running Sun OS 4.1.3 and have a problem with dump/restore.> As part of our backup script I need to ensure the operators change the> tape cartridges every morning. I'd like to do this by reading the header> which dump writes to the dump file.> > ...

Greetings, managers,First, let me apologize for a possibly inappropriate question. I would notbe posting this summary, except that other sun-managers subscribers mailedme requesting a summary. As there appears to be interest, so be this posting.I received 24 answers, 1 reprimand, and a rather ...

My original mail was as follows:-> I'm sure this has come up very resently, or at least at some time in the> past. Anyway, it was of little interest to me at the time so I didn't keep> the info, but now it would real useful. Usual story :-)>> So, if anybody has any info about ...

Hi,You can set up a CNAME entry in DNS table. hostname IN A 999.999.999.999 (your ip address)ftp IN CNAME hostnameSince netcom is our network provider, I will send a mail to ask them to do it.Thanks to all who show me how to solve the problem.Jeffreyjliu@splus.com> From ...

Hi all:I thought I had sent a summary out, but yet I received several requestsfor one so here goes. I apologize if it is repetitious.I sent an email out requesting info on problem tracking tools. Thereare many tools out there and many more pieces of info. I was boggeddown reading all the stuff ...

Thanx to the folx who replied, including:jag@mvision.com (Jay Gallivan)sunrise!don@rambone.psi.net (Don Lenamond)yves@suntech.abcomp.be (Yves Hardy)Dave Curado <Dave.Curado@HK.Super.NET>Aaron Cammarata <cammaa@mcsunx.gs.com>The answers varied, from suggestions to replacing ...

Hi Sun Managers,I've waited a while to summarize in hopes that I would get morereplies (I only got five). Here's my original request:-----------------------------------------------------------------We are getting ready to purchase one of the above productsfor disk storage. It's hard to get ...

Sun managers,Thank you very much to all those that responded.I am very sorry for the late summary, On vacation.The unanaimous response was "Use [none] when asked whichmemory model a Sun workstation uses".My original question>While trying to install the lastest version of ...

Dear Sunners,My original problem is:> I have a SS10 running SunOS 4.1.3, when the system tries to invoke the cron daemon> in system startup, the cron progam dumps a core file in the dir. of> /var/spool/cron/crontabs, even though the file /var/spool/cron/FIFO is correctly> created. ...

Hello,        Here is my original posting:        Has anyone succesfully manage text files with NIS such as motd?        I am running into several ...

Actually, this isn't really a summary, but just a post if the cure.The problem:We have a single SS2 to act as our web & ftp servers and route some trafficto and from the Internet. It runs Solaris 2.3. Well, the PPP module thatcomes with that is screwy. So I descrewified it, with the ...

I need help finding this patch. Does anyone have a public FTPsite for it?ThanksReuben.Cengiz Akinli (netmar@cybernetics.net) wrote:: Actually, this isn't really a summary, but just a post if the cure.: The problem:: We have a single SS2 to act as our web & ftp servers and route some ...

Last week I posted a query asking if the X3D-PEX extension was brokenin Solaris 2.3 - I kept getting errors when displaying my PEX programson a SS10BSX or a SS20SX running Solaris 2.3. Running the same executableand displaying on a Solaris 2.4 box worked.Louis Khouw of Sun pointed out that ...

Excellent post!If more people would SHARE information on PPP, it wouldmake a better world...Yogi-Cengiz Akinli (netmar@cybernetics.net) wrote:: Actually, this isn't really a summary, but just a post if the cure.: The problem:: We have a single SS2 to act as our web & ftp servers and route ...

Firstly, thanks to all those who sent helpful information.Summary.        1. Setting the DIP switches.        2. Modifying the kernel (is this optional ?).        3. ...

Just before christmas, I posted a question about the above problems wehad on a SparcCenter 2000. I received a lot of helpful hints, many ofthem suggesting going to Solaris 2.4 or Oracle 7.1. Well, since thiswas not possible due to reasons on the application side, we had tofind out other ways to ...

Folks,This query hit the list just at Christmas time, so I didn't get many replies -- 2 in fact! But one was I needed. Thanks to bob@sna.co.umist.ac.uk, I'm nowunder way. To use this CDROM on a vanilla Sun system, it needs to have the dipswithces set to use 512 byte blocks. The dip switches ...

Sorry if this is a duplicate. I posted this yesterday but never receiveda copy myself. I suspect our mail wasn't working.My original mail was as follows:-> I'm sure this has come up very resently, or at least at some time in the> past. Anyway, it was of little interest to me at the ...

Since I forgot to provide ftp sites for those tools, here goes:Many of the tools can be found atftp.ccs.neu.edu:/pub/sysadmin/tracking. GNATS, NEARnet TTS, NETLOG,QueueMH, PTS/XPTS, Request, and Requete are all there. Many thanks tothe folks at North-Eastern University.-------Ayrton ...

Hy sun-managers outside !!!!----------------------------I've been very surprised that I'll get so quick that many answers for my question.So many thanks to following people who gave me good ...

Hello All,I only received one response, which was to call Lexmark Technical Support.-----------<RESPONSE>--------------------------------------------------------Date: Tue, 10 Jan 95 13:03:59 ESTFrom: grdodson@lexmark.com (Graydon Dodson)   Try calling the Lexmark Tech. ...

Problem:--------User on a 3270 host telnets onto our 4/670 running Solaris 2.3. When heattempts to send mail using mailx and uses ^D to terminate the message, hegets a core dump and the session hangs.I was looking for some general way of changing the 3270 keyboard mapping to the more familiar ...

As I said in my original posting, this was an easy one. I think I was the onlyperson on this list that didn't know. I received ALOT of replies so I won't beable to thank them all for their answers.Original Posting:> I'd like to reclaim the 10% of disk space that root reserves on each disk ...

My original question is at the end of this message.I received a number of useful reponses, however none could solve my problemso I had to return the disk to the vendor. He tells me that they have had problems with a few of these disks when the SCSI bus was longer than 30cm (?seems a bit flaky). ...

Problem:--------Running the default (no-MX) Sendmail 5.0/SVR4 unders Solaris 2.3, could notsend mail to valid addresses.Solution:---------The default version of Sendmail provided with Solaris 2.3 does not understand MX(mail exchanger) records. The solution is to use the MX version of Sendmail ...

The question:> > The problem is that when they are all booted together we SOMETIMES> get net hangs or Drive N: (MS-WINDOWS drive) Not Found. If on the> other hand they are booted at intervals then all is fine.> > The problems is that the SPARC 5 can't handle all nfs request ...

The following is the summary of responses received regarding myquestion concerning newsreaders. Listed are sites for source thenthe messages I received -- Kim Fabricius Storm provided the README fornn. Send me mail if you wish to have a copy.Thanks to all who responded - Judi ...

My orginal question was about the availablility of a DHCP server thatcan run on a Sun system. I received a few "me-too's" so I thought Ibetter summarize to the list.Two commercial products were mentioned. One is the SolarNet productfrom Sun. It runs under Solaris and provides a ...

Original message was:>We have a Sun 20 running Solaris 2.3. It is NFS serving 6 PCs as well as being>on ordinary mail/news/network access/software development machine. Recently>I was checking out the ndd command to see that status of /dev/udp.>>% ndd /dev/udp udp_status>>to ...

>Hi Sun-Managers,>>I am in the process of setting up a few SUN SPARCstation 5 which are setup>as dataless clients from a SUNserver 1000. The house of machines is >running Solaris 2.3. THe server has been completely set up with all>patches installed. My question is - Do the ...

Thanks for the prompt responses! I'll post another summary if differentsolutions are available.Answers:  1. You can do: [28 people suggested this.]       showrev -p    You need to have installed that patch information at the time ...

I've received only two replies to my query about the "/dev/kbd"warning message. It's almost certain that Chris Terry is right.I haven't installed the graphics stuff on my server, as it hasno graphics card or monitor. I'm not going to waste disk spaceto get rid of a nuisance ...

Sorry for the delayed summary, but here it is.Answers:  1. cd to your spool directory and check the permissions on the status file.      Make sure that they are 775 and owned by daemon, group daemon ...      [This seemed to ...

Regarding my original question, 1 persons suggests using the traditionalfile methods and the rdist method. This way, I still don't know how toenable user to change the password on any machine that he logs in. Anotherperson suggests using kerberos. Another one told me to use NIS instead.And ...

I asked:> I just upgraded one of our machines from 2.3 to 2.4. My problem is> that printing to that system from other machines has stopped.It turns out that I needed to spend more time Reading The FineAnswerbook. Page 329 of the administrator's handbook ("How to Set Upa SunOS 5.x ...

Hi,this is a cut down of my original question:------------- 8< ----------------- 8< ----------------afters installing NCSA mosaic we tried to install xv 3.00a to display JPEGand GIF pictures. cc compiles all parts, but the linking process fails. Hereis the output from the make comand:cc ...

Hi,this is a cut down of my original question:------------- 8< ----------------- 8< ----------------afters installing NCSA mosaic we tried to install xv 3.00a to display JPEGand GIF pictures. cc compiles all parts, but the linking process fails. Hereis the output from the make comand:cc ...

----------X-Sun-Data-Type: textX-Sun-Data-Description: textX-Sun-Data-Name: textX-Sun-Content-Lines: 0----------X-Sun-Data-Type: defaultX-Sun-Data-Description: defaultX-Sun-Data-Name: NIS-SummaryX-Sun-Content-Lines: 123SUMMARY ....My origional question> > > Dear Sun Managers> > I ...

Hi Sun-Managers,        To use the 24-bit viedo slot connected to the main board you have topurchase VSIMM's, but for Solaris 2.3 to support this you must install packages that support the SX option. Packages are SUNWsx, SUNWsxow, SUNWsxr, SUNWsxxgl, ...

I had a bugged version of convertfont. It requires patch #100454-03. I appiled it and it works great! The patch can be found via anon. ftpat qiclab.scn.rain.com:/pub/sunos-patches/ow30/100454-03.tar.ZThanks to Norbert Saazer [saazer@grado.CV.COM] for the pointer.Again, Sun Managers is the ...

Dear All,Thanks to all those experts who responded and allthose whose email is still in the internet somewhere.The problem was:----- Begin Included Message -----I think I may have found a problem with nisplus(...I wonder if they all understand my ironicalsense of humour...)Sorry Sun :-) - I ...

First, I apologize for not checking the FAQ first. A couple ofyou kindly informed me that this question is addressed in the latestsun-managers.Next, I received responses from all over the globe on this one,all agreeing on one thing; THIS IS NORMAL! The mac (machine) addressis assigned to the ...

My original posting:  What are the Solaris 2.3 kernel parameters SLOWSCAN & FASTSCAN?Many thanks to  "Frank 'Scruffy' Miller" <Frank.Miller@master.CNA.TEK.COM>  Richard Sands <ras@wildfire.cv.com>  mark@ccifl.com (Mark ...