Sun Managers,Original query, in short>Is it possible to change DSIMM Instalation Sequence in SS10 ?>I have 4 16MB DSIMMs in slots>> J0201, J0304, J0203, J0302.>>Can I use for example slot J0303 instead of J0302 ?>The instalation sequence in manual is>> J0201, J0304, ...
Thanks for the responses to my query, to-date I've had responses from 8 usersand 2 venders. Since they're pretty concise I've included all responses butthe venders (because of the obvious bias)...as follows.--------------------------------------------------------------------------I have ...
Hello ALLSolution for the problem was /etc/dfs/dfstab file but my ss2 was still mounting it as RO , then just for the experiment i created a soft link to my /usrarea from the /export partition . Then i tried to share that link. and oops when i mounted this link toss2 machine it was working in ...
A day or two ago I asked for recommendations for a Fortran compiler forSolaris 2.x.The answers that came back were divided into 2 classes1. Use f2c2. Use Sun's Fortran.Thanks toraoul@MIT.EDUand several others who answered promptly, but my fat fingerslost their ...
First, for those who are interested in HIPPI, it is a high speedparallel interface & network, first used (I believe) in high energy physics.Speeds of up to 98 MBytes/sec ! are obtainable, but not with SPARCs asthe SBus is limited to 80 MB/s.Naturally, CERN, has a WWW page devoted to ...
The problem is solved.It was not a new one. One answer tells me that this is a FAQ. Anotherone gave me two documents of SunSolve regarding this problem.Nevertheless I've got several answers, and nearly all recommended to checkthe directory /etc/sm.bak.The solution was to kill the rpc.statd on ...
Well, the first response had a useable answer, so here it is:---------- Forwarded message ----------Date: Fri, 13 Jan 95 17:52:53 +0100From: Jochen Bern <bern@penthesilea.uni-trier.de>Subject: Re: choosing the number of nsfd processes> > My question is whether there is any way to ...
Sorry for not editing this summary a little more. I am leaving town today, and I wanted to get this out before I left. (back in 2 weeks) I have included most of the relevant responses in their entirety. Sorry if there are some repeat suggestions.Almost everyone suggested I check the supported ...
A day or two ago I asked for recommendations for a Fortran compiler forSolaris 2.x.The answers that came back were divided into 2 classes1. Use f2c2. Use Sun's Fortran.Thanks toraoul@MIT.EDUand several others who answered promptly, but my fat fingerslost their ...
First, for those who are interested in HIPPI, it is a high speedparallel interface & network, first used (I believe) in high energy physics.Speeds of up to 98 MBytes/sec ! are obtainable, but not with SPARCs asthe SBus is limited to 80 MB/s.Naturally, CERN, has a WWW page devoted to ...
Our SPARC Server 1000, Solaris2.3, with the recommended patches, andwhich runs httpd and gopherd as well as supports many users, dumpedcore in /. My indiscrete query encouraged few responses. My humbleapologies... Now, the nightmare continues.One respondant reported:> I am not sure what ...
Original Question:> Hi all,> Is there such a thing as a window dump FAQ? What we want to > do is print a gray scale image, quality equivalent to xpr's> gray scale 4, of a wide window i.e. the width of a screen or> nearly the full width, to an HP Laserjet4 Plus. I'm assuming ...
Thanks to the following:pamela@jupiter.legato.comjimm@csdc02.orl.mmc.comjstubbs@utdallas.eduMy original post:> I just upgraded my system to Solaris 2.4. Now I can't read tapes> created with 2.3 on my Exabyte 8500C. I read the information that came> with the upgrade about the large ...
Using the Pioneer DRM-604X (6 disk CD-ROM changer) with Solaris 2.3===================================================================I have found the following configuration works on a Sparcstation 2 runningSolaris 2.3Hardware========1. Dip switches on back of drive 1 ...
>On Fri, 13 Jan 1995, I wrote:> Managers -> > Will SunOS 1.1C run on a SPARC 20 ?> > or should I/ must I go and purchase a later release?> > (I know, I should run Solaris, but there are good reasons).> The answers It won't work. You need 4.1.3U1, Rev B, I believe.or ...
Thanks to marc@atmos.washington.edu I have a solution. It turns out there isa new version of the "hpnpf" program. "hpnpf" is one of the pieces of the JetDirect software. Marc forwarded me a copy of the new binary, I put it into place and everything has been working fine. ...
>On Fri, 13 Jan 1995, I wrote:> Managers -> > Will SunOS 1.1C run on a SPARC 20 ?> > or should I/ must I go and purchase a later release?> > (I know, I should run Solaris, but there are good reasons).> The answers It won't work. You need 4.1.3U1, Rev B, I believe.or ...
Dear AllIn reply to my posting about unix2dos producing warning messageabout inability to open /dev/kbd to get the keyboard typeI've received a few suggestions which I summarised, even thoughneither of them seemed to explain the problem or offer a remedy.After quering Sun I've learned (after ...
Folks,Thanks for all the replies. There are a number of utilities which applythemselves to this job, but I suspect that none will solve the problem thatI have, which is that my JL4Si WONT print these files, but the old LJ3Si will,so its down to differences in the postscript engines. It must lie ...
This is the summary of the responces I gotfor my question posted about 1 months ago.I am sorry for posting this so late.Almost all responces said I should use "dump"to backup and "restore" to restore filesystems.I guess I did not write my question clearly in my original ...
Problem: sendmail 5.0/SVR4 unable to deliver to various valid addresses. Particularlyworrisome was an inability to deliver to a local subdomain. I thought thiswas due to a problem with ruleset S6.Suggestions:Most people recommended using ...
Hi,I got about 4 responses on my origional question:Hi,I'm having a strange problem with xdm. I recently installed two ross mbusboards for a total of 4 ross cpu's into my SS10 running 4.1.3. Now, xdm is crashing on my xterms about once every 20 minutes ...The classic xterms are displaying ...
Shame on me. In my last summary, whenever i wrote blankscreen, pleaseread screenblank. SORRY :-(((((- Jorge Portugal Andrade --------------------------------------------\- Dep. Informatica | admin@di.uminho.pt \- Universidade do Minho | Tel: +351 53 604475 \- 4700 ...
My original post was about xlocking idle worstation consoles. Till now i received just one answer from David Keegel <djk@cyber.com.au> that is good enought, so i'm summarizing.ORIGINAL POST: Hi Sun Managers. I have a network of sun's. One of them is NIS server. They all ...
Dear Sun-Managers,The question:>I have a probplem with the CMD controller (two disks under>the same Controller/Target. I found out that I can use >/dev/dsk/c0t3d1s* after adding LUN=1 entries in /kernel/drv/sd.conf. > ^>But I have a running system on LUN=0 and I want ...
Thanks to rmilner@aoc.nrao.edu, whom gave the responce that I waslooking for: Put this in your .Xdefaults:Xterm*VT100.Translations: #override\n\ <KeyPress> L6 : ...
Dear Sun-Managers,The question:>I have a probplem with the CMD controller (two disks under>the same Controller/Target. I found out that I can use >/dev/dsk/c0t3d1s* after adding LUN=1 entries in /kernel/drv/sd.conf. > ^>But I have a running system on LUN=0 and I want ...
Several people set suggestions, but none solved my problem.I managed to isolate the prolem to stuff that was installed withglibc. I backed out everything installed by glibc, it had a lot ofconflicting includes. It wasn't a simple task, but it worked.Here is the original posting:>I build ...
The original question was:--------------------------------------------------------SUN's OpenWindows mailtool has a lot of limitations and problems.Does anyone use any other one that can understand SUN's attachmentfiles?I'd prefer a Motif-based program rather than XView, but anythingwill ...
Again the net seems to have come thru!!!!I have included the original mail at the end of this message.My thanks to all who responded. >From Steve.Kirkpatrick@artecon.com >From iqbalz@regrepfs.fw.gs.com >From Matt.Sherek@seag.fingerhut.com>From jonsg@diss.hyphen.com >From ...
Hello guys,Thanks a lot for your suggestions and help,here is the summaryabout that problem.Goal :^^^^In SunOS we were using the next lines in /etc/passwdto control varios users netgroups access to differentmachines-@deprive::0:0:::+@staff::0:0:::+@master::0:0:::But the same thing doesn`t work ...
The original question was:>We have a SPARC20 Server without a monitor or keyboard. Instead, we are >using a vt320, in vt100 mode, and its keyboard plug to the ttya port. >Does anybody know the equivalent key sequence on a vt terminal for >STOP-A? Our system hung once and could ...
Original Post:> I have a problem which would seem trivial but which I have not been> able to solve. At our site we have banner message which is suppose> to be displayed on each users screen, preferable before login. I> currently have the message in motd for display after a user ...
Hi again, This is an improved summary, since i already posted one.The problem was how to preserve screens in idle consoles.The solution is the program blankscreen. "Brian T. Wightman" <wightman@sol.acs.uwosh.edu> suggestedxlock -nolock. Thats ok but doesn't ...
Hello Sun Managers,Thanks for the responses. Many people suggested getting the splitter cablefrom SUN Express, but I didn't want to spend 40 pounds on something I had nearly built myself anyway. The Sparc 20 serial ports are almost the same as the ELC ports (which I had documentation for), but ...
Symptom: The command 'last' wasn't reporting any activity after Dec 18of last year.Clues: 'last' gets its data from /var/adm/wtmpx. Logging is controlledby the accounting package, which is started/stopped with /etc/init.d/acct.Solution: stop accounting, remove /var/adm/pacct manually, ...
My original posting: Our network runs NIS. On our Solaris 2.3 Sparc 1000 running Oracle 7 server, the last line of /etc/passwd is "+:x:::::/bin/false" and that of /etc/shadow is "+::::::::" and /etc/nsswitch.conf has "passwd: compat". On ...
my question was how to allow users without root privilege to mount (and then exportfs) a cd-rom filesystemi received many replies and most of them suggested to get a program called "mntdisk" which has nice tools for mounting floppy and cd-rom. mntdisk's tool that deals specifically ...
Hi,As everybody pointed out, there is a patch from Sun which solves thisproblem (among other problems).The patch is 100726-17.Thanks to all who helped: art@infinity.com (Art Hebert) Anchi Zhang <anchi@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> gdonl@gv.ssi1.com (Don Lewis) ...
Greetings again:With enough persistence and a sufficiently large hammer, even thesimplest of problems can be solved successfully. ;-)The machine in question wouldn't boot from the net or its owninternal disk (as was its custom) despite much encouragement todo so. One suggestion pointed to the ...
The question was:> everything was fine but one day the "ps" command began not to show > only the processes owned by root. I can see all other processes owned> by eg. bin but root. Unfortunately I don't know what has changed.> Anyone encountered the same problem before? I ...
Sun Managers, I was told that summaries are mandatory so here is my summary.Thanks to those who responded and were nice about it.1. What is the earliest version of SunOS - Solaris that runs on a ...
The question:-------------> The home directories of our users resides on a file system which is> exported to a couple of other SUN workstations. The quota option for> the mount entry in the server is -by default- on. Also the QUOTA> option in the kernel is turned on. When I get a ...
Summary of answers to the following original Question:> On a SparcStation 10, every 15 seconds I am getting a message:>> syslog: packet from unknown router, 172.21.83.249>> How do I convince Mr. Sun to recognize this router?>> Supporting evidence: We are changing from a ...
First of all, I should make a small correction to my original query. Itshould have read (update marked with *'s).> From don Mon Jan 9 11:46:08 1995> > It appears that some of the files on one of our SunOS 4.1.3_U1 NFS file> servers were truncated ***TO ZERO*** over the weekend. ...
Everybody who replied suggested that I should redirect the input & output of the dump command.ballisti@ifh.ee.ethz.ch also send me two script file to do the backup.Kevin.Sheehan@uniq.com.au also suggested patching the kernel so that it will recognize the tape drive. I decide to patch the ...
The consensus is that the files are marked for SVR4 manditory file locking.As shown in some (not 4.1.3_U1) man pages> from chmod(2) - it enables mandatory file locking, per SVR4 semantics.> > S_ISGID 020#0 Set group ID on execution> if # is 7, 5, 3, or 1.> Enable ...
Hi all,Thanks to everyone who responded and to those who are even now responding!The parameters I was looking for were SEMMNS - the max number of semaphores SEMMNI - the max number of semaphore ...
>Hi,As everybody pointed out, there is a patch from Sun which solves thisproblem (among other problems).The patch is 100726-17.Thanks to all who helped: art@infinity.com (Art Hebert) Anchi Zhang <anchi@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> gdonl@gv.ssi1.com (Don ...
I asked:> I remember recently, last couple of months, about a program that> will display the process that are actively using a file system.> > Can anybody point me to the program?Too many to list responded:lsoffuserofilesshowmount"lsof" won, I got if from ...