Sun Gurus,  Looks like I wasn't alone in this one...I got a lot of help and a lot of "me too's" on this subject. I ended up using all scripts in my efforts,some of which were donated and some of which I wrote. I didn't mention thisearlier but I am working on a machine ...

Sun-Managers came thru again. Thanks to all who responded to my cry forsuggestions regarding the ST41200n from Seagate.martin@stavanger.Geco-Prakla.slb.com (Martin Oksnevad) had the winning answer. I tried solution number 2 and it worked fine. Thanks Martin.Thanks to the following who ...

A couple of weeks ago I asked:> One of the groups that I support has purchased a set of quad Ross Hypersparc > 90 mhz cpu modules for a 670 server. Before I install these I wonder if anyone> has had any experience with these that they would like to share, specifically> any ...

Thanks to cesa!leo@Sun.COM For solving my problem in a very timelyfashion. Here is his response:Hi!What happens is that Solaris 2.x uses a different mecanism thatpermits the use of CDs in a more flexible way (a least that is theintention :-)The default is to use the Volume Management. It is ...

First, my thanks to:"Brian T. Wightman" <wightman@sol.acs.uwosh.edu>peter.allan@aea.orgn.uk (Peter Allan)Steve Elliott <se@comp.lancs.ac.uk>covingto@msmary.edu (Michael Covington)one of whom chastised me for not having RTFM'ed (R'ed TFM?). Well, Ihad RTFMs, but it ...

   Hi Sun Managers!   Many thanks for your responses. I left the question just a couple of days ago and i have allready a bunch of responses! Thanks! My originalquestion follows:> > Hi Managers!> > I have just been asked to add a user to the ...

Sorry for the huge delay in this Summery.Thanks to everyone who responded. I have not had time to follow up any ofyour replies yet but will get round to it eventually when the currentworkload subsides.My initial question was:->I have the job of setting up a front end menu system to allow ...

    Hi Managers!    I took me some hours to find out what was going on, but i found it. Following you will find my original posting:------------ Original Message Begins -------------------------------->From rruiz@spin.com.mxSun Feb 5 01:19:59 ...

Sorry for the huge delay in this Summery.Thanks to everyone who responded. I have not had time to follow up any ofyour replies yet but will get round to it eventually when the currentworkload subsides.My initial question was:->I have the job of setting up a front end menu system to allow ...

My apologies for the delay of this belated second SUMMARY.The problem:Our SPARC Server 1000, Solaris2.3, with the recommended patches, andsupporting many users, dumped core in /.We installed the Solaris2.4 11/94 upgrade, including recommendedpatches. All new users were denied access to the ...

Hi, Sun Managers:    I have received 18 answers from follow people:    <pinassea@ptsun07.cern.ch>    Robin <netman@orwell.byu.edu>    Frank Sommer <fs@ncsc5.att.com>    Susan ...

Regarding my question about the Sun OS level (4.1.x) for SNM 2.2.2.SNM 2.2.2 *does* require SunOS 4.1.3_U1 Rev B. This is the version itwas compiled under and may not work correctly with earlier versionsincluding Sun OS 4.1.3. Note that this does not effect the SNM for Solaris 2.x. Thanks to ...

Thanks to everyone who replied to me. There were a few people askingme for a copy of the responses, here it goes.1) Use nenscript which is public domain from the ftp site ftp.crim.ca:/lude-crim/nenscript-1.13/src/crim/nenscript-1.132) Use mp which does landscape, 2 pages per paper etc.3) Buy ...

Hi, Sun Managers:The answer for host specific login scripts with oneshared home directory:1) Force the user to take a shell, which sources /etc/profile,   /etc/login or something. ( bash tcsh )2) Add the following lines in your users .login and ...

Hello.I had previously asked for recommendations for an s-bus card which wouldprovide a SCSI bus interface and "anything else".It seems that the "anything else" is either nothing (i.e., is empty) or is anetwork interface; I could not locate a card which had SCSI AND LAN AND ...

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original request >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>I am looking for some software that will manipulate audio files.I would like to do the following:- display wave on the screen- ...

Sorry for this late SUMMARY. I just want to make sure it works beforeI send out the SUMMARY. About a week ago, I asked how to cut a ANSIformat 9-track tape on the Sun system. I got a lot of help from thislist and the solution is to use a program called ansitape as manypeople suggested. Thanks ...

Hello!In response to my query about a port of lpd & friends to Solaris 2.4,I have received one offer of a working-but-not-quite-complete port,and many recommendations to use PLP instead.In the meantime I have managed to get the port I already had to work(although only client operation has ...

Hello, allSorry for the delay in the summary.The responses I got to my post :>I was hoping to get some ideas from y'all on how to go about setting up an>"ip address recycling program" of sorts. Specifically, I am interested in>how you are solving the problem of managing ip ...

Hello AllMany people replied to bring to my attention a known bug in PC-NFS 5.1 whichinvolved among other things file corruption. There is a jumbo patch, however Ifollowed one of the pathches included in this jumbo patch. I have included acopy of the jumbo patch 102068-01 at the end. The ...

Here's the summary to my original query. Thanks toall who replied.Tse.Original query:On Solaris 2.4, select(2) seems to indicate that a socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM and O_NONBLOCK) is ready for readingwhen in fact there is no data to be read.Responses:From: Leif Hedstrom ...

Thanks extended to all who responded on this issue. Gives me MANY differentversions to evaulate. We are still waiting for our h/w to arrive so aren't surewhat we will use yet but here are all the responses I received.Again, thanks to all who responded!!Greg RobertsCIBCOriginal Question:> ...

Original Message:________________________________________________________I am running the following:SparcStation20  Solaris 2.3NeWSprinter 20  NeWSprint 2.5bNetworked HPLJ4 si/mx (w/JetDirect card)After installing the lpJumbo patch (-12) printing the NeWsprinter 20 will ...

Hi,  The original question is :> I have set up a dialup modem for my company. But my boss ask me to set a security for it.> I remembered that there is so called modem pool(?) which has the feature.> What I want to do is when a user dialin from home, The modem support ...

Here is a tablulation of the suggestions I got:emac: 21 (Ref O'Reilly book)beav: 4adb: 4nvi: 2 (new vi, 8 bit aware, and has built in man pages)bvi: 1 (under construction by bg@efw10.serigate.philips.nl)bined: 1sbd: 1fe: 1 (source provided by mike.phillips@ukpmr.cs.philips.nl)uzap: 1 (PD, exe ...

Hi,  The original question is :> Subject: Missing Diskspace in root partition> Hi All,>> I am having a problem with a SS20 Quad 55Mhz Ross with 4.1.3_U1 os.>> Every now and then the root partition will fill up, but when I look around> to find out where the ...

[ from a previous summary by ballisti@ifh.ee.ethz.ch]It turns out this is a known problem and is fixed by the following SunPatches:        101610 for SunOS 5.3        101071 for SunOS ...

Hi,My original question:> When I do a 'ps' command, it gives the following error:> ps: /dev/mem: error on kas: bad address> ps: could not read kernel VMThe answers:Thanks to Carl Hughey (chughey@cos.com):> Make sure the kernel you're running is actually the /vmunix file. ...

I haven't got yet any answer to my letter, but coming in themorning to the work with a fresh mind I have solved the problem.Here is my original question:  | My SPARCclassic (Sol 2.3, no patches) acting as a mail server  | with IMAP daemon (imapd 3.4) running on it does not ...

 This is a known problem with the inetd on Solaris 2.4. A patch 102922-01should be out sometime, and in the meantime a workaround is to commentthe discard service out of the inetd.conf file. For my setup I havereverted to serving the Xkernel machines via NFS rather than xfs.Thanks to: ...

        Here's the original question:> Dear Sun-Managers:> > I have been asked to implement a POP server on one or more of my> SPARCs to serve various PC-based mail clients. I know next to> nothing about this protocol.> > Can ...

My original question is at the bottom.All you people that are going to set up an install server or boot serveron any SunOS 4.x machines need to be careful. You must installthe patch contained in the compressed archive HSFS.TAR.Z on the cdrom,first. Otherwise you turn into problems like I ...

Here's the summary to my original query. My Current Setup:        - Callback Modems connected to an Annex Terminal Server          with security software controlling user ...

The original script posted the other day as undergone some changes tosupport a new host naming conventions here, but the answer can be foundin both the comments under the Routing heading and in the extra "routeadd ..." at the end of the script. The solution has been verified onthe ...

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gavin@durban.vector.co.za (Gavin Maltby) wrote:>> Hi,> > How can I enable asynchronous nfs writes on 2.4? I> can't decide which kernel symbol to fiddle with and can't> find this in any faq (only for Solaris 1).> > I know about the dangers of doing this. I want to see ...

Originally I had asked what process runs to put up the motd, the lasttime you logged in etc. once telnetd stopped running.Well I must have been out to lunch or something, 'cuz it never evenoccured to me to do a man login ( the obvious thing to do ).Anyway the answer to the question is: login. ...

Thanks to:<p>Kevin.Sheehan @ uniq.com.au<p>casper @ fwi.uva.nl<p>The result was that Jumpstart is not in PROM, but a boot-sequence on the <p>harddisk, that is overwritten when installing a OS on the disk.<p>

Sun Managers,There was only one reply to the question so I include it below.I am not sure if this works or not because I ended up just usingthe version I compiled on another machine running 2.3 before thisanswer came in and everything works like a champ.Thanks to Casper (casper@fwi.uva.nl) for ...

HelloA week ago, I have posted this message :> I have a problem with a partition bigger than 2 gigas under SunOS> 4.1.2.> > We have a Sparc Station ELC with 2 disks. One of this disk is a 700 Mo> disk drive with SunOS 4.1.2 and the other is a 4,3 Go with Solaris> 2.4.> This ...

My original posting: Our Sparc 1000 runs Solaris 2.3, Oracle 7.0.16, Sql*Net V1, and nothing else on 6 processors and 1 GB memory. After a reboot and start of DB instances, vmstat shows 650 MB memory free. As the machine approaches its regular peak load with 200 Sql ...

----------X-Sun-Data-Type: textX-Sun-Data-Description: textX-Sun-Data-Name: textX-Sun-Content-Lines: 25Hi Folks,I am including all of the responses I receiving after sending my firstsummary, as Sun mailtool enclosures. The general consensus was that theerror I am experiencing is due to ...

Thanks to everyone for their responses to my question. I even got aprevious summary, which really does answer my question completely.I must have missed it when I was away on leave..The question was read/write magneto-optical disks that started toexhibit bad blocks. I've included the original ...

Question:---------has anybody ever connected a SCSI disk on a SPARCServer 490 SCSI bus?What are the limitations? Does it have to be a SCSI-1 disk? Can aSCSI-2 disk work well? Or should I forget about it?Response Summary:-----------------. One can connect a SCSI disk to a 490. . The transfer ...

----------X-Sun-Data-Type: textX-Sun-Data-Description: textX-Sun-Data-Name: textX-Sun-Charset: us-asciiX-Sun-Content-Lines: 18Hi,I asked about removing Online DiskSuite from a system and still be able to use the metadevices later on.All the answers are attached.CarstenThanks to:stevee@sbei.com ...

Managers,        Thanks to all of you who responded to my problem and        sorry for the delay in posting this summary.Original question> Managers,> > I just got off the phone with SUN support regarding ...

Sysadmins,First of all I apologise for my weird "from" addr - where is that sendmail bookagain!?#$?The original question:> I'm trying to tranfer files to a PC running Solaris2.4 from> a SPARC running either 2.3 or 2.4. I use simply:> > tar cf /dev/rmt/0> > on the ...

I apologize for having taken so long sending this out but I wantedto make sure we had it all working before I sent it out.The original question was :> I am setting up somo rather monsterous netgroup> files and am receiveng the following message during the make :> > make netgroup> ...

Hi (Sun-)managers,Here is the Summary concerning the question aboutQMS printer software on Solaris machine ....Version 2.10 has precompiled exec's for Solaris.You can ftp them from ftp.qms.com in directory ...

Hello Managers,here is the summary for my request. First, let me thank all people whoanswered (in resversed temporal order):From: Mick.Morgan@ccta.gov.uk (Mick Morgan)From: bern@penthesilea.uni-trier.de (Jochen Bern)From: David Deaves <David.Deaves@cbr.atr.com.au>From: rk@Mail.NetUSE.de ...