Many thanks to all who responded and those whose responses may be on theway; here is their list:Jeff Wasilko <jeffw@smoe.org>Satish Somanath <satish@lvision.com>Sanjay Patel <patesa@aur.alcatel.com>John Ballard <johnb@ocean.washington.edu>Derek Cameron ...

Answers belowThanks to all> > You seemed to have sent out several copies of the email...> > > I did an install of sun 2.6, I selected a full install.> > It didn't seem to install Disksuite.> > How do I manually install Disksuite ?> > Disksuite is not ...

Here is my original message:This one has me stumped. I have a sparc 20 and whether I leave the framebuffer card in or not, I cannot get it to boot to a serial terminal. I havethe null modem cable on there, the hyperterm is 8 none 1, no flowcontrol,there is no keyboard connected, nothing ...

Hi Managers,Thanks to Casper Dik <casper@holland.Sun.COM>The parallel port on an Ultra 30 is /dev/ecpp0You also need patches:-104605-04 SunOS 5.5.1: ecpp driver patch105741-02 SunOS 5.6: /kernel/drv/ecpp patch> Date: Sun, 22 Mar 1998 08:31:38 +0000 (GMT)> From: Richard Skelton ...

Thanks to the following persons:Bismark EspinozaJeff Woolseyganeshan@gcs.com.auRuss PoffenbergerDavid B. HarringtonFirst, I want to mention the result: The drive is damaged. One suggested to connect the drive to a Solaris 2.x system. I tried it but the drive comes up and then it goes offline ...

Summary of RPC time out problem on Sun Netra i500. Sorry for the delay.Problem:> When doing a "showrev -p" I got the following error message:>> showrev: Received communication service error 4:> Remote procedure call timed out: Can't send requestThe startup commands in ...

Hi!Thanks to:From: Marina.Daniels@ccd.tas.gov.au (Marina Daniels)From: stern@sunrise.east.sun.com (Hal Stern - Distinguished Systems Engineer)From: Casper Dik <casper@holland.sun.com>From: Michael Neef <neef@neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>From: Fedor Gnuchev ...

Original question:> > We have used 4mm DAT's for some time now and were originally told by Sun> (UK)> to use:> dump 0udsf 61000 5000 ...> > No blocking factor was specified. Can anyone enlighten me as to what the> parameters *should* be? We currently use both 60m ...

two responses, included below.thanks to all.    -paul1)My experience MAY be of some help or it may not, but anyway-I have a Toshiba laptop, a CD205, that has an integratedpointingdevice. I had difficulty getting an external MS Intellipoint(wheel) mouse working as a three ...

Thanks for the replies from Marco Greene and Matthew Stier.The problem was the first qfe card got moved to a different SBus slot. Thenwhen the second card got added, the kernel just pick up from where it leftoff with the first card. Doing a "boot -r" didn't help. So, I had to ...

Question was: Environment is Solaris 2.4 Sparc 1000e.I started a ufsrestore yesterday to test a suspect tape.The session hung and now the process will not die. So I can't do abackup of anything!Answers: In my case, I rebooted after unsuccessfully trying to kill theprocess.i) The majority of ...

Anyone who hasn't went 2.5 yet, here is some encouraging info. This ispretty long because it also includes a summary from somebody else, butit is worth the read. If your manager is holding out on 2.5 because he/she is hesitant for whatever reason, show them this. I've included all ...

>Hello,> I just upgraded to Solaris 2.5 and CDE 1.0, and now I get hundreds of these>messages in my daemon syslog file:>>> Mar 29 16:06:34 charon last message repeated 51 times> Mar 29 16:06:34 charon inetd[148]: /usr/dt/bin/rpc.ttdbserverd: Child Status Changed>> ...

I found it out myself, it was pretty simple, somehow I overlooked thatissue. The shell for all the users that I was testing as, was not defined inthe /etc/shells file. Once set, ftp is working just fine.THanx anyways to all those who'll reply.-Raj> -----Original Message-----> ...

Hi AllIn short, the solution (i hope) is applying patch 105572-02.Many thanks to all who responded. Responses are listed below.Original question:==================On 20 March 1998 13:54 +0300, Serguei I. Revtov wrote: > Hi All! > > I have continuous troubles with mirrored internal ...

    -----Original Message-----    From: Eddy Hodgson <ehodgson@batelnet.bs>    To: SUN Managers <sun-managers@codeprof.ececs.uc.edu>    Date: 07 April 1999 13:32    Subject: Puzzling ...

Hello,I had several replies to my message on maintaining users is NIS compatibilitymode, all of which had something useful to say.Recommende were writing my own scripts to add users, as well as adding the+username style entry to the /etc/passwd file and then running pwconv to producethe ...

I got "Harvey M Wamboldt E-Mail: harvey@iotek.ns.ca"'s reply shortlyafter posting my request.     And he gives me the right answer:     "I think the convert(1) utility from the ...

Hi.Here's my original message:We have an Ultra 450, 2 GB RAM and 2 CPUs. Attached to it we have an EMCstorage array along with an ADIC tape library. We want to backup user datafiles to the E450. We have an HSM solution from UniTree that we're tryingto put together. Using samba, we've ...

Hello.26 answers !! That's definitely a *VERY GOOD* mailing list !Thanks to all who have replied :charest@chou.CANR.Hydro.Qc.Ca (Claude Charest)Stephen Harris <sweh@mpn.com>Mike Frisch <mfrisch@saturn.tlug.org>"Amaresh R. Joshi" <joshia@com.msu.edu>Jaspreet Singh ...

A few days ago I asked if console messages were logged to a file. The originalquestion is at the end of this mail.The basic answer is that most console messages can be logged to a file byupdating /etc/syslog.conf and restarting the syslogd daemon. Lines in syslog.conf that have /dev/console can ...

Thanks to everyone who responded. The problem was that my /kernel/drv/sd.conf only contained entries for LUN 0 for each device. Adding LUNs 1-6 for the CD Tower target and doing a 'boot -r' added all the devices correctly!I appreciate the quick replies I got from:"Kenn Owen" ...

Hi,I got these answers for my question:You can find a freeware SNMP Agent at         ftp.ece.ucdavis.edu in /pub/snmpAlso you can apparently get one at        www.sun.com/solstice/products/ent.agentsMy original ...

Question:> Does anyone know of a terminal server that allows> Solaris to open a socket to a particular one of its> ports?>Answer:Practically all terminal servers support this capability. It underlies"reverse telnet".Some terminal server vendors supply an actual ...

I am still trying to resolve this problem, but I would like to thank thefollowing persons for taking time from their busy schedules to answer thisquestion. My original question is at the bottom of this posting.As I am new to Unix and Solaris, part of my problem is that I am sometimesnot sure of ...

At a glance, it appears that detailed file activity isn't readily available.Ref original question at the bottom of this mail.A couple of helpful people suggested to look at http://www.sun.com/960301/columns/adrian/se2.5.html http://www.sun.com/951001/columns/adrian/column2.htmlAlthough I have ...

HI again ,First at all I want to thanks all the sun guys who responded to myquestion , some mentions is necessary before I post my summary :-documentation for configuring Solstice BACKUP is very poor (Chapter:Configuring SB to use 2 network interface contains just 50 words )- after you try ...

Hi all,                thanks to all those who responded        Imre Kolos Imre.Kolos@eth.ericsson.se        EG ...

Thanks to all who replied to this.<p>The following steps did the trick:<p>1. Change IP address and hostname in /etc/hosts<p>2. Change hostname entry in /etc/hostname.le0<p>3. Reboot system.<p>Cheers all round.<p>Eddy.<p>

My original post:>My fairly primitive mail filtering would be much happier if this list>server were configured to put something like [SMgrs] or [SunAdm] in the>subject line - most of the other lists I'm on do this. I'm fairly new on>the list, so I don't really have any right to ...

Thanks to :-Matthew.Stier@tddny.fujitsu.comRonald Loftin <reloftin@mailbox.syr.eduAndy.Cranston@thomson-directories.co.ukSeems a few other people have seen a similar problem when using asecond fast ether and SWIS/DWIS scsi cards in an Ultra2 , with no realanswer as to why it works better ...

I sent a query on printing to a brother HL-660 printer via theinternal parallel port on SPARCstation 20s. I recieved a number ofreplies, most of which said that there is a known problem on manySPARCstation 20 system boards that cause the exact symptoms I amencountering. I have reported this ...

After I sent out my summary 1, I got a couple more replies. Thanks. I think Bruce Zimmer answered my question. I attached his reply below.------------------The first is creating the file system but not actually doing it because ofthe -o N option. It shows you what it would do if the file ...

Well I got one reply (guess it was a bit new for too many people to have tried)from Bill Hebert <bhebert@nuc.berkeley.edu> (Thanks Bill).Bill had some problems with untarring files and the logging daemon gettingbehind (which meant that the filesystems becomes corrupt).Nothing ventured, ...

 Hi all,Last week I posed the following question:>>Hi All,>>I have one machine with an 8 mm tape-drive>and another with a 4 mm tape drive.>>Now, I'd like to make a copy from a 44 mm>tape to an 8 mm tape.>>Can I do that without using disk as >intermedium ...

First thanks to all who responded:Gert Marais <maraisg@saps.org.za>Casper Dik <casper@holland.Sun.COM>David Thorburn-Gundlach <david@bae.uga.edu>Kelly Fergason <klfergason@amoco.com>The original post:>I'm having a problem using du with the -k option on a SS10 running ...

My original message:I have a Solaris 2.5 box running as my mail server. A different2.4 box is my NIS master. We're not running NIS+.The NIS master has a mail alias map which my mail server "sees".How do I create the /etc/mail/aliases file on my mail server so thatit references this ...

My original question > I have a vendor package without an interactive request script. I would like> to run the installation of this package hands-off. Can I create an> interactive request script for the package so that I can use pkgask to create> a response file? Will I need to ...

> We are looking to set up PPP on Solaris? Know where I can find an > FAQ on the subject? What are the major pitfalls and what am I going > to nee to know, fix?I would Like to thank the many people who quickly responded to my request. I am amazed at the number of Sun Managers who ...

Hi Managers,Thanks to all who gave suggestion but it seems like it was a small problem. Infact the Networker/Solstice backup uses a non rewinding tape device and puts a mark on the tape after ending each backup set. Just chnging the device name. has helped me out.Thanks All.Ajay SharmaICC India ...

Thanks to all those that replied.The general concensus is that Arkeia is great with *nix and just o.k. withWindows. I have been the demo verion for about 2 weeks and it works great sofar. We are going to go with it at about half the cost of Legato and/orVeritas.JohnnyOriginal Post:>Does ...

Thanks to Casper Dik & Bismark Espinoza to answer my question (if I miss someone,Please accept my apology). Here is the original answer:>I have a Solaris 2.6 system used as printer server and used the Jetadmin>(installed in the printer server) to do the configuration for HP printers. ...

Hi,It was very Fast.Thanks to Casper Dik.We Require SunPC patch: 102924-06 for thisHas any body tried running Win 95 on SunPC. It loads win95 but inrebooting it could not recognize himem.sys properly.and fails.But Windows 3.11 works fineAlso thanks to following for their replies.Richard ...

I got many 'out-of-office' replies and some me-toos butfinally, I got the answer from the Sun support :EOL = End of LifeEOSL = End of service lifeEOSL dates are 5 years from EOL date...H/W EOL Date  SPARCstation-10 30 December ...

Hi,  I received a varied set of responses to this one:     We have upgraded our JumpStart server with Solaris 2.5.1 HW11/97   because we have a Sun Ultra 5 in the building which required this   release. Now it seems our ...

Most embarrassingly, it turned out that the cable was not connectedproperly!My original query was:> I have a Solaris 2.4 machine with a postscript printer on the parallel> port (/dev/bpp0). This has worked fine for several weeks but now its> stopped working. When a job is sent to the ...

Here's a summary to my question :> We are looking to connect a flatbed scanner (preferably colour, A3, 600dpi; > even more preferably something like a HP ScanJet 4c..) to Solaris 2.4.> The idea is to use it with PhotoShop 3.0.> Thanks for all the responses: ...

hithanks to all who replied to my question.The summary goes like this :There is no potential problem in backing up a file system from multi-userstate and while it is mounted. But care is to be taken that the system isnot heavily active while you are taking the backup and also if any ...

Hi,Thank you to all who responded. The response was amazing!There were way to many to thank indevidually.The request was:=> Does anyone know what I could use as a password changer for our users that=> do not have login shells, i.e. they just have unix accounts to access a pop=> ...

Thanks Tom Jones who send me the answer..<p><em>> How we find the hard drive rpm in Solaris environment any command.....<br></em><p><em>> <br></em><p> Ans is :--> iostat -En<p>[Qureshi, Malahat] <p>