SUN MANAGERSOriginal Question:Has anyone ordered an Ultra 3000-6000 I/O Board, 2611A (NEW) ? Thefiber channel ports on this board run at 100 MB/sec compared to theolder 2610A board running at 25 MB/sec. Will this new board with thenew 100 MB fiber channel work with the 112 or 114 SSAs ? BTW ...

Thanks for the replies. We have decided to use the "juke package"obtainable at ftp://ftp.fnal.gov/KITS/SunOS/juke.The ideal solution would have been the SCSI driveravailable from Anthill Incorporated. However, it isno longer available for free.Thanks ...

Hello all,    Thanks for the help with this! The 2.6 upgrades went very well. Thereplies suggested that once patched, all releases would be the same infunctionality, but that for the UE450, I should use a 3/98 release or later.So I used the 3/98 release and applied the ...

Original problem is incompatibility between Solaris 2.4 and Sunpc 4.01.(Original post is trailing).Solution : Acquire patch 101636-(latest_rev_number) if 4.01 is really what is dear to your heart. (That is not so and I failed to find that patch as well - it is not in a public set on ...

Admins,        and the responses are overwhelming. Thanx to Adam,Steve and Brook King I installed Star Office in minutes. Adam Zimmerman pointed me directly to the following patch ...

First of all, thanks to those who answered. I did not get a solution,but it did put me on the right track.The original questions was:I am setting up a custom Solaris 2.6 jumpstart server. I went out andgot a sunsoft book and followed the procedures to the letter. Theproblem that I am having is ...

Thanks to everyone who responded. The answer is:<p>#define ETIMEDOUT 145 /* Connection timed out */<p>(I was looking on the server which is running SunOS 4.1.3 -<p>/usr/include/sys/errno.h stops at errno 90 - the client running<p>Solaris 2.4 did include 145) -<p>Thanks again -<p>Anne<p>...

   I guess its occasionally good for someone to ask a question for whicheveryone on the list has an answer (except moi, of course - allresponses were genuinely appreciated) - thank you all for taking thetime to address my question.    Envelope Please! The ...

Hello managers,i got no response,but 8 automatic "vacation"-replies...my question was:>Hello managers,>>in the meantime i'm sitting behind/in front of a ncd-Xterminal>with a cherry-US-keyboard (G83?; 101 keys)>>My question: >How do i enter those composed ...

ORIGINAL MESSAGE>I've never before had a problem with giving a person rsh permissions, until now...>A user (ftfuser) on our DRS6000 needs to execute a rsh command to a Solaris 2.5 machine>/etc/hosts entry on the Sol ...

ldd /usr/local/bin/gs helped me out. It showed me what links I needed toput in place to get the libraries recognized...-Ed Ed Sanborn (978) 691-6496 Northchurch Communications Inc. 5 Corporate Drive Andover, MA. 01810 Fax (978) 691-6300 http://www.northc.com ...

Hello admins,        Special thanks to all for more detail follow-up:        Leif Hedstrom leif@netscape.com        Paul T. ...

Hi All,The consensus is that Ultra 60 needs a 11/97 or laterverson of solaris 2.5.1 CD that supports a PCI bus.Solaris 2.6 also works on Ultra 60 & 30. Someone suggested using an external CDROM but I have not tried that yet .There are numerous .Thanks for all the replies. This mailing is ...

Hello!I greatly appreciate the efforts of :Seth Rothenberg <SROTHENB@montefiore.org>Pierre Padovani <padovani@aaec.com>bismark@alta.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Bismark Espinoza)Carlos Sevillano <SEVILLCA@tokiom.com>Ramindur Singh <ramindur@zuno.com>artur ...

My original question was:>I have a Sun Ultra 1 running Solaris 2.6. I want to create an account>with these conditions:>> - You cannot telnet or ftp to the account.> - The only way to get in is to su to the account and type the password.> That way the user gets logged in ...

Hi:I never asked a question about this but saw some enquiries. It caused me pain and Sun SUpport didn't even know they sold it! so I thought I'dhopefully alliviate someone elses pain. To get the 2.5Gb you do need a high density tape supposedly and these settings:Solaris 2.5 has the entry for ...

My networking problem with Solaris 7 / Intel is FIXED. I canhonestly say that SUN Documentation did it to me. The 3C900B-COMBOnetwork card was originally set to Media Type COAX which waswhat I wanted ( 10Base2 ). I dutifully checked the Solaris 7 (Intel Platform Edition) Hardware Compatibility ...

I got one response and that was to look at the /var/adm/messages and the/var/log/syslog files. These files give some extra info. I'm not sureif it will help us yet though I haven't dug deep enough.Thanks toKarl Vogelvogelke@c17.wpafb.af.milfor the reply.Gary WhiteSenior Systems Engineer ...

Hi!My original post and the two responses follow.Thanks to:Kevin.Sheehan@uniq.com.au (Kevin Sheehan {Consulting Poster Child})Leonard Sitongia <sitongia@zia.hao.ucar.edu>I followed the following steps to "unconfuse" my jukebox, and it's fine now!nsrjb -H -Ensrjb -I If still ...

Hello Managers,We were able to solve the problem in booting the Solaris m/c into multi-user mode.I thank all who had given me suggestion in solving the problem.Summary:We changed the /etc/nsswitch.conf file as follows ( in the hosts field)hosts: files dns nis (instead of hosts: dns files nis ...

Hello managers,thank you all very much again for your help, hints and mails!Our problem here was that we saw duplicate MAC- and IP-addressesin the /var/adm/messages of several different machines - those machineseach "moaning" about some other machine using it's own addresses...At the ...

Original problem post:After recently upgrading a 486DX4 100 to a true Intel Pentium Motherboard, I've encountered some problems. To wit: Solaris 2.4 x86, Driver Update 10 installs fine on Tyan PCI motherboard with P133 and 64meg mem, can boot single user from cdrom, installs fine to a 2.5 ...

Dear all,Rather oddly, I've got a summary here without a question. However,this problem has caused me so much grief recently that I thoughtit would be worth sharing the answer with you all.We've recently had a serious problem with /usr/sbin/keyserv dyingfor no apparent reason, sometimes after ...

Thanks to all the people who send in their recommendations. Here in an update on the choices for RAM and PART providers:We know that the older SPARC systems are no longer been produced (Discontinued Dec 1998) by SUN. We have concluded the following places to buy RAM for older model SPARC ...

original post:whenever I try to print from a user other than root I get:lpr: cannot chown /usr/spool/lp/aleph/tfA021torchI checkued my permissions on /usr/spool/lp/aleph and theylook fine. any ideas of what is going on. I though I hadset this up just like every other printer, but I must ...

So as not to enrage those who would defile non-summarizers, here goes...Most of my original question was...>Howdy gurus with tans...>>I'm trying to add a yamaha CDR400t and gear 3.5 to a sparc5 running solaris>2.5.1.>>probe-scsi sees it as>>target 5> unit 0 ...

Original Question<p>At 09:12 AM 4/14/1999 -0400, you wrote:<p><em>>Does anyone know if the kernel is rebuilt during an upgrade from SUNOS<br></em><p>4.1.1<p><em>>to 4.1.4?<br></em><p><p>Answer:<p>Yes, It is a whole new kernal.<p>Thanks to all that replied.<p>

        Thanks to:Casper Dik <casper@holland.Sun.COM>Kevin.Sheehan@uniq.com.au (Kevin Sheehan)        Original problem:        I had a Quantum Fireball_TM (Fast SCSI) ...

Hi Thanx to e'one who replied, this list has been a great source ofinformation.John Malick [john@starinc.com]Todd M. Wilkinson [tmwilkin@mail.com]Salehi, Michael E [Mike.Salehi@usa.xerox.com]Pyne, Jeffrey [Jeffrey.Pyne@schwab.com]David Foster [foster@dim.ucsd.edu] (for the script that ...

Original post is below. Original problem was that suddenly we could notNFS mount directories from one of our servers, getting the dreaded"permission denied" error. Everyone pointed to this being a problemwith the server and not the client.Basically, the problem went away when I edited ...

Many thanks to those who responded:   Michael J. Shon <mshon@sunrock.East.Sun.COM>   Mike Salehi <mrs@cadem.mc.xerox.com>   Cheryl L. Southard <cld@astro.caltech.edu>   aub@ide.com   Alexander Finkel ...

There is no difference between the two, except the server version has someadditional software package and different licensing.Other than that, the OS is exactly the same.Thanks to all who replied, and also those who had the time to read myquestion.John T. Douglass Marco ...

Last week I put out this message:> We are running Novell GroupWise on a SS1000. Our users are>NFS mounting the GroupWise data to a variety of Suns and PC's. This>partition was on a normal narrow scsi bus but due to heavy loads on>this disk we have tried shifting this ...

Hi Folks,    My previous inquiry concerned sharing a tape drive between machines in aSunOS 4.X environment. The question was originally asked because I had beenlead to believe that the tape drive had been previously shared. This wasNOT the case. Backups were handled by ...

Hi Everyone,Many thanks to all those who responded with an answer. Here is the originalquestion.> ----------> Hi Everyone,> I am managing serveral SUN boxes running Solaris 2.5.1, and have just> noticed a file /etc/.name_service_door which we can't do anything with -> can't ...

There is 3 solutions to mount a Novell/Netware Partition on a SunSolaris 2.6 server2 solutions are on the Sun server:* Totalnet Advanced Server* FTP (which is native on Netware 4.11)and 1 solution on the Netware server: usinf a NFSnlm NetwareNFS.Thanks ...

Thanks to Ray -- rsaddler@cccis.comNicolas -- derico@drea.dnd.caMicheal -- mwang@tech.cicg.ml.comThe responses ranged from using netstat -a to identify the process andkilling it, to using Solaris' 4 minute timeout when an app crashes, tocommenting out the app in /etc/inetd.conf and kill ...

Well I had only 2 replies to this problem, but it was very specific I admit.The problem was also very intermittent and so I am still not convinced it'sbeen solved. However thanks go to:   Nickolai Zeldovich (nickolai@zepa.net)   Bismark Espinoza ...

After posting my summary, I received other reports (you can read thembelow) from:James M. Thompson <masato@access.digex.net>Brett Lymn <blymn@bunya3.awadi.com.au>Perry Hutchison <perryh@pluto.rain.com>Nicholas R. LeRoy <nleroy@norland.idcnet.com>Thanks ...

My original message:>> From: David Cain <cain@syrres.com>>> To: sun-managers@ra.mcs.anl.gov>> Subject: Adding new network interface>> Date: Wednesday, March 26, 1997 9:57 AM>> >> Sparc 20 Solaris 2.5.1. I've successfully configured>> and used a ...

   I received a couple of replies, solved my problem, but didn't reallyget an answer for my question. One reply suggested using fsck to reattachthe inode in lost+found; I'll try this in a test environment.   The other answer did the trick: on Solaris 2.6 and ...

ORIGINAL QUESTION:>I have Solaris 2.5.1 x86 installed on a SCSI disk on a Dell PowerEdge 2100.>All the recommended patches are installed and it runs great. However,>I need to have a dual boot capability and have installed a seconds SCSI>disk as target 0 and changed the original disk ...

ORIGINAL QUERY:Dear friends,>?I want to give selected customers ftp access our system using one of 5different >accounts. I don't want anonymous ftp. When they log in Idon'twant them to be able >to see anything above the home directory forthataccount, similar to the way web >pages ...

I asked:>>I am trying to set up a Sparc 1 will Solaris 2.5. I have run the install >program from CDROM, and got to the stage of having to reboot, when instead>of coming up the machine tells me 'The selected SCSI device is not responding'>then 'Can't open SCSI device'. The ...

Thanks to :Gerhard den Hollander <gdenhollander@jasongeo.com>I got my answer!Zion>>> To All helpers:>> I am in need to find a C source code to return day of the week.it's cheating butmain(){    system("date +%w");}does just that ;)otherwise, ...

Many thanks to the overwhelming responses, generally, one can set the output<p>device using "eeprom output-device=screen" command when the system is in<p>operation mode or using "setenv output-device screen" command in PROM mode.<p>Khanh Vo<p>

Thanks to all who responded. This is a good one to save.Original question:Does anyone know the find command to search the filesystem for hardlinked files. I have done it before but didn't write down the command. Grrrrr....==============================Most people suggested the correct way ...

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My original post is below:>We have an Ultra-2 box running Solaris 2.6.>>The following error is being logged repeatedly:>Apr 15 09:10:16 wagner unix: NOTICE: alloc: /: file system full>>A df however shows lots of room left on / and /tmp. >>wagner# df -k / ...

Another one of those 'just didn't dig deep enough into the docs' problems.Thanks to;Padraig HoulahanGabriel RosenkoetterJames FordFor BIND 4.9.x (which is Solaris 2.6 and less)use the xfrnets directive in the named.boot file. Example;        xfrnets ...