The key to my problem was the first line below. For Solaris 7 you mustuse Disksuite 4.2. For future reference, Solaris 8 requires Disksuite 4.2.1.Sunservice was very good about squeezing me in just before the cutoffto get my answer today.Lusty> Solaris 2.7, Disksuite 4.1> > I ...

Thanks to the following people who took there busy time out in replying tomy query :-- Jay Seo - David Perel - Bob Shaw         Special Thanks to ASIM ZUBERI, who communicated several timebefore finally answering the question: ...

Thanks for your responses .Here is the summary.---->From ratinox@unilab.dfci.harvard.edu Thu Apr 11 19:03 CST 1996Received: from unilab.dfci.harvard.edu by inti.inf.utfsm.cl with SMTP id AA23266 (5.67b8/IDA-1.5 for <spy@inf.utfsm.cl>); Thu, 11 Apr 1996 19:02:58 -0400Received: (from ...

Dear All,Thanks to everyone for the answers to my SunOS memory and swap questions. I think I now know what I need to know to monitor myfirewall.My questions were:1. How to find out the amount of physical memory in the computer.   Many people told me either to use dmesg or to look ...

Thanks to the following for rapid replies - Rick Reineman <reineman1@raiders.llnl.gov>klfergason@amoco.com (Kelly Fergason)MARC.NEWMAN@chase.comMatthew Stier <Matthew.Stier@tddny.fujitsu.com>Anthony.Worrall@reading.ac.ukrobin.landis@exim.govIt seems that including the boot disk in a ...

Thanks to all the great responses! I am now ready tomake my recommendation to my supervisors.It seems people successfully use both 95 and NT, and each hadhis/her preference. Also recommended were software to mountSun filesystems on PCs with either free Samba or costly PC-NFS,among others. ...

Sun Managers,        First, I received many responses to my question regarding SolsticeFireWall-1, 33 to be exact. Thank you to all who took the time to tell mewhat I should have already known. Solstice FireWall-1 is simply Checkpointre-packaged by ...

Original problem:CDE refuses to start on a dataless client (2.5) mounting /usr, /opt etc. froma server, also running 2.5 . No error messages whatsoever, no logging.CDE was installed on the client using '/usr/dt/bin/dtconfig -inetd' and enabledwith '/usr/dt/bin/dtconfig ...

Hi ..I got the answer very fast..Zooom! even before i got my own question.I got 2 replys as of now.Thanks a lot to Gert Marais <maraisg@saps.org.za>David Beard <beard@abel.maths.adelaide.edu.au>and to all those from whom i will be receiving replies.Well i should use the n option in ...

My Original Problem was ufsdump reported bad sectors but when "fsck"ing thedisk it found no problems.I got some responses but none were to helpfull.I changed the disk to a new one copied using dd and still had same problems.finnaly i used a script that followed the directory tree of ...

Hi,Thanks for your answer:Brad Young <bbyoung@amoco.com> Norbert Poellmann <np@bsn.com>Christopher L. Barnard <cbarnard@cs.uchicago.edu>Dave Haut <dhaut@level1.com> bigeasy <vdil@sound.net>Ric Anderson <ric@rtd.com>Phyllis Smith ...

ANSWER:thanks to many people who helped me and in particular Casper Dik andKristopher T. Briscoe found out what the real problem was.The user nobody had not permission to read in the directory from which IWas installing the pacth files. Solaris use a user nobody to process patchinstallation if ...

Well I believe I have figured this out. The person who wrote the scripthere used /usr/ucb/ps which doesn't appear to be 64-bit capable. Thesolution is, of course, use /usr/bin/ps and whack the person who wrote thescript on the head. :)TaborOn Mon, Apr 19, 1999 at 11:16:00AM -0400,Tabor J. ...

Hey Managers:Bad news regarding WebNFS... It doesn't seem to be at all closeto being ready for prime time. Here's what I learned about WebNFS.WebNFS is built into the NFS Server services of Solaris 2.6. Allthat's required to serve a WebNFS file system is a line in the/etc/dfs/dfstab file, ...

Forwarded message:> > The difference detween fsck block device (/dev/dsk/..) and raw device> (/dev/rdsk/..) is that fsck doesn't support file systems larger> than 2GB. So when I fsck the block device of a file system > 2GB,> it cannot find the last superblock backup at the ...

Hi all,  As an update to my sommary that I posted several days ago aboutvsar leif@netscape.com points out that the documentation that I (he)provided was for the version of vsar that is distributed by SMCC.He reports that vsar-4.5 which is what he is using is an "exceptional ...

----------From: Sherman, MarkSent: Friday, March 28, 1997 3:41 PMTo: 'sun-managers@ra.mcs.anl.gov'Subject: SUMMARY IPX MEMORYSummarry addednum:        I did not include the original question with my first summary, I have been corrected, and here you ...

Sun managers,Received a few helpful replies, but none that really addressed why a systemwithout SCSI is receiving this message. The "set esp" fix in /etc/system is notrecognized on systems without a SCSI adapter.Opened a low priority service order with Sun, and they responded the next ...

Thanks for all who respond, which most of them said 1)The disk partition table is not likely to be changed by "boot net-s" but due to human errors ( wrong tar command ).2)Tar cannot backup filesystem, ufsdump/dump should be used.thanks to,Mike Salehi, Janet Hoo,Ronald Loftin,Brion ...

Thanks to several people: Kristopher T. Briscoe, Mike Mehran Salehi, Adam Levin,Kevin Korb,Michael AllmenMartin Oksnevad, Al HopperMost of the answers said that "SCSI is SCSI" and the hard drive should work but with performance issues.Two other people composed a longer answer with ...

Question:> Dear Sun experts:> > The following messages that I copied from my screen> (share:ying:/home/admin/ying> is the prompt)> I used traceroute command to trace a couple of hosts, then I got following results which > I am not sure why, the one thing is quite clearly ...

Hello Gurus!        Thanks to following who responded. The solution is from the man pages for ftpd.Itseems to work fine right now.Amjad Zamil < amjadz@sts.com.jo > Stefan Voss <s.voss@terradata.de> boenning ...

Hello managers,i've asked:>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 characters (let's say within vi)>without the SUN or DEC-compose key?>On my Linux-box this works with the ...

I cannot express my appreciation enough for the help I get from thisgroup, especially to the following Sun managers, who came to myrescue:- Casper Dik- Robert Fulwiler- Vasu VuppalaOriginal question:=================I have a line in my csh wrapper to start my program:  exec ...

Original Question: > while fiddling with the sendmail setups, I noticed some odd behaviour > with getpeername(0, ...) both on SunOS and Solaris. sendmail's idea > of how this should turn out is a return value of -1 and an errno of > ENOTSOCK, which is caught (in sendmail's ...

Hi,My problem was that the inetd kept dying for no reason on our SS20 with256Mb ram running solaris 2.5.1.The problem hasn't been totally resolved but I was given a temporary fixto allow telnet users to log in after the inetd stops accepting telnetconnections and this was to use ifconfig to ...

Well - it basically comes down to this - UFS is linear, so any search ona large directory is bad. The real solution is to use a true database. If you're like us and can't do that for the moment, use a low files perdirectory ratio.Thanks to: Stephen Harris and Rodney WinesChad-- Chad ...

Please!! No more emails!!I've received a ton of information. If anyone is interested inthe information, please email me privately.Thanks,Mark----- Begin Included Message ----->From sun-managers-relay@codeprof.ececs.uc.edu Tue Apr 18 09:04:06 2000Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 06:46:56 -0500 ...

OK. Obliterate that last request. Martin (martin@it.hsr.mednuc) very kindlypointed out that this (or something near enough) had been summarized recently.I enclose the summaries he found below. If anything else new comes out of this- I'll re-summarize. Thanks ...

My original question was:> Does anyone know there are Win95 simulation software (free or comercial)> available? >The answers are:Marc S. Gibian <gibian@stars1.hanscom.af.mil> wrote:SoftWindows by Insignia, a recently announced release, though we are running theprior release and ...

My posted question was:> One of my users could not use elm to view his email. When he typed> elm, the error message:> Reading in /var/mail/michaelb, message: 30> newmbox - length of mbox. != spool mailbox length!!>> Write to temp file failed, exiting leaving mailbox ...

Yeahh, thanks to all answer my question but special thanksto Chriss Phillips. Here go your response.>From chris@otter.cs.yorku.ca Fri Apr 12 12:56 CST 1996The following is a shar file for the docviewer mods to allowreading Answer Book on non-DPS capable systems using ghostview:#!/bin/sh# ...

I'd like to start by thanking:                Peter Laws                Petri Kallberg ...

Ok. Here it is. Sorry if I missed something.DigiDyne - www.digidyne.com James River Technical, Mike Baker, 804-935-0150, www.jrti.comMarathon and Rave.virtual technology at 248 524 0958. ask for mike hockneyCorporate Technologies, Inc, Tel: 781-273-4100World Wide Technology ...

ORIGINAL POST:> HI All,>> Does anybody know how to find OS installation language?> The command "locale" Returns LANG value as null.>> Is there any file which will contain the LANG value apart from> /etc/default/init.>> Wil appritiate your ...

My original question was:Hi Gurus,I'm using ufsdump command to backup my file system to a 5gb 8mm tapedrive. My system is running Solaris7. My file system is 4gb but somehow I can't do a complete backup in my 5gb tapedrive. After completing 85% it reaches the end of the tape. So I'm forced ...

Thanks for the great tips!My Solution was to get patchdiag http://sunsolve.sun.com/diag/patchdiag/patchdiag_1.0.2.tar.Zand go through and install all necessary patches. I had checkedall routing setups and couldn't come up with anything else.Fortunately.. this approach did work, and the system ...

Wow!Over 90% of the answers were correct! And there were plenty ofresponses.Question: How do I connect a cdrom to a sparc-classic when no device driver exists and a boot up does not help?Answer: "boot -r" at the ok prompt when the sparc-classic is shutdownto reconfigure the ...

My original question was:> Does anyone know there are Win95 simulation software (free or comercial)> available?>The answers are:Marc S. Gibian <gibian@stars1.hanscom.af.mil> wrote:SoftWindows by Insignia, a recently announced release, though we are running theprior release and it ...

Thanks to the following persons for responsidng to this question:Celeste StokelyV.Q.HoangKevin SheehanCeleste Stokely supplied a URL: http://www.sun.com/spares/pricebook/Options.doc14.html#1707864She was also very kind in supplying me with answers to a lengthy post Iemailed to her.Kevin Sheehan ...

In summary- Guess where I will never go for internet access!!John- help us- stop the flood!!-craig----- Begin Included Message ----->From sun-managers-relay@ra.mcs.anl.gov Tue Mar 31 09:56:05 1998To: sun-managers@eecs.nwu.eduFrom: info@inexchange.net (Information Desk)Subject: Advertisement: ...

Thanks to all who have responded. My original post:> Has anyone gotten wu-ftpd to work under 2.5? I had it working under> 2.4 until I added guest groups, then real users quit working. Under 2.5> nothing works if I use the ftpaccess file, which is the same one that> worked for anon ...

I received a few recommendations, which evolved aroundip_enable_group_ifsparameter of /dev/ip module.I did some research myself in the meantime to find that:If set to 1, and if you have multiple physical interfaces with different MACaddresses on a single subnet, each connection will remember ...

Thanks to Thor Newman, Ronald Loftin and Raviprasad.I will Try the "shuffle" program.Thanks againAdriano LacerdaXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXI don't know about that exact model, but Amanda is a freewarebackup/jukebox controller that might be ...

   Hi managers,   There was only one response (thanks to David Poore) and it's includedbelow together with the original question.   Sincerely,   Tuna Tugcu> > I have installed wabi on an Ultra 140 running Solaris 2.5 (with ...

Thanks a lot for all your informative answers. My originalquestion will be at the bottom of these email..The general consensus is.. there are no hard values... Thereare a couple of books out there one should get to study theproblem more precisely."Configuration and Capacity Planning for ...

Dear Sun Managers,I ended up "hanging up" these processes:# kill -HUP `ps -e | grep dtscreen | awk '{print $1}'`and sending a SIGKILL to these processes,as they would not respond to the hang-up:# kill -9 `ps -e | grep dtexec | awk '{print $1}'`I am still not sure why all of these ...

Apparently, this is a very common, possibly universal, problem.In general, the responses were to either use the older installation by booting the Solaris software disk 1, or to install netless and configure the network manually afterwards.Thanks to:Andrew SitDoug OttoDaniel LorenziniChris ...

Hello Everyone,I want to report great success from help that I receivedfrom this group. My original post asked how to get mysystem out of Read-Only boot-up into Read/Write mode. Thecause of my problem was doing the following command whilethe system worked properly: $ mount > fstab ...

Original Posting:================================Ok.. Here is the situationSolaris 2.5.1Stock sendmail Sendmail SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4No NIS. everything is done via our ISP's DNSI have a machine that is going to be the only UNIX box in the domain.Call it unix.domain.comAll I want is to have this ...