webmail on solaris

1691 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 9:55:00
Thanks to all who responded.The Question:> I looking for a good and "efficient" webmail tool (freeware or not) to>install in an E450 with more than 25,000 accounts. Any suggestions? We use>sendmail and qpopper.The Answer:I have receive many good suggestions of webmail tools. ...

problem with the calendar manager

468 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 9:55:00
hi there,        thank you all who replied to my question. here is what you need to do.1) copy the calendar file to the new machine2) if the machine name is different, manually edit the file (use vi) and substitute the old machine name with new. (in vi do ...

openwindow problem.

3800 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 9:55:00
dear managers,i have been able to fix my openwindows problem. i edited /etc/logindevperm file to include the following statement:/dev/console 0600 /dev/fb # frame buffers( the /tmp/.X11-unix, .X11-pipe permissions are still screwed up, but are not the culprits, apparently, but that's ...

(LONG) Autorestart of web server (/etc/rc.local?)

26417 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 9:55:00
Recently, I posted the following question to the list:Once again, I come to the oracle for answers :)I am a Novell person who is very new to Unix. Okay, stop laughing and put down those stones! I've recently setup a SUN SPARC20 running Solaris 2.4 and have an Ultra 170 on order. I've ...

sharing disks and DNS forwarding (Solaris)

4519 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 9:55:00
I asked about simplification of maintenance of disk shares. I wanted tomantain host names only in the DNS and no longer in /etc/hosts.> ...and then Lucio Chiappetti said...> % > % - Thomas Anders, Joel Lee, David Thorburn-Gundlach and> % Gustavo Chaves all indicate that ...

iPlanet Messenger 4.15

1972 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 9:55:00
Kent Perrier wrote:> > All,> > I am attempting to run iPlanet (Netscape) Messenger on Solaris 8.> iPlanet> tells me that it is not supported under Solaris 8. They want me to> back rev my machines to 2.6 Does anyone out there have this working> under Solaris 8?While I ...

Question re 64bit processors, 8G process

17380 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 9:55:00
Dear Sun Manager,On Fri Apr 12 10:16:49 1996, I submitted the following question;> From barnett@zycad.com Fri Apr 12 10:16:49 1996> To: sun-managers@ra.mcs.anl.gov> Subject: Question re 64bit processors, 8G process> Cc: barnett> Status: RO> > Dear Sun Managers,> > ...

pre-compiled binaries for ghostscript

2180 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 9:55:00
hi there,        here is the summary to my question. thank you all very much for the help. first is the original question and following it are the replies I got.Rakesh-------------------------------------------------------------------------->Can anyone ...

Password expiration and RADIUS

3500 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 9:55:00
Sorry for the late summary but i was sick in bed, i posted originally:----------------------------------------------------------------------I was wondering if shadowed password expiration was taken into account byradius for authentication, much in the same way telnetd abides by it.Of course i ...

NIS+ support for SunOS

1687 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 9:55:00
Thanks to:Tom Erickson <Thomas.M.Erickson.1@gsfc.nasa.gov>David Thorburn-Gundlach <david@bae.uga.edu>John Bradley <john.bradley@sr5.chinalake.navy.mil>Heidi Burgiel <burgiel@math.uic.edu>There are two options:Run one of the NIS+ servers in YP compat mode, thenrun ypbind ...

creating a bootable floppy/tape

3398 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 9:55:00
First, my thanks to:        Glenn Satchell <Glenn.Satchell@Uniq.com.au>In short, there's no convenient way to do it other than copying bootblocks etc. manually.Oh well.LT ,-----------------------------------------------------. | Yale ...

time routine

13516 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 9:55:00
On Mon, Mar 30, 1998 at 06:55:50PM -0800, Vince Hickey wrote:> Anyone have a sh or csh routine that gives the time since "day 1". ie> 00:00:00 UTC, January 1, 1970.Thanks to everyone who sent me an answer! I got a lot of insight to thetime issue... For me the simpliest ...

Slow NFS performance between subnets

4535 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 9:55:00
The problem turned out to be a network switch that needed to bereset. Thanks to Vincent Campbell <campbell@tell.ascom.ch>who provided the information below that helped alleviate some of thesymptoms until our Network Group was able to diagnose the rootcause of the problem. Thanks also to ...

terminal server for consoles.

9983 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 9:55:00
My original posting:> > Hi,> > I am interested in a terminal server for my sun environment. (serial!)> I have around 5 suns and 3 motorola unix boxes that I would like to > connect to a terminal server so I can access the console via telnet.> > At the very least, I would ...

OT: Root Access

1801 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 9:55:00
Thanks everyone for the overwhelming response, there were too many to list here.The consensus (about 99% of the responses) said don't do it, and mentioned sudo.The problem was our DBAs wanted abilities beyond sudo could provide (as Iunderstand it). They wanted the sweeping ability to install ...

Processes not dying after logout

3619 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 9:55:00
Hi all. I'm afraid this is a summary in name only as I have not been able to solve the problem. My original question is at the end.Unfortunately, I only got three replies: one suggestion which didn't apply to my environment, and a pair of "me toos", so I'm still at loss. I did ...

Formatting and Unsupported Drives

2026 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 9:55:00
ORIGINAL POSTING:Platform - Ultra 5Problem: I removed the factory IDE hard drive and installed an IBM 16.8Gbmodel DTTA-351680 hard drive. I boot single-user off the Solaris 2.6 CDROMand run the format utility to try to configure the drive. Only 7.8Gb arebeing recognized. If I try to run ...

Pb with boot

7552 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 9:55:00
Dear Friends:I asked you about the following problem> Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 11:40:31 -0300> From: Alberto Ferrari <ferraria@mz.astra.com.ar>> To: sun-managers@ra.mcs.anl.gov> Subject: Pb with boot> > Dear friends:> > I' m having problem with one (remote) SUN ...

SolarNet LAN Client and BAD TRAP

2292 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 9:55:00
Managers,         I had a number of responses, the response from Casper Dik pointing me toa "just released" patch which solves the problem.        The patch is (SPARC and X86 respectively)103348-01: ...

A 64bit Solaris 7 cdrom.....?

1793 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 9:55:00
Thanks to all of those who replied:Dik Casper Craig RaskinUnixboy@aol.comJohn MalickOriginal question: I just need to clarify my thoughts on something which I think I saw here on> this Sun Manager list.> > If I'm not mistaken I believe I read and e-mail stating that: If you ...

NFS clients can't automount new disk without reboot

3815 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 9:55:00
I had trouble with a new disk not appearing to the NFS clients. Theoriginal question is at the bottom.Bruce Rossiter and Russ Poffenberger both came up with the comprehensiveanswer.Here is Bruce's reply:> /net is evil. If you can avoid using it, you'll be the big winner in > the long ...

2:Wrapper in Different Shells

1359 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 9:55:00
Since I posted my summary yesterday, Vasu Vuppala sent me moreuseful information on writing wrapper scripts in the ksh thatI would like to pass on. Here is another summary with the added info:Original question:=================I have a line in my csh wrapper to start my ...

rlogin problem

289 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 9:55:00
The problem was not being able to rlogin or telnet into a Sparc2<p>running solaris 2.4.<p>error message: "Not on system console"<p>You need to edit the file /etc/default/login. In that file, comment<p>out the line <p>CONSOLE=/dev/console<p>Thanks this worked fine...<p>Andrew<p>

Trying to script Solstice Backup 4.2.6a on Solaris 2.6

2383 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 9:55:00
So far I've recveived no real solution other than the following fromRich Kulawiec:>I'd recommend switching to Amanda. Solstice Backup is based on LegatoNetworker, one of the most nightmarish and unreliable pieces of softwarethat it has been my displeasure to deal with during my two ...

DiskSuite Questions?

2429 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 9:55:00
Hell Everyone,Here is my original post.------------------------------cut here---------------------------------------Hi Everyone,I am running DiskSuite 4.0 on a Sparc 1000E Server Solaris 2.4.Let say I have a raid 5 configuration with 10 4GB disks.And lets say that one of them fails. Would it ...

ANNOUNCE: free NIS+ tool

1757 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 9:55:00
Dear sun managers,I have finished my NIS+ tool version 0.1alpha. It is not a replacementfor adminsuite. It is thougth to be a help in setting up and maintaininga NIS+ domain.These are the features:        -Create a root domain (mind the bug) and ...

Where is DiskSuite 4.2.1 in Solaris 8?

1471 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 9:55:00
Well,I wouldn't expect that I could make a summary this fast!It's pleasant to know that a vendor's Technical Support can beat theresponse and helpfulness of Sun Manager mailing list!Sun Technical Support got back to me after I sent a similar question to it around the same time I made a post ...

Solaris to Irix NFS

2919 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 9:55:00
ORIGINAL QUESTION:Is there an issue with using NFS version 3 from Sun Solaris workstations to IRIXsystems?I have an application (Pro/ENGINEER) that is retrieving files from our SGIOrigin server via NFSv3.Sometimes, when I am browsing files and directories within the application,certain ...

DLT-tape unit TZ88 on SunOS 4.1.3

136 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 9:56:00
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SunOS 4.1.3_U1 & NIS & DNS/resolv.conf

2061 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 9:56:00
Hi,Sorry for the delay ( +/- one month ) but I had lots do do in the meantime...Original problem: sometimes, our hosts were able to resolve host names which were not inour LAN, sometimes i got the message 'unknown host' ( after a ping or such... ).Resolution:1. I was told to reboot the NIS ...

annoyed by ad

1167 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 9:56:00
Original question:        Are you getting it too?        What can we do about it?Results:        Well you know the answer to the first. As for the second,it's running about ...

SunPC 4.1 with Solaris 2.5

3772 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 9:56:00
Hello,the solution is provided by patch 102924-04, which was mentioned once againfastest by Casper. I have found the release 3 of this patch on the marchsunsolve and it works also fine. Thanx to fastest sunnersCasper Dik <casper@holland.Sun.COM>"T.S.Ho" ...

Need help to gunzip the gcc file

1412 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 9:56:00
This list is awesome.Upon receiving response, I checked the download file with file command andit tells me it is text file. I looked at it and it is already in pkgaddformat. Apparently, netscape already uncompressed it during the download.I renamed the file back to gcc-2_8_1-sol26-sparc-local ...

Internet Security

942 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 9:56:00
Hi All,Thanks for the responses. I know it's a very big/vital issue. I found very good tips at www.securityfocus.com.Thanks once again.Ajay>>>Hi Admins,>>I wish to have a few tips on system security measures one should take while>configuring a web / ftp server. What files one ...

MAC addressing in SUN - RFC compliance

7663 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 9:56:00
this forum has been very helpful and responsive as ever.Original question:>i wonder if anyone could help me out with the following:>it's been official policy of Sun to assign identical ethernet >address burnt in NVRAM for *all* network interfaces.>Sun does not support two ...

How do I determine the memory configuration of a 4

3535 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 9:56:00
Question:    How do I determine the memory configuration of a 450?The answer is :/usr/platform/sun4u/sbin/prtdiag -v  or more generically/usr/platform/`uname -i`/sbin/prtdiag -vTom Schmidt also pointed me to his memconf perl script available fromhis website ...

NFS Security Issue

3621 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 9:56:00
Problem:The network is made up of several Mac OS X and Sun machines. The suns areusing NIS, and the Mac OS X are using Netinfo (NeXT/Apple directoryservice.) The users have root on there local workstation. They NFS mountthere home directories. How do I stop a userA from su - then su - userB ...

Can't format SUN4.2G Quantum VK4550S on 2.5.1

814 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 9:56:00
Thanks to Michael Pins and Tim Carlson for prompt replies.Best bet is that the drive is no good. I called SunService on the warranty, and they volunteered that the disk shouldn't be behaving like that and are shipping a replacement.Original:>Solaris 2.5.1 HW 4/97, Ultra 170> >We ...

Patch 103244

3453 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 9:56:00
Question: Could someone send additional information regarding Solaris2.5 patch 103244. "FTP neutron Patch"Summary:        Apparently "neutron" was a SUN codename for one of the new        Ultra ...

Wu-FTP logging please...

4036 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 9:56:00
Hello everybody,First the original question:> Hello Sun Gurus,>> I am trying to install wu-ftp 2.4 on our server. Everything is fine but I am > not able to activate the logging facility.>> ckconfig gives me:>> " Checking _PATH_XFERLOG :: ...

Pageview problems

2120 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 9:56:00
Thanks to the following folks for their answers:Michael Hill <Michael_Hill@csgsystems.com>Sean Ward <sdward@uswest.com>Matthew Stier <Matthew.Stier@tddny.fujitsu.com>------------------------------------------------------------------------------My original question is as ...

Solaris 7 CDE wsmenu

5788 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 9:56:00
The initial winning answer (see below) is from J Michael Mosley <jmmosley@uncc.edu>:  We edited the file /usr/dt/config/sessionetc and commented out the "feature":  # This code initalises the workspace menu the first time the user  # logs in to a ...

Maple-V Release 4 on Sparc-5 with TCX Graphics

5577 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 9:56:00
  The original question:========================================================================  Sorry for the slightly off-topic question. I'm having troublesgetting Maple V Release 4 to display on my Sparc-5 with the S24 graphicscard. Maplesoft claims it's Sun's ...

solaris 2.4 accounting question

551 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 9:56:00
Solution: (duh) Use the last command. That prints out all the info Ineeded about when users logged in/out.Thanks to many who responded.b.Original:All I want to do is to track logins and logouts. I've been lookingat SUNWaccr and SUNWaccu accounting programs and am having a hard timemerging ...

NT and nfs

5643 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 9:56:00
Hi ! I`m sorry it took me so long to send thispost.thanks for all the responses:this is the original post and the responses I got,thanks againGabrielOn 25 Mar 1996 17:03:24 -0500gdcs@panix.com (Gabriel Duran) wrote:gdcs> I am not sure if anybody ask this before, but here it goesgdcs> we ...

FTP directory permissions

3409 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 9:56:00
Hi.I know this is late in coming, but I've been playing with different things.Suggestions included:You could try running in.ftpd in a chrooted setup. It is going to get a tadmessy if you want them to access their own home directories though. Whyisn't wu-ftpd an option? It is implemented just ...

dfstab - full hostname required

6830 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 9:56:00
          Thanks to those who replied. A list of respondents and the      original question follows. Most of you pointed me at the     /etc/nsswitch.conf file, and the /etc/hosts table. I ...

Exabyte EXB-10e tapedrive fried?

7229 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 9:56:00
Hi Managers,My original post and summary follow.My thanks to all who replied!Rasana>We have an EXB-10e 8500c, 8mm drive with 5G capacity, full high. The stacker>unit is a robotic tape changer that holds 10 tapes. We use this with Legato's>networker version 4.2.4. The server is Sol ...

borne shell script quesiton: loosing counter value after while loop

1084 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 9:56:00
Thanks to all whose replies are on their way, and to Claude Charest. IT WORKS !Summary:This is "supposed normal" because:----------- man sh -----------...cut here...     Because commands in pipelines are run as separate ...

Self Test Failed

3248 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 9:56:00
My sincere Thanks to  Igor Prokopinskiy <ipp@chrysler.com>Andy Cranston <Andy.Cranston@thomson-directories.co.uk>Question :Dear Sun Managers,Hardware : Sun Ultra Enterprise 3000I did a test-all at the ok promptThe following was displayedtesting /sbus@3,0/SUNW, fas@3,8800000CE ...