I would like to thank those that responded and gave a lead on how to solvemy problem.Matthew StierGeorge CoxRahul RoyThe Application was looking by default in /usr/lib/ . The LIB that isrequired by the App. was in /usr/openwin/lib.when I created a link to this LIB in /usr/lib every thing ...

Admins -        Thanks for all the reply.        Turned out that the Green & Blue Guns were broke.        Sun replaced the monitor, things are fine ...

Wow !What a responce. I have attached the best of the replies that I recieved. A number of the replies contained source code which I have also attached.Original Question:================================================> Could someone tell me how to generate the encrypted passwd suitable for ...

Shoot me in the foot now, please.Thanks to everyone who suggested booting into single-user mode (boot -s).This allowed me to look at file ownership. Seems like my neat littlescript copied files and changed ownership to the new user. The problemwas that the script changed ownership of / rather ...

Admins -        Thanks for all the reply. Unfortunately none of the         answers fixed the problem.        Looks like solaris does not digest HP's aging ...

[SUMMARY] Yes! We are running, and all problems solved!Okay, after a quick "boot -as /dev/null" and giving the prompt for a/etc/system file "/dev/null", doing a little of 'dat "ed" thing (no /var/ttyavailable for vi), I got my system back up.Then I got over to a ...

Dear All,Thanks very much for all the people who helped me. My original problemwas that when I ran shutdown, it was attempting to send messages to allusers on all machines which had ever mounted an NFS partition fromthe machine. A lot of these machines did not exist any more, and so shutdown ...

This solved the problem..Guess you have to install ALL the X stuff, then remove what you don't needvs only install what you think you need.> -----Original Message-----> From: Kyung Suk [SMTP:ksuk@osage.com]> Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2000 1:23 PM> To: Paquette, Trevor> ...

Original message:>> After a period of proper booting the clients now refuse to boot. The>> symptom is as follows: when "boot" is entered at the monotor prompt, the>> normal hex numbers appear on the screen. Instead of the usual hostname>> message we then ...

Dear colleagues,the first incoming responses clearly locate the core ofmy problem:It is the different block size as used by SUN and othermanufacturers (SUN: 512Bytes, others(e.g. PC world): 2K).Thanx to all who responded/will respond.MatthiasOriginal Posting:_________________>Dear ...

Thank you to all of you who responded. The winning answer came fromDavid Foster. I was missing the /etc/inetd.conf "printer" entry and Ineeded to reboot the server (i.e., system1). Note, a "kill -HUP" on inetdwas not good enough - I had to reboot. I would get the ...

Hi,The answer is to use netgroup if you use NIS/NIS+. If you do not useNIS/NIS+, you have to build your own authencation scheme, like MatthewStier suggested the logdaemon from TCP_WRAPPER packages.Thanks to the following people who took time repling my question:Casper Dik ...

Thanks to the following people:Rudy YuRasana AtreyaRafael Napoles RodriguezJohn Markunasrobin landisGonzo BushmanRoger SalisburyJay LessertKevin SheehanJason Keltz Robert ReitingerJens FischerOriginal Post:>Hello,>>I need to find the eeprom version on a SUN Sparc 1000E. >I tried ...

Here is my original posting:>we have a mammoth 8mm tape drive (20-40GB) connected to an Enterprise3000, running Solaris >2.6 and Oracle 8.0.3. At first, using /dev/rmt/0cn,we were able to backup up only 22GB of >data. Then we changed/kernel/drv/st.conf to be the ...

Good Morning All,Just wanted to thank everyone who responded to my email request for help.>From the responses I received, there appears to be a couple differentmethods to accomplish this task. I have since tried out and was successfulwith both solutions. I have summarized both solutions ...

Hello Everyone,Thanks to the following people for the quick and accurate response:Alan: aareichert@tasc.comJohn Clinton: jclinton@fridge.ccci.comRay Saddler: rsaddler@cccis.comTheir replies and the original question is posted below.What has worked, thanks to the suggestions, is to add the IP ...

Thanks to all of you who responded to my question for the correct argumentsfor the SunOS 4.1.4 "dump" command on a 4mm tape drive. The attachmentbasically describes the answer very ...

> On Solaris 2.5 is there a way of checking individual cpu utilization on > multiprocessor machines?mpstat is the standard Solaris distribution utility but proctool and top were also recommended. There was one reference to something called "se". mpstatwas what I was looking ...

Many thanks for the replies:Kandi Kirk (kk@ccrwest.org)Mattias Zhabinskiy (mattias@txc.com)Ing._Erick_Cede駉 (erickc@sonitel.com)Sanjay Srivastava (sanjays@rambus.com)Matthew Stier" (mstier@hotmail.com)"Andrew Moffat" (amof@SubaruSparcDev.subaru1.com)Roger Spaulding ...

In message <m10aJKK-0003E8C@ainur.ee.surrey.ac.uk> I wrote:>Quick question: we've got our first PCI-based Sun, a brand new Ultra 5, just>put Solaris 2.5.1 HW 11/97 and pretty recent recommended patches on it. A>couple of times during the installation, and lots of times once we ...

Thanks to the reply from Richard A. Frewin, which follows, along withthe original question. In discussion with SunSolve, I found they havesome outstanding "ease of use" issues, to incorporate a simple method toincrease pointer size under CDE and Openwindows (Bug ID 1115701). ...

Thanks to:Marc Santucci <marc@protocol.zycad.com>Thang Victor Dinh <tdinh@mail.irvine-sensors.com>"Christoph J. Mutter" <chris@aec.at>Robert Pasken <pasken@thunder.slu.edu>Xiaohong Liu <liu@vxr.niddk.nih.gov>Feng Qiu ...

  The consensus is yes you can upgrade from Solaris 2.3 to 2.5.1. Thanksfor the warnings about having enough space in your partitions,deinstalling disksuite, NIS+ of 2.3 incompatibility with NIS+ of 2.5.1,etc. Ofcourse a good backup before starting was recommended!!Many thanks to ...

I asked (see below) about compatibility of Solaris 2.6 5/98 with the E4500.Thanks to:Michael Arndt <M.Arndt@science-computing.de>Davin Milun <milun@staff.juno.com>Scott Clark - SSE <Scott.Clark@east.sun.com>Arthur Darren Dunham <add@netcom.com>Karen Barrett ...

Hi, Sun Managers,Many thanks to all who responded to me:Dave Staggs staggsd@liberator.korea.army.milFedor Gnuchev qwe@ht.eimb.rssi.ruJens Fischer fischjns@kat.ina.deCasper Dik casper@holland.Sun.COMDon williams ...

Original post:What is the best way for a program to determine what printersexist on a system. Under Solaris 2.4 we could look in /etc/lp/printers.On Solaris 2.6, this directory exists but is empty. Now it appears wehave to read the file /etc/printers.conf. Is there some other way todo this ...

        I solved the problem myself.        I changed the Makefile created by "perl Makefile.PL". Where there iscc, I put gcc and removed all references ...

Thanks to the following folks for sending replies:Scott TinsleyCaleb WarnerBenjamin ClineLouis HooPater MarelasGlenn SatchellJeff SandersMatthew StierErick CedeqoMy original Question:        Sun Managers,        We ...

heh, i apparently was looking at an ancient faq..the moderator supplied me with:You appear to have an ancient copy of the FAQ but anyway... 71) Where can I get the BSD print spooler for Solaris2.x?        You can try LPLITE from Sun it is ...

Thanks to all who responded. The 'itchy reply button' award goes to Matt Stierfor getting the first response back to me! 8-)Everyone who responded gave the correct answer in one way or another andeveryone also warned me to be aware of adding a scsi device to a 'live' chain.Believe me I ...

Whoa guys, loads and loads of answers already!I probably didn't explain myself very well because many of you misunderstood what I was asking - I didn't want to add more tar files to the tape I wanted to append to the tar archive already on the tape (this is the tar r option). The command ...

Hello, all,Thanks to :jmcphers@laurel.ocs.mq.edu.au (James C. McPherson)Olivier.GIRAUD@cedelgroup.comGreg Polanski <greg_polanski@adc.com>original question:> Hello, all,> I wonder if someone can tell me where to get OpenBoot PROM (lateast> version). Someone said it can be ...

Hi,Well, I haven't tried anything yet or made any decisions but I think Ihave the answer I need. SAMBA! (address below)My original Post:------------------------------------------------------------------------I have a network setup where there are several pc's running windows 3.1and some ...

Thanks to everyone who offered their assistance. It seems there was nothingon the tape to recover. The tape was dated 12/15/97, so it's very possiblethat it got demagnetized sometime. I've included all the replies I got. Webought the Unix Backup and Recovery book by O'Reilly - it looks ...

<Sorry for the delay - this message was bouncing around a while becauseof bad bulk address>Dear Friends:I asked you about the following problem> Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 11:40:31 -0300> I' m having problem with one (remote) SUN (SunOS 4.1.3) I support. The> local Sysad changed ...

Many-Many thanks to everybody for replying to my query. Indeed I tried doing "man libresolv" on my system and somehow the MANPATH was not there so I thoughtthat there is no man page for libresolv and in a hurry I sent out the mail to sun managers.Everybody pointed towards man page for ...

-----------------------Original question------------------------------== I have trayed to install ghostcript 262. I have used gcc=makefile and I have modified this items:==XINCLUDE=-I/usr/openwin/share/include=XLIBDIRS=-L/usr/openwin/lib==Compilation ends without errors. But, when I run ...

Well,Thanks to all those who responded. I kind of took the easy way out andkept trying different computers until one worked. I somehow got itworking on a sparc10 (althought still a bit querky).I do appologize for not including the OS version. For those of you whoplayed the game, SunOS4.1.3 ...

Thank's to:Todd Herr Wolf Schaefer Wimmer Jeffrey Michael Wang Special thank's to Todd Wilkinson who had the right answer for me:        Use the 'date' command as root original message:Me again, let me be more specific: My /etc/TIMEZONE ...

Original question:>Does anyone have experience with the StorageTek 9840's and/or Veritas'>Storage Area Network on Sun Solaris platforms? I'm interested in>finding out experiences pro and con with architectures/machine>configurations, fiber switches, observered throughput, ...

Hi, Here is my original question:> I am in the process of implementing a new web server on a Sun Netra J 170> running Solaris 2.5.1. My question is: Which web server do you recommend> me? > I do not care if it is a commercial or non-commercial one. My worry is> about > speed ...

My original message was:>I have a Solaris 2.3 box that loggs>all error messages to the system>console, as it should.>>The problem is, I administer the system>from my PC using an xterm (in another room>of course), and don't see the error>messages until I check out the ...

Many thanks to those that replied..Bill Hebert <bhebert@nuc.berkeley.edu>John Malick <john@starinc.com>Dave Haut <dhaut@level1.com>"Connolly, Michael" <MConnoll@ckcorp.com>dana@dtn.comArthur Darren Dunham <add@netcom.com>"Don Krause" ...

*** ORIGINAL QUESTION ***********************>> I lost my boot disk on a Solaris 2.5 system so I restored the filesystems> concerned onto a different disk c1t1d0 and did an installboot but now I don't> know how to tell it to boot from this disk instead.>> I know you're ...

Hi,My original post is at the bottom.I got my first 20 replies within 1/2 hour of the original post.Thanks for being so repsonsive.Of the total of 37 responses, there were about 30 different answers.That is good too especially when you consider that I could not get asingle response from the ...

> This problem is urgent! Any help would be greatly appreciated.> > System: SunOS <host> 5.7 Generic sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-60> > Optical Drive: Pinnacle Micro Apex 4.6GB> > > Problem:> > We cannot unmount an optical disk! > > # umount /mnt/pmo> ...

Thanks to all who responded (listed below). The answer is thatthis program is available to contract customers from http://sunsolve.sun.com/ . My problem was that I don't have acontract anymore and don't have the CD from when I did.The other response was that there is a Perl program which ...

Thanks to"Matthew Stier" <mstier@hotmail.com>"Rick von Richter" <rickv@mwh.com>Apparently Solaris is too brain dead to handle variable subnet routing, butit _should_ do so in Solaris 2.6 (currently in Beta).My alternatives are to replace the Solaris machine with ...

I failed to note in my original posting that I'm running Solairs2.I don't want to have to re-enter the domain, router timezone, netmask& other info, just change the name & IP. Change these files...and ...

I'm going to semi-summarise my own post here since we havecured the problem (he says, tempting fate) but not sure whyit should be the case. 2 days ago, a colleague added a second Netscape webserver instance AND a third IP alias to the network interface. I've just deleted the second webserver ...