Thanks for all the replies!Basically, the boot time ranges from 10 minutes to 40 minutes depends on thediag level. Well, my 4500 took 4 hours to boot and the diag level was set tomin. The system just sat there for about half an hour after probing eachsbus and the system has eight. It turned out ...

Well, I figured it out on my own (it's amazing what a good night's sleep cando for the brain). I was a bit surprised I didn't get a single responsefrom this list or SSA-Managers, am I the only person that is attempting this?My problem was that when installing Solaris onto LUN 0 of the ...

Original posting:>>Both nfs client and server are running Solaris 2.4 and thus nfs version 2.>>I think I found the answer though, but did not get a chance to test.>>If the nfs client's clock is even a minute behind the servers clock, the client>will think the file was ...

Original Inquiry:>when I came in this morning I found that no mail had been delivered since >about six last night. A quick look at /var/spool/mqueue showed that all mail>was undelivered and still pending. A look in /var/adm/messages showed the>following:>>Apr 2 08:55:53 ...

I hope this "off topic" can be helpful when you manager asks you touse a PC to manage your company's unix network. PRELUDE:A: Hello, help desk, how can I connect to company's network with    my unix machine?B: What? unicks? How do you spell it?A: That is, u-n-i-x.B: ...

Thanks to the many, many who replied so promptly :The answer that most people suggested was: rdistI had been using rdist before but never realised how flexible it could be.I neglectedto mention that I wanted to copy to a remote directory of a different nameAND wanted toexclude certain ...

Hi ALl;Thanks to everyone for who answered. The consensus was a Serial Driver bug wasbeing triggered. Seems the real solution will be an OS upgrade and PPP upgrade.I applied the patch 100513-04 (I wasn't able to find one other that seemedlike it might be useful). This actually made the problem ...

Original question:> Our network environment consists PCs running NT 4.0 and> Suns running Solaris 2.5. The PC users mount Sun partitions> to store common Windows documents. When virus programs> such as McAfee or Norton Antivirus run against these> NFS mounted files, the program ...

First of all Thanks for replying 1- LINDSETH CHRISTOPHER2- Vince Merrell 3- Mike DeMarco4- Allan West5- Al Hopperbut the orignal solution is came up from Sun Solution Center if We have toupgrade the OS from 2.5.1 to 2.6 or 2.7 because there is a problem in xntppackage on 2.5.1 which , I ...

I've solved the problem by following suggestions from Peter M Allan andJochen Bern. Their replies are attached. Thanks for the following ppl who replied.From: Alex Soares <alex@nc-rj.rnp.br>From: meng sher <mcao@freenet.com>From: Chris Marble <cmarble@orion.ac.hmc.edu>From: ...

Thanks to all who responded. I am not sure which fix worked but hereare the two I tried.>From - Tom EriksonAdded -rw to the end of each line in my auto_master i.e./tilde auto_tilde -rwand >From - Fischer JensTurn off execute permissions on all automount files.Also, thanks to Mark Almeida ...

Hello admins...This is funny...as soon as I got home I figured the answer by myself.. :)The question was..Why do I have to re-specify a user's group (vice-versa) in /etc/group? It's already specified in /etc/passwd..Thanks to the MANY MANY people who replied..The answer is simple...YOU DON'T ...

Hi,My original question:> I am using CDE v1.2 under Solaris 2.6 (w/ Sun Sparc 5), and when I use> netscape (v4.5) to go to the WEB, for instance, www.yahoo.com, I got the> display but many wording of lines become line (ie. _________). I havealready> made sure I don't activate any ...

Sorry, I keep making errors when trying to send this mail.I hope this time I got it right.Original question:> I really really hope this is not a RTFM, but I've read the entire> Solstice Site/SunNet/Domain manager Admin Guide, browsed the entire> internet, "grepped" throug 3 ...

Hi,Thanks to many people suggesting solutions.My original question:>Hi,>>Would anybody have idea of how to set the timezone on a SunOS4.1 andSolaris2.4 >machine?>>ThanksThe solutions that I took:On SunOS4.1:        zic -l ...

Hi, I got a lot of response, they are very good, I am attaching allresponses as your reference( more is coming). Thanks for all of you.The summary is, bind 8 have a lot of new features.Thanks a gain.--------------------------------------------------------------------I'd say whoever told you ...

Sun Manager,This is original post:> After I changed the root password on the root master, I emailed out this as a> reminder to another sysadmin. She tells me that she just used 'passwd' to> change the root passwd the previous time, but did not do the next two steps.> > The FAQ ...

Thanks much for the opinions, experiences and scripts from:Mark Uris Craig Ruff Ed Arnold David Evans Brooke KingJim Freeman David Babcock Mark Almeida Robert Rose Paul TeasdelSam Vilain Nate Itkin Philip Plane Matthew Stier Richard SmithKuldip Ottal Ray Delaney Ray Trzaska Richard GoerwitzA ...

Kent Perrier wrote:> > I am having an issue with Solaris 8 and ufsdump. As many people have pointed out to me, you cannot verify a mountedfilesystem. If the filesystem is unmounted (or, at least, you KNOWthat nothing is changing on it if it is mounted) then you canverify it.As many of ...

Thanx toJeff Zabek [jeff@webex.com]Sean Harding [sharding@dogcow.org]Ray Brownrigg [Ray.Brownrigg@MCS.VUW.AC.NZ]Matthew Stier [Matthew.Stier@tddny.fujitsu.com]They pointed out that I was missing a leading "(" before the serail number.My bad..!!!. Thanx for pointing it out. Also I ...

Original question:?Friends,?All ksh logins to my Solaris 2.5.1 box are coming up with # as the prompt.牋env shows PS1=#牋牋牋 This is a new occurrence and I don't know why it'shappening.??It concerns me obviously since they appear to be root logins, though theycannot view the /etc/shadow file so ...

>My questions are as follows:> 1. Since I have the hardware and an OS on it, do I have a valid> license?> 2. If so, is it legal to copy someone else's 4.1.1 tapes (or use > them to re-install the OS on my machine)?Thanks to the following people that replied (there was someone ...

Well, it turned out to be an RTFM question....My original question:>I'm building wuftpd on a Solaris 2.5 system, and I'm trying to set up>/dev/zero and /dev/tcp in the chroot'd anonymous ftp directory tree so>that ls will work. This is probably a novice question, but ...

Unfortunely, I did not receive any answer that can help me fix this problem. I call SUN technical support engineer, they can not figure out either.The SUN support engineer told me the only reason he can guess is networkproblem (NFS) cause "openwin" hang. He suggest me installed ...

Hello,I have to say this group is great. I got the right answer less than 2 hrs. It'sfaster than some experiences I had with Sun Services.Original Question: One of the users in the group tried to use ftp, and got> > john@gazelle 21- ftp gazelle> Connected to gazelle.> 220 ...

Thanks to all those who replied to my message:        Ruth Miller <rmiller@syl.nj.nec.com>        Art Freeman <Art.Freeman@ing-barings.com>        Christopher L. ...

While replies are still pouring in let me summarize, as all are in agreement that it is not possible to do this in Sparc although intel (x86) allows upto 16 slices. Under sparc the Veritas Volume manager allows one to create more than 7slices although it does not use the actual slices to do ...

One of my engineers needs to reconfigure the unix kernal.His workstation is currently at 4.1.4 Are there any tools, freeware, or specific documentationor all of the above that I could get for him.Thanks for your help.--+ ------------------------------------------------- ++ +++ N E C +++ ...

Thanks to Rocky Sanghvi for his response.... a great help...<p>He suggested I visit this url: www.sapfans.com<p>Thanks again Rocky<p>And thanks to the Sun Manager Mailing List... It's come through for me once again.<p>Bill Armand<p>Consultant<p>

Thanks for all the replies!The problem was I had wrong permission setting (700) with one of theupstream directories. I knew that installpatch ran a nobody since thesystem didn't have an "install" user and I didn't trace the permissionsall the way upstream. I wasn't thinking ...

Scott Allendorf hit it: Original question after .sig.---------- Forwarded message ----------I bet that the license manager was started with the CD-ROM as thecurrent directory. Try killing/restarting lmgrd.Good Luck,ScottWorked like a charm, Scott. Thanks to all. Charlie Mengler also came up ...

Hi Sun Managers,Here's my long over due summary. The following responses confirmed that forUnix there is no software (as yet). The way to go is better equipment andmore exercises.Original post and responses follow.My thanks to all respondents!Rasana> With the onset of tendinitis (pain in ...

Hi,Thanx to all who respond within few mins.The solution to this problem is after Solaris OS 2.6 installation installpatch ID 105181-10 which will solve the problems.Haresh G. Chandnani http://haresh.chandnani.tripod.com/index.htmlQuality Solutions That Delight Our Customers,Delivered On Time, ...

Hello:  Thanks to: sweh@mpn.com (Stephen Harris)peter.allan@aeat.co.uk (Peter Allan)Susan Feng <sfeng@CAST.Stanford.EDU>Anderson McCammont <and@morgan.com>shawnb@pobox.commy original question was:> > Hello:> > Does anyboy know how end a connection ...

Hello,Thank you to Imre for the solution. The problem was cause by missing memory module in the first memory slot. I have 96 mb memory that install in the second slot, and system did not care if first slot is empty. It is still recognize 96MB. My original question:I try to jumpstart ...

Original Question:E450/E4500 (4x 400Mhz CPU/4GB) on average performs a compilation in halfthe time of a E6500 (10x 336Mhz(6offline)/10Gb). Veritas VolMgr and VxFsin use on both systems, disks were RAID 0+1, and swap was 2Gb on eachsystem. Solaris Resource Manager was used to control CPUs and ...

** Reply to note from Phillips Nguyen <nguyep@buzzeo.com> Fri, 03 Apr 1998 11:42:57 -0700 Folks, Here is the original message: We just received a new ultra5. I downloaded the latest recommended patches for 2.5.1. When I try to install the patches using the install_cluster in the ...

Thanks to:Kevin.Davidson@edinburgh.ac.uk rickv@mwh.comOriginal Question:>We have a Sun/PC network environment. The PCs run Hummingbird's>Exceed X-emulation software. We're very happy with the exceed except>not being able to change the font size in the CDE terminal ...

My question was:> > Would someone please provide some guidance or pointers to documentation> which can help me decipher messages relating to a spontaneous reboot?> > panic reboot messages deleted for the sake of brevity>What I did:Updated all recommended patches and I plan on ...

ORIGINAL POSTCan anybody tell me if using dd is OK to use to backup a disk? Here's mysituation. I have a sparc20 running Solaris 7 with all patches and 256 megof ram. I have two 2 gig drives. My requirement is to back up the first diskocassionally to another harddrive and be able to boot from ...

Hi sun-managers,Original Post (last week) :---------------------------------Platform : SPARCserver 1000, Solaris 2.5, NIS+I have a problem with mountd deamon and/or NFS... After severaldays since a reboot (maybe 1 month), I have this message in /var/adm/messagefile :mountd[350]: do_accept : ...

Thanks to the following people who replied and I apologize if I missed anyone:Benjamin Cline <benji@hnt.com>Joel Lee <jlee@thomas.com>Eugene Kramer <eugene@uniteq.com>Art Freeman <Art.Freeman@ing-barings.com>Dan Simoes <dans@ans.net>Vikas Arora ...

Thanks to the following ppl who replied.From: Tim Carlson <tim@santafe.edu>From: Martin Oksnevad <martin@stavanger.geoquest.slb.com>From: "Cheng, Bruce" <Bruce.Cheng@Aspect.com>From: "W. Frank Lowe" <flowe@darwin.sfbr.org>--- Original Question and ...

My original question was:Hi, Friends:Does anybody know whether there is any bookthat is exclusively addresses the issue ofmail system (for example, how to setup mail server,how to configure relay host, host to configure/etc/mail/sendmail.cf...) for Solaris 2.4 or 2.5other than the Solaris ...

Hi,Thanks to the following, who responded to my question: kdoss@cvimail.CV.COM(Kennedy Doss) sweh@mpn.com(Stephen Harris) staggsd@SEOUL-FKJ3.KOREA.ARMY.MIL(David Staggs) bbyoung@amoco.com(Brad Young) kwthomas@wizard.nssl.uoknor.edu(Kevin W. Thomas) Most of them ...

     Thanks to all who responded, your help is GREATLY appreciated.          Original Question:          Does anyone know if the SPARC C Compiler 4.0 supports embedded ...

My original questionAre the newer tape drives such as the DDS3 tape drives able to read DDS2and DDS1 tapes? similarly are DDS2 drives able to read DDS1?I understand that this is supposed to be the case. Though when I triedthis it did not work.Thanks to Dave Evans and Auteria Wally Winzer, ...

Hi all,first of all thanks for faster reply at this e-mail:I wrote:Hi guru,here is my problem:I have to send an e-mail with an attachment with the command mail inautomatic modeI've look at the mail flags already ...but no one of them can help me.....Does anyone know how I can do that ?Please ...

My original question was:Hi Gurus,Somehow the print services in my Solaris2.5 system stopped. Normally it restarts when we use lpsched. But in this case it just wont start. I tried lpshut and then lpsched.When I do lpshced I get the message Print services started but when I use ps -ef | grep lp ...

My original question:> Hello!>> We have solaris 2.6 in a ultra 10 and 10 sunrey apliances , all was> ok even 2 weeks ago when we have found the next error in the Xerros:>> - error (pid 450): Server unexpectedly died> - error (pid 450): Server for display :12 can't be ...