Zillion thanks for all who replied!Problem:         Folks, > I have 2 gig IBM drive from SUN for Ultra I140. > I want to put this drive into a Netra I20. > Problem: > The mounting brackets do not match. > Sun will not exchange the ...

Greetings, all.Original question:> I have a number of Sun tape drives, and all seem to work fine > with cleaning tapes...> with the exception of one "DX" 8mm drive. mt stat identifies it as an> exabyte, but I have had this one open for service, and it is not > ...

Thanks to all who took the time to answer my question regarding .nfsNN files. Thanks to...Mark S. Anderson, James M Mosley, Fedor Gnuchev, Dotty Pon, Cheryl L.Southard, Anthony Clarke, Jens Fischer and Alan HillAnd the winners are! ---Have you noticed this entry in root's crontab (on the ...

Thank you to all who responded to my question:My oriiginal question:I have an sparc10 with 2 cpu's and running solaris 2.3, NIS+ server, PrintServer and DNS server. Several times in a month the workstation reboots and Isee at /var/adm/messages the following errorDec 10 19:45:00 sparc10-2 ...

     The response is fast .     Thanks to Casper Dik .      Below is Casper's reply .=====================================================  ---Casper Dik <casper@holland.Sun.COM> wrote:> > > ...

Greetings,Sorry this is so overdue.Many thanks to the following:    Don Barile <don@svweb.com>    Navi Sirsena <navis@exchange.ml.com>    P Wallis ...

Hi SUN Gurus,my original posting was:----- Begin Included Message -----I have a question regarding to the internaldisks of an IPC. We swapped the 207-MB disk by a Maxtor-540S disk (which in fact was used by an AIX workstation) and installed Solaris 2.5 on that new disk.This works fine.But there ...

Sun Managers,This is my original post.> A "finger" to "xyz", who I know has not logged on for months shows that his> mail was read on Feb. 6 at 1:15. This seems to be the case for all mail in> /var/mail. It seems like a cron job updates the file's read/open time ...

Hi,   The original post is shown below. Several people asked if I had   rebooted the machine after applying the kernel patch - the answer   is yes. In fact, I did a reconfiguration reboot, just in case ...

Thank you to all who responded to my question:My oriiginal question:I have an sparc10 with 2 cpu's and running solaris 2.3, NIS+ server, PrintServer and DNS server. Several times in a month the workstation reboots and Isee at /var/adm/messages the following errorDec 10 19:45:00 sparc10-2 ...

--- Forwarded mail from sun-managers-relay@ra.mcs.anl.govFrom: heo@cslsun10.sogang.ac.kr (Heo Sung Gwan)Reply-To: heo@cslsun10.sogang.ac.kr (Heo Sung Gwan)Subject: SUMMARY: diskhangup - fsck errors and sense key errorTo: sun-managers@ra.mcs.anl.govDate: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 14:52:16 +0900 ...

SUMMARY:In response to unrelated circumstances, I had to cold-install 2.7 on thesystem that had the problem (under 2.6). I have included all the responsesso that they may be useful for those having the same problems like I had. Idid not do any tests on 2.7 ...

Sorry to take so long to send this additional listing of Thank yous ...but here's the summary...Thanks everyone!Ju-Lien Limjlim@oxhp.com>---------->From: Andrew Moffat[SMTP:amof@SubaruSparcDev.subaru1.com]>Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 1997 3:39 PM>To: jlim@oxhp.com>Subject: Re: ...

hi allthanks to all who responded so far!the problem is still unresolved though..... i'll provide you a quicklist on what has been done and has not helped:DMetoy.com (is set)Djwww.etoy.com (is set)/etc/hosts and /etc/hostname.le0 have both FQDN set./etc/resolv.com has domain set.i have also ...

Not really a summary, rather a workaround:Below is my original post. I got responses from: scott r kulp <srk@aloft.micro.lucent.com>"Peter L. Wargo" <plw@ncgr.org>Scott suggested reseating the CPUs. Pete vaguely remembered something froman FE handbook. I was going to ...

>What has changed between Sunlink X.25 v8.0.2 and v9.0?Quik Sum:Some tools are better, Kernel parameters areQuik Sum: handled auto-majically, but 7.0 was best.Thanks to:D.G.Poulet@durham.ac.uk <the only answer that I could use>ed@magma.com <sells an 'HSI killer' 4port for ...

I was never particularly happy describing this as a "leak", since the memory gets freed up again. Turnsout that I would have been right not to, since this has never been a leak.Thanks to John Leadeham, Pete Durst, Robert Alexander,Buddy Lumpkin, David Spence and Dennis Martens for ...

The stupid question was:       every time i boot up my ultra 2 i get the same message about runningfsck manually (DKIOINFO: No ioctl for device /dev/md/dsk/d0: Cannot seek BLK49807392 unexpected inconsistancy) How can I get rid of it?The answer was Change the ...

Summarised from all the answer I received,for backup: Ideal case,- bring down to single user mode, backup / via ufsdump to tape.It is ok to, ( from respond, most people do )- backup / during night time when there is not much users accessing tothe server, just make sure they are not running ...

In the solaris books I have I could not find such a summary for the commandtool, shell and xterm windows. I mean quick capture and repeat of commands, generating and saving a file from selected commands on the screen or in the history, etc. I really dont have the time to experiment with this, I ...

and the winner is..... Kevin Colagio:[quote]In the /etc/nsswitch.conf file, make the hosts line like this:hosts: dns nis filesAll should be well then. Sendmail is NIS intelligent (not really, butit thinks so) but when it uses NIS, it screws up the name (mailhost.domain.company.comhas the mail ...

Original message:>Hi,> i have a sun 3/60 without disk. i'm trying to make it boot over>net. i'm using bnc conector and i can see rarp requests and i can see>also>my server answer for this request but sun doesn't recognize it. there>aren't another traffic in the middle ...

As usual SunManagers gave the correct answer in less than the time it takesto dial the Sun Helpdesk ..The problem:Solaris 2.4 machine does not recognise my CDROmThe cause:Sun can only read from (by default) drives that are configured for 512bytes/block.The solution (for Solaris 2.4)Compile the ...

My original question asked about SE3.0 and queried what virtual_adrianmeant when it said...Adrian detected TCP/IP problem (amber): Thu Apr 2 15:31:02 1998Moderate retransmissions    tcpIn tcpOut InConn/s OutConn/s %Retran ListenDrop/s Reset/s ...

Big thanks to Ian TCollins <itc1@scigen.co.uk> - The only answer I'vegot.Original Question:I have downloaded SunLink SNA manual from docs.sun.com/ab2 as apostscript file, then used lp to print it. The printing was terminatedat the beginning of the second chapter. Similar things happened ...

There have been 11 answers so far. Many have focused on the issue ofNFS sharing the cdrom, which turns out to be the key. I didn'texplicitly mention it in my original message, but add_install_clientproduces this entry in dfstab:share -F nfs -o ro,anon=0 /cdrom/sol_7_sparcAfter running ...

Thanks for all your tips:Guy Cole <guycole@netcom.com>Petros Michalis <ramsay.sbi.com!petros@dpg.rnb.com><Glenn.Satchell@uniq.com.au>Andrew Foote <acf@nabaus.com.au><stern@sunrise.East.Sun.COM>Jens Fischer <jefi@kat.ina.de>Trupti Mander ...

Sun managers,  Thanks to all who replied.Original problem:astro# mt -f /dev/rst8 rewind/dev/rst8: Device busy1) I've been using this drive in its current configuration   for a couple years.2) There are no processes using /dev/rst8 that I can see.3) Power cycling the ...

First off, many thanks to:Stephen Harris, Jon Wright, Unixboy,Oliver Hemming, Scott D. MacKay, Bruce Rossiter,Bismark Espinoza, and Chris Marble.Most all of whom redirected my attention from the filesystem ordisksuite, simply to swap and the way it is used. The culprit was*not* disksuite or ...

Overwhelmingly, responses were to use unix2dos and dos2unix. Thanks.Ok, it was a faq. I had twenty or so responses within two hours.Thanks to the following list and others whose mail I have not received yet.Matthew StierKarl VogelMahaloRodney Odell EdwardsAlberto Ferrarimike@trdlnk.comLouis ...

Thanks for the replies on this, I've now got it working.The solution was to comment out the following lines for BIND 8.1.1:      - in src/port/solaris/include/sys/bitypes.h          comment out the typedefs for ...

Now, this is one of the fastest problem-solutions cycles I've yet seen!Boy, I love this list!the solution (I'm hoping .. it seems to work!) turns out to be somethingsimple (thanks, Joe Garbarino!!!!!!!):} } We had problems here sending from V2.5 systems to our QuickMail} server, we made the ...

Original Question:________________________________ ___________________________________________Hi There,I do have a Ultra 2 running Solaris 2.6 that i will be connecting theserialport to aPortmaster Terminal ServerI would like to verify how to configure the system so that it does notlookfor A ...

Thanks to all that responded:CIsenburg@ixl.comNeill, MarkMarc P. RinfretJonathan BurelbachDon KrauseScott HowardAlan OrndorffAdrian BlountCraig AndersonRodney WinesSandy GordonI asked: js> I discovered today that Netscape/iPlanet appear to be droping their js> Proxy server ...

Thank you for so many people give me the answer. Most of the answer are stillfocus on "share memory", 'semaphore". I have no comment for all the answer.I list most of the answers people provide to me and let you decide which oneis most accuracy answer. Thank you again.My ...

Greetings -Thanks for the 20,000 responses to this! Good to see that everyone ismuch more awake than myself. 8-)Origional Question:If I have an i-node number, what is the simplest way of determining whatfile/directory it belongs to?'ls -liR|grep i-nodenum' works, but I think there must be a ...

Thanks for all the quick responses:I added more swap space and the system was fine.One of the many quick responses:Hello,>We have a SUN Sparc Clasic running Solaris 2.5.1.>On the execution of the http startup script, I received the following error:>ld.so.1: ./ns-httpd: fatal: ...

 Solution: Use the su command at the beginning of the script e.g.        su - username -c 'command args'        su - sybase -c startserver        su - the_user -c ...

It appears that I needed to RTFM. I discovered this by going toGLOBEtrotter's site. Specifically: http://www.globetrotter.com/chap6.htmThis contains documentation on parameters (INCLUDE, GROUP, etc.) that canbe used to control access to certain features.My original query:> I'd like to ...

SUCCESS!Here's what worked: At the suggestions of several people, I simply told the installer that I was not using DNS (I selected "none" -- i.e., no name service at all), and the installation proceeded without a hitch.I had also [previously] tried a suggestion of using a DNS IP ...

My original question:Unfortunatelly, I and my fellow administrators are forced to address - once again - why root's shell is /sbin/sh, and the ramifications of changing it. I've read the Sun-Manager's and comp.unix.solaris FAQs and have tried to reason with our users to no avail. I ...

 Dear Sun Managers,Thank to all who responed to my question which was :>I'm going to run ORACLE V7.2 with masive database,>i have to choose between two options :>>1. SUN with 4x125Mhz Hyper Sparc CPU 9539 Specrate INT 92>>2. SUN with 2x150Mhz Hyper Sparc CPU 8758 ...

Ok. Below is my original question and original Summary.        After I thought I solved the problem I did discover something didn'twork right. And fixed it. My initial tests were faulty. I wasn't testing fully.There did seem to be a problem with the 2.6 ...

Hi,thanks to everyone who replied. I now have a healthy list of Sunresellers recommended by you people. If there's an interest ( i.e., atleast 1 reply to this summary ), i'll re-summarize it with the completelist that I've put together. I was also refered to a sitewww.4buysoftware.com. I ...

Original question:>I am using pkgtrans to transfer a couple of packages from disk to DAT tape>on a Sun Ultra >with Solaris 2.5.>Total package size is about 32 Mb.>However, pkgtrans cannot put the packages in a single 4GB cartridge, and>asks for a second one.>Using 2 ...

It appears that mrouted functionality is broken for x86. Since I onlyreceived one response (and 9 Out of Office AutoReplies), I've included itin its entirety.Thanks to Peter Durst from Learnix for taking the time to respond:> I have been going through an ongoing battle with Sun over the ...

My Original Question:Hello Sun Gurus,[1]We have SUN-Ultra-AXi box (333MHZ.) and external SCSI box contaning 6SCSI disks.(CI design) My problem is if sudden power failure occur thenon next reboot I cannot see these disks. Unless I again switch offeverything and start again.[2]I tried reboot ...

I asked if it was still necessary to use the NISKIT to have a Solarisbox be a NIS server as I thought it was included in 2.5. Well, it is stillnecessary but it is included i.e. the Solaris 2.5 server pack includes a CDcalled Server Supplement 1.0 which includes Naming Services Transition Kit ...

Many thanks to:Chris_Marble@hmc.eduvogelke@c17mis.region2.wpafb.af.milRob_Montjoy@ececs.uc.EDUSubject: SUMMARY: Sendmail 8.8.8 binaries wanted:Original question:I am looking for a binary of sendmail 8.8.8 for my sparc:sparc10, NIS+ server, DNS server, Mail server,I forgot so say that I was ...

Hi folks,    I received many responses to my question concerning the .tgz extensionon a file name. The 'official' answer is that the file is indeed a tarredfile which has been gzipped.    The reason for this was explained as ...