First, let me thank all of the people who emailed me suggestions, answers, andURLs. I followed every one of them and gained invaluable insight on exactlywhat I was looking for.Anyway, here goes:Big Brother--I received a large number of messages pertaining to the package "Big ...

My request for info on documentation for Sun 4/260's lead to answers in 3categories.Category 1: Checkout the Sun Hardware Reference at                ftp://ftp.picarefy.com/pub/Sun-Hardware-RefCategory 2: The Sun ...

I have got out of office auto replies more than replies I was looking for:).Caparrosso, Nelson seggusted this :Export messages on SUN Outlook Express as a pst or txt file, ftp the file toyour PC (Do not just import off a shared folder on your SUN, as PC and UNIXfile formats differ bec. of ...

ORIGINAL QUESTION:Friends,I have downloaded the binary and installed wu-ftpd-2_4 via the pkgaddcommand. Everything looks OK, I have set it up according to theinstructions and connect OK.But I'm getting an error. Here are session details:s@lag $ ftp rockConnected to rock.220 rock FTP server ...

Thank You all that sent suggestions.I'm afraid I didn't give you enough information up front. Even though, Ireceived some excellent suggestions. Most suggested I boot from the cdrom,mount the root and then modify the necessary files. Actually, I had alreadydone that and the customers ...

Managers, thank you all for your quick responses:Original Question:> Managers,> > I have checked all the documentation and netmanagers archives and cannot> find the answer. I am sure this is a simple problem, but hey, I guess I've got> a simple mind.> > Problem:> > I ...

Thanks to:Matthew Stier <mstier@hotmail.com>Tom Powers <tomp@cwix.net>Stefan Rauthenberg <rauthenberg@HHI.DE>Original post:I have just started using Solstice Backup Network Edition (4.2.2) for several clients (running Solaris 2.4/2.5). I would like to know how people recover ...

Thanks tosweh@mpn.comu2is9gef@gregsun.crrel.usace.army.mil (GREGOR E FELLERS )Tony Kay <Tony.Kay@dubai.Sun.COM>MY questions was :I have just installed one sparc5/85 with solaris 2.4.All the patches wereinstalled .Now the problemAfter completing the installation the machine was visible on ...

Thanks to the following for their inputs :Daniel.Blander@ACSacs.comjvillaci@sungye.comwarer2.com.ec (Julio Villacis - Ing. de Sistemas)ORIGINAL POST:I posted this question a few weeks ago and I didn't explain myself quite clearly. Let me start this time with a diagram of my network ...

The solution to this was pretty simple: I needed to ensure that the /etc/nsswitch.conf file had a hosts: line that looked like this:hosts: files dnsI made the change, and everything's singing right along.Thanks are due to Hicham, Casper, Edwin, Michael, and Dan. As others have pointed out, ...

My original post:>I am getting the following error when trying to launch an application.>>>>ld.so: warning: /usr/5lib/libc.so.2.8 has older revision than expected 9Summation:The short of it is that the warning can be ignored because application was complied on a system that has ...

Hi, upon many people's request, here's a compiled list of Sun resellers (some of them are more than just Sun resellers, of course ):www.4buysoftware.comwww.mce.com AndatacoArteconBay State Computer Group- 617-623-3100 Steve Hiltz Boston, MACIC Systems 781-255-3393 Kristine Lake Boston, ...

The emergency is over....I added some swap on the fly. The thing that confused me wasthat top reported that I still had about 60M of swap left. I added54M of swap... and now top is reporting that I have 193M free!This could be because the programmers were in a meetingmind you.Should I not be ...

Thanks to:Robert Keay, Mark Bialik, Ron Olphie, Matt Reynolds, Bruce Zimmer, Leonid Knyshov, Raj Jangalwa, Steve Hatle, Kevin Colagio, Joseph McCall, Matt Bolt, Ron Nelson, Seth Rosenberg, Francois Marcos, Raymond Wong, Dan LoweVote TallyApex 1Belkin 1Black Box 5Cybex 4Lightwave 1Raritan 1 ...

Many thanks to the following people for their assistance:       Eirh-Yu Hsie <hsie@al.noaa.gov>       plaws@enterprise.nssl.noaa.gov (Peter Laws):       Wolf Schaefer ...

Thanks to the following for their inputs :Daniel.Blander@ACSacs.comjvillaci@sungye.comwarer2.com.ec (Julio Villacis - Ing. de Sistemas)ORIGINAL POST:I posted this question a few weeks ago and I didn't explain myself quite clearly. Let me start this time with a diagram of my network ...

Sorry for late summary! I found a quite moment at work to reply! :-)In a nutshell, every one who replied said that DLT's are completely*brilliant*!Someone asked what DLT stands for and I answered "Digital Linear Tape"which I believe is correct! ;-)>John DiMarco ...

[Original Question]> I'm trying to write some code to read kernel structures but I've run> into one small problem... the _kvmd structure isn't contained in any> header file! A bug was logged on sunsolve (1011994) saying that the> file kvm_impl.h is where _kvmd is defined but is ...

The 2 reply's I received, both suggested DNS. Likely cause, but it turnsout it was a (CkeckPoint) Solstice Firewall-1 / Novell conflict. TheNovell clients are running on one of four subnets coming out of thefirewall. Although the domain has 16 bits of addressable space to use,the Novell ...

Sorry, but I forgot the include the URL from Joseph McCall.It categorizes all the KVM solutions on one web page. http://www.networkbuyersguide.com/search/105573.htm ...

Thanks for everybody who responded. There were many solutions:1) Run various scripts 2) sysinfo3) devinfo -pvMany people suggested "prsinfo" or "prtconf", however, the SS20 was running SunOS, not Solaris. Also, the scripts did not produce accurate value, so I ended up ...

This is summary on my question.Thanks to the             Harvey Wamboldt <harvey@iotek.ns.ca>       Bevan Broun ...

thanks to all who replied..original question:>please,let me know how to back up in compress mode into tape(4mm or 8mmDAT).>I know when data is backed up in compress, the tape's capacity is to be double.>does the compress mean to compress ...

Thanks to all who replied. I received the following responses:sparcv9 isn't supported, but I got 2.95.1 running and used it to get2.95.2 running. It makes things like drivers okay, but I am told thatfloatingpoint might be a problem...No. To do this you must install the ecgs compiler snapshot ...

Hi!I was trying to compile mh 6.8.3 on Solaris 2.5, but I got all kinds of errors.I was under the wrong impression that Solaris specific bug fixes have been released as 6.8.4. Solaris specific bug fixes _are_ available, but as diffs.Lots of people pointed me to a public domain utility called ...

The problem was:> Subject: Problem with ethernet port on a sparc 10> I have a Sparc 10 runing SunOS 4.1.3. The machine acts as our NIS server. In> the last couple of weeks the machine has started having problems with the> ethernet port built on the motherboard. Sometime during the ...

Thanks to Justin Stringfellow.I had patched the system when it wasn't properly in single user mode.I typed 'init s' while in run-level 3, but it seems that rebooting to single usermode is the only way to guarantee that you are really there.The recovery involved finding the affected file in ...

Thanks to Ian Parkin, who suggested tcopy. It was a good idea whichdidn't work directly, but led me to a solution.Also to:Art Freeman, James Brigman, Jim Roy and Karl Vogel.Still strange. tcopy reported that there were 3 x 80-byte records on thetape.I used: dd if=/dev/nrst1 of=file1 ...

Thanks to all that responded:Sam VilainDavid Evans Olivier Giraud>Original Question:>Is there a way to increase the /dev/pts for Solaris 2.6 without> rebooting. I know that the pt_cnt parameter can be changed to whatever> and rebooted and they will come up but I need to this online ...

Original question:>Scenario: > >Upgrading a SparcStation 10 box from Solaris 2.5 to 2.5.1 with Disksuite >4.0 (mirrored disks). I dont get the upgrade option when I boot from the >2.5.1 CD. What I have done so far: > >Checked if /var/sadm is a ...

Hello all!.Thanks to:Asim Zuberi <asim@psa.pencom.com>J. Patrick Narkinsky <patrick@cnu.edu>Mike D. Kail <mdkail@fv.com>Sydney S. Weinstein syd@myxa.comMy original question was : This message appear in consoleApr 22 13:51:58 trauco inetd[165]: fs/tcp: unknown serviceWhat ...

Question:What cable do i use to connect E250 to a PC/terminal (I don't have a graphics card on E250)?Answer:Null Modem Cable (wholw world gave the same answer).Result:It works.>From: "Michael DeSimone" <michael@desimone.net>>To: "Alla Reddy" ...

Apologies for the late summary, but I've been busy with other things.Thanks to those that replied, particularly Matthias Kurz who pointed meto the following site.         http://www.mars.org/home/rob/proj/hfs/> HFS is the ``Hierarchical File ...

     Thanks to all the QUICK responses:     Original Question:          } Hello sun-managers!     }      } I have a number of ...

In my original query I was wondering if anyone else was getting theerror message "named-xfer exited with signal 1" in regard to DNSservices. Results were somewhat inconclusive, however, I appearsto me that it's simply an innocuous bug with Sun's DNS code.I received only 4 replies. ...

Thanks to all that replied!The Solution I used was from the HP-UX/Sun Interoperability Cookbook " http://iworks.ecn.uiowa.edu/Tech/sun_hpux_interop/chap13_log.html"3.4.4 Setting the Correct Terminal Type Setting the correct terminal type involves two main issues: terminalemulation and ...

        Got a few quick replies on this one.They were correct also,The answer was to use the "Operating Environment Installation CD September 1999"CD that came with my 2.7 distribution.Could not find it with my 2.6 dist. but that does not seem ...

I would like to thanks everyone for responding me promptly.My problem found its solution by changing adresses in the local files of augusta-ci.It was a conflict between two addresses for the same machine and the machine was reaching only the wrong adress, even with the good address in the NIS ...

        Hello good people!        Here's my posting:> > Ok gang, here's the situation.> > We have a small network of 12 SPARCs, SS1+ through SS20s.> Our mail server also handles ...

        Got a few quick replies on this one.They were correct also,The answer was to use the "Operating Environment Installation CD September 1999"CD that came with my 2.7 distribution.Could not find it with my 2.6 dist. but that does not seem ...

[I asked what to do, if, after a nighly backup, a rmt process persistson the backup server. This process is not killable, even with kill -9,so the backup server must be rebooted to release the tape again.System environment is: SPARCserver 20, Solaris 2.4, HP SureStore12000e DAT autoloader.]I ...

Folks:        1st the thanx list:Sean Skilton seans@ctpm.uq.edu.auThomas Koetter thomas@wiwi.hu-berlin.deSteve Swales steve@ftp.lle.rochester.eduScott Allendorf sca@sysadm.physics.uiowa.eduPatrick L. Nolan pln@egret1.Stanford.EDUKeith ...

Original question:> Is there some oddity in getting the plumb to work on a > QuadEthernet card?> I have one here on a production box, where qfe2 is not in > service. I'm> trying> to bring this interface up for use without taking the machine out of> service,> but> ...

Never mind, I think I've got it. I changed the Configure script so that it looks for "abc .xyz" instead of "abc.xyz". Apparently, the configure script is fussier than the code, since it compiled okay after that.If anyone does want to follow up with an explanation and/or a ...

> swap - /tmp tmpfs - yes -> If I alter this to> swap - /tmp tmpfs - yes size=2048m> will /tmp be restricted to a absolute max size of 2G, ensuring that there is> always at least 7G of swap area available? The answer is yes. At Sol 2.6 the restriction on the ...

SUMMARY on utility...With much thanks to the unix Gurus on the codeprof list.There were approximately 80 responses.sunman> Do you know of a utility that can read compressed archives?most common answer:        zcat file1.tar.Z | tar tvf -second most ...

Thanks to Michael Kriss <kriss@fnal.gov>.The permissions were incorrect. Also the permissions on the root directoy were incorrect. That was the reason the users were able to login, but were logged out immediately with the message No Directory!.Micheal Kriss Suggested: Maybe the ...

Hello,Original question:  I am currently attempting (!) to look at the performance of our web server  and mailhub (2 separate systems). Both systems run a caching-only DNS  (named). The mailhub runs exim software; the web server Apache and Squid ...

Thanks Guys!Especially,Benjamin Cline <benji@hnt.com>Jim Faust <jbf@pixel.cirrus.com>Dave McFerren <davem@cp.tybrin.com>Michael S. Fischer <mfischer@nsi.edu>Thank you for responding to my questions. Here is my questionand the consensus of what I have received so far. I ...

        Hi fellow administrators:                THE PROBLEM:        I am experiencing the following problem with NFS on an Ultra ...