I've summarized this once, but after that summary I got the answer I was**really** looking for from Jan Homan. Thanks very much Jan.The original question:> > Does anyone have a cookbook method to get a large mouse pointer for an> individual user, under CDE 1.0.2?Jan's ...

Hi.I got an overwhelming response. Too many people to name individually.Thank you very much for the replies.I got various responses from people who suggested various key combinationssuch as Control-Break, Control-], and others. The winner has to be whatabout half the people suggested, use ...

Hi allThanks toNicolas De RicoRAfique HassanMark ShermanSeth RosenbergRoger FujiiDavid EvansThomas AndersPaul TeasdelVahid MoghaddasiKeith KellyOriginal Question:==============I had two questions.1. I am planning to buy a PC for Solaris x/86.Are there any recommendations, absolute no's ...

Hi.It's been brought to my attention that I forgot to include some importantinformation. I installed TeraTerm as I said in my earlier email. TeraTermlets you send an Alt-B to send a break.My original message:Does anybody know how to send a break from HyperTerminal in Windows? I havea Netra ...

Thanks to the following people for their quick responses;Mark.Neill@fanb.comDeepak Sinha [sinha@ils.nwu.edu]Scott D. Yelich [scott@scottyelich.com]Mark [mark@zang.com]Peredo, Dee [dperedo@dow.com]Casper Dik [casper@holland.sun.com]Q#1 SUMMARY:libXaw is the Athena Widget library; it's on any ...

Thanks again for all that replied:Fedor Gnuchev <qwe@ht.eimb.rssi.ru>Andrew Lamb <andrew@mis.mua.go.th>Glenn.Satchell@uniq.com.auDavid Procter <daveyp@dcd.pcd.sony.co.uk>They all say to use one of this command to change the speed of the serialport:/usr/sbin/lpadminlook at ...

Hi,I've received many replies. I attach several answers for reference.To make your own finish script, only customized change are needed for your company's environment.I appreciate your kindly help.Jeffrey------------- Begin Forwarded Message -------------From ...

ORIGINAL POST:Hello all!We have a SUN SPARC running Solaris 2.5.1 and Oracle 7.3.3.I was wondering if anyone has the startup and shutdown scripts for V 7.3.3of ORACLE Database? I was trying to modify the default scripts underORACLE_HOME/bin, but, no success yet.TIAHarryTHANKS TO ALL THE ...

hello,   my question is: in a master NIS server I can't have permission to 'su' to root.   i soon got reply, and all these reply point to the same and right solution: these user account must be in 'wheel' group, which gid is 0.   thanks a lot ...

Hi admins!Thanks to all people that answered my question.Here go the most importants :From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Ing=2E_Erick_Cede=F1o?= <erickc@sonitel.com>Take a look at Adrian Cockcroft's columns on Performance at SunWorld ...

Thanks to the following folks for their replies:Sanjaya Srivastava <Sanjaya.Srivastava@Eng.Sun.COM>David Thorburn-Gundlach <david@bae.uga.edu>"Robert Tayne" <rtayne@cadem.mc.xerox.com>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------My ...

Several people wrote that a stop/restart of syslogd will cause previouserror messages to appear. I do know the initial reason this error messageappeared but was concerned that this message appeared again.(FWIW, this happened due to a user attempting to use lynx to snarf a 600Mfile. lynx wants ...

Hi all,> I have the need to encode and decode MIME email attachments within a> script on a Solaris v2.7 box.> > On my Linux machine a package called metamail contains tools that allow> me to do this. Is there an equivalent package for Sun? I have tried> compiling the metamail ...

Thanks to those who replied:David SchiffrinJeremy OlsenRay TrzaskaMarc S. GibianRudy YuThe Original question:> This is mainly a CYA thing before I order a DLT7000 tape drive- I am> pretty certain you can... Can you put a Fast Wide Single ended device> like the DLT7000 on a Fast ...

I originally wrote:>I'm looking for a detailed "ac" command for>a SunOS 4.1.4 system. I want to get at all entries >in the /var/adm/wtmp file and see everyone that has>logged in during a certain time period. Something>that simply decodes all information in the ...

Dear Sun Managers,Thanks for all the responses from the following people:        Bob Rahe        Casper Dik        Chris ...

Thanks as usual to super-sysadmin Casper Dik. No one else respondedon this, but he had the right stuff.Original question:>I'm trying to use dtmail remotely from a remote Solaris system to>my desktop machine which is a SS20 with Solaris 8 and CDE. I have>tried both with DISPLAY set ...

Hello,Here is a summary to our disksuite mirror problem.We finally got this fixed by removing our Seagate diskand replacing it with a SUN disk. We now have a SUNto SUN mirror set. I assume a Seagate to Seagate mirrorset would have worked also, however, since these were theboot disks, I opted ...

Well, thank you for the quick response -I overlooked a very basic thing - thanks to Dennis Morse for pointing itout. rmt is not in the default path (it is in /usr/sbin). Adding it tothe default path makes it workThank you all for your responses--Daren L. Eason , Sr.Systems AdministratorNetwork ...

First, thanks a lot for people who response! You are a big help.The problem was:My machine is a NIS slave, but the hostname was not correct, I changed it and made it ping'able by other slave's.And now I can print.Thanks ...

First of all, I must apologise for posting for the originalquestion "is solaris the correct platform ?" since I receiveda reminder (in the form of a copy of the FAQ) that this is not an appropriate question. Actually, I initially tagged the question onto the end of myother post ...

Thanks bunches to everyone who responded.Original question: Should I have ACL functionality on my SunOSsystem 5.5, and if so where are they?Note: I never had man pages on the commands, and still don't.Correct answers:ACL's come in the Core solaris package SUNWcsu, and are ...

Numerous feedbacks.- Generally no need to re-install as long as the numerous post-dated fileswill pose no problems to apps- Care must be taken on licenses of apps, logfile handling, etc.- Many suggested doing a 'touch' on postdated files, NULLing the admin logfiles /var/adm/*tmpx..I forgot ...

Thanks to:    Peter Allan peter.allan@aeat.co.uk        For sharing his "Summary: Apple LaserWriter II on Sun SS20 usingSunOS 4.1.4" and pointing me toward    Greg T. Harber ...

Very little responses.The geenral concensus was to do scheme A as it utilises the full bandwidthof your available I/O controllers and to configure your storage subsystemsto present devices (logical disks) on LUNs spread on different I/O paths tothe host. Creating a large device and prsenting ...

Hi everybody,Sorry for the late summary.Thanks to: ead@ixian.com Rob Pieters <ropieter@ba3sun01.eitc.eds.com> Larry Williamson <larry@mitra.com> Ryan Permeh <talis@millcomm.com> "Lajos Moczar" <lmocz@galatea.com> Louis Hoo ...

Sorry for the late summary. Thanks very much to the following people:Art Freeman <Art.Freeman@ing-barings.com>Aaron Lafferty <lafferty@oar.net>David Thorburn-Gundlach <david@bae.uga.edu>NEERAJ VERMA <nverma@hotmail.com>Gerald Litteer <gll@moran.inel.gov>Original ...

I posted this question (recapped below) and received several responses,all incorrect. Thanks and my appreciation anyway go to:        Gerhard den Hollander ...

Thanks so much for the quick reply of the following managers:From: emsigler@comsoft.org (Eric Sigler)From: Michael Blandford <mikey@lanl.gov>From: Fedor Gnuchev <qwe@ht.eimb.rssi.ru>From: Ian MacPhedran <Ian_MacPhedran@engr.USask.Ca>From: Scott Turvey ...

Thanks all. Varied feedbacks.The overall response was it is okay to use the newer 98MHz boards onthe oldX000's since it will adjust to the other boards max speed w/c is 84MHz. Onthe CPU upgrade of X000 systems to 400Mhz/8Mb CPU's - the majority says itis okay but the CPU board as well as the ...

I recieved several replies, some suggested I use jukebox software anddriver products from Tracer Technologies or IOXUS.However I used the suggestion below recommended byMichael.Neef@neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.DEThanks to all that respondedMichael ClarksonUnix Systems AdminAMGEN ...

Well, I was completely wrong with my first summary !Thanks go to gary franczykRick RobinoDavid LaPorteMichael Burgenerfor confirming that I am not the only person that is considering bootingfrom an A1000.Special thanks go to Cristian Villalon from Sun here in Canberra for helpingme find the ...

Hi,Thanks for all the replies. My concept on .nfs files were cleared now.Many thanks for all those who responded. All the replies are enclosedbelow.ThanksArjunOriginal Question:----------------------------------------------------------------------Hi Gurus,Does anybody know what .nfs files are?. ...

Apologies for this very late summary but I wished to try thedifferent solutions to identify the exact problem. Thank you very much to all those who helped (their advice/replies arebelow).My conclusion :Netscape Server 2.x shipped with the Solaris 2.5 is not dependable. (I also had problems with ...

Hello Managersthanks to all.my request:"do you know any software that can tell me the number and the size of the packetsthat a machine send to or receive from the network ?I know perfmeter but it tell me the number of packets and not the size ...I need to collect the data (number of ...

Replies:- Check out Guardian at: www.dlxguard.com- Bruce R. Zimmer" <isdfgbrz@all-phase.com> has a perl program that will   keep people out and force the users to change their password. Contact  him if you want a copy of the program.- ...

Dear all,Six days ago I have asked some questions:1) Are there any 100baseT cards for SS10 machines?2) Anyone got any first hand experience with them?3) Would it be better/easier/cheaper to go via the switched 10baseT route?The answers:1) Yes. There are two products. One is a single 100baseT ...

Dear All,Thanks very much for the replies, which have completely solved theriddle, but have left me (and others) very annoyed with Sun.If you look at the "Check it out..." link from sunsolve.sun.com's home page, you will see the answers to most of the problems I washaving. Included ...

My original posting, with notes:>Situation:>>We are going to run Informix Online DS (v 7.22.uc1) on an Ultra Enterprise>3000, running Solaris 2.5.1, We have 8GB of storage (2 4GB disks) The peoplea>t Informix seemed shocked to discover I didnt use veritas or some ...

I asked:> I am looking for very specific patches, since I have to build a patch cluster> that has specific revision numbers of patches. I have a lot of them, but I> am missing a few sunsolve CDs so I couldn't get them all. I searched the> archives and visited patch repositories ...

Sorry about forgetting the "SUMMARY" in Subject, but I also have some newinformation so I thought I'd send this again.I recieved many replies to my original question on "sanitizing" disks. I would like to thank everyone who took the trouble to reply, especially the people ...

Well it turns out that David Thorburn-Gundlach came closest, well I assumeclosest.My question was one of our NIS+ clients was having trouble logging in asanyone but root. Any user who logged on to this client was immediatelytold that they had 'No Shell' and was promptly kicked out.Many of ...

Original problem:After modifying /ust/dt/config/C/sys.dtwrc some of the newly addedapplications didn't work/start, eg. FrameMaker.The menu section looks like this:Menu TaGMenu{        "Text and Graphics" ...

One word... DOH!!!Let me first say thanks for all of the great responses. They weremany and varied. ...including the suggestion that maybe someone'spager fell inside the chassis. :) And they were all wrong... as wellthey should have been... now that I know the answer.After I put the ...

Sorry if this is a repost. I *thought* I'd sent it a few days ago,but I haven't seen it yet.....Sun managers,I asked if it was possible to mount an nfs filesystem such that no fileswould be executable (like the "noexec" option in Linux). Original requestis attached below.The replies ...

Holy cow!!! (No offense to any religious organizations meant)I don't think I've ever received this many responses, and a lot of them came to me before my original post got back to me! My original question is listed at the end of this message.Here are the facts:1) Solaris 2.5.1 and earlier ...

My Question:************I'm about to begin the process of migration from 4.1.x to 2.5 and wouldappreciate any suggestions for a book or books that would help this process, preferably one that will show BSD commands/procedures and theirequivalent Solaris 2 counterparts. REPLIES:********Several ...

Original question>What software exists out there, preferably shareware, that>will allows Sun tar files on an exabyte tape be read on>a Windows NT box? THe NT thing has some very silly >software that merely states that the tape is Foreign...SolutionUse Wintar see ...

Hello Admins,Here is my orginal question:> Hi,> > I need to mount a CDROM on a SS20. Unfortunatly my CD drive seems to be> down (not able to mount any CDROMs with message: "sr0: failed to handle> Unit Att"). The other CDROMs I have are HPs (on node with HP-UX10.01 ...

Many thanks to Roger Fujii (rmf@lookhere.com) for pointing out that myoriginal summary (attached below) was not really correct. My summarywas assigning blame to multicast, when really it was mrouted that wasbroken all along. He pointed out that ntp, which also uses multicast,seems to work ...