throttling back bandwidth

7593 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:02:00
I asked:> This is probably the reverse of what most people want to accomplish, but...> > I have a couple dozen SS5 machines to which I rcp files to on Friday> mornings. The problem is that these machines share their 10Mbit ethernet> segment with other machines that are part of a ...

HA/clustering

1183 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:02:00
Thanks to all who responded (too many to count)The general conscensus was to stick w/ the supported list of hardware.BillOn Sat, 29 Apr 2000, Elvis wrote:> Does the Sun software clustering work on _all_ their Ultra class boxes? Or only the Enterprise? I can't find a clear cut answer on ...

Printing in full duplex with JetAdmin

1720 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:02:00
My original question:> > Hello,> I'm using JetAdmin 6.21 on Solaris 2.6.> Printers are HP4000N and HP4050N.> It works fine.> If you want to print recto-verso, you have to become "root".> Is it possible for clients who use only "lpr -Php" to give an ...

rlogin denied

2873 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:02:00
Hi,In my preceeding mail I was discussed about a ramdonly strange problem ofrlogin or rsh denied as root from one machine to another. My NIS and MAIL server is running 4.1.3On my network I've some machines running 4.1.3 or 2.5I have put the correct hostnames in the /.rhosts of each machines, ...

NIS+ problems w/ 1 client fixed!!

2895 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:02:00
Many thanks to Eugene Kramer, who suggested using pkgchk. The NIS+ clientis now fixed!---------------------- Forwarded by Jonathan Loh on 04/08/98 02:44 PM---------------------------Jonathan.Loh@bankamerica.com04/08/98 12:22 AM GMT________________________________________________________Please ...

Dual heads on creator 3d.

5854 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:02:00
Hi Sun managers,Thanks to all those that replied. The winning answer is as follows:                     Framebuffer Resolution ...

2.6 lp outputs /var/spool/lp/tmp - like info

2299 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:02:00
Original posting below.I only got 1 response, a "me too" from Stephen Lee at St Joseph's University.To reduce the variables in the question, I redefined the 2.6 machine to be its own print server. The problem went away on those printers. Hm.....I only had to do this on HP 5simx and ...

Oracle 8i installer on top of a Solaris base install

2010 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:02:00
Hi Managers,This is not actually a real summary as there was no question previously posted to the list, but it's just someinformation others might (hopefully) find usefull.I've a server on a remote site and this machine has been installed with a striped down version of Solaris. Themachine has ...

Ghostview Error

1400 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:02:00
Hi gurus.My orginal question was :> I got a problem to see the ghostscript file with the ghostview.> The displayed error from the ghostview is following;> > ld.so.1: gs: fatal: libXt.so.5.0: can't open file: errno=2> > Error: PostScript interpreter failed in main ...

UDP Name Server Requests and PCs

3327 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:02:00
Hi,SOLUTION:---------1. No one replied to my original posting :-(2. Our ISP's help desk pointed me (1) to check the netmask and (2) disable WINS.   The netmask was ok, and WINS was disabled. What could we do else? Well, some-   times, programs need a really hard ...

'WARNING: /sbus@3,0, fas errors'

56573 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:02:00
Thanks to everyone who replied with such helpful information. i've includedthe replies and my original question below. After checking all my cables, doing prtdiag, etc. Sun tech support came outand they reseated my scsi board and replaced the terminator. Although Ialready had an external ...

wu-ftp on Solaris 2.5

4455 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:02:00
        Thanks so very much to the three people who respondedso quickly to my post to this list. I chose the first solution fromDave England. My wu-ftp is now logging commands entered duringan FTP session. My kudos to the "Sun-Managers" ...

Kill -9 does not help

5800 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:02:00
Hi Gurus,The methods suggested by all who responded are useful. I will try implementing them as it applies.Below are the list of responses that i received,Andrew Ho wrote:What you have described seems very strange. At my site, we have hundreds of Nscp Enterprise servers running and we have not ...

UPDATE: Web Proxy Options

1501 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:02:00
Last week I gave the following summary about Netscape's Proxy server:> Many people also asked for information about Netscape droping support> for their Proxy Server product. Here are a few key URLs:> > > The Proxy Server 3.5x Product Maturity/EOL statement.> ...

sendmail/procmail problems

2038 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:02:00
On Monday, April 7, 1997, I wrote:We experienced a complete power outage this morning. After restoring power and bringing up our network, we have had continuous problems with "mail", specifically, sendmail does not seem to be communicating withprocmail. After about one hour, our ...

Solaris ACL tutorial material

1876 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:02:00
Thanks for pointers received. I should, of course, have mentioned that thespecific aspect I'm having trouble with is the area of default ACL entriesfor directories, about which I can find precious little out there on the web.There are articles at SunWorld ...

make sparc box a router

964 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:02:00
Thanks to all who responded. The overwhelming response was "You need morethan 1 interface to have the sparc act as a router".My goal was to take one 20 node ethernet network, create 2 subnets and havethe sparc box act as the middleman. I created 2 interfaces,le0 and le0:1 with 2 ip ...

Unwanted Summary: printing from Solaris to NT

1763 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:02:00
Long long time ago some people, including my self, queried the list about printing from Solaris to NT based postscript printers. Since i didn't see any summary by then here it goes the info:all you need is to configure the Content Type for your printer as "raster"example ...

/proc directory

752 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:02:00
First of all, I'd like to thanks all people that answered my question.Just after I sent the mail, I remember the usefull man pages, and afterI was able to understand the use of th /proc directory. But here goes myquestion:>What is the use of the /proc directory? Should I remove ...

DUMP error

1724 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:02:00
Hello all!Below is the original question.Thanks for all the quick responses.As most of the responses suggested, the tape drive was faulty. The tape drivehad numerous soft errors. I tried cleaning the drive but no luck.I have replaced it with another drive and everything is working fine ...

Configuring a SUN as a PPP server using static IP address's

6284 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:02:00
Here is the summary followup to my post a couple of weeks ago.....These have been sent to the customer, but I haven't heard back from him...Thanks to:    Graham Gittens Vision Systems Software    Rick Dempster Kansas State ...

Migrating NIS+ Domains to New Domain

6095 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:02:00
My original post was a request for information on migrating users from one NIS+ domain to another without loosing their current passwords. Using information provided from the replies to my post, I wrote a script to migrate my users. The script I created and my original post can be found below. ...

ftp login banner

7789 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:02:00
Sun Managers,Thanks to the following people who replied to my question:Randy Nethers [Randy_Nethers@zd.com]Dennis Martens [MARTENSD@health.qld.gov.au]Mark Teicher [mark-teicher@worldnet.att.net]Kris Briscoe [brisco_k@scs-mail.sat.mot.com]Patrick Gilbert [gilbert@SMTP.Mlink.NET]Vince Hickey ...

SPARC 5 reconfigure woe

2820 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:02:00
Original post:> Any idea why booting with either the -r flag or /reconfigure is NOT creating > the appropriate /devices/iommu.../sbus... file for my IOTECH SB488 card?> > The card tests ok using the vendors destructions and is installed in slot 2. > Slot 3 contains a cgsix card, ...

Problem with swap setup

6552 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:02:00
Richard Grenier and Bertrand Hutin pointed out to me to add the following line to the vfstab:swap - /tmp tmpfs - yes -Thank you!Duane Gran http://www.SolarisCentral.orgForwarded message:> From bertrand_hutin@amdahl.com Thu May 4 11:51:09 2000> Message-Id: ...

A question about floppy

2147 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:02:00
My original question was:******************************************************************Hi, Friends:A question about the floppy drive:In SunOS 4.1.3, if you want to use a floppy from command line,you can use, for example, `tar cvf /dev/fd0 myfile.doc`, tocopy a file to the floppy; or `tar ...

disabling NFS v3 on clients

2916 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:02:00
nothing that worked.original request:I want to disable nfs v3 on a client repeat CLIENTnot server.The client in question is a diskless Sparc 2 tryingto get its solaris 2.5.1 O/S from a file server thatclaims to support nfs v3 but does it incorrectly,causing the client to hang solid right after ...

Ascii to Postscript Filter

1753 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:02:00
Thanks to the following people who kindly spent time to respond to my question:Robert FulwilerMichael BaumannPeter EllsGlenn SatchellJustin YoungLaura TaylorFedor GnuchevThomas KoetteChristoph RothlinTox GunnHal SternRoddy McCollAlan HillRichard SavageSameer Vadakke-KuruppathGregory M ...

Sendmail 8.8.5

3885 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:02:00
Thanks to:David Schiffrin <daves@adnc.com>Rachel Polanskis <rachel@juno.virago.org.au>Jochen Bern <bern@TI.Uni-Trier.DE>Jim Harmon <jharmon@telecnnct.com>Rick Kelly <rmk@rmkhome.rmkhome.com>Stuart Kendrick <sbk@fhcrc.org>Peter M Allan ...

pkginfo equivalent for SunOS 4.1.x

1757 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:02:00
Many thanks to all who responded !!including,1.Rich Kulawiec <rsk@gsp.org>2."Mike Salehi" <mrs@cadem.mc.xerox.com>3.Rob Windsor <windsor@warthog.com>4. poffen@San-Jose.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)5.ajp13@chrysler.comThe anwser is - -there is no equivalent command ...

System Info

2870 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:02:00
Thanks for all your time and patience. There are too many to list here individually. I thought I would take a vote count.1) /usr/platform/`uname -i`/sbin/prtdiag (13 votes)A native command. Shows info about the processor type and speed, frequency , memory size of each cpu. Best results use the ...

Reading Sun DDS cpio on other *nixes

7500 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:02:00
Original message at end. Thanks to all who responded:Dennis Martens <MARTENSD@health.qld.gov.au>Baranyai Pal <bp@hszk.bme.hu>JOSEPH AAJ Chackompally <AAJ@necsin.nec.com.sg>Rich Kulawiec <rsk@gsp.org>Brian Sherwood <sherwood@alux4.micro.lucent.com>Dennis and ...

hardware address not found

3377 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:02:00
Thanks to the following people for their responses:sdeutsch@pcocd2.intel.combismark@alta.jpl.nasa.govasim@psa.pencom.comTrevorPaquette@aec.cakpi@hobbes.crc.comjustin@mesun12.engr.subr.edu bbyoung@amoco.comI wrote:>SUN managers>>I am trying to find out the offending ...

E450 reboot hung

683 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:02:00
I got a lot of reply and the list is too longto name. I highly appreciate that.I installed the patch 107851-05 and the problem is resolved. Thanks.------------ Original Messages -------------------Dear Sun Managers,I've searched thru the archive but couldn't findany hint. I've a E450 running ...

Solaris 2.6 upgrade

2927 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:02:00
Many thanks to: Leonard, Roger Jason.WilliamsonApparently there is not an easy way to upgrade the OS on system withveritas VM.Here is the steps that Leonard Roger sent me:Backup all filessave off pertinent files in separate tape (hosts, vfstab, services,systemetc)unmirror root (if ...

NIS DNS Problem

1647 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:02:00
Hi Everyone,Here was my orignal post:> Hi Everyone,> > I have a NIS DNS problem..... I have configured a group of machine using> NIS..... With one master and one slave......> > I have edited the /etc/resolv.conf file with pertainent info. However,> all the machine can see ...

Patches

926 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:02:00
Many thanks to Victor Melo Baurjan Ismagulov Buddy Lumpkin The answer is there is not a need to reinstall thepatches. If for the clean installing of OS, thenyou should reinstall the patches.---------------Original Messages----------------------hi,> I've E450 with Solaris 2.7 ...

Largest Contiguous Space Available

5132 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:02:00
Thanks to all who responded!Here is the original question and some of the replies:Original Question:Is there a command that will tell me what the largestcontiguous space is available on a given file system?Our DBA people need to know this in support of Oracle.For example, they want to know if ...

Automatic ftp script

6969 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:02:00
Talk about RESPONSE!!!! I've now got a number of ways to do exactally whatI wanted to do.Thanks to:Keith.Willenson@sunny.health.state.mn.us (Keith Willenson)"Karl E. Vogel" <vogelke@c17.wpafb.af.mil>"Eric J. Ostrander" <ejo@astro.phys.cmu.edu>Rasana Atreya ...

Change IP Address of Solaris host

3300 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:02:00
The question was, what must be done in order to change the IP addressof a Solaris 2 host?Respondents had 2 different methods, but all agree that it should be easy.Method #1: Just edit hosts file, and fixup DNS etc.Method #2: As root, run sys-unconfig and answer the questions. There ...

NIS/default route/Print Server/Solaris 2.6

1068 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:02:00
 Thanks to a the respondents, and Andy Kobayashi. Here's the summary.Q: 1) Does the NIS master machine glom defaultQ: route info and pass it along to itselfQ: and it's respondents? If so, from where?   A: No--default route info is grabbed from ...

dump-errors

5973 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:02:00
Hi Managers,___________________ including the original question ____________My original question on April 24, 1996 is:>We have dumping errors during backing up file system from a 2.0GB disk as the following:>> DUMP: Dumping /dev/rdsk/c0t2d0s2 (/d1) to /dev/rmt/1n> ...

E10K,Solaris and Oracle

4128 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:02:00
sorry for the late summary,I asked for suggestion for which Solaris & Oracleversion should be installed in E10k machinehere's what i received, ====================================>From Peter L. Wargo>1) Solaris 2.6 with Oracle7.3.4 in E10KWe run Sol 2.6 w/Sybase on our E10K - 2.6 HW ...

Solaris 2.6 and Solstice Enterprise Agent SNMP daemon

3794 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:02:00
Nobody responded, which I find weird, either because I would assumethat there must be *somebody* else out there who has tried using theSolstice Enterprise Agents 1.0 that come bundled with 2.6(since my opinion of the snmpd that ships with SunNet Manageris less than favorable)...anyhow, I ended ...

backup on Veritas volume manager

1900 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:02:00
  Bertrand Hutin Re: backup on Veritas volume manager  12:30 PM PDT  2K Many thanks to Nathan Dietsch, Buddy Lumpkin, Neill, Markit is not required to backup swapvol. -----------Original Messages------------------------->Dear Sun Managers, > >I've installed ...

[Q] Is it worth to purchase Sparc 5 ?

2536 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:02:00
Thank you for so many people give me the answer. I summary the answer on below.  , The Solaris 2.X filesystem has done > 2GB for a long time. Its    something like 1 terabyte. Its SunOS 4.X that cant do > 2gb.  . Solaris 2.6 will not be a 64 bit ...

Autorepeat rate

2672 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:03:00
  Hello,Sorry it took me so long to summerise, all I can say is when you write scripts with rm -rf in them, check that you actually point to the correct directory \-:Anyway, thanks to everyone who replied, including the ones who thought their reply is no good (is was (-: ). So far, ...

Solstice Backup 5.0.1 patch(es)?

4180 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:03:00
I had asked about a patch I had seen mentioned for Solstice Backup 5.0.1, yet when I visited sunsolve, I found no patches listed for 5.0.1.Sun Support is making this patch available on request, when you call them, from their blind ftp site. They claim rev -03 of the patch, 105658, is released ...

print 66 lines in landscape mode

2398 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:03:00
Thanks to Jason Shatzkamer, Claude Charest, Hap Hinrichs, Michael Sullivan, Waghode Sanjay, Peter Keating for their comments. Also to Andrew Kyle and Dennis Mellican for their innovative thoughts.Most suggested options to lp , or to use postprint. My problem was that the actual print command ...

Help reading a tape

1481 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:03:00
Hi AllBasically everyone came up with the same reason for my problem:-> The problem you have is that ufsrestore ivf -> reads from stdin, while it also expects your user commands from stdin>> try restoring in non-interactive mode> make sure your in an empty directory>> so ...