Very short description of problem.Trying to boot over the net,Followed all the steps in the Solaris Advanced Installation Guide,get an error message upon doing a boot net that saisTimeout waiting for ARP/RARP packet.Solution:in the ethers map, make *ABSOLUTELY* sure that you do *NOT* ...

Thanks to Jay Lessert who got me a working solution...Thanks to everyone else who had things to check...The trick has nothing to do with newgrp, rather, you have to change the group of the parent directory and then set the group sticky bit for that directory. Any files or directories created ...

Hi Sun managers,My original question was:-------------------------I have a question concerning a Quantum DLT 4000 tape drive unit which is connected to a SPARCstation 10 with Solaris 2.5 installed. This tape unit should be able to store up to 20 GBytes in native format and up to 40 GBytes ...

The following responses were received.thanks to everyoneRave Computer Association, Inc.36960 Metro CourtSterling Heights, MI 48132800-966-7283sales@rave.comminicomputer exchange Inc610 n. pastoria aveSunnyvale, CA 94086(408)733-4400ELI systems Rick Gage617-547-1113Check out ...

Responses were mostly don't worry about it if things are workingand it says the firmware code is 3.12 then everything should be ok.And also some said it would not hurt anything to download the firmwareagain to the same revision.Thanks all.Dave MartiniLLNLHi, I have an SSA110 connected to a ...

I got a surprising number of responses on my query aboutre-organizing my NFS and local disks. My original propoaslwas:-----------------------------------------------------------------  I'm contemplating a re-organization of the NFS and local disks on our  network, and I ...

Thanks to everyone for their quick answers.The original question was:-------------------------------------------------------------------We've been trying to get Solaris 2.6 machine w/multiple virtual IPaddresses to stick to one for outbound use. Following the instructions inthe archive, I've ...

The original question was:> I installed the patch 107078-03, distributed by Sun for JDK 1.2.1, on a> Solaris 7 machine. After application of this patch, seems to me that the> Xsun doesn't get to write at directories /tmp/.X11-pipe and /tmp/.X11-unix> which are with the following ...

Thank you to :<p>Jay Lessert<p>Matthew Stier<p>Dennis Riddick<p>Brooke King<p>The replies clearly pointed to using Jetadmin.<p>Matt Reynolds also sent me a script that could be more adaptable.<p>Thank you all!<p>Patrick Hooper<p>NEBS, Inc.<p>

Thanks to those who responded. My problem was as follows:-> Im confronted with the problem of performing a 'pkgadd' of a product during> a jumpstart. In particular I need to run pkgadd in non-interactive mode so that> the jumpstart can be done un-attended and the responses to install ...

Thanks! everyone who responded to my question below.The answer to my problem was to move some small files out of the filesystem to make some space at lease 5% free, which I did and then I wasable to increase more space to the file system using veritas.Thanks,-Patattached mail follows:Hello ...

Thanks for the help!My original plea for help was:********************************************************************> To: sun-managers@ra.mcs.anl.gov> Subject: BootPROMs> > Anyone know how to determine what is the latest rev level of> boot PROM supported on a given machine and ...

Hello all,     I receved many responses and the issue has been successfully resolved.My original post was (with the suggestions I used interspersed):~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Hello all,    I am setting up a backup schedule ...

The answers arrived within minutes of the reception of my copy of myquery.The answer is that the network interface needs to be "plumb"ed, and forthat to happen, the file /etc/hostname.interface (in this case/etc/hostname.le0) must exist.The procedure: place the hostname and IP ...

*Successfully used the following - worked perfectly...*first part of question follows: (included parts of several repliesas each added something to the explanation of the solution...)> am running solaris 2.4 on a sparc2...while running sunos,> i could read most floppies...but since ...

I wrote: > Fellow admins,> I have a question about using editors with the sudo/op> programs. I am looking for a vi based editor to give to users with> restricted functionality. In particular, I want to be able to> specify exactly which files are editable. For example, I ...

Hello folks, I learned the hard way that LUN 0 SHOULD not be deleted beforeany otherlun as LUN mapping info is stored on LUN 0. I ended up fixing the problem bycalling Sunand have attached the steps I used to fix the problem.RyanOriginal Post:Hello folks, We just got our E10K and 2 A3500 ...

Many thanks for the quick response on this one folks...Kelvin>============>From: Jeff Wasilko>> What are the Dynamic DNS products out there for use with Sun DHCP? Free>> or not I just gotta know...thanks...Kelvin>I recommend American Internet's Network Registrar ...

Hello Managers !(I included the original question in the bottom)The obvious reason which most of you pointed out to isDNS reverse lookup failure.THIS RAISES ONE MORE QUESTION.(Though it is not Sol related i think most of you might have gone thru this.sorry for putting this question here ..in ...

Many thanks to:        Anderson McCammont <and@ms.com>        Arthur J. Byrnes <abyrnes@stetson.edu>        Brooke King ...

I received several replies. Most people make Xvnc SGID root. Oneperson made /tmp/.X11-unix world writeable. No one noted any securityconcerns either way. Thanks for the replies.I made mine SGID root. Since /tmp uses tmpfs in virtual memory, I guess I'd need an /etc/rc script that set the ...

The solution, thanks to our local SunSoft SE, Gerard Van Goor, wasto backout the Solaris jumbo patch 101946-29. This immediatelyreturned our performance to pre-2.1 levels.We have not yet encountered any downside to this solution. We expectthat Sun will provide a version of 101946 that doesn't ...

Hi! Thanks to all who responded! Everyone had the info I was missing!Ken Dickey <ken.dickey@acsacs.com>Jon Anderson <jon.anderson@gs.com>peter.allan@aeat.co.uk (Peter M Allan)Justin Young <justiny@cluster.engr.subr.edu>Thanks everyone! If I've missed someone, I ...

Hello,First of all thanks to all who replied. Most suggestions were to installSolaris 2.6. When I called SUN they also told me that the minimumrequirement for this system would be Solaris 2.5.1. Following all of thesesuggestions I installed Solaris 2.6 and downloaded all patches. The resultwas ...

Sorry,forgot original message> -----Original Message-----> From: Santimore, Matthew > Sent: Friday, May 12, 2000 08:48> To: Sun Managers (E-mail)> Subject: Summary: variable exp> > Thanks to all that responded.> here are a few that helped the most> > > > It ...

After posting my 1st summary, I received many replies for vulnerability of vold.Some of them pointed me to CERT and AUSCERT. I had already been there but they didn't have any patch info about it. Finally, Casper (casper@holland.sun.com) sent me the details of patches which I got from ...

I wrote:>Hello Managers>>We have a SUN Netra 20 running a Solaris 2.4.>>We have recently installed the SPARCworks Common Tools 0.0, SPARCworks 3.1>and the SPARCCompiler C 4.0, packages from SunSoft Workshop package, but>when try to test it with a program like ...

     I think I did not post the summary correctly the first time.          So, here is the SUMMARY again. Sorry for the duplicate message.          Thank you very much ...

Summary :The only reply came from plb@concentric.net who wrote own ksh/perlscripts and build a web based monitoringinterface.....................................................Question:Hello Sun Managers,I have a Sun machine running solaris 2.5.1 as a print server, wherequeues are defined ...

I asked for a consensus as to the advisability of not having separate partitionsfor /, /usr, /opt etc. The general consensus is that it is A Good Thing with theproviso that it does give users the opportunity to fill up their disk - thatdoesn't worry me a lot - you break it, you fix it :-) (A ...

  The latest version of "top" is always available via anonymous FTP from<p>the host "eecs.nwu.edu" in the directory "/pub/top". Additional modules<p>will be made available in the directory "/pub/top/m".<p>

Thanks all the response! Everyone ask to check if volmgt is running. Butthis is not my problem.After I load solaris7 use the cdrom, boot up the computer, I no longersee the cdrom, I tried everything. probe-scsi show cdrom is there. Whenstop volmgt, manually mount cdrom, said device is not ...

Hi All,I fixed the problem. The solution is to delete locale variables that it complained about in /etc/default/init file, and reboot system. So all locale variable is default to C.-Vinnie-----------------------My original question was:Hi Gurus,I could not figure it out what cause the warning ...

Sorry for the lated response.Thanks to all who responded. I checked out all the machines if the recommended patch is installed.Thanks again Gurus.Many thanks to :-)"Iskander, Tim" <ISKANDER@infimed.com> Amol Karnik <amol@memcad.com> "Marc S. Gibian" ...

I got two responses, one of which claimed 2.5.1 did not have power management(it's on the Updates CD), and one which thought it was doable on the fly, butnothing concrete.It turns out that it did work, in spite of pmconfig claiming /dev/pm: No such device or address. (One of the 2.7 ...

I was able to get this to work via a procedure I found in Solaris AdvancedAdministration Guide on page 493, Here it istar cvf /vol/dev/aliases/floppy0 filename (from source system)tar xvf /vol/dev/aliases/floppy0 target directoryHello All,I am trying to load a the patchdiag.xref file in from ...

The environment variable LOGNAME was unset .I'm using XDM        and aparently sometimes (?) it not set LOGNAME.        Add to Xsession a line such ...

Hello Gurus,        It's me again. But this time not to trouble u folks. I was advised to resubmit the summary with the actual contents of the summary .Hence, I'm posting this again.The SOLUTION is :Install a patch_ID for a serious bug in statd running ...

My original question was:> Dear colleagues:> > I am trying to swap a Sparc4 disk into a Sparc5. Silly me, I thought> that since they were in the same machine family, I could just take one> disk out and put it in the other machine. As you can guess (since I'm> writing this) ...

One response so far from Tim Carlson <tim@santafe.edu> - thanks Tim> man makemap> makemap hash /etc/mail/access < /etc/mail/accessIt works . Regards,-Val ...

what is the .openwin-menu equivalent called in CDEand where does the default one reside. I want tocustimize mine to include my applications.This was an easy one and many people responded. The systemwide file is /usr/dt/config/C/sys.dtwmrcUsers can cp this file to their $HOME/.dt directory and ...

The answer came from:"David H. Brierley" <dhb@ssd.ray.com>The error message was:Name collision between aaa-18-s aaa....yada yada yada....Answer is:"The names you have listed are all terminal types, in particular theyare all variants of an "Ann Arbor Ambassador" ...

Hello !Sorry for the delay in posting the summary.My problem was not yet solved.Thanks to all those who gave me informative replys.Iam adding the original query andanswers below.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Original Query:Hello Managers !I think this is a basic question on ...

Thank you , as always to Casper>Hi all,>>Does everybody tell me how can I know what Solaris release I have (like>Solaris 2.6 5/98 ...) from the "Integrated in Release" field from documents>on sunsolve (like s998u2_06,s81_03,s28_17, and so on)>or how could I know what ...

Orginal Question:For reasons not important here I would liketo grant a non-experienced user access to thechown and chgrp commands. However, I want to restrict using the -R option to these commandsso he will not accidently destroy the system by changing the ownership of all system files.my entry ...

I asked:> > from a Sun competitor I learned, that there are stability> > problems with the new UltraSPARC cpus in (old) E450s.> > Is that true? Can somebody confirm that rumour?Thanks to all who answered. Nobody could confirm anyproblems with 400/4 cpus in E450s.I went back to ...

Greetings, all.I had asked for any feedback on tape backup units:...> We are currently looking at a tape library from MTI, their > model 1515 Infinity.> We'll probably look at the DLT7000 version of this library.> > Anyone have experience with this unit? Any other > ...

> I've lost two disks in a RAID5 volume. One was in Maintanence> and one in 'Last Erred'. After i resynced the disk that was> in Maintenance mode, the filesystem was corrupted and the> machine constantly panicked with 'freeing already free inode'.> Currently i'm resyncing ...

Thanks to all who replied! (Jeff Brody, Benjamin Cline, RobertGillespie, Charlie Mengler, and Peter Wargo.)Original question:Dear Managers,we are considering a purchase of an Exabyte 8700LT tape drive.If anybody is using them with solaris systems, please, I'd appreciate any comments, good or ...

I asked why, using some Mac and PC NFS clients and trying tomount file systems from a SS20 running Sol 2.4, I invariably get authentication failures when using either of two accounts on the Sparcstation (but all others work fine).The answer (thanks Ray Brownrigg) appears to be that ...