SM's:As usual this list proved itself once again ! I got a lot of responses. I liked David Schiffrin's( daves@adnc.com )suggestion the best and I have included it below:-------------------------------------------------------------Just replace top with a wrapper like ...

Greetings,This is a foolish one I'm afraid, a case of RTFM if ever there was one and I'm not scared to hold my hand up and say it was me....The answer was of course in the man page! Automounter doesn't like nesting mounts which come from the subdirectories, such ...

Original Question ::)During some high load times :)in the performance monitor:)instead of graphs/lines :)(for each monitoring item ie. cpu, pkts,load) :)I got RIP (with in a tombstone knid of figure background):)When that load generating application:)(many WEB requests) quits, performance ...

     Thanks very much to the following (and anyone I have missed while      cutting/pasting :-)          Jeff Graham     Pete Schmitt     James ...

HiThanks all for the many responses, sorry for the late summary.Everyone said that this was a problem of a mismatch between the port onthe switch and the NIC in the host - not being of the same duplex value(full, half, auto whatever). The general consensus appeared to be notto auto ...

I've received more info over the last few days, it is at the end.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 ...

Thanks to:Matt SantimoreRuss PoffenbergerDavid H. BrierleyIn order to install these patches, what was required was the following:I backed out the install of 105568-14. I needed to use patchrm as thebackoutpatch script returnedan error saying that the patch wasn't applied. Once I was able to ...

The man page for pcnfsd says in black and white: 'By default, pcnfsd will only allow authentication or print requests for users with uids in the range 101 to 60002'. And also that you can fiddle this by putting a line in /etc/pcnfsd.conf of the ...

Some more responses after my first summary of my original question:>this morning I noticed that my server was in boot prom mode, after>my VT100 console had stopped working, just as if I had sent a BREAK.>Is there some way to configure the serial connection to>prevent this ?From: ...

I sent the SUMMARY below, but made a small mistake (thanksCasper), the GID (root:root) of the /usr/openwin/bin/Xsun is actually:-rwxr-sr-x 1 root root 949520 Feb 19 21:24 /usr/openwin/bin/XsunI apologize for this inconvenience.--antonio---------- Forwarded message ----------Date: Thu, ...

Hi there,My original question was :->> Hi there,>> Please help, Anyone Can tell me :->> 1. Where can find the popper / pop information for Solaris 2.5 in> SunSparc 20 ?>> 2. What is the best version of popper for Solaris 2.5 ?>> 3. Where can i get the binary ...

Sadly, for the first time, I received no answers from the Sun list. I can only assume that this is a fairly new issue.After tracking the problem a little more, see original problem below, I notice that the /var/saf/tcp/log file on the print server was reporting the following:05/15/00 17:32:29; ...

Hello.Here is the summary but it isn't veryfied. I have added the full qualifiedhostnames and the nicknames in /etc/hosts.equiv in the hope that from nowon the print jobs could be canceld. On the solaris host it does.Here the original question:> Here the story so far.> I've a small ...

Someone from Sun suggesteg that I use a symbolic link instead of justmounting the partition with the real name.Here is the original question:> Hi fellow sysadmin,> > I thought it would be a good idea to place /var/mail in a partition by > itself so I can control better the space of ...

>Anyone have any experience setting up a print filter on Solaris 2.6>for a remote printer? Can this in fact be done or must the printer>be local in order to associate a filter with it?>>I created a script which does nothing more than cat some postscript>code then cat - the ...

==============Original post:We are looking to be able to do batch conversions of X Window dump(xwd) and/or Postscript format files to GIF format, for automaticposting to a web page. Note the 'batch' requirement, so a command-line tool is what's needed.=======Answer:4 tools were suggested: ...

>>Sun says not to install externals on the builtin F/W SCSI port on the>I/O board in slot in becasue it controls the scsi devices (cd, tape) in>the system cabinet. If you only have a CD and tape in the cabinet,>there are other scsi targets left. Why can't other externals be ...

The acturally solution is relate to format of the tape drive.I can easily read the tape, 'tar xvf /dev/rmt/0', by a 8500XL tape drive.I was tried and failed on both 8200 and 8500 tape drives.Thanks for many repiles, and most of them suggested to use 'tcopy /dev/rmt/0'to find out the block ...

For those of you who may have tuned in late...Our story so far...Our hero requested information from the list on the best/easiest way toswap a boot disk from a sun4c into a sun4m machine.In episode 1: Although many respondents reported that it was possible todo this by installing the sun4m kvm ...

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----Credit where credit is due. The person who gave me the patch numberand the right answer was         Sanjaya Srivastava <Sanjaya.Srivastava@Eng.Sun.COM>Of course, I find it vaguely unsettling that somebody at Sun ...

Hello again!Thanks to those who responded to my query - I really appreciate yourwillingness tohelp a fellow Sun sys-admin, and BTW, this is a great thread! Becausemy budgetfor a backup software is limited, the overwhelming response was to go with"Amanda"which is a a public domain ...

Thanks to the followingAlan ReichertDavid EvansAdrian HallMichael RichardsDaniel Wilkinsonhere are the related links these Wonderful people have ...

My original question:> I'm trying to format a 2.1Gb Seagate Barracuda (ST32171N) under Solaris> 2.5.1 without any luck. The workstation is a Sparc10 with a Ross 125> cpu, a SBus SFE FWSCSI card and 2 ST32171N (attached to mother board> SCSI). I was able to install Solaris 2.5.1 ...

Hi Everyone here is my previous query:Thanks to all that replied...... I really appreciated it...> > Hi Everyone,> > I just installed SunOS 4.1.4. However, my old OS was SunOS 4.1.2. > However there were alot of applications and programs in my old SunOS 4.1.2.> So I decided ...

Hi,Thanks for the response.Here is the original message:-----Original Message-----From: Geoff Lamb - EEA/TOS [SMTP:eeagsl@epa.ericsson.se]Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 1997 9:42 PMTo: sun-managers@ra.mcs.anl.govSubject: changed files from installationHi,I am going to be upgrading a sparc 20 with a ...

We are now running 100 full duplex on qfe0. Many thanks to:Robert Hill [Robert_Hill@cch.com]Mark Neill [Mark_Neill@csx.com]Michael Miller [Michael.Miller@oyster.co.uk]German, Vinnie [VGerman@nomurany.com]Larry.Philen@enron.comBruce Wilkins [BruceW@ugo.com]Santimore, Matthew ...

Well this is a strange and wacky world we live in, for sure. I postedto sun-managers, and got 1) answers from all over and 2) a fan fromsomeone one floor up in the same building!! I new this list was fast,but ...Anyway, I did get some good answers, and some not so good. ABout half ofthe ...

Original Posting:We recently installed a Metaframe server to give Sun workstation usersaccess to the Windows applications. It is working great except for twomachines: both Ultra 10s running Solaris 2.6. Below is the error thatoccurs when I try to start a Windows session via Metaframe.X Error ...

Sun-managers,I know I posted a summary my solution to my problem, but it was incorrect. This is the true solution. Originally, I had errors that said "configuration errors" in a bounced mail message. I was correctly told to put the hosts that I wanted my machine to recieve mail for ...

Thank's goes to:Michael Miller <Michael.Miller@oyster.co.uk>> > using sysidcfg, you need:> > security_policy=NONE (for kerberos)> network_interface=elxl0{netmask=255.255.255.0 protocol_ipv6=yes}> > good luck!and also to:Kevin Colagio ...

Thanks to all who responded!Mark HargraveCheckout: http://www.sun.com/sunservice/suned/catalog/csa.htmlfor more information from Sun Microsystems.Original Question:-----------------Has anyone taken the Certification exams to become aCertified Solaris Administrator.How difficult was ...

     To All Sun Managers:          I still have not been able to determine the cause of CPU(0) panic      error on Ultra-2 with 200 MHz ...

Original question:Like most facilities we have a few planned power outages per year whicheffect all computer systems in the building. Since we have over 100 unixsystems(Sunos/Solaris) dispersed throughout the building, Is there a wayto rsh to all systems and invoke the eeprom to power down the ...

Problem:  User did "chown -R novice-user root"...can I recover file attributes  without having to re-install OS?  Note: I should have mentioned that there were *no* backups available.Answer: Yes!   1) Boot single-user from cdrom: ok boot cdrom ...

Thanks to all who provided advice. By running format and re-labeling thedisk with the old partition info, I was able to recover my data.Thanks to : Matthew Santimore                David ...

First of all thaks to:david@bae.uga.eduDenveSC@europe.sortek.comKWhite@talisman-energy.comRav@otk.otk.intec.rushankar.kanabiran@ac.comreineman1@raiders.llnl.govjason.axley@attws.comSROTHENB@montefiore.orgsai@pagemart.comColin_Melville@mastercard.comfor your prompt ...

Thanks toGlenn.Satchell@uniq.com.aucasper@holland.Sun.COM (Casper Dik)mrs@cadem.mc.xerox.com (Mike Salehi)for their responses.As Glenn pointed out, the hsfs(7FS) man page clearly states that:  "This filesystem also contains support for the Rock Ridge  Extensions. ...

Hi,Sorry about the delay in summarizing but none of the solutions the many peopleoffered were acceptable to the end user. The original problem was to use an LCD projector to display a sparc 5 output for a demo. The projection system we have is made for a pc with an HD15 video connector. We ...

Hi!The response was great! What I wound up doing was usingwget to test the ability to connect to the page. This doesn't reallydo the https stuff that would be great, but it works well enough tolet me know whether or not the page is up. I wrote a litte shellscript using this and set up a cron ...

Well, it took LOTS longer than I ever would have thought, but here is asummary I have owed the list for a long time. I hadn't sent anything beforebecause I didn't have the solution; I hope this still helps some of you.My original query:>System: Sparc Classic, 16MB RAM, SUNOS 4.1.3_U1, ...

Thanks alot for the quick responses. All of the responses are includedbelow. My solution was of the Microsoft variety: After a reboot, the sizeof the xfn directory was 512 bytes and the find perused the directorycleanly. Thanks for all of your help!Jesse WhyteSanjaya Srivastava:You should ...

Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 12:44:46 +1000 (EST)From: Rachel Polanskis <r.polanskis@nepean.uws.edu.au>To: pete@crrel.usace.army.milSubject: Re: DiskSuite 4.1 - Discovering drives and slices...On Mon, 15 May 2000, Pete Schmitt wrote:> When starting metatool I get the following error:> ...

The original question:> I have just installed 2.5.1 on a sparc. I've set in nsswitch.conf hosts> entry to dns and files. I've also set domain and nameserver in> resolv.conf. I did multiple successful ftp and telnet connections. Then,> after some hours, I started getting ...

Almost everyone pointed me to:LISTSERV@LISTSERV.syr.eduTo subscribe send email containingSUBscribe NOVELL <your FULL name here>The format is not quite the same as this list,everything comes in one big message, so get readyto use that pg-dn key. Thanks to all respondants.Chris HaggardUNIX ...

Chris Marble wrote:> > A user has an Ultra 2 Model 2168. It reports as having a> 256Mb SIMM and a 128Mb SIMM in it for a total of 384Mb of RAM.> How many slots are there for RAM? What's the max capacity?> How many SIMMs are in an upgrade kit?I have gotten 10 responses so far. ...

OK,Here's the lowdown on what was said.1) Hardware RAID is ALWAYS better. Go with the A3500.2) Fiber is the wave of the future. The A5100 is better, more expandable,and can be used on another server with faster cpu's (and more of them). Gowith the better box.3) Depends on the RAID used. ...

Hi allMy original question:> We have a scenario in which an NT server has a n HP printer with a> postscript option connected to it, and a Sun ss20 running Solaris 2.4>printing to it as a client.>> On the Sun I have defined the NT machine as a BSD server using the> lpsystem -t ...

This list is just great! Here was my question: I am compiling the tcp wrappers and It says in the readme:   When the wrapper programs are compiled with -DKILL_IP_OPTIONS, the  programs refuse to service TCP connections with IP source routing  options. ...

I only had one response with no fix found!Thanks for trying go toDavid Evans.Original posting:-----------------        I am in need of a Makefile guru!                I am ...

    The basic issue delt with the inability of our mailer (sendmail 8.8.6,running on a solaris platform) to handle incoming mail with an address ofthe ...