Converting Sparc 1+'s to X-terms. How?

2356 byte By CodeProf.com at 2008-2-13 9:30:00
Thanks to all who responded. My question was how to convertSparc 1+'s to X-terminals under Solaris 2.5. Solutions:   0) Don't convert them to xterms. Sparc 1+'s run Solaris      fine except that you need a little bit more RAM ...

hme0 errors "unix: SUNW,hme0: late collision"

1114 byte By CodeProf.com at 2008-2-13 9:30:00
Thanks for the speedy help :Sanjaya.Srivastava@Eng.Sun.COMlhoo@fcicom.comjeffw@smoe.org--all correctly identified a Full/Half Duplex mis-match between hostand hub.A few comments in /etc/system and all is well.More info can be found in infodoc 15583, "Explanation of Late Collisions" at ...

[SUMMARY] NIS+ Problem

2257 byte By CodeProf.com at 2008-1-13 23:56:00
Hi all,  My original question is at the end of this message.  I got only one response from        Aravind Mallipudi (aravid.mallipudi@us.socgen.com)Thanks to Aravind. I wish I could get more replies and find some way tosolve my problem. It ...

TCP Slow Connection ?

2670 byte By CodeProf.com at 2008-1-7 0:21:00
The real problem is I did not change to DNS server's addressin one of the /etc/resolv.conf. Thanks to varshney@pacbell.netprh@ece.iit.edu (Paul R. Hybert)for their quick and acurate replies.. eric-----------------------------Original Post-------------------------------------->Dear Sun ...

Directing error messages

1274 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:33:00
Thanks:Eugene KramerKenneth Hatfield,and anyone else who responds after I send this.My orig question.:I'm interested in directing the errors that normally go to :/var/adm/messages, to a console window. I want them to also go to :/var/adm/messages. But I wanted them to go to my console window ...

How to backup a filesystem on a remote tape drive..

1863 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:33:00
Hi,Thanks and regards to all those who responded.I recieved a lot of replies andmost of them pointedto basicaly backing up the filesystem using tar,cpio and ufsdump.So the summaryof the commandsare given below:Using TAR:#tar cf - files|rsh <remote m/c name> dd of=/dev/rmt/0Using ...

DNS mailing list

11359 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:33:00
Thanks to all who responded. Here's the summary.>From Marina.Daniels@ccd.tas.gov.au Mon Oct 28 20:46:54 1996Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 10:19:03 +1000From: Marina Daniels <Marina.Daniels@ccd.tas.gov.au>To: Gautam Das <gautam@bwc.org>Subject: Re: Mailing list for ...

routing twice

2017 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:33:00
trust is a funny thing -laying out our network, the router admin setup up a /24 broadcast for ourinside internet router without any static routes. these static routesdelivered back to subnets not directly connected to the router's subnet(hence the proxy, dmz's).adding these static routes for ...

root has no shell!

400 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:33:00
Thanks to all. I (literally) had over 50 responses. All had the same idea.I had to boot from Solaris cdrom and start the installation (my root partitionhad become corrupted, preventing me from fscking and mounting on /a).After entering the system setup info, when asked whether to begin ...

[SUMMARY] 10K RPM disk and Sparc 20 4.1.4

2273 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:33:00
Thanks to quick responses from:Bismark Espinoza [bismark@alta.Jpl.Nasa.Gov]Thomas Knox [knoxth@cch.com]Answer: Yes.Bismark pointed that /etc/format.dat should be modified for 10K RPM, whichhas to do only with formatting time of the disk.I am replacing the existing 4GB internal Seagate disk ...

migrating accounts from osf

2276 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:33:00
Hi,Sorry for this late summary, thx to David Foster for his reply. The onlyreply i got. I tried to do some tests therefore i didnt summarize before.Below is my question and Dave's reply. I must say that , when u convertthe password file to sun's passwd/shadow files'format, it works. ...

Swaping ram between ultra140 and Sparc20/50

1706 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:33:00
My original post: > I have a Sparc 20/50 with 2 32Meg simms and an ultra 140 with 2 16Meg > simms. Is it possible to swap the ram between these two machines? Thanks to:"Duane R. Larkin" <duane@cris.com>catey@wren.geg.mot.com (Don Catey)Christophe DIARRA ...

Open Files and Solstice (Legato) Networker backup

1299 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:33:00
Managers,I only got one reply so far, from Steve Boronski. Thanks, Steve!----Unix systems do not need Open File Manager, as Unix can handle open filecopies without 3rd party add-ons. Unfortunately it is a fundementalproblem with NT and Novell that open (&locked) files cannot be copied.As ...

TCP question

3765 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:33:00
My thanks to the following people for their assistance in answering myquestion:     Glenn Satchell - Glenn.Satchell@uniq.com.au     chiem@azc.com     Swee-Chuan Khoo - ...

Solaris 7 nologin problem

2679 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:33:00
See problem description below. Thanks to Ericka Fowler and Michael Neef forreplying with the fix:> I believe that was a bug and that this patch fixes it:> 107180-23Thanks also to Bernhard Sadlowski, Charles Gagnon, and David Lee, whoreplied. No thanks to the nameless individual who ...

Tape Drive in E250

763 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:33:00
Well.. the tape drive is functional this morning... I took the strange littlecableoff of the internal drive, then set the SCSI ID to 4 with a jumper on the driveitself.. then did the reconfiguration reboot.Thanks to all that helped!>> I just installed a dds3 tapedrive in two E250's ...

updated: "Can't open /dev/rdiskette: Device busy" in mtools

1552 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:33:00
Hi,Thanks to Matthew Stier reply, mtools can actually work with vold.Just ./configure --enable-voldbefore make the mtools.Thanks.> Hi,>> Thanks to the many sun-manager replies, the problem is due to> the running volume manager.>> Shutting down the volume manage may not a good ...

slow useradd on solaris 2.6

2465 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:33:00
Many thanks to:James Wendling <jbwendl@bnpcn.com>Jim McVey <jmcvey@nhgri.nih.gov>Rik Schneider <rik@netasset.com>Rick Lantaigne <Rick.Lantaigne.lantaign@nt.com>The solution was to install patch 105397-02.The original question was:> Recently I upgraded one of our ...

quad interface port.

1186 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:33:00
My original question:How can a system interface (quad port device) be made available?Answer: The quad port devices use the qeN (instead of leN)) and can be made available with> ifconfig qeN plumb <. Thus the boot will look like> /etc/hostname.qeN.On our system> prtconf < display ...

converter from PCL to PS

7144 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:33:00
Hello.Follwing was my original question:leideck@pi3.informatik.uni-mannheim.de said:> Hello. It's probably not the right group but i need a tool which can > convert pcl-output from a hp laserjet 5si to postscript. Thanks in > advance WolfgangAnd here is my summary:The lj2ps converter ...

Sendmail error: NOQUEUE: Null connection from mailserver

2243 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:33:00
Summary:========thanx: Charlie Mengler <charliem@anchorchips.com>It is kind of not really a real problem.This log entry means that someone for example didtelnet mail.chinalake.navy.mil 25quitThe 2 previous lines opens up a connection to sendmail,but delivers no message. You'll get a ...

FTP tools

1398 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:33:00
Hi..Allmost all replies pointed to NcFTP.Thanks toPantring, Dirk Dirk.Pantring@dresdner-bank.comHarald Fricke Fricke.Harald@mh-hannover.deDavid Thorburn-Gundlach dtg@cae091.ed.ray.comJonathan Loh jloh@futon.sfsu.eduMark Bergman bergman@hercules.phri.nyu.eduTony C. Wu ...

NIS security

8276 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:33:00
Fellow managers:This is a delayed summary, since I was expecting a few more responsesbut not much on this one. The bottom line for me is that there are security holes in NIS and dependingon how paranoid one is, should select accordingly between NIS andNIS+. I still feel that NIS+ is an ...

User Open Only One Login session?

4983 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:33:00
Thanks for all reply so quickly ....here is the solution.....Thanks ErickaMy Question was :> > Friends -> Any idea How can we restrict the user to not open more then one session ata> time(User Level) ......Best Regards,Dr. Malahat QureshiUnix Solutions,Allstate Insurance Co. ILPh: ...

Setting up Login, .Xsession and so on, in a nice way

3737 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:33:00
Well, this is long overdue - sorry to the two who responded, and sorryto anyone who needed the information in the mean time.My original question:----- Begin Included Message -----Dear sun-managers,I'm fiddling with setting up my .login, .cshrc and so on files ina really sound manner, and I'm ...

Creation of customized bootable Solaris 8 CD-ROM (access to VxVM root)

2700 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:33:00
Thxs to Richard Ashton,Charles Seeger,Arthur Darren Dunham, andGrant LoweHere's in my words the answer from the latter 2 :Encapsulated rootdisk can be mounted directly from the cdrom, after astandard "boot cdrom -s". Since the rootvol is not a VxFS (thus is notlogged), a fsck may be ...

StarOffice

2543 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:33:00
My original question was:"When starting staroffice it starts-up with a full-screen window. I havenot been able to find a means of startingit up with a smaller screen size. Has anyone figured this out?"Thanks to the following for their responses:rsaddler@cccis.comJackie Rosinsky ...

Setting dpost as default filter for troff

1788 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:33:00
The original question is at the end. Thanks to the following folks for their replies. Here's what they suggested:Chris Marble <cmarble@orion.ac.hmc.edu> wrote:I've always just done "man whatever | col -b | lp"mwang@tech.cicg.ml.com (Michael Wang) wrote:Forget all about ...

How to convert from SUNW,Ultra-Enterprise to SUNW,Ultra-1 installation?

4805 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:33:00
Summary:========thanks: sturges@gmri.com, "Marco Greene" <cmgreene@netcom.ca>,         Jim Robertori <jimr@tpesops.pr.lucent.com>,        ganeshan" <ganeshan@gcs.com.au>, ...

What's PPET time?

2819 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:33:00
Thanks to Dave: dave@scg8a.es.hac.comand all that responded.Here's the answer:> SRDB ID: 5833> > SYNOPSIS: what timezone is PPET (not PST)?> > DETAIL DESCRIPTION:> > The date command lists the timezone as PPET instead of PST.> What does PPET mean?> > ...

VLSM and Solaris

1943 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:33:00
Thanks to the following for their responses:Stephen <sweh@mpn.com>Casper Dik <casper@holland.sun.com>Scott Woods <sfw@adc.idt.com>Benjamin Cline <benji@hnt.com>The Question:-------------Is variable-length subnet masking (VLSM) not supported ...

(late) Possible compatibility problem Sol 2.6 and 2.7

2867 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:33:00
Sorry for this rather late summary! I cought the flu :(Thanks to Casper Dik, David Robillard, Kevin Sheehan, Aki Sasaki andothers who responded!Well, I did not find a direct solution for the problem, but somethingis different in Solaris 7.I played around with gdb and found that on Solaris 2.6 ...

probe-scsi hangs on sparc 10

2317 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:33:00
Before I get too swamped with replies I want to summarizethis. I found that when we powered down & unplugged theexternal drive our probe-scsi command worked fine. I guess we have a bad external drive...Here's the original post:> > The probe-scsi command is hanging on one of our old ...

audio files

1565 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:32:00
Hi All,Thanks to the following and the list in general for the ultra quick responseto my query about how to play audio files under Solaris:rich@brake.demon.co.ukMatthew.Stier@tddny.fujitsu.comsjs@sunthing.sjsinc.comrick@lunger.llnl.govbenji@hnt.comfcusack@eng.fore.comThe answer I was looking ...

TIME updates

1413 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:32:00
Thank you to the 60+ people who replyed to my question!In short, the two primary answers that I received were: rdate and xntp.Since xntp will sync the systems gradually I'll go with that one.xntp can be found at: http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~ntpI just love this Mail List!Robert L. BaileyOn Fri, ...

Volume Manager Encapsulation Problem.

2804 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:32:00
Thanks to Satinder Mangat for solving my problem in record time and to any one else who takes the time to pitch in with the answer. See Satinder's solution followed by my original post.I moved a partition off the disk, shrunk the partition a few meg and copied the data back. Encapsulation then ...

drvconfig fails at end of 2.6 install on Ultra 5

2487 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:32:00
My mistake was to use Sun's latest (as of last Wednesday) RecommendedPatch set for Solaris 2.6, rather than the set of patches which camewith the 5/98 release of 2.6. The recommended set doesn't include105654-03 which corrects the following bugs:4095546 simba entry incorrect in ...

3: SunPCi Upgrade

12752 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:32:00
It worked. I replaced a 300MHz CPU for a 400MHz CPU. I only had tochange the clock multiplier from 4.5 to 6 by removing jumpers 3-4 and 5-6(see table below)SunPCi booted up saying it had a 400. No problems yet.==================================================| Frank Velazquez || Siemens ...

NIS+ domain vs. DNS domain

1751 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:32:00
Wow, answers back already.The consensus is that it won't matter as NIS+ and DNS are unrelated.My concern is that Solaris' gethostbyname() is broken, and I knowof at least one program that uses the NIS domain if a FQDN is notreturned by gethostbyname() [to generate a license key].I was hoping ...

passwd/shadow entry 'listen'

1181 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:32:00
Everyone says that "*LK*" is the right entry for the password filed,although "NP" won't hurt.Gabriel pointed out to check for files in ~listen/.ssh/ becausesecure-shell might let someone into the system.Many thanks go toS. GauthierJeff RichmondTracy GraffMatthew Lee ...

Trap3e on Ultra 10

2403 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:32:00
        Okay, so I started futzing with the machine, unplugging variousthings, etc. Turns out the cheapo IDE boot drive that it ships with bitthe dust. I'm going to boot from cdrom and try fsck'ing it back to life.If that doesn't do it. I'll pop in a ...

Reading RSTS format tapes on Solaris

3273 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:32:00
Hi,There were a number of different answers to my query. Thanks to everyonewho replied.SOLUTION: I ended up writing my own program with the help of Tim Shoppa(shoppa@alph02.triumf.ca). This program (dostape) reads DOS-11/RSTS-E tapeson a Solaris 2.5 machine in much the same way vmsbackup reads ...

root passwd summary

133 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:32:00
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Sbus card question

1729 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:32:00
Thanks to:Victor Churchill <vic@netfixer.net>Mark Olson <mark_olson@adc.com>Steve_Turgeon@putnaminv.comIt's a fast scsi card, with 10baseT...not 100. Ah well.Thanks :)Greg> > > Hey all,> > I have an old sbus card here I'm trying to identify. It *appears* to be > ...

questions on syslog

1798 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:32:00
>> Hi all. Either I have found a bug in syslog, or I am doing something>> wrong. The following line:>> >> # Keep track of all mail sent and retrieved by this system>> mail.info /var/log/mail.log>> >> causes in.rshd attempts to be logged to ...

How to Install man pages

2740 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:32:00
I would like to ThankFrank Mundinger,Andres Van,Rodney Wines,Andy Lee,Haydee Y Ching,Mahesh,John C Julian,James Ford,Madanagopalan,Bruce R.Zimmer,Igor Schein,Ken Robson,Changa Anderson,Arthur W Word Jr,Ram Rudra &PM Soni.I apologies if I missed any name/s.I used catman -M /usr/local/manMy ...

HP 1/2 inch tape under solaris 2.5.1

1871 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:32:00
Thanks to all who took the time to answer my question below.> > Can anyone show me what I need to put in the /kernel/drv/st.conf given> > the info above, or point me to a document explaining what the different> > sections in the st.conf file mean?> > The following people ...

compressing huge file

2280 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:32:00
Hello,thanks for all the replies I got for this one - the responsewas overwhelming!My problem involved compressing a huge file for which I had no roomto both tar and compress, due to the fashion in which the disks werepartitioned.The file was gigantic, in fact the task was not mine to do,but I ...

printer Quota

2064 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:32:00
Hello all,Thanks a lot to Ulf Noren .....I knew about the the LPRng system but I want some thing more easer thanthat .....my original message was .....I will be so grateful if anyone could help me in setting up a usersquota for an HP laser printer on a SPARC machine running Solaris 2.6with ...

identifying cause of iowaits...

2650 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:32:00
In my original query I was wondering if there was a simple way toidentify a process which would be causes excessively high IOWAITpercentages.It was pointed out to me that IOWAIT is really just another wayof saying DISK IO BOTTLENECK (although this can be tty ornetwork traffic, this appears to ...