THE REQUEST:-------------Hi managers,I am having a heck of a time installing (compilling/building) xanimv.27070 on a 2.6 box. The current version we have 27063 was compiledon 2.5 and had no problems.Does anybody have a compiled version of xanim or -even better- apackage?THE ...

All,Here is what I have learned:- To stripe or concatonate disks in solaris you need Solstice Disk Suite4.x or similar software from Veritas (Volume Manager).- Some say that Sun is stopping development on Disk Suite and to withVeritas even though it costs money, its worth it.- Speaking of ...

Hi to all,my original question was : ----------------------------------------In Solaris 2.5.X the NFS share command doesn't accept netgroups withdifferent access permissions on the same line.For example :          share -o ro=netgroup1,rw=netgroup2 ...

----- Original Message -----> Dear Sun Managers,> > I've an Ultra-60. My system suddenly went down. I have an> internal harddisk, one internal cdrom and a floppy and no > external devices connected. My internal h/d bootblk is > corrupted. I need to bootup from cdrom and ...

I would like to thank the following people for their quick response.Michael Ramchand <mpr@fj-icl.com>gmp@adc.com (Gregory M Polanski)Mark Belanger <mjb@ltx.com>ahill@lanser.net (Alan Hill)Brad Young <bbyoung@amoco.com>negativl@netcom.com (Raymond Wong)swelch@home.net (Shaun ...

I have received two answers so far. Many thanks to Auteria Wally Winzer Jr. Jeff Graham for their quick responses.Jeff Graham stated (more or less): "This is usually due to an error in the zone file for that particular domain - usually an underscore or such.". He is/was correct. In ...

Original guestion was> I have a problem:>> #gzip -l personal.dmp.gz> compressed uncompr. ratio uncompressed_name> 352465885 -2109037568 0.0% personal.dmp>> #gzip -dv personal.dmp.gz> personal.dmp.gz: > gzip: personal.dmp: File too large>> I do it on ...

Thanks to Atmane Alouache, Seth Rosenbers, and Authur Darren Dunham fortheir suggestions. There were two methods suggested but unfortunatelyneither one satisfies the requirements of maintaing both an active graphicalconsole AND an active ttya console simultaneously.Aaron KrongardOriginal ...

I was looking for a replacement 4mm DAT 4-Tape Magazine for a SUN Datdrive. Sun does not sell this part anymore, though if you have thesystem the DAT drive is connected to under warrenttee, they willreplace the part for you.Instead I purchased the part ...

[SUMMARY] Can you run Xapp from Cron?Original question was whether you can run an X application from cron,when noone is logged in (and hence there is no X server running). Iknew this was a shot in the dark, but I had to try...General concensus was that you need an X server running; either ...

Colleagues,Once again, the right answer got here even before the original query.Many thanks to Jim McVey, and to anyone else whose answer is still intransit.-fpTHE QUERY:A user group here wants me to install version 2.01 of Netscape's WWWserver on a Sparc system running (unpatched) Solaris ...

My original questions:We have a SPARC2000 with 4 SPARCstorage arrays (240GB) runningSolaris 2.5 and Volume Manager 2.1.1. The SPARC2000 will be adatabase server with lots of reads and writes to Raw partitions.1) Is RAID5 or Striping&Mirroring better from performance ...

thanks for the answer. I got quite a lot of them.Thanks toMarc S GibianRichard J NiziakFrancois LeclercKavin DeanDavid ThorburnAs Richard puts it :"We use it here quite nicely... works fine w/ Solaris, AIX, HP/UXetc.... anything that has a console port even CISCO hubs, firewallsit deas it ...

Dear All,I got 2 replie patch over 103959-09.tar.Z. My problem has been cured. I'm waiting the new patch for 103959 but I will probably applying it separately with cure.Moreover, I also learned the value of SunSolve CDs since I only downloaded patch from Web now. Special Thanks to :Ronald ...

  Hello, My original post was largely missundestood; I wanted to know whether SunOS4.1.4 can work with multiple CPUs, and whether Sun have released a PPP driver for SunOS4.1.4, as the local Sun people say that (A) is impossible and (B) never happened.  Thanks to everyone who ...

ORIGINAL QUESTION:> I have an SS10 running SunOS 4.1.4 that is acting as a workgroup server.>With all of the processes that are running, it is getting kind of loaded>down (smb, atalkd, lpd, mail, NFS, etc.). It currently has 32MB RAM.> I have a second SS10 with its original CPU ...

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I'm not quite through trying to implement this but I thought I'd post mystatus to see if I get any other feedback. This is long but hopefully willhelp some other newbie in the future.Original problem restated briefly:We want to print directly to the print servers on 3 of our printers ...

I thank all those who have been so helpful as to answer and try to helpme on this and my Backspace / Delete question.I apologize for my unclear questions.The 2 systems I have both run Solaris 2.6 For both systems the shellfor root is csh. Neither systems have either a "etc/shells" ...

Finally got the answer to this one from SLMail tech support.Thanks very much to all those that answered. I tried all the suggestions but none of them fixed the problem.The problem was a bug in the SLMail program (version 2.4 and version 2.3 - for both windows NT and windows 95 versions). This ...

I feel pretty stupid; this is right up there with my message about thesparc 5 beeping when it was actually an old pager going off that I thoughthad been disconnected. This problem was due to a mismatch in time betweenthe NFS client and the NFS server. Syncing the time fixed the problem.NOTE: ...

Sorry for the delay, but I previously sent this message, and then had mailproblems on my end.Anyway, the original problem was with a Sparcstation 5 running Solaris 2.3.Somehow the keyboard started emitting keyclicks. Using 'xset -c off' wouldn'twork, because there was no X server running. ...

Thanks for the many replies. The problem was a permission problemon the patch itself. It was go-wrx all the way down. Again, the net is a better source of answers that Sun. Just think, I spent 16 hours on the phone with Sun tech support and they couldnt figure this out. Their suggestion ...

Thanks to all who replied,        There are a few packages that do this,        xrecord        xscript        xmonI tried xmon and ...

Thanks to all who responded, Gary, Mike, Bruce,David, Bryon, and Joel. Thisinformation helped us understand the process.The original message was:> I have changed /etc/system to incorporate some changes needed to supportan> application. I have modified msgsys, semsys, and shmsys. All has ...

Admins,       I got one response from John Malick(john@starinc.com) which solved my problem. The list is impressive. Here I am attaching the reply from him.Thank you John.Original Question:-This is my first post to this list and I hope you won't disappoint me ...

Thanks for all the support! The solution turned out to be a major rewrite of the sendmail configuration file (which now matches the standards), and a couple of additions to the MX rules.I think one of the other problems was that the system used to be SunOS 4.1.3U1.Thanks to go to the ...

Hi Sun managers,Thank very much to Bruce Cross and Scott MacDonald for theirresponses. My problem is solved now. Here is the original question.> ...> The problem is simply that after a `successful'> instalation/configuration, the /etc/hosts file ends like this:> > ...

Our greatful thanks to the many responders. How impressive to a new user. Solution to the problem of inability to complete rebooting:Boot as a single user. (Some indicated as Maintenance Mode)stop-aboot -sthen make the necessary corrections.Again our thanks for your rapid responses. ...

My original message griped of three things:1) Patches in the patch report not appearing on sunsolv.sun.com2) Pine hanging over NFS mail spool3) Virtual Interfaces using round robin IP addressesAbout the patches. Apparently, despite spending a _lot_ of money onSolaris 2.6 RTU's and media, I am ...

sun-managers@ra.mcs.anl.govOriginal post:>Date: Thu, 6 Jun 1996 12:58:05 -0700 (PDT)>From: David Smith <dpsmith@lbin.com>>Subject: Adding a DDS1 or a DDS2 tape drive.> >Hi Sun Managers,> >I need advice on adding a tape drive to a Sparc 10>running Solaris 2.3. > ...

I had asked about issues involved in using RAM from SPARCstation 10 machines in SPARCstation 20s, since my customer has recently upgraded some 10s and has some RAM "left-over" from those 10s.SPARCstation 10 RAM is slower than that needed by 20s. 10s may use 70ns or 80ns RAM while 20s ...

I apologize for the extremely long delay in my summary -I originally wrote:> I currently have sendmail disabled on my Sun-670MP running Solaris 2.5,> but I'd like to enable it and start using it. Can anyone tell me if> there are any Year 2000 problems using sendmail in this ...

Thanks to:Neal S. Pressman" <nsp83273@melsud.res.ray.com>Tim Evans <Tim_Evans@troweprice.com>"F.M. Taylor" <root@uranium.indstate.edu>Changa Anderson <canderson@sitesmith.com>"Michael DeSimone" <michael@desimone.net>James Ford ...

Thanks to these people:        Eirh-Yu Hsie [hsie@al.noaa.gov]        Gustavo A. Lozano [glozano@Colinter.net]        Casper Dik [casper@holland.sun.com]Special thanks to ...

     Folks-     Sorry to take so long in summarizing, but a trip to the GrandCanyon got in the way. Thanks to the following for answering:From: Jay Scott From: "Young, Jim x3125" From: Michael Pesaresi The problem turned out to be an ...

Hi,There's some typo mistake on my earlier SUMMARY. Moreover, I got twomore replies which stated they have the same problem with me. So I'mpretty sure that there's some problem with 103959-09.tar.Z which isincluded in the Latest 2.5.1 recommended patch cluster. Do not applythis patch to your ...

This summary is extremely late!Using xdm under Solaris 2.6, the transitional "greeting" screen wouldhang after a user logged out (the xdm login would never come up). This splash screen is displayed by 'dthello'.Tried many things, but this problem did not go away until the ...

Hi,I left one person out of the summary.My mistake.Carlos Robinson <carlos@borg.ucsf.edu>He provided a very useful URL: http://www-dccs.stanford.edu/lists/sun-managers/hyper94/0692.htmlIt is a Summary of 4mm DAT tape dump options.Thanks,Dave.-- David Smith, Lightbinders, Inc. E-mail: ...

Although I was unable to find Z-Term for PC, I was able to successfullyuse QVT as a terminal emulator for the PC connected to the Sparc 2. Mostresponses directed me to www.tucows.com where you can find mostanything.Thanks to:Marco Greene <cmgreene@netcom.ca>Dmitry Dneprov ...

himy original question concerned the use of indirect maps. everyone whoreplied said go ahead and use them. here are the original questionsand my summarized response.> i have a couple of questions concerning automount map configuration> that i have been unable to answer from the ...

On Fri, 11 Jun 1999, Steven Aizic wrote:> I could swear that there is a Solaris 7 3/99 version out there. But when> I called Sun 3 times yesterday throughout the day to order it, they insist> that there is only the intial release of Solaris 7, and that's it.> > Can anyone ...

Hello admins..First of all, sorry for the delay, but I'll explain that later..Thanks to many people who kindly responded ASAP.This was my original question..>Hello Admins..>>I have 2 machines, a Sparc 20 and a Ultra SPARC 170 with many users which>use internet.>>I am looking ...

Dear all                Firstly thanks to all who replied, I have spent a long timetrying to resolve this. Basically there appears to be a bug which causesthis behaviour. Best resolution upgrade the system , next ...

Thanks to: (email addresses withheld to protect from spammers)Mark BelangerRobin MarquisChristopher HaggardTeng RenyuMark is the prize winner. His email got my brain on the righttrack:> I hope I did not misunderstand the question.> > Most Xapps can be started with a -xrm switch. For ...

Hi,  My original question:> Hi,> Recently someone posted a question regarding limiting source routed> packets on Solaris. This sparked my interest, so I gave it a shot.>> As root, I issued this command:>> ndd -set /dev/ip ip_forward_src_routed 0>> This ...

Here is my original post:Greetings,I am trying to create a termcap entry for CDE dtterm on a Sparc20running4.1.4. I have tried the following entry for dtterm in my termcap fileper Infodoc 13799:dtterm|dtcde|dttermminal from cde:\.....snipI have also tried using infocmp -C dtterm from an Ultra ...

Many thanks to all who replied.The general view is that a script to parse the output of the metastatcommand on a regular basis is the easiest route forward.Unfortunately, due to the format of the metastat output, you either end upwith a very simple script which checks for a status line without ...

Thanks for all your help. There are too many names to print here butyou know who you are.The answers I received for the in.routed problem were:1. Install jumbo patch    [ I am not allowed to do this because our software must run on a ...

-----Original Message-----From: Anspach, Jonathan Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 1999 3:15 PMTo: 'Sun Manager's Mailing List'Subject: Recommendations for LANless file transferWe have several Suns running Solaris 2.6 on our building LAN that we aregoing to take off the LAN and segregate. They will ...