Hi admins!.Here we go.Original post:Hello admins!.Enviroment : Solaris 2.5.1 with CDE 1.0.2 .My question is :Can I run CDE without run dtlogin ?I tried put the dtwm in my .xinitrc, but doesn't work.Thanks in advance.And the answer was:From: David Perel <davidp@jsbach.njit.edu>yes -- ...

Hello,I received one response and got spport from SUN also. The problem was a mismatch in two patch revisions causing the frame buffer driver tofail.The patches are: 106145-17 and 106148-12.Tom.---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tom Crummey, ...

Thanks to all of the quick responses. Too many to list......<p>My original question was doing a cpio from one directory to another, and the<p>answer is;<p>cd /dir2/subdir<p>cpio -icvBdm < /dir1/file1.cpio<p><p>Thanks again.<p>--Matt<p>

Hi!I posted a problem about installing NIS+. I have 2 sub-domains, so I did notknow which one to choose as the root master.Thanks to Dixon Ly and Kenneth Simpson and a very special thanks to Daniel J Blander I have a better idea about how I can handle this. Please see myoriginal post and the ...

Hi Sun-managers,Thanks to the following:foster@bial1.ucsd.eduMichael Metcalf <MichaelMetcalf@compuserve.com>ABBASPOUR-FARD <M.H.Abbaspour-Fard@newcastle.ac.uk>Peter Shenkin <shenkin@still3.chem.columbia.edu>Igor Schein ...

Thanks to the group again. Here's the summary: ndd command is the hands down favorite.MarkFrom: Dan Dunn <dunn@gsfc.nasa.gov>From: Rahul Roy <uroy@eadev1.vanguard.com>        The ndd command is used to tweak TCP/IP parameters. Changes ...

attached mail follows:Thank you! I appreciate your very helpful insight.This was exactly the problem, apparently.Michael Baumann wrote:> > On Fri, 9 May 1997, Rex Espiritu wrote:> > > After installing Motif on a Solaris 2.5.1 OS server, admintool runs fine> > on the server ...

Thank you, everybody, for your great support.Original question:=================I need to export the cdrom from a source node to a target node both runningSunOS 4.1.3.On the source node, I mounted the cd and exported it:  # mount -rt hsfs /dev/sr3 /cdrom  # echo /cdrom ...

Question :> Hello Managers>> CPU usage : %sys about 50% for no apparent reason.> Any idea, I don't have all the latest patches on my machine.> when i try to power cycle the machine using init 6 the machine does not> go down, and after 5 minutes or so i do a ...

I sent out my request on Friday for other peoples experience with Sun PCi cards.Those that replied seem to be happy with the their PCi cards. I now suspect that some our problems are because our "C:" drives are not big enough.Incidentally there is a new version of the PCi software ...

Original Question: I am currently involved in the upgrading of our tapelibrary system. We have a DLT4000 library that has worked great. My questionto the list is has anyone tried the other tape library media such as AIT,AME 8mm, or other? How has it performed? Due to the cost of these systemsI ...

Many thanks for the help. I just changed the value in the /etc/system file and rebooted,showed the boss it had changed, and changed it back. Took a little explaining for the secondreboot, but oh well.Here is my original message:Hi all,        The boss ...

-----Original Message-----From: Aaj_Joseph@ACML.COM <Aaj_Joseph@ACML.COM>To: sun-managers@codeprof.ececs.uc.edu<sun-managers@codeprof.ececs.uc.edu>Date: Sexta-feira, 11 de Junho de 1999 16:27Subject: Summary : high CPU usage %sys>>>>Question :>>> Hello ...

Thanks to the following folks for their quick response:"Samson, Jacques" <JSamson@nrcan.gc.ca>Jafar Shameem <jsham@nomad.etsd.ml.com>Ronald Loftin <reloftin@mailbox.syr.edu>------------------------------------------------------------------------------Original ...

Thank you for the answer. The way to do it are:   1. Put /bin/false on /etc/passwd for the acoount entry    2. Put /bin/false on /etc/shells My original post:> can anyone tell me how to create a account for FTP ony (NOT ANONymous > account)on SUN ...

Thanks to all for the answers.the general concensus was to make sure the spooling directory existed in/var/spool/printers.then edit the /etc/printcap file accordingly and finallylpc to manage the printserverthanks again allmattORIGINAL ...

Sun-Managers,        Sorry for the delayed summary.         Thank you very much to everyone who replied, you provided valuableinformation: * Recommended methodology: boot to single-user mode, change the date,then ...

Thanks to the mail list. I received 24 replies in less than a day! Myoriginal question:> Has anybody been able to setup ghostscript on Solaris, or is it only> compatible on BSD systems? If you were able to set it up on> Solaris, any information will be helpful (like where I can find ...

Well, the right way with patch installations is : first backout old patchand then install the new one. Erasing the patch directory in/var/sadm/patch is not a good idea.Many thanks to :Justin Young <justiny@cluster.engr.subr.edu> Dave Zavatson <dhzavatson@ucdavis.edu>Henry Katz ...

-----Original Message-----From: samara <samara@plugue.com.br>To: sun-managers@codeprof.ececs.uc.edu<sun-managers@codeprof.ececs.uc.edu>Date: Sexta-feira, 11 de Junho de 1999 17:52Subject: Fw: Summary : high CPU usage %sys>>-----Original Message----->From: ...

Hi, i have learnt a lot about SCSI last two weeks. Most important is the difference between LVD and HVD. Now we are looking for an converter from HVD to LVD or an SBus Ultra2 LVD controller, but it seems, that there is no controller. On the other side we found converter cards......Franz ...

     I asked:> Is there some way you can set a maximum number of sessions per user-id > on a Solaris 2.x system?> > eg: so they can only have 5 sessions going at once?> Thanks to cmfung@ee.cuhk.edu.hk who answered:You can put the ...

Thanx to all that replied. I didn't get an exact answer but from themajority of the suggestions I got, it seems like wu-ftp might be the answer.I will install that and try to see if that will help. Another simplesolution was to leave everything how I have it setup and just run a cron jobto ...

Thanks to: Karl Vogel, Igor Kolker, Rich Kulawiec, Kent Arnott, Ric Anderson,Rich Pieri, Brian Wells, Rick von Richter, Jonathan Loh, DavidDavisson,Stephen Harris, Fred (admin@dcwill.com), and Daniel Baker.============================================================================Most of you ...

Here is my original post :Hey Gurus,I inherited an ultra-2 running 5.6 as NIS master. It has a shadow andshadow- file under /var/yp/masters which it uses to authenticate passwords.It is a mystery to me... i always believed that nis uses passwd map itselffor password authentication. This causes ...

Thanks to all who pointed out that I was thinking along the lines of thevery complex when the problem should have been quite plain if lookedat simply. I realioze now that I posted a rather dumb question and failedto provide alot of detail that was probably necessary. But, the answerwas a simple ...

My original question can be found at the end of this email butthe basic problem and it's solution are summarised below.PROBLEM:  When installing patches to a Solaris 2.x system it is usual  to back out of the old patch revision, or obsoleted patches,  and then ...

I got several responses on my Jumpstart question. I should have been moreclear.. My /etc/nsswitch.conf file had "files" then "dns" and not theother way around... However it was definitely a wise piece of advise.The second suggestion was to modify the ...

Larry Williamson writes: > > I always reboot -r when I install new drives in any system. But I > would really like to avoid this if possible on one system we have > here. > > It is an Enterprise 3000. I have added 3 new drives and it will be > very inconvenient to ...

Recap: After installing thge latest Sun recommended patch to a Solaris 2.5.1 machine, X fonts started behaving strangely, with the most apparent problem being a lack of spaces between words, when using Greek language support. Unfortunately, we have very little to say on this subject, aswe ...

Thanks to all who responded. The solution we're now usingis:1. Set everyones default shell to csh.2. Create a netgroup containing all the users who wish touse the ksh. Eg.        ksh_users (,freemang,) (,smithj,) (,bloggsj,) ...

Hi Folks,Numerous responses pointed me at Sun Express and one of the first hadwith the actual part number which I ordered just about immediately.The were pointers to other places to order the part both a little cheaper and more exspensive. I'll list those below. The actual Sun part # ...

Hi to all,    thanks to all for your quick responses,    the problem was related with an application running under LotusNotes. Since we stopped it, free memory is now stabilised.    Bellow are the responses that I have ...

OK, i've got two responses.It is a hardware problem.David Evans <daevans at us dot oracle dot com> suggests to check memory modules viaswapping them with modules from another machine. If panic persists - it is CPUproblem, if no - memory problem.Unfortunatelly we don't have another ...

Original Question:-----------------Does anyone know where I can get a Web Browser to run on a486 PC running Solaris 2.5.1 X86?Answer:------Netscape has versions available for Solaris x86, but they're unsupported.They can be found ...

Hello sun-managers,On previous week Friday, I posted to this list, telling we areconsidering to purchase SUN PCi cards, and have asked people alreadyusing these cards for their opinions. I have intended to summarize theresponses as soon as possible, but it came out to be quiet late, sorry.My ...

Thanx for all the responses, the general opinion was that the 'O' wasnothing but a way of saving files which was probably used by an earlieradmin.The only extraordinary thing I notcied was that the cron was using the ologfile as its log file instead of the log file.This might be a setting ...

My original post asked if it was possible to build a dual processor system fromtwo mono processor systems. Basically it is possible if the Mbus processorsare of the same clock rate and have cache. There are no O/S changes neededto make this work.Commands to know:/usr/sbin/psrinfo ...

Original question:> Running Solaris 2.5.1 on a Sun Ultra 1.> > Something strange started to happen to my openwindows.> When I try to start the Properties option, under the category of Color> I get the following message:> "Cannot allocate read/write colorcells.> ...

The answers to the pain involved in moving from Disksuite to VeritasVolume Manager said either that there is no easy way or it is not toohard. Draw your own comclusions from the responses, attached below.Thank you very much for taking the time to respond!Steven SakataRick von RichterDave ...

As always the list comes through and saves another sysadmin.Solution was to boot from cdrom, fix the password and shadow files,remove the offending file in /dev, and reboot.Wish I had time to give everyone who responded credit but time inprecious right now. I'll thank them individually.Thanks ...

     In using the GUI program with the Volume Manager, when you choose the      menu options Basic Operation/Create/RAID, you're given a form to      specify size, etc. The bottom of the form asks you to if you want to ...

Thanks for all the answers I got.My original question was :I have to transfer a very large file , around 600 MBytes, over the net. Iwas wondering if there is a better way to transfer the file besides the FTPprotocol.The answers I got :- Send the file thru DHL.- Compress the file ( compress gzip ...

Thanks guys. Using lsof from sunfreeware site, I found that those were Oracle MTSdispatcher listener ports.Again the list works great.lsof -i tcp:1530did the trick once installed.============================================Jaewan Kim856-988-0062 x425 (u1.net)877-250-8919 (ureach.com ...

My problem was quickly solved with the help of Davin Milun (milun@cs.Buffalo.EDU)who points me to his program setquota.c at :ftp://ftp.cs.buffalo.edu/users/milun/Solaris/setquota.cVery thanks Davin!-- ++ Salvador Ramirez Flandes mailto:sram@inf.UDEC.CL ++++ Unix/Internet System Administrator ...

Managers:My original question is included below. I was hoping todiscover how Sun Solaris FNS (Federated Name Service)is supposed to bring together NIS, DNS, and LDAP. Wewere hoping to centralize our NIS and LDAP databasestogether as one.I only got one response after 3 full ...

thanks to the following for making good suggestions, though nothing worked:Michael Arndt [M.Arndt@science-computing.de]Sid_Shapiro@bio-rad.commike.salehi@kodak.comin the end, I added a firewall rule specifically for my host. I did nothave to do this for any of the other hosts that brazil could ...

First of all I want to apologize for the not correct subject and forthe fact that I didn't search the archive of sun-managers.... butI was in a little hurry, users were waiting for their data ... :-)Do you know that the members of sun-managers are faster than e-mail ?(I got many responses ...

Sorry this took so long but you know how it is...The consensus is that         1. DHCP server s/w does NOTcome with Solaris 2.x        2. DHCP server s/w DOES come with Solstice ...

Thank you to the following:Alvoro CoronelMike GhicasJochen BernFrank SmithDale HsuDan AndersonMichael CunninghamRik SchneiderBasically they all told me to wary of netscape/solaris caching takingeffect here. While an nslookup will re-query and come up with a newanswer, a reload on a browser ...