Concensus was to switch the system key to SECURE, so that when theconsole dies, it does NOT take the system with it.I was more worried about the terminal and the strange prompts, but,you're right, the machine is more important.P.S. I've tried the 'correct' channels with no success - does ...

Thanks to those who responded so quickly.A quick recap of the problem:------------------------------------------We noted that jobs that were scheduled to run at times ending in zeroweren't happening. I asked if this was a known problem and if a patchwas available.Subsequently, I ...

Orginal question:Having a problem with a couple Netra T1`s running Solrais 2.7, atthe latest patch level 106541-11. When I look in the /dev directoryon my older Netra's I see:> Netra t1 A> # ls -l /dev/{term,cua}> /dev/cua:> total 12> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root ...

Many thanks to all who replied...the list is long and distinguished!!!The correct answer is 'catman -w'. I am somewhat wary of putting man pages in /usr/share/man as they will be zappedon an upgrade. Some of these pages were put there by app installs (NetWorker) and some by me. I'll have ...

Original question:| | We've got a bunch of systems (suns) using the CDE,| on one machine (a UE450) the rpc.ttserverd started pegging the cpu| PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME CPU COMMAND| 776 root 1 -25 0 2920K 1216K cpu/1 20.3H 48.55% rpc.ttdbserverd| | as a ...

SUBJECT: I was looking for a small device to console into my machines...Most people suggested the palm pilot.For the application I am going to go with ptelnet which can be found at ...

My orginal plea for help follows:***************************************************************************Anyone know if Windows 95 or NT apps can be served to Windows 95 orNT clients ( PCs ) from a server running UNIX, like ...

Dear Sun Managers,First off all, thank you to the respondents who,in according to appearance were:  Brad Young <byoung@splitrock.net>  Jonathan Loh <Jonathan.Loh@bankamerica.com>  Arthur Darren Dunham <add@netcom.com>  Matthew Atkinson ...

My original question was:What happens to incoming mail if the destination machine is takenoff-line for a few days?My thoughts are that the mail delivery will be tried for 3 days out onthe Internet and if the host is not up by then, the sender will receivea notification that the mail cannot be ...

Hi every body,Sorry for the delayed summary being posted as our we were still testing forany possible failure, which hasnot happened so far. ( its 7 days since firewall was put on productionafter installing all the recommendedpatches for solaris X86( ver 2.5.1)The fix was installing all the ...

hithe original question concerned this error message from rdist:> bear: LOCAL ERROR: Unexpected input from server: "rdistd: Command notfound.".the problem was that /usr/ucb/rdist had been replaced on the server only withwhat appears to be USC's public domain rdist.the full text of ...

Hi,My original problem:  I am trying to install the latest recommended patches on a Solaris 2.5  machine.  Every patch fails with this error:  pkgadd: ERROR: checkinstall script did not complete successfullyThe answer: pkgadd runs ar uid nobody, and ...

Thanks to all for the suggestions, especially to Mats Robertson and Julie<p>Baumler. They both suggested using the xcapture facility, that is supplied<p>with the citrix client for Solaris. This has worked a treat and my users are<p>very happy indeed, so thanks again.<p>Cheers.....Sean.<p>

Hi,        I would like to thank all those who replied so        promptly to the following :        I have PCNFSpro Ver2.0 nfs client installed on some Win95 ...

Dear Sun Managers,Again, thank you to the respondent who,in order of appearance were:Casper Dik <casper@holland.sun.com>As Casper pointed out: ...."snoop just looks at the content of the packet and doesn't check whether it's a continuation packet."Indeed, I could ...

Many thanks to the following and to those that responded and I haven'treceived their mail yet:erich@decux.nvg.com (Erich Breu)gdonl@gv.ssi1.com (Don Lewis)David Lee <T.D.Lee@durham.ac.uk>Kevin Davidson <tkld@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>Matthew Stier - Imonics Corporation ...

Thanks again to all for their help.Big winner on the server side was Qualcomms Qpopper, available at:    ftp ftp.qualcomm.com    ftp opcom.sun.ca    http sunfreeware.com    http www.eudora.comClient side ...

Original Question:>I've just started a new job and the routing in my lab seems a little>different than what I'm used to:>> 1) Machines don't set a default route to a gateway.> 2) They don't run routed> 3) They DO set a default route through themselves with a hop> ...

My original question :> I'm going to have to set up an E450 box (as a ClearCase server),> and I'm unsure whether to go Solaris 7 or 8, especially since I> haven't tried Solaris 8 before. What would this most excellent> list advise?Since there is no real consensus on this one, ...

Dear Sun Managers,Among the answers I got for my question How to debug why my machine rebootsoften (Solaris 2.6).===========1. /var/adm/messages2. add "*.* /var/log/all" to /etc/syslog.conf (see man syslog.conf)After collected information, take the line out. Watch your disk space ...

HI,Thanks for the help :chp@yuanyuan.ucsd.edu (Christina Show)Tom Mornini <tmornini@infomania.com>Peter Marelas <maral@sprint.com.au>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++Original question:On my network, all my suns print via a printer server ...

Folks - several people responded to the first summary with some additional info:- there are some tty based portions to calander manager worth lookingat-  relevant commands are cm_insert, cm_delete, and cm_lookup - Netscape calander server also had a tty interface, and GUI ports ...

A short and fast answer from Casper Dik:>>Is there a way to run tcpdump / snoop>>on the loopback interface (lo0) ?>No.>CasperRegards,Benno---------------------------------------------------------------Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do.- Sebastian Benoit- ...

Hi,I received once again a lot of answers, thanks to allof you who responded,i.e. Dan Lowe, Buddy Lumpkin, Gabriel Rosenkoetter,Bageshwar Kumar, Don Cary Grant,Clsenburg, Mark R. Studebaker, Narender ReddyMuthyala, David Foster, Steve Harris,Torsten Robert Kirschner, David Ledger, Matthew ...

        Thank you for every body which have helped me on that.        the Solaris 2.6 comes with the named server installed on it, andi just had to set the named.boot file at /etc directory, and had to makethe ...

Hi sun-managers,Thanks for all replies!The solution for my configuration was to use another database map class(like "dbm" or "db").When using"FEATURE(access_db, dbm /etc/mail/access)"in m4 macro file to generate sendmail.cf, I can access entries in accessfile!To ...

This group never ceases to amaze me. I received many answerswith exactly the information I was looking for.Since I was only looking for simple information like CPU loadingover time the best solution was to use sar. I needed to uncommentthe sa1 and sa2 lines in sys's crontab in order for the ...

Hello managers,i asked:>we're about to setup a fontserver to serve all our systems and xterminals>(solaris, linux, aix, irix - ncd's and tektronix's - cde, kde, ...)>>Aside from "man -P/usr/openwin/man xfs", do you have any tips, tricks, >docs, known pitfalls, ... ...

Thanks to all who responded, especially Dave Bevans and Glenn Satchell.The solution was to use ufsdump/ufsrestore to create the new system diskbefore upgrade.Dave Bevans' response: -- Another possible issue is that when you rebuild a new drive from     backups ...

Well, thanks again everyone. A few respondants wanted to know "why?" ;-)Well I simply wanted the space back and openwin has been serving my needs.I'll play with CDE when I can get more RAM or a sparc 5...That said I would like to quote Vicky Lau <vlau@msmail2.hac.com>. Her ...

Thanks to all who responded.The answer is to su to the listproc user in the rc script and then startthe server. I also found a script for this at: http://www.cren.net/ftp/software/lp_utils/sample_init.d---Non Impediti Ratione ...

Hello managers,within several minutes i received lots of mails with the solutionto my problem:>make sure that the /data mount point has 755 permissions BEFORE you mount>the filesystem.Thank you all very much again!Bernt Christandl (beb@mpa-grching.mpg.de)-----------------my question ...

Thanks to all who shared their experiences. Looks like the problem may notarise with EVERY SINGLE application of matlab under solaris 2.5. My originalsource indicated that "large" data arrays appeared to be the cause, or atleast a correlate. I am leaning towards proceeding with the ...

Here is the original problem:We are using the fvwm (Motif 1.2.4) on Sun Sparc 10's running Solaris 2.5.1. These systems are operating just fine.I just purchased and installed Sun Ultra 1 Creator and Sun Ultra 2 Creator 3D systems running Solaris2.5.1. When I try to bring up the motif based X ...

Thanks to all who responded!!Orig. Question:--------------How do I determine what NFS Version I'm running on Solaris?Answer:------/usr/bin/rpcinfo -u hostname nfsThanks,Mark---------------------------------------Mark Hargrave, Sr. Unix Systems ManagerLockheed Martin Michoud Space SystemsNew ...

Thanks for every one for excellent response...I have done the craziest thing.. I have not given the path. I added/usr/ccs/bin and then it started working fine..Special thanks to Jonathon , Bertrand, David and daniel for a quick &effective ...

My original post was for "Speech recognition software" for Unix systems. Theoriginal responses indicated that there was no software as yet, and the wayto go was better equipment and more exercises.Gary White and Kevin Sheehan emailed back saying that this wasn't quite true.Thanks to ...

Sorry, forgot to "summarize" it.---------------------- Forwarded by Jeff Kennedy/NDS on 07/23/99 10:49 AM---------------------------"Jeff Kennedy" <jeff.kennedy@natdecsys.com> on 06/23/99 08:49:35 ...

Original Question:Hardware : SS20 128MB RAMOS : Solaris 2.6 3/98I'm having problems with patchadd when I try to patch theNet Install Image on the hard disk.After the following command        patchadd -C /export/install/Solaris_2.6/Tools/Boot ...

Hi there,I asked how can I setenv the DISPLAY automatically when rlogin.I used the "who am i" command in the .cshrc to find the machine I rlogined from and so to setenv the DISPLAY. However I got errors while doing it on Solaris 2.5.The answer I liked best was a simple one. use ...

Hi Managers,Thanks to Jason Timmins I have a workaround for the zs problems.It turns out that Solaris 2.6 has a problem with the serial drive if you don't have the Sun connected to a network and the EEPROM setting tpe-link-test?=true.I now have my machine connected to a small ethernet hub and ...

Hello everyone,I received two responses for this problem, one said to look at the MaxtorWEB site since they mentioned issues with drives larger than 32Gb.Unfortunately, there was nothing there that was helpful.The second response I had was from Kai Yan, he was able to get it to workby ...

Thanks to :Casper Dik <casper@holland.Sun.COM>Nikos George <george@pop.psu.edu>Danny Johnson 0172547 <djohnson@nbserv2.dseg.ti.com>"Dennis F. Morse" <dmorse@sun-valley.Stanford.EDU>Jeff Wasilko <jeffw@smoe.org> [Boy!, were you quick or what?]My Earlier ...

   I received some answers, suggesting to user lsof or fuser to findout if there is some process with open files. As the machine is ourNFS server, the only processes were the nfsd and rpc.ttdbserverd.My next tries will be to restart the NFS server processes, and mayberun an fsck ...

My original post:> As suggested, I upgraded to INN-1.5.1 with security patch-05 and PGP. I have a> few questions though.> > How does one decide about who can be trusted with control messages? When I look > at the control.ctl file, I see for example: > > # *PGP* See ...

Hi Managers,Thanks to john ballard who confirmed that the old Sun CD-ROM's don't work on an Ultra 30.--------------------------- original post -------------------------------> Hi Manager,> I am trying to use an old Sun CD-ROM on a Ultra 30.> I can probe the device with ...

Hello,sorry for the late summary,i'v got a lot of answers and i want to thank to all the good people that answer my question ,i didn't got the chance to check all the answers, so thank again.original question was :> Hello all,> i have solaris 2.4 running on sparc 20> my question is ...

Thank you for you answers.Essentially, Edit Preferences --> Netscape --> ApplicationsChange the program to reference "****/soffice %s"I also learned about ~/.mailcap, where this information is replicatedby the Netscape helper.Chris Graves ...

> From: Harry Levinson <levinson@ll.mit.edu>> To: Nancy M. Wallace <nmw@hnt.com>> Subject: Re: mount failure> Did you set up shares? If so, you also need to do a> '/etc/init.d/nfs.server start' to start up the nfsd and mountdprocesses.> They are not started if ...

Hi,I received two answer about this problem and I fixed it.My original question was :------------------>Hi ,>does anyone know why sometimes on my mail server every minute there is apop file from the same user ?>This is a problem because I must cancel those files or reboot the ...