Ah, something pointed out to me after I sent the summary....Static copies of some utilites are located in  /usr/sbin/staticin the Solaris 2.5.1, 2.6, and 2.7 versions (can't vouch for otherversions).Thanks to Don Freeley <freeleyd@nielsenmedia.com> for that one.- Alan> ...

Thanks everybody for quick response.QUESTION:I upgraded our SS20 (DNS server for our site) from 2.3 to 2.4 OS and nowI am getting the following messages related to DNS :named[136]: rt_malloc: memdebug overflowAny ideas?ANSWERS:Problem is memory leak. Use one of the following method :1) Use ...

All thanks to everyone who replied. although It seemed like an easy problem , I assure you it wasn't.The majority of answers pointed out that I was missing the second dd on the remote system. Told you I was having a brain fart.But none of the answers seemed to work. I've tried dd with no ...

Sun Admins,The consenus is that Samba can support 300 users on SPARC.Anecdotal levels are:   Platform Number of users    SPARC 5 50, 1500, 225    SPARC 10 60    Ultra 170E 200 (also a pop ...

Original Question:We are running Solaris 2.4 on a Sun 2000.User is doing ORACLE export which is terminating with EXP-00002: error in writing to export fileEXP-00222: System error message 22EXP-00002: error in writing to export fileEXP-00000: Export terminated unsuccessfullyEXP-00002 states ...

Original post is below. I was (and still am) having difficulty gettingpast security code installed on my main Sun server when trying to rsh asroot. In the interest of trying to keep my post short I didn't put in thatI had put the machine names (fully qualified) into the .rhosts of root onthe ...

Thanks to: Rich Kulawiec <rsk@itw.com>"Karl E. Vogel" <vogelke@c17.wpafb.af.mil>and "muito obrigada para" "Cid Rubens O. Carnasciali" <cid@sid.com.br>Original Question:________________________Hi Sun managersSun OS 4.1.1SUN-OS 4.1.3Solaris ...

First, thanks very much to everyone how replied ( too many to mention)My question was simply: is there a command like in HP that tells what software is currently oninstalled on a system?The overwhelming response waspkinfo: list the packages installed andshowrev -p: shows the patches ...

As I should have expected, many quick responses, all pointing to the same place...Thanks to:  Ian MacPhedran  Thomas Wardman  Craig Raskin  Matthew Fansher  Emanuel Almeida  Scott Yelich  The unanimous answer is IP Filter ...

     Original question was:          When I installed 2.5.1 on my systems, towards the end of the install I      remember a statement about editing a file to enable/disable root ...

Thanks to:Rahul RoyMatt Reynolds Adam.Zimmerman@cntcorp.comAndrew Sit Brown, MelissaOtto, Dougdharringt@deq.state.va.us Myles, Anita CECOM SEC LSSC CENCOR Hendrik VisageLynn Schaper Christopher CallahanZimmerman, JimDan BrownMichael Gallowayand anyone else I missed.While a few explained the ...

I received many, many replies to my original query, which is posted below. Byfar, the clear winner was the Sparc platform.Choosing the Intel platform to run Solaris had only one advantage over the Sparcplatform: a cheaper initial purchase price. Note the word "initial", ...

Hello Everyone,Here is my previous post:> Hi Everyone,> > I am running Solaris 2.6 on a x86. This system has two scsi controllers..> An on board SCSI controller and a SCSI controller, that I just added.> (Adaptec 2940UW).> > On the 2940UW controller, I have added a disk ...

My original question follows:+> +> Hi dear fellow Admins!+> +> Today I have to adress you, because a friend of mine has a severe problem.+> He got very cheap a SparcServer20, but - there may be a major drawback:+> It won't run with a monitor. - In fact, we can't get any kind ...

Hi Admins,I received so much answers to my question.This mailing list is really GREAT.I thank all of you who responded :Jeff Kennedy, Peter Perfetti, David Foster, Dave Romanowski, Richard Felkins, Dan, Buddy Lumpkin,Michael Arndt, holmesa, Sam Mabjish, Melissa Brown,Nathan Dietsch, Anthony ...

Only had one respondent (thanks to Jeff Stuesse<jds@enterpriseconsulting.com>)who pointed me in the right direction.1. The command "vxdg list <disk group>" lists whichdisks have enabled configuration databases on them.2. Neither Sun nor Veritas have told me how I ...

Thanks to all who replied. This appears to be a very frustrating anunacklnowledged BUG on the part of SunSoft. I can't believe that theywould consider round robin interfaces as a "feature" and enable it bydefault.I received many suggestions, most recommended I move virtual IP setup ...

My original question was: I have a quick question. I have a Sparc10 that is used as a NFS<> server and nothing else. The Sparc 10 is a 40mz machine that <> has 96MB RAM, 256MB swap. Because it is an older model SS10,<> I cannot add a second CPU, so I have to get as much ...

sorry for beeing late with this summary ... here is my original question: ----------today i tried to change the root passwd on my ultra1/170, solaris 2.5.1but i was not able to do so. i'm running nis (yp) and my entries in thensswitch.conf are passwd: compat passwd_compat nis when i try to ...

My problem was that i had accidentally encrypted a script using vi and could not recall the key.many thanks to all those who responded.suggestions were as follows:- use vi -x <filename> and guess the key (i had tryed that without success)- write a program which makes a crypt call and ...

2 replies, from David Evans and Alan Reichert, who suggested putting debug statements in the script. I had already done this and the script itself was fine. After further discussion, David and I came to the conclusion that:  scripts in rc1.d do not run when the system boots normallyI ...

Looks as if everyone (except me) knew the answer !Almost everyone suggested to put banned users in/etc/ftpusers file. Other suggestions included :1. edit /etc/shell.2. edit ftpd.conf file for group level management.3. use wu-ftp for better control.Right now, I am using /etc/ftpusers file as I ...

Hello,Sorry for beeing late with this summary. THANKS VERY MUCH TO ALL WHO REPLIED.My original question is here:---------------------------------------------------Hello everyone,I have a question about CDE :  Can CDE run on a Sparc with a parallax card ?  OpenWindows can run ...

Hi Admins,I got a lot of answers thank you very much to : ChanCao, Brad Young, Renny Koshy, John Malick, DaveMcFerren, Vinnie German, Rahul Roy, Lew Teck Kheng,Stephen Harris, Bertrand Hutin.My original post was:---------------------Hi Admins,On a Solaris2.6 machine, we can see that ...

Hi,Thanks for all that answered this open question, with very good answers. Ihad no time to test them all.Rubens Mauinfo@dialdata.com.br**********************************************************************************From: David Schiffrin <daves@adnc.com>From: Aaron Lineberger ...

 2 replies, from David Evans and Alan Reichert, who suggested putting debug statements in the script. I had already done this and the script itself was fine. After further discussion, David and I came to the conclusion that:  scripts in rc1.d do not run when the system boots ...

Thanks to the responses I received and a ring crash, I believe that theproblems were being caused by my ring and not the machine. The ringcrashed just two days ago, because of a hub problem (ironically, the hubwhich was only being used by my and a colleague's Pcs). Point on withan ...

Thanks AllThe "CPU Mask" is the CPU revision number and all the processors do NOT have to be identical.psradm is the command for "downing" a processor.regardsTony>Hi all !>>I have just installed an additional 2 400Mhz processors in an E450.>>using ...

Thanks ...

Sorry for the SUMMARY: delay.1.) The file corruption problem was down to a number of Mode select bits.It seems Solaris 2.6 + DiskSuite 4.2 is very fussy. Here are detailsof the bits changed:Read-Write Error Recovery Parameters0x01TB Transfer Block bit setPER Post Error bit ...

Dear All,Firstly thanks ot everyone who answered my question about whether youcould hide the passwords in NIS so that users could not run cracker onthe password file (which I know would reveal a number of passwords onmy system).I won't mention everyone's name, because there were an awful lot ...

    My apologies for the delay in posting this summary(?). I was sortof hoping that eventually I'd get a response that would solve the puzzle.    My original posting (which is too long to repeat here - but I'llgladly send to anyone who missed it) asked ...

This appears to be bouncing so delete if you have seen it previously.> I wrote on 13 May 1996:> Hi everyone,> I've got a couple of queries relating to dumping onto a Sun 20GB 4mm> tape autoloader. Crontab jobs using /usr/lib/fs/ufs/ufsdump are used> for dumping from ...

Hi Everybody,Thanks to :Michel Pilon michel.pilon@CCG.RNCan.gc.caROBIN_BROWN@phl.comMark Zander ==> mzander@nsisw.combismark@alta.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Bismark Espinoza)F W Fox fox@vulpes.netBrion Leary <brion@dia.state.ma.us>"Matthew Stier" ...

This is really a great list!!! After 1 hour, I had already got 5answers.... After 24 hours, I had 25 answers!!!Thanks to the following people:Greg ObremskiMika Tuupola Matthew PotterGary TrailSean HardingRachel Polanskis job boganBrian DesmondPaul H. YoshimuneGene Rackow Mark Henderson ...

Sun Managers,Many thanks to all who took the time to reply:Tim Carlson <tim@santafe.edu>Thomas A. Plesha <tplesha@nslcpacific.navy.mil>Larry Williamson <larry@mitra.com>Farzod Mansour <zod@netcom.com>Tim Iskander <ISKANDER@infimed.com>Dan ...

Thanks to Leonid Massarsky, Aaron Krongard, Brian Scanlan, Dave Romanowski, DaveFoster, Scott Kulp, Miller Sutfin, Mike Almedia, Mike Allmen, and Casper Dik.---- my orginal question ----I recently installed Solaris 2.7 on a new Enterprise 220R server. The OBP bannermessage indicates the system ...

I received many responses to my question. It appears thatthere is no definitive list oftunable kernel params anywhere. Here is part of a messagethat I received from Sun:    "There really is no complete list of parameters that canbe    tuned. We ...

Thank you all for the many responses.Original Question (Condensed):Drive is: IBM DORS 2160 drive from APS (2 GB, 3.5", 8.3 MS seek time,800,000 hour MTBF...)I have attached the drive to a Sun Sparc 5 (running Solaris 2.4) which hastwo 500MB internal drives, an Internal CDROM and an ...

> > Hi.> > I just built traceroute 1.2 for Solaris 2.5 on a Ultrac 1> but when I run traceroute I get the following error message:> > $ ./traceroute jc10> traceroute: icmp socket: Permission denied> > What does this message mean?> Thanks to quick replies, I ...

Greetings All:Many thanks to the folks who responded; a list of all of the resourcessuggested follows. Base 2 Technologies (800.756.4766) and Polaris (800.626.1661) bothactually have the parts I need in stock. A special thanks to Larry Sanborn at Base 2 who was kind enough to dig up an old Sun ...

Thansk for responses from :Adam Singer <regnis@worldnet.att.net>Ronald Loftin <reloftin@mailbox.syr.edu>I solved the problem by reinstalling Solstice backup on client, deletedclient from server, readded it back, then restarted deamonson both systems.Thanks ...

Original question:-----------------I've been given an Ultra2 Sparc loaded with Solaris 2.6 that goes downautomatically when idle for an hour:I already changed in /etc/power.conf 'Behavior' from 'shutdown' to 'default'but still the server goes down when it goes idle for an hour or so.Is ...

HelloThanks to all who replied.I got some answers, which fell into 2 different groups:        1. SCSI problems: check cables, termination and so on...        2. CPU problems: replace the CPUWe discussed the problems ...

My original question:> We are upgrading parts of our network to Fast Ethernet and that has brought> up a question about the SunFastEthernet 2.0 board. According to Sun's web> page, this board is supported under Solaris 1.1.2 for the following systems:> SPARCstation 4, 5, 10, 20 ...

Thanks to:Art LehmannBirger WathneBill ArmandKenneth WeschlerLitwin, GaryJoel TuroffPerrier,KentJay LessertIlhan Narli Kevin ColagioI found a company on the internet who said they could do it.We have not tried to use them, but here is the informationI found out. this is for 18gig disk with ...

Sun Managers:Thanks for all the replies:There is a doc in the answerbook for Ultra h/w setup describing theparameters to set for full duplex operation:1) Driver dependent config (/kernel/drv/hme.conf):-- ------ --------- ------ -----------------------adv_autoneg_cap = 0 adv_100fdx_cap = 1 ...

Here is a summary regarding the unqualified hostname and there were many.All I had to do was put the fully qualified name in hosts and we were allset. Thanks to all 1. Make sure the local machine has an entry in /etc/hosts.2. Make sure hostname.le0 (hme0, whatever) exists and has ...

Thanks to all those who replied. There were 2 things I needed to do.1) Get the most recent version of top. It's available from:        ftp.groupsys.com:/pub/top/top-3.5beta7.tar.gz2) Use a recent version of gcc. I was tring to compile with 2.6.3 ...

Look like normal ftpd can not do that. Most people suggest wu-ftpd.My original post:> We have an SUN SOlaris 2.5 computer. I need create a FTP only account and> this account can NOT do anything else other than HOME directory. For> example, this account can NOT "cd" to ...