Hello sun-managers,received a very very good response, as usual.Thanks to :Masopust Christian <christian.masopust@siemens.at>"Krishna Murthy" <kmurthy@novell.com>Jon Trygve Utne <jont@ii.uib.no>Andrew Ford <andford1@email.mot.com>"Keller Dennis ...

Thanks to all who responded... What a resource this is...Alan Hill <ahill@lanser.net>John Mendenhall <jem@electriciti.com>Larry Chin <larry@ca.cch.com>Shaun McGee <smcgee@helios.r07lab.epa.gov>Benjamin Cline <benji@hnt.com>Neil Rickert ...

The original question:> Why does Veritas volume manager create device entries for volumes in> rootdg in /dev/vx/[r]dsk in addition to /dev/vx/[r]dsk/rootdg?I received two different answers. Take your pick. Neither gives me awarm fuzzy.--From: "Klorese, Roger B.A." ...

Sometimes, it doesn't pay to get outta bed in the morning.There are a lot of people who responded, too numerous to mention...The original problem:Okay, try this:Make a plain text file called bob containing the following three lines:Welcome to a brandnew very ultranew day.Note there are two ...

Original question:We buy Seagate 18G SCSI drives and multi-disk enclosures from Anacapa to usethroughout our UNIX environment (SUN, Tru64 Unix, HP-UX, Siemens, NCR, IBMetc.,etc.,etc. -- you get the picture). They are bought in bulk as genericUNIX server accessories.The Sun systems and to a ...

Hi folks ! Thanks for all that could help this "almost blind" ;-) unix lover:Troy Wollenslegel <troy@intranet.org>Marcel Chukwunenye <moc@voyager.mlb.semi.harris.com>Stephen Harris <sweh@mpn.com>Chris Haggard <chaggard@fedex.com>Amy Hollander ...

Thank you fro so many people give me the answer. Some people said very easy, but some said NOT easy and need special tools. I decide to call SUN engineercome to our office to replace it.My original post:> Base on SUN document, SPARC Server 1000E need replace EPROM (P/N> 560-1962-07) to ...

Thank you to all the persons who have replied to our question:Johnie Stafford <js@cctechnol.com>Cheryl Southard <cld@astro.caltech.edu>Martin Espinoza <drink@sei.com>Pete Ashdown <pashdown@xmission.com>Nicholas R LeRoy ...

On Thu, May 27, 1999 at 06:49:05AM -0400,Tabor J. Wells <twells@shore.net> is thought to have said:> So, the question is, where do we go from here to get it back up and> running again?And the answer, as provided by Sun Tech Support, was to restore from tape.It took awhile but ...

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 ...

  There were two problems -  The original shutdown and the corrupt file system was caused by thefailed tape drive locking up the SCSI bus. This caused a reboot and becausethe disk corruption was so bad, it stayed in the maintenance mode.  The 2nd and third reboots ...

Got 2 quick solutions :1. Run it in 'debug' mode (with '-d') and look in /var/tmp/named.run2. strings /usr/sbin/in.named | grep '[0-9]\.[0-9]'   and look for line that begins with SMI under the version.c line.Unfortunately, 'strings' command is not found in NetraOS 2.0 ...

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----As expected, this list produced answers almost immediately. Thanksfor the help. The responses fell into two basic categories. Firstwere the responses that admonished me not to buy memory (or disks forthat matter) from Sun, because they are a bunch of ...

Greetings:I recently posted the following question to the Sun Manager Mailing List:<snip>I am attempting to configure something referred to as "MediaOne HomeNetworking" for a client, basically this allows the client to connectmultiple machines via one cable modem connection (one ...

=============================================================================ORIGINAL QUESTION=============================================================================        That's it. I can't get any version of lsof compiled in any of ...

Sun managers:<p>Well I would like to say thank you to all those who responded. The general<p>conclusion is that if I am not running auto_mounter then it will not be<p>necessary for me to place /home under /export. Once again thank you for the<p>quick Reponses.<p>

Thanks to all responded especially Zulkarnain Dahalan Sean QuaintSean HardingActual posting:> I am facing a problem on my SS10 - solaris 2.5.1. The machine is on> internet and is our mail server.> I have following entries in /etc/resolv.conf> > domain rri.res.in> search ...

Problem was:++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++when I try to initialise a NIS+ client it hangs:root@client# nisclient -i -d mydomain.org. -h masterserver....setting up domain information...setting up the name service switch...mv: cannot access ...

Well, I stumbled across the answer myself. It appears that you can make a 4G ufs filesystem only if you use the default 8192 blocksize.My apologies for bothering the list with this, when just a bit more work got me an ...

my original post :> > Hello there> > I'm looking for a free software for backuping 5 clients> with an autoloader on a Solaris 2.6.> > Could you, please, send me URLS, suggestions or scripts?> > Thank you very much> > Francois-Rene HAMELINThanks for all the ...

Hi,Thanks to "Cheng, Bruce" <Bruce.Cheng@Aspect.com>Tom Mornini <tmornini@infomania.com>Justin Young <justiny@engr.subr.edu>we finally solved the problem by installing the FAS drivers from CDROM that came with the SunSwift SBuscard. In addition, Solaris 2 doesn't ...

Thanks to all the replies including a detailed response by Bryan Smithwhich I've included at the end.> I'm interested to know what CD R/W people are using> on SUN. We are thinking of getting one to dump> archive data to and give the CD's to indivudal users> with their data on it ...

thanks to all for the help. the ports in question (3277[1-9]) are variousrpc services. this was my first guess, but i didn't know about rpcinfo andother useful tools to confirm this. man -k rpc should have been my firstcheck.i had actually tried lsof, but a version built under 2.4 that ...

Hello.Here is the summary so far about attaching a magneto optical disk on a sun.First the driver info.There are some commercial drivers:mailto:lupe@alanya.m.isar.de http://www.tracertech.com http://www.artecon.comA free driver is atftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix/kernel/sd/Installing info.On ...

Thanks to all the respondents for the many(about a dozen) replies I got regarding putting a "cap" on a given process' cpu utilization. Thus limiting a process' consumption of the cpu's resources.I was told to check out the following commands:ulimit/unlimit/limit, nice, priocntl, ...

I discovered recently that users w/o NIS+ credentials are unable to changetheir own passwords under Solaris 2.6, whereas under 2.5.1 this wasn't anissue. I asked if anyone else had had this experience.I didn't receive any confirming or denying replies. But I've spent timewrestling with the ...

On Mon, 22 May 2000, Adam and Christine Levin wrote:> We've got a production setup here, and I've been debating whether to use> NFS or not.> My worries are performance and stability based.> First off, all systems are Sun E250/E450 level systems running Solaris> 2.6.> Mostly, ...

Hi sun-managers:I have to thank:Brad Young <bbyoung@amoco.com>Brett Lymn <blymn@awadi.com.au>Sophia Sameera Corsava <106625.3502@compuserve.com>Bertrand Hutin <hb@o2tech.fr>Mark A. Baldwin" <baldma@aur.alcatel.com>David Poore <poore@vistachrome.com>Rick ...

I received a total of 14 responses to the following question:Can anyone recommend the software they are using to backup both, Sun and Mac workstations from the Sun side? It can be shareware or proprietary. *** The following software was mentioned: OpenVision's ...

Sun Managers,------------------- Original Question-------------------> I am running Solaris 2.5 and Solaris 2.5.1 on a variety of machines. I got an> error message from SPARCstation 20:> > Apr 16 09:32:50 us13 unix: NFS write error on host us0: Permission denied.> Apr 16 ...

Thanks a lot for all those replied and as usual I got my mail box fullof responses , I have receieved some 80 resoponses.The Orignal Question was>Hello Sun Managers;>>I am looking for a word processor on Sun 2.5.1 which is MS Word>compatible>>If any one of you have any idea , ...

lsof ftp://vic.cc.purdue.edu/pub/tools/unix/lsof/lsof, it's better than fried bread,it's tastier than used flippies,it's mentioned in the post just after my question,by Brad Burdick, <bburdick@radio.com> and he quotes Todd Michael Kennedy<tkennedy@phoenix.csc.calpoly.edu>lsof ...

HiThanks all asnwers.I solved my problem using the instructions at this site: http://ir.ucdavis.edu:8888        ==> Solstice DiskSuite 4.2 User's Guide   ==> Troubleshooting the System      ==> How to ...

SUM: On the sparc2, there are 3 magnets on the paper tray. The positionof these magnets controls what paper size is loaded in the printer.Apparently, when someone added more paper, the magnets were moved. Ireset them to the correct position, and printing works fine.Also, it is possible to ...

Well, alot of people know how X is tunneled through ssh, including myself now.So ssh sets $DISPLAY to host:10.0 which is really port 6010 and tunnels thatthrough port 22. How about that..Thanks All!!Johnny Hall wrote:> So we were thinking about using ssh to run X securely. So my question ...

So far I got only one reply from Mark Neill who tell me that that's all right. thanks Neill.My original question is that on one of my solaris2.6 system the output of 'swap -l' shows the free column equal to zero. like this:#swap -lswapfile dev swaplo blocks ...

The original question:I recently have tried to install a SunSwift card in a Ultra 1 Serverrunning Solaris 2.5. The existing ethernet device was hme0 which is thesame as the swift cards. If i plug the ethernet cable into the swift cardand reboot, the system gets stuck on "hme0: Link Down - ...

Hello,I posted last week with a problem whereby Netscape was unable to accepta canonical name for a news or http address on our local subnet from my SPARC IPC running SunOS 4.1.4.I only run a caching named, since I am not yet in the DNS though the machinecould telnet and ftp etc. but WWW and ...

It's been a while, but it took a while for the final answer to come in.Thanks Trevor. While some of the display from SGI can be displayed, it isonly that part which is strictly X. The OpenGL code (3D displayparticularly) is not supported. Full andwers and original post below.Thanks for ...

With apologies for taking so long to get to this problem, I havefinally fixed it. Many thanks to the following people for comingup with suggestions:Rick von RichterStuart KendrickMarc S. GibianDirk JansenPete JonesMy original problem was that my CDE 1.0.1 Application Managerwould core dump in a ...

True to the intent of this list, David Schiffrin <daves@adnc.com>responded very quickly with the the answer and the solution. Casper Dik<casper@holland.Sun.COM> also correctly diagnosed the problem (as heusually does, thank you for paying such regular attention to this list, ...

Thanks guys.Those ? were indicative of no controlling terminal.I can attribute them to cron process or some other script running as aresult of some client-server backup.Thank you.============================================Jaewan Kim856-988-0062 x425 (u1.net)877-250-8919 (ureach.com ...

Thanks to the many people who responded to my question about whether itis possible to have usernames that exceed 8 characters under Solaris2.6. (I was trying to make usernames consistent with our VMS systemsthat allow 12 characters.)The responses varied a lot. A couple people reported that ...

Ken had this to add..Actually alot of people are asking for more info. I'm fairly new to ssh so Idon't know much yet. Here is a decent place to look for general info..www.ssh.org.Ken Robson wrote:> This is not necessarily true. It uses the nearest port to 6000, but if you> are ...

> > >> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------> Date: Sat, 25 May 1996 13:25:14 +0900 (CDT)> From: Lee Gao <stalex@ems.shantou.gd.cn>> Hi Sun-managers:> I am using sparc5 & Solaris2.4,and i want others finger me with > more messages,so i creat ...

Original question - Should Sun UE 3000 & 4000 be left up unattended 31 Decfor date rolloever to new century or should they be shut down and broughtback up in person on 1 Jan 2000.Thanks to everyone who replied! It was almost split - slightly more people agreed with leaving it up. ...

My original question was regarding being able to view and store (into a logfile) the results of the command:mt -f /dev/rmt/0 statusAnswer:==========================For Bourne Shell -mt -f /dev/rmt/0 status 2>&1 | tee -a filenameThe tee "copies standard input to standard ...

I think the card was having trouble picking up the link from the hub overthe UTP port. My watch-net-all test may have been getting hung up by theAncor Fibre Channel card but according to the output, it was on the hmeinterface that the internal loopback hung.When I finally tried the test-net ...

Looks pretty well set; you can easily put the U10 on it's side.Thanks to:Gary Trail, Lee Trujillo, Steven Kokinos, Doug Otto!--| Scott MacKay : Sn. Computer Engineer / Sun SA / Postmaster| E-Mail: scott_mackay@rte.com | sdm@rte.com | postmaster@rte.com| Addr: Real Time Enterprises, 16 Tobey ...

My original question was         How can I tell why this system insists on an initial        install? It should be upgradable!Many thanks to those who replied.The best answer was contained in the INFODOC 17987 ...