Thanks for the quick responses!Don Kobayas <dkobayas@mahi.nmfs.hawaii.eduJohn Bradley <john.bradley@sunman.chinalake.navy.mil>Pierre Sidler <sidler.pierre@ch.swissbank.comScott ? <scott@spy.org>Dave ? <burwell@telecom.com>David Dezern ...

Hi, I had 2 responses about the Network General prodouct.Most sniffers handle the FDDI protocol. We use Network General andit works well, HP also supports it. All of the sniffer devices connectwith fiber media. If you you have the copper (UTP) version of interfacecard (i.e. CDDI) and your ...

Hello everyone,Thanks so much for all of those who responed. Most individual suggested usingdd or a combination of dd and tar. I failed to include the fact I tried thatin my original message. The correct answer came from dewicki@bns102.bng.ge.comand afinkel@pfn.com as well as from someone in ...

I am sending this summary out even though I am not sure I have fixed the problem. It happens so intermittently that it will take a while to see if it returns.----------Original message:Hello all. We have a SS10 running 4.1.3, no patches, that is having an inetd error very intermittently. The ...

Attached is a copy of poppassd.c which works under Solaris 2.6 runningNIS+ (prompts from /bin/passwd change under these conditions).Compile with:gcc -c -g poppassd.cgcc -o poppassd -g poppassd.o/* * poppassd.c * * A Eudora and NUPOP change password server for ...

Hello managers,StarOffice-5.1 hint of the week:Install Patch 109260-01 (Solaris/Sparc) or        Patch 109259 (Solaris/x86) from Apr-19-2000This patch is compressed 14 MB full of shared libraries.Here is the corrected bug list: >Problem ...

Thanks to everyone who replied, to many to give kudo's too. But the problem was hardware... Disk to be precise...Thanks again!!On Wed, Jun 02, 1999 at 01:33:14PM -0400, J.R. Lee wrote:> Hi sunners,> > I am having a problem at boot. After doing an initial install of 5/98 2.6> on ...

I forgot to resize the file system in Volume Manager.Original problem:---------------I'm using Volume Manager 2.4 on Solaris 2.5.1 with a SSA 100 RAIDand a bunch of 2.1 and 4.0 GB Seagate disks. Our /opt filesystemif composed of two disks, 723,000K and 350M (the second disks'splex offset is ...

Thanks all for your answers! That got it.-----------------------------------------original question:> I have several SPARC's connected to a monitor switch, using a Sun> entry-level color monitor. All have cgsix frame buffer video cards. All run> OpenWindows, though some are Solaris ...

  More of a status report than a summary really, but it doesn't looklike any more responses are incoming...  To launch X with a machine-specific option (the -nominexp option,for instance), we were pointed to the Xservers file. The defaultresides in /usr/dt/config. When ...

Everyone must know that you change the IP Address differently depending onwhether you're running on "files", "NIS" or "NIS+".And anyone that has ever run NIS or NIS+ would not like the results of"sys-unconfig".Changing it for "files" is as easy ...

Problem resolved - Thanks to:George DONEManish BhardwajDavid EvansRich QuinnThe problem was related to the SCSI connection to our STK 9710 tape silo.As suggested by George, I disconnected all SCSI devices and reconnectedthem one by one until the culprit was uncovered.Thanks ...

Thanks for so many quick reply.The answer turns to DNS 'reverse lookup' issue. This system doesn't has'dns' on hosts: nis [NOTFOUND=return] files, of /etc/nsswitch.confWhen I change to hosts: nis dns files, the rlogin back to normal.------------- Begin Forwarded Message -------------Date: ...

I asked:> Does anyone know what "netout: bad file number" from an ftp session> might mean? A SunSolve search on this string did not turn up anything> useful, so I'm hopeful that someone out there in the Reald World(tm) has> seen this one...> > We have a script that ...

Yes, 18GB CAN be used with SunOS 4.1.3_U1VB with 8 (not 7) partitions of2.14GB size eachto the total of 17.12GB. I made it to work, thanks to (responses attached):        Casper Dik ...

Here is the original question:At the Corporate office we have an Enterprise 3000 running Solaris 2.5.1which has an Oracle8 database. From this system we need to printreports to our Regional offices some of which have Sunworkstations and some of which have NT 4.0 Servers. Our printers areall ...

------- start of forwarded message (RFC 934 encapsulation) -------Content-Length: 1673Received: from mercury.Sun.COM (mercury.Sun.COM [192.9.25.1]) by trier.trier.itwm.fhg.de (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA24217 for <rossmann@trier.itwm.fhg.de>; Mon, 3 Jun 1996 15:17:13 +0200 (MET ...

Here's the original question, a summary of responses (plus a little), and aURL to a huge list of RAID vendors. The x's indicate non-negativeimpressions of a product.----------------------------------------------------------------------I've sent this message to a somewhat large number of ...

Thanks to all who responded. After going as far as removing the lp subsystems and reinstalling the packages, the culprit turned outto be an incorrect digit in a few reverse DNS entries. I examinedthe file more than once previously but missed the errors. Funny howthe eyes play tricks on ...

I originally asked:> The hardware:> > SparcServer 20, 96megs of memory, dual 50MHz processors, SunOS 4.1.4,> quad ethernet connection, about 10gig of disk NFS exported to the rest> of the department.> > The software:> > This server is the departmental mail (sendmail ...

Short synopsis of the question: We received spam with a strange URL; > Dissecting the URL, I condensed it into: > http://3626046468/ > [...] I can do a 'ping > 3626046468', which seems to interpret the "hostname" as a decimal > 4-byte integer representing the IP#, ...

Dear sun-managers,First, a very big thank you to everyone who responded. Here is a summary of the responses that I got and finally, what I did to recover access to my system.The standard fix for a bad shell (or lost root password) is to reboot single-user from CD, mount the file system and ...

Hello, fellow SM's...This has been an enlightening response session. <smile> I appologize inadvance for the length of this bugger:To Summarize, as is the custom, I'm giving my thoughts, the list ofsuggestions, and the list of contributors...Subject:I requested help with blocking SPAM ...

Thanks very much to all who responded regarding low-cost firewalls forSolaris. Below please find a summary of the responses, for yourreference.Commercial Products:SonicWall by Sonic Systems http://www.sonicsys.com/products.htmlSonicWall is a hardware solution which provides all of the ...

Hi All ,no replies but i manged,It turnes out my hme/fast wide scsi sbus card was a bit faulty ....I replaced it and bang all is well.my question is attached below .thanks to dan for trying :-)regards Moti Levy===============================================================Hi All,I am trying to ...

Thank you all a quick response to my problem. My apology for this late summary.tom@plato.uni-paderborn.de (Torsten Metzner)ramu@duettech.com (Venkata Ramakrishna R)sahirns@menger.eecs.stevens-tech.edu (Sahir Siddiqui)anderson@neon.mitre.org (Mark S. Anderson)bismark@alta.jpl.nasa.gov (Bismark ...

Hi managers. Sorry for the late summary, but I wanted to make sure I had the problem solved. I also wanted to give Sun time to come out and take a look. The original question is at the end. First off, thanks to the following:herman@ct.med.ge.com (Scott R. Herman)Peter Polasek ...

------- Original Query --------does anyone know if there is a way to tell if a network interface is inpromiscuous mode under Solaris 2.6 and 2.7 ?Used to be ifconfig -a would tell you, but apparently Sun has removed thatfunctionality from the command ( not sure why ).I have taken a look at ...

Problem:Some Sparc5 s running Solaris 2.4 gradually slow down and then lock up when not used for some time (over the weeke-end) and I find the /var/adm/message file filled with messages like this -- ...

Original question:> Does anybody know how can I make the computer beep from a shell> script or from a C-program?> I have a Sun Ultra 1 running solaris 2.5.1.Answer:>From a shell scriptecho '^G' (where ^G means holding down the [Ctrl] key and pressing ...

I would like to thanks all those who replied to my query.Val PopaThe WizardJim HerbertMike EvansJonathan William RossMarc NewmanMatthew StierRuss PoffenbergerDave McFerrenI have not had a chance to implement a solution as of yet, but I will reposta completion summary when I've made something ...

Dear Sun-Managers:I appreciate very much everyone's effort in enlightening me on the host namechange on Solaris 2.5, especially:- Jane Medefesser- Eugene Schmidt - VCS- Geert Devos- Kenneth Simpson- Rahul Roy- Tim Evans- Niall O Broin- Vahsen Rob- Casper Dik- Dirk Jansen- Shifter- Mike ...

The simple solution:1. Boot to single user mode from cdrom2. Mount file systems as rw:        mount /dev/whatever / -o remount3. Move data from one to the other:        ufsdump 0ucf - /usr | ufsrestore xf -4. add ...

The solution was to install the latest version of DNS 4.9.3.Our DNS problems have cleared up and the proxy server is stableagain.Thanks to Rob Vahsen (vahsenr@ce.philips.nl) for the solution.-daveOriginal Post:----- Begin Included Message ----->From owner-sun-managers Thu May 30 14:30:36 ...

The originial question was:> > In Solaris 2.5.1 I have Nis+ installed.> > I have only one domain, with no subdomains with a root server installed.> > I also tried to installed a root replica server, following the commands> specified in the manual.> > Everything went ...

Greetings Sun Managers,Please accept my most sincere apologies for being late on this summary.Been really busy ;-).My original message is posted below for reference. Many, many thanks to:Kevin Ying <kevin@ns1.interq.or.jp>Benjamin Cline <benji@hnt.com>Jochen Bern ...

Hi,Well, problem solved (yeah). Thanks to David Thorburn-Gundlach<david@bae.uga.edu> who pointed out that my problem was with my switch notmy SUNs.I used virtual LANs on my switch and it appears to have done the trick. Ionly see the udp traffic on one of the interfaces.This group is the ...

Thanks to those who responded. The resource is        Dtterm*userFont: FONT-NAME        and this needs to be set in a file called ~/C/Dtterm, which is sourced each time you fire up a dtterm.Thanks again ...

Original question:> Does anybody know how can I make the computer beep from a shell> script or from a C-program?> I have a Sun Ultra 1 running solaris 2.5.1.Answer:>From a shell scriptecho '^G' (where ^G means holding down the [Ctrl] key and pressing ...

Here is the summary:Copy /usr/dt/config/Xservers to /etc/dt/config/Xservers & modify the latter sothat instead of local_uid@console it says local_uid@none.Then run "/etc/init.d/dtlogin stop" followed by "/etc/init.d/dtlogin start"(/etc/init.d/dtlogin reset didn't work ...

I got 2 answers. They are right. My server did not know my client's hostname.From: Hal Stern - Distinguished Systems Engineer     <stern@sunrise.east.sun.com>To: zh@cc.bellcore.comSubject: Re: Help: vmunix: nfs_server: bad sendreplyit means the server tried to ...

Sorry, forgot to list it as a summary.---------------------- Forwarded by Jeff Kennedy/NDS on 06/03/99 10:33 AM---------------------------"Jeff Kennedy" <jeff.kennedy@natdecsys.com> on 06/03/99 07:55:33 ...

The problem was that the SSA drivers were not loading before ODS began. Iplaced the entries in the systems file before the forceload of the MDD rootand database. I would like to thank the following folks for their help!Chris AlexanderAlex GoodsonRogerio Rocha Ginny BolyardIBM GS ...

Thanks to Marina Daniels and Eirh-Yu Hsie.SUMMARY:=========Both pointed out that the patch 105568-13 can cause a keyserv to coredump.Marina kindly provided the whole summary (one I could not find) from a previous posting.FIX:====The fix is to backout the patch, and go to a previous patch ...

Summary Can boot second disk:Thanks to all who replied...First of all I wrote down, that the machine I was trying to boot was a sun3.That was incorrect it is actually a sun4e. And since the os on this machine is sunos4.0.3e, the eeprom values were quitedifferent...Anyway the reason why I could ...

Hi,Sorry for the delayed Summary:thanks go to Jae, Buddy, Lusty, Alex, Yann, and Alouache among others.The answer was twofold1 I had to run installboot against the mirror root drive. The Onlinedisksuite online manual only mentions installboot for x86 systems.2 I had to run show-disks at the ...

Hello,Original Question:1. After compiling bind-4.9.5-P1 on Sun Solaris 2.5 I have problemscompiling>sendmail 8.8.5. Is this related to the bind compile ?>>Configuration: os=SunOS, rel=5.5, rbase=5, rroot=5.5, arch=sun4, sfx=>Making in obj.SunOS.5.5.sun4>gcc -o sendmail alias.o ...

I did send out the summary yesterday, I do not know why it lost..Here is the answer:/etc/rc2.d/S74autofs stop> /etc/rc2.d/S74autofs start>then rm -r teTeX.-------------------------------------------------------Original question:Hi, managers:I put a line into /etc/auto_direct such ...

Sorry to take so long, but I got a number of replies and I wanted to makesure I had them all before sending summary.Below is my original message:> We are thinking of setting up a Sun Cluster to provide high availability> for our NFS file server. The proposal is to use two Enterprise 2300 ...

Hello,I received seven (7) responses to my original query. For some, I didnot give enough information. But a couple responses had the correctanswer (AFAIK).I have included the original query below. Also, I am listing someadditional information that was not included to help out anyone ...