Oh ! this was an easy one. I received many replies all suggesting almost the same solution.Thanks to :Carsten B. KnudsenAnthony WorrallShobhit Kapoor Harvey WamboldtDavid Thorburn-GundlachMatthew StierCHENTHIL KG-------------------------------------Solution : Make an entry as xyz / server:/xyz ...

Hi, Thanks for all the people replying to my question. Apparently, it is afeature in vi which insert a newline for you whenever you open a new line inthe file but this newline feature does not happen in emacs. Here are some ofthe replies,>From Dennis Martens,I'll stick my neck out and say ...

 Hi all,         I had a query : "how to find the number of oopen files for a process, in Solaris 2.4"         It can be solved in two ways. 1) Copy the binary /usr/proc/bin/pfiles from Solaris 2.5, ...

Hi all,it took me a week summarize since responses were still coming in. Buthere's the summary now!my original question was : ------------------------------------> > i'm referring to an Ultra2, with 2 200MHz cpus, and 512MB RAM and 1.5Gb> > swap. Solaris2.5.1, Feb 98, ...

Error 2 means no such file or directory.The answers are:1) Don't use 'ls' under /usr/lib as root, you can use "ls /usr/lib" under elsewhere;2) Get a copy of libc.so.1.9 from another machine with same OS and ARCH, and run "ldconfig" to rebuild ld.so run-time lib cache;3) ...

I only received 2 reply. Special thanks to Antti Toivonen < antti.toivonen@fincitec.fi>Will Dieterich <will.dieterich@spacec2i.com>When I do a man on cpr, at the end of the man, it statedit was a bug and the workaround is to do a set-defaultboot-file at ok prompt.I include Will ...

Thanks to Arthur Darren Dunham <add@netcom.com> for afast reply to my speaker/headphones question:  He suggested audiotool. When I read the man  page for same, I found out about audiocontrol  which solves my problem exactly. [independent  control ...

Thank you for the excellent responses:Get Trumpet Winsock for your PC from ftp.utas.edu.au (The Universityof Tasmania), under /pc/trumpet. It's a $25 piece of shareware.For the Workstation:  (1) go with Solaris' default ...

Dear SUN managers,Three responses have been got:Jed Dobson <jed@wgtech.com> - suggesting either a name resolution or a NFSissueBuddy Lumpkin <BLumpkin@ijapan.com> - suggesting DNS resolution problemDAN <dana@dtn.com> - suggesting DNS resolution problemSummary: Yes, the problem ...

Hi All,Thank you all very much for the replies(to numerous to mention).The overwhelming response for software was cdrecord which can be found at: http://www.fokus.gmd.de/nthp/employees/schilling/cdrecord.htmlAs far as the hardware goes, there were a few different makes and models, but itseems ...

Hi All,        Earlier to Solaris, SunOS used to have tcpd. But, I could'nt        find it on Sparcs running Solaris. Is it available with a        different name or it is ...

  See end for original problem statement.  There were several replies.  Most dealt with the feeling that there was still an X process stillrunning. They all basicly said: "do a process grep for any openwinprocesses that are open and kill them.". As I ...

i solved it by brute force. i added the pl extension to the htmlmime type, and it worked.Thus Spake Michael Galloway (mgx@spruce.lsd.ornl.gov):> good day all ...> > i'm having a little difficulty getting SATAN to run on a solaris 2.5.1> box. the perl version i'm using is 5.004_4. ...

Hi all.SMCC has not approved the use of the Sun ATM 155 Sbus card in the Xbox boardon a 690MP server (at least in version 2 of the driver code).I have removed the Xbox (wasn't actually doing anything) and put the ATMadapter on the system board and it works like a charm.Thanks to:Local Sun ...

Thanks for the responses from:        David S. Foster        Mark Hargrave        Jeff Kennedy        Seth ...

Solution:It was the bootblock which had somehow gotten munged.I ran 'installboot' from the original /usr and all was fine.al**********************************************************************************Problem:I have an OLD sparc workstation which had been running 4.1.2 and it got ...

The problems was old gcc.<p>Solution : I got a lastest version of GCC from www.sunfreeware.com.<p>and installed it.<p>I thanks for all and my best regards for :<p>Tim Carlson<p>Hazy Xu<p>Hugo Garcia Blazqu<p>Daniel Polombo<p>Riccardo Veraldi<p>Clinton Nichols<p>David Foster<p><p>Cristina.<p>

Well, the replies I received were:1) It WAS stupid question (hey, it was worth a try)2) No, you can't. The binaries are incompatible.Guess I'll try to get management to cough up the bucks.Regards,Dennis KellerNetwork Security AdministratorDDSP-Zdkeller@ddc.dla.mil <<Keller Dennis ...

I got 2 repliesTim Evans said WABI did the jobs for him:.mailcap: application/msword; /opt/SUNWwabi/bin/wabi -s 'winword %s(Your Web server has to define 'application/msword' in its mime.types file.)2.6 Does not come with wabi, installation I had from 2.5 would not fire up and I had no time ...

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My original question follows:> Is anyone aware of a hard limit on the number of printers you may have> configured in Solaris 2.6? If so, is there any way to adjust it?Thank you to everyone who responded. There were three different suggestions:1) Increase the number of open file ...

Thanks to all who responded.The solution turned out to be the commandkbd -c offThere does not appear to be a 'click' command in Solaris 2.3. Also 'xset -c off'only works if you have and X-server running, which we didn't.Thanks to:Atilla Genc <agenc@Bilkent.EDU.TR>Gregory Champlin ...

I was finally able to recognize the tape drive - it was a firmware version problem! I downloaded the upgrade from Sony's site (isn't web support wonderful!), mounted on a PC (they never seem to write firmware upgraders for Unix) and upgraded from version 123 to 400. Sony's document on Unix ...

SUMMARY: Two video cards under ULTRA 5 / Solaris 7Thanks to:Roger Fujii <rmf@unixbox.lookhere.com>David Kleiner <kleiner@mbtsnfs1.mbs.mbtsprod.ml.com>"Hall, Johnny" <johnny@pahv.xerox.com>It works... now we have two PCI cards working on our ULTRA-5 machine. Thanks ...

Thanks to all who replied. 95% of the replies said the same thing.Here is the original post:Hello Sun Managers,I'll get right to the point. Is there any problem automounting/var/spool/mail ? We have a new Network Appliance NFS file server thathas lots of disk space on it. We also have ...

Yesterday, I sent out the message shown below asking for help.A number of kind folks responded, but none came up with the fix.My problem was that about 6 of my PC clients were being reportedas "(may be forged)" when sending email. Much to my chagrin, I recently realized that duplicate ...

   Unfortunately, the solution to my problem was to come in after businesshours and reboot the machine, which effectively cleared the dd process. However, what appears to be the most promising solution comes fromtindall@lgu.ac.uk. Regretfully I didn't receive this reply until ...

Greetings,I only received 2 replies one of which said contact Sun and the other saidcheck /etc/system (which lists the replicas but in a cryptic way). However,I probably wasn't clear in my post. I knew where they were supposed to bebut could not figure out where they all went as metadb -i ...

Thanks for all the responses. Well, to make a long story short I suddenlyremembered what I had forgotten and where I saw the trick at http://www.adsm.org. I must have confused that web board with a mailing listarchive site. I guess I was searching a little too narrowly for it.Regards,Michael> ...

Hello all - <p>Once again thanks for your help. Turns out that they decided to change the way the stty configures other tty devices<p>Instead of issuing stty raw > /dev/device, you must use stty raw < /dev/device.<p>Thanks to all who responded.<p>Mark.<p>

Thanks to all those that replied (far too many to mention):-> 1. Is cc ANSI compliant?C Workshop 2.0 on Solaris 2.5 is ANSI compliant, but it has to be bought. The old cc shipped with SunOS 4 was not. A lot of people are using gcc because it's free, and they don't agree with Sun's lead ...

Original post:> Hello world.> > I once had a find command that would search every file on the machine for a certain > pattern.> I have lost it and failed to recreate it.Summary:find . -type f -exec grep -l <pattern_to_be_found> {} \find / -type d -print | xargs grep ...

Managers,Thanks to the following:  Alex Lewin <lewin@vgi.com>  Ric Anderson <ric@rtd.com>  misawa@physics.Berkeley.EDU (Shigeki Misawa)  Pell Emanuelsson <pell@lysator.liu.se>  Alex Lewin <lewin@vgi.com>The original ...

  Sorry for the late summary - I received a few replies, but I  ultimately decided to simply print the problem files from  a Solaris 2.6 host, since there are several in the same NIS domain.  The suggestions I received were:  - From Dave Foster ...

Well, I have yet to actually try loading Solaris x86 onanything, but the general consensus is that it wouldbe wise to stick to "known" compatible computers - afavorite being specific Toshiba models (Satellite 410/420, 500 models, 740).But being a rather stubborn and inquisitive type, ...

My apologies for the late summary on this, and thanks to the following peoplefor responding:Jarrett Carver <solarboyz1@hotmail.com>Raymond Wong <negativl@netcom.com>Penny Jaye Deeney <penny@temple.edu>Brown, Melissa <BrownM@fhu.disa.mil>Chuck Cox ...

No less that about four dozen administrators replied and confirmed mysuspicions that pressing (or bumping) the break key on a WYSE keyboardwill have the effect described below.While some administrators though that regular us of this facilty was"not advisable", nobody had actually been ...

Hi,Sorry it took so long for the summary (for the first posting). I wantedto wait until I actually succeded in installing the drive before Isummarized. Halfway thru I had reposted as JAZ DRIVE REVISITED and gotthe correct info.Basically, it was quite easy (once I got the right numbers to put ...

Fellow managers,A small update to this problem,The O'Reilly book on DNS & Bind does indicate that sendmail does nameresolution a little differently to most programs.I won't go over it here but those who are interested can check Chap. 6,Configuring Hosts.A more elegant sendmail.cf that ...

   dear hsrvey,    do the following to format a floppy  login as rootnewfs /dev/rfd0amount /dev/fd0sa /mnt     ORmkfs /dev/rfd0amount /dev/fd0a /mnt    there after u can do what ever u ...

We had several suggestions. The two best ones were:- create a SAMBA share with root access, that does not follow symbolic links.  We did this and used a Windows virus scanner (McAfee) to remove viruses.  It worked like a charm. (see attachment 1)  Thank you, Gary ...

I got three responses on this one.Andrew Pollock <andrew@asiaonline.net> suggested that the client machine wastalking PAP and starting PPP as soon as the connection was made, rather thandoing a login prompt. I confirmed that PAP was not running (we're using CHAP),and the problem was ...

On Mon, 5 May 1997, Craig Raskin wrote:> Does anyone know of any command line utilites which can be used for> mass deleting mail messages based on the From line or the Message-Id? The> main use would be for deleting spam from a mail spool.I should have been more clear in the message, ...

Thanks to all who responded. The overwhelming response was a corruptedumtpx file. I corrected the problem by removing, then re-creating, theutmpx file in /var/adm.Michael Lightfoot wrote:> Sun gurus,>> I've got a machine that will not accept telnet or rlogin connections.> It ...

The solution with tftpd on Solaris 2.4 is to install patch 102773-01because the standard tftpd is very slow.thanks to:Casper Dik <Casper@Holland.Sun.com>Tom Mornini <tmornini@infomania.com>--------original posting:Hello adminsOn a Sparc server 5 running solaris 2.4 following ...

Thanks to all those who will reply me.The first mail which i received is having theanswer required by me,and it is from Lars Balker Rasmussen <lbr@mjolner.dk>Thanks to all others whose mails are on way# "SONY SDT-7000", "SONY DDS-2 4mm DAT", ...

Dear All,My original message was:"I have a volume with 'logging' mount option turned on. There is alsoquotas turned on on this filesystem. Each time I reboot the server(UE450), the quotas are not turned on automatically.The local Sun helpdesk suggested correcting /etc/init.d/MOUNTFSYS ...

Hello,The short version of my question:We have an Ultra 1 170 with one Fast Ethernet, we might be adding a secondcard soon. Clients are 16 PowerMacintosh computers. I forgot to add thatwe're using Appleshare AFP over TCP. We're all using Fast Ethernet. SomeOf the Mac users are Adobe ...

I asked:> Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 14:59:29 -0500 (EST)> From: Todd Pfaff <todd@water.eng.mcmaster.ca>> To: sun-managers@eecs.nwu.edu> Subject: Postscript page accounting in Solaris 2.x> Followup-To: junk> > We have an HP LaserJet 4MP connected to a serial port of a ...

Thank you all, (including Chris Phillips , Jochen Bern, Scott D. MacKay, Graham Leggett,Daniel Polombo, Olivier Giraud,Jay Morgan, Vince Merrell, Frank Sorenson, Sullivan, John , Casper Dik,Brion Leary, Chad Price, Ross Parker, Mark E Drummond)/proc is to show memory and disk usage of the ...