My thanks to everyone who responded:        bill@aloft.micro.lucent.com>brisco_k@adm-srv.sat.mot.com>Mike Nguyen miken@mwh.com        Andrew Moffat amof@SubaruSparcDev.subaru1.com>Russell ...

>Thanks Ken. ! for quick and complete answer .Best regards ,> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----> Hash: SHA1>> Hi Daniel,>> Solaris has a funky vm system. All spare memory will be used up to> cache file system data. Before long you will be down to maybe 20Mb> ...

------------------------------------------------------Thanks go out to:mdkail@mp3.comKulp, Scott <skulp@lucent.com>Perrier, Kent <Kent.Perrier@Oneco.net>Dan.Liebster@chase.comStuart, Reggie <Reggie.Stuart@gxs.ge.com>Laurinda Chamberlin ...

Hi Managers,Thanks for all the help on my dead SparcStation IPC's no one actually hit on my problem but I had a brainwave.The problem turned out to be lack of memory, to be precise the machine had 8x1MB simms in the the banks looking from the back they are top right and none in the 4 banks top ...

SUMMARY: Kingston RAM: 4 x 256MB chips (will it work)?Thanks to all who replied:Mark KabellaRoy ButlerMichael DeSimoneMarcelino MataHans SchaechlDavid EvansRobert JohannesBill FayIt seems that we have many people that state that the supported configuration is 512MB RAM on the U5. Kingston has ...

This is a partial summary--my problem still did not get fixed. My original question:I am running SunOS 4.1.3. I don't understand why cron daemon is not running. I lookat the rc file and the command to start cron is there. Even when I start cron manuallyit does not stay running. Isn't ...

The problem turned out to be with tcpd (TCP Wrappers). After recompilingwithout "-DALWAYS_HOSTNAME" ftp and telnet connections worked normally.Jeffrey C. Keyser wrote:> > I just converted my Internet gateway/mail server from a Netra i (Solaris> 2.5, sendmail 8.6) to an Ultra5 ...

Dear Sun-managers folks;While not resolved yet, figured I'd at least take a moment to thank thelist members for all the helpful and supportive advice. I got a *lot* ofreplies (too many people to list, really) within the first couple of hours.Lots of suggestions about data services (Ontrack ...

Thanks to: Jonathan LohRob RheaultKevin SheehanFor their quick response..Basically everyone said that the patch didnt cause it and probably some fool modified root's .profileand manually set TERM variables and stty variablesWell they were right.. Not sure who mucked with itBut its fixed and ...

My Original post was:> One of my friend has a home-work assignment in C++. He has to> do it on UNIX (SunOS 4.1.4) and is going to use g++ compiler.> He has PC at home but no dial-in access. He wants to buy a> C++ compiler and work from home and then go to school and> compile it ...

Sorry for the delay, but here it is the summary. I received a lot ofemail replies and the one that I followed was to use teraterm pro andwith it, sending a break is as easy as Alt-B or selecting a menu optionunder the control menu.BTW, hyperterm does not send break, I did try CTRL+Break, ...

Sept. 5, 1998Hello,Many thanks to the people who took the time to answer my couplaquestions (in order of time received):Frank Smith <franks@tradeonemktg-aus.com>Jochen Bern <bern@penthesilea.uni-trier.de>Matti Siltanen <matti@fugue.jpl.nasa.gov> Technical Incursion ...

Fellow Sun Managers,Thanks for your prompt and plenty of responses.My original question was:---Two Solaris machines(sun_a, sun_b), and I intend to archive a directory insun_a into a tape drive in sun_b as follows.sun_b# tar cvfb - 20 ./dir | rsh sun_a exec dd of=/dev/rmt/0 obs=20bAnd above ...

  Thanks to all who responded. What I got from the responses is thatif this is not occuring often, which it is not, it's merely a hardwarefreak accident.  It happens to be that on sun4c systems, the CPU and SBUS both sharethe memory bus for cycles, switching between the ...

Hello,thanx to all.I received a couple of different solutions. With a mix of them I gotthings towork.What I've done:in /etc/hostadd the domainname to the local host. i.e.x.x.x.x myhost.mydomain.com myhost loghostchanges in /etc/mail/sendmail.cfcomment DSmailhost.$madd DMmydomain.comThanx ...

Thanks to :robsonk@ebrd.comArthur Darren Dunham <add@netcom.com>Arthur hit the nail on the head. The solution, in our case, is to use DHCP as a BOOTP server, since DHCP provides the exact functionality we need.Another suggestion was to use the famous tcp-wrapper packageand adapt it to our ...

Hello again,The problem reported in my first letter, quoted below, has been solved.I do not know the "why" of it well enough to pass on to this list, butI can at least state the "how" it was fixed and the source of the problem.SUMMARY:--------Problem: various programs would ...

Hi,Thanks to everyone who resonded to my query, just about everyone had thesame reply. The concensus was to use syslog to log the messages to theLOGHOST, as described by Michael Price below.>Dear Kerry,> There sure is better way to do this. In the /etc directory>there is file called ...

Dear Sunners,sorry for the late summary ....Question:> I want to grep through log-files, search for patterns>and generate SMNP traps if an event matches a pattern.>This should be done periodically in a cron-job.Answers came from a lot of people (as usual :-)). Thanks to:Viet HoangJason ...

Thanks to Casper Dik, who pointed me in the right direction. Examining the link under /dev/fbs told me I needed to reinstall thedriver for tcx, i.e. SUNWtcx.After reinstalling that all is well.GautamCasper Dik wrote:> > What package contains the console framebuffer driver? > > ...

Original question:  I've recently been given the task to spec out an E3000 with dual  37Gb SSA's. We want to mirror one SSA to the other. Unfortunately  my boss wants an implementation plan PDQ, and I'm not sure where to  start. Is the DiskSuite ...

I asked:> I know this is a painfully easy question, but I do not find the answer in> the Solaris 2 FAQ, the sun-manager's FAQ, searching the sun-manager's> archives at LaTech, or even the man pages for admintool,lpset,lpget,> padmin, etc.>> Under Solaris 2.5.1, I have a line ...

My apologies. I made a typing error in the URL which Igave. It should read http://smc.vnet.net/solaris_2.5.htmlRegardsDave***************************************************************************Dr. Dave G. Checketts | E-Mail d.g.checketts@bham.ac.uk Computer Officer | ...

As all suggested I must specify the -o ro option to the mount command.However, I alsohad to specify the -F hsfs option. Coming from an HP-UX environment wherewe did nothave to specify this (HPs mount seemed to know that CDs were read only) Iwas assumingthis was also the case for the SUN.I had ...

hai,thanks all for prompt reply,my question was*could u pl. tell me how to increase swao on sunos 4.1.3*without partitioning disk once again...----------------------------------------most common reply was# mkfile size swapfile (size= size of swap needed)edit /etc/fstaband add file swap swap rw ...

hey all:many thanx to Keith McMillan, Philip Edwards Diane Oman, Robin Landis andespecially Tim Evans who chimed in first w/ the correct answer. I had beensearching readme's and such for two days and never thought to check tosolaris faq. doh!. anyway the problem was my home directory ...

Quick turnaround thanks to (so far):Roger Fujii <rmf@lookhere.com>Michael Pearlman <canuck@caam.rice.edu>"Paul R. Hybert" <prh@ece.iit.edu>It seems there is a bug report about the m64B video card not waking up after a powering down, a problem that only occurs when ...

Thanks to all who replied. I made 2 changes and now have my ssh compiled. I had been using gcc 2.95.2 which was installed from a sunfreeware.com package. We don't pay for the Sun compiler by default so getting gcc in a package was my only choice. Also, trying to be heads up I had set CFLAGS ...

I would like to say thank you to everyone who responded. The answer to<p>my question: "Where can I find ar and strip?" on a Solaris 2.5.1 x86 is:<p>        /usr/ccs/bin<p><p><p>Thanks again,<p>Bob Bailey<p>

Hi again sun-managers,Only 2 replies, one of which was a me too.Steve Kay (steve@peachy.com) replied saying that he had trouble like this when he had been supplied with a faulty A5000 array.iwallace@context.com replied saying he also has this problem whenswapping a system disk from a Sparc 5 to ...

Hello, all,Thanks for all the responses. I didnot check every suggestions./usr/bin/cat filename | /usr/bin/mailx -s "subject" user@hostworks. Thanks!Feng QiuORIGINAL QUESTION:> Hello, all,> My sendmail works fine for long time. But I try to use command tosend a> text ...

Overwhelmingly response was:1 upgrade to 8.9.1 which has lots of ani-spam features 2 use procmailfor now, i opted w/ procmail & am using it only to filter one accts mailthanks, so much to all who replied...theres a few i hope to reply todirectly if i can get some time.thanks ...

I was looking for the way one changes the auto-repeat rate of the keyboard on a Solaris 2.5/CDE 1.0.1 machine. The answer is to add the -ar1 and -ar2 arguments to the /etc/dt/config/Xservers Xsun line(s) to globally set the auto-repeat speed. There was one response that a .xserverrc file could ...

OK! Mercy! SUID scripts are a Bad Thing. In fact a Huge Security Hole.I promise I won't write one or even mention them ever again.ORIGINAL POST:> Sun Managers,> > I've created a Bourne shell script under Solaris 2.4 which basically> looks for defunct processes and kills them. ...

Mike Demarco hit it on the head with this:You must pull the map to the slaves before a push will work!try: make NOPUSH=true mapnameThen do a ypxfr on the slaves for that mapypxfr -h <master-hostname> mapnameThis made sense with what we were seeing in the truss output. the ...

Sorry the last one was supposed to be summary , its becoming a loooongday.Thanks to all who replied. Most were use Genericstable or Virtualusertable or an mailrc or alias fix, and the good ol "fix the web server", butmanagement says the web serveraint broke so leave it alone, oh well. ...

The issue was Apache 1.2's srm.conf file. Thanks to Rik Schneider <rik@netasset.com>:Verify that your srm.conf configuration includes the following:          ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ ...

Thanks to all who responded and gave me the solutions I needed. Afterseeing the responses, I really wanted to hit my head against the wall forbeing so blind. I received from the following people:rene@iusti.univ-mrs.fr (Mr Rene Occelli)Torsten Metzner ...

Original question:How are you sysadmins coping with the recent barrage of SPAM mail? Is therea list of sites that are known for this? Are there other methods than usingprocmail to trash all junk mail? Need help.Thanks to all that ...

I got several replies from folks telling me to modify sd.conf to supportmultiple LUNs. As originally mentioned, I have mounted filesystems alreadyon most of those so seeing the actual LUN was not the problem. Thanks to"Arthur Darren Dunham [add@netcom.com]" for the suggesting that I ...

Hi,Thanks for all the quick responses. It's been summarized before.Here is a typical answer,-----------------Bart Muyzer runs an HP-UX system administration mailing list. To reachALL MEMBERS of the list, send e-mail to <hpux-admin@cv.ruu.nl>; to SUBSCRIBE,send mail to ...

Well, it turned out to be an ID10T error... (pronounced eye D ten T -meaning 'idiot'!)This system is a specially designed unit from a Sun VAR. It's an Ultra10equivalent that's rackmountable with an AXi motherboard. The problemturned out to be an oversight on my part. I am used to ...

> I have an current and annoying problem, when a run perfmeter on one of> our ultra2 machines I get a R.I.P. where it should display the graphs> perfmeter show.Make sure that rstatd is ...

Hi Sun Managers,Thanks greatly for the quick responses to my question.Most of the solutions presented to me said to use format and try torepair the bad block or mark it as defective. A couple others said thedrive was probably dead or dying.I used the format solution which has seemed to solve ...

Thanks to:Marco GreenMark ShermanSeth RothenbergDarren DunhamOkan DemirmenMadhu Tummamyself for R'ing TFM ;}It seems that you can, in fact, do local NIC failover with Veritas ClusterServer (i.e., fail over a faulty NIC's IP on hostA to a good NIC on the samesystem). The IPMultiNIC and ...

I got many responses to this problem(original post is at bottom).Most people told me I needed to add the -f option to the mt command.This is true if I want to specify a tape device other than /dev/rmt/0. Since I was using /dev/rmt/0n, I did need the -f option. What threw me was that the tape ...

The votes are in and the wu-ftpd's have it. Just about everyone who<p>commented suggested this method of keeping anonymous ftp access<p>restricted. Thank you for all your answers.<p>Sean<p>

ORIGINAL PROBLEM:On a SPARC 2 that stopped working, and whose monitor is blank when I power up.When I attach a vt100 and power up the unit, I get the following204 ***PMAP = 00e3000, Exp = 00000000, Obs = 80000000CAUSE:        Motherboard ...

My original question was:> Has anyone ever tried installing the evaluation version of HP's OpenView> 4.0 on Solaris? Every time I run the install script, it hangs. (Well, it> does say that "This could take some time.", but I think 6 hours *could*> classify as a hang.)Tom ...

My original query :Hi Managers !!!Hardware : Sun Ultra 170E with 256 Mb RAM Solaris 2.5.1I am performance testing fast cgi applications on this platform and am noticing several TIME_WAIT's from the netstat -a on sockets that have closed by the application. What parameter should I set with ndd ...