Apologies for the delay...work has been hectic of late, with the school yearjust commencing :( I got alot of RTFM answers, but I must have printed off a different copy thenothers have, since the one I have doesn't seem to have a section on this :(It turns out the solution was relatively ...

Sun only wants to sell the color cartridges inquantities of (6), or one of each color (quantity (4)).For those of you who don't need or want to be constrainedby these minimum quantity requirements, you can purchasereplacement cartridges individually! Look for Canon BJC820ink cartridges... They ...

Hi,thanks to all who responded:   Tim Carlson <tim@santafe.edu>   josephc@systems.caltech.edu (Joseph Chiu)   Michael Brock <michael@ti.com>   "Howard Boggs" <hboggs@bridgept.com>SOLUTION========The general ...

Thanks to Michael Shao, Paul Collison, Grant Beattie, Danny Johnson and several others.The answer is that 2.5.1 has a 2GB limit and 2.6 has 1 TB. As for NFS, on 2.6 you can mount with the largefile option to support large files in NFS.Thanks,ThomasOriginal:> Ok... I asked a question about ...

Thanks to everyone that responded.I actually got two answers. One, 2.5.1 doesn't support files greater than 2 GB.  Two, NFS v.2 has difficulties with "large files". I don't know if that means over 2 GB or just very large files in general...Thanks,Thomas>-----Original ...

Only one suggestion. Still no solution. This is a new install and lookslike we are giving it back beacuse it just dont work...Original question at the end.might be a power problem. I know that some drives firmware willspin-downor "shut off" a drive if it doesn't spin up in a ...

I only received 2 replys. On was a "me too" and the other was to check the/var/sadm/patch/107587-01/logs for errors. The directory never got createdin the patchd folder. I talked to Sun support who basically came up with noreason why. I had downloaded this on a Sun, unzipped it and ...

Thanks a lot to everybody who responded.The response was loud and clear:   "NO! Do not delete those files... I will prevent you from installing any   other patch and/or packages in the futur."So, I didn't remove /var/sadm/install/contents...PS: Original ...

I hate problems that solve with a reboot .. !:-) How can I know what was actually wrong and what got "fixed"? (-:Sorry to bother you all .. rebooting the machine with "/etc/resolv.conf"installed seemed to clear up whatever was wrong (presumably the previousboot had been done ...

Thanks to the following responders:Justin CliftGrant LoweLeonid KryshovHans SchaechlReggie StuartAll provided good common-practice admin advice (which I had tried, butit's nice to know I was on the right track). boot -r, recreate/etc/path_to_inst, devfsadm (this is Solaris 8, after all), all ...

        Hi sun-managers:        First of all, thanks to                 Michel Pilon ...

Following my posting of a summary this morning I received replies from:-Jon Nielsen <jon@ecel.uwa.edu.au> andDavid Evans <DJEVANS@au.oracle.com>both of whom suggested that the problem lay with a corrupted NIS+ password table. I went through the password table carefully and indeed ...

My question:>> Is there a way to make Mozilla understand information in the NIS or NIS+>> tables as well as information in the DNS tables? All our requests are made>> through a proxy server but the proxy server does not know about our internal>> machines because they do ...

Thanks for all responses.Brett Morgan <brett@pulse.itd.uts.edu.au>"Thomas D. Knox" <tom@vushta.com>Dave McFerren <mcferren@colltech.com>Jochen Bern <bern@TI.Uni-Trier.DE>"Howard Boggs" <hboggs@bridgept.com>"Erin Jones" ...

Thanks to:"David Evans" <DJEVANS@au.oracle.com>"John T. Douglass" <john.douglass@anlw.anl.gov>Bunny Pfau <bunny@hao.ucar.edu>Dale Houston <dhouston@bio.ri.ccf.org>Damon LaCaille <Damon_LaCaille@digi.com>Jay Lessert ...

I had asked where OS constants such as those found in /usr/include/*.h files might be found in a f77 format. The answer is nowhere. The most recommended action was to edit the .h files in /usr/include needed to add #ifndef <f77-name> to limit what f77 compiles see. I dislike this approach ...

And the winner is: MAGMA! (by overwhelming acclaim)My original message:- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------> To: sun-managers@ra.mcs.anl.gov> From: William Bulley <web@merit.edu>> Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 18:22:59 -0400 (EDT)> Subject: ...

Hello Sun Managers,        Thanks for the numerous replies. The trick worked for the printer and I'm able to print with the suggested printer port /dev/ecpp0. I just added the printer to the unix box using admintool with the printer port as ...

> After finally getting around to changing my NIS setup to keep passwds> in the passwd.adjunct file I've discovered that it's still possible> for NIS clients to retrieve my encrypted passwords.Thank you all for the quick and concise responses.  Casper Dik ...

ORIGINAL QUESTIONS:> Architecture> Solaris 2.5.1, recommended patches.> Machine Ultra 1> QUESTION 1: > ***********> Within a C and C++ program, when a process allocates memory with> malloc or new, and then frees it with free or delete, the de-allocated> ...

Hi Managers,Thanks a lot for the responses sent by:"Miri Weiss (Unix SysAdmin)" <miri@tadirantele.com>Leif Neve <neve@ceb.nlm.nih.gov>Srinivasa Rao Duddupudi <sduddupu@cvimail.cv.com>Vahid Moghaddasi <vahid@dats.ml.com>gfranczyk@carbomedics.comI had already ...

Sun-Managers;Thanks to all that provided me input into this problem;The answer that got me there was from: Rene.Barbier@irislink.comHe suggested I use the "-B" option for my rpc daemon (/etc/rc2.d/S71rpc onmy system) to provide DNS resolution. All works great now!Original ...

Reverse Lookup > > We moved last week and since then we can not send mail to aol.com, no> bounce no error> mail just goes into a hole ie: /dev/null.. I have no idea what the> probelem is or could be,> mail works every where else fine.. I have a million calls to aol and ...

Thanx for reply of :Mark LuntzelFabrice Cuq.However we found a solution untill know about the scsi-timeoutsGiven :solaris 2.7netbackup 3.2Tapeloader L1000 get any scsiWhat we have done :- replace scsi card- verified L1000- verified cables- installed alle the latest mu and recommended ...

Thanks so much for the overwhelming answers. I've included below all answers I got because they are all very useful. We found a spare Quantum fireball, and installed it. It works great using the format.dat created by scsiinfo tool from John Dimarco, thanks John.Aline...Original ...

Most of you said it was available for downloading from Sun's website.Thanks.My question was where I could find this software.============================================Jaewan Kim856-988-0062 x425 (u1.net)877-250-8919 (ureach.com fax/voicemail)SU BEFORE POSTING please READ the FAQ located ...

I received two replies, one from Chris TeSelle and other from JohnDodge.Both suggest to me to change obj.conf manually.I follow John's advice, and it works fine.Thanks all who replied to me."John P. Dodge" wrote:> > One thing about Netscape virtual servers is by default they ...

Thanks to:Jeff Kennedy, Bashar, Sean Ward, Rahul Roy, Ed Finch, Jason Kruse,Ronald Loftin, and Seth Rothenberg.There were favorable responses toward SSAs, the newer Ax000 arrays fromSun, Network Appliance arrays, and towards the Multipacks. A couple ofpeople pointed out that software RAID V is ...

Hye Sun managers,I asked:************************Dear Sun administrators,I work for an ISP.I have installed a UUCP solution at a client site. My client has a netrastation that connects regularly (the schedule is in the crontab) througha 28.8 modem to us (the ISP) and sends/ receives the mail ...

Thanks for the responses,The basic consensus was to use xv to convert a windows bmp file to a bm file.This in turn is referenced in the Xresourcesfile against the Dtlogin*logo*bitmapFile entry.I did this and walla!Restart dt login and the bitmap appears.Simon.Millard@barclays.co.ukAddress ...

Thanks to everyone that answered.There have been a wide range of answers to my question about"Could anyone help me with clues on good Firewall software, whichis easy to configure, maintain and not to expensive?".The ones that have popped up most is:fwtk (firewall toolkit (Free)) ...

Thank you for several people point me to the right answer. The answer is: Check what mount options are given in /etc/vfstab for these 2 file systems. Mount-options is the last field in vfstab. If 'quota' is mentioned, remove it. (If it is 'rq', change it to 'rw'). My original ...

I pulled my head out and started grepping for nis in /etc/rc*.d/* andfigured out what I think for the most part solves my problem ( gets rid ofnagging messages and hostname returns the real hostname instead of unknown). But if someone knows the complete procedure in it's entirety, pleaseshoot ...

ThanksDieter Gobbers and several others said > Take a look at > http://www.spec.org/osg/cpu95/>> http://www.spec.org/osg/cpu95/results/cpu95.htmlBased upon that URL, the numbers areThe numbers are CINT95Company System Result Baseline # CPUSun Microsystems Sun Ultra 1 Model ...

Thanks to everyone - I had forgotten to add dns to /etc/nsswitch.conf - <p>Boy, do I ever feel like a user!<p>Craig Glover<p>

        This is the file describing the processes involved in mounting a Zip 100Mb drive on a Sun SPARC running Solaris 2.0. You can use the file that Ihave recently sent to the sun_managers group to create the mount and umountcommand that allows ...

Hi all,this is the 2. summary for my question about easy to use toolsto analyze network traffic.I get two more hints:Checkout the ACEdirector2 product on: http://www.alteon.com/products/index.phtml?page=datasheets.htmlWell, this is hardware, but the second hint is a nice software ...

Hi,        I got a number of informative responses. The following peopleanswered:Matt ReganCharles M. AtkinsonKent PerrierMike SalehiAndy PatonJim TaylorMatthew StierWalter ReedRic AndersonJustin CliftThe general consensus was that the requirements of ...

HiThanks alllot of people said that the performance on Firewall-1 is excellent.Some configs of sun machines running firewall-1:ultra5, 300MHz. 128MB ramultra10, 300MHz, 500mb ramultra2, dual 300MHz, 256 mb ram.-- easily handled dual load balanced T-3IT is suggested that one put ACLs on the ...

Thanks for the replys Brian Herzog, Allen Todd and James D. LaPlaine.To clarify upon the original posting, I was looking for simplemulti-hosting. In my situation there is no need for a multi-initiator /disk sharing environment.The responses .....>From Brian Herzog and Allen Todd ...

Hello All,got quite a few responses on this one, that's why I like this list. I haveincluded the response from Manoj Kumar below. Several people suggestedsys-unconfig. I knew about this option, but I wanted to know the exact filesthat caused this behavior.Regards,--BuddyHi,To do this do the ...

        Thanks to all who responded to my question.        The problem was due to having the wrong permissions on the mountpoint ...

Original query:> I have set the security-password= on the eeprom on a SparcStation 5.> Now, when it boots, it expects the PROM password, but the one I set> doesn't seem to work. Therefore, I cannot bring up the machine at all.> Is there a way to reset the eeprom?Answer:replace ...

         Before I go any further, I would like to thank those people who answeredmy request for help with their responses. There were a number of differentsuggestions concerning how I could allow non-root users to mount andunmount a disk, but I ...

     Celeste had the answer..here it is:______________________________ Forward Header __________________________________Subject: Re: GCC Binaries for Solaris 2.6?Author: celeste@celestial.stokely.com (Celeste Stokely) at InternetDate: 9/16/97 11:21 ...

Well the general summary is that the list IS still alive....i received more mail from my original query than from the list since the beginning of the year <g>donnieAt 10:46 AM 10/2/2000 -0500, Evans, William C wrote:>Yep! Seems to be.>>Bill Evans>UNIX/NT Systems ...

I got few responses, Lonnie offered to send some notes from his Veritas Classover fax. Thanks Lonnie.I wanted to make sure what I am doing is right, before I try anything on theproduction server. so I setup a test machine, added few disks to rootdg andcreated a volume/file system. And then ...

Thanks to all who responded:Rasana Atreya <Rasana.Atreya@library.ucsf.edu>"Bruce Rossiter" <AROSSITE@us.oracle.com>rtrzaska@uk.mdis.com (Ray Trzaska)Casper Dik <casper@holland.Sun.COM>Michael Neef <neef@neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>My original ...

Thanks to all who replied. The answer is to use veritas volume manager.Guru Prasad>Original question:I have two 4GB drives on my sun box and we want to split it so that weget 20 filesystems( 400 MB each) using the 2 drives. As with 2 disksi can only have 16 slices i cannot go above 16 ...

The problem I have experienced was with forcing the HME interfaces to100Mb/s Full Duplex. This was also suggested by most of the responses Ireceived. This fortunately happened to be the very next item on my list asI was regressing my steps one-by-one and testing.I received the following set ...