I have had several answers to my question about problems with migratingDNS from one server to another.In Brief the the original question wanted to know what should I look outfor in migrating From A DNS Client to a DNS Primary, and are there toolsavailable to help out.Folks that helped: ( In No ...

Dear Sun-Managers:I sincerely thank the following Sun Managers who responded to my query ona seemingly impossible task. I'd also contacted SUN (Valerie Brand) whosent me info on boot disk, a portion of which will be attached to theend of this email. Thanks to:- Casper Dik- Martin Achilli- ...

Yes , I meant slice. I used the methods below and I am ecstatic......:)by Kevin KorbFirst, you mean slice not lun. Just hit 6, and set it's beginning and sizeto 0 and it will disappear. Then you can setup the other slices at whateversizes you want.By Todd HerrYou need to use some of the ...

Thanks to everyone who replied to me. Nearly everyone suggestedthe same solution, which worked perfectly:o Make sure the directory in which you untar the patch tarball,   and the entire patch directory tree are world-readable and -executable.    Some patches are ...

Thanks to all that replied.As it turns out, as told to me by a Sun employee, the code for the translogdevice in DiskSuite is the same exact code put into the logging feature inthe UFS kernel code. So:Translog Device Pros:1. Can be mirrored and therefor survive better from physical disk ...

Many thanks to the members of this list. Again you all have proven to be agreat source of information and help.*** The original post:>I have been trying to share my cdrom from my pc running SolarisX86 v2.5 and>have been having problems. I can share a directory and see anything ...

Thanks for all of your responses. I looked through them and decided totry Michael Maciolek's idea. He also pointed out my freudian spelling error. Thanks you were correct :)I also wanted to thank:Adrian StovallGreg PolanskiCharles SmokoRoger FujiiJoeseph ChiuBill HerbertMichael Pinsand ...

Thanks a lot to all those who responded!Here is the extract:Main concern of saturating the fiber channel was unnecessary. Swap activitywill claim fraction of available fiber bandwidth. Putting swap on lower utilized disks in the array will be better.Many people recommended spreading the swap ...

In general, only Sun PCI cards will work in a Sun Ultra 10John Sullivan, Doug Otto, and Tim Evans had the most interestingreplies."Sullivan, John" wrote:> > Sun does not provide a driver for any ethernet board other than> their hme boards. Two others I have used that are ...

I got so much reply more than what I expected. Thank to everybody who replied. It was very helpful.My original message:====================I have questions of setting up a Web server on solaris 2.4. This Web server,I just want to set for internal use only. I'll summarize. 1) Where can I can ...

I would like to thank everyone who responded, especially:Aleksandar Milivojevic [alex@srce.hr]Rich Kulawiec [rsk@gsp.org]Craig Raskin [raskin@compusec.org]Mike Jacobi [mike@engg.ksu.edu]John Bradley [john.bradley@sr5.chinalake.navy.mil]They all responded with lightning speed. The problem was ...

Many thanks to James Coby for this supplementary information. Themachine I'm using is running SunOS 5.4, and I was running "snoop" inverbose mode with input from a disk file, so these three bug items aresure to be relevant to the second part of my query.-fp> From ...

I'm summarizing, but I'm not happy with the solution...I'll just have togrin and bear it. Original question below the summary.Thanks to: Ed Crotty <ecrotty@vantage.com>Derrick Daugherty <derrick@tachyon.pointone.com>Russ Poffenberger <poffen@san-jose.tt.slb.com>Allen ...

I asked if a TGX frame buffer could be used in an Ultra 1. Apparently,this works just fine - thanks to those who replied (too numerous to mention)and to those whose replies are yet to come.Kindest regards,Niall O Broin UNIX Network Administrator, Stations and Communications Engineering ...

Hi,The solution is simple: Get an install ppp 2.3.10. It contains 64-bitsupport for both, Solaris 7 and Solaris 8 beta. The source can be hadfrom:               ftp://cs.anu.edu.au/pub/software/ppp/I've compiled it with ...

The solution was to kill the fs process that was hanging onto thefs/tcp port, and kill -HUP the inetd process.Thanks to ahaque@colltech.commichaelh@slmd.comSROTHENB@montefiore.orgthadm@oregonian.comThe original postRunning 2.6 on a Sun Netra i was getting the following coming to my consoleSep ...

READ THE FAQ!!!Seriously, I should have read the faq, or searched the archive.But some more considerate people actually sent their entry to help me outAmong them are         Darryl Levesque        Jim ...

Hi Managers,judging from the number of replies, this looks like a question that everybody on the list knew but me.The solution is to: setenv auto-boot? false before doing the reset all to prevent a reboot.Then probe-scsi should work. Be sure to set auto-boot back to true if you want that ...

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Thanks for the response from :Patrick L. NolanStuart ReggieSpecial thanks to Patrick for his solution which works perfectly fine.There is a problem with your XKEYSYMDB environmental variable.Either it is not defined or it refers to a file which does not existor is invalid.On ...

Finally got some definitive answers ( through your help andexperimenting ), so here is the summary.RESOLUTION:===========It seems that as long as the IP interface being pinged belongs to themachine in question, then the ping will receive a response. however, aping to an address ...

Thanks to  Mike Mehran Salehi <mrs@cadem.mc.xerox.com>  Danny O'Mahony <domahony@csc.com>  Ray Saddler <rsaddler@cccis.com>  John P. Dodge <john.p.dodge@boeing.com>  David Robillard <David.Robillard@Matrox.COM>most ...

Hi all,I'd appreciate the following people who took their time and gave me aprompt response.Brion Leary, Chris Callahan, Shelagh Sitterson and Todd Boss.Both Chris and Brion pointed me to Majordomo@lists.teleport.com.(type:subscribe oracle-l your@email.address in the mesg box) and it does ...

Thanks again to all for the great help.Original question:The date/time is generally calculated as the number of seconds since> 1970.> > Is there a command/easy way that will give me the number of seconds> instead of the date as we know it.Three themes:1. c script2. perl -e3. GNU ...

Fellow Sun Managers,Earlier this week, I asked:> We have a situation where we need to increase the maximum number> of nested symbolic links on both SunOS 4.1.4 and Solaris 2.5.> > The following can be found in /usr/include/sys/param.h on both> OSes:> > /*> * MAXSYMLINKS ...

Original Question:> > I have several systems running Solaris 2.4 and 2.5.1.> I installed the lastest recommended Y2K patches on> these systems about 1 1/2 years ago. Are these systems> still Y2K or do I have to load the lastest Y2K patches> on each of these systems?> Looks ...

Thanks to all (60+) who answered. Summary below. --------------------------------/usr/sbin/psrinfo/usr/sbin/prtconfRAM: prtconf | grep -i memCPU: mpstator/usr/platform/`uname -m`/sbin/prtdiagTry /usr/platform/`uname -m`/sbin/prtdiag. This will give you the amount ofmemory installed and ...

Thanks to all who responded - I got so many replies I won't list all of thenames but will summarize the results.Original Question:How to set up an e-mail account in Sendmail that allows e-mail to be sentbut not be received for purposes of sending out notices announcements, etc.Answer:There are ...

My original question asked how one configures printing for a Lexmark Color Jet 3000 to properly render Postscript, cleartext, and dot-matrix output formats.Most answers only addressed the Postscript question, with the universal answer that the needed filter(s) are not bundled with Solaris, and ...

Hello,thanx to all. The solution was to change the path so that /usr/bin is infront of /usr/ucb.Thanx, Dirk. ______________________________________________________________| _|_|_| _|_| _|_|_| _|_|_| _|_|_| _| _| || _| _| _| _| _| _| _| _| _|_| ...

Thanks to:M.Toth-Abonyi@cc.u-szeged.hu (Toth-Abonyi Mihaly)Casper Dik <casper@holland.Sun.COM>cpe@dsi.elis.fr (Christophe PERRAULT)Original question:-----------------> The "admintool" on Solaris 2.4 included the Database Manager Icon.> > Where is that function now under ...

Many thanks to all those who replied, and so quickly.I did a bad job of asking my original question, in that I failed to mentionthat I was aware of the /etc/ftpusers file (which lists those users unableto login via ftp). And I also failed to mention that I was asked by powersthat be to find out ...

To recap (and maybe explain a little better what I was asking), my originalquestion had to do with setting a default path for Solaris. I was hoping for asingle point to edit to give all shells the same initial path, and hence allusers the same basic path.It appears that this is, if not ...

The problem did not lie with the password file, not what shell root was using (I had stated that root worked fine, it was other users.)The solution was to reinstall the OS.Thanks to all who replied, even the smart ass who said RTFM. I'll remember him when he posts for help ;-)....NOn Mon, 7 ...

Thanks to Bill Hathaway <wdh@poss.com>I got the same answer from SUN too. Netra-j 2.0.1 is required for javastation to boot and work.Previously it used to be free download now it has to be purchased as Netra-j. It runs on both Solaris 2.6 and 2.5.1My Question was..Hi Managers,I have ...

Here is the summary of pointers for installing an IOMEGA ZIP 100drive on a Solaris 2.5.1 system. My sincerest apologies for losing thelist of everyone that replied. There were many contributors and theywere all very helpful and I am sincerely appreciative.Just about everyone that responded ...

Hi Sun-gurus,In the first place : Thanks to everybody who did response to thisquestion.The answer:1) you must add an entry for the directory to nfs-mount in your/etc/exportsI checked this and it was ok.2) You must start the nfs services ...

Cheers to all who replied so promptly. Means I get to go home and relax now!How to see the percentage of a mirror sync?vxtask listTASKID PTID TYPE/STATE PCT PROGRESS (<-- output (nice huh!))and / or vxtask monitorThanks again.-----Original Message-----From: Austin, Annie ...

First off... I am about 50 different sys admin lists. This has GOT to be the most mature, polite, and helpful list of the bunch. I wish to Linuxlists were the same... but I regress.Thanks to all who answered. The people who contribute to Sun-Managers areIMHO tops. Yeah, it's true... my ...

Thanks to the following for all your insights and replys:Matthew StierRachel PolanskisBenjamin ClineDavid L. Markowitzand David Tong, for keeping a great Framebuffer FAW at: http://c3-a.snvl1.sfba.home.com/FrameBuffer.htmlHope I didn't miss anyone.All SS20's come with an SX framebuffer. Its ...

Thanks to:Owen Connolly <ojc@dataway.com>Marco Greene <mgreene@sympatico.ca>Stefan Jon Silverman <sjs@sjsinc.com>eric <eric@catastrophe.net>Jochen Bern <bern@penthesilea.uni-trier.de>Dan Brown <brown@obscure.org>Al Hopper <al@logical-approach.com>Daniel ...

Special thanks to:John Kennedy [jkennedy@orent.com]Ravi Channavajhala [ravi.channavajhala@csfb.com]Bill Fay [c-bill.fay@wcom.com]Steve Elliott [se@comp.lancs.ac.uk]The final consensus is that there is a bug with sys-unconfig under Solaris 8to be more specificwith the version dated February ...

Got quite a few quick answers on this one. The suggestions were:1. Get the latest version of pdksh from ftp.cs.mun.ca:/pub/pdksh.   For those who mentioned that 5.2.8 was available at this site,   you should know that the latest version there is now 5.2.11.2. Get ...

Boot hang problem: I had added some remote mounts that weren't correct.This hung the machine on boot. I would expect them to time out, butthat didn'tseem to happen. Solution, reboot single user, and edit /etc/vfstabCorrupted file problem: Sounds like the problem described inpatch 1251421 ...

Sorry for the hugely late summary on this one.Thanks to Stephen Boyd Gowing <sbg@fox-in.socs.uts.EDU.AU> for mailing me nowand reminding me to summarize.While I did receive a couple of pieces of email on this, no-one provided anyinformation that helped solve the problem.But I did solve ...

On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Pablo Ruiz wrote:> Does anybody know how to force a user to a different default group? For> example: user john default group from the passwd file (actually from yp)> is student. If I want to force his default group to guest only when he> logs in to machine ...

My original post on Wed, 17 Sep 1997 was:> Recently I configured my Sparc 20 Solaris 2.5.1 system to respond to> an extra IP address to server another web site by:> > ifconfig le0:1 206.198.221.101 up> > and setting up our DNS server to associate www.dave.com to> ...

Thanks go to Matthew Stier and Thomas Jackson.Turns out that it is certainly possible to boot the flash-update kernel overthe network. After carefully watching a local update, I got it to work.The flash-update kernel reads some information from /platform, which means thatyou must have a network ...

I asked:->> I have an old server S1000, Sol 2.4, Solstice Backup 4.2.6b that has>> suddenly decided to 'freeze' during backups. >> 'nwadmin' reports that the system is writing to the Dat drives, but >> the drives are inactive. >> The only thing I could ...

Thanks to everyone who offer good/bad reviews on WinDD. I've decided tolook further into and will proably end up using it. Thanks to:Ellen <ellen@aur.alcatel.com>"Mark A. Baldwin" <baldma@aur.alcatel.com>Henry Yiin" <yiin@cdcna.com>alfred@sequana.com (Alfred ...