Well.. the list didn't help this time.. but I figure Imay as well help the list. My problems with CDE anddtfile not working were the result of using fullyqualified hostnames. The quick fix was to make surethat the hostname, not fully qualified, was resolvable.ie. I added it to the /etc/hosts ...

Hello everyone, Thank you all for the suggestions. I got a great referance site at http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~ntp/What I really need is a GPS, Cellular Phone, or cesium referance clockto hang off of the machine but they are way out of our price range. SoI am going to have two servers use ...

Ok,  Thanks for the quick replies. Sorry I didn't record the names of thosewho did reply. Too quick on the delete.I needed to add:+@eb-nfs1-users+:x:::::/bin/falseto my /etc/passwd. The first allowed the users of my netgroup and thesecond line allowed me to keep the names/logins ...

Summary:It seems that diag-switch? was set wrong, maybe I set it and didn't setit back (user error) during this major upgrade of mine. Only thecomputer knows.<stop-a>ok> setenv diag-switch? falseok> resetThanx for the help.James Hsieh <jhsieh@soemail.ucsd.edu>Mr T Crummey ...

Folks:Original Question:            Back when I was building firewalls on 2.5 I used to modify    the /etc/rc2.d/S69inet file with directives from a Sun security    bulletin to prevent SYN-flood ...

Inn is the option, but i will try first the Netscape because of theGUI administration.I have great UNIX knowledge but i will install the server on K-12 schoolsand they do not have skillfull people, so i will try Netscape first. Also as soon as i get the gcc-2.7.2.3 i will compile inn on my ...

I asked:> We have a script in some monitoring software that should kill the shell> that it is in when it finishes. Right now the last line is to do a> "kill -9" on the parent ID of the shell script, but that generates an> error in the monitoring software (it is tripped by ...

Sorry folks, i should have included the original question in my summary.Would do that in the future summary.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 ...

Thanks very much to Francis Liu and Asim Zuberi for responding soquickly.After posting my question I learned from our former Sys Admin that the correct services file did not reside on my NIS+ server. Thus, I hadpopulatedan outdated version of our services file into NIS+, a file thatcontained ...

Thanks toDennis Martens, Rick Anderson, Douglas Palmer, Joe Fletcher, and DanielLuechtefeld for their speedy replies.I remembered reading that Sun's hme's weren't the best at autonegotiatingwith some switches. The fix is to turn off autonegotiation at the interface.Dennis' /etc/system ...

ORIGINAL QUESTION :Hello managers,  We have a couple of machines that are being EOL'd bySUN and management is not keen on upgrading the hardware. We have always had a SUN support contract so this will be a totally new scenario out here. I waswondering whether I could get some ...

Answer: max number of users wqas set too high. You guyscame up with this in 10 minutes which was sure better than the regular support of 24+ish hours...Thanks!!ClintOrigional question________________________________________________________________Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 16:26:06 -0600 ...

Thanks to all who resonded, especially Michael Sullivan who pinpointed my problem. It turns out that my printer requires a delay after control characters. I've included Mike's reply which shows a simple script to determine if this is the problem. Now that I've identified the problem, ...

The original question was:+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++>Hi!> We have two SUN servers one a SUN SPARC20 and the other a SUN SPARC5. Both>are riunning Solaris 2.5. While I am able to ftp from the SS5 to SS20 but not>the other way around except ...

Thanks to Casper Dik <casper@holland.Sun.COM>The problem is that the SunOS boxes were running at a broadcast address of 137.71.0.0 instead of 137.71.255.255. It seems the default is 0s when it should really be 1s - a little reading told me that when SunOS came out there was no finalized ...

Dear All,Thanks very much for the replies to my question about whether I couldpatch a Solaris 2.6 first release CD image to make it upto HW 5/98level, so I could use it on my intended U5 purchase.The overwhelming and quite definite response was no. No amount ofpatching will bring one version of ...

Original Query:> Solaris 2.3. I know I've seen this question asked before, probably on > this list. How can I write a Perl (or shell, for that matter) script to > set passwords? See, I'm creating a couple hundred or so users, each with > different passwords, and I really don't ...

Thanks to folks too numerous to mention... There appear to have been 3spots on the disk that went bad that various incantations of format wereable to mark as such. Unfortunately, where they went bad appears to have corrupted most of the /file system so not much was recoverable off the disk. ...

Thanks to:Charles Gagnon <charlesg@Nynexst.COM>Rick Reineman <reineman1@llnl.gov>Noel Fardy <noelf@ttmc.com>Mariel Feder <unix.support@central.meralco.com.ph>My question:> I had a problem when I was configuring a NIS+ replica. I had follow the> steps on the ...

Hi,My original question is at the bottom:Here is the answer:when you sniff a virtual interface you will get all the traffic for thevirtual interfaces on the physical interface they belong to as well as thetraffic for the physical interface itself.==============================================I ...

Thanks to Charlie Mengler <charliem@anchorchips.com>, "Robert G. Ferrell" <rferrell@usgs.gov>,Mike Taylor <taylor@syrinx.jeffnet.org>They all believe @@domain is _not_ a valid RFC returnaddress. Mike Taylor suggested modifying sendmail.cfto block these emails, which ...

Hello SysAdmins:Thanks for all of the replys I found out what the problem was.The main issue was that the MRI (Microtec) license server softwarecould not see the license.dat file on license1 server soI found out that one of the other admins had reasoned that thelicense server did not need to ...

Thanks to all for your help on this one....The answers where:1) Buy the Postscript Cartridge for the Printer2) Find and install Ghostscript3) Find and install netpbm and use the pbmtolj tool4) Use the following commands:        xwd |xpr -device ljet |lp ...

I received many replies. Thank youHere is the I will utilize. Charles.Gagnon2lazard.comHere's a simple chart:     SunOS 4.1.x -> Solaris 1     SunOS 5.1 -> Solaris 2.1     SunOS 5.4 -> Solaris ...

Hi, folks --David Thorburn-Gundlach wrote:...> Here's the rub: when we back up the mirrored, striped partition (a la> "ufsdump 0f srv:/tape /dev/md/dsk/d60"), we don't get all of the data.> Strangely enough, there are no errors, and what does get backed up does> not seem ...

Content-MD5: /pZ8Q5PMUXErLz19pPhzBg==Precedence: bulkHal Stern said that our nfsd threads are set way too low, we'll bumpit up and watch to see if things improve. I still don't know whatthe udpNoPorts numbers mean.My original posting:> Our nfs server (solaris 2.3) machines occasionally ...

  Well, this might be a new one, a SUMMARY without an originalquestion. I DID almost send a question to the list but found theproblem first. So, to save anyone else from having the same problem....  I was trying to install patch 104093-05 on an Ultra 30 running 5.5.1and ...

I have received several responses already. They are unanimous. Everyonesays that the permissions on my mount point are bad. This didn't help, butthe problem is solved, I think.I didn't mention in my first message that the mount was done by a link tothe magic /net directory:ln -s ...

I have received a plethora of messages already (only about 16 hoursfrom posting time -- great response time :). Most of them pointed meto the official distribution site for top or a reliable mirror. Theyare:        ftp://ece.nwu.edu/pub/top (also could ...

The orginal question was:> Don't ask how, but ufsboot, kabd, and cprboot have been deletedfrom> /platform/sun4m/ on a SS5 running 2.6. Unfortunately, before it was> noticed an attempt was made to reboot the machine. Obviously, the> machine will no longer boot. What is the best ...

I received no responses so I guess it can't be done.==================================================| Frank Velazquez || Siemens Information and Communication Networks || frank@hwdev.icn.siemens.com |==================================================On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Frank Velazquez ...

I should have waited at least 3 days before summarize.After receiving a few more emails, and communicationwith postmaster at the other site, I believe this is a result of early Sun 8.6 rewriting rules. I randomlypicked up a few emails in mqueue and they all containeda 8.6 sendmail host after ...

Hello All, you should like this I will answer my own question! Since thisgroup is so helpful, I thought I share the info...Problem was that after some patch removals and installs, showrev -p reported:showrev: get_env_var(SUNWcsu, SUNW_PATCHID) as a regular user.The fix:chmod 644 ...

This summary is a long time in coming (original post in July). I wanted towait until I had the server almost configured in case any questions came upbut since I can seem to get all the PC/Mac fires put out to get back to myserver I decided I better ship this out.The main point of the original ...

That was quick. It was a postscript problem. Thanks to Matthew Stier<Matthew.Stier@tddny.fujitsu.com>, the first and only (so far) response,which was also correct. >From what he said, I built the correct command line for lpadmin. It's:lpadmin -p <printer> -v /dev/null -i ...

Sorry I am late providing a summary. I got so many responses that I willsimply say thanks to all who took the time to assist me, rather than tryingto provide kudos to each individual.My original request was for assistance in setting up a second LAN port underSolaris 2.5.1. During initial ...

Looks like I need to us the "vxdump" command.Does anyone have any examples of "0" and "9" level dumps andalso using the "vxrestore" command?Thanks to all who responded!MarkOriginal problem:> > When I "ufsdump" a local Veritas volume by the ...

Ok, thanks to all who responded to my request.<s.voss@terradata.de><Lori.Blake@Frogtown.Com><SIseminger@atd.gmeds.com><Michael.Gordon@ee.ed.ac.uk><vogelke@c17mis.region2.wpafb.af.mil><jharmon@telecnnct.com><nikos@jimmy.harvard.edu>Most everyone ...

> OK, so you don't read the list regularly, but please send a summary of the> answers to the list. If I am wrong and sulogin is dangerous, I (and> probably many others) sure want to know it.Here it is (the summary). I have collected enough responses to tell that/sbin/sulogin is not ...

In your /etc/system file :set ncsize = 5000 (or a number you have come up with)halt the machine and type boot -r at the ok prompt for your changes totake affect ....Many thanks to Rahul who responded with the answerMy original question:-I'm getting the following message on my Sparc station ...

Thanks to all who replied, after a month of inquiries and a bit of time Ibelieve Chad Adams solved my problem. To get the primary interface used asthe default interface I created a /etc/rc2.d/S99virtual file with thefollowing:ifconfig le0 0.0.0.0 downifconfig le0:1 xa.xx.xx.xx netmask ...

thanks to all who replied (there were many of you), all basically saying that i should unmount home directories and check the permissions on /home... it doesn't matter now anyway - we got a new hard disk and solaris 2.6, and after many hours of seemingly fruitless config-fiddling, our solution ...

Thanks to all who took time to reply.isainfo command is not existing in solaris2.6.one of the managers mentioned that solaris2.6 runs 32bit kernel and from 2.7it's upgraded to 64bit.Thanks once again to all the managers on the list who responded.With regards.SU BEFORE POSTING please READ the ...

Dear all,  my thanks to Greg TeHennepe, John Welch, Jim Robertson, cifsman andSyntax's supporttoo. It's been suggested that vxfs causes significant problems withTAS, although onceI'd applied the most recent patch [number 10] my problems appear to beresolved, andvxfs hasn't been ...

hi,        This is the original question. Thanx.>>hi,>> ANyone got a script for backup multiple partition in one 4mm tape?>Thanx to the following peeople1) Tim Evans 2) Srinivasa Moorthy3) James Ranks4) Russell Weeks5) Bert Shure6) ...

Thanks to everyone who answered (too many to name all, and so quickly on aSunday evening)!!Mark Luntzel [mark@neurosis.net] probably said it easiest and simplest(although there were Several who said it practically identical - he was thefirst):/etc/hostshas the name -> ...

Many thanks to those who have responded. So far I have recieved 7 replyswith 4 saying use metastat, and 3 saying please let me know the answerand 2 of those said metastat should work. I failed to mention in myoriginal question that I had also used metastat.Metastat and metahs appear to only ...

I asked why sometimes init 0/6 didn't work for me under Solaris. Kudos asoften to Casper who hit the nail on the head - there was an rc script leftover from the startup which had not quit - we recently had an applicationmodified so that it comes up before the login prompt. init won't ...

I just posted a question about ping dumping core with both SunOS 4.1.4and Solaris 2.5.1. This is caused by ping seeing an ICMP message thatit doesn't know and it is fixed by patches 103297-01 (SunOS 4.1.4) and103699-01 (Solaris 2.5.1, with fixed ping binary useable down to 2.4).Incidentally, ...

Dear all  many thanks for the feedback from:    Logan Stout, Ric Anderson, Mark Drummond, Kyle Maxwell,   Kevin Buterbaugh, David Foster, Reggie Stuart, David Mitchell  Scott Yelich, Joe Fletcher, Pierre Demuynck, Bernt ...