WOW, that was fast, in less than 1/2 hour I had more ways to do this thenever imagine.Thanks to all those who helped:Eustace FernandesDouglas Palmer [palmer@nyed.uscourts.gov]gfranczyk@carbomedics.comJamie LawrenceDavid SternJohn Bradley [john.bradley@sr5.chinalake.navy.mil]Cooke, Earl R.Nikos ...
Thanks to all who replied.David EvansFor 1. there are various wrapper programs available off the net. Theseare called from inetd.conf. All the details are in the man pages andare available from your local security type site. The tcp wrappers weuse come from ftp://ftp.win.tue.nl/pub/security and ...
Hello again,Thanks to Arthur Darren Dunham <add@netcom.com> I made some changes to myconfiguration. I needed to add the 'fudge' command to each server ntp.conffile. This was for making one more preferred over the other.On Server A:fudge 127.127.1.0 stratum 10On Server B:fudge ...
Thanks to: Stephen Harris <sweh@mpn.com> Graham Leggett <graham@vwv.com> Eric D. Pancer ...
>Thanks to all who replied.>>David Evans>For 1. there are various wrapper programs available off the net. These>are called from inetd.conf. All the details are in the man pages and>are available from your local security type site. The tcp wrappers we>use come from ...
Thank you all for your valuable answers?And the winner is sudo ! 28 out of 43 answers say this utility might resolve most of my problems. However Joe Fletcher did make the point: freeware and the like are forbidden (so far) in this Enterprise. We are trying to overcome this new problem?A few ...
Many thanks to those who responded.I certainly missed the obvious way of removing the file by using "rm -i?".I was more baffled with how that file got there in the first place.I actually had to use "rm -i ?"--Other suggestions that were offered:"use "rm -i *" ...
Hye ,thanks for all your answers, that suggested using restricted shell rsh ,or the restricted rbash, or the chroot command. I am kind of busy in anurgent matter right now, but will test these later.Thanks,Clara***************************Clara HatemCorporate Projects EngineerIncoNet salBeirut - ...
Question:> Hi> > I need to multi-host some web servers on my Solaris box. It > has two NICs,> one for "incoming' traffic and one for "outgoing" traffic. > Two different> networks. I need to add more IP's to the incoming NIC for > the web servers.> ...
Sorry mailing late summary, i was waiting for best solution, any waythanks a lot for all who replied to my problem. My original questionwas:sendmail on my system generates a syslog in /var/log.could you tell me where can i get perl scripts or similar solution toget reports on syslog and get ...
Hi all,one week ago I asked:> to minimize the downtime of a heavily used machine I would like to> upgrade the system from Solaris 2.4 to 2.5.1 as follows. All > important filesystems ( /, /usr, /var, /opt, /export) are on> a 9GB disk c0t1d0. An unused 9GB disk is available as c0t2d0 ...
Thanks to the following people..Casper Dik <casper@holland.Sun.COM>Joe Pruett <joey@q7.com>Marc Bellavance <mbellava@Matrox.COM>jwf@ccuc.on.ca (John W. Funk)Torsten Huebler <torsten@indra.sachsenlb.de>Who basically said the same thing.Original ...
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 ...
My question was:~~~~> I would like to have some deep understanding about syslog.~~~~> We intend to use to capture important system messages~~~~> vide our network consisting of around 250 to 300 sun~~~~> workstations running 2.3 to 2.5.1 OSs. We want to~~~~> configure loghost and ...
Thanks for all the helpful replies - too many to reply individually. Thefollowing suggestions were made, along with the frequency of the suggestion:Get a real firewall: 5Use TCPWrappers: 6Use IPFilter: 4Use xinetd: 3Use other misc. sw: 4I will explain a bit further. We do have a router ...
Thanks to all who replied, special thanks to Mark Hargrave who reminded meto make sure to add the remote host to /etc/exports Hi All,>> When I try to mount a directory using : mount -o rw gemini:/tmp /gemini>> I get the following error>> nfs mount: gemini:/tmp: server not ...
It's time to eat some crow. When I sent out my first summary yesterday, Ithought the problem was solved. Apparently it was a transient solution orI was confused, because the problem was back full strength this morning./bin/pwd just wouldn't work in some mounted directories.Based on the ...
Howdy folks. Thanks goes out to Russ Poffenberger he was the only responce I received; and it is enclosed below in its entirety.Original Question:> Phil Poole <poole@ncifcrf.gov> wrote:> ...
First, my apologies for taking so long to get a response out. It took untiltoday to find the problem. The original problem is at the end of this message.First, the vendor of the software came in. After investigating for severalhours, he pointed the finger at the OS.I couldn't find anything ...
I have received some answers to my question, but none of them apply. Anyways, here is the summary, since it can hopefully help someone.My original request:Since a week now, I have a lot of users complaining about Netscape.The problem reported is of the form:The pop server does not have a DNS ...
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My original post:>At various times (no observed pattern) on various OS levels (2.5/6/7) and various >h/w platforms (220/420/250/e1000) the following message appears when a user tries >to telnet/rlogin or sometimes just with telnet (rlogin works) and the login attempt ...
Hi,SOLUTION========Hmmm, nothing, that I would call a "solution", only some suggestions...1. I was asked, whther /opt was mounted. Yes, it was, it is on the same partion as /2. I was advised to put the machine in single user mode not using "init1", but with "init ...
Thanks to Scott McCool, he reminded me about the pkgrm command.. :) Myoriginal question was below.-Jason Ziemlak > > man pkginfo > man pkgrm > > Sun's package manager is the preferred way for installing and uninstalling > packages like this. You could probably just remove ...
Well, I finally realized that this system was originally setup without portmapper process running. Very tight security even better than C2. C2 security needs a process called rpc.pwdauthd to run. This process determines authentication for ...
Hi,It seems you have to order the package from SUN; somebody said price is120$; the option, as mentioned on docs, is: SOLMS-070 WD 999other people replied they've got it for free with the first order, so Iguess you'd better ask for it in the ...
The question was:>I have a Sparc 5 running Solaris 2.5 with all relavent patches. What is>the proper sequence (detailed) to shutdown and restart NFS services? Im>primarily a linux person who now needs to also manage suns.>Thank you.>Thanks to the following:Sabrina Downard ...
Thanks to:SALLEA@kben.co.uk Stephen Harris <sweh@mpn.com>glenn.w.cantello@hydro.on.ca (G W Cantello)David Thorburn-Gundlach <david@bae.uga.edu>Gerald Litteer <gll@moran.inel.gov>Casper Dik <casper@holland.Sun.COM>"David Evans" ...
Thanks to everyone who replied. (listed at the bottom)Original Question: > Quick question. Can I change the shmsys:shminfo_shmmax kernel > parameter on a live system? I want to be able to make the change now > and don't want to wait for a time to reboot the server.Answer:The ...
Here's some more info I received after I posted my summary. Change these parameters in /etc/system:- set ncsize = ...
My original post:I received a 1/4" tape (150MB) from a user who indicated there was a tarfile on there. I've been trying to retrieve it, but haven't had any luck.I used dd and got a 10MB file off tape, but I can't seem to to anythingwith that, either. I took a look at the file and in ...
Original Question:> We have a problem with Screenblank. The symptoms are similar to those answered> in sun-managers a few years ago about screenblank not responding to mouse> movements or keystrokes.> > You can kill screenblank, or send a message to the console and it will ...
Sun say SUNOS 4.1.3 U1 VB can be upgraded for Y2K, andI wanted to know how to tell this. uname -a didntindicate VB.Got loads of correct answers - but forgot to postsummary as I figured it out in the course of examiningthe box.. just use 'showrev' to see the VB: Release: 4.1.3_U1 Version ...
To Summarize, there was only one response on this problem. John Bradley <john.bradley@sunman.chinalake.navy.mil who appears to be experiencing similar problems Apparently the quotas file on the ...
I received responses from two people on this issue.Danny Johnson <djohnson@nbserv1.rsc.raytheon.com> suggested renicingypserv by -10 to prevent timeouts which I'm planning to test.Imre Kolos <Imre.Kolos@eth.ericsson.se> explained his NIS configuration:we have just over 250 NIS ...
Thanks to the folks who responded to my question:From: "Bageshwar X Kumar" <kumar_bageshwar@jpmorgan.com>From: "Jonathon W. Ross" <dnsops@isa.net.au>From: Brad Young <byoung@splitrock.net>From: "Jason K. Schechner" <jas@cais.com>Hope I ...
Hi SMs.The correct answer was: use a Cat5 cable (see the original question below)I was using the old crossed cable that I prepared myself.Anyway, even if the link is running fine now, it seems that the same ftp session that at 10Mbit/s had a throughput of 290Kbit/s now runs at 500Kbit/s. I ...
hello!remember me?sorry for the delay :(my original problems was that a Ultra 1 that I set up as nis masterserver, with Solaris 2.6, was losing its NIS binding (to itself!) aswell as all my clients.what I did to solve the problem was:- Reinstall Solaris 2.6 - Aplay all the new cluster of ...
To find out the version of bind/named being used on a system:- first find out where in.named is located- then do a: strings dir_path(e.g. /usr/sbin/in.named) | grep named The line that has "@(#)named" is the ...
Many thanks to:Dave Harrington <dharringt@deq.state.va.us>Erin Jones <erin@younetwork.com>Greg Polanski <greg_polanski@adc.com>each of which provided fast and helpful responses. Consensus: 3rd party drives work, brackets are ...
Hi,thanks to everyone who responded to my question about commercial FTPclients for X-windows.The overwhelming opinion seems to be that there aren't ANY, saveNetscape... and Communicator/Navigator have somewhat limited capabilitiesas FTP clients.Unfortunately, I cannot use any freeware ...
On Thu, 25 Sep 1997, Roger D McGraw wrote:> I am putting a new hard drive into a sparc 1 box.> Can anyone tell me about the following jumper settings:> parity enableNot required (leave it disabled).> remote start enableProbably a good idea, but not required.> terminator ...
Thanks to Kent Perrier (Kent.Perrier@Oneco.net) and Danny (dannyc@pcs.co.uk)for their suggestions. And hello (!?) to Mark who couldn't help me, but hedid like my name. I should warn you Mark that, outside the US and Canada,Laurie is predominantly a male name...But, big thanks to Hans ...
Thanks a lot to all of you who answered my question (a huge list):The answer goes to: (from "Todd C. Miller" <Todd.Miller@cs.colorado.edu>)1. ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/ucb/4bsd/nvi.tar.gz2. "vim", http://www.math.fu-berlin.de/~guckes/vim-Judy ...
On Fri, Aug 28, 1998 at 03:18:17PM -0400, Igor Schein wrote:> Hi, the following segfaults on Solaris 2.6:> > echo x | tr 'x' '\200' | nroff -man> > This is output of locale command:> > LANG=> LC_CTYPE="C"> LC_NUMERIC="C"> ...
To rotate the logs of the process that uses odd names, and doesn'trotate it's own log when you kill -HUP it I found this pretty: for CheckFile in `find /local/sites/gen3/logs ! -name \*gz -size +7484c ...
Hello--Thank you to Jim Harmon, Joel Lee, David Moline and Trent MacDougall, who replied to my question: We have a brand new Sun Ultra 30, and are attempting to install the Solaris 2.6 OS on it. We are using an older Sun CDRom drive. The Ultra keeps rebooting! ...
I was waiting to post the summary until I had the card working. By farthe biggest suggestion was the Antares P-0068 card which in fact doeswork ( http://www.antares.com)There was one mention of a Symbios 895/896 based card made byIntraserver ( http://www.intraserver.com) which I did not ...
Tnx 謆erg_Mats Hector Davie for quick replyBut it did not helpI needed the file names that I should change to effect hostname change.I got it from docs.sun.comChange the line "SERVER old-name" to "SERVER new-name"ON license Server :file : ...
Thanks to:Robert G. Ferrell Frank Fiamingo - Col Russ Poffenberger Bill Hathaway Charles Best John Bradley Michael Kriss Robert G. Ferrell John Berninger The solution and code are presented below. The server program can be terminated... with ^C or killed and the port is recycled/. I can now ...