Hi,My original post and all replies are enclosed. Thanks a lot, guys. Your helpis really appreciated!Rasana>I'm testing NIS+ with a rootmaster and three clients. My machine is a NIS+>client.>>This morning, when I tried to login in:>login: mylogin>Choose a new ...

Hello Sun gurus,I am very late with my summary but here it is:One of my two problems are now resolved! Maybe someone can help me onthe unresolved one (error #1)?The original post was:> ==========================================================================> Since I added a new Ultra-2 ...

Hi Folks,As usual you came through like a lightning;DMany thanks to:Matthew Stier <Matthew.Stier@tddny.fujitsu.com>Roger B.A. Klorese <rogerk@sendmail.com>Adam Nevins <asn@mediaone.net>And to those whose responses hasn't reached me yet.Summary:I touched /reconfigure and ...

On Mon, Aug 10, 1998 at 02:31:04PM -0400, Igor Schein wrote:> Hi, I have the following question:> > If a program runs out of process stack> during the run, Solaris kernel forces a SEGV> on the process, and internal signal handler> fails to work as a consequence. Is it ...

I downloaded SyMON 1.4 from the Sun website and found that I was missingthe SUNodu package, which is needed for the SyMON diagnostic function towork. It is available on the "Supplement for Solaris 2.5.1" HW 4/97. Ionly have a copy of the 5/96 CD, which doesn't include them. Thanks ...

Thanks to:Michael Jarvis <michaelj@burrito.insource.com>Rich Casto <rich@loopexpert.com>Besides, 1. ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/ucb/4bsd/nvi.tar.gz2. "vim", http://www.math.fu-berlin.de/~guckes/vimThey suggest:3. ftp://id.wing.net/pub/pgf/vile-Judy ...

Hi,I was cautioned by many about security concerns about doing this.I didn't mention in my original post that this would have been for a"practice LAN" that would exist within our LAN.But the bottom line is that I was told by many that this would not workwith only 1 physical ...

Hi Folks,This list is fantastic;)Many thanks to:Brad.Larden@solution6.comRoger B.A. Klorese <rogerk@sendmail.com>and those whose responses may be on the way.Summary:Date: Sat, 6 Nov 1999 19:59:53 +1000From: Brad.Larden@solution6.comTo: "Joe R. Jah" ...

Never figured out the cause of this. The only replies I received weremostly vacation / away messages :)Thanks anyways!                -DavidOn Mon, 1 Nov 1999, David Carlin wrote:> Hello,> I'm trying to ...

"Mark E. Drummond" wrote: > > [NOTE: This may in fact be a Netscape Communicator issue, and not an > issue with BIND or Solaris 8] > > Environment: Jumpstarted Solaris 8 workstations, whose DNS nameservers > are all BIND 8.2.2p5, Netscape Communicator 4.7. ...

The Problem:-----------After anonymously ftping to our new wu-ftpd-2.4(3) server, our SolarisUltra 2 server running 2.5.1 panics and reboots with a message like this:panic[cpu0]/thread=0x5080d380:lm_get_me:no ticltsThe Solution:------------Create ~ftp/dev/ticltsThe manual page for in.ftpd ...

Thank you to:Casper Dik <casper@holland.Sun.COM>Who pointed me in the right direction:>>You probably need to change the db.h a bit so that it doesn't declare these>types. Is tehre a configuration option?>>gcc won't help.>And particularly to:Randall S. Winchester ...

FYI,Since posting the first Summary I received additional information. It seems that if you are using inetd, then you don't need to worry about socket programming since inetd handles all the socket stuff for you:Bryan Blackburn <blb@rmi.net>Since you've setup your server to go through ...

Thanks to JCJ6@daimlerchrysler.com for the ksh match:cr=$( print "\015" )grep "[$cr]" *and Darren Dunham for the perl solution:m/\r$/-pSU BEFORE POSTING please READ the FAQ located atN ftp://ftp.cs.toronto.edu/pub/jdd/sun-managers/faq. and the list POLICY statement ...

Hi,after sending my 1st SUMMARY, I got some more mails/suggestions/comments from these people:   Stacy Lindberg <grebdnil@cheetah.spots.ab.ca>   Mark Natoli <mnatoli@npac.syr.edu>   Neil Brosnan ...

  Originally, I was looking for a West Coast repair shop for an ExabyteStacker 10E. In all likelyhood, it was a drive problem, not a stackerproblem. The drive in this unit is the 8500C, full high, 8mm drive with acapicity of 5GB; 10GB with compression (yeah...right). The stacker unit ...

  Thanks to all who responded.  My original query was about whether simm groups of different sizesshould be installed in any particular order in the ultra 2.  All of the following:"Lee A. Fedor" <fedor@mcc.com>Matthew Stier ...

I asked if there are any shareware SNMP packages available. All but onerecommended the 'UCD-SNMP' package available fromftp://ftp.ece.ucdavis.edu:/pub/snmpOne recommended CMU-SNMP: http://www.duth.gr/InfoBase/noc/cmu_snmp.txt (some related info)ftp://lancaster.andrew.cmu.edu/pub/snmp/ ...

Many thanks to the following for getting me straightened out.James.E.Coby.Jr@cdc.comKevin Woods <kev@cnet.com>Jigang Liu <jigang@gswrs6k1.gsw.peachnet.edu>Fedor Gnuchev <qwe@ht.eimb.rssi.ru>A little history. I acquired my system after the initial installation.Being a old SunOS ...

Many thanks to all who replied to my problem. My original email is at thebottom. The solution thatworked was sent by Brett Lynn. His suggestion was as follows:boot from cdrommount the root file system as /aremove /a/dev and /a/devicescopy /dev -> /a/devcopy /devices -> /a/devicescopy ...

I have been getting all of your responses, thank youall for getting back to me. I have even received somesaying they would send me summary's of the mails I havemissed! I still am not getting the mails sent tosun-managers I can mail to but not receive from. Thisis scary since I don't know how ...

In typical fashion, Sun-Managers have come through strongly and withgreat insite.Thankyou to all the following people for their replies...But first the common answer: (Solaris specific)        Solaris and SunOS are designed to ALWAYS skip over the first ...

The original question was:>we have an Ultra Enterprise 450 (128 Mb RAM, 1 x 300 MHz CPU) running>Solaris 2.6 with more then 10,000 users. The problem is: everytime we run>userdel to remove an user's login it takes more then 5 (!!) minutes to>complete the job. This time is ...

I got a lot of help on this from a lot of people. Thanks very much!!!Suggestions were1) A shell wrapper script was in a different shell than I was running itfrom, ie /bin/sh vs. /bin/csh2) the install binary was for a different architecture, ie x86 instead ofSparc.I hate to admit it, but it ...

     Bit over due this one...my original query :-          I have a requirement to backup a a large amount of smallish files,      approximately 2 million averaging 5K in size (roughly 10GB ...

hmm, got more auto-replies than actual responces... but thanks to DavidThorburn-Gundlach and Craig Raskin for their insight.Craig Writes:"...If you are going to use them, find out where your bottlenecks are and usethem for that. Generally you want to use it for a partition which has alot ...

Original question:> I'm looking to replace my syslogd because mine doesn't understand a wildcard > as the priority level like this:> mail.* /var/log/mail> > After a lot of searching I found a sendmail replacement in the fwtk> package > and managed to get it to ...

Thanks to Clifford Thurber for the fast reply.I thought I was satisfying the requirements for probe-scsi-all by using thefollowing to get to the ok prompt: shutdown -g0 -i0. Apparently this isn't"safe" enough. As suggested by Clifford I went to the OK prompt and typed:setenv ...

Hi all,Thanks to all who responded(Arthur Darren DunhamDan StrombergRoger FujiiDavid FosterJames Cannon)Roger Fujii sent me a CR/LF translation program, as well as the -850option to send to unix2dos/dos2unix to avoid checking /dev/kbd.The others all suggested that a cron job or softlink was ...

<x-flowed>Many thanks to all who helped, including but not limited toBill CastiTim EvansHendrik VisageJoseph F McCallAngel RiveraJeffrey WimmerAlan ReichertBert ChristiandlBruce ZimmerSanjay WaghodeThe most common solution wasfind /u01 -print -cpio -ocv | gzip > disk2.tar.gzorfind /u01 ...

Jim Harmon wrote:> Resolution:>> Most respondants suggested that the "0" Cylinder be ignored> whenever an application wants a raw partition and you wish to> use the first (0) slice for that partition.That is to say, "Skip Cyl "0" ...

Fastest response yet...thank you folks...Basically Sun supports the Ex000 platforms with an Sbus Gigabit ethernetcard now...I recieved a response from my local Sun SE that the cpurequirement can be as much as a couple of 250HMz CPU's to drive thething at full throttle...cheers...the responses ...

Thanks to everyone for a quick response to my question aboutmonitor and keyboard cable extensions.Original post:> > Does anyone know a source for cables to extend the distance> between the CPU box and the keyboard and Monitor on a SPARC 5?> If so, what is the maximum length that I ...

Thanks Chad Price [cprice@molbio.unmc.edu],        Christian Pinheiro [pinheiro@veritel.com.br],        Tom_Cowan@pcworld.com,        John Weekley ...

I asked:Is there a way to query how much cache memory a CPU is running with(Under Solaris 2.5)?I know, in most cases, you can decode the banner string, but is there a dynamic way to get it while the machine is up?For example:I ordered an Ultra 200 MHz CPU with 1Meg cache (part X1188A) and I ...

My original question had to do with expectations of cpio's throughput and whathappens during multi-tape archiving. In a word, don't use cpio for large amountsof data, especially if you have the option to use tar!Roger Fujii mentioned:"Remember that the MAX block size you can use with ...

Solution found.Thanks to the following people who responded:   Rick von Richter   David Wolfskill   Karl VogelMr original query:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxProblem: Printing text files to a postscript printer on Solaris 2.6machine. Text files do not ...

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, ...

I learned a great many things about man pages over the last couple ofdays. Thank you to all that replied:rsaddler@cccis.comMarco GreeneEdwards Philip M Ctr AFRL/SNRRdwarfie@mindspring.comMichael Ernestvogelke@c17mis.region2.wpafb.af.milBernstein, ZmiraThanks to Edwards Phillip. He gave me the ...

Hi gurus!!!I have solved my problem myself, anyway... thanks to all the people that respond!!What I do:1.- Create a file called hostname.elx1 under /etc        add this line: sectec2.- In my /etc/hosts ...

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----First, thanks to all the people who responded (quite a few too many tolist out, I think. :) The original question was on being able to dosomething like `mt status' for a remote tape drive, and wondering ifthere were a way to use remote tapes without an ...

<x-flowed>Thanks to all who replied. I made 2 changes and now have my sshcompiled. I had been using gcc 2.95.2 which was installed from asunfreeware.com package. We don't pay for the Sun compiler by default sogetting gcc in a package was my only choice. Also, trying to be heads up Ihad ...

Hi,Tom Schmidt of Micron technologies (tschmidt@micron.com), gavethe copy of memconf which seems to have worked on both Ultra-5/10and enterprise series machines. I'm enclosing the output ofmemconf on each platform. Many thanks to Tom, who not only maintains the tool, but courteous enough to ...

Thanks to all who responded. I remembered something about this from thepast, but never have I ever experienced this problem directly. Not surewhy it happened on this particular client's machines. I'm not there forlong periods of time, so lots of mysterious things happen in my absence.Thank ...

I received several great responses. The idea of doing this via the physicalcable was blown out of the water, but two alternate solutions were presentedand I was provided another good resource.1. Kbd command in coordination with the /etc/default/kbd file.2. Use the "secure lock" ON ...

My original Post:> Hi Sun Managers,> > I installed Solaris 2.5.1 on a brand new sparc 4 and the machine > intermittently hangs. This happens in both CDE and Openwindow. Sometimes> it will hang in the process of booting, sometimes it will be up and running > for a couple of ...

Hi all,Thanks to all those who have replied.Most of the replies suggested me to use Squid. It is a freeware from http://squid.nlanr.net/There are a few suggested Apache too. However, i'm looking at Suid now.Thanks a lot.Hi all,i would like to know if anyone can recommend any proxy server that ...

Thanks to all who responded. Apparently I was doing nothing wrong when Itriedb sd(0,30,1) on our old 4/430 box, which was the obvious (and documented) command. Mostof you suggested this. Others suggested the commands which work on desktopsystems: b sd(0,6,2) or boot cdrom. Special thanks ...

Thanks to the following Mgrs give me the answer. If someone can postthe impact and concern should be really good to me. Anyway the org.question is  Is it possible to :> > 1) Setup Server A as an NIS master which includes passwd, groups,> auto.home etc..> > 2) In Server B, ...

Hi,Thank you all for the responses(to many to mention)Most of the replies referred me to http://www.eecis.udel.edu for the Network Time Protocol(NTP). There were also many replies saying that I should 'rdate' from one of the navy servers: usno.navy.mil, tick.usno.navy.mil, or ...