Two groups of answers:Some suggested I RTFM on installboot. While installboot is a wonderfuland essential tool to make bootable boot disk clones (made via ufsdump |ufsrestore), it is a hidden part of the installation process and is thusnot a required (or optional) step during an install. ...

Thanks to everyone who repliedThe problem was solved, by runnin xhost on the machine itself, like onits console.I was telneting to that machine and tryin to run xhost.Thanks again guys.Orig Question.I have a SunOS NIS master server runnin 4.1.4I have about 40 NIS clients runnin SunOS 4.1.3 ...

Many thanks to all responses to my question: > Can anyone please help me with this failure message that> occures unregularily on my system> and what to do against it?> (on a sparc20 running Solaris2.5.1) > asterix unix: NFS write error on host majestix: Stale NFS file handle.> ...

In addition to my last post, which points outit is a bug with Sun's Sendmail (8.6) with patchavailiable, this can be rewritten with 8.9.0'srules. You have to find the line about "bogosity"in proto.m4 in the ruleset Parse0, and uncomment itout. I also read in comp.mail.sendmail ...

Here is my original post> Hi gurus.>> I have problems getting our swift sbus( fast ethernet + wide scsi II)> to work under full-duplex mode. someone said this is the hub's problem.>> my current configuration is a>> cisco 7507 ---- astante hub ---- lot's of sparcs> ...

Hello all admins !!!Thanks to:     Serg 'Ice' Tsyganenko     John D. Groenveld     Hans Schaechl(and a lot more others...)Here is the Summary of replies I received.Some of the SCSI card that would work with Ultra 5 ...

I had so many responses to my problem with rebuilding (the correctaction to take), that I thought I would post this LAST summary on thesubject. The correct action to rebuild the windex file would be:catman -w [-M MANPATH]It would have been great if I had the ability to read the man page ...

Hi all,i have have a problem with automountd (Ultra 2, Solaris 2.5.1)and an AXIS cdrom server.I see this message:Sep 26 10:09:54 haegar automountd[139]: server cdrom01 not respondingNFS mounts are still working.Here is the an answer from Mattew Stier (thanx):  I ran into this same ...

        People wrote me to use floating point in the script, so I used this:#!/usr/local/bin/perl$limite = 500000;$r=10.23421542827847827487347;for ($i = 1; $i <= $limite; $i++) {  $r = $r*$i;  $r = $r/($i+365);}print ...

Thanks to everybody who provided an answer. It turns out that I was missingtheback slash before the semi-colon at the end. It hung because it was waitingforthe stupid human to provide input. Thanks again to everybody.Steve---------------------- Forwarded by STEVE MAHER/VEND/VA/Bell-Atl ...

I got so many responses I didn't know what to do with all of them!!!So . . . I was so pleased that I got this kind of help I thought I'dlist everyone who sent me email to help resolve my little problem :)Oh, what I ended up doing is editing a few file in ...

I'd like to thank the following people for helping with my problem, thedescription of which is at the bottom of this message:Thomas CarterTimothy NewmanKris BriscoeIan DurkaczMike AllmenThomas LewisKarl Vogel (especially, because his answer solved it)Suggestions were:1. See if rpc.nisd is ...

Q: How can I see unformatted, unpartitioned disk spaces on my currentHD (If there is spaces)? How can I modify this space? How can I deleteand reconfigure a present partition?A: Format will display partitions. But it compares with /etc/vfstab.Backup, boot single-user mode, backup somethings ...

Hi AllI asked if there was an equivalent 'netstat' on the PC to that on the Suns inorder to monitor collisions and Ierrs/Oerrs etc.Thanks to;Alex Finkel <afinkel@pfn.com>Steve Phelps <steve@epic.co.uk>doshai@pip.com.auJim Harmon <jim@telecnnct.com>Who all pointed out to me ...

Hi,My original post is at the bottom, Thanks to the list for its many and quick replies.Many of you replied very quickly with suggestions to use 'htpasswd'.I did forget,at first, to mention that I could not find the binary.Someone did tell me where to get a copy of the binary since it did not ...

It looks as if the official Sun oppinion is confirmed that the hot swap isnot supported and you do it at you own risk. It is one thing for somethingto work. It is another to actually say it is gonna work then have to defendagainst a law suit when it blows up. I kinda figured this was the ...

I had an earlier question on sourcing .cshrc and .login as I was having>trouble both the files being read when openning a "Terminal" or an "xterm">session. However, if I open a "Console" session, it will do it. Can someone>tell me where I need to make ...

Thanks to the many many people who helped me with this. I bootes to singleuser modelike most people reccomended and saw that the passwd file and the shadowwere both 0 bytes.I edited the passwd file and restored the lost files from backups. All iswell. Thanks to everybody forbeing so ...

I didn't get many responses on this one.Dan Stromberg <strombrg@nis.acs.uci.edu> suggested using gnu tar insteadof ufsdump to do backup.Rob McCauley <robmccau@RadOnc.Duke.EDU> and Arthur Darren Dunham <add@netcom.com> both said it is not possible to skip past thelogical EOD ...

Problem: am having the following problemI initialize disks under veritas. After a reboot I loose the disks fromVeritas controlvxvm: vxconfigd: WARNING: Disk disk01 in group rootdg: Disk device not foundvxvm: vxconfigd: WARNING: Disk disk02 in group rootdg: Disk device not foundvxvm: ...

X-Body-Checksum-Md5: 5cbf8455555977d21154117ebd910174Precedence: bulkSituation in Question:        root@SomeHost having a Script running off cron which tries to        (ufs)dump Stuff to SomeUser@TapeHost. ...

Thanks for their responses to         Carlo Cosolo <ccosolo@ulti.net>        Glenn Satchell glenn@uniq.com.au        Rogerio Rocha ...

Hello AllThanks for the swift replies to:Ross Helfand <rhelfand@census.gov>Roger Fujii <rmf@lookhere.com>Marais Gert <maraisg@saps.org.za>jsturges@gmri.comThe problem was a non-bootable Ultra-E4000 after upgrading theobp from 3.2.10 to 3.2.12. Attempting to boot from any scsi ...

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----Well, It's nice to know my servers aren't at fault :-)I originally asked about the following entries in my log files, and whatthey meant (and should I panic :-))Oct 14 19:07:38 nebula named[105]: Lame server on 'dat.com' (in ...

Many people wrote to say use dd to convert ascii to ebcdic and visa-versa.<p>the dd manpage says it all.<p>here is the command.<p>dd if=infile of=outfile conv=ascii<p>where infile is your source file (ebcdic).<p>thanks to the many respondents<p>roger<p>

Received several replies, thanks to you all. I decided on using ACLs, notbeing able to find any way around the cd constraint or any otherimplementations of a restricted shell that would allow some cd-ing. This isworking fine. We NFS-mount directories from several different platform at ...

          Apparently I have a little to learn about vold.          I received several good suggestions ...

First, my gratitude to all who took a moment to help me with this.Problem revisited var was filling up but not full:'du-sk' on /var says 16948'df -k' on /var says that 132668kb of 140815kb is used leaving 8007kbfree... I'm no math whiz, but that don't add up. I was aware of ...

Sorry I am late providing a summary but I`d to do with several deadlines.Summary:*** The original post:> Dear PC-NFS-ers,> > Does anyone have experience with PC-NFS?> I want to share a printer between PC's and UNIX-systems. The printer is> connected with the LPT1 port of a pc ...

Only a couple of responses, but thus far it seems to fit.I had two responses that this occured to others during Y2K testing.Clock forward, clock back, and this can happen.Well, I was skeptical because of the nature of this machine, but Ichecked and sure enough, there's some Jan 1 dates in the ...

Dear Managers,Thanks toGary Mulder <gary@cgen.com>Douglas Lee <douglee@sunguru.com>Buddy Lumpkin <BLumpkin@echarge.com>bhaskar G" <cmcbas@hotmail.com>Kulp, Scott (Scott)** CTR **" <skulp@lucent.com>Todd Herr <therr@va.rr.com>Tim Carlson ...

With reference to my original question. Basicaly the minimum OS versionrequire is Solaris 2.3.Thank you for all the replyOn Mon, 29 Sep 1997, Systems Administrator wrote:> Hi,> > I having a problem installing SUN Fast Wide Scsi card on SS1000 running> Solaris 2.2. I able to see the ...

Thanks to all that replied.Francis LiuEddy FafardMichael SullivanIan Parkin PetrotechRalph DellJayant RamakrishnanSebastian Benoit---------------------------------My original question:> Does anyone know how to turn off the CDE splash screen that comes up when > you log on to a machine? I ...

I originally asked:-------------We'd like to stream our systlog entries to a "write once" medium of somesort. Hard copy would work, but it's not terribly elegant, and hard to search. We have a CD-R drive attached to our Solaris 2.5.1 machinerunning Joerg Schilling's cdrecord ...

Thanks to Doug:----- Forwarded message from "Otto, Doug" <otto@alldata.com> -----prom. mode is only active while a program such as snoop is active. Itdefaults to being disabled.------------------------------------------------------------------Sure enough I had a tcpdump that ...

Hi Everyone,Here is my original query.> Hi Everyone,> > I am curious if anyone out there has experience with> using the raid option in DiskSuite.> > Here is my problem:> I using DiskSuite there other day, and created a > 4 4GB raid system. Obviously when I mounted ...

Thanks to the 3000 responses I received. I found out that /etc/hosts needsto havethe following in it in order for the R services to work:IP Address hostname FQDNI added the FQDN and it seems to have fixed the problem. Idid not read anything like this in the rlogin, rsh or cmdman pages which I ...

Thanks to the following for the quick/detail/accurate solutions:Patrick Nolan <pln@egret1.Stanford.EDU>David Beard <beard@abel.maths.adelaide.edu.au>Kevin Woods <kev@cnet.com>Raju Krishnamurthy <raju@hoho.ecologic.net>Brian Desmond ...

Hi Guys,As I was suspecting the problem seems to be with auto_negotiation.I have made changes as suggested in the summary below:set hme:hme_adv_autoneg_cap=0set hme:hme_adv_100fdx_cap=1set hme:hme_adv_100hdx_cap=0set hme:hme_adv_10hdx_cap=0Though I am still waiting for the Full Backup to ...

I'm sorry I forgot to add "SUMMARY" in title.SD--xxx---Hi,My problem:>Here's what I have: Solaris 2.6, Volume Manager 3.0.1.>>Here's what I did: An internal disk in E450 is used to create rootdg>(this is unused). Another diskgroup is on the RAID.I thought that ...

On Monday, Sept 21 I wrote:> Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 12:20:30 -0700> From: Charley Paffenbarger <cpaff@seismo.berkeley.edu>> To: sun-managers@codeprof.ececs.uc.edu> Subject: NeWSprint + SPARCprinter + 2.6?> Cc: cpaff@seismo.berkeley.edu> Content-Length: 811> Status: ...

On Mon, 14 Oct 1996, Serkan Hamarat wrote:> Q: What is the log files? Most important?> > A: Look them for controlling system security. You can safely delete> all of them. Thats for only security.Use 'cp /dev/null log.file' for removing some log files. Because,when you delete some ...

Thank you to all who responded.The concensus is that you can set this to 75%-80% of your total RAM sizewithout having problems. The actual max setting is 2 GB in Solaris 2.5 and 4 GB in 2.6.-- ______________________________________John Sutton jsutton@nko.comNKO Inc.8160 Baymeadows Way West, ...

Thanks to all who replied. Multiple options were presented.a) /usr/dt/bin/dtloginb) Look in /usr/dt/binc) /etc/rc2.d/S99dtlogin startd) sunsolve INFODOC ID: 18215e) <just came in as I was about to hit send> -- starting the login server (if not running-u can check by ps ...

Many thanks to all that replied.It was important that the text file be an attachement, not part of themessage body.This is what worked:uuencode file.bin file.bin | mail -s "Here is the file" user@domain.nameThanks again for your time.[Image]text/x-vcard attachment: Card for Debbie ...

X-Body-Checksum-Md5: d738893253895c42a0673c1f2d98aae7Precedence: bulkOriginal Question:> This sounds like the idiotic Question of the Year, but I haven't been> able to figure it out:> I need to have sendmail (8.7.5 on 2.4 with smrsh - yes, I know 8.8 is> out) pipe Mail to a ...

My original message was:>Sparc 20 Solaris 2.5.1 system:>>Is there any way to exclude a particular directory when >backing up an entire partition with ufsdump? >>Typically, I backup the entire partition, but would like >to exclude a directory much like the tar -X ...

Hi,The was my original post:>I'm having problems getting an Ultra10 to recognize a differential >(PCI >UltraSCSI) host adapter. The accompanying booklet confirms this >is for >SPARC systems.>>I'm to connect a StorEdge L1800 to it. All the jumpers are open ...

Well .. very interesting. A whole range of responses on this.They basically fall down to:1. #adb -w -k /vmunix /dev/mem < /dev/null physmem 3fb1#pagesize4096then multiply the output of these by one and another to have the amountof RAM 2. strings /dev/mem | grep "mem ="3. ...

Original Post;Firstly I apologise for posting this to sun-managers I did this because I wanteda cross section of responses which I would be less likely to get from a Linuxlist.Anyway, we are going to be putting Linux on some peoples desktop here and Iwould like to know which one is the better ...