Thank you to the 60+ people who replyed to my question!In short, the two primary answers that I received were: rdate and xntp.Since xntp will sync the systems gradually I'll go with that one.xntp can be found at: http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~ntpI just love this Mail List!Robert L. BaileyOn Fri, ...

Thanks to Satinder Mangat for solving my problem in record time and to any one else who takes the time to pitch in with the answer. See Satinder's solution followed by my original post.I moved a partition off the disk, shrunk the partition a few meg and copied the data back. Encapsulation then ...

My mistake was to use Sun's latest (as of last Wednesday) RecommendedPatch set for Solaris 2.6, rather than the set of patches which camewith the 5/98 release of 2.6. The recommended set doesn't include105654-03 which corrects the following bugs:4095546 simba entry incorrect in ...

It worked. I replaced a 300MHz CPU for a 400MHz CPU. I only had tochange the clock multiplier from 4.5 to 6 by removing jumpers 3-4 and 5-6(see table below)SunPCi booted up saying it had a 400. No problems yet.==================================================| Frank Velazquez || Siemens ...

Wow, answers back already.The consensus is that it won't matter as NIS+ and DNS are unrelated.My concern is that Solaris' gethostbyname() is broken, and I knowof at least one program that uses the NIS domain if a FQDN is notreturned by gethostbyname() [to generate a license key].I was hoping ...

Everyone says that "*LK*" is the right entry for the password filed,although "NP" won't hurt.Gabriel pointed out to check for files in ~listen/.ssh/ becausesecure-shell might let someone into the system.Many thanks go toS. GauthierJeff RichmondTracy GraffMatthew Lee ...

        Okay, so I started futzing with the machine, unplugging variousthings, etc. Turns out the cheapo IDE boot drive that it ships with bitthe dust. I'm going to boot from cdrom and try fsck'ing it back to life.If that doesn't do it. I'll pop in a ...

Hi,There were a number of different answers to my query. Thanks to everyonewho replied.SOLUTION: I ended up writing my own program with the help of Tim Shoppa(shoppa@alph02.triumf.ca). This program (dostape) reads DOS-11/RSTS-E tapeson a Solaris 2.5 machine in much the same way vmsbackup reads ...

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Thanks to:Victor Churchill <vic@netfixer.net>Mark Olson <mark_olson@adc.com>Steve_Turgeon@putnaminv.comIt's a fast scsi card, with 10baseT...not 100. Ah well.Thanks :)Greg> > > Hey all,> > I have an old sbus card here I'm trying to identify. It *appears* to be > ...

>> Hi all. Either I have found a bug in syslog, or I am doing something>> wrong. The following line:>> >> # Keep track of all mail sent and retrieved by this system>> mail.info /var/log/mail.log>> >> causes in.rshd attempts to be logged to ...

I would like to ThankFrank Mundinger,Andres Van,Rodney Wines,Andy Lee,Haydee Y Ching,Mahesh,John C Julian,James Ford,Madanagopalan,Bruce R.Zimmer,Igor Schein,Ken Robson,Changa Anderson,Arthur W Word Jr,Ram Rudra &PM Soni.I apologies if I missed any name/s.I used catman -M /usr/local/manMy ...

Thanks to all who took the time to answer my question below.> > Can anyone show me what I need to put in the /kernel/drv/st.conf given> > the info above, or point me to a document explaining what the different> > sections in the st.conf file mean?> > The following people ...

Hello,thanks for all the replies I got for this one - the responsewas overwhelming!My problem involved compressing a huge file for which I had no roomto both tar and compress, due to the fashion in which the disks werepartitioned.The file was gigantic, in fact the task was not mine to do,but I ...

Hello all,Thanks a lot to Ulf Noren .....I knew about the the LPRng system but I want some thing more easer thanthat .....my original message was .....I will be so grateful if anyone could help me in setting up a usersquota for an HP laser printer on a SPARC machine running Solaris 2.6with ...

In my original query I was wondering if there was a simple way toidentify a process which would be causes excessively high IOWAITpercentages.It was pointed out to me that IOWAIT is really just another wayof saying DISK IO BOTTLENECK (although this can be tty ornetwork traffic, this appears to ...

Hello,sorry for the late summary but i didn't got enaugh answers to solvethe problem,:-( insted i got more "me too" ;-)so the answer that include all of the answers type was from HerbertWengatz .Thanks to all that reply to my query.+> Hello,+> +> I got a strange problem ...

Hi ,Thanks to all who replied.my original questio was - how can i install solaris 2.5.1 on an Axi -440with an Ultra440 cpu usinga jump start instalation . the problem - in order for you to use sol2.5.1 a kernel patch is needed orelse the box will get stuck right after the hme is loaded at boot ...

Thanks to all those who replied, lot of freinds out there have replied back with solutions, this mail would flood with their names.... Thank you all... here is the summary:solutions :1. Rename CC=cc to CC=gcc in the makefile2. ln -s /usr/local/bin/gcc to /usr/ucb/cc3. Have the path of ...

Original Q.: Hi Sun Managers,> > We are using an Ultra 5000 with a RMS. We have placed the operating > system on one of the RMS disks, gone to the boot prompt and entered > the correct boot device . Does not boot and we get a "Fast Data > Access mmu miss" error. ...

Sorry all, for disturning you with a silly question. I found out from Veritas site that the A1000 StoreEdge is supported.Thank youSai_________________________________________________________________________Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.Share ...

> SYNOPSIS: SPARCstation does not boot after installing new OS on new> hard disk drive.> > NOTE:> The original question was never posted because while doing research to> write it the answer was found. I am posting this summary for benefit> of others and for future ...

Last week I asked about putting a Compaq ProLiant Storage System onto aSun system. This doesn't seem to hav been a common configuration,considering the number of replies I received. I'd like to thank theseSun Managers for taking the time to reply though:David Conran ...

CONFIGURING and CONNECTING SCSI ID SELECTORS TO RECYCLED SCSI DEVICES:The original credits and SUMMARIES are attached at the bottom.The procedure for configuring SCSI targets is basically to use the jumpers as describe and to check them against a SUN workstation using "probe-scsi" at ...

Dear SMs,My original question: How can a system interface be made available without rebooting?Answer: Everyone basically replied with RTFM.To make the interface available to the system issue> ifconfig le2 plumb <followed by ifconfig le2 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx netmask xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx ...

Hello Sun Managers,Thanks to everyone who responded. The problem has been solved. Here is thesummary:~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~The original question:I have a SParc Station 20 whose motherboard was changed recently. In orderto maintain the host id ...

Thanks everybody who helped, this is what I have been told.A kill -SEGV or 'gcore' will cause a running process to core dump.To cause the kernel to panic, use adb. Find the symbol for the / andbasically over write it with 00000's, next time the machine needs to use thefilesystem (even to ...

The answer is "No. You cannot get PROM FLASH upgrade to a 2.X PROM.               Pay the man and get an hardware upgrade."My thanks to: squaint@cac.net steve_turgeon@putnaminv.comoriginal question ...

thanks for all the help and criticism i received. i did not know where the"archives" were located, but many were more than willing to point it out :).my problem was that solaris did not recognize what i had entered...*.* @othermachine.domain.com(from darren durham)*.* is not a valid ...

My original questions and the summary of answers:> we are using Solaris 2.5, and I would like to filter/log all> TCP/UDP port connections based on IP address or hostname. > > - I know that for ports handled by inetd there are several solutions (for> example tcpd), but is there a ...

Original question:> I'm looking for a way to make a running process coredump, then I want to> re-start the core. There used to be a program 'undump' accomplishing this,> (it was part of very old TeX distributions), but I have only found a> 4.1.X version. Anyone who knows about a ...

        Hello Sun Managers,        I've got 3 responses for my question but, unfortunately, nonecompletely solved my problem. The original question was:> Hello people,> > I have a problem here, and I'd ...

Summary concerning the mounting of Solaris disks on a Macintosh platform.1) Troubleshooting the authentication problem.    - Try by adding the directories .finderinfo and .resources in thetop-level       filesystem of the unix ...

Thank you to all who responded. While I did not get the information I waslooking for, competitive analysis info, I did receive some very goodinformation that will help in the decision. Below are just some of thereplies I received. Again thanks to all who took the time to respond.I don't have ...

Thanks to the following with their replies:>From Phil.Kaotry the following entry:tape-config-list= "Quantum DLT-4000","Quantum DLT4000 Tape Drive","dlt4000",dlt4000=1,0x36,0,0x0219,4,0x83,0x82,0x81,0x80,0;-phil>From Abdonit should be something like ...

Hello Sun Managers,Thanks to everyone who responded. The problem has been solved. Here is thesummary:~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~The original question:I have a SParc Station 20 whose motherboard was changed recently. In orderto maintain the host id ...

Hello ,After i send the first summary someone get mad about the "poor showing forthis list"so he wrote me :>Boy, that was a pretty poor showing for this list. I'd expect>more folks to have had this problem and had solved them.> >To address your question...>cause:> ...

Thanks to:John Malick <john@starinc.com>        Check speeds with psrinfo -v or /usr/platform/sun4u/sbin/prtdiag -vAdrian Stovall <adrians@solarsystems.com>        Check OBP versions and part numbers of ...

Hello managers,for those of you who are interested in this: now i can do whati was looking for!-> scanning my paper-original and saving it as TIFF-> then vectorizing it with "kvec" to become XFIG-Format-> then manipulate it with the drawing program "xfig"It's not ...

I need to setup a restricted path within a CDE context. I have recieved only one reply, indicating I need to update /usr/dt/bin/Xsession, or at least configure dtlogin to use a custom version located somewhere else. Also, this changes the setup for every session, so it must identify those users ...

Thanks to all who responded. As it turns out, the haoracle agentrequires that the Oracle connectivity files (listener.ora andtnsnames.ora) need to be placed in a specific directory -/var/opt/oracle. That *was* in the documentation, but I overlooked it.(Silly me, I thought that the haoracle ...

Ok, I'm sending the summary now even though we haven't quite solved theproblem. First, thanks to:James Mularadelis <james.mularadelis@bms.com>Brian Scanlan <singer@redbrick.dcu.ie>Paul Pescitelli <pbp@mindspring.com>Joseph Chiu <josephc@systems.caltech.edu>Second, a ...

Original:>Does anybody know free version of any audio-mpeg-player>under Solaris (sparc) OR any converter from such format>to "au"?Great Thanks to:* gfranczyk@carbomedics.com* Matthew Stier <Matthew.Stier@tddny.fujitsu.com>* fbujanic <fbujanic@fikus.com>* Anvar ...

The answer is yes, changing broadcast address to all ones won't killanything.Thanks to:Casper Dik <casper@holland.Sun.COM>Singh Adrian <singha@aah.co.uk>Frank Pardo <fpardo@tisny.com>Frank Pardo's very detailed answer as well as the original questions arefollowing:>From ...

My problem is as follows:When I tried to su root, I got a message saying the root password wasexpired, but I can login as root with the same passwd. So I have to changethe password and then change it back to make su root working. I reallywant to know why this problem happened. Any answers and ...

On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, Adam and Christine Levin wrote:> Anyway, we haven't solved the problem, but it may not even be one.Ok, it was. The guys at AT&T data center had their switch set to 10MBitfull duplex and it apparently has to be half duplex. It was droppingpackets because it was ...

Thank you one and all for the quick response... it seems that I was supposed to have a cross over connection to the E250 Box in order for the A1000 to be able to work with.The part no that is required on the E250 for it to be able to work with A1000 is 4950006Thank you ...

This is *way* overdue. My apologies to the list andespecially to those that responded so quickly to my posting.======Original question:> I have an Apple Laserwriter 16/600PS printer sitting on a TCP/IP network> with two Solaris boxes. There are also printers directly connected to each ...

Folks,This might not be the kind of summary that you are all expecting butover the weekend I must have received over 50mails from guys having the same problem and only from this mailinglist. I hope that the guys in charge will rectifythe problem.Regards,Huzefa Mohamedali> Folks>> Is ...

Summary:I only got one answer from Leif Ericksen (leif@imho.net). He provided mesome information on setting up modem and debugging PPP. Thanks a lotLeif.I called Sun service. The Sun supporter could not get PPP option fromthe command-mode menu as he usually does when he dialed into my ...