Hi all, My original question is at the end of this message. I got only one response from Aravind Mallipudi (aravid.mallipudi@us.socgen.com)Thanks to Aravind. I wish I could get more replies and find some way tosolve my problem. It ...
The real problem is I did not change to DNS server's addressin one of the /etc/resolv.conf. Thanks to varshney@pacbell.netprh@ece.iit.edu (Paul R. Hybert)for their quick and acurate replies.. eric-----------------------------Original Post-------------------------------------->Dear Sun ...
Thanks for the speedy help :Sanjaya.Srivastava@Eng.Sun.COMlhoo@fcicom.comjeffw@smoe.org--all correctly identified a Full/Half Duplex mis-match between hostand hub.A few comments in /etc/system and all is well.More info can be found in infodoc 15583, "Explanation of Late Collisions" at ...
Thanks to all who responded. My question was how to convertSparc 1+'s to X-terminals under Solaris 2.5. Solutions: 0) Don't convert them to xterms. Sparc 1+'s run Solaris fine except that you need a little bit more RAM ...
Here are some comments I received on the SparcStation 4. Thanksto all who responded! mitt@ice.mitre.org: They are pretty good for some applications--they are fast, but thevideo performance is awful. Most X-terms and any other Suns video aremuch faster, so if there are any graphic ...
Fellow Managers,Thanks to those that replied to my original question.Unfortunately there seemed to be no answer directly relevant to myquestion.Certainly repondants agreed that fully qualified domain names will avoida lot of problems as I discovered for myself. I'm still at a lossthough to ...
>Original question:>> > Looking to purchase some hardware. The choice is between a single E450 vs.> > using dual E250's for the same Web-based portal application that> > authenticates and authorizes users that logon- Netscape Web server w/> > LDAP, Gemstone ...
Thank you for the responses!Summary of Question:I have been directed to make a bootable CDROM for a Netra (to configureits disks and load a preconfigured Solaris). We could even run with / onthe CDROM, if need be.Summary of Responses:jeffw@smoe.org (Jeff Wasilko)> Sun Professional Services ...
Looks like my mistake was unanimously recognized by the following people: Scott Clark <scott.clark@east.sun.com> Ronald Loftin <reloftin@syr.edu> Russ Poffenberger <poffen@san-jose.tt.slb.com> Tim Pointing ...
Thanks for the information, everybody pretty much agreed that as longas I use the 120M tapes the DDS3 should automatically recognize that asa DDS2 tape and write in the proper format. The relationship betweentape length and DDS format is as follows: TYPE ...
This is going to be a long summary.Firstly, let me apologize for the miscommunication - I had myemail client misconfigured and when someone pointed this out, wasable to get my ISP to redirect the mail.If anyone would like to continue discussing these issues in privateemail, I would welcome the ...
Precis: After changing changing dump hosts from a DECstation 5000to a SPARCstation 20 running Solaris 2.4, dumps run via rsh/dump/ddpipeline to a Solbourne Sparc 2 clone running 4.1B (== SunOS 4.1.2)became very slow (from app. 2 1/2 hours to 6 ...
1. Solaris 2.6 - General 1.1 it is well received 1.2 it is stable 1.3 improvements in reliabilty, security, and stability are reported ...
OK, Solaris on PC's works absolutely fine, and well. If you wish to go downthis route, you must make sure that the Hardware Compatibility List is adheredto implicitly, when selecting your components. Do not attempt to install iton hardware that is not in the hardware compatibility list. ...
Hi,Yes it is possible to run more than one window manager on the same Unix box.In our case, we are running both CDE and FVWM.People are using their PC/NT running Exceed to run the Unix window managerfrom the Unix box.To run FVWM instead on CDE, a user has to 1- create a .xinitrc file in his ...
Hello Sun Managers:Thanks to all who wrote, but none gave any usefuldetail as to how to accomplish the security.My Original post was:> I have a question involving securing the Solaris 2.5.1 OS.>> I have a few Axils running 2.5.1 Solaris, and my question is> how do I keep a user, ...
With much thanks to all who responded.The original question was:> Could anybody tell me if the> "Sun|SPARC Field Engineer Manual"> is available anywhere ?>The correct name is "Field Engineer Handbook".It is not available on-line but you can buy it from Sun ...
My original question:I am considering upgrading Solaris 1.1.2 that is currentlyinstalled on our servers to Solaris 2.4 or 2.5.Please mail me any problems that I may find and whetherSolaris 2.4 and 2.5 are stable.----------------------------------------------------------Summary of ...
Thanks to Nathan Dietsch, kent.perrier, Jon Agnew, gabriel rosenkoett and anyone else that sends me anything before they get this :)It turns out that my chroot cell was fine, but that sendmail waswaiting for a network call to return that was never going toreturn, and that my copy of truss was ...
Sorry about that, forgot to post this as a summary:Hi,It appears that the right answer is to simply do without the density and size options in my ufs command. As Solaris is smart enough now to figure that all out. Including the density and size worked before, but not now. That is fine.Thanks ...
(original query appears at the end of this message)Hats off to Ted Marigomen and Christopher M. Conway for their quick andon-target replies. I'm embarassed to find it was this easy. Key repeatis managed by the X server, and controlled by the -ar1 and -ar2 commandline options.If you're using ...
It seems that the IMAP in SIMS 3.0 has configurable directories etc. Thisdoes not seem to be the case with SIMS 2.0 which is what I had. Myopinion is that it is still better to compile IMAP and POP3 fromftp.cac.washington.edu unless SIMS 3.0 has really added somethingspecial. I did have ...
>It took awhile, but I finally got answers and here it is. The errors>mean cpu5 is bad and needs to be replaced. So that's what>we will do.>>Thanks to all who responded.>>Lisa>>>Original message:>>>Can anyone tell me what these errors mean, or where ...
Original question:> I am trying to build a "package" which can be installed using "pkgadd".>However I can't seem to find any info in Answerbook or the FAQ >on building a package. (I need to do this in order to propoagate site>specific config info/binaries ...
Hi all, Thanks all for the answers. The solution is (which I must say that was pointed before byMarina.Daniels@cs.tas.gov.au less than a month ago): Get a ...
Thanks to everyone for their advice. I have been STRONGLY urged toupgrade my version of sendmail to something from this century.Sendmail 8.8.5 appears to be the latest. I have been planning todo this for some time now, just haven't done it yet.As for the ability to refuse connections from ...
Hi,Thanks to all who replied!I had done a ksh wrapper on the perl script to no avail...Per the majority of suggestions, I wrapped the perl script in a #!/bin/shscript and everything worked after I incuded PATHs to all libs and bins. As an aside note, I took this opportunity as a ...
I had asked about problems writing 4mm tape with one generation of Sun 4mm drive and reading that tape with different generations of Sun 4mm drives. While I did not get truly definite responses, they have stopped coming in so its time for a summary.Before getting to the points I got in those ...
Hi Sun Managers !Here is the summary for the above problem:The original question:>Dear Friends,>I have an E450 server with 4 x 400MHz/4MB cache installed. The server>have also 1GB RAM (2x X7005) 4 x 9.1 GB/10000 rpm drives, one external>A1000 with several Dual Differential SCSI ...
I mentioned the following locations where PATH may be set... /etc/profile (for sh, ksh, bash shells) /etc/.login (for csh, tcsh shells) ...
Re: How to use wget to download patchdiag.xref from sunsolve?Here are some proposed formulas that worked fine:wget -q " http://sunsolve.sun.com/private-cgi/patches/patchdiag.xref"wget ftp://sunsolve.sun.com/pub/patches/patchdiag.xrefwget -L -l2 ...
Original Request:-------------------------------------------------------------------I'm in the process of bringing my first Solaris 2.4 system online in an environment of 4.1.x systems. Our 4.1.x environment usesX11R6 and the fvwm window manager and I'd like to duplicate thisin the 2.4 ...
You have to love a mailing list where you start getting answersbefore you get your own copy of the question.The original :>> > We are using SPARCstation 5s running SunOS 4.1.3_U1 as an operator's> platform for a product. We have several hundred of them in use. Most> of the ...
Hello!<p>My original question:<p><em>><br></em><p><em>>Does anybody know if any version of Netscape support authentification<br></em><p><em>>APOP with POP3 ?<br></em><p>The answer has been: NO<p>Thanks at:<p>Drew Derbyshire<p>Rich Kulawiec <p>Mark Bergman<p>
SUMMARY/SOLUTION: I don't know what fixed the problem. I tried severalthings included here with no success. One day last week, one of my userscame to me and said all of a sudden it worked. We have since submittedpaperwork to have this machine covered by a Sun software maintenancecontract ...
Hi,The suggestions are to use either :Big Brother: http://www.bb4.comNetSaint: http://www.netsaint.orgCA Unicenter: http://www.cai.comTivoli: http://www.tivoli.comSpong: http://spong.sourceforge.netSitescope:www.freshwater.com http://www.anticode.comNNM: www.openview.hp.comFireHunter: ...
I recently posted the following message:> We have a SPARC 20 running Solaris 2.4 + the latest cluster patch that> has hung a couple of times in the past three weeks. The system logs and> accounting files don't show any unusual going on before the system hangs. > ...
Hello,and thanx to all. The only really working solution is to slow down oneof the lines to 10MBit. Not too funny but I have no other possibility.CU, Dirk.>> Hello,>> >> this is a big cry for help, cause I've no idea what to do.>> >> I've an Sun working as a ...
Original question:>>We have a sparc 4, running solaris 2.5 that hangs repeatedly.>>I am seeing the following message in the /var/adm/messages file:>>Apr 21 08:17:47 foobar rpc.ttdbserverd[306]: NetISAM: read failed>>Apr 21 08:17:47 foobar NetISAM[306]: Fatal error: read ...
Short Roundup of Question: Kernel Tables filling up, computed new Paramsas per the Docs, obtained Sizes that looked quite high, asked the Listwhether they're reasonable. Complete Question below.Answer: The Formulas used to compute the new Parameters are a Bit out-dated and do in Fact give ...
Hello admins, Special thinks to all for answer/comment :Original Question :############################################################# I am a newbie for solaris, now, I try ...
Hi everybody,Thanks to:Sanjaya Srivastava Joel LeeJeff BrodyRuss PoffenbergerSpecially to Sanjaya Srivastava who sent me the patch :)))My question:'m installing the ImageMagick package and got the following message: ?ostname% ./convertd.so.1: ./convert: fatal: libresolv.so.2: can't open ...
Thanks to all who replied to my mail on this:Robert Lau <rslau@usc.edu>David L. Markowitz <David.Markowitz@litronic.com>Rik Schneider <rik@netasset.com>Bill.Sherman@bridge.bellsouth.comJaewan Kim <jaewan@u1.net>Danny Johnson <djohnson@nbserv1.rsc.raytheon.com>Yura ...
Thanks to all of you:actually setting up gcc is very very simple. Just get the package fromwww.sunfreeware.com and install it with pkgadd. Make sure, thedevelopment-packages are installed on your system and the PATH is setcorrectly.(the development-packages were missing on my system)Daniel> ...
Hello, SUNMANAGERS, I am trying to finish an instalation of Solstice 9.1 X.25 software, at one Sun Ultra10 (sparc) with Solaris 2.5.1. As soon as I try to start the service (# x25tool &) a receive the message: "unable ...
Hellomy original post:> do you know how I can find which Sun models will support a network traffic capacity > of 100mbits/s instead than the usual (at least for us) 10mbits/s ?Answer:Adaptater SunFast Ethernet : sunexpress reference X1059Supported workstations: SS20, SS10, SS5 ,SS4,All ...
Hello, I originally posted with a problem regard DNS lookupwith Netscape on a SPARC IPC running SunOS 4.1.4.The Netscape browser refuses to use a canonical Domain name (i.e.www.virago.org.au) for mail or news or ftp, while it prefers an IP numberinstead, on my internal network.Canonical domain ...
Here's a summary without a question in the hope that it'll help someoneupgrading an E450 with 400MHz CPUs with 4Mb of cache (abbreviation 400/4):1) They won't fit in the card cage without first removing the plasticcovers. You'll also have to partially remove a metal bracket that is usedto ...
My original question was:> We have PCs running NT4.0 and Exceed5.x. These are using CDE of one of our SUN> machine. I want to restrict the access to CDE. At a given instance too many> users start using it from their PCs. This reduces the speed. I want to choose> the machines which ...
Thanks to all those who replied,Frank Sargent, Kwok Che Tang, John F Steffen, Robert Gillespie, JayantRamakrishnan, Harry LevinsonJim Harmon, Igor Khurgin, Robert Bailey, Joel Lee and Dmitry Dneprov.Most of you had the answer I was looking for.... Sun shipped me a new ...