ORIGINAL QUESTION:>I am trying to configure a sparc-compatable laptop running Sol2.4>for ppp connection dialing in to my company's modem pool.>>About chat scripts: Chat scripts are constructed in the form>of "[expect send] ...">How do you get the chat script to ...

The question was:    Normally we use ufsdump to backup our filesystems to Exabyte drives.  Recently we needed a quick backup and decided to backup to a file  in a large, empty filesystem. We used the same parameters as for   an Exabyte ...

thanks to all, just too many to list individually:The favorites were Checkpoint and Gaunlet, both for user preferences butboth with favorable reviews. However, Checkpoint was the overall winner.Users indicated to run Checkpoint 4.1 as opposed to 4.0 as it was moreefficient. The cure to my T1 ...

Didn't get any responses but think I have it figured out anyway.It's dog @$$ slow. That's the problem. SUN wasn't kidding when they saidUE2 was the MINIMUM server hardware. Geez ....Tried running it from the server (and only client) and it ran faster butstill took a long time. Each ...

There were so many replies to my cry for help that it would take many pages oftext to give credit to everyone so I hope you accept this as thanks.I got a few suggestions to fix this mess I got myself into.1. Hold down Stop+A while booting to get into the ok> prompt Boot into Single ...

I penned the following on 10/24/96:********************************************************The configuration:About 10 Suns all running Solaris 2.5.1and NISwith one mailhostIntermittently I get email from some of the clients where the >From field is only:userid@mailhostOther times this same ...

My original question was:> > Our NIS master and mail server are both running Solaris 2.5.1.> > We have a problem where we can build the aliases map on the mail server,> but the not the NIS master. The same sendmail binary is on both systems.> > When I try to create the map ...

Thanks to Roger Fujii, John Sullivan and Matthew Stierfor their replys. Responses are listed below.Jerry KempResponses:++++++++++++++++++++++++++++Sun has a PGX32 with does 24 and 8 at the same time. This costsabout $300 (see sunexpress). This is not based on the ATI chipset,but claims PGX24 ...

Thanks to David Evans <David.J.Evans@oracle.com> who suggested patch 108145-10which had already been incorporated into our kernel build. I hope yourweather is better than Melbourne's :-)Special thanks go to unxman <unxman@hotmail.com> and the Sun engineerthat eventually came to the ...

Thanks:Eugene KramerKenneth Hatfield,and anyone else who responds after I send this.My orig question.:I'm interested in directing the errors that normally go to :/var/adm/messages, to a console window. I want them to also go to :/var/adm/messages. But I wanted them to go to my console window ...

Hi,Thanks and regards to all those who responded.I recieved a lot of replies andmost of them pointedto basicaly backing up the filesystem using tar,cpio and ufsdump.So the summaryof the commandsare given below:Using TAR:#tar cf - files|rsh <remote m/c name> dd of=/dev/rmt/0Using ...

Thanks to all who responded. Here's the summary.>From Marina.Daniels@ccd.tas.gov.au Mon Oct 28 20:46:54 1996Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 10:19:03 +1000From: Marina Daniels <Marina.Daniels@ccd.tas.gov.au>To: Gautam Das <gautam@bwc.org>Subject: Re: Mailing list for ...

trust is a funny thing -laying out our network, the router admin setup up a /24 broadcast for ourinside internet router without any static routes. these static routesdelivered back to subnets not directly connected to the router's subnet(hence the proxy, dmz's).adding these static routes for ...

Thanks to all. I (literally) had over 50 responses. All had the same idea.I had to boot from Solaris cdrom and start the installation (my root partitionhad become corrupted, preventing me from fscking and mounting on /a).After entering the system setup info, when asked whether to begin ...

Thanks to quick responses from:Bismark Espinoza [bismark@alta.Jpl.Nasa.Gov]Thomas Knox [knoxth@cch.com]Answer: Yes.Bismark pointed that /etc/format.dat should be modified for 10K RPM, whichhas to do only with formatting time of the disk.I am replacing the existing 4GB internal Seagate disk ...

Hi,Sorry for this late summary, thx to David Foster for his reply. The onlyreply i got. I tried to do some tests therefore i didnt summarize before.Below is my question and Dave's reply. I must say that , when u convertthe password file to sun's passwd/shadow files'format, it works. ...

My original post: > I have a Sparc 20/50 with 2 32Meg simms and an ultra 140 with 2 16Meg > simms. Is it possible to swap the ram between these two machines? Thanks to:"Duane R. Larkin" <duane@cris.com>catey@wren.geg.mot.com (Don Catey)Christophe DIARRA ...

Managers,I only got one reply so far, from Steve Boronski. Thanks, Steve!----Unix systems do not need Open File Manager, as Unix can handle open filecopies without 3rd party add-ons. Unfortunately it is a fundementalproblem with NT and Novell that open (&locked) files cannot be copied.As ...

My thanks to the following people for their assistance in answering myquestion:     Glenn Satchell - Glenn.Satchell@uniq.com.au     chiem@azc.com     Swee-Chuan Khoo - ...

See problem description below. Thanks to Ericka Fowler and Michael Neef forreplying with the fix:> I believe that was a bug and that this patch fixes it:> 107180-23Thanks also to Bernhard Sadlowski, Charles Gagnon, and David Lee, whoreplied. No thanks to the nameless individual who ...

Well.. the tape drive is functional this morning... I took the strange littlecableoff of the internal drive, then set the SCSI ID to 4 with a jumper on the driveitself.. then did the reconfiguration reboot.Thanks to all that helped!>> I just installed a dds3 tapedrive in two E250's ...

Hi,Thanks to Matthew Stier reply, mtools can actually work with vold.Just ./configure --enable-voldbefore make the mtools.Thanks.> Hi,>> Thanks to the many sun-manager replies, the problem is due to> the running volume manager.>> Shutting down the volume manage may not a good ...

Many thanks to:James Wendling <jbwendl@bnpcn.com>Jim McVey <jmcvey@nhgri.nih.gov>Rik Schneider <rik@netasset.com>Rick Lantaigne <Rick.Lantaigne.lantaign@nt.com>The solution was to install patch 105397-02.The original question was:> Recently I upgraded one of our ...

My original question:How can a system interface (quad port device) be made available?Answer: The quad port devices use the qeN (instead of leN)) and can be made available with> ifconfig qeN plumb <. Thus the boot will look like> /etc/hostname.qeN.On our system> prtconf < display ...

Hello.Follwing was my original question:leideck@pi3.informatik.uni-mannheim.de said:> Hello. It's probably not the right group but i need a tool which can > convert pcl-output from a hp laserjet 5si to postscript. Thanks in > advance WolfgangAnd here is my summary:The lj2ps converter ...

Summary:========thanx: Charlie Mengler <charliem@anchorchips.com>It is kind of not really a real problem.This log entry means that someone for example didtelnet mail.chinalake.navy.mil 25quitThe 2 previous lines opens up a connection to sendmail,but delivers no message. You'll get a ...

Hi..Allmost all replies pointed to NcFTP.Thanks toPantring, Dirk Dirk.Pantring@dresdner-bank.comHarald Fricke Fricke.Harald@mh-hannover.deDavid Thorburn-Gundlach dtg@cae091.ed.ray.comJonathan Loh jloh@futon.sfsu.eduMark Bergman bergman@hercules.phri.nyu.eduTony C. Wu ...

Fellow managers:This is a delayed summary, since I was expecting a few more responsesbut not much on this one. The bottom line for me is that there are security holes in NIS and dependingon how paranoid one is, should select accordingly between NIS andNIS+. I still feel that NIS+ is an ...

Thanks for all reply so quickly ....here is the solution.....Thanks ErickaMy Question was :> > Friends -> Any idea How can we restrict the user to not open more then one session ata> time(User Level) ......Best Regards,Dr. Malahat QureshiUnix Solutions,Allstate Insurance Co. ILPh: ...

Well, this is long overdue - sorry to the two who responded, and sorryto anyone who needed the information in the mean time.My original question:----- Begin Included Message -----Dear sun-managers,I'm fiddling with setting up my .login, .cshrc and so on files ina really sound manner, and I'm ...

Thxs to Richard Ashton,Charles Seeger,Arthur Darren Dunham, andGrant LoweHere's in my words the answer from the latter 2 :Encapsulated rootdisk can be mounted directly from the cdrom, after astandard "boot cdrom -s". Since the rootvol is not a VxFS (thus is notlogged), a fsck may be ...

My original question was:"When starting staroffice it starts-up with a full-screen window. I havenot been able to find a means of startingit up with a smaller screen size. Has anyone figured this out?"Thanks to the following for their responses:rsaddler@cccis.comJackie Rosinsky ...

The original question is at the end. Thanks to the following folks for their replies. Here's what they suggested:Chris Marble <cmarble@orion.ac.hmc.edu> wrote:I've always just done "man whatever | col -b | lp"mwang@tech.cicg.ml.com (Michael Wang) wrote:Forget all about ...

Summary:========thanks: sturges@gmri.com, "Marco Greene" <cmgreene@netcom.ca>,         Jim Robertori <jimr@tpesops.pr.lucent.com>,        ganeshan" <ganeshan@gcs.com.au>, ...

Thanks to Dave: dave@scg8a.es.hac.comand all that responded.Here's the answer:> SRDB ID: 5833> > SYNOPSIS: what timezone is PPET (not PST)?> > DETAIL DESCRIPTION:> > The date command lists the timezone as PPET instead of PST.> What does PPET mean?> > ...

Thanks to the following for their responses:Stephen <sweh@mpn.com>Casper Dik <casper@holland.sun.com>Scott Woods <sfw@adc.idt.com>Benjamin Cline <benji@hnt.com>The Question:-------------Is variable-length subnet masking (VLSM) not supported ...

Sorry for this rather late summary! I cought the flu :(Thanks to Casper Dik, David Robillard, Kevin Sheehan, Aki Sasaki andothers who responded!Well, I did not find a direct solution for the problem, but somethingis different in Solaris 7.I played around with gdb and found that on Solaris 2.6 ...

Before I get too swamped with replies I want to summarizethis. I found that when we powered down & unplugged theexternal drive our probe-scsi command worked fine. I guess we have a bad external drive...Here's the original post:> > The probe-scsi command is hanging on one of our old ...