This is a repost, sorry if you get it twice and sorryfor it being late...I asked:-After upgrading some S20s with bigger disks we are left witha few 1G Seagates that we would like to make use of in S10s.The official line is that it can't be done because of thedifference in connector style. Does ...

Hi allSummary of my problem, Thanks a million to Gerhead, Thomas, Chris andRobert for their prompt replies. Useful info below.fROm Prakash D Rebello:> I need to know in Sun Enterprise E6500, what is the maximum temperature> that a CPU board will work. In case it is increasing and very ...

My original posting:A few days ago the following message starting appearing in the log file onour mailhost:        Apr 22 12:41:20 chatter sendmail[7009]: gethostbyaddr() failedObviously, sendmail is having difficulty resolving the address of some host.My ...

Thanks to Mike Salehi        Matthew SantimoreThe following command solve the problemeeprom output-device=screen:r12024x768x75The original question was Hi Managers,I have an Ultra-10 trying to change the video resolution for it using thecommandm64config ...

Many thanks to all the people who replied - a lot of you!Some people misunderstood the problem, or suggested something like 'rm -iRf*'. That's okay, but this is in the root directory of a live system - so I'drather not do that :-)One answer was to use 'ls -li' (or some such) to obtain the ...

The original:>I have a Sun Netra i machine. I'm not having any problem, all services>are ok, but when I reboot the system, the following message is showed >to me:> >no such user as root% - cron entries not created> >What does it means?> >Thanks in ...

Hello,The answer to my question is "pwconv", it comes with solaris 2.xThanks to Pierrick Pinasseau <cmsadm@sunra1.cern.ch>   and jeffw@triple-i.com (Jeff Wasilko)   My question was :>I look to a program that translate the file /etc/passwd on ...

Thanks go to:Bill Hebert Mark BergmanMarc Johnson Buddy LumpkinBismark Espinoza Mike EvansAndrew Sit David MitchellKen Robson Russ PoffenbergerThe above suggested several things. One was www.spec.org for standardbenchmarks. Unfortunately we have different requirements than ...

The question was how to restore color to CDE when reboot is not an option. No responses solved my problem, but I appreciate the time of all who answered. One idea was to apply patch 105362(current rev is 20). Another was to verify installation of all dt files. The explanantion is below. ...

Hi Admins,This is the summary to the question I asked.And I would like to thank for their help :Stefan VossKen RobsonCarsten B. KnudsenMy original post was :----------------------Hi Admins,On our NIS server, one of the automount maps holdsthis line ...

Managers:I got a few replies. The answer is yes, X86 will do just fine as a NIS+master.As someone advised in a recent summary, please be sure to check theHardware Compatibility List. Also, don't expect many ports of SolarisApps to X86. One additional question I have is whether Solstice ...

Hi,The consensus is, that it should work without problems. Some people havedone it and it works. The FrameBuffer FAQ has more details:     http://bul.eecs.umich.edu/~crowej/sunfaq/FrameBuffer.htmlApparently I need to check that the new Ultra-5 has a PGX24 built ingraphics and ...

 I have solved my problem adding the following lines to my sendmail.cf: Djerice.cci.unibs.it DRrelayhost.cci.unibs.it Dmcci.unibs.it Cmcci.unibs.itI have followed too the instructions described in: www.informatik.uni-kiel.de/%7Eca/email/sun.sendmail.fix.html Thanks ...

Howdy all,        sorry it's been so long before summarizing this but I wanted to         thoroughly test it.        The original ...

I had one reply to the problem I posted on Thu, 20 May 1999. The replycame from Claudio.Confalonieri@bpb.it and whose advice solved myproblem.The solution is to install the NISKIT Patch 103053-08.Original posting:__________________________________________________I am running a NIS master ...

Hi Admins,I apologize guys because I forgot to thank some ofyou.Then I want to thank :David EvansBismark EspinozaAdrian Saidac Z.K. ZachariahStefan VossKen RobsonCarsten B. Knudsen for you help and all your answers.My original post was :----------------------Hi Admins,On our NIS server, one of ...

Howdi Sun managersA while ago I asked the following.> I really really hope this is not a RTFM, but I've read the entire> Solstice Site/SunNet/Domain manager Admin Guide, browsed the entire> internet, "grepped" throug 3 years of sun-managers mails, to no avail.>> What I ...

Thank you all for a quick response:Marks, Evan R (markser@aetna.com)Saseed Mostofizadeh (smosto01@ilab.c4.gmeds.com)Eric De Mund (ead@ixian.com)Rahul Roy (roy@bluestone.com)Daniel Blander (Daniel.Blander@ACSacs.com)Gary Merinstein (gmerin@merin-a.merin.emedia.net)Original Post:> We just ...

The original question was:> Lately, I've witnessed several cases of files turning out to be> corrupted after system crashes. I know it CAN happen, but what I> think is strange is that:> > - the vast majority of cases occur in Solaris-2.5 and Solaris-2.5.1> machines (This is ...

Hello,here are the results for my question (see original below)To get an nearly perfect overview take a look at        http://www.reiworld.com/royalef/toolbox.htm(thanx to Patrick Barry;-)The only thing I missed could find ...

After some more testing and checking, looks like there HAVE to be 3 separatecopies on 3 separate disks to keep things going. You can put 2 copies on 1disk, but if that disk is lost, the whole things disappears.Additional info: this is an E3500 w/FCAL disks running Solaris 7 & Disk ...

Hi Admins,I also received this answer from Arthur Darren DunhamThank you guy.My original post was :----------------------Hi Admins,On our NIS server, one of the automount maps holds>this line :/files -ro,soft,intr hostA(1),hostB(3):/export/filesThe aim of this is to ensure the mount point ...

Summary of original question :> 1. In general, what are experiences with and impressions of qfe + Sun> Trunking ? Does it really deliver what it is claimed to ?> > 2. In particular, does it work with BayStack 350 switches. According to> the BayStack release notes, software ...

Original message:> > Dear List,> > How does one display the disk partitions on an UltraSparc 1?> > Thanks, in advance.> > Bruce> Thanks to:        rtrzaska@uk.mdis.com (Ray ...

Hello,The best answer seems to be to use fuser /dev/pts/* which gives a list of processes using each pts device. These then can be looked up in a ps -efllisting. Similar to this is to use lsof (available fromftp://vic.cc.purdue.edu/pub/tools/unix/lsof ) which I guess gives the same information ...

Sorry for the delay - a few people asked me for the solution because theytwo were having the problems and could use the insight I might gain. Thedelay was due to the fact that testing all the options took much time.Mix that in with my regular duties and this is what you get. Not ...

Thanx in advance.<p>We are looking for some utility that will prevent some particular user<p>from login to other system. For example:<p>If I want to prevent userid A1 and A2 on host A from login to host B with<p>userid B1 and B2(login can be rlogin, rsh and telnet).<p>JC<p>

Thanks for your replies. Responses fell into 4 categories :1. Those who misunderstood it for PC and sent flames (flames returned :))2. Those who thought I don't have adobe acrobat reader installed (I have it   but thanks anyway)3. Me toos (here is the summary !)4. Those who ...

Whoooooa!<p>Thanks for the overwhelming number of responses. Guess I should of<p>looked at the man pages first concerning such a basic question.<p>And the answer is, "try arch -k stuuupid" Ultras have a Sun4u designation.<p>Brad Piatek<p>

Original question: I was installing the pop daemon from the unc sunsite but i need a library  called libresolv.so.2. Where i can get it?.Answer:  Install patch103663-11 for Solaris 2.5.1I really appreciate the help from:"Jeffrey K. Pado" ...

I got the wrong impression that I needed to openthe door for all Java web sites on the Internet.All I have to do is"xhost +host.abc.edu".My thanks go toCraig Ledbetter: cledbett@homeaccount.comJohn Fiori: fiori@crrel41.crrel.usace.army.milCarlos R. Guevara: cguevara@ns.sinfo.netJoe ...

        Okay good people,        Here's my original post:> Suddenly, without warning, syslogd stopped logging messages to > /var/adm/messages*. This on a SPARC 10 running SunOS 4.1.4.>> As implied, ...

Thanks to Casper Dik who pointed out thatThe slower TZ is correct; the faster TZ has hardcoded start and end datesand has no knowledge of the past. MOre Detail------------The "US/Eastern" specification uses the rules from/usr/share/lib/zoneinfo/northamericaThe EST5EDT form uses ...

Thanks so much to the following respondentsBill Bartlett Michael SalehiAndrew SitDavid EvansRobert HayneTim CarlsonMark NeillKent PerrierThey helped me in figuring out which physical disk theerror messages were pointing to and what the mostlikely problems are. It may be as simple as runing ...

Thanks to James Hsieh for replacing the light bulb :)The problem was that in the process of trimming drivers to free uplimited real estate, I had removed the bwtwo driver from the kernel.Since this is the only B&W machine, it never clicked. See below fordetails.BrianBrian T. Wightman ...

Hi,Sorry for the late summary. As the error does not happenregularly, I need to wait for a little longer to see if theproblem will re-occur again. First thanks for the reply from David B. Harrington.After I had fsck /dev/rdsk/c0t1d0s5 it seems that the remote ufsdump does not show the dev_seek ...

Thanks to all who responded... The itchy reply finger award goes to Bruce Rossiter for getting the fastest response back. 8-)Original Question:We have various machines (Sparc 4,5,20,1000,2000,Ultra 2) all running Solaris 2.5.1. Once in a while a filesystem will fill up to capacity usually ...

Hi.  Well, the overwhelming consensus was to add a console server. Unfortunately, this is not an option for us. The end result will be to ensure that the laptop and hyperterminal software is fully up and running prior to cabling it to the Ultra 60. Tests here so far have shown this ...

This is second, I hope, more usefull summary on "How to get temperature on ultra entreprise 250"Special thanks to all answers expecially to Oliver Oster <olio@zait.uni-bremen.de>Here is url for small tool which I developed to solve this. Intention is to have tool/library which ...

Many thanks for all the replies.>Does anyone know what the effective speed>performance hit is, when reducing the minfree >parameter of a file system (using tunefs) to 0%>from 10%, and then optimizing for space>rather than ...

Hi all--Here is the summary of replies to my request for help in trying to backupan SGI workstation using xfsdump to a tape drive on a Sun server.Quite a few people are using a tar|rsh dd type or xfsdump to stdout| rsh ddsolution.Joel Turoff, Mark Bergman, Mike Salehi and Eric Greenwade hit the ...

Hello list,APOLOGIES:A very long time ago (Nov/Dec last year, to be exact), I had a problem with the screen resolution of an Ultra 60. Nobody could help me, so I decided to put the problem on the stack of unsolved problems, waiting for a solution to come somewhen later. Now I got the right ...

Thanks to :Don Cary Grant <dgrant@ga-network.com>steve@marzconsulting.com (Marz Consulting Inc. (Steve Maher)Sid_Shapiro@bio-rad.comGreg Mushen <greg.mushen@gettyimages.com>"Z.K. Zachariah" <zac@agorics.com>"Alex Natautama" ...

Real good answers!!.(1)"Nicholas R LeRoy" <nleroy@norland.com>(2)Ric Anderson <ric@rtd.com>(3)Audrey Taylor <Audrey_Taylor@compuserve.com>(4)Ray Trzaska <rtrzaska@uk.mdis.com>(5)Jim Harmon <jharmon@telecnnct.com>(6)Michael Kohne ...

Problem solved by a local programmer, but Nikos George gave this pointerthat may be helpful to others:> > get them anonymously from occams.dfci.harvard.edu in /pub/nikos> > /NikosThere were a couple other suggestions for the mv command, but that alsofailswhen this library is gone ...

A while ago I was trying to install xpm to try out fvwm. I was working offan article from the October 1997 copy of Sun Expert which stated beforebuilding fvwm make sure you have the xpm library.My original post stated that I couldn't get it to compile even after fixingall the known bugs with ...

Hi,Another answer received yesterday from Eirh-Yu Hsie.Thank you guy.Hi Admins,On our NIS server, one of the automount maps holdsthis line :/files -ro,soft,intr >hostA(1),hostB(3):/export/filesThe aim of this is to ensure the mount point "/files"will be always available if hostA ...

        The problem was solved in 2 hours and it was quite obvious.        I'll blame my poor knowledge on Solaris nfs scheme (since it        differs from the platform I ...

> I wrote on 13 May 1996:> Hi everyone,> I've got a couple of queries relating to dumping onto a Sun 20GB 4mm> tape autoloader. Crontab jobs using /usr/lib/fs/ufs/ufsdump are used> for dumping from Solaris 2.x and SunOS 4.1.x systems. Thus far, we > have not been ...

Original Question:>Ever since Solaris 2.6 came out, the default console>login is not a command line login. You have to use>the mouse to enable a command line login. Is there>a real easy way to disable this and go back to the>old command line login by default?As many pointed ...