There were two solutions to this problem:   1. Presented by Mark Berman   This is a problem. There's a shell script fix that replaces /bin/passwd. I got it from a search of the archives of this list. Here's the script I use. I think ...

The new location for networker mailing list is at temple.edu.For information on how to join, search archieves..etc, visit: http://listserv.temple.edu/archives/networker.htmlLegato now has their own distribution list (www.legato.com) but thats only about new product information. Thanks to all who ...

ORIGINAL QUESTION:Hi list,maybe this was discussed on this list before, but I could not find it in the archive...I have a SPARC 10 running Solaris 2.5.1. When I installed the OS, I installed the full OS, not knowing, what I did (it was my second Solaris 2.x install...). Now the machine must be ...

it turned out that some HP Monitoring system is being run at the other side ..tho, this is no error or anything at all ^_^i only received one reply... from Atmane Alouache Thanks.. ^_^Below is his reply...Hi,   I don't think someone is trying to get access.   But ...

Hello everybody,    I received many answers to this question, most pointing me in the samedirection. Many thanks to:        Kun Li, Brooke King, Charlie Mengler, Chris Liljenstolpe, K. Ravi,Amjad Zamil, Stephen Harris, Jacques Rall, ...

To all who replied to my mail, many thanks.Overwhelmed with the response !!The shortest answer is toedit /etc/hosts file and change ip address of local hostscheck /etc/hostname.hme0 and /etc/net/*/hosts. If any of these have192.... they will need to be changed, but they probably just contain ...

I have sent out the attached request a couple of weeks ago. Thank you for eveyone who has sent me a response. With all the responses gathered, it seems like to disable the F1 as help key in Openwin, look into the file /usr/openwin/lib/Xinitrc or .xinitrc in the home directory and comment out ...

The original question was:Is there anyway to start CDE environment, without using the logginscreen ?I mean, can I start it once logged in to the system console usingcommands with a non root user?The suggestions that did work were:1- xinit /usr/dt/bin/Xsession2- setenv XINITRC ...

Dear Sun-Managers:The following is a summary of what I'd learned on CDE which helped me tosolve two of my problems. I think I have to give up on the vision of displaying the login chooser at the console displays as I still have nolead in how to make this work.I'd like to thank Asim Zuberi ...

Question :Hello Managers,I have to shutdown a machine permanently but it is a NIS master it also is anNFS server ( automount )How can I know which all are the clients it serve, which all machines makes useof all types of services (NIS, NFS etc)provided by this machine and what other network ...

Ooops. I was browsing through the Archives and found that I had sentthis question back in May last year but (ouch !) never posted a summary.Summary of original question :> I am running sendmail V8 (currently 8.8.5) on our mailhost (SPARCstation 10,> SunOS 4.1.3) and have been using the ...

Wow! Thanks for all the help (30-40 responses). I'm sure that you couldtell by my question that I'm not a Sun 'Manager', but I thank you for allof your responses. I especially thank you all for the graciousness bywhich you answered a question that is CLEARLY listed and answered in ...

Short Summary :Suggestion was to use/usr/sbin/shutdown -g0 -y -i6instead ofinit 6Question :Machine : Ultra - 1OS : Solaris 2.5.1#crontab -l0 1 * * 0 sync;sync;init 6 > /dev/null 2>&1At 1:00 AM the machine reboots on all sundays, but on monday when i accessedthe machine ...

Thanks to all who responded.David Evans [DJEVANS@au.oracle.com]Dennis Martens [MARTENSD@health.qld.gov.au]Kevin.Sheehan@uniq.com.auRichard J Niziak [rickn@ziplink.net]The general consensus is to use the man pages, which I did. However theman pages does not give much details as to what caused ...

Hi,First thank to :Zulkarnain Dahalan - CSSG <dzulk@csam.com.my>Brett Morgan <brett@pulse.itd.uts.edu.au>Bismark Espinoza <bismark@alta.Jpl.Nasa.Gov>Original question :On a workstation running Volume managerWhen a CD audio is inserted, because it is not a regular file, the ...

Some time ago, I posted a question about rsh:>We've got several Ultras running Solaris 2.5.1 and a Solbourne running SunOS>4.1.2 . rsh works properly among all the Ultras and from the Solbourne to any>of the Ultras, but it's exhibiting a strange symptom whenever I try to rsh ...

I sent out the attached request a couple of weeks ago. To be able to use the Enter, Page Up and Page Down keys in Ingres, edit the file /usr/openwin/lib/app-defaults/XTerm by remove the following ...

Hello all,        The clear winner is: X3270 from /ftp.x.org/contrib/applications/x3270/x3270-3.1.0.6.tar.gz.        Thank you all (too many to list here...) for your ...

Dear Colleagues,This list is the greatest thing since sliced bread. Many thanks toDavid H. Brierley, who came up with the right answer in record time.Also, of course, thanks to the people whose replies are still on theirway to me.The original query:| We have 5 Solaris servers on our network, ...

> >On a solaris 2.5.1 host I've issued ulimit -n 1024 in a sh shell. The> >number of descriptors has risen to 1024, but my perl5 script seems> >only able to open 253 files before running out. Is there something> >I'm missing here?Thanks to all that responded. Looks ...

Thanks for the inputs on this problem. This fellow did find the problem andcorrect it,as you can read below...-----Original Message-----From: Guppy, Brian Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 1999 11:40 AMTo: Reichert, AlanSubject: FW: dynamic linker problemsI fixed the problem - the binary wasn't ...

Hello all. Been lurking for a little bit. Have 2 questions foryou guys.#1 - I recently have been converted to Solaris from linux, and have a lotof basic user level questions that I don't think are appropriate to thislist. Could anyone suggest other Solaris lists that might deal more ...

The next person to suggest they just edit the files in /etc/inet and wherever will get a prize kick in the bum for supplyingmisleading and potentially damaging information.There is a prescribed method for reconfiguring a Sun for using a new IP or hostname.It's called ...

Hello, Sean.Here is a copy of the SUMMARY you need to read.Regards,Jason CoombsScientist, SCIENCE.ORG http://www.science.org/jasonc/-----Original Message-----From: Robert Benites [SMTP:benites@tryon.cs.unca.edu]Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 1997 8:38 ...

-- Oringinal query snippet --> There are a number of "accounts" on my system which everyone needs access > to, therefore the password is known by all. These accounts though, run a > menu from the .profile. What I want to do is stop people su'ing to > these accounts, ...

Thanks for all the response, I believe I got all I want!Thanks!Feng----------------------------------------------derek.hilgesen@artecon.com * http://www.artecon.com> Feng,>> Here you go. I didn't know if you wanted a narrow or wide> external drive, so I quoted both. Note, you ...

Thanks to the following: Mohammed Alshammari, Anthony David, Mike Evans, schaefer@wolfe.llnl.gov, Steve Beuttel, Roger Leonard,Gary Jenson, Ted Backherms, Greg Polanski,Special thanks to those that had additional information: Andrew Sit, David Evans, Michael DeSimone, Chad Graham, Mohammed ...

Sorry to be so long with the summary, but things keep happening around here.Including my email address turning bogus on the day I sent the message. I'msorry that those of you who replied couldn't get through our DNS minefield.I did get a couple of replies and an apparent solution. Thanks to ...

The subject is actually not very appropriate....I should have used "how to find a "jumpstart client" ethernet address?"The answer was- Read it on the box"- STOP-A the machine on poweron, but before boot"well, thanx... the first answer works when I have the ...

Thanks to all who replied offering help.The cause of my problem is that the existing OS configuration isconfused. Parts of the OS things its trying to use either NIS or DNS orboth. I do not want the OS to use either.The best fix came from:Bismark@alta.Jpl.Nasa.GovBismarks recommended was ...

Thanks a lot to all of you who give me very good suggestions.I've solved my problem by:1) Using 'tar' command to copy "mount" and "ld.so" to a floppy;2) Boot the system from a CDROM, install miniroot to my system disk's swap space (partition "b");3) Using ...

[  I wouldn't normally post this to the list - most of my answers go direct  to the user. But in this case, the user is suggesting a change to the FAQ  that I totally disagree with.]Rachel Polanskis wrote:> The next person to suggest they just edit the files ...

Don't get tunnel vision, here. Yes, /usr/sbin/sys-unconfig is a prescribedmethod, but if the admin knows what they are doing, manual editingis not a problem. In my case, with only one exception, all changes I makeare done manually by editing and using certain utilities since some ofmy ...

>Problem:> "Stale file handle" messages appear in console window of client> systems for unknown reasons.>> Several diskless sparc2 clients are booted from a sparc5> bootserver running Solaris 2.5.> The main fileserver is a Sparcserver 1000E which is still ...

Hi. I've managed to solve my problem, so here's the summary for those thatare interested. I've included the original question to help the summarymake more sense.> Hi all. I'm currently experiencing a problem with which I have no idea how> to remedy. The situation is this. I have a lab ...

Question: How to tar a remote directory structureI know I have did this before but can't figure out the syntax. I need all of/xxx from one machine to another over the ethernet. /xxx is part of afilessystem, ie not a complete partition. It will be going on a newpartition on the other ...

wow... sorry this took so long, and that it's not as pretty as most...lots of tips from dozens of folks... thanks to all....unfortunately, I'm anairhead,and I can't locate the individuals who were kind enough to take the time tohelp out,including several second level sun technicians.Sorry.I ...

Well the search for a PPPoE client for Solaris came up empty. Hopefully onewill be available ...

I reported a problem involving a new NIS+ domain. (Full descriptionbelow.) We were having problems routing to other machine outside thedomain.I received a number of suggestions to the effect that it didn't soundas though NIS+ was the problem.These suggestions were in fact correct. Due to ...

My original question:> > Sun M's,> > I have Solaris 2.5 with CDE 1.0.2 installed on some Sparc 5's. I've> noticed some peculiar problems with CDE. It seems CDE hangs when I log> on. OpenWindows works fine.> > I tracked the problem down to when I set the ...

- In Solaris 7, host cache is multi-threaded, advisable to enable it.- might be a problem with the resolver libraries not being multi-threadedThanks to:From: Casper Dik <casper@holland.sun.com>From: Cliff Skolnick ...

Hello,already in December 1997 I discovered a serious bug in the AnswerBook2server dwhttpd/3.1a4 that ships with Solaris 2.6 (server edition). Witha simple socket connection to the AB2 port (default: 8888), *anyone* onthe network with access to that port (default: everybody, see below) canbring ...

I was able to get the unsupported version of UniVerse running on Solaris2.6 however some of the older hashed files ended up being not writableand I needed to create a new file of the same type and copy the datafrom the old to the new.Thanks to Terry Hauptoriginal question ...

Hi Sun Managers,My original post concerning the nice value in Solaris 2.4 is>Recently, we discovered that any users on our SPARCstation with>Solaris 2.4 can changed the nice value of their process to arbitrary>value (-19 - +19) using /usr/ucb/renice or top (which in fact using>the ...

        Hi,  Thanks to all that responded to my question:Original question ****** I have a Sparc 5/110, SunOS 4.1.4 that's been rebootinglately and leaving the following messages in/var/adm/messages:Async memory fault mfsr=0x81884820 ...

Thanks for all the emails I received!Aside from looking at the backups, which would have been difficult asit's a Networker backup solution running on the box and doing a fullrestore takes about 9 hours..... several people came up with a littlegem:pkgchk -f `pkginfo | awk '{print $2}'` (from ...

Dear Managers,                        Thanks for the response !Thanks to:Dean Moore,Frode Stromsvagsysadm@its.brooklyn.cunty.eduBob Hoffman (Best Ideogram !)All Answers ...

Thanks to everyone who responded, PROBLEM: Correcting the rounding error customizing partition layout indisksetup for 2.6SOLUTION: The overwhelming majority of responses suggested using thecylinder view rather the the Mb view to tweak disk layout. This workedgreat for me.Ken ...

Many thanks to Qureshi, Malahat <MQureshi@allstate.com>ray <ray.trzaska@northgate-is.com>Neal S. Pressman <nsp83273@melsud.res.ray.com>parker@bctm.comViet_Q_Hoang <vhoang@lucent.com>Renny Koshy <renny@visualsoft.com>I must specially thanks Viet_Q_Hoang and I ...

Sorry! Dreadfully late with this! :-(I didn't get a lot of joy with this, but I'll tell you the story so far...My problem was (is) using Online disksuite to create RAID 5 metadevices andconcatinate them together. After an informal discussion with a chap from Sun andafter reading a white paper ...