Hi ManagersThanks to:brigjk@aur.alcatel.com (James K Brigman)Michael Loftis <mjl@tcbbs.net>Answer:_____________You need to run quotacheck -a[v] to update the quota files. This has tobe done as root.The v switch is optional but if present gives you a little info on whatsgoing on, add d if ...

X-Body-Checksum-Md5: ef6257f10b27a85e3eae079646ff1b14Precedence: bulkI wrote:> Idiotic Question of the Day:> Where can I find more Information on how the "rs" Option in a 4.x> printcap works than the 0.75 Sentences in the Manpage and the 2 cm> in my NeWSprint Docs?> ...

Hi Sysadmins,Thanks a million for your timely and precise help.Many thanks to:Dave HarringtonAndres van VugtMike EvansTim PointingRay SaddlerRic AndersonThe Solutions suggested are:     1. Try ftping a chmod from remote system (This didn't work as the new fileis ...

Thanks to all who replied. There were many replies to the following question.Tony Lawson's answer solved my problem.QUESTION:How can I set a secure web server? We want our homepage to be accessed from outside only by some specified persons. Is there a way to set these persons' IP addresses ...

Thanks to all the following:adrians@solarsystems.combarmand@flash.netDavid.Robillard@matrox.comscott.balfour-eds@eds.comDale.Hsu@impacgroup.comstrombrg@nis.acs.uci.edupoffen@san-jose.tt.slb.comIT seems that (un)clean power was the issue. The disk was fine. Ireplaced the power cord and plugged ...

  Thanks to all who replied. The problem was that the ELC was not  tftp'ing off the machine I thought it was, and so was getting the  wrong ...

Gurus,What I originally wanted to know was is there a way that I could prevent specific users from accessing e-mail. There were several answers to this but most were in the agreement that it is almost impossible to prevent a user sending e-mail if they are clever enough with a quick fix. You ...

Well I know it's been a while, but I am still waiting on some brochures.Looks like they'll be a while. So here are the pointers that I got.Thanks to :Bert Shure <Bert_Shure%SOLSOURCE@notes.worldcom.com>Stuart Kendrick <sbk@fhcrc.org>Bert's company sells a cable that does this. ...

I did not recieve any answers yet. However, I found my problem. ODS has a limit on number of devices and /dev/md20 was non existant.I changed the device to /dev/md5X it works fine.Navi> -----Original Message-----> From: Sirisena, Navi [SMTP:Navi.Sirisena@gs.com]> Sent: Tuesday, ...

        Hi!!                I'am sending this mail on Mr Michael Bennett ...

One response received, shown below. I've already tried the HPGL route,but the problem still persists.- Alan> Greetings.> > Has anyone had any problems setting up this type plotter using JetAdmin> on Sol7? I can set it up, and do diagnostics and test prints from> within ...

Sorry I missed one more point:     1. ls output is normal as it takes /usr/ucb/ls instead of /usr/bin/ls (tolist gid use -g option).Hi Sysadmins,Thanks a million for your timely and precise help.Many thanks to:Dave HarringtonAndres van VugtMike EvansTim PointingRay ...

original question:------------- Begin Forwarded Message -------------I am desperate. I have searched and have come up empty.My gauntlet firewall runs smap and sendmail8.6 on solaris2.6.I need the source code to sendmail 8.6.It is the version that came with solaris2.6 before patches.Anyone know ...

SOLUTION: (that worked perfectly) >Change permissions for everything in ~ftp/dev to 666. Although the man page for ftpd says to use mknod to get the files in  /ftp/dev, it omits to point out that the mknod does not set the right  permissions. The corresponding system files in ...

Thanks to the following:Walker, Bob R.s.voss@terradatarich@braker25781@email.spse18a186@avlsim - you know who you are!amjadz@stsVarious possibilities.Change the permissions of the tape drive devices to 600Using allocate/deallocateHaving words with the users managersCutting the users hands ...

        Hello Managers,        Many thanks to Carlos Bernal [cbernal@fis.ulima.edu.pe]        My Original Posting was as ...

Many thanks to those who responded. I have listed their names at the end.Here was the Scenario:An older Sparc II used as a data acquisition system. (The only Unix system I have.) If I let it rununattended, the disk fills up with data. Currently using ftp and manually moving data on a daily ...

Well this list is just as helpful as I remember it a few years ago.The solution to the problem - which most of you identified - was the/kernel/dvr/sd.conf file. This file seems to be used by the OS to identifytarget/LUN pairs for attached devices. By default this file containsentries with ...

Hi Guru's ,Before I summarize I'd like to apologize to Jay L. again if I offended himin any way ( I got the [SUMMARY] right this time ... ).As for my question here are my conclusions .1. combining dns and NIS is like giving a hacker to entry points on the samemachine . both services are easy ...

I recently asked>> I am looking for a vendor name and model numbers for very reliable terminals> for use> as a Sparc system console. They will be used only to start up systems and> maybe a little vi'ing. Cost is way secondary.>>Responses were rapidly received and greatly ...

Thanks to all for the responses. This seems to be a big problem among alot ofadministrators. I have not investigated thoroughly but I did receive someleads.My orig question:> Is anyone using a single sign on method for Novell,NT, and Unix? I am looking> for something where a logon would ...

Hello,Original questionperhaps somebody in the list could point me in the right direction.I need a list of available Solaris (2.5/2.5.1) drivers for boards PCI bus,mainly video PCI boards and communications (X.25) boards.To clarify: we are planning to have Sparc processor boards with PCI ...

        Thanks to all who responded ....Bruce BowlerRich PieriBismark EspinozaJim RoyPatrick GilbertDave McFerrenJochen BernThe soloution was :Hosts.allow should have        sshd sshdfwd-X11 : localhost 107.107.107. ...

Original Question :pdiaz wrote:> > Hy:> Somebody do you know: Where I can get the DHCP man pages of DHCP> software from The Sun site> ( http://www.sun.com/javastation/jcdev/software.html) ?> Please I need this information.> Thanks in advance> Patricia Diaz> P.D. ...

Thanks to Alberto Begliomini for a quick (and accurate) response!This solution solved my problem exactly.BrianDate: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 13:22:02 -0700From: aub@atmsys.com (Alberto Begliomini)To: wightman@oberon.acs.uwosh.eduSubject: Re: Remote printer faulting with jetadminOh well, I ran into this ...

Well, no-one volunteered any information, and no-one asked me to let themknow what I find out, so I assume that no-one is interested (Yes, I realisethat this could perhaps be of more use on a firewall mailing list, but I'mnot finding a good one to ask one question). The answer is: ...

My origional question -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~> Hi Sun Managers,>> After upgrading my solaris 2.6 and 2.5.1 servers to the latest y2k> patches, I find myself tackeling a couple of weired (I think so)> problems. Here they are for your expert inputs / solutions (preferably> in a ...

Thanks to JCJ6@daimlerchrysler.com for the ksh match:cr=$( print "\015" )grep "[$cr]" *and Darren Dunham for the perl solution:m/\r$/-pSU BEFORE POSTING please READ the FAQ located atN ftp://ftp.cs.toronto.edu/pub/jdd/sun-managers/faq. and the list POLICY statement ...

Here is my question.> Hi group,> > I'm running Solaris 2.6 ona sparc 20. I've just downloaded X11R6.4 from> www.opengroup.org/x and I'm really interrested in the XINERAMA feature.> My Sparc has two TGX card and two 20in screen. I want to use both in one> big SLS (Single ...

SUMMARY: HP JetDirect Package Problems--------------------------------------Thanks to:Randy L. Chatfield (rchatfie@cemrc.nmsu.edu)Bob Fulwiler (bobf@psa.pencom.com)Tom E. Smith (tesmit1@tessa.monsanto.com)JetAdmin will not install properly if a user install exists. However,if you are running ...

Dear ManagersMany thanks to all the very many prompt replies I had to my questionwhich was:> I'm getting error messages from 'socket' when using commands> such as 'ping' and 'rlogin'. For example:> > % ping a.root-servers.net> ping: socket: Permission denied> %> > ...

Hello Again,Thanks to all those who replied. I did manage to find a way around for myproblem. Some of the replies did help me with my configuration. Here's The summary I promised:------------------------------------------------------    From: "Colin J. Wynne" ...

Original Message:>>> "Parthiv Shah" <pshah@nscc.com> 08/18 11:15 AM >>>I installed recommended patch cluster and y2000 patch cluster for Solaris 2.5 on a Sparc 5 running Xwin. After the installation when I boot the server I get following message in my ...

Hello,The replys gave me pointers but I used a differnent technique. I actually used"newmail" from the Elm package with all the folders as arguments. It worksfine.Replys whore:Jason L Tibbitts III: ZshNicky Ayoub: Combination of mailagent and exmhJason Noorman: z-mailThis one who gave ...

The winners are http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/appletalk/cap.html http://www.umich.edu/~rsug/netatalk/index.htmlThanks for the help, KEEP THE LIST ALIVEXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXRaymond XXwill work for unix XXemail: FagnonR@cadmus.com ...

Here was the problem:Solaris 2.6 does not work with the 8MB cache of new processors.I have new 400MHz/8MBcache cpus. prior to booting from net (aka jumpstarting), I had to 'limit-ecache-size' from the ok prompt.ok> limit-ecache-sizeI also patched the 2.6 install image on the server by ...

i didn't try any of the following coz i have just reinstalled:RAMNISH SINGH write:You can do that in two ways.1. Create a file /reconfigure using the touch command and then do init 6.i.e.#touch /reconfigure#init 6Once the machine tries to reboot just power it off and connect the disk ...

Thanks to:Carl MusanteWalter ReedDan SweetDaniel WilkinsonTim CarlsonChristopher BarnardRuss PoffenbergerCasper Dikfor the prompt replies. The problem was solved by disabling auto detectionand forcing the card into 10mbit/sec half duplex mode. Many of you suggested firing the entire IT ...

Original Post:Situation:An Ultra 1 Creator 3D machine running Solaris 2.5.1. This machine has twointernal hard drives as indicated below from the output of df.Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 1828341 374031 1271480 23% //proc 0 ...

Hello all,The great thing about this list is that there is always at least oneperson who is bound to know something!!!Thanks to steveb@pcs.co.uk (Steve Butterfield), who hit it in one. Netview/6000 is having problems with the default 24-bit frame buffer(S24) that came built-in with the Sparc ...

Original summary and original question:> The second problem has been under investigation while I was on vacation. I> suspect that my backup person has screwed it up royally. It appears thatthe> SCSI bus is bad, but Sun has first tried to replace the system disk. Letus> pray that ...

Sorry, in my previous message I misspelled one of the credits. The right<p>name is<p>Mike Frisch<p><p>-- Oscar Goldes<p>-- Orden Argentina SA<p>

I have an overwhelming number of responses to my query and I really appreciate all of you. It was my first suspicion actually that permissions might be incorrect on the mount point so the moment I had the opportunity to umount that file system, it turned out it got proper permissions. I ...

Thanks to Roger Fujii for pointing me in the right direction...The solution to my problem seems to have been to change the last 2 lines in> >> > tape-config-list => > "HP HP35470A", "HP DDS 4mm DAT", "HP-data1",> > "HP ...

Original Post:> Is there a limit to the length of user name ? After I add a new user, if the > length of user name is more than 8 characters, the system will ask the user> input password on the first login( but I didn't set any password). But everything> will be O.K. if the user ...

Thanks to:   Stuart.Little   Leif Ericksen   Ray Brownrigg   David Evans   Todd Herr   Charles NguyenThe solutions is as follows:1) I called Sun and found out that my C++ 4.1 licenses will NOT workwith C++ ...

I asked if I was going to be able to upgrade my SPARCstation 20 Solaris 2.5 to an Ultra 2, as I was looking to basically just move the disks (or disk images) to the new machine. I asked this as I prepare for the upgrade and thus do not have the new system available for testing, nor any of its ...

Thanks to:Oberg MatsIra KronitzKevin AmorinDavid B. HarringtonMike SalehiChanga AndersonJosh Wyattall suggested variations of removing the device file(s) and boot -r.The vitual beer goes to Kevin Ying who suggested checking for thepresence of the file: /kernel/drv/sparcv9/hme which it turns out ...

WOW, it only took 10 mins to get about 3 solutions! Thanks.QUERY:I have a cronjob that has to be executed by root.The process run does not produce an output except when there isan error. The error output is then sent to root (the ownerof the cronjob)I would like the error output of this ...

Thank you for the responses. Original Question :On Sparc 1000's I have heard the rule of thumb is swap space should bedouble physical memory up to 256 meg. Not that this can't be exceededbut I have heard that you will start to see degradation above that. Does this hold true for the Ultra ...