Thanks for the prompt responses. I should have read the FAQ, but Jakepointed me to having to change /usr/lib/sendmail as well as runningthe new version of sendmail.Thanks to"Jake Harwood" <jharwood@dataquest.com> Rich Kulawiec <rsk@itw.com>"Christopher L. ...

SYNOPSIS: Study performance benefits of multi-cpus in a SS10.HARDWARE: Sun SPARCstation 10 w/ 2 Ross 180 cpus, 256mb RAM, (2) 2gb7200rpm SCSI-2 disk.OS: SunOS 4.1.4 (Hopefully study of Solaris 2.6 <SunOS 5.6> willfollow)ORIGINAL QUESTION:How much of a benefit are multi-cpus in a SS10 on ...

Hello,This summary is long overdue. A while ago I asked about assetreporting tools used in a Sun environment (original post below). While the response was not overwhelming, I did receive one pointerfrom Jeffrey Collyer that looks very promising. ...

For installation of Solstice Backup 5.5.1 with the autoloader L280, thefollowing patches are needed for Solaris 2.6For Solstice Backup:        108884-01 (fixes lots of recovery errors (10 MB) for ...

Heloo, all,Thanks for all response.The problem is solved, but I don't know why. In system() arguments, Iused compile another program. If argument's executable name is differentwith program's executable name. works fine. I guess when I run program'sexecutable, e.g. a.out, the system() output ...

I was getting the following message on an IPC I recently acquired "Bad EPROMchecksum 00008c" On several people's advice (sorry, can't remember names off hand) and after reading the NVRAM/hostid faq, I went ahead and replaced both the NVRAM chip and the EEPROM chip (the one right ...

Hi,My problem is not fully solved.Most of the suggestions were to add more RAM .The problem :  We are running internet news daemon - innd ( netscape 1.1 ) on>our sparc running 2.5 . The machine normally crawls and takes long timeto>respond. The out put of top shows >load ...

Thanks everyone!The people who said I have bad disks are wrong! But it wasn't afair game for you because after I posted, I unplugged the CD-ROMwhich is by itself and tested the individual drives and they werefine. I went through 3 IDE cables and they didn't work either. One respondent said ...

All replies pointed to the P_ZERO not being set.thanks to tkevans@eplrx7.es.dupont.com tim@ben.dciem.dnd.ca Stephen Harris Michael Sullivanand all others that responed.Was running my chat scripts from the Dialers File, Once I put the chat into the Systems file, the P_ZERO option ...

Thanks for all the replies on this one. Those of you who mentioned thewrite-protect on the tape ..... well ..... that was it. You'd thingafter all these years of doing backups with dump one would think about thewrite-protect on the tape. I musta had one of those California 'duh'moments ...

        Thanks for all reply me.         I can't rebuild path_to_inst, but I received a solution Sun's supportfor my intention (see bellow).        I got success in my ...

Well, I'm not sure what the deal is, but I got qpopper 2.2, and it works just fine. Thanks to:Stephen Harris <sweh@mpn.com>Michael Jarvis <michaelj@burrito.insource.com>daves@adnc.com (David Schiffrin)Regards,Charles+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Original Question +-+-+-+-+-+-+Greetings! I have ...

Many people responded and the majority said this should work, and Iagree. Some even stated that they currently do this exact thing. Several people suggested rsync but I didn't want to introduce any morethan necessary into this environment.One person stated that this can't be done but I think ...

Hi all,My problem was the following : when starting the lpd Sol2.x ported printingserver on a Sol2.6 box the following error occurred :bind(): address already in useIt came out the file /etc/inetd.conf had the following entry :printer stream tcp nowait root /usr/lib/print/in.lpd ...

morning all ...first, thanks to:        bismark@alta.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Bismark Espinoza)        "Jason Harrell" <jason@jsa.com>        Luca Pizzinato ...

Thanks to Sean Quaint for pointing out that NIS+ should be NISPLUS forSolaris 2.6 JumpStart.The only other thing required was to patch mini-root:         a) Download Sun patch 106193-05 from ...

Hi!Thanks to From: Asim Zuberi <asim@psa.pencom.com>From: Administracao de Sistemas <uadm@dca.fee.unicamp.br>From: Per.Akesson@carmenta.se (Per Akesson)From: Glenn.Satchell@uniq.com.au (Glenn Satchell - Uniq Professional Services)From: "Mark `Hex' Hershberger" ...

Luis has the answer, as did a few others. My original question waswhat is the proper part no. for a 400 mhz cpu in an e450. The preferred one to use is difficult to discern, however the only apparentdifference between the two numbers I quoted seems to bea 'cover' which should *not* be used ...

Hello.I've got the explanation from Rahul who has send me a bug report from sun(article 4086468):keyserv is running on a mailhost using NIS+ for authentication. The mailhostexports the /var/mail directory to the other machines.The error pops up every time you send mail to two particular users ...

Answers:There where not to many answers on this topic...Some recommended to use scripts within expect or tcl or via normal UNIX scripts. Others stated you could only format drives on different controllers at the same time. One person recommended to use the "fmthard" command.My ...

I got no replies for this, just one slight flame whononetheless recommended a writer. For the sake of thesummary archives, I am summarizing my own findings, however incomplete they are. I haven't used any of the products or companies mentioned. My apologies if you found this too off-topic ...

Got my rear flamed off, my apologies, sending to the sunmangers listwas a bad decision. Wont happen again.Bill-- Bill Bradford * KD5LQR mrbill@mrbill.net Austin, TXSU BEFORE POSTING please READ the FAQ located atN ftp://ftp.cs.toronto.edu/pub/jdd/sun-managers/faq. and the list ...

Hi!My original post:>Our current print server is a SunOS 4.1.3_U machine.>>All it's clients are Sol 2.x. I'd like to move the print server to a >Solaris 2.5.1 machine.>>I know how to setup printing. What I need to know is *how to disable* the SunOS>machine as the print ...

Hello Managers ! Thanks to all of you for your valuable time.Thanks toSean WardBismark EspinozaJuergen RothenangerEarnest JimThomas Lesterfor suggesting me to replace the disk.regards.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Question:Hello Managers !This is the second time iam facing disk ...

------------------------------------------------------------------------Original Posting--Hello admins,Ok, just as a preface, I have been a Unix admin for 6 years and have dealt with lotsof Sun and Hp-ux. Now I have a newbie problem ... I can't get my E450 to boot from thecdrom! I checked ...

('binary' encoding is not supported, stored as-is)Thanks to "Pierre Demuynck" <Pierre.Demuynck@orange.be> for pointing that I missed to create a new filesystem.newfs -N only display the values given by newfs.and for all people whose help are on the way.Regards,AdoSU BEFORE ...

Most people correctly pointed out that there is a web server running onthis machine (Apache in this case). Moreover, the problem stems fromthat fact that unless told otherwise Apache will look in every directoryin the /path/to/htdocs for a .htaccess file. Since I do use wildcardsin my ...

 Sun Managers,Thank You for your responses.Thanks to everyone who responded and tothose whose reply has not yet reached me.The general opinion was that it is possible to do a probe-scsi only aftersetting the autoboot flag to false and then doing a reset-allHowever one of the replies also ...

The orginal question can be found below. I finally did find a related bug report that gavea suggested patch.Bugs:4034454 multihomed NIS+ client specifies wrong interface                 in callback4034454 ...

Hello,I ooze gratitude, humbly. This was the original:> We are assuming that our computers (suns, all, mixed solaris 1.1.x and 2.x)> will set their clocks back as "normal," unaware of the political change. Is> this correct? How can I prevent this from happening? These are ...

Thanks to Michael Neef for suggesting the following...there are patches for CDE-1.0.2 (patch-id 103846-07) and CDE-1.2 (patch-id 105160-06) which should help.So far the problem is fixed. Thanks again Michael...Original Question>>>> Hi Everyone,> > One of our machines has ...

My question was: is it possible to do RADIUS authentication with freesoftware. The answer was a resounding yes.. Here are two sites:> Livingston http://www.livingston.com/Forms/one-click-dnload.html> Merit http://www.merit.edu/radius/We use the RADIUS package from Livingston to serve ...

Thanks to all who gave quick responses.- Query:What is the standard procedure for adding a qfe card to an Ultra2 when ago> boot -rdoes not detect the card?I am working on the 10/97 release of 2.6/SPARC- Returns:>From yuhc@163bj.com Mon Oct 18 23:50:32 1999Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1999 11:14:08 ...

 Thanks a lot ...        The Problem was in the nsswitch.conf file .The entry was hosts dnsfile . I changed it to hosts fileThanks to Rahul Abhay SU BEFORE POSTING please READ the FAQ located atN ...

Thanks to Pete Gilbert and David Robillard for their quick replies.In order to disable the keyboard power switch there are a couple of thingsthat can be done. The simplest, which I feel rather stupid for overlooking,is to put the key in the "lock" position. The other thing that can ...

I had a user report that ping was segfaulting when used on anything inthe 3.x.x.x network. I asked here if anyone knew any obvious reason whythat should be (for example if 3.x.x.x were a 'special' address of anykind).Fortunately quite a few people did, although still more people weregenerous ...

Hi managers,My original question was how to store "route" configuration permanently,both in Solaris and in SunOS.Well, thanks to everyone who responded. There proved to be several ways ofdoing this: In Solaris the "route add ....." command can be added as astartup script ...

Content-MD5: 6Tta93BGYA/tIlQerrR3xw==Precedence: bulkThere were a number of solutions. The following is the solution first used and working:I usually do this in a script:#------------------------------------------------------------------------------#!/bin/shcd /pathufsrestore rf ufsdumpfile ...

My original question is at the foot of the mail.Lots of good replies on this (too numerous to thank everyone individually - butThanks to you all anyway), with the generalconsensus being that if you can afford to (or cannot afford not to) then go fordual SCSI adapters for root disk mirroring.The ...

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Many Thanks to:Alejandro Lopez-Valencia <alejolo@sue.ideam.gov.co>James Kwong <kwong@solar.acast.nova.edu>Francis Liu <fxl@pulse.itd.uts.edu.au>Leif Hedstrom <leif@netscape.com>Original Post:We have an Ultra Enterprise 3000 which is runningSUNWipop (Pop-3), xtacacs, DNS ...

Hi,   Thanks to all who replied. It turns out that there are year 2000 issues with this version of vxfs, so I upgraded it. Patch 108019 will actually take you up to version 3.2.6.    Patch 105181-16 was also applied, as searching on Sunsolve implied this patch ...

Hello all,    I didn't really get much on this, but I'll summarize what I did anyway.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~    The original Q:Hello all,    I posted this to the wu-ftp mailing list, but didn't get much at allthere, thought this ...

Last week I asked (in part):>So far, so good. However, when the actual package's files are >installed,>and 'pkgadd' attempts to change their ownerships per the 'pkgmap'>specifications, the chown's/chgrp's fail with streams of "no such user">error messages, ...

Many thanks to Casper Dik for the very quick and correct response!My post and Caspers' reply:>>Greetings,>>>>I have upgraded to Solaris 2.4 and now can not read any tapes created>>under 2.3. I am using an HP 35480A 4mm DAT drive and am receive>>the following ...

Thanks to all who replied to my MailThanks should go toMatthew R. BriggsGreg OnuferLeonid S. KnyshovSullivan, JohnRobert AlexanderStout, LoganJoshua GouldMark DrummondMark C OlsonWhat I conculded from the replies I got, is that it is not a good ideato put a server on an IDE machine since the ...

Thanks,Daniel Kluge <danielk@tibco.com>,thielen@irus.rri.uwo.ca (Susan Thielen),Tawanda Queen <trq96@acs.org>Seth Rothenberg <SROTHENB@montefiore.orgTom E Smith <tesmit1@tessa.monsanto.com>And to any and everyone who contributed to the solution. I didn'texpect such a ...

Sorry for the delay, but I had to try some suggestionsand I have also other things to do :)Thanks to all who sent answers and especially toMike Fisher and Morgan Sarges. They suggestedZircon which worked great. A hint is that you needX11R6 ...

Many thanks to James Musso for suggesting the permissions on /tmp may be<p>wrong; they were. <p>-adam<p>

Thanks for the answer from:Jim HarmonRodney C. MarableDerek_SchatzJon AndersonBismark Espinozagobbers@faw.uni-ulm.deEarnest, Jim - LAS/B1083Answer:It's turn out that the SS10 doesn't like the attached CD-ROM and it justshowed the problem everytime I booted up. I disconnect the CD-ROM ...