Many thanks to Andy, Roger and Matthew for their replies. For the most      part there are no patches required for the machines I have, all are Y2K      compliant. At least I don't have to fool ...

Hello, my question was : I have a Sun ultra 60 with solaris 2.7 connected to the network withMacintosh and PC computers.>From the pc with telnet I can work on the sun machine.Now I don't have enough space on the sun.I would like to use space from the PC. I want to install a file on the ...

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Hello Managers, i got only one reply to my problem. And it seems that it is the onlypractical solution, which is more flexlible as others.The way as it is described in Legato documentation doesn't work, because"hpflip" doesn't support HP C1113J drives (important is ...

Thanks to all who replied.I have learned that SIMMS for Sparc Station 2 are on the market (though some distributors swapped them from their catalogues). Some distributors arewww.memoryx.com ...

Many thanks to everyone who replied, particularly William Kuderka who sent me an example of a finish script to check the syntax. My original post was:I've set up a jumpstart server to automate the build of our sun boxes. During the installation process a finish script is supposed to run. The ...

> After years of pursuasion I've managed to get people to start to use ACLs to> control access to resources on Solaris.> > The trouble is they now ask questions about ACLs for which I have no> answers. The only user level tutorial I've come across is > ...

Many thanks to Casper Dik who sent the following:The flashprom upgrades are also distributed as patches.  When installing a 300MHz CPU module you must also make sure that your motherboard supports it (I don't think all revisions of the system board do; you need ASICs that support the ...

Content-Md5: pvdyuQf3fzGjNTVPSErc1A==Precedence: bulkThe original question:> Sun Managers, our CIS application runs on a HP3000.> To access it from our Suns we need an > application on the Suns that will > emulate an HP3000 terminal in block mode.> > Do you know of a package ...

Well, it goes to show that if one doesn't specify the problemaccurately,the results aren't quite what one expects. So, the burden is mine tobe more accurate.Thanks to all, but:a. I know what DHCP means and is.b. I know what DNS is.What I am looking for is a means by which my NIS+ ...

Well, I just found the online tour of the Ultra 5 I was looking for and itappears that there is no room for a second internal drive. That's to bad, nowI'm 'forced' to go with an Ultra 10. ;-)JohnnyJohnny Hall wrote:> Well, I can't find this in the Ultra 5 white paper and I can't find ...

Well, I actually found the solution before the list did this time. Witha little packet sniffing with snoop and a PC sniffer too I was able tosee that the client was still trying to address my license serverwith the simple non-fully qualified DNS name (ie. 'sunny') eventhough I had explicitly ...

Dear all,Question: Is it possible to set telnet port to be default vt100?Answer: No one seems to have the solution. I have read one RFC 854 whichtalks about telnetstructure. Telnet by default negoitates for options between terminals. Assuch, it is unlikely for theterminals or ports to set ...

The question was about getting Macs, Unixen, and NT machines to usethe same printers. The printers exist on an Mac/EtherTalk networkand the Unix systems use CAP. What did I need to do to get some newNT systems to print properly?This answer was the best. Most of the other replies missed the ...

O.K. Let me restate this..There is a part number for a second internal drive for the Ultra 5. It comes witha mounting bracket and you will loose the floppy as that is where is mounts. Sothis particular user needs both the floppy and cdrom so removing one or the otheris not an option. Again, ...

The answer is simpleSince, I complied tcpwrapper in /usr/local/tcp_wrapper-7.6 directory. It will created a file "tcpd" in that directory. you SHOULD LEAVE IT THERE rather than move "tcpd" file to other places. So the inetd.conf shoul be modified as below:from ftp ...

Original question:> Greetings.> > I've got an Ultra2 with Solaris7 that I just did an upgrade to Solaris> Hardware 5/99. After the upgrade, I get a message at boot > about zs:maxzs> not> set right and not allocating resources to "chip 2". A > follow-on ...

Hi,Thanx to Ronald Loftin <reloftin@syr.edu> &          Cathy Smith<csmith@dalsemi.com> for their advise.The problem seems to be with Patch Upgradation.We are in the process of doing it. With regards,Sesh~~From serao@cvimail.cv.com ...

AGAIN this list has come through....wish it was this easy to get info fromother sources. Whitin a few minutes of my original post I got an answer. Allthe answers so far have provided me with an alternative based on PUBLIC DOMAINor a commercial product. I have not tried either yet, but I will ...

Question:>Does anyone know of a good tool to help keep track of system>configuration (i.e software installed,, hardware installed,).>Sun's CST tool looked to be a good choice except it does'nt work with >Solaris > 6. Also, I don't really need all the bells and whistle's it ...

Hi Managers,This a great list. Special Thank to Ramnish.Singh [Ramnish_Singh@harvardpilgrim.org]who is willing to mail his study notes to me.Also Thanks to all who replied:ragnar [ragnar@SolarisCentral.org]amjadz [amjadz@sts.com.jo]dvella [dvella@melitacable.com]kowalke ...

Original query :-***************************************************************************I am looking for NEWER versions of the FSF compilers and tools thanI currently have installed suitable for Suns PKGADD.At present I have gcc, g++ and libg++ (all 2.6.0), gdb(4.13), perl(4.036)and ...

The overall answer I received was that I am only limited by thenumber of SBus slots on my host.Thanks to the following people for their quick responses:        brisco_k@adm-srv.sat.mot.com (Kris Briscoe)        Karl ...

Thanks to Francis Liu, Bismark Espinoza for trying on this problem.I had called Sun Support.The problem is fixed by Commenting out the line OI in the sendmail.cffile. Stop & restart sendmail.Orig QuestionI had SunOS 4.1.3 on a client machineA.I upgraded the OS to SunOS 4.1.4 on machineA.In ...

(Will try to make this short, as it's quite OT. Details again availablefrom http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~bern/Handheld/ .)Original request: What electronic gadget to use to carry passwordsaround, hopefully upgrade my calendar to (from OpenWin cmsd), and acouple more things if ...

Thanks to all who responded:foster@bial1.ucsd.eduBenjamin Cline <benji@hnt.com>"MJGARCIA.US.ORACLE.COM" <MJGARCIA@us.oracle.com> Michael Hill <Hill.Michael@tci.com>Rick Brashear <rickb@psa.pencom.com>reineman1@llnl.govRaymond Rodebaugh ...

Hi,First of all, thanks from all of your prompt responses.My Sun has Solaris 2.5.1 and the conclusion follows:1. Solaris 2.5.1 and lower has a limit of 2GB file size on O.S.2. This limit is implied on almost Unix O.S., excepted SGI xfs and Solaris2.6 (not beta), as far as I know. Lunix, AIX, ...

Hello Sun-Managers,   It turns out the problem was coming from a improper configuration for the DNS. I made the proper changes in the /etc/resolv.conf and everything is working fine.Thanks to the following for there ...

Thank you to the helpful many that swiftly responded, soo many toacknowledge.Based on the responses I gathered, a majority of you suggested that thedevice names for a QFE card should be qfe1-4 and not hme1-4. Ourinstallation show the 4 ports as hme1-4, but we just could not plumb hme1(have'nt ...

Hello all.. I fixed my Disk Suite problem.. I has 90% of the fight won, but I needed tto a "metaclean d0" thenmetainit d0 -r c1t0d0s7 c1t1d0s7 c1t2d0s7 c2t0d0s7 c2t1d0s7 c2t2d0s7 c3t0d0s7 c3t1d0s7 c3t2d0s7 -k -i 32b To get it all set back up (the -k option is the key) then ...

Thanks to all for the many responses! I haven't had a chance to getthru all of them yet, but with no further delay:My original question:-----------------------------------------------------------------------I know this is probablly not the best case to ask this question but I'mnot sure where ...

I received several great responses. The idea of doing this via the physicalcable was blown out of the water, but two alternate solutions were presentedand I was provided another good resource.1. Kbd command in coordination with the /etc/default/kbd file.2. Use the "secure lock" ON ...

After checking with somone who is a little longer in the tooth than I, Ihave found that this is a known problem ("I think I read about thatsomewhere") and the only fix is a reboot. I have checked with the bossand she has approved said reboot. Thanks to all who wanted to reply ...

Dear All,Thank you for the huge response. I received replies from the following people:Casper Dik <casper@holland.Sun.COM>"Luc I. Suryo" <luc@Patriots.NET>Steve Cole <coles@kos.net>"Hsu, Dale" <hsud@VKM.COM>Hans Schaechl ...

Hi again ....Thanks to all who responded, I just plugged the Fiber Cables out from theFC-AL SBUS card GBIC's to A0 configured the A5000 as a single loop andbooted sol2.6 CD to install; it went OK, configuring devices it saw theFC-AL controller and disks, continued as a regular Solaris install ...

Well, it turned out that my question about finding a "low-powered DC intel-based machine" elicited a common response of "you mean a laptop?"Yeah, I guess I did from the posted question. We've since drasticallychanged and refined what we need and we're going with an Ultra ...

After my first post about the summary of the 'CE' error , I lastreceiving advices from anywhere . thanks to you all for your kindness .likun@asiainfo.comand here is their advices:-------------It looks like one of your SIMMs is crapping out. I'd go ahead and pullit out ASAP, as any process ...

A while back I posted an note about a hung console. All of the suggestions were to do an rlogin, su to root and type:/usr/openwin/bin/kbd_mode -a >/dev/consoleThis works for the case where the keyboard echos "garbage characters".I had a similar problem today except that I was ...

Thanks to all who responded to my question. It really helpedI have clearer view on things now. It looks like I was really chasingghosts. ;)Special thanks to Caspar Dik.Here are the links I've got. The original message is ...

> The future of system adminstration?>> http://www.cs.unm.edu/~dlchao/flake/doom/You can download it and try it out for yourselves...please accept my apologyin advance for abusing the mailing list...Thanks Ash,Kelvin___________________________________Kelvin ...

Thanks for the all the input. It seems that the system variable "npty" will increase the number of BSD pty's. I was only setting "pt_cnt" in the/etc/system file.        Michael ...

Hello,Thanks a lot to Nate Itkin Nate-Itkin@ptdcs2.intel.com for the help.Here goes his answer:Replace other DLT entries with the following:"DEC TZ89", "DEC DLT", "DLT",DLT = 1,0x36,0,0x8639,4,0x82,0x83,0x84,0x85,3;More info: ...

Original problem below. Thanks to those who responded, but nothing sofar. One point is that I spoke to an engineer for our ecommerce package(BroadVision), and he said these CLOSE_WAITs are normal, that the NSAPImodule for Netscape keeps the connections on the brink of closing in caseit needs ...

Original quaetion:You've seen it. You love it. Please, please, some kind soul help metroubleshoot this one. I have three systems. Two Dec Alpha'srunning Dec Unix 3.2d and one Sparc 20 running Solaris 2.5. One of the Alpha's an NFS server. The other Alpha is a client. The Sparc 20 ...

Hi all,Thanks to shams, Brent Callaghan, Dan Penrod and the rest who replied.WebNFS is quite a new thing from what i see. Currently, among the two popular browser (MS, Netscape), neither one of them can support WebNFS. Only the Sun HotJava browser support it untill Netscape Navogator 5 is ...

Alas, I was not linking kstat: cc ... -l kstatThanks to all (you know who you are)!-Mark_________________________________________________________________________Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.Share information about yourself, create your own public ...

ORIGINAL NOTE:> Could someone please tell me the *basic* differences between packet sniffers> like snoop and etherfind, and any of the following network analyzers or> management software?> HP Openview, Sunnet Manager, SMS, Cabletron Spectrum System, Make System's> WinMIND and ...

Thanks to all those who responded to my query. We have it working now.The problems turned out to be with the Tagged Command Queueing.We tried setting the MAX_THROTTLE to 16, but the errors continued.Turning Tagged Command Queueing off resolved the problem.The specific fix was to create ...

Here's the recap of the original problem...>On one of our machines, a user has managed to convince the system>that he shouldn't have any more processes...>>Console has this pop up....>>unix: out of per-user processes for uid 21072>>ps reveals that he has exactly one ...

Managers:Attached please find various scripts and solutions for the date conversionquestion I asked couple weeks ago..Thanks to:"Mark B. Hamby" <mhamby@logicon.com>scowles@apollo.incyte.com (S. Cowles)cgo@dsi.elis.fr (Cyril GODON)-- Tom Trainor Email: ...