Some more information:According to some people (and I might have missed some respondents here):  Charles Nguyen <ctn@umn.edu>  Nick Murray <nmurray@csd.abdn.ac.uk>  Leif Neve <neve@ceb.nlm.nih.gov>You can get relief from this problem by cleaning ...

At this point, there is not many sites devotted to Solaris 2.6 on x86. Hopefully, I found a working package of gcc for 2.6 x86 on:ftp://x86.cs.duke.edu/pub/solaris-x86/2.6I hav'nt found any in the rest of suggested links. But, I think this is only a question of time.Thank for every one who ...

:The quandary:::This is my first foray into the Solaris world so I hope that this is not:common knowledge or in the FAQ (I didn't find it in my search).::I have 2 printers here that I would like to get working. They are both:ordinary PostScript printers that worked just fine on the ...

The email problem is resolved. Our ISP has screwed up our MX entryon DNS server. The hostname on syslog file was a misled message because that hostnamecan be resolved.Thanks for all the help, and I apologize for bounced email if you received.> Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 09:03:37 -0700 ...

Thanks to the following for their immediate response:A.Guru Prasad <z90311@hpadmin1.reliastar.com>Matthew Stier <Matthew.Stier@tddny.fujitsu.com>Mark Sherman <marksh@funb.com>Kruse, Jason K. <jason.kruse@teldta.com>*Casper Dik <casper@holland.Sun.COM>Craig Mertens ...

Thanks to (in order of appearance):        Changa Anderson        Ric Anderson        Dan Brown        Valor ChristiansenAlthough I did ...

Hello SysAdmins:One of my engineers is looking for some programming that will allow him to produce output in a window on his local systemand at the same time be feeding the same window output to aremote system, so that two engineers can look at the same dataat the same time.We are currently ...

Thanks to:sweh@mpn.comspr@banjo.myxa.com (whose original answer I have misplaced)oyang@phoebe.fcit.monash.edu.aucmconwa@sandia.govand quite a few others whose mail I managed to delete in a fit of insanity :)My original question ...

First of all thanks to the people for such quick replies..My original question was:>I've got 2 disks and want to mirror them. I'd like to do softwaremirroring.>Is there a built in program/utility in Solaris2.6 that I can use tosoftware>mirror them? Or any other 3rd party programs ...

While I received many good examples of Sun Servers connecting with Ciscoand other switches, none were exactly verifying that a Cisco Cat 4000connected with an E250 running Solaris 2.6. I did find a post on deja.comin Oct. 1999 where someone couldn't connect using 2.6. Also, this issue isnot ...

Hi All again,        In response to my request for paging software packages recommendation,I recieved a total of 21 responses. Thank you all for taking the time torespond. Some of you are kind enough to offer me personal help if I needit while ...

Hi all,My question was:  I have the problem, to detect a user, when he is running a special client,  for example ftp. It is not possible for me to change the programs or to  use something like a wrapper for the client. So i need something  like snoop. But ...

Wow...this list has so much info.Damm !!! why didn't ask this question earlier ?anyway I got many responses to my querry and what I was thinking is impossibleturned out to be easily possible.To all those who wanted to know if it is possible and how to do it, the answeris YES..it is ...

Many thanks to:        Casper Dik <casper@holland.Sun.COM>        manderso@neon.mitretek.org (Mark S. Anderson)Both pointed out the 40 (hex) == 64 (decimal) and Casper sent me anexcerpt from the Solaris FAQ ...

Sorry for taking so long to summarize. Thanks to all who had so much to offer on this matter!!!Original question:I just got a thing in the mail for upgrading to solaris 2.6 ....has anyone out there already installed 2.6 and can you tell me if it is worth upgrading to right now?Replies in no ...

Original Question:        I know sunview has a dbxtool program, but I was wondering if there's a dbxtool for openwindows. And where can I locate it? For SunOS 4.1.3 and Solaris 2.5.(1).Answers:        For ...

I have three different solutions:1. Restrict su to group executable (take away other executable privilege) and   add the authorized users to the group.2. Use sudo3. Declare the privileged users in the wheel group [I think it only works on   SunOS 4.1.x]I am going ...

* Thanks to James Kwong <kwong@solar.acast.nova.edu> and           Bill Hewitt (cst)<bill@mail.cogsci.ed.ac.uk>      who pointed out that it works fine under solstice backup 5.5.1 that comes as part ...

Most people suggested using ntp (www.ntp.org).Others suggested changing the time that rdate is runto suit the people using 'make'. Or to increase thefrequency of the rdates.In another response, the version of 'make' was suggested as the "problem". Newer versions of GNU make may ...

Figured this one out myself this time. For trying to help, thanks to:        David Evans <daevans@us.Oracle.com>        Douglas Lee ...

(Sorry for sending this email twice, forgot to put Summary on the Subject line  on last email... sorry again)Summary: printing problem w/ stclp0 driverHi Sun managers,Thanks to Alan Hill and Wis Macomson comment and suggestion on my question.I finally figure out the answer myself. ...

Interesting results.To recap: I was wondering if moving all connections to NFS V3/TCP wouldreally give as big as a performance boost as everyone seems to claim.On LAN connections, which are very reliable and have very little errorrates, you might want to stick with NFS V2/V3 (both UDP based). ...

Ok, I asked for it and I received plenty of it. I managed to read the docfiles, the release notes, and the Sendmail FAQ. However, I overlooked theREADME in the primary directory. The answer was there loud and clear:chmod go-w / /etc /etc/mail /usr /var /var/spool /var/spool/mqueuechown root ...

Original question:      Hi, i established quotas in /var/mail for my users.      quota -v works fine, when the user past the hard limit      appears EXPIRED,      and the user ...

Thanks to all who replied, too many to mention. The following from:Casper@holland.sun.com>rich@loopexpert.comOriginal Question:>> >> Solaris 2.4>> >> I often see a reference to ranlib, including the package I'm trying to>> make. What is and where can get this ...

Original Post:What am I missing? I am trying to print from a Sun Ultra Enterprise II(Solaris 2.5.1) to a Linux machine (RedHat 5.2) with a locally attachedprinter.- The printer is functioning and I can submit jobs to it from the Linux box.- The Sun box and Linux box can ping each other.- I ...

Thanks for every one responded to my Email .. This is definitely thebest mailing list on the web ..The suggestions went to:1 - iPlanet Calendar (Netscape- Correct me if I'm wrong)( http://www.iplanet.com/products/infrastructure/messaging/ics/ )12 vote2 - Meetingmaker ( ...

The answer is yes. Thanks to the followinig ppl who took time to reply.From: Roy Culley <tgdcuro1@gd2.swissptt.ch>From: Mike Blandford <mikey@nmsu.edu>From: Ray Trzaska <rtrzaska@uk.mdis.com>From: Mariel Feder <unix.support@central.meralco.com.ph>From: Caleb Warner ...

Thanks to Ariane, Eric, and ToddI choose Ariane solution simply because i do not have to change anyhin,the info is already available in /var/adm/messages.Thanks to everyone who replied.Orig QuestionI have SunOS 4.1.4, SunOS 4.1.3 and SunOS 4.1.3_U1 machines.How do i keep track of who is using ...

Hellomy original posting:> > I would like to increment the capacity of the memory of my xterms> > with the bar on the side of the xterm, I would like to "see more> of what I did before "> On the cmdtool with capacity is really huge, but much more limited on the ...

hi,couple of days ago, i posted a mail asking about runnig gated inSolaris 8 machine, purpose is to run OSPF routing protocol inSun machine. gated ver3.6 for public is not ported to SOlarisyet. go a few reply. basically te bottom line is that gated-public ver3.6is not ported, can't compile and ...

** Original Q:As usual, the folks I work with come up with interesting questions.We have several products that are to be released soon, and they're unhappy that I want to stop the old practice of having a user account dedicated to the support of the producct that people can log into, read ...

The question:>Has anyone enountered power/cooling modules blowing up on Enterprise>series machines? We've now had eight go, mostly on an E4000 and, more>recently on an E3000. There's no smoke, just a big bang and some>internal fuse apparently goes.>>I should add that these ...

my original post was :> hi sun gurus,> I have a sun E450 running solaris 2.6> this machine is not loggig any messages in /var/log/syslog.> i tried putting lines such as> mail.debug /var/log/syslog> mail.* /var/log/syslog> and restarted syslogd ...

Enough people (over 20!) asked for a summary that I felt it necessary toreply.Unfortunatly, nobody sent me any info. Only requests for a summary.Oh well.-ToM-----------------------------------------------------Thomas Adams++Part-time UNIX hacker, full time corporate ...

Thanks to:        John Bradley <john.bradley@sr5.chinalake.navy.mil>        Thomas Frank <thomas.frank@shraero.shraero.co.at>The upshot is that 4.2.6 client s/w will work with a 4.2.2 server.This seems ...

Thanks James Ranks, Alex Stephney, Simon Dray and Thomas Carter.I have tried:        - ipcs -a        - fresh reinstalled        - modify /etc/system fileBut it still doesn't ...

Problem:        rsh (on 2.6) seems to work only every        third time. It does not seem to matter        whether the remote machine is the ...

Original Posting:> > Can anyone give me some tips, or point me to locations where> I can learn about backing up clearcase. I've been given the> task of doing this and it appears to be a bit tricky.Thanks to:Paul Kanz <paul@icx.com>Robert Jennings ...

Thanks to the over 50 people who responded (list much too long to writehere). Thankfully, no flames. :)Most people who responded suggested turning on POP3 and/or IMAP on theserver, then using any of the standard utilities (fetchmail, netscape,etc) to collect mail from the server, with the ...

Hi,I recieved a lot of responses, the general outlook on this question is thatmirroring is better than RAID5 for databases. It is also possible to move from RAID5 to mirroring using veritas as long asenuf disk space is avbl.I am attaching the various responses below.Thanx to ...

Hi AllMany thanks to those of you who responded;        Melanie Dymond Harper <mel@vanyel.herald.co.uk>        Casper Dik <casper@holland.Sun.COM>        Torsten ...

Only one reply to this from David Blaine who pointed out that the remote server side of finger is initiated by inetd. This is not the problem in my case as I am running the command finger [username] on the local server. In addition more than 90% of my users do return the correct information. ...

Thanks to Ron Carver, Tim Carlson and Gregory M Polanski for theirresponses. I succeeded to configure the network for the SS20 booted fromCD (indeed the first part of the OS install performs this task, as Ilater found out). Then I saved all data to another machine. It wasnecessary, because the ...

Thanks to Ron Carver, Tim Carlson and Gregory M Polanski for theirresponses. I succeeded to configure the network for the SS20 booted fromCD (indeed the first part of the OS install performs this task, as Ilater found out). Then I saved all data to another machine. It wasnecessary, because the ...

I got very quick and vast solution. thank everyone .Almost all response point to the command :$ /usr/openwin/bin/kbd_mode -aor$ /usr/openwin/bin/kbd_mode -a > /dev/consolethis will put the console back into ASCII mode. and another solution is remote login to this mechine , load openwin, ...

PROBLEM:--------   Scenario = Sun Sparc 4m with Solaris 2.5.1   Problem: When the machine start it shows ...

This is truly a wonderful list. Thanks to the following folks forresponding so quickly:"Brian T. Wightman" <wightman@sol.acs.uwosh.edu>Erin Copeland <erin@sam.math.ethz.ch>Phil Poole <poole@ncifcrf.gov>Rasana Atreya <Rasana.Atreya@library.ucsf.edu>scott ...

Welp, It seems like the overwhelming response was to use StarOffice, whichI'd rather not use. All I need is a document viewer, and not all theextra applications that StarOffice offers. But thanks for thesuggestions... Other responses included catdoc, and wv (wordview)... There are too many ...

Thankyou all for your response. The procedure seems tobe quite straightforward. And since I have only ufs itmakes this task even simpler. As many pointed out Ijust need to install the SRM on machine B and pluginthe A1000. Do a reconfiguration boot. Fsck thepartitions made on machine A and mount ...