Strange msgs from RPC...

4792 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:20:00
Hi there,As usual the "group" has come through.The problem turned out to be a wire which needed to re-seated. Weswapped wires at both ends on both interfaces and the problem wentaway.My thanks to those who replied (lots of thanks), specifically:Casper Dik ...

sendmail authdes_refresh message in syslog

4199 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:20:00
Greeting,I received two replies, one from Eirh-Yu Hsie and other from Demian Hanks.Both suggest me using keylogin -r to get a new key.I follow their advice, and it works fine. Here is the summary:SRDB ID: 18586SYNOPSIS: sendmail authdes_refresh: keyserv(1m) is unable to encrypt session ...

SCSI error information

4107 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:20:00
The original question:****************************************************************************Anyone have an what the following console message means?:WARNING: /iommu@f,e0000000/sbus@f,e0001000/espdma@f,400000/esp@f,800000 (esp0):        SCSI bus ...

2 : Re CDE Login Bitmap Spelling Mistake

1200 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:20:00
All right - I know I spelt voila wrong - I admit it - I'm having a very bad day.Thank you for those people who have e-mailed me with the correct spelling.I have updated the US dictionary on my NT workstation so that It will be spelled correctly.Simon.Millard@barclays.co.ukAddress ...

[summary] cannot use SCSI ID > 7 for Wide Differential disks on Sparc2

4218 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:20:00
I asked the list a question that I use Wide Differential disks andWide Differential controller, yet I can not use SCSI IDs over 7. Kulp, Scott provided an answer which I think is correct. 501-1902 does not support address over 7, 370-1703 and 370-1704 do.My adaptor is 501-1902. I also checked ...

DNS Files

2632 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:20:00
Hi there, The following is the summary of my question. Thanks Benjamin R. Cline (benji@hnt.com)       R A Lichtensteiger (rali@meitca.com -or- rali@world.std.com)Original Question:How can I deleted entries/records of a host in DNS data files for SunOS ...

"c2secure" NIS under Solaris

1235 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:20:00
I got one answer from Ginny Bolyard <vbolyard@lucent.com>(thanks Ginny) stating this could be done and how to set upthe NIS server.However, I already knew how to do it on the server side. I wantedto know if Solaris has support on the client side for pwdauth,which it apparently doesn't.ps ...

Limiting connections to Unix hosts

5141 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:20:00
I raised two points; 1) Can I limit connections to my server from teh foul NT box?A. Yes, use a firewall process (IPChains etc...) This is over kill for myneeds and more admin time that I wanted to devote to this. In the end I havepushed for the Nt server to be sorted out (after all it's my ...

wtmpx rotater

39852 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:20:00
Original Question:> From marius@tequila.randomc.com Tue Sep 9 01:15:33 1997> > Has anyone got a utility that rotates the utmp, utmpx, wtmp, wtmpx files > correctly ( without messing up the 'w', 'finger', 'who' commands ) ? If you > do, I'd appreciate a copy of it if at ...

[interm?] Setting default paths on Solaris 2.6

4436 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:20:00
Man, that was quick. Thanks.Two original questions:At 1:52 PM -0500 9/10/98, Petro wrote:>I've been looking for the answer to this one for quite a while, and now>that I am officially a Unix Admin, I kinda need to know:>>Where does Solaris set it's _default_ paths? It isn't in ...

Update Summary: Limiting connections to Unix hosts

7522 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:20:00
For ASP in apache take a look at http://www.nodeworks.com/asp/index.htmlThanks to: Hisham Al Saad [ahisham@batelco.com.bh]-----Original Message-----From: Austin, Annie [mailto:Austin.Annie@mtvne.com]Sent: 03 October 2000 12:54To: 'sun-managers@codeprof.ececs.uc.edu'Subject: Summary: Limiting ...

capturing syslog events

2293 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:20:00
Original message:I need a (hopefully simple and easy) way of triggering processes whencertain messages are written by syslogd in /var/adm/messages.Please note that I am NOT asking to print messages to a different file;what I want is to run a process (or to pass the messages to an alreadyrunning ...

Package building, installing, and libF77.so.2

3954 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:20:00
The answer is that the only language libraries bundled into Solaris 2.5 are c and c++. Thus, the product is responsible for installing any dynamic libraries it needs. The licensing of the SPARCworks product includes permission to redistribute, amoung other things, the dynamic library ...

[summary] where to find shelf for E5000/E5500

908 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:20:00
About one month ago, I asked where to find shelf whichcan put in the cabinet for E5000/E5500.I did not get any from the list but I did my own researchand trial. I ordered "fixed shelf" from Shark Racks for$200.00 and $10.82 shipping. It fits in E5000/E5500 cabinetnicely. I am ...

Problem copying large files.

3276 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:20:00
First off I would like to thank everyone for there suggestions.And the award goes to Changa Anderson and Mark Luntzel who both gave thefollowing solution ...VXFS large file support is enabled during the mkfs process. You can checkyourvxfs filesystems by doing the following:for name in `grep ...

gcc can't find libg++

6369 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:20:00
Thanks very much to the following people, Rachel Polanskis (who went to a lot of trouble to send me a copy of her libg++ package although unfortunately it didn't work for me)Duane GranBevan BrounDavid EvansCarolo CosoloBryan BlackburnPeter WallisThomas EriksonPhil EdwardsPeter DeQuoyEric ...

getcwd() problem

4532 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:20:00
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----I am not sure I am confident in having it `figured out', but heregoes.Original problem was as follows: programs would fail in automounted(namely /home) directories with the epithet, `Can't get currentworking directory.' Indeed, a two line test program that ...

Error "Password does not decrypt secret key"

1504 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:20:00
Thanks all for responding to my question so fast.Question: I have a strange message when logging in NIS+ domain: "password does not decrypt unix.1003@mydomain.com" but it still log the user in.> Does it have anything to do with rootkey ?> It happens to some users and on ...

Thermal warning. System shutdown.

511 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:20:00
Hi!My original problem was that one of the five Ultra machines of sameconfiguration as well as under same environmental condition wasshutting down giving the following error message in/var/adm/messages fileThermal warning Detected. system going down on signal 15.Lot of people has responded to ...

apology

1683 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:20:00
I can't believe I have done this again. Years of Sun Managersparticipation with no goofs and now, in about a month's time, Ihave used reply all twice. I apologize.--Brooke King direct: +1.415.901.2207 fax: +1.501.423.9037brooke.king@yipes.comYipes Communications114 Sansome Street, ...

Jumpstart question

3150 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:20:00
Sorry this took so long. Quite hectic here. Anyone want a job? ;)My original message was...< From: Greg Spiegelberg <greg@zeus.netset.com>< Subject: Jumpstart question< To: sun-managers@ra.mcs.anl.gov (sun admins)< Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 14:59:17 -0400 (EDT)< < I have ...

36Gb drives and enterprise 2

7127 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:20:00
Hi sun-managers,I had 5 responses to this inquiry (the original message is below). Nobodyhad a problem with disks as such, although a couple raised performance as an issue: using RAIDdisk rather than big disks. In this instance, size was what counted not performance, althoughYMMV.The comment ...

calendar manager reporting rpc error

1284 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:20:00
himy original question concerned a problem with calendar manager.the symptoms of the problem were:1. rpc error message, "Remote system error" generated while viewing   the calendar2. calendar manager does not display all data.the platform is sun os 4.1.4 running ...

Ethernet host on Token ring network

4249 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:20:00
Thank you very much for all the answers.The original question was:>Hi Managers, >>I'm transfering some equipment from one factory to another,>and ran into the problem that the factory receiving the>equipment is running an Token Ring network. And the equipment>is running ...

Lost man pages

2621 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:20:00
Than and a tip of the hat go to Sue Thielen and Reggie Stuart. Mergingthere messagestogether I came up with:pkginfo | grep man // which showed only a couple of man page sections wereinstalled/cdrom/cdrom0/s0/Solaris_2.7/Product // which contains most packagespkginfo *man* // which list ...

NFS problem on Solaris x86

39936 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:20:00
Hi ,        Thanks for every one who has replied. I got 4 replies.1) From bismark@alta.Jpl.Nasa.Gov.        Force your x86 machine to do version 2 NFS.        ( This worked ...

UFSDUMP

7624 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:20:00
I got the correct answer and I know many people will be responding and Iwant to thank them too.My original question was:Sun Managers:I have an ultra 2 running Solaris 2.6. When I run "ufsdump 0uvf /dev/rmt/0mn/dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0",I get the following error and keeps on saying NEEDS ...

Router under Solaris 2.6]

3316 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:20:00
attached mail follows:Many thanks to all who have responded:Henry YiinImre KolosCasper DikRahul RoyBruce R. ZimmerPrashand RanadeNadkishor KaleAll pointed out1. to remove /etc/defaultrouter2. this will enable the Ultra 5 to act as a router5. to declare in an (extra) script or in S72inetsvc the ...

Sybase List

4888 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:20:00
Thanks to:Boss (boss@netcom.com)Mike (mike@trdlnk.com)Virginia (virginia.coffindaffer@wang.com)Ralph (RALPH@mail.co.catawba.nc.us)Bex (bcexelbi@controller.osc.state.)Eric (emm@ti.emea.eds.com)My original request:> Hi Managers!!>> I know this question has nothing to do with this list, ...

rlogin tcpd and 2.5.1 upgrade

3613 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:20:00
Content-MD5: uXLQt6376qV1DrZCIwnmmA==Precedence: bulkSun Managers,To recap: Solaris 2.5 on ultra 1 creator. Lab configured for security; tcp wrappers; central syslog files, tripwire etc.. Everything working fine until I had to upgrade to 2.5.1 for a fast wide diff interface card. After the ...

configuring ms.exchange to send mails to solaris and windows users ...

1481 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:20:00
Hi all,     Sorry for the late summary.My original question was :We have a local network of Solaris , Winnt , Win95 machines.No naming service is configured. Using MS exchange server, Wewant to exchange mails between users of Sun Solaris and Win95.Can somebody point out ...

Solaris Tunable Parameters Reference Manual

3140 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:20:00
Greetings All,     I hope everyone will forgive me for sending a summary without asking aquestion; I stumbled upon something I believe many people on the list willbe interested in. In my time as a subscriber to sun-managers, I havenoticed that there are a good number ...

Netra NFS woes

7365 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:20:00
Folks,Thanks for all the replies. It seems that using Disksuite logging may bea good thing to avoid potential fsck delays. We're a bit nervous abouttwiddling with the md.tab, and will probably leave off such changes 'tillnext vacation. With some care, the CLI can be used to administer the ...

fuser on Solaris 2.5

4425 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:20:00
Good morning Sun-managers:I posted a question to the group on automount/fuser about 10 days ago. Thanks to the following Sun-managers who unanimously pointed me to lsof, a program that lists open files; especially the author of lsof, Vic Abell, who spent days (and nights!) helping me ...

Anyone running Lotus Notes on Solaris ?

3482 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:20:00
Hi,thanks to all who replied,Original Question: Hi, We have installed Lotus Notes on Windows NT, but we have been  considering to move it to Unix. I would like to hear opinions about  people using it on Solaris.Answers:I used to run in on Solaris x86 2.5. I liked it.. and ...

Tape Drive problem

5109 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:20:00
hello Sun Managers.        Thanks to all for the quick replies. In deed it was the .rhosts problem. I was using an alias for the local machine on YYY. The .rhostswould not work correctly with aliases for the hostnames. I replaced the entry with the ...

Filesystem full errors

3504 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:20:00
Thanks to Jeff Woolsey for this one. The problem was heavy fragmentation,causing free blocks to be zero. fstyp reports this as "nbfree"My original message was: > /var/adm/messages reports one of our filesystems being full:> > 1. df -k shows 67% used> ...

snooping at unauthorized IP address.

3546 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:20:00
No real solution, but a couple of good suggestions. Sincere thanks tothe people who took the time and trouble to reply.Michael Hill <Hill.Michael@tci.com> very kindly sent me his "port-probe"utility, which worked very nicely despite M.H.'s disclaimer that theprogram isn't yet ...

Problem in RAID 5

7023 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:20:00
My thanks to all who responded . Almost everybody says that there is noproblem in filesystem but discripancy between du and df is due to Oracledatabase ( open files / logs being written ) . du and df should be seen inentirely different prospect .Thanks specially to :-Chris_Marble@hmc.edu I ...

DAT "internal target failure"

2973 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:20:00
Original post:-> > We have have an engineer on a customer site having problems> with a Sun 4G DAT drive on Solaris 2.4:-> > unix: WARNING: /iommu@f,e0000000/sbus@f,e0001000/espdma@f,400000/esp@f,800000/st@4,0 (st4):> Sep 16 13:25:20 unix: Error for command 'space' Error ...

[SUMMARY] Migration existing users to NIS+ password table

3669 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:20:00
Dear Managers,Thanks for the repsonses of the following managers:Andrew Mitchell <afm@colltech.com>Eugene Kramer <eugene@uniteq.com>Unixboy@aol.comLuc Lauwers <llauwers@ba3sun01.ti.emea.eds.com>Matthew Atkinson <m.atkinson@csl.gov.uk>Most of the responses suggest me to ...

LargeFiles support under Solaris 2.6 and SunCluster 2.2

2000 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:21:00
Thank You very much to all who responded to my question:Casper DikChan CaoTrevor PaquetteChad PriceTimothy Lindgren Konstantinos Aggelakopoulos Both Timothy and Konstantinos provided me the right solution (which isthe only one). See bellow:Here is the problem:I'm facing the following problem:I ...

login

3875 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:21:00
Hi,Question:> I'm running 4.1.3> I've problems with non desirable loggins.> My question > a) How can I modify the login shell to control logging> ( exemple: 3 max retry)> b) How can I redirect messages on succesive logging failure into a file> and not onto the console> ...

problem on rlogin

3189 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:21:00
Hello, all,Thanks to:       "Manish Oberai (EHPT)" <Manish.Oberai@ehpt.com>       David Foster <foster@dim.ucsd.edu>       Thomas Vincent - 409-974-3678 ...

Q: Shadow password doubt

2107 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:21:00
Hi Admins,I have received three responses, all are included..  Many thanks to:FrankDavid BlaineGoodson Alex Responses:If the encrypted password is put in /etc/passwd, loginwill use it, as it looks there first. However, if youever run pwconv, it will move it to /etc/shadow. There ...

le0: out of mbufs - packet dropped

3929 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:21:00
Thanks to:Joe ShamblimDaniel BeaudryOwen OfieshThe cause of the problem ended up being the TPE cable (orso it looks like, so far). I got a couple of interesting suggestions which I've appended below.thanks again,MarielaORIGINAL ...

Where the routing is setup in Solaris 2.x other than /et c/gateways and /etc/rc3.d/S...

592 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:21:00
Thanks all, especially Leonard, Roger, Studebaker, Mark R, Michael Steeves,Dan L. Ostrom, Rich Quinn, Jankowski, Richard , J.R. Lee , McIntire, John ;Clifford Thurber; David Foster; Timothy Lindgren; Renny Koshy ; PrashantRanade; Sean Quaint ; Samir Sethi ;I've found the routing setup in ...

II: Resetting EEPROM

1747 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:21:00
Original query:> > I have set the security-password= on the eeprom on a SparcStation 5.> > Now, when it boots, it expects the PROM password, but the one I set> > doesn't seem to work. Therefore, I cannot bring up the machine at all.> > Is there a way to reset the ...

login problem.

1377 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:21:00
Dear managers,Thanks toCasper DikSean QuaintMarina DanielsThe problem was what i was suspecting but hoping had not happened:somebody had hacked in and replaced the login binary file and otherbinaries as well. I was able to login and once the correct login binarywas restored from the CDROM. ...

keyboard/monitor switches

4845 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:21:00
I had asked this list for comments on keyboard/monitor switches and here'ssome of the responses (Thanks again to all of you who responded):Response 1---------------------------------------------------------------------------I use Raritan Master Console switches. I have two eight-ports daisy ...