Hi, just to summarize what the solution is...My original posting was:> Hi, has anyone figured out how to get a .signature file> to be automatically included in your outgoing email,> *if* you use Sun's mailtool? I have used the> Include -> Templates feature of mailtool, but you ...

Thanks everyone for your valuable suggestions. I decided to go with Veritas.Here're the responses:--------------------------------------------------Richard Bond <rbond@mbt.washington.edu>Hmm- Veritas is based on Gtar, and canbe restored with tar- I liked that.I like Veritas, but miss the ...

Many thanks to all those who responded so quickly, The<p>problem is my root shell is not listed in /etc/shells file.<p>Thanks,<p>Khanh Vo<p>

     I previously asked how to use the PC Accelerator card in my newlyinherited sparc.     The answer is to use SUNPC. but most people told me that the use ofthe PC accelerator card is not worth it, because it is slow. They said itwas better ...

Thanks to:    "Nikolai P. Iordanov" <npi@micromuse.com>    Torsten Huebler <torsten@mail.sachsenlb.de>the MIB files are under /var/snmp/mibGreetings,    Angel Lopez ...

Thanks to all that responded. I added an additional 32MB swap space and all is working fine now.This is the original question. >> >>I have a developer that's running the Sparcworks debugger and getting a >>"cannot fork" error followed by and "out of swap" ...

Thanks to all that helped me!!Here is the solution... http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/DIAGNOSIS.htmlI didn't used netbios name for my samba server.And I didn't use nmbd.After firewall ,I changed the conf .Then I got it .The doc is really usefull to debug your conf...Thanks to all ...

Original question:> > Hello.> > I'm running Directory Server on SUN SOlaris 2.6 in conjunction> with NIS. I'm trying to figure out how I can automatically have> the ldap database updated each time there is a new user added/modified> in NIS.> > The ascii2ldif ...

tanks for their help to: Frode Stromsvag, Jaewan Kim, Merrell Vince,Tim Evans, Jaewan Kim, Mike Busse, Atmane Alouache,David Foster, Roger Fujii, Kevin ColagioSomeone has suggested to use jumpstart, but this was not my case: I just had to move 1 machine filesystemon a new one (SparcClassic ...

Hello Managers,Here's my summary. But first, my original question:> What's the setup for the ttya port (from an EEPROM perspective) if I> want to use it with a 28,8KBps Modem for incoming logins.> > I know my sacadm and pmadm setups are OK but I still get garbage (mainly> x's) ...

I asked why an IPC might be able to talk to the network only when it'splugged into a Delni box. All the answers were variations on:  Open your IPC. Near the SCSI port you will find 2 fuses (look for  cylindrical objects about 1/4" dia x 1/4" long). The one ...

What I asked for (cloning a Solaris installation to another machine, see original question below) seems to be a common problem. I neverreceived so many replies to a post on sun-managers before (about 30).Here are the suggestions:1) use dd if=/dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s2 of=/dev/rdsk/cXtXd0s2 to make 1:1 ...

Hello managers,obviously i did something wrong, but i don't know what...My origianl question comes again at the end.Casper Dik <casper@holland.sun.com> asked me whether i've checked with "diff". Of course i did and did not see anything...But to have a clear starting point i ...

I sent out the attached mail about a month ago and the response was great. Thank you very much to those who reponse, it has helped us a lot.The summary of the comment is:There should be performance improvement on a multi-processors machine once it has been upgraded from SunOS to Solaris. ...

I got a quick response from Casper Dik, the solution isincreasing the tcp xmit/recv buffer size on SunOS 4.x boxesfrom the default 4k to 8k. This means changing the 2variables tcp_sendspace & tcp_recvspace in/sys/netinet/in_proto.c, rebuild kernel, install and reboot.I tested the change on ...

Very quick replies as always...most arrived before my posting actuallyhit my inbox...I've put the results belowfor your perusal...================================================================>From: Bob Reitinger>Kelvin ->I am probably one on many vendors who will be contacting ...

Hello everyone,Here's my summary. First, let's look a resume of my original question:> I have Sparc 4s running Solaris 2.4 and OpenWindows. The station are> logged and have a couple of applications running. The apps running now> are OK but I can't start anything new without getting ...

Dear fellow Sun Managers,First of all, I would like to thank the following managers for theirsuggestions, and recommendations.bismark@alta.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Bismark Espinoza)Jochen Bern <bern@penthesilea.uni-trier.de>Jay Lessert <jayl@latticesemi.com>Jim Harmon ...

Hello managers,my original question is at the end.The *real* problem behind was this:Unix will send only <LF> at the end of a line and DOS (or Windows)"needs" a <CR><LF> to start a newline from the (left) beginning of a line.,if you want to print something.To achieve ...

Dear Sun Managers,the original question was;I am sharing a number of filesystems via NFS. All machines are Sun's running Solaris 2.4, 2.5.1 and 2.6 and all are running NIS. I want to restrict access to only those workstations in my domain. The entry in /etc/netgroup is;allhosts (,,deptgeo) ...

The original question was:> I have noticed a strange behavior from my NFS server (Sparc 1000, Solaris> 2.5) . Whenever I reboot it, one of the clients (another Sparc 1000, same> version of Solaris) keeps displaying 'nfs server not responding' messages in> quick succession. What ...

I actually figured this out yesterday.Yes, I did use the cisco (console) cable to make itwork (mentioned below)Another way is to use the female db25 connector thatcomes in the box and connect it to the male db25 maleconnector using cat 5 cables in between and "walah"it works.Thanks to ...

Hi,The solution was to use the BSD compatibility drivers (/dev/rmt/0bn) insteadof /dev/rmt/0n.. as described by Kevin Davidson below.>>>>> Kerry Jones <k.jones@pearl.aims.gov.au> writes:k.jones> Hi Fellow Sun Managers,k.jones> I am having some trouble with the public ...

Thanks to the following:"Marc S. Gibian" <gibian@stars1.hanscom.af.mil>Sanjaya Srivastava <Sanjaya.Srivastava@Eng.Sun.COM>"Boland, John" <bolandj@bsci.com>DBell@mobile.bam.com"Michael J. Connolly" <mjconnly@newton41.ckcorp.com>Ronald Loftin ...

Thanks to:mike.salehi@kodak.comMatthew Stier [Matthew.Stier@fnc.fujitsu.com]Kun Li [likun@asiainfo.com]Greg Koolbeck [koolbeck@fornost.bbn.com]Sean Quaint [squaint@mediaone.net]Jim Blevins [jblevins@nlc.com]Connolly, Michael [MConnoll@ckcorp.com]Majority responses are: there is no other option ...

Hi,thanks toJohn Weekley <weekleyj@inlink.com>and Jesse Adam <jaa@cisco.com> They sent a correct information about Xserver error and when a exported a/usr/dt, xterminal can find fonts. But why some xterminals don't needa export to works correctly is a misterious question... :On ...

Original Question Hi, I wrote a C program to get some network configuration, but when I tried to use these ...

Managers,Thanks for the multitude of suggestions and since others were interestedin what I gathered, here is the summary:>Before I sink precious time into writing another script, I was curious>if anyone had a decent disk space/system monitoring script that I could>use. >>I've ...

Thanks to all tat responded.My original question:---------Hi all,  I'm getting# ping jafarping: unknown host jafar  A ping to an IP address works fine. I am not familiar with NIS+and I am suspecting that this system was erroneously setup forNIS+. How do I test for this ...

thanks to all....too many to list. "last reboot" was the majority alongwith grepping last, grepping messages.x. Unfortunately, all theseyielded the last reboot and nothing before. Apparently, wtmp wasaltered as it's size was very small (mb's) compared to other servers(gb's). I ...

Hello sunners!My biggest genuine thanks to the following managers who sent me points ofview to go:Eugene Kramer <eugene@uniteq.com>Gert Marais <maraisg@saps.org.za>Denvers, Simon C <DenveSC@europe.stortek.com>We installed a set of patches for Oracle 7.3.4. ...

Sun managers:The final answer is:1) Drop DiskSuite metadb2) Remove the /dev/dsk & /dev/rdsk entries3) Replace the drive & wait for spin up4) Run /usr/sbin/drvconfig to verify the drivers5) Run /usr/sbin/disks to rebuild the /dev/dsk /dev/rdsk files6) Recreate the DiskSuite metadb Got ...

Hi all,Many thanks to the following for their help:Buddy LumpkinConnolly, MichaelSalehi, Michael ERuss PoffenbergerMarina DanielsJay LessertMy questions are marked with '>'. I've combined everyone's answers below.>If a level 0 dump spans say 4 tapes, and the first tape says that it is ...

Thanks to all who replied.I get very many answers.I understand, that ODS is OnLine Disk Suite,which comes with Solaris Server, and is usedfor software RAIDs, etc.Special thanks to:Petri Kallberg,Tom Mornini,David Thornburn-Gindlachparkini,Seth Rothenberg,Chris Liljenstolpe,Birger Wathne,Vitaly ...

Jonny Todd wrote:> Hello>> On some of our systems (Solaris 2.5.1 & 2.6) we get problems when> attempting to allocate shared memory (like IE5) or some of our own> applications fail to do so. From IE5 I get the error message:>> ...

hello folks...wow !!! did I get 80 answers in 2 hours or what?Thanks to all the people who responded that UNIX, many flavors,only read the first 8 characters inthe password, root or others, the restof the chars are ignored..Thanks..original question...> recently i made a mistake enterinig ...

To all who responded,        Thank you. The response time of this list is excellent.        The concensus for the cause of this problem was a stty command in the.cshrc or .profile files. The solution was to move the ...

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Thanks to Roop Kumar,Ian Tcollins & James FordJust edit /etc/system & changed the following entryset pt_cnt=250Once again Thanks for all ravi reddy> > Hi SMs> > When I try to telnet on server> if gives the following error messages> > % telnet 202.2.20.2> Trying ...

Hi All,For the last couple of days I get los of replies , my question is :-I am running solaris 2.5 on Ultra server, my problem is that default> permissions of syslog file ( /var/log/syslog ) is set to rw-rw-rw-. Even> if I manually change the permission of above file to some thing ...

Hi all.Im pleased to say, this is a valuable list!The problem which seemed to be identified was thenameserver cache daemon. It has to be set to YES.I had turned it off because I was originally intendingto install a squid server on the machine (there wasmention of NSCD probs with squid).Im ...

Basically, my original post was regarding extremely slow accessfor a telecommuter over an ISDN line, sparc to sparc.The following replies lead me to not nfs mount any directories,to not use nis+, and to run the applications locally, just exportingthe display over the isdn line.This has helped ...

Sun managers,My thanks to all who responded:  Josh Goldsmith <joshin@bueno.com>  moc@voyager.mlb.semi.harris.com (Marcel Chukwunenye)and the others whose responses I've not yet seen.The replies I got were right on the money. It seems that the drivecomes with ...

Hi Managers!Many thanks to the following managers:Thomas AndersJed DobsonShubham NagarDavid RobillardDavid FosterTom JonesI've received several answers. Most of them suggested scsiinfo utility.One can get it from ftp://ftp.cdf.toronto.edu/pub/scsiinfo. There are sourceand binaries for all ...

Here is what I did:In the Networker nwadmin gui, there is a configuration under Media, Devices, where you can set the volume capacity.I set the capacity to 40GB on all the devices, then labeled a new DLT Compactape IV. I then checked the volumes with a mminfo -m and there it changed the ...

     Thank you for the responses.As many of you pointed out:echo "<message>" > /dev/console worksas well as/usr/ucb/logger -p local0.err "<message>"What I was looking for was a command to write to the console regardless ofwhether or ...

Hello world, Many, many, many thanks to those who took some precioustime of theirs to kindly respond (experiment results below):Mark <hargrme@wisdom.maf.nasa.gov>gibian@stars1.hanscom.af.mil (Marc S. Gibian)Rich Kulawiec <rsk@gsp.org>Matthew Stier ...

 The question was how to write to a raw device. simple answer: just open the device in /dev/rdsk with open(), seek() andwrite() to it. There also is the ioctl() routine. prtvtoc and format canbe used to find out about the disk size and slices.Thanks to all the people who ...

HI Mgrs,Some of the people wanted to know the response :I was able to bring openwindows on win NT machine butnot CDE.-------------On NT create an Xstart file with the followingcommand. This will openan xterm with display set to your PC's IP./usr/openwin/bin/xterm -ls -name hostname ...

My unmitigated thanks to all for some *very* enlightening responses to thisone!Forgive the lapse into nostalgia - but I used to use dump & restore on theSun 3 & 4 series machines running SUNOS 4.2 BSD with absolutely no problemsat all. Why can't they leave things alone?However, I ...