I recieved one reply from Aline Runde...and I would like to say thanks!The advice was to ftp the latest version of sysinfo fromsunsite.unc.edu/pub/solaris/freeware/sysinfo-3.2.2.gz.I already had this version though and realized the previous info I wasgiven (sysinfo is not copatible with E3000 ...

The problem was caused by not having a swap device. I don't know how ithappened, but I will take the blame since I am the sysadmin.>"swap -l" yields the following:> dragon% swap -l> No swap devices configured>> dragon% swap -s> total: 57064k bytes allocated + 6796k ...

The quick solution was to not do it the way I wanted to, and use XDMinstead.It looks like broadcast will work best on my domain. >From Reggie Stuart:If CDE is running on the Solaris machine (already running dtlogin), you justneed to fire up Xconfig. Click on "communications", and ...

OK, Thanks everyone for the information. I concede that actuallythe information I needed came straight from man automount.Replicated Filesystems     Multiple location fields can be specified for replicated NFS     filesystems, in which case ...

Hallo.Thanks for your replies. Most of you told me to use shell skripts of modify the printer interfaces. That was the solution.We use the hp jetadmin printer software and i have added some lines to the interface scripts. Here they are# original script...if $HPNPBIN/psbrthen  if [ ...

HI,I received 1 respond from Phillips, John<john.phillips@calanais.com> where we face the sameproblem for disksets mounting after disabling HA, andresults in writing a rc scripts.Attacehd is a copy of John's scripts following by theoriginal message.Again, thanks John for the reply.Here ...

On Mon, 14 Oct 1996, Serkan Hamarat wrote:> > Q: How can I see unformatted, unpartitioned disk spaces on my current> HD (If there is spaces)? How can I modify this space? How can I delete> and reconfigure a present partition?> > A: Format will display partitions. But it ...

I got a couple of replies, one suggesting I turn off RTS/CTS handling if Iwas only using 2400 baud, another telling me that I need to replace myhardware (I don't, this is a software problem), so I opened a ticket withSun and they replied that the X86 serial driver in 2.5.1 is flawed andwould ...

As I saw in a recent summary, lots of vacation messages.. grr. Anyway,here we are with 1 great answer out of two responses=========================================================My original post:I have a number of Ultra 2 machines that once in a while loose access tothe CD.. either audio or ...

attached mail follows:Many thanks to the following for getting me straightened out.James.E.Coby.Jr@cdc.comKevin Woods <kev@cnet.com>Jigang Liu <jigang@gswrs6k1.gsw.peachnet.edu>Fedor Gnuchev <qwe@ht.eimb.rssi.ru>A little history. I acquired my system after the initial ...

Greetings,     Thank you to all who replied to my question (see below)!     Briefly, I wanted to know whether it was possible to use external SCSIdevices connected to the built-in SCSI port of the first I/O card of a SunEnterprise 3000. Replies ...

(1) Summary of the problems:When USER environment variable is not setup, and if you login asuser a, then after you telnet to the same box or another box asuser b, then the USER is set to b. How it is get set?(2) Summary of answers:    telnet man page ...

my question was, briefly, under Solaris 7, what does the shutdowncommand actually do when init state 5 is specified:        shutdown -i 5 -y -g 0it halts the machine and prepares it to be powered off. my thanks tobill faye for verifying this for me. the ...

Original post:I think I already know the answer to this but need a quick confirmation. Isearched the archives and found lots of SCSI info but not the answer to myquestion.I just put a dual-channel single ended PCI SCSI card in an Ultra 5.Currently I have only one Ultra Wide disk so I need only ...

Got a few answers regarding part of my query, which was admittedly rather broad. The question is repeated at the end of this email.Late news: We just found out that we are running a version of parityck that can cause problems with our configuration. We just killed multiple copies of it on ...

ORIGINAL POST:Sun Managers,I tried connecting a PC based terminal program (COMit) with the serialoutput of a headless SPARCstation 20 (Solaris 2.4) so I could log in.I ended up crashing the machine. Has anyone done this before withsuccess?This was performed as a trial run before I tried the ...

Hello, all. :-)Sorry to have been so long in putting this together: I was hoping to hearback from Sun before I summarized the problem. I'd like to take thisopportunity to thank the following indviduals who promptly responded tomy initial ...

My original Question:Hi gurus,I keep getting 'automountd [394] : server heavy not responding' in /var/adm messages file of some of my SunOS 5.x servers.heavy is an alias of one of the server that is not even in service anymore that is down and gone, so the messages seemed reasonable.After ...

Hi again list,Thanks you all for the quick response. Especially,rsaddler@cccis.comAlissa Baderjkennedy@orent.comSabrina DownardThe overwhelming reponse was to look at http://www.usenix.org/sage/jobs/jobs-descriptions.htmlThank you all,Mark GosselinNetScout SystemsOriginal Post:> Hi ...

Hi Sun Managers,        Thanks so much for the prompt responses. You are a great group.Here is my original question:        ----- Begin Included Message -----Dear Sun ...

Hi,  I've got > 10 answers in just one day and here are my org question and sum.Q & A=====Hi,  We are going to setup an NIS env. and we have the following questions :1) Is it a good idea to place an slave on each sub-net ?>> Most ppl told me that it is a good ...

Hey all,the majority of responses said it was really no problem. I had a couplesuggestions to check sar -d as a more informative measure. I did and the%busy was 0-1.a couple excerpts:from arthur darren dunham:I/O wait time just reflects the fact that there is nothing else to doright now, but ...

Thank you for the answer. The solution are:    SUN Ultra (sun4u) and old sun4 use 8k pagesize    sun4c, sun4m and sun4d user 4k pagesize.My original post:>>I just upgade our first SUN Ultra 1 from SOLARIS 2.5.1 to 2.6 and doing>>the testing. ...

Hi AllMy original question......>>I have a problem that developed after a power-failure.>>The console log now shows:>>INIT: Command is respawning too rapidly. Check for possible errors.>>id: co "/usr/lib/saf/ttymon -g -h -p" `uname-n` console login: "-T ...

I wrote asking about st.conf entries for these tape drives, controlling the robotic mechanism, and the various compression options.Here's what i've come up with.The following two lines for st.conf are what's suggested by seagate (whobought conner, after conner bought archive). This is ...

Question:> This machine has no keyboard attached to it. Is ther a way to get rid of> this error from dos2unix?> > nyampapp29 <5.5.1> [root] $ dos2unix /tmp/hawk.log hak.1> could not get keyboard type US keyboard assumed> Many thanks to ...

Original situation:> All,> > We're having problems getting our Solaris 7 boxes (Ultra2 machines)> to recognize/use some HP1050C plotters over a network. The > resources I've> looked at do not cover network printer/plotter setups or > troubleshooting.> > The ...

Wanted to know if some of the installation problems encountered whenusing the "Install" CD from Solaris 8 2/00 had been corrected inlater releases.Apparently the 6/00 edition of Solaris has most of these bugs fixed,including a problem with sys-unconfig. I had experienced problems ...

I double checked the jumpstart server and found out that the problemwas my careless typo ethernet address, like many of you indicated.The ethers should be "08:00:20:..." but my typo was "00:08:20....".I cann't believe that I checked several times before.Anyway, the ...

Thanks to the list for the many responses I got in so short a time.My original post is at the bottom.The replies to my post varied only on a couple of points1 - All agreed that I should not need any firmware patches2 - Most were of the opinion that 2.7 was y2k ready as long is it had ...

Salutations!Thanks so much to all people who answered to my question! I havereceived about 36 messages and I am very grateful to the followingpeople:(Niall O Broin) nobroin@esoc.esa.deSeth Rothenberg <SROTHENB@montefiore.org>Jason Marshall <jasonm@vsl.com>Mariel Feder ...

Hi again!My original question was on installing CDE on my SunOS 4.1.4. Can I use CDE on SunOS 4.1.4 ?Many answers came but none was positive, more ever all were certain that it is impossible:(All answers claim that CDE is for Solaris. But they can not agree on the min version. Some claim CDE is ...

Question was whether configuration with 2 A5100 disk arraysserved by 2 420R servers required Solaris 2.6. Answer seemsto be a unanimous: Solaris 8 will work just fine. You needanything 2.5.1 11/98 or above.Casper reminded me that if a system will run an older releaseit will run a newer release ...

I had a couple of responses but David Schwarze really hit it on the head for the answer i was looking for ...Loosely quoted and translated for summary - Yes, you need to leave the default route in /etc/defaultrouter and add the additional routes via the startup script. for instance :route add ...

GLUB GLUB GLUB!!!!!I was flodded with answers for this one, almost everybody mentionedthe $50 cable from Sun Express, part number X985A. I also got a fewpeople mentioning 3rd party sources such as Ultra-Spec, or building one myself (Thanks to Ed Dawes who sent me an old message with the ...

Although I actually havent gotten any replies to my request heres the answer:in .login I added this:alias ow $OPENWINHOME/bin/openwin -dev /dev/fb defdepth 8Which starts openwin in 8 bit graphics mode.How you can verify: type the following command#xdpyinfo | morego to second pagelook under ...

Once again to everyone on the list.Summary------- Almost everyone had me check if the rlogin daemon was running. Itwas, everyone else could access it except from the one system.John Vogtle response seemed to be the solution. I'd love to have thereal reason...I don't have a *true* solution ...

I had sent this Summary before, but I'm receiving mails asking for theSummary.May be the earlier Summary is some where in a black hole on my network.(We had a email server crash couple of weeks earlier)      If the slave server is setup correctly then it should ...

I was asking why pkgtrans was so slow writting to 4mm tape, and pkgadd was so slow reading from that tape. The answer appears to be that pkgtrans uses horrible blocking choices. SO, don't use it. I've modified my procedures to tar my packages to and from tape before using pkgadd to install ...

As it turns out, eXceed has the ability built right in. Never did getthoroughly versed in X server concepts. For those who have eXceed, runeXceed (XDMCP-Broadcast) from eXceed's Start/program menu. For those whodon't have eXceed, it seems some further information was ...

Many thanks for they quick response to:Casper Dik <casper@holland.Sun.COM>Tim Evans <tkevans@eplrx7.es.dupont.com>Matt Simmons <simmonmt@acm.org>For what concerns installing MU1 before MU2:    Casper Dik <casper@holland.Sun.COM> ...

> Hello there,> I have HP openview installed on Solaris machine,> Can anyone suggest steps to cleanly uninstall HP Openview? By the way,> the HP Openview was not installed> as a pkg. Thanks.>Thanks to Adzman S. Kasim.The solution is execute the remove script from HP ...

Hi all,Actual problem after the solution.My problem seems to be solved after talking to Rob Vahsen. He pointed me inthe right direction. The solution was to put the users in a seperate netgroup-file to allow them to logon to our mail-server (default NOBODY can logon).We are NOT happy with this ...

Thanks to all who responded:- John McIntire- Tim Carlson- David Lee- Ian Durkacz- Michael Sullivan- Laurinda Chamberlin- Michael Brock- Hans Foertschand to Dale L. Brewe, whom I contacted privately after seeing his Usenetpost.Problem cause: the xntpd demon distributed with Solaris 7 is broken ...

Original question:> Would like to attach a pc style keyboard and mouse to a Sun Sparc running > Solaris 2.6. I noticed there are PS/2 drivers and thought that would take> care of the majority of the issues. But what about an adaptor to hook a pc> keyboard and mouse into the ...

Actually, I installed the package under a directory otherthan /opt because of disk space problem and then start upthe snm by specifying the actual snm directoryby the SNMHOME env variable as the manual suggested. However, I got the 'viewBackground' error messages whenI started up snm.Now we ...

Thanks To: ******************************************************************Russ Poffenberger poffen@San-Jose.ate.slb.com Richard Dows <marius@randomc.com>Benjamin Cline <benji@hnt.com>Dan Brainard <brainard@ihs.com>Richard Skelton ...

Thanks to all who replied so promptly. Answer is to read the man page on tee.Thanks again,Doug_____________________________________________________________Where you'll find everything under the Sun for the Sun.......www.SunGuru.comSU BEFORE POSTING please READ the FAQ located atN ...

Sun-Managers,=================== Original question===================  I really like having du (disk usage) display in Kbytes. It is easy to  estimate Mbytes. What happened to du -k in Solaris-2.6 (running on  SPARCstation LX)? The manual page ...

Hi fellow admins!I thought this might be of interest for all of you! Following arejust some preselected news-postings about Linux on Sparc-Workstations.Concerning performance, stability, and so on.If you have questions, feel free to mail me!Regards,Herbert------- Forwarded Messages>Date: ...