The original question was> I am running Solaris 1.1 (SunOS4.1.3) on a SS2.> It is simply running as a standalone, so it does have NIS running. > Installation simply set> /etc/defaultdomainname to (none) since it is the file OS checks before > launching theNIS service.> > ...

Thanks to Thomas Wardman, Y@netscape and Darren Dunham, who would have agold star now, except I couldn't find any.Both Thomas and Y pointed to a document (below/attached/appended) relatingto network performance tuning. The only thing is that this machine couldnot be termed a webserver under ...

I got one answer, from Hendrik Visage [hvisage@is.co.za]suggested using apreremove or postremove script. I think I probably should have taken hisadvice! Sun's "Application Package Developer's Guide" has a similar example(a device driver) where they state "The pkgrm command ...

I forgot to also thank:Ladislas Adamku  Jeff KennedySorry for the ommission and the extra bandwidth to correct the ommission!Regards,BarbaraBarbara Ann BasbergUnix System AdministratorTechnology Operations (formerly Computer Services)Central Michigan University009 Foust ...

sorry, disk suite under solaris 7 is on the easy access server cd. I<p>assumed, wrongly, this was a netscape server being bundled in so I didn't<p>even look at the cd. duh!<p>sorry for the spam<p>becki kain<p>gale group<p>

Content-Md5: Ewllm1f9LNXAc1CInAFDhA==Precedence: bulk        Problem:Milan 10baseT to AUI ethernet adapter suspected of                causing frequent hangs on Sun Ultra 170E ...

Dear managers,Original question :Is it possible to determine the RAM layout in an SS10 without opening the box or rebooting the system ?Thanks go to :Ni Xiao Ping and Matthew Stierwho showed me prtconf.but most of all toBrad Young who gave the address www.rkdltd.demon.co.uk where you can pick ...

I've received an additional three more answers from Dave, Elsa, andAlvaro,and wanted to send them out with my last summary. Thank you forreplying to my question.Below is the original summary and the FIRST three answers are the mostRECENT answers I've received to my question of the total six ...

>My earlier question was the following:>Whenever I push the "aliases" map, I seem to get a ypxfr error/warning>message. This doesn't happen for passwd, group, or hosts. Can anyone tell me why>I'm getting >these messages and what I should do to fix them?> >As ...

My query:> I'm looking for recommendations for a TIFF (and other formats)> viewer/editor.> I've tried the newest version of XV (3.10a) but it doesn't suit my users.> They have very large files and need to zoom in a lot, XV doesn't give them> the right resolution. If anyone ...

Hi,Well. This is only a partial summary. I received no replies to my request.Maybe it was just too basic or not properly described or something - I don'tknow.I've temporarily solved the problem by turning off the MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1user based client authoritation by copying ...

Many thanks to those who responsed. Managed to fix the problem using aserial connection and reset the input device to keyboard.The reason given by the user for setting the keyboard to /dev/null isthat, he could run the sun box without any keyboard. It is to preventthe system being hang when the ...

My Thanks for the responses provided by:Glenn Satchell - Uniq Professional Services <Glenn.Satchell@uniq.com.au>Casper Dik <casper@holland.Sun.COM>While neither response resulted in a solution to our problem, bothprovided us with some additional insight, and assisted us in ...

Thanks to all who replied, Mike, Chris, Kevin, roger and Zmira. No onewas able to crack the code on CDE backdrop additions. It was suggestedthat I change the name of an existing backdrop and use that name for mynew backdrop image. CDE displayed the old backdrop with it's new name inthe ...

next time, don't add the nosuid option to OS mount points in /etc/vfstab;only to /data or /cache mount points, or /home, et.al.original question was posted when /etc/rcS complained about not being ableto create /dev/null and boot would hang.suggestions included ok> boot -r; or mknod; or ...

thanks for all who replied me quicklythis is the original quetion can any body give me idea what is max spped of serial port on ultra1> there are two ultra ports on ultra1 ttya & ttyb it's urgent requirement>here is the ans38400 is all you can get, make sure you update your ...

It's working !        I can't mount cd using command:        mount -t hsfs -o ro /dev/sr0 /cdrom        Block device is created and /cdrom directory is ...

Thanks to everyone who responded. It was interesting to read all off thevariations of the syntax that was suggested. The more common suggestionswere as follows.                1. Use single quotes in stead of double ...

I wrote: Is there a mailing list for sendmail?Some people misinterpreted my question to mean that I was asking howto implement a mailing list using sendmail, when what I really meantwas if there is a mailing list that discussed sendmail.Charles Gagnon <charles@Grafnetix.COM> wrote the ...

Problem:=======Problem basically was that under Solaris 2.6, when I tried to create the /var/yp/securenets file to limit hosts/networks that could talk to my NISserver, ypxfrd and ypserv daemons would not start.(Original question follows at the end of this message)Solution:========I don't know ...

Hello managers,I've asked:>I have an E450 with 2 GB Memory.>Is there a possibility to "see" which/how many memory-bank has >physically plugged in memory and how many slots are still free ->aside from shutting down and opening the E450?and the answer came ...

Well, I got a good number of replies on this one. I'll try and hit thehighlights. There are two basic solutions -- most people seem to justrelay on rsh/rdist scripts and hosts.equiv.. others use a program calleddmake which is available from ftp.scri.fsu.edu, dmake appears to be ...

Turned out the only way I could remove the unremovable directories was to use"unlink" instead of "rm". Not sure why.ThanksAl Aldrich---------------" If you understood everything I said, you'd be me.."miles ...

This summary has been a long time in coming but I did get theinformation/help I was looking for.Original question in brief:I have a SparcServer10 and a SparcStation2 that currently have no videocards. I noticed both have a port on the back with a monitor picture but itlooks like no way that a ...

Apply patch 104172Many thanks to:Hendirk Visage, Sriram V, Vijav Anand V, Dieter SucharRegardsAlessandro--Alessandro Zibellini UNIX Administrator European Southern Observatory Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2D-85748 Garching bei MuenchenSU BEFORE POSTING please READ the FAQ located atN ...

Original Post:Sun Managers:Situation: A SS4, Solaris 2.5 will not boot due to a memory alignmenterror. If I run "test /memory" at the OBP I get the message "Memory addressnot aligned."Question: How do I fix ...

Thanks again to the second group to answer my question: Annette, David,Hap, Jose, Stefan and Tom. I never should have doubted the wisdom of theSun Gurus (tm). The "code" to this one is to convert images to xpmformat, but use the extension .pm. Copy the images to the system ...

Content-MD5: +5tvWW/r7gypmCmTn0RWKA==Precedence: bulkThe answer is :You have to install SUNvts yourself, as it is "optional software".It's on the Updates CD.thanks for the answers....Fernando Frota RedigoloJohn R Worachekfoster@bial1.ucsd.eduColin MelvilleJeff ...

Many thanks to (so far):blackman@voicenet.comMarianne Rodgers <mrodgers@milliways.jsc.nasa.gov>Kevin Sheehan - Uniq <u-kevin@megami.veritas.com>jsturges@gmri.comRoger Fujii <rmf@lookhere.com>Daniel Lorenzini <lorenzd@gcm.com>"David L. Markowitz" ...

Thanks to those who replied, my question was .......> Dear Gurus,> I am planning to write a script that will check the integrity of our backups, performed using ufsdump. At the moment this is done manually - tedious at the best of times!> > Basically, the script would access each ...

Here's the summary I owe everyone. Sorry it took a week to produce it.Also, I apologize for posting the question since it wasn't an urgentsysadmin issue as some pointed out. Even so, it drew a lot of responseand seemed to be of interest. The list of those who replied (below)is in no ...

Hello managers,since i posted my first summary, i've got several other answersto my question:>I have an E450 with 2 GB Memory.>Is there a possibility to "see" which/how many memory-bank has >physically plugged in memory and how many slots are still free ->aside from ...

Hello all,Thanks! to everyone who responded to my question below. Every one ispointed me to web site" http://sunsolved.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?/doc=notify/16235"for the answer and I found them there. I have to load them one by one at atime andapplied it by hand.There is no ...

I had submitted a request for mail groups that deal with networkissues. This is, apparently, an elusive list. I received two references for nanog@merit.edu ( http://www.nanog.org) from RikSchneider and Rodney Marable. Rik very correctly states that the'nanog' list has a high 'noise to ...

        OK!!. Everybody proved to me that the question was Silly!!        Yes. Once you are root, you could do any thing.This has got         nothing todo with NIS, NIS+. ...

     Hi All,          The original problem was the inability fo Lotus Domino to bind to      tcp/ip port 25 inorder to run the smtpmta in place of ...

Original Posting:I will need to physically move a set of metadevices from my test environment (Solaris 2.5, DiskSuite 4.0) to a new system, also Solaris 2.5, but which is not yet running DiskSuite.This does not appear to be covered in the DiskSuite Answerbook, so thequestion is put to the ...

Problem: Suddenly cannot format 2GB disks in Jaz drive on Ultra60For anyone who uses Iomega products (Zip/Jaz drives) or has any issueswith them, check out the following website...it says it all.         http://grc.com/clickdeath.htmIn a ...

First, thanks again to all who responded to my questions...         Matthew Atkinson[SMTP:m.atkinson@csl.gov.uk]         Christophe ...

Thanks to all the quick responses.rik@netasset.com (Rik Schneider)sfw@adc.idt.com (Scott Woods)rich@brake.demon.co.uk (Richard Skelton)jsturges@gmri.com (Jonathan Sturges)maraisg@saps.org.za (Gert Marais)weekleyj@inlink.com (John Weekley)eric@outlook.net (Eric Pancer)jrw@allapartments.com ...

thanks to the following:Albert White - SUN Ireland Ireland Albert White - SUN albert.white@ireland.sun.com Anthony Worrall Worrall Anthony anthony.worrall@reading.ac.uk Brooke King King Brooke bking@mail.yipes.com Bruce R. Zimmer Zimmer Bruce ...

Thanks to:Eugene Kramer <eugene@uniteq.com>David Evans <DJEVANS@au.oracle.com>Michael Wang <mwang@tech.cicg.ml.com>Taco Hettema <THettema@telfort.nl>Jonathan Sturges <jsturges@gmri.com>Frank Fiamingo <frank.fiamingo@ssds.com>Brion Leary ...

My original message:> > Is is possible to have a disk as SCSI ID 4? I added a disk set to ID 4.> probe-scsi doesn't report it and newfs /dev/rdsk/c1t4d0s2 says> newfs: No such file or directory> > I know target 4 is supposed to be a tape drive but is there a way to> ...

Thanks to this group I got the commands to increase my consoleresolution, unfortunately my console went totally black and stayed thatway..bummer.While I was hopping around mad, CDE finally came up and I was able toread my Sun Managers FAQ and there was "to reset the NVRAM press L1-N ...

All,Thanks a lot for all the responses! I knew when it was pointed out to me itwould wind up being one of those silly mistakes you just smack the foreheadand say DUH!My script works just fine now.Bruce explains the error of my ways very well so I'll just let his responsesum this up. Thanks ...

I got a couple of responses on this, and also logged a call with Sun. Theoriginal question is at the end.Thanks toTimothy Lindgren for the following;There is a performance hit, but it's minimal. VM will automatically set it's I/Oat boot time to optimal SCSI settings. The biggest hit you'll ...

Many thanks to (so far):Robert RoseRoger FujiKhaled TahaKevin SheehanShawn LaemmrichNing ZhangMy original posting was:> hi gurus>> I am trying to set-up an environment to enable me to conduct data> compression test for Tuxedo 6.4 on Solaris.>> I have 1 Sparc 5 and 1 Ultra 1 as ...

hi,the original question was:        under solaris 2.5.1, what is the size limitation for a         tmpfs file system when formating a disk? the size limitation is 2 Gby. from john dimarco:> In 2.5.1, tmpfs ...

Hello,Doing the 'trust -f ls -l' command was very easy to see what was happening. the'ls' stop in the /vol directory. After rebooting the server it works fine. Ithought that it was a problem with an software that I had installed but theproblem was the vold.Thanks and Regards.IThe ...

MAN DO I FEEL LIKE AN IDIOT ... Thank You Gary for pointing out my problem.Though I had all of my files set up properly i had created /etc/defaultroutenot /etc/defaultrouter. Obviously there was no default route setup after Irebooted the box which explains my problems ...Thank You ALL for the ...