Hello,i apologise on my late summary. However, i got reply from only twoperson. Thanks a lot to Casper Dik and miller Suffin.Both of them pointed that i should have OBP version 3.2.14, which ithink is not the source to my problem as i have got OBP 3.2.16 on thesystem. However, i didn't get any ...

>In the past week, sendmail has stop listening to port 25 several times. I >tried >restarting sendmail, it didn't work. The only thing that will work is to >reboot >the machine and sendmail listens to port 25. But it won't last long until the >next day or so and I have to ...

THE QUESTION:> We have a situation where a couple of Suns were added to an ethernet> segment on a thinnet repeater. When they start transmitting back and> forth they knock other users off because they appear to be hogging the> network. Is there a way to make them slow down and ...

Thanks to the following for their great responses as it helpedKevin Buterbaugh [Kevin.Buterbaugh@lifeway.com]Shared memory (shminfo_shmmax) is intended to be physical memory locked forthe use of (typically) a database. It does not include swap space, butsetting this kernel parameter too high ...

I asked how one changes the IP address on an NIS+ client and an NIS+ server.The client solution is very simple... just update the local /etc/hosts (and the appropriate name service file(s) such as the NIS+ hosts table, DNS, etc), and do a reboot (some say a reconfigure reboot).The server is a ...

Thanks for all the replies. I am going to keep the CG6 on one of theworkstations and put the CG3 on the a production server.Thanks to:David Evans" <DJEVANS@au.oracle.comYou are correct about the cards and more details can be found onthe Frame Buffer FAQ at www.stokely.com under Sys ...

On 10/15/1996 I submitted the following question. The solution......Don't know........Nobody responded THANKS!!>>> Bob Peddycord 10/15/96 01:09pm >>>Maybe one of you NIS+ gurus can help me on this. I have an account(I'll call it test) set up in NIS+ that I want to make a ...

Although I did not get anything back from the list, our call to SUN support solved half of my problems.The trick is to enable XON/XOFF flowcontrol on the serial port. Unfortunately I'm still getting Problems with the 19200 bps connection.Add to /etc/ttydefsconttyH8hi:9600 -parenb cs8 ignpar ...

Thanks to all who responded, but it was Steve Hastings who actually came upwith the answers for me! Here was the original post:___________________________________________________________________________________________________Hello fellow Managers!I just had a disk crash and the only drive I ...

Hi,I found out that I posted in a wrong mailing list because there is a firewall mailinglist for this kind of question. But I think I owe you my summary so here it is:MY ORIGINAL QUESTION:Hi everybody,>>Please update me on firewall technology....>>I need to secure our network from ...

My Original Question:> <> I have just installed some new 10Mbp/s switches from cabletron for the Unix> <> workstations here. I did some testing after moving a small part of the sun> <> network to the new switch. I essentially ran a script that would run the> ...

Dear sun managers,This is a really, really late summary because when I asked the question,the company I worked for went out of business just before I couldsummarize on this issue regarding the disks randomly going offline, andthen online over and over, which resulted in lots of timeout ...

Hello all.. I got 2 responses.. Dwight PetersCasper Dik******>From casper@holland.Sun.COM Wed Sep 30 09:11:48 1998 To: John Keeton <j.e.keeton@larc.nasa.gov> Subject: Re: Problem with metachar in prototype file. Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 15:11:11 +0200From: ...

All,sorry for the late summary, but as usual I've been bogged down ina tonne of other things. Unfortunately I've had no joy with my problem (and it seems like several other people have been experiencing this!).I've patched ToolTalk to the latest version (107893-02) to no avail.I've removed ...

Hello SunmanagersSome time back I had asked for ways to lock access to a tape device while taking backup.Here's my original post :> I have this problem while doing a backup - I have to back up> about 10 GB data every week for which I use ufsdump on Solaris> 2.5.1 running on Ultra2. ...

My apologies for the delayed summary.The overwhelming response was that the SOC+ FC-AL ports are not fabric awareand are intended mostly for use on Sun's own storage arrays. For non-SUNstorage subsystems, it would be better to follow the vendor's recommendedinterfaces which to this day would ...

My request was for any third party sources for a PCI networkcard that would work in an Ultra Enterprise 450 and providerouting services for a few small local networks.While nobody provided such source, a few people corrected the wronginformation I had about the X1034A card. Apparently it is a ...

Well, that was quick! This suggestion from Colin Wynne atcwynne@mts.jhu.edu does the trick:Despite my dislike for menu-driven Unix interfaces... Here's asuggestion. Odds are that such programs use the SHELL variable fordetermining the sub-process. Why not have the menu options call ascript ...

Attached are all of the responses I got. Some say it will work but mostagree that it is not officially supported by Sun. I think going with theVERITAS product that some of you have mentioned might be a safer option.Any further thoughts on this are welcome.Marco ...

This list is the best. Three people replied to my query, and two of themtook the trouble to enter into a many-message correspondence with me.Sincere thanks to all three.-fp========================================================================THE ORIGINAL QUERYI've been trying with scant ...

Thanks to everyone who responded to my "su" command problem. Most everyone suggested I trace the execution using truss. I did, andwas able to determine the Basic Security Module (BSM) was involved in"su" being unable to execute. About this time, Andrew Scarman at ...

My original message is at the bottom.I had many responses, most of which said a reboot was the only solution, andtwo that offered different solutions.First, almost everyone pointed out what I had forgotten, a parent PID of '1'would indicate the process is a zombie, which makes sense in this ...

     To the group,          I wish to thank everyone that responded to my original question. The      overall response was to try "Proctool". It was developed by people at ...

Hello,Unfortunately there was no suggestions from sun-managers list.So I contacted Sun. It took them quite some time to come backand say that there was no way of authenticating the user based on passwords on the Netra Proxy Cache Server.It is quite a disappointment for a fairly recent ...

********* ORIGINAL QUESTION:I need to determine if this is a Sun configuration problem:I have an Enterprise 450 running Solaris 2.7 and SUNWimap (version 4).I have a number of Windows 2000 PCs connecting to my E450 to readmail via IMAP. But the only person logged in and running Outlook2000 ...

What I ended up doing is:doing an lpfilter -f fdpost -F fdpost.fdnext I edited the config file in /etc/lp/printers/<printer name> andchanged the content type to any. Oh, I also set some enviromentalvariables such as TGROFF and TCAT as Tim Carlson suggested. Although I'mnot positively ...

Thanks you all for many many responses I've got.Basically there are 2 methods that have been suggested: use "dd" or"ufsdump"Specically, Zivko Margetic was very generous giving me a complete & detailedanswer, thank you very much.Here they are:I. From Zivko ...

I asked:> Has anyone successfully gotten mailtool and Sendmail 8.7 or 8.8 to> happily interoperate? I'm trying to upgrade the shipped sendmail on> my Solaris 2.5 machines to Sendmail 8.8, but /usr/openwin/bin/mailtool> won't cooperate. With mailtool running, sendmail holds the ...

Sorry i couldn't list names of all the people that responded...but I want to thank you all....the answer overwhelmingly was port # 514 along with don't use rsh, use ssh instead.Thank youRitesh_________________________________________________________________________Get Your Private, Free ...

Thanks for the reply that follow.What we did:mkdir .../lost+foundchmod 755 lost+foundchown root:others lost+foundWe also umounted the fs andfsck -T vxfs .....After every fsadm operation would work just find.My concern was that , according to the VxFs manual, in a VXFS thelost+found is created ...

Thanks to all who responded!!Original Problem:----------------ping www.yahoo.comIt sometimes just sits there.This is happening intermittently.Resolution:-----------Some of the recommend patches did not get loaded because ofdisk problems.Loading the additional patches resolved the ...

It looks as though the problem appears to be a hardware problem with the serial interface. There was another u450e in another lab that we have, and I took the Wyse terminal, cable, null adapter and plugged it into the other 450, and it worked. I should have tried this yesterday and saved a ...

Question was: (in short)   what gives best performance for mirroring: one dual channelSCSI-controler or two one-channel controler ?Summary: (also in short ...9   performance is no problem, better use two one-channel controler forredundancy (or best would ...

Hi,<p>I had posted a summary earlier about 10Mbps switches. Some people had written and asked for a compliation of the responses. I was making it when I screwed up and<p>erased their mails. Please write to me again, I have the compliation ready.<p>Sorry,<p>Ken<p>

original post asked why netscape would fail to lookup ' http://$URL' , thoughwould succeed with ' http://$IP_ADDRESS.'every reply said to turn on nscd...which i in fact disabled.its' funny...when i got the answer i hoped no one else would reply thinking'its SO obvious.' but more than 25 ...

Many thanks to all those that replied.The situation is as follows (thanks to"Marco Greene" <mgreene@sympatico.ca> :Solaris 2.6 and after - it all comes bundled with the operating ...

Thank you very much to everybody that responded.**** ORIGINAL QUESTION *****What is the equivalent on sunos 4.1.3 of the /etc/nsswitch.conf file in solaris 2.x?Box_A is a primary DNS server and other systems use it without any trouble.However, if I login to Box_A and "nslookup Box_B" ...

Hello again gurus,Thanks for all the replies from the experts. Most people identified theproblem was memory. They all recommend to check the SIMMs. Reseatingor moving SIMMs around would solve the problem. I have not tried thisright now because the traffice on this machine. At the slower ...

Reply:Two point to the tool- proctool:ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/sun-info/mde/proctool/One suggests using "accton" command.Some wrote small scripts (big thanks), but don't work well.Question:Does anyone have such a script or tool which continuously runs 'ps-efl' like 'top' or ...

Hi Gurus,Following are the reply i have got. Thanks a lot to Dennis Riddick,Alexandre Perematko,Sydney Weinstein <<Re: DDS3/DLT7000>> <<Re: DDS3/DLT7000>> <<Re: DDS3/DLT7000>> RegsSriramattached mail follows:# /usr/platform/sun4u/sbin/prtdiag -vcheck ...

All,Many thanks to the very many who responded and for the speed of the responses.The general view was to make use of a terminal server to provide the connectivity.As far as connecting and disconnecting a terminal to a 'live' machine, the key is to ensure that the power is left on the ...

  The answer is:  RTFM on pstat  The two that look the most promising are:pstat -spstat -Tsjserver{root}10: pstat -T466/1017 files228/554 inodes120/266 processes28424/194896 swapsjserver{root}11: pstat -s17240k allocated + 10992k reserved = 28232k used, 166664k ...

Dear Sun managers,I posted a message concerning installation of VSIMM on an LX. Theproblem was that the system did not recognize the extra 1mb.My sincerest thanks to Michael Polo (mikep@Polo.NET), who wrote:  I had the same problem when I installed the vsimm. Actually, ...

Hi,Thanks to Casper Dik for his very fast answer. Basically it's"man add_install_client" and the like. Below is his answer.Thanks again Casper // Tom--------------------------From: Casper Dik <Casper.Dik@holland.sun.com>Yes, check teh manuals on jumpstart and such.All you ...

sorry to bother the list. The issue was neither solaris or novell, but wasa routing problem between my subnets.becki kaingale group---------------------- Forwarded by Becki Kain/Gale on 11/22/99 12:09 PM---------------------------Becki.Kain@galegroup.com on 11/21/99 01:35:11 PMTo: ...

Dear Managers,Here is my summary for my question although it is a little bit late. My original question was:>Dear Managers,>>Is there any tool/utility to check the amount of Shared Memory >configured in the running kernel? Is it possible to check it with >either 'adb' or ...

Thanks to Sebastian Benoit for suggesting the Internet SoftwareConsortium's version of dhcp ( http://ftp.sendmail.org/isc/dhcp.html). Idownloaded and configured this after briefly skimming over thedocumentation.Thanks also to Mike Carney and Dave Miner at east.sun.com for directing meto the ...

Thank everyone for answering.I finally changed /usr/lib/newsyslog a little and that did my job.have a nice week,mihalis.many thanks ...

Sun Managers,First of all I want to thank all who replied. My original questions were; I have a ss20 with 2 internal drives. Drive one sd0, has SunOs 4.1.4. Drive two sd1, has Sol 2.5.1. SunOs 4.1.4 is the default drive when rebooting with no parameters. I'd like to be able ...

the general opinion is: use lsof (in actual practice use lsof withoutarguments and browse through the resultant output)thanks for your input    -paul -- "There is magic in the web" - Shakespeare (Othello, Act 3, Scene 4) SU BEFORE POSTING please READ the FAQ ...