Thanks to Michael Sullivan <mps@discomsys.com> and Darren Dunham<ddunham@taos.com>. Both agreed that unmounting the file system first isthe best way to go. Since that's possible, that's what I plan to do. Itwould probably be OK to sync and then detach, but I want to be 100% ...

Hi *,thx to all who answered.Here are the current solutions for getting rid of anunknown or forgotten eeprom-password:1. pressing <stop>-<n>2. if you have the root password to the box:   -login as root    -enter eeprom security-mode=none (to disable ...

Hi suners,finaly I found out that the internal cabel in external box was bad.Thanks to all who responded.Jozefhera are the original question:Hi suners,did you manage to get work external disk SEAGATE ST31940W Medalist with Netra I 170E or Ultra 1/170E which has wide external SCSI conector.I ...

1) Many thanks to the following Sun Managers for their replies:Jim HarmonCharlie MenglerJochen bernDerek MallardJoseph S.D. Yao2) My original 2 part question was as follows:We are (were) running a Sun camp with mixed PC and Sun workstations. Fileserving is provided on a Solaris 2.5.1 box, ...

Thanks for the replies.In brief, I was trying to backup a server that resides outsidethe firewall with my backup server that resides inside thefirewall. I was essentially running an 'rsh dump' from the serverto the client outside the firewall... then I would pipe thedump back (via stdout) to ...

Hi,   The first reply came within 2 minutes of my mail !!    I would like to thank all of you who replied and those   who gave their time for my question.   The answer:      Veritas software comes bundled ...

Dear Managers, unfortunately I didn't receive any replies to the question (originalmessage is below), so the summary is empty. The problem is stillunsolved. I would like to thank everybody who read and thought aboutit.VladimirOriginal message ...

Hi everyone,This is a SUMMARY,(1) The original problem<I have been trying to set up a PPP connection over a leased line<for the past few days. For testing, I have 2 Sun workstations running<Solaris 2.5.1 with a modem pair in between set up in my office.<<Here are my 2 /etc/hosts ...

My question was:-------------------- Begin Original Post --------------------I've got a user who managed to blow away his entire home directory *and*the online backup copy he had of it. The tape backup doesn't have hiscritical files because of a permission problem. (My fault and his.)He's ...

hello again:sorry for the long delay.--------------here is what i had asked :We have a GEO-RIM/FE 100 MBPS switch from UB. We would like to connectan Ultra-2 ( on-board 100 MBPS ) to the switch in FULL-DUPLEX mode.Would like to know if any of U are having such a setup and thingsworking fine ? I ...

About 2 weeks and several sleepless nights ago, I asked for help inlocating a "reader-talker" package for Solaris. (The sleepless nightswere not caused by this software).Suggestions came in from a dozen or so folks and were greatly appreciated.The most suitable idea for my ...

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----Hash: SHA1December 26, 1997Hello world,We had been experimenting with the Solstice SyMon and the Domain Manager v2.3 rel.B to create a network operations center. We wanted to be able to remotely diagnose/monitor the remote and critical Sunservers using the ...

Original question:Dear SMs,How do I go about intalling this patch?The README.103346-04 file states:...    2) Execute the binary './flash-update' in this directory.                a) It first ...

Original Message: >--------------------------------------------<I am having problems with my /home, I cannot create any dir under /homeand even useradd -m won't work. Whenever I tried to create a dir at /home,it gives me a message saying that mkdir: Failed to make directory ...

Hi,   My original question asked about clearing connections left openon port 119 after killing news.   Most replies said that the only solution was to reboot (which is what was done...:(   A few people said I killed news incorrectly, causing the half ...

Thanks to numerious people who replied to my quiestion about<p>/etc/nsswitch.conf.<p>Q. What is xfn?<p>A. man xfn(3N).<p>   A useful remark was made, that Sun introduced XFN, but then<p>stopped/slowed down in promoting it.<p>Igor<p>

My original question was:>We have been experiencing lots of power failures. The problem is ourair >conditioning system stops working if we have a momentary poweroutage. I have a >Sun 690 and a Sun 2000 both running Solaris 2.5 inthis computer room.>Question: will the systems ...

Thanks again to sun-managers!I wrote> I now find that after I have used kermit to dial> out, dialin no longer works. It appears that> kermit is changing the modem settings and not> restoring them. When I run tip and issue the> modem command AT&F&D2Q2S0=1&C1&W, ...

    Thanks to all that replied. All of the suggestions weregood ones, but the solution was relatively simple. First, there's noneed to mess with any eeprom settings, the defaults for "ttya-ignore-cd=true"do just fine. All that was required was to 1) wire the DB25 ...

Well . . . What I ended up doing was:1) removing the /etc/defaultdomain file2) rm /var/yp/`domainname`3) cp /etc/nsswitch.files /etc/nsswitch.conf4) rebootedThanks to the many who responded!!!My orig question:I would like to know how to uninstall NIS. I'd really like a quickstep-by-step if ...

Thanks tocyril@corp.cirrus.comholzb@vkm.comcathy@mercury.stm.comasim@psa.pencom.comdengland@ivac.comthe problem was because rpc.yppasswdd not running.ThanksAshfaqMy original question was :> > Hi,> > Recently setup NIS with Solaris 2.5.1. > > NIS directory is not /etc. It is on ...

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----As was pointed out (only minutes after I sent my query...), thefeature was reinstated in Solaris 2.5.1, and the relevant file iscalled /etc/nologin.Thanks to Jeff Wasilko <jeffw@smoe.org> for the quick response.CJW- ...

Figured it out. Thanks "Charlie Mengler <charliem@anchorchips.com>"!What I did was put ro instead of rw in the seventh field and it workedjust fine. Thanks!JasonMy orig. post:> Trying to mount floppy drive on sparc10 running Solaris 2.4 and not> having much success. ...

I don't have the time to figure out exactly what I did wrong during the upgrade. So I booted back up with my old kernel.Will try again ... next year !!! Thank you all.Happy New Year.Victor Dinh----------ORIGINAL MESSAGEHello managersI have just upgraded a station going from 4.1.3_u1 to ...

Thanks to the following for their responses (hope I didn't forget anyone):"Robert T. Clift" <rclift@nswc.navy.mil>Russ Poffenberger <poffen@San-Jose.ate.slb.com>JOSEPH AAJ Chackompally <AAJ@necsin.nec.com.sg>Aleksandar Milivojevic <alex@srce.hr>James Kwong ...

Hi managers -- got a couple of responses to my question. Much thanks to:  Scott F. Woods <sfw@adc.idt.com>  Jay Morgan <jmorgan@qualix.com>The consensus is that this is probably a driver problem leading to failureof the auto-negotiation. The fix is to turn off ...

Once again the list responds within minutes. This is great.Thanks to Matthew Stier and Tim Carlson who both clarified the problem.The files must reside in ~ftp Youcannot follow symlinks out of ~ftp since ~ftp has been chroot'ed to andis in fact the root of your file system when you login ...

> Hello,> > man pages on showrev on 2.6 say following:> > -s hostname Perform this operation on the specified host-> name. The -s operation completes correctly only> when hostname is running Solaris 2.5 or> later.> > But, look at the ...

Thanks to all those who replied. Sorry for the delay in posting the summary. It's that time of the year again.The original question was > I am defining static routes in a sparc machine running Solaris 2.5.1> by using the route add command.> Everything works fine but when I reboot the ...

First, I must apologize for the late summary...between training,holidays, and vacation, I simply ran out of time...but enough with thepleasantries...on to the good stuff:Here's the original question:<clip>>>Has anyone seen, or know about, a tool for Solaris 2.x that ...

After reading the responses, I decided the best way to repair the wtmpxfile was to write a (simple)perl script to read in the records, cut outthe garbage(only 164 bytes of crap was screwing everything up), andclose the space back up(I should be a surgeon). This worked, and I alsofound out lots ...

I would like to thank everyone for their timely answers to myquestion. Thanks to:Arvinder Paul <arvinder@ibd.investors.com>Jeff Wasilko <jeffw@smoe.org>rudy yu <ryu@legato.com>Martin Oksnevad <martin@stavanger.geoquest.slb.com>"Karl E. Vogel" ...

Thanks to everyone who replied.The original question was:I'm working on creating a securied chroot() shell environment underSolaris 2.6. So far, I have all my /bin, /lib, /etc, /dev directories created,and I have minimal functionality of a shell. However, 'ls -l' and any otherprograms that ...

On Mon, 29 Dec 1997, DP2 David A. Wanamaker wrote:> > I have a partition from a network appliances server mounted on my > Solaris 2.5 box. The admin person for the network appliances server gave > me root access to the mounted partition. With the root access, I would ...

Hello,        Sorry about the delay in response but I was trying to find the patch number before I posted the replies. Many thanks to Ade Faleti, Skye Poier, and Frank Cusack. Apparently this is a known bug in 2.6. My Sun rep has not giving any patch ...

My stupid self . . .What I FORGOT to do is reboot! Damnit I hate when that happens. Ohwell, thanks guys but no thanks things *seem* to be working fine fornow. Once I rebooted I was able to cd to the mount point and do an lsand see the remote files. Now I only have to add a few users and . . ...

Thanks to the following for their reply:Glenn Satchell <glenn@uniq.com.au> and toGlenn Rickersey <glennr@wormald.com.au> who originally send this informationto Glenn Satchell about two years ago.Here is the solution which helped me to make the TLZ06 work withSunOs 4.1.3:1. Original ...

Thanks to all who replied. I have received over 30 replies!Forgive me to not to list the names who replied. Here is my summary:1) Sean Ward <wards@snk077.ast.lmco.com> pointed:Subject: 10.1) My rdump is failing with a "Protocol botched" ...

--- Thanks to the following for responding to my question:Tim Carlson <tim@santafe.edu>Stephen Harris <sweh@mpn.com>Avi J. Levin <alevin@ltcm.com>Kevin.Sheehan@uniq.com.auJens Fischer <jefi@kat.ina.de>raju@hoho.ecologic.net---- Response summary ----The majority of ...

I didn't receive any solutions for the following (posted 12/16):----------------------------------------------------------------------Our database server sometimes emit a bunch of the following messages in /var/adm/messages:   WARNING: kernel map: rmap overflow, lost [xxx, yyy]I ...

Many thanx to all who responded, namely:Boyko, SteveJason L. HarrellArtur ShnayderMark A. FaustStefan VossMatthew StierEugene KramerJoseph S D YaoCraig W. ShaverLiz MarlowMark 'Hex' HershbergerDavid Thorburn-GundlachDave TeoSorry about the delay. I had to exchange private mail to clarify afew ...

SUMMARY:It seems that the client with the problem had changed hostnames to a newname then back to the old name while the server was still up (not mydoing). This seemed to be the authentication problem. I think it wasconfused. The solution was to reboot the server then the client.Thanx for ...

Hi, all.Well, I have to say this list is really great.Many thanks to the following which have been the first to reply:"Brion Leary" <brion@dia.state.ma.us>djohnson@nbserv2.dseg.ti.com (Danny Johnson)Casper Dik <casper@holland.Sun.COM>"Bruce Rossiter" ...

original post:> error mesage: write error 24 feet into tape 1> > My Exabyte 8505 8mm tape drive gives me this error everytime I try to write> to a tape. I used a cleaner tape and tried new tapes but get the same error> when using tar or ufsdump.> > I have a quote of $700 ...

On my original questions about NIS+ implementation in a heterogenousenvirnment...My environment:> We currently have a mix of machines running SunOS 4.1.3, 4.1.4;> Solaris 2.5.1, 2.6; HP-UX 9.05, 9.07, 10.01, 10.20; ULTRIX 4.4> and OSF/1 v 1.3 and v 3.0 (Alphas)> > We are looking ...

Well I guess you can't have your cake and eat it too.Thanks to:rali@meitca.com & dean@osi.SYLVANIA.comand whoever else should respond.who suggested that I change my /etc/default/login thuslyCONSOLE=/dev/console -> #CONSOLE=/dev/console     On our development ...

Many thanks to all who responded. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------Original question------------------------------------------------------------------------------On Mon, 16 Dec 1996, Eduardo E. Silva wrote:Hi,What is the MTU for FastEthernet (be0) on ...

Dear Managers,Suggestions are as follows:1. Set quota on mail spool; (Nearly most responses suggested)2. Set cronb job to mail users when the mail spool file is too large;3. Set cronb job to move mail spool file to users'home when too large;4. Set cronb job to remove old mail;5. Post ...

Note: This is a long summary, but hopefully useful to others considering this type of problem.Recap of my question:>Is it feasable to configure a second server with the same hostname/IP>as the first as a backup for High Availability, and boot it up when>needed. I am exploring this ...

Thanks to the (too numerous to name) folks who replied to this request!Everytime I try to summarize, I find another half dozen or so responses.I'll take a snapshot of it for this summary.Most folks are using version 3.4. Some mentioned proctool, which I agreeis a 'better' tool in some ...