Hello all and many thanks for the responses.My initial query:>I'm running in an NIS+ envrionment (compatability mode) and have>users that occassionally forget their passwords. I have been>recredentialing the users each time I set a new password for>them. Seems like a pain in the ...

Hello managers,thank you all very much for your responses!I've asked:> How can i enter "Stop_A" if my console is attached to a terminal-server>(Lantronix) and i'm connected to that terminalserverport via net from>a totally different machine (Linux-Pc, Xterminal, Sun-, Sgi- ...

Hello gurus!My original posting:> We are having problems with sendmail. Again...> > Relaying, relaying, relaying...> > Since I do not master the mysteries of sendmail.cf> I am thinking of investing in another mail-system:> > SIMS - Sun Internet Mail Server> > I ...

[SUMMARY] Time synchronizationHere is a SUMMARY of some solutions contributed.Thanks for your response.----------------------------------------------------------------------------great program is xntpd. It is available ...

Thanks for all the prompt answers. The 100% consensus is that it's normally OK.Some answers suggested reversing the order of devlinks and disks.I should have specified the OS level in the question - at Sol7 and abovethere is the devfsadm command. > Is it reasonable to run> # ...

Well thanks again to all who replied.I looks like that there is a mixture of theories out there concerningthe fact that should you have different MAC addresses on the same host.This is all because Sun believe that you should only have oneethernet address for a WorkStation forgetting how many ...

I got a handful of respnses directing me to http://docs.sun.com,which is apparently having problems (and has been for as long asI've known about it.) I was unable to locate the Advanced Adminguide refferred to as a result. however, I was able to install allof the answerbooks that come with ...

Hello,As always thanks to the people who replied. I should also apologise becauseone of them (indirectly) mentioned the Sun doc site itself, and I must admitthat I didn't even think of checking there! :-) Sorry.Anyway, thanks to: John Malick <john@starinc.com>  who suggested: ...

The answer is "no", there is no way to automate users running nisclient-u.Thanks to:Francis LiuMarc GibianRasana Atreya--skStuart KendrickNetwork ServicesFHCRCOriginal post:> After populating the NIS+ tables from the passwd and shadow files, users> have to run "nisclient ...

Thanks for quick responses. I intend to get a copy of lsof for the lock file issue. Thanks to ...

I had asked for pointers to GZIP and TCSH binaries for SunOS 4.1.x,or that someone email me the binaries. Original post follows my summary.Thanks so much for everyone's replies! I apologize for being a bit toohasty to post, as I had found both binaries later that day by searcheson the ...

I had asked for pointers to GZIP and TCSH binaries for SunOS 4.1.x,or that someone email me the binaries. Original post follows my summary.Thanks so much for everyone's replies! I apologize for being a bit toohasty to post, as I had found both binaries later that day by searcheson the ...

Reissued for the auto-archivers with the right Subject...Hello, and, as always, thanks for the brain boost.The original question was :----- Begin Included Message -----Hello.We are running DNS alongside NIS on a SunOS 4.1.x environment. Formonths, I have been seeing messages like this on the ...

Hello!My original question:>I know that this question was do in this list in May but I have now>the same problem with a Ultra Enterprise with solaris 2.5.1 and I>don't know the meaning the error "watchdog reset". What is a watchdog?>Can anybody help me, ...

Thanks to all who replied. As I suspected, I had everything set correctly.However,I failed to think that the null-modem cable might be bad right out of thebox. This was thecase. Once I replaced the cable, I was back in business....Mark GosselinNetScout SystemsThanks toKevin KorbStephen ...

I got several responses from all of you. Thanks to all of you. Specially,Kevin Buterbaugh, Pesach Goldman, and John Malick.Eventually, it comes to RAM.,and it's allocation.1. I take away RAM from Sybase, and give it back to OS. That seems tobe working ok, because my Swap is not kicking ...

Many thanks to all these replies :and my thanks to those who figured that such an easy symptom would be well served by a single / inevitable reply...Kevin Sheehan {Consulting Poster Child} <Kevin.Sheehan@uniq.com.au>Edward C. Zimmermann <edz@bsn.com>Jason Keltz ...

Hi all.First I would like to thank the following people for answering me:Marc S. GibianJosh HustonDavid S. FosterErwin FritzChristophe DIARRACasper DikJohn StoffelLet me explain our environment. We have (like many I suppose), aheteroogeneous environment of UNIX and Windows 95/NT machines. The ...

Hi,I got some answers (thanks to those, who responded), but none of them helped me. I used m64config in console mode with different resolutions, then started the X server - no result, I changed the output-device in the eeprom - no result (i did it earlier with a CG6 card and it worked there). ...

Answer:The hard disk was corrupted andthe machine could not boot from it so itthen attempts to boot off the network. If you hold down the stop and a keystogether you can then enter the prom mode, boot off of the CDROM, andre-isntall the OS. Good thing I have the data backed up :-).I have a ...

On 30-Nov-98 Jon E. Kump wrote:> Were having some problems with the tcp/ip stack under solaris 2.6_x86> > Here is the scenerio:> We have 2 servers acting as mail servers. both for sending/receiving> mai> l. They also do the pop-3 services for our clients. What is ...

Hello Sun manager,Sorry for late summary, and here is my original question:> Big problem - I cannot boot up an old old system which has old Sun OS 4.2 R3.2.> > The system is actually a few board inside an old tester. That's why we cannot> upgrade the OS. The system disk is an old ...

For my purposes, the two best approaches were the 'plfs' script andcombining/comparing the various outputs of 'iostat'. Thanks for theinfo and suggestions, everyone!David Harnick-ShapiroMy original query:> Is there any reliable way to map the output of 'prtconf' to the names> of ...

THANKS;Kevin.Sheehan@uniq.com.au johnb@Soliton.COMtkld@cogsci.ed.ac.ukKevin Davidsoncasper@holland.Sun.COMsweh@mpn.com Liu.Xu@PRC.Sun.COMORIGINAL;} } When I attempt to compile any assembler programs on my } 2.5.1 machines, I am always greeted with the following;} } >> gcc multi.s -o ...

Thank you to all.I Called to Sun support for replace the SIMM.Zaludos.----------------------------------------------------------------------Ing. Cesar E. Vazquez MorenoMicrosoft Certified System EngineerComision de Avaluos de Bienes ...

Thanks to all who responded. Apologies for my delay posting the Summary.The question was: How do I capture text from a serial port and log to afile?There were two general responsesOption one: Use KermitOption two: Write a shell script using stty. Douglas Carrdougcarr@bae.uky.edu had the ...

Hi,I will give the answers below. I am planning to upgrade Solaris 2.6. So Iwill wait this one. But Samir Arora send a program to be able toread answer books from exceed. I want to try this one also on one ofservers but I did not do yet. Thanks to all.Thank you very much for all your answers ...

Thanks to all who responded. Apologies for my delay posting the Summary.The question was: How do I capture text from a serial port and log to afile?There were two general responses. However a (small C program I imagine)binary was sent to me as well as a suggestion to use Peek.Option one: ...

Dear all,Great thanks for all the help. I find this list give the mostquick and helpful answer. Again, great thanks for you all.Some passages I have taken from these e-mails for the summary are:1. ********************First, you put the startup script, usually dhcpd, in /etc/init.d ...

Thanks list; special thanks to:Renny Koshy <renny@qts.com>Dave Staggs <dstaggs@kcii.com>Greg Polanski <greg_polanski@adc.com>"Tony C. Wu" <tonywu@life.nthu.edu.tw>Chris Marble <cmarble@orion.ac.hmc.edu>Kevin Sheehan {Consulting Poster Child} ...

Craig Mason wrote:> > Hi All,> > I have just installed procmail-3.10 on Solaris 2.5.1 running> sendmail-8.7.6 I'll give you all the info now just incase. I'm trying to> incorporate procmail into the Mlocal definition of sendmail. It works> but not quite right. I have an ...

Dear Sun Managers,My original question described a situation where I had to move a multipackcontaining Disksuite 4.0 metadevices and state databases from one machineto another. I wanted how to preserve the metadevices and the file systems they contained and my main concern was that the state ...

Dear sun managers :The solution for the repeated changing login password when user trying tolog into the client Nis+ machine is due to the date of both themachine are not synchronised.the solution is to issue "rdate "master Nis+ machine" " in the client machine.Thanks to all ...

Admins,Sorry about the late summary.The majority of people responded with."It will work but go to Sun Cluster 3.0 if you can."Thanks to Mark Regis, Mathew Briggs and Mark Alvidrez.Regards,NathanP.S Holiday greetins to you allNathan DietschSystems ConsultantAccess Systems ...

My question:> > Would you so kind to help me?> I need information about telnet scripts under Solaris.> I want to run some command on remote machine by local crontab.> Where can get some examples on this topic?> Many THANKS to all replied!Almost all advise to use rsh(ssh) or ...

Yet again the sun-managers list comes through in record time!I only posted the problem this morning and I have a solutionalready.The original question was;> We have just taken delivery of our first UltraSPARC 1 machine from> SUN which will be used as a corporate database server. The ...

Thanks "John T. Douglass" and Martin Hepworth Original Post:> > > Hi all,> > Do my binaries - thirdparty, user compiled - compiled and running> on> > Solaris 2.5 will run as it is on Solaris 7.> > > > I wish to NFS mount our software disk on Sol ...

Thanks to:O'Neal,Chris" onealwc@AGEDWARDS.comBecki Kain bkain@erim.orgJim Robertori jimr@tpesops.pr.lucent.com"Matthew Stier" Matthew.Stier@tddny.fujitsu.comMark Mellman mellman@surfcity.ne.mediaone.netRik Schneider rik@netasset.comJohn Vaughan jvaughan@agency.comRuss ...

I never did quite figure out why the CD kept timing out. I did a bit ofresearch and found that Solaris 2.4 has a bug in the esp driver whichcauses problems similar to what I was having. I ended up just grabinganother old "junk box" (Sparc ClassicLX) and used it. Actually, I wenta ...

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----Thanks to many people for pitching in on this one; none of thesuggestions got to the heart of the problem, though (problem beingthat I couldn't get keyboard input to go through to the CDE login boxafter making the indirect connection from the Linux ...

The best bet to uninstall DHCP (and any other network settings that wereconfigured on first install) is to do a sys-unconfig, which resets thefollowing to their "factory defaults" and halts the system:required:/etc/nodename contains the machine's name, of course./etc/hostname.* ...

Thanks to :Valentin Popa <Val.Popa@east.sun.com>Bernt Christandl <beb@MPA-Garching.MPG.DE>The solution suggested by Bernt Christandlworked and is :---------------------------------as usual with unix, there are many ways to heaven, but none that cangarantuee that you arrive ...

Hi all,Original message:---I am on a Sun Sparc server 20 with solaris 2.4 installed. I have beenusing automatic FTP with .netrc for quite some time now. What I amfacing, is when the amount of files to be transferred is large, i getthe following output from the FTP redirection: "4K macro ...

Many of you replied that way I went about doing this was more or lesscorrect. The one thing that made this successful was making sure theguy 'cded' into /a and did the ufsrestore. We did this before but atthe time it didn't work. Now all of a sudden it works! It's highlyprobable that ...

A *lot* of you responded to my query about the mechanics and operationof this mailing list. It's taken me several days to turn all thoseresponses into this summary, because while there was a general consensus,there were a lot of diverse points of view expressed.The consensus seems to work out ...

  Thanks to those who took the time to reply.   Michael J Connolly <mjconnly@ckcorp.com>   Greg Polanski <greg_polanski@adc.com>   Thomas Wong <twong@ipsg.mot.com>   Brett Lymn ...

Thank you to all who helped me out. I received lots of good suggestions!The solution was that the tape host was identifing other machines asdomain.name and not machine.domain.name, I made some adjustments in thensswitch.conf file and everything works fine.Dave ParkerHere are just a few of the ...

I asked:> I'm trying to get the syntax right on this "find" command, and I'm> hoping that someone else can see what I'm missing. I want this> command to only look on local filesystems and ignore anything that> is NFS mounted. "-mount" or "-xdev" ...

[SUMMARY] Max number of processes per userI had originally asked how to adjust the maximum number of processesallowed per user. I had the answer before I got my own question!Thank-you very much:        "Arora, Samir" ...

I've tried old drivers and some pretty ugly hacks to get this going, but<p>no luck. I suppose I'll just have to upgrade to the qfe style driver<p>cards.<p>JOhn Weekley<p>