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 ...

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% ...

Well I only received one response asking why I was using NIS+ to begin with.I did however figure out how to do mass changes on NIS+ tables. You simplydump the table into a flat filenisaddent -d 'tablename' > filenamemake your changes and then replace the tablenisaddent -rvf 'filename' ...

Original question:Hi there. I've got a Sparc Storage Array, full of 2 gig disks, and Ihad a question about RAIDing it. After going through all of thedocumentation, I couldn't find a formula which would tell me how muchdisk I should expect to get out of a RAID 5 filesystem. How can Ifind ...

Hi again!Appologies for the delay in getting the summary out :(Many thanks to all those who replied.A few people recommended reading Hal Stern's primer on async comms,while Hal recommended a product sold by Sun 8-()If anyone wants a copy of Hal's postscript document, please let me ...

Hello,My problem to my crontab error post can be relegated to the classic "UserError" type. As I am a devout csh advocate. I had been absently mindedusing "set" prior to the environmental setting for EDITOR. I do appreciatesome of the responses I got however and it is nice ...

Hi all,My problem has not yet been resolved. I had to reload my machine becauseof routine maintenance, so I have to wait for another 60+ days of uptimefor it to re-appear. Thanx for all the people that answered and tried tohelp. Although Ed Finch did not answer my question directly he send me ...

Original query:> We are replacing an old mailserver with a shiny new Sun. Unfortunately,> the users all previously had email addresses of first-initial-last-name> regardless of the length so user Jerry Weisenheimer had an account> jweisenheimer. While Solaris (2.7) complains about ...

Thanks all, for the quick solution:I needed to put:mark.none" onto the end of the line loggingthings to /var/adm/messages in /etc/syslog.confand then stop and restart syslogd.Thanks to:James CobyFrank CusackArthur Darren DunhamSabrina Downard Rich SnyderChristopher M. ConwayAndrew ...

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----Hash: SHA1To switch from using DHCP to hardcoding your IP:1. Delete /etc/dhcp.interface-name (hme0 for instance)2. Make sure your hostname is in /etc/hostname.interface-name 3. Make sure the correct entry for your machine is in /etc/hosts. 4. Reboot.In my case ...

Hello,I was wondering the name of the products which can provide highavailability for Solaris 2.x platforms. I am searching a product like theHP MC/ServiceGuard.Here are the answers I have received:- SUN HA, Solstice HA- QualixHA+- Veritas FirstWatchMost of you give these three answers, so ...

        RESOLUTION:                Many thanks to Peter Polasek for suggesting xmon. I wasable to get this X protocol monitoring ...

Fellow Managers -Dave Foster <foster@dim.ucsd.edu> also contributed the following: There are two general misunderstandings stated here about NIS security: 1) You are *not* vulnerable to people offsite using ypcat to get password    information, provided that ...

Thanks for prompt reply about my question. I simply forward the answerto the list which solved my problem. Thanks Andrew.>>mount. For instance, original /www->/home (in linux) now become>>/www -> /home(in solaris now). How can I solve this problem?>>How about using sym ...

I received a single reply on this (quoted below) that led my attentionto the GCOS field in general; as it turned out, someone (else:-) hadadded a few users with 8-bit characters in the GCOS field, whichdefinitely is a no-no, at least on SunOS 4.x systems. Changing alloccurrences of these ...

I had nine responses. Most supported the initial upgrade whenever possible.There were some really great comments for some gotchas to look out for, ifany, if you do the upgrade. It's definately worth reading if you're tryingto decide which route to take.One of cons of the upgrade that I ...

Original question: Hi, Sun-managers;> > I am using PC X-ware, and xdm server is Solaris 2.4(Sparcserver 1000), I can> not> view the answerbook both on Openwin and CDE, it comes up something like "> can not start viewer> ..... can't create DPS context...."> ...

Original Post:        <snip>        Is the syncing of filesystems now a system function rather        than a cron job? If so, how can I change the frequence ...

Thanks for the responses from many sun managers.The backup problem which I encounted is due to the misleading informationwhich dump provides and the missing parameters to dump. The problem issolved after I ignore those rewind messages and adding the parameters.Rgds,Kenneth Cho-----Original ...

Thanks to William Hathaway <wdh@poss.com> for his resolution to my problem!!Also thanks to Sean <shadow6@bellsouth.net>.William writes:  I think the problem is that there is an old /kernel/drv/logindmux ( andpossibly .conf) file. The 2.6 kernel module is ...

ORIGINAL QUESTION:> This time: memory usage. We've got an E3500 (Solaris 2.6) running Oracle> 8.0.5. We've allocated 1GB of memory to Oracle. The machine has 4GB of> memory. It's not doing anything but Oracle.> It's swapping. All 4GB are full. Is there anything like ...

Managers:Sorry for summary delay......Many thanks to those who responded....their namesand e-mail addresses are included in the body of the summary along with theirreplies. I can only surmise that there are not that mant unix softwaredistribution tools or that no one uses such things out there ...

Hello Sun gurus,Sorry to be so late about this summary but here it is !I have received many posts about my following original post :> ==========================================================================>> I would like to get a trace of each deleted files when I use "rm" ...

Thanks to Dan Lowe, David Foster, Logan Stout, and Tom Zurita.While no one hit the exact command that was because I did not give enough info. The suggestions were m64config and GFXconfig,neither of which are on my system -- because I have an Elite3Dgraphics accelerator. I saw the common ...

I had Wyse 60 terminals which worked fine on Sparc 5s but whichfailed to display POST messages when attached to Ultra 1s (though theyfunctioned fine once Solaris had booted).The fix was to change an NVRAM parameter:ttya-rts-dtr-off=falsechanged to:ttya-rts-dtr-off=trueNow, the terminal is fully ...

       There is another option for VERY effective software distribution  (and allot more).  (Document link not converted) http://www.tivoli.com       Tivoli handles Enterprise Management. This includes ...

Thanks to all that responded.The problem was my fault. I had forgotten to udate my .login file to test for SunOS 5.6. I was loading some environment variables for SunOS 4.x.Thanks todtg@cae091.ed.ray.com,david@bae.uga.eduMichael PavlovCasper DikPaul ...

First of I must extend my thanks to all the people who replied.I definitely benifitted from the responses.Here is the list of people who responded:Rik Schneider <rik@netasset.com>Jeff Wasilko <jeffw@smoe.org>Nickolai Zeldovich <kolya@zepa.net>Todd M. Wilkinson ...

Looks like the problem was in incorrect ICP RAID array drivers initilization.First, i've set "Do processor reset at next boot" option in BIOS to Yes.After test boot from first CD ( NOT Install CD, but Software CD 1 ) psrinfo reportstwo processors ( 8-\ ).After booting from installed ...

To all who replied to my original posting, thankyou.I perhaps gave the mistaken impression that I was actually having securityand / or access problems with a user. What I am trying to do is restrict access to a user and provide an audit trailbut otherwise the user I want to su to is a normal ...

I sent question a couple of minutes ago, I solve it .-------------------------Solaris 2.5.1 on Ultra 1compiled sendmail8.8.7 with not error and warnning messages.When run sendmail it hang over there...any ideas?ThanksYing-------------------------The problem is I have wrong domain name on my ...

I finally have a summary for this.This turned out to be more an IBM problem than Sun.The machine has ten 9-Gig IBM drives.It turned out that even after the drives are "clicked"properly in and the drive light comes on, they stillhad to be pushed back a half inch deeper. The ...

I want to preserve target inode number when I overwrite a file.Thanks to Roy <rsr@macromedia.com> for pointing out thatcat /opt/local/config/inetsvc > /etc/init.d/inetsvcdoes precisely what I want.--skOriginal query attached.--sk---------- Forwarded message ----------Date: Tue, 30 Nov ...

Outstanding responses....here they are...Subject:        UBE/medium: Re: behavior of ls    Date:        Tue, 6 Oct 1998 14:12:31 ...

 Sorry for the late report and thank all of you who replied. You made me sure, that it should work and it worked when I physically moved the disk. Now I'll give you some more details about original problem, may be it will be helpfull. Here is the scenario: I had Ultra-10 333Mhz ...

Thanks to:Sean QuaintRasana AtreyaAnthony DavidRay BuckleyValOriginal Question:==================I couldn't login the system using telnet or the Console Login.Solution:=========The /usr/bin/login file was corrupted. By substituting it with a backupversion I solved the problem.Thanks,Ivan de ...

My original question:>To respond to this security threat, I'm attempting to tell my firewall to>not respond to ping packets. I've commented out the "echo" service and>"portmapper" is no longer running... but still the annoying "firewall is>alive" ...

My original post:>I upgrade SUN SPARC computer from SOLARIS 2.5.1 to SOLARIS 2.6. After>upgrade, I reboot the system and following message come up:>> ARC/INFO License Manager fired up...> License manager:socket: invalid argument>>The ARCINFO version is 7.1.1. Anyone ...

 Thanks to   Wim Olivier   Michael Kriss   Rich Kulawiec   Dave Carrigan   Sean Quaint   Harvey Wamboldt   Justin Walker  lsof program has been very helpful to find the ...

Hello managers,Thank you very much for your prompt reply.I followed the instructions from the NIS+ FAQ and promoted our root replica to rootmaster without problem. Thank you very much to:Veronica <veronica@uac.edu.au>Gary Merinstein ...

Thanks to everyone who is helping us "limp" along until we receive ournew hard drive from Sun.The original question was:I am looking for a utility similar to Norton on a PC to bandage a harddrive on a Sparc 10 until I receive a new drive. Doesn't a similarutility come with Solaris ...

Original post at the end.My two responses pointed out that I was suffering a hardware, specifically,disk problem. After some research on Sunsolve I found that there were acouple of patches for the 5100 that fixed these errors, they were notactually hardware but OS/kernel related.Now I no longer ...

Hello all,    This is far & away the most answers I have received from a question here(41 total). However, most ignored the sticky part of the question which washow to complete this THROUGH A FIREWALL. I received a few nasty RTFM's, butmuch excellent advice. I was able ...

Dear all  I asked a little while ago about this combination. It would  appear that there can be times and ways in which the newer  G3 Macs have problems with spanning tree on some switches.  This is distinct from the quad card/trunking which ...

As always, the answers came up almost instantly. Original question:> How can I check whether the load in a MP box is being distributed> among the processors - and correct the problem if it is not?Jeff Wasilko <jeffw@smoe.org>andgreg@crusoe.net (Greg Coleman (G-tech Corp.))pointed ...

Thanks a lot JonathanI asked a Sun engineer but even he was not sure about how to get to thedisk from the path. He said they generally to a format-analyze-read on aneighbouring disk to seethe lights blinking.Ameet ChaubalCaribiner InternationalOriginal question:Subject: How to find the slot on ...

My Original request:Hi,I am trying to create a dual boot system on an INTEL platform for Solaris7 X86and Redhat Linux 6.1, but without success. Has anybody been able to achieve this? If so how?Thanks in advanceMany thanks for the quick responses from the following:****>From ...

SUMMARY: Solaris 2.6 5/98 VM 3.04 VX 3.3.2 - max file size?sun-managers@codeprof.ececs.uc.eduSolaris 2.6 5/98 Kernel Patch Level 105181-23Veritas Volume Manager 3.0.4Veritas File-System 3.3.2Thanks to:Ken Zachmann ken@ella.slis.indiana.edublymn@baesystems.com.au (Brett Lymn)Darren Dunham ...

Hi        The original question------------------------------------------------------------------------------        I browsed the manuals which comes with a Sparc 4 Station to no avail(Solaris 2.5.1 Desktop), so ...