Thanks to everyone who pitched in to help me with this problem.The original problem:--------------------------We're having problems getting to www.adobe.com. When we go there all weget is a "Host contacted, waiting for reply". When we telnet to port 80 ofwww.adobe.com from the ...

Special thanks to Dik Casper and Erica Fowler.It is on solaris8 CD 1. I viewed it on my PC, somehow it only displays partof the CD. YingSU BEFORE POSTING please READ the FAQ located atN ftp://ftp.cs.toronto.edu/pub/jdd/sun-managers/faq. and the list POLICY statement located atM ...

I just found out that recently there was change on the automounter"auto.home" map, although the mounter was working fine on all theclients/servers, its was not working as changed on the "mailhost". Thats why the mail was not getting forwarded.Thanx to everyone who tried to ...

Thanks a lot Managers.This time it was all my fault.I had a savecore in rc file, which was saving to /home , which was wrongdirectory and had filled up / when savecore executed after system panic./home is a mountpoint used by automount and when system was up Icouldn't notice the vmcore.0 file ...

I would like to thankStephen Frost <sfrost@mitretek.org>Gene Rackow <rackow@mcs.anl.gov>David Schiffrin <daves@adnc.com>for their quick responses. It sounds like anysca drive will work in a SPARC 20 or ULTRA aslong as there is enough ventilation. Thanks again!!ScottOn Mon, 3 ...

Hi, Thanks !!It was set to 100mbps but was not full duplexwe did it and it went through fine.PS: le0 dosent support full duplex mode... only hme0 or qfe0 ...The following may prove useful in support of this:=====How to force the HME card to work at 100mb (full-duplex).If the auto negotiate does ...

> -----Original Message-----> I have a mixed NIS containing (among other elements) HP10.20 and> Solaris2.6.> I have a resolv.conf on both that include a search list and a list of > nameservers. Both also have an nsswitch.conf that contains:> hosts: files ...

        Thanks go to:Karl Meiser <karlm@interaccess.com>Michael Fuhr <mfuhr@dimensional.com>Claus Assmann <ca@informatik.uni-kiel.de>        What I wanted to do was to get virtual domains. After ...

My original query:>I was just curious why there are 2 su binaries on my 2.5.1 box:>>(61) $ ls -l /usr/bin/su /sbin/su>-r-sr-x--- 1 root su 342448 Oct 7 22:01 /sbin/su*>-r-sr-x--- 1 root su 15908 Oct 7 22:02 /usr/bin/su*The answer:From: Casper Dik ...

I stand corrected:Stephen Harris <sweh@mpn.com> wrote:Craig,It truely isn't needed.With normal file system semantics (ie a local UFS disk), if you delete afile that is open, then the filename is deleted, but the file itselfisn'tfully removed until all "opens" are closed on the ...

Thanks to all who answered ( they were many ! ).Next time I think I should search in the man pagesmore carefully.The original question was :>How is is it possible to refuse access via FTP to a>stand-alone Solaris 2.5.1 machine on specific users ?>>Could I add an entry to the ...

Problem was during an Install (not Upgrade) of Solaris 2.6 on an Ultra1using the interactive installation program, the install would exit with:        Exiting (caught signal 8)after specifying what level of installation (eg. Developer) I wanted.(Now ...

Hi Everyone,I got a few replies to this...It ended up being the duplex setting between the switch, I am using and thesun I am using... The sun does notautonegotiate very well..For some reason, the sun will only communicate at 10Mbps at Half Duplex..When I set both ends to this, ...

Thanks you very much for the response.Both Pravin Raka <pravinraka@usa.net>Doug Winter <dwinter@businesseurope.com> have hit the head of the nail.To enhance performance and help eliminate thefollowing warning generated by the Web servers (for example Apache): try ...

Thanks to all who replied to my question:    1 Oct 22 Matthew Stier (62) Re: NIS Netgroup    2 Oct 22 Rodney C. Marable (58) Re: NIS Netgroup    3 Oct 22 Suzanne Taylor (53) Re: NIS ...

 Hello Managers, Thank you to all who responded so quickly !  And special thanks to Jim Harmon, that put the subject in a very nice form. I will list his reply.  SUMMARY: Your problem is seriously compounded by the use of a single partition tohouse root, /var, and ...

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----In short, yes---it is emminently doable. The key is telling the Xserver to query for or look for remote xdm processes as outlined inthe xdm manpage under XACCESS (or ACCESS CONTROL; I forget).Several people think that I am crazy for wanting to administer ...

Hello!My question was:I want to buy two SUN servers and a scsi disk storage (with 2controllers) and I want share this storage with the 2 SUN servers but Ihaven'tthe Cluster software. I know that it's not posible to acces at the sametime to storage from the 2 sun servers , but Is posible to ...

Hello all,First, thanks very much to Charles Seeger, Dave Floyd, GomathinayagamSank, Jose Luis Martinezand Mark G Thomas who responded to my question below.Some recommended to use dump/restore of (/) and (/usr) to new disk ortape and theninstall boot block to a new disk, and some recommended to ...

Hi allThanks for the helpI had some funky stuff in my /etc/inetd.confInstead of /usr/sbin/in.rshd I had /usr/sbin/tcpd. Which I guess is somekind of custom scriptor tacp wrapper generated by previous admin.When I changed that everything was okThanks everybody for the helpAmeetOriginal ...

Hello Sun-Gurus:My original Query was:>:I am seeking recommendations for a good way to take a sun output and :display it on big screen sony TV or get some other kind of equipment :to give a good & clear presentation.::Presently, I have taken our Sun output to a Hyperconverter 1280 and ...

Thanks very much for your help:Ester MullerScott BalfourMoti LevyBrian ScanlanRodney WinesMichael MillerLucia GonzalezBaurjan IsmagolovDan LoweJon M. HaydenParmjit SanghaLeif H. EricksenLarry GarrettMark NeillChad PriceRobert FulwilerBill HebertQuestion:> Hi to everyone,> I'm a litle ...

Hello all,I've got answers from two people (i guess that SRC/P is not so popular, is it?):Chris Cariffe <chris@zippy.baydat.org>Sydney Weinstein <syd@verne.myxa.com>Chris told me that SRC/P cards are not sold anymore, which is half true:Sun stopped shipments of SRC/P in early 2000 ...

 Hello Managers, Thank you to all who responded so quickly !  And special thanks to Jim Harmon, that put the subject in a very nice form. I will list his reply.  SUMMARY: Your problem is seriously compounded by the use of a single partition tohouse root, /var, and ...

hi gurus,Many many thanX to all who responded. the list is very long.everybody pointed out that it was a DNS (name resolution) issue. indeed itwas.the host A entry was not there in the host database of host B at all whereas host C entry was there. so when C tried to login to B it gives the ...

Hello Sun_Managers,Thank you all for responding to my question. Altogether a total of31 people answered . Thanks for such a great response.The names are just too many to mention .Solution:-I have removed the word secure from /etc/ttytab and thing seems to workin SUNOS4.x.The most common answer ...

After discovering 'mailq' I asked if there was a way to 'cycle' specificemail messages that were 'stuck' in the queue that I KNEW were bad. Ididn't want to kill the message but just force it to bounce as if it hadpassed the normal 3 day waiting period that our sendmail is set to.A ...

Original Question:> Managers,> > Does Sun have official "drop dead" dates when they will stop providing> support for specific versions of Solaris? I was checking the release> notes for Solaris 2.6, but I didn't see any mention of it.> > I know this sounds weird, ...

Special thanks to :Bill Armand [barmand@home.com]Shaw, Marco [marco.shaw@nbtel.nb.ca]Hashim Rais [hashimra@zoology.um.edu.my]Shoshana Billik [shoshana@billik.com]Chris Cariffe [chris@zippy.baydat.org]Here is my original question:> Hello,> I will say I have about some 400 machines and in ...

Initial Problem===============When performing a Jumpstart install of a server using the SUNWCreq cluster, an admin was unable to remove packages within the cluster such as "SUNWqfed" (quad-fe drivers), even if the system didn't have a quad fast ethernet driver installed.My original ...

        Hello again managers,        Thanks to (in alphabetical order):Anders Hammarquist <iko@dd.chalmers.se>Celeste Stokely <celeste@celestial.stokely.com>Christopher L. Barnard ...

I don't believe I posted a summary to this. Just 2 replies. Also, haven'tyet been able to pull the drive off the old server to verify if it'll workor not.Thanks to Shaun and Robert for their answers. Original question at the end.LisaI don't know about this exact combination but I have had ...

Original Question :> > > I' ve already posted a similar question sometime ago, but although I have > received some answers , the problem remains. > I have a Sun DDS2 and I am trying to backup a SunOS 4.1.3 machine,> while the DDS2 is attached to a Solaris 2.5.1 machine. I ...

DOH!I got the answer almost immediately (and can't believe I didn't see it myself.-pate[the following answer is from Mark Neill]>>chomp() operates directly on the string. The return value from it is the>number of characters removed. Just chomp $string, don't assign ...

Well that generated some interest and a lot of suggestions, some ofthem even useful :-) For those of who came in late, I needed to deleteold spooled print jobs, so I needed a way of finding files which are> XX minutes old. Nobody had a fully correct shell solution, becauseI can't ignore ...

Thanks for all responses. The problem turned out to be quite trivial after all. After the upgrade The nsswitch.conf changed. We had a dns entry for hosts in that file originally. The line was changed to read:hosts: dns filesThis solved the problem. sendmail.cf was also changed. The oldfile cf ...

I had originally asked for opinions on optical jukeboxes to store 20+ TB ofOracle databases. The overwhelming response: optical jukeboxes areSSSSSLLLLOOOOWWWW. People suggested looking into a SAN solution. On the optical disk front, HP seems to be the vendor of choicecoupled with Amass ...

Original question:> I am using Data Backup Utility(nwadmin) and set up unix compress mode,> I have 7-14 GB unipack tape dirve, it never go up to 7 GB. How can I> set up> to use 14 GB? I di dnot find any switches and button on the tape> drive.> The answer is: use device name ...

My original question was in regards to finding an NFS-like component forMacs. My current situation is with Network Appliance filers, so Ididn't try any of the suggestions that needed UNIX boxes.Here's a recap of the suggestions I got:tcpCONNECT4 (www.intercon.com) - ...

thanks a lot to Simon Dray<Simon,Dray@bbsrc.ac.uk>, andBuddy<blum-ts@seatimes.com>. they both suggested not to use dd but ufsdump and ufsrestore.Original Question:Solaris 7-x86.i have done a dd likedd if=<ide disk> of=<scsi disk> bs=100kand now, my disk is ...

Hi, list:Many thanks to Michael Grice, Pete Durst, Jeff Cole and Eric S. Bryant. I might go with Solaris 7 now, as there is no book for Solaris 8 certification yet.FYI: HP has a certification which must be renewed by re-taking the exam whenever a new certification program is out there, which is ...

I got some more info on the issue, Bill Proud said that upgrading to2.5.1 won't do any good. Bill sees the same thing on his fully patchednetnews server. John Di Marco said that he ran into the sameproblem and the cause turned out to be a disk drive that couldn'thandle SCSI command tag ...

The original query concerned a shell script from inside HP's `JetAdmin forSolaris' utilities, containing a loop of the formcat file | awk | sort | while LINE=`line`;  do    some stuff with $LINE  doneI had about ten responses, the majority of which ...

Hi I wanted to know if SGI supports NIS+. Apparently it does not. So it isNIS+ in yp compatibility mode for us.Thanks a lot to:From: "Trevor Paquette" <TrevorPaquette@aec.ca>From: Colin Matthews <cybcpm@cyber.rdg.ac.uk>From: Benjamin Cline <benji@hnt.com>From: Stuart ...

hi sunners!  thanks for your timely help. i have succefully configured asppp today at my customers place.thanks to all of u great persons.ashish nanjianiwipro infotechbombayindiaashish_nan@hotmail.com______________________________________________________Get Your Private, Free Email at ...

        Original Question:        I am interested in removing a RAID array off of a running system, howeverI have an oracle database running on the machine off of another couple ofcontrollers that I do not wish to ...

Special thanks to: Andrew Petrov [andreyp@nnov.impexbank.ru]here is his answer:This mean what there is a host with HP OpenView installed in your network.Sometimes it explore the network, but can't receive an answer fromyour host.I think you should speak with guy, who responsible for HP ...

Hello,Apologies for the slightly delayed summary - I was on an NT server admin andsecurity course last week. (Must say I prefer unix - but then I guess I ambiased :-))I received quite a lot of replies to this (my original message below). Manythanks to you all, but particularly Tim Pointing, ...

Thanks to the following who responded to my original question, regarding theslowness of the sync command on a SS1000E, which was locking up a Progressdatabase. (Full message included below)"Jurgen M." <sysjxm@devetir.qld.gov.au>Peter Marelas ...

Thanks very much for your responses.SUMMARY Primary reasons for reboot is when there are upgrades, patchesor hardware changes. Of course when the power is shut. Peter noted that there was a bug which hangs the server precisely after 237 days in Solaris 2.5 (It is fixed now) and Sun recommended ...