Folks-     I "solved" this problem by replacing the DNSconfiguration files with month old copies andHUPping named (updated the serial numbers of course).Things got better over the next few minutes. It turnsout that one of our ...

Guys:Many thanks to all that replied; And even thanks to the few who chose to chastize my use of this list! I appreciate the fact that people will just take time out of their busy schedules to help out... But I digress;My original question:Hey guys I have searched the archives inside and out, ...

My original message was:Hi Gurus !I am going to make a small project (and therefore cheap)and plan to use Solaris x86 operating system.Do somebody have any experience with its stability ?I hear that it was developed for studing purposes.Is it right ?I have got numerous number of replies,though ...

With your help and man pages, I found the following. Many of yousuggested that I create a global file with parameters that can besourced from the user's .login or .cshrc file. However, this is notreally a great solution because I would have to go into each user's.cshrc file and tell it to ...

Mu original Question was:Sun Gurus,I have a sparc10 machine running 5.7 version. I was having problems with the monitor. So I shutdown the system, changed the monitor and try to reboot it.........but it hangs exactly where it saysCopyright Sun MicroSystems 1983-19............I cant go any ...

Though th a question about the quotas mechanism was simple, I receivedadequate answers and I thank David Mitchell and Eugene Kramer for theirimmediate responseTher goes the answer:> I have set quotas but:> a) do I have to submit quotaon each time the system reboots, and howthis> can ...

Got a lot of good help on this one...I have a pdf version of the 1.1 quick start if anyone wants that (I'mnot sure if everyone wants me to pump that through the list)... fromVince Gonzalez..Basically a overwhelming theme was to make sure the major and minornumbers matched up... Summaries / ...

I wrote:> I have a Situation in which I'ld like to have our DNS have two> A Records for the same IP#. (Repeat: Same *Number*, not Name!)> I'ld like to know what Problems this could cause - there are> other Ways to achieve what I want, but they all cause undesirable> Effects, so ...

Weel folks, As was pointed out to me, several of the patches dinked with my standard C library (libc.so). I'm waiting on the beaurocracy to allow me to roll the patches back out until the problems goes away... has anyone else had any problems like this with the 2.6 recommended patch set? ...

Greetings!Many thanks to all who responded to my question about how to run a programas a certain user from an rc script.The problem was that we had a program that needed to be invoked at systemstartup time as the user "server". Many responded indicating that the best way to achieve ...

Thanks to DeMarco, Michael [MDemarco@mail.intracorp.com], Claudio Cuestas[claudio@kivex.com], Darren Dunham [ddunham@taos.com], Avila CastanedaSergio Antonio [savila@esmas.com.mx], Mark Luntzel [mark@neurosis.net], DougWinter [dwinter@businesseurope.com], Tim Conrad ...

Problem was that when directories mounted from SGI servers had over 172 files,the files do not show up when mounted onto our Solaris 2.6 systems.Quick solution came from Mark Olson, thanks Mark! This solution in fact works.I am reporting this as a bug anyway, as we don't want to revert to NFS ...

I sent out the following request:>> I have a SS1000 that has a mixture of FSBE and SWIFT cards in>it which are currently connected to a load of subnets on our network.>I now want to start putting a ethernet-switch into the network which>will get confused by the sun ...

Thanks to the following people for responding to my questionabout the "dump: bread: lseek fails" problem:Todd, Derek, Sean, Steve, Earl, Agnes, Ronald, Jeff, Anthony, Dave, Vladimir, Olivier, JonathanThe response was almost unanimous. I have a bad disk.Martin ...

Hi All,My Original question, can solaris 5.7 /7 run on sparc sation 5 .i've got a few responses all saying yes with no problem.i was asking this because when trying to install it i couldnt get the le0card to bind to any ip .I've done a few things (checked cabels card station ) with no luck ...

Many many apologies for the delay. Thanks to:Joel M FisherSuart WhitbyGary MulderChan Cao (x3!)David RobillardDeavid DayPenny Jaye DeeneyKevin ButerbaughNoetix IT staffand to Michael Glassgow for poking me into action. Thanks. :)sorry in advance if I missed ya.Summary:I got far more 'gut ...

Greetings,Thanks to the few who responsed:Simon.Kissler@valpo.edusteve@peachy.com (Steve Kay)The general feeling is Symon DOES chew up a great deal of resources and isnotwork running at this point.Regards,John WalpMy Original Post is at the end of this message:On Tue, 20 Oct 1998 14:32:07 -0400 ...

ORIGINAL QUESTION:My original question was regarding the veracity of a post to theFirewall-1 mailing list (shown edited here):------- start of forwarded message -------I dont know if everone know this. Solaris 2.5 uses streams to talk to thenetwork. They changed that in 2.6., Solaris 2.6 uses ...

Hi!I asked:>Two of my users get email under one alias. I want to know if I can set>something up that sends an informational message (via vacation mail?) back>when someone sends mail to this alias.I ended up installing procmail. It's a great tool. I'm enclosing othersuggestions ...

Hello Sun Managers,Here is my original post:> I have a Sparc 1 4/60 running SunOS 4.1.4 that has taken a severe> performance hit,> by this I mean everything is slow- disk I/O, network response time, a> simple df takes> 9 seconds as opposed to 2 seconds on a similar machine. We ...

HiFirst Thanks to Sam Vilain and Jerry Springer who gave me the correctanswer:Addsearch wayuu.com.co taiirona.com.arin resolv.conf . This allows hosts in wayuu.com.co to see hosts intaiirona.com.arHere is the original question> Hi Gurus.>> I'm trying to configure 2 zones (wayuu.com.co ...

I should learn not to work without suitable caffeine levels...Different orders to the dir's in the paths....The speed of this list just astounds me... ;-)Frank-------------------------------------------------------Frank Sargent - Network ManagerJohn P Robarts Research Institute 100 ...

Yesterday, I wrote:>I have a dead SparcServer 630MP. It's diagnostic LED's>read like this:>>o o o o x o x o o o o o>>(This is read from left to right from the VME board, facing>the VME board; the words "Diagnostic LED's" are printed above the ...

the answer was, as many suggested, that an rc script had failed to complete.several days ago a demo installation of WebTrends was done and the installed/etc/rc2.d script failed to complete.again i ran init 6 and nothing.ps -ef | grep rc..............found the webtrends rc script........kill ...

Hi, Thanks for everyone who replied. The list is :  Olivier.GIRAUD@cedelgroup.comJean-Philippe.LEROY@st.com"Lee A. Fedor" <fedor@mcc.com>Sean <shadow6@bellsouth.netFrank Fiamingo - Columbus <frank.fiamingo@ssds.com>"Celeste Stokely" ...

> Hello Sun Managers,> > Here is my original post:> I have a Sparc 1 4/60 running SunOS 4.1.4 that has taken a severe> performance hit,> by this I mean everything is slow- disk I/O, network response time, a> simple df takes> 9 seconds as opposed to 2 seconds on a similar ...

Hello ,Original question was :>- Hello ,>- I need to install bind on solaris 2.5.1 >- where i can find it ?>->- Stots>->- BTW: the original place - http://www.isc.org - is closed.>-I tryed later and i success to connect http://www.isc.org/isc/bind.htmli got very ...

HiI have done this with a durty workaround!! As we have 2 print servers and it'seasy to redirect from one printer on one to another on the other I havelpadmin -p printer2 -s 'printserver1\!printer1'andlpadmin - printer2 -s 'printserver2\!printer1'on each server respectively.Dirty but ...

Dear managers,First of all, thank you very much for your overwhelming answers, and foryour kindness. You were too many to respond I can not even name you all :=)The only reply is as Solaris is an SVR4 Operating System, the 3rdparty/unbundled software must be installed in /opt.Some others points ...

SUMMARY: R.I.P message from perfmeterQUESTION:I submitted the following message:Greetings Gurus,perfmeter is returning the message R. I. P. inside it's windows,as weel as is drawing a lapidde (something like reminding a fune-ral, I mean, some part of the machine has died). It isn't ...

Original message:Hi all,Has anyone used cached filesystems with any luck yet?I mucked around with them (on Solaris 2.6, Ultra 60) but found when thecache directory was not new or cleared and the cached filesystem wasremounted it would crash the server. I even tried mounting the filesystemwith ...

Hi managers,  thanks to all who responded...It seems that this is a known problem with solaris and 400 MHz CPUs with8MB Cache which is caused by a failed parity check on the E-Cache. Manysuggested to apply the latest kernel-patch (for solaris 2.6 it's 105181-23)because this one has a ...

I was asked to repost my summary with all of the responses I received, so here they are with '---' separators (plus a few late entries :) ):Craig Ledbetter <cledbett@homeaccount.com>:You may want to try running /usr/dt/bin/dtsession from inside ssh-agent. I use that command to startup ...

 My original posting:>Does anyone know of a tool for Solaris (2.3) that constantly displays all >TCP/IP connections, kind of like ntop or tcplist, or has anyone ported these >tools for Solaris with any success. tcplist can be run on Solaris 2.3 as long as you have lsof v3 or newer ...

Hi Admins,Thanks to all who responded to my query. Vern Walls answer helped me. ----------The orignal question was :----------------------------My one user can not receive mails, but he can send mails.I have checked all the possible reasons to failure in receiving mails. But could not find out ...

Hi sysadmins,        Thanks to everyone who responded:"D. Ellen March" <emarch@pinole1.com>, CHENTHIL KG <chenthil@mtcts1.mt.lucent.com>,Nick Murray <nmurray@csd.abdn.ac.uk>"Arora, Samir" <sarora@ELDEC.com>,Jim ...

Y'allI got three responses to my question and the second response seems tohave hit the nail on the head. My original post is at the bottom. Theresponders were:Waqar HafizChris WheelerPeter PolasekChris Wheeler had the solution (at least it looks like that so far!),here is his ...

Adminsuite is no longer included with the OS in Solaris 8. In Solaris 7 and before, it was always on the Server version of the OS pack. Beginning with Solaris 8, Adminsuite was separated into another product. So instead of a workstation and server version, there is just version of Solaris 8, ...

Thanks to all who responded.My user has been unable to recreate the problem (it is sporadic) but I did get some great information that I will try as soon as I see this again.Seth Rothenberg, James Coby, Craig Russell, Duncan V., and Stephen Michaels suggested using fuser to make sure no ...

Hello, Thanks a lot for many answers. Specialthanks to Benjamin Cline, Frank Pardo, Scott F. Woods, David Thorburn-Gun,Karl E Voyel, Brion Leary, Glen Satchell, Chris Marble, Peter M Allan, DonWilliams and Matten Stier for their kind help and suggestion. The problem was solved when I used ...

I asked for comments on Post.Office:Fletcher B. Cocquyt wrote:> > I'm currently evaluating the Post.Office 2.0 product from> www.software.com as a replacement for sendmail on our> internet email server.> > So far I am quite impressed with the product's features:> > - ...

I requested information about third party companies thatprovide Sun hardware maintenance. It was difficult to findthese companies. I was going to summarize but instead Idecided to launch a web site with the information aboutthe third party ...

Hi All,Thanks to everybody who responded so quickly.Here is my original:>Is there a way to decrease size of a partition?>I've got a 1.2 Gig swap partition which I don't need. Or rather I do not>need that much.>Can I decrease it to, say, 200 Meg and use 1 Gig for other stuff ...

The Java JDK 1.1.3 version of is bundled with the Solaris 2.6 version.The upgrade isn't difficult, just have to make sure that you have about ninepatches up-to-date and the right font package before starting.There were two of the nine patches that weren't in the 2.6 Recommendedcluster. One ...

All,  Thanks to         Casper Dik        Brooke King         Workaround from Brooke helped;        changing the S72inetsvc ...

Thank to Stuart Reggie, who has helped me to solve this problem. I includerelevant parts of our correspondence, which can be helpful at solving NIS+related problems.---------------------Did you change the name of this server? Go into the directory/etc/rpc/ticlts.cat the hosts file in this ...

Dear Sun Managers,     Thanks to Artur for putting me on the right track. The 4 mm DATdrive is defined for the sun4m architecture (the Sparc5 where the tapewas written) but is undefined for sun4 (the SPARCstation 4/370 where Iattempted to read the tape). Apparently ...

     Thanks for all the replies from     Jens Fischer <jefi@kat.ina.de>     Matthew Kelly <matt@freenet.hamilton.on.ca>     Bob Woodward ...

My original question:On Thu, Dec 16, 1999 at 05:15:51PM -0700, Michael Hill wrote:>Hey, fellow Sun SAs,>>I've been reading for a couple of years, and now I finally have a>question to ask. I searched the FAQ as well as my own cache of>summaries, but didn't find any occurrence ...

Dear Sun Managers,     Thanks to those who replied to my posting, which is appended. DaveMitchell and Artur Schnayder suggested the following parameters for ddand/or restore, some of which I hadn't attempted.     dd if=/dev/nrst0 obs=1024 | ...