Thanks to following people,Sue Thielen <Sue.Thielen@epeople.com>David Robillard <drobilla@Matrox.COM>Baurjan Ismagulov <ibr@gantek.com>Venkat Veeramneni" <VVeeramn@fcc.gov>All agree that it is a CPU or Motherboard problem.I have ordered the CPU and MOtherboard since ...

My original question (attached below) dealt with using a PGX cardto get triple heads on an Ultra30 (with 2 creator cards). I wasgetting some verticle lines on the screen at certain times.It turns out that there is a firmware/hardware bug with thesePGX cards that causes this on the screen if the ...

I got lots and lots of responses, as expected. The answers fell intotwo categories that were about evenly divided. One camp recommendedusing "sudo" or custom written C programs. The other camp recommendedsetting up an account with root equivalence and make that user's shell ...

Thank you guys. After much ado about it, Casper Dik and a few others pointed out that thevariable is not accessible from /etc/system.I also found that not all tcp module parameters are accessible from/etc/system.The reason I prefered /etc/system solution is to have all the driverconfigurations ...

  ----- Message d'origine -----   At 17:50 16/12/1999 +0100    Hello all,     Sorry for reposting this question, i had no replys and still have the problem, and still have no clues :(     Its the httpd demean ...

To summarize my original message, I had two problems:1) Solaris claims to support the 8505XL without changes to st.conf, but   an mt status on the drive reports "Exabyte EXB-8500". I had wondered   whether other people saw this, and whether it was the ...

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 ...

Thanks to:From: Christian Lotz <cl@lotz.de>Salehi, Michael E Mike.Salehi@usa.xerox.comKevin Sheehan u-kevin@veritas.comCasper Dik casper@holland.Sun.COMBruce R. Zimmer bzimmer@all-phase.comBasically all the answars was:>make sure, that both hosts are using the same major device ...

Hi managers,Long time, no summary! Well fingers crossed the solution we have works. Original message at the bottom of the mail, but the essential fix was to replace the power supply (the machines are under maintenance, so Sun did this for free). The engineer suggested if the problem persisted ...

On Tue, 21 Oct 1997, Pablo Ruiz wrote:Here was my question:> I am trying to install an hp laserjet printer to an Ultra 30 parallel port> (/dev/bpp0). The problem is I can't find the device anywhere (/dev or> /devices). I checked others SPARC 5 and Ultra 1 and found out that> > ...

My original question:How can I allow someone just to change their password when logging into the system?Summarised answers:1. Change the login shell to:        miked:x:1001:1000:POP user:/tmp:/usr/bin/passwdor2. Leave the shell as normal to /bin/ksh and ...

Hello, Thank you so much for your numerous reponses to my hopeless repost.And sorry for my previous summary email I sent accidently.My problem was:The httpd deamon released with sunsolve 4.0.8, fails to start with the log file : [Mon Dec 13 16:22:19 1999] getpwuid: Error 0[Mon Dec 13 16:22:19 ...

Original problem below..This one was a real pain to track down. Turns out that a firmware upgrade(done on a windows box) was what was needed. We were running at U608 andU710 for firware revisions on the loaders with U812 being the most recent.Upgraded the firmware and the drives are now happily ...

My Original Question:> Hi,>> A few minutes ago, I could not log into one of our Enterprise 4000> servers (solaris 2.5.1) from any other machine. The error message on> the client machine was:>> [dmows09:/] rsh tmoas01> rlogind: could not grant slave pty.> Connection ...

Pete Holsberg wrote:> Thanks to the many who responded to my request for an email> virus scanning program for Solaris.>> Some people wrote to tell me that there are no viruses that> can affect Solaris, but then they didn't know that our> Solaris machine is the email server ...

First of all, I would like to thank everyone who went out of their way tohelp me solve this problem. Thank you all very much, you know who you are! :)In my original post, I wrote that I had two CD-ROMs, SONY CDU-76S andMATSHITA CR-532-B, and could not get them to boot on a SUN SPARCstation1+, ...

Thanks also to:Annie Austin <Austin.Annie@mtvne.com>David L. Markowitz <David.Markowitz@litronic.com>Gary Mulder <gary@cgen.com>Richard Quinn <rquinn@sight-n-sound.com>Mike Salehi <mike.salehi@kodak.com>These more recent suggestions were concise and varied soI'll ...

My original question: Dear SMs, What does the following console message means:? "Clock board TOD does not match TOD on any IO board"Answer from David, SRDB ID: 14006SYNOPSIS: Clock TOD does not match TOD on any IO boards after power cycleDETAIL DESCRIPTION:After a power ...

Dear Sun Managers,     Thanks to the following folks who provided additional insights intomy problem:Don Lewis <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com>Artur Schnayder <artur@compugen.co.il>Joseph S. D. Yao <jsdy@cais.com>Chuck Kenyon <chuck@npiww.com>Apparently I ...

Hi Sun Managers  Thanx for such a great list !!  My original question was : ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi Managers Can anyone point me to a freeware command-line mail client that I ...

November 15, 1996Hello Sun Managers,My original posting:> November 14, 1996> > To all SUN managers,> > I need your help very badly. I have accidentally changed> the root password and now I can't logged in as root already.> > Please help me on how to correct this ...

     AntiVirus Software:         Mcafee Antivirus for Solaris              http://www.mcafee.com/         Interscan ...

thank you all, for making it easier than i thought. rf.man passwd:User Commands passwd(1)  Privileged User Options     Only a privileged user can use the following options:     -f Force the user to change ...

Thank you for the quick response from Richard, Yeah I tried installing using the Install_patch script, so now I installed using the Patchadd -u optionThe second problem, was it was unable to resolv the DNS server which was why it took so long, so we rearranged the DNS. and everything is working ...

Thanks to :Jim HarmonMatthew StierRick ReinemanSandeep Patnifor their help.ANSWER:NIS does not support password aging.ORIGINAL QUESTION :> We are trying to implement passwd aging in our environment.We run plain vanilla> NIS (yp) with a Solaris 2.5.1 machine as the NIS master server.The ...

CONFIGURING and CONNECTING SCSI ID SELECTORS TORECYCLED SCSI DEVICES:I have added the configuration for connecting an external SCSI (Wide = 15 targets) case to a Wide Internal disk. The jumper configuration for Bit 8, Bit 4, Bit 2, and Bit 1 are as follows:8 4 2 1 BITS:: : : : SCSI ...

The question was about the usability of Solaris7 on older machines.Thanks to all who replied (I hope I didn't miss anybody):Kevin Korb <kmk@crc.com>David Staggs <dstaggs@vumclib.mc.vanderbilt.edu>Mats Kronberg Mats.Kronberg@saab.seCasper Dik <casper@holland.Sun.COM>Louis Au ...

Hi all,I have several Sparc WSs' which have installed prompasswd in. Theydrive me crazy when I try to reboot a machine. Abosolutely, I have noway to keep track each machine password. Is there anyway to move them?so they can make my life a bit easier.Thank you for your help.The solution for ...

My original question was whether to use NIS or NIS+ in a mixed-vendor environment.The consensus is: use NIS if you have a mixed environment, and maybe even if youdon't.Thanks to:Jim CravenRich KulawiecKevin DavidsonTrevor PaquetteStephen P RichardsonA second question was for a good basic ...

My very tardy summary:   Summary of suggested ideas to fix Oerr count with an hme interface.I have swaped lots of wires, some switches, applied all applicablepatches, recieved a new network card, and am still showing the same problems. I have found out that SUN suggests that you not ...

SUMMARY:Special thanks to : Sanjay Waghode from caxton                                 Jonathan Jackson from ...

My original message:> Managers:> > I've searched the archives, and have found numerous references about how to> associate multiple IP addresses with a single ethernet interface. What I'm> trying to do, however, is have a small network running behind a SPARCstation 2,> where ...

Hi,Sorry for the late submission...Original Question:1)I would like to monitor a file and keep track of WHO execute it and WHENit is being executed. Can I do it in Solaris without any 3rd party tools?If not, what 3rd party tools should I use? How do I do so?2) In addition, is it possible for me ...

No responses on this one so I'll put it to rest.The author of fixsolaris is currently working on one for 7 so I'll eitherwait for it or try experimenting with it myself in my spare time.Hmm ... guess I'll be waiting.=======================Jeff KennedySolaris Network ...

Hello Sun gurus,Here are the answers:> Is there a way to tell my crontab to launch a script at > the end of each month (last day of the month)?NO! not directly but Charlie find an interesting solution:Put an entry in the crontab like:55 23 28-31 * * /export/local/bin/archiver and have ...

Hello,Credit for solution goes to local Sun support:After we have copied the "/" partition from another machine,the sparc6000 have started to see rootdg of that machine. So,the solution was :1. remove volume manager packages from the system2. reboot3. install volume manager packages ...

Well, the response was pretty much unanimous        pkgadd -d gzip-1_2.4The file gzip-1_2.4 is in the pkgadd formatI could swear though that I had already tried that. Maybe I was in the wrong directory or something. Feel bad about wasting all the ...

I got so many requests for this document.It is on http://docs.sun.com/ab2/coll.707.1/SOLTUNEPARAMREF/@Ab2TocView?DwebQuery=Tunable+OR+Parameters&oqt=Tunable+Parameters&Ab2Lang=C&Ab2Enc=iso-8859-1============================================Jaewan Kim856-988-0062 x425 (u1.net)877-250-8919 ...

Thanks to all who replied to my query, and the consensus is as follows:        /usr/bin/dmesg | egrep '^mem ='        prtconf |more        /usr/sbin/prtconf -p | ...

thanx for all the responses ..here is the generall verdict ..the only ways i can change the file to log to different file is togrep the /var/adm/messages every so often and then write my own logfiles ..thanx for all those who responded ...

Hello all,Well here's the summary...The original question was:> > Shortly I will be working on a Sun system helping support our DNS zone> files. At present I have nothing to do with it, and only run a caching> DNS on our other Suns. First question is if anyone can give me a > ...

Hi,Thanks to Mark_Neill@csx.com and Pierre.Demuynck@orange.be for theirassistance.This one is now mostly cracked.CheersJoe-----Original Message-----From: Fletcher, Joe [mailto:joe.fletcher@Metapack.com]Sent: 17 November 2000 12:58To: Sunmgr (E-mail)Subject: OT netbackupHi,Does someone (pref UK ...

I received a fairly wide array of responses. In general, the family ofproducts receiving the most promising responses were the Clariionarrays. Serveral of the respondents had Clariion experience and allwere positive ones.I received other positive responses, but only one per product. Here isa ...

> I am having problems accessing my YAMAHA CDR400TX CD-recorder from> Sun SparcStations. Have tested on SS1 (SunOS 4.1.3) & SS4 (Solaris 2.5).> > probe-scsi sees the device but mount fails attempting to mount the> cdrom.The block size on the CD-reader has to be set to 512 ...

I get to write this because there's a typo in the original, as lotsof nice folks have pointed out. The name of the host thathas "ntop" on it is missing ".au" at the end, which is why lotsof you couldn't find it. My apologies.BTW, there is some question as to whether or ...

I received replies from the following individuals:David Evans, Timothy Lorenc, Steve Hastings, Martin Baldenegro, Andrew Petrov, and Allan West.To each, I thank you.Below is a summary of the answers I received, with the questions I asked.>Hi all,>>I am looking at adding a new disk ...

I found another tape drive : HP DDS-3. This one works! I could not getthe Archive Python drive to work. Maybe its a faulty drive or needs somejumper settings!Thanks for the following for their help:Dwight PetersenAdrian StovallNeil BrosnanEd BolsonTim PetermanTim CarlsonHappy holidays...Jayant ...

Dear All, Thanks to Casper Dik (casper@holland.Sun.COM) for the quick answer.The above patch can be applied to the 1.2 version of pcnfsd. And I havethe 1.1 version (which was included in the very first release of Solaris2.6).The funny thing is that this info is not included in the patch ...

     I want to thank all those who responded to my question concerning the      "suspend" mode. Below are the responses I received.          Again, thanks very much to the ...

Once again, Sun Managers has sav ed my bacon. Thanks to the followingpeople for the quick responses:Bobby Billingsly (first to respond)Sanjiv K. BhatiaVenkat VeeramneniMike DeMarcoCharles Brian HillDoug OttoMike SalehiSam ChangKenneth WeschlerTim ConradKevin ButerbaughAll answers said:find(1) ...