First let me say thanks to all of to everyone that responded so quickly.Tim PointingDavid W. BlainSean QuaintMatthew StierTim GoreBrett LymnTony TeagueEric D. PancerHope I'm not missing anyone.The problem was a simple one and I feel bad for not getting it myself. I just needed the Fully ...

Hi All and thanks for quick response!I had problems with find and received manyanswers but the correct answer was provided byMatthew Stier <Matthew.Stier@tddny.fujitsu.com>.My command was correct, but I didn't count the hourscorrectly. I have now put this in my crontab fileswhich ...

Thanx to all who repliedCraig RussellMichael E SalehiMike DeMarcorsaddler@cccis.comChris MarbleSatish B MovvaThe problem actually that we have was caused by one of the apache module"php3", which when httpd looses connection from the forked process wascasuing in a hell lot of ...

Hi,all:   THANKS:      Jason Keltz jas@cs.yorku.ca   QUESTION: > I forgot the PROM passwd of Sun station LX, Sun station 10> and Sun station 20 .> How can i remove it . I can login as root . I run ...

I want to thank Roger Leonard, Timothy Lindgren, Caleb Warner and Chris Chiapellafor getting me started in the right direction. I had to touch /etc/vx/reconfig.d/state.d/install-db and get rid of all the VM referencesin vfstab and /etc/system so I could boot my machine. I then rebooted andmy ...

Thanks to:Darren DunhamBriscoe Kristopher-P95013>From the responses, it seems to me that I can just use the deport and importfeature of the Volume Manager to split the storage array.Here are the final steps that I think I will take:. Backup all the data on the file systems and databases ...

Original Post:Problem: Exporting programs from Sun 3/160 using SunOS 4.1.1 to Sparc5 with SunOS 4.1.3U1BFirst I'm not a dedicated Administrator and there isn't one available to use. Second, What I'm being told is that the Sun 3/160 uses a Motorola 68000 chipset. Is there an emulator that I ...

> My question is this: what is the recommended card of those using the> PCI cards for SCSI drives on the sun, and how is it working out. (The> machine this is going on is in a remote location and the user was> confused as to how to hook up his SCSI tape drive to the box... So ...

Mark Luntzel <mark@neurosis.net> added this about Perl processes:out of curiosity, was it a perl process? this has worked to wake up and kill some perl procs that were seemingly hosed, as you describe. /usr/proc/bin/pldd PIDnot really sure why or how it works, other than it lists the ...

HI sunners,Thanks to the following persons for their answers:Mark Sherman <marksh@funb.com>Shriman Gurung <SG@datcon.co.uk>khaled <khaledt@sts.com.jo>Bismark Espinoza <bismark@alta.jpl.nasa.gov>The response is :To disable rdiscd running, just make a file ...

My original Message:> In the course of restoring a crashed system, I recently needed a>text editor while running the mini-root from the SunOS 4.1.4>installation CD. I couldn't execute ed, ex, or vi. Does anbody knowof>a text editor hidden in there somewhere? It would ...

Thanks for your help:Larry GarretDavid Evansyann@veritel.com.brKevin@joltin.comThe problem was:>I usually log into the system throw CDE, but last week I was working>with "command line login". I stopped work for a few minutes and the>monitor becames black. A few seconds later, ...

 Thanks to everyone who responded and very special thanks to Waqar Hafiz (whafiz@london.micrognosis.com) who pointed me to the right direction. My original question was:> I ran into some strange dump problems after upgrading our 670MP from> 4.1.3 to 5.5.1. Ufsdump does ...

My problem was:> I've got a Sparc 10 with a floppy drive which I am trying to use. However,> after I issue the volcheck command the floppy does not get mounted. vold is> running and I am under the impression that it should get mounted> automatically. What do I have to do?> > ...

Thanks to das@vxindia.veritas.com who gave me the following URL.This has packages which you can gunzip then use pkgadd to install. It works lovely.Hi, You can find them in pkgadd format at the following url:  http://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/packages/solaris/sparc/Regards,Devadas ...

I had asked about a number of "Unable to install/attach driver" messagesat boot time. Oops, it's in the Solaris FAQ (5.37), and the messages can be safely ignored. My apologies for wasting bandwidth.~~~David H. Dezern david@sisters.salem.eduAdministrative Computing, ...

Original problem at the bottom of the posting.Thanks to Michael Salehi, Kevin Sheehan and Karl Vogel for theirsuggestions. The culprit seems to have been in.named, which wassuffering from a slight misconfiguration for one domain and thereforegetting transfer requests much more frequently than ...

These were my questions>1) Will there ever be a Netscpae 6 version for Solaris? Any rumors when?>2) The more important question. Is there any software available that can shadow >a session. Imagine the situation in a lab where the students are discussing a >programing problem. To ...

A delayed summary, the original sender asks me to forward this'cause he seems to be unable to reach the list.------------------------------------Return-Path: mdoshi@Guanine-Eth0.BCHS.UH.EDUReceived: from guanine.bchs.uh.edu (Guanine-Eth0.BCHS.UH.EDU [129.7.2.122]) by obelix.WHU-Koblenz.de ...

Hello,Few weeks ago I asked for the following:> Yesterday I started to upgrade my Sparc 20 Mod 54 running Solaris 2.5 to> Solaris 2.6.> > After choosing the upgrade option, the installation processed. At the 3/4> of the installation (looking at the installation bar), it hung ...

The problem as it turned out was the host record of the /etc/nsswitch.conf. Thanks to Edward Murphy who pinpointed it. My original /etc/nsswitch file contained the line:hosts: dns [NOTFOUND=return] filesbefore the patching. After patching and before reboot it should be changed to :hosts: files ...

Hello,in my previous summary, I told you how I have solved my problem (see bellowafter the signature).Since, I received mails from Tony and Michael. I include their messages herebecause Tony gives a good wu-ftpd URL and Michael corrects one mistakeabout the location of the xferlog file when ...

Hello,Thanks to the great many replies. Hector Davie and Jerry Springer both wrote to tell me that if a break causesme to drop to the Lantronix server, I can simply type "send brk" at theLantronix prompt, then "resume" to go back into the system.Richard Cove and Frank Smith ...

Sun Gurus,Thanks for the responses to my question (copy below).I was on the right track by modifying ttydefs & eeprom but I should havepower cycled the machine for it to bite.The preferred console settings are found in a file /etc/ioctl.syscon.I did not have a parity problem (8,N,1) is fine ...

Summary:i have no summary to give for this as i did not recieve a singleresponse to my posting.Question:i have an ol SunOS 4.1.x vfont file:cae209% file neal.r.10neal.r.10: vfont definitioncae209% i was wondering if anyone has had any experience in converting theseold files into a format ...

Many Thanks to all who replied.Kent Clarstroem and James Hsieh summed it up quite nicely.Kent Clarstroem>> I've recently been advised to upgrade sendmail to at least>> sendmail-8.7.6.>>That is wise.>>> 1. What' the differences/benefits of useing this comparing to ...

Hi All,Thanks go to Andy Lee. It was something trivial. I forgot the root= optionin the sharecommand.I'm blaming yesterday's champagne (Taittinger Brut NV - far too drinkable).============================= originally=============================================This has to be something trivial ...

Hi,I asked how to map a disk to a position on the A5000 disk array.My thanks to all of the following:Keating, Peter <PKeating@mits.com.auEdan Idzerda <edan@mtu.edu>Bliss, Kevin <Kevin.Bliss@nike.com>JKennedy@Claritas.ComGurdeep Dhindsa <gurdeep@home.com>The Wizard ...

Original question:> Hello,> > Running a SPARC/1000 with Solaris 2.4 and> encountered a where the automounter did> not automount a CDROM when loaded.> Now I can't unload the CDROM nor mount the> CDROM to a mount point.> > I know I could reboot to fix the problem> ...

Greetings, all. This is a late summary, but since asing the question, Ihave not had a chanceto work on this system to try anything. Regardless, here is the summary.Original question: >All, > >This is probably just tape setup stupidity on my part, but: > > Backing up a system ...

Thanks a million to Chris who came up with the solution. I finally got totest this theory this afternoon on a machine local to where I work -wasn't game to do it on a remote one and most of our problems have been onremote ones up till now.Up till now we have had to reboot the machine. This ...

Thanks to all those who replied, you know who you are..Depending on where you set your display X will run on acorresponding port. So if you setenv DISPLAY hostname:0.0it will run on port 6000 or if you set it to hostname:0.1it will run on 6001 and so on.Everyone said to use ssh and tunnel X ...

Thanks very much for all the E-Mails on this subject.Most people have suggested Wietse Venema's tcp wrapper program and using /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny with it.Basically putting tcpd program in /usr/local/bin/tcpd,and changing /etc/inetd.conf file to use:exec stream tcp nowait root ...

HiAlmost people suggests using these commands:/usr/platform/`uname -m`/sbin/prtdiag mpstat psrinfo -vBut, I solved my problem change to 0 this eeprom setting:.upa-noprobe-maskand I could disable/enable a CPU back by psradm command.Thanks to:Gary Mulder <gary@cgen.com> Stuart, Reggie ...

I received some more emails regarding the above topic, especially fromWarren Vanichuk pointing out that the latest terminal concentrators fromcisco will allow you to SSH directly into the terminal, without havingto ssh into a server, then telneting to the terminal.This would eliminate the need ...

Original question:- > After installing this version of Backup + 103480-02 I can't> backup the server although clients work OK, both with> the scheduled backups and by hand. > Attempting to run backup or recover on the server itself> fails with> > save: SYSTEM error, Arg ...

adeluca@esrin.esa.it wrote:> Hi guru,> We have a sparc IPX where running Solaris 2.5.1. and Common Desktop> Environment too.> By the way when a user lock the screen nothing append .> Does anyone know why this happen ?>> I'll summarize>> Thanks in advances.>> ...

So far I received two YES votes and one NO vote.One YES vote indicate this is already in the list charter. I includethe relevent part in this summary. The NO vote does not make sense to me, so I include my comments after./* IMPORTANT: READ THIS BEFORE POSTING TO SUN-MANAGERS */Please, no ...

HI! Thanks all for the many responses, some were great and well thought outhowever, but some pertained to Solaris 2.x and not my SunOS 4.1.4. In the end,it was a bad bunch of cables. Before I mailed this alias I swapped outthe cable 3 different times, but from the same batch of cables. ...

Thanks to the following people:Navi SirisenaWolf SchaeferSeth LivingstonTom EricksonUsing either the ndd command or the output from dmesg will point you inthe direction of what speed and/or duplex the NIC is set to.Navi was kind enough to point out that the older low speed cards do notsupport ...

Thanks !This did the trick!diablo% /etc/init.d/nfs.server stopdiablo% /etc/init.d/nfs.server startThanks again!!! :-)On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Alabama Man wrote:>>> Gurus,> Regarding mount and an RPC error> Can you point me in the right direction on this?>>> --I am trying to ...

Folks,Here it is at long last! Apologies for the delay. The problem has only recentlybeen fixed.Eventually, at Sun's request we moved Sol2.5 -> Sol2.6. The effect was dramatic. Sofar we've not seen any load problems, and can comfortably accomodate 500+ imapdaemons. At this load we have ...

Hello managers,I've got many replies on my question. Thanks for all the peoplewho replied - too much to list here.The solution is:In file /etc/auto_master:comment the line#/home auto_home -nobrowseafter that you can issue the command 'automount' or 'reboot'.Then the system do not ...

hi, the original query: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------we have a 19 inch wide rack with all the servers placed on the rack.the keyboard is connected thru a switch to all the servers. The problem is we are unable to use the Sun keyboard shipped ...

        Thanks managers.. I am sure more answers are on the way. I'll write them as they come..=======================My original question was:=======================Hi managers,I have an E3500 with 2 I/O boards, and need to connect this toCompaq ...

Here is the summary of the MIME decoding question.They ranged from mpack, metamail, vi, and a C program. Here you go:mpack:ftp://ftp.santafe.edu/pub/unix/mpack-1.5-src.tar.Zmetamail:ftp://thumper.bellcore.com/pub/nsb/mm2.7.tar.Zvi:":.,/^$/-1!b64" will decode a portion of a fileand ...

Roger Fujii wrote:Well, I got 2 replies (thanks tfiedler@muscanet.com & sawicki@interlog.com)basically pointing out that the entries in /devices & /dev were semi-persistent,which I was aware of. Just as a note to others, it is a wise thing whenhaving problems like this to comment out ...

Thanks you for the answer. I attach three script that I got.My original post:>I have SOLARIS 2.6 with SDS 4.1 running. I tried to use "sar -d 5 5" to>check disk I/O. The output like:>> 10:04:45 device %busy avque r+w/s blks/s avwait ...

PARTIAL SUMMARY: Changing stacksize (and other limits) in Solaris ...First off, to change some of the "hard limits," you must first change them asroot and then su as the user to be affected. Otherwise, it looks like either akernel recompile, possibly some boot options are required ...

Thanks to:  Seela Balkissoon <seela@cs.yorku.ca>  Tim Carlson <tim@santafe.edu>THE ANSWER:     /usr/sbin/rem_drv logindmux      /usr/sbin/add_drv logindmux ORIGINAL POST:> > THE LONG OF IT. (skip to THE ...