Here is the answers:Yes it is normal. By default if you attach a terminal server/dumb terrminal to amachine and power off the dumb terminal the machine will go down to OK prompt.To solve this problem, we can:1. Install patch 105924-10 on Solaris 2.6 or patch 107589-02 on Solaris ...

This is a very late summary to a question I posed about changing thecontroller number that a DiskSuite RAID-5 volume is attached to. Theoriginal question is attached at the end of this summary.Thanks to the following people for their replies.    "Roy S. Rapoport" ...

My original posting:Hi,I've setup nis+ root master and root replica at security level 2.I've to now transfer about 2000 users from nis to nis+ many of whom neverlog into an unix machine. They only use eudora and such to connect to thepopper on the unix server. I would like to make this ...

Here is my original question:--Hello,Are there any concerns (such as interleaving or mixing 64 Meg and 32Meg simms) when adding memory to a sparc 20? I am having troublingmixing new 32 Meg and new 64 Meg simms in a sparc 20 (i.e. the systemwill not boot), but the new 64 Meg simms will work ...

My question was how one manages the install of perl from a single build tree onto multiple OS and HW platforms (Solaris 2.5 and 2.5.1, SPARCstation 20, Ultra-1, and Ultra-2). I got a number of responses which can be summarized as follows:1. Use an installable tar archive as described in the ...

The problem I was having with the Keyboard was caused by not having the rightsoftware loaded.WHen you buy the latest generation of machines there is a boot CD included inwith the binary license information.You have to use this CD to start the initial install so that the appropiatedrivers are ...

Well Nobody came with a better idea than i had so here's my solution.thanks to those who replied and if you have any comments please do ....the question was : how can i create static rotes on multiple hosts from acentral place ?answer: use nis map file 1.create the map file in the nis ...

Thanks to the following for your thoughts :"Richard T McKinney" <mckinney@kreative.net>Todd Fiedler <tfiedler@muscanet.com>1LT JENSEN Christian <jensen@JLTC-O.army.mil>Shriman Gurung <SG@datcon.co.uk>Vedran Bender <vbender@public.srce.hr>Stephen Semonsky ...

Thanks to cedo@exar.comKevin.Sheehan@uniq.com.auraju@hoho.ecologic.netcguevara@velu.comTrevorPaquette@aec.comharry@decisionone.COMIts works for UNIX format. Now I am trying to get it to work with pcfs.Also I need to get something so the user can mount and umount it.thanks parkseveryone agreed ...

Hi! Long time no summary..Well, It's been a difficult solution.. I did a number of things.1. Made sure that my PC acting as a terminal wasn't going intopowersave mode.2. Made sure that powerd wasn't running, and that the /etc/power.conffile was setup for NO AUTOSHUTDOWN... why a server ...

Summary: Well, first of all thanks to all who responded:        Adrian Poparlan        Andrew Kyle        Niall O Broin        Shane ...

I had asked about a problem with compatibility between tapes written on one version of the Sun 4mm tape drive, being read by a very recent version of the Sun 4mm tape drive. I recieved only one response suggesting that the solution is to avoid the b/Berkeley version of the tape device. I have ...

Here is my original question:> Anyone uses CAP60 on solaris 8? I see this is a requested program on> sunfreeware site, but i'm trying to recompile the sources for my> sparc/solaris8.> I can't compile, i've very strange errors:> > Perhaps, CAP has to be ported to ...

Hello Gurus..Thanks to all the people who took the time to respond my question which was...*****************************************************>hello sun-gurus..>>I have a problem....>I have 2 machines, 2 Ultras.>1 is with more than 500 students and another one is with 300 ...

Yahoooooooooooooooo!Jason's advice worked.Add TERM=vt100 export TERMThanks to all that responded.>From: Jason Ziemlak <jasonz@spanky.evaca.com>>To: john corcoran <using_unix@hotmail.com>>Subject: Re: Help on changing /etc/passwd root's shell back to sh>Date: Mon, 20 ...

Thanks to all who responded. Most of you suggested checking the password of root. As it turned out the password file had been corrupted. It was actually just after an upgrade that the corruption occured. I had to reset the roots password and this cleared up the problem. Thanks againWhen I boot ...

Thanks Trevor Paquette! Your speedy response go me just what I needed!Here is the answer:>You are right. everywhere you see hme.. change to qfe. Works for me.>This is what I have in my startups:# force ethernet cards to 100Mb/Fullndd -set /dev/hme instance 0ndd -set /dev/hme ...

Thanks to: John Harmon <jim@telecnct.com> Roger McGraw <roger@ptac.com> Bismark Espinoza <bismark@alta.jpl.nasa.gov>The general comment was to clean the tape drives. The tape drives are cleaned before each backup. I could see that this might show up as a ...

Thanks to everyone but andy Holmes presented the solution in the most formal format so to quote him here are the steps to upgrading a sun box:1. Back up all data first ;-)2. init 0 to boot prom3. boot cdrom4. follow normal path and select new installation5. edit filesystems when ...

I appologize if this has been mentioned here and I missed it.On a regular basis people have asked for a list of Solaris tunables,things that can be placed in /etc/system. I have just discovered on http://docs.sun.com that for Solaris 8, Sunhas released an answerbook called "The Solaris ...

Thanks Sun ManagersThe solution I liked best was john ValdezThe rest of the reply are below those that suggest adding thedefaultrouterfile only does not work on sun3/60 but does work on the Sparc.If you have SunOS 4.1.1B installed on that 3/60, just create a/etc/defaultrouter file as you're ...

Well it turns out that my DNS had slowed down. Now I have to look into whythe DNS was so slow in responding. I basically HUPped it and it is ok now. PritishOn Mon, 18 Nov 1996, Pritish Shah wrote:> > Hi,> > I have gone through the archives and I could not find the answer for this. ...

Thanks to all who replied. Looks like NFS is terribly hoggish about memory,i/o or processor time if the traffice is light (which mine is).nfsstat was reccommended - something I had not yet looked at.etherfind/snoop too.the following was also reccommended by Bismark Espinoza:"reduce the NFS ...

Thanks to---------Frank Smith <franks@tradeonemktg-aus.com>Sean Ward <sdward@uswest.COM>Bismark Espinoza <bismark@alta.jpl.nasa.gov>Karl Vogel <vogelke@c17mis.region2.wpafb.af.mil>Aleksandar Milivojevic <alex@srce.hr>Lee Boon Heong ...

Here is my original post :I am moving our company's intranet from HP to Solaris 6 and need to giveour Intranet manager write access to each departments files. Eachdepartment on our web site is owned by different group and has severalusers belonging to that group which can make changes to the ...

Hello,Last week I asked how to force the system to require an interactive fsck at the next reboot, as part of a break/fixhardware test for prospective sysadmins. (Full text oforiginal message is at the end).In the end, mgmt decided that the test would not be necessary (whew), so I am now able ...

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 ...

Original question :> > What does the error message 'vfork failed' mean?> How to resolve the problem?> Answer :'vfork failed' means that a process could not be started due toany of the following reasons:        Max no of processes ...

Dear fellow SM,The responses were many. Of course there are solutions to the issue but(to summarize the summaries:))), disk-space is cheap -- lets use it. Onthe issue of the half a Gb requirement for the OS, there is noobjective opinion or ...

I got it working again by using IP addresses instead ofhostnames in ntp.conf (server entries). I still have noideas why that makes any differences. The nscd hosts cacheis disabled so there should be no cache. I still get the'clnt_dg_create: out of memory' messages but that doesn'tseem to ...

HI!Many thanks to all who responded...got a lot of good answers, and some cooltools (sysinfo).The best (cheapest) answer is: Jens Fischer:prtconf -VThanks all!(By cheapest I mean, no new tools to get andcompile, this is online and ready to use...but you all should get sysinfo, very cool and ...

Hello,The question is at the end of this mail.Thanks very much for Duncan Phillips (dphillip@halfdome.acs.uci.edu),ramesh andey (ramandey@geostop.com), and David Foster(foster@dim.ucsd.edu) who help and provide me solutions.The solutions,>From Duncan Phillips, You need to create a file ...

Thanks to Mike Salehi, Gavin Brennan, Marc (cram@greenavenger.com), Michael Hill,Dave Malhotra, Bryan Moore, and shaigh@squaretrade.com for their responses to my questionsregarding multiple installs and pkg updates. (My original questions are below). Mosteveryone indicated that my approach ...

My humblest obescience to the great gurus...I am still trying to get the second disk on line. Note this curious output from dmesg:PCI-device: pci@1,1, simba #0PCI-device: pci@1, simba #1 <--------??!!dad0 at pci1095,6460 target 0 lun 0dad0 is ...

Surprisingly, didn't get too many replies on this subject. Maybe I haven'twaited long enough.Anyway, Don Krause's response had the answer:"Did you remember to install the lpr print services on the NT box? Using thestandard NT Netbios Printer Share name means nothing the the Sun box. ...

hithanks to everyone who replied. my original questionwas:> can someone tell me what the consequences are of > including more than 3 nameserver entries in the > resolv.conf file. the os is 4.1.4, and the > version of bind shipped with that os.> > my supervisor says that ...

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 ...

Just to let you know about a hidden bug that affects licenses.After running the X.25 9.0 install proceedure to upgrade my X.25 8.0.2, Ifound that our DEBUGGER couldn't find a license. I had also installed patch103068, but that should not be part of the problem.The solution was to get the ...

I got many replys for my question, and thanks to everybody who replied. Iam sorry that I am not mentioning the names because the list of people isso big.I first installed the "Solaris Management Console" and in that, there isa GUI based DNS configuration. It is very simple and asks ...

we tried to move /etc to another filesystem and then link it to the rootto gain that space. it worked untill the reboot. it started a panicreboot sequence complaing about the name_to_major file in /etc. so weended up just reloading Solaris and it all seems OK now.Can someone fill me in ...

In a previous summary regarding the possibility to useSunOS4's C compiler under Solaris 2.5, I wrote:> I remember having seen a conversation on using SunOS4.1.X's> C compiler under Solaris. At that time, the conclusion was> that this wasn't possible. Having run into a situation ...

Hi folks :)Seems that I'll have to wait (probably not for long) until the next incidentsince savecore wasn't enabled.Thanks to Kevin Buterbaugh and Sandor Bolla for their input - buth suggestingthat I enable savecore and use the iscda.sh script (Initial System Crash DumpAnalysis (ISCDA)) ...

I sent out this question to the group this morning:To: sun-managers@codeprof.ececs.uc.edu@inetcc:Subject: old unresolved questions     I've had some questions about openwin, which I have tried to solve tono avail. I have two menu's that used to show up when I ...

Well ,Thanks to those who responded ,I geuss posting something on theholidays is a bit risky ......My question ----------------- Hi All,> The place where i grew up as a uix admin used the followingdisk sliceing> scheme,> /dev/dsk/cot0d0s0 / 120 -150 mb> /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s6 /usr ...

ORIGINAL_QUESTION:>Dear friends->>I am trying to run emacs (emacs package 19-30) under Solaris 2.6 and>I get:>ld.so.1: ./emacs: fatal: relocation error: file ./emacs: symbol _init:>referenced symbol not foundHere are some answers:Unfortunately, this means you need to rebuild ...

Got 3 good replies from:    <pkeating@mits.com.au>    Lee Boon Heong <info@penang.csam.com.my>    Rajeev Kumar <rxk@fluent.com>Who confirmed my thought that the 'good' slice on the failed disk had tobe hotswapped ...

The security hole is actually in the gethostbyname() libraryroutine and is exploited by overwriting a fixed-size buffer withSPARC machine code and causing a jump to that code. The originalprogramming exploiting this code was posted to bugtraq@netspace.orgAt that time I was not on that mailing ...

What a great list, thanks for all the responses.I received a number of ideas, which I'm going through now. They includeduuencode, mutt, mpack, metamail, mmencode,mpack and a few scripts. (uuencode wasthe most popular recommendation)examples:uuencode filename description | mailx -s ...

I received two replies to my question. I already had what was mentioned in thereply. but when I was looking at patch 105790-20, as mentioned by Michael, Ifound that 105790-21 was out, so just decided to try it out on one workstationand it worked.so the solution was to apply 105790-21.thanks ...

And the correct answer goes to: "Christopher L. Barnard" <cbarnard@cs.uchicago.edu>Thanks! I guess I spent too much time with GUI installs like Solaris.(see end of message for answer)> > > And are there any install problems between SunOS 4.1.4 and a ...