Thanks to:Sys AdminAlon FriedmanKen McKinlayM SoldaJohn StoffelBenjamin ClineDaniel KlugePatrick Nolanand any to come.The answer to where to find the Apache httpd is: www.apache.orgI tried .com, didn't think about .org.Got it and it'sinstalled and running.Thanks ...

> > > > We are having a problem with CDE and dtlogin (under Solaris 2.6), when > > users change their shell to tcsh in their login scripts> > ( setenv SHELL /usr/local/bin/tcsh; exec $SHELL)> > -- you then get the infamous black screen and then it logs you out ...

Hi,Sorry for the mangled diagram in the earlier mail.Hope this time it will get to you fine.Finally what I did was to RTFM properly. The rm6 user guide has the answersto all the questions that I raised.It has the layouts for both the options which I listed out. Though it doesnthave a ...

My original question:I am looking for recommendations about a serial multiplexer to connectto a Sun workstation to use as a terminal server. I got an Artecon multiplexer with 16 ports but I am not really impressedand I am looking for something better.The ...

First of all, my apologies for this question. Should have RTFM first.Thanks to amosmail and Michael Hill for pointing out. I understand thegeneral concerns. I too hate to receive questions that could have beenanswered if RTFM is sufficient. My sincerest apologies.Nevertheless, please bear with ...

Original Question.How do I set the maximum memory a process can use ?. Thanx in advance.Well there is not much summary to this question. This can be done easilyusing the "limit/ulimit" commands for the current shell and its decendents.This can also be done in the Kernel by doing an ...

First of all thanks to everyone for the many responses. To summarize.....some people have said they have hot swapped scsi,ethernet,keyboards and monitors. BUT the main issue was to swap at your own risk. Someone had mentioned that at a Sun hardware course the instructor mentioned even swapping ...

Hi AllThanks for all the replies I received - I haven't recieved my copy of the question yet!Thanks in the order they arrived go to:-        Tim Evans <tkevans@eplrx7.es.dupont.com>        "Borba, ...

Hi, allthrough some research on internet, I've gotten that local-mac-address?doesn't affect all kind of NIC. so I will configure it manually with "ifconfig hme0 ether 8:0:20:dd:ee:dd:ff" or something.thanks Richard Cove for his kindly answer.likunorigianl question================Hi, ...

Folks --Recently I wrote:>I have a bunch of dialup Eudora people who used to check their mail by >dialing into an old SunOS box using called "srialpop", a popper that >worked over the modem connection. They have moved to a Solaris 2.5 box now. >I have looked on Qualcomm's ...

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----Hash: SHA1The original question was:"Does anyone know why NSCD in Solaris 2.5.1 opens a UDP port (53539)? I don't understand why NSCD would need to communicate with anything inthe outside world. The fact that it does actually scares me a little,what does ...

My original post:> > I have SUN SPARC computer with Solaris 2.6 installed. The login shell I> use is "csh". I put "setenv HISTORY 150" in .cshrc file. everytime I> login to system and do somrthing. After logout/login, I type "history" or> ...

I asked about some NFS write error messages in my log file. The originalmessage is attached below.So far I have received replies fromGlenn Satchell glenn@uniq.com.auK.Ravi RAVKRISH.IN.oracle.com.ofcmail@in.oracle.comMariel Feder unix.support@meralco.com.phI was pointed toward the article ...

hy sunners,i got answers from:                Umesh C Singhal <usl@ho.wipro.co.in>        Jenny Partusch <jenny@tan.unl.edu>my original question was:we have a ...

Original QuestionI need some help in getting a Solaris 2.6 system up and running. Iinstall the software on a Ultra 170E system, but the system hangs onstartup. The place that it hangs is related to multicast setup inS72inetsvc. I have the system up and running, after commenting out ...

Clear winner was ufsdump | ufsrestoreApparently ufsdump only sends instructions to ufsrestore over the pipe,not the entire file, so 2Gb limitations are not a big problem, even onlarge file systems.rdist, rsync, tar and cpio were also mentioned.Casper Dik also suggested ufsdump | ufsrestore, but ...

John Malick wrote:<> I need to know if PCNFSpro 2.0 will not only run under WIN95, which I know it<> does, but also maintain network mounted drives and network printing when out<> in the Dos mode?The overwhelming consensus is that this will work just fine because the WIN95 ...

Thanks to all who responded.Special Thanks a bunch to Darren Dunham for the explaination below...I gave the fully qualified name in the dfstab, stopped and started daemon andthat did it.Thanks again for the quick reply.Hats off....."DDA.RFC-822=ddunham@taos.com/P=Internet/A= /C=us" on ...

Summary of my original question:rsh returns the error status of rsh and not of the command that is executed.I need the return status of the executed command. Any way to do this?I received quite a large response from people which I am incredibly impressedwith. You've heard it all before, but ...

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----The original question:>>>>> "Colin" == Colin J Wynne <cwynne@mts.jhu.edu> writes:    Colin> After two power failures in the last few months, the    Colin> powers-that-be finally ...

Thanks for anybody who answer my questio about dd command !!!My original question was :>Sorry if the question is too basic,>but we have never used the dd command to write to floppy and we don磘 knowthe>ay to do this.>I tried to use of=/dev/fd/0, of=/dev/fd0, of=/floppy/floppy0, ...

SYNOPSIS: How while does the combo of E3000, Solaris 2.5.1, and Sybase11.03 scaled? How does it scale best? Lots of cheap CPUs - or - a fewfast and much more expensive CPUs? Have to reduce time of nightly Sybasejobs - What is better solution... lots of cheap CPUs or- a few ...

I posted a question regarding who was using what kind of device to back uptheir ultra 10's. The solution that popped up most was the DLT 4000/7000 tape driversolutions. We have the 4000 in one of our data centers and it is a good tapedriver. And is also the one I am most likely going to go ...

I had just thought this might be the problem, thanks very much, and sorry fornot RTFM'ing more carefully!Stephen.Also thanks to Tim EvansStephen.Casper Dik wrote:> > >Having intalled the o/s (2.6 5/98) on an old SS20 with 4 CPUs and 512Mb of RAM -> >the install worked as ...

The original post:/bin/pwd doesn't work for non-root users on directories in AFS. The pwdcommands builtin to both ksh and bash, however, do work, and I can cd intothe directories under any shell.We're running Solaris 2.7 with the recommended and security patches fromabout a month ago. In ...

Thanks to all who responded.I did have a permissions problem, after copying everythingoff the tape.chmod 0777 fixed it.> > check the permissions on the following.> /tmp/.NeWS-unix/> who does it belong to? can everyone read write execute ?> also ..> look at the ...

Sun-Managers...Thanks to all for replying CRON job issues:Here is the following points noted from the reply mails and helped mea lot to solve all problem.o No blank line(s) are allowed in crontab entry.  # to be included in front of each line if we need any blank-line(s)o Log ie. ...

===ORIGINAL POST===I have a SS20 with a nice 21" Color monitor on it. A vendor is coming infor a demo next week and wanted to know if we had a monitor they could useto save them the trouble of bringing theirs.I'm not sure if I can remove the monitor from my SS20 and have it ...

My original question was:> I have a Sparc20 running SunOS 4.1.3_U1. > > I would like to connect two external devices: a dial in modem and an U.P.S > which made by American Power Conversion to the serial port of the Sparc20 > via a DB-25(M) to 2 x DB25(F) Serial Port Splitter ...

Well it looks like I had it correct in my orignal post but I did not knowthat after you set /dev/ip ip_enable_group_ifs to 0 the last interfacedefined is the one used. One thing that was not clear was if lastinterface was leo:254 or if it meant last defined, after some testing itappears that ...

Hello,Thanks for the very fast help, most of the answers was right !!!it was the automounter.Regards Stots=================================The original query was :I have some very strange problem in solaros 2.5.1,some of my nfs mounted disks become unmounted without any reason ......(no one is ...

Question:environment:Solaris 2.6, recent patching running as a sendmail server for a largesolaris NIS domain. mailserver has been up for months and no known changeshave taken place.Problem:when logging into a NIS client as root the error "mail: Invalid permissionson /var/mail/root"is ...

All,Thanks for the many speedy replies. Everyone was helpful, these twowere the most concise and straightforward. I chose the GUI Admintooloption. As it turns out, SUNWconn has but parts of SunNet Manager init.Pieces of SunNet Manager are also located in other places, so if I hadjust 'rm ...

My original post:>>> On 12 Nov 1997 11:42:41 -0600, js@cctechnol.com (Johnie Stafford) said: js> I don't even remember what started all this, but now I have my account js> all messed up. This morning it seems that solstice can't figure out js> what to call my ...

I want to thank everyone for your prompt replies/"expert testimony".I asked:>>> Greetings, managers.>>> ...My local DNS is on MS (Much Suspected) NT. I get the following output:>>> broot@hadg# nslookup>>> *** Can't find server name for address ...

My original question was:> I have a Sparc20 running SunOS 4.1.3_U1. > > I would like to connect two external devices: a dial in modem and an   U.P.S > which made by American Power Conversion to the serial port of the Sparc20 > via a DB-25(M) to 2 x DB25(F) Serial Port ...

HI,First of all I am sorry for the late summary.I got reply from Marais Gert and David Evans, Thanks to both of you.David was right in fact there were too many processes running on the workstation. The first time I got the error message on the workstation I couldn't check the number of ...

Greetings, again.Just to close this, I did get a chance to do some testing on this drive, aswell as a drive on another machine.the second drive seemed to work fine, still had some problems with theoriginal drive... until it died. :-/ So, Iguess we have a confirmation on THAT problem.Thanks, ...

        A while ago I asked if Solaris 2.6 included BSM (Basic SecurityModule), ACL (Access Control Lists), and ASET (Automated SecurityEnhancement tool).         The answer. I got the first couple answers within ...

Dear all,It took a long time to exploit the information I receveid, but it wasusefull.First of all it is uselees to use the new SCSI 3 card if there is only oneor two disks attached to the interface. The disks will not be able to usesuch a large bandwith (160 Mb/s). SCSI 2 and even SCSI 1 ...

Hello Sun SysAdminsThanks to all that sent in answersAdamku, LadislasDerek TerveerRandy J. ParkerGraham LeggettStefan VossDavid MitchellAndy J. Stefancikit appears that Andy J. Stefancik sent in the best, and allowed me injust a very few minutes, to have a working answer.Here is the finished ...

I got no opinions from the list on this question. I guess no one hasused this product. FYI, the Sun engineers told me that there will be noconflicts with general Unix accounting if I run SunSHIELD.>I've got an S1000E running 2.4 that currently has standard Unix>accounting activated on ...

Thank's to all who confirmed my guess that it was a configuration problemand greg_polanski@adc.com in particular who lead me to experiment with theright thing. All I needed to do was set the entry        DSmailhost.$min /etc/mail/sendmail.cf to my email ...

My thanks to the following people for theirrecommendations:Jean Philippe Le Roy [jean-philippe.leroy@st.com]Stuart Little [Stuart.Little@dpcs-sw.co.uk]Kevin Inscoe [kevin.inscoe@cbis.com]Kevin Sheehan [Kevin.Sheehan@uniq.com.au]Original question: I'm trying to track down memoryleaks in my ...

Opinions were varied on this question. People seemed to like what theywere using. The most important opinion came from my local Sun salesrep, who had this to say:"...you are better off sticking with Volume Manager at least for thetime being. Volume Manager offers better functionality with ...

Thank you for answers to Luca Pizzinato and Darren Dunham.Copy of Luca's answer follows.First, modify you passwd and group entries in /etc/nsswitch.conf on BOTHmaster and clients as follows:passwd: compatpasswd_compat: nisplusgroup: compatgroup_compat: ...

HiThanks to Derrick Daugherty, Walter Reed, Alexandre Perematko for replying.My Sun rep came back and said yes, we can use the 36GB disks with Netra 1405afterall.Thanks,KaiOriginal question:> Hi,> > Does anyone know why Sun cannot sell a Netra T 1405 (N14-AA) with the 36GB> 1inch ...

> I've started using Solaris 2.6 with the disk suite set for the same > recently and have begun to have a few problems that are confusing.> > Machine will complain that a random drive in the strip is not > responding either for a read or a write.> > I am using Ultra IIs ...

Hello Sun-managersThe original question was :I have a NIS network , 1 master and 1 slave , both SunOS 4.1.3.Clients are SunOS and Solaris 2.xMy problem is 'password aging' and 'requiring password'How can I implement this with NIS ? -- Software, scripts ......?So far I only got one ...

Thanks to all who responded:Original question:My friend and I are having a debate about the function of the power switch>on the front panel next to the floppy drive.>If the system is powered up and the CDE login screen is present.>I power the system off by pressing the power button ...