Apologies. I forgot to change the subject line to a SUMMARY when Iposted this.CJW-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----The original question:>>>>> "Colin" == Colin J Wynne <cwynne@mts.jhu.edu> writes:    Colin> After two power failures in the ...

Original question:> Dear Gurus,> > Recently, I've received a few letters about how to create> setuid to root shells by normal users.> I want to protect our SPARCcenter from such attacks,> and I can set the nosuid mount option for publicly writable> ufs file systems.> ...

Still until now, i didn't receive any reply as to how to get the MAC ID ofa Host Adapter Card. I am actually speaking of how to get the WWN of anyattached card. e.g. SCSI card, Fibre Channel card...still, i'd like to thank Imre for his reply, which i have included below,and i'd also like to ...

First, the original questions:Brian Exelbierd wrote:> We are considering implementing a secure telnet solution and I was> curious if anyone here had any caveats or experience? What software did> you use, both on the client and server side? Did you continue to allow> unsecured ...

I've got 2 replies that were very useful. Many thanks to Darren Dunham and Matthew Stier.My original post:================ Hi List,   Environment: Sun Solaris 7 using NIS   On the passwd file for NIS (not on the local passwd file, here all entries have x ...

My original question:I am in a quandary. I have several FDDI adapters which are not current.  For example: FDDI Single Attach 3.0 Sun part number: 595-3444. I'd like to get them current. Does anyone have experience with an upgrade path for these? Are there software upgrades available ...

Hi all, till now we have been hosting searchable archives of theSun managers mailing list. This has now changed and the same engine isnow hosted by Dataman Benelux b.v on the following URL:     http://www.dataman.nl/cgi-bin/codeprofThe indexes are updated nightly. We have ...

****** Thanks to too many people to name individually:Solstice Online DiskSuite, which is part of Solaris.It is widely believed to disappear in the near future.Most people think it is easy to install and robust.Veritas Volume Manager. Is not part of Solaris but comes with a Storage Arrayorcan ...

Hello,  Asked if anyone had successfully copied the Solaris distributioncdroms. Following advice copied it at 1X and now it works great.Many Thanks,Matt Goebel>From: "Stuart, Reggie (GXS, Maxim)" <Reggie.Stuart@gxs.ge.com>>Subject: RE: Trying to burn backup copy ...

Original Post:>From chad@sequana.com Fri Nov 14 07:29:37 1997>Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 09:40:17 -0800 (PST)>From: Chad Smith <chad@sequana.com>>To: Sun Managers Mailing List <sun-managers@ra.mcs.anl.gov>>Subject: eprom version>Followup-To: Chad Smith ...

Apparently SecureCRT works fine with 1.x SSH daemons. I did not testthe information I was given that was contrary. I have received successreports specifically naming 1.2.26.Sorry for any confusion,bexattached mail follows:First, the original questions:Brian Exelbierd wrote:> We are ...

My original question was:I have some Macs using Columbia AppleTalk to some partitions on mySunOS 4.1.3 system. I have found 2 directories that I cannot acccesseither from CAP or unix. ls -l show this:drwxrwx--- 13 techpub techpub 512 Apr 5 1996 ?WP Filesdrwxrwx--- 3 techpub techpub ...

I asked about recovery strategies should a master server croak.There are no canned strategies -- no way to promote a replica server tomaster, for instance.In theory, it should be possible to take recent file dumps and create aserver from them. And in theory, it could be possible to restore ...

Thanks to Richard Cove, Kevin Buterbaugh and Giorgio Mantini for theirreply:Probably a graphics patch issue you didn't say which os but here is thelikely patches from a 2.7 machine. Download patchdiag from sunsolve andcheck out what you are missing.INSTALLED PATCHESPatch Installed Latest ...

I sent this last night but didn't put summary in the subject line.Anyway, here's the details as I know them now.---begin original messageWales Wong wrote:> My $0.02 is to take at look at /etc/rc2.d. In my case, sendmail isstarted> right after starting print services. Please check to see ...

To everyone on the Sun-Managers list: I present the following summary.I did receive a significant number of responses. In general, they breakdown into three schools of thought:1. > With Solaris and Unix in general there is no requirement for defragmentation, the file system does a ...

Hi,My original question was that the DLT drive takes too long (2 hours) toposition itself using SOlstice Backup.I received a few replies and the correct answer were from :John Stoffel <jfs@fluent.com> and peter.bestel@uniq.com.auIt was a missing missing entry for DLT in ...

Thanks to everyone who responded,The Query : -I am trying get the patch revisions by giving " showrev -p "it is giving the output as follows -# showrev -pshowrev: get_env_var(core, SUNW_PATCHID)The OS is 2.5.1 on Ultra 60.Any inputs will be helpful.-------------The Solution ...

There are many good reasons for the Ethernet (MAC) address to bemodifiable -- from redundant shadowing, such as Openvision's HA(high availability), to hosts with multiple interfaces on a givensubnet, and more.For more information on modifying the host's NVRAM, reference the ...

Hi,Original Question-----------------We are currently evaluating an SGI octane for use with a seismic processing system (ProMAX).Our file servers are Solaris 2.5(.1). The SGI runs IRIX 6.5.I have some trouble with the SGI:1. It has problems accessing the file servers:   Nov 4 ...

Hi,<p>Thanks to all that sent in answers<p> I solved my problems.I removed /ftp/dev/tcp,then created<p>/ftp/dev/tcp.it works fine.<p>Maybe when the file system was corrupted ,device was corrupted.<p>Didem AYDINER<p>System Administrator<p>KocSistem<p>

Thanks to those that responded.- no one could certainly say that SB 0 is non DRable but most of you saidthat the SB containing the boot CPU cannot be DRed.- the E10K configurator will be able to determine the right mix ofcomponents. Most of you said that yes it is possible to use a SunSwift ...

Original QuestionHi gurus:        I don't know what is the name, but I want to put a main page fothelogins in my Netra with Solaris 2.5.1.Anybody know ...

> I have a SPARCstation 10 running Solaris 2.5.1 that hangs> about every two weeks. (Stop-A won't even work when it> does hang; I have to power cycle the system.)> The message log shows the following:> > unix: WARNING: M-to-S Asynchronous fault due to > unix: user write - ...

First, I would like to apologize for late summarize..due to problems inour new web-mail server...I appreciate all that replied to my questionWajeh,Lisa,Sebastian Benoit, Dieter Gobbers Lars,Steve Kay..Thanks toall who replied..and I am so sorry if i forgot anyone..Answers :Steve Kay ...

Managers:Once again, thanks for the many responses.u2is9lsg@gregsun.crrel.usace.army.mil (LINDA S GEE )David Willard <dwillard@scires.com>Dan Simoes <dans@ans.net>Tim Carlson <tim@santafe.edu>tkevans@eplrx7.es.dupont.com (Tim Evans)Brent Chivers ...

hithe original question was:> i am setting up a DNS subdomain using the perl h2n script. this is> a very small set up, 12 machines, running Sun OS 4.1.4 and the> version of bind shipped with that - 4.8.something. > > i am new to this site (2 weeks on the job) and just learning ...

Thanks for all answers spec Andrew he hit磀 the nail !Orginal question belowThis was an exellent answer from Andrew Petrovnfsfind isn't a program, it's a shell script which check shared NFSfilesystemsfor .nfs* files. Do cat /usr/lib/fs/nfs/nfsfind and you'll see what this isvery simple ...

Thanks to Syd Alsobrook. He pointed me back to the dreaded duplex mismatchproblem which I know we've fixed once already on this system. Looks likeit's come back from the grave to haunt us again.Back to the patch sites. (sigh).-----Original Message-----From: Fletcher, Joe ...

Actually, I should title this "wt-eb-p fix", since I got knocked in with a monster cold...Thanks go ...

Hello all!(Original Question at end)Thanks to all, who replied. As ususal, this list is fast!So far, I got 10 replies. Most of them pointed me to look at theswap-space. Three ask, if we do a 'boot -r' after changing /etc/systemThe solution was indeed a corrupt swap-partition.Thanks again ...

Yes, boot -r is the culprit.As an alternative, Sun support said that I could manually comment outthe reference to sf in /kernel/drv/ssd.conf. I would have to rememberto uncomment it if we ever added a Photon storage ...

Thanks very much to:rsk@itw.com (Rich Kulawiec)Claus Assmann <ca@informatik.uni-kiel.de> at InternetIv n Villalobos Hern ndez <denp@acnet.net> at Internet*** ORIGINAL QUESTION ****Does anybody know what this means? It's a Solaris 2.5 system running sendmail 8.8.3This is from ...

It has been over 3 weeks since I posted the original message, but it wassomething to the effect of "Is there a command (or commands) I can run thatwill show me what is wrong with a system and can show me the reliability ofit?" The reason I asked was because we were having problems on ...

With help from Saul Pliuskonis <pliuskon@yahoo.com> I solvedthis one by removing these 2 definitions referring to 64 bitin this line in the generated Makefile:CCFLAGS = -fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE ...

Original question:> The question of all questions: How do you access Windows NT applications> from SPARCs running Solaris 2.5?> > Have any of you experience with WinCenter PRO from NDC?And the answer is:-- Gautam Das (gautam@bwc.org)   We are running Solaris/SunOS and ...

hello all, thanks to:blymn@baesystems.com.au, <ddunham@taos.com>, <sraja@cinenet.net>,<sagordon@brazil.library.uvic.ca>the solution was to edit /kernel/drv/sd.conf and add entries for the otherluns, since by default solaris only probe for lun0.in connection, i have the ...

Hello sun-managers,Thanks to all of you who try to help:Anton Bernal <abernal@esoc.esa.de>Noel Fardy <noelf@ttmc.com>mike@trdlnk.com (Michael Sullivan)poffen@San-Jose.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)"Trevor Paquette" <TrevorPaquette@aec.ca>ahe@cs.unh.edu (Andrew H. ...

My original question:> >Hi all. I'm having trouble compiling top on my ultra2 2.6 box, with> >gcc-2.7.2.3. The Changes docs show there were some recent chanegs, and> >I'm wondering if all the problems aren't worked out yet.> >> >I also can't understand why I ...

Hmmmm,i guess, that i have sended my SUMMARY too quicck. It took a while, but now all the annoying messages about not responding NFS servers appear again: 17 messages only in the last 6 hours ! NOTHING has changed ...

SUMMARY: ROSS Processors InformationQUESTION:I submitted the following message:Dear Gurus,I have 06 SS-10 Model 51, which I would like to enhance their perfor-mance. They are basically used to perform numerical calculations.Some guys have suggested to use the ROSS processors upgrade, and I ...

Big thanks to the following (I think I have everyone!):"Philip A. Fitzpatrick" <phil@libs.uga.edu>James Noad <jehn@cortex.shef.ac.uk>"Scott F. Woods" <sfw@adc.idt.com>Jim Harmon <jim@telecnnct.com>Marcelo Maraboli <maraboli@dcsc.utfsm.cl>Harvey ...

Thanks to:"Teague, Tony" <tony.teague@csfp.co.uk>Mark Hargrave <hargrme@wisdom.maf.nasa.gov>Thomas Lewis <tlewis@everest.hunter.cuny.edu>"Brandon K. Devlin" <bdevlin@logicon.com>Simon Alexander Klaus Kissler <Simon.Kissler@valpo.edu>Murat Balkas ...

Well the problem was errors in compiling vim on solaris 2.5.1solution: add /usr/dt/lib to LD_LIBRARY_PATH .......thanks to Reg Smith for the tip and to the rest for trying :-)Regards,Moti LevyUnix SysOpmailto:mlevy@lannet.comtel:972-3-6457551cel:972-54-929319SU BEFORE POSTING please READ the ...

First solution1. check if lpsched is running2. Yes lpshut, then lpsched3. run lpschedSecond solution:/etc/init.d/lp startAlso, you may need        enable lptrad        accept lptradThird solution:kill -9 ...

          The question was first where to find pcnfsd and only secondarily how      best to serve files to PCs. The overwhelming and resounding response      is SAMBA! I won't clutter your ...

Nov. 28, 2000 (GMT +8)Hello world,SUMMARY:The Sun Blade 1000 will *only* work with 64-bit Solaris 8. Notwith 32-bit Solaris 8, nor with 64-bit Solaris 7. MANY, MANY THANKS TO:Tim Chong <oeyvind@ensim.com>Ed Crotty <ecrotty@vantage.com>Jerry Kemp - sun mail ...

In my PRE-SUMMARY I wrote:> I've got only one answer so far, currently I'm looking into the am-util> package. > > > We had to copy the 2.5 compiled version over. It did not work correctly when> > compiled under Solaris 2.6. I still need to look into it.> > > > ...

Hello,I think my problem has been solved. This was the original Mysterious Log Entry:> Nov 1 07:36:34 sysiphus bootpd[10758]: bootpd 2.1 #18: Sun Apr 11 > 00:37:49 GMT 1993> Nov 1 07:36:34 sysiphus bootpd[10758]: bootpd 2.1 #18: Sun Apr 11 > 00:37:49 GMT 1993> Nov 1 07:36:34 ...

     To the Group,          Thanks for the many responses. There were way too many to respond to      everyone, but the general responses ...