I realize this is outside the charter of this group, but Ithink it's important enough to bend the rules once.A company in Germany makes a product called StarOffice, an officesuite that looks a lot like MSOffice, for Solaris and Linux.Inspired (or so they claim) by Sun's offer to give away ...

Hi all,>I'am trying to secure my desktop so that nobody else than I can display>an application to my screen.>>I've already tried xhost (This is host based, all users on that specific> host can display to my screen)> >An other alternative is xauth which ...

WOW you guys are fast and good !! Below is a copy of my original questionand then a brief summary of the key points made in my responses ...=======================8< BEGIN Original Question 8<=======================> Hello Sun Managers,>> We have a Sparc 2000E with:> ...

I didn't think a summary was needed, until I received a similar question. Eventhough the results of the submmit leaded to few answers, may be these be ofinterest for someone...Resuming: likely to be a sudden panic, wathdog,.. without any logs or core.Thanks to Doug Winter, Eric van de ...

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

On Tue, 18 Nov 1997, I blathered forth:> I have a fresh out of the box Enterprise 3000 (yes, I've put in a> service call but something keeps bugging me that this is just a simple> fix-able problem). The system (during boot up and during software> installation) keeps repeating ...

Alright guys, you've nagged me into trying again! :-) This time I've got a solution (if at first you don't succeed....). Basically the problem is I've just installed a Sun FastEthernet 2.1 card in an Ultra 1, followed all the instructions, and it appears to work fine, except on bootup I get ...

Original Question:> when I start /opt/SUNWspro/bin/dbx on a SUN box running in 64 bit mode> it crashes immediately:> > #/opt/SUNWspro/bin/dbx> Segmentation Fault> > If the maschine is running in 32 bit mode it runs fine.> > OS version is Solaris 5.7. HW is a ...

Hi,Well here is my summary.Thanks to:John MalickRichard Kelly (BoxHill)Original Q:> Hi sunners,> > I have installed BoxHill 9G and 18G disks on new servers a lot of timeswith> no problems....until now.> > On this one server I installed a PCI SCSI interface card to add ...

I had two responses to this very awful problem but nothing hasworked yet. I am going to repost the problem with some additionalinformation in the hopes that this will set someones Ah-HA bell off.With a summary of the two responses at the end.Thank YouPROBLEM:When I bring up SAM (An X utility ...

Thanx a lot to Craig Bevins <craigb@bitcom.net.au>, who sent the correct answer right away, here is the Table listing all Combinations on the 5c ...

It's a 10/41 with SuperCache (the "2nd cpu").Thanks to:David Sinn <DavidS@corbis.com>Ray Brownrigg <Ray.Brownrigg@isor.vuw.ac.nz>Gary W. Cook <gcook@netcom.com>David Procter <daveyp@dcd.pcd.sony.co.uk>Glenn Satchell <Glenn.Satchell@Uniq.com.au>Jochen ...

Original question:> > Hi, Mamagers:> I am running Solaris 2.5.1> > I installed "mpage"> Mpage is a program to reduce and print multiple pages of text per> sheet on a PostScript compatible printer.> > when I ran it, it come up the message:> sh: ucb: not ...

Hi,Lot's of responses so thanks to Mike, Evandro, Douglas, Don, Andy, Danieland any that are stillin the aether.Seems ndd WILL do what I want but I have to be more explicit on how I useit. I'd already run it onone of the problem systems but nothing seemed to change. I can't just say ndd -set ...

On Tue, 18 Nov 1997, I summarized:> On Tue, 18 Nov 1997, I blathered forth:> > I have a fresh out of the box Enterprise 3000[snip]> > keeps repeating this message ad naseum:> > > > SUNW,hme0: 100Mbps half-duplex Link Up> > SUNW,hme0: Using Internal ...

Thanks to all that responded so quickly. The right answer comes fromDouglas Lee who referenced the Sun FE handbooks. It seems that the Netra1405 requires minimum of Solaris 7, HW build 8/99. I was using 10/98.Thanks Doug, and to all those that took the time to try to ...

Thanks to:Andy `speed-racer' Wagliardo <awagliar@hubcap.core-dump.com>, "Cristian Martinez T." <spy@inf.utfsm.cl>Ian Camm <icamm@sse.eu.sony.co.jp>, Jay Holt <jholt@pdc.com>, Richard Snyder <rsnyder@eos.hitc.com>, rnapholz@is.usp.comfor their responses. ...

Original question:Does anyone know if there are drivers written to run IP over SCSI?Here is the data collected:There is an RFC on this very thing:          ftp://ftp.internic.net/rfs/rfc2143.txtA Linux ...

Q:I got the problem with a cluster running on Solaris 2.7. When i runhastat show me the next message:Recent Error Messages on ms1 Nov 28 16:50:23 ms1 netfmd[1904]: pnmrtop failed with exit code 5 for adapter qfe0 on node ms2 Nov 28 16:54:18 ms1 netfmd[1904]: pnmrtop failed with ...

My original problem was :I have a file with only one raw of 1401 bytes name toto.oriI made the command line:head -1 toto.ori > toto.new.The result file is only 1023 bytesMany Thanks to:Olivier GIRAUD : olivier.Giraud@cedelgroup.comMichael Kriss : kriss@fnal.govThe raison is: there is a ...

I usually get my top from eecs.nwu.edu, so I wasn'taware that there was a new release in the making.I pulled 3.5beta7 from ftp.groupsys.com (the other best archive for top), and it compiled quite nicely.My thanks to: Edward S. Marshall ...

Hi;Following my search for some utils.I'm running Solaris 2.4 BTW I forgot to mention.I was informed by many that Solaris 2.5 comes with a host ofutils including a process tree under /usr/proc/bin A couple of folks sent me scripts that do the job under 2.4.Both are attached at the end of the ...

First Off, I would like to thank the people who did reply with theirhelpfull hints.The answer to my question was solved by:Paul H. Yoshimune, who wrote ...I believe HP hasn't updated their JetDirect software for Solaris x86 in alongtime, and it isn't available on their web site anymore. I ...

Hi,all:   THANKS:      Jason Keltz <jas@cs.yorku.ca>      Xu, Guo Miao (Hui, Kwok Miu) <huikomix@dt.com.hk>      Brian T. Wightman ...

Hi:A while back I asked about the differences between the 170 and 170E. Hereare the responses I received back. Thanks much to all who took the time toanswer. I'm the proud owner of a new 170 and extremely happy with it. I'veposted my original question first.> Hi Managers:> > I need ...

turns out that the solution was pretty trivial...use ssh-keygen to create your rsa keyphrasewhen prompted to enter in your rsa keyphrase just press enter twiceworks like a charm :)Thanks to:Marc SummersCarle BrissonAuteria Wally WinzThe Ghost who AdmiMichael A. RichardNickolai ZeldovichDave ...

Thanks to all who answer my question.In SunOS 4.1.3 or 4.1.4, I have to kill -TERM <automount_pid>. Use othersignal will cause system hang( like 9 ).(Stefan Voss answer)In Solaris just need type "automount". Then it will reread configuration.And Glenn Satchell suggest not use ...

Original question:        I have a Solaris 2.6 Sparc machine, I need to increase the number        of process available on the system, how can I do this?Answer:        As root ...

Well gee, this was simple, I was using a mailstats program from olderversion of sendmail. Recompiled mailstats, viola, it works.Thanks to Sergey Mokryshev for pointing that out. :)BillOriginal problem:> I am having a problem with the command mailstats, system is running> Solaris 2.6, ...

Hi Managers,Summary:"David Evans" <djve@deakin.edu.au> hitted the head of the nail. Setting the auto-boot to false solved the problem. The auto-boot was set to false beforewe performed upgrade on another Ultra Sparc. The machine reboted when the installation was completed.Thank ...

SUMMARY OF PROBLEM:SCSI tagged queuing cmd timeout errors (see orignal post below).ATTEMPTS AT A SOLUTION: o Disable tagged queuing (TQ) for the entire system:   -Add this to /etc/system.         set scsi_options=0x80Temporarily ...

Thanks to Seth Rothenberg and Ralph Dell metareplace -e d9 c0t11d0s5 Was the answer... Thanks Again Eddy Original Question I have an E250 running 2.6 w recomended patches with a patched version of disksuit VERSION: 4.1-FCS,REV=6.0. This is a new system and I am playing buiding ...

The rock gets a life thanks to everyone here...Original question was why I was getting the message:> Making support library.> /usr/ucb/cc -g -DDEBUG -c fnmatch.c> /usr/ucb/cc: language optional software package not installed> *** Error code 1> make: Fatal error: Command failed ...

Hi all,Got quick reply from White Kelvin,Chandrasekhar Kalle, Jeff Kennedy,and mjohnson@forsythesolutions. Thanks all especially Mr. Chandrasekharfor a detailed reply. Original Post------------> Hi,> We have veritas netbackup installed in our sun box and are planning> to> buy ATL ...

Many thanks to the dozens of people who replied:> The subject line says it all. I've got a SparcServer 20 that is now a> "no account" system for reasons I haven't been able to determine. I> arrived at work this morning to find it this way. The system will boot,> but ...

HiOriginal question at bottom...Most people said don't use auto-negotiation, it doesn't work.Other responses;Make sure if it's on, then it's on at only one end of the linkMake sure you have up to date patches on the Suns and Firmware in the CatswitchesWe went with not using autonegotiation ...

A few short days ago I wrote:>Greetings Managers.>I've received strange warnings from ufsdump backup about one of the striped>disks. That disk contains vital data and and any loss would put us>up the proverbial creek.>GENERAL DESCRIPTION:>We do backups using Budtools v 4.4, ...

Thank you all very much. It was great that I got around 50 responseswithin 15 hours of posting the question.To get the uptime information, most of them told the following:1. last reboot (Gives all the times when reboot had happened. Thisinformation is recorded in wtmpx file)2. uptime (This ...

My original question:   I'm looking into increasing the limit on my filedescriptors (for my server running realtime audio).    In doing so, I encountered two different kinds oflimits, i.e. soft vs. hard.   Can anyone tell me what the difference ...

Dear all SunManager,My original questing:>I has a demo license of SunPro SPARC Compiler C 3.0 (will be expired on>11 Dec 1996). Now I want to use the SPARC Compiler to compile the GCC for>production (permenant) use.>>Can any one told me:>>1. What package(s) should I need ...

HiSomeone has correctly pointed out the nnd settings are for on the fly changesand not to add to /etc/system. Here is what we have in one example of our/etc/system file;set hme:hme_adv_autoneg_cap = 0set hme:hme_adv_100fdx_cap = 1set hme:hme_adv_100hdx_cap = 0set hme:hme_adv_10fdx_cap = 0set ...

Hello All Sun SysadminsThanks to all that answered.This is the old problem of"Ask 20 people, and you will get 40 answers."But be that as it may, it appears that the most logicalanswer, being that I am using a DDS-3 format is:0cnI have no idea what the "b" for berkeley mode ...

Thanks to all who responded. Turned out that reverse lookups were failing because the in-addr.arparecord for that subnet did not include the primary nameserver with an NSrecord, but pointed to a secondary NS record which was failing to doreverse address lookups for that subnet.Thanks for all ...

> It seems, that a jumpstart installation across a router without> a bootserver on the local subnet doesn't work, because the> RARP and BOOTPARAMD requests can't be forwarded with> the ip-helper functionality of a cisco router. IP-Helper can> only forward UDP broadcasts, and ...

My original question: Hi all.I need a little help. My work consists in network monitoring. I need to inform a remote user too when some event happens. The remote useris reachable through a pager.Has anyone developed a perl or java routine to send a alphanumeric stringto a pager ?Here the ...

Hi,After a couple of weeks unable to solve the problem, it turns out out that it was entirely of my own doing. We had ssh installed and the entry in/etc/services was something like:ssh 22/tcp secure loginand it was the word "login" which was confusing the situation with ...

hi,all:My question is :>> Can i print PS file on it Without PS card and how ?>The answer is :      (from Benjamin Cline <benji@hnt.com> )> You can get a package named GhostScript, which can do PostScript to PCL>(HP's ...

Chris.. you get the prize.. this is exactly what the problem was.ThanksalChris Eslinger wrote:> > On Fri, Nov 13, 1998 at 07:34:20AM -0500, Al Aldrich wrote:> > > This is for a friend at wpine.com> >> > People in my domain using my DNS primary can do reverse lookups ...

Thanks toMarc AlvidrezGurunath Agaram RamaraoRichard GroveJarett CarverKevin ButerbaughMost people recommended the books of Adrian Cockroft. I got one linkwith articles from him: http://www.sun.com/sun-on-net/performanceAlso there is a Performance toolkit from Adrian available which I amgoing to ...

thanks a lot . I got several help mail , here it is:----------------------->from Rudi Boerner >owner must be root, no binthank Rudi Boerner . the aliases file surely owned by root---------------------->from Claus Assmann>Make sure /etc and /etc/mail are only writable by ...