My original question:> Hi Sun Managers,> After installing the latest Solaris 2.5.1 jumbo patches from Sun,> OpenWindows will not start. OpenWindows will start via dtlogin> manager, but I receive the following errors when I try to start> OpenWindows after logging in through ...
HI all,\well, I am sending the summary kind of early since I am losing use of my system for a while. Basically the consensus was to check whether there was a ulimit ot limit statemtn in the users' config files ("dot" files). There may be something in there that causes my ...
I wrote:>After installing the Recommended patch set from 11/22 on my Ultra5, I can>now reliably freeze the machine as a user ("ssh -f hostname xterm" will do>it nearly every time). As the machine becomes unping'able, and the>keyboard/mouse are frozen (Stop-a doesn't ...
Sun-Managers,################ THANK YOUs###############Thank you all for the replys. I would like to thank the following (inno particular order):Mike Salehi, Craig Whytock, Scott Kulp, JCJ6, Nabeel Ahmed, SinhaDeepak, Dan Liebster, David Alford, David Evans, Douglas Lee, DarrenDunham, Barry ...
hello!my question was: >i just upgraded to solaris 2.6 on my ss20. starting programs that were>compiled on solaris 2.5.1 often results in the following error message> >root@dwst20:>./mirror>ld.so.1: /usr/local/bin/perl: fatal: relocation error: file>/usr/local/bin/perl: ...
Many thanks for all those who responded.The Conclusion : Many people felt that Sun VTS is a suitable tools toStress test Solaris Boxes.No body came out with a tool for HP UNIX.Will again summarise if I receive any more responses regarding thestress testing tool for HP UX as well ...
Hi Guru's!Thanks for responses to those who responded!ANSWER:The simple answer was that a power down and up wasnecessary to get the mouse to work again.Roy---------------------------------------------------Roy E.Ramberg Telefon : +47 22856639Systems Manager Telefax : +47 ...
I originally asked about a long term maintenance problem, on how to solvedependency on one disk server. This isn't a full summary since I haven'tinvestigated any of the solutions mentioned (as I originally said, it's along term stability problem), so I'll just mention potential solutions I ...
Sent this out on 10/2, guess it never made it the 1st time.Fellow Sunners,Rec'd four replies to my query (original is below).I award Casper Dik (casper@holland.sun.com) first prize; three draft pintsof Schafley Oktoberfest beer (but he has to visit St. Louis to collect!)His response: internal ...
Original Post:Subject: VxVM volume backup script?I wish to set up backups of some DB volumes, either byusing "snapshot" or disassociating a third mirror. The DB can only be shut down for a short period and acopy needs to be taken nightly.Does anyone have scripts to automate this ...
Sun-Managers,################ THANK YOUs###############Thank you all for the replys. I would like to thank the following (inno particular order):Mike Salehi, Craig Whytock, Scott Kulp, JCJ6, Nabeel Ahmed, SinhaDeepak, Dan Liebster, David Alford, David Evans, Douglas Lee, DarrenDunham, Barry ...
-- [ From: Kai Schwermann * EMC.Ver #2.5.02 ] --Dear netters,has anyone got an idea how to push IPX-Packets through a Sun with Firewall-1-Software?We have a customer who has got a quattro-ehernet-card and a Sun. He needs toget a IPX-connection froma cisco on one ethernet-int. to their internal ...
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Thank you for the answer.Majority their have two kind of suggesstion: 1. put information on /etc/issue 2. put information on /etc/default/telnetd. use "man telnetd" fordetail information. I perfer second way.My Original post:> > I ...
Not really a summary since it isn't solved but wanted to tell what I did totry and fix it.First, I tried removing everything in /TT_DB (which is the only one I have)and restarting the Xserver. That didn't work so I tried rebooting. Stilldidn't work and nothing was recreated in /TT_DB. ...
wow, received a *lot* of replies confirming my thoughts about this, andalso providing some more insight into /tmp and swap.in short, yes, files in /tmp eat up the available swap if you have /tmp mounted onswap, as defined in /etc/vfstabyou can also restrict the amount of space available for ...
THANKS go to:Leonard, Roger [Roger.Leonard@marconi.com]Response:check out sunsolve.sun.com. there are a couple of these, some relating toloose SCSI termination.Kris, aka. Unixboy@aol.comResponse:are you using an nvramrc script? If so, try disabling the script andresetting......SOLUTION:After ...
Hi Everyone,I am totally amazed at how fast I get answers from sun-managers. Q.:>I am trying to add security by turning off items in rpc and services. Also in>using "netstat -i", one can get a line like:>>*.28503 *.* 0 0 0 0 LISTEN>>This is not a ...
I posted a question about finding the list archive.Received answers from: John Reynolds <reynolds@acetsw.amat.com> Benjamin Cline <benji@hnt.com> Cheryl L. Southard <cld@astro.caltech.edu> Matthew Stier ...
I didn't found the exact cause but there must be a corruption or some charactors in a file. Finally I erase the 0th slice copied it from the mirrored one and it clicked. Thanks to Marco green for his instant reply. Thanks again to all of you - Rahul ---------------------- Forwarded by Rahul ...
The consensus is that the browser Netscape converts the file to readableformat as supposed to save it as a package. The work around is to shift andright click on link then do a "Save As". This will allow you to save as afile.Thank to all,Daniel------Original Message------From: Daniel ...
Hi Sun managers,My original question:> > All our SunOS systems recently has nslookup problem with error 'core dump', and it> may be because (still checking) our root server in Europe is not delegating reverse> mapping. My question:> > 1) how can I find out the root server ...
Thanks go out to: Tim CarlsonKlaus SellerbergCraig MertensDuncan PhillipsDaniel MuinoAlex Shepard Tim EvansAllan West Charlie GiannettoBryan Blackburn Vilain, SamDavid FosterMike FisherRick Robino Unixboy@aol.comEdwards Philip M CDAVID,AnthonyBrad Young ...
Dear managers - My original post was about a problem with viewing Answerbook materials. Being new to the Solaris environment I soon realized that my question really had two sub-questions with different answers -So in summary - 1) The Answerbook ...
Hi, Here is my orig. question. ** In the Makefile of Solaris 2.6 (or 2.x) there is any para. in/var/yp/Makefile which can specify the location of the maps.What is your suggestion on where do an Admin. put the maps. IS IT A GOOD IDEA TO keep all the maps by default in /etc, so ...
My original question:> > Here's the situation as it stands at the moment. I have 3 Sun Ultra 1's> in our server room, and the intention is to connect them to a Livingston> Portmaster 2e to act as a console server. The console server is not the> issue here, as I have already ...
Hi All,My original post was:> > How does one tell if the libc on a particular SunOS 4.1.4 machine> is the domestic or international version?> Very quickly, a great answer came from Charles Seeger <seeger@cise.ufl.edu> :> Jeff, try looking for the _cbc_crypt function. ...
The consensus says to use the freeware utility "lsof". This utility find outwhat processes are holding the open-port. The usage is as follow: lsof -itcp:80Thanks for numerous help.Daniel------Original Message------From: Daniel Lee <daniel_lee@asia.com>To: ...
Hi sunners:Thanks a lot again to these kind sun-managers who dedicated some minutes to answer my question:- "C. Allen" <cda@cosmoslink.net>- Rasana Atreya <Rasana.Atreya@library.ucsf.edu> - David Willard <dwillard@scires.com>-"Nicholas R LeRoy" ...
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Ok, thanks to all of you that replied. I got a few useful things to try,some of which are detailed below. Mostly, I got confirmation that about10G is on target for what I should be expecting here. I was alsorecommended to check out Exabyte's site for an st.conf entry, which I hadalready ...
My thanks go to DavidThorburn-Gundlach<dtg@cae091.ed.ray.com> whichanswered my question. Problem resolved. Theoriginal question and the answer from David isforwarded as follows:attached mail follows:Kerr --Kerr Tung wrote:> > Hi all,Hi there!> > How do I make a host's ...
Summary:ovw segmentation fault; locale not supported by Xlib>Problem: locale not supported by Xlib>>I have a sparcstation running Solaris 2.4; when starting the program>ovw I get an error message and coredump; any ideas what may be wrong ?>>/usr/OV/bin/ovw -ro>Warning: ...
I had four responses. A big thank you to Christian Masopust for taking outtime to help me. He asked "do you really have a dumb frame buffer or thebetter Raptor graphics-card?" I let him know that I did have the Raptorcard, and then he suggested that I install the drivers and the ...
Hi again,this is my original question:> Hi,>> we have a QMS 420 Print System (PostScript printer) attached to the parallel> port of a Sparc 10 (Solaris 2.5.1, HW 11/97). Since a couple of days, the> printer behaves strange:>> i can easily do a>> cat file.ps > ...
SPECIAL THANKS TO:Terry FranklynKevin ...From Joltin.comVal PopaLarry GarrettAs it was my /dev/rmt/0 was not a tape drive and the link had been broken.I dida rm /dev/rmt/* and then a boot -r and that fixed everything for me.Thanks again. SUMMARY: ORIGINAL QUESTION:This is the command I'm ...
I've just received the following note from Kevin on my earlier posting.Forwarded message:> From: Kevin.Sheehan@uniq.com.au (Kevin Sheehan {Consulting Poster Child})> > > ==============> > From: David Sinn <DavidS@corbis.com>> > > > Make sure that the serial ...
Thanks to Eugene Kramer <eugene@uniteq.com> Kevin.Sheehan@uniq.com.au Joel Lee ...
Hi all,After my summary some more answers came in from fellow Sun Managers.Attached is their explanations and worth to look at and read. I also found the culprit of all the traffic to the disks. Our Oracle DBAwas (and still is) busy downloading data from his Oracle Database onthe mainframe to ...
> In a 24 CPU, SPARC Solaris 8 E6500 system (with 7Gbytes of memory), are> there any disadvantages to adding large amounts of disk space as swap space> in order to increase the maximum size of /tmp? I would like to increase the> size of /tmp to around 40G but am concerned that ...
HI, there,Thanks again for the quick help and sorry for the late summary.The Origional Question:-------------------------------------------------------------------------Hello,We have 2 identical HDs here, one is for the system and user files. Theother one is currently unused. I would like ...
Hi, ManagersI want to compile X11R6.3 on my sparc10, SunOS4.1.3. When doing Xsun,I got the following error message:ld: Undefined symbol _ChangeKeyboardDevice _OpenInputDevice _AddOtherInputDevices _CloseInputDevice ...
Question: :!su - Password: Passwd for user 'root' has expired - use passwd(1) to update it I changed the passwd on within a month, why should it expire? And boot from CDROM and modify /etc/shadow is the only ...
Thanks to: Moti Levy [mlevy@lannet.com] Casper Dik [casper@holland.sun.com] Gallagher, Gerald (RTIS) [gerald.gallagher@reedtech.com]Summary:Casper puts ...
Thank you for the answers. I summary the abswer I got: 1. dan@ns1% dmesg| grep 64SunOS Release 5.7 Version Generic 64-bit [UNIX(R) System V Release 4.0]dan@yoda% dmesg| grep 32SunOS Release 5.7 Version Generic 32-bit [UNIX(R) System V Release 4.0]2. if it is Solaris 2.6 then it must be 32 ...
Thank you for so many people give me the answer. The solution is create afile "/etc/shells" and put /bin/tcsh entry in it. After I fixed "tcsh" problem, I got another problem. The users who have"tcsh" as default shell have no problem on remote "FTP", ...
Question: In short, how to unbuffer a output of a command? Explain: Some unix commands which uses stdio library is fully buffered (versus line buffered) when writing to a file which is a non-tty. This can be a problem because when you ...
Thanks to: Doug Winter, Venkat Veeramneni, MARC NEWMAN & Richard Sullivan.It seems that there are a few people who use GCC & C with just changes to theLD_LIBRARY_PATH. I was more so asking about using Sun Workshop C versions 4.2 &5.0, although I didn't make it clear.Well I'll say ...
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Gurus,Apparently the original developers of Netman and Etherman tookthe tools commercial. I searched for the website of the company offeringthe products, but couldn't find it. The source code is nowhere to befound on [as expected] the net, but binaries are available ...