Problem restatement:---------------------A user printed a file once, but the file continued to come out of theirprinter, consuming much toner and a small forest. Trying to cancel the print job with `cancel' yielded (after a 30 second delay):    could not talk to print ...

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----Hash: SHA1I've had a couple responses, without any hard answers. One said to search for linux PAM modules (haven't found the right one yet) and the other said to use ident. I'm searching fornon-3rd party solutions, however.Thanks to Marc Alvidrez and Wyman ...

Thanks to:James Ashton <James.Ashton@syseng.anu.edu.au>Mike Roberts <cmrobert@tva.gov>First, RTFM. (sorry ! I forgot). There is an option in dtscreen that governsthe update intervals. Copy /usr/dt/app-defaults/C/Dtscreen to /etc/dt/app-defaults/C/Dtscreen and add a few 0's to all ...

Original Question:> Hi,> I'm trying to configure Solaris PPP 3.0.1 to allow Win95 to dial in. I've> heard that Win95 uses PAP, and I've heard that we might have to either> configure ttymon to detect the right type of login, or else use some kind> of dial up scripting on the ...

I wrote:    [Solaris 2.5.1, ULTRA Enterprise 2, 896MB RAM, DCE 1.1]        This system is eating RAM for breakfast, lunch, and supper, and I    can't figure out where it's going. It was thrashing badly ...

Thank you to all of you who responded. What the problem appears to haveended up being was a misconfiguration of some striped volumes.We have eight disks that are each broken down into 32 subdisks. With the256 subdisks we create 32 8-column striped plexes (i.e. a subdisk from eachdisk for each ...

I had asked how one goes about managing network printers with SunSoft Print Client (SSPC)/NIS+ (Detailed question attached). It turns out that the true problem is specifying a print queue for a print server. The Solstice AdminSuite print manager does not permit the entry of a print queue when ...

Thanks to the following for the answer.Loper Robert-RLOPER1 <Robert.Loper@motorola.com>Ericka Fowler <Ericka.Fowler@central.sun.com>Using dtpad -standAlone did the trick.Rick-----------------------------------------------dtpad uses the ToolTalk interfaces a lot to allow editing ...

I was unable to resolve localhost (127.0.0.1) on my SunOS 4.1.4 which is a secondary name server. I had compiled my shared libraries and they seemed to work fine wile rsolving any other name except localhost.Now the solution, a name server is always primary for localhost. This is OK. You should ...

Dear sun-mgrsMany thanks once again for many replies to my question:=> Does anyone know if there exists on Solaris 2.4 a way to limit which users=> can access root via 'su' ? I would like only 2-3 people to be able to use=> 'su -' to access to root. => => On SunOS 4.1.3 there ...

Thanks to the following for the answer.Rob McCauleyVenkat VeeramneniAine.LynaghThere're not any port scans that might be running. The only thing thatcomes to mind would be the internal security scan, but that was completedweeks ago. Nothing else on that network should be scanning anything ...

Hello Sun Gurus,First of all: Thank you to David S. Foster who reminded me to check firstthe FAQ because the answer was there. Next time, I promise to check there first!The original question was:> We have bought a new Ultra II system. I would like to look at my > scsi chains from the ...

The majority said that it is possible thru sudo and some suggested setuid'ing. But the consensus is that it IS A BADidea, given the fact what pkgadd can potentially do. And so NO to the user.Thanks a lot for your time and efforts.[not in any particular order]Mark Neill ...

My question:> Is there a way to disable a host from responding to XDMCP queries?> The correct answer Edit /usr/dt/config/XaccessThere are two lines beginning with "*" by default. Change thoseto "localhost" and kill -HUP dtlogin process. The host won't respond ...

SUMMARY: ODS 1.0 or Higher for SunOS 4.1.3QUESTION:I submitted the following message:Dear Gurus,I'm trying to define a partition with more then 2.0 Gbytes in aSunOS 4.1.3 environment. To do so, some FAQ's adive to have asoftware named ODS 1.0 or higher.I would like to obtain that software, ...

Hello thereI know that this is not directly sun related and I apologise in advanceWe have got a file server sitting on our main subnet at the moment thatcontains a lot of applications that are mounted by machines around thesite. We are in the process of trying to upgrade the network and ...

The responses arrived so quickly...thank you.To manually set the speed on an auto-sensing nic card you can use thefollowing command:ndd -set /dev/hme adv_autoneg_cap 0ndd -set /dev/hme adv_10hdx_cap 0ndd -set /dev/hme adv_10fdx_cap 0ndd -set /dev/hme adv_100hdx_cap 0ndd -set /dev/hme ...

Question was:(...)> a SPARC 1 box with a Cycle Computers SPARC 5 upgrade board running > SunOS> 4.1.4 has panicked twice yesterday with a data access exception (see > log> below). The crashes were quite spectacular with open files (including> NIS master passwd and groups) ...

Many Thanks to all who responded, it is not as simple as it seems and Iam still not 100% happpy, however I am sure now that it is single-ended.However the documentation states: (Sunsolve 14075 infodoc SCSI ...

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My original post was:We are in the process of purchasing a LAN Manager server for Solaris2.x. What product would be recommended?=======================================================================Thanks to all those who replied. The answers can be summarized asfollows:80%: SAMBA: free, ...

Everone;Thanks for your help!The problem I was having was this:The permissions on /tmp somehow were changed from the original 1777 itshould've been...Thanks for everyone who responded!-=Wes=------------------------wes.suess@bigidea.com---------------------= Wesley Suess - SSA/Unix - Big Idea ...

To the group.Thanks to all 3 dozen people who took the time to respond!!!!99.9% responded with using ssh(secure shell) which comes in two flavors:shareware - or - a commercial product by Data Fellows.There is a secure cp option under the ssh which will allow me to securely copy over files. ...

Last week I wrote:>> I am trying to duplicate a tape I received from Sun Consulting in> pkgadd format.>> When I try tcopy /dev/rmt/0 /dev/rmt/0 it responds "can't open> /dev/rmt/0".>> Did Sun ship a brain dead tape duplicator? Hard to believe that> this ...

Hi, thanks to Matt McClung,Rick Caldwell,Rick von Richter for their responses to my summary. The question was regarding a Sun keyboard for a 19" rack. Their replies are as below. Rick von Richter ---------------------- Sorry I didn't catch this post sooner. We have the same problem and ...

Hi All,Thanks to some very swift answers. I wanted to be able to dial in from home toreboot my servers. I had two questions:1. I wanted to alter the input device which defaulted to the keyboard. Lots ofsuggestions to unplug it, which I'd said I didn't want to do. What I was afterwas a command ...

Hey all,thanks to Kevin Buterbaugh, who seems to have nailed this one for me.: Erin,:: 1. You can change some kernel parameters on the fly with adb. If you: don't know if a particular parameter can be changed on the fly, or you: don't already know how to use adb, then don't do it. Set ...

I can't even begin to tell you how useful this information is!Thanks to everyone!------------------ORIGINAL QUESTION:------------------We have a fairly urgent need to connect a 9-track 1/2" reel-to-reeltape drive to one of our Sun boxes (Solaris 2.5/2.6)...1. Does anyone have any ...

I have received only one reply. The sender told me that he got similiarproblembut do not have any solutions.We have switched the NFS and other services to another server with almost identical configuration. Up to now, the problem never occurs again.We, together with staff from SunService, have ...

Hi everyone,First, my thanks for all the timely and helpful responses from:Shawn Brown Michael HillTim Evans Michael GlasgowDamon Cassell Nadim DharaniCasper Dik Brett LymnMichael Lightfoot Alan MillerMarco Shaw sysadmin@astro.su.seBismark Espinoza ...

Fix was 'setenv diag-device disk' (found on my own). Doug Otto replied<p>"set diag-switch? False" Tho this would have worked, it also would have<p>disabled my original intent, which<p>was to perform diagnostics.<p>Mark<p>

Thank-you to the responders:john benjamins <johnb@Soliton.COM>spreb@fozzie.cha.tva.gov (Rick Berube)"Mark L Roberts" <mlroberts@dow.com>Wis Macomson <wis@sequent.com>Jochen Bern <bern@TI.Uni-Trier.DE>adzinic@mail.wat.hookup.netRich Kulawiec ...

Gee casper is fast....> >I am having a problem with our 2.6 NIS based systems where a 2.6 ypserv> >and a 2.6 ypbind won't stay connected to each other and after 10-30> >seconds I get domain is not bound and I go into a rebind wait. > >> >Interestingly enough I see ...

Thank for all the reply (that can be found <p><a href="/cmsdoc.cern.ch/~cmsadm/work/system/backup/solstice_backup/networker"> http://cmsdoc.cern.ch/~cmsadm/work/system/backup/solstice_backup/networker</a>)<p>the solution for my was to reinstall the server.<p>P.Pinasseau<p>

Add the /usr/local/bin/tcsh shell to the /etc/shells file.There is a special file called /etc/shells to address this problem. FTPby default tries to be more secure by only allowing known shells to ftpin. If /etc/shells doesn't exist, the system defaults to only allowing thestandard, local ...

Please see attachment for summary. Thanks again to everyone for their recommendations.===   Ju   julienlim@rocketmail.com__________________________________________________________________Sent by Yahoo! Mail. Get your free e-mail at http://mail.yahoo.comSummary: ...

Thank you very much for such a quick response to my question.The consensus is to use pine for command line use.For GUI interface, dtmail or mailtool come with Solaris and netscape isfree as well.Another tool is called mutt and can be found at http://www.mutt.org/ and itis free as well.Thanks to ...

Hi all, Here is the summary regarding my problem with my display adaptor. As aresult I can say that in such a case you have 2 options:1- download Xfree86 from its ftp side and give it a try, else- buy Xaccelerator from XIG and thats it..Thanks to all who replied , and here is what they ...

HiI asked:> Dear Sun managers.> I once asked about poppassd daemon, but I was busy for some time and> never had time to test it.> I am now trying to install poppassd on a netra station. When trying to> compile the source code, I get the following error:> > $ ...

Hi,Well, the problem was that "fbconsole -d :0" was not running on thisparticular sun. I have no idea why this was the case. What we didwas to "/etc/init.d/dtlogin stop" followed by a "/etc/init.d/dtloginstart" which mysteriously started fbconsole again.Now the ...

Original post:>Is there a way to restrict access by UID to a subset of machines in a>NIS+domain?>If machines a,b,c,d,e and f all belong to the same NIS+ domain ... can I>allow user susan to log into machines a, b and c but not into machines d,>e and f? Or do I have to start ...

Well, thanks to all that sent email.I can't get GNUtar to compile on my HP 720 so I will haveto wait for an answer back from the GNU people.The problem wasn't the tar program at all but a syntax errorin the link text itself.There was a /directory/directory/./directory/directory/fileNOTE: the ...

indeed, the iscda.sh script...once found...was very helpful; however, ittook the expertise of sun software developers to identify the problem asoriginating from a faulty cpu, yet which cpu was a mystery. so i replacedboth of them.to note: these cpu's were rev.#52 - supposedly ...

SUMMARY:Everyone that emailed agrees that the message sent is an indication ofhardware problems. Some suggested that good backups be made regularly sincethe drive may go at any time.Fong-----Original Message-----I've been getting the error message below. sd@0,0 <mailto:sd@0,0> is ...

So far I've got the first question solved . I'm sorry thisquestion has been listed in the solaris.faq. Here is the faq aboutmy question:--------------------------For some reason the nfs service has disappeared from your /etc/servicesfile, NIS map or NIS+ table. You need to have anentry like: ...

Max Trummer got it straight away.on Wed, Nov 18, 1998 at 07:48:47PM -0800, Max Trummer <max@sequana.com> wrote:> it's been a while since i ran a 4.1.3 machine, but off the top,> scsi address 4 is generally reserved for a tape drive. look in your> config file that's used when ...

Hi all!Sorry for the delay in posting my summary. It's partly because it tookme awhile to try out suggestions on the machine (after all, it's the NISmaster), and secondly I've been swamped the past few weeks.In short, the original problem was that the NIS master wasn't seeingupdates to the ...

> Is it possible to dual boot MS Window95 and Solaris X86?> If yes, then how?> Total 17 messages have been recieved. Here I thanks all who respondedthis question.1) Using a boot manager program:System Commander (5)System Controller (1)Boot Master (1)OS2 (1)Linux (1)Patition Magic ...

Rainer Blaes wrote:> Dear all,>> we have configured our Ultra 10 under Solaris 2.6 with a 2nd frame> buffer and are starting the X11 session using the $OPENWINHOME/bin/openwin> -dev /dev/fb0 -dev /dev/fb1 command.> In this environment we can't drag and drop a window let's ...

I asked(abbreviated)> I notice that when I send out an email, sendmail wants to do a DNS> lookup for the domain of the outgoing email .> I don't need this how can I turn this off.I got a variiety of replies, includign a few that said it could not be doneat all.But the trick is toA) ...