slowness of telnet

5211 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:50:00
The problem has been solved after installing the patch 103708-02( rpc.nisd_resolv fixes ) with some related patches.Thanks to all who replied:From: Stewart Boutcher <stew@webworlds.net>From: Drexx Laggui CSA <drexx@bancnet.net>From: hargrme@wisdom.maf.nasa.govFrom: Benjamin Cline ...

More logging of system events

3030 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:50:00
Sorry for the late summary:According to Casper Dik (Thank you) it is logged through syslogd via theuser.info facility.psrset activity is not logged.Thanx,  _JohanOriginal Question followsJohan Hartzenberg/GIS/CSC@CSC@codeprof.ececs.uc.edu on 10/11/200011:56:56 AMSent by: ...

Looking for new HP JetDirect Software for Solaris

815 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:50:00
Hi all,some days ago i asked for mirrors of HP JetDirekt software (Sun and Solarisversions). The reason for my problems are the bad connection of HP WWW/FTP server to some german networks. So i can't get new software.Well i found this mirror: ...

Problem at boot!

2584 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:50:00
Hi sunners!!Thanks a lot for your responses...Most people show me the right way!! :-)Thanks to this people:Frank Cusack <fcusack@voicenet.com>"Arora, Samir" <sarora@ELDEC.com>Val <vpopa@dss.mc.xerox.com>Shobhit Kapoor <shobhit@mtcts1.mt.lucent.com>Bismark ...

permission denied on remote backup

5466 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:50:00
Here's a summary of the responses to > I'm trying to dump filesystems from one machine XXX to another> machine's (YYY) tape drive. Each time I attempt the dump, I get> "permission denied". This was working for me until I recently> rebuilt the remote machine (YYY) and ...

lprm and users

3243 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:50:00
Hello Managers!This is my original question.> My users are not able to delete their own print-jobs (with lprm) from> the que. > Someone must do it as root. The printserver is a SunOS 4.1.3_U1 1. >> The symptom is that> the /var/spool/printers/<printer>/AA?<job_id>? ...

[SUMMARY]: APC Share-UPS + Solaris

2168 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:50:00
Lads,Many good responses to this post, the most suitable from "Andrew Petrov"<andreyp@nnov.impexbank.ru> who said:---< cut here >---Hi.You need PowerChute software for Solaris.I took it in my head office, but I don't know wherethey found it. You should try this ...

JNI FC Drivers for Tape and Disk

2768 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:50:00
The original question is whether it is possible to have JNI configurationsin a mixed topology (fcaw.conf configuration that handles both fabric andpoint-to-point). The idea is to have a disk subsystem attach to a serverpoint-to-point AND a tape-area-network is attached via fabric. Many of ...

le0: out of mbufs - packet dropped

7414 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:50:00
Hi:        First of all a great thanks to those who answered my question:Glenn Satchell <Glenn.Satchell@uniq.com.au>Roy Culley <tgdcuro1@gd2.swissptt.ch>Mark Henderson <mch@squirrel.com>Reto Lichtensteiger <rali@meitca.com>Joel Lee ...

SUNWdiag

3705 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:50:00
thanks to the following for pointing out SUNWvts on the update CD thatreplaces SUNWdiag:Fletcher Cocquyt <fletcherc@ttmc.com>Glenn Carver <glenn@atm.ch.cam.ac.uk>Casper Dik <casper@holland.Sun.COM>rene@iusti.univ-mrs.fr (Mr Rene Occelli)"K.Ravi" ...

Networker Disaster Recovery Fails

7391 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:50:00
Sun-Managers:My original post is listed at the end of the message, but in a nutshell Iwas inquiring into the problems that Networker has when completelyrestoring a system from scratch. I had terrible problems with the systembeing corrupt after I tried to recover from the Networker server.Two ...

Sendmail configuration

4900 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:50:00
I received the answer to this from SunSolve. What I ended up doing was.../etc/mail/sendmail.cf comment out Dj,Dw,DM parmscp /usr/lib/mail/cf/main-v7sun.mc /usr/lib/mail/cf/main-usco.mc/usr/lib/mail/cf/main-usco.mc (add the following ...

[Q] Can Sparc 20 memory use on other computer?

794 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:50:00
Thanks for the quick answer. The answer I got are:SPARC 10 --- YESE4000 --- NOUltra 1 --- Most answer said YES, but Three person answer NO.               Some answer said it need be pair on Ultra 1. ...

Q: Which is // port on Sparc 5

1282 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:50:00
I wrote, only 1 hour ago:-> ... there are 2 small> DB26(?) type sockets one above the other, and underneath them is stamped:-> // / <...>> > To me, this suggests that one is a parallel port, and the other is the AUI> ethernet port. Is this true?Yes this is true. Yes I ...

Telnet from an Solaris Box to a NT machine

1426 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:50:00
Thank You for quick response everyone. Thanks to everyone who responded. There was a general agreement from almost everybody thatNT does not come with a telnetd service (daemon) and needs to be installed from ether Resource Kit CD or from a third party source.I installed Hummingbird Mastero and ...

BinHex decompression utility

4919 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:50:00
Hello Sun friends,(This list is really useful :-) Here is my orginal question:> Is there a utility somewhere (running on solaris 2.5) which let me > uncompress a BinHex file (from MacIntosh)? And the answers are:1) download Macutil version 2.0b1 (macutil-20b1-unix.shar) from the ...

Solaris 8 traceroute: unknown protocol icmp

2986 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:50:00
Thanks to Hubert Chu for coming up with the solution so quickly:This problem appeared in Solaris 2.6, so i'm not sure if it's the sameissue. The fix for Solaris 2.6 was to switch the placement of "files"and "nisplus" in the protocols entry of /etc/nsswitch.conf.Although I ...

General admin questions

3798 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:50:00
Thanks to all who responded. A few RTFM's, which for the first questionwas well deserved. Temporary Insanity.> 1. What is the difference between at(1) and crontab(1)? Is at(1) really> used anymore? If so, for what?at: executes a job at a time in the future.cron: executes a job at ...

103566-20

887 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:50:00
> I need 103566-20 ( I know that 103566-25 is out) but i need 103566-20> please.> > TIA> > ValThanks to :Todd Boss <boss@netcom.com>Jim Hebert {System Support Engineer} Sun Rochester<Jim.Hebert@East.Sun.COM>Andre Saile <saile@transtec.de>for their ...

problem installing patches

5199 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:50:00
I posted the following problem: > I'm trying to install a patch to Solaris 2.5 and get an > error from pkgadd when running the "installpatch" script > that came with the package. I added an "echo" statement to > the script so I could see what the ...

Bind Version?

2799 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:50:00
Dear Friends,Although I got 12 responses to my query on knowing the BIND version butunfortunately for my version of BIND non of them could help me ingetting the info out of my system.We use SUNOS 4.1.4 and BIND which is bundled into it.This gave me a feeling that it is using very old version ...

Trouble saving Cisco config to a tftp server

1138 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:50:00
Thanks to all who responded, two many to mention them all.Of course, the answer was simple.Tftp can't create the file so it has to exist with the right permisions.PederHere is my original question:Hi gurusI am running Solaris 2.4 and have enabled tftp (according to CISCO directions),to be able ...

disks for Sparc Storage Array

2726 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:50:00
 Thanks to all who replied.Here're some of suggestions:       David Schiffrin <daves@adnc.com>: I've used non-sun drives in SSA's and Sun machines. Try falcon for drive brackets. www.falcons.com They just got boughtby artecon, but I ...

Sol. 2.6 Power mgmt on older sparcs

3589 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:50:00
I posted the following message on this list:---------------------------------------------------------------------------I have a bunch of Ye Olde Classic/LX/SS10s and some of them are exhibitinga strange problem. Namely, the systems in question are dying from lack ofattention. If a sparc has ...

le0 interface problems

4594 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:50:00
Thanks to all who responded!I recieved several repiles, most of which stated that I should check myhostname.le0, and hosts. Unfortunatley I forgot to mention in the originalquestion that I had done this a thousand times, and I was still confused, aseverything seeed ok.One thing that did work ...

Solaris 8, adminsuite

2262 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:50:00
Adminsuite is no longer included with the OS in Solaris 8. In Solaris 7 and before, it was always on the Server version of the OS pack. Beginning with Solaris 8, Adminsuite was separated into another product. So instead of a workstation and server version, there is just version of Solaris 8, ...

Correction Summery: Dual Boot Win95 & Solaris X86?

573 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:50:00
> 2) Using Solaris X86 boot manager (5)> (install win95 then Solaris X86)> > I have tested the second solution, however it did not work for me.> ...Install DOS then x86 will set active partition to Solaris's one.However, install win95 then x86, the active partition is still ...

URGENT: filesystem issue

2504 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:50:00
Hi all.Thanks a lot to everyone who responded with a solution.Special thanks to Darren Dunham.We finally mounted the filesystem as READ-ONLY and pulled off someimportant to another new filesystem.Data transfer is still ON as the filesystem is 90GB with about 9 millionfiles in it.Thanks again ...

SUMMARIZE: how to find PROM version w/o reboot

1372 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:50:00
I got lots of response--more than I care to enumerate--and I like tothank everyone you took the time to answer my enquiry. You knowwho you are.There are two ways to do get the PROM version:1) The obvious one is to get to the PROM with stop-A and run the'banner' command. Altho' this is ...

External SCSI-Devices not seen under 2.5.1

4949 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:50:00
Hello Managers,here's the summary to the following question:>I have a rather annoying problem with our Netra i (Sparc5) and>external SCSI-devices: no matter what I try (boot -r, probe-scsi,>probe-scsi-all, touch /reconfigure), the machine won't see the>two external SCSI-devices ...

lpadmin/enable weirdness..

4135 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:50:00
hello folks..boy this list is FAST...i received an answer 20 mins after sending it...Thanks to Stephen Harris for his solution..which was that "enable" is a BASH command, and I should haveused "/usr/bin/enable lp" which worked ok.Thanks..regards..> hello folks..> > ...

/usr/dt/bin/ttsession[xxxx]: child (xxxx) exited due to signal 1

2200 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:50:00
It seems that installing the lastest Solaris 2.6 Reccomended patcheshas resolved this problem.Thanks to all who replied!Thanks,Mark-----------------------------------------------------Mark Hargrave, Sr. Unix Systems ManagerLockheed Martin Space Systems Co. - Michoud OperationsNew Orleans, ...

DNS / ip ports

1921 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:50:00
Thanks to all that replied. The way to map multiple domain names to the samemachine and only use one IP address (different port is optional) is throughApache. (DNS has nothing to do with it). After posting the email, itoccured to me that the latest version of Apache 1.3.x supports this. ...

swatch dying

3432 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:50:00
I originally asked:=> I'm using swatch (yet another must-have tool for sysadmins) to monitor=> certain log files. I run 4 invocations, looking at the=> => /var/adm/log/log-auth=> /var/adm/log/log-message=> /var/adm/log/log-shiva=> /var/adm/log/log-tcpwrap=> => ...

Host access list for connection via IP port 25 (SMTP)

8303 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:50:00
The original posting :-*******************************************************************************I am running Sun's standard sendmail offering (8.6) on a Solaris 2.4 server.In order to properly manage the usage of email, a need has arisen to limitthe machines which may forward mail via ...

disk space problems with patches/upgrades

136 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:50:00
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Netscape 4.73 woes

3556 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:50:00
Hi,This was my original post:>We run Netscape 4.73 on 40 Ultra 10s with Solaris 2.5.1. Lately, when I >click on something, the link becomes red, but nothing happens. Netscape >becomes lifeless. The only way to get it back is to kill and restart. And I >keep getting the message ...

NIS install time

10030 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:50:00
Thanks to those who responded, specifically:Gregory M PolanskiHerbert WengatzCaleb WarnerNate ItkinReto LichtensteigerGlenn SatchellMartin EspinozaThe answers I got range from 5 minutes for each machine to 1/2 a day for the server and slaves plus 1 to 1 1/2 hours per client. I will probably ...

stty: Invalid argument

1275 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:50:00
Thanks to Aki Sasaki for the speedy reply.I was using root account to run rsh and rcp command.Aki suggests to remove any stty command in .cshrc or .login.I tried it and it is working great now.Thank you very much.ZionOriginal Question:>To All Sun Managers:>>I have two Ultra-II servers ...

Missing Tape Drivers

2663 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:50:00
O' Mighty Gurus,Wow....! 46 Responses! Thanks ever so much to everyone who took the time to help me out, it is much appreciated. Due to the overwhelming response, please forgive me for not itemizing your names.The original problem statement: Howdy Sun-Gurus,>> I've inherited a ...

ld.so linking problem

1038 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:50:00
I originally asked:=============I give up...can someone help me with this?ld.so.1: /usr/local/bin/perl: fatal: libsocket.so.1: version `SUNW_0.7' not foundhow about this?ld.so.1: gcc: fatal: libc.so.1: version `SUNW_0.7' not found<snip>=============Solution: upgrade to full release of ...

problem with PC Viewer and X-terminals

1345 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:50:00
Sun Managers,Thanks to George Dimitoglou and Leif Neve for taking the time to address myquestion. The solution was to remove all EXEC_HOST lines in the/usr/dt/appconfig/types/C/dejaVu.dt file.Ed Baxter > >> Sun Managers,> >> > >> I recently installed the PC Viewer ...

psinfo

1164 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:50:00
To get the full commandline, /usr/ucb/ps ww <pid>/usr/ucb/ps probes /proc/<pid>/as as well as /proc/<pid>/psinfo.============================================Jaewan Kim856-988-0062 x425 (u1.net)877-250-8919 (ureach.com fax/voicemail)======== Original question ========> ...

Messing with /etc/shells

2422 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:50:00
It is a very humbling experienceto post to this list. Thank you toeveryone who responded.The summary is that.1. It doesn't hurt to have the sameshell mentioned more than once in/etc/shells.2. Unless the shell is fully pathed, itis likely that the entry will notaccomplish much anyway.3. For ...

NFS problem or something else?

4019 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:50:00
The short answer is it was a network problem. Here is the originalquestion and then some nitty gritty details.Help,  I have a Sparc 1000, Solaris 2.5.1, recommended patches are fairlycurrent, using NIS.  About 8:20 this morning users connected to the server through ...

OFF-TOPIC: Help test a new installation...

1676 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:50:00
Actually, a summary is called for for two reasons:1) Turns out that in the 5 years since I last did a firewall, not much has changed in the MX records game. It looks like this:ncgr.org preference = 20, mail exchanger = ncgr.ncgr.orgncgr.org preference = 10, mail exchanger = ...

port number for slogin

698 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:50:00
answer: port 22thanks to Mike D. Kai and Giri Sekar Hi managersDoes anyone out there know what port number slogin uses?Peter G. SandersSenior Systems AdministratorOAO Corp(919) 541-1438System administration is like keeping the trains on time; no one notices except when they're ...

Increasing / partition size when 100%

7221 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:50:00
Many thanks to all who responded - since there where many, I'll include two. The first I actually used successfuly, the second I included because I liked step 11 :). All answers where great and thanks for everyones time - I even learned some other useful tipsregards,john********from Jeff ...

Is E220 ufsdump compatible

1984 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:51:00
Looks like the ufsdump will only work on a U60 and a E220 only.Thanks to all who replied!MarkOriginal Question:> > I have a ufsdump of a E220 Server from a vendor that I need to install.> I do not have a E220 Server in-house. Can I load this image on a > SPARCStation 20 or a E450 ...

Bootblk Problem.

2019 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:51:00
        My original question:        > Hi, I have a Sparc 5/85 with a new 4GB Seagate drive. I am trying > to install Solaris 2.6 on it. After the installation is through the > machine tries to reboot, ...