I'd like to thank all 124 people who took the time to responded to mymessage. I am including a short summary, the original message and all thereplies.Remember this survey is in no way trying to bash this list.. This is thebest list that I have seen for helpful hints and genuine problem ...

Raw Data from Michael.Jaffee@Corp.Sun.COM (Michael Jaffe)---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Can we fix it in the /etc/system file?--------------------------------------------------"rlim_fd_cur" is the soft limit, and ...

At 12:30 PM -0500 11/20/97, Mark C. Farone wrote:>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 ...

Well, it looks like the one Ultra 5 was busted. Aftermost of it's insides were replaced, it started to stay up. It wasn't actually getting suspended, but dieingvery quietly. New motherboard and RAM later, and she'sbeen solid ever since. The other Ultra has been fine with no other tweaking ( ...

Hi,I didn't got any responses from the list, but I had managed to solvethe problem myself.I booted machine from CD-ROM, made fsck on my solaris partition andmounted it on /mnt. After that I found that /platform/i86/kernel/drvdirectory is missing (to be more precise, it was moved to ...

The Ultra 5 was basically pooched. I had a service guycome in, replace motherboard and RAM, and the problemwent away. I think this was the more serious manifestationof the Hardware troubles I encountered with the Ultra 5seemed to suspend itself.THanks All!sueOriginal postCame in this morning to ...

So many of you guys responded til' I say THANKS TO YOU ALL! I did a 1777. Next, I studied that a bit a learned that you must havethe other's perms set to "rwx" first and then make the file/dir stickywith a chmod +t <file/dir> or chmod 1777 does everything all at once. ...

I thank the following Sun Managers for responding to my problem. I followedallof the suggestions but somehow I still couldn't talk to the mri/spectratarget.We are doing further testing on hardware right now to see why Sun cannot seeorping the target.- Charlie Mengler- Dave Haut- Patrick ...

Hi,I didn't solved problem completly, but I found that there is a lot ofpeople that have this same problem with their S3 Virge based VGAcards.The only thing I found so far (in the article posted by somebody thatcalls himself "RuffNeck <ruffneck@ruthless.nl.com>" ...

Thanks for all the responses, especially Tim Evans and Malahat Qureshi.I actually made my Solaris 8 server as the print server and used the name of the printer and port # 9100 as the NETWORK PRINTER ACCESS NAMElpadmin -p "printer-name" -o dest="printer-portname":9100 -o ...

Hi,I finaly solved my problem by using XFree86 X server. Since I neededto twaek things a bit to get it working, here is a short how-to forpeople that will try to use XFree86 X server and CDE on Solaris 2.6(this should work on Solaris 7 too, but I didn't tested it). Also, atthe end I included ...

Sun Managers,Original question:1. We have a 10 tape jukebox (EXB-210) running with Solstice Backup. How dowe get the 160m tape to save approx. 14 GB of data. I am aware I cannotactually get 14 GB but I am only now getting 5 GB and the tape says it isfull. There is nothing else on the tape. ...

Hello all - Many thanks to the folks who wrote back. Once again the answer could have been obtained from the archives but I was quicker to post than search - sorry about that.Question: was is it possible to take a boot disk out of a Sparc20 and put it in an Ultra and run from it - senza ...

Many thanks to all who responded.There is my original question:I have problem configuring NTP server on the Solaris 2.51 machine towork without going to the external servers.I have installed xntp3-5.93, and my network have multiple subnets.Most of the replies I received had recommendation how ...

Thanks to all that replied. Tooooo many to mention, but thanks to all andespecially the timeliness. I really needed it quick.isainfo -kv did the trick for me. There is a previous summary to thisquestion.Rgds,Bill_______________________________________________codeprof mailing ...

My original query to the list...:> :> I had the ppp daemon running just fine for several months on a Netra:> running 2.5. Last week it stopped working and I just figured out why.:> For some reason the modem or the comuter is using 7-bit instead of 8-bit:> to communicate. This ...

Many thanks to the people who responded so quickly and succinctly to myquestion about problems automounting from Sun OS 4.1.3_U1 to a Solaris 2.6box. These respondents ...

Hi,        Thanks to all those who responded to the following        Sorry about the confusion regards the below request.        Does anyone know where I could get X windows ...

Dear fellow Sun Managers,I have two helpful Sun Managers sent me their feedback, they are:Greg Obremski <obremski@alpha.fdu.edu>Michael Sullivan <mps@discomsys.com>However, after checking the Makefile, my own $PATH, I figured out thecause of the problem myself. For some odd ...

Thanks a million!Seems the 'Imake.tmpl' and other files needed by imake andxmkmf are kept in /usr/openwin/lib/config under Solaris 2.x.The following command thus works:  imake -I/usr/openwin/lib/config  This is the same as running 'xmkmf' with the correct pathsset up, ...

Hi,Thanks everyone for the responses.Here is the summary:-Siddhartha---------------------------------Hi,I am trying to install Solaris 5.7 on a Sun E220R (UltraSparc 450 with 2 GBRAM and one SCSI disk). The installation aborts and the system comes to theOK prompt with the following error ...

Hi all,Firstly thanks to all who responded, special thanks to Artur Shnayder <artur@compugen.co.il>who was the first person to not only pointed out that I needed to use'printenv' and 'setenv' at the prom prompt but also use 'devalias' tolook at all the aliases that have been ...

Thanks to all who replied. The major consensus was to add the second disk to the second IDE controller.Many suggested to go SCSI. SCSI would definitly solve the perfomrance issues. But I was told to work with what I had, and I had the onboard IDE controllers and two IDE drives.----Original ...

Thanks to :-Gary Richardson <Gary.Richardson@proteon.com>Benjamin Cline <benji@hnt.com>Casper Dik <casper@holland.Sun.COM>Hal Stern - Distinguished Systems Engineer <stern@sunrise.East.Sun.COM>with the most detailed response from David ...

Orignal Question:-->Hi managers,>>I have an E4500 with 2 CPU's, my questions are :>>1. Should there be a load sharing between them.>>2. If yes, how can I know load on to each CPU. "top">it seems reports for one CPU.>>Do I need to enable this feature or ...

Hello people, Here I have received a fairly clear explanations from Juergen Schreiner who gave me a couple of nice examples, and pointed me to securesyslog site(which I probably shall use, since I am very securityconcerned) and Richard Hellier who gave me a hint why syslog.conf wouldhave ...

Mi original message was: > I cannot boot a Sun Sparc 4 from a local scsi sun cdrom, i have no> operating system in this machine and the probe-scsi-all at eeprom level> show me the cdrom perfectly..> What i should do for to can boot it from the CDROM?Well, in this message i forgot ...

Original question:>We have upgraded to Solaris 2.5 on anumber of our system from SunOS 4.1.3 and>receive updates of some software on 3.5" floppies in tar format. Problem isthat>if the disks were written on SunOS systems we can't read them on Solaris 2.5.If>we write disks on ...

Hi Managers,Summary of the problem: The permissions of the FIFO file in/var/adm/cron was altered and the cron job started to work.Sincere Thanks to the people who spent their precious time in trying toguide me.My apologies to the sun managers group for posting a HP Query.Hope I troubled a lot ...

good day all ...i got to looking at this ssyslog package and it looks veryinteresting. out of curiosity, how many of you codeprofhave replaced syslogd with this package?-- michaelOn Mon, Nov 23, CyberPsychotic wrote:> Hello people,> Here I have received a fairly clear explanations from ...

Thanks to everyone who replied.Most everyone correctly averted to a name resolution issue.An outside vendor was in on Friday to install some additional hard drives.Apparently he was also trying to do some unrelated config, and in the processadded dns to the hosts lookup in /etc/nsswitch.conf. ...

Hello,Thanks everyone for the responses.VasilisHere is the summary:May I include the boot disk for solaris 7 or solaris 8to a Solstice DiskSuite RAID 5 array? What is therisk to lose the whole system?======================================It makes your system slow. AND, if you use RM6 to add ...

hello Managers,Many thanks to the following:Brion Leary (bleary@state.ma.us)Alex Davis (adavis@groucho.sms.lmco.com)Bruce Cheng (Bruce.Cheng@aspect.com)Fedor Gnuchev (qwe@ht.eimb.rssi.ru)The problem did turn out to be multuple copies of inetd running. Proctool wasdownloaded and indicated that ...

Sorry for the late summary as i just got to do the CPU testing oncustomer's site. Actually, the problem was due to customer's applicationshutting down very, very slow ( takes about 5 minutes) which i couldmonitor from command line shutdown. If shutdown from CDE, it would wentinto blank screen ...

Hi group,Thank's to:Jim Robertori <jimr@tpesops.pr.lucent.com>John D Groenveld <jdg117@elvis.arl.psu.edu>Bryan Blackburn <blb@rmi.net>Vahid Moghadassi <nospam@warp.dats.ml.com>blymn@baea.com.au (Brett Lymn)Juan Manuel Del Rio <jdelrio@uniandes.edu.co>Vincent ...

Hi everybody,Original message:>Our network consists of 1 Sun 4/280 running SunOS 4.1.1, which is our NIS>server, and 13 Sparcstations (various models some running SunOS, others>Solaris). Apparently the previous administrator, who was the one that>set up the NIS server has made sure ...

Thanks to all. I was trying to determine the current shared memory status, andhow to change their values.Original question:--------------------Do you know how to determine what the current value settings are forthe ...

Many thanks to those who responded. I'd have to say I got a mix ofresponses on this issue (my original question is posted below). Manythought that the SS1 was unable to perform this task, many thought itmight be ok. Nonetheless, I'm going to give it a try. I'll start out withjust a stripped ...

Whoops,after banging my head against the problem so long I thought I wouldn'tbe able to figure it out, then the answer came to me right after Isent this.If you do a boot -r on a good boot disk w/ the appropriate scsi idon the chain, you'll get the devices built, then you can dump thatto the ...

Recently I asked:[...]> I upgraded my pop server and now the Communicator clients are having> problems. The only differences are:> > - The machine name "popsvr" poeple put in their config is now a alias (or> CNAME entry) in the DNS instead of explicit machine name. ...

Hello,Thanks everyone for the responses.VasilisHere is the summary:May I include the boot disk for solaris 7 or solaris 8to a Solstice DiskSuite RAID 5 array? What is therisk to lose the whole system?======================================It makes your system slow. AND, if you use RM6 to add ...

Thanks for everybody who send me sugestions.My original question was :> We are having problems running a new aplication. The error message :> "too many open files" We are running Solais 2.6 in a E3500 machine,> 2x400MHz and 512MB Ram. Is there a way to solve this problem ...

Well my memory was completely wrong and I should have RTFM'd the man page onnsswitch.conf.You change the passwd line in /etc/nsswitch.conf to compat, add +(or -)usernameto /etc/passwd and then run pwconv.Thanks to following (and anyone whos' reply I have not yet received):-"K.Ravi" ...

My original question [with snippage]:> > Can a Sparc 4 running Solaris 2.6 boot off a drive larger than 2Gb?> > I bought a SEAGATE ST34501WC and it's almost working.[snip]> The format command fails and then fails again when retried without mode> selects and Grown Defects ...

Hi everybody,Original question:>I am currently using the July 1990 release of the Columbia Appletalk>Package (CAP) for Unix. It is installed on a SPARC station 2 running>SunOS (SunOS 4.1.3 sun4c). So far, I am successfully using it to>spool postscript files to our unix Berkeley ...

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----I originally described a situation where running networker backup on causedby NFS server (a client of networker) to become unavailable, with otherclient machines saying "NFS server not responding, still trying".Thanks to...robert@psy.uq.oz.auRich ...

Looks like the manual is a little misleading.Change:      When the shell is invoked as jsh, Job Control is enabled in      addition to all of the functionality described previously      for sh. ...

Hi,The answer to the problem was simple. I should have had a closer look at the xlock man page. The solution isYou can set this resource or use the corresponding command line option:XLock.enablesaver: onxlock -enablesaverThis is from the xlock man ...

Thanks to all who replied:David EvansDamon CassellTim CarlsonMike MeredithOkcha TeSelleAlex VinsonBlake MathenyPete GeenhuizenRolf GartmannChawla GirishBrian ScanlanAll the suggestions I recieved were in line with almost everything I tried.Many suggested checking to make sure/var was mounted ...

         Well, I got a lot of very quick responses to this question and I would like to thank everyone for they comments and suggestions. By far the most common (almost 100%) suggested rsync from http://rsync.samba.org with rdist a close second. ...