MY ORIGINAL QUESTION:Is there an easy way to compare the patch and release levels on twoSolaris systems to see how they differ? Is there some equivalent ofshowrev that lists only the most recent revision of the patch and not allthe replaced patches as well?Barring this, has anyone written a ...

My original post:>I am trying to implement password-synchronisation between 2.5.1 boxes>running NIS+ and NT clients using Hummingbird NFS Maestro v6.>The problem I have is that when the user changes her password from the>NT desktop the Solaris _login_ password is changed, but the ...

Hi all,My original question was:}I could not change root and users password with an } error message "password file busy - try again" even} after rebooting the system. The OS is Solaris 2.3.} Can anyone tell me some hints. Thanks a lot.Thanks for following people who gave me so prompt ...

Thanks for all the responses !!!The question was:"I want to have a script that automatically adds users to the passwdfile. My script takes the arguments and creates a row according to theformat of the /etc/passwd, but I don't know how can I encrypt thepassword.I am using Solaris 2.6, I ...

Lads,Paul Wilkinson <Paul_Wilkinson@utsglobal.com> hits the nail on the headwith this one:---< cut here >---This is a common problem, the power supply is not faulty, unplug thesystem from the mains for 30 minutes or so and it'll most probablywork just fine. I don't have my notes ...

Thanks to Ian MacPhedran who sent me a perl script. Works perfect.Is there a equivalent C shell script?Several replies show me how to read output of the df. I know that.I'll thank them reply also.Jeffrey------------- Begin Forwarded Message ------------->From ...

To recap, I was trying to set a kernel variable in a running kernel.The issues are (including one or two I neglected to mention):  - The variable is called "dosynctodr"   - It is related to running xntpd (search this list for more info)  - I have already ...

Thank you very much suners !!!Most suners point me on http://www.squirrel.com/sun-nvram-hostid.faq.htmland it looks like there is solution for my problem.My original answer:> Hi suners,> > I need to change hostid in NVRAM. I heard that there is some> freeware which can do it. Can ...

Hi all, My original question was:Does anyone know that SunSparc 630 MP server support Solaris 2.5.1 or not?Currently SunOS has been installed and want to upgrade to Solaris 2.5.1.I got 9 answers promptly. The typical answer is:Solaris 2.5.1 does support 630MP. But if you have the old original ...

Thank you all.  I did not check the obvious. www.sunfreeware.com. Sincei did not know about this. I did try sun.com unix.com unix.org here are some other sources that people ...

Thanks to all who responded!!!1. mknod /dev/null c 3 2 2. /dev/MAKEDEV std I got 25 responses. Amazing!To many to mention here.R. Tomasz Siwik email: tsiwik@rand.comSystems Engineer email: rsiwik@rand.comRand Technologies Corp. (905) 625-2000 ext. 262Mississauga, ...

Thanks to all for the suggestions and warnings.I had a mail server crash right after I sent the message, soI may have missed some responses.Thanks to:Tom Hinze <hinze@ties.k12.mn.us> murat.balkas@o2.com.trLuke Kanies <luke.kanies@bluestar.net>EG Keizer <keie@cs.vu.nl>I believe ...

Firstly, many thanks to:nobroin@sced.esoc.esa.deCasper Dik [casper@holland.Sun.COM]Toens Bueker [toens@highway.bertelsmann.de]Craig Bevins [craigb@bitcom.net.au]Dennis Martens [MARTENSD@health.qld.gov.au]I'll start by providing the answer to the question I asked which came fromCasper. Which ...

Hi,Oh my!!! The answer to my original post was my original post!!!Original post:> From time to time I have to generate encrypted password without associate it> directly to a user Solaris account (it can be passwords for xtacacs, passwords> for protected httpd directories, etc). I know ...

Hi everybody,My original problem was due to a dirve problem, that I could not mount a diskette onto my SunOS 4.1.4.The solution suddenly hit and echoed in my head, when I was re-re-reading all the docs. I just missed that the data was tar formatted and I should not mount the diskette, because ...

Sory for late response,most suners have good experience with YAMAHA CDE 100 ( CDE 100 is external,CDR 100 is internal ), so I am going to buy it. As for software, most suners use GEAR software ( http://www.elektroson.com ).Onother software is HyCD Publisher ( http://www.cdr1.com/), but it ...

The systax below is what I used to create additional swap space.below that that is a statement that I was looking for to determine ifI should create additional swap."you can add an additional swap device or partition, but you CANNOT make the existing swap space bigger! "Thanks to all ...

Hello,Well, another intruiging bunch of replies regarding running a DNS! Theoriginal question was:> I have been told by one of our managers that the central DNS service can> run on a Sparcstation 2 (that's a 2, not a 20). It has 32MB RAM, and a 420> (ish) MB disk. Whilst the disk is ...

The original question was:> I'm trying write some scripts that will do an rsh to a machine and> start a long running process, but, have the rsh return right after> starting up the process. For example, having something like> rsh <machine> <command>>> The problem ...

Original question:I cannot telnet to a Ultra/ Solaris 2.5 from several other machines, evenfrom itselfI get this messages:>telnet orcaTrying 1.0.0.17...Connected to orca.Escape character is '^]'.UNIX(r) System V Release 4.0 (orca)login: gppdesaPassword:No utmpx entry. You must exec ...

The general feeling of the responses was that the DLT tape drivesincorporate maximum compression by default, thus the reason I am getting120-125GB on a 20/40 Gb DLT tape. I'm only getting 21-23 GB per Unix FileSystem DLT tape though becaues apparently the information isn't verycompressible. ...

Hello All,I want to first applogize for not sending out this summary quite longtime... Hope everybody who was in need of this summary forgives me... :o)ok here it goes first with my thanks to the following people.Khalid, Shannon, M Price, David Evans, R.Lonstein, John D Groenveld, BevanBroun, ...

Original postA news service (Techwire) published the story that Sun Microsystemshas reported that a bug in Versions 2.5 and 2.5.1 of the Solarisoperating system leaves any workstation or server running thatsoftware vulnerable to unauthorized root-level access by local orremote intruders.Sun has ...

Thanks for the quick response listed from the following,Darren DunhamMichael ConnollyRick ReinemanThe simple answer is you need 50% of your metadb replicas to continuerunning thesystem after the disk failure, BUT you need 50% + 1 to survive a reboot.Many thanks!vjl-- V.Jay Lescoe EMC ...

I received a handful of messages, but the message below was the most helpful.Thanks - Mark AlmeidaThis is one of the top three reasons customers purchase E/10000 platforms. Server consolidation, large ERP/Data Warehouse domains, and large e-commerce sites are the most popular applications for ...

Thanks alot to:"Bert N. Shure" <bert@virtual.com>"Julia M. Edwards" <julie@xs2.greenpeace.org>        My originial question was:> > Hello guru's:> I'm trying to install solaris 2.5 x86 on a notebook, with a ...

Hi everybody,Received plenty of responses. Roy G. Culley's <tgdcuro1@gd2.swissptt.ch>mail was the first with the correct solution :        dd if=/dev/rst6 bs=4096 | gunzip -c | tar xfBp - MAIL/officialThanks a lot Roy. Thanks to others also who ...

mjewison writes:> > I have two SunOS4.1.3 machines at different locations (on different> subnets). I have added the fully qualified domain name of the other> machine to the /.rhosts file on each. Both machines make use of> /etc/hosts.deny and /etc/hosts.allow and access is ...

Well, no real specific issues excepting that it is easy to spoof the NISmaster server if there is no security in place. Most of you said what I'veheard as well, "It's just insecure but I couldn't give you specifics." Noresponses to my query about the firewall as an NIS client, ...

Original message:-> > > > Hi,> > Given that it is OK for a 2.4 server to provide Jumpstart> > installation for 2.6 clients why won't patchadd let me install> > 2.6 patches against the net install image from the 2.4 server?> > Patchadd is supposed to ...

    Resolved it. I have to comment out a small HAVE_LDAP_LD_FREE from    the source code and it worked....Sanjaya>Delivered-To: sun-managers-tiaowodt@codeprof.ececs.uc.edu>From: Sanjaya Srivastava <Sanjaya.Srivastava@eng.sun.com>>Subject: ...

My query:How do I globally provide a PATH variable to all users in a CDEenvironment? For both /bin/sh and /bin/csh users?Thanks to Mike Roberts for the answer.Copy /usr/dt/config/Xconfig to /etc/dt/config and modify. Note that local.dtprofile files can be used to override global settings. ...

Sorry that this took so long to get back out.Original question: In the past, I have used a ciso router with a modemattatched to the aux port to accomplish my system paging. I simply mapthe modem to a tcp port on the router, and then use scripts that telnet tothat port and echo the correct ...

grrrrrrrrrrrr!There are times I loathe Sun Microsystems for it's carelessness ..Thanks to Ron Spillane (spillar@dent.agric.nsw.gov.au) and Marc.Newman(marc.newman@chase.com), I have my answer: permissions of the'raw' devices.[1] ls -l /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 50 Nov 17 ...

Original message:>I searched the archives at http://www.latech.edu/sunman.html and>at http://www.codeprof.com to no avail. I have also tried to>query SunSolve and came up dry.>>We have a pair of new e4500 servers we intend to run as database>servers. Temporarily we want to use ...

Roger Fuji <rmf@lookhere.com> sent me this solution to this problem:-------------------------------------------------------------------termcap probably isn't the way to go. Terminfo is better.1) log into the aix system. 2) type "infocmp aixterm". infocmp is the terminfo ...

Thanks goes out to Craig Shaver for his reply (the only one I received).Here is his response to me:-----It sure looks to me like you ran out of pty's. You need to specifymore than 48 (the default) pty's in /etc/system. Not sure of thespecific set pty syntax, but should be in the answerbook. ...

Sorry for multiple post but i forget to add Summary in the subject lineFolks,Thanks for all the replays I've receive .Some of the responds that I've get suggest that I implement Netscapemail server but the best thing I receive and i'm gonna implement isCyrus IMAP server ...

Hi all,Thanks for the responses fromCasper DikandAlfredo Sola.I rebuilt the identd and the problem was gone now.Many thanks.Regards,Alan S. H. Lam Department of Information Engineering, CUHK, Hong KongE-mail: shlam@ie.cuhk.edu.hk URL: http://www.ie.cuhk.edu.hk/~shlam/My orginal question:> ...

Thank you to those that answered especially David Brierley who gave me the following answer:The Ultra-5 does not have a SCSI controller in it's default configuration.So, in order to connect the disk drives you need to buy a SCSI controllerfor each machine. I don't remember the part number ...

> Thanks to all who responded. I think I either may have> not used a null modem cable or I may have had a keyboard> plugged in.Basically, the system checks to see if a keyboard is present(not a monitor!) before it trys the tty port.The cable should be a null modem cable (pins 2&3 ...

Hi,all   It is out of my expection that i received so many good advices in such a short timeinterval.All of you gave me useful suggestions.  Many thanks to the following person:       Rich ...

Hi,I received a number of helpful responses. Several people suggested that I must have altered the filesystem minfree space, or pointed out that thereshould in fact be minfree space as the latter "df" reports showed.In this particular case, I was observing different behavior before ...

Thanks to Casper Dik (the only respondent) for the following answers:a)It's teh only secure portmapper I know off.Rpcbind does two things: it acts as a nameservice (maps programs,vers ->port #). The second thimng it does is act as an intermediary forindirect calls; this is used for ...

Hi,all   It is out of my expection that i received so many good advices in such a short timeinterval.All of you gave me useful suggestions.  Many thanks to the following person:       Rich ...

Dear sun-managers,many thanks for your help concerning my problem. The solution is to usea 100Mbit/s full duplex connection (dedicated ethernet point to pointlink between the two machines to transfer the data).Many thanks again to these people (I hope I do not forget ...

Thanks to all for their response, and thanks to the list for sending me2 copies of every post that everyone sent to it.The answer is to use prsinfo as such:/usr/sbin/psrinfo -v/usr/platform/`uname -i`/sbin/prtdiag -v/usr/bin/mpstatBest regards and thanks to all.Santosh-- Santosh ...

Thanks for the all the responses. Basically, all I have to do is copy over the:        /etc/group        /etc/passwd        /etc/shadowfiles. However, in my case, I don't ...

Dear Sun-managers :Many thanks to :Stuart KendrickRichard AuresWaqar HafizRich KulawiecThe related documents are as following :SunService Tip Sheet for Sun NIS+ availible on http:/sunsolve.sun.com/sunsolve or for free on http://www.batnet.com:80/stokely/sunservice.tips/11988.htmlFurther it's ...

Thanks to all to answered. Majority said its perfectly okay to nfs mount/var/spool/mail. They have been doing it for years. You just need to make sure the mount is hard and actimeo=0.Answers are attached. -- Gautamattached mail follows:I always mount mail. Make sure you do not do a soft mount. ...