MY ORIGINAL QUESTION:>I've installed the suggested patches V 3.0.12 and after this I had problemswith>my mailing. If I send a mail to an internal exchange-user and only give the>name without any domainname as adress, the adress includes automatically>my machinename and cannot be ...

SUMMARY: ODS 1.0 or Higher for SunOS 4.1.3QUESTION:I submitted the following message:Dear Gurus,I am trying to configure all the answerbooks I have in a singleserver machine, and reach it from 5 other clients. I just can useit on the server so far, I mean, I can't configure the ...

Hello folks,I'd like to thank mr. Casper Dik (casper@holland.Sun.COM) for giving mequick, but essential asnwer.now going to my problem:Q:Why Solaris 2.5.1 does /etc dir (among with some others, I found out)has group `sys' writable permittions?A:~~ That's because that was the default prior to ...

Thanks to Mark Bergman <bergman@phri.nyu.edu>, the answer would seemto be in the man page for mount. I thought I knew that man page byheart, but there you go. The -m switch to the mount command tellsmount not to make an entry in the mnttab file. I haven't tried thisyet, since we fixed ...

The problem was error messages of the type:> Dec 12 11:51:52 mainsrvr named-xfer[22480]: [123.45.89.1] not authoritative for 67.45.123.in-addr.arpa, SOA query got rcode 0, aa 0, ancount 1, aucount 0Thanks to Jason Grove, Dan Anderson, Bismark Espinoza and others. As Jasonsaid, the messages ...

Hi,Thank you very much to those who replied.Krishna B Shrinivasa" <shrinivasa_krishna@jpmorgan.com>Rich Kulawiec <rsk@gsp.org>Pavel HAMPL <pavel@corpus.cz>blymn@baea.com.au (Brett Lymn)Dennis Martens <MARTENSD@health.qld.gov.au>Vahid ...

Hello!        Ok, here is what I found out. First of all, when itsays '(Loopback)' it doesn't mean the loopback interface on the snoop'ingmachine. The '(loopback)' shown below is referring to the 'Type=9000'ether net protocol called the ...

Gentlmen,Sorry for this late a Summary.Thanks to all those that responeded, I will try to include all the names.Basically it comes down to a Support issue. Sun will most probably not support this officially. EMC may help you get the job done. It may be technically feasible. But management will ...

Problem is solved thanks to Casper Dik <casper@holland.Sun.COM> forsuggesting that I use clri to delete the inode that was giving me theproblem. SOLUTION:boot single user, type 'clri /dev/dsk/c0t2d0s0 8652' followed by'fsck /dev/dsk/c0t2d0s0' and reboot.Original ...

Hi.First, much thanks to :        Charles Gagnon <charles@Grafnetix.COM>        Frank Mundinger <ffm@ezw.uni-freiburg.de>        jbwendl@mtb.phil.mop.com (James ...

Thanks for all of the suggestions.I went back to ftp.groupsys.com and downloaded top-3.5beta12.tar.gz.It seems to work just fine.Thanks,Peter SchaussRTS Wireless_______________________________________________codeprof mailing ...

Thanks to the following folks for their insight, even after I had given up!Charlie Mengler <charliem@anchorchips.com>Daniel Ellis <dellis@frycomm.com>STattitali@Paragon-Mcs.com (Sandesh Tattitali)In the end, we finally got this working by going back to the originalversion of PPP ...

Thanks to :FongV@sequus.comstanton@bkls.comhegde@india.tek.comOlivier.GIRAUD@cedelgroup.comkmpoon@eee.hku.hkumit@ksu.edu.sanospam@warp.dats.ml.com for taking the time to address my question.The solution is rebooting the system. After I check .dt/startlog ,it had amessage "bus error". ...

My original question was along the lines of.I need to setup a news server for local news on a solaris 2.6 box,I am planning on using C-news, but cannot find an NNTP deamon.What should I do.The answers were unanymous.Don't use C-news, but get INN from www.isc.org.Quite a few people qualified ...

-----------------------------------------------------------------------Ovanes Manucharyan ovanes@afmedia.comSystem Administrator Affinity Media Inc---------------------------------------------------------------------attached mail follows:Thanks to artur ...

Hello.Thanks to all managers who have answered to my question :        "Cooper,Chris" <CCooper@ingenius.com>        john benjamins ...

The concensus of 2 replies is that NO, there are no standard Solaris features that will disable an account after # login failures.Thanks to Joe Fletcher and Martin Hepworth, who suggested running Trusted Solaris, or running Tru64 on an Alpha platform, running on HP, running on VMS ( I wish! ), ...

OK, I got plenty of answers. Let me summarize...the summary:.key: master -- system with monitor+keyboard, slave -- system with no monitor+keyboardOption #1: Serial Connection. As I mentioned in my posting, I dont want this solution becauseeventhough it is cheap and feasible, it makes the slave ...

Hi,Thank you very much to those who replied."Steve Kay" <steve@peachy.com>Max Trummer <max@axyspharm.com>"Brion Leary" <brion@dia.state.ma.us> "Christopher M. Conway" <cmconwa@sandia.gov>u-kevin@megami.veritas.com (Kevin Sheehan - ...

To summarize quickly for the attention span disorderlies......        RAWbenefits:faster (almost all cases)guarenteed transaction completion by databasecompletely supported, and "recommended" by all databaseshinderances:completely rely on app ...

   My original question was how to fix NFS timeouts I was getting duringmoderate to heavy loads on an NFS server with a 100 mbps SUNSwift card plugged into a 100 mbps port on a BayNetworks Ethernet Workgroup Switch.Only a soft reset of the switch seems to make the timeouts go ...

Sorry for being late. In below you see what you asked for.--HM.Tim M. HatchRedapt Systems & Peripherals, Inc.Sun Microsystems Supplier888-800-5633 ext 233425-882-0400 faxthatch@redapt.com*************Sun Microsystems SalesPH. 1-866-226-6344Fax 1-866-922-0841**************Tim M. HatchRedapt ...

Hello,Thaks for all responses, sorry I did not list all helpers here, thanksagain!!The part of solutions:Switch the SCSI id of multipack to 7-14, then configure again, seemworks!?I am very disappointed with Sun technical support,First time they told me I need another Sbus card for my Ultra ...

Thanks to all who responded.The original question:        On a reboot, I suddenly get these errors:        ...        /sbin/rcS: syntax error at line 142: `)' ...

Thanks you all for your responces. Two Solutions: the TMOUT environmentvariable for ksh users, and a program called idled available at http://www.darkwing.com/idled/ (now in version 1.16). My users are all running the Bourne Shell, so I'm going to go with idledwhich looks like more than i ...

Thanks to Alex Finkel <afinkel@pfn.com>Robert Dexter <rdexter@xylan.com>Roberto Gutierrez <rgut@nacion.co.cr>and someone who wanted to remain anonymous.They offered valuable advise.Here's my original query followed by the responses.>Hi!>>We are planning to move 500 ...

Thanks for all the replies.Original Message:>I'm replacing a NVRAM of invalid content by a new one. So, I want to>configure the hostid.I read the document which explains how to>programming a hostid but, It is not clear on the way to choice it. I>know that the first three bytes ...

many thanks to all that replied:Best answer goes to the folks that suggested a destructive analyze fromformat.Original Post:I am returning some disks to sun on trade in that contain some proprietarydata, can anyone point me to a utility that would wipe disk? BTW, theplatform in question is ...

Although there were no responders, we've fixed this problemby applying some patches in addition to the recommended ones which were already in our system (Solaris 2.5.1). I do not give the patches here because I am not sure which one fixed it.But I should say the recommended patches were not ...

I got quite a few replies to this one, and thanks to all of you. The mostimaginative was from Scott Kulp, "... one box with 6 or 12 drive slots,drives, and a cable and a pack of gum ... " He wasn't too far off.I got one response from a VAR, and he told me I'd get free installation ...

     Thanks to Ronald W. Henderson     Solution 1:     If you are using Korn shell make sure you have turned off noclobber .     Use set +o noclobber     Then try add ...

Thanks to all who replied:Jonathan.Loh@BankAmerica.comMarek Jedryszek [marek@crocom.com.pl]Casper Dik [casper@holland.Sun.COM]Petri Kallberg - Sun Finland - [Petri.Kallberg@Finland.Sun.COM]Jason K. Schechner [jas@cais.com]Bill Hathaway [wdh@poss.com]mellman@surfcity.ne.mediaone.netAu , Louis ...

I found EXACTLY what I needed from two people with the same answer:Michael F Gordon and Johnie StaffordI wanted to move a possibly iconified netscape to the front of my screenfrom a script and then get it to change to a certain web page.The answer is netscape's -remote option.... Information ...

Many people responded, and the majority of people with morepuissant search engines than the ones I use found it at: http://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/computing/systems/unix/unix-c/sysadmin/vsar.tar.gzAnd, Ed Finch was good enough to mention some scriptshe's written to graph the output from sar, also very ...

QUESTION:On Wed, Dec 03, 1997 at 11:46:34AM -0500, Dave Acosta wrote:> Hi All.> I have multiple Solaris 2.5.1 Ultra-1 machines with different > /dev/tcp configuration parameters. For example one machine has > tcp_conn_req_max and the other has tcp_conn_req_max_q and q0.> > ...

Lots of good answers:One thing I forgot to mention was that this is a VXFS filesystem.So the answers translate to mincache instead of forcedirectio.Here are the answers, Question is repeated at the bottom.Thanks to all <mike>*****If you are running Solaris 7 (or higher I think) and your ...

my original question concerned shutting down a system unattended for system backups, and then bringing it back up to multiuser mode again. i could not figure out a way to do this without completely bringing the system down (and killing my backup script in the process.) i received many answers ...

Summary:Questions: Does Sun's Solstice Backup Module for Oracle require theOracle Enterprise Backup Utility ? Also, if you have used this SolsticeBackup Module for Oracle, what do you think about it ?The site is running Oracle 7.3.2, Solaris 2.5.1 on an Ultra 5000, andSolstice Backup ...

Thanks to all who replied, I got the answer very quickly and from manypeople. Thanks Glen and others. Now I should be able to have a workingsparc at home. :) Here is the memory slot configuration for a SS2. Looking from the back of the motherboard towards where theinternal disks are the memory ...

Thanks for all the responsesFor completeness sake I should have included linux.... http://www.netcraft.com/survey/ http://www.slashdot.org/ http://www.unix-vs-nt.org/Sun also has several articles relating to the issue at ...

I apologize for this somewhat late summary.My original question was if I could use 2 4GB Disk inside a SPARC 20without any heat problem.I received a number of replies and thanks to everybody for their replies.Unfortunetely there was no consensus on this. Some people said they hadbeen using ...

I recieved a whopping 0 responses (not that I expected a huge response to a NIS+ query). Anyway, I hacked my way to an answer:NIS+ in Solaris 8 wants to create the exec_attr, prof_attr, user_attr and auth_attr tables, only it looks for everything in /etc instead of /etc/security. I simply ...

Thanks to Niall O Broin:To get the prompt back to lower case, just type ^D (control-D) at theLOGIN prompt. Kindest regards,Niall O Broin UNIX Network Administrator nobroin@esoc.esa.deGround Systems Engineering Department Ph./Fax +49 6151 903619/2179European Space ...

Hello, and, as always, thanks for the brain boost.The original question was :----- Begin Included Message -----Hello.We are running DNS alongside NIS on a SunOS 4.1.x environment. Formonths, I have been seeing messages like this on the consoles of thename servers :Dec 2 04:09:21 scla0 ...

Hello.Many thanks for your help. The answer is that i must use solaris 2.6from 5/98 or solaris 2.7.My original question was:> Hello.> We have just received a Sun Ultra 10.> I want install Solaris 2.6 via network but it doesn't work. The ultra10 got> the boot loader and then it asks ...

Hello gurus!My original posting:> We are having problems with sendmail. Again...> > Relaying, relaying, relaying...> > Since I do not master the mysteries of sendmail.cf> I am thinking of investing in another mail-system:> > SIMS - Sun Internet Mail Server> > I ...

Original Question----------------------> I am having a hard time finding a motherboard for Solaris, and I was> wondering if anybody had any assistance they could offer.> Running Solaris 8 - Intel x86> Originally I had a motherboard that satisfied my requirements, however,now> it ...

Hello!Here is a summary of sites for good Solaris utilities. Thanks to allcontributors:    http://smc.vnet.net/solaris_2.5.html recommended by 5 people    http://sunsite.queensu.ca/sun/solaris_2.5.html 1 personThe following other single ...

Thanks to the following people, and I'm sure others before this is seen ;-)for the following information. This is exactly what I was looking for. : jreed@wukon.appliedtheory.com---With any luck the file /etc/opt/SUNWmd/md.tab or md.cf will tell you alot about the config. md.tab has a lot of ...

Hello,   Thanks to the following people who replied regarding the adding a service question:milt@iqsc.combobw@filmworks.comtonywu@cyberhouse.com.twrachel@juno.virago.org.audjve@deakin.edu.au    Here is a original question:>Hello,>>I am trying to add a ...