NOTE - this psuedo-summary probably raises more questions than itanswers and is pretty long. IF you have work to do today, you'llprobably want to give it a miss...A couple days ago I asked for help on how to set the SCSI id on a Seagatehard drive. I unfortunately neglected to mention the ...

My original question:I'm curious about the NFS Client Failover that Sun introduced withSolaris 2.6. I have several questions about it. I've searched variousSun sites, the archives, and the Internet in general, and can't seem tofind much helpful information about NFS client failover. With ...

My original question was:> > I checked most of the sources and I can not find any thing close to a list> of disks which are compatible to Sun systems. The reason I am asking is to > see if it > would be possible to buy a PC SCSI disk and have it accessible from a Sun ...

ORIGINAL QUESTION:Under SUNOS 4.1.3 how would I install a hard drive, and a WORM drive on a second scsi SBUS card I jut put in while keeping the CD drive on the first card? Secondly, how woul I move an exisiting drive from the first card to the second without changing anything regarding the ...

Looks like you can't get there from here. "icheck" is gone. No oneoffered an answer or explanation. Even in Solaris 2.6 it's not there.A co-oworker suggested I look into "fsdb", the file system debuggerbut a man page on fsdb is pretty content-free. I couldn't see ...

Thanks to the many people who promptly responded. The overwhelming vote wasfor "wget" by GNU. Precompiled versions can be found at http://www.sunfreeware.org/ and the source can be found at any mirror offtp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/wget/.One person also suggested lynx --source URL. I haven't ...

I haven't had a chance to fully check out all of the following info butas promised here the summary! I haven't had much of a chance to lookall of this over yet.My original question:I think this is a 2 part question regarding benchmarking new and currentsystems. I am looking for info or ...

firstly, thanks to everyone who responded to my query about upgrading aDLT4000 to a DLT1.I've discovered that because the DLT1 is only read-compatible with theDLT4000, we have to install both drives.The DLT1 is a Tandberg drive (info at tandberg.com) which is not fullybackward compatible and ...

Thanks to:Ken WachtlerDieter GobbersDieter provided me with the following:"DEC DLT2500", "Quantum DLT 2500XT Library", "Q-DLT2000";Q-DLT2000 = 1, 0x36, 0, 0x8639, 4, 0x17, 0x18, 0x80, 0x81, 3;Note: There are 5 spaces between 'DEC' and 'DLT2500'Thanks.Jeff ...

Hi again .. Well thats been done and as you all pointed out it was quite simple ..Simpley changing the localhost defaultrouter and a few other configurationfiles ... Thanks to ...

Original posting:> We have the following problem here:> 500MB filesystem, 400MB used, 44% inodes free, but no one (even root) can't> create any addition files. FS is used with about 7000 directories an some> n*1000++ tiny files.Thanks to:Matthew Stier ...

thanks to Aleksandar , Bryan, Michael.I will have to checkout cdrecord and implement it.Orig Question.I have a Yamaha CD Recoder (SCSI). The Model # is CDR400At-NB.I need to hook it up on a sun machine (SPARC station ELC), running SunOS4.1.3_U1.How do I do that.Please let me know of the steps ...

http://www.cosy.sbg.ac.at/~andi/this is the url several kind replies indicated to use. thanks all, rf._______________________________________________codeprof mailing ...

I feel compelled to protest about the misinformation containedin this summary. While it's correctly summarized, the informationcontained in the summary is misleading and sometimes even incorrect.Unfortunately, I notice a lot of this on the Sun manager's mailinglistlately. I believe that ...

Hello, all,Thanks all for response, Thanks,Some of response said: You must put the terminator on; some of said, NO,donot put it on, you have auto-termination.What I did is: disconnect tape drive, only have MultiPack and internaldisks and CDROM, terminator is on the MultiPack, works fine!I will ...

Thanks for everybody who responded, here is the list:Christopher L. BarnardMarco Greene Peter LawsDavid Staggs Sean QuaintThe response was that it could be the bad battery in the NVRAM.Marco Green pointed me to sun-nvram-hostid.faq which available at:      * ...

Better late then never. This was the original posting:> Is it possible to use Solaris/Skip1.1.1 (Sparc/x86) over ppp? The> manual only says 'Some non LAN interfaces [...] will not be> configured at boot time [...]. It is the responsability of the> interface configuration pro- ...

One reply:->No problems, but it does use 900MB or so of disk! I installed the lot->and then went through and removed the packages I did not want.-> Ian Collins.Thanks - turned out to be correct. I talked to SunService. Onlydifference between "Server Configuration" ...

Many thanks for the fast response, the answer was that the external scsi onthe E220R is single-ended, the differential adapter that I need has a partnumber of X6541A.Happy Holidays ...

I had asked about whether installpatch can be run without regard to whether a patch was already installed and whether a new rev or new patch was being installed. The answer is don't worry, be happy, installpatch takes care of everything for you. I also asked if there were any special problems ...

here's my original post:=> we're having a lot of trouble hiding the passwd field of passwd.org_dir=> => here's what "niscat -o" has to say...=> => Object Name : passwd=> Directory : org_dir.smug.asn.au.=> Owner : skinner.smug.asn.au.=> Group ...

Here is the original question:random wrote:> > Will memory from an Ultra 2 work in an Enterprise 3000?> > Thanks for any info!!!!And here is the answer:No. The machines use different kinds of memory.Thank you to all who ...

Craig Mason wrote:> > Hi Everybody,> > I thought I'd get a few ideas before I start hacking my sendmail to> pieces. I've just incorporated procmail-3.10 into my sendmail-8.8.4 on> Solaris-2.5.1. In the procmail FAQ it talks about disabling both the> fcntl() and lockf() ...

First, a thanks to the availability of this group. Second, a sincerethanks to all those who replied to my question.The original question was as follows:We have an E3500 2X400Mhz 1Gb RAM Solaris 2.6 file server on a XiotechMagnitude disk array. We are considering replacing the E3500 with a ...

My original posting was...> > The use of network console servers has been mentioned a couple of> times here and the various recommendations given have been very> useful. What we would like to do is have the ability of capturing> all console output to file (handy for crashes etc) ...

Question:We have a 56K line coming into our office.This line goes into a Livingston IRX 1-11 PortMasterrouter. Our Lan is a bus.I am using a Sparc 10 with Solaris 2.5.1 with one ethernetinterface le0.I am trying to figure out how much of the 56K weactually use, i.e. I want to montior it / log ...

Sun-Managers,Here's your input: thanks to all who responeded!RAS2000 http://www.computone.comSystemConsoleSwitch http://www.lightwavecom.comThe Keyview II and 4040s http://www.cybex.com Control Tower http://www.auroratech.comST-8U ...

  Some time ago, I posted a query about problems displaying certainfonts on Netscape with Solaris 2.6 which worked fine beforeupgrading to 2.6 from 2.5.  With no replies from the list (with the exception of one other luckyperson with the same problem - "David L. ...

I asked this:>Is there a way to audit file systems so that every time a file gets>touched, changed, deleted or moved, a log record is kept? I know this>is possible in NT, but can you do it in Solaris 2.5.1?>>We are having a problem where someone or something is removing ...

Earlier, I wrote:>When running 'ufsdump' of a remote system via 'rsh' to local tape drive,>end-of-tape causes the dump to abort, pretty much immediately after theoperator prompt to>insert a new tape appears. Using the '-n' argument to 'rsh' doesn't help.I had two replies, ...

Here is my original question:============================I'm still struggling with "ping ibm_pc_host" from the Sun running Solaris2.5.1 which could not see the ibm_pc_host even though both are on the samesubnet. The files I edited on the Sun are /etc/hosts, /etc/netmasks,and ...

Hi! thanks to all who responded:the thing i ended up doing was just boot my machine afterthe other le0 it was attached to was up and running. thoughin theory disconnecting the cable for a few seconds orbouncing the interface (not sure if that's a up/downthing or a plumb/unplumb thing) would ...

My original question was:>I want to run an Artecon Lynx LX-2158UN drive, which is Ultra narrow>SCSI, on our Sparc10 server, which has a fast SCSI-2 bus. Will this>work? Will the drive default to the lower fast SCSI-2 rate? Are>there any other considerations such as special ...

thanks to all who responded! what I ended up doing is just getting adoc off sunsolve and I also refered to chp. 2 in the O'Reilly NIS/NFSbook and I believe I'm all set now. Once I get NIS up and running, I'llwrite a small FAQ on it. I'll email it to the list so you guys can addto it or ...

Thanks to Mike Blanford, Tim Evans, Timothy Lorenc,They suggested to change the /etc/defaultrouter.That is what will be done.Thanks guys.Orig question:I am running SunOS 4.1.4, SunOS 4.1.3 and SunOS 4.1.3_U1 on various machinesin my department.The gateway address will be changed to a new IP ...

Thank you everyone for all the responses. The overwhelming answer is thatnslookup on Sun is a DNS utility, and it never reads /etc/hosts file.Hao Zhong_______________________________________________codeprof mailing ...

Only Mike Salehi <mike.salehi@kodak.com> responded. Thank you,Mike.Sun recommended we update the kernel patch to the current rev,105181-23 and that we try again. This did not help. The nextstep was to upgrade the OBP. This failed with a "vpp rangeerror." If you look at SunSolve, ...

Heres my question:# # I installed jumpstart on a Ultra server yesterday and I am now able to# jumpstart any machine in the network. It automatically determines the# timezone and such so taht I dont have to answer any questions...EXCEPT# for the name service. For some reason, it asks me what ...

Hi all, I am sorry my couple of messages regarding root password changing botheredyou. I played around and solved the problem now. What I have done is:1. delete the root line in /etc/shadow file.2. run pwconv3. run passwd rootThanks for all your concernings.Jian-----my original question was:I ...

Many thanks to those that replied with helpful suggestions.The problem turned out to be, believe it or not, an "NT" server configuredto do remote backups (nobody picked that as a likely cause - but then Ididn't mention we had NT boxen on the network ;-). It appears that the NTbox ...

Hi,I got only one response and that was from Sean Quaint. He was right ontarget with setting up RBAC on Sol8.Here is how you do it (mostly from Sean's response and a little of myexperience):1. make a backup copy of the following files (to be ...

Thanks to all who responded. Sorry I did not get the summary back sooner.Respondees : Scott Fendley <dsf@comp.uark.edu>Stefan Voss <s.voss@terradata.de>Peter M Allan <peter.allan@aeat.co.uk>"Brian E.W. Wood" <beww@intac.com>Joseph S D Yao <jsdy@tux.org> ...

The original question was:> when starting dtmail on my Solaris 2.5 box, it complains that it is unable> to obtain exclusive access to my mailbox. ~/.dt/errrorlog contains:> > libDtMail: ttdt_file_join error: path '/var/mail/user' Tt_status (1028)> TT_ERR_FILE File object could ...

On 04-Dec-98 at 13:00:18 John Horne wrote:> Does anyone know an easy way of getting back to the X window dtlogin> screen from the chooser under Solaris 2.6?> > I entered the chooser, but it found no hosts to connect to - why? I> explicitly configured one of the other Suns to ...

  The original email is at the end.   The basic problem is the placement of the "if ($status ...) then"variable check. I was actually checking the status of the command before it(echo "...") not the dump command.  There are several ...

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----Hash: SHA1It seems like the Solaris 7 install and media normally have them. Unfortunately, I got a preinstall without the card and do not have themedia yet. So I guess I'm going to have to wait to get the mediabefore I can do anything. Thanks for the ...

Looks like the fix is to install the latest jumbo le patch -I really shouldhave known.Thanks to :Tom Crummey, EMAIL: tom@sees.bangor.ac.uk Glenn Satchell glenn@uniq.com.au Marc S. Gibian email: gibian@stars1.hanscom.af.milalevin@ltcm.com (Avi J. Levin)Kevin.Davidson@edinburgh.ac.uk ...

The Sun servers were slow to respond to new X connection request because it was trying to do a reverse lookup of the IP address of the PC. Removing DNS from the nsswitch.conf didn't stop this undesirable response because the NIS servers were running ypserv with a "-d" option. ...

Hello everybody ,thnaks to Darren Dunham & gabriel rosenkoetterI had two replies , both suggested that TZ is read by init which is pid 1 which cannot be restarted without reboot or without chaining init state .the original message was :Hello Sun managers,Is it possible to change the TZ , ...

  Only two people replied .  Thanks to Rachel Polanskis <rachel@juno.virago.org.au>  ntalk and ytalk in one archive is available from my ftp site:  ftp://ftp.zeta.org.au/home/grove/stuff/ytalk-sol.tar.gz  compiled for Solaris 2.5.xThe ...