my question was about the following error when trying to mount an external sun hard drive:        mount: /dev/dsk/c0t6d0s0 is not of this fstype        many, many, ...

On 12/4 I asked the following:>Sorry to hop in with a relatively unimportant question, but this is just>driving me up a wall.>>I have a SS10 that I'm trying to teach someone how to install solaris on. >I want to show them the character based install program that you get ...

I got a couple of responses so far, and although neither of them directlyanswered my question (I think that both responders gave me more credit than Ideserved), they gave me the clue I needed to fix the problem. Originalquestion:>I just installed 2.6 from scratch on a Sparc 20, and applied ...

Thanks to all that:The best answeradd a %s in the Applications field/opt/Acrobat4/bin/acroread %sThanks again<mike>^^On Tue, 26 Dec 2000, Mike DeMarco wrote:^^> List:^> When I click on a pdf file in netscape acroread starts up^> but it does not load the file! I Have setup the ...

I mentioned I had a problem having my machine with a Magma 16spcard talk to my machines connected to it via serial cables. Virtually everyone mentioned that I should check the cable types.They were right. The new problem was that the MAGMA specs forRJ45-to-RS232 translators are sort of hard ...

Chris Marble wrote:> > I have a happy Archive Viper DAT drive on my 2.5.1 system.> I run local backups and remote backups using ufsdump with no problem.> Actually the backups work from another 2.5.1 system but fail from> a 2.6 system. On the 2.6 system every other access of the ...

Original question:I just upgraded one of my 1000's to Solaris 2.5.1, now when I do mynightly backup I have a problem when the autoloader changes tape.The tape drive is on a 2.4 machine and I issue a        rsh $machine -l $user -n ufsdump 0uldsbf 54000 ...

Hi All,  First of all let me thank following gurus,Nickolai ZeldovichFrank FiamingoFrank SmithSanjaya Srivastava Peter L. WargoSebastian Benoit Alan ScottSean QuaintDale WilesJohn Bradley Thomas Lewis sandesh  I have received 12 responses, finally I ended up in using expect ...

Thanks to Casper Dik <casper@holland.Sun.COM> (the only respondent) forhis reply (why would init not reap a zombie process):> > If the process is closing devices, it may remain exiting.> Lsof is typically able to show the show the files still open.> > > There are also ...

Hi,Thanks to everybody who responded. Here is the summary for the clusteringthread. I still haven't reached any conclusion and meanwhile have also beenapproached by Legato to evaluate their product for clustering. Please mailyour opinions if you have used Legato's clustering ...

   First, many thanks to all of the sun-managers who have patientlyoffered things to try making moving up the BayNetworks and SUN Supportfeeding chains just that much quicker.   Here's the Summary of my summary. I've been having trouble gettinga SUN FastEthernet ...

Original question:> My old type-5 keyboard died and was replaced with a quasi-similar> type-5 but alas some of the keys are different and I have no hardware> documentation. I've remapped some but would like to remap the blank key> in the upper left area (next to the ...

This answer came from Andrew Caines: and is very goodThank You Andrew<mike>It should be %s for a single file or %l for a list of files. %h usuallyrepresents a host.Since you're running Navigator on Solaris, you can also use the AcrobatPDF plugin. Simply do the following:1. Copy the ...

I got a lot of responses to this one, but it turned out that I wasn't asstupid as I thought I was; I had saved the vfstab created by the 2.6 upgrade,so I got /var to mount without complaining.The response I got from Ron Spillane was typical:>Your entry for /var should look like ...

My request was:>I have an ETL 4/1800 with 2 Quantum DLT7000 drives. As Solstice Backup>(Legato networker) doesn't seem to be the ultimate solution, could anyone>point me to the most reliable s/w to pilot this library.>But for now, is it possible to pilot the library directly from ...

thank you for the prompt replies, and for help on additionalquestions, and the scripts.my thanks to for their assistance:Alberto Begliomini <aub@atmsys.com>Gregory M Polanski <gmp@adc.com>K. Ravi <RAVKRISH.IN.ORACLE.COM.ofcmail@in.oracle.com>Jay ...

Thanks for the multitude of responses.Apparently, Bash looks for .bash_profile when it starts up not .bashrc, some suggestions were:-making a symbolic link from .bash_profile to .bashrc-having .bash_profile execute .bashrcThanks.Original Message:>On a Solaris 8 server, my .bashrc does not ...

Thanks to all who responded to my original question regarding how to get aSOlaris 2.x machine to automatically log in as a user at boot time.Original Post:> We had written a small utility that one could install in the /etc/ttytab> file on SunOS 4.1.4> that would allow the system to ...

After replacing the system board, all the controllers, and the cables,and after talking multiple times to tech support from four companies,and after having the darn thing crash every day for two months, it turnsour what was what was needed was to add a patch that wasn't on therecommended list. ...

Hello managers,Thanks for the introduction to the list and for very speedy answers.To summarize:1. How can one view a system log in Solaris 7? (similar to AIX's errpt)./var/adm/messages seems to be the consensus.2. On one of the machines that I maintain, rsh is being called viascripts. ...

> Thanks to all Sun Managers who tried to help solving my problem.> As requested, I will summarize:> My original question was something like:>>On Dec 2, 10:42am, Blankestein Ton wrote:> Subject: Framemaker2Word> Dear SUN Managers,>> Could you please advice me on how ...

I asked:> I've got a quick DNS question for the collective. We are unable to do> DNS lookups to several large sites - the DNS query just times out. After> our firewall administrator exchanged a bit of email with the firewall> administrators of these sites, they have determined ...

Wow. The response to my question was overwhelming! Incredibly, Ireceived 70 replies! Talk about a storm of support. About 90% ofthe responses explained that I was using the wrong device name.Here's an example of a pretty typical resonse:>>It looks to me like /dev/rst0n might be a regular ...

Okay, OpenGL is a commercial product from Sun. It doesn't come with the OS like it does w/ AIX and IRIX and 3d card drivers for NT. However a free clone called Mesa is available at http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/~brianp/Mesa.html.Also, it seems to work better than lesstif (thank goodness).Special ...

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hi, I got some really good replies for this. Actually DR is not enabled by default which is thesame case with my system. that is why when it comes upit is giving te message that DR is disabled but italso reports that the firmware on my sysem supportsthe dynamic ...

Dear all,many thanks to all who have responded.The alternative to the /etc/rmmount.conf mechanism is to use the/etc/dfs/dfstab entry:share -F nfs -o ro=list_of_clients /cdrom/cdrom0Then you have only to unmount/remount the filesystem.Best regards,RainerI wrote:> Dear all,>> to share ...

My question: How i can add an entry on the routing tables with a specific netmask?, the command route(1M) does not provide this.The summary: With only the route(1M) command, i cannot do it!. The only way and onlyfor local interfaces and addresses is putting an entry on ...

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Thanks to:"Adamku, Ladislas" <Ladislas.Adamku@microcell.ca>Jeff Kennedy <jeff.kennedy@natdecsys.com>"Herman, Yvonne" <HermanY@bsci.com>Benjamin Cline <benji@hnt.com>"Wales, Vince" <Vince_Wales@csx.com>Thomas Lester ...

Thanks to Jeff Schave, Jed Dobson and David Foster for replying.I've received enough replies thusfar to summarize. The following areavailable:Secure Delete - http://freshmeat.net/projects/securedelete/download/secure_delete-2.2.tar.gzFWipe - ...

Solaris 2.5.1 and earlier are 32-bit OS'es and have a file size limit of2 gb (2^31).Solaris 2.6 is 64-bit and has a file size of 1 tb, and possibly more (up to 2^64) if NFS v3 is used.---Responses from:Marc S. Gibian <gibian@stars1.hanscom.af.mil>Todd Boss <boss@netcom.com>Charlie ...

Hi Sun-managers,        I struggled for a day to make nfswatch running on Solaris 2.5 &Solaris 2.5.1 and hope this will save some time for other managers.FTP ...

Thanks to everyone who responded:David Linnabary <davidl@CMHHealth.Org>Philip A. Fitzpatrick" <phil@libs.uga.edu>townsley@wayback.er.usgs.gov (Bill Townsley)Turns out that this is the what turned them off:Stephen Harris <sweh@mpn.com>The banner might be being created in ...

I had some quick answers given:>From Sean Quaint:==============For hostname:/etc/net/ticots/hosts/etc/net/ticlts/hosts/etc/net/ticotsord/hosts/etc/hostname.hme0/etc/inet/hosts/etc/nodenamefor ip addr/etc/inet/hosts>From Kevin Korb:=============I have never liked sys-unconfig. If you are ...

Thanks for all of your responses. The majority of people suggested that itwas a problem with a dumb terminal sending a break signal over the serialline. Since I was using a PC for a dumb terminal, everytime I had to rebootWin 95...(quite often) The IPX then went down to the boot prompt. Now ...

Thanks to:        Stuart Whitby        Alan Hill        Thomas Wardman        Wyman Eric ...

        Hello good people!        Here's my original query:> > > Dear Gang,> > The time is rapidly approaching when this small companies' UNIX> storage capacity will exceed the capabilities of ...

I want to thank everyone who responded. I had quite a few!The almost unanimous fix was to do a Stop-A, then reboot in single user modefrom CDrom. After boot , mount / as /a then manually remove root passwordfrom /a/etc/shadow and then boot from disk...and of course reset the rootpassword ...

Hi all. Received some great responses. My question was regardingbind-4.9.6-REL failing to compile on solaris 2.5.1 and 2.6. It seems 'ld -x'is not understood on ld for solaris.Many people suggested removing the '-x' from the ld command, which probablywould have worked.A better suggestion ...

First thanks to those of you who responded, (see list below)(Paraphrased from Kirk Anderson)SunOs will happily role over from 31-Dec-1999 to the year 2000 however the date function will not allow you to set a date past 31-Dec-1999.(Even thou it won't set the date, it will report it properly. ...

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----Hash: SHA1Thanks go out to the following for three very correct answers:Doug OttoLeonard SitongiaJohn MalickThe version of Solaris 2.6 media that I was used predated the Ultra 5support. It's since been remedied by ordering the latest media kitfrom Sun. ...

Apparently several users had the same problem, judging by the number ofpeople who wanted to know if I solved this.By the time I got my first response I had stumbled across the solution.Way down at the end of the README this problem is mentioned, and Sun'ssuggestion was to mount the CD ...

Many thanks to Frank Cusack <fcusack@voicenet.com>who provided me with the Ethernet (MAC) addressinformation I was looking for:     http://standards.ieee.org/db/oui/index.htmlUnfortunately, the address being reported was not an assigned one.Many thanks also go to ...

This seemed to have solved my problem! Thanks to everyone who sent meadvice, this is a great list!Cheers   From:          Rik Schneider <rik@netasset.com>     To: ...

Original question (summarized):>As part of our 2.6 testing, we've noticed that 2.6 machines seem to be>generating a lot more interrupts than under 2.5. This is noticeable>using the performance meter as well as vmstat.>Solaris 2.6>interrupt total ...

Originial Question:C> Hi Managers, Has anyone found a way to run a disk to disk save usingC> ufsdump/ufsrestore that does away with having to input answers to setC> owner/mode for '.' [yn] and Directories already exist, set modesanyway?Thanks to Karl Vogel for the quickiest response ...

Hi Gurus,Thanks a lot to Mike DeMarco who helped me to solve the problem. He gave asample program which solved my query..The syntax for getch is int getch(void). Also we need to call initscr() thatdoes a curses initialization and at the end, you need to call endwin so thatthe terminal will be ...

Thanks Akash X Dhama for his explanatory answer.<p>Solution is to increase v.v_maxup from /etc/system.<p>Akash also remind that the defaul value is 2517, however it<p>is somehow defined on my system as 415 !!!<p>Thanks once more.<p>Cagri<p>