1 Respondants        2 Suggestions        3 Solution Used        4 Original Problem1 RespondantsMarcelo ...

Hi --Thanks go to dwarf@solarisresources.com and Manuel Minzoni(manuel.minzoni@impression.it)Here is the answer.>From dwarf@solarisresources.com http://www.elementkjournals.com/sun/9902/sun9922.htm>From Manuel MinzoniSometimes ago , i have made this watching documentation in docs.sun.com ...

Original inquiry was:> We're running Solaris 2.5.1 with Disksuite 4.1 installed. The OS> has many incorporated patches (4/97 release) and current patches. It appears> that 2.6 comes with the same version of Disksuite. Has anyone installed> Solaris 2.6 via the ...

A huge thank you to everyone who helped, the solution to my problem wasfairly obvious and if I hadn't been in such a panic I may have thoughtit out for myself.Stop-N worked to get me my console back, however I would suggest toanyone who is going to use E250's to ensure that the auto-boot? is ...

I only received three responses, no real consensud here, so I ended upcompiling named to look for its conf file in /etc and saved off the oldbinaries and replaced them in /usr/sbin.Thanks to :        James Ford <jford@tusc.net> who wrote:mv ...

Here is my question:> > Hi Sunners,> > >From a sh script, I would like to start a command in background on a> remote system and capture the return code of that start to make sure the> command on the remote node started.> > How can I achieved this ? Because I need to ...

        1 Respondants        2 Advice        3 Solution Adopted        4 Original Posting1 RespondantsKenn ...

The question was:        I have a lot (20) of workstations (SS4) to install with Solaris 2.5.        I think about the following procedure:        Step 1: install Solaris 2.5 ...

Wow!!! What a great response.As most of you guessed, my problem was an old version of 2.6. Once I triedthe 5/98CD, it worked flawlessly. I knew I would have to do a clean install. Thanksto all whoresponded.....Mark GosselinNetScout SystemsOriginal Post:>> This is probably going to sound ...

Original question was regarding automating Jumpstart.With 2.6 we got another variable to pass to client - locale.> How about "Select a Locale" question ?> does anyone know what the bootparam entry for this one would be ?I got 2 replies.David Thorburn-Gundlach david@bae.uga.edu ...

Dear All,Thanks to everybody for all the responses received :-Neal Curran <J.N.Curran@reading.ac.uk>Sebastian Benoit <benoit@Mathematik.Uni-Marburg.de>"Rodney C. Marable" <marable@netgen.com>Alan Kong <kkkong@ee.cuhk.edu.hk>Mark Mellman ...

I received a number of responses, most of which made me realize Ishould've specified that this is in fact being done via the serialconsole; there's no frame buffer in the system. The suggestion Ireceived which did work was to do a Full installation and prune packageslater; still not a ...

From: "Karl E. Vogel" <vogelke@c17.wpafb.af.mil>   Either set ROOTDIR to be "/" or change the test command to look like this:        if test "$PKG_INSTALL_ROOT" = ...

Thanks to:Karl VogelCasper DikCraig Barkerfor responding to my problems with a Sparc 2. The problem has grownincreasingly worse, and /usr/bin/bash and /usr/bin/sh no longer exist. Ican't log in as root, and a re-install will be necessary.It was determined that the problem was not with the ...

Hi all,ORIGINAL POST:---------------Hi Sun-Managers,Can any one tell me any utility to download HTML Pages and links recursively onSun-Solaris. Thanks and Regards,Umesh.ANSWER:---------I received very huge numbers of responces for this and everybody pointed me to wget which can be available ...

Wanted input about calendar manager programs, especially securityconcerns related to various software packages. Several entireresponses and original post follows.Packages Discussed:   Corporate Time (Steltor)   Meeting Maker (On Technologies, www.on.com, ...

Hi !The orig. posting was:-----------------------We are running a system with Solaris 2.5, at all client and server machines.Last night we reconfigured a direct map for the automounter -- the direct mapas well as the other maps are distributed through NIS. Our goal is to exporta central ...

My original question:I vaguely remember reading the man page for a command that will list allUIDs which own files on a given filesystem. Does this sound familiar?Thanks to those who replied:Patrick Patterson <sys-admin@gdc.ca>"Iskander, Tim" ...

Thanks to all who responded:Original Question:     How can I find out the version of BIOS without booting the machine up?Fact:     BIOS only applies to PCs. Sun uses EPROM or ...

Hi folks,thanks for all. i've got a lot of answers about my problem:[...]zappa unix: sd6 is /sbus@1f,0/espdma@e,8400000/esp@e,8800000/sd@6,0zappa unix: WARNING: /sbus@1f,0/espdma@e,8400000/esp@e,8800000 (esp0): zappa unix: data transfer overrun: current esp state:zappa unix: esp: ...

Well, I've gotten the partitions back. Thanks to all who replied - therewere two replies which addressed the problem. The first, and the onewhich I have included below, gave me the hint I needed: the "octal dump" tool.The problem was that I had whacked the disk's label by putting ...

Hi,Thanks to all who responded, specialty to:"Al Aldrich" <aaldrich@nebs.com>"Cagri Yucel" cyucel@zeus.ku.edu.tr"Earnest Jim - TAFB/LASPO1" jearnest@lasmx.tinker.af.milboris msyiek@andovercg.comsusan@centricsystems.caRajesh Adhikari ...

Sun managers,Not long time ago I posted that the sendmail did not work after I installed DNS. Many people sent me suggestions :-), they are:Bismark Espinoza [bismark@alta.jpl.nasa.gov],Ade Faleti [afaleti@dllr.state.md.us].Shouben Zhou [zshouben@PCS.CNU.EDU]Karl E. Vogel ...

My original post:> I want to get the status of the execution of a remote command, invoked> through remote shell.> How can I do this ?>> To be more clear, an example with an ls will show it better:>> On machine1:> #!/bin/ksh> # Note: for this test /pepe doesn't exist ...

Thanks to all who helped me to check Y2k complience of SC2K server<p><a href="/www.sun.com/y2000"> http://www.sun.com/y2000</a> URL gave me nice information and a tool for<p>checking.<p>Thanking you <p>Sandesh Kubde.<p>

Thanks to: Mark Luntzel, Brendan Choi, Daniel Wilkinson, Kyle R Maxwell>From the four people there were two options (from OK prompt):setenv diag-level? minsetenv diag-switch? falseI'll give these a try soon.Thanks,Jason=====Pinky: What will we do tonight Brain?Brain: Same thing we do every ...

First apologies for the extreme tardiness of this summary - up to myyou-know-what in alligators.This is a rather long summary so here is the "executive" view:1) Preamble2) Replies that were particularly relevant to the problem ( 2 of them )3) Credits4) The Original ...

Many have suggested to put a hub in between switch andthe server and connect the monitoring server to thehub. Couple of suggestion are to fire the outsourced vendoror fight the vendor for this kind of activities. Also there is suggestion to use built in snmp andrmon in switches. Which I ...

Thanks you so much for your help:alevin@ltcm.com, seanw@amgen.com, shane.bouslough@peri.com,cbarnard@cs.uchicago.edu,casper@holland.Sun.COM, sitongia@jabba.hao.ucar.edu, Raju Krishnamurthy, coffindv@wangfed.com,Jens FischerAnd to all the people who are still sending responses. This list ...

On Thu, Dec 17, 1998 at 11:39:01AM +1100, Grant Beattie wrote:> I have a Sun SPC (serial/parallel) card in a sparc 10 which I can't> seem to get working.I have the answer from Sun.The model of card I have is an SPC version 1.0. It requires the stcdriver version 1.0, and won't work with ...

Hi all,          Thanks to all who replied over the 2 week period when I was trying tofix this. I would have summarised earlier, but I was away.QUICK SUMMARY AT THE BOTTOM...---===---===---===---The Original problem was ...

Many thanks to all that answered, to many to list. The rejecting of hostnames with a "_" in them is a feature, enforcing RFC standards. Thesugested fix of replacing the "_" with "-" is not doable at this site. Mysolution was to copy the in.named from one of my ...

Hi,Thanks a lot for the replying.ProblemI have concatenated 3 disks to a RAID5 through SDS 4.2. The metatoolshows the increased disk space, however when i check through df -kthe the file system space is same as it was prior to expanding thefile system.I am sure the growfs command ran ...

THANKS TO:        Casper Dik <casper@holland.Sun.COM>        alevin@ltcm.com (Avi J. Levin)        Mr T Crummey ...

I asked:> I'm having a very strange problem with the scp associated with ssh version> 1.2.25 between a couple of Sun boxes running Solaris 2.5.1.>> There is some program that scp wants to execute that it cannot find.> I'm including a verbose output of an scp attempt here. ...

Hi all, sorry for the delay of the SUMMARY.Original Question: > Is there any way to change the message that telnet gives to users before login > request?> > My system is solaris 2.5.> The easier solution is to create a file under /etc called issue , where you put the message you ...

All -Many thanks to all that responded! I received a dozen responses in about anhour and a half!The general agreement was that very little computing power is required for aJumpstart server, and that I/O is the usual bottleneck, so make sure youhave at least a 100MBit network connection.Most ...

Turns out I didn't have the suspend/resume package installed:SUNWcpr.mMy original plea for help:Is it not possible to run powerd ( SUNWpmow, SUNWpmr, SUNWpmu ) on aSparc 4?thanks,-craigDirector- Information Systems and ServicesUNIX Systems SupportCollege of Health and Human DevelopmentPenn ...

I got no responses to my question, but I finally figured it out on my own.I was having trouble installing CAP appletalk printing in the Solaris2.5.1 print system. A script was being called with the wrong numberof arguments.The problem was the the file /etc/lp/filters.table got corrupted. In ...

> > 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 ...

I asked:The answer:No, no, no. It seems that the signals are different betweenthe Wide and Diff SCSIs. You could even fry the host adapterif you use the wrong terminator.Many thanks to:Don Lewis <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com>Gert-Jan van Kooten ...

Thanks to Jeff Kennedy, the answer to my problem is:For each line that looks like:tape-config-list=                          "QUANTUM DLT7000", "HP ...

Thank you for so many people give me a hint. The summary are:I. Regular SUN Solaris "find" command can NOT specify minute or hour. Nomatter which option flag you use (-mtime, -ctime, -atime), they all baseon day. Some people mention their has option flag "-cmin", ...

        Hello there all,        My original question was the following:<> I have about 60 Solaris boxes and I have come to the point that I need to automate<> the process of getting patches from sunsolve ...

I would like to thank several people for their helpful insight, they are:Bismark Espinoza(bismark@alta.Jpl.Nasa.Gov) Glenn Pitcher <gpitcher@comstream.com>Patrick Ni <a11024@zchms02.cig.mcel.mot.com>Harvey Wamboldt <harvey@ncotw20.iotek.ns.ca>I solved by:1. I checked ...

Original question:> I have an SS1 running SunOS 4.1.4 with a 2GB HD, but only 16MB RAM. > What is the maximum RAM I can use in this? (64MB ?)> There are 16 (30 pin) SIM slots.> Do I need:> the 4M x 8 Mac / Pentium SIMs ($19 each)?> the 4M x 9 PC / 486 (with ...

On 17-Dec-98 at 15:40:32 John Horne wrote:> A quick question...given a Sun system with an internal and an external> SCSI disk, how can I tell which disk is which without actually having to> go and look at the machine? 'df' and 'format' can show me what disks are> present, their ...

1. The addition of pt_cnt=100 and a "boot -r" to create the addedentries in /dev/pts is all that is needed. "touch /reconfigure" and areboot will do the same thing.2. You should check /dev/pts and make sure all the links are there.3. Do not modify maxusers, it has nothing to ...

Thanks for overwhelming response ! There were about 35 replies (they'restill coming !) covering 5 products. And the winner is ......Apache (ver 1.1.1) - 26 (www.apache.org)followed by NCSA httpd - 5 (hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu)AOL Server - 2 (www.aolpress.com/download.html)CERN httpd - 1Roxxen ...

Dear Sun Managers;I finaly get sendmail.8.9.1 worked with db-2.5.9. I know you may madethiswork without any problems, Just an experience to share with you.The problems for me are:1. I have old libdb.a which located in /usr/lib, when I first timecompliler my makemap command it used old ...