Thanks much to Casper Dik and Doug Winter for the following responses:Casper--------I have heard of no problems using this setting.(Other than those I articfically concocted)--------My question >Why doesn't Solaris come with this feature turned on? :-)Casper--------It does for 64 bit ...

Thanks to everyone who repliedThe consensous was that the disk is bad, and that I need to replace it.Thats what I will have to do.Answers after the Orig Question.Orig question.I have a major problemI have a client machine runnin SunOS 4.1.3 on a SPARCstation ELCIt has 4 ...

Thanks again to all for the marvelous mirad of creativity...............cat file | awk '{printf("ln -s ../Data1/%s\n",$0)}'cat afile | awk '{ print VAR $0 }' VAR=fredsed -e 's/^[a-zA-Z0-9]/ln -s ..\/DATA1\//g' <filename>sed -e 's?^?ln -s ../Data1/?' filenamewell, neither ...

Thanks to all who responded.The consensus is that symbolic links are slower when opening a file,and they do create an additional resource-management issue to be tracked,but the impact depends on the application.My application opens approx. 256 files at startup, and128 are closed, renamed, and ...

Thanks to:Kevin.Sheehan@uniq.com.au (Kevin Sheehan {Consulting Poster Child})Glenn Satchell - Uniq Professional Services <Glenn.Satchell@uniq.com.au>for picking up on this one. Unfortunately, the only suggestion was tomake sure the latest SunPC patch (102924-25) had been installed. I ...

Hello,thanx to : rrobino@wavedivision.com and jblanche@france.sun.comTheir answers were kind of short, here is my understanding, and feel free to correct me I will repost a correction if need be.I was trying to add static routes with to a subnetted network via in.routed (Solaris 7) and ...

Got some good hints and one me too.Thanks to:John WalpFrancis LiuLeanne DavisGary FranczykTom EricksonRoss HelfandWales WongJames Quackenbossfor taking the time to respond, unfortunately none of their hints andsuggestions apply or cleared up the problem. Here is a condensed oneline summary of ...

ORIGINAL QUESTION:Hello everybody.I am using Solaris 2.5.1, CDE 1.0.2I want to specify certain applications to start up when a user logs inand starts CDE on a per user basis.According to the CDE manual, I should create an executable script filein $HOME/.dt/sessionetc containing the commands ...

As always, lots of great responses.MY QUESTION:I was just told that many Sun workstations need to be moved tonight. I donot want to have to stick around just to shut them down, but I don't want togive out the root password (NIS+) either.I was thinking about creating a user called shut who is a ...

Many thanks to all the respondents to my question especially Mike Robertsand Raju Krishnamurthy. Here's what they said:Evanif you do an 'xmodmap -pk' it will list the current settings. I usethe "KeyCode value" and the "Keysym (name)" to remap the keyboard. Forexample, ...

Here is the summary for my fsck problem that I was having. I honestly dontknow what the problem was but the way I solved it was by running format,running analyze and then doing the compare analyzation (the disk was emptyso it didn't matter that it wrote all over it) then re-partitioned ...

SUMMARY:Sun Part number X453A is an Sbus ethernet controller with AUI and BNC.Sun Part number X1052A is an Sbus differential scsi and buffered ethernet cardSun Part number X1053A is an Sbus scsi with buffered ethernet card.The X453A is End-of-life but is still available some places for $325. ...

Thanks to all who responded. The overwhelming majority view (10 out of over a dozen responses) supports mirroring the swap device when the root disk is mirrored. The reasons range from the fact that it doesn't cost much, can't hurt and [will definitely | should | might] (pick one) avoid a ...

Hello:A number of you (almost 50) suggested stopping/re-starting dtlogin. Itried that...no luck. My server has a PCI video card, but the K/M connector is theold-style Sun connector (not PCI) is that makes a difference.Only a rebbot will get the mouse back. Thanks to all for yourreponses. Too ...

Hi, folks --Well, I guess a good night's sleep helps :-) I tore into the problemagain this morning and noticed that the ACTION definition specified"EXEC_STRONG" instead of "EXEC_STRING"; sure enough, that was thekicker. The interesting thing is that this *wasn't* a ...

I was getting Write error when I used mail command in one of my Solaris7 machines. I shouldnt have even posted such a simple problem here. Well any way I fixed it myself right away.When I checked the /var/mail/root file it was way too large cuz it was. I just removed it and it worked just ...

Hello Sun-managers,I solved my problem using the script h2ph included in perl 5.x. This way,the script generates all *.ph and then, I used socket.ph (that was amongthem) in my script.I generated all *.ph this way:#cd /usr/include; h2ph * sys/*I used the socket function like ...

Dear Sun-Manager,Thanks to Dan Pritts for introduce the site.I will going to buy the book ASAP and start studying.Kelvin K Y Chan [kychan@asl.com.hk]Automated Systems (HK) Ltd.--------next mail--------------------------------------------------------------Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 12:34:28 -0500 ...

Original Q.>Hi all,>> Without going into all the gory details, I have a need>to add an 8 GB IDE drive to an Ultra 5/270 machine running>Solaris 2.5.1 The client went to the store and I guess>he couldn't resist the price on the 30 Giggers and picked up>one of those ...

Dear Managers,I asked whether poppassd can run on a Solaris with NIS+ two weeks ago.Unfortunately, I haven't received any suggestion. Therefore, I haveto abandon the idea of using poppassd.Thanks for your attention.Here 's the original question:Hi Managers,Is it possible to use poppassd under ...

Friends,Many thanks to all who responded! Your names precede your replies below.-fp========================================================================THE QUERYThe system is an upgraded Sparc IPC, with a Cycle-5 motherboard. The'uname -a' output is: 'SunOS admin 5.4 generic sun4m ...

Hi Mgrs,  Here is my orig. question:  I have a Solaris 2.6 U2 machine and I want to install the latestrec. patches. Currently, it is running Aug 1997 patches and the serverwill be serving as an NIS master.   I want to hear from your experience that if someone ...

Many thanks to everyone who replied. I have appended all the repliessince they were all useful. Another utility I found which folks mightbe interested in is rsync ( http://rsync.samba.org), an rcp like toolthat runs over ssh and uses a fast algorith to bring remote files intosync using just ...

Thanks to all who responded...answer was to use Disksuite....original question below:I have 2 9gb internal disks in my Ultra2, about to add an external 9gb disk.I want to use this disk solely for filesystem abc(more space needed)currently on disk 1. How can I link the filesystem abc from disk1 ...

ManagersMarc S. GibianMatthew StierJoel LeeEugene Kramer Mike SalehiMichael MaciolekSteven VossMatt Reynolds        Thanks for the info on my array size problem. Sorry I put 500 Gig of memory It has 500 ...

Here's a long-delayed summary on the subject of installing Netscape3.0 (with the potential to run Java) on multi-user publicworkstations.Responses from:Richard Pieri <ratinox@unilab.dfci.harvard.edu>bismark@alta.jpl.nasa.gov (Bismark Espinoza)Sam Kmety <samk@andataco.com>Marcelo ...

Digging into this, I discovered the message in question is beinggenerated by the Fore ATM kernel module. I did a strings on/etc/fore/kernel/fore_atm, grepped for the message and found it there. As to what provoked the message, I believe it was a hardware reset onour (unused) ATM switch.> ...

Thanks to all who replied:"Cole, Jeff" <Jeff.Cole@tfn.com>Michael Neef <Michael.Neef@neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>Christian Pinheiro <pinheiro@veritel.com.br>Thomas Erickson <Terickson@gilligan.gsfc.nasa.gov>The patch is located at ftp://sunsolve.sun.com. ...

I must say this is the best place to get answers from knowledgeable people and FAST too....Thanks to all who responded.....Answer was my syntax was wrong, right syntax isshare -f nfs -o rw,anon=0 /tmporshare -f nfs -o rw,root=b /tmpOriginal question:Everything below is done as root: > ...

Frank Cusack <fcusack@iconnet.net> writes:> Wow, answers back already.> > The consensus is that it won't matter as NIS+ and DNS are unrelated.> > My concern is that Solaris' gethostbyname() is broken, and I know> of at least one program that uses the NIS domain if a ...

special thanks to:Dik CasperLarry Garrett.I just needed to use the following command which showed me the second filesystem                ufsrestore isf 2 /dev/rmt/0Hello,I'm using the following command to download ...

Hi all,Sorry that some of you cannot read the attached part of my email (Novell GroupWise format). So I am reposting it for your reference.My thanks go to David Thorburn-Gundlach<dtg@cae091.ed.ray.com> whos was the only reply to my posting. He pointed the problem out for me and I fixed ...

For those not familiar with the E10000 and its ability to be subdivided intological machines, I have included a brief description at the bottom.Here is my original question:Brian Exelbierd wrote:> We are considering the purchase of a UE10000 for use in an OLTP,> Datawarehouse/DSS, etc. ...

I was having the following problem.find / -name core -printfind: cannot open /: Value too large for defined data typeI have been told to prune out the /proc directory from thefind .. So.. the following now does what I need done.find / \( -name proc -prune \) -o -name core -print Thanks to all ...

Origional Question        Is there anyway to remote mount a sun hardrive to         a Novell File Server? Supposedly the ultra I am         working on has IPX software ...

     The best way around this is to (from the ok prompt)          setenv auto-boot? ...

Problem: While archiving a directory structure, the gtar program wouldgive an error message that amounted to it telling me I had passed aninvalid argument. However, this would be after it had successfullytarred up files for over an hour. It was also apparent that the directory tree was huge ...

Hi Sun-managers:I tried all of the suggestions and all were good, but I still get themessage. /dev/ttya does not seem to be a modem control port. Qutting.In response to Alex - I am enclosing Lori Petrosinelli's response, Dear Pat,I understand you are looking for a solution using an APC ...

Thank you for the answer. I got several different suggestions:1. Some people suggest "admintool" -- you can NOT use admintool to change UID2. Some people suggest "vipw" -- VIPW work under SOLARIS 2.5 and 2.5.1, But NOT on 2.6.3. Some people suggest following way whicj is ...

Thanks to all who replied to my message. I tried both suggestions, butmy first login attempt still knocks me back out to dtlogin menu. Anylogin attempts thereafter works. This problem seems unique and probablyrelated to our CDE customizations. If I find a solution, I ...

Thanks to:Casper DikAndrew Nordby John HilgerJerry Springer Richard JankowskiDaniel LuechtefeldChad PriceRob McCauleyJeff KennedyJohn Hackett Matt ReynoldsMy system WAS hacked last week by someone using either rpc.rstatd orrcp.ttdbserverd exploits, that's why performance meter wasn't ...

Thank you very much to the following Sun Managers who kindly responded to my inquiry on file descriptors:- Kevin Sheehan- J. Pritchard- Bleary@state.ma.us- Markus Weber- Michael Sullivan- Trevor PaquetteOriginal Question:=================Is there a way to track the current count of file ...

Thanks to:Stefan Voss <s.voss@terradata.de>Casper Dik <casper@holland.Sun.COM>Val <vpopa@sms.mc.xerox.com>Mike Fletcher <mfletcher@iss.net>The answer appears to be that when root quits openwin, it does not removethe files/tmp/.X11-pipe/tmp/.X11-unixRemoving these files ...

Thanks to following people who replied to my question. Mike Marcell,Thomas Knox pointed me in the right direction.who am I or who -m gave me the machine identity exactly from where Icome from Once I put this entry it worked like a ...

Thanks for all the answered that I received. The problem was quite strange,and its solution either. Altough the problem is resolved, many interestingquestions remained.Is someone can make more contributions, I would be glad. Casper Dik <casper@holland.Sun.COM>Oscar Goldes ...

hi,        thanx for the reply, i got top from sunsite and apparentlya Solaris 2.5 version. i downloaded one from the sites belowand compiled, it is ok now, thanx for everyone's reply.        everyone say i need to ...

Hi!/bin/mail to myself was bouncing back. This was because I installed a newsendmail.cf as /etc/sendmail.cf. I believe, Solaris 2.x requires that it be installed as /etc/mail/sendmail.cf.But I did get other valuable sendmail debugging suggestions from Kris Briscoeand Dermski. Thanks guys!My ...

Thankx for all who asnwered to my questionOriginal QuestionI'm using a Sun Sparc 4 as console of two servers (without keyboard andmonitor) through the tty ports.When I need to shutdown this SS4, it sends a Break signal to the ttyports and the two servers goes into the boot promm.The simplest ...

I need build from 7/99 ;) I have Nov/98--Thanks,-EdSilvex Consulting Inc.esilva@silvex.com(714) 504-6870 Cell(888) 209-0946 Pager(714) 897-3800 Faxapplication/x-pkcs7-signature attachment: S/MIME Cryptographic SignatureSU BEFORE POSTING please READ the FAQ located atN ...

A backup/fallback mailhost can be configured on a second host bymodifying the MX records of the DNS database. Another MX record with alower priority pointing to the fallback mail server did the trick.Thanks for all the timely responses. I am attaching some responses whichreally got me ...