Wow, after the summary, i got a bunch more emails, listed in order of recieving:Chris Drake <Chris.Drake@Corp.Sun.COM>Mary Lou Hinman <maryh@cea.Berkeley.EDU>Sean Ward <wards@snk077.ast.lmco.com>Rich Kulawiec <rsk@itw.com>Chris pointed out that the patch i specified ...

It was a simple problem. Daniel Pigg, Stefan Jon Silverman, and Kevin Korball suggested that /etc/shells was missing. It was. Oops. Thanks, guys.-----Original Message-----We're still running a 4.1.3 machine (and it's actually still quite useful).Some time back we lost the root disk, ...

Original post:> We are having problems with a machine that is running Solaris 2.5 getting> losing contact with the network. > > When we run "watch-net" from the boot prom, we can see packets going by> (indicated by dots [...]), so we know that its physical connection to ...

Hi Sunners,Thanks a lot for all the answers. Here's the summary:Original Question~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~I am observing a strange problem with one of our SS10. This machinehas Solaris 2.4 and is connected by tpe Etherlink connection to thehub. This machine doesn't come on the network till somebody ...

<insert usual excuses for the late summary here>Problem:> Scenario:> > Sun Ultra 140 running Solaris 2.5.1 with a RaidStor Disk Array (60GB)> mounted as /documents> no patches, everything is right out of the box> > PC running WFW 3.11 and Hummingbird Maestro NFS ...

Thanks to those who replied. My original question was:---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Dear Sun Gurus,I have just upgraded (fresh install) one of our servers - 6 CPU SparcServer 1000e - to Solaris 2.5.1It will now ...

Hi All,First of all let me thank following gurus,Klorese, Roger B.ARajeev Kumar.Robert L. HarrisJohn Stoffel ValAnswer:It can be used to supplement the management (partitioning, data movement,etc.), but not to control the actual RAID controller LUN building.Best reference: ...

1. My original posting was:>Date sent: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 08:20:53>Problem: after some days in operation, syslogd ceases to operate. No>more system messages logged, not even from the command "logger" nor>from the syslog function call in applications. It wont start by ...

Original Problem Statement:Solaris can't read a tar archive produced on HP-UX.Solution:Wrong problem statement.Solaris "tar" DOES read the default (POSIX) HP-UX tar archives withouttrouble.The problem arose because the file was NOT really transferred in binary modeftp.Detailed ...

Hello Managers.My Sincere Thanks to the following Sun ManagersMike Chang <machang@pfoo.com>MARK SAYER <MSAYER@cuscal.com.au>Steve Boyko <SBoyko@nbpower.com>Jim Harmon <jharmon@telecnnct.com>Jay Morgan <jmorgan@qualix.com>Here are the questions and the answersQ1. ...

Hello , Thanks to all who reply to my query.The original query was :-------------------------------------------------------- I want to mount a floppy diskette without using volcheck,i need to know the right form of the mount command.--------------------------------------------------------The ...

I asked for help massaging printjobs bound for remote printersunder SunOS 4.1.x.The consensus is input filters and terminal flags are only considered on local printers, and this won't work:     :lp=:rm=machine:rp=remo1:if=/usr/local/bin/mungit:ms=onlcr:Several people ...

Original question:> Our Netra NFS was installed and tuned using default parameters.> Suddenly we found ourselves short of inodes. To give some numbers:> > Total inodes about 720000, 100% occupied (given by df -o i)> (I didn't save the actual output prior to emergency ...

I know there have been numerous questions on how to do disaster recoverywith Online Disksuite, and below is some documentation I receivedrecently that I thought I would share with all of ...

Hello.Sorry for the long delay of this summary, but a little testing was necessary.My original question was:leideck@pi3.informatik.uni-mannheim.de said:> Hello. After a few days i get periodically following error message on > my console:> WARNING: ...

Sorry for the lateness of this summary Basically I got a lot of responcesfor Netscape Suitespot (IMAP, LDAP, POP, Caledar) or the new SolsticeInternet Mail server w/ Internet Calendaring server. Both should give allthe services and functionality.Netscape requires the netscape client.SIMS 3.5 ...

Hi Sun Managers,My apologies for the delay in posting this summary.Thanks to the following people for their thoughtful input in this muddy subject.u-kevin@megami.veritas.com (Kevin Sheehan - Uniq)Dave McFerren <davem@solve.net>nders@hmi.de (Thomas Anders)Anthony Worrall ...

My question:Subject: Sun watchdog reset due to software?We have a Sparcstation 5 running Solaris 2.6. When we run oursoftware which was working fine under 2.5 (also on SCO, Linux,UnixWare and QNX) the machine does a watchdog reset.We are compiling using the Visual Workshop 3.0 for Sparc. The ...

Thanks to all who replied. Apologies for the delay for this summary -been away.> Hello all,> > When I shut down (init 0) my SPARC 20/Solaris 2.5, I get the following> messages on the console:> > 1. nfs umount:vold server not responding:RPC:Program not registered.> > 2. ...

Hi  Sorry for my late summary. My original problem was: I am trying to configure a SecureRemote Win95 to connect to a FW 3.0 on E450 running Solaris ver 2.6 and I get an error message:      "no license for ca" They have the ...

Bit over due this one still better late than never. My original query was how to boot from CDROM and manualy mount filesystems, LOTS of people replied the most common solution being as follows :-from promok boot cdrom -swand once the system has booted use /a as the mount point for the required ...

Hi,thank you for all responses. Thanks a lot toitc1@scigen.co.ukbirger@Vest.Sdata.Nobbyoung@amoco.comberghold@TCG.COMdunn@sled.gsfc.nasa.govreineman1@llnl.govfcusack@voicenet.comfoster@bial1.ucsd.edushubin@brain2.nida.nih.govMy original question is below. Some answers differ at some points. ...

Thanks to the "too many to list here" people who responded.The suggestions all ranged from getting a new power supply to wiring theumper (J3301) that controls the power toggle switch. I will try thelatter since the power supply that came with my AXi has a real powerswitch on it, so ...

First my original post:======================================================================I read through all the FAQ's and old postings on this one and thought Ihad done the right things....Platform: Sun Sparc 2 Solaris 2.5Problem: This machine has a cgsix frame buffer that seems to only ...

> Is anyone aware of a conversion/formatter utility that will> convert an nroff (or troff) formatted document (i.e., a man page)> to HTML format codes (or perhaps rtf)?I received many responses on a wide variety of formatters(written in sh, C, perl, etc) ...The most useful information ...

Thanks to the following ppl for their suggestions:Alfredo Sola <asola@intelideas.com>Benjamin Cline <benji@hnt.com>Marc L. Summers-SysAdmin <marcs@tdd.hbo.nec.com>Rahul Roy <roy@bluestone.COM>Cheng, Bruce <Bruce.Cheng@aspect.com>Regards,Tony.---- Original Question ...

Problem:        We have password (and shadow) file with more than 13,000 entries         (users) in it.        Useradd, userdel and usermod work very slow on the ...

Here is my original question:>I need to run a script first Sunday of every month (at a given hour,>say 3 am). Can a single cron entry do that?>>If not, are there anyone out there who have already made a script for>similar stuff?>>Thanks for any help.>>P. AlukalThanks ...

Hello,        Sorry about the delay in response but I was trying to find the patch number before I posted the replies. Many thanks to Ade Faleti, Skye Poier, and Frank Cusack. Apparently this is a known bug in 2.6. My Sun rep has not giving any patch ...

My stupid self . . .What I FORGOT to do is reboot! Damnit I hate when that happens. Ohwell, thanks guys but no thanks things *seem* to be working fine fornow. Once I rebooted I was able to cd to the mount point and do an lsand see the remote files. Now I only have to add a few users and . . ...

Thanks to the following for their reply:Glenn Satchell <glenn@uniq.com.au> and toGlenn Rickersey <glennr@wormald.com.au> who originally send this informationto Glenn Satchell about two years ago.Here is the solution which helped me to make the TLZ06 work withSunOs 4.1.3:1. Original ...

Thanks to all who replied. I have received over 30 replies!Forgive me to not to list the names who replied. Here is my summary:1) Sean Ward <wards@snk077.ast.lmco.com> pointed:Subject: 10.1) My rdump is failing with a "Protocol botched" ...

--- Thanks to the following for responding to my question:Tim Carlson <tim@santafe.edu>Stephen Harris <sweh@mpn.com>Avi J. Levin <alevin@ltcm.com>Kevin.Sheehan@uniq.com.auJens Fischer <jefi@kat.ina.de>raju@hoho.ecologic.net---- Response summary ----The majority of ...

I didn't receive any solutions for the following (posted 12/16):----------------------------------------------------------------------Our database server sometimes emit a bunch of the following messages in /var/adm/messages:   WARNING: kernel map: rmap overflow, lost [xxx, yyy]I ...

Many thanx to all who responded, namely:Boyko, SteveJason L. HarrellArtur ShnayderMark A. FaustStefan VossMatthew StierEugene KramerJoseph S D YaoCraig W. ShaverLiz MarlowMark 'Hex' HershbergerDavid Thorburn-GundlachDave TeoSorry about the delay. I had to exchange private mail to clarify afew ...

SUMMARY:It seems that the client with the problem had changed hostnames to a newname then back to the old name while the server was still up (not mydoing). This seemed to be the authentication problem. I think it wasconfused. The solution was to reboot the server then the client.Thanx for ...

Hi, all.Well, I have to say this list is really great.Many thanks to the following which have been the first to reply:"Brion Leary" <brion@dia.state.ma.us>djohnson@nbserv2.dseg.ti.com (Danny Johnson)Casper Dik <casper@holland.Sun.COM>"Bruce Rossiter" ...

original post:> error mesage: write error 24 feet into tape 1> > My Exabyte 8505 8mm tape drive gives me this error everytime I try to write> to a tape. I used a cleaner tape and tried new tapes but get the same error> when using tar or ufsdump.> > I have a quote of $700 ...

On my original questions about NIS+ implementation in a heterogenousenvirnment...My environment:> We currently have a mix of machines running SunOS 4.1.3, 4.1.4;> Solaris 2.5.1, 2.6; HP-UX 9.05, 9.07, 10.01, 10.20; ULTRIX 4.4> and OSF/1 v 1.3 and v 3.0 (Alphas)> > We are looking ...

Well I guess you can't have your cake and eat it too.Thanks to:rali@meitca.com & dean@osi.SYLVANIA.comand whoever else should respond.who suggested that I change my /etc/default/login thuslyCONSOLE=/dev/console -> #CONSOLE=/dev/console     On our development ...

Many thanks to all who responded. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------Original question------------------------------------------------------------------------------On Mon, 16 Dec 1996, Eduardo E. Silva wrote:Hi,What is the MTU for FastEthernet (be0) on ...

Dear Managers,Suggestions are as follows:1. Set quota on mail spool; (Nearly most responses suggested)2. Set cronb job to mail users when the mail spool file is too large;3. Set cronb job to move mail spool file to users'home when too large;4. Set cronb job to remove old mail;5. Post ...

Note: This is a long summary, but hopefully useful to others considering this type of problem.Recap of my question:>Is it feasable to configure a second server with the same hostname/IP>as the first as a backup for High Availability, and boot it up when>needed. I am exploring this ...

Thanks to the (too numerous to name) folks who replied to this request!Everytime I try to summarize, I find another half dozen or so responses.I'll take a snapshot of it for this summary.Most folks are using version 3.4. Some mentioned proctool, which I agreeis a 'better' tool in some ...

Ghostscipt binaries can be retreived from:       http://sunfreeware.com/solaris_2.5_nof.html         I have not seen a binary for the latest(5.10) but Version 4.03 can be had ...

hithanks i appreciate the help in debugging the DNS parent's glue records.although the CNAME record that i asked about is incorrect, removing itdid not solve the problem.here is a summary of my question:>> the parent is a Sun 4.1.3 machine running NIS, and the original version of> ...

This is a summary of the responses I recieved:  The most common (85%) said to get tcp_wrappers        then modify /etc/hosts.allow & /etc/hosts.deny The other responses were:        modify ...

Dear Sun Managers:It has been three weeks since I posted the following question on gettinggcc v2.6.3 compiled on Solaris 2.5.1. My original problem was missingbison which most managers pointed out to me to install. This issue wassolved. However, I still couldn't get any gcc nor g++ ...

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.I got some replies on my summary, ...

>It appears (the consensus was) that one can not do it in the Solaris>cron with a single entry ( even though one or two persons suggested>it's possible).>>One possible method is to run the cron on every Sunday, and check >within the script whether it is the first Sunday. ...