Sorry for the delay - I was out for the past few days.==========================================================================The original Question was :~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~My C compiler suppied with solaris has expired. So to create C programs, Ihad downloaded a .tgz file containing ...

Hi All,Many Thanks to all who replied (Way too many to list). The problem wasthat I was unabl to mount a "shared" directory through NFS. The solutionwas that I did not have th NFS service running , because this was thefirst time that I had shared anything on this system. I had to ...

Thanks to all that responded. I found the problem andit was in my master hosts file. It so happens thatI was using one of the spare IP addresses that I had and left the # on the front of it.So it never got entered in to the master NIS database.Thanks again for all that responded.--+ ...

Thanks to:Richard Skelton [U.K.]Birger [Norway]Torsten [Germany]Andy Paton [U.K.]Stephen Frost [McLean, Virginia, USA]David Thorburn-Gundlach [Athens, Georgia, USA]Trevor Paquette [Calgary, Alberta, Canada]Kevin Colagio ...

Hi everybody.I got a number of responses. I want to thank everybody who responded.First of all, I forgot to mention that I'm running Solaris 2.5.1 on aUltraSPARC I. Now the original question:> Yesterday, my main server stopped responding to commands. Entering anycommand gave one of > ...

Hi!I asked (long ago, I admit):>I have a Sparc 2 with Solaris 2.5. Open Windows and xterms. Is it possible to >use arrow keys to repeat last command (loop) i.e. reading history file >starting from latest command typed? I know this can be done with bash, but >I'd like to use csh. ...

My orginal question:>Does anyone have experience with Exabyte's Mammoth>drive? Is it more reliable than the 8500 technology?>The Cheyenne ArcServe product looks pretty good for the>price (1/2 that of Legato). My initial trial was promising, but>it does not have the same ...

Hello,First of all, I want to apologize to send this question to the sun mailinglist instead of the firewall mailing list...! But of course, as you are the best, I got many answers to my question :-)The answer is that configuration b) is better. (90%)Why? Because I have more flexibility to ...

most people pointed me to stokely, it's a great source ofinformation. www.sunhelp.com is great as well.Glenn Satchell> use admintool to set it up.> > The best FAQ for this is Celeste's Modem Tutorial available from> www.stokely.com.> Nicky Ayoub> Check this out:> ...

Turns out, as pointed out by many managers, the problem wasARP cache. In my case the router to the Internet, therouter/firewall, and the workstation I was tring to pingfrom, all had ARP entries that needed to be cleared orexpired. I simply wasn't patient enough! People guessedit takes ...

I got a number of responses. I want to thank everybody who responded:  Venu M Middela <vmiddela@cs.gmu.edu>  Sam Nelson <Sam.Nelson@cs.stir.ac.uk>  John Birtley <jbirtley@baesema.co.uk>  Daniel Kluge ...

That was a fairly quick fix. Thanks Glen Satchell        jerry Springer        Umesh Vaghela        Jason Hargis        Alan ...

Sorry, I was mistaken. The patch is not a recommended or security<p>patch, so it is only available to those with contracts, or to those who<p>can find it. :-) The blind rage made me overlook this fact.<p>

Hi Sunners...Thanks all of you how responded.Glenn Satchell <Glenn.Satchell@uniq.com.au>Swee-Chuan Khoo <sckhoo@tm.net.my>Jeff Wasilko <jeffw@smoe.org>Joe Johnson <jbj@alpha.budget.com>Casper Dik <casper@holland.Sun.COM>Daniel Beaudry ...

Thanks to all the folks who replied!I was deluged with scores of replies.The original issue was..>I have suddenly started recieving this mesage on an x86 2.6 box:> "ftp: ftp/tcp: unknown service">whenever i try to ftp anywhere(localhost, or any other machine on the ...

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Hi,As some of you pointed out I needed to give more information.The nis/dns master is a 4.1.3 server.I was desperate and called sun. They worked with me to find the problem.I was told that in order to use dns an NIS master must be bound to a DNS server. This old 4/380 had bound itself to a ...

Hi Manageres, I have received few mails with traceroute.tar as attachment and most of them gave the pointer for the same. The pointer is http://smc.vnet.net/Solaris_2.5.html I thank everybody, who are all ...

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Thank's Ravi: RAVKRISH.IN.oracle.com.ofcmail@in.oracle.com:My original message:Hi all,I have a classic running 2.4 and a external artecon 2GB drive. I get a errorwhen rebooting like:DKIOCINFO: Inappropriate ioctl for device`/dev/dsk/c0t5d0s5``/dev/dsk/c0t5d0s5` is clean.The external is has two ...

Hi Sun   A very serious problem has troubled me for 4 days.   When i installed Solaris 2.5/X86 for my Pentium-133( with 32MB Parity RAM ),   The following message always came up and the installation was interrupted .   This is the ...

 My original query:    Got a 8mm DAT with a tar archive created on IBM AIX. Exracting this data on to a SS4 is very slow. 'truss' output shows thst each 'read' call returns only 512 bytes even when the requested block size is more (10240 or 32768). Conclusion: ...

Thanks to all who replied. I guess that the answer was simple, undernormal circumstances anyway. The normal procedure is to use umount . Theproblem I have is that I needed to umount some home directories. I tellthe users that I need to umount them, so they log off. After they havealready logged ...

Hello,I can not get "finger" work on one of my SS5 (g300). I can use finger on this station, but if I am in another station, fingerthis one:>From another station> finger @g300[g300.chem.okstate.edu]It will not tell you who is logged on it.But if on the g300, type finger, give ...

Thanks for the response from:Andrew Lamb <sm@mis.mua.go.th>Chris Marble <cmarble@osiris.ac.hmc.edu>raju@ecologic.netTheir information are very helpful for me to find out the problem. Theproblem is somehow I lost my user account: nobody, I don't know how.After create the nobody, ...

Thanks for all the responses guys!!! All the responses basically offerthe same definition of a context switch. here's a few replies (kindalong):Ayoub, Nicky" <Nicky.Ayoub@avnet.com"A context switch is the actual act of changing from one process toanother.It involves saving the ...

Sun Managers;Thank You all that took their time to provide me with an answer to myquestions. For the benefit of others here is list of responses received.Happy Holidays to all;AngelOriginal Question;Sun Managers;I know how to change the values of those variables displayed when I issuethe ...

Thanks to all who responded! Most recommended that you configure your routers to forward along the requests (Cisco routers have an ip-helper address for BOOTP, DHCP). Others suggested getting the CMU Bootp software and compiling it - it has a little program called bootpgw that will forward ...

My original question was :> > I would like to send a mail message with an attached file, from a shell> > script. Have someone ideas how to do that in a non-interactive mode ?The best solution proposed was using the mpack program, that is not found inits official site, but can be ...

hithanks very much to everyone who answered.my original question was:> i have a question regarding using nslookup to get a> list of name server. i am running sun OS 4.1.4, with> the version of bind shipped with it. i am in the> process of building bind 4.9.6, which may resolve ...

Many thanks to Rick Reineman for supplying me with the correct answer.The original post follows his answer:If you check the manpage for rpc.ttdbserverd you will see mentionabout a TT_DB directory, that is at every filesystem mountpoint.There is an option to rpc.ttdbserverd to clean up this ...

The following is the reply regarding to the location of c++ compiler. GNU C has c++ built in, but you must explicitly compile it. It can be foundat ftp site prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu/gcc<version>.tar.gz.The url for GNU software is as ...

Well, I never did get the hme0 interface to work, but I will post thissummary anyway, since there were lots of good suggestions. hme_idle turned out to be a workaround for a problem that occurs if youaren't using the ethernet protion of the SunSwift card. The previousadmin must have done ...

Sorry for the delay in this summary. It's taken quite a whileto get it all resolved from start to finish.Well, our big corporate move is over and the transition appearsto have been a smooth success.My original query was for advice in orchestrating a corporategeographical relocation of our LAN ...

Hi,I would like to thank all the following people for responding to my question:  Eugene Kramer  Benjamin Cline  Swee-Chuan Khoo  Rich Kulawiec  Thad MacMillan  Reto LichtensteigerMy original question concerned relating SunOS partition ...

Original query:> We have been having problems this week with our NIS+ server. It has been> sporadic ever since Monday night of this week. Our users have been> un-able to login to any of the workstations, except for short periods of> time (about 15 minutes). > > I was told ...

Sorry for the belated summary...My question:> Sorry for the lack of sun-related content, but is there an > SGI-managers list or something equivalent other than the > comp.sys.sgi USENET hierarchy? The Answer(s):Most of the folks I heard from said "no", but really wanted one. ...

---------- Original Question ----------On 2.x, netstat -in shows following:Name Mtu Net/Dest Address Ipkts Ierrs Opkts Oerrs CollisQueue lo0 8232 127.0.0.0 127.0.0.1 70 0 70 0 00 le0 1500 38.0.0.0 38.160.6.25 10542 1080 4780 1 380 ...

1) Many thanks to the following Sun Managers for their replies:Jim HarmonCharlie MenglerJochen bernDerek MallardJoseph S.D. Yao2) My original 2 part question was as follows:We are (were) running a Sun camp with mixed PC and Sun workstations. Fileserving is provided on a Solaris 2.5.1 box, ...

Thanks for the replies.In brief, I was trying to backup a server that resides outsidethe firewall with my backup server that resides inside thefirewall. I was essentially running an 'rsh dump' from the serverto the client outside the firewall... then I would pipe thedump back (via stdout) to ...

Hi,   The first reply came within 2 minutes of my mail !!    I would like to thank all of you who replied and those   who gave their time for my question.   The answer:      Veritas software comes bundled ...

Dear Managers, unfortunately I didn't receive any replies to the question (originalmessage is below), so the summary is empty. The problem is stillunsolved. I would like to thank everybody who read and thought aboutit.VladimirOriginal message ...

Hi everyone,This is a SUMMARY,(1) The original problem<I have been trying to set up a PPP connection over a leased line<for the past few days. For testing, I have 2 Sun workstations running<Solaris 2.5.1 with a modem pair in between set up in my office.<<Here are my 2 /etc/hosts ...

My question was:-------------------- Begin Original Post --------------------I've got a user who managed to blow away his entire home directory *and*the online backup copy he had of it. The tape backup doesn't have hiscritical files because of a permission problem. (My fault and his.)He's ...

hello again:sorry for the long delay.--------------here is what i had asked :We have a GEO-RIM/FE 100 MBPS switch from UB. We would like to connectan Ultra-2 ( on-board 100 MBPS ) to the switch in FULL-DUPLEX mode.Would like to know if any of U are having such a setup and thingsworking fine ? I ...

About 2 weeks and several sleepless nights ago, I asked for help inlocating a "reader-talker" package for Solaris. (The sleepless nightswere not caused by this software).Suggestions came in from a dozen or so folks and were greatly appreciated.The most suitable idea for my ...

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----Hash: SHA1December 26, 1997Hello world,We had been experimenting with the Solstice SyMon and the Domain Manager v2.3 rel.B to create a network operations center. We wanted to be able to remotely diagnose/monitor the remote and critical Sunservers using the ...

Original question:Dear SMs,How do I go about intalling this patch?The README.103346-04 file states:...    2) Execute the binary './flash-update' in this directory.                a) It first ...

Original Message: >--------------------------------------------<I am having problems with my /home, I cannot create any dir under /homeand even useradd -m won't work. Whenever I tried to create a dir at /home,it gives me a message saying that mkdir: Failed to make directory ...

Hi,   My original question asked about clearing connections left openon port 119 after killing news.   Most replies said that the only solution was to reboot (which is what was done...:(   A few people said I killed news incorrectly, causing the half ...