lost files in my /dev directory

3190 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:36:00
Again, a BIG THANKS to this list, and to the following for their replies:Christophe Colle <christophe.colle@telenet.be>John Hackett <hackett.john@gene.com>Pete and Nancy Joyce <pnjoyce@totacc.com>Christian Pinheiro <pinheiro@veritel.com.br>Sean Harding ...

dhcp problem with NCD ExploraPros.

8736 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:36:00
Thanks toJon Bidinger <jon@wgraphics.com>"Timothy E. Neto" <neto@ncd.com>Dave Miner <dave.miner@east.sun.com>for kindly offering their help.I ended up pursuing Jon's suggestion and downloaded and built dhcpd fromwww.isc.org. It works great with the NCD explora ...

Upgraded from 2.5 -> 2.6 CPU panic ensues

1387 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:36:00
Thanks to:  Michael Wang  Chris Marblefor their help.Original problem: system crashes with a cpu panic after upgrading from2.5 to 2.6 using the "upgrade" rather than doing a fresh install. Isuspected a problem with DiskSuite 4.0Suggestions:from Michael Wang:> I ...

Final: Sun 5100 and NFS

6341 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:36:00
Thank you managers,I got a couple of responses but I finally figured it out on my own.First my NFS permissions were wrong, I fixed them, and it helped some.See - Summary: unable to retain file permission as root on an nfsmountedfilesystem, I helped on that answerThen the weird part, I had my ...

Reserved Space in Filesystems

2991 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:36:00
Kudos to:Nicholas R. Leroy: nleroy@norland.comLarry Chin: larry@ca.cch.comMarkus Weber: weber@ash.crd.ge.comRich Casto: rich@loopexpert.comStephen Harris: sweh@mpn.comRaju Hrishnamurthy: raju@hoho.ecologic.netRic Anderson: ric@rtd.comBrian Hanna: Brian.Hanna@dataserv.comRich Kulawiec: ...

Why super user of NIS+ client host could switch user wit hout pass word?

1374 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:36:00
Hi all,Most people replay to me indicating that I have no configurationproblem. Just don't give root access to users. Thanks for all the people thatanswered and tried to help. -----Original Message-----> We just configured NIS+ in a small network(Class C).> All hosts have Solaris 2.6 OS ...

Multiple ethernet cards on same network.

1616 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:36:00
Thanks to all who responded. By default Solaris will output all packets via the first interface in the routing table. The ......solution is to use interface groups. Unfortunately two of our ..servers are still on 2.5.1 and interface groups were only ......introduced at ...

Repartitioning slices

2757 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:36:00
My original message was as follows:>> From sun-managers-relay@ra.mcs.anl.gov Thu Oct 31 17:26 PST 1996>> Date: Thu, 31 Oct 96 15:48 EST>> X-Sender: cain@syrres.com>> Mime-Version: 1.0>> To: sun-managers@ra.mcs.anl.gov>> From: David Cain ...

Prohobit remote logins from unresolved IP's

2266 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:36:00
Thanks to all guys who responded:        Timothy Lindgren <tlindgre@enron.com>        Kevin L Prigge <klp@tc.umn.edu>        Ronald Loftin ...

hostname.le0 disappears from jumpstart

2313 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:36:00
Original Question:> Sun M's,> > For some reason we are having problems with newly built clients (from> jumpstart) losing their hostname.le0 file. When this occurs they cannot> communicate with the network upon reboot. Even though this problem can> be circumvented by ...

change prom settings

2414 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:36:00
Hi,Thanks to all for responding so quickly. I should have looked into this a little more i guess. Dave harrington you were right, I sure did get alot of response...BTWsolution was to run eeprom command as root which will allow to cahnge any prom settings. Thanks to all againoriginal question ...

openwin problem on Ultra 60 with 2 screens (M64)

14492 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:36:00
Hi,i got only one reply: try patch 103792. This patch was already installed:   # showrev -p | grep 103792   Patch: 103792-06 Obsoletes: Packages: SUNWm64, SUNWm64cf, SUNWm64wSOLUTION: i installed a newer version of this patch (103792-14) and this did it.- - - - ...

SPARC Error Messages IDPROM and FPU

4336 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:36:00
SUMMARY: SPARC Error Messages IDPROM and FPUsun-managers@codeprof.ececs.uc.eduThanks guys:"David Evans" <DJEVANS@au.oracle.com>Tim Pointing <Tim.Pointing@dciem.dnd.ca>##########David posted a complete emails:After my sig I've attached the Sun FAQ on the FPU. This ...

NIS+ and cron

3667 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:36:00
Basically, I wanted to run NIS+ commands requiring authentication fromcron. The answer is: no clean way to do this. Lots of messy ways to doit.-As root. Because root can provide DES credentials to NIS+ anytime itwants, by reading /etc/.rootkey. I don't like this solution because Ihave ...

Compiling bind-8.1.1 on Solaris 2.6

3325 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:36:00
Managers,Here was the original question..-------------------------------> I have been informed (and shown) that there is a security leak in my bind executable on Solaris 2.6. I am trying to stop this hole with the new bind-8.8.1 that is out on the net. I can get this thing to compile just ...

Code Profiling

2903 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:36:00
Thanks to:Nicolas De Rico <derico@exmast.drea.dnd.ca>Ian Collins <itc@orl.co.uk>Russ Poffenberger <poffen@san-jose.tt.slb.com>Russ said:Try adding "-ldl" to the end of the command, ie.. gcc -Wall -pg conexiones.c -o conexiones -ldl The explanation is that normally ...

SUNWcsl

2902 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:36:00
Hi,thanks to Richard, Seth, and David for their advice.I had to reinstall the SUNWcsu and the SUNWarc packages to fix thelibraries that were clobbered by another Sysadmin installing the Solaris 7SUNWcsl package on our 2.6 box.Original Post follows:Hi We got us a big problem here.We got our 2.6 ...

Veritas Volume Manager

5349 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:36:00
Hello all,Here is a solution summary of my problem:There are two cases:1. If your system disk is a part of the raid you wish to    to change controller ID and it is encapsulated.2. If your system disk is not part of the raid you wish   to change controller ...

Solaris 8 Early Access

2980 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:36:00
Thanks to all the response...............Still i didn't realize wht is probihiting me from ordering online, butsomeone have already presented to order 1 for me.as for the memory alignment , i tried to run the following :        #pragma ...

More Info on Reserved Filesystem Space

2980 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:36:00
I've gotten some questions regarding my summary, so I've decided to postsome of the relevant responses here:>From ric@rtd.com Fri Nov 1 14:13:06 1996Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 13:30:29 -0700 (MST)From: Ric Anderson <ric@rtd.com>To: lacy@gainsun1.mercer.eduSubject: Re: I know I saw this ...

printing to 8.5x11 and 11x17 on same printer

4989 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:36:00
   Thanks to all who responded, especially Brooke King (jbking@sandia.gov).The solution was to install the LATEST version of HP JetAdmin from http://www.hp.com/cposupport/jsnav/netprn.html. Also, in order to getJetAdmin to run on SunOS 4.1.3 I had to install /bin/ksh. I found a ...

Part II: Mounting NFS file systems r/w

1906 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:36:00
Although I already posted a summary to my question, I felt the followingresponse from Rick Reineman may be helpful to anyone else who may have toadminister Pro/E on Sun workstations.**********You can't write to an NFS mounted filesystem as root. To the server youare not root, you are nobody. ...

Jetadmin software for Intel Solaris ?

2762 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:36:00
Hello sun-managers,Thanks to the following for their replies:Basavaraj KerurDavid EvansSreekanthaMinalBertrand_Hutin@notes.amdahl.comfalbu@amnesty.orgLarry GarrettJohn HackettJohn T. DouglassRami DassChad PriceJonathan.Loh@bankofamerica.comBernstein, ZmiraMostly the answer was that it's ...

Viewing .DOC's in SunOS/Solaris

9286 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:36:00
Thanks to all the folks who responded... a broad range of styles! :)The first response was "Use WABI", followed by FrameMaker, and someotherchoices. Here are the responses and authors:VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVYou can install Wabi ...

Cloning printer definitions [SUMMARY]

2216 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:36:00
Thanks to Ric Anderson for his reply, which pinpointedthe problem - I had indeed forgotten to modify the printers.conffile ...

Sendmail 8.8.7 vs. NIS on Solaris

3947 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:36:00
Sendmail 8.8.7 wasn't cooperating with NIS because it wanted to use the newBerkeley database format, which NIS doesn't understand. My original messageis at the bottom.Thanks to the following for ...

Problem with rented E250

5502 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:36:00
I apologize for the late summary. Things have been hectic lately, and I'mnot sure which answer(s) I received actually answered my question.The problem with the framebuffer was the easiest to explain, and severalpeople were kind enough to do so. It turns out that the driver softwarecomes on a ...

Latex on Solaris 2.6

1471 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:36:00
Hi Sun Manager    Thanx for such a great mailing list !!    My original question was :    Where can I find a version of Latex that can run on Solaris 2.6    I found a version that runs on Solaris 2.2 but I am ...

2: How to setup a self-maintained DNS

4131 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:36:00
Dear Sun-Manager,Thanks to Dan Pritts and Richard Snyder for introduce the site and new book.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-------------------------------------------------------------->From ...

/var/sadm is too damn big

5119 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:36:00
hey all,original post included below.thanx for the time. General consensus was NO do not erase things out of/var/sadm. reasons varying from"you won't be able to backout of patches" to "you won't be able to upgradeolder packages". what I did instead was to move the ...

sun t3 storage vs emc symmetrix storage

10880 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:36:00
Wow.Lots of comments (big surprise ;)I'm going to summarize a few of the early comments by saying this :People like their EMC boxesPeople like their T3 boxesOne of the main reasons that seems to resonate for EMC is the tools andsupport..One of the main reasons that seems to resonate for T3 is ...

Virtual IP and IP grouping

4852 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:36:00
Hello,thanx for your response. The only every time working solution is using the newest release of the patch 105786. This is actual realease 5.With the patch 105786-03 it doesn't work.CU, Dirk.------------- Begin Forwarded Message -------------Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 11:13:15 +0200 (MET ...

Mounting NFS file systems r/w

7188 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:36:00
Original Post:Trying to NFS mount a file system rw from a Solaris 2.5.1 machine to aSolaris 2.6 machine.Below is the entry in the /etc/dfs/dfstab on the server (snowhite) for thefile system to be exported:        share -F nfs -o rw=dswsun /opt/proengI put ...

Sendmail.cf question

3695 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:36:00
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----My original question concerned the `DM' line in the sendmail.cf filefor Sun sendmail under SunOS 4.1.2. The answers fell into twocategories:  o People who thought I meant Berkely sendmail and told me about    domain masquerading ...

Solaris / NT logging

1632 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:36:00
Thank you to"Paul Pescitelli" <pbp@mindspring.com>"John T. Douglass" <john.douglass@anlw.anl.gov>and everyone else who have replied.Paul suggested http://www.loop-back.com/syslog.htmJohn wrote:There are several shareware/freeware syslog daemons for win95/winNT. ...

Follow-up: Mounting NFS file systems r/w

899 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:36:00
See my earlier posting "Mounting NFS file systems r/w" for the whole story.I discovered that if I include anon=0 in the /etc/dfs/dfstab on the serverthat I can then write to the file system on the client.Example from ...

Solaris 2.6 install - semi urgent

2156 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:36:00
Greetings,As I replied to one person, wording is everything when posting a question. Ishould have said "build a Solaris 2.6 Ultra 10". As this is the case andbased on the replies, I cannot use the 7/97 2.6 CD as it is missing hardwaresupport for the PCI based machines. I have to ...

2: VxVM volume backup script(attached)

1467 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:36:00
I have had several requests for copies of John'sscript, so after checking that its OK with him......Original Post:Subject: VxVM volume backup script?I wish to set up backups of some DB volumes, either byusing "snapshot" or disassociating a third mirror. The DB can only be shut down ...

wabi messages

691 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:36:00
On Tue, Oct 13, 1998 at 02:50:22PM -0400, Igor Schein wrote:> Hi, I'm getting these messages in /var/adm/messages quite frequently:> > unix: WARNING: WabiGetfh() -- NFS3 vnode> unix: WabiGetfh() returning successfully> > 1) What exactly do the mean?> 2) How can I suppress ...

looking for RDMS

3586 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:36:00
Hi all,        I would like to thank all those who replied to the         following request :        I am currently doing some testing with the ...

Powerware Onlinet (Solaris) - battery time remaining

3587 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:36:00
Thanks to Ted Backherms and Kenneth D. Tobin for their answers !The bad news came from Ted:| If you are using Onlinet, the only way is to guess how long your| battery will carry you and set shutdown accordingly. Unless you are| using the most recent version of Centro and Vista, that ...

netstat -a not finishing

165 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:36:00
Thanks to all who responded quickly.<p>It turns out that the name resolution was what kept it from completing.<p>With -n flag added, it finished alright.<p>Jaewan<p>

top

1215 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:36:00
Hi all,        Thanks to all those who responded to the following:        I have top installed on a Solaris 1 and Solaris 2         machines. I don't seem to have man pages ...

Update:Printing under 2.5.1 and CDE

2162 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:36:00
 The concensus was unanimous that the admintool was the easiest means  to configure a remote printer. The lpsystem and lpadmin commands can  be used as well. I have used both to test the installation only to  find that there is still a communications error from the SPARC to ...

Conner Archive 4586NP/SCI reset problems

9783 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:36:00
Hi,The original question was about a Conner Archive 4586NP tape drive and the inability to read tapes with SCSI reset errors showing up in the logs.The full text of the original problem is below.Thanks!!!! to everyone who responded: Eric D. Pancer, Roger Fujii, Rick Kelly, Dwight Peters, ...

Manual tape handling commands.

2026 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:36:00
Hi,Thanks go to Brett Holman, John T. Douglas, Charles Gagnon, Mike Meredithand Bendict De Silva.Seems that the mt command with options offline/rewoffl will do the trick.Also get hold of stctl from http://www.cs.pdx.edu/~eric/stctl/though this came with a caution regarding it's use on 64 bit ...

cron

431 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:36:00
Content-MD5: 4XITTURZ2WUj96JvQ4QhJg==Precedence: bulk> Hi all,> How do I tell cron to run a job on the last day of the month? > Thanks,> Val>Thanks to everybody (to many to mention)General conclusion is that can't be done from crontab...I have to write a script that calculates ...

Followup: quick question 400MHz CPU running at 336

589 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:36:00
On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, Adam and Christine Levin wrote:> All the CPUs are 400MHz -- we bought them all at the same time. It seems> that the I/O board is 84MHz, while the two CPU boards are 100MHz, so we're> going to try replacing that. Hopefully, we have a 100MHz backplane, which> ...

Pine Problems Again

4040 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:36:00
I apologize for the late summary.I received many helpful suggestions. Thank you to all who replied.Here's a summary of the suggestions I have received:        1) Make sure that the time on the machines are synced ...

Forwarding selective mail

136 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:36:00
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