xterm doesn't work after installing patches

674 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:36:00
Thank you all who responded to my question as to why xterm was not workingafter I installed all of Sun's recommended patches. Apparently, it soundslike patch 103566-23 has an xterm that does not search in /usr/openwin/libfor libraries. Therefore, the solution was to add /usr/openwin/lib to ...

Need Help on Disk mirroring

11477 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:36:00
Thanks to :     Simon Alexander Klaus Kissler [Simon.Kissler@valpo.edu]     ganeshan [ganeshan@gcs.com.au]     Mark Neill [Mark.Neill@banana.fanb.com]     Mark Sherman [ Y2k Consultant ] ...

2: top

136 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:36:00
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TCP errors in SE toolkit.

1349 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:36:00
On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Adam and Christine Levin wrote:> Does anybody know why I'd see:> TCP Stack - Incoming connection refused: invalid port, RST sent > I'm seeing it very often, like every few seconds, while I'm monitoring one> of our systems with SE toolkit.Thanks to: Larry ...

2: /var/sadm is too damn big

3600 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:36:00
hey,just got a mesage from our favorite keeper of the faq. he mentions that myfix won't work. on upgrades the filesystems gets mounted on /a so we needthe ln to point to ../usr/var/sadmthank casperej----- Original Message -----From: "Casper Dik" ...

local printer, need two names

1231 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:36:00
  E3000, Solaris 2.5.1 I have two local printers lp1 and lp2. lp1 has failed and will never be replaced. How can I keep the lp1 queue and have the jobs print on lp2?Solution:In the file: /var/spool/lp/admins/lp/printers/lp1/configuration, I changedthe device definition from ...

temporary anti-static solutions

724 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:36:00
Thanks to all of you who responded to my question as to any in-expensivetemporary anti-static solutions. Here's the summary:- There are some anti-static sprays to spray on the rug.- Dilute "Downy" and spray that on the rug.- Use the wrist guards.- Purchase a humidifier (but make ...

(unresolved) : strange hme0 messages in the log file

6478 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:36:00
hi all,my original question is at the end of this emailwell, the problem is not entirely solved yet, i guess its a wait andwatch game that i'm going to have to play here.a lot of ppl replied saying that the message was normal and everythingwas fine. but that fact is that its only these new ...

update on top

1566 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:36:00
Hi all,        I'm sorry for incorrectly wording part of my first summary.        ie: and information from Rich Kulawiec as to where I could ...

: traceroute

5249 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:36:00
Thanks to every ony that resonded.(Mark Kabella ) responce is the one I used as listed below.>From: Mark Kabella <mkabella@comergent.com>>To: 'john corcoran' <using_unix@hotmail.com>>Subject: RE: traceroute>Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2000 09:46:23 -0800>>>Sure ...

RPC error from OpenLook file manager under Solaris 2.5.x

155581 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:37:00
hithanks for the help. my question concerned RPC messagesgenerated from OpenLook's file manager under Solaris.here is the original question:> > i am getting the following error message when starting the Open Look> file manager under Solaris 2.5.x:> > > 101 att15% setenv ...

PARTIAL sun trunking

2417 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:37:00
The answer is the default behavior for Sun systems is that allinterfaces will have the same mac address unlessyou setlocal-mac-address?=truein the eeprom and reboot.In regards to the instance number , they are per driver so you can havetwo instance 0.I ran ifconfig and brought up the trunk and ...

Moving system disk to new SCSI address

2687 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:37:00
Many thanks to all who tried to help.Most suggested I check the vfstab, which I did and even tar'd it acrossfrom the identical system, as with the path_to_inst file, I suspect someiconsistency between /devices and path_to_inst however how to repairthat inconsistency I am afraid I gave up as ...

inststallation of StorEdge D1000 on 220R

2630 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:37:00
Thanks everybody ....I was trying to connect disk array to scsi card and it has to be UltraSCSI card. So I added this card. Run followingcommands:drvconfigdiskson command prompt and now I can see all the disk in array.Thanks,Ashish Madan> -----Original Message-----> From: Madan, Ashish ...

man pages

2423 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:37:00
Thanks to:henriont@datrep.safb.af.mil (Tim Henrion)Daniel Ellis <dellis@frycomm.com>John Stoffel <jfs@fluent.com>Erik Janssen <ejanssen@nl.oracle.com>Larry Chin <Larry_Chin@ca.cch.coMatthew Stier <Matthew.Stier@tddny.fujitsu.com>bbyoung@amoco.com (Brad Young ...

backspace in my xterm window

4921 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:37:00
I asked:> I've got an odd problem. Periodically, an xterm will stop interpreting> the backspace correctly. This is /usr/openwin/bin/xterm running Solaris> 2.5[.1]. I currently have two xterm processes, one busted and one not,> and the output of "stty -a" on both of ...

[UPDATED SUMMARY] 10K RPM disk and Sparc 20 4.1.4

5838 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:37:00
Sorry for the delay in this posting.Thanks to the following people for providing useful information on thetopic, after my original summary (enclosed):        John DiMarco ...

[Q] JDK NOT Y2K compliant issue?

2989 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:37:00
Thank you for the answer. I list the answer I got:1. I call SUN Java support engineer, they told me If I don't use   Java to "development" the software, I don't need JDK. The    "browser" does NOT use JDK. I even don't need remove it.2. ...

Microsoft Internet Explorer on Solaris 2.6 hangs CDE

5687 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:37:00
Hello All,Installing the recommended and security cluster seems to break IE on Solaris 2.6. Since I install the the cluster as soon as I get a new system I had never had IE work for me... This using Solaris 2.6 on a E450 and and Utrla 5. Ali Albuloushi says it works fine on a U60 running a ...

passing lp options from clients to printserver

9213 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:37:00
I've looked through the archives for sun-managers and various FAQs,but I haven't come up with an answer.My setup is a Solaris 2.5.1 machine acting as printserver for outbuilding. It talks to various HP LaserJet 4 & 5 printers, a Tektronixand Canon color printers. I'm using the JetAdmin ...

NFS server and client mounting

4810 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:37:00
Admins,Thanks for the immediate help, especially to Leonid Massarskiy and Steve Hasting.To configure the server1. Edit the /etc/dfs/dfstab to add the share directive2. Start the server "/etc/init.d/nfs.server start"3. Check the server with "dfshares hostname" or "ps -ef ...

bandwidth metering

2386 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:37:00
Original Question:> Our company, though not an ISP, needs to start metering bandwith on our> network. We will be hosting and providing online access to documents> from various publishers and need to charge based on the amount of data> transfered... We are running on Sparc 5 / Ultra ...

Part III: Mounting NFS file systems r/w

1653 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:37:00
Sun Managers:First, let me apologize for consuming list resources with yet anothersummary to my original posting. However, I have been inundated withresponses expounding on the dangers/security risks of using anon=0 in/etc/dfs/dfstab to share file systems. Essentially, root accesses over NFS ...

Why is patch 103891-06 included in Y2K bundles?

306 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:37:00
103891-06 is included because it is a requirement (according to bugreport 4237231) of patch 104093-07. However, the description of104093-07 does not specify 103891-06 as a prerequisite. It is alsoincluded because all patches need ksh and 103891-06 fixes some fairlylarge problems with ...

killing processes

2848 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:37:00
Thanks to:fpardo@tisny.com (Frank Pardo)"Reggie Stuart" <Reggie_Stuart_at_~ISTG2__PO@smtpinet.aspensys.com>Rich Kulawiec <rsk@itw.com>"Hanna, Brian" <Brian.Hanna@dataserv.com>"David Evans" <djve@deakin.edu.au>Original question:> I'm ...

SPARC 5 crashing randomly

3794 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:37:00
Hello all-*** Original Question ***I have a SPARC5-110 that seems to crash randomly, perhaps once everyfew weeks or so, and always while I'm away. 64MB RAM, 1.0GB disk.It is running standard services, and is used only as a low-levelworkstation for telnetting, etc. (nothing fancy, just CDE)I ...

Confused about Veritas Volume Manager (Solaris 2.6)

8537 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:37:00
I've had a lot of replies, many thanks to those who've responded. > 1. What CD does the VM software come on? Does it come with the "Solaris 2.6> Server Sparc Platform ...

NTP on Solaris 7

3705 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:37:00
I wanted to thank everyone who offered suggestions and help with gettingNTP running correctly on Solaris 7, especially Thomas Anders and DarrenDunham who led me to the patch itself and explained what was going on.There were too many others to name individually.It turns out that early versions ...

system/network bottleneck locating tools -

5217 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:37:00
Thanks for all quick responses for my question. My original question is:>Hi all, I am looking for some general tools to locate network/system(Solaris>2.x) bottlenecks. Sometimes, I feel the network running very slow even my>systems running as normal, for instance, long response time in ...

Boot via hme0

4605 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:37:00
Dear fellow admins,first let me thank to all who responded:        Jonathan.Loh@bankofamerica.com        torsten.huebler@sachsenlb.de        Arthur Darren Dunham ...

Centralized or Distributed systems better for web hosts?

9787 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:37:00
I got pretty many answers for my question. My original question was:>I am evaluating web server systems. From the performance view of point,>Should I choose a single powerful centralized system e.g. Sun Ultra II>with two 200MHz CPUs and host 5 web servers, or choose 5 small ...

Fibre channel frequent offline and online

1868 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:37:00
hi all, Thanks to all who replied to this problem.  I got a number of replies for this, most of themsuspect the same as i was suspecting that GBIC hasgone bad, some are saying there may be problem withthe soc module. I have not tried replacing the GBICbut i am hoping replacing them ...

hostname's and shell/command tools

937 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:37:00
Thanks a lot guys for all the informative responses. Actually, I learnedmore about shell scripting and terminal emulation that I cared to know:) Nah, I'm just kidding. I will finalize this summary when I havegotten a chance to test out the majority of the solutions. More thanlikely I will ...

hanging ping

1420 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:37:00
Hi, I received lots of response with various suggestion.I run traceroute and ping -sRv as suggested by someresponse and I found that the problem was actually therouting process at some of our routers which sometimesseems to be looping endlessly.So I get our router teamto fix and everything ...

Netstat causes telnetd to lose the plot

4370 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:37:00
Original question is below. Many thanks to the following people fortheir speedy replies:Bill Crane [bcrane@weather.com]Frank Smith [franks@tradeonemktg-aus.com]Bruce R. Zimmer [bzimmer@all-phase.com]The problem is caused by the fact that our DNS server was (and actuallystill is) a bit broken, ...

best procedure for getting an ultra1 into standalone/nonnetworked?

1758 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:37:00
hi all,thanks for the replies. the overwhelming response was to usesys-unconfig and then reboot the machine. i guess i'll go over it withmy AE's and show them what exactly to do!there was also one suggestion from ay Brownrigg<Ray.Brownrigg@MCS.VUW.AC.NZ> who suggested a script similar ...

kstat rcnt == 0 when exiting runq

1914 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:37:00
hi all, I got some replies for this problem, actually i gotthis problem on the same server where was getting " Fibre channel frequent offline/online problem". Mostof them said that this problem is caused by the samefibre channel problem, which i think to be right. Butonce i ...

QHA+ y2k compliance

3080 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:37:00
Special thanks to Martin D. Baldenegro for the prompt response._____________________ Original Messages ______________________=> Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1999 10:48:34 +0800 (SGT)=> From: Amos Lim <amoslim@csah.com>=> Subject: QHA+ y2k compliance=> To: ...

SS10 drops dead

5217 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:37:00
X-Body-Checksum-Md5: 826606e315a4fe40b4241aebd60c6128Precedence: bulkWell, I took quite my Time on this one, and am still not done having aLook at the suggested Patches/Tools, but I think I found what went wrong*for me*. I wrote:> Those of you that remember earlier Posts of mine might know ...

Problem with aspppd(1) on Solaris 2.6

16538 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:37:00
I apologize for taking such a long time producing this summary, butthe problem proved to be difficult to solve and I have just nailed downthe complete solution.The original problem:-------------------------------------------------------------------------------I have been using a ppp setup ...

configuring syslog.conf

6232 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:37:00
     To all of the people who responded to my questions, many thanks..     (There were just too many responses to thank everyone individually).          Overall, the suggestions were ...

which program is using rpc.ttdbserverd

2114 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:37:00
I received many helpful suggestions. Thank you to all who replied.Here's a summary of the suggestions I have received:Which application program is using the rpc.ttdbserverd:     Ans: According to all the responses, the rpc.ttdbserverd is part oftooltalk process. To ...

Defective disk problem

11063 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:37:00
Hello,        Many thanks for some very helpful information go to:        Thomas White         Herbert Wengatz        Jay ...

login hang on the solaris icon screen

1858 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:37:00
Hello, all,Thanks for all the reponses.The problem is permission on:/usr/dt/bin/rpc.ttdbserverdthis is a link, the permission for link is OK, but the original file:/usr/openwin/bin/rpc.ttdbserverdpermission changed to----------Now, this raise another question. This happened after /var partition ...

SS10 with serial console plus graphics-screen

1743 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:37:00
Hello managers,i asked:>i have changed my SS10 (in fact a clone hamstation 10) to have the>console being connected to a terminalserver. This is working fine.>This way i can manage that machine via network.>>Now i want to have the original color screen and keyboard again>to be ...

Unisys to Sun Problem

2072 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:37:00
Thanks for all that offered advice:Basically, I was told to review the "tcopy" and "dd" commands. I will checkit out and if I find a successful solution I will update this summary andsend it back to the list.Original Question:We have a UNISYS A11 and A14 (please stop ...

[SUMMARY]: How to identify correct device for second NIC?

12197 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:37:00
A number of people pointed out that:1.) The sysdef info definitely does identify the interface as le1.2.) SunOS uses the machine address as the MAC address on all interfaces     (except for qfe interfaces). You can manually reset the MACs ...

Second CPU

1037 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:37:00
My originaly question was which manual?> We have a new Ultra 2 with two CPUs. It would appear from the percent cpu use > figrues (ps -ef) that we are only using one.> What do we need to do either at rebuild or boottime to get the second cpu in > use.> > I accept this may be a ...

Installing GCC on Solaris 2.5.1

8780 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:37:00
Thank you all for you replies and suggestions (see below).I should mention that I am successful with building C++ if I use the following commands:   configure   make bootstrap LANGUAGES="c c++ objective-c"   make install LANGUAGES="c ...

Changing hostname & IP-adress under Solaris 7

5354 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:37:00
Thanks for your immediate answer to:David G Wiseman <magi@csd.uwo.ca>Dirk Jansen <dirk@abcomp.be>rsr@macromedia.comLarry Garrett <Larry_Garrett@csx.com>"Satinder S Mangat" <mangat_satinder@jpmorgan.comCasper Dik <casper@holland.sun.com>"Schultz, ...