I basically wanted to know how to use admintool and NiS+, partlybecause I had a Sol 2.3 box running admintool which could see the NIS+files but my admintool on my 2.51 machine, which is the NIS+ mastercould not see it. All of the responses I got ...

Hi there,Thanks for everyone who replied. You're great helpful.Attached are two scripts that will map sdxxx to cxtydz.One is a Perl script and the other one is shell script.By the way, internal CD-ROM was counted. So it showedup in the result of iostat.-Tim---<ttt888@yahoo.com> ...

Thanks to those who offered suggestions, but the answer came from someone inalt.solaris.x86 who reminded me that I cannot start the root partition oncylinder 0 with x86. Sometimes it's the most obvious answers which stump youthe hardest. After resizing the disks with DiskSuite and reinstalling ...

I got pretty many answers for my question.The original question was:> Hello,> in my crontab file which is :/usr/spool/cron/crontab/root > there is no enrty for any uucp daemon, but there is a uucp> activity in the machine , from ps -ef for example :> > uucp 5909 5905 1 ...

Managers,I have received countless emails from countless people after I sent outthe first summary. Most noticed that I was using a DB25-DB9 cable,which I thought was a null modem cable because they had pin 2 and 3reversed. After reading the emails, the consensus was that I did NOThave a null ...

Sun guru's,        Thanks for all of the replies. Special thanks to:Cathy SmithGeorge SchlossnagleCasper DikiRichard Ashton RichardCraig McLeanJason MarshallAnswers:--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Cathy ...

To All Sun Managers:I just received this comment from Brooke. I did not have time to try thepatch105802-06 yet so I do not know whether it will fix the corrupted TT_DBissue or not.But I think it will be good to distribue this comment so whoever isthinking about using 105802-06 to patch up the ...

QUESTION: Is there a tool available for making           bootable system backups on tape ?          (e.g. like mksysb (AIX) or systemtape (DG/UX))ANSWER: NO (thanks for our ...

Hi ..Thanks to all...below is salution which is working fine....byesalman-----Original Message-----From: Rae, Scott [mailto:Scott.Rae@ScottishPower.plc.uk] Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 1999 10:12 PMTo: 'Salman Farooq TNG'Subject: RE: tar ...

Original Post:> I have installed HP JetAdmin software (D.03.15) on a Solaris 2.5.1 Sun> to print to an HP Laserjet 5si with a JetDirect card.> I installed the software on one machine which I thought could act as a> printer server, and then used jetadmin to set up a queue. On lots of ...

Thanks to everyone for all the response. There are a bunch of interestingoptions but I'm not sure which one I'll try yet. I couldn't even begin tosummarize the replys into a couple lines so here they all are. ...

The general opinion is to upgrade Java to a lower, but still Y2K compatablerelease, that does not require the libthread patch.A higher risk suggestion was to install patch 108307-01 which may fix thekeyserv problem. As the patch doesn't explicitly mention NIS+ and 105568-14(libthread patch) ...

Please provid information on lockd as much as possible.<p>Thanks a lot!<p>Gangjian Fu<p>

First of all thanks to all who replied.My original question was:> Is there an antivirus for Solaris?Acording to all the responses there is NO antivirus for UNIX. But, if youare looking for a Solaris based scanner for PC based virus you can ...

Original question:>This one's probably embarrassingly simple, but for the life of me, I can't>figure it out and can't find the answer in the archives or other docs I've>seen.>>We've got six servers, three running Solaris 2.6 5/98, two running Solaris>7 8/99, and one ...

Thank to Mike Cunningham for his advise.For Sun Saprc 10, the serial connector A/B by default is A.I did change /etc/remote hardwire:\                :dv=/dev/term/b:br#9600:el=^C^S^Q^U^D:ie=%$:oe=^D:to ...

Hello all,After lots of e-mail that I received from you and haven't tried anysolution yet, I see the need to give some more info:original posting:>> I installed Solaris 2.6 (x86) on a system with a Quantum FB 8.4GB IDE> hard disk; installation went fine> without a hitch, but it ...

Thanks to the many people who responded. I was looking for a way totest a new version of out POP server, and planned to install thetest version on a unused port for testing. Many people suggestedtelnet'ing to that port, and giving the POP commands by hand. Thatwasn't what I was looking for, ...

Hello everyone,First, thanks to everyone who took the time to reply and sorry if I forgotyour name: Simon.Whiting@mailhost.dpie.gov.au Richard Skelton Birger A. Wathne Glenn Satchell David Robson Gary W. CookNot too long ago I asked the question:> I running into ...

Hello gurus again,Thanks for all the quick reponses. I have check the problem again inconf/httpd.conf file and found the hole before receiving mail from allof you. I fixed my problem. You are right! I edited the group defaultto "nobody" and it works. In SunOS, this group naming ...

First off, I apologize to those people who felt this was an inappropriateposting.Original Posting:> Please dont flame me. I think this is interesting. Discussion in theUnix> Wizards news group.> _______________________________________________________________> Ok, so I found samba, ...

To reiterate, I needed the specs for an IBM DPSS-309170 for a SPARCstation5 running SunOS 4.1.4. Stephen responded with the following:The FAQ answer 5.1 tells you *exactly* what to doSubject: 5.1) What is the format.dat entry for drive X?The FAQ was posted to the list yesterday (and is done ...

Hi!My original post:> We moved our print server from a SunOS 4.1.3_U machine to Sol 2.5.1. The> printer is an HPl laser jet 4si. We installed it using HP's jetadmin > software . Now the printer prints with a bigger fontsize. How do I change it > back?I finally just set it on the ...

Hi All,    Thanks for the instant replies. I received lot of responses    and most of them referred to performing "boot cdrom -sv" and    some executing "uname -a".    It looks like the Solaris ...

There are only 2 replies to my question and the solution in our case was abad adaptor.The following are the suggestions that I received over the net:Thanks to: Harvey M Wamboldt & Marc Newman1. First: If you do poke around the hardware, YOU MUST OBSERVE AT ALL   TIMES proper ...

To reiterate:We have a SPARCstation 5 that will not boot. It is running SunOs 4.1.4. We set auto-booting to false, did a reset and ran probe-scsi again with the following message:DATA ACCESS EXCEPTIONWe have reset all the scsi cables, power cycled all peripheries and the workstation with no ...

The general consensus is to modify these files to includethe hostname of the system.Thanks to all who responded!MarkOriginal Question:> Subject: /etc/net/*/hosts files> > We have purchase some workstations from TATUNG that> came in pre-loaded with Solaris 2.6. From Monika's> ...

Here's my origional question:>Hiya ->>This may be a little trivial - but I can't seem to find an answer. How>do I find the total size occupied by a number of files in a directory?>There doesn't seem to be an ls switch which reports this, and the ls>list of the driectory ...

My original question:  I have a Solaris 2.4 print server. I'm trying to setup Solaris 2.5remote access to the Solaris 2.4 printers. I'm getting thefollowing error when I try and add a printer from the admintool:  add remote printer failedI see this error after I have ...

        Thanks for all reply me, but I didn't resolve the problem.        The most answers pointed to hardware problem.        I run sunvts, to test only the memory and after ...

Original message:+> Anyone know what the following means? Found it in /var/adm/messages+>+> Nov 4 11:49:19 csd_sun2 vmunix: itrunc: /export/data1/154756 new size = 0,+> blocks = -32+>Thanx to:Dave Mitchell <D.Mitchell@dcs.shef.ac.uk>Herbert Wengatz ...

First, I apologize for having lost the subject line. I swear I had typed it in, but, crap happens sometimes.Anyway, the 3 answers I got all recommend the same thing: My utmp/wtmp files are most likely corrupt and should be removed. My thanks go to Michael Hill ...

Greetings SunnersIn reply to my query:> Hello Gurus,> > Would anyone have pinouts for the old IPX 15 pin round plug serial ports ?> > Thanks in advance(ooops,I got the number of pins wrong), I've received 6 replies, most containingthe diagrams and pin assignments, but also some ...

Hi,First of all I want to thank everyone who answered,I have received a lot of suggestions, what worked for me is this:Check in the sendmail.cf file for aliases file that sendmail will use ( grepaliases /etc/sendmail.cf)Add the alias to the aliases file (abc: fgh (local account), myuser)run the ...

The problem was that in /var/yp/nicknames hosts map stands forhosts.byname. The hosts.byname doesn't contain comments (they are stripedin the makefile). If one ypcat hosts.byaddr (or changes the nickname thatas in most other unix dialects : SunOS 4, HPUX 9&10, ...) the comments areshown ...

Hello Admins:I just knew that it was something simple and thanks toAaron Browne <abrowne@deakin.edu.au>for giving me the answer.The confusing part was that many of the older systemsmeaning systems that we have had on line for some time worked OK.It was only about 24 or so of the newer ...

Sorry for the delay. My original post was on Aug. 14...I finally closed this issue today with the help of an excellent Sun kernel engineer. You just have to keep pushing until you get the rightperson.>From a postmortem Sun discovered I required a patch for Bug Id: 4112097. The fix came in ...

Sorry for the delay in getting this summary back.-----Original Message-----Solaris 2.6 / 7 on Enterprise machines.I am considering putting secondary network interfaces in my servers toprovide redundancy.Can anyone point me at some good web sites outlining how to get this 'failover' ...

Hi all,        Here is my much belated summary on Web Server stats tools.Unfortunatly I have yet to find a tool that reports everything I need. I could use a combination of tools, but differences in data reporting isan issue. I have finally decided to ...

hello,This is to summarize the answer to my question which I posted yesterday. Special thanks to James Wendling who provided the following answer. Thanks also to Kris Briscoe who was first to respond. I put the question after Wendling's correct answer which worked %100 for ...

I wrote:> I have a SparcStation 1 with 16MB of RAM. My company needs a>Solaris 2.x (hopefully 2.5) platform on which to compile software,>even if slowly.>>Question: Can I run Solaris 2.5 on this machine? What's the minimum>recommended memory that I should have? Or ...

Thanks to everybody that send an answer; to many names to mention.More or less something along theses lines:---------------while ( 1 )end---------------#/bin/shwhile : ; do : ; done---------------main(){    while(1);}----------------Val> Original question> I'm doing ...

I solved my own problem. Forgot that changes to /etc/defaultdomain don'tget reflected with a simple restart of AdminSuite. Problem WAS in /etc/defaultdomain. For whatever reason, the trailing dot inthe domain name wasn't there, and as a result AdminSuite was choking on ...

Hi ,Got one response for the same & ...it was 100% correct ... I was able torecover the entire data with this .. Thanx to ravi ..find the mail below which gives the soln .Regards ,vijay > -----Original Message-----> From: Ravi Channavajhala [SMTP:ravi.channavajhala@csfb.com]> ...

Thanks to Roger Leonard for his speedy response and to anyone else who takes the time to respond.Roger's suggestion was to forget about the vxassist method and go with the vxresize method.Roger's Post:i assume you are running ufs. forget that vxassist growby, it isunnecessary. you can do it ...

Thanks to all who replied:         The first problem turned out to be a mangled /etc/vfstab file. Thesecond occurs because I am not running any name services and the/etc/init.d/rpc script does not check for this. As per Ericka Fowler I justcommented ...

Alright!!!! I won't delete it!!! :) I wasn't sure what it was. To behonest, I never knew it existed. BUT, I really thank you guys forwatching out for me. I'd like to keep my job :) Man, I heard so manyno's that I'm scared to rsh to the computer :) Oh well, to all youngsys. admins. ...

The problem:> It became necessary to move several GB of user home directories onto> another server due to hardware failure. However, I must have missed> something, because users are on server B are not able to stat the /u> directory which is specified in auto.home as such:> > ...

Ok. This my summary to the strage fileserver chrashes that I had had a weekago.Thank all you who replied. Specifically:Max TrummerDon CockmanFrank SmithEugene KramerEarl R. Cooke Rik SchneiderAndrew HoerterFrancis LiuRobert RoseReto LichtensteigerSteve TurgeonJeffery KeyserGary FranczykKevin ...

Hi,   My mail box almost full with all the kind mgrs' reply.Orig. Question is about to ask how can I check what revision ofSolaris 2.6 is running on my system (3/98 or 5/98)  Too many ppl to thanks. (No name list in order to save disk space)  Answer is in ...