As always, I received lots of good quick responses.My question was "how can I get maillists to expand beyond 10 deep on 8.7.5sendmail?".sfeng@cast.stanford.edu and tibbs@uh.edu replied with a seemingly correct answer:> You need to recompile the sendmail program. The recursive alias ...

Hello all,thank to :Tom Leach Todd Boss Sai GanesamoorthiStephen Frost Casper Dik Mike Blandford Frank Cusack Alfred Moscola Niall O Broin Russ Poffenbergerand more others to come ....It is 2 GB for max file size on Solaris 2.5.1Sincerely yours Stots ...

Hi all. I had originally posted a question regarding an ultra2 poweringoff by itself, and couldn't figure out what it was. I should havementioned that power management and CDE are not installed.There was nothing in the logs to indicate overheating, or a crash. It'sbeen about 24 hours now, ...

Thanks to everyone who responded to this question. Of course, it was a veryobvious answer.The MultiPack system is Single-ended SCSI, while the UDWIS is a differentialcontroller. Connecting the two leads to very bad results. Hopefully itdidn't fry my stuff.Time to call my vendor. :)Thanks ...

 Many thanks to everybody who responded to my question. Here is my original question:> I have pentium200 with 2 IDE disks.> It was DOS installed on the first of them and Linux on> the second .> Now I installed Solaris 2.5.1 on the second disk instead> of Linux. When ...

Hi,First of all I would like to thank all those who responded.Rick von Richter <rickv@mwh.com> Darren Dunham <ddunham@taos.com> Barry Gamblin <bgamblin@hao.ucar.edu"Christopher L. Barnard" <cbar44@tsg.cbot.com> "Evans, Tim" ...

I am using the /etc/ethers file with a program called etherman. The program monitors network traffic and displays it. It uses the /etc/ether file to lookup the names of the machines.Here are the replies:-----------Steve @ starbug1.demon.co.uk (Steve Kay) > Is there a program or script ...

I apologize for getting this message out in such haste that I overlookedsomething. I completely freaked. When I saw the error, I checked the permson the user(s) home directory, their shell, and the root directory. I alsoheard complaints about people not being able to write to /tmp, and ...

Thanks to all who replied. The original message is at the end.The idea is that ufsdump will only backup more than one file / directory ifthey reside on the same partition. When it comes to partitions, ufsdumpwill back up one partition at a time.In order to back up multiple partitions I should ...

The sole responder (Ashish Nanjiani) suggested installing the latestpatches. I have not been keeping "current", as I am concerned aboutbreaking existing third-party software on these Suns. I downloaded therecommended patches, but before I could install them, someone had cutpower to ...

Hi,This summary is being submitted very late. Sorry for the delay.The following friends replied, thank you very much for support. David Foster <foster@dim.ucsd.edu> Arthur Darren Dunham <add@netcom.com> Casper Dik <Casper.Dik@holland.sun.com> Daniel Muino ...

     I recently posted an enquiry regarding the pro's and cons of using      disk arrays as opposed to disk packs in a mass storage scenario (some      60GB in a full text search engine environment). The enquiry stems ...

(Sorry for the previous post... premature mail...)Wow.Thank you all for getting back to me so soon regarding this question. Iguess I goofed by forgetting to tell you all that my machines here runSunOS 4.1.3 and 4.1.4.The concensus is that /tmp should not be on the root partition, and ...

Michael Wang kindly suggested that should tell what thehost files are used for. Here are the replies that dothat:Some forms of loopback rpc use them. And perhaps will fallback toudp/tcp instead of ti*Casper Dik <casper@holland.sun.com>-----Sun said "yes" in the SA-286 Network ...

I had seven responses. Answers varied. I elected to stick with Win 95 since the user needs to run Office 97, which works fine under Win 95. Barry-----<David.Markowitz@litronic.com>:No, it's not supported. :-(-----"Tom Jones" <tjones@statesman.com>:I've read somewhere ...

Thanks to Bismark Espinoza and Joel Lee for helping out.It doesn't look like there's a fix for this problem.We've discussed it with our customers and agreed toupgrade to 2.5.1 in the hope that it has better ufs code.Viet Hoang wrote:> > We have a Solaris 2.3 system with a filesystem ...

This group really amazes me when I received so many responses within a day or two of my request on a subject not related to Sun systems. Thank you SOVERY VERY MUCH to the following Sun-Managers:- Tim Evans- Scott Michell- Russ Bebb- Frank Pardo- Jay Holt- Milt Webb- Jack Reiner- Susan Domingo- ...

(SUMMARY added for archival purposes, resend because many people got blanks)Please help me stamp out the myth that is being perpetuated aboutincreasing the number of ptys.Here's is how it's really done for system V ptys, in 99.9% of the cases,this is all you ...

Thanks to all who replied. There were big differencesin opineon on Q#3. I am adding the answersthat worked for me below:=>Questions:=>---------=>=>1. Is there an "export" version of Solaris 8? => I only see a "worldwide" version on sun.com.=> On a ...

Hi all,I remember having seen a conversation on using SunOS4.1.X'sC compiler under Solaris. At that time, the conclusion wasthat this wasn't possible. Having run into a situation wherewe needed to link old format .o files (that is, object filesproduced with that older compiler) under Solaris ...

I found out from the list that make is located in /usr/ccs/bin.Regards-- ------------------------------Santosh Krishnansantosh.krishnan@st.com(469) 693-7666 - Voice8008148094@airmessage.net - PagerSU BEFORE POSTING please READ the FAQ located atN ...

Hi everyone,Original problem:>> 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 wont reboot! It gets stuck on ... "b for booti> for interpreter" prompt, then after 5> seconds it ...

I've been having a lot of problems making GCC,LIBG++, Perl, GD-1.14 on my Sun running Solaris2.5.1, and unfortunately still have no success. Itried stripping it down to the bare minimum in thepath (as Ian Wallace suggested), unfortunately myproblems have yet to disappear. For some ...

Original Question:=============I have a package that installs a lot of files, but I was wondering if there is a way to pick which files get installed. For example, here is a list of files that get installed:(These aren't the real files...this is just an example)/usr/sbin/setmnt /usr/sbin/share ...

Thanks to Nate Itkin for providing the following solution.Nate suggested using showfh instead of fhfind. I should have clicked withthis as I was using fhfind on the client which is running 2.6 and shouldhave been using showfh on the NFS server which is running SUNOS.Thanks again to all who ...

There are too many of you who sent replies to my question, so I won't listeveryone, but I thank you all for responding. Many of you suggested that wecan use utilities such as 'sysinfo','sysdef', 'or 'prtconf', but theseutilities information that I need. The serial number provided by ...

Managers,<p>The solution to my problem was fairly simple:<p>Use 'pgrep -f' <p>And yes, I did read the man-pages before I posted...<p>Somehow, I managed to ignore the -f description :(<p>Sorry about this!!!<p>Thanks to Brion Leary who gave me the answer :-)<p>Regards,<p>Nils K. Sch鴜en<p>NORSAR<p>

Hi Managers,The Problem:> I have two pc's running Solaris X86, I export one directory to other,> but I can't write into this directory from the other pc.> I looked at the mans page of the command share and noticed that the> default access is read/write, but it's not working! I ...

  A quick summary for a quickly resolved problem.  It seems there was a bug in Solaris 2.5 NFS that works in such a waythat everything is internally consistent between Solaris 2.5 serversand clients, but obviously the bug doesn't exist in the later releases(or a patched ...

My Original Message:  A predecessor connected our Sparc20 to a console switcher and in order toallow it to display on a VGA monitor, he made some eeprom changes. Whatchanges I dont know. I have read the FAQ and tried some of its suggestions.I have read the man page on eeprom. What ...

*I* wrote in my previous summary:>For my purposes, at least, I think I can live with /tmp just pointing to>/var/tmp where /var is a partition on the same disk as root.I spoke too soon: A few kind souls have written to me explaining that the above is a bad ideafor the following reasons ...

        I received a lot of mail on this one. Most suggesting ~. or ATH.      These of course are fairly basic but worth suggesting (similar to      asking whether or not the modem is connected). Others ...

I want to thank everyone for their help! Pretty much everyone had a correctsolution. Oracle still had the file open due to a remote sqlplus connection.A `fuser -c /filesystem` showed the process that had the file open. Killedthe process and all is wellthanks again for the great ...

After looking at this issue further I checked my /etc/mail/sendmail.cwfile and removed an entry in it for mail.MYDOMAIN.COM and left onlyMYDOMAIN.COM. This seems to have fixed the issue and my thanksgoes out to everyone listed at the bottom of this email. If anyone had any questions/concerns ...

To the group,I wish to thank all of the people who have responded and have helped out. I really appreciate everyone's time.The following is what I have discovered:        -about a dozen people responded with "make sure you use tabs and not ...

Hello sun-managers,The original question is followed by the many responses received. Apologies to anybody i may have inadvertantly missed out. Many thanks to Rich Kulawiecfor the list of batch management ...

I asked:> I have a problem with Tripwire, but visualcomputing.com (the domain name I> have in my Tripwire documentation) does not exist. Can anyone reccommend> another address to use to ask about a problem I'm having on 2 of my 20 or> so servers that run tripwire? Thanks.The ...

Glenn Satchell was first past the post - it seems that pcnfsd makes someattempt to decide that a user has a valid shell, and it checks that thename of the shell specified ends in sh. So, I simply renamed my noshellscript to nosh and made the appropriate changes in the password file. Thanks ...

THANK YOU to all the responses.I did not think about the BSD style ps command in /usr/ucb/psabout 50 replies suggested I use some variation of:/usr/ucb/ps -auxgwwwr | head -15Or some variation with fewer w's, missing some of the other options (theaux is needed), using more in stead of head, ...

-----Original Message-----I have a NIS+ master server that's been running for a couple months. I justcreated a replica server. If I do a "nisping <domainname>" on the masterserver, or the replica server, or any of the clients; they all show themaster and replica servers. But if ...

Managers:Thanks to those who replied:cedo@endeavour.exar.comCedo Vicente <cedo@exar.com>Kevin.Sheehan@uniq.com.au (Kevin Sheehan {Consulting Poster Child})dsf@interpath.comHerbert Wengatz <hwe@uebemc.siemens.de>dzambon@afit.af.mil (Dan A. Zambon)root@wisdom.maf.nasa.gov (Mark ...

WOW! What quick responses from the group! I appreciate all theresponses that I got from Sabrina Downard, Harvey Wamboldt, LeeTrujillo, and Mark Neill! Sabrina suggested that I could modify the shutdown "script", but inour case (Solaris 2.6), it is an executable as is shown below :% ...

Thanks to those that responded.My original query:>>> On 27 Oct 1997 17:14:04 -0600, js@cctechnol.com (Johnie Stafford) said: js> Is there a way, given the name of a file on a local file system, to js> find out what remote machine holds an nfs lock on that file?One reply ...

I have not received any suggestions or ideas regarding this problem. Iam left to conclude that I am really blind to the obvious or this is notthe "run of the mill" problem. If anyone who knows could please send methe "Herb "you're a bonehead"" message and point ...

My Original Question:Hi,I cannot find anything on this on any docs.What is the correct procedure of applying a revised patch?Should I delete the original patch first or just install over it?So far I installed over the previous revision and did not meet withproblems. But recently I heard that I ...

Original message:>Whats up with sun-managers? I am receiving mail just fine but nothing>from this group. Is the service down?Thanks for everyones response which basically told me that the sun-managersemail was working. Therefore the problem is on my side.I recently had my ip address ...

Ok.. I fudged up and should've waited a bit longer before posting mysummary.. I got ahead of myself! Anyway, I've found my problem withCDE users not being able to get broadcast messages IF they do not have a "console" window open. As it turns out, there were a few problemswith the ...

My original query:>>> On 23 Oct 1997 11:15:44 -0500, js@cctechnol.com (Johnie Stafford) said: js> I am about to upgrade my print server to Solaris 2.6. All of our js> printers are managed with HP's JetAdmin software. With all the changes js> in printing for ...

Looking at output provided by people on the list, I found that on mysystems, I don't get the ethernet address.I get the following output on my systems (I changed the names andnumbers):xxxxx:/home/fido-> ifconfig -alo0: flags=849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu ...

Thanks go out to Unixboy@aol.com, john.hilger@ac.com, kevin@joltin.com,and Mark_Neill@CSX.com for replying with various suggestions abouteliminating disk access hotspots and other ways to abuse DBAs ;).In this case, the key clue as provided by running this command:# find /apps -exec fuser -u {} ...