Ok.. Boy what a FLOOD of mail from people!!! (see the "thanks" areabelow). This is my final summary and I've got a good handle on mystupid script mistake, etc..Basically, most people initially said that I should be using thescripted version of shutdown (the SYSV version, not the ...
Turned out to be a bad scsi cable. Suprised the heck out of me, since thesame cable was what connected the minitower to a different box 3/4 monthsago. I guess if you let cables sit around un-used for a while, they start tofeel dejected and stop working. We could see the disks using ...
Hi managers,I've got two replies, Thomas FRANK <thomas.frank@magnet.at> and"Rodney C. Marable" <marable@firefly.net>.Based on the suggestion of Rodney, I i) chgrp sysadmin dtwmii) chgrp sysadmin dtsessioniii) chmod 4550 dtsessioniv) chmod 550 dtwmand it works.Thanks for ...
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To : sun-managers@codeprof.ececs.uc.eduSub : Can't set "devalias" in OPEN BOOT 2.0 Org : Dear Mgrs, SS20 with Openboot version 2.0. I have an 4.2G Unipack which hooked up to SS20. The ID is set to5. Of course I want it to be my default boot device ...
Thanx to ALL who responded to my question below..>Does anyone know the address range for private networks? or the RFC that>states them?>>We need to setup some internal private networks, I's I'd like to use the>"official" private network IP addresses,. instead of using ...
Previously, I wrote that I was looking intoconverting several Sun Sparcstations/Ultras fromSolaris 2.4, 2.5, and 2.5.1 to 2.6. They're runningCDE, DNS, NIS+.I wanted to know if there are any gotchas to doing anupgrade versus a cold install.Is there a recommended file system layout for ...
All,Thanks for responding.I just assumed since cdrom could be shared so can tape drive boy was i wrong.....Thanks again_________________________________________________________________________Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.Share information about ...
Thank you to everyone who replied -- 59 in all.<p>To create the route temporarily:<p>route add default xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx<p>To retain it after a reboot:<p>create /etc/defaultrouter with the address of the default gateway<p>Thanks again.<p>Trisha Stouffer<p>
This is not actually a summary to a question that I asked, butsince this keeps coming up over and over again, I thought I'dwrite this up for everyone's mutual benefit.At least a third of the problems that I've read about peoplehaving in the last couple of months can be addresssed in somepart ...
I reseated the card and ... Success! Thanks Barry!-------------------------------------------------------------My original message: Managers,I am having difficulty setting the console for a SS20 running 414. Atfirst I believed the problem to have been settings in the eeprom environmentbut ...
My original question, interleaved with a summary of responses :>> START>> I need to increase the active swap partition /dev/rdsk/c0t3d0s1 (2.5.1 >> boot disk) as I have undersized it during install. >> I do not have any spare space on any other volumes, so I can't ...
Last week , I post a question regard pfile output. here is the originalquestion:---------------------------------hardware platform: SUN E3000 , 512Mem, Solaris 2.5.1 Generic_103640-21Application : Netscape Enterprise Server ver 3.0JAlthough my kernel parameter rlim_fd_cur is equal to 0x40, the ...
Obviously use ulimit. Thanks to Darren Dunham [ddunham@taos.com] and DavidFoster [foster@dim.ucsd.edu].Sorry. Sometimes I look too hard for something that is right in front of myface.-----Mark Zander ===> Mark.Zander@mezzia.comUnix System Adminmezzia e-businessIndianapolis, IN ...
My original question was does the Saprc 20 come with 10 or 100mbitbuilt in. Answer is it came with 10mbit.My other question was how to tell when I have a scsi sbus card witha 10baseT connector if it is a 10 or 10/100mbit.Answers: You can tell from the device name. le0 (le1, etc) is 10bT, hme0 ...
My original query:> I have a problem for which the standard in.telnetd that comes with Solaris> 2.5 just doesn't work.> > I have users dialing into a terminal server which then telnets them into a> Solaris 2.5 machine. The telnet needs to be a binary telnet so folks can> ...
Summary.Jeff Kennedy is the only one who responded to thisquestion. Please find his mail attached.Thanks,Shyam.Note: forwarded message attached.__________________________________________________Do You Yahoo!?Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one place.Yahoo! Shopping: ...
Original question (paraphrased): A Apple LaserWriter IInt connected via serial port "A" to Solaris 2.6 does not work. Specifically, the postio process hangs, yet ...
Original Question:This question is in regards to SUNOS 4.1.4. I suppose that this question would be equally valid for Solaris 2.x. The man pages for CRON state that CRON examines crontab files only when the files have been modified via the "crontab" and "at" ...
Thanks to the list and other sources, I have it working. Here is theoriginal problem.To backup an NFS system (from a Network Appliances filer) to a localtape drive, which command is better, for one, and for another, why was Igetting error messages of permission denied etc.?Cut from original ...
Thanks to everyone who replied, most within 30 minutes of my posting. I've been so busy, wasn't able to summarize until now. In essence, I had a SparcStation Voyager portable that needed to be made ready to go to Korea for software integration. It had been several years since it was used, ...
Thanks to all who replied. Rick Schiechejennifer.witham@canarie.caafinkel@pfn.com I am running Solaris 2.4. The in.named that comes with Solaris 2.4 has a memory leak.Sun has a patch that fixes this problem: 102479-02.#102479-xx (where xx is the latest revision number). I think it should ...
suid programs and shell scripts are a security hole and hence not always allowed.>From your replies I gathered this information: ksh will allow suid sh will not allow suid csh will allow suid (with the option -b). E.g. the first line of the ...
i only got one response pertaining to this question: from Casper Dikso far, i still didn't understand wht the ip is doing in my rusers command.-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------hi all,can someone ...
Thank you all for your responses.My original message requested information about experienceswith offhour support (employer's expectations, and compensation).Obviously, there is not one right answer (except that offhoursupport seems to work better, and there is less recentment when the employee ...
Hello managers,i asked:>is there an easy way to say which package has to be installed,>if i need library libsomething.a or libsomething.so.1?>>In my special case, i wanted to run proctool and have seen, that>on one machine libdemangle.so.1 was missing, while on another>it was ...
Thanks for all the suggestions. It seems as though the consensus would be to just rebuild the server, which is actually what the client wanted to do (their IT staff needs the experience on Solaris). Also, I wanted to point out, some people said all you have to do is edit the /etc/vfstab file. ...
Hi there,thanks to all who replied.The original message was:> I need to create a script which checks automatically the status> of the hme0 interface. If the interface fails, the script has to disable> hme0 and enable hme1.> > Do you know an easy way the check the status of the ...
My original question was:I need to set up a machine to autoboot into an openwindows session and have to keyboard and mouse connected... BUT ALSO, have a consoleconnection via ttya.Well the answer is:EEPROM settings...You need to set the input and output devices to ttya... The machine will boot ...
Some people have asked for the locations of fhfind and showfh. Sorry for notincluding them in the original summary.fhfind is a script that runs on Solaris. I found it at http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/ftp/sysadmin/fhfind I just copied andpasted it into a file and made it executable. ...
Hi all, Thanks to these people who repliedGregor Loock Gregor.Loock@ivz.dePyne, Jeffrey Jeffrey.Pyne@schwab.comRay buckley ray.buckley@enetgroup.co.ukPaul J. Bell paul.bell@us.rbcds.comDaniel Polombo daniel.polombo@detexis.thomson-csf.comtravis@deakin.edu.aumarkus@qvtech.comThe answer to my ...
Turns out that the machine was getting rebooted but a 'last reboot'didn't show all of the most recent reboots. To find out what was reallygoing on I tried 3 things:1) did a crontab -e ( gotta set EDITOR var first) to see I had a corruptcrontab2) check the programs that are run via cron and ...
thanks to all those who helped out.. and pointed very important info. to me.mounted file systems.. and so on.. / /usrhere are some of the reasons:Oh dear! Change roots shell back to /sbin/sh as*immediately*. You'll be in trouble if you try to boot single user andthere's a problem with ...
Sorry for the delay,My replies were: bern@TI.Uni-Trier.DEYour user is slightly messing up things here: An IDENT request returns some information CLAIMING to disclose (in some form) the user on whose behalf a connection is made; In order to be sure, you have to check back with a (trusted) ...
Hi,Thanks to those who responded. The questions may seem naive - I guess itis from a newbie like me. I appreciate those who so patiently explainedthe daylight savings without insults.A1: Seth:Solaris tracks time in seconds since Midnite, January 70, 1970.When you use Solaris libraries to ...
Hello, The answers received fall in the following categories:1) have a look at samba ( http://lake.canberra.edu.au/pub/samba).2) use WinCenter Pro (NCD)3) install TCP/IP on the OS/2 LAN Server and NFS-export the ...
Got the answer I needed within no time - all the respondents pointed to the eeprom settings, and in particular the setting that was causing all theproblems, which was: ttya-ignore-cd=falsechange the ...
Thanks to all who responded on how to remove the stuck tabs on the backof an Ultra2. Original Question:"Let's just say that I have a stripped screw holding one of those tabs onan Ultra 2 ; what would be some "constructive" ways of getting them off?"The short and quick ...
Thanks for all response. The problem is solved with the help ofSun Support (in Sweden). There are some bug in ipdcm-driver andpatch 107553-01 solved this problem after rebooting of the system.--JonJon Ingason wrote:> > Hi, I have Sun Ultra Enterprise 220R whith Solaris 7 installed> and ...
Thanks to all who replied.....at present you have been:Mike Connolly mjconnly@ckcorp.comSabrina Downard sabrina@wwa.comJochen Bern bern@uni-trier.de/bern@ti.uni-trier.deKevin SheehanRobert RoseAmanul Haque ahaque@colltech.comRobert Clift rclift@nswc.navy.milConsensus is that Solaris provides no ...
All...Re my earlier mail, I also logged this with SUN support. I should have saidthat we were running VxVm V3.0.4. Apparently this is a known issue and isfixed in VxVm V3.1. The SUN bug ID is 4244390. The advice is to do thefollowing:Set /etc/vx/reconfig.d/state.d/root-done to ...
Dear colleagues,Just baffling, the amount of swift and correct replies I received."man ipcrm" is the answer. Question I'll put ot Sun: Why does the man pageof "ipcs" containno reference of "ipcrm"Problems are solved.Here are the names of those who helped me ...
Thanks to those that replied. The original question:======================================================================== Has anyone managed to compiler MH 6.8.3 under Solaris 2.6? As thearchives indicate, I have applied the 6.8.3 -> 6.8.4 patch and thenapplied ...
Hi everyone, Thanks John (john@eos.oncology.uthscsa.edu) send me the source code. My question ...
Dear sun-managers,Once again I was impressed of the fast reactions I got: The first repliesarrived at my mbox just a few minutes after I posted. I really like thislist!The genereal agreement was that there is no way to directly get theprinting system to do what I want it to do. The workaround ...
below are further responses i've received:>From Darren Dunham:-----------------------------------------------------------------------------> actually, my question is how come the ip 192.168.0.60 appeared on myquery> on rusers? because there are also some other platforms in our network ...
Wellllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll, here's how it goes!After 2 days, lots of coke (a cola), and quite a bit of hair pulling itcomes down to this:Solaris 2.6 upgrade installs a brand spanking new sd.conf file under/kernel/drv. So, any modifications you might have made to you own ...
Hi, thank you to the two people who looked at my problem and sent responsesso quickly.I discovered that by checking the route taken that it was sending data outthe wrong gateway. I then re-checked the subnet mask on the OTHER hmeport, and it was wrong!fix this, problem ...
Sorry for the delay, but due to mail routing problems, my mail was beingrejected.Got two replies:Mark Thomas <markt.thomas@hsc.hac.com> Recommended the Equinox ...
Many thanks, I received over a dozen replies, too many to listindividually.The consensus is that the printer has a proprietary interface whichrequires a special sbus card (501-1540). In addition it requires theNewsPrint software as the printer is just a basic engine and has nobrains at ...