Question:> > > I have a sparc 10 with 2.6 that up until a recent reboot worked fine.now> > although the automount daemon starts on reboot, the automounter doesn't> > appear to work. I get "no such file or directory" when cd'ing to it.If> I run ...

Thanks for all of your responses. Here's the summary:1. Check out the Webmasters Guild at http://www.webmaster.org/2. There is a list for WWW security, to join this list, send the followingmessage        to ...

Hi all,Thanks to the following persons for reponding to my posting :Sabrina Downard <sabrina@wwa.com>jsturges@gmri.comMarco Greene <cmgreene@netcom.ca>I was able to link the root master domains aliases table to the non-rootmaster domain's with the help of the command : nisln ...

Original message: (See bottom)Thank you for all of the people who give me the answers:Christian Pinheiro <pinheiro@veritel.com.br>Bruce Cheng <bcheng@corio.com>Ulan Mamytov <tgr@ns2.kyrnet.kg>John Chrisoulakis <john.chrisoulakis@antdiv.gov.au>Mohammed ...

I got only one response to my query. It was from Audrey Taylor(axt@gam.com).Here is my original:-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=I need some info on the arp cache size for Solaris 2.5 (or a pointerto where this information can be found). ...

Thanks goes out to John Stoffel and Roger Leonard for their solutions. They've each provided a step-by-step listing of how they would go about this. I will attach their suggestions below. Thanks again to you ...

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----Well, there were numerous suggestions. The problem was that thegetcwd() call was failing intermittently in my automounted homedirectory. The daemon logs also pointed out error reports fromkeyserv and nisd concerning authentification.I did a bunch of things, ...

After sending out the help message, I dicide to look over again on the 5/98 CDset and interesting it is there.Thanks,ZionOriginal Question:Hello to All:I am running Solaris 2.6 on Ultra Enterprise II. I am looking for a packagecalled SUNWxcu4tWhich CD should I look to find this package?Thanks ...

Hi AllThanks for all your answers - the problem was that ypserv had stopped on the slave machine. Restarting this sorted the problem out. I have included my original question and all the help I received.Many ...

Did a little more digging in the archives and found something that solvedmy problem.Using admintool, I was able to go in and disable services on serial port B(by listing Serial Ports, picking port B, and unchecking the Service Enablebox), and then PDASync worked correctly.As a follow-up ...

My original question:### StartDear all,Why does 'man' spew the following message at my screen?# man hosts.equivReformatting page. Wait...nroff: cannot create temp file. done#The file permissions on /tmp is 3777.### EndAnswer: For some strange reason there were no /usr/tmp in our system. ...

Thank youfor so many people give me the answer. I summarize as following:           1. All of the people who answaer my question and said they use Kingston ...

Hello everyone,Thanks to all who replied to my question and those who reminded me thatI should not have posted this this type of application related ontocodeprof' list.My original problem:> There are two Netscape http servers (3.5.1) in the picture. Let's call> them server www.A.com and ...

My appreciation to:Darren DunhamDave FosterMatthew Lee StierMamoon KundiSpecial thanks to Darren for exchanging several personal e-mails of trying tolead me in finding the solution.Some userful commands are:prtdiagpsrinfoSome useful system ...

        Tim Pointing <Tim.Pointing@dciem.dnd.ca> quickly pointed outthe right answer, which is that finger uses lastlog for its information,and lastlog references users by uid, and not login name. i recentlyran a big perl script to migrate all of ...

Thanks for the following replies: "German, Vinnie" <VGerman@nomurany.com>"Ameet Chaubal" <ameet.chaubal@air2web.com>John Bonura <johnb@univ-wea.com>"Jose R. Montilla" <Jose.Montilla@Eng.Sun.COM> "John Sullivan" ...

My original question was as follows:I'm hoping to find out how easy/not easy it has beenfor people to upgrade/cold-install from 2.5.1 to 2.6. Notably, in terms of GCC, GLIB++, Perl, and GD-1.14(I think it's part of GDB?)Also, how about setting it up as an NIS slave serverto an NIS master ...

> It's probably stupid question, but I can't find any sources for automating> the switching to alternate network interface, if primary (or active)> interface goes down when using AP 2.3.> > I can easely switch the active interface even w/o loosing my ssh-session,> but the ...

Thanks to all that replied. All of the suggestions were that I neededto be root, which is what I thought I was. This is what happened.     I was root when I installed the package using the pkgadd script.However, when the package installed into "/opt/VJtr", the ...

Original Question was:Hi,Where can I find a script that allows me to add/delete/modify a hostto DNS when I change my NIS map?Thanks. I will summarize.____________________________________________________________________________________Replies are:DNS maps can be modify on the DNS server. A ...

I didn't expect to receive so many responses to my question regarding NISand whether it's worth it for a setup of only two (2) systems. As expected,people feel differently about this, but usually these fall into threecategories:(1) use NIS. Ease of setup; doesn't consume that much ...

Thanks to all who responded to my query. It turns out the problem was"overthinking" on my part. What I had tried to do was the following:- Jaz drive is sd3- "newfs sd3c"  this appeared to work just fine- "df /dev/sd3c"  this produced the error ...

Many thanks to:Shedd, Graham (G.)GOMATHINAYAGAM SANKARASUBRAMANIANParkhaev VladimirSue PetersonDavin MilunScott ClarkNellie LeeNason, RogerRobert HillYizhong ZhouGenny.Yung@chase.commarkea@earthlink.netStephen LeeArthur Darren DunhamLaurinda ChamberlinJohn HackettUnixboy@aol.comAdrian ...

I updated the OPB prom with patch 105930 and then everything was runningfine !Thanks all that replyed !Dave FosterMarcelino MataDavid FornessAndrew PetrovOrginal question> Hello managers> > I have a Ultra 30 running solaris 7 . I try to install a sunpci pc cardbut> i only get this ...

My original question:I've got a server with 1 Gig of RAM and shhmax is set up for 16 MB, can anyone give me some suggestions as to which parameters I should increase  for performance? Also, can anyone point me to a Searchable Archive for Oracle where I might find such ...

Sun Managers:Original query:>Sun Managers:>How can I prevent someone accessing to a host? .rhosts or hosts.equivstill >gives a password prompt, but I don't even want to give any prompt.Any idea?Thanks to all the managers who responded. I accidentally removed responsesthat I received ...

On Wed, 8 Nov 2000 sun@andover.digistar.com wrote:> A question was posed to me the other day and I couldn't pin down a> specific answer...> > the question was "what is the difference between the typical install> CD and the CD with a notice stating 'For Sun computer systems ...

Hi everybody,vicky@bu.edu wrote: > We recently purchased an Exabyte EXB-8505 XL 8mm >Cartridge tape drive from Falcon, which is giving us problems.>This letter is an update, because there were some things that>I have not covered in the first letter that people have asked >me ...

Thanks for replyes!The answer is http://docs.sun.com and making a search for         kernel paramersgives the great amount of documentation also concerning the performance. One page is e.g.--------Solaris 2.6 System Administrator Collection Vol 1 ...

My original question:   I've got a server with 1 Gig of RAM and shhmax is set   up for 16 MB, can anyone give me some suggestions as   to which parameters I should increase for   performance? Also, can anyone point me to ...

Thanks to all who responded (even the flamers):====================================Jason.Shatzkamer:As root, do the following:        # crontab -e        Add a line for the ...

i didn't received any response..........and below is my original question,i think maybe, #pragma pack(1) had been checked on Sparc stations but notwith x86's.-haydee : )---------------------- Forwarded by Haydee Y. Ching/ADTXP on 12/13/99 04:57PM ---------------------------From: Haydee Y. ...

Hi all,        Apparently .nfsxxx files are created when a process is working with afile and the file gets deleted by another process. The .nfsxxx fileensures that original process that was using the file doesn't lose thedata. Once the processes are ...

> >I have just inherited a large group of new UNIX "illiterate" users>that will be working under a restricted environment. Instead of>attempting to train/teach these people how to change their password>and giving them access to the shell, does any one have a CGI ...

Dear SAs:     Thanks a billion to all those who wrote back to me.     I am forwarding one of the responses I got from Karl, which worked for me,the very first shot, I gave!Thanks Karl.-Kennedyvogelke@c17mis.region2.wpafb.af.mil on 12/12/99 ...

Hi! My original message was:> Hi! I'm trying to populate a NIS+ table from a passwd file with 2> million lines. I use "nisaddent -f mypasswdfile passwd".> I'm doing it in a freshly installed solaris 8 with nothing else running.> The system is a E10k domain with a single ...

My thanks to Glenn Satchell glenn@uniq.com.au forhis insight into tuning Unix for Oracle:The kernel is pretty much self tuning based on memorysize and hardware type in 2.5 and above. 'nproc' isthe maximum number of processes, maxup is the maximumnumber of processes that can run under a ...

Hi group,I've received a lot of answers, almost all positive for an UltraAX(i)system that you can build yourself or buy from a third party.What I'm looking for now is a supplier of this Ultra AX system but inCanada if possible ?Anybody know a seller in Canada (Montreal region) ?And again, ...

Allthough I found yesterday the way to restrict login access and Isent a message to cancel my request for help , some people repliedme and I have to mention them for their advices   Thanks to :             Jochen ...

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 ...

I got answer myself: There was a cronjob which was running the rdatecommand on the machine. I should have checked this earlier. So the datewas being syncronized everynight at about 11:00pm.Thanks,Vinnie.Hello,Last Friday 10th, 1999 at about 5:30pm I changed the date on a Ultra-2runningSolaris ...

Hello , I sent a Summury whith only the names of the people who reply tomy request and not the original question and the solution.I am sorry ,soI summarised again The original question was : I want to run NIS (not NIS+) server on one machine  and I want to restrict login access ...

Ok,   Both Bob Hoffman and Hal Morrison hit it quick. The problem wasthe status monitor had the name in /etc/sm.bak. Removing this filethen stopping and restarting rpc.statd stopped it.Robert---------------------------------------------------------------------------Robert L. Harris ...

All,ALOT of responses. rdist and rsync both work. Will go with rsync as itcan use ssh which I will need in the future...Sorry for the elementary question but I have the flu today and don'tfeel like thinking.. :-)Johnny--******************************************************************* ...

Hello ,This is my 3rd Summary but I had a typo in the 2nd Summary.I am sorry for the incovinience , please accept my apologies...The original question was :I want to run NIS (not NIS+) server on one machine and I want to restrict login access to this machine.All replied to me that the solution ...

Thanks to all the responses:Casper DikMichael HillRich FranciesBobfKent PerrierBrad YoungThe values-Xa.o file is from the SUNWarc package according to Miachel Hill.According to Casper Dik, I think I need to install additional packages in orderto support a C ...

Hello , Thanks to all who reply to my query :The original question was :>Hello, > >is there any limit in swap space partition on Solaris 2.5.1> >i made 6 giga swap partition (b) in 9 giga disk>but in swap -l i can see only 2 giga.> >Stots=============================The ...

I got two responses to my original query, one of which suggested a channel-attached router or other hardware solution. Unfortunately, the firm is not willing to spend the kind of money it would require for this solution, and the amount of data being transferred makes that overkill. The other ...

The original summary was sent more than a month ago, but I'd receivedseveral interesting emails:ORIGINAL SUMMARY:>>>>>Thanks to:"McIntire, John" <john_mcintire@ti.com>David Mitchell <davem@fdgroup.co.uk>"DAVID,Anthony" ...

First I wanna thanks to all that recommended that I use tar or ufsdumpinstead of dd. I used dd b/c I just wanted to play around with it. Nobig deal guys, I prefer to use ufsdump too. No one could really tell me away to read the data on the tape (probablyb/c there is no way :) ). I could ...