Thanks to all that responded. Most of the replies I received were "metoos" sothere might be a real benefit if there were a tutorial available.slipware.tar.Z can be obtained by anonymous ftp from ftp.cs.toronto.edu (internet:128.100.3.6 or 128.100.1.105.From: Bob Sutterfield ...

In a posting recently I asked about passwd security, shadow passwd's and Sun'sC2 package.I received several answers, and the consensus was:        - the C2 pacakge runs only on Sun's, so it is not too helpful in ...

> I just tried to load 4.1.1 onto a Sun 3/160C using the 4.1.1 CD-ROM.> > It failed fairly soon with the following error> > Extracting the sunos 4.1.1 sun3 'root' media file.> 7+1 records in> 7+1 records out> Extracting the sunos 4.1.1 sun3 'usr' media ...

        My original query:> I am considering integrating non-Sun supplied color monitors on some black> and white machines I am upgrading to GX-based color SS2's (these monitors are much > cheaper than Sun's). I have figured out what cables to ...

Yet again the collective experience from the sun-managerstriumphs - well almost.A couple of days ago I wrote;> SPARC 10 with Solaris 2.3 & OpenWindows 3.3. Printing via a remote> SPARCPrinter using NEWSprint 1.0>> WABI 1.1 installed plus Microsoft Excel (v4), Microsoft ...

On Friday I wrote:Excerpts from internet.sun-managers: 6-May-94 3/80 keyboard troubles byDerrick Brashear@andrew. >A few weeks ago, the keyboard in my 3/80 finally called it quits. The>thin cable inside, with 5 metallic strips covered in some sort of tape,>broke. So, I first attempted ...

My original query:>Setup: Sun Sparc 1,1+,2,IPC,Classic; at least 16MB RAM; at least 200MB> local hard disk space; networked; Solaris 2.3 fully installed on> one test machine>>Question: Is there any support for pre-compiled SunView apps (no source> code ...

My original question:> We have a SS690-51 running 2.3 with 5 x 2.1G drives.> Three of these disks are concatenated together with ODS 2.0.1.> > We want to add another 51 processor but to do so we have to move> the sbus scsi card from slot 3 to slot 2 to make way for the> second ...

Original Posting: -------------------------------------------------------------Hi out there,Got a bit of a problem @ the moment.I have a headless SparcServer 1000 with the entiredistribution of Solaris 2.3 loaded.I need to view answerbook - so my immediate thoughts were - it's been ...

I sent this Summary last week. It did not appear so here it is again.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Thank you everyone who helped out on this one. It would appear that there isa considerable amount of software which exists to allow me to do what I want.I ...

  Sun-Managers:  This was a case of RTFM, but not realizing that compression required  a special option to enable.  Chuck Foley said it best:> You should be using /dev/rmt/0c to write with compression> turned on....The man page (Solaris 2.3) for ...

The overwhelming response (all 25 of them), said NFS is fuctioning correctly.When I export /projects I also export the /projects/a and /projects/b directories, not the mounted filesystems on those directories.Thanx to all, but in the interest of bandwith they shall remain ...

My Original question was:> I have just received a new SS10/512 and I'm having problems> during installation of Solaris 1.1.1 (with SunOS 4.1.3_U1).>> I turned the machine on and it stopped at the prom monitor prompt.> Then I issued the following command:> > boot ...

Looks like stopping and starting news fixed the problem....Still don't know why it failed, but at least it is workingnow.According to Dinah McNutt...||INNwatch failed sometime yesterday and our news disk got full. We|restarted INN, but now expire does not seem to be working because|the disk is ...

    Hello,Thanks to all who responded to my question:>> I need to install a second internal harddisk on eith a Sun 10 Model 30>> or a Sun 10 Model 40. I believe the 10/40 can handle 10MB/sec scsi>> dirves(?), but what about the 10 Model 30?>> >> ...

Original request:> Dear Managers,> > After upgrading to 4.1.3_U1 we have found that the environment variable> LD_LIBRARY_PATH gets undefined after an su to another user. This doesn't> seem to be mentioned anywhere - I can only assume it's intended as a> security ...

Thanks to those that responded. The way I usually brought up dual screens with one window manager was to go: /usr/openwin/bin/openwin -dev /dev/cgsix1 -dev /dev/cgsix0. So originally I thought that I could modify my .xinitrc and have olwm startup with -display :0.0 and mwm with -display :0.1. ...

ORIGINAL QUESTION:> I am currently trying to decide on how to communicate from my Novell> network to my Sun network (and vica versa) in the most effiecent way.> > Does anyone have NetWare Sunlink running?> If so, do you like it?> If you decided on a different design ...

My original question was:What command do I use to fix RPC credentials for NIS+?Responses from:ulf@dtro.e-technik.th-darmstadt.de (Ulf Schellin)grobi@uni-paderborn.de (Juergen Peus)elp@kodak.com (Gene Loriot)steve@cegelecproj.co.uk (Steve Kilbane)rogerio@bvl.pt (Rogerio Rocha)jose@we.lc.ehu.es ...

First of all, thanks for all that reply.Secondly, I should have mentioned that the error did associate with an IP address which supposed to be the address of the other PC that have the same license. However, the IP address that I got was its own address. Summary-------Everyone tells me that ...

        Hi managers!        My original question:> We have a problem about permissions on directories /tmp> and /var/mail> 1) /tmp> It is mounted on swap and its permissions ...

    Hello,thanks for eveyone who responded to my my query concerning accand the "-cg92" options. I was getting the following link error:>acc -pg -o main main.o .... -lm>ld: Undefined symbol> cg92_usedA lot of people suggested checking the LD_LIBRARY_PATH ...

Hello list:here is a very short summary: no, I did not botch up the kernel, but I hada superconducting short between the keyboard and the seat. there are too manySysVR4 hosts around here, and it had been a very long time since I had used a BSD like host. Yes, I wanted the user mn's processes. ...

Dear Managers,So far I've only had four responses, one of which was a "let me know".Mark Boyns said that he'd had the same problem, but got around it bynot using auditing (not acceptable in our case), and changing the passwordon the NIS master only using passwd -F.Harish Malneedi ...

My original query (sorry this one took so long):>System setup: Sun SparcClassic, 24MB, mailhost, NIS server configured with> B=-b for DNS, SUNOS 4.1.3C; NFS, UDP, LOCKD patches applied;> running a cacheing-only DNS server on my NIS master>>PROBLEM: ...

Dear managers,thanks to all of you for your responses, and my golly, I must have received atleast over 100 responses back! Nevertheless, all of them pointed out exactly whatthe problem was;Cron jobs runs Bourne shell; therefore "#!/bin/csh" should be included as the first line to run ...

The winning answer came from per@erix.ericsson.se (Per Hedeland)>I put it in (Sol 2.2) /etc/rc2.d/S00local_umask.sh (you need the .sh to>get it sourced rather than exec'ed).It appears on my machine that this fixed part of the problem. Ialso had to put a link to that file in /etc/rcS.d, ...

My original question, edited:Me> I'm having a problem with the Solaris 2.3 tftpd: it will not acceptMe> filename specifiers with a leading slash.The solution was to get patch 101560-01, which completely solves theproblem. Other solutions were suggested, mostly linking /tftpboot toitself ...

I appreciate the quick responses from the list, and I believe I know the answer ..yes, I had carefully cd'd out of the /cdrom space and yes, I had carefully stopped allthe processes I knew of referencing the /cd, but after I got lsof recompiled and ran it,lo! and behold it revealed that indeed ...

Original Message:------------------------------------------------------------------------  Something strange happened to our Sparc-10/512 today. Looks likeit just decided to reboot itself. There was no core file left in /,so it didn't leaving a dump behind...  Checking ...

Eckhard discovered the solution:many thanks. simple solutions are bestI fell into this trap here, too : Someone already had defined an"alias su su -" because of the different su semantics in SVR4, so"su -" expands to "su - -"Eckhard ...

Since all of the responses were very informative, I have included them inwhole at the end.Thanks to the following people:cpl1@hades.uchicago.edu (Corey Liss)jlu@cs.umr.eduKenton C. Phillips <kenton@space.mit.edu>jim@pasteur.hsf.uab.edu (Jim Hill)Kent TSE ...

I recently asked:>Last night one of my systems, a SS10 with SunOS4.1.3,>crashed with the following errors:>mb_mapfree: MR == 0!!!>mb_mapfree: MR == 0!!!>mb_mapfree: MR == 0!!!>panic on cpu0: tmp_rename>Anyone able to decipher this? The system uses tmpfs, my suspicion>is ...

Thanks to all who replied. The consensus amoung replies was to ensure thatI was using the correct device name (I am), and to bulk erase the tape (I'mnot but will be soon). Some suggested that this is the result of a problemwith the st driver. Seems that SunOS 4.1.x will not allow tapes written ...

Relay-Version: VMS News - V6.0-1 14/11/90 VAX/VMS V5.5; site nhqvax.hq.nasa.govPath: nasahq!newsfeed.gsfc.nasa.gov!cam8!polandNewsgroups: info.sun-managersSubject: SUMMARY: Using 8mm tape in 2.5GB then 5GB driveMessage-ID: <2qlf3s$7al@paperboy.gsfc.nasa.gov>From: poland@cam8.gsfc.nasa.gov ...

(This is a repost of my earlier message. Someone pointed out that if it was worth archiving, the word SUMMARY should be present in the Subject---and setuid security seems to be something not nearly well enough understood.My apologies to the list for absent-mindedly not including SUMMARY.)> ...

Sun-managersMy original question follows:> > Sun-Managers,> > > > Here is a sample of open-windows repeating keys masking:> > > > auto repeat: on key click percent: 0 LED mask: 00000000> > auto repeating keys: 00faaf8becff67f2> > ...

Thanks to everyone who responded, I'm pleased to say that my query has a happyending.Original query:> Hello sun-managers,>> Has anyone had any luck displaying answerbook pages(display postscript) ona> SUN X-terminal running Solaris 2.3? The navigator seems to display ok, but> ...

Sun Managers:Thanks all for responding to my request for a postscript print filter. The original question was:        "Sun Managers:         Looking for a Sparc filter from regular text to format ...

Dear Sys Mgrs,In brief, I requested information on systems to monitor for significant failureswhich could alert me via a pager (original message at the end). In the end, weopted for the NetWORKS system from Caravelle 613-596 2802. This allows us toquery SNMP agents and to dial our paging ...

        Hello Sun-managers,        a few days ago I posted the follwing question:> > A few weeks ago I installed a ZyXEL modem on a Sun 4/260 running> SunOS 4.1.3 (no patches) connected to ttyb. I created ...

Hello.Thanks for your responses. You were right. After cleaning the keyboardthe beeps have disappeared. It was the L10 (Cut) Key on type 5 keyboard.Here is my original question:> > Hello.> > During booting a sparc IPC with solaris 2.3 following appears.> After the vendor message ...

My question was:I have heard, that the release notes to Solaris 2.4 says, that 2.4will contain the bsd printing system. The good old /etc/printcap willbe back! Does anyone have some more precise information than this?Does SUN drop the system V way, or will the operating system containboth ...

My Original Post:| Q. Could someone please help me verify which is best for my application.| Q. What happens if i use the wrong format.dat with a disk ?| Q. Can I use the 2nd entry and get 2.4gb instead of 2.1gb from| the same disk ?| | ----------my-vendor-------------| disk ...

My original question to the list was:Hello Sun experts, Several times over the last couple ofyears, I've gotten the system message "segmentation fault"after seemingly unrelated operations. This last time, I wasattempting to monitor file i/o in Oracle7 on a 670MP runningSunOS 4.1.3. ...

----------X-Sun-Data-Type: textX-Sun-Data-Description: textX-Sun-Data-Name: textX-Sun-Content-Lines: 107Hi guys,Sorry for the late summary. I was busy for a while. Below is a listof responses that I received. Thanks a lot to those who responded.Thanks to ...

Original Question:]We have a problem here that I cannot solve, perhaps someone "out-there" can.]Here is the problem, we have a pair of ACC 4100 BRouters connecting]two remote sites via microwave. All has been wonderful for 3 years. All ]machines were running SunOS4.1.x, life was ...

Thanks to those who responded, who are listed below. The respondent that islisted first actually sent me a copy of sudo.v1.3 in uuencoded format, thankyou very much. I decoded this then worked on compiling it. First mistakewhile compiling was SunOS 4.1.3 gcc in my path before the Solaris 2.x ...

Hallo SUN Managers,my original question was:----- Begin Included Message -----Hallo SUN Managers,we have figured out a problem with Berkeley Remote Printingand (at least, but it seems to be a design error) SUN OS 4.1.3(client) and ULTRIX 4.3 (server)The problem occurs when printing from a host ...

Yesterday I sent a summary, but glenn@uniq.com.au sent me the latestnews from the 2.4 release notes. Here it goes:No, in 2.4 it will still be System V interface and commands but the protocolused between systems will be based on the BSD lpd protocols. There willbe no /etc/printcap... Here's the ...