The automated system administration scripts, which are copies of the
scripts in active use on our Solaris 2.X, Linux (RedHat and Mandrake),
SGI IRIX 6.X, and FreeBSD 5.X systems; they also were used on
SunOS 4.1.X, HP (HP-UX 9.X), SGI (IRIX 5.X).
They are available as files 'autoadmin.shar.*' from URL:
http://www.noc.utoronto.ca/~mikep/unix/
(Note: these files were last updated Aug 1, 2006).

The dot file scripts, which are copies of the .cshrc / .login / .profile
/ etc scripts in active use on our Solaris 2.X, Linux (RedHat and Mandrake),
SGI IRIX 6.X, and FreeBSD 5.X systems; they also were used on
SunOS 4.1.X, HP (HP-UX 9.X), SGI (IRIX 5.X).
They are available as files 'dotfiles.shar.*' from URL:
http://www.noc.utoronto.ca/~mikep/unix/
(Note: these files were last updated Aug 1, 2006).

The BSD to HP-UX porting tricks, a set of notes and helpful C routines
for porting programs to HP-UX, are available from URL:
http://www.noc.utoronto.ca/~mikep/unix/HPTRICKS
This file also contains...

Hi there !

Can anybody tell what's special about HP network printers? Even the Solaris
man pages treat them in s special manner and indeed, I'm havong some
trouble now.

On an old E280R running Solaris 8, JetAdmin is installed and printing on a
LJ4100 work perfectly. Now I have a V20z running Solaris 10 and printing to
that HP work as long as I use the E280R as print server. I have configured
a local printer on the V20z and it doesn't work. The funny thing is that
when I configure it exactly the same way on the SPARC box (not using
JetAdmin), it also works.
It seems that some traffic arrives at the printer as it complains about
paper mismatch. But I requested A4 which is definitely present.

/etc/lp/printers/jet4100 looks like this:

Hi all,

I (or rather, my client) have a need to run a Solaris machine and
a machine running Windoze server 2003 (don't ask...). Obviously
this could be achieved by using two separate servers, but I was
wondering if there was a way to achieve this by running some sort
of VM inside a non-global zone.

So the question is: is it possible to run Windoze 2003 server inside
a Solaris zone (like a Banded Zone), presumably using some sort of
VM technology? (And what about Windoze XP Pro?) Would VirtualBox
running in a zone do the trick?

Many TIA,

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Hello unixies

I have upgraded my OBP flash and still i'm facing this unknown option
error for network arguments, my hardware is the pretty old though.

its netra T200, is that any way set this arguments?

Thanks in adv

I'm having problems setting up a nis+ server on a Solaris 10 sparc
box. I run the command:

/usr/lib/nis/nisserver -v -r -d test.com

to perform the initial setup of the server and it completes without
error. However when I try to nispopulate with my existing nis+ tables
it says that none of the tables have been created.

**ERROR(1): table auto_master.org_dir.test.com. does not exist.
auto_master table will not be loaded.
**ERROR(1): table auto_home.org_dir.test.com. does not exist.
auto_home table will not be loaded.
**ERROR(1): table ethers.org_dir.test.com. does not exist.
ethers table will not be loaded.
...

The command ' /usr/lib/nis/nisaddent -d publickey' errors with
cred.org_dir.test.com.: NIS+ servers unreachable.

`svcs` shows that nisplus is online and ps -ef shows that all running:

Hi all,

I set up printing to my network printer using the method detailed
in the Solaris Printing guide on docs.sun.com (including the step
that adds the filters in /etc/lp/fd. Printing works like a charm
except that when I print a plain ASCII document (say /etc/passwd)
each page has a border. No matter what I try, I can't get rid of
the damned border!

Here are the commands I used to set up this local network printer
called "optra", whose hostname is "laser1":

Hi,

This might save a few people some pain...

I've recently upgraded our Sun Ray servers to Adobe Reader 8.1.2, and
now every so often when browsing to a pdf document, Firefox says

"Could not launch Adobe Reader 8.1.2. Please make sure it exists in
your PATH [...]"

This seems to be caused by a race condition at startup. The browser
plugin runs "/bin/acroread -version", which simply echoes the version
number and exits. When it's working, this happens:

25436: write(1, " 8 . 1 . 2\n", 6) = 6
25348/1: read(56, " 8 . 1 . 2\n", 20) = 6
25436: _exit(0)
25348/1: close(56) = 0

i.e. the string is written by the script and immediately read by the
browser.

However, occasionally this happens:

I have a jumpstart server that is already configured and I am trying
to add a couple of new ones. How do I go about doing this??

For some reason my Netra 210 will not boot from a cdrom drive. This is
how I'm trying to do it:
Boot up
During boot hi Stop+A
At the ok prompt I enter: boot cdrom -s
Then it comes back with the following as a prompt:
Enter Filename [kernel/sparcv9/unix]

Nothing I do will allow it past that. Can anyone help? I need this
system back up ASAP!

Thank you

Fritz

Hi

I have a disk with a few bad blocks, and that should not be a big deal,
but as I have several ways to solve my problem, and none of them seems
very pleasingly to me, I would like your opinions...

Server:
HW: Sun Fire V20z
OS: Solaris 5.10 3/05
LSILogic disc volume (mirrored root)
Problem:
One side of mirror broke, the other side (the current) has
read errors on some blocks.
Notes: SunOS 5.10 3/05 is pre-GRUB

The normal solution would be to reinstall server and redeploy
application as the user data are on netapp/database-server, but I would
do a lot of work to avoid deploying this application...

Another fair solution would be to reinstall the server and restore
appliction - but we threw away our installer a bit too early, so we
would need to setup an installer for this purpose only, and that would
be a hazle!