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1) Backup:I use to use dump in 4.x, but since my upgrade to 5.x, I can't find it?

2) Backup:How can I dump data from my SUN/Solaris system, then read on a non-SUN system?

3) Backup:What blocking factor (density) is best for my type of tape drive?

4) Backup:What tape device address do I use for my 4mm(DAT) or my 8mm drive?

5) Backup:Why does my tape drive error? I just installed it.

6) Backup:What does the "b" do when I specify my tape device as: /dev/rmt/0bn?

7) Backup:Is it was possible to do an image backup of an entire disk using the dd command?

8) Backup:How do I use find and cpio together?

9) Backup:Can I dump my fs to a remote host?

10) Backup:What is a stacker (autoloader) vs a jukebox?

11) Solstice Disksuite:Which version of DiskSuite runs on SunOS 4.1.4?

12) Solstice Disksuite:After setting up Metadevices using metatool, how do I record the configuration in the md.tab file?

13) Solstice Disksuite:During the boot process, the message "WARNING: forceload of misc/md_hotspares failed." appears, what does it mean?

14) Solstice Disksuite:Upon reboot, all replicas on the SPARCStorage Array go bad. How do I prevent this?

15) Solstice Disksuite:A disk went bad and needs to be replaced, how do I find the state of the DiskSuite software?

16) Solstice Disksuite:How do I remove the boot disk from DiskSuite control?

17) Solstice Disksuite:How do I check the status of the state database replicas?

18) Solstice Disksuite:How are disksets used?

19) Solstice Disksuite:How do I create more than 128 meta devices?

20) Solstice Disksuite:How do I metainit a RAID5 device?

21) DNS:About DNS

22) DNS:DNS Definitions

23) DNS:Name Service Selection

24) DNS:How DNS Looks Up Records

25) DNS:Debugging DNS

26) DNS:The Map Files are called Zone Files

27) DNS:Unqualified Names

28) DNS:Incorrect Records in Files

29) DNS:Illegal Directives

30) DNS:/var/adm/messages

31) DNS:nslookup

32) DNS:nslookup -debug

33) DNS:Dumping the DNS database - helpful for debugging the server

34) DNS:DNS Debug Mode for in.named

35) DNS:getent

36) DNS:named-xfer and Debugging a secondary server

37) DNS:How to Set Up a SunOS DNS Client

38) DNS:How to Set Up a Solaris DNS Client

39) DNS:How to Register Domains

40) DNS:How to Modify Domains

41) DNS:How to Get a Root Cache File

42) DNS:How to Set Up a Caching Only DNS Server

43) DNS:How to Set Up a Primary DNS Server

44) DNS:How to Set Up a Secondary DNS Server

45) DNS:How to Add a New Record to DNS Map or Zone Files

46) DNS:How to Set Up Subdomains

47) DNS:How to Set Up a "Self Contained" or Internal Root Nameserver

48) DNS:Miscellaneous Questions

49) DNS:Common DNS Lookup Problems

50) DNS:Map or DNS Zone Modification Problems

51) DNS:SunOS Name Server Interaction

52) DNS:Solaris Name Server Interaction

53) DNS:nslookup Problems

54) DNS:DNS Directive Problems

55) DNS:Common Error Messages

56) DNS:Patches

57) DNS:DNS Patches For SunOS

58) DNS:DNS Patches for Solaris

59) DNS:YP/DNS Inter-compatibility Patches for SunOS

60) DNS:Known Bugs & RFES:RFEs

61) DNS:Known Bugs & RFES:BUGS

62) DNS:References

63) DNS:Important Man Pages

64) DNS:Sun SRDBs

65) DNS:Solaris Documentation

66) DNS:Third Party Documentation

67) DNS:RFCs

68) DNS:Supportability

69) FTP: About FTP

70) FTP:Debugging FTP

71) FTP:ftpd -d

72) FTP: chroot

73) FTP: Other Network Problems

74) FTP: How to Set Up Anonymous FTP on a SunOS Machine?

75) FTP: How to Set Up Anonymous FTP on a Solaris Machine?

76) FTP: How to Start Logging with FTP?

77) FTP: How to Set Up TFTP?

78) FTP: How do I set up or enable "automatic login" with ftp?

79) FTP: How do I set up FTP anonymous ftp sub-logins?

80) FTP: How to Set Up Sub-logins with anonymous ftp:

81) FTP: Miscellaneous Questions

82) FTP: Common FTP Client Problems

83) FTP: Common FTP Server Problems

84) FTP: Anonymous FTP Problems

85) FTP: TFTP Questions

86) FTP: Patches

87) FTP: FTP Patches for SunOS

88) FTP: Related Patches for SunOS

89) FTP: FTP Patches for Solaris

90) FTP: TFTP Patches for Solaris

91) FTP: Known Bugs & RFEs

92) FTP: Bugs

93) FTP: RFEs

94) FTP: Important Man Pages

95) FTP: Sunsolve Documents

96) FTP: FAQs

97) FTP: SRDBs

98) FTP: Third Party Documentation

99) FTP: RFCs

100) Configure multiple IP addresses

101) NETWORKING: What is NIS+?

102) NETWORKING: What are the key differences between NIS and NIS+?

103) NETWORKING: What are the benefits of NIS+?

104) NETWORKING: Can all YP/NIS commands still be used?

105) NETWORKING: Can I revert back to using NIS?

106) NETWORKING: Can I still send/receive mail outside my domain? Is my NIS+ domain same as my mail domain?

107) NETWORKING: Can I do lookups in other domains?

108) NETWORKING: Can I log in on machines in other domains?

109) NETWORKING: Can NIS+ be run on a machine running 4.x?

110) NETWORKING: Will conversion to NIS+ cause performance problems?

111) NETWORKING: What are the known major problems with NIS+?

112) NETWORKING: What is involved in setting up NIS+ on a desktop?

113) Why do I have to have several passwds? NIS did not require one.

114) Can two different passwds be used for NIS+ and logging in? Is there any impact

115) if I have my own entry in my local /etc/passwd file?

116) It is reasonable to have the passwd entry also in the /etc/passwd file; just make

117) sure that it is the same as in passwd table.

118) The machine name collides with someone's login name. How can this be fixed?

119) Why doesn't it work now, when it worked before?

120) A user is trying to use NIS+ on a PC running Solaris 8.

121) The NIS+ server was unavailable and the clients were not allowing logins.

122) What is the significance of having the default entry as networks: nis

123) [NOTFOUND=return] files in /etc/nsswitch.conf?

124) Installation of Admintool and Host Manager: What does the choice of name

125) service in Host Manager and User Account Manager mean? 78

126) IP interface: Frequently asked Questions/Answers (Network) 82

127) Questions on RPC and TLI : Frequently asked Questions/Answers on Solaris 2.x 84

128) in the area of networks 84

129) NFS interoperation: Frequently asked Questions/Answers on Solaris 2.x, 85

130) in the area of networks 85

131) NFS: About NFS 85

132) NFS: Debugging NFS 86

133) NFS: share and exportfs 87

134) NFS: showmount 87

135) NFS: nfsstat 88

136) NFS: rpcinfo 89

137) NFS: etherfind and snoop 90

138) NFS: Running a snoop of NFS requests: 90

139) NFS: Lockd debug hints 91

140) NFS: Exporting Filesystems Under SunOS 92

141) NFS: Exporting Filesystems Under Solaris 93

142) NFS: Mounting Filesystems Under SunOS 94

143) NFS: Mounting Filesystems Under Solaris 95

144) NFS: Setting Up Secure NFS 95

145) NFS: Miscellaneous NFS Questions 96

146) NFS: Problems Mounting Filesystems on a Client 99

147) NFS: Common NFS Client Errors Including NFS Server Not Responding 102

148) NFS: Problems Umounting Filesystems on a Client 105

149) NFS: Interoperability Problems With Non-Sun Systems 106

150) NFS: Common NFS Server Errors 107

151) NFS: Common nfsd Error Message on NFS Servers 108

152) NFS: Common rpc.mountd Error Messages on NFS Servers 108

153) NFS: Common rpc.lockd & rpc.statd Error Messages 109

154) NFS: Patch levels: 110

155) NFS: NFS Related Shutdown Errors 111

156) NFS: NFS Performance Tuning 112

157) NFS: General Information on Patches 113

158) NFS: Core NFS Patches for SunOS 4.1.X 113

159) NFS: Patches Related to NFS for SunOS 114

160) NFS: Core NFS Patches for Solaris 114

161) NFS: Patches Related to NFS for Solaris 116

162) NIS: About NIS 117

163) NIS: ypwhich 117

164) NIS: ypcat 118

165) NIS: ypmatch 118

166) NIS: getent 118

167) NIS: Files 118

168) NIS: The Network 119

169) NIS: How to Setup a NIS Master Server 119

170) NIS: How to Setup a NIS Slave Server? 119

171) NIS: How to Setup a SunOS NIS Client? 120

172) NIS: How to Setup a Solaris NIS Client? 120

173) NIS: How to Run NIS from a Remote Subnet? 120

174) NIS: How to Remove NIS From a SunOS Client? 120

175) NIS: How to Remove NIS From a SunOS Server? 121

176) NIS: How to Remove NIS From a Solaris Client? 121

177) NIS: How to run DNS without NIS 121

178) NIS: How to Start yppasswd on the NIS Master Server? 121

179) NIS: How to Change a password in the NIS map? 122

180) NIS: How to Change IP address, Host Name, or domainname. 122

181) NIS: How to Set Up Secure NIS? 122

182) NIS: How to Use Netgroups? 122

183) NIS: Miscellaneous Questions 123

184) NIS: ypinit Problems 123

185) NIS: NIS Make Problems 123

186) NIS: NIS Update Problems 124

187) NIS: General NIS Client Problems 124

188) NIS: ypcat Problems 125

189) NIS: NIS passwd Problems 126

190) NIS: SunOS NIS Patches 126

191) NIS: Solaris NIS Patches 127

192) NIS: Known Bugs & RFEs 127

193) NIS+: About NIS+ 127

194) NIS+: An Explanation of the Basic NIS+ Objects 128

195) NIS+: Debugging NIS+ 129

196) NIS+: Authentication Problems 129

197) NIS+: Examining NIS+ Tables 130

198) NIS+: Using Snoop 131

199) NIS+: Performance Problems 131

200) NIS+: How to Prepare Your Site for NIS+ 131

201) NIS+: How to Set Up a Root NIS+ Master 132

202) NIS+: How to Set Up a NIS+ Client 133

203) NIS+: How to Set Up a Root NIS+ Replica 134

204) NIS+: How to Set Up a Subdomain NIS+ Master 135

205) NIS+: How to Set Up a Subdomain NIS+ Replica 135

206) NIS+: How to Configure the Root Server for an IP Address Change 135

207) NIS+: How to Add a User to the Admin Group 136

208) NIS+: How to Change a NIS+ user passwd 137

209) NIS+: How to Change a NIS+ root passwd 138

210) NIS+: How to Administer NIS+ Credentials 138

211) NIS+: How to Administer NIS+ Groups 139

212) NIS+: How to Administer NIS+ Tables 140

213) NIS+: How to Examine NIS+ tables 141

214) NIS+: How to Modify NIS+ Tables 141

215) NIS+: How to Regularly Administer NIS+ 143

216) NIS+: How to Remove NIS+ 143

217) NIS+: Administering the Printer Namespace with NISPLUS and FNS. 144

218) NIS+: How to remove a replica 145

219) NIS+: Miscellaneous Questions 145

220) NIS+: NIS+ Setup Problems 147

221) NIS+: User Login Problems 147

222) NIS+: NIS+ Lookup Problems 148

223) NIS+: Patches 148

224) NIS+: Solaris 2.x NIS+ Patches 149

225) NIS+: Solaris 2.4 NIS+ Patches 149

226) NIS+: Solaris 2.5 NIS+ Patches 150

227) NIS+: Solaris 2.5.1 NIS+ Patches 151

228) NIS+: Solaris 2.6 NIS+ Patches 151

229) Configuring Power Management using the command line 151

230) POWER MANAGEMENT: Idleness Definition 152

231) POWER MANAGEMENT: The power.conf File 152

232) POWER MANAGEMENT: Logical Dependents 153

233) POWER MANAGEMENT: Setting Device Idle Time 153

234) POWER MANAGEMENT: Setting AutoShutdown 155

235) POWER MANAGEMENT: Changing the Idleness Definition 156

236) POWER MANAGEMENT: Using a Script to Define Idleness 157

237) POWER MANAGEMENT: Changing the Statefile Location 158

238) POWER MANAGEMENT: Power Management for Two Monitors on One System 158

239) ROUTING: About Routing 158

240) ROUTING: Routing Definitions 159

241) ROUTING: A Note on ARP 159

242) ROUTING: How Routing Starts Up 160

243) ROUTING: IP addresses, Netmasks and Subnets 160

244) ROUTING: ifconfig 161

245) ROUTING: netstat 162

246) ROUTING: ping 162

247) ROUTING: traceroute 163

248) ROUTING: How to Set a defaultrouter 164

249) ROUTING: How to Add Static Routes 164

250) ROUTING: How to Use in.rdisc 165

251) ROUTING: How to Use in.routed 165

252) ROUTING: How To Force a Machine to Be a Router 166

253) ROUTING: How to Force a SunOS Machine Not to Be a Router 166

254) ROUTING: How to Force a Solaris Machine Not to Be a Router 166

255) ROUTING: How to Set a Netmask under SunOS 167

256) ROUTING: How to Set a Netmask under Solaris 167

257) ROUTING: How to Subnet by Bit 167

258) ROUTING: How to Protect a Gateway Machine 168

259) ROUTING: How to Proxy Arp 168

260) ROUTING: How to Remove ARP Entries in Solaris? 169

261) ROUTING: Miscellaneous Questions 169

262) ROUTING: Bug references: 170

263) ROUTING: Basic Routing Problems 170

264) ROUTING: in.routed Errors 171

265) ROUTING: netmask and broadcast Problems 171

266) ROUTING: traceroute information and Problems 172

267) ROUTING: arp Problems 173

268) ROUTING: Routing Patches for SunOS 173

269) ROUTING: Routing Patches for Solaris 173

270) ROUTING: ARP Patches for SunOS 174

271) ROUTING: Bugs 174

272) ROUTING: RFEs 175

273) ROUTING: Important Man Pages 175

274) ROUTING: Sunsolve Documents 175

275) ROUTING: Infodocs 175

276) ROUTING: SRDBs 176

277) ROUTING: Third Party Documentation _ 176

278) ROUTING: RFCs 176

279) ROUTING: Supportability 177

280) ROUTING: Additional Support 177

281) SEND MAIL: About Sun's Send mail 177

282) SEND MAIL: Send mail Clients And Servers 177

283) SEND MAIL: Send mail Mailers 178

284) SEND MAIL: Send mail Version 178

285) SEND MAIL: A Few Words on Send mail Rules 178

286) SEND MAIL: The Parts of a Sendmail Rule 179

287) SEND MAIL: Examples of Sendmail Rules 179

288) SEND MAIL: Which Rulesets are Used 179

289) SEND MAIL: Important Defines 180

290) SEND MAIL: Debugging using SMTP port 25 180

291) SEND MAIL: How to use SMTP commands to send mail directly to port 25 180

292) SEND MAIL: /usr/ucb/mail -v, mailx -v or /usr/lib/sendmail -v 181

293) SEND MAIL: Sendmail Debug Functions 181

294) SEND MAIL: sendmail verbose mode 181

295) SEND MAIL: sendmail debug mode to get basic sendmail info 182

296) SEND MAIL: sendmail debug to test address rulesets 182

297) SEND MAIL: The MOST COMMON input to address ruleset debug mode 182

298) SEND MAIL: How To Set Up a Sun As An Internet Mailhost 182

299) SEND MAIL: How To Set Up a Sun As A Mail Client 183

300) SEND MAIL: How to Force Sendmail to Rewrite Sender Addresses for Internal Email 184

301) SEND MAIL: How to Force Sendmail to Rewrite Sender Addresses for External Email 184

302) SEND MAIL: How To Route Mail Througha Firewall 185

303) SEND MAIL: Miscellaneous Questions 185

304) SEND MAIL: Configuration File & Mail Setup Questions 186

305) SEND MAIL: Mail Command Line Error Messages 187

306) SEND MAIL: Sendmail Bounce Messages 188

307) SEND MAIL: Patches 189

308) SEND MAIL: RFEs 191

309) SENDMAIL SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS 191

310) SEND MAIL 8.8: Debugging Sendmail 8.8 225

311) SEND MAIL 8.8: Sendmail Debug Functions 227

312) SEND MAIL 8.8:How to build a new config file. 231

313) SEND MAIL 8.8: How do I configure anti-spamming? 232

314) SEND MAIL 8.8: How to use MX records to internal domains and "smarthost" for external. 235

315) SEND MAIL 8.8:How to set up a machine as a "internet mailhost" 236

316) SEND MAIL 8.8:What if I need my mail to go through a relay? 237

317) SEND MAIL 8.8: How do I hide hostnames (masquerade) 238

318) SEND MAIL 8.8: All the mail addrs now have FQHNs how do I make stop doing that. 238

319) SEND MAIL 8.8: Frequently Asked Questions 239

320) SEND MAIL 8.8: Patches 240

321) SEND MAIL 8.8: Other References 241

322) SUN SOLARIS: What machines does Solaris 2.x run on? 241

323) Is Solaris 2.x reliable/stable enough to use? 243

324) Why do some people dislike Solaris2? 243

325) Why do some people like Solaris2? 243

326) How can I enable System V IPC? Ipcs says it isn't configured in. 244

327) How can I RTFM when I don't have it anymore? 245

328) Why is "man -k" so confused? 246

329) What Software is available for Solaris 2.x? 247

330) What FTP/WWW sites do I need to know about? 247

331) What mailing lists should I get? 249

332) Why can't I write in/mount over /home? 250

333) Why can't I access CDs or floppies? 250

334) Why are there no passwords in /etc/passwd? 251

335) Why can't I rlogin/telnet in as root? 251

336) How can I have a user without a password? 252

337) How can I set up anonymous FTP? 252

338) How can I print to a non-Postscript/non-ascii printer? 252

339) How can I print to a networked printer? 253

340) Why does lp complain about invalid content types? 253

341) My jobs stay in the queue after printing. 253

342) Are there any alternatives to the system V spooler? 254

343) How do I make ksh or csh be the login shell for root? 254

344) What is this message: "automount: No network locking on host, contact administrator to install server change."? 255

345) I have all kinds of problems with SCSI disks/RAIDs under Solaris 2.x They worked fine under SunOS 4.x. 255

346) How can I get the DOS and Unix clock to agree on Solaris/x86? 256

347) Can I install both SunOS and Solaris on the same machine, and choose between them at boot time? 256

348) How do I disable banner pages under Solaris? 257

349) How do I change my hostname? 257

350) Can I run multiple terminals on the console of Solaris x86 like those supported on Interactive Unix and SCO? 257

351) How can I prevent daemons from creating mode 666 files? 258

352) How do I change the terminal type for /dev/console? 259

353) If I login over the network, my terminal type is set to "sun"/"AT386" How can I change that? In SunOS 4.x the type would have been "network" 259

354) How can I change the SYSV IPC parameters? 259

355) How do I enable/disable dtlogin? 260

356) How do I configure dtlogin? 260

357) How can I configure a second monitor or change X server options? 261

358) How can I restrict remote access through dtlogin? 262

359) How do I disable the 2.6+ configuration assistant? 262

360) How do I convert SunOS 4.x style /etc/passwd to Solaris passwd & shadow. 263

361) How can I obtain the PROM level without halting my SPARC? 263

362) How can I use Solaris 2.6+ formatted disks on SunOS 4.x? 263

363) Can I use soft mounts with NFS? 263

364) How do I use DNS w/o using NIS or NIS+? 264

365) What is /etc/nsswitch.conf? 264

366) What does [NOTFOUND=return] in nsswitch.conf mean? 265

367) Can I run a nis/yp server under Solaris 2.x? 265

368) Can I run NIS+ under Solaris 1 (SunOS 4.1.x) 265

369) With NIS+ how do I find out which machine a client is bound to? 265

370) Ypcat doesn't work on the netgroup table on a NIS+ server, why? 266

371) Why is rpc.nisd such a memory pig according to ps? 266

372) How do I tell my NIS+ server to service DNS requests from 4.x clients? 266

373) How can I have multiple addresses per interface? 266

374) Solaris 2.x supports filesystem sizes up to 1TB. Will this give interoperability problems with NFS? 267

375) Where can I get an SNMP agent for Solaris? 267

376) How can I use full-duplex ethernet? 267

377) Where can I get BOOTP/DHCP for Solaris? 268

378) What kind of multicast does Solaris have? 268

379) The Solaris 2.x application XX fails with a mysterious error condition. 268

380) In Solaris 2.5 nm is slow or dumps core. 269

381) Why can't I run Answerbook on a standalone machine? 269

382) Why can't I display Answerbook remotely? 269

383) Why can't I run filemgr, I get ``mknod: permission denied''? 269

384) Why do I get isinf undefined when linking with libdps on Solaris 2.3? 270

385) I can't get PPP to work between Solaris 2.3 and other platforms. 270

386) Using compat mode for passwd doesn't work in 2.3? 271

387) Why do I get __builtin_va_alist or __builtin_va_arg_incr undefined? 271

388) When compiling, I get "No DATAMODEL_NATIVE specified"? 271

389) My machine hangs during the boot process. It seems related to ps. 271

390) Syslogd doesn't seem to log anything. 272

391) Syslogd in 2.6 runs with -z <num> -n, what's up? 272

392) I get ``Invalid client credential'' when mounting filesystem on Solaris client from non-Sun fileserver. 272

393) After upgrade to 2.4, ls on NFS mounted directories hangs. 272

394) After installing patch 101945-xx, I have NFS problems (ksh looping). 273

395) I messed up /etc/system, now I can't boot. 273

396) The /etc/path_to_inst file is corrupted, I can't boot. 273

397) TCP/IP connections time out too soon, especially on slow links. 274

398) Sendmail connection to non-Unix hosts don't work. 274

399) Solaris 2.x can't set up any TCP/IP connections to certain hosts. 274

400) When reading mail on non-Solaris clients of a Solaris mail server, or with non-Solaris mail readers, some messages get split into multiple messages. 275

401) Mail/mailx often send reply to wrong user or show wrong sender. 276

402) One of my users can't login (one some machines). 276

403) My clients with remote /var (/var/adm) partitions won't boot. 276

404) Vacation doesn't work reliably in a mixed Solaris/SunOS environment. 276

405) I have a lot of <defunct> processes. How do I get rid of them? 277

406) I get /dev/ptmx: No such device when attempting to telnet/rlogin in. 277

407) ld bails out with msync errors. 277

408) su responds with "Sorry" and doesn't prompt for a password. 277

409) Why can't I install 2.4 from a non-Sun CD while I could do so with 2.3? 277

410) ifconfig can't find my network interface 278

411) I have an application that compiled fine, but when I run it I get: fatal: libfoo.so.2: can't open file: errno=2 278

412) Motif programs dump core almost immediately. 278

413) cc complains that "language optional software package not installed". 279

414) thr_create and other thread functions always return -1 279

415) Solaris 2.4 is getting slower over time/seems to have a kernel memory leak. 279

416) Why do I get ``Unable to install/attach driver 'xxx''' messages? 279

417) I can't run nfs: netdir_getbyname failure, /dev/udp: bind problem 280

418) Why do I get ``named[]: rt_malloc: memdebug overflow'' errors? 280

419) Ld dumps core on Solaris/x86 281

420) In Solaris 2.4 my TCP performance is extremely poor. 281

421) Solaris 2.4 in.tftpd is terribly slow. 281

422) I get "df: Could not find mount point ..." 281

423) I changed root's shell, now I can't login. 282

424) When linking C++ programs, I get "_ex_keylock" undefined. 282

425) My NFS server hangs when I get filesystem full/over quota errors. 282

426) OpenWindows fails with "Binding Unix Socket: Invalid argument" 282

427) Why is Xsun such a memory pig, especially on the SX, S24 and FFB? 283

428) Solaris 2.5 and Solaris 2.4 patch 101945-34+ have poor TCP performance over slow links. 283

429) After install x86 patch 101946-29, I have problems with sockets and TCP/IP throughput. 284

430) Du and ls show funny block counts on NFSv3 mounted filesystems. 284

431) When I halt/reboot my system I get "INIT: failed write of utmpx entry" 285

432) Patch installation often fails with "checkinstall" errors. 285

433) Why do I get a CPU-bound rpc.ttdbserverd process? 286

434) What is /proc? Can I safely remove the large files there? 286

435) What does "named[XX]: Lame server on 'hostname' ...." mean? 286

436) I installed Solaris on a big disk, but now booting fails. 287

437) My Ultra shuts down with "WARNING: THERMAL WARNING DETECTED!!!" 287

438) Power management shuts down my monitor, but it never comes back. 287

439) I can't seem to disable power management in 2.6! 287

440) Power management no longer kicks in when xlock runs 287

441) Orainst 7.3.2 dumps core in 2.5.1 with patches and in 2.6. 288

442) My dial-on-demand link keeps dialing out, seems DNS related. 288

443) Processes hang in door_call(), hostname lookups hang. 288

444) When using Solaris 2.6, many fonts don't show up properly in Netscape 4. 288

445) When using virtual interfaces in 2.6, the system picks a random source address. How can I fix this? 289

446) A downloaded binary complains "libresolv.so.2: can't open file" 289

447) Ypserv/NIS w/ DNS is very unreliable in Solaris 2.6. 289

448) Where can I find a list of all Solaris kernel parameters? 289

449) How can I guard my system against stack buffer overflow exploits? 290

450) How can I restrict the number of processes per user? 290

451) What purpose does the maxusers variable serve? 290

452) How can I have a clock resolution better than 10ms? 291

453) How can I have more than 16 groups per user? 291

454) How can I disable _POSIX_CHOWN_RESTRICTED? My users want to chown files? 292

455) Display the current directory's pathname in your bash shell prompt. 292

456) Determining the initiator ID on SCSI adapter 292

 

 

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