From frank@ares.ccii.unipi.it Fri Feb 2 20:32:03 2007 From: frank@ares.ccii.unipi.it (Francesco Messineo) Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 21:32:03 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Suns-at-Home] two sun e10K available Message-ID: Hello list, I've been told that two 64-way sun e10k are beeing sold for approx. 2k euros (can't verify myself about the price, sorry) in Rome (Italy). Obviously the only option seems to be local pick up. If anyone is really interested I can make a contact with the right persons. Basicly I understood that they just may want to get rid of them paying less that the local special waste disposal fee. Units are complete with ram, disks and racks. I don't know other details. Best regards Francesco From costellob@asme.org Mon Feb 5 06:21:29 2007 From: costellob@asme.org (Brian Costello) Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2007 22:21:29 -0800 Subject: [Suns-at-Home] Building new server Message-ID: <45C6CCE9.9050504@asme.org> I just got my hands on a pair or Sunfire V100 servers and plan to use one to replace my trusty old SS20 that has been my mail/web/ftp server as well as my firewall/NAT router. The other V100 will be a spare which is what I have now with an extra SS20 in case or a major failure. Back when I set up the SS20 (circa 1998) that was the only way for me to have a NAT capable router for a reasonable cost. When the plethora of low cost DSL / cable switch/routers came on the market, I kept the SS20 in place instead of using one of those. Now that I finally plan to upgrade, I am looking for some advice on whether I should use the V100 as a firewall or use my Linksys 4 port wireless switch/router for that. My question to the group is whether the port forwarding on typical routers will allow a server on the internal network to work as it does now. I need the server for the services above except the firewall/router. -- Brian P. Costello costellob@asme.org San Francisco Bay Area From claus_kick@web.de Mon Feb 5 19:03:52 2007 From: claus_kick@web.de (Claus Kick) Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2007 20:03:52 +0100 Subject: [Suns-at-Home] Building new server In-Reply-To: <45C6CCE9.9050504@asme.org> References: <45C6CCE9.9050504@asme.org> Message-ID: <45C77F98.2070008@web.de> Brian Costello wrote: Hello, normally, it should not be a problem. I use my standard-cheapo-2004 netgear router for the following: - forward ssh to my SS20 (those are indeed lovely machines, arent they?) - foward http requests to SS20 (dyndns) - foward ftp requests to SS20 Cannot say for mail, but fail to see how that could be a problem. Only drawback in my case (but thats probably just me being stupid) is that I cannot access my own DynDNS website from any other comp inside my own network, I have to use the LAN-IP for that, i.e. I cannot do http://blablabla.dyndns.org/bla.html from within my network, I have to do http://192.168.0.x/bla.html But, as I said, I am not sure where that behaviour comes from and quite frankly, once discovered, it is no problem at all. Cheers from Europe, Claus > I just got my hands on a pair or Sunfire V100 servers and plan to use > one to replace my trusty old SS20 that has been my mail/web/ftp server > as well as my firewall/NAT router. The other V100 will be a spare which > is what I have now with an extra SS20 in case or a major failure. Back > when I set up the SS20 (circa 1998) that was the only way for me to have > a NAT capable router for a reasonable cost. When the plethora of low > cost DSL / cable switch/routers came on the market, I kept the SS20 in > place instead of using one of those. Now that I finally plan to upgrade, > I am looking for some advice on whether I should use the V100 as a > firewall or use my Linksys 4 port wireless switch/router for that. My > question to the group is whether the port forwarding on typical routers > will allow a server on the internal network to work as it does now. I > need the server for the services above except the firewall/router. > From wes@kingston.net Mon Feb 5 19:57:43 2007 From: wes@kingston.net (wes@kingston.net) Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2007 14:57:43 -0500 (EST) Subject: [Suns-at-Home] Building new server In-Reply-To: <45C6CCE9.9050504@asme.org> References: <45C6CCE9.9050504@asme.org> Message-ID: <13606.205.189.48.253.1170705463.squirrel@webmail.kingston.net> > I just got my hands on a pair or Sunfire V100 servers and plan to use > one to replace my trusty old SS20 that has been my mail/web/ftp server > as well as my firewall/NAT router. The other V100 will be a spare which > is what I have now with an extra SS20 in case or a major failure. Back > when I set up the SS20 (circa 1998) that was the only way for me to have > a NAT capable router for a reasonable cost. When the plethora of low > cost DSL / cable switch/routers came on the market, I kept the SS20 in > place instead of using one of those. Now that I finally plan to upgrade, > I am looking for some advice on whether I should use the V100 as a > firewall or use my Linksys 4 port wireless switch/router for that. My > question to the group is whether the port forwarding on typical routers > will allow a server on the internal network to work as it does now. I > need the server for the services above except the firewall/router. Personally, I -hate- those little Linksys routers and so forth, as they always seem to yield wierd problems... especially with heavy-traffic servers. At work, where functionality rules (we're thrifty, but not cheap), we run Linux firewalls using solutions developed around iptables and whatnot... and we run them on Sun/Opteron hardware (X2100s). In my experience, nothing is quite as flexible or adaptable as iptables from a packet-filtering point of view. I see no reason why you couldn't do the same thing with your V100s, although if you want to run Solaris, you'll have to ipfw (which I'm not all that keen on, but obviously works for you already on the SS20s) From n2vip@verizon.net Mon Feb 5 20:17:15 2007 From: n2vip@verizon.net (n2vip@verizon.net) Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2007 14:17:15 -0600 (CST) Subject: [Suns-at-Home] Building new server Message-ID: <27658238.2442161170706635712.JavaMail.root@vms171.mailsrvcs.net> >From: Brian Costello >Date: 2007/02/05 Mon AM 12:21:29 CST >To: suns-at-home@net-kitchen.com >Subject: [Suns-at-Home] Building new server >I just got my hands on a pair or Sunfire V100 servers and plan to use >one to replace my trusty old SS20 that has been my mail/web/ftp server >as well as my firewall/NAT router. The other V100 will be a spare which >is what I have now with an extra SS20 in case or a major failure. Back >when I set up the SS20 (circa 1998) that was the only way for me to have >a NAT capable router for a reasonable cost. When the plethora of low >cost DSL / cable switch/routers came on the market, I kept the SS20 in >place instead of using one of those. Now that I finally plan to upgrade, >I am looking for some advice on whether I should use the V100 as a >firewall or use my Linksys 4 port wireless switch/router for that. My >question to the group is whether the port forwarding on typical routers >will allow a server on the internal network to work as it does now. I >need the server for the services above except the firewall/router. The Linksys home router/access points I have exp. with all support specific port forwarding even segregating out UDP vs. TCP traffic -OR - you can establish a DMZ with all ports/traffic directed to a single IP address if you like... When I set up my home network, I originally had a single DMZ host, but wound up using individual port forwarding to accomodate Vonage VoIP traffic. With a single public server on your network, I suspect a small "appliance" router would suffice. I have seen similar function on other brands, but my hands-on exp is with Linksys hardware. Best of luck, Ken From aewing@gmail.com Mon Feb 5 21:13:41 2007 From: aewing@gmail.com (Ahmed Ewing) Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2007 16:13:41 -0500 Subject: [Suns-at-Home] Building new server In-Reply-To: <45C6CCE9.9050504@asme.org> References: <45C6CCE9.9050504@asme.org> Message-ID: On 2/5/07, Brian Costello wrote: > I just got my hands on a pair or Sunfire V100 servers and plan to use > one to replace my trusty old SS20 that has been my mail/web/ftp server > as well as my firewall/NAT router. The other V100 will be a spare which > is what I have now with an extra SS20 in case or a major failure. Back > when I set up the SS20 (circa 1998) that was the only way for me to have > a NAT capable router for a reasonable cost. When the plethora of low > cost DSL / cable switch/routers came on the market, I kept the SS20 in > place instead of using one of those. Now that I finally plan to upgrade, > I am looking for some advice on whether I should use the V100 as a > firewall or use my Linksys 4 port wireless switch/router for that. My > question to the group is whether the port forwarding on typical routers > will allow a server on the internal network to work as it does now. I > need the server for the services above except the firewall/router. If it's a Linksys WRT54G or WRT54GS, I have great news. Check the bottom label to see what specific version it is--if you are lucky enough to have any version prior to v5 (or a WRT54GL, keep reading), the router is running code in firmware which is open-source[1] and can be updated with a variety of custom firmware images--DD-WRT (http://www.dd-wrt.com/) is my personal favorite, but there are others. What they all have in common is the ability to make your little router appliance *much* more powerful than it was intended to be. Everything from SSH server/client to NFS export mounting, WDS repeater mesh functionality and even boosting the antenna signal strength by orders of magnitude (don't tell the FCC) is possible. So suffice it to say, most individual's firewall rule needs can be addressed by it as well. If you have a v5 or later, they switched to VxWorks for the firmware to cut costs, so the well-known hacks don't work.[2] They remained good sports about it, though, creating the WRT54GL which is, for all intents and purposes, the original Linux-powered WRT54G, albeit at a slight price markup for those willing to pay for the hackability. I'd sooner get a used v4-or-earlier one. My two were obtained for $10 and $20, respectively. The wikipedia page is a great starting point with lots of info, including an extensive list of third-party firmware and Linux distro projects: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WRT54G One final word of advice: it's generally not a very good idea to use a firewall box for anything besides a firewall if you can avoid it--every additional daemon/service running on it represents a possible compromise to security. Best practice would be a firewall that runs on a dedicated, hardened platform. All the more reason to look into hot-rodding your Linksys. :-) Hope that helps, -A [1] Apparently Linksys was using GPL'd Linux code without attribution; after acquiring the company, Cisco noted this during a code review and published the source shortly thereafter. Hackers wasted no time in doing the rest. Thanks Linksys! ;-) [2] Actually, there's even a way to hack these too--much less elegant, but apparently it does work. See here: http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS6352077661.html From liam@xinqu.net Tue Feb 6 15:39:26 2007 From: liam@xinqu.net (Liam Greenwood) Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2007 10:39:26 -0500 Subject: [Suns-at-Home] Cleaning out In-Reply-To: <20070116170648.4EEA393D5@tigger.net-kitchen.com> References: <20070116170648.4EEA393D5@tigger.net-kitchen.com> Message-ID: <45C8A12E.7090306@xinqu.net> Hi there We are cleaning out stuff - some of which is my Sun extras :-) I'm in Bloomfield NJ, work in Edison NJ and would like to not ship this stuff if at all possible. I have that I would like some money for: 1 - A1000 - I'd like $150 for this. I bought from a sun equipment dealer 'as new'. It has no disks, has most of the blanking covers (I think it's missing 4). It's in the original Sun box. I decided that it was too big and noisy to use where I have the home server so have gone with zfs on a Multipac (slower but quieter and a happier wife :-)). NOTE: It is *HIGH VOLTAGE DIFFERENTIAL SCSI*. If you have an sbus machine I can throw in a sbus HV differential controller. 2 - 711 multipac with 216GB - $100 for the unit. This is a six slot one. Comes with 6 x 36GB 1.6" drives, in 1.6" spuds. 3 - A Storedge L280 tape library - I'd like $180 for this. Would consider an external DLT7000 drive in partial swap. http://www.sun.qassociates.co.uk/storage-sun-storedge-historical-tape-backup-l280.htm This has one DLT7000 drive, and can hold 8 cartridges. NOTE: It is *HIGH VOLTAGE DIFFERENTIAL SCSI*. If you have an sbus machine I can throw in a sbus HV differential controller. 4 - I have 2 spare Ultra 2s. $40 each. One has dual 200 CPUs, the other is a 300Mhz CPU (might be duals, but I'll drag it in and check when there is interest :-)). They will have at least 512megs of memory, CDrom and 2 x 18GB drives. FOR FREE! 5 - An SS20, unknown config, never powered up by me. 6 - 4 x SS10, unknown config, never powered up by me. This is going in the Usenet group comp.sys.sun.wanted today as well. Cheers, Liam From rleir@leirtech.com Tue Feb 6 17:53:21 2007 From: rleir@leirtech.com (Rick Leir) Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2007 12:53:21 -0500 Subject: [Suns-at-Home] Re: standard-cheapo-2004 netgear router In-Reply-To: <20070206170516.4054493CC@tigger.net-kitchen.com> References: <20070206170516.4054493CC@tigger.net-kitchen.com> Message-ID: <1170784401.2375.27.camel@tbird.leirtech.com> > I use my standard-cheapo-2004 netgear router for the following: Agree, these appliances are good for most nat firewalling. But I still use an old computer for this so I can contribute to dshield.org (DShield provides a platform for users of firewalls to share intrusion information). Also, if you want to do VOIP on the same DSL you use for general web access, then you might want to configure the firewall to give preferred QOS to the VOIP. I am not bothering with this yet. The cheapo wifi base station I have could also be used as a nat firewall. I forget whether it supports a DMZ. Unrelated: who has some SS5 32M simms they could part with? I can't pay much more than postage and a big thanks for them. It would be nice to max out my SS5, need another 5 or so. cheers -- Rick From mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA Tue Feb 6 22:00:17 2007 From: mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA (der Mouse) Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 17:00:17 -0500 (EST) Subject: [Suns-at-Home] Cleaning out In-Reply-To: <45C8A12E.7090306@xinqu.net> References: <20070116170648.4EEA393D5@tigger.net-kitchen.com> <45C8A12E.7090306@xinqu.net> Message-ID: <200702062203.RAA29609@Sparkle.Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA> > NOTE: It is *HIGH VOLTAGE DIFFERENTIAL SCSI*. If you have an sbus > machine I can throw in a sbus HV differential controller. I have somewhere around 40 high-voltage differential SCSI SBus cards. They all show up apparently normally when I put them in a machine, but since I have no HVD devices, I can't test them further than that. (I also have two which are physically damaged enough I haven't tried to power them up, but I'm not counting them. :-) I'll be happy to ship them out at cost (materials+postage). I do not foresee ever needing more than about two of them myself, and I think zero is far more likely. /~\ The ASCII der Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mouse@rodents.montreal.qc.ca / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B From quapla@xs4all.nl Thu Feb 8 15:41:13 2007 From: quapla@xs4all.nl (Ed Groenenberg) Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 16:41:13 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Suns-at-Home] Looking for tapedrive sled Message-ID: <17065.88.211.153.27.1170949273.squirrel@webmail.xs4all.nl> Hi All, I was able to get this Dell Powervault 128T LTO taperobot which is actually an HP 2/20 robot (and also known as the Sun L20). It is missing the tapedrive assembly when I got it. I managed to find the proper Ultrium drive (without the sled) for it and the only thing I do miss is the sled itself. The sled is not just a metal holder, bit it also contains a little circuit board which controls the tapedrive by means of moving the tapecartridge in and out of the drive (using a little motor). So the question is, does anybody have this sled left over???? It doesn't have to be for free, but resellers do ask ridiculous prices for just the assembly. Thanks, Ed From rjhawkin@nand.net Sat Feb 10 04:34:26 2007 From: rjhawkin@nand.net (Rowan Hawkins) Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 23:34:26 -0500 (EST) Subject: [Suns-at-Home] Cleaning out In-Reply-To: <200702062203.RAA29609@Sparkle.Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA> References: <20070116170648.4EEA393D5@tigger.net-kitchen.com> <45C8A12E.7090306@xinqu.net> <200702062203.RAA29609@Sparkle.Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA> Message-ID: I have a stack of two sun HVD 6 pack drive boxes with (6) 9.1G HVD drives in each. I probably will never use them. They are not light in their double depth 19" rack boxes. If there is any interest I can unbury them from storage. I even have an adaptec 4944 4-channel HVD controller someplace...well I'm pretty sure I know where it is in the storage garage, too. ---- On 2007-02-06 5:00pm -0500 der Mouse descanted: :Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 17:00:17 -0500 (EST) :From: der Mouse :To: suns-at-home@net-kitchen.com :Subject: Re: [Suns-at-Home] Cleaning out : :> NOTE: It is *HIGH VOLTAGE DIFFERENTIAL SCSI*. If you have an sbus :> machine I can throw in a sbus HV differential controller. : :I have somewhere around 40 high-voltage differential SCSI SBus cards. :They all show up apparently normally when I put them in a machine, but :since I have no HVD devices, I can't test them further than that. (I :also have two which are physically damaged enough I haven't tried to :power them up, but I'm not counting them. :-) : :I'll be happy to ship them out at cost (materials+postage). I do not :foresee ever needing more than about two of them myself, and I think :zero is far more likely. : :/~\ The ASCII der Mouse :\ / Ribbon Campaign : X Against HTML mouse@rodents.montreal.qc.ca :/ \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B :_______________________________________________ :Suns-at-Home mailing list :Suns-at-Home@net-kitchen.com :http://www.net-kitchen.com/mailman/listinfo/suns-at-home : From rleir@leirtech.com Mon Feb 12 15:20:26 2007 From: rleir@leirtech.com (Rick Leir) Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 10:20:26 -0500 Subject: [Suns-at-Home] Re: HVD 6 pack drive boxes In-Reply-To: <20070211170515.9F25F93D9@tigger.net-kitchen.com> References: <20070211170515.9F25F93D9@tigger.net-kitchen.com> Message-ID: <1171293626.3140.16.camel@tbird.leirtech.com> Where are you? > I have a stack of two sun HVD 6 pack drive boxes with (6) 9.1G HVD From rjhawkin@nand.net Thu Feb 15 08:09:19 2007 From: rjhawkin@nand.net (Rowan Hawkins) Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 03:09:19 -0500 (EST) Subject: [Suns-at-Home] Re: HVD 6 pack drive boxes In-Reply-To: <1171293626.3140.16.camel@tbird.leirtech.com> References: <20070211170515.9F25F93D9@tigger.net-kitchen.com> <1171293626.3140.16.camel@tbird.leirtech.com> Message-ID: Oops, I did forget to post that information, I am in Rochester, NY. After the dumping of snow we just received, I'm not sure how fast I can get to them though. ---- On 2007-02-12 10:20am -0500 Rick Leir descanted: :Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 10:20:26 -0500 :From: Rick Leir :To: suns-at-home@net-kitchen.com :Subject: [Suns-at-Home] Re: HVD 6 pack drive boxes : :Where are you? :> I have a stack of two sun HVD 6 pack drive boxes with (6) 9.1G HVD :_______________________________________________ :Suns-at-Home mailing list :Suns-at-Home@net-kitchen.com :http://www.net-kitchen.com/mailman/listinfo/suns-at-home : From chl@clerew.man.ac.uk Tue Feb 20 13:30:30 2007 From: chl@clerew.man.ac.uk (Charles Lindsey) Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 13:30:30 -0000 Subject: [Suns-at-Home] I need GIMP Message-ID: I use Solaris 10 on an Ultra-2. Now I want to install GIMP, but it is only available on the Companion DVD (they say the individual packages are not available yet, though they are available for Solaris 8/9). Sadly, I cannot even read, let alone burn, DVDs. Does anybody have a copy of the Solaris 10 Companion DVD from which they could extract the GIMP package and mail it to me? Alternatively, if I download the DVD to disc (1.2GB - probably 3GB when unzipped), is there any way to extract an individual package from it without burning a DVD first? Experiments with a file copy of one of the Solaris 10 CDs indicate that you cannot mount it from a file, because that file is not a 'block' device. Alternatively again, what is the availability of DVD burners? It has to have a SCSI interfact, because of the Ultra-2. -- Charles H. Lindsey ---------At Home, doing my own thing------------------------ Tel: +44 161 436 6131     Web: http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~chl Email: chl@clerew.man.ac.uk      Snail: 5 Clerewood Ave, CHEADLE, SK8 3JU, U.K. PGP: 2C15F1A9      Fingerprint: 73 6D C2 51 93 A0 01 E7 65 E8 64 7E 14 A4 AB A5 From andre@purplecow.org Tue Feb 20 23:43:46 2007 From: andre@purplecow.org (Andre van Eyssen) Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 10:43:46 +1100 (EST) Subject: [Suns-at-Home] I need GIMP In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Tue, 20 Feb 2007, Charles Lindsey wrote: The usual first option is www.blastwave.org for any open source binaries you might want. > Alternatively, if I download the DVD to disc (1.2GB - probably 3GB when > unzipped), is there any way to extract an individual package from it without > burning a DVD first? Experiments with a file copy of one of the Solaris 10 > CDs indicate that you cannot mount it from a file, because that file is not a > 'block' device. Check the manpage for "lofi". > Alternatively again, what is the availability of DVD burners? It has to have > a SCSI interfact, because of the Ultra-2. Not worth the effort. -- Andre van Eyssen. "the only value you can add to a banana is a bruise" -- McNealy. From jason@sungeek.net Tue Feb 20 23:53:12 2007 From: jason@sungeek.net (Jason Grove) Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 18:53:12 -0500 Subject: [Suns-at-Home] I need GIMP In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <45DB89E8.2080804@sungeek.net> Depending on which version of solaris 10 you installed, gimp should already be on it I believe (check in /usr/sfw/bin). If you want to mount the DVD you can download the parts for it, recreate the dvd (just cat all the files together) and then use lofiadm to mount it, ie: lofiadm -a /home/solaris10.iso mount -Fhsfs /dev/lofi/# /mnt (where # is the number that the lofiadm -a command prints back) Another option is to use http://blastwave.org download the pkg_get.pkg and install it, then do a /opt/csw/bin/pkg-get -i gimp and it will install gimp for you. Charles Lindsey wrote: > I use Solaris 10 on an Ultra-2. > > Now I want to install GIMP, but it is only available on the Companion > DVD (they say the individual packages are not available yet, though they > are available for Solaris 8/9). Sadly, I cannot even read, let alone > burn, DVDs. > > Does anybody have a copy of the Solaris 10 Companion DVD from which they > could extract the GIMP package and mail it to me? > > Alternatively, if I download the DVD to disc (1.2GB - probably 3GB when > unzipped), is there any way to extract an individual package from it > without burning a DVD first? Experiments with a file copy of one of the > Solaris 10 CDs indicate that you cannot mount it from a file, because > that file is not a 'block' device. > > Alternatively again, what is the availability of DVD burners? It has to > have a SCSI interfact, because of the Ultra-2. > > --Charles H. Lindsey ---------At Home, doing my own thing------------------------ > > Tel: +44 161 436 6131 > Web: http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~chl > Email: chl@clerew.man.ac.uk Snail: 5 Clerewood Ave, CHEADLE, SK8 3JU, U.K. > > PGP: 2C15F1A9 Fingerprint: 73 6D C2 51 93 A0 01 E7 65 E8 64 7E 14 A4 AB A5 > > _______________________________________________ > Suns-at-Home mailing list > Suns-at-Home@net-kitchen.com > http://www.net-kitchen.com/mailman/listinfo/suns-at-home From chl@clerew.man.ac.uk Wed Feb 21 22:58:41 2007 From: chl@clerew.man.ac.uk (Charles Lindsey) Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 22:58:41 -0000 Subject: [Suns-at-Home] I need GIMP In-Reply-To: <20070221170523.DFB8193CF@tigger.net-kitchen.com> References: <20070221170523.DFB8193CF@tigger.net-kitchen.com> Message-ID: On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 17:05:23 -0000, wrote: > Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 18:53:12 -0500 > From: Jason Grove > To: Charles Lindsey > CC: suns-at-home@net-kitchen.com > Subject: Re: [Suns-at-Home] I need GIMP > Depending on which version of solaris 10 you installed, gimp should > already be on it I believe (check in /usr/sfw/bin). I installed the version on sol-10-u1-ga-sparc-v1-iso, which I think came out in Jan or Feb 2006 IIRC. But the current DVD is sol-10-u3-companion-ga-iso, which is later. I cannot find GIMP itself anywhere on my original sol-10-u1 CDs (I have the GIMP Toolkit, but that is not the same thing at all). > If you want to mount > the DVD you can download the parts for it, recreate the dvd (just cat > all the files together) and then use lofiadm to mount it, ie: Ah! lofiadm is what I need, but it is not easy to find (e.g. there is no pointer to it from any of the mount_* man pages). So thanks to the people who pointed me to it. The Good News is that, after downloading the DVD (1.2 GB over 7 hours, and over half my monthly dowload allowance) I succeeded is mounting it. The Bad News is that there was no GIMP there. So where the hell is it? Have they now added it to the main Solaris distribution, and hence removed it from the Companion? http:www.sun.com/software/solaris/faqs/inded.jsp explicitly states that GIMP is on the companion CD (sic). So, if anyone knows where it is, or has a copy of the package they could mail to me, I would be grateful. I don't really want to go to the hassle of compiling it from source. > Another option is to use http://blastwave.org > download the pkg_get.pkg and install it, then do a > /opt/csw/bin/pkg-get -i gimp > and it will install gimp for you. The problem with Blastwave is that they insist you install their versions of all the libraries (which you have probably already got later versions of). And still all that you get is a Solaris 9 version. -- Charles H. Lindsey ---------At Home, doing my own thing------------------------ Tel: +44 161 436 6131     Web: http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~chl Email: chl@clerew.man.ac.uk      Snail: 5 Clerewood Ave, CHEADLE, SK8 3JU, U.K. PGP: 2C15F1A9      Fingerprint: 73 6D C2 51 93 A0 01 E7 65 E8 64 7E 14 A4 AB A5 From jason@sungeek.net Sat Feb 24 02:17:03 2007 From: jason@sungeek.net (Jason Grove) Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 21:17:03 -0500 Subject: [Suns-at-Home] I need GIMP In-Reply-To: References: <20070221170523.DFB8193CF@tigger.net-kitchen.com> Message-ID: <45DFA01F.9010007@sungeek.net> Make sure that the following are installed from the Solaris dist, not the companion cd: GNOME2 SUNWgnome-img-editor GNOME Image Editor GNOME2 SUNWgnome-img-editor-devel GNOME Image Editor - developer files GNOME2 SUNWgnome-img-editor-devel-share GNOME Image Editor - developer files - platform independent, /usr/share GNOME2 SUNWgnome-img-editor-root GNOME Image Editor - platform dependent files, / filesystem GNOME2 SUNWgnome-img-editor-share GNOME Image Editor - platform independent files, /usr/share They are on the u1 solaris install dvd (not the companion). So unless you did a custom install of Solaris 10 U1, they should be in /usr/sfw/bin, if you did a custom one, then you may need to install the above. jason Charles Lindsey wrote: > On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 17:05:23 -0000, > wrote: > >> Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 18:53:12 -0500 >> From: Jason Grove >> To: Charles Lindsey >> CC: suns-at-home@net-kitchen.com >> Subject: Re: [Suns-at-Home] I need GIMP > >> Depending on which version of solaris 10 you installed, gimp should >> already be on it I believe (check in /usr/sfw/bin). > > I installed the version on sol-10-u1-ga-sparc-v1-iso, which I think came > out in Jan or Feb 2006 IIRC. But the current DVD is > sol-10-u3-companion-ga-iso, which is later. I cannot find GIMP itself > anywhere on my original sol-10-u1 CDs (I have the GIMP Toolkit, but that > is not the same thing at all). > >> If you want to mount >> the DVD you can download the parts for it, recreate the dvd (just cat >> all the files together) and then use lofiadm to mount it, ie: > > Ah! lofiadm is what I need, but it is not easy to find (e.g. there is no > pointer to it from any of the mount_* man pages). So thanks to the > people who pointed me to it. > > The Good News is that, after downloading the DVD (1.2 GB over 7 hours, > and over half my monthly dowload allowance) I succeeded is mounting it. > The Bad News is that there was no GIMP there. So where the hell is it? > Have they now added it to the main Solaris distribution, and hence > removed it from the Companion? > http:www.sun.com/software/solaris/faqs/inded.jsp explicitly states that > GIMP is on the companion CD (sic). So, if anyone knows where it is, or > has a copy of the package they could mail to me, I would be grateful. I > don't really want to go to the hassle of compiling it from source. > >> Another option is to use http://blastwave.org >> download the pkg_get.pkg and install it, then do a >> /opt/csw/bin/pkg-get -i gimp >> and it will install gimp for you. > > The problem with Blastwave is that they insist you install their > versions of all the libraries (which you have probably already got later > versions of). And still all that you get is a Solaris 9 version. > > --Charles H. Lindsey ---------At Home, doing my own thing------------------------ > > Tel: +44 161 436 6131 > Web: http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~chl > Email: chl@clerew.man.ac.uk Snail: 5 Clerewood Ave, CHEADLE, SK8 3JU, U.K. > > PGP: 2C15F1A9 Fingerprint: 73 6D C2 51 93 A0 01 E7 65 E8 64 7E 14 A4 AB A5 > > _______________________________________________ > Suns-at-Home mailing list > Suns-at-Home@net-kitchen.com > http://www.net-kitchen.com/mailman/listinfo/suns-at-home From Keywords: ; Sat Feb 24 21:20:48 2007 From: Keywords: ; (Craig Dewick) Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 08:20:48 +1100 (EST) Subject: [Suns-at-Home] Sunblade 1000 doesn't detect FCAL disk! In-Reply-To: <8C38EA40-1015-4AA4-87A9-DF097CA7241E@belgacom.net> References: <8C38EA40-1015-4AA4-87A9-DF097CA7241E@belgacom.net> Message-ID: Hi everyone, Sorry it's taking a few months to get around to checking this out more! Such is life... On Thu, 21 Dec 2006, Ben Lewis wrote: >> If you could think of something else to check that would be great! > > Hi Craig > > Have you tried > > probe-fcal-all > > at the ok prompt? I actually just posted a message about the problem into some of the sun-related newsgroups since I'd asked similar questions there. I'll append that posting below: ---- start ---- > From: Kralizec Craig > Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware,aus.computers.sun,uk.comp.sys.sun,comp.unix.solaris,comp.sys.sun.admin > Subject: Re: SB1000 - does it need to have a PCI FCAL card to run internal FCAL? > Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 21:11:47 +0000 (UTC) "Gerry Sinkiewicz" writes: >Did you touch reconfigure and init 6 or boot -r from ok >prompt so that it looks for new devices? I can't do that from the ok prompt directly - must be something to do with running off an external SCSI drive (with the NVRAM suitable configured to include the full device path in the 'boot-device' specification: boot-device=/pci@8,700000/scsi@6,1/disk@0,0 When I try something like 'boot -rsv' from the ok prompt, I get a 'fast MMU data miss' error or something very similar to that. Also, I found that the 'probe-scsi-all' command does actually detect the FCAL drive so that confirms the cabling is good, but when it moves from the on-board qlogic controller to the external one to probe outside SCSI devices, the 'fast MMU data miss' (or similar - can't remember the exact wording) occurs again. The system board has OBP v4.5 so I'm not sure if that has any bugs in it relating to SCSI drivers. However, I am able to pass '-rsv' when I initiate a reboot from the running system (off the external SCSI drive) using 'reboot -- -rsv', but when the reconfigure boot runs, it doesn't create a device node for the FCAL disk. That possibly points to not having one of more of the right software packages installed, though I did manually install as many of the FCAL related packages off my Solaris 9 CD-R's as I could find. >The onboad FCAL controller is connected to the 2 drive bay >backplane by the a short cable that connects to a connector just on the >front side of the 2nd frame >buffer slots, the lower one. >You should not need an additional PCI contoller, there is even a FCAL >connector (copper rather >than fibre) on the back of the box. Yes I did see there's an external FCAL connector on the back, and I noted that internally there isn't any easy way to get to the LVD SCSI controller which manages the external SCSI port. Thanks for your help! We had a power failure yesterday during a storm so when I brought my systems back online I decided to explore the FCAL problem a bit more, hence the updated info at the top of this posting. ---- stop ---- So that sort of answers your question as well, and I at least now know that the drive is working and gets found by the OBP probing, but for some reason the Solaris 9 kernel on the external SCSI disk won't recognise it and create device nodes for it. Regards, Craig. -- Post by Craig Dewick (tm). Web @ "http://lios.apana.org.au/~cdewick". Email 2 "cdewick@lios.apana.org.au". SunShack @ "http://www.sunshack.org" Galleries @ "http://www.sunshack.org/gallery2". Also lots of tech data, etc. Sun Microsystems webring at "http://n.webring.com/hub?ring=sunmicrosystemsu". From Keywords: ; Sun Feb 25 09:34:39 2007 From: Keywords: ; (Craig Dewick) Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 20:34:39 +1100 (EST) Subject: [Suns-at-Home] problem moving Solaris 9 system disk from U60 to U2 Message-ID: Hi everyone, I'm sure we've all done this sort of thing - shift an installed system disk with Solaris on it from one Ultra system to another, or similarly with sun4m systems or even sun4c systems. Anyway, I have a U60 system which I want to replace with a U2 so that I can use a Sbus magma serial port card. The magma Sbus Solaris 9 driver actually works, while the PCI driver (I have a PCI version of the Magma 4-port card too) does not. Anyway, I loaded the OS from a Solaris 9 CD copy with the target disk in slot 0 of the U2 that's replacing the U60 system, manually mounted the root partition as /tmp/root/t0, removed the contents of /dev and /devices, replaced the path_to_inst file with '#path_to_inst_bootstrap_1', unmounted the disk, made sure the bootblk was correct using 'installboot', and rebooted with '-rv'. The kernel on the target disk then loads fine, gets to the point of displaying the properties of the two 300 Mhz CPU's in the U2, and hangs. I've already tried breaking out of the kernel, syncing the disks, and trying the whole process again, with the same end-result. The second time I tried it with an extra step - manually re-creating all the device nodes with 'devfsadm -r /tmp/root/t0' before unmounting the target disk and doing the reconfiguration boot. The next think I'm going to try is re-doing it a third time, re-creating /dev and /devices manually as above before trying to boot off the target disk, but I won't pass the '-r' option and see if the kernel will act correctly when it sees the path_to_inst file in the default state. I might try connecting up this machine and running tip on the serial port in case the U2 is dumping some debug info but I don't think it would be as the kernel loads and that would be taking control of the system. Can any of you think of something I'm missing? Thanks, Craig. -- Post by Craig Dewick (tm). Web @ "http://lios.apana.org.au/~cdewick". Email 2 "cdewick@lios.apana.org.au". SunShack @ "http://www.sunshack.org" Galleries @ "http://www.sunshack.org/gallery2". Also lots of tech data, etc. Sun Microsystems webring at "http://n.webring.com/hub?ring=sunmicrosystemsu". From chl@clerew.man.ac.uk Sun Feb 25 15:17:55 2007 From: chl@clerew.man.ac.uk (Charles Lindsey) Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 15:17:55 -0000 Subject: [Suns-at-Home] Re: I need GIMP (Charles Lindsey) In-Reply-To: <20070223170523.032C293C9@tigger.net-kitchen.com> References: <20070223170523.032C293C9@tigger.net-kitchen.com> Message-ID: On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 17:05:22 -0000, wrote: > Message: 1 > To: suns-at-home@net-kitchen.com > Subject: Re: [Suns-at-Home] I need GIMP > Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 22:58:41 -0000 > From: "Charles Lindsey" > > On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 17:05:23 -0000, > > wrote: > >> Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 18:53:12 -0500 >> From: Jason Grove >> To: Charles Lindsey >> CC: suns-at-home@net-kitchen.com >> Subject: Re: [Suns-at-Home] I need GIMP > >> Depending on which version of solaris 10 you installed, gimp should >> already be on it I believe (check in /usr/sfw/bin). > > I installed the version on sol-10-u1-ga-sparc-v1-iso, which I think came > out in Jan or Feb 2006 IIRC. But the current DVD is > sol-10-u3-companion-ga-iso, which is later. I cannot find GIMP itself > anywhere on my original sol-10-u1 CDs (I have the GIMP Toolkit, but that > is not the same thing at all). Forget all that! I eventually found it, though they had hidden it carefully. It was not in SUNWgimp, where one might have expected it, and its NAME, when you did find it, did not have the word "GIMP" in it (which is odd, since the product refers to itself as "The GIMP"). And the 'G' in "GIMP" does not stand for "GNU", it stands for "GNOME", which seems stupid to be, because the product should work perfectly well in _any_ desktop system (hence, as a CDE user and being short of disc space, and even shorter of dump-tape space, and having heard bad reports of its performance, I had not installed any of the Gnome stuff). So I eventually found, and installed, SUNWgnome-img-editor SUNWgnome-img-editor-root SUNWgnome-img-editor-share plus a whole lot of other Gnomish packages that it depended on (but not all of their sub-dependencies). And then I had a working GIMP, except for the help facility. If needs /usr/share/gimp/2.0/help/en/gimp-help.xml, but that whole help directory is missing. Where is it? I have grepped through all the pkgmaps on all five Sol-10 installation CDs, but I cannot find it. Where is it? I eventually downloaded those file from blastwave (gimp-help is a separate package from gimp), and can read them in my web-browser, but the gimp helpbrowser does not like them. So are they on the Sol-10 installation CDs, and if so in what package? -- Charles H. Lindsey ---------At Home, doing my own thing------------------------ Tel: +44 161 436 6131     Web: http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~chl Email: chl@clerew.man.ac.uk      Snail: 5 Clerewood Ave, CHEADLE, SK8 3JU, U.K. PGP: 2C15F1A9      Fingerprint: 73 6D C2 51 93 A0 01 E7 65 E8 64 7E 14 A4 AB A5 From claus_kick@web.de Sun Feb 25 19:16:48 2007 From: claus_kick@web.de (Claus Kick) Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 20:16:48 +0100 Subject: [Suns-at-Home] problem moving Solaris 9 system disk from U60 to U2 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <45E1E0A0.3010404@web.de> Craig Dewick wrote: > Can any of you think of something I'm missing? Not sure whether this is still relevant for a U2, but how large is the root partition? Is the OBP of an U2 able to handle a / partition larger than 2 GB? Cheers, Claus From gerrit@laosinh.s.bawue.de Sun Feb 25 20:31:17 2007 From: gerrit@laosinh.s.bawue.de (Gerrit Heitsch) Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 21:31:17 +0100 Subject: [Suns-at-Home] problem moving Solaris 9 system disk from U60 to U2 In-Reply-To: <45E1E0A0.3010404@web.de> References: <45E1E0A0.3010404@web.de> Message-ID: <45E1F215.8090609@laosinh.s.bawue.de> Claus Kick wrote: > Craig Dewick wrote: > >> Can any of you think of something I'm missing? > > Not sure whether this is still relevant for a U2, but how large is the > root partition? Is the OBP of an U2 able to handle a / partition larger > than 2 GB? Yes, it is. But You might have a problem with the hardware path of your root parition. The U2 uses S-Bus, the U60 PCI. Moving a disk between 2 systems is not that easy... Gerrit From n2vip@verizon.net Sun Feb 25 22:33:49 2007 From: n2vip@verizon.net (Ken Hansen) Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 17:33:49 -0500 Subject: [Suns-at-Home] problem moving Solaris 9 system disk from U60 to U2 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <0A832476-3A67-410D-869D-B93FD2419CB3@verizon.net> On Feb 25, 2007, at 4:34 AM, Craig Dewick wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > I'm sure we've all done this sort of thing - shift an installed > system disk with Solaris on it from one Ultra system to another, or > similarly with sun4m systems or even sun4c systems. > > Anyway, I have a U60 system which I want to replace with a U2 so > that I can use a Sbus magma serial port card. The magma Sbus > Solaris 9 driver actually works, while the PCI driver (I have a PCI > version of the Magma 4-port card too) does not. > > Anyway, I loaded the OS from a Solaris 9 CD copy with the target > disk in slot 0 of the U2 that's replacing the U60 system, manually > mounted the root partition as /tmp/root/t0, removed the contents > of /dev and /devices, replaced the path_to_inst file with > '#path_to_inst_bootstrap_1', unmounted the disk, made sure the > bootblk was correct using 'installboot', and rebooted with '-rv'. > > The kernel on the target disk then loads fine, gets to the point of > displaying the properties of the two 300 Mhz CPU's in the U2, and > hangs. That's not the Kernel, that is the OBP, "hardwired" on the system board. > I've already tried breaking out of the kernel, syncing the disks, > and trying the whole process again, with the same end-result. > > The second time I tried it with an extra step - manually re- > creating all the device nodes with 'devfsadm -r /tmp/root/t0' > before unmounting the target disk and doing the reconfiguration boot. > > The next think I'm going to try is re-doing it a third time, re- > creating /dev and /devices manually as above before trying to boot > off the target disk, but I won't pass the '-r' option and see if > the kernel will act correctly when it sees the path_to_inst file in > the default state. > > I might try connecting up this machine and running tip on the > serial port in case the U2 is dumping some debug info but I don't > think it would be as the kernel loads and that would be taking > control of the system. > > Can any of you think of something I'm missing? I think the differences are too deep to enable such a migration - do you have enough disks to build up the Ultra 2 with a base install of Solaris, then migrate the files you need manually? I have a friend that moved system disks between Ultra 1s and Ultra 2s, but those systems are very closely related (boot -r was sufficient in that case). He held on to the Ultra 1 as a replacement if the Ultra 2 failed for just that reason. I think you'll need another disk to accomplish your ultimate goal... Lionel From costellob@asme.org Tue Feb 27 07:46:08 2007 From: costellob@asme.org (Brian Costello) Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 23:46:08 -0800 Subject: [Suns-at-Home] New Server Message-ID: <45E3E1C0.5000003@asme.org> I recently took possession of a Sunfire V100 that I plan to use to upgrade from my old and trusty SS20 that supports my home network. I originally built the SS20 in 1998 to be a NAT router, web, mail, & ftp server. It has run somewhat flawlessly since it went live, but now the drives are starting to make some odd sounds as are the fans in the power supply, so I think it is time for an upgrade. I now have the Sunfire up and running under Solaris 9 with all the packages I need installed and running. I also made the switch from using my SS20 as a firewall/router to using my Linksys wireless router/switch with all of the necessary ports forwarded to the SS20. I only have a few things left to do before I can go live with the Sunfire. The most important of which is getting sendmail working. Under Solaris 2.6 I had to manually tweak the sendmail.cf but in Solaris 9 the newer version of sendmail is built in and I am a bit lost. I followed a few simple configuration guides I could find but I cannot get it to receive mail from external machines. Can anyone give me some advice on configuring sendmail under Solaris 9? I am about to breakdown and buy the latest O'Reilly Sendmail book but I am not sure I have the bandwidth to dig in that deep. Any help would be greatly appreciated. -- Brian P. Costello costellob@asme.org San Francisco Bay Area From BehmJL@bv.com Tue Feb 27 14:54:11 2007 From: BehmJL@bv.com (Behm, Jeffrey L.) Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 08:54:11 -0600 Subject: [Suns-at-Home] New Server In-Reply-To: <45E3E1C0.5000003@asme.org> Message-ID: <0C3670BC9169B244AA6E7B2E436180D13F0026@TSMC-MAIL-04.na.bvcorp.net> Can you provide the list with some additional information as to what is not working? Need more details about what is, and what is not, working. Daemon starting? Error messages? What "tweaks" do you think you need to do and why? May not be your sendmail config at all, but could be your Linksys router config not allowing port 25 traffic inbound correctly. Can you connect to your sun on port 25 w/o going through your router to eliminate that? Etc. -----Original Message----- From: suns-at-home-admin@net-kitchen.com [mailto:suns-at-home-admin@net-kitchen.com] On Behalf Of Brian Costello Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2007 1:46 AM The most important of which is getting sendmail working. Under Solaris 2.6 I had=20 to manually tweak the sendmail.cf but in Solaris 9 the newer version of=20 sendmail is built in and I am a bit lost. I followed a few simple=20 configuration guides I could find but I cannot get it to receive mail=20 from external machines. Can anyone give me some advice on configuring=20 sendmail under Solaris 9?=20 From costellob@asme.org Tue Feb 27 16:57:36 2007 From: costellob@asme.org (Brian Costello) Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 08:57:36 -0800 Subject: [Suns-at-Home] New Server In-Reply-To: <0C3670BC9169B244AA6E7B2E436180D13F0026@TSMC-MAIL-04.na.bvcorp.net> References: <0C3670BC9169B244AA6E7B2E436180D13F0026@TSMC-MAIL-04.na.bvcorp.net> Message-ID: <45E46300.1050904@asme.org> Jeff, The Linksys port forwarding is working as expected. My SS20 that is running Solaris 2.6 is working just fine behind the firewall with SMTP (port 25) forwarded from the Linksys box. My SS20 which is no longer used as a router but works fine in this configuration is as follows: I am using dyndns to provide a fully qualified hostname to my static IP address for my DSL connection (costello.mine.nu). The host name of my SS20 is "costello" and the primary network port is hme0. I still have the secondard port set to the DSL address but it is no longer connected to anything (costello_le0). The Sunfire V100 is running Solaris 9 with the full OS install. I have added the following packages from Sunfreeware: Apache 2.0.59 GCC 3.4.6 gdbm 1.8.3 expat 1.95.5 db 4.2.52 libiconv 1.11 libxml2 2.6.26 mysql 5.9.27 ncurses 5.6 openssl 0.9.8d php 5.2 zlib 1.2.3 tcp_wrappers 7.6 wuftpd 2.6.2 imap 2006e The server is to be used as a mail, web, & ftp server. Therefore the primary applications are Apache with PHP to be able to use a lightweight web based Imap client (Squirrelmail), Imap to view mail using Thunderbird on the PCs, & WUftp. GCC is there to compile stuff as needed. The other packages are needed to support the packages I need. To test it out I changed the port forwarding to the Sunfire and Apache, ftp, and telnet work as expected. Mail is another story. From inside the local network, If I send a message from my SS60 to the Sunfire using mailx, the message ends up on the SS20 and I am not sure why. When I re-directed the Linksys box to the Sunfire and sent a message from my work email account it bounced with the following error: Your message did not reach some or all of the intended recipients. Subject: Test from work Sent: 2/26/2007 10:02 PM The following recipient(s) could not be reached: brian@costello.mine.nu on 2/26/2007 10:03 PM The e-mail address could not be found. Perhaps the recipient moved to a different e-mail organization, or there was a mistake in the address. Check the address and try again. ... Domain of sender address brian.costello@my_company.com does not exist> I changed error message above by replacing the real corporate domain name to "my_company" since they would not appreciate running email tests but rest assurred, it is a fully qualified domain name. When I tried to send a message out from the Sunfire the messages just seem to vanish. There is no error message and they do not show up on the other end. From a configuration perspective, I tried using the solaris-generic.m4 as well as generic.m4 domain from main.mc. I put "costello.mine.nu" in /etc/mail/local-host-names as well. I also tried changing /etc/mail/sendmail.cf directly by explicitly changing the "official doamin name" [Djcostello.mine.nu] which is how the SS20 is configured. Currently the sendmail.cf was built using main.mc with the domain set to generic. I have not modified generic.m4 at all. Brian P. Costello costellob@asme.org San Francisco Bay Area Behm, Jeffrey L. wrote: >Can you provide the list with some additional information as to what is >not working? > >Need more details about what is, and what is not, working. > >Daemon starting? >Error messages? >What "tweaks" do you think you need to do and why? >May not be your sendmail config at all, but could be your Linksys router >config not allowing port 25 traffic inbound correctly. Can you connect >to your sun on port 25 w/o going through your router to eliminate that? >Etc. > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: suns-at-home-admin@net-kitchen.com >[mailto:suns-at-home-admin@net-kitchen.com] On Behalf Of Brian Costello >Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2007 1:46 AM > >The most important of which is getting sendmail working. Under Solaris >2.6 I had >to manually tweak the sendmail.cf but in Solaris 9 the newer version of >sendmail is built in and I am a bit lost. I followed a few simple >configuration guides I could find but I cannot get it to receive mail >from external machines. Can anyone give me some advice on configuring >sendmail under Solaris 9? > > From huge@huge.org.uk Tue Feb 27 22:16:07 2007 From: huge@huge.org.uk (Huge) Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 22:16:07 +0000 Subject: [Suns-at-Home] New Server In-Reply-To: <20070227170528.BBFFA93E2@tigger.net-kitchen.com> References: <20070227170528.BBFFA93E2@tigger.net-kitchen.com> Message-ID: <1172614567.8676.6.camel@apophis> Brian Costello writes; > I am about to breakdown and buy the latest > O'Reilly Sendmail book but I am not sure I have the bandwidth to dig in > that deep. Any help would be greatly appreciated. pkgrm SUNWsndmr pkgrm SUNWsndmu pkg-get install postfix You're done. Regards, H. From jason@sungeek.net Tue Feb 27 22:43:25 2007 From: jason@sungeek.net (Jason Grove) Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 17:43:25 -0500 Subject: [Suns-at-Home] New Server In-Reply-To: <45E46300.1050904@asme.org> References: <0C3670BC9169B244AA6E7B2E436180D13F0026@TSMC-MAIL-04.na.bvcorp.net> <45E46300.1050904@asme.org> Message-ID: <45E4B40D.3060506@sungeek.net> > > ... Domain of sender address > brian.costello@my_company.com does not exist> > > I changed error message above by replacing the real corporate domain > name to "my_company" since they would not appreciate running email tests > but rest assurred, it is a fully qualified domain name. The domain of sender does not exist, usually points to a DNS problem. Make sure your /etc/resolv.conf has correct dns info and the /etc/nsswitch.conf has dns in the hosts line. jason