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How do I read, join, post to, or remove myself from the sunmanage

What is the Sun-Manager's Charter? What are the rules? 1: This list is NOT

Are there any archives for the sunmanagers list? Sunmanagers' official archive

What should I keep in mind when posting to sunmanagers? o VERY IMPORTANT! Befo

What other forums are there for Suns? Other forums that relate to Suns:

Where are the answers to questions about old Suns/SunOS4? Those questions and

What fields can I use to filter Sun Managers email? The following headers will

My remote ufsdump is failing with a "Protocol botched" message. What do I do?

Where can I get a C compiler for Solaris 2.x? Sun's Forte compilers can be bough

How do I read Microsoft Word documents on my Sun? You can obtain some of the raw

How do I restore to a different location the contents of a tarfile created with

How come my mouse occasionally doesn't work? If it is a mechanical mouse, it may

How can I turn my old sun into an X-Terminal? You can simply replace the ttymon

How can I use a VGA monitor on my Sun? A simple adapter will connect a Sun to a

Where can I find alternate pointing devices for my Sun? Bert N. Sure claims th

What should I do about my Ultra-1's CPU cooling fan? The small five or seven-bla

Why do both my net interfaces have the same ethernet address? The Ethernet versi

How can I know the hardware vendor from an ethernet address? The first three oct

How do I set my hme interface to e.g. 100Mb full duplex? This applies only to So

How do I find out what process is using a particular port? Ports are held open i

I have a lot of ports in WAIT states. Why? The state of sockets can be seen wit

Where can I get a POP or IMAP server for my sun? The PINE email package comes w

Is there a third-party source for SPARCprinter consumables? Yes, there is. The

How do I configure a non-postscript printer for postscript? If a ghostscript dri

I've forgotten the root password; how can I recover? You need to have access to

How do I disable/remap STOP-A/L1-A? First, be sure you want to do this. If the

How do I find out what patches are available from Sun? If you have a software

How do I get help upgrading to Solaris 2.x? Start by reading the Solaris FAQ,

* How do I access Sun's documentation over the net? Sun has a web site devoted t

To which web sites can I go for help? This is not a complete list, but:

How do I use DNS for hostname resolution? In Solaris 2.x, this is easy: simply

How do I change NIS+ credentials for the root master server? If an NIS+ system

When I compile something, errors occur saying _dlopen and other _

Why does my OpenWindows File Manager abort with a "mknod: permissio

What is the format.dat entry for drive X? The answer can vary according to wha

Where is my disk space? The "du" and "df" commands disagree. If a process is ho

How do I use an EIDE/ATA disk larger than 8GB? Versions of Solaris earlier than

Can I replace the internal drive in a desktop Sun with a higher

Is it okay to disconnect or connect SCSI devices while powered on? On olde

How do I configure my sun to use Exabyte 4mm DAT tape drives? Add the followin

Why is tagged queueing a problem on my third-party disk? Tagged Command Queuein

Why don't third-party CD-ROMS work on my sun? When Sun first decided to add CD-

What size and density parameters should I use for ufsdump with a h

My floppy/cdrom device says "device busy". What do I do? The Volume Manager (

What software is available for CD-R/CD-RW? Commercial Software: GE

How do I tell what caused my machine to crash? The crash messages will usually

What can I do if my machine slows to a crawl or just hangs? Try running "ps" to

How do I find out how much physical memory a machine has? Use /usr/sbin/prtcon

How do I find out what my machine's memory is being used for? How

Why do some files take up more disk space after being copied? Why a

How do I add more PTYs? For Solaris 7 and earlier, add a line in /etc/system t

How do I set up anonymous ftp on my machine? For Solaris 2.x, see the ftpd(1m)

Where can I get a version of ftp that does logging? These are many versions tha

How do I make the numeric keypad on a type 5 keyboard work with xt

How do I swap the CAPS LOCK and CONTROL keys on a type 5 keyboard

How do I use a Windows PC for a Sun serial console? Wire up a serial cable from

Which Sun models run which versions of SunOS? SunOS 5.x = Solaris 2.x Sun

How can my program tell what model Sun it is running on? On older suns, the mod

What MBUS CPU modules are available? How can I tell what module(s)

Which versions of SunOS/Solaris are Y2000 compliant? Are there pa

What is the Y2000 compliance status of Sun hardware? Sun's Y2000 efforts are do

How do I find out a Sun's boot prom revision? Type "banner" at the prom, or typ

Which hardware/software is capable of 64-bit? Which is only 64-bit? How c

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