Solaris

UDP client port question
This is Solaris 10. I am trying to write a simple UDP client that sends a SIP request to a server and wait for the response. I have essentially copied the simple UDP client out of Stevens book, but while I can see the request sent on Wireshark, I do not receive anything back (i.e., my recvfrom blocks without r... 2 Jul 2008 11:53

Regions are incomplete, after running localeadm -a
Hello. On a S10U4 box of "mine", I wanted to add the "Central Europe" (ceu) region. So I ran: localeadm -a ceu -d /data/software/solaris/U4/iso In the ../iso directory, I loopback mounted the S10U4 sparc ISO image. After running the above command, the following was printed: ----------------- ... 2 Jul 2008 06:45

rand_r scaling issues on high-end solaris machine
Hi We have a high-end solaris machine, 8-CPU, 32G RAM, (uname -a gives SunOS pilatus 5.10 Generic sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V890). While running some tests on it we have found that when we use rand_r function in a multithreaded test application then the performance does not scale with number of threads. Howe... 2 Jul 2008 00:38

send instant message to another user
bash-2.05$ uname -a SunOS devbox01 5.8 Generic_117350-26 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V240 Hi how to send instant message to another user on the system ? thanks ... 3 Jul 2008 08:23

Unix Admn. & Unix Programmers required urgently..!!
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nss_ldap on Solaris 10 Update 5
Hello, is someone using nss_ldap together with Solaris 10 Update 5. I'm currently facing an issue that I don't get LDAP informations as soon as I start nscd. Can someone confirm that issue or maybe has solved it? Thomas ... 4 Jul 2008 12:03

Automated SysAdmin; Dot Files; HP-UX porting (ver: Aug 1, 2006)
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://w... 1 Jul 2008 02:05

syntax error: `(' unexpected - bash
Hi, The shell environment is set after login as follows: : SHELL=/sbin/sh : When I run bash from the prompt, there is no error but when I run . / usr/bin/bash, it gives the following error: syntax error: `(' unexpected Any pointer is appreciated. Thanks in advance. ... 1 Jul 2008 08:13

Changing from DHCP to static IP
Here's what I'm trying to do: I initially set up my Solaris 8 workstation for DHCP. It worked fine but if you've ever done this you may have found that the hostname comes out to "unknown" (I've not quite figured out how to set a meaningfull hostname when using DHCP without my system acting wierd). Subsequently, I'... 30 Jun 2008 20:58

Why is Netscape 4.7x unbelievably slow on my Solaris 9 machine?
Hi folks, I want to use Netscape 4.7x on my Solaris 9 SPARC machine to test the backward compatibility of a website I'm building. When I first used Solaris 9, Netscape 4.7x (the version accessed by typing "netscape" at the command line) worked just fine. But now it's unbelievably slow and keeps crashing. I c... 2 Jul 2008 14:59