just a dozen messages down in my incoming mail. Must be an omen, so I'm
just going to forward it. Someone who wants can attempt to put together
an appropriate one for the Bacula list. It shouldn't have to be as long
as this one.
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Chris Hoogendyk
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O__ ---- Systems Administrator
c/ /'_ --- Biology & Geology Departments
(*) \(*) -- 140 Morrill Science Center
~~~~~~~~~~ - University of Massachusetts, Amherst
<hoogendyk < at > bi...>
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-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Sun Managers Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2007 00:30:03 -0400 (EDT)
From: jdd < at > cs.toronto.edu (John DiMarco)
To: sunmanagers < at > su...
Archive-name: sunmanagers-faq
$Id: faq.html,v 1.28 2006/11/23 21:51:41 jdd Exp $
SunManagers Frequently Asked Questions
This is collection of common questions posted to the sunmanagers
mailing list twice a month. It is intended to benefit Sun System
Managers and reduce traffic to the list by providing quick answers to
common problems. Keeping with the style of a similar FAQ for
comp.windows.x, questions marked with a '+' indicate questions new to
this issue; those with significant changes of content since the last
issue are marked by '*'
The Information Files maintainer is John DiMarco <jdd < at > cs.toronto.edu>.
All corrections, submissions and FAQ administration-related messages
should go to <sunmanagers-faq < at > su...>. Do not send questions,
subscription or unsubscription requests, or sunmanagers postings to
this address; they will be quietly ignored.
The List Server maintainer is Bill Bradford <mrbill at mrbill dot
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Bill.
_________________________________________________________________
Questions
1. The Sun-Manager's Mailing list
1.1) How do I read, join, post to, or remove myself from the
sunmanagers mailing list?
1.2) What is the Sun-Manager's Charter? What are the rules?
1.3) Are there any public archives for the sunmanagers list?
1.4) What should I keep in mind when posting to sunmanagers?
1.5) What other forums are there for Suns?
1.6) Where are the answers to questions about old Suns and old
versions of Solaris?
1.7) What fields can I use to filter Sun Managers email?
2. Getting Help Over the Net
2.1) How do I find out what patches are available from Sun?
2.2) * How do I get help migrating to Solaris?
2.3) How do I access Sun's documentation over the net?
2.4) To which web sites can I go for help?
3. Network Directory and File Services
3.1) How do I use DNS for hostname resolution?
3.2) How do I change NIS+ credentials for the root master server?
3.3) When I compile something, errors occur saying _dlopen and other
_dl routines can't be found. Why?
4. Window Systems
4.1) + What Window system GUIs are supported by Sun?
5. Disks, Tapes and SCSI
5.1) * What sector/head/cylinders parameters should be used for a hard
disk?
5.2) * Can I replace an internal drive in a Sun with a higher capacity
model?
5.3) Is it okay to disconnect or connect SCSI devices while powered
on?
5.4) How do I configure my sun to use Exabyte 4mm DAT tape drives?
5.5) Why is tagged queueing a problem on my third-party disk?
5.6) Why don't third-party CD-ROMS work on my sun?
5.7) What size and density parameters should I use for ufsdump with a
high-capacity tape drive?
5.
My floppy/cdrom device says "device busy". What do I do?
5.9) What software is available for CD-R/CD-RW?
5.10) Where is my disk space? The "du" and "df" commands disagree.
6. Resource Management and Performance Tuning
6.1) How do I tell what caused my machine to crash?
6.2) What can I do if my machine slows to a crawl or just hangs?
6.3) How do I find out how much physical memory a machine has?
6.4) How do I find out what my machine's memory is being used for? How
can I tell if I need more memory?
6.5) Why do some files take up more disk space after being copied? Why
are the sizes reported by ls -l and du different?
7.
Darien Hager wrote:
I wonder if a small improvement would be to basically send them an e-
mail as part of the signup process which has some helpful links,
small manual TOC, etc.
I'm not sure to what extent you can customize the "Welcome to the
list" mailman message on sourceforge...
The sunmanagers list has an extensive thing that includes an FAQ and
links to resources as well as the rules of use for the listserv. Their
list is a little different, in that it is assumed to be for those who
are experienced managers of Sun systems and only questions and summaries
are to be posted -- no discussions on list. But it could give some
ideas. It is also resent to the list periodically to remind participants
or to include updated information.
If this is of interest to this list just as an example, I could find one
and forward it.
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Chris Hoogendyk
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O__ ---- Systems Administrator
c/ /'_ --- Biology & Geology Departments
(*) \(*) -- 140 Morrill Science Center
~~~~~~~~~~ - University of Massachusetts, Amherst
<hoogendyk < at > bi...>
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