[SunHELP] Re: Ptys exceeded
praveena k
sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Fri May 11 15:33:45 CDT 2001
Hi Guys
I have problem with ptys , some times it is exceeding the limit and getting
error " cannot grant slave pty " , I have set the pt_cnt limit to 1024 in
etc/system file,and the RAM is 1024mb on my E250.what is maximum limit i can
give , How do i resolve the problem
Thanks
Kumar
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> 1. Re:command for finding user information (Xiaomei Zhou)
> 2. Re: ADMINISTRIVA: LIST POLICY (Fred Dikeman)
> 3. Re: Diff between patches and MUs? (Dale Ghent)
> 4. tcp wrappers (solaris at qnet.com.pe)
> 5. Re: Wiping Sparc harddrives (dhansen at zebra.net)
> 6. Disable login info: (Pissey, Vinod)
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>Message: 1
>Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 10:22:09 -0500 (CDT)
>From: Xiaomei Zhou <mei at prc.utexas.edu>
>To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
>Subject: [SunHELP] Re:command for finding user information
>Reply-To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
>
>Thanks for all the suggestions. I have figured out that since I'm running
>nis+, the
>best way for me to find user name using user id is to use the command
>
> niscat passwd.org_dir | grep <uid>
>
>
>
>Mei
>
>
> >----Original Message Follows----
> >From: Xiaomei Zhou <mei at prc.utexas.edu>
> >Reply-To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> >To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> >Subject: [SunHELP] command for finding user information
> >Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 09:51:11 -0500 (CDT)
> >
> >Hi,
> >
> >Does anyone know a command I can use to find user name using the user id?
> >The command
> >"id -a" only works if I know the user login name. Is there a command that
> >can use
> >user id to find user login name?
> >
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Mei
>
>
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>Message: 2
>Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 10:19:51 -0400
>From: Fred Dikeman <fred at workstation.net>
>Organization: Data Instruments, Inc
>To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
>Subject: Re: [SunHELP] ADMINISTRIVA: LIST POLICY
>Reply-To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
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>Sounds more than fair to me but can you send me Amy's phone number so I can
>cold
>call her for some of those macaroons? : )
>
>fred
>data instruments, inc
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>Message: 3
>Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 12:11:35 -0400 (EDT)
>From: Dale Ghent <daleg at elemental.org>
>To: <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [SunHELP] Diff between patches and MUs?
>Reply-To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
>
>On Fri, 11 May 2001, Ben Ricker wrote:
>
>| What exactly is the difference between the "Recommended" patches and
>| Maintenance updates? The MUs are just a bunch of patches! Just curious
>| is I need to do both or just the Recommended. MU4 is 148 megabytes
>ZIPPED!
>
>The Recommended Patch Cluster conatins patches that are important for all
>systems to apply. These patches mainly address security and
>stability/performance fixes.
>
>The MUs contain all the patches in the Recommended Patch cluster, as well
>as many other patches that fix small errors in not-as-important areas of
>Solaris, and also patches that introduce new functionality into Solaris.
>
>Applying a MU will bring your server up spec with the current release of
>Solaris. In other words, applying the MU3 for Solaris 8 will bring your
>system up to Solaris 8 1/01 standards. Applying MU4 will bring it up to
>Solaris 8 4/01 standards, and so on.
>
>/dale
>
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>Message: 4
>To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
>From: solaris at qnet.com.pe
>Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 16:07:33 GMT
>Subject: [SunHELP] tcp wrappers
>Reply-To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
>
>Dear Managers:
>
>Please, I would want to know how Ican solve a problem
>configuring tcp wrappers on my SunOS 5.8, I have the follow
>files:
>
>/etc/hosts.allow , this contains:
>
>
>in.ftpd: LOCAL,200.48.205.
>
>/etc/hosts.deny ,this contains:
>ALL: ALL
>
>my /etc/inetd.conf file looks as (at the service that I want):
>
>ftp stream tcp6 nowait root /usr/local/bin/tcpd in.ftpd
>
>I compiled tcpwrappers with
>
>make sunos5
>
>and the REAL_DAEMON_DIR has the value = /usr/sbin
>
>then I placed tcpd at /usr/local/bin
>
>then I executed a kill -HUP (inetd pid)
>
>I noted all connections are refused including the local host,
>So I tested the same configuration on a DigitalUN
>IX without problems, therefore I dont know where is the
>problem's source.
>
>I noted the inetd.conf file uses tcp6 for this service, can
>be here the problem??????
>
>Thank you for your help in advance.
>
>Best Regards
>Ernesto Freyre
>
>
>
>
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>Message: 5
>To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
>From: dhansen at zebra.net
>Subject: Re: [SunHELP] Wiping Sparc harddrives
>Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 16:46:22 GMT
>Reply-To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
>
> > the people who are currently in posession don't know a bloody thing
>about
> > suns and don't care to learn so they asked the screpper to do it. the
> > scrapper sells componants and is interested in selling the drives, they
> > low-level all scsi devices anyways at their facility, but the company
>that
> > has them in the warehouse wants them non bootable before they leave the
>place.
> > I was thinking of telling them to dd a meg of /dev/null on to the
>drive...
>
> As long as you dd garbage to sectors 0 - 31 of cylinder 0, they should
>be able
>to satisfy the warehouse people. I just hope that the previous owners of
>these
>units is either the warehouse people themselves or customers that realize
>that their old hardware isn't being handled properly.
>
> -david
>
> > > At 07:12 AM 5/11/01 +0000, you wrote:
> > > This really depends on what the goal is. Any "quick" method
> > >is not going to be secure. But then any software method
> > >won't be secure anyway.
> > > Also, the type of drive in question is needed to come up
> > >with a fast way of wiping the information off of them in a
> > >large quantity. (i.e.- hot swappable drives lend themselves
> > >easier to a "quick" solution)
> > >
> > > Do they care if the method leaves the information in a
> > >fairly easy to recover state or do they want a psuedo-secure
> > >method (less "quick", still not foolproof)?
> > > And out of curiousity, why is a scrapper interested in this
> > >when it is the warehouse people (whose possession (and
> > >responsibility) the drives are currently in) who have to
> > >perform this before the scrapper can take charge of them?
> > >And is the scrapping company planning on reselling these
> > >machines instead of scrapping them?
> > >
> > > -david
>
>
>
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>Message: 6
>From: "Pissey, Vinod" <Vinod.Pissey at compaq.com>
>To: "'sunhelp at sunhelp.org'" <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
>Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 09:57:34 -0700
>Subject: [SunHELP] Disable login info:
>Reply-To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
>
>Hi All,
>
>I wanted to secure my web server.In the process I was just thinking whether
>we can remove the login prompt from the telnet session.That is whenever
>any
>user tries to telnet into the machine he should not get the login prompt
>but
>directly the password prompt which should be for the root.
>
>Thanks
>Regards
>Vinod Kumar Pissey
>Compaq Computers
>14231 Tandem Blvd
>Phone:512-4328761.
>Unix Is User-Friendly.It's just selective about who its friends Are.
>
>
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