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SGI admin Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
- Introduction
- -1- DIAGNOSTICS
- -2- How can I determine which release of IRIX I'm running and which patches are applied?
- -3- How can I determine my SGI's Ethernet (and/or FDDI) address?
- -4- My SGI crashed and generated a file, /usr/adm/crash/vmcore.1. How can I examine this file to see what crashed my system?
- -5- How can I find out just about everything about my system at once?
- -6- DISKS
- -7- How big can files and filesystems be?
- -8- My XFS filesystem is corrupt or inconsistent. How do I fix it?
- -9- Does IRIX support sparse files?
- -10- Why is /debug or /proc full of huge files?
- -11- How do I remount the /proc filesystem after accidentally unmounting it?
- -12- How do I extend an existing filesystem onto a new disk?
- -13- How do I know if I need more memory and/or swap space?
- -14- How much swap space should I have per megabyte of memory?
- -15- How can I increase my swap space?
- -16- What are virtual and logical swap space? How do they work in IRIX 3.x, 4.0.x and 5.x?
- -17- Why is there no way to set up a RAM disk under IRIX?
- -18- BOOTING
- -19- How can I boot directly into single-user mode?
- -20- How can I boot from a non-default disk?
- -21- How can I boot my machine using a server on the other side of a router?
- -22- How do I make a bootable tape from an IRIX CD?
- -23- Why can't I boot one of the stand-alone programs on a tape or CD?
- -24- INSTALLING
- -25- Is it possible to remotely install IRIX over a network?
- -26- Which IRIX CD is the program 'foo' on?
- -27- How can I extract a single file from an 'inst' subsystem?
- -28- Why doesn't 'inst' work?
- -29- Why doesn't 'inst' work remotely?
- -30- I just installed a new version of IRIX and file X is missing. What should I do?
- -31- I reinstalled an IRIX subsystem to restore a missing file or get rid of a corrupted file, but it didn't help. Why not?
- -32- Why do 'inst' and 'showprods' say that a subsystem is an "Unknown product entry"?
- -33- How can I install IRIX onto a second disk which I can then move to another machine?
- -34- How can I copy my system disk onto a second disk which I can then move to another machine?
- -35- How can I share parts of IRIX among multiple machines?
- -36- Can I install a "tardist" archive without the "tardist" software?
- -37- I'm running 6.5.x, why can't I install the compilers?
- -38- NETWORKING
- -39- Why isn't my network working?
- -40- How can I measure my network's reliability?
- -41- How do I add a static route?
- -42- How can I make the 'slip' command advertise the Ethernet address of the SLIP client?
- -43- I've just edited inetd.conf, and nothing changed. Why?
- -44- Why can't I 'rdist' files between Suns and SGIs?
- -45- Why are there "satwrite failure: inetd" messages in my SYSLOG in IRIX 5.3?
- -46- What is causing the "get interface flags" error in my syslog?
- -47- Why are network connections between SGIs and Suns much slower than between SGIs and SGIs or Suns and Suns?
- -48- How can I set up IP aliases?
- -49- Where is ipfilterd documented?
- -50- MAIL
- -51- How can I set up 'sendmail' to pass (or not pass) 8-bit characters?
- -52- Why are my mailbox files changing ownership?
- -53- Why isn't a valid user getting their mail?
- -54- How can SGIs and Suns share a mail spool?
- -55- What's an "unknown mailer error"?
- -56- What's "mailbox: Error 0"?
- -57- Why am I having problems with my NFS-mounted mail spool?
- -58- Why are incoming mail addresses case-sensitive in IRIX 5.3?
- -59- NFS
- -60- How can I tell what hostname to use in /etc/exports?
- -61- Why can't I export an NFS-mounted filesystem?
- -62- Why can't Ultrix automount SGI filesystems?
- -63- Why does 'tar' work strangely on a filesystem mounted from an SGI?
- -64- Why does 'df' report incorrect numbers for a filesystem mounted from a Sun?
- -65- Is 'pcnfsd' available for the SGI?
- -66- Can I export a CD-ROM from my SGI to a non-SGI?
- -67- How can I read an IRIX (EFS) CD-ROM on a machine which doesn't use EFS?
- -68- How can I get quotas to work on an NFS filesystem?
- -69- Why can't some NFS clients NFS-mount IRIX 5.2 filesystems?
- -70- What's NFS3?
- -71- Why can't Solaris 2.5 clients read directories on NFS3- mounted IRIX 6.2 filesystems?
- -72- Why does my NFS server print "fhtovp_end VFS_GET failed" or "fhtovp_end vp NULL" to the console/SYSLOG?
- -73- PRINTING
- -74- Why can't lp(1) read my file?
- -75- How can I tell 'lp' to turn banner printing or page reversal off or on?
- -76- How can I use 'lpr' instead of or as well as 'lp'?
- -77- How can I print to a printer with a JetDirect card?
- -78- Why won't lpr(1) print very large files?
- -79- SGI DAEMONS
- -80- Why isn't the objectserver working?
- -81- What is sending packets to the sgi-dog.mcast.net multicast address?
- -82- Why are the objectserver and directoryserver taking up so much memory in IRIX 5.3?
- -83- Why don't the desktop admin tools recognize root as a privileged user?
- -84- Why doesn't my desktop deal properly with the CD or tape icons?
- -85- Why doesn't my mediad start up under IRIX 5.3?
- -86- Why do cdman, cdplayer and capture say "permission denied"?
- -87- Why can't 'cformat' format floptical disks, and/or why can't 'datman' play audio DATs?
- -88- Why is famd hammering my NFS server?
- -89- What is causing "/dev/imon: event queue overflow" in my syslog?
- -90- BUGS
- -91- Why do 'who', 'rusers', etc. show users who aren't really logged in?
- -92- What's wrong with ftpd in IRIX 5.2?
- -93- Why isn't /usr/adm/SYSLOG being updated?
- -94- I just edited /etc/inittab, and now I can't start up or shut down my SGI! What's wrong?
- -95- Why does timed say "bind: Cannot assign requested address"?
- -96- Why does "ALERT: i2cWaitForXferDone: Xfer Done timeout ERROR" appear in my SYSLOG?
- -97- Why has NIS (YP) stopped working under IRIX 6.x?
- -98- MISCELLANEOUS
- -99- How do I set the number of processes allowed on my machine?
- -100- Where can I get a termcap file for 'iris-ansi-net' to install on my non-SGI system?
- -101- How can I make my SGI understand strange terminal types from other Unix systems?
- -102- Can I change my login shell or other password-file info without being superuser?
- -104- How can I use the visual admin tools on a system with graphics to administer a system without graphics?
- -105- What's /etc/ioctl.syscon?
- -106- Can I log out users automatically?
- -107- How can I change kernel variables and/or rebuild my kernel?
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