[SunRescue] Misc. questions

[Eric Ozrelic]

Cool, thanks for the advice. I'll let you know when I get down there. What
type
of interent access is down there and approx. how much does it cost?

Regards,

Eric Ozrelic
aka ProjektSUN


----- Original Message -----
From: "James Lockwood" <james at foonly.com>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Friday, February 04, 2000 12:31 AM
Subject: Re: [SunRescue] Misc. questions


> On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Eric Ozrelic wrote:
>
> > I have a few questions, most of which will seem very simplistic:
> >
> > 1. What file do I need to edit to set the path and shell used for the
Root
> > account in Solaris?
>
> Don't do this.  Read news archives of comp.unix.solaris if you really need
> to know why.
>
> It's /etc/passwd.
>
> > 2. Why can't I use the "su -m" command when I su to root to keep my
shell's
> > settings
> > when I'm a superuser?
>
> Because that option isn't in UNIX98 and is not a standard.  Doesn't exist
> in AIX either, and I don't think it's in HP-UX.
>
> > 3. When you do a core installation for Solaris 2.7, are the man pages
left
> > out?
>
> Yes.  But if you really want fine control over what gets installed you can
> customize the packages that are loaded.
>
> > 4. By the way, where are all of the man pages located?!?
>
> /usr/share/man (system stuff), /usr/openwin/man (openwin), /usr/dt/man
> (CDE/Motif), etc.
>
> > 4. Does anyone know of a way or an MP3 player that's effecient enough to
> > play
> > 128Kb 44KHz MP3's at full speed on a Sparc LX with 32 mb's ram and
almost
> > all processes stopped? Right now I'm using MPG123, and I can play MP3's
but
> > to get them not to skip I have to play them at mono, or I have to
downmix
> > them to
> > 22Khz.
>
> showmetv 1.3 can just manage it on an LX.  One problem is that it's an X
> app.
>
> > 5. What file or how do I make it so that the workstation will
automatically
> > login
> > as a certain account?
>
> If you really need to do this, look at the /etc/init.d files.  You can
> have anything you want started out of the runlevel that you choose.
>
> > If anyone has already done something like this I would be very
interested in
> > knowing
> > how they went about doing this.
>
> Sparc 5 (actually Axil 245), serial LCD panel for output, hacked keyboard
> for input, caddy-loading Plextor 6plex in the dash.
>
> Consider using the suspend/resume feature of the LX to avoid bootup time.
> With only 32MB and running a small set of daemons it should be quite
> snappy.
>
> > P.S Anybody live in LA? I'm going to be moving there and I would like to
> > hook up with some
> > people, you know swap stuff, or go to swap meets, or dumpster
diving...stuff
> > like that. :-)
>
> 5 miles west of the 101/405 junction.
>
> -James
>
>
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