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Dear prospective sun-managers poster,
Before posting, please stop for a minute and consider whether or not your
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possible question related to managing Sun equipment or software. The only
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system management problems that are not answered in the manuals or system
documentation, or in the Sun-Manager's FAQ.
In particular, the following kinds of postings are not appropriate:
- Subscribe and unsubscribe messages. Send them to
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- Discussions about anything or followups to any posting, with the
exception of a single summary to one's own question summarizing
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comp.sys.sun.admin or comp.sys.sun.hardware
- Postings not related to Sun equipment or software. Use the
appropriate newsgroup or mailing list instead. For example,
if your question concerns "sendmail", please consult the
comp.mail.sendmail newsgroup or the www.sendmail.org website.
- General UNIX or network questions. Use the appropriate newsgroup,
eg. comp.unix.questions instead.
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eg. comp.sys.sun.admin or comp.sys.sun.hardware.
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- Questions that are answered in the manuals, answerbook, or system
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Please note that we are not saying these postings are necessarily "bad" or
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are many other lists and newsgroups for which the question may be completely
appropriate, and we encourage you to submit the posting there.
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Please spend a minute or two checking one of the Sun-Manager's archives, eg.
the one at Louisiana Tech (http://www.latech.edu/sunman.html) or Dataman
Benelux (http://www.dataman.nl/cgi-bin/sunmanagers).
Here's an example of an appropriate question:
I have a SPARCserver 99 running Solaris 9.8.7 with the fizbozz patch
and the jumbo kernel patch version 158. After I installed
Futzbarworks version 3.2, the machine locks up every couple of
hours. When it locks up, the following message appears on the
console:
zz0: out of futzbufs. Barworks table is full.
I need to get this machine working as soon as possible. Please
help! Send email and I will summarize to the list.
When you submit a question, please indicate all relevant information,
including machine type, OS version and patches. Collect email replies,
and then summarize them to the list. If your question was posted with
a subject of "foobar", for example, then please post your summary with a
subject of "SUMMARY: foobar".
Why are we asking that only certain types of postings be submitted to the
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someone else that you work with today or may find yourself working with
tomorrow. We do not want you to embarrass yourself by sending an
inappropriate or poorly thought-out posting.
Regards,
John
-- John DiMarco <jdd@cs.toronto.edu> Sun-Manager's FAQ maintainer http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~jdd