RAMDISK

357 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:09:00
Does anyone know of any goods sites that talk about RAMDISK, or more of a howto. Cause I need to make a 1gig+ ramdisk for the science team to run some blasting apps. Which takes along time. Thanks !!-- Scott D. PhamSystem AdministratorIncellico, INC919-484-7222 x 223www.incellico.com2327 ...

JNI fcaw hitachi disk setup woes

1297 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:09:00
Hi gurusI have a loan Hitachi 9960 and some FC64-1063 SBus controllers in a coupleof E10K domains, set up with SunOS 5.6 and 5.8. I managed to get the JNIdrivers loaded and actually get to see the luns as nodes in /dev/dsk.I have done multiple boot -r as well as drvconfig; devlinks; ...

Sun Managers Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

106088 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:09:00
Archive-name: codeprof-faqSun-Managers' Frequently Asked Questions$Id: faq,v 4.12 2001/05/17 15:20:59 jdd Exp $This is collection of common questions posted to the codeprof mailinglist twice a month. It is intended to benefit Sun System Managers andreduce traffic to the list by providing quick ...

sendmail in solaris8

354 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:09:00
Hello, all,I would like to hear some opinions about sendmail in solaris8.I was use sendmail which download from sendmail.org on my ultra2 withsolaris7. I plan to upgrade solaris7 to solaris8. Should I use sendmailwith solaris8 or I should do same thing as solaris7: download currentversion from ...

JDK 1.1.5

183 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:09:00
Hi --<p>I was searching for JDK 1.1.5 on Sun's website and they seemed to have<br>removed it from the archived downloads. Does anyone have a copy of it ?<p>Thanks,<p>--Melinda :o)<p>

SUMMARY: SUMMARY: Printing in landscape mode

4165 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:09:00
Hello ALL,Thank you for your responses and suggestions; listed below your namesI have not attempted to use anylpadmin -p PRINTER_NAME -o landscapeThis worked for one printer but not the other. I am looking into why this is so. I will summarize again if an alternative, or better, solution is ...

SUMMARY: SUMMARY: Printing in landscape mode

4261 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:09:00
Hello ALL,Thank you for your responses and suggestions;listed below your names.Though, I have not used any of these suggestions (my IT department has made a last minute decision to set the printers orietation in landscape mode), someone might find it useful.I have provided Bernard McCauley's ...

How to change a definition of a Locale Category

1564 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:09:00
Hi all,My Locale is defined in /etc/default/init as follows:TZ=Australia/NSWLC_NUMERIC=en_AU.ISO8859-1LC_TIME=en_AU.ISO8859-1.....Output of "locale -ck LC_TIME" is as follows:# locale -ck LC_TIMELC_TIMEd_t_fmt="%a %b %d %H:%M:%S ...

Sun Workshop 4.2 on Sol 8

144 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:09:00
Hi All,<p>I would like to know whether sun workshop 4.2 is available/supported on<br>Solaris 8?<br> <br>TIA,<p>Thanks and regards,<br>Dinesh<br>

telnet timeout question!

428 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:09:00
When I telnet an address which doesn't exist, I find the default timeout isabout a few minutes. The following is the log. It is about 90 seconds. Can I change the connection timeout? And how can I do it?Thanks!# date Mon Jun 18 16:04:51 EAT 2001# telnet 10.1.1.1Trying...telnet: Unable to ...

Regarding SUN SOLARIS 2.6 L2 Certification

370 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:09:00
Sir,I'm Karthikeyan working in wipro - delhi as a engineer.I 've alreadycompleted my solaris 2.6 L1 exam on october '2000.I'd like to give my L2 on same 2.6 version soon. But I was told that SUN isgoing to outdate this 2.6 certifications.I 'llbe more helpful if u reply me on the ...

file descriptors.

123 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:09:00
Hi there,<p>How do i increase the file descriptors on solaris 7. What will be the impact<br>of this?<p>Regards,<br>Sudha<p>

traffic monitoring

1716 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:09:00
This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understandthis format, some or all of this message may not be legible.------_=_NextPart_001_01C0F7FA.49DDC810Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"Hi all,We have 2 production sun servers runnig apache. I'm ...

grep for more than single lines

480 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:09:00
All,I need a command or script to grep for a string within a file, and theninstead of just printing out that single line, getting it to print theprevious 10 lines, or the following 5 lines, or a combination of both, suchthat I can cut out an error message in context, and see what happened ...

/usr/kernel/drv/xty: undefined symbol

873 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:09:00
Gurus,I've just rebooted a server and this appeared:Jun 18 14:57:49 test unix: /usr/kernel/drv/xty: undefined symbol 'sleep'Jun 18 14:57:49 test unix: /usr/kernel/drv/xty: undefined symbol 'wakeup'Jun 18 14:57:49 test unix: WARNING: mod_load: MT-unsafe module 'xty'rejectedJun 18 14:57:49 ...

REPEAT: transport protocol message

644 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:09:00
Hi folks,I didn't get any answers to my initial query so I'm repeating in caseanyone has any further ideas. I am seeing many messages in my log files ofthe form :-Jun 18 15:28:39 soar rquotad[3276]: [ID 288276 mail.error] warning: unableto identify transport protocolThis machine runs the very ...

SUMMARY: grep for more than single lines

2259 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:09:00
Thanks everyone - I shan't name you all, as I've has 20+ emails in 10minutes already, and am aleady shamed by my pitifully woeful knowledge,without having to name those cleverer than I...The general opinion was to use GNU grep, but I wasn't keen on installing anymore packages etc which is ...

Orca stats

660 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:09:00
HelloI'm confused on just what packages need to be installed to use the orcastats, the previous admin use to install Monkit.ds RICHPse RICHPsexANCrules, the way we have it setup now is that one system goes out once aday to all clients and gets stats from /var/adm/weblogs and then runs ...

web server on sol8

2644 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:09:00
This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understandthis format, some or all of this message may not be legible.------_=_NextPart_001_01C0F80A.0B73BE30Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"hi,does this look familiar to anyone; and what/where is a ...

Long usernames

595 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:09:00
Hi managers!I've searched the archives and been scanning Google for any input onthis issue but got nothing that satisfied. So, my questions are...* Is there support for usernames longer then 8 characters in Solaris 2.6 and greater? (It would seem it is supported by passwd, how about the ...

sed question

1393 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:09:00
Hi guys:please excuse me if this is an offtopic question, but any help would beappreciated.I am trying to copy a file (aliases-users) from Unix box A to Unix box B. Iam trying to do it via email. On unix box B, I have an alias set up in the/etc/mail/aliases file asaliastest: ...

SUMMARY: web server on sol8

6131 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:09:00
This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understandthis format, some or all of this message may not be legible.------_=_NextPart_001_01C0F80D.73F17080Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"A: resolved very quickly by touching $INSTANCE/logs/pid;and ...

SUMMARY 2: grep for more than single lines

4142 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:09:00
All,After having it pointed out that this will only work for the first instanceof the string in the file by Dan Astoorian (Something I was already workingon) and thinking it was a bit crap having to edit the script everytime youwanted to change the string or filename etc, I edited is as ...

Printing to Novell Print Queues from Solaris.

271 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:09:00
Anyone have any pointers on how this works? I'm told that you can just use<br>LPR to point to the print queues on Novell. I'd like to be able to test<br>this as a printing solution for us.<p>Any tips, hints, white papers, etc would be appreciated.<p>I'll summarize.<p>

Identifing the device name on an external SCSI tape unit

2582 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:09:00
This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understandthis format, some or all of this message may not be legible.------_=_NextPart_001_01C0F81D.D74D5B48Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"I'm am installing an external Sun 8mm SCSI tape unit on a ...

SUMMARY: forte install problems

1478 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:09:00
Thanx to Harvey Wamboldt who pointed out the manual pagefile:/opt/SUNWspro/WS6U1/lib/locale/C/html/manuals/installation/install_guide/remove.html or http://docs.sun.com/htmlcoll/coll.46.11/iso-8859-1/WSINSTALL/remove.html#8290iI tested this and it worked. nothing better than RTFM. Pethayapera, ...

Sun 911 + 5.25" drives?

249 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:09:00
Hello folks,<p>Is it possible to fit 4 5.25" drives in a Sun 911 enclosure? I<br>have 4 5.25" 22GB disks I would like to use but do not have<br>an enclosure. If this will not work, does anyone have any<br>cheap ideas?<p>Thanks,<p>- Ryn<br>

Network settings

1684 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:09:00
We've got a couple of machines that, of necessity, must live outside ourfirewall.In locking them down (making them "bastion hosts"), we followedsuggestions from Hal Pomeranz in his "Building Bastion Hosts with Solaris"booklet (from the SANS2000 conference in Orlando, ...

Setting up NTP

610 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:09:00
Hi, I am setting up NTP Server & want to synchronize withexternal time server. I want to know the setings in /etc/inet/ntp.conf file. My servers are in centraltimezone. Do I need to refer any specific externaltime srvers in that case ? What would be the IP address of external ...

Setting up NTP Server

758 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:09:00
Hi, I am setting up NTP Server & would like tosynchronize time with external remote time server. Can somebody guide me for doing this. My servers are located in Central timezone, USA. Do I need to refer any specific timeservers tosynchronize ? What are the IP address of those servers ? ...

NDS and Solaris

521 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:09:00
Given my companies direction towards e-commerce solutions, We're in theprocess of investigating using E-directory from Novell as theauthentication mechanisim for our Solaris users. We want our security groupto be able to change user passwords and create/delete accounts using thesame tools they ...

Summary: Printing to Novell Print Queues from Solaris.

2943 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:09:00
Many thanks to those that replied. I got my answer from Google.com and from the replies I recieved. Kudos to all of thosepeople that are willing to spend their time helping answer questions on this list. Its a great resource to be able to utilize.Answer to Printing to Novell Print Queues from ...

Patch failure

882 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:09:00
Hi all,I am having a problem installing patches on solaris2.6 O/S, I get thefollowing errors"Patch 105216-04 failed to install due to a failure produced by pkgadd""pkgadd: ERROR: checkinstall script did not complete successfullyDryrun complete.No changes were made to the ...

Jumper for Firmware upgrade on Ultra5's

725 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:09:00
Does anyone know if there is a problem with leaving the JP2 jumper on anUltra5 or Ultra10 in the writable position? This is the jumper that allowsyou to upgrade the firmware on these systems. I'm aware of the generalpotential problems of having the firmware set to write enabled, but ...

Summary:Setting up NTP Server

4433 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:09:00
hi, I got a number of good replies, thanks to all whoreplied. Here i am putting 2 of the good replies.Just add this to /etc/ntp.confserver navobs1.usnogps.navy.mil #204.34.198.40 (tick)server navobs2.usnogps.navy.mil #204.34.198.41 (tock)server time-b.timefreq.bldrdoc.gov ...

Mount point problem with encapsulated root

17427 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:09:00
This is a multi-part message in MIME format.------=_NextPart_000_0000_01C0F849.FF02AB80Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bitI am running Solaris 7 on a 4500 using Veritas file system and volumemanager.While the system was up ALL my mount ...

opening appletviewer in openwindows 3.0

392 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:09:00
Hello,On some of my workstations I have sun OS 1.1.2.The openwindows version forthe OS is 3.0.I am unable to open the appletviewer programs on these workstations.Theappletviewer programs reside on the server which is a solaris 2.6 with javainstalled.I have set the display variable.Is there some ...

SUMMARY: Long usernames

1631 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:09:00
On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 05:29:28PM +0200, Martin kesson mumbled:> > * Is there support for usernames longer then 8 characters in Solaris 2.6> and greater? (It would seem it is supported by passwd, how about the os?)> * What are the most obvius problems with this? I know things ...

Solaris 8 JumpStart failure: WARNING: No bootparam server responding

5621 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:09:00
I am trying to add Solaris 8 to our JumpStart server (which handles2.6 and 7 nicely), and apparently I misconfigured something. However,I cannot find more detailed documentation on what is actuallyhappening during the 2nd stage boot. The machine successfullyretrieves its IP address, and then ...

configuration of qfe3 with ifconfig

664 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:09:00
Hello to all,when I am trying configure qfe3 (las port of quad card) after I amexecuting command:"ifconfig qfe3 192.168.51.254 netmask 255.255.255.0 " and"ifconfig up" I am getting such a output to "ifconfig qfe3" command :"qfe3: ...

Is set noexec_user_stack=1 good enough

464 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:09:00
Hi Gurusset noexec_user_stack=1set noexec_user_stack_log=1Does these settings provide total and complete protection against allbuffer overflow / stack-smashing attacks, or am I still at risk from thesekinds of exploits even with having these settings enabled?I use these on SunOS 5.6, 5.7, and ...

LDAP and Solaris + iPlanet + Oracle

951 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:09:00
<html><DIV>Dear Gurus, </DIV><DIV>&nbsp;</DIV><DIV>my customer would like to have a single Directory Server for their&nbsp; Solaris/iPlanet/Oracle environment and my expertise includes nothing about ...

Weird swap behaviour : Sol.8, ssp 3.4, syslog.conf

1957 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:09:00
All...Tried to look this up on the archives just now but the search engine seemsto be down.We have a newish E10K recently set up by SUN-PS. We experienced an sspfailover for a reason as yet not understood (we have put no time intounderstanding why). SSP running okish on the alternate.Now here ...

trusted remote hosts failure - permission deny

408 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:09:00
Hello all,I have three machines A, B and C. A tape drive for system backup is installed in A. B is able to access the tape drive in A but C can't!I created /.rhosts in A for both B and A entries. A and B are running Solaris 2.5.1 but C is running Solaris 8. The error message from C:ufsrestore ...

Copying Boot Disk

576 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:09:00
Admins-I know this is an incredibly easy question but I want to know what hasworked best for you. We have a system we have developed, and we need to justcreate 3 copies of the "original" boot device. We would use Jumpstart, butwe wont be making enough copies of this to warrant using ...

configuring qfe3

1839 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:09:00
Special thanks to all people responded very quickly : Murat Bayrakci , Steve Mickeler , Alan Reichert , Casper Dik , Stephen Forbes----------------------------------------------------------------------------problem was ...

SNMP and MIB

634 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:09:00
HI,I have few question regarding SNMP.1) Which SNMP should I use under Solaris ? I know Solaris has a SNMP agent -is there something more reliable and/or generic (Agent that can beconfigured with more ease and/or with more features and can be used on allplatforms) ?2) How exactly can I change ...

How to Automate Patch installation ?

542 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:09:00
Hi Managers, I have 70 solaris boxex. All are with solaris 7.I want to update the patches in all the m/cs.What is the easiest method to update patch in all them/cs? Should i manually install in all the m/cs ?Can i use Jumpstart or something like that?Anybody got any shell script for that?Thanx ...

disk array log files

369 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:09:00
I have sun E420 with multiple disks (array) and one ofthem keeps failing. Where does Sun keep the log filesfor this?Please helpThanks=====Daniel__________________________________________________Do You Yahoo!?Spot the hottest trends in music, movies, and ...

Lost Root Password!!!

600 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:09:00
Hi,I am using Solaris 2.6 x86 on a pentium III 450 machine. The problem is t=hat Ihave forgotton root password. I know how to recover root password on a sp=arcworkstation but I do not know how to recover it on an x86 system.1) what is the key combination equivalent to STOP-A in x86 world?2) How ...