Veritas network backups

787 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:09:00
Goal: Copy a Veritas volume from 1 machine to anotherover GB network. Both have Vertitas installed, I can't=20physically move the connections, the source volumeis based on a filesystem snap-shot so DD wont work,vxdump is way to slow.The source and targets volumes are 750GB.=20I need Veritas ...

Solaris 2.8 and gcc-2.95.2

1995 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:09:00
Solaris 2.8GCC-2.95.2SPARC-20GCC compiles with errors:I am trying to compile C programs using fopen. Attached are two such simple programs. GCC complaints about fopen not having enough arguments? What I am looking for is a sample (small) C program that uses fopen and fclose that someone has ...

Arithmetic expressions in /bin/sh

2318 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_01C0F8DB.9705F450Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"Hi, I need to do bitwise operations within a shell script to ...

SUMMARY: Is set noexec_user_stack=1 good enough

2251 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:09:00
The Answer is NO.Thanx to Justin Stringfellow (Sun Micro) for a Sun Doc. The doc explainsthe protection, but not the remaining vulnerabilities.===============================================================Thanx to Kennie Gutierrez,With this setting you will not be totally protected, but for ...

NIS+ problems

2267 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:09:00
Hi, admins.Here is my problem. I have a legacy NIS+ environment,with a Solaris 2.5.1 NIS+ server, a Solaris 2.6replica and several Solaris 2.6 clients.I tigthened the permissions of the cred and passwdtables recently to:Object Name : passwdAccess Rights : ----rmcdrmcd----[...] [0] ...

SUMMARY: Problems with multipathing on Netra T1 AC200

6090 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:09:00
Apparently, no one on the list had this problem before cause I didn't getany responses.Spent some time with Sun and got the solution.Well, it turned to be a pure hardware problem, and as always, Sun haspatches to fix problems with their hardware.My second machines, which has the same hardware ...

Summary: sed question

2789 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:10:00
Thanks for all those who replied to my email. The general consensus was thatI have to change the write permissions on the directory that I was writinginto. I changed the permissions on the directory to 777 (temp tho) and wasable to write onto that directory. Sendmail was trying to write to ...

Bare Metal restores

132 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:10:00
On aix, you can do a mksysb and make a bootable tape.<br>On HP, you can do an ignite and make a bootable tape.<br>On sun, you ???<p>

Panic errors

370 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:10:00
My Ultra 5 running Solaris 7 just started panicing and rebootingconstantly with the following errorsavecore: reboot after panic: [AFT-12706288] Ecache Tag Parity Error on CPU0Data access at TL=0, errID 0x0000096b.b262ca3aIt's up now... but probably not for long. I suspect it's a hardware ...

sunsolve patches and bugtraqs questions

768 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:10:00
Dear ManagersI have a question about Sunsolve patches:What is the advantage of having a Sunsolve account?I've noticed that I do *not *need to have a Sunsolveaccount in order to download certain patches (afterI run patchdiag). So what is the big deal about havingto have a Sunsolve account?Also, ...

zip files

1024 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:10:00
Fellow Managers,My users want some files e-mailed to them as Zipp archives.We are using pkzip version 2.51 on Solaris 2.6.I tried a number of ways to "zip" a directory so it can be sent off-site,but I get errors when I try.pkzip add -filetype=3Ddirectory -rec seth.zip ...

stupid sh/csh environment question

347 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:10:00
Ok, I have a script that works fine if I run ". script.sh" in a bourneshell, but if I run sh script.sh it runs the script but doesnt set theenvironment variables. My developers are all using different shells, butneed this script, and I'd rather not keep porting it, and clue to how ...

SUMMARY: Arithmetic expressions in /bin/sh

5132 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:10:00
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_01C0F8F0.4F689F70Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"Hi again, The overwhelming response was to go with ksh instead of ...

mirroring a 450

3950 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:10:00
This is a multi-part message in MIME format.------=_NextPart_000_0599_01C0F8E0.18515500Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printablehey all,=20I have a pair of e450s w/ (as I recall) identical hardware. I would =like to make one a clone of ...

PCI or sbus expansion on Ex500 machines?

3114 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:10:00
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Booting external disks

406 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:10:00
All- Howdy.. I've got an Ultra 60 with two controllers. An external disk isattached to the second controller. How do I (or can I) force theworkstation to boot from the external disk? I tried booting from the/pci at .../ path, but that didn't seem to work (can't open the device). Any ...

File size differs when compressing and uncompressing

272 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:10:00
Hi friends,<p>I am facing a problem on Sun Solaris 2.6 OS, When I compress a particular<br>file it gives me different size if I run compress utility again on the<br>uncompress file.<br>Regards Nitin<br>CDC Los Angles<br>Office:-(310) 302-3150<br>Resi :- (310-) 822-3666<p>

SUMMARY: Jumper for Firmware upgrade on Ultra5's

1488 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:10:00
Original Question: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 ...

SUMMARY: Stupid shell script

531 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:10:00
. in sh or source in csh run a script in "inline" mode so that it has theeffect that you copy and pasted the entire script into your current shell.This works great for sh OR csh, but not both. The concensus seems to bethat if the script executes in both "yay" if not ...

rookie question I hope, but can't figure it out

1952 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:10:00
I am trying to boot off of a mirror that I have setup on my Netra T1 AC200,Solaris 8, disksuite 4.21, 2 18 gig internal drives. / volume is slice 0.I cannot seem to be able to boot off of the mirror in simulated diskfailures.I have also tried nvalias backup_root pci at 1f,0/pci at 1/scsi at ...

long file names on a burnt CD

4350 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:10:00
This is a multi-part message in MIME format.------=_NextPart_000_04F1_01C0F979.B4A7F8C0Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printableHi all,Have created an install CD on Win2k with logn file names, reads fine on =a Win2k machine but when ...

how to backup encapsulated rootdg

583 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:10:00
Dear Sun Managers,I've a boot disk that is encapsulated and all the other datavolume are inside rootdg. (Volume Manager is 3.0.3)How can I do a full backup and would appreciate if any ofyou can provide me the steps to restore back.Also, can somebody kind enough to provide me the steps tomove ...

E450 and hot swap disks

2669 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:10:00
Hi folks,Here's my configuration:Sun E450 4 CPU 512MB RAM 20 x 18 GB Hot swappable disks.My question.I was 'playing' around with the hot swap disks and did not note which diskwent in which slot. After re-inserting the disks and running theprobe-scsi-all at ok> I only get 19 of the disks ...

Summary Orca Stats

759 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:10:00
Here are the step I did to get the system stats1, Download the lastest version of SE Toolkit and install it2. startup /opt/RICHPse/etc/init.d/percol or move it to /etc/init.d (allstart and stop script are there)3. Edit /opt/RICHPse/orcallator/orcallator.se and change within the startarea to ...

ORCA oddity

614 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:10:00
One of my admins tells me she has a problem with orca.While SE is logging all the data, Orca is only generatinggraphs for the first 7 systems listed.ANY ideas is appreciated as she doesn't really want to 'join'the orca mailing list.My apologies for the lack of information but the best I can ...

panics on boot

2752 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:10:00
Got a problem guys! One of my client's servers panics on boot, even insingle user mode, as you can see:Apart from booting via cdrom, any other thoughts as to how to bring this boxup? I don't know if there is an /etc/system backup or not, and I am not onsite to put a cd into the ...

SUMMARY panics on boot

29382 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:10:00
Thanks to all who responded. I got someone onsite to boot from cdrom andhad him rename modules to a set of drivers he had just installed, and itcame up.Now I just need to determine what is wrong with the drivers, but that is amuch less serious issue than I had earlier. Thanks ...

ssh compile

1642 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:10:00
Hi guys:i am getting this message when i try to configure ssh. I do have a ccompiler on the box. After this try, I set all the correct paths to all ofthe missing programs. It seemed to run but, if got to a point where it saidfailed on nlibcurses. I believe I have that library installed. Any ...

SUMMARY: long file names on a burnt CD

9625 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:10:00
This is a multi-part message in MIME format.------=_NextPart_000_05BF_01C0F994.03307FC0Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printableThanks to all.The answer is the format used for burnign the cd, which was Joliet - win =default. This should ...

Need advice with Radius and authentication

1562 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:10:00
<html><DIV>&nbsp;<P class=MsoNormal>Gurus,</P><P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </SPAN>Heres my problem I have ...

SUMMARY: temperatures on E10k

2610 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:10:00
To sum it up: it's a wanted feature.As an sun engineer explained to me, the values reported by hostview -t areonly updated if they exceed a certain difference - he said two degreescelsius.So my constant values state only, that the airconditioning keeps thetemperatures below this difference ...

pkgadd root_dir

3338 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:10:00
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_01C0F99A.6A52B960Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"hi,i'm trying to install the latest jdk in a specific ...

SUMMARY: pkgadd root_dir

4335 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:10:00
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_01C0F99D.47711970Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"A:the answer is this:pkgadd -a none -d .although the ...

Setting permisisons on directory

403 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:10:00
What I am trying to accomplish:With the following directory structure: home dir | |____dir "a" | \____dir "b"I want all files and directories that are created by a user under dir "a"to have their permissions as 660, and all files under dir ...

Sony CD-R CDU920S

1497 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:10:00
This is a multi-part message in MIME format.--------------DACB7889E220841DB4C890E2Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-asciiContent-Transfer-Encoding: 7bitHi,I installed a Sony CD-R CDU920S in a SunBlade 1000.probe-scsi-all see it correctly/pci at 8,700000/scsi at 6Target 6 Unit 0 ...

CLARIFYING: Setting permisisons on directory

1745 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:10:00
Sorry everyone, I think my last mail has caused some confusion!Here is a better better dir structure to explain: /home | |___User1 | | |___dir "a" | \___dir "b"What I want is:When 'User1' saves a file in dir "a" it ...

SUMMARY: Booting external disks

988 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:10:00
All- Thanks to all who responded! Most pretty much said the same thing:make sure the path you are using to boot is correct! The problem was that I couldn't figure out how to boot off an externaldisk connected to a second controller. The answer is that it is possible to boot off any ...

Compiler patch for Sparc 10

381 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:10:00
Dear ManagersI have a Sun Sparc10 with Solaris 2.6 running. I need to have C compiler on it. All I want to know is which patch I should install.Thanks in advance. Will summarize._________________________________________________________________Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at ...

tnfdump information from Solaris 8.

1163 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:10:00
Is anyone doing kernel tracing with prex and tnf utilites on Solaris8? I've done this from the Cockcroft book from time to time, but I'mdoing this for the first time on 8 to hunt down some bad I/O performance.On Solaris 8, the device: information is a little bit different. Thenumbers are ...

Q: Netscape 4.77 Instability on Sparc-Solaris 2.6 systems

2868 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:10:00
Hi all,The second of two "simple but annoying" questions I have today: We are running Netscape 4.77 (the latest version available I believe inthis "lineage") on a number of Sparc-Solaris 2.6 systems. We observe "significantly frequent" instability problems with ...

Q: Acrobat Reader 4.05 PDF Sporatic Printing Problems, SparcSol2.6

2809 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:10:00
Hi all,The first of two "simple but annoying" questions I have today: Running Acrobat Reader 4.05 (the latest version for solaris at thepresent, it seems) on Sparc Solaris 2.6 systems, we have periodicproblems printing PDF files. i.e., 95% of the time, PDF files can beprinted without ...

about CD-RW

215 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:10:00
Dear list,<br>recently I obtanied HP CD-RW 9200 with SCSI controller.<br>Now the problem is where to find software which controls this device.<br>Any help with this is highly apprecited.<p>Thanx<br>Hristo Nikolov<p>

Slow iPlanet

835 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:10:00
I'm trying to eval iPlanet Directory Server 5.0. I'm about to throw itout the window it's so slow. I've having to export the DISPLAY to runthis java from the server to my X desktop. Any thoughts? I literally havetime to go get a coke from the kitchen between screen refreshes... ...

X Client Connection Refused

750 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:10:00
Hi Admins,I have a Linux box running RH 7.0.I want to run an X application from this box as a client.The Application Server is on a Solaris 7 box.After connecting from Linux (IP Address 172.20.3.10) to the Solaris server,on Solaris:[solaris7]# DISPLAY=172.20.3.10:0.0[solaris7]# export ...

Acrobat Reader 4.05 PDF Sporatic Printing Problems, SparcSol2 .6

3960 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:10:00
I had this problem, it was caused by the version of Acrobat that created thefile.The fix was to edit the /etc/magic file0 string %PDF-1.0 Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF)v1.00 string %PDF-1.1 Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF)v1.10 string ...

Boot -r and Format stalls. I/O errors?

7927 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:10:00
I have a Sun Ultra 1 running Solaris 7 with the latest patches. I have anexternal Seagate drive. I shutdown the system and placed another harddrive into the external case to test to see if this new hard drive wasworking. scsi-probe-all picked up the drive but it stalled when I did aboot -r. ...

Summary: X Client Connection Refused

1355 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:10:00
That was very fast, thanks to:Mark NeillFarzad HejaziTim Evansand maybe some more to come until my summary will be received.It was just the opposite..The xhost command has to be run *on* the display host (i.e., that with the172.20.3.10 IP address), and *not* on the remote.Everything runs okay ...

IPsec with pre-shares keys

1994 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:10:00
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_01C0F9BB.CA2C5F00Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"Hello, Is there a way to set up IPsec with pre-shared keys? Has ...

SUMMARY: Setting permisisons on directory

311 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:10:00
Thanks to Ian for the perfect reply!The correct method was to use File Access Control Lists (facl's, getfacl /setfacl), to set File Access Controls. Setting these on directories as'default permissions' causes the permissions to be inheritted by new subdirectories and files.Thanks ...

Jetadmin software for Intel

572 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:10:00
Folks,Does anyone has a copy of Jetadmin software for Solaris 8 on intel platform? I tried my copy of the sparc version, and it did not work well. As of 6/15, HP does not offer jetadmin for downloading.In addition, I am having difficultly downloading the web jetadmin verison as well from ...