SUMMARY: rsh, rcmd

1607 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:14:00
Original Question:> I have two workstatations that are running 2.6 and CDE and a server with> 2.5.1. The first workstation will let me run > "rsh -l user server ls -al" and it works fine, the second system returnsan> error of "rcmd: socket: permission denied". I ...

Hub versus Switch

370 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:14:00
We have a dozen Solaris-7 or 8 servers hooked up via a bunch of hubs. We'regoing to be moving them into a new computer room where they will all beconnected to switches. In the dim recesses of my mind, I seem to remembersome issues connecting Solaris boxes to switches instead of hubs. ...

sendmail hangup3

476 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:14:00
hi,what does this mean in terms of my sendmail 8.11.4configuration?Deferred: Connection timed out with mail.transora.com.i can mailx to yahoo.com, but not from my sol8 serverto mail.transora.com. they are both on the samenetwork?!rf__________________________________________________Do You ...

sendmail3 addendum

1810 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:14:00
hope someone is reading this...from another machine on this same network when i mailxi get this: the relay is denied, how to fix this?mailx -v -s test rick.francis at transora.com</dev/nullcrmappdev# /root > rick.francis at transora.com...Connecting to mailhost via relay...220 ...

Disk space list by date

257 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:14:00
Is there any way ( command line or script ) to list how much disk space<br>files are using up by date? What I need to know is, how much disk space<br>would be freed if I deleted all files older than 1 year. Does this make<br>sense?<p>thanks,<br>Gus Diaz<br>

Netra "console"....would a SunRay work?

1173 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:14:00
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----Hash: SHA1I am wondering if anyone has setup a SunRay (model 150) as a"console" on a Netra X1 or related server? Have you had any problemsdoing it?My thoughts: The Netra has 2 network interfaces. If one is tied intoa SunRay, I can use the SmartCard ...

Booting/devalias problem on U60; sun-managers archive question

5734 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:14:00
Fellow SunManagers:I have an Ultra 60 with OBP 3.23 (Ultrasparc-II240Mhz)that has 2 internal disks. It has problem booting.The boot disk is target 0, but I can't boot it using"boot disk0"I tried to force set-defaults or Stop N at the NVRAM level to no avail.Upon investigating ...

color xterm in Sol 8

549 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:14:00
Other than switching to dtterm, is there any good way to get color out of an xterm on Solaris 8? I tried the usual setting TERM to xterm-color and putting the proper entries in /etc/termcap and /usr/local/lib/share/terminfo/x, but this didn't seem to work. I still get grayscaled characters ...

Jumpstart revisited...

370 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:14:00
Hello Gurus,Well, we are almost ready to start jumpstarting our boxes to Solaris 8 04/01but have one issue I am trying to resolve. How can I disable powermanagementduring the jumpstart process? TIA, -arAngel R. RiveraTechnical Computing Environmentangel.r.rivera at ...

finding the boot device

342 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:14:00
Hi,I can't figure this one out (my brain is starting to hurt) Is there away to find out which disk(s) is the boot disk?TIAWill Summarize_________________________________________________________________Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at ...

trap of serial signals to netrat105

1097 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:14:00
All,This may be a serial or cu thing, but I'm not sure what to do with it afterplaying for a little over a day.We have a piece of software that runs at boot to set up a machine as eithera client or a server. During the run, it uses Ctrl-A and Ctrl-S to controlit's behavior. Ctrl-A is ...

Fwd: finding the boot device

1822 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:14:00
I should add I am trying to gather sys info and also I would like to do this w/o having to go to the OK prompt.>From: JIM BLEVINS <JIM.BLEVINS at calix.com>>To: 'ritesh patel' <ritesh_patel13 at hotmail.com>>Subject: RE: finding the boot device>Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 ...

Summary - Hubs versus Switches

11532 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:14:00
Here's the original question - The replys follow. Thanks to one and all. =============================================================================================We have a dozen Solaris-7 or 8 servers hooked up via a bunch of hubs. We'regoing to be moving them into a new computer room ...

opionions on in-house unix based mail systems

1683 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:14:00
Hello Sun managers,I am currently started working in a small IT consulting company performing consultingservices performing unix and network based solutions. Currently, we have a winblows/exchange mail system in-house. Management felt that experience with this software wasimportant as many of ...

acceptable amount of errors and collisions?

608 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:14:00
I'm seeing a number of errors and collisions on this interface (hme1). bash-2.02# netstat -iName Mtu Net/Dest Address Ipkts Ierrs Opkts Oerrs Collis Queue lo0 8232 loopback localhost 5077352 0 5077352 0 0 0 hme1 1500 rita rita ...

Veritas and A/D 1000's

397 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:14:00
Does anyone know if Sun A1000's and D1000's comewith a free license to use Verias Volume Manager?I was pretty sure they did?If they do how do i go about getting the key as itdoes not work by defaultI know the Photons, 5200's did.Any help would be great gw-- Greg Wilson System ...

raid manager6.1.1

215 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:14:00
Hi Gurus,<p>I have e220R, Solaris 7 and A1000 with raid manager6.1.1. Now I am<br>running out of space. I want to add some more disks to A1000. How can I<br>increase the volume size.<p>thanks in advance...<br>rv<p>

SUMMARY: acceptable amount of errors and collisions?

677 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:14:00
the answer is ZERO (or, very close to zero).The folks listed below correctly pointed out a duplex mismatch between the switch and the sun. Someday, I will not make this mistake, or its going to bite me (in an unmentionable place) once every 4 years. The moral of the story is: dont let ...

spool

253 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:14:00
Hi, When I applied the latest patch the spooling of mails changes its path<br>to /var/spool/mqueue, before it was /u1/spool/mqueue. Now I'm in trouble<br>coz /var has no space left anymore. How can I put it back to<br>/u1/spool/mqueue?<p>- arthus<p>

[UPDATE/CLAIRIFICATION] opionions on in-house unix based mail systems

3549 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:14:00
Hello,I want to thank everybody so far who has replied to me. This ultimatelywill be a big summary as I feel that I must have hit a sore spot. Manypeople have hit the nail on the head in their replies, and, for others,I was not clear enough or was too wordy in my request. The managementin ...

Sendmail as SMTP Relay..

1135 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:14:00
Hi List,I need to configure the sendmail ( 8.11.xx ) as SMTP relay in the foolowingway..1. This will collect the mails from internet ( public ipaddress )2. I would like to have one more Exchange server internally ( with privateipaddress )All internal mails in the form of name at comp.com would ...

no match for rdnexus found in lus.conf: (0)

3819 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:14:00
This is a multi-part message in MIME format.------=_NextPart_000_0026_01C10082.738DB5E0Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printableI have a problem after install the RDAC Feature on my server with =Solstice BackupSoe of you could you have a ...

Deleting Old Files

697 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:14:00
Hi Alli'm replying to the person that posted the message about finding out how muchspace is being taken up by the old files on the filesystem.You can use the following commands to do this and modify them to remove thefilesls -lR | egrep -v "./" | egrep -v "total" |awk '{if ...

Summary: solaris resolver question

2951 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:14:00
Thanks to the following folks for responses:James Lick, Darren Dunham, Tim Chipman, Sergio Gelato, Casper Dik, Julian SimpsonHere's the original question:I need to know whether a solaris ping command is using>a "full service resolver" or a "stub resolver" as defined by ...

Limiting the number of sessions by a single user

114 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:14:00
Is there anyway that I can limit the number of sessions that can be active<br>at any one time by a single user?<p>

SUMMARY: Setting SunRay Screen Resolution

4405 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:14:00
Folks,A few weeks ago I posted to the list, asking if anybody knew a howto set the screen resolution of a sunray from the command-line. Idid not receive an answer then, but now I got one and some moreinteresting tidbits on sunrays. Enjoi. Note that this informationis not official !NAME ...

[SUMMARY] RE: Question on Packages

1757 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:14:00
Hi,I wasnt able to get any answers about how to find the product names fromwhich a particular package is installed.But, the main task of my application install did go through without anyproblems even in the absence of the specific patches.Thanks,Nabeel-----Original Message-----From: Ahmed, ...

/var/adm/sm and rpc errors

655 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:14:00
Hi Gurus:Can someone let me know what are the files(nodenames)under /var/adm/sm and also /var/adm/sm.bak. We had arpc timeout recently and i have a file(nodename) under/var/adm/sm.bak. Is this the client that wasresponsible for the rpc error? And the time stamp onthat is the actual time of the ...

/var/statmon/sm and rpc errors

667 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:14:00
Hi Gurus:Can someone let me know what are the files(nodenames)under /var/statmon/sm and also /var/statmon/sm.bak. Wehad a rpc timeout recently and i have a file(nodename)under /var/statmon/sm.bak. Is this the client that wasresponsible for the rpc error? And the time stamp onthat is the actual ...

passwd recovery

733 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:14:00
<html><DIV>Hi All,</DIV><DIV>&nbsp;</DIV><DIV>I was playing with shadow passwd and the next thing I know I'm not able to get in as root or anyone at all.&nbsp; Could someone help me with some idea on how to get back in the ...

summary: Re: /usr/bin/ls & ls giving different results

4291 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:14:00
Hi all...My original posting is shown at the end of this mail.Many thnaks to all 41 of you who replied. Too many to name. everybodywithout fail suggested that it was likely to be an alias issue. ie., thatthe user had set up an alias for 'ls' of 'ls -F'. However this is not to bethe ...

tar on NT

1511 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:14:00
Dear Sun Managers,Sorry to bring NT into this board, but I've asked NT people, and they don'thave a clue what I'm talking about!In Unix we can tar files directly to tape (tar cv /dev/rmt/0 /DIR_NAME) - isthere a way to do that in the NT world?Barbara HsweNOTICE: This transmission, and any ...

/.dt/errorlog

447 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:14:00
Thank you for taking the time to read this.I am trying to start CDE from the command line.I can start openwin just fine. I exit out of that back to my command line.>From there I try to start CDE using /usr/dt/bin/dtwm and nothing happens.I get my prompt back. I checked out /.dt/errolog and ...

SUMMARY: ypbind: NIS server not responding for domain

3015 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:14:00
Dear sun-managers,regarding my YP question I got several responses, but none of them did help me with my problem. Since most of them should be helpful inother cases, I'll summarize them below anyway.In our case the problem turned out to be a remote YP slave-server whichupdates its maps every ...

Jumpstart Problem...

779 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:14:00
I get the following after setting up a jumpstart server. I'm at a loss atwhats happening. IP address intentionally left out.Anyone have any ideas on what is causing this.---- Cut Here --Requesting Internet address for 8:0:20:c8:2e:cInternet address is x.x.x.x = AC176429hostname: ...

Read-Only FileSystems

208 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:14:00
Hello,<p>I'm wondering if there's a way to configure a filesystem to be "stuck" in a<br>read-only mode with no way of changing it (even as root) unless booted off<br>the CDROM. Any neat ideas?<p>

Non Crit, but annoying - White text on black on sun console?

2616 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:14:00
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sendmail

263 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:14:00
When I send mails, our hostname is included in the email address when<br>viewed by the recepient. (<A HREF="/execute/ask/?codeinfoid=4872">me at OURCOMPANY.ourcompany.com</A>). Please advice if<br>you have any suggestions to resolve this.<p>Regards,<br>Arthus<p>

Solstice backup remote storage node configuration

1960 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:14:00
Sys Admin,Here is my configurations.Solstice Server: riley has DLTSolstice Clients: monroeSolstice Clients: greenUntil now, both monroe and green clients were backing up on Server ( Riley's) DLT. Which works great.Now, we bought another DLT for machine monroe which is attached to monroe ...

Hi gurus:

1217 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:14:00
Hi gurus:#ifconfig -alo0: flags=3D849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 8232 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000=20hme0: flags=3D863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 inet 10.9.2.13 netmask ffff0000 broadcast 10.9.255.255 ether 8:0:20:9b:af:2f=20qfe0: ...

rm behavior

447 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:14:00
Hi,I login as user, na9999. User na9999 is part of group test.I try to delete a file whose ls -l listing looks like:-rw-r--r-- 1 boss test 32 Jun 01 15:30 TO20010101If I use 'rm -f TO20010101' it prompts me with a yes/no.If I use '/usr/bin/rm -f TO20010101' it deletes the file without any ...

logrotate library error

528 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:14:00
Folks,I took a precompiled version of logrotate SMClogr 3.3 and installed on my Solaris 8 server. I am getting the following messages whenever I try to run logrotate:ld.so.1: /usr/local/bin/logrotate: fatal: libpopt.so.0: open failed: No such file or directoryKilledDoes anyone have experience ...

SUMMARY: Inverse/White on Black Sun Console

4942 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:14:00
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Boot disk

591 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:14:00
Hi, I am trying to find out a way to find out which issystem's boot disk when system root disk are mirrored& under Disksuite control. Or what is the way to find out if the root disk isencapsulated & mirrored under veritas control ? In short, I want to find out which physical ...

ATA transport failed on Ultra 10

368 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:14:00
What does the error mean?ATA Transport failed ...System is an Ultra10 Creator 3D running Solaris 2.5.19 GB IDE disk driveThanksTony__________________________________________________Do You Yahoo!?Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! ...

retrival of a deleted file

404 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:14:00
Hi, i have deleted a very crucial file in my sun solaris2.5 (ultra 1) machine..Is there any way of getting this file back..thanks in advance. regards yadav arun____________________________________________________Buy Feng Shui Package for Rs. 151/- only, at ...

network performance tuning

920 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:14:00
Hi,I run an IDS on a Solaris 2.6/E220R box. I got this when i ran netstat -khme1 :-hme1:ipackets 298236648 ierrors 3375 opackets 0 oerrors 0 collisions 0defer 0 framing 0 crc 3375 sqe 0 code_violations 0 len_errors 0ifspeed 100 buff 0 oflo 0 uflo 0 missed 0 tx_late_collisions 0retry_error 0 ...

Jumpstart and disksuite

247 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:14:00
Hello folks,<p>Does anyone have any info on installing disksuite<br>and mirroring the<br>boot device during a jumpstart installation? I<br>can't seem to find a<br>great deal of information on this topic.<p>Thanks for any examples/help,<p>- Ryn<p>

Mirroring in Solaris 8

782 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:14:00
Hello AdminsI have recently installed solris 8 on our sparcmachine having 4 SCSI HDD on SUN4u system. I want toimplement mirroring to my system and data HDD.Solstice Disksuit is free with solaris 8 ( i thinkyes). Well i have read the pdfs on docs.sun.com butsince this is my first experience ...

SUMMARY: L1800 Robot & E250

1696 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:14:00
Short Question: DO I need a diffential SCSI adapter card to connect aE250 to an L1800 robot.Short Summary:YES. ====Original Question:I've been asked on an emergency basis if we canconnect an L1800 Robot to an E250. The L1800 hasdifferential SCSI while the 250 has ultra-wide SCSI.How can the ...