After changing the default login shell of a userid to /usr/local/bin/tcsh,FTP fails to login the userid, using a correct password, with:530 Login incorrect.Login failed.Setting the default login shell back to a standard shell (sh, csh, ksh) fixesthis problem, but it's not the desired ...

Add the /usr/local/bin/tcsh shell to the /etc/shells file.There is a special file called /etc/shells to address this problem. FTPby default tries to be more secure by only allowing known shells to ftpin. If /etc/shells doesn't exist, the system defaults to only allowing thestandard, local ...

Hi managers<p>Does anyone out there know what port number slogin uses?<p>Peter G. Sanders<br>Senior Systems Administrator<br>OAO Corp<p>(919) 541-1438<p>System administration is like keeping the trains on time; <br>no one notices except when they're late<p>

answer: port 22thanks to Mike D. Kai and Giri Sekar Hi managersDoes anyone out there know what port number slogin uses?Peter G. SandersSenior Systems AdministratorOAO Corp(919) 541-1438System administration is like keeping the trains on time; no one notices except when they're ...

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Situation:UE450, Sol 2.6, disksuite with 2 additional PCI-scsi cards (so a total of 6 controllers)..We recently bought one of those IDE/SCSI raid diskpacks(8 IDE disks inside, runs raid5 w/ 1 hotspare) has a scsi2LVD interface.I hooked this dickpack upto our UE450.Made it into a transmeta ...

Hello!Is it possible that different users on one machine start an instance of sunforum? (This is a SunRay configuration!).I've tried to start it but failed, but I 've couldn't find any hint or restrictions in any README or RELEASE notes. The second instance fails with error that it ...

Platform: Sun Ultra60/80, Solaris 8 -w- Rec. patch clusterProblem: Cannot umount removable media (Jaz or optical disks) after upgrading our systems to Solaris 8, says "Device busy" even though Lsof and fuser both tell me that nothing is open on the disk. I just installed a ...

Dear Co - Sun Managers,sorry for the accidentially posted message some minutes ago - it still wasn't ready. Also sorry for the delay in summarizing.My original question was:> I am looking for the format.dat entry for a IBM DMVS-18D disk> (aka Ultrastar 18LZX)> The disk has 18.35 GB, ...

Dose anybody know if a similar list exists for IBM AIX operating system ?<p>Thank you,<br>Paolo Pompili.<p>

Has anyone here setup a jumpstart script to automatically install vxvm,license keysand mirror boot devices after a machine has been jumpstart'ed?Also, is there a document on mirroring boot devices withough usingvxinstall? If Icould find this I could easily implement a script myself. I assume ...

Question:I've got a Sol 7 box with disksuite.I've used disksuite to create a bunch of mirror devices./dev/md/dsk/d10/dev/md/dsk/d20 &c &c ...Now I want to make a journaling/logging filesystem on those.I can do 2 things:1) use disksuite and create transmeta devices2) I can mount those ...

Hi.I searched the archives at http://www.latech.edu/sunman.html andat http://www.codeprof.com to no avail. I have also tried toquery SunSolve and came up dry.We have a pair of new e4500 servers we intend to run as databaseservers. Temporarily we want to use T3 storage for our firstdatabase ...

All, One of my friends downloaded & configured tcp wrapper. Everything was working fine. But, after he shutdown this SUN E450 machine,it is not allowing any login. He restored all the inetd.conf files etc.but problem persists. The system seem to working fine otherwise. /var/adm/messages ...

Thanks to all who repliedOriginal question:Can I use UFS logging on top of a mirrored metadevice ?What are the difference between UFS logging and using a transmeta device:Thomas Wardman and Darren Dunham came with the most complete repliesDarren:This recently came up on comp.unix.solaris. You ...

Im looking for backup software.Demands:Should work with LTO/Ultrium tapedrives (100/200 G)Should be able to back up a 420G drive over multiple tapes (and if overnight hang around waiting for a next tape, iso falling over)Should be able to backup (and restore) from/to NFS drives.Should run ...

Hi, I have compiled nss_ldap on solaris7 using gcc. Its using netscape directory server for libldap.so. The lookups work fine. The problem is when I do rsh Machne command it comes out giving an error toot > rsh qc2f-140 dateld.so.1: in.rshd: fatal: relocation error: file ...

Original message:>I searched the archives at http://www.latech.edu/sunman.html and>at http://www.codeprof.com to no avail. I have also tried to>query SunSolve and came up dry.>>We have a pair of new e4500 servers we intend to run as database>servers. Temporarily we want to use ...

Resolved it. I have to comment out a small HAVE_LDAP_LD_FREE from the source code and it worked....Sanjaya>Delivered-To: sun-managers-tiaowodt at codeprof.ececs.uc.edu>From: Sanjaya Srivastava <Sanjaya.Srivastava at eng.sun.com>>Subject: nss_ldap issue on solaris7 >To: ...

Hello folks,Is there a way to create a disk group, add 4 disks and create a striped-provolume andshare this disk between multiple machines read-only? I am also curious ifthere is a docor if someone knows what is stored in the private region of each disk? Wheredoes diskgroup information ...

Hello gurus,All of a sudden the kernel of Solaris 7 on SPARC started to work onlyfor itself. cpu queue went up to 2.5-5.5In output of ps and top I see that no other processes are taking cputime. Top says that kernel eats up 80% cpu time...Is there any way to find out what went wrong. Somewhere ...

Hello,Has anyone successfully used Solaris 8's RBAC feature in NIS+? The nsswitch.nisplus file has entries for auth_attr and prof_attr, so it seems like there's an intention to use RBAC in NIS+, however I cannot see that any of the interfaces have been changed to allow it. Is it a function ...

I've got an Ultra 250 pedestal running Solaris 2.6 that I'd like to add somedisks to. There are already 5 internal disks. As I understand it from SunExpress, I can add one more internal drive, and then I've got to add anexternal multipack.My question is, how much extra hardware must I buy ...

I've got an Ultra 250 running Solaris 2.7, and I suspect that the NIC is notrunning 100mb full duplex. It is probably 10mb, or "autonegotiate" isenabled. The backups are just too slow for 100mb. How do I find out if I'mright, and how do I force the card to 100mb full ...

There is a serious matter that involves NFS mounts, performed throughautomounts, will hang. Eventually a system will freeze when the system attempts to mount anetworked directory path that is currently being unmounted. Therehave been patches routinely applied to this system. The system hanging ...

I got quite a few replies to this one, and thanks to all of you. The mostimaginative was from Scott Kulp, "... one box with 6 or 12 drive slots,drives, and a cable and a pack of gum ... " He wasn't too far off.I got one response from a VAR, and he told me I'd get free installation ...

Performance Gurus: I have a Oracle DBA that says since Oracle caches its own data thatthe filesystem cache is redundant and should be turned off, or at least drastically reduced to allow for better performance. I have Gone through SUN performance Tuning and can find no reference to turning off ...

Lots of good answers:One thing I forgot to mention was that this is a VXFS filesystem.So the answers translate to mincache instead of forcedirectio.Here are the answers, Question is repeated at the bottom.Thanks to all <mike>*****If you are running Solaris 7 (or higher I think) and your ...

Hello all,We have an E4500 running Solaris 7 that has 3 A5100s attached. The 3 A5100s are fully populatedwith 9 GB FC-AL disks. We have one 90 GB filesystem built on a VM 0+1 volume (vol01). This volume is made up of 3 striped plexes (vol01-01, vol01-02, and vol01-03), and each striped plexis ...

I have combined / and /usr into one filesystem. I would like to mount the root filesystem (/ + /usr) read-only for security purpose. Can I do that bearing in mind that /etc/mnttab has to be written or updated when a new filesystem is mounted or after a reboot?----------------------Sujit ...

We have a dual 296MHz processor e450 with Solaris 2.6, 105181-17.Once before it behaved this way, but it stopped just asmysteriously as it started. Now it is doing it again. What isthat, you ask?When one runs a sleep command, the sleep takes a significantlylonger time than requested and not ...

Only Mike Salehi <mike.salehi at kodak.com> responded. Thank you,Mike.Sun recommended we update the kernel patch to the current rev,105181-23 and that we try again. This did not help. The nextstep was to upgrade the OBP. This failed with a "vpp rangeerror." If you look at ...

We are currently looking into purchasing a calendar manager program,and would like your input on possible security concerns regardingthe following products:Corporate Time (Steltor communications)Groupwise (Novell)Netscape Calendar (duh)Meeting Maker (Meeting Maker I think)Any other options ...

List: When I click on a pdf file in netscape acroread starts upbut it does not load the file! I Have setup the setting in edit/preferences/Applications/PDF under the Application: box as/opt/Acrobat4/bin/acroreadShould there be a %h or something to say load the file selected?Thanks I will ...

Thanks to all that:The best answeradd a %s in the Applications field/opt/Acrobat4/bin/acroread %sThanks again<mike>^^On Tue, 26 Dec 2000, Mike DeMarco wrote:^^> List:^> When I click on a pdf file in netscape acroread starts up^> but it does not load the file! I Have setup the ...

This answer came from Andrew Caines: and is very goodThank You Andrew<mike>It should be %s for a single file or %l for a list of files. %h usuallyrepresents a host.Since you're running Navigator on Solaris, you can also use the AcrobatPDF plugin. Simply do the following:1. Copy the ...

I need a commercialy available utility that does something like a securedelete. We have the occasional situation where someone puts sensitive data inthe wrong place. On a single disk filesystem it's not to bad, offline it andformat. On a very large volume this is not realistic.We are using ...

Thanks to Jeff Schave, Jed Dobson and David Foster for replying.I've received enough replies thusfar to summarize. The following areavailable:Secure Delete - http://freshmeat.net/projects/securedelete/download/secure_delete-2.2.tar.gzFWipe - ...

Wanted input about calendar manager programs, especially securityconcerns related to various software packages. Several entireresponses and original post follows.Packages Discussed: Corporate Time (Steltor) Meeting Maker (On Technologies, www.on.com, www.meetingmaker6.com) iPlanet's ...

Hello Sun Managers,<br>What do I need in order to connect 6ea Unipaks with P/N: sgx dsk 010b 18gb to 3 ultra 5's<br>Thank you in advance<p>Best Regards<br>Pat Turner (P.T.)<br>Sun Microsystems Product Manager<br>Phone: 1-866-226-6344, Ext.228<br>Fax : 1-866-922-0841<p>

Thank you to those that answered especially David Brierley who gave me the following answer:The Ultra-5 does not have a SCSI controller in it's default configuration.So, in order to connect the disk drives you need to buy a SCSI controllerfor each machine. I don't remember the part number ...

Hello Kevin,let me add more info on that..Hello Lorne,I still cannot fix the problem.You can try to call sun to help us out.send them the info below:-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------(610)root at machine@/etc>ps -elo ...

Hello Kevin,Because I deleted swap on purpose :)(554)root at machine@/etc>swap -d /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s3Even after this the machine is swapping into RAM.I have no clue how to fix it not reinstalling solaris...Thursday, December 14, 2000, 5:00:58 PM, you wrote:KB> Gaziz,KB> Thanks for ...

Hello Rigoberto,I turned off everything possible.But solaris is having 2-5 system process in queue.I think this is a bug in a kernel, but how it started all of a sudden?I am trying to play with crash... to get more info from kernel...Thursday, December 14, 2000, 5:13:16 PM, you wrote:RTM> ...

Hello sun-managers,<p>Please advice Linux based NAS for 50-70 GB with expansion capabilities<br>with raid 5 to be attached to 2 development e 450 boxes over NFS.<p>Looking for something under USD 20,000.<br> <p>-- <br>Best regards,<br>Gaziz Nugmanov<p>

testing..<p>-- <br>Bill Bradford<br><A HREF="/execute/ask/?codeinfoid=47">mrbill at mrbill.net</A><br>Austin, TX<br>

Testing the summary-only list.<p>-- <br>Bill Bradford<br><A HREF="/execute/ask/?codeinfoid=48">mrbill at mrbill.net</A><br>Austin, TX<br>

this is the second test.<p>-- <br>Bill Bradford<br><A HREF="/execute/ask/?codeinfoid=49">mrbill at mrbill.net</A><br>Austin, TX<br>

Hi Sun ManagersThis is for the power gurus. Isn't it not advisable to have a UPS connectedto a circuit that is already being filtered by another UPS? For instance,having a UPS for a desktop system when the power circuit is alreadyconnected to an enterprise-level UPS. I vaguely remember the ...

Where would you find the full command line for a process?ps -ef would return up to 80 characters. ps actually looks at the /proc/<pid>/psinfo to return that information. Ilooked at <sys/procfs.h> which had PRARGSZ defined to 80.Is there any way to recover the full command line for a ...