newfs point to wrong disk

609 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 18:59:00
Hi,The root disk was corrupted and fsck ran. After fsck, when I ran newfson another disk which was a clone to the system disk, the followingmessage was received:# newfs /dev/rdsk/c0t1d0s0newfs: /dev/rdsk/c0t1d0s0 last mounted as /mntnewfs: construct a new file system /dev/rdsk/c0t1d0s0: (y/n)? ...

Mom, Dad, please give me a web site this year! [uhixq]

778 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 18:59:00
Mom, Dad, please give me a web site this year!Be a hero to your kids this Holiday season with a gift they will really love.Give them a web site of their very own at http://www.nusanta.com/holiday1.htm!If you act now, you can order a fully functioning web site in minutes for only $24.95 for an ...

/var/mail files problem in Solaris 7

532 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 18:59:00
Hi Admins, Mail files which is residing in /var/mail directory occupies more space andit doesn't release the space automatically. Because of that my rootfilesystem gets filled up oftenly. Everytime i am clearing the mail filesmanually by overwriting those files.There is no such problem in ...

Top in Solaris 8

351 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 18:59:00
Has the top command been removed from Solaris 8 (6/00 distribution) ?I installed Solaris 8 today on a Sparc 20 and couldnot find the top command. (i did a find for top)(Which usually is in /usr/local/bin in my other boxwhich has Solaris 2.6)Do I have to get it from somewhere and compile it ?Any ...

mails are coming twice

77 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 18:59:00
Is this just happening to me ? Or something wrong with the mail<br>list?<br>

Solaris 8 video drivers

3371 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 18:59:00
Dear Sunmanagers,I have installed solaris 8 (intel) on 810 chipset motherboard.I am not able to get good resolution and that is due to display adptor.My board have on boardIntel I752 agp chiset.I tried all the intel buit-inn drivers,at present it is working on standarddisplay adpter.>From ...

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15 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 18:59:00
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SUMMARY: DNS Error message

982 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 18:59:00
The problem was error messages of the type:> Dec 12 11:51:52 mainsrvr named-xfer[22480]: [123.45.89.1] not authoritative for 67.45.123.in-addr.arpa, SOA query got rcode 0, aa 0, ancount 1, aucount 0Thanks to Jason Grove, Dan Anderson, Bismark Espinoza and others. As Jasonsaid, the messages ...

Problem with Solstice Backup 5.1 or is it RPC?

852 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 18:59:00
The story so far....Running solstice 5.1 backup server, happily operational. Tuesday'sovernight backup ran fine. 9.45 am (messages) server just stopped. No shutdown. It rebooted .... Don't know why.....After this cannot start /etc/init.d/networker startgoes through a loading process and then ...

Max filesystem size

118 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 18:59:00
I have searched Sun site without success.<br>What is the max filesystem size for UFS in Solaris 8?<br>and for vxfs?<p>

Top in Solaris 8

2336 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 18:59:00
Is anyone working on the cause of these duplicate mailings ... Thisproblem seems to coincide with the tansition to the new server for thecodeprof mailing list. Thanks in advance for looking into this.Stan---------------------- Forwarded by J. Stanley Smith/Mortgage/CHI/PNC on12/14/2000 07:28 ...

df -k shows all automount hostnames

805 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 18:59:00
This is the entry in the /etc/auto_direct file:/usr/tran -ro hosta,hostb:/usr/tranThe "df -k" output is:hosta,hostb:/usr/tran 746472 532528 213944 72% /usr/tranHow do I get the "df -k" to only show the hostname that's theactual mount point hosts?I ...

Password aging and cron/at

658 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 18:59:00
In solaris 2.6 when patch 105621 is applied, if a user has password agingenabled and is using 'at', if an 'at' job is submitted for a time after thedate when the password would have expired, we find that all the 'at' jobsfor that user will be deleted after the first 'cron' initiated ...

core analysis request

323 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 18:59:00
hello,how should i analyse the core file. is there any tool available in the web or utility for finding the root cause for the core file. -lak__________________________________________________________Get your FREE personalized e-mail at ...

SUMMARY: Can a Sun 4500 box boot off FC-AL linked to EMC Symmetrix

900 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 18:59:00
Gentlmen,Sorry for this late a Summary.Thanks to all those that responeded, I will try to include all the names.Basically it comes down to a Support issue. Sun will most probably not support this officially. EMC may help you get the job done. It may be technically feasible. But management will ...

Solaris8: cimomboot?

814 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 18:59:00
Hello,I've just installed Solaris 8 (10/00) onto a system, and was wondering whatthe 'cimomboot' process is, which seems to be started from the'/etc/init.d/init.wbem' startup script. I've stopped the process withseemingly no dire effects :-) However, if it is something we don't need ...

SUMMARY: Error building top on Solaris 2.8

183 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 18:59:00
Thanks for all of the suggestions.<p>I went back to ftp.groupsys.com and downloaded top-3.5beta12.tar.gz.<br>It seems to work just fine.<p>Thanks,<br>Peter Schauss<br>RTS Wireless<br>

Raid Manager 6.22 ?

649 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 18:59:00
Hello,I understand that if I use RM6.22 and create a Lun with a "raid5" and a hotspare if one of my disk diethe "hot spare" will take over automatically and I will be ok. Now herecomes my question:What about if I set a Lun using "raid 1" which is the same as ...

Problem with Interface card

351 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 18:59:00
Hi,I have currently a SUN 420R with 2 network cards, (hme0, hme1)In the booting process both of the cards appears, but after finding hme1 Iget a dump.While trying to activate the hme1 network card i get, as expected, hme1: nosuch interface.Did any one encountered this problem before ?Any help ...

Problem with Interface card

1445 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 18:59:00
Hi,I have currently a SUN 420R with 2 network cards, (hme0, hme1)In the booting process both of the cards appears, but after finding hme1 Iget a dump.While trying to activate the hme1 network card i get, as expected, hme1: nosuch interface.Here are the records,Dec 10 18:01:38 wme420ex2 hme: [ID ...

Sun Cluster Question

417 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 18:59:00
I have a recurring message on the screen that I can't figure out. Themessage is:not valid r_adpnameusage: pnmptor p_adpnameI've checked the nafo group using pnmptor, pnmrtop, pnmstat and any way Ilook at it the system looks fine. Could you give me any ideas where to lookto figure out what ...

resize a ufs fs under volume manager

1322 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 18:59:00
<html><DIV>Hi,</DIV><DIV>&nbsp;</DIV><DIV>I have been going through the volume manager documents but nowhere can i find what i am looking for....this is the situation</DIV><DIV>&nbsp;</DIV><DIV>I am installing MQSERIES and it ...

Problems compiling apache with raven on Netra Solaris 7

1820 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 18:59:00
This is driving me insane. I did this a couple days ago, but I'vehad someone messing around with the system. I'm trying to compileapache with the raven ssl stuff. I've used the ravenctl to do it, but the compile fails with the following. I'm not really sure whereto turn at this point. The ...

Performance on root disk

2069 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 18:59:00
Hi,I am using Solaris 2.51, running VxFS, and VxVM, Sun Cluster 2.1, andSybase.We have a encapsulated root. My rootvol, and swapvol is coming from one disk( c0t0d0s2), and mirror is coming from disk ( c4t4d0s2).Total RAM: 1 GBAllocated to Sybase: 750MBRest of the RAM 250 MB ( Goes to OS)When I ...

mapping prtconf info to disk names?

1773 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 18:59:00
Is there any reliable way to map the output of 'prtconf' to the namesof disks?For example, if I start with # prtconf | grep -v 'driver not attached' ... espdma, instance #0 esp, instance #0 sd, instance #0 sd, instance #1 sd, instance #2 sd, instance #6 st, instance #4 ...

VPN-1 SecureClient

190 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 18:59:00
All, this might be off the topic. Does any company make a VPN client for<br>Solaris that is compatible to CheckPoint's VPN-1 SecureClient? Any<br>information is appreciated!<p>Hao Zhong<br>

Is there a Security Issues Web Site?

230 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 18:59:00
Guru's does anyone know of a web site like Sun Managers where network <br>administrators can post network security issues and get responses?<p>Please respond to <A HREF="/execute/ask/?codeinfoid=384">billalex11 at aol.com</A><br>

Boot disk(s) missing

303 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 18:59:00
Hi guys:I have a peculiar problem. I have a unix system (sparc 5) but its bootdisk(s) are missing. I tried booting it up with another disk but it didn'twork. Is there anyway I can bring this system up? What should i do? Any helpwould be greatly appreciated-GGeorge ...

Shared Library patch for C++

843 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 18:59:00
Hi all,I tried to install staroffice 5.2 on my network, and it gave me thiserror message. Where would I start looking for the patch it mentions?xxxx:/home/xxxxx-> ./so-5_2-ga-bin-solsparc-en.binPlease install the patch 'Shared library patch for C++ (Version 5)' orcontact your system ...

Console access using Cybex master(Serial port Server)

837 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 18:59:00
Hi Managers,We are using Cybex master (serial ports server)to access consoles onsun servers. Hooked up "sad-21" serial adapter (25 pin to RJ45converter) to console ports of all sun servers and connected to cybexusing RJ45 cables to the Cybex master. I am able to access the consoleand ...

Solaris 8 for INTEL

1515 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 18:59:00
This is a multi-part message in MIME format.--Boundary_(ID_1GXYc7Pj+qiTr3xA8AKllA)Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1Content-transfer-encoding: 7bitSirs/Madams:Is Sun shipping Solaris 8 for Intel free of charge to developers like theydid on previous versions? If anyone knows where I ...

SUMMARY: Lock out users after # login failures

395 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 19:00:00
The concensus of 2 replies is that NO, there are no standard Solaris features that will disable an account after # login failures.Thanks to Joe Fletcher and Martin Hepworth, who suggested running Trusted Solaris, or running Tru64 on an Alpha platform, running on HP, running on VMS ( I wish! ), ...

SUMMARY: Raw vs. file system

4662 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 19:00:00
To summarize quickly for the attention span disorderlies...... RAWbenefits:faster (almost all cases)guarenteed transaction completion by databasecompletely supported, and "recommended" by all databaseshinderances:completely rely on app for backups, restores, and accessno expansion ...

prom upgrade

481 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 19:00:00
Hi,On my ssol 2.6 i have 32MB SIMM that is recognized as 16MB due to PROMversion OBP 2.10. If I upgrade it to OBP 2.19 it will recognize the 32MB SIMM. What do i need to download, from where and how do i perform the upgrade?. Any ...

solaris 8 becomes very slow after running for few days!!

1250 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 19:00:00
Hi managers,On one of my ultra 10 box, after we started running iplanet webserver and application server, it gets very slow after couple of days.Once we reboot the machine, everything works fine but same problem occurs.what we have observed isCPU usage is 100% even when no application is ...

how to setup for a software to run at time of reboot/poweron

488 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 19:00:00
Hi, I am new to Solaris, I have installed dhcp server on a solaris machine.But, I do not know how to let the server start at the time reboot or poweron. can anyone help me?Any comments will be apprecaitedthanks in advanceJulie XuUnix/Network administratorInformation Technology and ...

mail not sending - help !

846 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 19:00:00
MIME-Version: 1.0Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-asciiHi,This just happened moments ago...when one sends mail it gives this error:helen at company.com... company.com: Name server timeouthelen at company.com... Transient parse error -- messagequeued for future deliveryhelen at ...

SUMMARY and APOLOGY: Used Ultra for Sale

2186 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 19:00:00
Sorry for being late. In below you see what you asked for.--HM.Tim M. HatchRedapt Systems & Peripherals, Inc.Sun Microsystems Supplier888-800-5633 ext 233425-882-0400 faxthatch at redapt.com*************Sun Microsystems SalesPH. 1-866-226-6344Fax 1-866-922-0841**************Tim M. ...

TCP/IP/UDP driver parameters

425 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 19:00:00
Hi,Where can i get a detailed descriptions of all the parameters displayed by ndd /dev/tcp \? or similar command for ip,udp etc.I searched man pages and answerbook. They have nothing much on it.Siddhartha_____________________________________________________________________Message sent using: ...

LOM question about netra T1'

569 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 19:00:00
We have 4 netra T1's at a colocation facility. One of them isn't bootingup due to either a bad hard disk or a bad controller. We have a consolesystem that is connected to it, so i can see the error message on boot,but i'd like to power it down from here.I know if i'm at a LOM prompt, I ...

Backup

550 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 19:00:00
Hi All, We have a DDS-3 internal DAT drive connectedto our SUN server. I use tar utility for dailybackups. It's also known that under normal conditionsit can backup 12GB and 24GB with compression. What'sthe best way to take a full 24GB backup and how do Ienable the ...

Telnet Problem

513 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 19:00:00
Hi All, My company has an Enterprise 250 server andTELNET to that server takes approximately 10-12seconds. I don't suspect our LAN as we donot have thesame problems with other Sun servers, they respondvery quickly. Please help me in this regard. ...

Server Slow..

572 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 19:00:00
Hi All, We have a Sun E250 Server. It's configurationis, It's got 1 processor of 248MHZ, 1GB RAM and 36GBHardDisk. We're running both ORACLE8 and 8i and Twoinstances of BEA WebLogicServer 5.1. The server isvery slow. Is there a way to increase theperformance? Any kernel tuning ...

Getting special characters ...

267 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 19:00:00
Hello Sun Managers,<p>Working on intel solaris 7 and 8 with a normal<br>104 keys keyboard.<p>Is there anyway to generate special characters<br>like a,e,i,o,u with a dash on top of each of them<br>and umlauts and so on.. ?<p>TIA. Will summarize.<p>Regards<br>Pravin<p>

SV: Telnet Problem

1810 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 19:00:00
Make sure the server has name resolution configured correctly, otherwise itwill take some time while the 250 tries to make a reverse lookup of theclient's IP address./frero>> -----Ursprungligt meddelande----->> Frn: codeprof-admin at codeprof.com>> [mailto:codeprof-admin at ...

Wipe disks

468 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 19:00:00
I am returning some disks to sun on trade in that contain some proprietarydata, can anyone point me to a utility that would wipe disk? BTW, theplatform in question is Solaris 2.7 on a SS1000. John Bonurajbonura at univ-wea.com <mailto:jbonura at univ-wea.com> Unix Systems ...

Summary: Wipe Disk

617 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 19:00:00
many thanks to all that replied: Best answer goes to the folks that suggested a destructive analyze fromformat. Original Post:I am returning some disks to sun on trade in that contain some proprietarydata, can anyone point me to a utility that would wipe disk? BTW, theplatform in question is ...

Licensing Issues- HOSTID Migration UEx500's to E10K Domains

706 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 19:00:00
List:We are migrating from several UEx000's and UEx500's to a large configurationE10K. Most of our existing software licenses on these servers are HOSTIDbased (stored on NVRAM chip?) ie. - Veritas Volume Manager, TAS, etc. Is itpossible then to request keys for the E10K domains to refelect ...

Decimal to Hex using bc on unix?

130 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 19:00:00
Hi Listers,<p>Does anyone know how to convert a decimal number to hexadecimal using unix's<br>"bc"?<p>Thanks,<p>D.W.<p>

How can one see data passing through a port?

183 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 19:00:00
Hello,<p>Is there any way to see data passing through a port using<br>utility like snoop or any other utility I could download from<br>the Internet?<p>Thanks in advance,<br>Vinnie<br>