First of all thanks to the following folks Sean BerryJoe RiceMark McManusAdeel KhurshidI ended up using the following Xserver configuration:0 Local local_uid at console root /usr/openwin/bin/Xsun :0 +xinerama-nobanner -dev /dev/fb0 defdepth 24 -dev /dev/fb1 defdepth 24 ...

Hi All,-------------------------------------------------#!/bin/sh#set -xecho "<Oracle_Instance_Name Up? : \c"PS=`ps -ef | grep <Instance_Name>`if [ "$PS" -eq training ]thenecho "Yes"elseecho "No"fi ...

Good Morning Sunadmins,I am running sendmail 8.9.3 ( The version that ships with solaris 7 by default ).Only today , sendmail started to fork indefinitely untill eating all the available swap space .for example: ps -ef | grep sendmail | wc -l would return 1000 processes running , ...

Dear Sunmanagers,I would like to run ntp so that time in IUCAA is same everywhere.I am running xntpd3 on DEC alpha servers. They are syncing wellwith the stratum2 servers in the internet. Our local time is setto GMT+5. When I type date on DEC and sun machines with SUNOS 4.1.3on DEC%dateMon Jun ...

Thanks goes out to following for all their help.Patri KallbergMike SalehiSimon-Bernard DroletCarl-Johan SchenstromAlan OrndorffJohn HallmanMy goal was to get Solaris to produce core files with names something likecore.<processname>.<hostname>This feature was added in 2.8 and ...

Dear list,I run Solaris 2.5.1. I try to install a compiled version of NetscapeCommunicator 4.07.After succsessfull install I try to start it, but I get an error messagesaying I need libresolve.so.2.Please, could someone point me out1. If this library can run under Solaris 2.5.1?2. Where it can ...

best way of restarting the cron daemon from a script so all it does isreread the crontabs:a) /etc/rc2.d/S75cron stop and start (dont like this, can not work)b) find the pid manually and kill it; restart cronc) send a kill -HUP a la inetd (dont think this works. plus, timestamp of the process ...

All,have downloaded 4.6 for this but when I try and compile with ISP enabled, Iget the following:cc -DSUNOS_VERSION=\"`/usr/bin/uname -r`\" -DISP_SUPPORT -DESP_SUPPORT-DFAS_SUPPORT -DGLM_SUPPORT -DPTISP_SUPPORT -DNOTCH_REPORT -g -Iinclude -c isp.c "isp.c", line 139: ...

Hi AllI installed DiskSuite ( 4.2.) tool form Solaris 8, 2 of 2 CD (Intelversion). I am able to create MetaDB, mirror, and stripe sets. But " FileSystem Manager" and " Disk Manager " is not working and the error is "Selected tool not available . Please install the ...

Hello managers :)I've a Sun E3000 connected to an EMC symmetrix 3000. The aim is toupgrade from using safe names under solaris 2.6 and an old version ofEMC Powerpath to using regular devices under solaris 7 and Veritas3.1.1.This sounded quite easy in theory. Once the JNI cards were ...

The consensus is to check the core dumps. I had to delete it because thesystem has "var" as part of the root file system, which was 100% full afterthe system rebooted. So, I dont have an answer just yet. Im settingauto-boot? false, so if it crashes again I can boot to single user ...

ok, it doesn't look like there's much better than a good old fashionedstop/start to refresh cron in the event of having many automated changesbeing made to the crontabs. thanks for the various flowery alternatives.mark------------------------------original ...

Original question:>I'm interested in anyones experience with various external tape devices>for doing network backups of other solaris machines. We are currently>using a number of 8mm DDS2 sun tape drives for local and >remote backups.>>But we may have some extra money this ...

Managers,I received the following Monday morning present from one of my e220Rs inthe form of a kernel panic and subsequent reboot. If anyone can offer someinsight to this error message it would be much appreciated.Jun 4 10:23:58 magni.videoaxs.com savecore: [ID 570001 auth.error] rebootafter ...

Hello,I have an SS1000E, 8x85MHz CPU, 960 MB RAM, cgsix video card on system board0 connected to a Sun monitor, Sun keyboard and mouse attached to systemboard 0, running Solaris 2.8-32 bit (almost) fully patched.The system runs most of the time without problem, but occasionally whenlogged in ...

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Hello, I want to erase the disk data on some of sun diskunder solaris 2.x. What is the best way to do that sothat nobody able to recover the data ? Is there anyway I can write 0's on all the parts of disk ?OR is there any other way to do that apart from usingsome third party products ?Thanks, ...

Got some good advice on this, but the solution was simply toapply the 2.6Recommended patches. The interface came up withouta hitch. bernard.mcauley at mindspeed.com knew this. Thanks!Hi, This is a common problem and is related to CPU speed (CPU'sgreater than 333MHz I think!). You need to ...

All,I only recieved a couple of responses to my post, and still don't have asolution that will permanently turn off root password aging.Any other ideas, thoughts,SteveMy original post, slightly modified:All,Seems simple and I'm sure it is, just haven't done it.How do you PERMANENTLY turn ...

Hello Admins,<p>I want to monitor the percentage of time that a specified process<br>is up and running.<p>Is there any tool available for this task?<br>Or has anyone done anything like that, any idea will help.<p>Thanks,<br>Marco<p>

All,First I would like to thank the many that responded, this time I got 12responses in the first 15 minutes, and more later.Many have suggested editing /etc/shadow, but again, I am trying to make itpermanent. Editing /etc/shadow only turns off aging until you change thepassword again.I was ...

Hello,I am hoping someone has an answer/suggestion on how to go back thefollowing.I will be writing a script that will use the standard Solaris FTP client,that will access an unknown FTP server. The FTP server will have a directorysuch as /foo/bar, which will house numerous subdirectories with ...

E10K, fairly new, had a history of Ecache CPU problems, system boardfailure, opened up several times in its brief lifetime now is exhibiting analways faulty (RED condition) situation in HostView's Power Stats. Asidefrom this condition, the platform is operating normally, all domains are up(so ...

Many thanks to those who reponded; I have included all four responseshere. Evidently there isn't a simple solution to this problem, otherthan not generating windex file, or to use "man -F";(The original question:0. On Sun, 3 Jun 2001, Joe R. Jah wrote:> To include /usr/local/man ...

This is a multi-part message in MIME format.------=_NextPart_000_001D_01C0ED41.651C8940Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printablePlease stop sending email to the address in subject field.Thank ...

Greetings,Our server crashed this morning. I was able to bootsystem up from another (completly diffrent and novolume manager) disk. Then I mounted the first slicefrom the bad disk. What I found is that there is no/dev/vx and /etc directory ?After rebooting system I have :The file just loaded ...

Hi When I am trying to take the backup of One of the Sybase file system/dev/vx/rdsk/oq3/sybase in our server through ufsdump command. It is coming out with the error message "Super block corrupted..Pls run fsck.When i ranfsck it is saying File system is clean. But the same error is ...

Hi In HP TOP command is used to get process info in a good way.Is thereany equivalent command available in Solaris?I will summarize ..Thanx in advance,Boon.**********************************************************************All e-mail sent to or from this address will be received by the ...

Hi Thanx to all who replied.Summary: TOP is available in www.sunfree.com for Solaris.ThanxBoon.-----Original Message-----From: Siddavatam, Chandrasekhar (CSiddavatam) Sent: Monday, June 04, 2001 3:33 PMTo: 'codeprof-request at codeprof.com'Subject: TOPHi In HP TOP command is used to get ...

OK, what am I missing here? I'm trying to configure multicast interfaces on a couple of Solaris 2.7 machines.Things "look" OK--'netstat -r' shows a reasonable looking route, ifconfig shows reasonable interfaces...however. I cannot: ping 224.0.0.1 ping 237.0.0.32Using the Weblogic ...

Hi, I'm running Solaris 8 on Sun4u architecture. I'm having a problem with cron ignoring the c.400j2n entry in my /etc/cron.d/queudefs file, andhitting the MAXRUN limit of 100, with the error: ! MAXRUN (100) procs reached Sun Jun 3 21:42:00 2001 I restarted cron with a truss, and don't see ...

Hello folks,<p>I am trying to figure out why the w column to<br>vmstat shows 79 proc's swapped<br>out but ps -ef | wc -l totals 59? Either my box<br>has been hacked or the vmstat<br>utility has some issues. The box is Solaris 2.6,<br>kernel revision 23.<p>Thanks for any info,<p>- Ryn<p>

Sorry everyone, after I sent the email, my ISP went kaputz and my emailwas broken yesterday and most of today. Because of this, I did notreceive any replies to this (even though they didn't generate any bouncebacks, the messages just went into the bit bucket). If you sent me areply, could you ...

I'm playing around with Solaris 2.8. I configured 512MB swap, through theinstall program. doing a df indicated that I wound up with 512 in swap, andanother 512 in /var/runI can't find any docs on this, can anyone explain what's going on?Thanks,Jim Robertorijroberto at ...

This is a multi-part message in MIME format.--------------98940315D449DBD56B202E49Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-asciiContent-Transfer-Encoding: 7bithi sunmanager, I just installed Rational purify in E450. when I try to run it, itcomplains could not find license cookie file.The ...

I am currently in the process of connecting 2 x Partner Pair T3's to a non-clustered E10k domain running Solaris 2.7. The T3's have the latest disk and controller Firmware and as far as I am aware the Domain has the required T3 patches installed.I was wondering wether anybody has been ...

Hello, I have recently installed Veritas Volume Manager 3.1 on an E6500running Solaris 8. I have set up rootdg on the wrong disk. Does anyoneknow how to delete the current rootdg and set up a new one. As this is a fresh installation, there are no other disk groups, novolumes or data being ...

Thanks to Casper Dik, Petri Kallberg, Steve Beuttel, Chris Josephs & ChrisMiles, Srinivas Arellathey are both the sameCasper's re-clarification was:> /var/run is a system private temporary directory which serves as a> repository of system state that isn't volatile but also isn't ...

Greetings Managers, et al.I have some cron'd perl scripts that fail with library errors... but theyrun fine by hand. Basically, when running from cron, the perl script can'tseem to set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable (which is in the script). I know that root's cron runs under a limited ...

Hi all,A quick question for you; A user runs CDE on a Ultra-5 Solaris 8(10/00) box. When he logs out, the graphical login fails to appear(flashes a couple times) and various messages appear to the effect'Xserver cannot be started on 0:0'. This is happening more and more often, The Xserver ...

www.sunfreeware.com has the sun packages. sunfree.com looks like a sunglasses store----- Original Message -----From: "Siddavatam, Chandrasekhar (CSiddavatam)" <Chandra at dresdnerRCM.com>To: "'codeprof-request at codeprof.com'" <codeprof at codeprof.com>Sent: ...

Has anyone successfully run the iscda.sh on the core dump from a SunBlade<br>1000 running Solaris 8.<p>Is it still supported or is the a new utility to use. Tried running crash<br>on the dump but gave a user error.<p>Thank you for the time,<p>Scott Kulp SE, ULA, TER<p>

I have an Ultra-4 running solaris 5.6 using NIS+ for user management andauthentication. User tries to login via using an exceed X session. Hislogin is denied with the message (/var/adm/messages):"Jun 4 10:30:12 "hostname" dtlogin[27043]: Permissions on the passworddatabase may ...

Hello Everyone,I know that this is not a sun issue, but many of youprobably deals with this Networker Backup System Ihave looked for a solution for the passed month, andcould not find any, called Legato and no help, so hereis my problem:I have few Sun Servers running Solaris 2.6, that runLegato ...

Hi,I have installed Solars 7 without the 64 bit packages.Now, I want to add the 64 bit packages too. The system has Veritas Volume Manager encapsulated disks. What is thecorrect procedure to follow for this?I am thinking, I need to follow the complete upgrade procedureagain(starting from the ...

Hi, i'm looking for a PAM module for TACACS+ user authentication. I justdownloaded one from http://www.ceti.com.pl/~kravietz/progs/tacacs.html bu=t ihave problems compiling it using gcc 2.95.3 for Solaris 2.6Please if you have information of any commercial or freeware of such PAM=module, ...

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_000_01C0EE16.8639CCC0Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"Dear Admins,Is any of you configured a SUN StorEdge L9 Autoloader ...

Hello managers!I'm having a small problem here with one of our Sun boxes.I'm not able to run netstat as regular user because of permission problems.$ netstat -iip open: Permission deniedcan't open mib stream: Bad file numberAs root - no problem, any other user - see above.I've compared ...

Hello folks,I did not receive anything back that could pointat the issue. KevinButerbaugh and Don Harris both mentioned thatinactive processeswould be swapped out as they are no longerrunning. I thoughtps showed all processes on the system regardlessof state.If anyone has any further ideas I am ...

Hello folks,I scoured the Disksuite manuals and did not finddirect reference tocreating layered 1+0 (Mirrored then Striped)volumes. I think creating3 simple mirrors and striping across them willgive me the desiredeffect. I am going to test this before I move itinto production.Thanks for any ...