The answer was much easier than what I thought - Patience.I assumed the computer was not booting due to not hearing the bootup beep.Thanks to Steve Hastings for pointing out that when booting without akeyboard no beep ever happens. And the computer was not booting because Ihad it with a ...

Thanks to:Fedor GnuchevPaul UpdikeJohn SullivanBob FulwilerDoug OttoThe answer seems to be a yes, and single-ended drive will work, includingnewer LVD drives with jumpers to force single-ended SCSI. Just want to keepin mind cooling, as 10K-15K drives run hot and there is insufficient coolingin ...

I've got the system settings to force a hme/qfe NIC into 100fdx andturn off the other settings:set hme:hme_adv_autoneg_cap=0set hme:hme_adv_100T4_cap=0set hme:hme_adv_100fdx_cap=1set hme:hme_adv_100hdx_cap=0set hme:hme_adv_10fdx_cap=0set hme:hme_adv_10hdx_cap=0s/hme/qfe/g...However if I ...

Hi Gurus,We have some servers currently running sol 2.6 with NIS+ for accountmanagement and authenitication. We are planning the migration tosolaris 2.8 We would like to replace NIS+ with LDAP. We have access toNetscape Commerce server as well as the LDAP that comes with the OS. Does anyone ...

Gurus,<p>I have a bunch of ufs dump files, and I would like to make an inventory list<br>of the files within them. Can someone give me an idea of where to look.<p>Cheers<p>Cian<p>

I have installed HP JetAdmin numerous times in numerous environments andnever had a spot of trouble with it. But now we need support for the newcolor HP 8550DN LaserJet and that means HP Web JetAdmin. After downloadingthe Solaris 2.6 version, I loaded it according to directions and ...

Many Thanks to those who responded.General concensus was to use ufsrestore tf dumpfile or ufsrestore t.However Ian MacPhedran was kind enough to send an lldump utility, whichlists the files in a dump file. This is perfect.Many apologies for not making my original query clearer, however I did ...

I have two E450's at a remote site (one of the E450's is have problems uponreboot and I want to be logged into the console from the other E450 whilethis is happening. Can anyone give me the procedures to setup this type ofconnection from TTYA of the good E450 to the TTYA of the rebooting ...

Hi All,I have couple of sun boxes running 2.6/7/8. On a Solaris system how do I configure syslog on client and loghost to log messages to client1.log, client2.log .... on loghost. I will summarise the mails, please help me ...thanks in ...

I've just gotten a newish ( refurbed actually ) Netra T1 105.. and it;snetworkconnect is intensely slow.. I'm wondering if there is any one who has hadthe sameexperience. ftping even small files is devilishly slow. I'm got most of thecurrentset of patches for Solaris 7 on it.. Any that ...

Hi Admins,I've recently set up E-250 with Solistice DiskSuite 4.2.1 and created a rootmirror after basic install. Since the root partition (on c0t0d0s0) didn'tstart at cylinder 0 and did on the second disk, I ran first into the errorthat I couldn't attach the labeled submirror (c0t8d0s0) to ...

On newer Suns the device path has to be changed. Actually, it's even welldocumented (docs.sun.com).Christopher Ciborowski directed me to the solution:> Replace the sd with disk, and remove the raw:>> /pci at 1f,4000/scsi at 3/disk at 8,0:a>> This should work. If not, change the ...

This is a multi-part message in MIME format.--------------2D272DCBEA33DEF820FFD03FContent-Type: text/plain; charset=us-asciiContent-Transfer-Encoding: 7bitHi codeprof, I don't know whether I summarised this already.> Markus doehr did it.> Special thanks to Markus doehr.>>> ...

I notice some members of this group do not insert a subject line in their mails. I personally only read mails that I may be able to help with or, I am interested in the subject.I think if users need help they can at least do this simple ...

HI there,I could really use some help on this one. I'm stuck away from the officefor the weekend, so I don't have access to the Solaris CD's..I've gotSolaris 7 (Intel) installed on a box here and have just changed themotherboard out (along with a new adaptec scsi controller). You ...

My mail server is running Solaris 2.7, sendmail 8.9.3When I send mail from any sun on the net, itautomatically add this mailhost entry in addition tothe domain name to my outgoing email address (fromlinefor example my email will be:tony at mailhost.mydomain.comI would like to modify sendmail ...

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Can some one guide me for ntp client and server configuration<p>--<br>RaghuNath.L<br>Ux-Administrator<br>GIO-CIO India Helpdesk<br>Lucent-Ins<br>Ph:5500061 Extn:2048<p>

Hello Managers,I am trying to install AdminSuite 2.3 in solaris 2.6 m/c. I am getting thefollowing error.-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------===== Installation Summary =====Product(s): AdminSuite/AutoClientInstall ...

Sorry for the late summary but SUMMARY'sa on this list ar most important sobetter later than never.Many thanks to all that responded. This looks like the answer and now I'mcomfortable with just living with it or going into /etc/inetd.conf andcommenting out the bootp* entries (& kicking ...

I received a few more replies after my lastSUMMARY and it turns outDisksuite 4.2 does 1+0. Thanks goes out to:John PhilipsMarco GreeneDarren DunhamDonald T. HarrisKevin ColagioDamon LaCailleand especially Chris Miles. Chris conducted anexperiment that proves1+0 is done by default. His ...

Hi, I have a problem that I'm not certain anyone has solved before. On mySolaris8 Sparc machine, I installed the random package from http://www.cosy.sbg.ac.at/~andi/ However, when the driver is added to the system, devfsadm gave an errorstating that the driver failed to attach. I've tried ...

Hi all,Have a DVD-Ram drive and have witnessed the following:Create a file (file1) via touch on the DVD-Ram drive,thensoft link file1 to file 2, works ok.hard link file1 to file2 results in:lstat64("file1", 0x000265D8) = 0lstat64("file2", 0x00026540) Err#2 ...

Hi,We have a Disksuite 4.2.1/Solaris 8 machine with which currently has36.4GB Seagate SCSI drives in astorage pack (Raid5&&0+1)We can order IBM 36GB disks a lot quicker than we can the Seagate 36GBdisks; problem is theIBM 36GB disks are ever so slightly larger than the Seagates. ...

Thanks to:Jay Lessert <jayl at accelerant.net>and many suggestions to come.Summary:1) Zone info of solaris 7 and solaris 8 have changed. Edit "/usr/share/lib/zoneinfo/src/asia":# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]Zone Asia/Hong_Kong 7:36:36 - LMT ...

This is a multi-part message in MIME format.------=_NextPart_000_038A_01C0F262.34C64620Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printableThanks all, and special thanks goes to Paul Hedgepeth who suggested the =use of parenthesis:(tar cvf $TAPE \ ...

Warmest greetings,<p>Can anyone tell me how/what I can configure on a sun box<br>to also output ALL stderr & stdout from the console to /var/adm/messages<br>This is of concern to me particularly during boot time.<p>Many thanks in advance<br>Regards<br>Ayse<p>

I used,lpadmin -p PRINTER_NAME -o landscapeThis worked for one printer but not the other. I am looking into why this is so. I will summarize again if an alternative, or better, solution is found.My Thanks to:Mohammad GhaeiniMark McManusJohn MarretMike EkholmDavid Ernest FornessORIGINAL ...

Hello, all,I have ST39204LC 9GB disk on ss5. I am trying to install solaris8. Theprom version is 2.24. I chose 512 MB swap space and it is in thebeginning of disk. I chose 1900MB of root partition, it will fail toreboot after install software. When I chose 1800 MB root partition, itwill give a ...

Hi, everbodyThanx for responding me but the answer didn't workedout. I think it was due to lack of information.My system is running Solaris 2.6 and with Veritasinstalled on Sun4u.The command /usr/bin/df -F ufs -o i is working fine with "ufs" file system but not with " vxfs ...

Hi I observed the following message getting repeated many times in thesystem log file..Do you have any clue on this...."Jun 10 06:28:36 dove unix: [ID 882636 kern.warning] WARNING: interruptlevel 5 not serviced"I will summarizeThanx in advanceS.Chandra ...

THanks to the following people who replied, the overall consensus was to encpsulate the root diskRob HillNeill, Mark MBSAndrew J CainesDon HarrisBill CaseyDavid MeissnerSean BerryChristopher CiborowsMike EkholmDarren DunhamBertrand_HutinOriginal posting:On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 03:51:19PM -0400, ...

OK I wasn't able to fix the problem without the CD so now I've got the DCAand the CD, however I'm unable to get the DCA floppy to run..it runs fine onmy laptop, just not on this box...when it gets to 'secondary boot' itfreezes. I was told that it had something to do with the floppy maybe ...

I recently had to move the /var partition to a new disk. After copying everything over the new disk and rebooting the machine, syslogd now refuses to start. This is the error I get when I attempt to run it by hand with the -d option:# /usr/sbin/syslogd -dmain(1): Started at time Mon Jun 11 ...

Hi gang,I am looking through my path_to inst file and see more than one path tto thesame drive(s), with different info, for example:"/pci at 1f,0/pci at 1/fibre-channel at 2/sd at 20,5b" 248 "sd""/pci at 1f,0/pci at 1/fibre-channel at 3/sd at 20,5b" 254 ...

Greetings All, As promised, here's my summary to our gigabit ethernet performanceissues. First of all, a big thank you to all who took the time to try tohelp me out. So that this post does not approach the length of "War andPeace," I'm not going to include each and every ...

Greetings Again All, I just posted a summary to my gigabit ethernet performance problems.The bottom line was that I wasn't using the right tool for the job, despitethe fact that I had used three different tools to attempt to test theperformance of our gigabit ethernet network. Now, as ...

Hello managers,We have an e420 running oracle and I am trying to figure out exactly howmuch memory it is consuming through ps. It is a heavily used server andthere are over 100 oracle processes running on it. However, when I do a psaux |grep oracle and see those processes there are a lot of ...

Hello all,<br>I need to find out the disk type, vendor information (make, model) of the<br>hard drive on Solaris 2.8 and similar information for the floppy, CDROM and<br>Tape drive through the script. Any help will be appreciated.<br>Thanks in advance.<br>-Bhajan<p>

I'm trying to set a default boot disk at the PROM level (OK prompt) on aninternal SCSI disk - target 14...after a long weekend of upgrading anencapsulated OS from Solaris 2.6 to version 8. The problem is that theboot-device is currently set to "rootvol" and I can't seem to simply ...

Gurus,I want to create a C++ program that has a pre-allocated pool of threadsproccessing transactions, where each thread is able to work upto 100% ofthe time despite having to wait for data coming in on sockets.This would ensure maximum performance as the optimum number of threadswould always ...

Does anyone have experience with the Sun Gigabit UTP interfaces (Gig overCopper) using Cisco 3524 XL switches with 100baseT gbic installed in theswitch? Am thinking about moving some of my core servers to gigabit and amweighing gig over copper with gig over fiber and was looking for ...

I'm trying to run a 3d mesh viewer, and it complains about thefollowing libraries not being found.libGlw.so.1, libGL.so.1, and libGLU.so.1Does anyone recognize these? Are they part of the solaris 2.7 distribution?If so, in which package are they included?Thanks in advance.Patricia ...

accounts after 3 bad login attempts for Solaris 2.5.1 and newer. I've<br>briefly looked at BSM. Any ideas?<p>Any help more than welcome... ;)<p>

Hello managers,We have an e420 running oracle and I am trying to figure out exactly howmuch memory it is consuming through ps. It is a heavily used server andthere are over 100 oracle processes running on it. However, when I do a psaux |grep oracle and see those processes there are a lot of ...

Apparently, there was a reboot -- -r done recently, because when I had theOS rebuild the file (with boot -a) there was only one path built.But I am left with my original quandary (which was unmentioned in theoriginal query). A Compaq/DEC disk (in an RA8000) is being seen as an EMCgatekeeper by ...

Dear Sun Managers:Is there a way to download all the bug reports (in acluster just like the recommended patches)?I was looking in Sunsolve for bugs reports but it has something like 5000+ bug reports:-( Is there acompressed tar file somewhere I can ftp to my localdisk? (I don't wantto have to ...

Ultra -1 w/ standard graphics card, 2.7 installed w/64 bit, it boots fine to 64 bit.It runs fine with X in 32 bit mode, but in 64 bit mode it can't find the frame buffer device.Any thoughts on this? Will summarize. Thanks.---# dmesg |grep cgJun 8 13:38:38 sun32 unix: NOTICE: cgthree: # dmesg ...

Over the last few weeks, I have noticed this one machine (Ultra 2, 1-300 MHzproc, 1 gig mem, Solaris 7) showing rather busy using top and uptime. I amrunning it as a web server and am also running multiple machines, but thisis the only one I appear to be having this problem with. Right now ...

I got one response which I think answered my question completely. Rather than paraphrase, I have included the text of Dan Astoorian's message immediately below, with my original question below that. Thanks very much Dan.---Just ran into this today myself. According to a 'bug report' article ...