IPSec Client for Solaris 2.6

878 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:14:00
Hi, everyone! I was wondering if anyone can recommend an IPSec clientfor Solaris 2.6, particularly one that is compatible with Cisco 7140 and 7200routers. I looked through the codeprof archive, and all the posts listedthere referred to the version of IPSec that comes with Solaris 8, and I ...

Automount : force remount

626 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:14:00
Hi.Given an auto_home entry with blah blahServer:/export/home/blahWhat can i do to force an immediate remount, when blahServer dies ?For example, a new server blahTakeServer should take over. So thethe new entry would look like bla blahTakeServer:/export/home/blahI need to force an umount ...

Masquerading

948 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:14:00
Hi All,When I send mails, our hostname is included in the email address whenviewed by the recepient. (me at AIMONLINE.aimonline.org). Please advice ifyou have any suggestions to resolve this.This happened when I applied therecommended and security patches recently.This is the actual data in ...

Sun Managers Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

106088 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:14:00
Archive-name: codeprof-faqSun-Managers' Frequently Asked Questions$Id: faq,v 4.12 2001/05/17 15:20:59 jdd Exp $This is collection of common questions posted to the codeprof mailinglist twice a month. It is intended to benefit Sun System Managers andreduce traffic to the list by providing quick ...

RAID-5 Query

3319 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:14:00
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_001_01C102BC.112E2AB0Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"Hi All We are having solaris 8 running over E-450 server, ...

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

4463 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:15:00
I am posting the summary for the second time as I havent seen the firstarrive and it was sent on the 29th.=======================================================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. ...

Legato error...

651 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:15:00
Hi Admins,I get following mesg on my console. Could you please let me know how to disable the error mesg poping on my console:-------------------------------------------------------------[daemon.notice] Legato Storage Manager media: (waiting) backup to pool 'Default' waiting for 1 writable ...

Error due to LD_PRELOAD

5930 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:15:00
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_001_01C102D9.65918940Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"Hi, We are facing some probelm regarding Sun Solaris Here I am ...

e4500 Crashing.

2194 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:15:00
Lads,I have an e4500 that is crashing without explanation. Brief outlineThe symptoms are that you boot it into extended diagnostics and it giveswildly differing simm errors every time, sometimes it boots to the os,sometimes (as now ) it doesn't even boot to the obp.If you boot it off a ...

Sun Monitors and Graphics Cards

3281 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:15:00
This is a multipart message in MIME format.--=_alternative 003CD3AD80256A7D_=Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"Hi,I have an Ultra-10 with Standard sun monitors. I would like to change the set up of the graphics cards. However, when I look in the /dev/fbs files I find that ...

SUMMARY: Jumpstart revisted

3079 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:15:00
Did not see this come out so I am resending it...I would like to thank the following for their fast response-in order of receipt:o Chris Cariffe [chris at zippy.baydat.org]o Ken_Germann at bluecrossmn.como Sean Quaint [squaint at mediaone.net]o Valeriy Glinskiy [val at research.telcordia.com]o ...

Diagnosing totally dead E450 after A/C failure -- no power lights at all

734 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:15:00
I have an E450 that sits in a small room. Over the weekend the airconditioning went out, and I got in this morning to find the machine totallyoff.Other machines in the room are fine and never lost power, I've tried variouspower outlets.The E450 does not seem to be getting power at all -- the ...

Summary - finding the boot device

851 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:15:00
Thank you all for replying with great suggestions. All answers lead to doing a simple df -k to see where the / was mounted. I was thinking along a single minded track looking for something simialr to HP's lvlnboot comand.One different suggestion which was helpful came from - BryanPepin , ...

Remote root login

4784 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:15:00
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_001_01C10305.C39CAF70Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"All,Can someone please remind me what file to modify to allow me ...

Re Remote root login

116 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:15:00
Edit <br>/etc/default/login<p>the line you need is <p>CONSOLE=/dev/console<p>set this to <p>#CONSOLE=/dev/console<p>

Summary - Remote root login

6154 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:15:00
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_001_01C10308.381FE2C0Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"Cheers all Edit /etc/default/login and make sure the following ...

[LONG SUMMARY] opionions on in-house unix based mail systems

21862 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:15:00
Hello Sun Managers,Here is my summary of replies into unix based mail servers. I had quite a fewcomments on both Lotus Notes and the I-Planet software, along with several "tryand fix your exchange server" and a couple of mail servers my research beforeposting the question did not ...

E4500 & EMC HBA's

691 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:15:00
We have an E4500 with 2x i/o boards currently. Each i/o board currentlyhas aSun FC-AL HBA (shows as Dual-SBus-SOC+ in prtdiag-v). We'd like to addsome Clariion arrays (currently there are 5200's hanging off theexisting hba's).This means adding 2 EMC HBA's (which are none-AL apparently), 1 ...

SUMMARY E4500 Crashing.

3842 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:15:00
Lads,Many thanks to those who responded.Seth RothenbergNick HedleyMike KiernanShannon Wardand most importantJoseph Herpers.(joeh at stsolutions.com)The original post is below. It involved some very awkward crashing withinconsistent memory errors.It was obvious from the original posting that ...

xterm connectivity blocked

390 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:15:00
hi,some securifying has been done and now exceed xtermstartup requests to a sol8 server fail.i'm hoping someone can see the error of my ways.thank you.rf__________________________________________________Do You Yahoo!?Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! ...

Help on Mysql

324 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:15:00
Hello to all.I am still new to Solaris and Mysql.. I have been trying to install Mysql onmy Solaris 8 box and have not been able to get it running. It there anything that I have to try to install before I install Mysql?Thanks in advanceLarry at ...

SUMMARY: xterm connectivity blocked

605 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:15:00
A:uncommented exec stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/in.rexecd in.rexecdkill -HUP $PID_OF_INETDand bang, xterms work again.great post from chaos pinpointed the problem.original Q:hi,some securifying has been done and now exceed xtermstartup requests to a sol8 server fail.i'm ...

Exporting WindowManagers in CDE.

879 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:15:00
Sunmanagers,I haven't found much documentation on exporting displays and I've read the man pages on X, Xserver and Xsun but I couldn't piece this together andI'm running out of time. I have a Sun Ultra 1 running Solaris 7 that boots into runlevel 3 ( thegraphic login --- dtlogin) and I was ...

SUMMARY: Diagnosing totally dead E450 after A/C failure -- no p ower lights at all

2908 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:15:00
Thankfully, no hardware was damaged. The problem turned out to be faultypower on site. We had short but severe storms in the area last night, andparts of our building lost power. My best guess now is that the machinecouldn't draw enough current to power on, so it stayed in ...

TeX on sol8

549 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:15:00
i've purchased TeX by dante; and have it nfs mountedfrom a remote server but it is very obscure on how toinstall it.if local, it just pops up and installs via vold.any one use TeX or have a reference or answer?thank you.rfotherwise, is there a substitute in gnu to get regexworking with a TeX ...

[Q] how to setup external disk as bootable disk?

735 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:15:00
We have SUN Sparc 5 with Solaris 2.6 installed. This computer has one 1GBinternal hard disk (SCSI ID 3) and external 4 GB hard disk (SCSI ID 5). Iused "ufsdummp and ufsrestore" duplicate image from internal hsik toexternal disk. and also use "installboot" make this ...

SUMMARY: color xterm in Sol 8

2049 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:15:00
Many thanks to all who responded.A number of the people who responded seemed to think that I wanted to know how to set the background color of my xterm, which wasn't what I was asking. Sorry for any miscommunication on my part, what I wanted was for my xterm to be able to display ANSI color ...

Downgrading from 2.8 to 2.6

1009 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:15:00
I have an E3500 that has solaris 2.8 installed on it. I need to install2.6 on it. When I insert the 2.6 media and do the "boot cdrom" action themachine makes it thru POST, starts OBP, begins to load 2.6 and just when Ithink its about to do the /dev and /devices line it prints ...

Hi gurus

2603 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:15:00
Hi gurusI have an E3500 that has solaris 2.7 installed on it. I am downloading the DiskSuite 4.2 from solaris 2.8and getting the following errors. I may have wrong version of this softwareor it may not be supported onmy H/W (E3500). I have looked in to CD-ROM for 2.6 and 2.7 and could ...

ADMINISTRATION: Server/List Downtime

785 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:15:00
The machine that hosts the Sun Managers mailing list and web pagewill be down for an undetermined period of time on Wednesday, July4th (2001, of course) so that I can go down to where the machine iscolocated and replace the existing 4.5 and 9gig hard drives with a pair of shiny new Seagate ...

Summary: network performance tuning

3735 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:15:00
My original post was :-----------------------------------------------------------------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 ...

Solstice Backup Utility 5.5.1 - Too many devices

1339 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:15:00
Hi,I installed the Solstice Backup Utility 5.5.1 on a Solaris 2.6 box andpatched it with 108884-02. I get this when i start the networker daemons :-Jul 3 10:46:29 e220r root: Solstice Backup Server: (notice) startedJul 3 10:46:47 e220r root: Solstice Backup index: (notice) completedchecking 1 ...

System memory usage question

3220 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:15:00
Hi,The following is a query about some memory usage.=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D8GB of physical memory4294967295 max shared memory segment size (SHMMAX)Total memory: 7970 MegabytesKernel Memory: 386 MegabytesApplication: ...

SunLink SNA/Netview FTP - solution required

245 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:15:00
hi,<p>is there a replacement for SunLink SNA? i am tring<br>to create a link for my users to able to exchange files<br>between them and the mainframe over SNA.<p>similar to what NetView/FTP can do. <p>any help from the list?<p>rgds,<br>sckhoo<p>

session restriction

522 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:15:00
Hi,I need to restrict a user to only one session per user.i tried this but it throws the banner but does'nt exit any thoughts here?i am calling this from profile as well as .login#!/bin/shuser=$L0GNAME if [ `who |awk '{print $1}' | wc -l` -gt 1 -a "$group" != "sys_mng" ...

Sparc Compiler

5364 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:15:00
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_001_01C1039E.74D421E0Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"I have a version of SPARCompiler C 4.0 installed on an old Ultra ...

SUMMARY: Sun Monitors and Graphics Cards

7729 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:15:00
This is a multipart message in MIME format.--=_alternative 003487FF80256A7E_=Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"HI,Thanks to all who responded with several good ideas but the prize goes to Mark MacManus and Gerard Henry who came up trumps. To quote Mark:-The following should ...

syslogd stopping

1082 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:15:00
Hi,Just recently on one of my Solaris boxes (SunOS flemming 5.5 Generic_103093-27 sun4m sparc SUNW,SPARCstation-10) syslogd has taken tostopping several times a day and without warning. It is easily restartedbut represents a worrying change in behaviour. I believe syslogd can fallover if it ...

"socket: All ports in use" Error

1285 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:15:00
Gurus,One of my nodes does lots of rsh'ing to other unix boxes which worksfine most of the time. But during periods of heavy use, Isometimes get: socket:All ports in useand the rsh does not work. Is there any way to check the availability ofthe ports? How to free up ...

Samba 2..2.0 on Solaris 8

1713 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:15:00
I have tried getting Samba 2.2.0 running on a Solaris 8 machine (a 220R).I first tried the solaris .28 version of the package, with: PSTAMP: scruffy20010502153142The procedures outlined below (taken from google groups etc) failed, so Iremoved the 2.8 instance of the package and installed a ...

LVM

5091 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:15:00
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_001_01C103B1.D7BE9250Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"All,My background is mainly AIX / HP-UX where LVM (Logical Volume ...

Hello SunManagers,I am a DBA who is overlooking installation and setup of a brand new E450 serve

2104 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:15:00
Hello SunManagers,I am a DBA who is overlooking installation and setup of a brand new E450 server. I wanted to decide on my disk partitions and wanted to know what scsi target ids would be allocated to the 6 disks in the server. Theinstallation manual says that target ids are pre-decided ...

how are SCSI target-ids decided ?

2293 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:15:00
Hello SunManagers,I am a DBA who is overlooking installation and setup of a brand new E450 =server. I wanted to decide on my disk=20partitions and wanted to know what scsi target ids would be allocated to =the 6 disks in the server. Theinstallation manual says that target ids are pre-decided ...

Sunblade serial port pinout

356 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:15:00
The Sunblade 100 has a DB9 serial port. I have been unable to find thepinout in any of the documentation. Anybody know what the pinout should be?Thanks.Blaine OwensEastman Chemical CompanyPhone - (423)-229-3579Cell Phone - (423)-817-0704Fax - (423)-229-1188bowens at ...

Websphere - DB2 Issue,

875 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:15:00
Hi Managers,I'm using Websphere Application Server v3.5 with UDB DB2 v6 as my backend.Is there a way in Websphere by which I can set TRUE or FALSE for AUTOCOMMIT,in the sense can we control commit via Websphere Application Server bysetting some properties.Thanx,hemanthThis e-mail and any files ...

Netra X1 jumpstart

950 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:15:00
I could swear I just saw something about jumstarting a Netra X1 pass by onthis list, but I can't find anything in the archives, and I'm already aday behind schedule because of this.We got a new Netra X1 that I need to jumpstart. I upgraded (well,replaced, really) the Solaris 8 01/01 ...

problems with mirroring a root disk on solaris 8

917 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:15:00
Dear Sun Managers I have been trying to mirror a root partition on an ultra 10 with IDE disks on Solaris 8 using SDS . I have been following the directions from docs.sun.com . Here is what I do. I do a format on the second disk and setup the slices exactly the same. Then # ...

SUMMARY: Sunblade serial port pinout

660 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:15:00
Thanks to all who responded. John Malick suggested the Hardware CD whichcame with the SunBlade. I thought I had already checked that out but perhapsI just overlooked it. Others suggested the docs.sun.com site. I found itfairly quickly there: ...

Korn shell variable

515 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:15:00
Hi Gurus We are trying to do a function that reports a errorlog in the ksh scriptline, at first of all weare using the built in variable $LINENO, but discovered tht thisvariable does not work correctly aswe planed inside of a functions. The $LINENO takes the number of lines in a ksh script, but ...

SUMMARY: Re: Netra X1 jumpstart

1813 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 20:15:00
Original question at the bottom.Thanks to:Steve Mickeler <steve at neptune.on.ca>Jed Dobson <jed at wgtech.com>Rachel Polanskis <rachel at excitehome.com.au>Wyman Eric Miles <wymanm at is.rice.edu>The information is on the release notes that came with the system, but ...