I have a Solaris 2.6 database which has a '/backup' directory that is mounted from a Solaris 2.6 fileserver.The fileserver is going away, and I'm trying to move the '/backup' mount point to the new fileserver.When I try to umount it says it's busy, however no processes show up when I run ...

has anyone every had the problem of trying to installa sub-version of jdk and been denied.for example, i have version 1.2.2_05 installed on asol8 server. i tried to install jdk version 1.2.2_05awith:pkgadd -a none -d .and was denied by pkgadd saying that there is alreadya version of jdk with ...

Special thanks for all who replied Valeriy GlinskiyJay LessertJohn MichaelsHendrik VisagePl find the summaryRegardsShankar*****************When your box says $TZ is "GMT+5", here's what it means:1) There is a line in /etc/default/init that says: TZ=GMT+52) There is a *file* in ...

Hi all , I got alot of answers to the problem , most were to try hme0 instead of hme1but it didn't work.i tried "grep hme /etc/path_to_inst" like 'Mattehew Stier' suggeseted but itshowed no result.I also tried to move the hme card to a differnt slot , the id was changed(hme at ...

Hi,<p>Is there a Solaris benchmark utility out there that<br>anyone as had good experiences using.<p>Thanks<br>Jordan<br>

I was asked by one of our developers to find out whether our systems rununder TSO or PSO so they can track down a bug. I'm a bit over my head withthis one, but this is what I've found so far and I would like to verify itbefore I forward it off to them. FYI, we are just writing ...

Thanks to everyone who emailed, got some great responses!Firstly, my thanks go to :-sckhoo at tm.net.my, Jon, Scott McCool, Matthew P. Marino, Jim Winkle, FrankSmith, Roy Culley, Ed Rolison, Brian Dunbar, Larye Parkins, Scott Buecker,Craig Raskin, John Tan, Eric Bennett, Ric Anderson, Karl ...

I know this is a "oh yeah, that one" question but here goes: Other than<br>"vxdmpinq" what's the command/method to get the serial number for a disk. Its<br>one of those that I use about once a year.<p>JC<br>

I have 2 V880 servers, fully patched, attached to 4 Hitachi Thunder 9200's through a couple of Brocade Silkworm 2400 SAN switches. The servers are unable to see the storage. The Hitachi SE has verified the SAN switch configuration and says that it is good. I attached a 9200 directly to the ...

I just had a request set up Apache with SSL on Solaris 8. I know next to nothing about Apachenor a web server for that matter.I've figured out how to get things started but am unable to figure out how to get it runningwith SSL.Can some one clue me in on what is needed? If possible I'd ...

I have a Solaris 2.6 server which is using an Antares LVD Ultra-2 WIDE SCSIinterface to communicate with IBM Ultrium tape drives. Initially, thethroughput on the tape drives is fast 10-14MB/sec. After several days, weobserve that the tape drive throughput is limited to around 2MB/sec. The ...

I'm trying to find out if there is a way to get Solaris to accept more than 8 character passwords. The setting in /etc/default/passwd lets me set any length password I want. Solaris will only look at the first 8 characters. Is there some setting I'm missing? We'd like to go up to 12 ...

Has anyone had any problems with getting Solaris 8 Sparc International to install over the network using a custom jumpstart. It appears todefault to it's default rules.ok file independant of what is written in /etc/bootparamsAny ...

For this specify both the disks i.e. rootdisk and mirror at boot-device?level or through eeprom.For my case using VxVM it is# eeprom boot-device? vx-rootdisk vx-rootmirrorSuhas Bhide Mathias Kanstrup <mathias at ongame.com> To: codeprof ...

Special Thanks to everyone who replied in such a short notice, jonathan at cafejesus.comAndy_Bach at wiwb.uscourts.govmikelist at sky.netI found the URL: http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/access/multicon/3810soft/3810vct/tftpapp.htm Which had simple instructions on building a ...

Hi all, We must buy a external scsi tape drive for a e250/Solaris8 to holdbackups. Which do you recommend me or point me to a document about this.(no hw problems, easy setup, compression? autoload/eject? changer? ...). It will be my first installation of a tape drive.BTW: Can a scsi external ...

Dear SUN Managaers,My company recently sold an Ultra 10 440 Mhz workstation (running Solaris2.5.1 and a telecom applications software) to a customer and now they arecomplaining that they are receiving UDP error messages which are beinggenerated every 1 second by the Ultra 10 workstation. ...

When I do a drivutil -i c2t5d0 I get:Location Capacity Status Vendor Product FirmwareSerial (MB) ID VersionNumber[1,0] 17274 Optimal SEAGATE ST318404LSUN18G 42073BT0PCZS00 [2,0] 17274 Optimal SEAGATE ...

Managers --I'm trying to do some performance analysis of an A3500 directly attached toan E4500 running Raid Manager 6.22. I'm aware that the rm6 GUI has aperformance monitoring tool, but I want to be able to use the command lineto get that same (more?) information. I thought I struck ...

Hi,<br>I'm trying to create a user account on Solaris 8 who has ONLY the right to<br>change other users passwords, nothing else he should be able to do.<br>Is this possible, and if Yes, how ?<br>Thanks<br>Hisham<br>

Thanks to all who replayed :"Mike's List" <mikelist at sky.net>"Chong Wan" <wanchong at asiainfo.com>"John Tan" <John.Tan at asx.com.au>"Lito A. Lampitoc" <ral at codewan.com.ph"Februarie Randall" <FebruarieR at ...

Firstly, thanks to bergman at merctech.com for his reply.I was able to resolve this problem yesterday evening, there were two factors.1. After rebooting the (with the old optical drive in plugged in) we checked the state of the scsi bus with scsiinfo, this showed that the device was ...

First I like to thank the following people for their support:The great Spirit [manitu at mefisto.net]Kevin Buterbaugh [Kevin.Buterbaugh at lifeway.com]Andrew Petrov [andreyp at nnov.impexbank.ru]Rasmussen, Thorfinn T [Thorfinn.Rasmussen at standardbank.com]Steve Hunt [steve.h at ...

Hi<p> Does CheckPoint 4.1 SP4 work on Netra AC200 in 32 or 64bits ?<p>thanks<br>Fred<br>

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How do i find out, how much cache the CPU has ?Internal as well as external.Other commands ?Oh well, for Solaris-2.6. Thanks (mk)-- Matthias Kurz; Fuldastr. 3; D-28199 Bremen; VOICE +49 421 53 600 47 >> Im prdmotorischen Cortex kann jeder ein Held sein. (bdw) ...

Hello,Iam searching a script that makes full a automatic documentation ofthe Solaris Installation. Any hints?cubenj--Benjamin Kohler / benjamin.kohler at vpbank.com Information Technology / Network + Systems Engineering Verwaltungs- und Privat-Bank AG / http://www.vpbank.com- Reality ...

On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 01:39:45PM +0100, Matthias Kurz wrote:> Hi.> > >From dmesg:> cpu1: SUNW,UltraSPARC-II (upaid 3 impl 0x11 ver 0x20 clock 296 MHz)> > How do i find out, how much cache the CPU has ?> Internal as well as external.> Other commands ?> Oh well, ...

Thanks to:Steve Mickeler [steve at neptune.on.ca]Boldin, Bob [Robert.Boldin at bellsouth.com]Ice [ice at ice.org.ua]Schulte, Michael [michael.schulte at materna.de]kevin graham [kgraham at dotnetdotcom.org]petri kallberg [petri.kallberg at sun.com]Cawley,Stephen F. [Stephen.Cawley at ...

Many thanks to the following people:Heilke, RainerBill VoightBriscoe, KrisCaparroso, NelsonJonathan A. ZdziarJonas BlbergAndrew_RotramelThere wasn't a complete consensus, but almost everyone agreed that I couldwork. I looked at the physical path for disk 0 on both machines and theywere the ...

The answer is: Don't buy a MaxtorI got quite a number of emails from people using Western Digital HDs >100gigw/out error on U5/10s. Most replies from Maxtor owners complained they wereunable to use >30 GB. Before this Maxtor I had a 45gig WD drive and itworked w/out error.One ...

Machine was automatically reboot yesterday. No clue in log files. I'vegot a crash dump in /var/crash/<machine name>/vmcore.1, runadb -k unix vmcore.1$<msgbufI've got_______________________________________________________........WARNING: [AFT1] Uncorrectable Memory Error on CPU1 Data ...

We have a weblogic application running on 2 SUN 3500's running Solaris 8with a patchset that I downloadedin December. This app was just ported last week from 2 4500's also runningSolaris 8 and most recent patchon those servers was October. weblogic has 2 ports that it uses for httpaccess: ...

I keep reading throughout Sun's RM 6.22 documentation that you should <br>hook up the device to two seperate SCSI controllers. How do you <br>go about doing this? Is it possibly to hook up the A1000 in this <br>kind of configuration?<p>Thanks!<p>-Dan<br>

A quick multipathing question. What NIC cards are supported? I wouldlike to multipath 2 Gigabit NIC cards on my backup server. This willprovide me with much greater throughput capbilities. I don't want to doit now, but rather once we start noticing a network throughput issues.Then we can ...

Thanks all for your responses. I will start testing these products andsee if they suit my needs. If we can do this for cheap, I am sure itwill be better than going out and spending a lot of money.Here is a list of products that were recommended (in order ofpopularity)-Big Brother ...

Anyone knows of any other "to do" for Solaris x86 to optimize forperformance? i.e. enable the ata-dma after installation. I'm looking forspecific Solaris 8 x86 "to do" _NOT_ Solaris optimization in general(not looking for the likes of minfree/maxfree, system performance, ...

Hi guys:I have a ultra 1 which is having dtlogin problems. I tried to start the dtlogin with the following command /usr/dt/bin/dtlogin -daemon &. But on the console it gave me the following error.The X-server can not be started on display :0...What does this mean? I took a look at ...

I have question about "ftp" file tramsfer date question. While I transfer files in betweenSolaris or other UNIX servers, how can I keep the file original date? I know I can use "touch -t" to change it after transfer. Does their has way to do it inside ...

I've been trying to get a sun server 4500, solaris 8, to make device files for the tape drives and changer on an HP SureStore Tape Library. I am going through a brocade switch to communicate between the devices. I was told by sun support that I should make sure the port on the switch I am ...

Greetings.I have a SunFire 280 with an additional X6799 Single Fibre Channeladapter connected to an Inrange switch which is subsequently connectedto an IBM ESS Shark. My problem is that the Sun doesn't create anydisk devices from the Shark over the fibre loop. A prtconf shows thatthe system ...

Thanks to all that replied:<p>Pretty much nothing specific for Solaris 8 x86 is needed after<br>the ata-dma enabled. One smart ass comment about optimaztion<br>for Solaris 8 needed to be on a sparc ;) you know who you are.<p>- Mike<br>

Thanks a million to everyone who responded. I received a lots of very usefultips.Eventually I worked around the problem by changing my perl script. Howeverthe issue is still there.Why, the same perl script that accessing the SAME data runs 5-6 times sloweron Intel box than on E250?Is it some ...

Thanks to Christopher Hubell for the help!****************This is what worked for us:Server: Installed Latest Version of SMC 3.0 Server (product update 3)Installed Netra SupplementInstalled Sun Management Center 3.0 jumbo Patch. Patch: 110938-05. Started ServerAgent:Installed Latest Version ...

Platform: SunOS donor 5.8 Generic_108528-10 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-80Rebooted the machine, NOW I can get unlimited coredumpsize!On one particular system I could not enable core dumps. Itried sh/csh/tcsh shells with the respective ulimit/unlimit commands,nothing worked: ulimit -c ...

After posting my Summary, I recieved lots of replies that suggest using"Role Based Access Control" (RBAC) on Solaris 8.Thanks again for your help.:=)----- Original Message -----From: "Hisham Al Saad" <ahisham at batelco.com.bh>To: <codeprof at codeprof.com>Sent: ...

Hi folks,I would like to perform following task in my Sun Box using Crontab, could youplease quote me the line which I can appended to my crontab config file.1. On every friday delete the log file from the /logs/ directory, but beforedeleting the logs I want to stop the sendmail daemon. The ...

I'm helping out configure a SunFire 880V which will eventually have 12 x73Giggers on system via the on-board FC-backplane/cage. I'd like toexclusively use the FC disks for purely data/apps storage and not OS. I amplanning instead instead to just use 2 Sun Unipaks (18 giggers) as boot diskbut ...

hi gurus<br>this is a trivial question , but i need to reboot a E220 which has a<br>A1000 attached with it. do i need to take any special care in rebooting the<br>server or a plain reboot command will do ? <p>regards<br>laloo yadav<br>

My original post is below. Thanks goes to these people:Sean Quaint Thomas Anders system administration account [sysadmin at astro.su.se]Jay LessertEd RolisonDavid FosterDarren DunhamKevin Buterbaugh In general it is recommended to apply logging to every filesystem on theserver to enhance ...