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 ...

Hi all,I have an external SUN DDS3 scsi tape drive that i am trying to configureto an Ultra 5 that is running Solaris 8 and is fully patched. I have adual pci scsi controller card in the ultra 5 that has a scsi cable comingout of port A and goes into the IN Port of the DDS3 tape drive. There ...

Thanks to the following people for their quick<br>answer.<br>Pestka Roman<br>Kumar Shravan<br>Geoff Lane<br>Herpers Joseph<br>Jon Andrews<br>Subhash<br>Dan Astoorian<br>Jay Lessert<p>All pointed out it is for ps caching.<p>Regards,<br>S.Franics<br>

Thanks to the following people for their quick<br>answer.<br>Pestka Roman<br>Kumar Shravan<br>Geoff Lane<br>Herpers Joseph<br>Jon Andrews<br>Subhash<br>Dan Astoorian<br>Jay Lessert<p>All pointed out it is for ps caching.<p>Regards,<br>S.Franics<br>

We have a Windows 2000 server as domain controllerruning active directory, also I have installed servicefor unix (SFU) 2.0 on it so that it can be as NISmaster server for Solaris 2.6 workstations as well.On the Win2k server, I created a group account, thencreated a user account who belongs to ...

hi all<br>thanks for quick response. my question was are there any special<br>measures to be taken to reboot a server with a A1000 attached to it.<p>all<br>agreed that nothing special is needed. a plain reboot command will do. or<br>better to use init 6. <p>regards<br>laloo yadav<br>

Hi,I am working with a DBA to setup an oracle database on E420RThe machine will be running Solaris 8 with VxVM and VxFS.The database requires to use Raw Volume and will be on a 1+0 array.1. How to do a cool backup of this database? I want to detach one plex (set of disks on 1+0 array) from ...

Hello,Does anyone think the following figures for the memory usage of Xsunare strange on Solaris 8 with 108654-47? SIZE RES12159 root 1 59 0 17M 62M sleep 0:00 0.00% XsunThis is on an Ultra 5 PGX64 with no one logged in. i.e. just the dtlogin screen.I've not seen ...

Hi, Have anyone use a V880 as a SunRay Enterprise server? Does theSunRay Server Software 1.3 works with it? I've seen normalconfigurations of E250, E450 as SunRay server but not on V880. We willbe proposing it for a new research project setup. Kindly advise.Regards,--Tan Tshun Kiat ...

Marcelino Mata [mmata at multiinc.com]Ben Tierney [ben at securitycomputer.com]Christophe Dupre [duprec at scorec.rpi.edu]Tim Chipman [chipman at ecopiabio.com]Troy Abernathy [tabernathy at r2-tech.com]Darren Dunham [ddunham at taos.com]A great list! indeed. This was my first posting to the ...

hi Admins,In one of my solaris 7 box, the /var partition is getting filled withsome "pacct" files. These are getting created in /var/adm directory. Thefile names are pacct1, pacct2, pacct3 ...like that. Anyone have anyidea, how this files are getting created ? How to stop ...

Hi Managers,<br>Can someone provide me the specific steps in order to compile and<br>configure Apache with SSL.A prompt response will be highly appreciated<br>please.<p>TIA<br>Zia<br>

Hi all,can somebody tell me, which third party disks can be usedfor Netra X1. I'm looking for the highest capacity(eg. 120 GB IBM Deskstar 120GXP with UDMA/100) availableat time.Are there experieces out there about it.Best regards,AntonCenter for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Researchemail: ...

Hi allWe have a license server for simulations.Normally, it's fast to grap a free license, say 5s..However, recently, we're experiencing very slow grappingand the apps open up very slow in the screen even thoughthere're free licenses.....Can anyone advise which checking I should proceed ...

> Anyone got experiences/recommendations in replacing Sun disks in an > Enterprise 250 (Sol 2.6) with 3rd party drives? We want to increase > storage capacity in a legacy server, currently have only 9.0 & 4.2G disks.> Specifically I'm wondering whether the Sun drives ...

Hi Sunmanagers!I'm running Solaris 8 on a Sun Fire 280-R.The disks are mirrored using Solaris Disk Suite. I've created device alias at the Open Boot Prom for the primary and secondary boot disk, and also specified boot-device.How do get the sytem to boot from the second boot-device if the ...

I am facing a problem which is quite irratic,I got some user created on my Sun system, id wise01sdu, 02sdu, 03sdu, 04sdu, 05sdu, ..... 09sdu.I have checked for password file entries and shadow file entries, which is ok. These look like following.#grep sdu /etc/shadow01sdu:x:7213:20:South ...

In addition to information below, I would like to add here is I have tried recreating users from admintool as well as manually, starting with alphabetic letter works fine, here just i am concerned if I am getting error for 08sdu, 06sdu, 07sdu, i am suppose to get for every user starting with ...

Hi Gurus I know this should be a piece of cake but I got stuck. I'm are about to set up a tftp server that we will use to back up Ciscorouters on I'm running Solaris 8 on the box SunOS somebox 5.8 Generic_108528-10 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-5_10 in inetd.conf I got tftp dgram udp wait ...

thanks to Jon Andrews, Hendrik Visage, Suresh Rajagopalan, Ian Roddis, AlHopper, Frank Huang, Kevin Buterbaugh,Todd Urie, Joe Fletcher, and Nick Hindley. Suggested solutions included"Its an application issue, so its not yourproblem", resetting /dev/tcp values on the server, and ...

My utmost request to all the sun admins, I want to know can I create a dump device on a seperate disk which is not a root disk, is it fine with the system. As in out setup throughout dump device is not the part of volume manager(Veritas), In one system its needed to be created and space is not ...

hi gurus,<br>CDE takes a long time to display screen after the initial logging<br>screens ( login name + passwd) . what could be the reason for this ?<br>regards<br>laloo yadav<br>

Hello all,We have been looking at upgrading from our E450s to the V880. Do any of you have the V880? Any comments on the performance would be a help. Also can I take parts from the E450 (i.e. hard drives, memory) and install them into the V880?Also has anyone heard how long the wait is from sun ...

hi , thanks for a quick response. i checked the/var/dt/Xerrors which reads AUDIT: Mon Jan 2114:44:11 2002: 336 Xsun: client 19 rejected from local hostAuth name: MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 ID: 0 and /.dt/errorlogreads Workspace Manager: I/O error on display:::0.0 though ...

Hello Managers: I have a customer who would like to restrict all of his users whoare a members of the same group so that files that they create and/or downloadhave rw-rw-r security (only super users would be able to make filesexecutable). At the same, he would like them to be able to ...

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 ...