Gurus,To preface: I searched the list archives, sunsolve and the rest of the internet, butcame up empty, so...I'm seeing segmentation faults caused by the sa2 SAR process which runs on a cronevery evening. Sometimes the process runs without problem and other times it segfaults. There ...

I'm begininng my research into moving DNS, DHCP, and LDAP services from ourprimary E450 NFS server onto 4 Netra's we are about to get. I know DNS offersa secondary mechanism, but does DHCP and LDAP? IE: Can we have two DHCPservice processes running at the same time and have them dynamically ...

Recently, both of my mail relays were bombarded with thousands of bouncedmessages from and internal Sun system. This internal system was rejectingthe email because the /etc/mail/aliases entry for MAILER-DAEMON was in allcaps and this system was expecting it in sentence format ...

Greetings All, I've got an Ultra 5 (360 MHz) running Solaris 8 (recommended patchcluster updated last week) with 384 MB RAM. This machine is my desktop andalso serves as a NIS+ replica. I am using the built in graphics card. I'mrunning Sun's unsupported version of Gnome 1.4 (and while ...

Admins,Many thanks to all of you: Ken Germann, Rodrigo Gesswein, Rob McCauley,Simon Convey, The great Spirit, Rob Lyle, Henrik Mortensen, KevinStafford, Jay Lessert, Rick Kelly, Brett Lymn, Mark Bergman.Almost everything seems to depend on libc library.Solutions:1. Boot the server from CD and ...

Greetings,I'm soon to install a PCI Dual Fibre Channel Host Adapter into my 420R runningSolaris 7 (2.7 11/99). I already have the SunVTS package installed & need the"qlctest" program for performing diagnostic tests via SunVTS.So I go to http://sunsolve5.sun.com/qlc where the ...

People, I have configured a root server successfully and made another machinea client of this root domain successfully. I have created a admin group andadded a user to this admin group. Using this user I am attempting to runfor example:$ nismkdir -m sol802 market.towns.com.where towns.com. ...

I have gcc 3.0.2 built 64bitly:/pkg/depot/gcc-3.0.2/bin/gcc: ELF 64-bit MSBexecutable SPARCV9 Version 1, dynamically linked, not strippedDoes anyone know how to build 32bit binaries with this 64 bit compiler? I have noticed some apps don't build nicely with64bit turned on. Though, lsof built ...

Got a couple of quick responses. You want to use the -m flag.It also seems that many are staying away from goin full 64 bit forall their apps. I personally keep 2.95.3 and 3.0.2 lying aroundfor a sanity check. But, I must admit it is great being able to compile lsof without having to use Sun ...

can anyone verify that veritas netbackup will fail if a tape error is<br>encountered, causing the job to be re-run!<br>any specifics would be helpful too...like total storage backed up.<br>thank you.<br>

Dear Gurus,I start getting this messages in the /var/adm/messages since last week. Any idea why or is there config error in my server. Im using sun ultra 10 in solaris 2.6 platform. Thanks.Dec 5 21:12:59 ext-dns xntpd[319]: time reset (step) -0.140790 sDec 5 21:41:20 ext-dns xntpd[319]: time ...

hi managers while opening performance monitor on an e-450 machine theperfomance monitor hangs i need to kill that if it hangs sometime it worksalso when it works i shows me the context value to be very high i searched allman pages but couldnt find any satisfactorily answer my machine is ...

Sun gurus,Of late I have started noticing that my /tmp space usage is shooting up veryrapidly in a E450 box running solaris 2.6.Is there any means by which I can clear up this /tmpspace without a reboot asthis is my production server.Appreciate your help in this regard.Thanks.Kavitha.K[demime ...

The messages below are not errors but FYI only time servers adjusting time - Thnx to John.Regards,Christian Alba> -----Original Message-----From: John Kerbawy [mailto:john at maKintosh.com]Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 1:02 PMTo: Alba, Christian [NCSSG NON J&J]Subject: Re: xntpd ...

Thanks to everyone who responded. I would list thenames but, I received over 50 responses and the listwould be longer than the summary.The majority responded with:build it with tcpwrapper support: ./configure ... ---with-tcp-wrappersThe entries in the hosts.allow file should look ...

I've been able to boot my Ultra AX, and I've got Solaris 7 loaded (vianetwork jumpstart). If you have one of these old machines and are havingproblems getting it to do anything meaningful, please drop me a line, I'dbe glad to help.SPARCengine(tm)Ultra(tm) AX (UltraSPARC 168MHz), No ...

Hi Managers,<p>is it possible to run a PC Graphic Card (S3 PCI) on a SPARCstation 5 ?<br>If yes ... how?<p>Thanx in advance<br>Markus<br>

So,<p>I got very friendly and precise answers.<p>The simple solution is: NO... because a SPARCstation 5 has no<br>PCI-Bus :-)<p>Markus<p>Tanks to:<br> Fletcher, Joe<br> Wimmer, Jeffrey<br> Riddoch, John<br> "CIC Line"<br>

QUESTION:I have an E4500 Solaris 8 Server with 3 Gig of memory. The server has beenup for over 6 months with no problems. The free memory is slowly being usedup and we are down to 362M. I have checked all the processes being used andkilled some old oracle and user processes. I know rebooting ...

Greetings All, First of all, thanks are sincerely extended to the following: DarrenDunham, Simon Harrison, Michael Schulte, David Glass, Mikael Nordstrom,Casper Dik, and Tim Chipman. All of them were right on target... The culprit is actually the screensaver I run when away from ...

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ftp://ftp.wu-ftpd.org/pub/wu-ftpd-attic/cert.org/CA-2001-33<ftp://ftp.wu-ftpd.org/pub/wu-ftpd-attic/cert.org/CA-2001-33> I looked at the CERT's cite in reference to the BLOB error in WU-FTPD andwas wondering if anyone could share any insight if Solaris version isvulnerable to this ...

Hello,I am having an issue when I login to my workstation. The environment is asfollows:Sun Ultra 10 running Solaris 8 7/01(the machine is a standard build with theonboard video)It is a default install using the entire distribution(no OEM).I am using standard korn shell.I am logging in via the ...

Thanks everyone...would of list all names here, but way too long...Most replies are as follow:Linux: Will be faster on x86 due to kernel being fine tune and abundant of drivers and fast file system, but will not be as stable as Solaris. Update/patch for kernel is more frequent ...

Okay.. I just inherited a Irix box which is mostly maintenance free - Wenormally don't have to support it and I don't care whats on it, but I haveto install legato notworker on it, and give it an additional IP & add a fewrouting commands. Being a mainly solaris guy I have no idea where ...

Dear Sun Managers,I've an E6500 running Solaris 2.8. An A3500 disk array is connected to thissystem.When I issue a "healthck -a", it shows me independent controllers notdetected.Would appreciate someone can enlighten me on this. What does it means?How can I resolve this problem? ...

Hi guys:I have heard about the buffer overflow vulnerability in WUFTP. Does this vulnerability exist in the ftp software included in Solaris 8. I was looking at Internet Security Systems website ( http://xforse.iss.net) and there is a bug listed in there which allows ftp users in Solaris 2.6, 7 ...

Hi Everyone,<p>I'm trying to install a SBUS TGX card in my E4500 running Solaris 8. The<br>machine has never had<br>any Graphics prior to this.... Can anyone tell me what pkgs need to be<br>installed for this to work?<p>Thanks,<br>Mark Gosselin<br>NetScout Systems<br>

The following mail has the link (referred to others) plus a little more info.....Thanks to all who replied.....>From: "Moscola, Alfred" <Alfred_Moscola at intuit.com>>To: "'ritesh patel'" <ritesh_patel13 at hotmail.com>>Subject: RE: pro's & con'c ...

> I have a Sun Ultra 2 .> One day the monitor just went blank ...> I tried the monitor on a diff m/c it worked ...> I conclude that the prob is with graphics card ..> But then when i do a ffbconfig ... it senses the> graphics card ..> The Monitor when connected to the Sun ...

I'm look for Sun 220R Door or its part #. I'm told there isn't a part #. It's that blue plastic door that says Enterprise 220R with the Sun logo. It breaks often and that usually the only one who has any are service reps. ED Wellerseatacsms at ...

Hello guys:Apologize if this is a naive question according to this forum standards. I need to create an ftp environment (non anonymous) on a sun Solaris 8 platform. I would like to know how I can have login restriction on users (like containing them to a particular dir, no write privileges in a ...

We've got a Mac G4 here that is used for Protools, an audio processingprogram. We need to get the audio files from this program onto our SunE450 for backups.Does anyone know of a way for the Mac to write properly to Unix filesystems, or for Solaris to read Mac filesystems, or somehow (like ...

Hello,Does any one have a solution to do the log rotation for the followingscript, but without restarting this script?#!/bin/shexec >> test.log 2>&1while truedodatesleep 5doneAs you can see, when the script is executed, it starts to write to test.log,I would like to rotate the ...

Has anyone ever seen this before?<p>; uname -sr<br>SunOS 5.8<br>; /usr/bin/ksh<br>$ /usr/bin/sed -f <( echo foo )<br>a<br>aD # ^D<br>$ echo foo > /tmp/foo<br>$ /usr/bin/sed -f /tmp/foo<br>Unrecognized command: foo<br>

Hello All !There is no way to remove stdout buffering (thanks to Darren Dunham[ddunham at taos.com], David Evans [David.J.Evans at oracle.com])The only working solution is to use stderr, which is always unbuffered(thanks to sysadmin at astro.su.se):(/usr/bin/tar cvf - * | dd of=/dev/rmt1 ...

Hi allHow can I mount all local /home directories in serversay now I have a E250 server with 12 workstations allrunning Solaris 7 in UltraSparc 10I once tried in all local /etc/vfstab but it won't boot onceonce of the workstation is down as it looks the ...

Hi fellow guru's,I've got some E10K domains connected to a Hitachi Lightning 9960. Due tothe price of ports on the Lightning, we want to convert the FC connectionfrom direct point-to-point connections to switched "fabric-mode"connections.Can anyone tell me what settings need to ...

Hi all,I am planning to have system upgrade on our machinesWe have E250 server running Solaris 7 with SDS RAID 112 UltraSparc 10 clients, some are Sol7 and some are Sol8I want to move all to Sol8.About the server, actually, we want to add a new pairof harddisks for file system... and actually I ...

Hi all<p>Sth maybe out scope, sorry<p>WE have several real IPs and our workstations all use internal<br>private IPs. How can I config the CISCO router to map some of<br>the private IPs to the real IPs ?<p>Kenneth<br>

Hi,We are finding on our Solaris 2.6 systems that our sendmail.cf (in/etc/mail) file often gets auto-regenerated and overwritten.Could anybody explain why this might be the case, and how? Does anyoneelse see this behaviour? The generation is not correlated with a reboot.Regards,Mark----Mark .I. ...

So obvious....the culprit was the recommended patch cluster which weinstall on a monthly basis. Should have known :-)Another possibility was a cron job running at the time of the file gettingoverwritten, but I eliminated that possibility.My thanks go to :-Manuela MenchiJohn E. RiddockBernt ...

Dear all,I received some kind answers but nothing very helpfull, so I bet that myproblem was no common and I decided to reinstall the last version ofsendmail on my mail relay ans servers.I downloaded/compiled/installed/configured sendmail 8.12.1, and finally it_works_ as it should be.Thank ...

Hi Admins,I have been using the FORMAT command to partition disks on our older unix boxes.We are in the process of purchasing a 250 E solaris server.I need to know more about what kind of LVM or the virtual disk manager that solaris 2.8 offers.Is there a LVM manager included in the OS Solaris ...

Interesting issue with /sbin/ifconfig.if you use the command: /sbin/ifconfig hme0 statusIt is suposed to give you information about the hme0 interface.But if you so cleverly hav put in your /etc/hosts file something like this:10.0.0.10 status status.domain.orgInstead of giving information on ...

Original question at bottom.Thanks to:Thien Vu <thien at ucdata.Berkeley.EDU>Jerry Kemp - Sun account <sun at sun.twlight.net>William Enestvedt <Will.Enestvedt at jwu.edu>William Yodlowsky <wyodlows at andromeda.rutgers.edu>Brian Sherwood <bsherwood at ...

Thanks to Casper Dik I found out that i had misunderstod thesyntax of the commandThe status parameter is just valid if you use dhcp or auto-dhcp in front:/sbin/ifconfig hme0 dhcp status #is okay/sbin/ifconfig hme0 status #Gives hme0 new address if you have "status" inyour hosts file ...

I am having problems with my 420R. When I power the system up the Keyboard LEDs flash like a normal post test but then I get nothing on the monitor and no indications that it is booting. How can I find out what's happening? What are the possible fixes? I'm positive the video card works ...

Thank you Adminis for the insight.I got hammered with replies.Here is one reply that fits the qustion for me.The standard LVM on Solaris 8 ist the "Solaris Volume Manager (SVM)"formerly called "Solstice Disksuite (SDS)".SDS was a part of the "Solaris Easy Access ...

Here is a Summary of my DHCP Question. Primarily I wanted to know aboutredundancy of DHCP and LDAP services. Thanks to:Stephen HarrisAlan "dwarf"Ken GermannPhil BrutscheDan Lowe****************** My Original Question ******************I'm begininng my research into moving DNS, DHCP, ...