First, let me apologize for taking 2 months to post this summary. Work has been absolutely crazy and I only got the change to devote the time to this problem last week.Basically, what I found was that the TCP window size in Solaris 2.8 was too small to keep up with the FTP from one of our ...

Hi,I am running solaris 2.7 on a sun netra i150.Yesterday some thing went wrong and the system gotstuck. When tried to reboot, the system failed toreboot as the bootblk on root partition seems to havegot damaged. I tried to boot the system from CD-ROM byissuing 'boot cdrom -s', the system did ...

hello, Since I have received a lot of mails in this regard, I amposting a summary for this... hello All, Thanks a lot to all who responded. John Leadeham's suggestionwas right on target!!> When you rsh from A to S, use the who command to see> precisely what (host) name it thinks A is ...

Hi,wounder if anyone has SIMS 2.0 (Sun/Solstice INternet Mail Server).Need it fast!If you have it please send it to my by e-mail or tell me from where ican download it.(Since its free i supose there should be no problem)You can download sims 4.0 from sun, but I want sims ...

Hello everybody,I was able to get the ADIC Scalar up and running running thanks to Ed@(solaris at ns1.silvex.com ).I have attached his mail below.I had to install the glm2 driver for the scsi card, in my case it was a SCSIU3 dual channel LVD from antares microsystem. I found the driver from ...

Hi all,I have accidentally removed package SUNWcsu ( /usr ) is there any way that Ican recover that package without rebuilding it again, any help will bekindly appreciatedThanksImranAustralia Post is committed to providing our customers with excellent service. If we can assist you in any way ...

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Date:12.17.2001.Hi!,I have a small doubt.How do you access nfs partitionsthrough a web browser?Can somebody help in configuringthis out?Thanks in advance.RegardsS.Swaminath.____________________________________________________________Do You Yahoo!?Send a newsletter, share photos & files, ...

Archive-name: codeprof-faqSun-Managers' Frequently Asked Questions$Id: faq,v 4.19 2001/09/18 14:37:06 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 ...

Original question below.Thanks go to:Casper DikJohan HartzenGnanagurusamy BKevin ButerbaughDarren DunhamNo real consensus on this one, only that most said that top cannot betrusted one way or the other. Casper advised to check if top was compiled onthe same Solaris version as I was using it on ...

For the archive, I have received many good answers and the orderfor a 280R have been sent, I will do the real SUMMARY in January2002 when we se how good it holds up.On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 02:25:59PM +0100, Jan Johansson wrote:>Hi,>>today we have a Enterprise 220R (2xUS-II 450MHz, 2GB ...

Hi All,I just bought my self new Blade 100 and I am very happy with the machine.The only thing that bothers me a little bit is graphic card's performance,specially when moving windows around or scrolling. I tried 1200x1024 at 60 at 8and 24 bit colour not much difference. It seems like there is ...

Hi all,It was the -X option that I left out ..... silly me!!!!Thanks for all those that replied.CheersMark-----Original Message-----From: Johnston Mark Sent: 13 December 2001 17:24To: codeprof at codeprof.comSubject: Tar problemsHi all,Here is a simple question but its got me stumped ......I am ...

Tons of thanks guys,accept my apologies for the late summary.Response from alex http://www.cs.ntu.edu.au/homepages/alexk/sit261/s5.html http://www.cs.ntu.edu.au/homepages/alexk/sit261/s6.htmlAndrewWell, shared memory is a System V method of interprocesscommunication. It allows multiple ...

Thanks for all of the response. The one response that solved my problem ofsetting my nic card to100mbs and Full Duplex came from Ladislav Kostal. Hestates that the ndd command doesn't work on x86 Solaris. To change my nicfrom autonegotiate to 100 mbs Full Duplex is to edit the ...

Hi,I just had the heatsink/fan die on a SunPCi II card. It is the exact samefan that's on a Netra X1 however the box it's in isn't under maintenance.I'm wondering if anyone has any problems with either the SunPCi II cards orthe Netra X1 and what they did to fix it. Standard ...

AllThanks to those who replied... but Steve Bidwell's answer hit the nail onthe head>"If you leave the BASEDIR parameter blank they will be prompted anyway.">>Hello Gurus,>>Anyone have a good blanket request script that I can borrow.. basically I>>need to ask the ...

Hi, GurusI have installed NIS+ server (no replicas) and 1 NIS+ client machineaccording to Solaris Naming Setup and Configuration Guide. I want clientmachine to read auto_master table from NIS+ server. Here is what I'vedone:Created auto_master on server with nistbladm command# niscat -o ...

Hi guys:I have a sparc 5 (128 ram) with 2x2 gb disk inside running a small test popserver on Solaris 7. One of the disks is giving me a "Can't open disk labelpackage" and "Can't read disk label" during boot time. It does theinitial memory initialization and then gives me ...

We just installed an old network card in one of the Sun's here, and I'm<br>wondering if there's any way to tell what network interfaces the system<br>sees. ifconfig -a only seems to show the ones that are configured. We have<br>no idea what the interface names would be.<p>Thanks<br>

Hi,Newbie question.I am using the Netxa boxes. I have to specify my application to use the ethernetport 2 (i.e) the dmfe1 only. No one should be allowedto use the dmfe0.How can I do this? I have no clue about this. I lookedaround, but could not get any answers.Thank you very much in ...

Thanks for all the quick answers. Since I didn't know the device type atall, the one that worked for me was Ignor Schein's quick 'n dirty:prtconf -pvThen I just grepped for 'pci-' and found the card.Other responses which probably worked:Tim Yocum: dmesgJustin Stringfellow: prtconf ...

We recently purchased a number of Sun workstations at a dot-bomb auction.We've done this before, with good results, but certainly realize the risks.One of the systems was an Ultra 60, dual 300MHz CPUs, 1GB RAM, Creator 3D,two 9GB HDs. On boot, it appears to be dead - no display on the monitor ...

Hi Unix Gurus,I thank all for the help.I've forgotten the root password; how can I recover? You need to have access to the machine's console. 1. Note the root partition (e.g. /dev/sd0a or/dev/dsk/c0t3d0s0) 2. Hit STOP-A or L1-A (or, on an ASCII terminal oremulator, send a ) to halt the ...

I have an E3500 running Solaris 8 that is returning the following errormessage when a user attempts to login.ld.so.1 /usr/bin/login: fatal: libc.so.1: open failed: No such file ordirectoryThis occurs on a terminal session or remote login. Considering I can'tlogin in as any user it is a little ...

Gurus,Need your help on password aging.I am running Solaris 5.1 version, NIS+ and running credentials on them.and Iam trying to implement password aging on my id before I implement it serverwide. I have use the following command: # nistabladm -m ...

SunManagers, Part of my "prtdiag -v" displays:Disk LED Status: OK = GREEN ERROR = YELLOW DISK 10: [EMPTY] DISK 11: [EMPTY] DISK 8: [EMPTY] DISK 9: [EMPTY] DISK 6: [EMPTY] DISK 7: [EMPTY] DISK 4: [EMPTY] DISK 5: [EMPTY] DISK 2: [OK] ...

Dear Sun Gurus,I am a newby to NIS+ and I have had previous dealings with NIS, but I need some information because I will be trying to move the NIS+ master from existing server to a new server. The present NIS+ master is a Ultra 5 running Solaris 2.6 with near up to date patches. The new ...

Hello all curious has anyone ever tried to burn a copy of solaris 9 on a <br>cdr successfully.<p>Craig Hancock<br>

I am trying install patches 110665-04 and 111085-02 ontheir respective O/S versions.Both patch installation fail on during the dryrunindicating and receive the following error from/var/sadm/patch/110665-04/logThis appears to be an attempt to install the samearchitecture andversion of a package ...

> I just installed solaris 8 1/01 on a SunBlade 100> and> the screen resolution is not properly set. I was> told> to use "kdmconfig" to change resolution, but there> is> no kdmconfig on my system (I did a "find . -print |> grep kdmconfig" under ...

Hi all and thanks for you time.I running a program on W2k named Winsyslog to centralized management ofmessages sended by the logger utility on various unix server running SCOOpen Server 5 and Solaris 8.The /etc/syslog.conf on the SCO servers look like this*.debug ...

Hi,I have a Sun SPARC Enterprise 250 server, running Solaris 8 OS. Although the SPARC machine has 20 GB memory at boot time it gives:*OpenBoot 3.22, 2048 MB memory installed.*Also, while the booting is continuing it stops after giving this message:*Setting default IP4V interface for multicast: ...

I'm running Solaris 7 x86 webserver (Apache+ModPerl ). Today running top Isaw that almost half of my swap is used by something.There is more than 20% of RAM on the server listed as "free" and there is nopage in/out activity, but swap is still in use. How can figure out what process ...

I have several servers that have all been booted without anything attachedto the ttya port.I've just installed and configured a Cisco 2511 to allow console access toour servers, cuurently only the machines booted with serial devicesattached will talk to the console server."pmadm -l" ...

Sorry about this, I forgot to include my core information.E450Solaris 7 w/ all up to date patches.Original post below:> SunManagers,> Part of my "prtdiag -v" displays:>> Disk LED Status: OK = GREEN ERROR = YELLOW> DISK 10: [EMPTY] DISK 11: ...

Hi,I have an Ultra5 workstation, running Solaris 2.7 that seems to be doingsome odd things.Every night, it seems to panic. I figured it was a CPU problem, so Iswapped out the CPU.At first, the new CPU didn't boot at all, now it's booting to the ok>prompt saying "Externallyinitiated ...

Hello Gurus!Had anybody experience any problems with Adaptec 29160N?For the last week I've been trying to install Solaris8 on Intel system usingAdaptec SCSI card 29160N with no success, it's simply failing to boot.Any help will be greatly appreciatedThanks in advance.VladP.S Driver provided ...

Thanks to Mattew Stier Doug Granzow Joel.LeeAll the sugestions are resumed here: Stop and Start the syslog and take care about the white spaces inthe file syslog.confThank's to Nicolas Dorfsman: He say: You can't use level.* in /etc/syslog.conf, you must use asteriskonly in the level ...

Thanks to:John MarrettMatthew StierLaurida ChamberlainSteve Campboe.franklinJohn MalickMike's ListSteve Sandauand anyone else who may still respond.John Marret's and Laurinda Chamberlain had the most comprehensive answers.John's answer is below. Original post follows after ...

Again, this list proves to be the best resource I've yet encounter online.List of people to thank:Randy Romero <splat at fury.to>Ken_Germann at bluecrossmn.comHindley Nick <nick.hindley at lbhf.gov.uk>Jeff Putsch <putsch at hf.mxim.com>Tim Chipman <chipman at ...

I have a netra t1 105 running solaris 8 that I just recently installed. Thebox seemed to be running properly and it has been used as oracle server.Since I got it up and running twice I have not been able to connect to thebox. I can get access to it via the LOM port but I only get the ok ...

Hello,I ahve an issue where a I added a route to a box and now cannot delete it.the command I used to enter the route wasroute add host 192.168.2.11 -interface 10.132.236.10route delete 192.168.2.11 -interface 10.132.236.10 fails with .....delete host 192.168.2.11: gateway 10.132.236.10: not ...

If your site uses Oracle database software, this might be of interest.It's a short paper. http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1522A Simple Oracle Host-Based Scannerby Pete FinniganAs with any large software package, the default installation of Oracledoes not provide for the most secure system ...

Hi Gurus,I want to configure my SunBlade to allow only incoming/outgoing WWW, DNS, andSSH service. And I added the following policies.Rule# Screen Service Source Destination Action1 * www * * ALLOW2 * dns * * ALLOW3 * ...

Hi, The powers that be want to replace our current mail system and we reallydon't want to use Exchange. Has any one used the iplanet suite ofmail/calendar etc services? Most of the desktops will be NT/Win2K so it will(unfortunately) need to be compatible with Outlook. Functionality needed ...

Hi everybody<p>Did anyone setup an external modem on E250 or U10 before ?<br>If so, what kinds of modems and procedures do I need ?<p>Thanks<p>Best Regards,<br>Kenneth<br>

hello codeprof!we have a DDS3 tape drive for our sun e450 machine. we are using ufsdumpto backup data to tape.our data is growing bigger and we would like to use maximum capacity ofeach tape (12GB native and 24Gb compressed).How can we use the compressed capacity of our tape? What option ...

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----Hash: SHA1Since I suspect a memory bank to have a problem I am now looking for some kind of memtest resp. memory checking program for a Ultra 5 machine.- -- Heiko Nardmann (Dipl.-Ing.), h.nardmann at secunet.de, Software Developmentsecunet Security Networks AG ...

Hi,I have this new SunBlade 100 workstation and I'd like to be ableto plug a digital camera into one of its FireWire ports and watchand capture digital video. Can anyone recommend software for this?This is for private non-commercial purposes, so public domainopen-source solutions are ...