Is it possible to apply a patch to a system while booting off cdrom?This is why i need to perform such an act. I was messing around with the ld.so libraries when ld.so.1 got corrupted.This meant i could not run most of the programs that use this library. I didnot know about the static commands ...

Hi all,I'm in the process of converting a NIS master into a NIS slave and waswondering if anyone has any "gotchas" on this process?Assume the NIS master being converted is serverb and it's new master isservera.What I'm planning on doing:1) I've merged the "map" files of ...

Hey all,After applying the latest patches to ix86 Solaris v2.5.1, v2.7 and 2.8 my tripwire gives me a change on /etc/mnttab and /etc/.mnttab.lock for mtime and ctime. It appears a couple of the patches deal w/ automountd/autofs, anybody else notice those files being changed daily since adding ...

I am having a problem with my environement that contains 4 servers running Solaris 8. I have setup my etc/dfs/dfstab and /etc/vfstab to mount the remote servers. However, I am unable to write to the mounts as root. I am able to write to them as the user that owns the directories. A ...

Hi,Thanks to everyone who responded. Sorry it took so long to summarize but Ijust got it to work.Apparently Solaris 8x86 doesn't like Adaptec 29160N, however it works justfine with Adaptec 29160.That's all!VladOriginal Posting:Hello Gurus!Had anybody experience any problems with Adaptec ...

Short and to the point:If a user exists on a client as UID 500, and mounts a home directory froma file server, is a passwd entry on the file server required for UID 500?In other words, does the NFS call contain the username or UID?A bit more explanation:I would like to have multiple clients A ...

Thanks to: Anton (nemo)You should exclude these files from tripwire. These files are "live"files, if you mount/unmount dirs, and if you have automounter, they willbe updatedOn Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Andy Bach wrote:> After applying the latest patches to ix86 Solaris v2.5.1, v2.7 and ...

Hi All,I am getting the following warning messages in the /var/adm/messages file. Thesystem is an Ultra2 with Solaris 2.5.1. Your feedback is greatly appreciated:Dec 27 03:16:48 rs7 unix: pseudo-device: dp0Dec 27 03:16:48 rs7 unix: dp0 is /pseudo/dp at 0Dec 27 08:50:49 rs7 unix: WARNING: ...

I just installed the latest '8_Recommended' on a test system and noticed<br>that /etc/hostname.hme0 turned into /etc/hostname.eri0. Is this supposed to<br>happen. Did I miss anything?<p>><i> Stephen F. Cawley<br></I>><i> <br></I>

Looks like I jumped the gun on this one. I had not noticed the eri0 notation before (inherited the servers fromanother admin) and when confronted with another problem I 'discovered' itand presumed that it was the cause. This happening immediately afterapplying the latest patch set did nto ...

Hello all,I'm seeing a problem with one of our E4500 machines (4 processor, 4GB RAM,dual gigabit NIC, dual Emulex lightpulse 8000 FC cards) running Solaris 7,and Oracle 8.1.7. The machine is "freezing" in an odd way, where no one canlog in, or connect to any TCP port, nor will the ...

We're using solaris 2.6 and 2.7 'round here. I am no graphicsguru, by any stretch of the imagination. However, when creatingweb pages, I like to use the hexidecimal representation of colors for backgrounds and whatever. On SGI systems I used tobe able to call up a very small graphics ...

Folks,I am trying to jumpstart a Netra 20 (T4) with Solaris 8. I am getting the following:2aa00 boot: cannot open kernel/sparcv9/unixEnter filename [kernel/sparcv9/unix]:Does anyone come up with the same problem? I am using the same install server that I build all my 220Rs, 420Rs, E250, E450 ...

hello, I seem to be having a rather strange problem with IMAP. I amtrying to use outlook express to access my e-mail from a servervia IMAP. I have two accounts on the server. I am able tosuccessfully access my mails using one of the account, but notwith the other account. Outlook express ...

Hi everyone,Sorry for the delay, I could not post the summary beforeWhen I pointed the slowness of Solaris managing directories with more than500 000 files, I received the following answers :- Move the files into /tmp/swap fs (into memory) -> Since I had more than 2GB of files, this was not ...

Hullo all,while trying to debug some NFS problems on one of our NFS servers, i ran"showmount -a" and it listed a BUNCH of old machines that don't evenexist anymore. Is it safe to do something like the following (I'd liketo get rid of all the cruft)# unshareall(wait a minute or ...

Hello everyone,I got one problem when building the NIS master server, which is anUltra60 box runing Solaris8(108528-12). The issue appears while makinghosts,the error message shown as below,# cd /var/yp# lsaliases china-core.com networks.time services.timealiases.time ...

Hi everybody,I started evaluating the posibilities for a client who wish to useclustering technology to do massive computation of biological data.Sun BluePrint on Sun[tm] Based Beowulf Cluster at http://www.sun.com/blueprints/1201/beowulf-clstr.html was published just intime to convince me to ...

Hi,I want to know, in case on a sparc based server/workstation there aretwo available compilers (sun workshop and gcc), which one will you usethen, in case the program you are going to compile is able to becompiled by using both compiler ?For me, I'm trying to stick to sun workshop if it is ...

Thanks to all. Lot of people suggest for following 3rd party software.As far as thirdparty tools are concerned you can go forup.time from spyn.com, SE performance tool kit.here are the tools that you ...

I just remember to attach the result of compilation between sun workshop and gcc for a small program[io]/export/home/tmp> cat test.c#include <stdio.h>main(){printf("Hello World\n");}[io]/export/home/tmp> gcc -vReading specs from ...

List:While waiting for our maintenance Solaris 10/01 CD set to arrive, I amcontemplating on using the downloadable Solaris image to start building ournew flash archive. Q - Is there a difference between the public/free versionversus the one you buy/purchase/get/bundled (as part of ...

List:Several weeks ago I was able to download 108693-06 which supposedlyincorporates the "soft partitions' update to SDS 4.2.1. Upon analysis ofwhat I had downoaded, it seems that it is exactly the same as what I alreadyhave installed (as part of Solaris 4/01). Updates to this patch on ...

I apologize this is late in coming and I am unable to provide credit to thepeople who submited their responses(lost my pst file).Someone suggested checking the file permissions. Someone changed userownership on the home directories to root?, but set the permissionscorrectly did resolve the ...

Hi,I am having problems jumpstarting Netra T1 machines. Ihave updated my jumpstart server to be able to installnetra X1 machnes and it works fine.Since I did not find anything regarding netra T1 Iassumed it would work with the same jumpstart.But it does not.The jumpstart seems going fine until ...

On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 06:39:51AM -0700, Jed Dobson wrote:> > This is totally non-scientific. Optimization is not intended for a simple> printf. Why don't you compile a real application like OpenSSH that uses> several libraries> Below is the result compiling openssh with sun ...

List:If there is supposedly support for "thousands" of partitions with SDS 4.2.1,how come /dev/md entries are from d0 - d99 only? Is there a system tunablethat would increase this number ie. so that I can have standards like 100'swould be the 1st submirrors, 200's be the 2nd ...

The answer was: Yes the downloadable CD images is the full version...> -----Original Message-----> From: Caparroso, Nelson T. (AAS) > Sent: Monday, December 31, 2001 9:16 AM> To: 'codeprof at codeprof.com'> Subject: Dowloadable Solaris Images - Is it the full version?> ...

But if you are going to use it in an environment that will have more than8 CPU's, then you must contact Sun for a License. I posted this in thecontext of customers having OS support contracts who either (1) are waitingfor the Solaris Media to arrive or (2) have damaged media and need to ...

I am looking for a pam_cracklib.so sources preferably for Sparc basedSolaris 8 machines.I have looked in a bunch of places and just turn up nothing over andover.Thanks.-- Jeff Graham <codeprof at demit.net> GnuPG 1.0.6 Public key #9373D50B (0x9373D50B) certserver.pgp.comKey fingerprint = ...

All, What are the tools or procedures that can be used on a Sun serverwhen the server hangs, without generating any core files .I even tried generating a core manually. There is no core,even thoughthe system is configured to dump a core.Regards,Chandrashekar ...

Hello, this is may be a beginners question but here goes. I have problems installing Solaris 8 on my Sparcstation 20.Whenever the install finishes and restarts the system I get somethinglike this: Bootblk: cannot find the boot system Now, When I put an older hard drive and do the same install ...

Platform: SunOS eggshell 5.8 Generic_108528-07 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-80 Solaris 8 (2/00) Problem: Applying patch 109077-05 disables DHCP services (config files no longer in expected format)I'm using this system as a Sunray server, so it's using DHCP for the Sunrays. I've had some ...

Sorry, forgot to add [SUMMARY] to the Subject: line.It's Friday, can I go home now? Platform: SunOS eggshell 5.8 Generic_108528-07 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-80 Solaris 8 (2/00) Problem: Applying patch 109077-05 disables DHCP services (config files no longer in expected format) ...

Sun Managers,We are trying to configure IPMP on the EmulexFC adapters which provide IP network interface.The IPMP document doesn't refer to whether this frameworksupports non-Sun network adapters and whether it supportsIP over Fibre-Channel at all.And indeed it doesn't seems to work.I would ...

Platform: Solaris 8 (04/01) 108528-10, recommended patches up-to-dateProblem: Trying to setup Jumpstart server, and when I try to run 'setup_install_server' or 'add_to_install_server' from the Solaris 8 (10/01) CDs the operation bombs out. I've determined that it is due to an error ...

Problem: Jumpstart under Solaris 8 bombed out, giving a 'find' error "find: cannot open .: File table overflow" Solution from Al Hooper: Add the following to /etc/system and reboot: set hsfs:nhsnode=4096 A lower value will also work - but I have not tried ...

Ok, looks like on my particular system the root partition cannotBe more than 2 GB. I created a smaller partition and this timeAll worked out well.Thanks to all of you, here are some names:Darren Dunham ddunham at taos.com Mazhar Khan mazhar.khan at btinternet.comAnd others...-----Original ...

HiWhere can I find the best resources for SDS for creating, displayingand deleting mirror disks ?If I got another new pair of harddisks, should I destroy the existing mirrorfirst and re-create again, or I can just add one more set of mirror into theexisting one ?Best Regards,Kenneth ...

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 ...

Hi Everybody,Happy new year to you all. I am facing the problem with pkgadd. It was justfine, but after installing some packages like cpio-2.4.2-sol8-sparc-local,binutils-2.11.2-sol8-sparc-local,battlebots-1.0.0-sol8-sparc-local etc it becameproblematic. All the pkgs from ...

Hi Gurus,<p>Can I know how to get Quad Ethernet Drivers for Solaris 2.8. The Card has<br>come with the drivers for only 2.6 version.<br>Any links input will be of great help<p>Rgs<br>Dinesh<br>

Hi Gurus,Can I know how to get back all the colors in Solaris 2.6, Actually I amrunning many applications which are utilising most of the colors, when Istart a new application there is no colour available to display it. Even ifi exit from rest of the application which are utilising the colors, ...

Hi all,Happy new year to you all.. My question is about workspace menu.When I click right key of the mouse, some icons in workspace menu aren'thighlighted. and they don't work. but it's possible to work these icons ofworkspace menu at the bottom of the screen, how can I make them work ...

Hi gurus,I have this problemSince a couple of week on my server when I create a new user accountinto the nisplus table, in the password I choose an initial passwordand in the password options I put the expiration, warning and keep timerespectively to 180, 14, 28 days.When the user logon for the ...

Hi All,<p>How can I grow an StripePro volume consisting of 6 mirrored stripes with<br>Dirty Region Login enabled ?<br>(I've got two 8.4 Gb disks available on my system)<p>Thanks,<br>Jeroen<br>

I am using kermit over port /dev/cua/b on an UltraSparc 5 for Alphanumericpaging.The problem is that the port will often hang and I can't recover without areboot.Occasionally the prot will hang and release when I power cycle the modem butnot always.The last entry in my modem log is always ...

Please me send information about make ip in the virtual interface solaris 8 after boot the ip is fix in the virtual interface Thanks for All ---------------------------------Yahoo! GeoCitiesTenha seu lugar na Web. Construa hoje mesmo sua home page no Yahoo! GeoCities. I facil e ...

Thanks to all who responded.Pentium III at 800+ MHz is faster than SPARC which comes with Sun Blade 100. As I already have PIII with fast SCSI disk I will not change to Blade 100 as it will not give better performance.Some expressed that Blade 100 is not a server and thus 1 year warranty should ...

Good New Year to All,About a week ago I posted a request for information regarding a toolwhich would give me the hex representation for colors for writing in HTML. I received the following suggestions:<ltiu at alumni.sfu.ca>Itiu - Recommended the KDE pkg kcolorchooser + I looked ...