Slightly off-topic but causing a number of problems and need urgentassistance. Will gladly summarise.Problem is, I have 2 Ultra 5's one on Solaris 7 the other on Solaris 8.Both of these machines have private IP addresses (192.168.0.x).They also need to have public routable IP addresses in ...

Hi all,I'm trying to use /etc/rc?.d to start and stop various stuff on shutdown andstartup of our Sun Ultra 10 server. I used a 'K' prefix for the apps thatneeded to be stopped on shutdown and an 'S' for startup. As I was playingaround, it seemed that the 'K' scripts were not being ran ...

Thanks to everyone who replied. I got the below to work when I only have 1 server listed. If I leave the bold below, it works great with server1. Once I start adding server2-5 like below, I start getting permissions denied on all of them. I tried putting all on one line, however, it still ...

Hi,<br>I have inherited an ultra1 that comes with an internal<br>scsi card.<br>I need to know the brand name of the card without<br>openning the<br>box. Any commands i can use?. I used "prtconf -v" and<br>"dmesg" but not much i could find.<br>Jim<br>

Hello all. How do I mark a bad sector on a disk? There is a commandaddbadsec for x86, but not for SPARC - is there something similar forSPARC platform? I can't repair the bad sector using format's repair, anddefect list is 0.Is there a way to add a bad sector by hand somewhere?Thanks.-- ...

I've got two NICs, one configured for "normal" network traffic andanother to reach a private network. I can't seem to get to the networkrouted through the second NIC properly. See below: % netstat -rn Routing Table: IPv4 Destination Gateway Flags Ref Use ...

Hi,<p>what is fsize? and how is it different from bsize (block size) in its<br>functionality?<p>Thanks,<br>Kon<br>

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----halloi have sun 420r and a lot of sunray1 and sunray 150. i search a howto whichexplane, how can i configure the sunray. the sunray stay in a public part ofa musuem and i would that the make something like a autologin with a specialuser and make policies for ...

Hi,question 1:if, for example, one of the perl packages on sol8 system takes up 9170blocks:pkginfo -l SUNWpl5u.... STATUS: completely installed FILES: 532 installed pathnames 4 shared pathnames 3 linked files 63 directories 33 executables 9170 blocks used (approx)and ...

Thanks to Brian Sherwood, who responded with a working solution:> It looks like the route for 172.31.254.0 is installed as a > host route. Try installing it as a network route.% route delete 172.31.254.0 10.254.254.1% route add -net 172.31.254.0 10.254.254.1% ping ...

Ok, I've got a machine with 4 gigs of swap, 4 gigs of ram. I'm trying to configure the dumpadm. Here's what I'm getting:[516]root at sol8build.i2itest-/var> dumpadm -d swap -s /usr/crashdumpadm: no swap devices could be configured as the dump deviceI'm moving dumps to usr since it's ...

Hi,Can some one tell me how to change the Time zone in Solaris 2.51.I would like to change from US PST time zone to Kazakhstan Time zone.Thanks----------------------------Dilip RajSystem Administrator.Access Control Center.Motorola Broadband Communication Sector.Phone: (858)-404-3878mailto:draj ...

Many thanks to everybody that took the time and effort to reply,particularly Matt Santimore, John Julian, Mark McManus, Darren Dunham & SalSerafino.The problem was that as well as putting the K* scripts in /etc/rc0.d/etc/rc1.d /etc/rc2.d /etc/rcS.d I'd also put them into /etc/rc3.d, ...

I have a user which I want to keep under a particular directory... Howcan I restrict their movement within the file system/directory structureso they can not go outside of their home directory...Example: User Foo has his home directory in /export/home/Foo... I don'twant the user to be able to ...

Gurus-When the root password expires (we are still not quite sure why it was setup that way) will cron stop running? I ask this because cron stopped runningat exactly midnight on the 28th, and just seems a bit odd. It also askedthem for a new password when they logged in...TIA,Paul ...

Many thanks to those who replied... the problem still exists although therehave been many helpful tips from those mentioned below:Jonathon Hays, Paul Richards, Liz Maidment, Steve Hunt (no relation!), BrianSherwood, Harvey Wamboldt, Tom Crummey, Octavio Alvarez, Mark McManus,Richard Place and ...

I have several users root accessing the server goes terminals remotes pts/1 pts/3 pts/4 And possible to impede that the user root of the terminal pts/1 doesn't kill the process of the user root of the terminal pts/3 Thanks For All ---------------------------------Yahoo! GeoCitiesTenha ...

Hi Everyone,First of all, Happy New Year to you all!!!Now, I just took my brand new Sun Fire 280R out of the box and fired itup.....It ssems to initially boot correctly, but the it hangs. Here's what I geton the consoleBoot device: disk File and args:SunOS Release 5.8 Version ...

In summary, I'd like to first thank all of those who responded to my inquiryeven though I may have misled some in my question. Second, I'd like toapologize for the delay in sending this summary. Things were a bit busybefore the holidays and before I went on vacation.My inquiry dealt with ...

After returning from the holidays and powering up machines one of my <br>servers (Ultra 2, Solaris 2.5.1, running NIS) whenever users login get <br>the following error "No directory! Logging in with home=/". Worked fine <br>before powering down. Any help would be appreciated.<br>

Original Question is Below...Thanks to:Ferenc BakosNick HindleyStephen ForbesMike SalahiHamid OuyachiFerenc Bakos said:The cron won't stop. Just the root's scripts will not run.Thanks for the help!Paul-----Original Message-----From: Frederiksen, Paul [mailto:FrederiP at ritchie.disa.mil]Sent: ...

Scenario:New Sun 420R purchased. 4 processor (450) 4Gig of memory, 2 internal18gig drives, QFE and Scsi Wide Diff controller. SWD attached to an A1000. The root disk is a "mirror" of a standard Solaris 8 disk usingveritas. This same image has worked very well on multiple 420-R ...

I've been asked to replace the WU-ftpd software on a machine with Sun'sftpd. This is due to security and maintainability concerns with the WU-ftpd.The difficulty I've run into is the configuration of the ftp-only useraccounts so those user accounts can only see their own home ...

I realize this question may be a bit off topic from what everyone is used toseeing on the list but I know there are a lot of wiser and more experiencedpeople on the list that hopefully may have a solution to my problem.One of my clients has requested me to provide a "Contact ...

DNS Weirdness,I have 2 networks here the 208.x and 192.x bothNetworks are served off one machine. Lately I Have been seeing the Secondary network (192.x)Failing, only partially some of the machinesAre pinging ok others fail. All of the 192.xNetwork is on the same hub, the 208.x is off ofA HP ...

Thanks to all the SunManagers who responded so quickly! You guys areawesome!Anyway, here's a quick summary (my original message is quoted below):Most people suggested using rksh. One or two people mentioned/usr/lib/rsh which is functionally very similary to rksh. Both will keepuser Foo in the ...

hi,I have just gotten a u5, solaris2.7 box. aftersometime itgoes into "init 0" state. I get:..system services are now being stopped.UPS daemon has been stopped..Ok>During boot i can see "PowerChute plus for unix,v4.2.2"is installed.American Power conversion.I think there ...

Fellow SunManagers...I've wondered about this for some time but never bothered to ask:Why is it that luxadm display boxXXX commands will hang (it prints "SENA"and nothing more) and when it does, you can see the loop start to fail andLIP in syslog?Has anyone researched this? I don't ...

Howdy Gurus,I have an E450 (5.6 Generic_105181-28 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-4) witheight disks. Over the last two weeks I have been getting errors likethe following:Jan 3 18:20:32 stlms1 unix: WARNING: /pci at 6,4000/scsi at 4 (glm2):Jan 3 18:20:32 stlms1 unix: SCSI bus DATA IN phase parity ...

In summary, I'd like to first thank all of those who responded to my inquiryeven though I may have misled some in my question. Second, I'd like toapologize for the delay in sending this summary. Things were a bit busybefore the holidays and before I went on vacation.My inquiry dealt with ...

Hello Gurus<p>Is there a tool which would show the IO counters, the way "top" or "ps -o<br>pid,pcpu" shows CPU usage per process?<p>Thanx in advance,<br> _Johan<br>

All,I didn't really get any answers from anyone except for some questions from people who had the same need. I did however, get it to work in the meantime and for their and other people's benefit will post this summary.I was able to restrict access to certain users on servers using LDAP ...

Hello managers,We are running NIS here ,When we share folder in any of the ultra 10's share is visible through/net/hostname/sharename on all ultra 10's.our auto master map is below.raghunathl at iidcs200{40}/home/raghunathl%ypcat auto.masterauto_home -nosuid,nobrowse-xfn-hosts ...

Hi Sunmanagers!I have a brand new SunFire 280R, 2048 MB RAM, Dual UltraSparc III 750MHz processors, running Solaris 8.Doing some system monitoring, directly after boot, with prtdiag -v, shows a CPU temperature of 63 degrees (Celcius).Isn't this a BIT high?Our other Sun servers, a bunch of ...

Hello Managers,I have an ultra60 machine that used to reboot with some memory errors.I called up sun , they tried to troubleshoot the issue and eventuallythey changed everything including system board , cpu ,memory and eveenthe power supply! And OS was also reloaded . But the problem did ...

Recently we have replaced an old Solaris 2.6 serverwith a Windows 2000 server for a customer, but theystill have Solaris 2.6 or 2.5 workstations which wantto logon the Windows 2000 server, access the files onthe server, and use Windows 2000 dhcp.Who knows Microsoft Service For Unix (SFU) can do ...

many thanks to all who assisted me with this issue, too many to mentionright now.Unfortunately, having just been laid off, its rather slipped to the back ofthe in tray.If I ever get to the bottom of it, I promise I will summarize!!!Steve HuntFormer Systems Administrator (UK)Eccord Systems ...

A few late additions to this summary:Tajinder Panesar (among many others) asked:"This may seem like a trivial question. but how can this be done using rksh or rsh? I thought these two were just remote shells."Answer:There are two rsh's. One is in /usr/bin. This is the Remote Shell ...

HiMy server is 420 R ( 2 CPU & 3Go RAM). It's have a big performing problem :)ufs_ninode & ncsize parameter are too small# vmstat -s..732308871 total name lookups (cache hits 0%) => 0% :(# netstat -k inode_cacheinode_cache:size 64979 maxsize 69992 hits 5036830 misses 6237948 kmem ...

Thanks to everyone who responded. My problem turned out to be two-fold.....First of all, whoever put the server in the rack last week while I was awayonly figured to plug in one powersupply. That was my TBD problem with ps2.....Secondly, the OS didn't seem to work right. I did a fresh install ...

Thanks everyone that replied: Bob Smart, Joe Fletcher, Joseph Herpers, Capser Dik, Steve Hunt, Ferenc Bakos, Craig Scott, Dirk Jansen, Mats Kronberg, N Murray.Bob Smart pointed out that there were an earlier posting regarding the same topic, from early December posted by Thomas Cannon.Steve ...

What is the difference between the 'normal' patch sets (8_Recommended) and<br>the Maintenance Updates? SunSolve is not very helpful in identifying the<br>correct usage for each.<p>sfc<br>

we are migrating from hpux to solaris 2.8<br>to telnet to sun we use exeed.<br>how do i setup exeed for cde?<br>

Hello Managers,<p>I have Ultrasparc30 machine which have 4 memory banks of of 4 slots<br>each. i would like to know if i fill two banks with 4x32k and one bank<br>with 4x64k, that makes total of 512k of RAM, will it work or i have to<br>fill the banks with the same ones.<p>Thanks,<br>Kashif.<br>

Hello managers,We have running Nis here,some of the machine will not allow any body to telnet , error say ing no utmpx entry yomust login from lowest level of shellfor this we used do cat /dev/null > /var/adm/utmp /var/adm/utmpx /var/adm/wtmp /var/adm/wtmpx .this did not work on some ...

Hello Friends,<p>I am installing Solaris 2.5.1 on SUN Ultra Enterprise 450 system. It hangs<br>in the initial stage of configuring devices.<br>Could you please provide some valuable suggestions regarding this?<p>Thanks in anticipation<br>Puneet<br>

Hi people!I've got strange problem:The machine is 14 processor domain on E10k with Solaris 7 11/99.It runs Oracle 8.1.7 and some processes that use this database.There is about 1000 oracle sessions.Machine is _heavily_ loaded - loadavg is 95.And.. well just look at some statistics:"vmstat ...

I know there are many sites that Solaris programs can be downloaded from, buthow does one know if the site is legitimate? How does one know that theprograms he/she is downloading isn't creating security holes for the creatorsof the Solaris programs to gain unauthorized access to the system? ...

I am trying to umount a file system but it is unable to because it'sbusy. I have checked to see if anyone is on the system and have donefuser and lsof to check for processes. This file system was nfs mountedbut is is no longer nfs mounted to the other server. I can not reboot,does anyone know ...

I'm trying to restore a certain file from a tape of a cpio arvhive.When I list the tape (cpio -iBtv < /dev/rmt/0 ) it shows up, but when Itried to retrieve it (cpio -iBv "BILLING.*" < /dev/rmt/0 ) non wererestored.There are several BILLING jobs with numbers from 17 - 22, but ...