thanks to all that repled<br> the file system was nfs so the fix was<p>unshare file system<br>umount file system<p>--<br>Wolfgang Schwurack<br>Unix System Administrator<br>University of Utah/Utah Education Network<br>Tel: (801) 587-9444<br>

Hi, Everyone,I am trying to run gated in solaris 8, I become root and stopped routedwhich is the one I have been running so far, copied the gated.conf to /etcwith just one line in itrip yes;then I flushed the routing table by issueing # route -fthen I issue # gated -f /etc/gated.conf ...

Thank you all for your input.Unfortunately I couldn't try all the answers due to time constraints.One of you had the answer that worked.Use the full original path of the file that needs to be restored.cpio -iBv "/dir/subdir1/subdir2/BILLING.22" < /dev/rmt/0When I get a chance, ...

Hi,Thanks:--------Mark Neill, Mike's List, Mark McManus, Chris Josephes, Brian Sherwood,John Kastler, Dave Mitchell, & Darren Dunham.Original Question #1:---------------------if, for example, one of the perl packages on sol8 system takes up 9170blocks:pkginfo -l SUNWpl5u.... STATUS: ...

Hello,I have just installed a SunPci card.After reading the manuals it appears that I need another computer to actas arouter so that the SunPci and the Ultra can see each other.As I really don't want the expense of having to set up another computer,is itpossible to use a USB to Ethernet ...

Sorry for the late summary and thanks for theresponses,I was out of city,Sanjeev wroteSBUS, PCI & UPA are Sun' standard bus.The type of cardis different.Sbus card can be inserted only on Sbus sloton the motherboard where as PCi cards should have pci slot in the motherboard.YOu have to see ...

Gurus,What is the logsize mean for a file system? And how to view and change the log size of a file system? Can anybody through some light on this ?Thanksjennifer_________________________________________________________________Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: ...

all,what does the symbol table space stands for in/etc/sustem and how does this parameter affects thesystem performance? and what is the correspondingparameter?thanks in advancehosavalikaSend FREE video emails in Yahoo! ...

Hi,I have an u10 that i am going to add two IDE disks to it.I think the existing one is probabaly set at master.How about the 2nd and third?. cable-select or slave.How the cable connections go?. from motherboard tomaster -> disk2 ->disk3 ..? like PCs?.JimSend FREE video emails in Yahoo! ...

Hi admins ,I currently have a Novell print server that works as LPD print serverand all the Solaris stations print through it.A sample of the printers.conf : (2.5.1)omega[eedri:/etc/lp/printers/lpt1] cat configurationContent types: anyPrinter type: unknownRemote: finex!q_bogota2.6,2.7,2.8 :cat ...

Trying to jumpstart Solaris 8 x86 10/01 from Solaris 8 x86 10/01 gives:ERROR: bpgetfile unable to access network informationafter configured interface.Everything should be OK (I have done this many times before) with one exception that server I jumpstart from (boot and install server in one) ...

FolksI have a little issue with my StorEDGE L9. Perhaps you can help me.I have two servers with StorEDGE L9 tape drives connected to them. Both ofthem have the StorEDGE L9's configured to operate in "autodetect (stacker)mode". Backups are written to these tape stackers using ...

Dear sun guru,<p>Is there any settings I should check to know if my root passwd is set to expire? I have experience that my root password in all of my SUN boxes<br>doesnt work. Thanks.<p>Regards,<br>Christian Alba<br>

Does anybody know where to get the EXB-8900 & 8700 service manual in pdf<br>format? I can't seem to find them at the exabytes website.<br>Thanks<br>Tony<br>

Hello,<br>I want to ask how can i find a process which listens a specific port? I<br>mean, for example, i want to find process id which listens 8102/tcp port..<p>Thanks in advance,<p>Ozgur C. Demir<br> KocNET<br>

Answer is using lsof,<p>Thanks to,<br>Riddoch, John E<br><A HREF="/execute/ask/?codeinfoid=9580">jeff at digitalpipe</A><br>Timothy Glover<br>Dan Penrod<br><A HREF="/execute/ask/?codeinfoid=9580">jayanarayanan.mn at citicorp</A><br>Davorin Bengez<br>

Hi Managers,we have a situation where we want to use the MAXAGE setting in/etc/default/passwd to force password expiry for most - but not all -accounts.Setting MAXAGE and then running passwd -x -1 on accounts that we don't wantto expire works OK. The problem occurs when we want to change the ...

Hi!Ok. I've got the following answer from Don (thanks a bunch, Don) and itseems it's good explanation of whatwas going on with my system.> There is a problem in Solaris 7 and early Solaris 8 OS systems with regardto large> numbers of mutexes. As the number of mutexes increases in the ...

Dear All,# df -k shows following .......WHY?1) mnttab ----------------------------> mounted on /etc/mnttab ( not montedthru /etc/vfstab)2) I had added swap file on the system.Why it is showing 2 swap devices mounted on /tmp and /var/runswap-----------> on /var/sun ( Edited /etc/vfstab ...

Hello, I have configure my server to mount /usr with ro option. When I need toinstall some software or patch, I run "mount -o remount,rw /usr" to putread+write permissions under /usr, but then, I can't remount it with ropermissions. I try with "mount -o remount,ro /usr", ...

Hi!<p>Quick question:<p>How do I list all exported filesystems from a server without logging into<br>the server?<p>( ls /net/servername/ does what I want but is now usable here... )<p>/// Daniel<br>

Thanks for all the answers!showmount -e <server>dfshares <server>does it all!/// DanielOn Mon, 7 Jan 2002, Daniel Nilsson wrote:> Hi!>> Quick question:>> How do I list all exported filesystems from a server without logging into> the server?>> ( ls ...

The "answer":1) Sun's ftpd is not capable of doing this.2) The general consensus is to use another ftpd - ProFtp and NCftp were themost frequent products mentioned. I will check them out, and make arecommendation to TPTB.3) The general opinion is that other products have their share ...

Thanks to:Dan Simoes Bevan BrounGreg Gallagher Hendrik VisageMichael Sullivan Benjamin KohlerJohn Martinez2 suggestions were Dia ( http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia/ ) andKivio from Koffice ( http://www.kde.org/ ).Regrettably neither of these will read or save in Visio format, which ...

Anyone know where I can purchase an SBus video card for an Ultra Enterprise 2? I<br>can't find any in the Sun Store.<p>Thanks,<br>Tom<br>

Is it possible to set up a Solaris 8 Intel box with two networkinterfaces both on the same subnet and have it act as a transparentbridge? For example, interface elx0 is connected to a192.168.0.128/255.255.255.240 network and so is elx1, I want traffic toseamless flow through the two ...

I've got a customer with a strange issue. They just installed a few newSolaris 8 (10/01 rel. and fully patched) boxen into their mostly 2.5.*and 2.6 NIS+ environment. From the new boxes the groups command onlylists the users' primary group even though the nsswitch.conf entrypoints to files ...

Hi guys:Is there any logging monitor out there that can monitor the logs (messages, syslog, etc) at real-time and alert us as and when it sees any errors in the logs. We recently had a system failure. The downtime could have been avoided if we had monitored the logs because there were some ...

Anybody out there done the Veritas Volume Manager<br>certification exam (310-101)? If so, can you recommend<br>study guide/exam-cram doc?<p>Thanks.<br>

Hi all,I want to change password on a solaris box from a NT/2000 workstation. Iwant it to do by a perl script.In short a perl script (running from NT/2000) which will login to a sun box,do the passwd command - enter new password, reenter new password and exitout.Any help ...

Hello all,I'm running Solaris 2.5.1 on a Sparc 20 with the SCSI Pedestal that has 8 2.1 giggers. 4 on one SCSI channel (c1) the other on c2. c2d0t0s6 crashed on me the other day and I can't for the life of me figure out how to bring the whole thing back up. I've been looking through and ...

I have a problem with my lmgrd process that is causing it todie about once a day. Until I can resolve the problem withlmgrd, I have just been stopping and restarting the programwhen it stops responding.However, I just noticed that doing this seems to be leavingzombie (i.e. <defunct>) ...

Hello -As some of you may recall, we're the group transitioning fromOS/2 to Solaris, and there has been some interest in the bookfrom Sun "Solaris Guide for Windows NT Administrators book"( http://www.sun.com/books/catalog/bialaski/index.html) especiallysince OS/2 and Windows are ...

hi masters of puppets!how do I know the interface speed (link_speed) on an Ultra 1?ultra2 - (root) - />uname -aSunOS ultra2 5.5.1 Generic_103640-21 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-1ultra2 - (root) - />ndd -get /dev/le link_speedoperation failed, Invalid argumentthanks in ...

><i>hi masters of puppets!<br></I>><i><br></I>><i>how do I know the interface speed (link_speed) on an Ultra 1?<br></I>><i><br></I><br>Simple: le0 only does 10Mbit/s, half-duplex<p>Casper<br>

Folks -As usual, the list comes thru and quickly. The very short summary isthat we'll pass on this particular book as it likely won't help us withour OS/2 to Solaris issues.My original post:> As some of you may recall, we're the group transitioning from> OS/2 to Solaris, and there has ...

We have Informix DB running on Solaris 2.6. the problem we have is Informix "dbexport" utility have some files > 2GB (error). The way Informix doing are:% dbexport dir1dbexport will create directory dir1 and generate hundreds table export files under dir1.Cab anyone tell me ...

Hi all, I was wondering if there is anyway to make ufsdump pause for morethan 2 minutes in OS 5.7. I am aware there is a "T" option in 5.8 but cannot upgrade at this point. Any suggestions? Chris Green-----Original Message-----From: codeprof-request at ...

My company sells it's product to some people that are VERY paranoidabout security and we have gotten several inquiries about how to setup a minimal system that will still run.We have a product that looks a lot like a web server functionally soit needs the TCP stack and some small set of ...

Hi,<br>What setfacl does?. sets permissions?....<br>I do not have the man pages for it.<br>give me an example if you would.<br>Jim<br>

Good evening,A user recently installed Solaris 8 on an E450 for test purposes and wouldnow like to reinstall Solaris 7 on the system. When we try to boot thesystem with the Solaris 7 CD, the system reports that the boot image isinvalid. This CD works fine in a variety of other systems.Is there ...

HiI followed the instructions given by the web published on www.stokely.comand stuck in the serial port mode using AT commands as I am not quitefamiliar with the AT commands..Can anyone tell me how to modify the BUAD RATE, DIAL... etc.. parameterssuch that it looks BAUD RATE=38400, DIAL=HUNT... ...

My problem was about workspace menu.When I clicked right key of the mouse, some icons in workspace menu weren'thighlighted. and they didn't work. but it's possible to work these icons ofworkspace menu at the bottom of the screen, how can I make them work frommouse?Thank you very much ...

Dear Sun Managers,has anyone programmed the SMPP protocol for use with a SMS-Center/Carrier like Telstra. I am after a application that has been written to RECEIVE SMS messages from a SMSC.I have found a number of applications, however the PRICE is a bit high for the promotion that we are ...

Hello,<p>Is there some free (really free, not like OSS) driver for soundchip on<br>boards with i815EP chipset?<p>Thanks<p>Ladislav Kostal<br>

On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, Ladislav Kostal wrote:> Is there some free (really free, not like OSS) driver for soundchip on> boards with i815EP chipset?After sending post I tried to find something about mplayer and solaris andfound this: http://www.tools.de/solaris/audio/And it works great:) Just ...

hi guys,<br>i have two machines, one is ultra one, the other is sparc4. but the mem in<br>ultra one went to bad. <br>i wonder that if it is available to replace the mem in ultra one with the<br>mem in sparc4?<br>thank u!<br>

Thank you everybody for your help, particularly Casper Dik, GregChavez, David Foster, Michael Schulte, Thomas Anders and an unknowncontributor. The question was:> > I have configure my server to mount /usr with ro option. When I need to> install some software or patch, I run ...

Dear SUN Admins, I have an E250 running as a mail server, I am usingsendmail 8.9.1 with solaris 7.I recently noticed that when ever I creat adirectory in the / directory the permission will have a setgid enabled.Canyou please tell me what could be the couse of this, have my system ...

Hi Sun Managers,I've an E5500 with 2.6, System is experiencing error messages as shownbelow:Dec 18 15:49:26 ssunu2 rsh[27343]: connection from bad portDec 18 15:49:27 ssunu2 bsd-gw[27344]: Error reading from connection: Bad file numberThis error messages happen intermittently and I couldn't ...