We are getting ready to set up a centralized log file server so that logfile maintenance/disk space can be managed from one location and developerscan access log files from multiple systems without actually having access tothose systems (not that we don't trust them...)These log files will ...

Hi,I am setting up two Netra T1's: 1 as a DB server, 1 as an app server. Sincethey have 2 Ethernet ports each I wanted to put a crossover cable betweenthe two of them (use normal cables to connect the free ports on each to ournetwork) so they will have fast access to each other.Is this ...

Hi All,Perhaps I became a problem boy to you guy's. Now I am facing a problem with mysendmail in sol-5.8, so I intend to update it. But getting problems; here is theproblem with me:"gcc: installation problem, cannot exec `cpp0': No such file or directorymake[2]: *** [assert.o] Error ...

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I got two replies to my question, from Hichael Morton and William Enestvedt.Thanks, guys.One suggested looking at st.conf. Good suggestion, but st.conf was fine onboth my servers.The other suggested looking at revision levels, PROMs, etc on both serverand StorEdge. Apparently, the symptoms I ...

Hello all,I have a problem with a DLT7000 connected to an E240R. Afterunfortunately having a severed tape inserted, a hardware failure occured.Since I can't see nor imagine what could have broken due to this, Iwonder if anyone has experience of fixing such a drive instead ofreplacing it.The ...

hello,i'm trying to configure a PPP dialin on my sol8 box, and i try to useSolstice PPP 4.0 (in fact it is pppd-2.4.0b1).When com is established, i can't ping the other maschine.On the server side, i have:% ifconfig -ahme0: flags=1000843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4> mtu 1500 ...

Hello!I have an installation of Solaris 8 made on an U10 (i.e using IDE-disks). Thisinstallation has been ufsdumped to tape.I booted a new Sun-Fire-280R on Sol 8 CD, partitioned one of the FC-AL disks,created filesystems, and made the ufsrestore. And then I executed ...

Some more information about this;I have made device files called "disk at w21000004cf2ffaa1,0:a" instead of"ssd at w21000004cf2ffaa1,0:a" in the directory/a/devices/pci at 8,600000/SUNW,qlc at 4/fp at 0,0/It still complains exactly the same./jonas-----Ursprungligt ...

I was recently asked to restore a filesystem from tape, the backup waswritten using ufsdump so I used ufsrestore to restore the data the onlyproblem I had was it took just over 6 hours to restore 23 GB is this normalas it backed up in 45 mins!! I have searched around for more detailedinfo ...

Hello for all I have install teh xerox printer in solaris 8 usage # /usr/sadm/admin/bin/printmgr Solaris 8 Print manager Printer name : xerox Print Server : Solaris Description : Xerox Network PrinterPrinter Type PostScript File Contents Postscript Faul Notification mail to Super User ...

Hello!Well, now I'm happy again cause the problem is SOLVED.The problem was that the QLogic drivers were not installed. When I hadinstalled SUNWqlc and SUNWqlcx the machine booted correctly. Many thanks tothe anonymous "sysadmin at astro.su.se" who helped me with that one.Thank you ...

Hi managers,<p>The result is that a Workshop 5.0 license is not valid for a Workshop<br>6.X product. A license upgrade is definitely required.<br>Thanks for all respondents.<p>Regards.<br>Atatur YILDIRIM<br>

Hi Gurus,<br> When I telnet to my server I get this message "<br>telnetd: could not grant slave pty". and the telnet session closes, What<br>could be the problem ?<br> <br>Santosh M Hulkund<br>

During boot of a 220r with a Sun Multi drive cabinet attached, I get thefollowing errors. It only happens at boot, I want to think that it's lookingfor a device that is not available anymore. Unfortunately, I'm not the onlyperson that has access to change the hardware, the database guys are ...

Hi,I have a server which is running as a test with a time in the future - 1 year in advance.How could I change the sendmail configuration that mails which leave this machine seem to have the same creation time like mails of other machines? Because of this "feature" of the time the ...

I'm looking for a SCSI CD Burner for a Solaris 7 Ultra10. Suggestions on <br>models that work - hassle free- and the software package you use to <br>create CD's would be appreciated.<p>Thanks,<br>Jeff Hunter<br>

Hi List, Currently, I've got a Solaris 7 server ( Slave ) which syncs its time toanother, trusted server ( Master ). The synchronization is fine ( asreported by the ntpsats file ), and running an ntpdate manually returns thatthe server is in sync. However, when I log into Slave, it's time ...

Has anyone done any recent investigation on tools used to share<br>files/directories between Solaris and Windows (NT/2000/XP)? I'm<br>particularly interested in their capability/security.<p>Charlie<br>

A number of solutions and suggestions were submitted, and everyone seems to have a favorite technique to deal with this.I am going to be going with Cyclades for the port density and price/port. I also like that it is an embedded Linux solution and the tools are all familiar to me.Also highly ...

Gurus,Hardware: Sun-Fire-280ROS: Solaris 8 In a bit of a bind. We just got 5 new 280Rs in and I need to jumpstartthem. I have a jumpstart server in which I can "install" the serversfrom. I created a new rule to correspond to the new machines I want toinstall. However, when it ...

Hello!The problem with restoring ufsdumps from an IDE system (U10) on an FC-ALsystem (Sun-Fire-280R, see initial mail below) was due to the lack of QLogicdrivers.To install these packages I followed this scheme: I booted on CD (boot cdrom-s), mounted the file systems (on /a), installed SUNWqlc ...

Gurus, Thanks for all the responses! It turns out I needed to use the -poption when running the add_install_client command. However, it strikesme as strange that the Netras I built only days earlier installed noproblem and I didn't use the -p option. That's for another thread Iguess.My ...

Hello all, I have a set of daemons that needs to be running 24/7. I'm doing apoor-mans clustering and just OSing 2 identical boxes. I'll cut-over to thebackup if one goes down. I was thinking of putting all the daemon initscripts in runlevel 4 (Solaris doesn't use this runlevel) and ...

Hi,<br>i am using a portable sparc-laptop and want to configure<br>the network especially from DHCP to a known IP-adress and<br>vice-versa<p>Do anyone know how this can be done without using "sys-unconfig"?<p>/Jan<br>

Hello all, I have a set of daemons that needs to be running 24/7. I'm doing apoor-mans clustering and just OSing 2 identical boxes. I'll cut-over to thebackup if one goes down. I was thinking of putting all the daemon initscripts in runlevel 4 (Solaris doesn't use this runlevel) and ...

Hello I use SE (Rich Pettit) and it's always said :Adrian detected slow disk(s) amber: Tue Jan 8 04:30:02 2002Move load from busy disks to idle disksState ------throughput------ -----wait queue----- -----activequeue---- disk r/s w/s Kr/s Kw/s qlen res_t svc_t %ut qlen res_t ...

Wondering if anyone has any information regarding these errors.Jan 9 08:46:01 clubber unix: [ID 796368 kern.notice] invalid tte?pp310019ef200 &tte 2a100504fb8Jan 9 08:49:52 clubber savecore: [ID 570001 auth.error] reboot after panic:invalid tte? pp 310019ef200 &tte 2a100504fb8This ...

It's taken a while for me to resolve this - other fires to put out and so forth....only one person responded and thanks for your input Harvey (Wamboldt). Harvey provided some useful information on "pre-defining the window size" but what I needed was to have "maximize completely ...

Guys,I have to upgrade an ultra_5 running 2.5.1, and has 1 4gb disk to an 2.7 with 2 20gb drives (mirroring). I already know this is possible by removing the floppy to accommodate the 2nd disk. The question is finding a less painful way of upgrading the OS. Should I dump and restore the file ...

I am experiencing a strange CDE problem.Setup: Ultra 1 with Solaris 8 Patches up to date as of October.In CDE when I minimize something and then right-click on the minimized icon to create a pull-down menu, CDE freezes. Also when I right click once on the diamond-box of an open window, a ...

Hello, all,<p>I try to use a network print HP LJ4MP with JetDirect card.<br>I use admintool, and add a remote printer. I give correct IP address,<br>but it always complain add remote printer failed.<br>What I did wrong?<p>Thanks.<br>Feng Qiu<br>

We're burning in these servers ... is it okay to have just one PS hooked up?We do not have enough power grids yet to fully power up the systems. Wouldthere be any cooling issues if only 1 PS is powered? I am still getting the CPU FRU temperature sensor messages on these systemseven after ...

I need to setup a VPN solution for a client.The overall result must be that satellite home offices have access to ashared directory on my Solaris server.I have discussed this with CISCO and I have decided to go with aPIX-515-R-BUN and with 6.1 software which includes DES (56 bit) encryption.The ...

I would like to know if there is a way to clear the entire arp table. In Windows(arp -d) and Cisco (clear ip arp) the entire arp table is cleared, but on *nix I only see the option to clear an arp entry. If anyone has written a script to do this, could you pass it on? Thanks ...

The Plextor models received the most recommendations, their external SCSI model (one specific model #PX-W1210TSE/SW was offered). Also recommended were the Yamaha's (6416 and CRW4416SX) and TEAC CDR56S. One writer suggested getting the new DVD-R/RW, which will work for CD's also. Most are ...

Thanks to: Martin Akesson Tim Chapman Justin Stringfellow James Zhao Jay Lessert A Mysterious "system administration account" :) The final consensus was that there isn't an obvious solution. The bestsuggestion was to install patch 109409-04, which I will do. I will add a ...

I received help for various people and am thankful to them:Kevin MetzgerBrad ParksStu TomlinsonThere are various methods to clear arp table. The safest is probably to use the perl script at : http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/scripts/submittedScripts/arpad.pl.txt(Stu Tomlinson's suggestion)I used ...

I have an Ultra 80 pgx 32 and am wondering if a backwards compatibleultra 160 32 GB drive will work in it to full capacity.This is sort of a rush job so let me know soon.TIA-- Jeff Graham <dem at anarchy.com> GnuPG 1.0.6 Public key #9373D50B (0x9373D50B) certserver.pgp.comKey fingerprint ...

Hi folks,One of my users has a Sun Blade 100/Solaris 8 that just started crashing several times. This is what I get in the log. The addr= field looks kinda weird... What's going on ?Jan 10 16:45:50 sib-sun5 savecore: [ID 570001 auth.error] reboot after panic: BAD TRAP: type=34 ...

Managers:In an effort to increase the swap space on my systems, I amexecuting the following commands:unix{root} 14 : swap -lswapfile dev swaplo blocks free/dev/dsk/c0t1d0s1 118,1 16 1048688 990672/home/swapfile - 16 6291440 6288432unix{root} 16 : swap -d ...

We are currently running Solaris 2.7 and Sendmail V8/Sun and the new VP ITwants no more spam. I would like to present him with something adequatelyexpensive to convince him to just hit the delete key like the rest of us seemto be able to do. If I uncover a workable solution, that's OK too. ...

Hiii Gurus ,I want to use scp to tranfer files from System A to system B so that I amnot prompted for the password for System B ...Is there some flag with scp for the same .. or some other workaround .. Also I experience that it takes a lot of time for the password prompt tocome up ... Can it ...

List:Solaris 8, 10/01 with the very freshest patch cluster AND 108693-07 (do Ineed this?). I also have VxVM3.1.1 patch03 and VxFS3.4 on it. I am using SDSto manage my bootdisk (mirrored with another bootdisk) and also to create"soft partitions" in the large space" between slice 3 ...

Hi gurus...<p> i would like to know if somebody know about, how to filter spam?, because <br>is a big problem..,<br>i use sendmail...<p> thanks a lot....<br>

Hi gurus...<p> i would like to know if somebody know about, how to filter spam?, because <br>is a big problem..,<br>i use sendmail and procmail<p> thanks a lot.... <br>

Is there a Unix param that deals with the number of processes that can be forked from a specific unix id? or is it by default unlimited or can it be changed?_________________________________________________________________Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at ...

Hi folks,Happy new year !Just got this in /var/log/messages on a Sun UE 450, with Solaris 2.6 plus latest recommended patches.Jan 9 10:13:56 xxxxxx unix: NOTICE: KRPC: record fragment from client of size(38508) exceeds maximum (33576). Fragment header was 0xb20000. DisconnectingCan anybody ...

Sirs<p>In Solaris-8 setmnt is a "Deprechiated Utility", and don't work,<br>anyone know what the replacement is ?<p>Thanks<br> Rick<br>

Hello All, I am interested in finding out if anyone has taken the Solaris 8upgrade exam 310-013. Sun is only offering this exam until theend of January 2002, and I would like to know where to obtaina good study guide. Thanks, Alan McIntoshUNIX Systems Administrator - GISAlan.McIntosh at ...