exactly what I want to know.ThanksMt Dew wrote:> Can anyone tell me how much swap space I have?> What is /var/run ? This is on Solaris 8.> Do I need to set a partition for swap only?> > df -k> > swap 108216 8 108208 1% > /var/run> swap 109136 928 ...
Hello Gurus,<p>Does anybody knows the Sun's URL for downloading the latest Flash EPROM<br>update for the 4u platform?<br>Any input will be highly appreciated<p>Thanks,<br>Adrrina Saidac<br>
Hello again,I need your help again!I have a weird problem - on one of my production servers the Port 25(SMTP), refuses any incoming/outgoing connectionsAll other ports are OK ( I can telnet, NFS mount - NIS is OK) )Any ideas will be appreciated - I need a solution outside of bouncingthe ...
Hi all,The error i am getting is System restoring properties from/.cpr_reset_propertiesUnable to open /.cpr_default from"physical_address_of_harddisk" cprboot can't read saved info from nvram..pls. reboot.and it is returning to ok prompt. probe-scsi is alsoreturning to ok prompt ...
Gurus, E3500, Solaris 8 , latest patches, MetaStor Disk arrays The server mounts a large file system from the disk array (200GB- HWRAID 5) . The file system contains a large number of files (20+ millioninode). We are in the process of applying ufs logging to thisproduction server so as to ...
Hi gurus's....i need to create a user other than rootwho can execute all backup commands likevxdump,ufsdump,nwadmin(for solstice bkp 6.0),tarcpio,vxrestore ,ufsrestore...i tried creating a userand asigned the sysadmin gid to it,also tried setfaclpermission for that user but not working...what ...
I'm having serious network troubles.This is my config:SunBlade100 (Solaris 8 (07/01)- eri interface)Ultra2 (2x300MHz) (Solaris 8 (07/01) - hme interface)Dell Dimension 8200 (Windows XP - 3com 3c905c-TX)Netgear FS516 10/100Mb switchAfter initial install everything works fine :- pinging works ...
Dear all, My domain has both Solaris ( NIS+) and windows 2000. I want to link the homedirectories of my users which exist on the Solaris system to the windowssystem so that a user can access his solaris home directory from the windowssystem as soon as he login to the windows workstation.Is that ...
Hello all,<p>I want to ask if it possible to install Solaris 7 or 8 on my netra j machine<br>.. currently it has SunOS 5.5.1 and I want to upgrade that machine with<br>Solaris.<br>Any comments<p>Regards,<p>Emad<br>
Does anyone know what files you would change (i.e. /etc/hosts, etc) in<br>order to change<br>the IP address of a Solaris 2.6 machine?<p>Thanks,<br>Roger R. :-)<br>
Thanks to all that responded.<br>I guess what I was thinking of was the IP with a Machine Name change.<p>Guess next time I'm asked that question in an interview I won'tbe<br>stumped. *GRIN*<p>--Roger R. :-)<br>
All,As requested I've listed the summary of suggestions that I received tomy query. Thanks for the quick responses and thanks for being patientand understaing with my first post.--Roger R. :-)The overall consensus was to change the IP in the /etc/hosts file andthen reboot.The startup scripts ...
Thanks to Richard J. Buchman, Mark Cain, Peter Stokes, and Stephen Hickeyfor their prompt responses. The simple answer is: http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/hw/networking/solutions/sunsnetra.html#softwareIf you want to know how to get there: > www.sun.com\netra > ...
I built an install server for a Netra X1 on a Sparc-20 (running Solaris2.5.1) following the directions in the Netra X1 Product Notes (copy the Solaris8 Software 1 CD to the install server location using setup_install_server,copy the Solaris 8 Software 2 CD to the install server location ...
Many thanx to Nelson Caparroso, Al Hopper, Chris Conner, and Doug Otto.There are no consensus, it depends on the application's throughputrequirements with OLTP generally having much lower requirements thansomething like data-warehousing.Industry recommendations vary between 3 and 8 hosts per ...
UNIX systems' worth of disk throughput on a single 1000mbps link. I'musing Veritas DMP to get aggregated bandwidth across multiple paths. The"systems" are primarily E10K domains, with a small number of E3500/E4500systems targeted for future connection to the SAN. I'm using JNI ...
Wow, that was quick,<p>(blablabla = default_realm)<p>What does the message:<p>localhost: RPC: Program not registered<p>mean? i.e. in this context?<p>Any help will be greatly appreciated.<p>-------------------------------------------------<p>Thanks again,<p>Janis Lykakis<br>
Hi all,Don't know what happened to my first mail, but most of the textwas removed, let's try again:Both Jeff Horwitz and Jason Heiss answered within hours.Both answers were correct, so thank you very very much:>that's an easy fix. uncomment the following line in ...
Many thanks for responses from:bpepin at emc.comesalexa at msai.mea.comed.rolison at power.alstom.comparaic at nsl.iesantode at clcsmail.ksc.nasa.gova.kirby at eim.surrey.ac.ukpoffen at san-jose.tt.slb.comvsr at wilco-int.comJohn.E.Riddoch at is.shell.comlbmoore at scrippsops.comcic_line at ...
Hi !My friend is using Solaris 2.6 under PC. Accidentally he relabled hisdata disk and now information isn't assessable. Are there any chances torestore data from that disk (he has no backup for this disk).Thank you in advance for your response.With best regards,Martynas-- ...
Update to my old letter :I ment not disk label, but partition map. He has no information aboutold settings.Martynas-------- Original Message --------Subject: disk label destroyed ...Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 09:48:20 +0100From: Martynas Buozis <martynas at ti.com>Reply-To: martynas at ...
Thanks to everyone who replied to my request.People were correct in identifying that the system does have a large numberof small files rather than a few large files."The speed of restore depends heavily on the number of files beingrestored, because 'ufsrestore' updates directory entries ...
Hi gurus,<br>Is there any way to generate logs giving all the details (like userid, IP<br>address and the commands ran on the server) related to security aspects of<br>the server ?<p>Thanks in advance.<br>anit<br>
Hi folks,I'm not sure if this has been done before....I thought it'd be interesting to hear from others wrt how you spend youspend your working days. As I am fairly new to the sysadmin scene, some ofyou may identify things that I should be doing but actually haven't gotround to yet ...
Here's the summary for the info on /dev/random: http://www.cosy.sbg.ac.at/~andi/ http://egd.sourceforge.net/ http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0701/openSSH.pdf http://www.aet.tu-cottbus.de/personen/jaenicke/postfix_tls/prngd.htmlThanks to all who responded!!!!!!!So many to list!!!!!!!Dave ZarnochUNIX ...
Hi Folks!I am trying to get two D130-Storages working on a 420R-Server but it won'twork!! I tried it with an PCI-SCSI-Bus-controller AND (later on) with theonboard-controller!It works properly on Fire280R and (of course) on Netra-T1-AC200 but withnone of our 420Rs...Sun-Hotline has no ...
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 01:55:28PM +0100, Modrego K. SBD wrote:>Any body have a good experience using a Free-IMAP server under>Solaris 8?A lot of thanks to:Ozgur C. DemiThe great Spirit (Christian)Jan JohanssonJimmy De LaetTRUCKS, JESSE (AIT)Heilke, RainerAndy BachDavid FosterRyanczak, ...
hi folks!<p>I need to give 2 IP adresses to an Ultra 1 box, but there is only 1<br>Ethernet interface. I was thinking about use the AUI interface (transceiver<br>AUI -> RJ45), but i don4t know if I can give an IP adress to the AUI<br>interface. does anyone know if it4s possible?<p>thanks!<br>
Hi !I'm asking your sugestions hoping that you already found an elegant way tosolve this:Sun sell 72'' cabinets in which a broad range of equipments from Sun aresupported. For example, you can install up to 40 Netra t1 machines to form anice computing farm. However, the problem I got is that ...
thanks for all the answers!The AUI and RJ45 are the same ethernet interface.most of the people told me to use virtual adress on the same interface, butthe Ultra 1 box will be used on a Cluster, and the adresses must be ondifferent networks, so, i can4t use virtual adress on le0.anyway, thanks ...
Anyone hear of any problems where a sunblade1000 hangs after roughly a month?The login splash panel freezes and remote connections (we're using ssh only)prompt for username but go no further. No processes are running on the machineand this has happened to a number of these boxes, all running ...
Hello everyone.Curious?Has anyone had any experience in using Sudo in their UNIX environments?This is the package to allow users to run commands as other users, or asrootWe have been given a directive to use this tool to help in theadministration of the root password. Sudo allows users the ...
Hello All,I have been searching for the necessary steps to upgrade a NetbackupServer but have not been successful in finding any information on thistopic. I even spoke with Sun support but their suggestion was a threeliner type of instructions and I am hoping someone can give me ...
SunmanagersI have an E420 which has a veritas mirrored rootdisk. We lost the rootpasswd.If this box wasn't mirrored, we could boot from cdrom, and change shadowfile, but cos of veritas, we can't.Does anyone know the procedure to do this? I have VERY little time in whichto accomplish this ...
Kris BriscoeUNIX Systems AdministratorDesk: 404-847-6576Pager: 770-213-5437AIM: unixboy -----Original Message-----From: Briscoe, Kris (CCI-Atlanta)Sent: Monday, January 14, 2002 10:36 AMTo: 'codeprof at codeprof.com'Subject: tcp tuning parametersGurus: Easy question for you. What is ...
Hello there,I just installed a IBM 80GB IDE disk from a PC into a Blade 100 with Solaris 8.How to fdisk the device?It should be fdisk /dev/rdsk/c0t2d0s2or something similar, right?I am getting the error fdisk:Cannot open deviceWhat is the true raw device name of the device?Sorry for this maybe ...
I think I know the answer to this one but... (as in the driving option) Brand new 280r running OS, I init 0 to prom so I can install my own OS,issue watch-net-all to find the required qfe port.server hangs.....I am connected through a terminal server and the server is 40 miles away.Any way of ...
Hi all,We currently get our time and date from an ntp server and run the followingcommand in the cron:/usr/sbin/ntpdate (IP address of ntp server)We ran in to a problem at the beginning of the new year where the GPS systemthat the ntp server gets time and date from broadcast the date as ...
Hello all,We're using several Sun 420Rs connected up to a disk array, runningSolaris 2.6 and Solaris 8.We're having a problem related to the disk array, which is affectingtwo of our servers. When this problem occurs, portions of thefile system assigned to each of the two servers goes down. ...
Hi,I am using vmstat to observe system performance during a stress test of ourapplication server.my question is where can I find out what are acceptable number ranges forthe various fields is a pagein rate of 75 acceptable ? what is an acceptablerate of sys faults ?any references to wong's or ...
Where is the sar package loaded? I want to run some system activity reports<br>on some of my servers. All but one machine has it installed, don't know why!<br>Isn't this part of a standard install?<p>TIA,<br>Gus Diaz<br>
List:Boot device: /pci at 8,700000/scsi at 6/disk at 6,0:f File and args: SunOS Release 5.8 Version Generic_108528-11 64-bitCopyright 1983-2001 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.Configuring /dev and /devicesWARNING: pcisch1: ino 0x4 has been blockedWARNING: qlc0: interrupt #0 has ...
Hello,first thanks for all your respones (Mike_Clark at wawb.uscourts.gov;David.J.Evans at oracle.com;Andy Bach root at wiwb.uscourts.gov :-) ;Place,Richard rplace at uslec.com ; Michael Groisman tintal at netvision.net.il)Next week i install a jumpstart-server with default profiles for ...
Just wanted to update my summary, since Sun now officially acknowledgesthat the DHCP patch 109077-05 should not be installed on systems runningSolaris 8 Update 4 or earlier. They are currently fixing the patch.My previous summary and original post are below.Dave Foster------------- Begin ...
Hello all,I was wondering if you can determine the total amount of memory on the A1000controller from the CLI. I tried looking into using raidutil, rdacutil,etc. (everything in /usr/sbin/osa, short of rm6) and have been unsuccessful.Any help would be ...
Admins, I'm hoping someone out there can help me out. I've set up a jumpstartserver for Solaris8 (10/01 build) and I would like to do a patchinstallation during the post installation phase of the server. I havewritten a finish script that will chroot the patchadd command and installthe ...
I have an E250 with two internal drives that I would like to replace withan E450. Would everything work correctly to pull the drives, put them inthe E450, boot from cdrom, and then run installboot again? What would thecorrect installboot incantation be for something like that?Thanks for any ...
Hello, all,It may be a little off topic. But it may be a simple UNIX question.I have a xwindow application. One of its windows open failed on thestart. Give the following error:VN: starting VNMRError in startup script: couldn't open socket: port number too high while executing"socket ...
List:Wonder if anyone out there has experienced this thing with Flash Installs -patch information are actually lost! Say if my base machine has patch123456-01 installed, I create a flar file and use this to flash install anew box. My flash install completes okay, showrev -a|grep 123456-01 on ...
Hello Gurus,I have a perl script, which is doing 3 things.1. get all the listing of a directory, using the Perl function: glob (*);2. for each name we got in the step 1, check for existence of a file, usingthe Perl function, -f $fileName3. for each name we got in the step 1, read a properties ...