Hello managers.How could i change the scsi id of the internal disks of an ultra 1.Default they have the ids 0 and 1 but i need the ids 2 and 3.Jumpersettings of the disks are ignored.Wolfgang------------------------------------------------------------------------BASF IT Services GmbH- - ...

I am trying to configure an Ultra 1 running Solaris 8 10/01 to see an old scsi optical drive.The hardware sees the device as a MaxoptixT4:ok probe-scsi-all/sbus at 1f,0/espdma at e,8400000/esp at e,8800000Target 0Unit 0 Disk IBM DCAS532160SUN2.1GS65ATarget 4Unit 0 Removable Device type 7 ...

Hi ,My problem is still not solved , I got few replies which suggest that itis a hardware problem only .I will call sun when my machine reboots nexttime( it hasn't rebooted since I posted this message) . I am sending thissummary to share the suggestions I got .I will post another summary ...

HiI'm trying to enable the ability in /etc/passwd to override parameters fromthe NIS passwd file, so that we can enable specific users from NIS to usespecific machines and reject all others.i.e. /etc/passwd+nisuser:x:0:0:local user:/local_home:/bin/kshfrom NIS ...

Thanks to John Riddoch, David Glass & Ralph HolmSetting /etc/nsswitch.confpasswd: compat does the trick.That'll teach me to read the manpages more carefully :)CheersSimon> -----Original Message-----> From: Curr, Simon [mailto:scurr at sonusnet.com]> Sent: 16 January 2002 13:35> ...

Hi, we have a e4000 running SunOS 5.5.1 built 11/97 with an oracle Database7.3.4.4.Now, the problem is that after a while a database process crashes. Thiscauses a restart of the whole application and thedatabase. I took a look at the var/adm/messages and the entry befor thecrash is: DB notifier ...

I have an older U5 270 running Solaris 8. I previously had a 40gig drive inthe workstation and have replaced it with a 120gig Maxtor. The drive comesup as 20gig in format, once I enter the drive info from Maxtor's site, itcomes up as 10gig.The drive is a Maxtor 4G120J6. Their page says it ...

Greeting Gurus I have a E250, Solaris 5.6 with latest patches that gave me the following message last night in /var/adm/messages:Jan 15 16:05:16 hostname unix: NFS server for volume management (/vol) not responding still trying This morning, I can not do an ls -la on root nor cd to /vol. ...

I have a situation where I need to mount filesystems from an NT machine to aSolaris 2.51 machine. For various reasons, NFS has been tossed out.Is there some sort of CIFS/Samba client for Solaris?--matthew zeier - "In mathematics you don't understand things. You justget used to ...

Hi, gurus,I have several solaris 7 and 8 servers on both Sparc and Intel platforms, as well as some Linux boxes.We are running Samba on all of those machines to share files with the Windows 98 and 2000 clients.The current version is 2.2.2, compiled from same source on all of the ...

Current versions of Samba don't include a tool to directly mount a CIFSshare as I would do with NFS.Best solution looks like : http://www.obdev.at/products/sharity-light/Thanks.----- Original Message -----From: "matthew zeier" <matthew.zeier at thirdcoast.net>To: <codeprof at ...

Thanks to all who replied John PhillipsJoe Fletcher Harald HusemannMark HargraveRichard PlaceEliezer RammGene BeairdCal WootenDave WeisJessie TrucksEric ClarkDoug OttoJed Dobson Most people suggested the use of something like Sun or Veritas's clustersoftware and an external stirage device. ...

I only received one answer, still it provides insight that is worth sharing. All filesystem I/O is done via paging, so you can pretty much ignorepage ins / outs. The fields to page attention to in vmstat output are ther (should be less than 4 per CPU), b (should be 0), sr (should be 0 ...

I have s strange problem with sendmail,[trigger] [32] [/var/adm] # /usr/lib/sendmail -q Ig0ECbLdg001022 -vRunning /var/spool/mqueue/g0ECbLdg001022 (sequence 1 of 1)avandu.com: Name server timeout<sales at avandu.com>... Transient parse error -- message queued for futuredelivery[trigger] ...

Today I have wasted a lot of time trying unsuccessfully to get the arrowkeys to work in insert mode w/ Vi on Solaris 8/TERM=vt100/tcsh/ first i set up a .exrc file adding ttytype for good measure.set ttytype=vt100set showmodeset wrapset showmatchset icset timeout=400map! ^[OD ^[hamap! ^[OB ...

Dear Sun Managers,I have an Ultra 10 440 MHz running Solaris 2.5.1. Lately upon trying to boot it up, it gives the following errors : Boot device: disk File and args: SunOS Release 5.5.1 Version Generic_ 103640-28 [UNIX(R) System V Release 4.0] Copyright (c) 1983-1996, Sun Mircosystems, Inc. ...

I need to change the GID of every user on an E450.My plan is to change the appropriate entries in /etc/passwd and /etc/group,then issue something to the effect of (in single-user mode): find / -group 10 -exec chgrp 1000 {} \;Need I be concerned with anything else? Since these aren't system ...

Where does "uname" get its information?TIA,-debDeborah SantomauroUnix System AdministratorKennedy Space Center - Florida / CSOC-ROSemail: santode at kscems.ksc.nasa.gov Work: 321-861-2226 o, o__ o_/| o_. </ [\/ [\_| ...

Hello,I have an ultra 10.I had to force compilation at 32 bit or ipfilter won;t work. It will makethe system block. In 32 bit mode instead it works but there is only aweird thing:ishtar [10:09pm]{root}[~]> w 10:09pm up 6:25, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.02User tty ...

Has anyone had any difficulty adding a Netra T1 to Sun Management Center<br>3.0? Any tips would be welcome.<br> <br>Thanks<br>Ryan<br>

Platform: SunOS donor 5.8 Generic_108528-10 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-80On one particular system I cannot enable core dumps. I'vetried sh/csh/tcsh shells with the respective ulimit/unlimit commands,nothing works. Using tcsh:$ limitcputime unlimitedfilesize unlimiteddatasize ...

Hello there folks,On our networker backup server we have two network cards. I can't seem tomake netwoker use primarily the second network interface which is connected toa physically different backup network. I can get the clients to use theirsecond interfaces on the backup network by ...

I have installed Solaris 7 on a system which just had the internal disk replaced. So, there is nothing left over from it's previous configuration. I have also installed the January 2002 recommended patch bundle.I'm not planning to use NIS or NIS+, just DNS.I have created the /etc/resolv.conf ...

Does Sun have any type of a de-support matrix (containing dates for levels ofsupport) for the hardware and Solaris?Specifically what kind of time frame is left for E450s?ThanksDon BrickerDatabase Administrator / System AdministratorIllinois Environmental Protection Agency1021 North Grand Avenue ...

Managers,I may be installing a Sun Cluster in the next fewmonths and was wondering if those of you who are usingthe current version of Sun Cluster could tell me ofyour experiences, be them good or bad.Also any suggestions on things that should be done, oryou wish you had thought of doing, when ...

Hello,I have bought a used Sun Ultra 1 box and tried to reinstall Solaris 8 on it.I can not 'boot cdrom' from 'OK' prompt. The problem is the system recognized the cdrom as 'c0t5d0s2' not 'c0t6d0s2' like the othermachine does. Does anybody has any idea?Thanks,Peter LimPerot Systems ...

I need suggestions for a web based e-mail software for Solaris 8.Software needs to be robust, as this is for several thousands plususers. I've already search sourceforge.net and there's a long list,I need feedback from anyone that have implemented web based e-mailon a Solaris platform, will ...

Hello all, Does anyone famaliar with the TSM tape library model 3584 L32 model? We usedLTO tapes on the machine. All the tapes in the library are sitting as 'writeprotected' knob closed. Are they suppose to be opened? Thanks ahead,Peter LimPerot Systems AssociatePh. ...

Hi all, Just wanted to know what the latest is on monitoring solutions.What I want to do is be able to monitor some basic system events...suchas disk space. I remember that Solstice Domain Manager or Site Managerdoes do this but I wasn't too impressed with the product about 5 yearsago. Since ...

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 ...

Hello managers.Thank you for your replies. In fact normally i couldn't change the scsi id'sfrom internal disks of an ultra 1, but with one type of disks it works and thiswere a seagate disk. By setting the jumpers of both disks to my desired idthe second disk is "or-ed" to the next ...

Hello, gurus,First of all, thanks to all who replied."Changa"David LaPorte,Doug Floer,Kevin Metzger,Al Hopper,Kevin Amorin,Chris Hoogendyk,Jesse Carroll...This is definitely not a Samba problem, but really a network problem.Most answers proposed to switch to 100 Mbs full-duplex on all ...

Hi managers, Anyone got experiences/recommendations in replacing Sun disks in an Enterprise 250 (Sol 2.6) with 3rd party drives? We want to increase storage capacity in a legacy server, currently have only 9.0 & 4.2G disks. Specifically I'm wondering whether the Sun drives are ...

Dear Sun Managers,I've a question that I couldn't get the answer fromsunsolve.sun.com. Highly appreciate if someone outthere can shed a light on this.In /tmp directory, I notice there is a file calledps_data. What is this file for? Can I delete it andwhat would be the impact on the ...

Hi friends<br>I forgot my system firmware password.How can I know or<br>change or reset it?<p>farshid<br>

Hi,Few of my user use xlock to lock their cde session . Sometimes they donot get the password prompt to open the lock. kill -9 xlock_pid does notkill it . man page of xlock says xlock can appear to hang if it iscompeting with a high-priority process for the CPU, and it cantcatch kill ...

Solaris 8, UE Server, BootDisk(s) on D1000:Instead of backing up to tape the system disk, we are planning to just clonethe disk via SDS and just off-site the disk. The procedure we follow is (1)quisce I/O to the disk (2) pull out the disk/detach it a little and let itspin down (3) issue a ...

Greetings, managers...I wonder if anyone knows of a completely virtual network interface?i.e., there is no network card associated with it, eg /dev/ve0. Detailsbelow...(I am not talking about a logical interface associated with an existingnetwork card).My application vendor has provided a ...

Maybe I just went blind - I can't find the serial number on a new Netra T1105. Where is the serial number or how do I go about determining what it is?Thanks. Blaine OwensEastman Chemical CompanyPhone - (423)-229-3579Cell Phone - (423)-817-0704Fax - (423)- 229-1188bowens at ...

We are looking at implementing a naming service on some servers in the nextfew months. However, we're not quite sure if we should go with NIS, NIS+ orLDAP.I have previously worked with both NIS and NIS+ and been quite happy withit. However it seems like Sun is rather keen on getting everybody ...

Thank you all that replied, and others that I might left out...Eric HorneTRUCKS, JESSEKent PerrierKendall LloydEdwin GroenescheijEduardo Sanchez M.kevin grahamLars HeckingChristophe DupreSteve SandauLito A. LampitocJonathan A. ZdziarChris JohnsonMartynas BuozisJames NoyesRiddoch, John EDavorin ...

Thank You to the following who responded: Kenny Raby Tom Jones David Knight Rick McKinney Tim ChipmanSearching for EOL on Sunslove produced document InfodocID 10012. This had thedates and descriptions for levels of support info for Solaris.Sun's policy is for support to be ...

Do any entry-level servers (specifically Sun Fire 280R and V880) support hardware RAID on the internal drives? Do any of the higher servers? If not, what are possible solutions to implement RAID on these machines? Am I correct assuming that I need either some software like Veritas Volume ...

We've standardised on SDS mirroring as our protection scheme of ourbootdisks and have also standardised on just 2 large / and /var partitions.Are there issues in adding the logging option in my /etc/vfstab file?/proc - /proc proc - no -/dev/md/dsk/d31 - - ...

Can someone direct me to the HP admins list?<br>Thank you!<br>P.T.<br>

Hats off to SunManagers ! I got lots of feedback. unfortunately no one wasable to pinpoint the problem. Two comments got me thinking - "I find that there's so much skew in vt100 implementations and emulationsand in cursor key encoding in general that it's only reasonable to use hjklto ...

Hello everyone,we are budgetting our new fileserver, which will have severalterabyte-sized filesystems. We are debating whether Veritas Filesystem(VxFS) is really worth it. This will be running Solaris 8.VxFS is growable and does logging. So does UFS since Solaris 7.So what are the true ...

please somebody knows any tool to measure the HD and /or RAID <br>informations like speed transfer rate, and more thinks. Please told me.<br>-- <br>Thanks && Regards<br>Luis Vitorio Cargnini<br>TRDC - Telenova Communications Corp.<br>

I've been writing some resource monitors for my systems, and came upon a stumper... My swap monitor always seemed to be way off. I looked around and found that my disk_io monitor (that runs a minute before the swap_monitor), was eating up 2 Gig of swap!Upon closer inspection, I found that it ...

Hey folks,I'm a server kinda girl, not the CDE kind. Unfortunately, occassionallyI need to use CDE desktop - but when I do, and start netscape, or use"vim -g" I get the following warnings (same in both cases):[31] netscapeWarning: Cannot convert string "-dt-interface ...