SUMMARY: quick question....

1787 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 21:38:00
Thanks to:Paul KellerJoel LeeChris KeladisRic AndersonJeff Woolseyzoo11 at mail.hst.co.krLars Heckingpetri kallbergRiddoch, JohnAlbert Whitesysadmin at astro.su.seRich Kulawiec I had tried "truss" (and the man pages as well) and depending on which flag is used, different information ...

Running SUNWpcnfd on Solaris 8

761 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 21:38:00
Hello,Just wondering if anyone is currently running SUNWpcnfd on a Solaris 8 box?I would imagine I can get it for the install CD of Solaris 2.6.We have a need for some of our old DOS clients to use an athenicationserver.These are the middel man between the servers and robots on a factory ...

sunray an webinterface

1053 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 21:38:00
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----halloi have install the sunray server software. yet i tried to configure thesunray's. my problem is that i dont know which is the user that can do thisin the webfrontend. i have tried utadmin, root, but nothing. at theinstallation of the software i had say ...

SUNNARY: Hardware RAID on internal drives

1181 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 21:38:00
Thanks for all the replies:William EnestvedtMike's ListSteve MickelerBenjamin KohlerKevin Buterbaugh o if you just want to mirror a disk/partition for redundancy, use Solstice Disk Suite (SDS) o SDS is included on the Solaris 8 Software 2/2 CD, EA directory; Veritas costs extra o Hardware ...

DHCP status of remote box

179 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 21:38:00
Hi,<br>Is there is any way I can remotely find whether remote Solaris box is DHCP<br>enabled.<br>I have searched in the net but did not find any solution.<p>regards,<br>Ashish<br>

SUMMARY: Big scale GID change

909 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 21:38:00
Drew Raines <drew at phg.mc.vanderbilt.edu>:>> 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 ...

Same xterm on multiple hosts

559 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 21:38:00
Ok I know VNC is available for this, but what i want to be able to do is open the same xterm window on 2 different machines so I can see what the other person is typing as well as he can se what I am typing.I have heard fo this before but am not sure how it is done? Any old school unix gurus ...

SUMMARY: VxFS vs UFS ?

2730 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 21:38:00
Thanks to:Steve MickelerMike's ListMichael KalusHindley NickAndrew J CainesWesley SuessTRUCKS, JESSETim ChipmanSimon-Bernard DroletJed DobsonDarren DunhamDavid FosterKevin Buterbaughand others that are still pouring in.I received a link that has a nice summary of DiskSuite vs VxVM ...

netra T1 lockups/sleeping

402 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 21:38:00
Looking at the archives, there are at least 4 documented cases of Netra T1 boxes locking up (or sleeping) sporadically. No solutions were posted.I myself have come across a box that went to sleep/locked up (console unresponsive too) for about 5 minutes, then came back.Could someone with ...

ping

237 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 21:38:00
Hello,<br> I have one question on ping. When i use ping with -l 64000 it gives request<br>timeout why?<br>ping -l 64000 laposte (laposte is solaris host in remote side). Is there any<br>limitations for buffer size?<p>Thanks<br>Ramesh<br>

can't cancel print queue

458 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 21:38:00
I can't cancel the print jobs which are as follows.s41lz22-21 hscs014nn.es.hac.com!jit 1519 Jan 17 12:17s41lz22-63 hscs014nn.es.hac.com!root 1510 Jan 17 12:17The hostname hscs014nn was the previous host name and we changed thehostname to hscs014. I can cancel all the print jobs on the ...

Remote CDE login problem

901 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 21:38:00
Hi,One of my servers has Solaris 2.5.1 and I am trying to use Exceed to loginto CDE via the XDMCP-broadcast mechanism.Yesterday, the server list would come up instantly after starting exceed.Now, it takes at least 30 seconds for the server to show up in the XDMlist (it sometimes takes ...

cron entries

109 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 21:38:00
Hi!<p> How can someone read the cron entries without being root.<p>Regards,<p>Chandrashekar<br>

Summary: Solaris 8 tail bug

2937 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 21:38:00
Thanks to all the people who responded.Casper was the first one to point out that this already a confirmed bug, bug # 4348627After that, George M. helpfully pointed out that the patch for this particular bug is patch-id 111225-02.Big thanks to Don M. for mentioning that the patch isn't ...

Building TFTP Server

121 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 21:38:00
Hi Gurus,<p>Would anyone know how or know where I can find documentation on building a tftp <br>server? <p> Thanks...<br>

SUMMARY: Building TFTP Server

634 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 21:39:00
Special Thanks to everyone who replied in such a short notice, jonathan at cafejesus.comAndy_Bach at wiwb.uscourts.govmikelist at sky.netI found the URL: http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/access/multicon/3810soft/3810vct/tftpapp.htm Which had simple instructions on building a ...

Which tape drive to purchase?

465 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 21:39:00
Hi all, We must buy a external scsi tape drive for a e250/Solaris8 to holdbackups. Which do you recommend me or point me to a document about this.(no hw problems, easy setup, compression? autoload/eject? changer? ...). It will be my first installation of a tape drive.BTW: Can a scsi external ...

UDP problems

7576 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 21:39:00
Dear SUN Managaers,My company recently sold an Ultra 10 440 Mhz workstation (running Solaris2.5.1 and a telecom applications software) to a customer and now they arecomplaining that they are receiving UDP error messages which are beinggenerated every 1 second by the Ultra 10 workstation. ...

A1000 Disk Drive Firmware Question

1408 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 21:39:00
When I do a drivutil -i c2t5d0 I get:Location Capacity Status Vendor Product FirmwareSerial (MB) ID VersionNumber[1,0] 17274 Optimal SEAGATE ST318404LSUN18G 42073BT0PCZS00 [2,0] 17274 Optimal SEAGATE ...

Raid Manager 6.22 and perfutil

811 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 21:39:00
Managers --I'm trying to do some performance analysis of an A3500 directly attached toan E4500 running Raid Manager 6.22. I'm aware that the rm6 GUI has aperformance monitoring tool, but I want to be able to use the command lineto get that same (more?) information. I thought I struck ...

permissions

216 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 21:39:00
Hi,<br>I'm trying to create a user account on Solaris 8 who has ONLY the right to<br>change other users passwords, nothing else he should be able to do.<br>Is this possible, and if Yes, how ?<br>Thanks<br>Hisham<br>

SUMMARY: permissions

1834 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 21:39:00
Thanks to all who replayed :"Mike's List" <mikelist at sky.net>"Chong Wan" <wanchong at asiainfo.com>"John Tan" <John.Tan at asx.com.au>"Lito A. Lampitoc" <ral at codewan.com.ph"Februarie Randall" <FebruarieR at ...

SUMMARY: scsi od drive woes

6870 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 21:39:00
Firstly, thanks to bergman at merctech.com for his reply.I was able to resolve this problem yesterday evening, there were two factors.1. After rebooting the (with the old optical drive in plugged in) we checked the state of the scsi bus with scsiinfo, this showed that the device was ...

SUMMARY: oracle problems

1186 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 21:39:00
First I like to thank the following people for their support:The great Spirit [manitu at mefisto.net]Kevin Buterbaugh [Kevin.Buterbaugh at lifeway.com]Andrew Petrov [andreyp at nnov.impexbank.ru]Rasmussen, Thorfinn T [Thorfinn.Rasmussen at standardbank.com]Steve Hunt [steve.h at ...

FW 4.1 SP4 on Netra AC200

88 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 21:39:00
Hi<p> Does CheckPoint 4.1 SP4 work on Netra AC200 in 32 or 64bits ?<p>thanks<br>Fred<br>

How to determine CPU cache size ?

7 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 21:39:00
Hi.<br>

How do i find out, how much cache the CPU has ?Internal as well as external.Other commands ?Oh

312 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 21:39:00
How do i find out, how much cache the CPU has ?Internal as well as external.Other commands ?Oh well, for Solaris-2.6. Thanks (mk)-- Matthias Kurz; Fuldastr. 3; D-28199 Bremen; VOICE +49 421 53 600 47 >> Im prdmotorischen Cortex kann jeder ein Held sein. (bdw) ...

Documentation Script

451 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 21:39:00
Hello,Iam searching a script that makes full a automatic documentation ofthe Solaris Installation. Any hints?cubenj--Benjamin Kohler / benjamin.kohler at vpbank.com Information Technology / Network + Systems Engineering Verwaltungs- und Privat-Bank AG / http://www.vpbank.com- Reality ...

[SUMMARY] How to determine CPU cache size ?

680 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 21:39:00
On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 01:39:45PM +0100, Matthias Kurz wrote:> Hi.> > >From dmesg:> cpu1: SUNW,UltraSPARC-II (upaid 3 impl 0x11 ver 0x20 clock 296 MHz)> > How do i find out, how much cache the CPU has ?> Internal as well as external.> Other commands ?> Oh well, ...

SUMMARY: Netra T1 - 105 Serial Number

1307 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 21:39:00
Thanks to:Steve Mickeler [steve at neptune.on.ca]Boldin, Bob [Robert.Boldin at bellsouth.com]Ice [ice at ice.org.ua]Schulte, Michael [michael.schulte at materna.de]kevin graham [kgraham at dotnetdotcom.org]petri kallberg [petri.kallberg at sun.com]Cawley,Stephen F. [Stephen.Cawley at ...

SUMMARY: Moving disks between machines

1264 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 21:39:00
Many thanks to the following people:Heilke, RainerBill VoightBriscoe, KrisCaparroso, NelsonJonathan A. ZdziarJonas BlbergAndrew_RotramelThere wasn't a complete consensus, but almost everyone agreed that I couldwork. I looked at the physical path for disk 0 on both machines and theywere the ...

SUMMARY: U5 and Large IDE Disk

1505 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 21:39:00
The answer is: Don't buy a MaxtorI got quite a number of emails from people using Western Digital HDs >100gigw/out error on U5/10s. Most replies from Maxtor owners complained they wereunable to use >30 GB. Before this Maxtor I had a 45gig WD drive and itworked w/out error.One ...

Reboot with no reason?

2798 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 21:39:00
Machine was automatically reboot yesterday. No clue in log files. I'vegot a crash dump in /var/crash/<machine name>/vmcore.1, runadb -k unix vmcore.1$<msgbufI've got_______________________________________________________........WARNING: [AFT1] Uncorrectable Memory Error on CPU1 Data ...

sockets stuck in CLOSE_WAIT

2952 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 21:39:00
We have a weblogic application running on 2 SUN 3500's running Solaris 8with a patchset that I downloadedin December. This app was just ported last week from 2 4500's also runningSolaris 8 and most recent patchon those servers was October. weblogic has 2 ports that it uses for httpaccess: ...

Dumb A1000 question

257 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 21:39:00
I keep reading throughout Sun's RM 6.22 documentation that you should <br>hook up the device to two seperate SCSI controllers. How do you <br>go about doing this? Is it possibly to hook up the A1000 in this <br>kind of configuration?<p>Thanks!<p>-Dan<br>

Multipathing - Solaris 8

519 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 21:39:00
A quick multipathing question. What NIC cards are supported? I wouldlike to multipath 2 Gigabit NIC cards on my backup server. This willprovide me with much greater throughput capbilities. I don't want to doit now, but rather once we start noticing a network throughput issues.Then we can ...

Summary: Monitoring

596 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 21:39:00
Thanks all for your responses. I will start testing these products andsee if they suit my needs. If we can do this for cheap, I am sure itwill be better than going out and spending a lot of money.Here is a list of products that were recommended (in order ofpopularity)-Big Brother ...

Solaris 8 (x86) Optimize

479 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 21:39:00
Anyone knows of any other "to do" for Solaris x86 to optimize forperformance? i.e. enable the ata-dma after installation. I'm looking forspecific Solaris 8 x86 "to do" _NOT_ Solaris optimization in general(not looking for the likes of minfree/maxfree, system performance, ...

dtlogin problem

719 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 21:39:00
Hi guys:I have a ultra 1 which is having dtlogin problems. I tried to start the dtlogin with the following command /usr/dt/bin/dtlogin -daemon &. But on the console it gave me the following error.The X-server can not be started on display :0...What does this mean? I took a look at ...

[Q] FTP file transfer date question?

516 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 21:39:00
I have question about "ftp" file tramsfer date question. While I transfer files in betweenSolaris or other UNIX servers, how can I keep the file original date? I know I can use "touch -t" to change it after transfer. Does their has way to do it inside ...

Need to identify the path to a HP Surstore tape changer?

5105 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 21:39:00
I've been trying to get a sun server 4500, solaris 8, to make device files for the tape drives and changer on an HP SureStore Tape Library. I am going through a brocade switch to communicate between the devices. I was told by sun support that I should make sure the port on the switch I am ...

Sun Can't See ESS

1172 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 21:39:00
Greetings.I have a SunFire 280 with an additional X6799 Single Fibre Channeladapter connected to an Inrange switch which is subsequently connectedto an IBM ESS Shark. My problem is that the Sun doesn't create anydisk devices from the Shark over the fibre loop. A prtconf shows thatthe system ...

SUMMARY: Solaris 8 (x86) Optimize

236 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 21:39:00
Thanks to all that replied:<p>Pretty much nothing specific for Solaris 8 x86 is needed after<br>the ata-dma enabled. One smart ass comment about optimaztion<br>for Solaris 8 needed to be on a sparc ;) you know who you are.<p>- Mike<br>

UPDATE: Slow perl performance on 8x86 system vs. 2.6

3712 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 21:39:00
Thanks a million to everyone who responded. I received a lots of very usefultips.Eventually I worked around the problem by changing my perl script. Howeverthe issue is still there.Why, the same perl script that accessing the SAME data runs 5-6 times sloweron Intel box than on E250?Is it some ...

SUMMARY: NetraT1 & SMC 3.0

1078 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 21:39:00
Thanks to Christopher Hubell for the help!****************This is what worked for us:Server: Installed Latest Version of SMC 3.0 Server (product update 3)Installed Netra SupplementInstalled Sun Management Center 3.0 jumbo Patch. Patch: 110938-05. Started ServerAgent:Installed Latest Version ...

[SUMMARY] Cannot use ulimit/unlimit to enable core dumps (coredumpsize)

4213 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 21:39:00
Platform: SunOS donor 5.8 Generic_108528-10 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-80Rebooted the machine, NOW I can get unlimited coredumpsize!On one particular system I could not enable core dumps. Itried sh/csh/tcsh shells with the respective ulimit/unlimit commands,nothing worked: ulimit -c ...

SUMMARY(2): permissions

3029 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 21:39:00
After posting my Summary, I recieved lots of replies that suggest using"Role Based Access Control" (RBAC) on Solaris 8.Thanks again for your help.:=)----- Original Message -----From: "Hisham Al Saad" <ahisham at batelco.com.bh>To: <codeprof at codeprof.com>Sent: ...

Crontab Question?

480 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 21:39:00
Hi folks,I would like to perform following task in my Sun Box using Crontab, could youplease quote me the line which I can appended to my crontab config file.1. On every friday delete the log file from the /logs/ directory, but beforedeleting the logs I want to stop the sendmail daemon. The ...

SunFire 880V Config Q, Adaptec 2940UW2 PCI?

723 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 21:39:00
I'm helping out configure a SunFire 880V which will eventually have 12 x73Giggers on system via the on-board FC-backplane/cage. I'd like toexclusively use the FC disks for purely data/apps storage and not OS. I amplanning instead instead to just use 2 Sun Unipaks (18 giggers) as boot diskbut ...

Trivial Question

235 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 21:39:00
hi gurus<br>this is a trivial question , but i need to reboot a E220 which has a<br>A1000 attached with it. do i need to take any special care in rebooting the<br>server or a plain reboot command will do ? <p>regards<br>laloo yadav<br>