disk problems

354 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:47:00
Hi dear partners: I install a new disk in a E450 whit Solaris 8, and cant4n mount, i makethis: Format > format that disknewfs -v /dev/dsk/c0t8d0s0and send this I/O errorlater if i want mount that disk:mount /dev/dsk/c0t8d0s0 /directoryand send I/O errorand can4t mount...any ideas?thanks and ...

Changing Disksuite metadevice name?

430 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:47:00
Managers,I'd like suggestions/comments on renaming a mirror metadevice.Currently, d10 is a mirror of /, containing submirrors d11 and d12.Our naming scheme says it should be d1, with d11 and d12 submirrors,but I fat-fingered it when creating it and didn't realize until after I wasbooting off ...

IP Multipathing and failure detection time

381 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:47:00
Hi!I have s Sun Fire 4800 running with IP multipathing. When the network istraffic is so high that the failover time couldnt be reached then aerror messages is posted in the messages file.Anybody that know if its possible to redirect this error messages fromin.mpathd to an other file than ...

SUMMARY: loghost explained

1337 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:47:00
thank you. everyone said the same thing, and here's agood answer:I can concurr - if there is an unexpected networkfailure (or someone starts playing with the 'ifconfig hme0 unplumb'command) you still get log files.the only real reason to have loghost after a public IPis if you are using a ...

CPU extremely busy with high percentage of system processes

596 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:47:00
Hi Gurus,I have a Sun system (an NFS client) having CPU problemnow. The system/kernal processes have consumed 50% to70% of the CPUs. Here is the info from TOP:"CPU states: 7.0% idle, 20.0% user, 72.9% kernel, 0.1%iowait, 0.0% swap Memory: 1024M real, 479M free, 152Mswap in use, 1639M swap ...

system reboot

12200 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:47:00
Thanks for all the help.I looked at the /var/adm/messages and /var/crash.and here's what I can find.Please let me know what can be the problem....in /var/adm/messages :-May 21 18:21:28 sun69 savecore: [ID 570001 auth.error] reboot after panic:BAD TRAP: type=31 rp=2a10006af10 addr=30001348000 ...

280r

1357 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:47:00
I have a brand-new out-of-the-box 280r with 1 cpu and 1GB RAM and upontrying to boot off the Solaris 8 10/1 install cd I get the following:ok boot -s cdromBoot device: /pci at 8,600000/SUNW,qlc at 4/fp at 0,0/disk at 0,0 File and args: -scdromkrtld: load_exec: fail to expand cpu/$CPUkrtld: ...

[SUMMARY] Vulnerabilities in solaris in.rarpd (can I disable?)

7311 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:47:00
Wanted to know when in.rarpd can be turned off, since a recentadvisory claiming local and remote vulnerabilities was posted.My original question and the advisory follow.in.rarpd is the daemon which determines IP addresses based on MAC addresses.I only have two systems running in.rarpd, one is a ...

jumpstart

627 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:47:00
Hello Everyone,I really appreciate any suggestion on this issue.I was asked by management to created jumpstartprofiles to all the system in my company.I created profiles based on the memory and HDisksizes because all our machines are sun sparc.I also divided the partitions as follows:Swap = 2 X ...

SunOS 4.1.4 Restore

838 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:47:00
I have a Sparc 20 with SunOS 4.1.4, it's rarely used but just when it's needed something happened to it. The /dev directory was removed (I didin't do it, but I need to fix). Anyway, I know how to fix with solaris: boot cdrom -s, mount c0t0d0sX /mnt, cd /mnt, ufsrestore from tape. However, ...

SUMMARY: How to mirror a failing drive?

2825 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:47:00
Thanks to: Guy B. Purcell Kevin Boykin Johnny Hall Darren MouldingSeveral folks suggested using dd to copy the data to a partition on anotherdrive, instead of trying to get disksuite to mirror the data. Unfortunatelythe problematic drive failed completely before I was able to try ...

Network link failed error in E3500

580 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:47:00
Hi, I am getting a network link failed error in E3500 while jumpstarting the machine through a serial console.I am able to access the machine on the network without any problem when it boots up from disk.There are no other error messages. I get a transreciever check failed error when i do a ...

Solstice Backup 6.1 performance tuning

807 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:47:00
Here's the setup: E450 hooked to 2xSun L20s with a total of 4 Ultrium LTOtape drives running Solaris 8. This backup server is connected via gigabitethernet to a server with about 400-500GB of data. When performing a rawlocal dump to the drives using ufsdump, we can get about 9MB/S transfer ...

Summary: SunFire-280R, L9, Networker: kern.notice lus_intr(3.0.0): transport failure

2761 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:47:00
"Scott Buecker " <sbuecker at netjets.com> offered a suggestion but theproblem was that the L9 tape library was set to "sequential access" ratherthan "random access". Basically this stopped networker being able tocontrol the auto changer.We had commercial ...

OFFTOPIC: Interscan eManager configuration

2191 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:47:00
Hi,I am sorry for this off topic mail, but I am not able to get any solution fromthe vendor for a long time, I have seen many of you people using the Interscansoftware, so I am posting my problem which is as follows:Can you please let me know how can we customize the eManagerNotification ...

Solstice Backup 6.1 performance tuning...more info

1817 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:47:00
Since I posted the original message, I have tested the transfer rate over thegigabit connection. I was able to do a remote ufsdump of a 33GB partition at~11MB/S. Still only transferring at about 1MB/S per device through SolsticeBackup 6.1.Thanks,AlanOn Wed, 22 May 2002, Alan Rubin wrote:> ...

LTO 200 Giga Qestion !!!

269 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:47:00
Hello all,<p>My LTO 200 Giga tape does not dump a 200 Giga on single<br>tape ,it does less then this.<p>i use the command:<p>/usr/sbin/ufsdump fun0sdbl /dev/rmt/0n 13000 54000 126 /<p>maybe the parameters are not right ?<p>Please send any hint .....<p>Regards Stots<br>

SUMMARY:server resource monitoring

1921 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:47:00
Thank you to all.The following are recommended by those who replied:orcaware ( http://www.orcaware.com/orca/)setoolkit ( http://www.setoolkit.com/)TopItAllrrdtool ( http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/rrdtool)Net-SNMP sarge ( http://www.vais.net/~efinch/sarge.html)ganglia ...

SUMMARY - SUNWcsr missing pkginfo

871 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:47:00
We've decided not to do anything about this, as Sun has declared any solution un-supportable (as Sun doesn't have a solution beyond reloading the OS), and we have a previous Sun case against this machine for this issue. We'll probably work around reloading the OS (it probably needs it ...

SUMMARY:EOD

237 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:47:00
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Date

113 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:47:00
Hello managers,<p>Does any one know how to get date in 12 hour format instead of 24 hour.<br>Regards<br>Raghu<br>

Jumpstart of Ultra1 143MHz - Failed!!

1184 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:47:00
All,I have been using jumpstart now.. on our network.. and have had noproblems until now.I am only having problems with:Sun Ultra 1 SBus (UltraSPARC 143MHz)I have jumpedSun Ultra 1 SBus (UltraSPARC 167MHz)with NO problem.The error I recieve is:ok boot net -v installBoot device: /sbus/ledma at ...

L1-A key for NetraX1

510 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:47:00
Hi folks, I have a PC with Hyperterminal hooked up tomy LOM console port on my NetraX1. When I applypower the system begins to boot. I would like tobe able to break into the PROM monitor (the "OK"prompt). Normally on a Sun keyboard you can hitthe L1-A keys. Any idea what the ...

About Pop Servers

559 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:47:00
Hi dear partners.. Thanks so much for all your help and again i will need your help,i be look for some Pop server for Solaris 8 and i would like yoursuggestions... thanks for all.. ========================================= R I U A D Y [ Soporte ] soporte at ...

SUMMARY: POP3 server for Solaris (fwd)

1561 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:47:00
Hi dear partners: i just Summary forwarding this message thanks a lot for all your help..---------- Forwarded message ---------->Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 15:27:18 -0400>From: "Owens, Blaine C - Eastman" <bowens at eastman.com>>To: codeprof at ...

SUMMARY: L1-A key for NetraX1

2088 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:47:00
RE: L1-A key for NetraX1Hi folks, A "Control-Break" works for Hyperterminal.-Ed -----Original Message----- From: Francisco Puente (CEA) [mailto:francisco.puente at cea.ericsson.se] Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 10:05 AM To: Ed Sanborn Subject: RE: L1-A key for NetraX1 Hi, i ...

SUMMARY: Sun 280R, 220R video

1149 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:47:00
Original Post:We had a four port Belkin Omniview switch and our 220R worked fine with it.We sent it to another site and replaced it with an existing 8 port OmniviewPro. The 220R will not display on the switch and, in fact, the switchdoes not detect the Sun's presence. Another location uses ...

Summary: Solaris Network Command

652 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:47:00
Thanks for all that responded so quickly to my question:> I'm trying to remember the name of a command I've used under Solaris > before. It lists the MAC addresses of all the computers that it can see > on the local network. Any ideas? Thanks.The command I was looking for was ...

SUMMARY: HELP: problems with mail clients

995 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:47:00
Hi -Before anyone waste any time on the problems describedbelow, it turns out the source the problems is thatlockd had died on our server box.Best,PaulThe original message:---------------------------------------------------------------------I have some mysterious problems related to mailx and ...

Solaris Hang After Copyright message

16126 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:47:00
Hi, I have a Sun E3k that running Solaris 8, last few days, I restart theserver and it hang after the Copyright message, here are some console outputI able to capture from the terminal:-------------start---------------------------------------------{6} ok show-post-resultsSlot 1 - ...

Sendmail Issue..

768 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:47:00
Hi Managers,I am facing a strange problem in Sendmail server here..There is one particular message which seems to be in a kind of loop and issent to the users again and again..Its an alias which sends mail to a lot of users...and is defined in thevirtusertable..The Message id is always the ...

boot Server on other subnet than install

2449 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:47:00
HI Managers .This is my very first time I asking any from gurus .I caught up in a situation , that we got new subent , and for that i need to build new boot server on that subnet .i ran all the command that i need , in order to make boot server .i.e ./add_install_server -b /bootdir . making ...

Renamed root mirror in DiskSuite

321 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:47:00
Managers,I'd like suggestions/comments on renaming the mirror metadevice.Currently, d10 is a mirror of /, containing submirrors d11 and d12.Our naming scheme says it should be d1, with d11 and d12 submirrors.I can just leave it, but it looks awkward with all the other ...

E450 PCF8574 failed

670 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:47:00
We have a SUN E450. It has a problem.The error message is: Read from PCF8574(FPM) failed read of LM75 failed Unix: warning: write to PCF8574 failed, addr=70 Fan Fail is 0x79, retries=3. PS Fan number 0 Failed. Fan Failure(s), system shutdown. (Fatal System Environmental control Error)I ...

Summary:RE: disk problems

2046 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:47:00
Hi everybody, thanks for all who answer... The problem whit the disk is fixed... i made this:1.- format > select disk2.- partition3.- modify4.- free hog [0]5.- and clean the past partition6.- select every partition and assigned their sizes7.- newfs -v /dev/rdsk/c0t8d0s0 we create a new file ...

Capacity Planning on Unix boxes

533 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:47:00
Hi gurus sorry for the off topic question Does anybody have experience with implementing CapacityPlanning routines on Unix boxes? I would like to share some ideas about this topic. Thereare plenty information about Capacity Planning on mainframesystems but this service seems to be kind of ...

Bandwidth quota options?

640 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:47:00
Hey everyone:I gots a quick question. Does anyone have any ideas on how you couldbandwidth throttle a website on a server? Does anyone know of any sort ofsoftware that could do that (system software), or would it be a functionof the webserver software (Zeus or apache)?I know this is kinda ...

L1-A key for NetraX1

796 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:47:00
> > I have a PC with Hyperterminal hooked up to> > my LOM console port on my NetraX1. When I apply> > power the system begins to boot. I would like to> > be able to break into the PROM monitor (the "OK"> > prompt). Normally on a Sun keyboard you can ...

size of memory Page

139 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:47:00
Hi gurus,<br>is there a command to find out the size of a single page of memory? ( I<br>know by default it is 4 or 8KB )<p>Anit Shingal<br>

DNS server issues

480 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:47:00
A coworker has built a new DNS server for our little network. We aremigrating from BIND 4.9 to 8.2.2 . The problem is that after configuringthe new server and populating it with the zone files, queries are not beingpassed up to the root server to resolve. Getting an error in /var/admstating ...

How to set permission to allow non-root user to run shutdown

532 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:47:00
Hello,I want to allow a non-root user to run /etc/shutdown command. I amrunning Solaris 8 2/2 and the username is the owner with group asstaff.I entered the following:setfacl -m user:username:5 /etc/shutdowngetfacl /etc/shutdown showed:#owner:root#group:sysuser::rwxuser:username:r-x ...

SUMMARY How to set up non-root user to run shutdown

532 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:47:00
Hello,I want to allow a non-root user to run /etc/shutdown command. I amrunning Solaris 8 2/2 and the username is the owner with group asstaff.I entered the following:setfacl -m user:username:5 /etc/shutdowngetfacl /etc/shutdown showed:#owner:root#group:sysuser::rwxuser:username:r-x ...

DISK IDE 40GB and Solaris 7

1076 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:47:00
Hi ,I have another problem.Now I want to format a disk IDE Maxtor in an Ultra 10 with Solaris 7.The format command: Cannot format this drive. Please use your Manufacturer supplied formatting utility.I have already searched for a patch and I didinot find anyone.Could anyone help me?Thanks in ...

which Solaris 8 server to run Oracle8.1.7

879 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:47:00
We would like to replace our E3000 (EOL system). It will have Solaris 8 andwill basically be used to run Oracle 8.1.7 and access databases (about 22,000queries per day at the max usage). There would be a Clarion EMC array attachedto it and will be accessed via fiber.It would also have to ...

SUMMARY: Bandwidth quota options?

780 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:47:00
Hey everyone:Here's the ideas I got. Its basically what I guessed, it will have to be afunction of the webserver. We're running Zeus (I'd prefer apache..., butwhat do I know :) ) so I'll have to find a module for that that works :DOption1: apache mod_throttle and mod_bandwidthOption2: use a ...

Solaris 9 End of Life?

112 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:47:00
Anybody know what Solaris 9 eol'd? Will it work on Sparc 10's, 20, or pre<br>ultra cpus?<p>Thanks,<p>Rick<br>

SUMMARY: 280r won't boot from cdrom

2527 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:48:00
Thanks all, We tried reseating all components and still nothing. Called in SUN, who hadbrought a replacement dvd drive just in case, put in an original 10/01 cdand away it went. It may be my cd burner is making faulty cd's, am testingthat now. We did try an original 10/01 yesterday and it ...

Summary: Solaris 9 End of Life?

3455 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:48:00
The short answer is Solaris 9 supports sun4m but may not in future releases,and drops support for sun4d.Rick> Check out Sun's website:>> http://docs.sun.com/ab2/coll.214.12/S9RELNOTESUPP/@Ab2PageView/683?Ab2Lang=C&Ab2Enc=iso-8859-1>>> If I read it right it say the 10's ...

Timeout waiting for ARP/RARP packet

694 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:48:00
Dear Sun Managers,I was installing Solaris 2.5.1 11/97 (after using the Operating Environment CD) on a 440 MHz U10 and after rebooting the workstation, the following message appears always :timeout waiting for ARP/RARP packetI could see that it was trying to boot the U10 off the net , so I ...

Timeout waiting for ARP/RARP packet

694 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:48:00
Dear Sun Managers,I was installing Solaris 2.5.1 11/97 (after using the Operating Environment CD) on a 440 MHz U10 and after rebooting the workstation, the following message appears always :timeout waiting for ARP/RARP packetI could see that it was trying to boot the U10 off the net , so I ...