SunManagers, I'm having a problem with a Sparcstation 20 which I believe tobe a battery problem. I have to shut the system down each night because ofsecurity considerations and when I reboot it the next morning the systemtime is the same as when I shut the system down the night before. ...

Hi managers,assume you already have a Netra X1 with 1GB running a database and homing user accounts (NIS server) in a LAN. You need to connect this server to the internet through a 64kBit line plus you need a web server and an email server. You have a budget of about $3500. What would you ...

Archive-name: codeprof-faqSun-Managers' Frequently Asked Questions$Id: faq,v 4.30 2002/04/22 17:41:30 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 ...

Dear admin, Background: Solaris Client(Solaris 2.X), Linux Server (Redhat 7.X) When I telnet/rsh from solaris to linux machine, sometimes, the backgroud for character is reversed (highlight)!! type 'reset' will back to normal. For example, Original : Screen Backgroud ...

Anybody know if there is an adapter to go from a SunBlade 1000 / SunFire 280R's external FC-AL port, to a SC female connector? I'dlike to be able to connect a SunBlade 1000 directly to an A5000/SENAwithout having to have an *additional* PCI FC-AL card.Theoretically this should be possible, ...

Hi & thanks for all that replied, your replies wore very helpful! Eventually the solutions was the command "reset -x". Once in the lom> prompt(after pressing #. [hash period]) entering this command caused the server tostop the boot cycle in the OBP (ok prompt) and from there ...

Hi everyone!I'm dealing with a remote site running on a Netra X1. Unfortunately there is no install server near it, so if the machine goes bad, I'm in trouble.Now I'm starting to consider getting a SunFire V100, and the next time I get to travel across the Atlantic (it's THAT remote), ...

Thanks to Casper Dik <Casper.Dik at Sun.COM>, the only one to respond. Caspersaid: >You must do soemthing with veritas to make it work for large files.which I knew. What I wanted to know was would ufsrestore continue restoringfiles after this error. The answer is "no". ...

The only (and best) answer I got was from Al Hopper:>You want to go from a copper based HSSDC connector (the back of the SB1000)>to an optical based system. So you'll need a Media Interface Adapter>(MIA). See:>> http://www.scsi-cables.com/gbic-mia.htm>>Given the cost of ...

Thanks to everyone who replied. I'll keep my eye out for something oneBay (since this is for sunhelp.org, my nonprofit personal project, I cant afford buying something at retail or even reseller prices). I gota couple of Interphase cards off ebay a copule of weeks ago, but i wontknow about ...

HiI'm facing one problem. i'm working on migration of one server from remotelocation to my local server. during this process i have migrated some CGIscripts from remote server to local server. everything is working fine exceptthese CGI's which are C compiled. when i access the web page and ...

Dear managers,<p>Can someone tell me whether i can have TCP wrappers in a DHCP environment ?<p>Regards<br>

Thanks to all those who responded. We'll test the feasibility of each one of these recommendations.Big thanks to the following people:Bertrand Hutin, Doug Cooper & Christer Eriksson recommend biggbrother (www.bb4.com).Matt Duggan for qpage (www.qpage.org) and sms client ...

Original Question:>> Hi everyone,>> Assuming that the machine has sufficient resources are there any issues> with running Sybase (ASE 12.0) and Oracle (8.1.7) on the same solaris box> either 2.6 or 8 (as yet undecided). In 8 years as an SA I've never seen> them installed ...

I can't be the only person having the problem.I'm trying to jumpstart a Netra X1, but get the following error:Cannot load drivers for /pci at 1f,0/ethernet at cCan't load the root filesystemType 'go' to resumeokI've tried to update my image as described in SunSolve DocID 26310 ...

Hi all,I am just working through sendmail.cf trying to convince sendmail to write ... at smartsoft.de in the return path instead of ... at merkur.smartsoft.de. merkur is the box sendmail is running on.I have defined DMsmartsoft.deThis corrected the From header but Return-Path still has merkur ...

Sun advise users to download 'mis.netra-x1.259-3836-03.zip' and install itto update the Jumpstart image, so that the X1's can be jumpstarted.Unfortunately there appear to be syntax errors on lines 234, 271 and 306of the install script.There is a line that reads: <some variable>=`echo ...

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Thanks everyone. http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1323/sam0110e/0110e.htm------------------------- http://www.rvs.uni-hannover.de/people/voeckler/tune/EN/tune.html--------------------------Try a netstat -i to see if you have any interface errors. Check to see ifthere are errors or a duplex ...

Hi Admins,My problem is that one of my clients has decided to move from hp printers tominolta printers. I have just added about 50 new minolta printers usingjetadmin, but when trying to add any more printers it gives this error ..UX:accept: ERROR: Destination "450kat803" is unknown ...

Hi All,I have a problem with cron. My crontab is not working even for the root. Ihave Solaris 8 on E-450. Veritas cluster 1.3.0 & Veritas Volume manager 3.1.1on the server. I have checked all the settings & permissions. So please tellme what is wrong with the cron.Following is the given ...

Gurus,I am facing a very funny problem. Below you will see the output of df -k output._________________________________________________________________________________Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 3009327 1989508 959633 68% //proc ...

This is a very good tool<br>I expect you would enjoy it.<br>

List:When AutoSys misbehaves (out of misconfiguration or ....) it generatesthousands of processes that render a server unresponsive -its virtual memoryexhausted that the only way out of this would be to power off the machine.On two occasions already, when the server came back up, we've a ...

On many occasions already, we've had servers hanging because of "/tmp: Filesystem full, swap space limit exceeded" conditions which is mostly due towayward processes spawning so many processes. Sometimes, an ill-writtenscript that spawns itself infinitely. The only way to get out of ...

Thanks for all the help everyone. When disksuite is set up in what appearsto be raid 0+1 (mirrored stripes) it actually acts like raid 1+0. Forexample if you were to set up:metainit -f d11 1 3 c1t0d0s3 c1t1d0s3 c1t2d0s3metainit -f d12 1 3 c1t3d0s3 c1t4d0s3 c1t5d0s3newfs /dev/md/rdsk/d11metainit ...

Thanks goes to the following people. Their suggestion has helped me a lot inmaking decision whether or not I should implement UFS logging in my all boxes.Please see their great suggestions below:Thanks!AmindraThere is a slight (around 5%) performance hit with UFS logging. Formost environments ...

Dear Sun Managers,I'v the following console messages causing my systemunable to bootup.0>Ecache Address Bitwalk0>Scrub and Setup Ecache0>Setup and Enable DMMU0>Setup DMMU Miss Handler0>Test and Init Temp Mailbox0>Initializing Scan Database0>BCC: 1483203b ...

Hi All,Could some one help me in giving the procedures for retrieving the lost root password in a Solaris box,root file system mirrored with Solstice disk suite. Is it the normal way off booting thru cd and changing or different. With RegardsSajeev.G.SYahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA ...

Hi All,This weekend we had to shutdown an Ultra60 running Solaris 8.When we powered it up the system never got past loading the video, I couldsee it hit the keyboard and the video then it would just hang.I went to the sun docs and found some info referring to Initializing theMotherboard POST, ...

Hi All,<p>Could some one explain me the procedure to retrieve a lost root password from a<p>solaris system whose root file system is mirrored using solstice disk suite.<p> <p>With Regards<br>Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup<br>

Hey everyone:I'm sure this has been answered a million times here...., but does anyoneknow of a good remote GUI for Solaris8? I've got a program that you canconfigure only by a GUI, and on the server I've got a vid card (nokeyboard/mouse ports though) and I cannot get video output on my ...

X-win32Antonio Marongiu - System Manageremail: amarongiu at it.tiscali.comTiscali Italia S.p.A - Via Dolcetta 14 - 09122 CagliariTel. +39 070.4601.574 - TiscaliFax. +39 070.4609.869www.tiscali.it-------Messaggio originale-------Da: Giovanni NavarretteData: Monday, June 03, 2002 17:47:40A: ...

This is actually an OpenSsh question. Since I am running OpenSsh 3.1p1 ona Sun box and I know that most of you folks use OpenSsh, maybe someonehas come across this problem.I have created an /etc/issue file on my servers. I have configured the sshdaemon to display this file if it exists:Banner ...

Hey everyone:I've had a lot of recommendations for using X forwarding over SSH. Isthere an X-client for Windows? I forgot to mention that my workstation isa Windows 2000 client..., (good game MIS department =\ ).Is there an X-client for Windows, or do I have to use a sun-to-sun setup?Or maybe ...

I get this message on occasion in /var/adm/messages:Jun 2 13:07:41 courses syslogd: /dev/sysmsg: I/O errorThere doesn't seem to be any correlation with any other process or amountof system usage as it happens at random times. Has anyone come across thisbefore?A possible related problem is ...

Hello,There used to be Solaris 8 cdrw software, which is no longer included withthe latest Solaris 8 release. I know that Solaris 8 cdrw came with Solaris 801/01, but I don't have access to the media nor can I find the download ofcdrw on the net. I have a cdrecord download, it seems to work ...

Hi managers,I am trying to set up a Veritas Cluster environment for some SunFireServers.The tendency is avoiding access to the system controller, that is why weneed aadmin cluster solution.During the boot process, the system controller forwards messages to thesyslog daemonbut in a cluster ...

> The message I recieve is.> Cant read disk label.> Can't open disk label package.> Can't open boot device.>>> I tryed the probe-scsi and it is found. I tried show-disks selected> the disk and tryed to boot. That is the message I recieve.> Any help would be great. ...

What is the best way to add multiple users to multiple groups.<p>example<p>users: bob dave chris<p>groups: admin user account<p>I want chris to be admin and user, and dave to be user and account..<p>Thanks<br>

Many of you suggested giving a size paramater in /tmp mount line in/etc/vfstab. While this may reduce a DOS attach by a user/process gobblingup space in VM this does not address the problem of VM (swap and memory)being overrun by wayward zillions of processes. Many of you also suggestedenabling ...

Hey everyone:Thanks for all the info. Got lots of recommendations, and here's what Igot to work good:VNC by AT&T: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/That program worked great on my Solaris8 machines. I can turn it on andoff when I need it (great for security, would still like to lock it ...

With the exception of redo logs and the like which must be on separatefilesystems, has there been any changes lately in best practices for DBstore? I know I've asked this question long ago when large storage was 1 TBand cache for Storage Subsystems maxed at 4 Gb and all we have was SCSI, ...

Anyone got a chance to download Solaris 9 and installed it on a dualand/or multiple CPUs server and sees if psrinfo -v shows all CPUs orthat the OS is utilizing all/both CPUs? (download/purchase the media--doesn't matter, needs some sort of status on Solaris 9).I attempted numerous times to ...

Just to clear up a couple of things, my question mainly gears toward if Sunenforced the one (1) CPU policy ie. can't install on workstations/serverswith more than one CPU. Not the difference between 8/9 or what's new withSolaris 9 --info on what's new with Solaris 9 can be found at ...

I have installed Solaris 8 and now our Oracle personis trying to install 9ias and is having a fewproblems. She has reported the problem to Oracle andthey apparently want to know what our defaultcharacter set is. I am clueless!! I know I chose asetting during the install but have no idea ...

I want to say thanks to everyone that submitted such aquick responseI had several correct answers One was the locale ...

Managers,I did get quite a few responses suggesting that the problem is memory/hardware problems. It seems as though 192 MB's of RAM is quite a bit for a PC, but for an ultra running solaris, 192 really isn't that much.My original question was that with an Ultra-1 with 192MB of ram running ...

Hello,I have tinkered, and it seems that the NFS mount and data persists on theLinux Boxes, as long as after boot only 'root' logs on. I have a linux boxlogged in all day as root and the data is still there, a record! But as soonas a 'regular' user logs on, I see the conditions reported ...