Hi and another question

461 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:56:00
Hi dear partners: I hope you can help me.., i install a Webmail make in PHP, for my users, this have the option for translate language from English to another language like Spanish, but this is not work, i tried some configurations, but is not working, so i think the problem is in server, this ...

Non-interactive jumpstart

1002 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:56:00
I'm building a jumpstart server. Got it 75% complete. One thing that'sbothering me is I have to do the esc-2 twice to get past informationscreens, then verify the date and esc-2 again. I have a timeserver line and my docs say it should be able to be given a "boot net - install" ...

Selective failure running "at" jobs

1798 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:56:00
Stuck here, so would appreciate help.Some users who submit jobs using the at command, cause the following messagein /var/cron/log:CMD: job_no.a! bad user (user_name) date_time_stamprc=1Other users are fine.I have checked at.allow and at.deny - they are not the problem. I have usedpwck and grpck ...

SUMMARY:Patch Automation tolls: patchdiag, patchcheck

2166 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:56:00
Hi:Thanks to Wolfgang, Kevin and 2 other admins (whose name wasn't obvious-thanks but)* patchk.pl : perl script has the ability to write the output to htmlwhich allows you create a tar ball of outstanding patches.* I use my own slightly modified version of patchk.pl (it's a Perlscript, so ...

Man-pages, dev-packets, package mgt

470 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:56:00
Hi *,I got three questions for you - I'll summarize.1) Which packages for Solaris 8 include the man-pages (e. g. for pkginfo, pkgchk, etc.)?2) Which packages for Solaris 8 include /usr/ccs/bin/as (if that exists at all on Solaris 8)?3) Is it possible with Solaris' package management to ...

Backup Solutions

678 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:56:00
Hi all,Looking for suggestions on backup implementation,,I have Two Solaris Servers ( Enterprise 250 ) then 10Ultra Clients,, and 50 Linux Clients,, and MicrosoftExchange server. These machines need to be backed up. Disk space problem is not there,, Can some one suggest a backup tool and also ...

Pam.allow

18824 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:56:00
Hello Managers,I have been trying this c program and this shell script ,i have succesfully compiled the pam_asp_allow.so1.But this script needs innetgr which i am not able to figure out how to go about.Can any body help me in this regard.I will Summarize.RegardsRaghu#!/bin/cshif ( $USER != ...

Solstice disk suite question

517 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:56:00
Hi,I have an Ultra2 server with 2*18GB hdd which was mirrored previously. Now for some reason, I need to break the mirror and utilise tha second HD for additiona space. While doing metadetach of the first submirror for root, I am finding a strange problem. The metadetach command works without ...

SUMMARY: Man-pages, dev-packets, package mgt

706 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:56:00
Hi *,this was an easy one obviously:> 1) Which packages for Solaris 8 include the man-pages (e. g. for pkginfo,> pkgchk, etc.)?SUNWman> 2) Which packages for Solaris 8 include /usr/ccs/bin/as (if that exists at all> on Solaris 8)?SUNWsprot> 3) Is it possible with ...

Repartition of Disk

1070 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:56:00
Greetings Guru!!!OS: Solaris 8Hardware: Sun ServerHow could I repartition my Disk where it is already a live server?Another one is, how I will increase my swap space?Any help would highly appreciated.....Thanks and more power....... Best Regards, Erwin B. Mendoza Telephone No. : +632 631 7580 ...

rsync through a firewall on Solaris 8

1003 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:56:00
Hi,I am trying to rsync through ssh to a Solaris 8 machine. The firewall is configured to let in port 22 (ssh) only. I see the following:bash2.05 ahoesch at localhost ~ % rsync -avz -e ssh /Users/ahoesch/Downloads/postfix/postfix-1.1.11.tar.gz root at 62.154.134.74:/usr/srcrsync: open ...

GNOME Display Problem

695 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:56:00
Dear admin, Background: WS-S1 - Solaris 5.7 WS-RH - Redhat 7.2, GNOME Case 1) User console login on WS-RH, success Case 2) User rlogin from WS-S1 to WS-RH, and console login on WS-RH, fail Case 3) On WS-S1, type "xhost +", rlogin to WS-RH, and ...

D1000 how to question

1316 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:56:00
I have 1 D1000 Jbod. Is it possible to connect 2 Sun host to the same D1000and for both host to see all disk, ( we trying to achieve this for acluster proof of concept) If yes, can some one please describe how thecabling should be done. You help is GREATLY ...

nfs and dfshares

160 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:56:00
Getting the below message when runing the dfshares command.<br>Thanks for the help!<p># dfshares<br>nfs dfshares:xxxxxxx: RPC: Program not registered<p>Dave<br>

SUMMARY : Problems netbooting/jumpstarting a Netra t1 105

4779 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:56:00
On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, Jasper Wallace wrote:> Hi,>> I'm trying to jumpstart a Netra t1 105, but it hangs partway through the> boot sequence.>> Booting with -v show that it hangs after:>> su2 at ebus1: offset 14,3803f8> su2 is /pci at 1f,0/pci at 1,1/ebus at 1/su at ...

SUMMARY: ssh x86

353 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:56:00
Question:Does anyone know where I can get the openssh package for X86?__________________________________________Answer:I just ended it up building eveything myself. A useful link to help ...

solaris 9 / sshd

1472 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:56:00
not sure if this one has been noted yet, but i have been playing withsolaris 9's core install, minus a few unneeded packages, plus a few goodpackages to have. one of these packages is sun's new ssh. i added all5 packages, and things seemed to work nicely, until i noticed that afterevery ...

PATH problem :(

975 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:56:00
Hi dear partners: I have the next problem, i hope you can help me... I add to my environment variable PATH some directory like,PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin/:/usr/local/lib this in the /etc/profile fileand in the /.cshrc file i addset PATH = ( /usr/local/bin /usr/bin/ /usr/local/lib ...

E450 power problem.

950 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:56:00
Hello,I have an E450 here that seems to have a power problem. There are 3power supplies in them ( that were working before the machine wasshipped ) that now don't seem to work. The last Power LED on all 3supplies is off. Thats the DC Status LED. What can I re-seat to fixthat? I tried ...

New V880s don't recognize ethernet cards

1919 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:56:00
Dear Sun Managers,I took delivery yesterday of 3 V880s. Each has a quad ethernet card, plus anative 10/100mb ethernet card, plus a 1gb card. For now, I just want to usethe native 10/100mb card while I install Solaris 8.When I power a V880 on, and all three machines display the same symptoms, ...

GRE on Solaris

439 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:56:00
Hello,A friend of mine wants to know if Solaris supports GRE tunneling(Generic Routing Encapsulation, RFC 1701). He's trying to configure aSquid server on a Solaris box to be used as a transparent HTTP proxyand it seems that Solaris needs to have GRE support so that it cantalk with the Cisco ...

UPDATE: system time synchronisation

174 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:56:00
Hi,<p>thanks u very much for all the replies I received - <br>I do not have time to summarise now but will do so <br>on Thursday - after I'll try it out.<p>Cheers,<p>Min<br>

last not working

1402 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:56:00
On a Solaris 8 box I get inconsistant results from who, last and last -futmpxwho shows a user is logged in on two pts.last shows the person was last logged in on Apr 18 but not currently on.last -f utmpx shows the person has one current login and one recent login.timestamps on wtmpx and utmpx ...

SUMMARY: Solaris and Linux filesystems

1725 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:56:00
Thanks to Darren Dunham, Kevin Reichart, Brian Sherwood, Thomas Anders,Brett Lymn, John Riddoch, Rik Schneider, Alvaro Figueroa, and "systemadministration account".The general consesus is that ufs filesystems can be mounted as ro underLinux. The rw code is still listed as ...

SUMMARY: New V880s don't recognize ethernet cards

3064 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:56:00
Dear Sun Managers,The answer to this is easy, when you initially boot off the CD you don'treally have an operating system environment. Installing Solaris 8.0202 madeall the messages go away and put the machine on the network.Eric************************************Eric P. WatsonSupervisor of ...

Update: IP multicasting in Solaris 8

2181 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:56:00
My original 'update' appears to have never gone through, so let me try again...I finally got a hold of the networking guys to determine exactly what they're attempting to do. They're looking at not just 'IP multicasting' but more exactly 'IP multicast routing' using Solaris 8, without ...

Summary: Solaris 8 + SUNW SEVM 2.6 + SSA

3167 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:56:00
The short answer ..... No, it does NOT work.Go to store.sun.com, and get Veritas SEVM 3.2 for the $150.00.This works like a champ, and has new and nifty features.Many Thanks to the respondents.--Charles E. Rawls Tel: (212) 918-5152Vice President, (Systems, Networks, Security) ...

recommended newfs for 600GB filesystems ?

365 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:56:00
Any recommendations on how to newfs a 600GB filesystem? I'm mainlyinterested in having "enough" inodes and not a lot of wasted space.--matthew zeier | "In mathematics you don't understandInteleNet Communications, Inc. | things. You just get used to ...

bootable flash achive image?

342 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:56:00
Is it possible to make a flash acrhive bootable? I'd love to have a masterCD image that I can boot off and install from.--matthew zeier | "In mathematics you don't understandInteleNet Communications, Inc. | things. You just get used to them."(949) 784-7904 | ...

solaris 9 containers - how-to?

425 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:56:00
During the Solaris 9 briefing it was mentioned that Solaris 9 had"containers" for virtualization. I can't find any docs on Sun that talkabout that, however. Anyone have any pointers to it?--matthew zeier | "In mathematics you don't understandInteleNet Communications, ...

Data on remanufactured vs. new disk drives

1056 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:56:00
Hi folks,We are faced with upgrading some disks in our productionenvironment. There is a debate as to whether or not we should go withremanufactured drives in order to save money. Sigh. I think this is nota good idea for production equipment, but management wants DATA to basethe decision on. I ...

Summary -- locking accounts after 3 unsuccessful login attempts

2319 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:56:00
I received some useful feedback -- along with dozens of glib replies fromfolks who think that the RETRIES variable in /etc/default/login is theanswer -- which, of course, it isn't -- and one snide remark about myfailure to catch a typo.One of the replies was from Darren Moffett of Sun, who ...

Compiling OpenSSH 3.2.3p1 on SunOS 4.1.4

2239 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:56:00
I've been using OpenSSH on all our systems for years, including twoSparc 10's with SunOS 4.1.4 (interface to legacy microscopes).The last version to compile cleanly was 2.9.9p1; versions 3.1 and3.2.3p1 both give the following when configuring:$ ./configure --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=/usr ...

Mounting drive on two systems

555 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:56:00
Hi SunManagers, I have two E250s (say A & B) connected to disk array through fiber.I would like to mount a LUN (CxTyDz) on to systemA as Read-Write and systemBas Read-only. I could mount as requires successfully, but the systemB which hadRead-only mount does not refresh the contents when ...

Utility that will allow me to talk to an autochanger.

821 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:56:00
Hi,We have just received a Sun V880 with Solaris 5.8 and a dual scsicontroller. I also have a Quantum autochanger, that I was going to tryconnecting to this box. I have had a bit of experience with Compaqs, on withTru64 there is a utility called mcutil that can talk to the autochanger, sothat ...

FW: disksuite and raid 5 and mirroring.

2742 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:56:00
> Hi, > > We have just received a V880 onto which I have loaded 5.8. > > What we have is a V880, with 6 x 36gb disks. We are also going to put 6 x> 73gb, when the second backplane comes on line. When the second backplane> comes on line, we may want to shuffle the disks ...

ttsession error TT_ERR_INTERNAL

406 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:57:00
Hi,few users get following error when they try to start ttsessionttsession[11544]: _Tt_s_session::s_init(): 1051 (TT_ERR_INTERNAL)!ttsession[11544]: child ttsession exited with status 1But this happens for few users onlyAny idea?TIASajanYahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World ...

diff in df-k and du -sk

1760 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:57:00
HI sunguru, I have E6500 server on which all the time it shows difference of 6 to 10GB between df -k and du -sk output. Everyday around 20GB files gets deleted and that much is written again and all the time df -k increases from 4GB to 8GB but du -sk shows proper , because of above reason ...

Questions about 4800's

836 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:57:00
Fellow Sysadmins,Two Questions -1. How can I change/modify the LED/LCD display in front of the 4800cabinets/hosts to display the system/host name? Would very much like to dothat!!Very nice display. Would be nice if it also displayed the hostname.2. How can I get the OS(System is booted now) to ...

[Q] does Solaris support dynamic DNS?

441 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:57:00
on Microsoft Win2000, it support DHCP server work with dynamic DNS server. It reduce System Administrator a lot of work on DNS server. Does Solaris 8 or 9 support this feature?Thanks._________________________________________________________________MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and ...

880 installation

399 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:57:00
HiyaI've heard that sun will not provide support for any V880 that has anything less than the full solaris 8 install. Anyone else been told this?_________________________________________________________________MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: ...

Information On veritas required

359 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:57:00
Any pointers to Sun Certified Data Mgmt Er -Emphasison Veritas Volume MGR Certification. eXAM 310-101.Where is the courseware available?Any help would be highly appreciated.Thanks and RegardsManishYahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World ...

How to change recursively through the lost

732 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:57:00
Hello All Administrators....I want to change some parameters in a list of files. I created one filewhich contains a list of all these filesin which I need to change the parameter. I am not able to find out how topass this file as a parameter tothe perl script I am using.e.g. my filename is ...

Security

959 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:57:00
Hi Gurus, I have a E-450 machine with Solaris 8 running on it. If I want to do anAudit trial on the system from the O.S side, how would I do it in this circumstances.1) If a user is logging in through the OS. Here the answer may be using the "last" command to check for ...

SUMMARY: Ximian Gnome on Solaris 9

4403 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:57:00
Hi, many thanks to:David Leach, Doug Otto, Jonathan Jackson, Brett Lanham.Here is the solution for this problem (I suppose):> if you're in a bind, and can't wait, you could intercept the library call> it's making using LD_PRELOAD. ie, if it's calling uname(2) then create a> shared ...

V880: no CDE login menu

1637 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:57:00
Dear SunManagers,Highly appreciate your response urgently pertainingto this problem.I've a SunFire V880 machine with Solaris 108528-14kernel patch. After installed the recommended patchesrecently, I'm having problem getting the CDE loginmenu. When booting up, the GUI login screen would ...

Summary: rsync through a firewall on Solaris 8

1010 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:57:00
Hi,thanks to all that responded to my question. Most recommended to check whether rsync is installed on the target machine and availablke in the standard path which it was not. After installing the rsync package it worked like a charm.Thanks, Andreas>> I am trying to rsync through ssh ...

netscape 4.7 problem

989 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:57:00
Hi managers,I have been facing this problem with netscape 4.7 forquite some time now. The OS i am working on is Solaris2.7 with latest kernel patch (106541-20).The netscape browser all of a sudden displays noinformation or blank page when the reload button isclicked, although it says ...

Cannot get multi-session CD-RW recording using Solaris8 cdrw

1510 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:57:00
Hello!I am trying to place several, distinct, backup mkisofs data directories (dir1.iso, dir2.iso, dir3.iso,etc) on the same disk, to nearly fill the CD-RW disk. After correctly recording the first directory on the "open" (-O) disk, writing the second corrupts it. Here is my current ...

monitoring powersupplies

612 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:57:00
Hi,we got here a Sunfire6800 in a typical 6800er Cabinet and we got aSunfire 280R in a other Sun Cabinet, but actually I don't know whichcabinet, maybe it's not too important.I wonder how to monitor the state of the Power Supplies:=20for the 6800: if one power supply fails and a switch over ...