serial console ... has anyone seen this before ??

1515 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:57:00
Hi folks, has anyone seen this before ...?One of our customers uses a e4000 with Sol. 2.5.1. This machne crashed last monday. Network down and no input via serialconsole possible. Only a full power off / on would bring the server up. ThePOSt seemed to be OK but after the banner the machine ...

lrzsz

838 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:57:00
Hi All,Anyone used lrzsz z /x modem server on solaris and connected with tcpiphyperterminal and got it working ?ThanksLaurence****************************************************************************************This E-mail is from O2. The E-mail and any filestransmitted with it are ...

OT: Anyone speak Finnish?

170 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:57:00
I need an urgent translation of a few words, and can't find a satisfactory<br>online translator. If anyone can help, please mail me off-list ASAP.<p>Many TIA<p>Maccy<br>

Web start flash installation fails

490 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:57:00
I created flash archive on one of disk in our v880 (Solaris 8).Then I tried to install Sol 8 on another v880 using the flash archiveon the disk. The installation goes ok but after a while I get a message:fopen: No such file or directoryERROR: Unable to unconfigure the extracted systemUnable to ...

V880 / SAS / what storage!?

1755 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:57:00
Dear Sun Managers,Trying to find out a few bits of info at the moment... I'll keep this shortand to the point...1) Sun V880 internal storage, the spec says it supports 12x 36/72Gb disksconnected via the internal FCAL, does anyone know how many separate physicalcontrollers this equates to?2) ...

Restricted shell access?

683 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:57:00
Hey everyone:Another newbed question, but here it goes. We're running a webserver thatwe want to offer some sort of SSH access to for a customer. However, Iwanna keep them restricted to only running the commands that they need,(things liks ls, cd, pico, perl, mkdir, etc...). Is there any way I ...

UFS Block Size and JFS options

1619 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:57:00
Background:System: Netra T1 AC/200 OS: Solaris 8 7/01No special disk or logical volume management software.Probably woefully behind on patches.I wanted to create a UFS filesystem with a block size larger then 8192, butaccording to newfs(1M): -b bsize The logical block size of the file ...

ultra scsi question

212 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:57:00
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SUMMARY: Data on remanufactured vs. new disk drives

2863 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:57:00
Thanks to the following folks for their input and suggestions:Steve MickelerRobert KellyTristan BallPaul RichardsOpinions on this subject are varied it would seem. Some say "Just RAIDit and go for it"; still others view production as a sacred space andwould use reman gear for ...

SUMMARY: IP multicasting in Solaris 8

1360 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:57:00
Well all around the news is bad....our "issue" is not supported by Sun. So the only other alternative is to go with a 3rd party application such as "mrouted". We were trying to avoid that step because of the immediate need to test the interfaces and the procedures that we ...

SUMMARY: IP multicasting in Solaris 8

2394 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:57:00
Sorry but I forgot Henrik Mortensen, who was kind enough to point out that "rdisc" would have problems with our firewall.-deb------------- Begin Forwarded Message -------------Well all around the news is bad....our "issue" is not supported by Sun. So the only other ...

X-server can not be started on display :0...

757 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:57:00
Hi all,We run a NIS-server on a Sun Blade 100. We haven't had a monitor attached to this machine for quite a while. I remember that we played around with this machine to display the interface of applications on a different machine. Now after weeks we reattached a monitor to the machine and ...

Summary: X-server can not be started on display :0...

696 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:57:00
Hi,thanks toTim Chipman <chipman at ecopiabio.com>Alex Stade <alex at trdlnk.com>Allan West <allan at clas.ufl.edu>"amit mahajan" <amahajan at santelnet.com>The problem was that I had connected the mouse and the keyboard through 5m USB extensions. The Sun Blade ...

DiskSuite Boot Disk Mirror

1309 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:57:00
I have two very similar disks on an Ultra1. I want to mirror the boot diskto the second using DiskSuite -># formatSearching for disks...doneAVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS: 0. c0t0d0 <HP-4.26GBA80-LXP0-LXP0 cyl 5823 alt 2 hd 10 sec 143> /sbus at 1f,0/espdma at e,8400000/esp at ...

SUMMARY: can't boot Ultra-2 (Solaris 2.6)

2447 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:57:00
Hi all,I ended up doing what most of you suggested:1) Tried to fsck and mount the root partition to no avail.2) Booted single-user from the Solaris 2.7 CD, turned on the network (using ifconfig and route), and then proceeded with copying the data I needed to a different machine.Thank you all ...

Console needs no password

1138 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:57:00
Running Solaris 8 (4/01) on an E250...I don't think this was always the case, but I've just discovered that any user who logs in on the console terminal for this machine doesn't need a password. Any ID in the passwd file or available through NIS (the machine is an NIS client) can be used to ...

Sun DLT L280 and mtx.

1309 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:57:00
Does any one has an experience of driving L280 using mtx - does it work?Geprge******************************************************************************This message and any attachments are confidential to the ordinary user of the e-mail address to which it was addressed and may also be ...

gcc

302 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:57:00
what is the gcc command to build 64 bit kernel driver code?.ultra-solaris2.8.gcc-3.1._________________________________________________________________Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. ...

SUMMARY Console needs no password

1829 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:57:00
As usual, the list comes through... thanks to Steve Devine who jogged my memory with the following:>Check /etc/pam.conf >We had the same situation after we edited it to allow afs auth.>I had forgotten that I had started installing afs on this machine and had changed pam.conf as part of ...

HBA configuration

343 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:57:00
Hey guys,I have a new emulex HBA card on my hands I have to setit up and make it workFrist time can someone give me directions ?thank you =====How far are we form the bottom!!!Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World ...

anyone !!!

1058 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:57:00
64 bit compiling a driver code and i get thesemessages(warnings). please tell me if this is ok andhow i may to improve it?. ult(sol2.8).# /usr/local/bin/gcc -D_KERNEL -m64 -c csd.ccsd.c:102:9: warning: extra tokens at end of #endifdirectivecsd.c:176: warning: initialization from ...

ps command checking memory usage

650 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:57:00
Hi Managers,This is strange, I couldn't figure out. I did#/usr/ucb/ps -auxww USER PID %CPU %MEM SZ RSS TT S START TIME COMMAND... When I added up %MEM column, it's 156.66! Is thissuppose to be less than 100 since it's showing thepercentage? I tried /usr/sbin/ps, it's the same, thesetwo ...

Sun Blade - 1000 problem on display

700 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:57:00
Experts, Does anybody have experience with Sun Blade - 1000 that it's dtwm suddenlykilled ?We have some Blades 1000 with Solaris 5.8 installed, and some of them manytimes become black screen, when I check they don't have dtwm runninganymore. I can run dtwm again manually, but it won't be ...

Sun E450

106 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:57:00
Hi,<p>We have a SUN E450. <br>I wanna know if it's possible to install Linux on this server.<p>Isamar<br>

SUMMARY: Selective failure running "at" jobs

2426 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:57:00
Original Post: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 and they do not show ...

Solaris 9 volume manager question

1247 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:57:00
I just upgraded a machine from Solaris 8 running Solstice Disksuite with a 150GB disk array.The upgrade went fine and I can access my array via the command line. When I try to access the array using the gui in/usr/bin/smc When I click on This Computer --> Storage --> Disks it prompts ...

snmpdx:Agent snmpd appeared dead

237 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:57:00
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Tape Problem

265 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:57:00
Hi All,<br>How will I find out what percentage of tape capacity is empty.<br>Thanks&Regards,<br>A.K.Rasanth<br>ph: 91-80-8522507 Ext 1626<p>--------------------------------------------------------------<br>Velankani Information Systems Ltd, Bangalore, India<br>

disallowing remote user login

412 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:57:00
Hi everyone,Is there any way of disallowing remote logins for standard users but stillallowing an su - <user> as another user?i.e. a similar effect to uncommenting CONSOLE=/dev/console in/etc/default/login for root (i.e. root cannot remotely login but oncelogged in another user can su to ...

How do I only allow root to ssh to a machine?

386 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:57:00
Hi,I have to remotely administer a machine that is connected to the internet. I configured the firewall to only let in ssh. I can login to this machine from my office and do my stuff. However, I would like to prevent other users with normal user accounts to login remotely (they of course do not ...

SUMMARY: Repartition of Disk

6694 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:57:00
Hi....!First of all, the original questions are below of their suggestions.I would like to thank you for all those who responded on my queries, namely; * Lieven Marchand [mal at wyrd.be] * vijay [vk_sol at yahoo.com] * Matthew Stier [Matthew.Stier at fnc.fujitsu.com] * Joe Matusiewicz [joem at ...

SUNWsprot (.virtual_packages)

1073 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:57:00
Dear Managers,I'm having some trouble running gcc on Sol8... it says "cannot exec 'as':file or dir not found"...However, looks like the package SUNWsprot would solve the missingexecutable... but my problem is this packages is on the Sol CD ...

SUMMARY: Ldap php, apache on solaris 8

2058 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:57:00
Sorry for this late summary. But it was very hard to get this working.Thanks to people who answer me. In particular, i'm not using binutils.With this configuration, it works:s8 10/01, gcc version 2.95.3, Openldap 2.0.23Apache 1.3.20:./configure --prefix=/usr/local/apache --enable-shared=max ...

SUMMARY: SUNWsprot (.virtual_packages)

2829 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:57:00
Hi again,Special Thanks to Davorin Bengez and Bob Plagens...The problem doesn't exist... I've been very basic using "find" to search forpackages in wrong places... I'm sorry guys :-)Best Regards,MiguelSOLUTION written by Bob:Anything in the .virtual_packages directory represents a ...

urgent 36gb

237 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:57:00
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UPDATE: system time synchronisation

3099 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:57:00
Hi,I still having some confusing over how to get the time sync on all SUNS.The suggestion I was given are: 1) rdate <hostname> or <IP address> 2) www.truetime.com - an atomic clock device which can be installedyour local network. 3) sort out my firewall - unfortunately our Japanese ...

SSH on Solaris 9 and SSH Communications version of SSH on Sol 8 not working

4120 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:57:00
I'm running SSH Communications version of SSH (ssh-3.1.2) and am tryingto login to a Solaris 9 machine running Sun's version of SSH. However,I'm getting the following error: warning: Authentication failed.Disconnected; key exchange or algorithm negotiation failed (Keyexchange failed.).More ...

SUMMARY: ps command checking memory usage

4119 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:57:00
Hi!Thanks for the following people for their goodinformation and suggestions, it helps a lot for me tounderstand how the Solaris memory system works. Homan, Charles (NE)I believe the memory percent given by "/usr/ucb/ps"includes sharedlibraries. By adding that column you may be ...

SSH/NIS (w/passwd.adjunct) on Solaris 9

1309 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:57:00
Greetings Sun Managers!We recently installed Solaris 9 on a new server with default installs ofSun's SSH. Since we're running in a NIS environment (using the moresecure method - usage of the passwd.adjunct map to store shadowpasswords), we tried to init this new server as a NIS slave in our ...

dev driver question

259 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:57:00
which site is suitable to learn to write drivers for unix/solaris stuff?.<br>scsi, ,,, device drivres.any sun sites..?<p>------------------------------------------------------------------------<p>Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: Click Here<br>

/bin/passwd -f not working

327 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:57:00
Hi Gurus,"/bin/passwd -r files -f USERNAME " does not force theuser to change the passwd, i am running NIS on Solaris7. Pls help Thanks in advance,SunnyYahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World ...

Unable to install openssh-3.2.3p1 on Solaris 8

1042 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:57:00
I have a Sun E250 running Solaris 2.8 plus latest patches. I have installedOpenSSL and am trying to install openssh-3.2.3p1 but it drops out duringthe configuration stage with the following error:configure: error *** Can't find recent OpenSSL libcrypto ***What I had done ...

test

195 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:57:00
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nice group

110 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:57:00
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100 MB/s FDX on a Netra AC200

558 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:57:00
Hi all, I'm looking to force my AC200's to 100 MB/s FDx. The commands I use in the /etc/system file for the hme and qfe interfaces do not work for the eri's. Does anyone have any suggestions? I would prefer to use something in the /etc/system file and not ndd commands. These commands do ...

Accessing Windows NT resources from Solaris Box

246 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:57:00
Hello:<p> <p>Some of users from our company need to access Files/Folders shared<br>Windows 2000 Server from SUN SPARC Solaris 8 Box. How can I do that? Can<br>some one provide me guideline or documentation or link?<p> <p>Thanks,<p> <p>Jignesh<br>

su path question

278 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:58:00
su to root but the "echo $PATH" is not the same<br>as i login as "root". how to get the same path as root login?.<br>Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup<br><A HREF=" http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com/default.htm"> http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com</A><br>

Solaris dhcp / ddns client

532 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:58:00
Is anyone out there familiar with running Solaris as adhcp/ddns client? I have the dhcp working fine but itdoes not update the ddns entries with its hostname.Linux works find when you add DHCP_HOSTNAME=hostnamein the ifcfg-eth0 script, but I'm having trouble withthe Sun box. Anyways, just ...

What to buy for a serial port on an Ultra-10

688 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:58:00
I have an Ultra-10 which is running a program that uses a modem (at 9600bps)to download EDI data. The modem is in use all the time and is basicallysaturated. So, I would like to buy a serial card for the same Ultra-10 tobe used to connect up another modem and be able to transfer data to ...

failed to aatch question

441 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:58:00
compiled a driver using 64bit gcc in ult/sol2.8.moved the cdd to the /kernel/drv/sparcv9 and ccd.confto the /kernel/drv/. Did the add_drv cdd and got:failed to attach error.It successfully installed but failed to attach.raoul_________________________________________________________________Chat ...