I realize that this is hardly a technical question, but ever since I startedrunning SunOS and Solaris boxen, I've wondered where the "SUNW" acronym(?) came from; I know it's the Sun stock ticker symbol, but is there any other deeper meaning?-- Don Werve <donw at ...

Hello,It was the path that gave the error. /etc was infront of /usr/sbin,/usr/binI move the /etc behind them and it worksThe permission was correctI received over 20 emails with different troubleshootingThank you all, Linh Trinh-----Original Message-----From: Trinh, Linh [C] Sent: Tuesday, ...

Thanks to everyone who replied (Troy Abernathy, "thetrick", AnilSreedharan, Charles Rawls, Edmond van As, Jeff Kennedy, SteveMickeler). There was a wide range of thoughts submitted on the matter.Bottom line: I'm doing nothing for now, trying to learn a bit more. (I'mnot holding my ...

I'm jumping into critical customer issue where their current Webserver ismaxing out. The obvious cure is to have them upgrade from the U-10/256 tosomething larger...Where I'm having a difficult time is I'm new to SUN performance andscalability characterization and looking for the top few ...

I've got a Compaq FCTC-II (oem'd Crossroads 4xxx?) - no longer in<br>production, hence no more firmware upgrades. Does anyone have any experience<br>with this SCSI-FC bridge (Comapq calls ut FC Tape Controller) and more<br>specifically with DLT7000 drives on an L700 Library?<br>

Hi PeopleI made a bit of a mistake when I edited the /etc/passwd file by changing the root account to "iroot" (damn vi). So now I can't even do an "su" to remodify the /etc/passwd file. I've tried rebooting and thats even worst, coz I can't even get to the login screen. ...

The first few responses was to look at LiveUpgrade from Sun, which looksgood. One person asked if I'd really trust a backout procedure anyways,which was a good point, and to use conventional backups. A couplepeople asked if it was mirrored, and if so to break the mirror beforeupgrade. A couple ...

Hi, I have a urgent problem. My tmp space is running out. But it lookslike the server forgot to mount the correct swap slice. How can I changethis without reboot?thank youMarkhere's the info:df -k:Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 490097 ...

Hi gurus,I want to install an epson Aculaser C8500 printer under solaris 7. For the epson there is no driver for unix.I don't know how to configure this printer in order to use multiple tray (one for the A4 paper and the other one for the A3 paper).When I print since a client, by using the ...

Thanks for the super fast replies. 16 response in 20 minutes.Here's the summary:Reason for the problem: There is some run away process that eats up all thememory. I didn't find out which process before I reboot, I'll keep an eyeon it in the future.Two ways to solve the problme without ...

Hi Managers,I know when we add disks in sun box we need ro run drvconfig;disks;devlinksbut do any of you know what to do when we remove the diks from the system.What command we need to run to avoid Disk offline warning message in/var/adm/message. I know when you reboot the box it will go but is ...

Hi, I've got a couple of questions on the Sun Fire 6800/4800 seriesplatforms. Do these platforms come in a Rack/Cabinet or can I install theminto some third part rack/cabinet?If they do come in their own rack/cabinet do they have casters\wheels onthem to be able to relocate one should the ...

Hi Gurus,I will appreciate if you can tell me some other goodsoftware for remote access like VNC which can belicensed because of companys reqn.Thanks a lotPSSend FREE Valentine eCards with Yahoo! ...

halloi have install on a sun 420r the sunray software 1.3 with the option of controlled acces mode and the controlled broweser.the sunrays work very well and all is fine. my problem is that i want, that the sunray pseudo.xxxxxxxx start with controlled browser wiith webpage www.google.com and ...

I have an Ultra 5 with 2 pci cards fitted.<p>I have located a Sun PCi at a reasonable price and would like to<br>purchase it.<p>Does anyone know if I can fit it without having to remove one of the<br>cards I already have?<p>Regards<br>Paul<br>--<br>Paul Richards<br>

Hello,<p>Is there a command or a way to find out what is opening certain<br>ports?<p>Thanks,<p>Marion<br>

I have a netra T1 1405 currently set up with solaris 8 10/00. I have two 18G drives internally and would like to mirror them via disksuite 4.2.1. I haven't had problems in the past with disksuite until now. When I run metatool for the first time I receive the standard warning about the ...

I changed the default shell for root to bash and now I can't login - Ithink I had the wrong path in my /etc/passwd file. When I try to login fromthe GUI, I get:Invalid login shell, login rejectedWhen I try to login from the console I get:No shell.How can I force it to login to a different ...

Greetings, I was wondering if anyone else has seen this or found a way around it. We have a home grown app that is started through the inetd. This works fine under Solaris 2.6. However, on a Solaris 2.8 box it does not work. The lines from /etc/inetd.conf and /etc/services follow. ...

Thanks to everyone (and there were a ton of you) for the responses! Theultimate fix was:Using the Solaris install CD:ok> boot cdrom -sWhen it has booted to single user mode, do the following:# mount /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 /mnt ( with the path of your root partition)# vi /etc/passwdChange your ...

Hello All--<p>Does anyone have any suggestings for references (online, books, etc)<br>that would help me develop (self taught) scripting skills?<p>TIA,<br>Roger R. :-)<br>

Sun Managers:How can I tell what speed and duplex settings an hme or eri card is runningat currently. I know we can use ndd or /etc/system to force one or theother, but is there any way to tell what the card is communicating at rightnow?Thanks, will summarize.Brian CarmodyUnix System ...

I received a flood of email after posting this; apparently I'm not the only one who has wondered about the origins of Sun's stock symbol. Many suggestions, even more theories, a pile of helpful information, two postsinforming me of my status as a complete and total moron, one request to ...

Thank you, ed, tom.oneil, Tony Tran, Marion Ismail, Yura Mismerov, SteveSandau, Noel Hunt, Rodica Alexandru, Barazani, and Wesley A Wannemacher (andanyone I may have missed) for your helpful suggestions.I tried and retried everything that was suggested (except purging out thequeue because I ...

Hello evrybody,I have been having trouble with sendmail ever since i patched some ofsolaris7 boxes, please find attached the error message from/var/adm/messages. All suggestions welcome. sendmail[26798]: g16MCsR26798: Losing ./qfg16MCsR26798: savemail panic sendmail[26798]: g16MCsR26798: ...

Thanks to everyone who replied (Doug Otto, Taveren, Tyler Ravenwood, Phil Black, Erwin Fritz, Kevin Graham, Craig Leikis) to my questions on the Sun Fire 4800/6800 series.. MattOriginal:I've got a couple of questions on the Sun Fire 6800/4800 seriesplatforms.Do these platforms come in a ...

Hi guysI have two machines who suddenly reboots after several days.One of the machine seems showing CPU panic message whichmight be a hardware problemBut the other machine seems showing nothing before it reboots.However, before it reboots, there must be sth wrong with commandin /usr and we ...

Hi Gurus,Special thanks for Mike, Niclas, Boss, Sree, Jay &Maxwell for there quick response help on this. I have been using WRQ ReflectionX for my unix servers& satisfied with it. But I needed something for W2000servers so I remembered VNC as I had used it beforewith WNT. I will like to ...

Thanks to:sysadmin at astro.su.seSriRamBetrand HutinDoug OttoPlatform Administration guide from docs.sun.com helped me.._________________________________________________________________Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. ...

Thanks to David Foster for pointing out a typo in the procedure below. Youneed to edit the passwd file in the mount point, i.e.: 'vi /etc/passwd'should be 'vi /mnt/etc/passwd'.Thanks again to everyone who replied!--Shawn> Using the Solaris install CD:> ok> boot cdrom -s> When it ...

Thanks Sean,Your suggestion works! But, the null device should be linked to/dev/rdsk/c2* rather than /dev/dsk/c2*.===Haven't tried this myself but it should work. Remove the links in/dev/dsk corresponding to the slices and recreating them to somethingelse such as blank files or links else ...

Hi Managers,I have enabled IPv4 on my Solaris box. After that I have problems in DNS like, When I say nslookup from my Solaris 8box I get following error: Is the problem related to IPv4?rocky#nslookup*** Can't find server name for address 127.0.0.1: Server failed*** Default servers are not ...

Hi all,I'm a bit puzzled with a Solaris 7 installation I've just done. Although Iknow the arguments against it, I've changed root's home directory and shellto /root and BASH, respectively, to meet certain security and functionalityrequirements, and it's made vipw mad. I've managed to work ...

Hello,Adding a package didn't end succesfully. What can I do now as pkgrmdoesn't work any more either?Please advice me,Rodica==============================#pkgadd -d ./make-3.79.1-sol8-sparc-local The following packages are available: 1 SMCmake make (sparc) 3.79.1Select package(s) you ...

Dear SunManagers,Today when i tried nfs mounting, the mount point owner and groupautomatically changes to one of our ex-system administrators usernameis there any soultion, the mounting was done with root previlages.RgdsSree----- Original Message -----From: <codeprof-request at ...

Hi,I'd like to limit the number of processes per user to a set limit(this is a student server and I want to impose some limits to helpmanage the resources) however it is also used by some other users whoI want to have unlimited processes available.Currently I use set maxuprc=<whatever ...

good day!i asked:>so, how do i look into the kernel in a non-intrusive manner? a "truss -c">would be perfect, giving me some clue about what's happening. ISTR that>i once had such a tool, but all searches have drawn blanks.the perfect answer came from Casper Dik:> Either ...

I am getting the following error when doing anNSlookup from an NFS version 2 client. My serveris running Solaris 8."Can't authenticate (too weak)"Any idea how to fix or workaround this issue?I've shared out the directory in question withoutany specific options so it should be ...

I have a 10 drive 0+1 mirror in an e450. One of the mirrors is in amaintenance state, with one of the 5 disks needing maintenance. Theother mirror has a problem as well. I am wondering if I can run a"metareplace -e" on c3t0d0s6, and how long that would take (87Gbmetadevice).Or, ...

Hi! It is possible to comment an entry in the resolv.conf. Fromthe below example,will the dns resolution take place from the second dnsserver..?# cat /etc/resolv.confdomain xyz.com#nameserver 141.152.160.5nameserver 141.149.213.69nameserver ...

I have an ADIC Scalar 100 attached to the standard SCSI interface on a SunFire280R. The Scalar has two IBM Ultrium HVD drives. I installed Legatonetworker and cabled out everythinng per ADICs standards. I added the Driveinfo in /kernel/drv/st.conf and "#reboot / -rv" but my 280 ...

The consensus was that the "sd" driver cannot always get the correctRPM value. Casper Dik related, "The specific kstat was removed and later releases do not report "RPM"."And he pointed out that since they're ST318406, they are rated to runat 10000 RPM. Makes ...

Hello all, I'm trying to set up LDAP authentication on Solaris servers usingOpenLDAP 2.0.19 and the PADL_PAM and PADL_NSS drivers. I have everythingworking fine so far. slapd is running in debug mode and I can see queriesmade when I do an ls -l on a client box. I added an entry into the ...

(Original post is below)I was not able to get a "permanent" fix for the problem, but I also haven'tbeen able to give it much time, either. Just the same, after reading overvarious responses, and surfing the net, I found a fix that I can run afterlogging into the CDE.At ...

List:I've currently a 280R tip hardwired to a 3500 acting as Console... I'veshutdown the E3500 down to the Ok prompt. Questions:If I power off the 3500 will it rest the 280R ?If I reboot (I mean boot up) the 3500 will it reset the 280R or drop it toOk prompt?Is it safe to remove the tip ...

I'd like to thank all who responded to my question. Special thanks to Randy Romero. His reply help lead me to the answer.>you may not have the appropriate information in your /etc/inetd.conf to>allow for the rpc connections for metatool. If you have a server that has>disksuite on it ...

I've been testing "BigBrother" (system & process availability /monitoring software) recently and am very pleased with results so far.Alas, one particular function that I haven't found is the capacity tomonitor & notify if pre-designated processes begin to consume ...

Hello,<p>I have a E250 running Solaris 8 with a Netra D130 connect to it.<br>Veritas 3.1 is on the E250<p>I can add the Netra disks to rootdg of Veritas, but if I cannot<br>add the Netra disks to a volume, only the drives from the E250<p>Any ideas why not?<p>Thanks,<br>Jim <br>

Hello everybody,we have had problems doing restore on large filesystems with Legatonetworker (6.1). On backups of filesystems where the file count is high (100k and above ), the restore balks. ansrd just sits there doing nothing. Iwas wondering if others had similar problems. Anil ...

I accidentally did a "metaroot d101" instead of my d100 for / partition.The system goes into a loop, of reboot, because of wrong / partition.I booted via cdrom into single user mode to edit the /etc/vfstab and/etc/system to change the d101 to d100, (after mounting s0 to ...