FTP server on Solaris 7

305 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 21:45:00
Hi , We need to setup anonymous FTP server on Solaris 7 server. Can anyone help me which is the best free FTP server availableThanksMoe HansNetwork AdministratorKwantlen University College , BC , Canadamoe.hans at ...

MSn dialup on Solaris intel

182 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 21:45:00
Hi folks,<p>I installed a Solaris 8 Intel system at home. How do i setup my existing Msn<br>dialup account for internet access ? Can any one help me ?<p>Thanks in advance..<p>Jay<br>

72-gig drives on a E250?

557 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 21:45:00
Hi,does anyone knows if a Sun E250 with the last release of Solaris 8 and the last patches applied will support 72-gig Ultra160SCSI drives? Anyone has experienced with a this kind of drives and E250 (or similar)?Due to a puntual necessities of high volume of storage on this machine we have ...

NIC Performance Monitoring

579 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 21:45:00
Hello -How would I determine whether or not a NIC is running at or close to itsfull capacity (ie. It's time to get another NIC and start using SunTrunking?) Or measure whether or not I need to tune my IP parameters/amgetting an improvement from tuning? I've seen a lot of information ...

SUMMARY: web mail

2590 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 21:45:00
Thanks for the overwhelming reply, so many of them to mention.Many suggest IMP, http://www.horde.org, has a lot of features andsecurity in mind.second best is SquirrelMailothers areacmemail A multiuser POP3/IMAP to Web gateway with MIME and mod_perl support created: Oct 20th 1998, 10:32 ...

Solaris Full routing configuration

156 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 21:45:00
how to make routing full in /etc/rc2.d/S69inet<br>Hot to configure static router in solaris<br>How to use route command for Nic hme<p>Thanks for all<br>

Summary : sun cluster part number and configuration

622 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 21:45:00
Thanks to :a. Jed Dobson ( very Thanks)b. Charlotte Ratliffc. Mazhar Khand. David FosterHere my summary :Since we use 2s Sun fire 280 R with one D1000 disk, and will use as Server forOracle Real application cluster.for cluster system using suncluster, the license needed are :1. CLCIS-999-B999 ( ...

SUMMARY boot: cannot open kernel/sparcv9/unix

319 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 21:45:00
Thanks for all of your help. Everyone hit it right onthe nose. It was the wrong cdrom. It was an olderversion that didn't have the platform type on it.Thanks again.Great stuff seeking new owners in Yahoo! Auctions! ...

Netbackup;no storage unit available for use(213)

479 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 21:45:00
Hello Managers ,We are facing the problem with netbackup when we try to restore from thebackup,it gives an error; no storage unit available for use (213). All thedrives are down and we made them up manually even then backup fails withsame error.Also the daily scheduled backup fails with the ...

half a SUMMARY: SunMC documentation

971 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 21:45:00
Thank you for all the replies: http://www.sun.com/solaris/sunmanagementcenter 3 > 4 http://docs.sun.com:80/ab2/@HtmlCollView?toc=coll.810.1&Ab2Lang=C&Ab2Enc=iso-8859-1 5 > 6 > I found this by going to ' http://docs.sun.com' and searchingTitles for 7 ...

How long does `growfs' take (RESULT)?

716 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 21:45:00
Thanks to everyone for the advice last week: once I'd arrived in the land ofmultiple verified backups, I jumped in and grew my /home filesystem thismorning, apparently successfully. For the record, on an unloaded 2*400MHzE250, growing a 51ish Gb FS (3*18Gb) to a 116ish Gb FS (3*18Gb+2*36Gb) ...

rsh error

277 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 21:45:00
Hi guys<p>In what case the 'rsh' and 'rlogin' will have error<br>but still can use telnet or ftp to the machine<p>I got protocol error and the machine closed my connection<br>when I use rsh and rlogin but I can use telnet or ftp to that machine<p>Many thanks<br>Kenneth<br>

remote logs files

396 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 21:45:00
Hi all, I want to have a copy of my log files ( wtmpx, sulog, messagges, ... etc) onanother machine. So that I can trace any problem in case of disasters.I do not want to mount another file system from another machine to thatmachine and change the paths of the log file ...Is there a tool or ...

ufsdump

618 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 21:45:00
How do u append a filesystem to a tape using ufsdump? when adding newfilesystem to backup the first one is always overwritten. I do :ufsdump 0 / | compressthen by doingufsdump 0 /export | compress / was overwritten by /exportAlso, is it possible backup other machines content to a single ...

Solaris 8 Intel on Dell OptiPlex

1097 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 21:45:00
Forgive my ignorance about PC hardware....I'm trying to install Solaris 8 10/01 Intel on a Dell Optiplex.The boot program reports: ACPI tables not in reclaim memoryThen during the Bus Enumeration phase I get: Warning: Resource Conflict - both devices are added NON-ACPI device: PNP0C01 ...

TIP: Emergency "Upgrades" (long)

5656 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 21:45:00
Just recently, I had a problem of "Cannot mount root at.." when I rebootmy Solaris 2.6onNetrai5, then Idid almost the same procedure as yours, this is what idid first:1. boot cdrom -s2.fsck -F ufs /dev/rdsk/<root partition, e.g. c0t0d0s0>3. boot cdrom -s4. mount ...

SUMMARY: Disk ID

366 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 21:45:00
Hello,I've received so many replies, most of them says that "check diskactivity by using analyze option of format command or by using mkfile tocreate a large size file", but the most answer is from "JesseCarroll" which is using SUN Explorer package which gives disks ...

Network access with sysidcfg?

1155 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 21:45:00
A jumpstart client is prompting me for the time when I use the followingsysidcfg.system_locale=en_USsecurity_policy=NONEtimezone=US/Centralterminal=vt100root_password=[removed]network_interface=PRIMARY { netmask=255.255.255.0 protocol_ipv6=nodefault_route=192.168.20.254 ...

SUMMARY: enterprise 4500 won't boot

370 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 21:45:00
hi EveryoneThanks for all the help. When I went in on Tues some 4days later it was at an ok prompt and thus i got it toboot from there. Apparently, patience is a virtue. :)ElaineEverything you'll ever need on one web pagefrom News and Sport to Email and Music ...

HBA identification

2324 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 21:45:00
Greetings.I have a 280R with an additional fibre channel adapter (Sun's 6799).I need to set the connection option for that adapter in itsconfiguration file. I added the following line (note: 1=fabric): hba0-connection-options=1But this had the unfortunate side effect of also causing the ...

Solaris software install levels?

696 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 21:45:00
Hello all,For security reasons we are looking to minimize the level of softwarethat is installed during our new Solaris 8 (4/01) installs viajumpstart. I'm looking for information as to what software is or is notinstalled at each level from full OEM to the most basic/minimal install.The ...

Choosing Command Line Login gives blank screen

695 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 21:45:00
Hi,on my Sol8x86 system, I get a blank screen when choosing "Command LineLogin" from the login screen of X. I have a login prompt, I can login and ashell is started. However, all of this happens in the dark as the screen isblank. (I just did a 'blind' login, started vi and checked ...

StarOffice 5.2 problem

1122 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 21:45:00
I have what I hope is a simple StarOffice question. I have imported amulti-sheet excel spreadsheet into StarOffice with no problem. By"multi-sheet" I mean that there are multiple sheet tabs at the bottom,and each sheet fills one page. I have been unable to get StarOfficeto print ...

Strange Message

326 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 21:45:00
Hello everyone,On one of my servers, this messages keeps repeating:Jan 30 08:50:23 dylan rsh[22770]: connection from bad portJan 30 08:59:14 dylan rsh[23182]: connection from bad portJan 30 09:08:05 dylan rsh[23750]: connection from bad portThis is new to me, could it be a hack ...

VPN Solution

981 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 21:45:00
Hi,I am trying to pinpoint what the best solution would be to allow accessto the inside from the outside.Currently we have a pix firewall filtering packets separating inside andweb.Where I am having trouble is with the whole VPN concept.Do I need a VPN server to do this? If I do I would like ...

Solaris 8 White Screen, Black Letters

498 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 21:45:00
I've installed the Intel Solaris 8 software. After the install, everythingworks fine. But, I'd like to have a black screen with white letters asopposed to a white screen and black letters. I am able to temporarily changethis by booting the system in Interpreter mode, then using the ...

SUMMARY: 72-gig drives on a E250?

1616 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 21:45:00
Hi to all,in summary, it should not be a problem use this kind of drive (by the experience of some of you) on a E250, E450, etc. Only take care on the type of interface, SCA 80-pin in this case. And, obviously, the necessity of the 'spud' brackets to use them.A lot of thanks to all that ...

Adaptec SCSI card

192 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 21:45:00
Hello,<p>We found an old Adaptec 2930 SCSI-II card laying around, and were wondering if<br>it would work in a Sun Blade 100 PCI slot. Anyone tried this? Are there drivers?<p>Thanks,<br>Tom<br>

Netgear FS105 and Ultra1

975 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 21:45:00
Hello all,I recently bought a Netgear FS105 100Mb desktop switch to replace an old3Com 10Mb hub and ran into a strange problem. My Ultra1 (runnindSolaris 8) would intermittently drop off the wire and reappear afterabout a minute of so. Figuring that the card was too old to let theswitch ...

Solaris on a Compaq Prosignia 200

731 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 21:45:00
hi folks, i4m trying to install Solaris for Intel and I4m having someproblems.I4m using the CDs (not using the boot floppy). Everything seems do beallright, but when the Configuration Assistant asks me from where I want toboot the Solaris Kernel, I select the CD option... ok, it finds my ...

/var/spool/lp/tmp

168 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 21:45:00
Which file does lp use to send a mail about "failed print requests" to root?<br>Also what does /var/spool/lp/tmp file contain.<br>Please Help.<br>regards,<br>

rpc.ttdbserverd

159 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 21:45:00
Hello everyone,<p>What is this message mean? how to get rid of it?<p>Jan 30 14:25:40 abba inetd[148]: /usr/dt/bin/rpc.ttdbserverd: Hangup<p>thanks<p>Marion<br>

Sun Fire with direct-attached Compaq MSL5026 Library

945 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 21:45:00
Good Morning managers,I have a Sun Fire V880 which I intend to get a tape library for; I'mlooking at the SDLT library from Compaq, MSL5026SL which will be directattached SCSI (not through a SAN or anything). This is actually OEMed fromOverland Data (Neo LXN2000)Software is Legato Networker ...

UPDATE: Netgear FS105 and Ultra1

2392 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 21:45:00
Thanks to all for your responses. I've heard from several people whoare using Netgear FS105s and Ultras without any problem. I went out andbought another FS105 tonight and tried plugging my Ultra1 in. Theresult was....the same. Basically, I've now experienced the samebehavior (my Ultra1 ...

NFS read size nfs:nfs3_bsize

965 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 21:45:00
Hi Folks,I'm doing some quite large copies (about 300G) via nfs on a regular basis,and I was trying to increase the rsize parameter past the solaris nfs3default of 32K to improve performance. Unfortunately the 32K limit is set bya couple of kernel parameters. Looking at the kernel tuning ...

Xserver crash when running Cadence simulation

1110 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 21:45:00
Gurus,One problem puzzled me for a very long time. I have several Blade100 workstations runing Solaris8 (01/01) with 01/03Recommended pathes, and now some of which have encoutered the problemslike Xserver crashes when running Cadence, especially on simulation. Theerror message in ...

in.named: symbol __res_dnok: referenced

964 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 21:45:00
Dear Sun Managers,I'm having problems with my DNS server on my Ultra 2,Solaris 2.5 patch level 26. Two days ago, the in.namedwas starting properly at boot time. Now, I get thefollowing error msg when the daemon is started at bootor prompt:# /usr/sbin/in.namedld.so.1: /usr/sbin/in.named: fatal ...

Ultra 10 is not taking new Ethernet Cards

721 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 21:45:00
Dear Admins,I have an Ultra10 running solaris 8.I got 4 brand new Ethernet cards "SUN branded" of the following model:X1033AP/N: 595-4498-01SC: 09524DOM: 06/13/00It is written on the box that it fits the U10, E250, and E450.However, I have tried every possible way to make the system ...

UDP Socket Size limit in Solaris

988 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 21:45:00
Hi All,I wanted to know what is the procedure for increasing the 64K socket-queue sizelimit of UDP sockets on Solaris 8 (64 bit). We are running some loadapplications and this limit is proving to be a bottleneck.Regards,-Rajan"DISCLAIMER: This message is proprietary to Hughes Software ...

ge NIC problem.

1078 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 21:45:00
We have one E450 with two Gigabit ethernet cards. (Sun's Fiber-card)..One is the "real" card to the local lan, the other is to a net we useto take backup's on.It has been working great, but all of a sudden the one to the backup-netis not working...I can ping from the machine and if ...

Extract tape acrhieve

174 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 21:45:00
Hi E-body,<br>I want to extract tape archieve file into the hardisk.<br>How can I it?<br>Thanx.<p>------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>

boot problem

575 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 21:45:00
Hi Everyone,We have one E250 under Solaris 2.5.1 with two ethernet cards. One 10 MB card (interface le0) is the " real " card to the local lan, the other 100 MB in Half Duplex mode (interface hme0) is to a net we use for the backup.When we boot the system, It failed. For a success ...

Solaris 8 Sun Certified Systemadministrator Resources

155 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 21:45:00
Hello <p>Does anyone have good resources (URLS, docs ...) for training and<br>example tests for these exams (310-11, 310-12).<p>Thanx a lot<p>Christian<br>

Solaris, Sparc vs. Intel

1079 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 21:45:00
Ladies and Gentlemen,A Dell sales type has approached one of my senior managers with a story abouthow well Dell servers run X86 and it would be so much better and cheaper. Iwas asked to come up with some comparisons between Sparc V880 and anythingDell has. I will state that I LOVE my V880's. ...

OS level equivalent command to probe-scsi-all?

435 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 21:45:00
Hi all,This is probably a stupid question, but I can't figure it out and I thinkI'm missing something really obvious. I need to find a OS level command(Solaris 7, on sparc) that will give me similar information to what aprobe-scsi-all would give me from the ok prompt. Basically what ...

logrotate for Solaris

1375 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 21:46:00
I have downloaded the logrotate package (logrotate-3.5.2) fromsunfreeware.com and installed it on a Solaris 8 box.Unfortunatelly, I'm not able to get the logrotate binary to run due toerrors that seem to indicate that logrotate cannot read/understand theconfig file.I've tried this on Solaris ...

pkgadd fails on request script

653 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 21:46:00
Hi Sun Managers,I'm trying to install the RMCmem package on 4 development servers and thepkgadd fails on all 4 with the following error: (this occurs right after Iselect the package and the copyright is displayed):pkgadd: ERROR: request script did not complete successfullyHas anyone seen this ...

Parallel Lineprinter on E250 Under Solaris 8

1661 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 21:46:00
Hi,I have a parallel port line printer which works fine on an old Ultra 1running Solaris 2.5.1. Printer is using /dev/bpp0 as the device.When I connect it to the E250 running Solaris 8 it works but very slowly,printing less than 1 line per second, much slower than before.I've tried enabling ...

CPU problem

1095 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 21:46:00
Hi all , I am trying to install cpu`s in E450 system board (510-2996) . thesecpu`s are of 300mhz. But when i add these cpu`s and power up the system , system shows 200Mhzinstead of 300mhz , also when there are 4 cpu`s , system shows 3 cpu`s ..Like ,if i add two cpu`s system shows 1 , if ...

veritas versions supported on Solaris 8

223 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 21:46:00
Hi gurus .<p>One Query -- Wat veritas volume manager versions are supported on Solaris 8<br>? Is there some place i can download the stuff frm net .. Are there any<br>licenses required for the same ?<p>-rgds<br>Dayanand<br>