Dear Sun Managers,I was trying to tar a 8G compressed file to a DDS4tape, I got the following error while using thiscommand. # tar cvf /dev/rmt/0 bigfiletoo large to archive. However, it went thru when I used "tar cvfE /dev/rmt/0bigfile" to tar into the DDS4 tape. Right now, when Itry ...

Hi managersWe bought a Transtec 5012 IDE/SCSI raid with 12x160GB Maxtor harddrives (Itshould be the same unit as the Zero-D X-3i - just rebranded by Transtec). Theunit is configured as a raid 5 with 1 spare disk. The unit works fine whenconnected to either a Windows box or a Linux box. However, ...

Hi managers,I am trying to find the best solution for a reverse proxy platform forseveral http, https servers. I tested squid in accelerator mode and alsowith the rproxy patch but i would like to know any other product available,also commercial ones.Any story of success or suggestion will be ...

Hi Gurus,I have a strange problem in creation time of ufs file system in two box. Boththe boxes are exactly identical in terms of Architecture, CPUs, Memory but onebox takes less time than other. I have two boxes E-450, each has got 4 CPUs of400MHz and 2GB of RAM. Both box has got 8 (8.3GB) ...

Hi Gurus,Sorry about the very late summary to this post, but i only got the problemsorted out this weekend.It turns out that the 3 DIMMS that had got to replace the failed ones haddone the rounds. One DIMM i have since discovered had been around the loop 3times, been returned for repair, before ...

I am trying to install oracle 8 on solaris 8 (intel).But I get an error:java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: ../stage/Components/oracle/swd/oui/1.6.0.7.0/1/DataFiles/Expanded//bin/solaris/liboraInstaller.so at java.lang.Runtime.load(Runtime.java) at java.lang.System.load(System.java) at at ...

Sorry for the very late summary ! I hope to have many manyanswers....not so much ! Thanks to : Marco Greene Fabrice Guerini Mark Hargrave Stuart Whitby Most importants points to considere : - as usual scalability, performance, ease of admin and install,etc... ...

Hi All,I have a simple DHCP question:Our network group is about to convert to DHCP for the W2K servers, W2Kclients are already using DHCP. At the same time they want to convert UNIXboxes too. I have about 20 servers ranging from E420R to E6500, they aremostly DB servers running ORACLE or ...

Gurus-We are running a program that sends us data through syslog port 514. Theyevents are *.info. syslog.conf has the following entry in it.*.info /var/log/NtlogThat file obviously exists. Using a sniffer we found that the machinesending the information is indeed sending it. We rebooted a few ...

Gurus,I am trying to create a flash image, and need to exclude a few things, /u01/u02 and /export/homeHow do I exclude more then one dir.The following varients did not work.flarcreate -R / -x /u01 -x /u02 -x /export/home /tmp/flash1flarcreate -R / -x "u01 u02 export/home" ...

Dear Professionals:I am researching backup technologies that would enable my company to backupup Windows NT servers as well as SUN Solaris. I am leaning towards anautomated tape library, but am overwhelmed by marketing hype. What hardware mfg would you recommend for the jukebox? Tape drive? ...

Hi Managers,We need to easily manage disk quotas on a NFS mounted volume.We operate a mail server on Solaris 2.6 with nfs mounted volumes located ona clustered Netapp F820 filer.Currently, the filer handles the disk quotas for each mail server user. Thismethod for managingdisk quotas are ...

OK, here's what I hope is an easy one: I am trying to move /var onto its ownpartition on the boot disk. I have created a new partition in the blankspace, newfs'ed it, booted from CD. Then I mount and move stuff like so:mount /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 /amount /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s7 /a/newvarcd /a/vartar ...

Good Morning Managers,I have multiple 220r/420r machines running Solaris 8 (02/02) with the latestpatch sets. These machines have qlogic (qla2200) fibre channel cards thatconnect each machine to our SAN (which contains a brocade switch, and acouple disk chassis - around 2TB of ...

Jeff Kennedy kindly advised that I did not include enough informationregarding my individual requirements. So, sorry for this additional postbut here's some more details:I am trying to backup .5TB real data, with current drive capacity that couldallow that amount to double. The majority of ...

Hello Managers,I've searched high and low and tried all possible combinations, but I am stillstumped. I need to set permissions on a folder that temporarily give ahandful of users the ability to write to a folder that is owned by a certainuser. I can't change the group permissions, because ...

Solaris 8 07/01. I have a previous jumpstart env all configured and wasworking great, until I am trying to jumpstart 3 more Netra T1 AC200 servers.I have added entries in /etc/ethers and also /etc/bootparams as I havealways done in the past when it has worked.Here is all I get.ok boot net - ...

I have a Sun Netra X1 server that I need to reset the root password.However I currently do not have the root password. My client tells me theyhave no idea what it might be.Is there a way to boot directly into single user mode (Maitainence mode)using the boot command.boot -s does work but it ...

I want to change the baud rate on a ttyb. When the machine reboots, it sets<br>the rate to 9600. Is there some way I can change this so that the machine<br>boots with a different baud rate<p>Cheers<br>DB<br>

SETFACL was the solution and has been implemented successfully. THANK YOU tothe following:Alex StadeMichael SchulteNicholas DorfsmanRon DinwiddieDave MitchellMitchell BakerAdam KirbySean BerryJay KoonzMark Bergman-----Original Message-----From: Hswe, BarbaraSent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 11:38 ...

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I have an ultra 5 with one scsi disk I would like to replace it with a new disk but keep the existing disk inside of it installboot /usr/platform/`uname -i`/lib/fs/ufs/bootblk /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0Will this erase the boot blk on the old disk? Note this is under the assumption that I was able to ...

No answer: no solution. Pray for your filesystems if a dualed SSA fan breaks. Thanks God, we only lost networker indexes. Many thanks anyway.------- Original message --------It's almost solutioned, but I've serious doubts about what was going on on my e10k domain. There are twodual controler ...

Admins,I know its a little off topic but can anyone point me to a link/page/document which shows the relatively current market share for different tape drive technologies in the tape backup-restore market.I am specifically looking for "AIT-2" and "Mammoth2" market share to ...

First off, many thanks to those that offered assistance.Jeff Kennedy, Anwar Saadeh, Todd Urie, Gert-Jan Hanenaars, Robert Legate andSteve Aizic. I hope I did not miss anyone.Anyways, after many many emails back and forth to these folks offeringsuggestions such as snoops, double checking ...

Hi,Im having some problems with su. When I log into a system and try to do "su", the system just hangs there. su doesn't seem to even check the password since it will hang even though I put in some dummy passwd. I have to hit Ctrl-Z to get back to the prompt (Ctrl-C Doesn't work). ...

I've searched through the archives looking for recommendations on anantivirus program to install on our Solaris email server. Several peoplementioned Trend's product, so I'm looking into that. I'm interested inhearing from anyone that has it installed and working on their server. Howhard ...

Thanks for all of the responses. There were four basic answers provided:1. cpio - refused to copy the file2. ufsdump - copied the file as a regular file (-rwxrwxrwx) instead of as asocket (srwxrwxrws)3. dd - didn't tryBut the correct answer (provided first by Nicolas Dorfsman) was:4. ...

Is there anyway to make logrotate use .gz extensions instead of .Z?Also we currently are using an inhouse log rotator that starts with.0.gz instead of start with 1?instead of rotating:from: /usr/local/apache/logs/access_logto : /usr/local/apache/logs/access_log.1.ZI want to rotate ...

Question: Am I limited to 1GB/2GB root partition on a Sparc-10?Consensus was that you're limited to a 2GB partition, as there isno 3.x PROM version for the sun4m architecture. The FAQ states thatwith PROM 2.5 or less you're limited to 1GB. I received a freebie upgrade to 2.25, and have ...

Hi; I was wondering if any of you have tried to dynamicly load a module from a directory based on the rev of OS? In other words....my ($uname_s, $uname_r) = split('\s',`uname -sr`);use lib "/share/local/modules/$uname_s"."/"."$uname_r";This seems to work but ...

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Dear Sun Managers,We are in the process of bringing up 3 new Sun servers (V880s) that will runSolaris 8. We will be installing a large volume of third party software onthe servers. The goal is to produce 3 identical machines. We think thatJumpstart will allow us to create one machine, and ...

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thanks everyone for your time.> Well ... any network traffic destined to the local> host is going to go over the loopback, even if you> try to use the ip on another interface ...> > -----Original Message-----> From: pelicancomputers [mailto:rfransix at yahoo.com]> Sent: ...

this could be due to some hardward changes recentlymade on this server; the mouse or keyboard cable isloose; another usb cable is loose or added hot; adrive error. if you can't identify it, may i suggestthat you do the following:reboot with the following command: mkdir -p /etc/backup mv ...

Perhaps somebody can explain this.I posted earlier today about a jumpstart problem. Many thanks to those thathelped. Now I have an interesting anomoly, that apparently I have had forquite some time, however I am just noticing the problem since this is thefirst time these machines have been ...

Anyone has a basic script to change user's permission or know if it's in<br>the archive...<p>ie. chown user1 user1 (w/out changing the . and ..)<br> chown user2 user2 ...and so on, I guess something like for $1=user<br> chown $1 $1 or something...<p>Thanks.<p>- Mike<br>

Hi all- I can't, no matter what syntax I try, get UFSDUMP to send a***single file*** to tape. The man page says it is possible by, I wouldimagine, using the full path to the file in the "files_to_dump" area ofthe ufsdump command line but when I try this I get a "path to ...

The below did the job (ie. where user1 owns /var/mail/user1 file)for i in *; do chown $i $i; doneThanks.- MikeOn Tue, 14 May 2002, Mike's List wrote:> Anyone has a basic script to change user's permission or know if it's in> the archive...> > ie. chown user1 user1 (w/out changing ...

Hi,I have just been asked to start looking after a new box.First thing I see when I run dmesg is:May 15 02:04:58 box inetd[29061]: [ID 161378 daemon.error] exec/tcp:bind: Address already in useMay 15 02:04:58 box inetd[29061]: [ID 161378 daemon.error] shell/tcp:bind: Address already in useMay ...

Dear Sunmanagers,I'm getting an error messages in my Solstice backup Savegroup log:May 15 02:07:09 sg-proxy root: --- Unsuccessful Save Sets ---May 15 02:07:09 sg-proxy root:May 15 02:07:09 sg-proxy root: * sg-bastion2:All 1 retry attemptedMay 15 02:07:09 sg-proxy root: * sg-bastion2:All ...

My Original Question was :At 11:08 14/05/02 +0300, you wrote: Hi managers,Does anyone know any free command line software or gui to manage robot in L9 other than Networker or Solstice Backup ?I think http < http://mtx.sourceforge.net/> ...

Hi All,I've seen the summaries by some of the other people asking questions aboutthe time-zone.Can someone please tell me where does the shell get it's TZ variable from.Why is it sometimes missing (causing the shell and utilities to think it isat GMT) ?Where does init and sched get their ...

Hi gurus,We have E3500 system with 2 CPU Board with 4 CPU's with 4GB RAM.Running Solaris 8 /06/2000 with latest cluster Patches.we are getting the following error .SUNW,UltraSparc-II:[AFT0]errID 0x0000202, bae6fde10 corrected memory erroror not memory[AFT0] Corrected memory error on cpu 7, err ...

Hi All,Has anyone setup cloning on networker to clone to other than a second deviceon the nw server, ie a remote storage node. Anything to watch out for ?I want to clone both index data and replicate media ( save sets)Also if storage node is only a nw client rather than a nw server, is thereany ...

Dear Sun Managers,If I've more than 100 cron job to run, will there beany problem? What would be the default cron queue?For the at and batch job, I can tell from the/etc/cron.d/queuedefs setting for the queue setting.How about cron job?Do I need to set in the /etc/cron.d/queuedefs in orderto ...

I have a Sun Sparc Ultra IIi running Solaris 5.7 with the latest7_Recommended patches. My machine rebooted after a cpu panic and themessages log recorded,nestor unix: lock_set_spl: 104399be lock held and only one CPU. Subsequentlythe HP DLT80 tape drive attached nolonger was recognised, so I ...

Hi All,<br>How will I find out which application is running at a particular port?<br>Thanks&Regards,<br>A.K.Rasanth<br>ph: 91-80-8522507 Ext 1626<p>--------------------------------------------------------------<br>Velankani Information Systems Ltd, Bangalore, India<br>

AllWhen booting into single user mode from the install CD of Solaris 8 [ok boot cdrom -s], I get the following error when trying to mount the root file system to mount points /mnt or /a./dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 is already mounted, /mnt is busy, or the allowable no. of mount points has been ...