Sun Storage L20

466 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:45:00
What kind of SCSI cable is needed to hook this library up to an E450? We weretold by one source to use a High-voltage Differential SCSI cable. Can you usea low-voltage cable or will this cause problems? Apparently, the HV cablesare 19 days away (the joys of living in Australia).Thanks,Alan ...

Problem in /usr/include/termios.h

1024 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:45:00
Dear Managers, I am trying to install xnew (useradd automation program) on Solaris 2.6 (patched to Generic_105181-29). When I try to compile, I get"Undefined symbol cfmakeraw". This function is defined in "/usr/include/terios.h" of Linux but not defined in Solaris (in ...

SUMMARY: 18GB Drives in D1000 and E450

1859 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:45:00
Hello Everyone,First, I would like to apologize for the delay in submitting my summary. Herewas my original query:> Hi All,>> Are there any compatibility issues/problems if I replace a 18GB 10K drive in a> D1000 with a 18GB 10K drive taken from an E450 server? I looked up the ...

question...

287 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:45:00
I tried to reboot a SUN ULTRA 60 and, at first it goes through the booting<br>process, but then freaks out and leaves the message:<p>The X-Server can not be started on display :0...<p>It gives me a console login prompt, but the CDE won't come up. How can I get my<br>CDE to come up?<br>

missing pkginfo file - rebuild possible?

478 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:45:00
We've found ourselves missing the file /var/sadm/pkg/SUNWcsr/pkginfo - patch 106429 does NOT like that. It's not on backup, and appears to have never existed.Sun says 'reload SUNWcsr' - which means reloading the OS. Looking at the pkginfo on a few other machiens (with matching OS rev), it ...

SUMMARY: Will "ndd -set adv_autoneg_cap 1" ignore the other ndd commands running bef

620 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:45:00
Thanks: Anthony Miller(anthony.miller at vf.vodafone.co.uk), "Darren Dunham"<ddunham at taos.com>, "Homan, Charles (NE)"<Charles.Homan at GDC4S.Com>, McCaffity, Ray(Contractor)"<McCaffityR at epg.lewis.army.mil>,Simon-Bernard Drolet" <sxi at ...

1) "ndd -set /dev/qfe adv_autoneg_cap 0" willreinitialize the interface. Your interfac

1111 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:45:00
1) "ndd -set /dev/qfe adv_autoneg_cap 0" willreinitialize the interface. Your interface willprobably go offline for 3~4 seconds when it does so.(Darren Dunham)2) "ndd -set /dev/qfe adv_autoneg_cap 0" actuallyforces the interface to reset its speed. (MartinHepworth)Here is my ...

doesn''t ''ignore'' anything. It''s just passing it alongto a driver. The driver when se

4842 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:45:00
doesn't 'ignore' anything. It's just passing it alongto a driver. The driver when set to "autonegotiate"may choose to ignore the settings of the otheradvertisements. From my understanding, it does justthat, but if it's important in your environment, you'dwant to test it before ...

mysterious Netbackup/drive issues

1428 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:45:00
Grr. I posted in detail about this problem but something in the headers causedthe post to be help for moderation, and it never got posted.Let's hope this gets through.We have a running backup system using Netbackup 3.4.1 on an E450, with a small SStoragetek jukebox. About a month ago we ...

T3 Disk array

684 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:45:00
Fellow managers,I've recently got hold of one of these but cannot find any sign of theadministrators guide - while its referenced in the installationdocumentation, its not on docs.sun.com.Does anyone know whether its actually available anywhere?The information contained in this e-mail is ...

SUMMARY: T3 Disk array

693 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:45:00
All documentation for this lives at http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/Systems/T3/docs.html?wrapper=falsehas all of them, including the disk administrators guide in .pdf format.The information contained in this e-mail is intended for the recipient orentity to whom it is addressed. It may ...

SUMMARY: Slow performance on EMC

826 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:45:00
Hi everyone,I received only one reply from John Sellin which was comforting in regards to the following question I had posted:How easy is it to upgrade EMC Powerpath 1.3 to 1.5 and VXFS from 3.3.1 to 3.4 p2?John's response:Both were/are very simple upgrades. Since we had to have the ...

error "fru: Device busy"

1037 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:45:00
Greetings all -I've got a V880 running Solaris 8 (with the 4/02 Patch Cluster installed) connected to a T3 running firmware revision 2.00.01 (T3 is configured RAID5 w/o hot spare)Of course I can't get to sunsolve.sun.com right now to get a later firmware revision for the T3 (keep getting ...

SUMMARY - Serial Console Connectivity

1825 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:45:00
Thanks to all who responded. The consensus of responder who useCyclades equipment is that it works very well, with the possible exceptionof connectivity to Sun V880. One user reported that reboots of the V880,butnot other servers, could cause the terminal server to crash. The Cycladeswas ...

Summary:Migrating from Sparc II to Sparc III technology

726 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:45:00
Thank you to the following for responding:Jim.R.JonesF.M. TaylorHichael MortonHendrik VisageRyan LarsonTim ChipmanJohn D GroenveldAl HopperMichael Maciolekchristopher.hubbellLots of things to consider. The overall consensus was to use the currentsystems (SparcII) as long as possible. Meaning as ...

ssh-1.2.30

472 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:45:00
Hello,I packaged ssh-1.2.30 without including/etc/ssh_host_key in it because it is suppose to behost-specific. My question is how do I automate ssh-keygen ?I know that ssh-2.4 you can use ssh-keygen -P andit will make the keys without prompt for paraphrase..How would I get the same result for ...

SUMMARY: error "fru: Device busy"

2567 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:45:00
Many thanks to:Joshua FieldenJustin StringfellowAlan FoxThe solution that I took was to kill the sf880drd daemon (isn't that redundant?) using /etc/init.d/sf880dr stop and then moving S77sf880dr to s77sf880dr. It would appear that sf880drd is the 'magic' behind the little V880 push-buttons ...

[SUMMARY] 'set' vs 'env'

1143 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:45:00
Thank you all for the responses. BTW, I did RTFM and the pages saidnothing explicitly between the two.Original Question-----------------Kinda academic question but what is the difference between the 'set' and'env' commands. Typing in either command (without parameters) spits out abunch of ...

SUMMARY: adding disks

1096 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:45:00
Thank you to Francisco Puente, Graham Wood, Tim ChipmanQuestion:I have a raid box A1000, running RAID V, Solaris 7, in 32-bit mode. My/export/home is 98% full. I will be adding 4-18g disks, which will giveanother 32g. I want them to be part of the /export/home partition. How do Ido this? ...

SUN and Oracle performance design question

22 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:45:00
Hello SunManagers;<br>

the ideal solution) for spreading out data, indexes, logs, rollbacksegments, temp space, ...

2039 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:45:00
the ideal solution) for spreading out data, indexes, logs, rollbacksegments, temp space, ... Working with my developers I have helped to sizethis down to 7 drives/LUNs for the location of this information. We arelooking at Fiber Channel solutions, in particular Sun StorEdge T3(s).My question ...

Christian Buhn/SYNSTAR/DE is out of office

638 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:45:00
Ich werde ab 20.05.2002 nicht im B|ro sein. Ich kehre zur|ck am02.06.2002.Im o.g. Zeitraum befinde ich mich im Urlaub. In dringenden Fdllen wendenSie sich bitte an meine Kollegin Antje Finger, Telefon: +49 (0)6151-989-132oder per E-Mail:afinger at synstar.de.Ihre Mail werde ich im Anschluss an ...

Jumpstart server for Sol8

507 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:45:00
Greetings,I've been mucking with this all evening now, and checked around in thearchives to no avail.Installing the server to a SunBlade 100, with Solaris 8 4/01.While running the initial script, I get the following:./setup_install_server : /export/home/netra-x1//Tools/Boot/netmask: ...

Jump Start Configurations !

689 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:45:00
Hi,I would really be glad if anybody can send me a format of a sample JumpStartSysidcfg file at the earliest.Thanx,Archit..**************************Disclaimer************************************************** Information contained in this E-MAIL being proprietary to Wipro Limited is ...

FYI: Solaris Fingerprint Database (sfpDB)

1830 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:45:00
Hello,I searched the archives at http://www.codeprof.com/ but did not find anymention of this, and I thought I'd pass it along to the list, sorry if thishas been posted before.I'll just cut and paste a description of sfpDB from the PDF file ...

Sol 2.6 logging metadevice has problems

4355 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:45:00
Apologies if this gets through twice.I sent this out over an hour ago, and still ahven't seen it back on thislist ...> situation:> > We'vegot a (hardware) raid kit> 8 disks, 1 hot spare, hardware raid5 on that set.> > We had a diskerror on the raid, replaced a disk and ...

E250 hanging at boot

1240 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:45:00
Hi All,we have just received an E250 from another place(which obviously wasoperational). The machine just refuses to boot even on cdrom. Alldiagnostics come out clean. I noticed that one out of the six disk slots inempty ( take out?!!! ). The missing disk apears to be on disk6 ( andpresumably ...

netra t1 as the print server

237 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:46:00
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logging in vxfs

173 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:46:00
Hello ,<br>Does any body know what equivalent mount option of logging in vxfs ?<br>I don't want do an fsck in case of abrupt shutdown.<br>i will sumaarize .<br>Regards<br>

vmcore

277 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:46:00
All,<p> Can anyone guide me if there are any URL sites which helps to learn<br>vmcore analysis.<p>Thanks in advance<p>-rakesh<p>------------------------------------------------------------------------<p>Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. Click Here<br>

Gridware and parallel jobs

643 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:46:00
The fallowing site gives details of using clearcase with grid engine. http://supportforum.sun.com/gridengine/appnote_clearcase.htmlparrallel jobs are possible if the make environment supports that .Thanks for your help.RegardsRaghuHello Managers,I have setup 5.3 grid engine in 2.6 environment ...

Ultra 5 ide cdrom issue

894 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:46:00
Would somebody be able to assist with a problem with my cdrom device onUltra 5 workstation running Sol 8, latest release.At the ok prompt probe-ide gives the following for the cdromprobe-ide = Device 2 (Secondary Master) Removable ATAPI Model: CRD-8322Bshow-disks also sees the cdrom and ...

Summary (Corrected): 18GB Drives in D1000 and E450

2003 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:46:00
Hello Everyone,One of our colleagues who happens to work for Sun Microsystems responded to myprevious summary with the following:"The Part Numbers you have quoted in your original email are identical 18GB 10KRPM Single Ended drives with the single exception of an aluminium back ...

Print error: Printer does not exist

1611 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:46:00
Dear Sun-Managers,I have an E5000 running Solaris 2.6 and have recently hadtrouble printing to a remote printer. Attempts to send aprint job return message:Error transferring print job 725 check queue for (text at geb50j)The printer is connected OK:# ping geb50jgeb50j is aliveAnd lpstat ...

Fwd: Solaris 8 perl mrtg

4433 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:46:00
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----Hash: SHA1HI,I have already asked this and I would like if anyone are using MRTG-2.9 with perl-5.6.1(with modules) in a Sparc Solaris 8. Is it ok?The Snmp daemon is running( I received a question about it).Thanks very muchIrene C.- -----Quoted Message-----From: ...

I-DEAS Installation

323 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:46:00
Dear Sun-Managers,Could someone help me by giving the steps to install I-DEAS V8 under solaris 8.Thanks in advance.Cordialement,======================= Amar AMIRI CNES - Evry 01.60.87.70.93 amar.amiri at ...

loghost explained

440 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:46:00
i read there is an advantage to having loghost in the/etc/hosts file, after 127.0.0.1 loopback entry:127.0.0.1 localhost loghost loopbackthis prevents logging from stopping if the primaryinterface, where loghost is usually placed, stopsworking.can you concur? are there other ...

SUMMARY: IP flaky following a reboot.

1587 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:46:00
Thanks go to the following:Randy Romero, Larye Parkins and Phil Rainey who pointed out that the serverwill attempt a reverse lookup on the IP of connecting Telnet clients hencethe huge delay in logging on.Scott Buecker who suggested a look at the output of netstat -I ge0 whichshowed up a not ...

_libc_register_forkhandler

1012 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:46:00
Hi All,When I tried to install some package using "pkgadd -d" command the installcomplete successfully for some without error, but some install partially dueto the following error:symbol _libc_register_forkhandler: referenced symbol not foundKilledThe environment is as follow:Release: ...

E250 cpu module upgrade

874 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:46:00
Hi,I would like to upgrade one E250 which has installed a 300MHz cpu module. I have a spare E250 with installed 400MHz processor. So I upgraded the OBP to version 3.22 and installed the 400MHz CPU. Unfortunately the system doesn't boot. There's no screen output so one error messages can be ...

SUMMARY: E250 cpu module upgrade

1018 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:46:00
Hi,thanks to anybody who responded to my e-mail.400MHz CPU module need to have a different setting of J3001. 300MHz modules have this jumper set on 1-2, 400MHz modules on 2-3. Location of J3001: If you are looking from front to back. It is located in front of the memory banks near bank A (left ...

Setting Up PPP on Solaris....

3835 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:46:00
Hello Managers:I'm in the process of setting up PPP on a Solaris environment and I have aUSRobotics V90connected to an Ultra5. All configuration files seems to be ok.Here is /etc/asppp.cf fileifconfig ipdptp0 plumb admincl6 tb1-das1 downpath interface ipdptp0 ...

sunray utxconfig error

675 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:46:00
We are running session server/Sun Ray sofware (version 1.3) onSolaris 8. When we try to run the command /opt/SUNWut/bin/utxconfig, weget the error "could not connect to admin server". If we reboot thecomputer, this error will not occur for a period of time, but eventuallythe problem ...

Solaris8-GCC 3.0.3 compiler

991 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:46:00
Hi I have Solaris 8 installed on FunFire880. Now I haveinstalled GCC 3.0.3, m4.1.4, make.3.77. Now I amtrying to compile Samba-2.2.2 & top-3.5beta12 on it.But I am getting following errors....Is GCC 3.0.3 is ok for use or I have some otherproblem . in both compilation I am getting ...

Anyone using LSI Logic E2400

591 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:46:00
Has anyone installed an E2400 Storage Array from LSI Logic.I seek admins currently running an E2400 in a SAN environment.I'm having problems understanding why a UFS restore of 145GB takes nearly 24hours to complete from tape. (Qualstar AIT-2 Drive)Please contact me if you can assist,Richard ...

Problem with Solaris/x86 install

806 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:46:00
Hi there,I have a problem with Solaris for x86 (10/00) installation. I am trying to install it to Compaq ProLiant 400 machine. It has one SCSI disc, which ID is 0. I tried all 3 variants of installation (WebStart from CD 0, Interactive jumpstart and Custom from CD 1) and everytime I get the ...

Sun 280R, 220R video

808 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:46:00
We had a four port Belkin Omniview switch and our 220R worked fine with it.We sent it to another site and replaced it with an existing 8 port OmniviewPro. The 220R will not display on the switch and, in fact, the switchdoes not detect the Sun's presence. Another location uses a 16 port ...

POP3 Server

261 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:46:00
Any recommendations for a good POP3 server for Solaris? Thanks.<p>Blaine Owens<br>Eastman Chemical Company<br>Phone - (423)-229-3579<br>Cell Phone - (423)-817-0704<br>Fax - (423)-229-1188<br><A HREF="/execute/ask/?codeinfoid=13970">bowens at eastman.com</A><br>

2nd question - Solaris8-GCC 3.0.3 compiler

2441 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:46:00
Hi Thanks to Darren, Michel, Kris, Tim, Hocke, Evans,Randy, Daniel, Stace, Alex, MarkEverybody pointed towards installing binutil packageto solve the problem.1. Also some advised to use 2.95.3 on PRODUCTION server, & though this is going to be PRODUCTION server, should I go for gcc ...

Samba startup script

558 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-24 22:46:00
hello,we run samba on a Solaris 2.6 box and every time i reboot,i have to manually start samba issuieng the smbd -D and nmbd -D commands.I would like a startup script that I could put in the/etc/rc.local directroy which would start when the machineboots.any help ...