Another quick and to the point answer.The majority of the respondents feel that overall a Sparc system is a betterinvestment that a Dell running Solaris x86. Some mentioned Linux, but seniormanagment will not hear it. Win 2000 was also mentioned by one person, but mymanagement is wise enough to ...

Hello,Thanks to all who helped me with the libc/domainnamebug.I had a question concerning controlling print job sizeduring business hours. Setup:Solaris 8 print server running JetDirect (most of ourprinters are HP's)number of Solaris 2.5.1 - 8 clientsSituation:People printing large documents ...

Anyone have any suggestions on this:Login to a Solaris 7 box vi a ssh(1) real slow for a particular user. Takesabout 15 seconds or so. Other users are ok. Error is:/usr/openwin/bin/xauth: timeout in locking authority file /home/<USerID>/.XauthorityOwnership of home dir and .X?* files ...

Hello,I didn't get much reaction to this thread. I asked:> Does anyone think the following figures for the memory usage of Xsun> are strange on Solaris 8 with 108654-47?> SIZE RES> 12159 root 1 59 0 17M 62M sleep 0:00 0.00% XsunI was particularly ...

Hello everyne,I have 3 jumpstart servers in 3 seperate depts.The 1st and 2nd are working fine.The 3rd works on machines in dept 1 or 2,but not on machines it's own dept ( 3 ).Here is the error:After it finds /JumpStart/Sysidcfg and findssysidcfg, it looks for JumpStart directory todo the ...

Hi,I need to write a script that will search for a specific text in files thenreplace that text with something else.My case is to mask hostname and domain name. This is for Sun Explorer 3.5.2and SUN did not have the optionsI am able to find and grep but don't know how to substitute the ...

Hi,I am desperately seeking a tape backup solution that is cheaper thatCompaq. We need to have a 5 tape minimum robot and a system to connectit to.I have been looking at the L9 and a netra T1 ac200 but it blows thebudget. We already have Veritas NBU and I am hoping to move thelicenses from ...

We have an E3000 with 8 internal disks (all on the same controller) runningas a Sybase Database server.The root disk is mirrored using Online DiskSuite.. This includes a swappartition of 2 GBWe originally had 1.5GB of RAM, but this has now been upgraded to 3.5GB.Sybase recommends swap be 2-3 ...

Have you seen this problem before? 'ls -l' can list file, but 'rm' cannotremove it! I'm trying to delete 'sprcboot.html'ls -laig sprc*total 26 170663 drwxr-xr-x 2 cod 512 Jan 28 12:40 . 33056 drwxrwxrwx 17 cod 1024 Jan 30 11:58 .. 170674 -rw-r--r-- 1 cod ...

I got a few responses that said I should be able to do this, which may wellhave been correct, but I was hampered by the presence of Solstice DiskSuiteand its eventual disagreement with Solaris about the size of thefilesystems. (Sorry, Jeff!) As a result, I had to break the mirror; adjustthe ...

Sun Gurus,About a year ago I inherited support for about 65 workstations(Ultra1/2/60) used for various CAD packages which are still running Solaris2.6 due to an internally developed document management system. The previousAdmins had setup printing that has been working fine until we ...

PROBLEM: Deleting Pesky Files<br>=========<p>><i> Have you seen this problem before? 'ls -l' can list file,<br></I>><i> but 'rm' cannot remove it! I'm trying to delete 'sprcboot.html'<br></I><p>SOLUTION:<br>=========

"...it is possible for some buggy application program to put afile into a bizarre, inconclusive state: quasi-directories that rminterprets as such but rmdir doesn't, [OR, in my case] files thatls lists but rm can't find, and the like. Users can also createsuch files if they experiment ...

It was brought to my attention that I should summarisethe solution to this issue rather than just thankpeople.Summary:Problem was a [host.time] Error 9 each time I tried torun a ypmake to update the hosts table. Other symptoms of the problems:ypinit -m would complain that it couldn't ...

After seeing the "Successful LS, Unsuccessful RM", I was reminded of aproblem that I am having but was side tracked.At bootup on a Sparc 5 running Solaris 8, I get errors on a file that I, atfirst, could not find./usr/lib/.lnx/upback/ps.dup -- Illegal optionNow, this directory (.lnx) ...

Hello guys,Fresh install of Solaris8 on Ultra5.Username is set up properly (can login locally on console).Remote login using telnet from another machine.Typing username "hangs" the telnet username prompt.Typing ctrl-J will cause the telnet login prompt to jump out of the ...

Dear codeprof, I have a new Pc based high power workstation that will be ... travelling sales demos. The PC is a dual P-III 933 machine, 768 MB RAM and a Nvidi... Ultra video card.After installing Solaris for Intels 8 there are no drivers that can utilise this card, the only nvidia is a TNT and ...

How to configuring solaris for this router in two network internal (200.110.1.0 ) and External192.168.0.0--------------------------- --------------------- nic 001 ip is 200.110.1.3 internal networknetwork 200.110.1.0 ---------------------------------netmask 255.255.255.0 ...

I have mailserver on Solaris/SPARC. Is there any antivirus packages to<br>check incomming<br>SMTP mail messages for this platform? <p>Thanx.<br>

Dear Sun Managers,Apparently, the libresolv.so.2 file was changed two days ago. Restoredfrom backup and restarted the in.named daemon without any problems.Special thanks to Casper Dik and Ger Lawlor for pointing me in the rightdirection.Original question below.>>>Dear Sun ...

SirI have one SUN 250R system with 1GB ram , with Solaris 8 and the defaultNetscape that comes with Solaris 8The problem I am facing is1. When I login as root I am able to browse yahoo mail site and checkmy mail , 2. I have created a new user on the same system , this user are able tobrowse ...

Hi,I am new to the managers mailing list and was in direct contact with some members on the mailing list in relation to this problem. I unfortunately have had no luck with the problem at hand. Thanks for the suggestions however.I have a testbed hosting an E220R with six physical network ...

We are in the process of installing 2 V880s with Solaris 8 fully patched.(We have also run yassp against these boxes.) Without changing anything in/etc/system, we can only get up to 32 pseudo connections and we need 512minimum.I have tried to work through the Solaris Answerbook Documentation ...

Thanks guys for countless number of responses. Sorry I'm not going tolist all the names that responded due to the fact that I will beneglecting the others that I forget :p. Here is the summary of all theresponses I've recieved. I'm not exactly sure which package i'm going touse, but I will ...

Thanks to everyone for their replies.There were many that suggested that I use format, which would have workedif I was dealing with disks but as I was having trouble with tapes so itdidn't do the trick.Many also suggested using prtconf and prtdiag, but these didn't spit outall the info I was ...

Finally summarizing a question I asked some time back. Original question below. My summary is kind of long but I wanted to include the replies so that maybe I can help someone else as confused as I in the future.I wanted to try and clarify, when installing recommended and security patches, ...

I have a situation where I'd like to add a second hard drive to an Ultra 5 to give a user more storage space for data. After much web searching last night I did find that it is possible. While some said it wasn't possible I found both a sun manager summary and (finally!) the Ultra 5 service ...

Hello all, I have been tasked with measuring the system hit taken by Veritas and DiskSuite. We're considering upgrading to A5200's or A1000s from our D1000 arrays, but we have to have justification.Currently we're mirroring disks using disksuite. I use sdtperfmeter and Disksuite ...

Hi! Iam looking out for a unix admin position.I have 11 years ofexperience as unix administrator and 4 years in US. Iam a H1B visa holder and available immediately for anyproject within US. I have put my skill set in short,Let me know if anyone isinterested ...

I've got a few busy Apache servers that I just upgraded to Solaris 8. Syslogd is taking about 25% of cpu all of a sudden. This seems strange to me as the Apache server does not log via syslog. System logs don't appear to be filling with any high volume of messages.Any suggestions for the ...

Hi everybody!I just to use "mreport" to analyze my Solaris 2.5.1 2.6 sendmail logs.We have now upgraded some servers to Solaris 8, but mreport doesn't support thenew file format of the logsThere's any other useful tool for track the users use of the email?Thanks in advance, I'll ...

ANSWER: Get a VPN dedicated device, like Cisco's VPN Concentrator 3000series.The Cisco PIX can do the job of terminating the VPN tunnel and can holda few encrypted logins.Some Suggestions:Use Checkpoint Firewall on SolarisUse a PIX and LDAP for authSuns aren't firewalls, use a firewallUse a ...

Does anyone know where I can get Visio stencils for Sun hardware (including <br>server cabinets - 72" specifically)?<p>Thanks ...<br>

Dear Sun Managers,I swapped out an old HP laser printer for a new model and now pure textfiles are printing in a stair-step fashion off the page. PostScriptcontinues to print correctly as does text files from the Windows world(the Windows plain text files have ctl-R's at the ends of each ...

How cpu intensive is the syslog m4 process? I'm currently running syslogon an Ultra10 (also backup DNS) but prefer to have syslog on it's ownmachine (for security reason obviously)...have a sparc5 sitting around with128M of RAM but not sure if it's enough CPU to handle syslog? ...

Many thinks to Moore, L. Bryan, Joe Fletcher, Eduardo Sanchez M., Shawn Russell, Tim Chipman, Hindley Nick, Smith Cathy-CSMITH4, Steve Beuttel, Edward Scown, Chris Keladis, Vlad, Buddy Lumpkin, Rick McKinney.My original question ...

Hello all, I have been tasked with measuring the system hit taken by Veritas and DiskSuite. We're considering upgrading to A5200's or A1000s from our D1000 arrays, but we have to have justification.Currently we're mirroring disks using disksuite. I use sdtperfmeter and Disksuite ...

List:Would there be any danger to a Solaris 8 server (UE x000, 280x, 880V, E10Kdomain) if we trim down our inetd.conf to something like:ftp stream tcp6 nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.ftpdtelnet stream tcp6 nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.telnetdshell ...

Hi,can anyone off hand tell me equivalent of these if iam using gcc compiler instead of sun compiler?.#DEFS = -D_KERNEL -DSOLARIS2_7CFLAGS = -D_KERNEL -xarch=v9 -xcode=abs32-regs=no%appl -O3Great stuff seeking new owners in Yahoo! Auctions! ...

Scott Pham's summary mentioned "iostat -E" and it reminded me of questions I have about how this command gets its information.For example, iostat -E reports the following on one of our 5.6 servers:sd45 Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0 Vendor: SEAGATE Product: ...

Check out TrendMicro Interscan VirusWall. It's quite good, even has a<br>spam/dirty-words/attachment blocking module<p>Ed Schernau<br>Senior Product Engineer<br>Guardent, Inc.<br>

I asked:> I know the E-450 uses two-way and four-way interleaving. I am> looking at configuring an E-250, but can find no mention of this> in its manuals. Should I spread 1GB across all 16 slots, or use> larger DIMMs in only 8 slots?I received a few answers from: Mike's List ...

"UDP and TCP NegotiationDuring initiation, the transport protocol is also negotiated. By default, the first connection-oriented transport supported on both the client and the server is selected. If this does not succeed, then the first availableconnectionless transport protocol is used. ...

Hi,Thanks for all the responses. As it turns out the E450 is going to be alsoused as a SunRay server so that's my problem solved. It's nice to know thesethings in advance!"Santos, Ramiro" wrote:> Hi,> yes, it is possible,> on the SunPCI II Pro you have an VGA connector ...

Dear ManagersI have an e450 running sol8 04/01, and all patches to sept 01.Its application is a nfs disk and compute server, but it's notunder particularly high load. The clients are mainly sol2.6.The box has been running sweetly since sept01, but over the last 5 daysI am having repeated ...

Dear Sun Managers,Somebody had physically powered down my sun box, while view the demesg i gotthis info, i have some idea about the bottom most error mesg it is related toipf.Jan 28 23:34:25 that will try to clear error from systeman 28 23:34:42 SUNW,UltraSPARC-II: [ID 467478 kern.warning] ...

Hi All I have intstalled sparc solaris 2.6 on ultra-10 using OperatingEnvironment Installation CD February 2000 (704-7076-10), which is having20.4 Gb IDE hard disk Sun P/N 370-4327-01, when the system reboots afterinstalling the OS, it gives an error saying thatcorrupt label - bad geometrylabel ...

Hi,<p> what's the following OS mode? Is this different to standart 64-bit<br>Solaris?<p> Solaris 8 (64-bit OS mode running in compatability/emulation<br>mode)<p>Thanks,<br>Murat<br>

I get the above error message when booting netra from cdrom.Specs are as below.Netra T1 200 (UltraSPARC-IIe 500MHz), No KeyboardOpenBoot 4.0, 256 MB memory installed, Serial #16689128.Ethernet address 8:0:20:fe:a7:e8, Host ID: 80fea7e8.Ecache Size = 256 KBProcessor Speed = 500 MHzok ...

Hello,I have standart SNMP agents running : mibiisa, snmpdx.I get zero values for all the sunHostPerf group ; that seems incorrect.Other groups look just OK1: rsUserProcessTime.0 (counter) 02: rsNiceModeTime.0 (counter) 0.../...17: rsIfOutErrors.0 (counter) 018: rsIfCollisions.0 (counter) ...