And the winner is 'BEGIN' thanks for the feedback. This code will add a search path based on OS Rev. BEGIN { use POSIX qw(uname); my ($uname_s, $uname_r) = (POSIX::uname())[0,2]; unshift(@INC, "/var/opt/modules/$uname_s/$uname_r" );}If you wish to follow the rest of this ...

Hello: I have installed samba-2.2.2-sol8 on Ultra 10 having Solaris 8. Whiletesting samba's configuration file (smb.conf) using testparm command Iam getting following error: ld.so.1: ./testparm: fatal: libgen.so.1: open failed: No such file ordirectory Killed I have tried to find solution in ...

I thank following people for their suggestion in looking in severaldirections which definitely gave some clue but the problem was solved bysomething which was very unlikely. I changed the HBA as the last weapon andguess what , it worked. Its absolutely fine now.Thanks:Mark BergmanBuddy ...

We have 4 E450s and 4 E250s (Sparc II) in our shop. Now that Sun has startedon the Sun Fire line (Sparc III), what our some of your thoughts on how andwhen to migrate to the new hardware.I believe we have about 5 years for support from Sun on the old equipment.Although the equipment would last ...

hi to everyone, I have created a daemon, usermond, that monitors the total time a user logs in and the total time it is busy. It is running on Solaris 2.5.1. The daemon uses three threads, the first thread gathers information regarding the busy and log in time for each user. ...

> 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 (automatically) had a> rebuild of the raidset.> > Unfortunateky, the rebuild did not go 100% correct and we had ...

Hi Thanks to Simon, Bertrand, Larye, Darren, Kanchan,Todd, Mike, Lars...It was too fast and Solution was quite simple one,once I got the answer...1. makefile 4 gb swaptmpfile2. swap -a swaptmpfile3. swap -d orig-swap-partition4. change orig-swap partition with format command5. swap -a ...

Sorry to bug everyone on a Saturday :)A few months ago, we revamped our backup system and build a new master netbackup server on a e450, sol8 as I recall. We were using the existing smaller Storagetek L40 jukebox, and then purchased a refurb Timberwolf (much bigger, more drives). Things were ...

Hi all,<p>I'm trying to remember the name of a command I've used under Solaris <br>before. It lists the MAC addresses of all the computers that it can see <br>on the local network. Any ideas? Thanks.<p>-- <br>Doug Krause<br><A HREF="/execute/ask/?codeinfoid=13982">dijon at ratcage.com</A><br>

Hi All -I have some mysterious problems related to mailx and pine.The machine is a Solaris 5.8 box.The following commands will just hang. mailx mailx -f foomail, where foomail is in a user's home directory cat foomail (after mailx -f foomail has been invoked) cp foomail foomail2 ...

Hi, I have a E3000 which is running oracle 9i, however it hang on the bootup time after I restart the server. Below are the console output from theterminal. Is there any thing wrong with it? Because it just hang at "\" andeven wait for a few hrs, it still not ...

I have recently been put in charge of a ultra 2 box that wasn't setup by me. Since this machine had two 9gb drives and only one was being used I installed Solstice DiskSuite like I would normally on any other install I did, but for this to happen I had to shrink the swap partition to create a ...

situation:We'vegot a (hardware) raid kit8 disks, 1 hot spare, hardware raid5 on that set.We had a diskerror on the raid, replaced a disk and (automatically) had arebuild of the raidset.Unfortunateky, the rebuild did not go 100% correct and we had somecorreuption on the disks.This raidset is ...

We would like to prevent users from pulling their emailoff our pop/imap server through Hotmail, Yahoo etc. Theobvious solution is to set up a firewall rule to preventaccess by Hotmail, Yahoo etc servers.Has anyone addressed this problem?Has anyone compiled (sells?) a list of IPs to block?Is ...

Hi!I have software that wants a Sun type 5 keyboard.Does anyone know any way to fool a program into thinkingthat it is connected to a SunBlade 1000 with a type 5 boardwhen it's actually a type 6 keyboard?Failing that, does anyone know whether there is an adapterthat will allow me to use a real ...

Managers, Does Solaris 8 come with a fully functional C compiler? Thepowers-that-be prefer not to use gcc due to support issues in ourenvironment. We are a higher-ed institution and a member of the ScholarPACprogram. Will we need to purchase the compiler/license seperately or is ...

Turns out to be a bad cdrom was giving different hardware paths. Crazything was that with diagnostics turned on, it appeared that the cdrom wasbeing found, however using probe-ide, it was giving inconsistent errors.Replaced cdrom and all is well again.Many thanks to those that helped with ...

Dear Sun Gurus,I have just installed expect 5.25 along with tcl-8.0 and tk-8.0 on a solaris 2.6 sparc 5.I modified a script I saw posted over a month ago. Here is a simple copy of my script:#!/usr/local/bin/expectlog_file -noappend "telnetoutput.txt"spawn telnet 138.10.12.144expect ...

Hi Thanks to Darren, Michel, Kris, Tim, Hocke, Evans,Randy, Daniel, Stace, Alex, Mark, Dragon, Frabrice,Giardian, McCaffityEverybody pointed towards installing binutil packageto solve the problem.Also some advised to use 2.95.3 on PRODUCTION ServerBut to take advantage of 64-bit I have ...

Hi All -I'm seeing some odd behavior with respect to multicast on a couple of our Solaris 8 boxes...Each of the boxes in question is on three subnets:SUBNET-1: 10.1.1.0/24SUBNET-2: 10.0.20.0/27SUBNET-3: 10.0.20.32/27I'm trying to explicitly route multicast traffic for 225.0.0.0 on SUBNET-2, ...

Thanks to Dave and sysadmin at astro.su.seSolution:---------There's no need for to to be fixed - you just need touse fixed offsetsfrom whatever pointer mmap returns. eg unsigned char *base; base = (unsigned char *) mmap(........); *(base+100) = 'A'; /* write an A to byte 101 ofthe ...

I have a fresh Install of Solaris-8 with latest recommended patches. An L9tape library is being used by Networker version 5.5.4. On the first fullbackup networker had no problem with with the library. Today networker ishaving trouble operating the L9. The following is appearing ...

Hi All Is it possible to extend mapped area?something like //Mapping sizeof(mystruct) addr = (mystruct *) mmap(0, sizeof(mystruct), ...); //Using mystruct->datasize, extening mmap area newaddr = mremap((void *)addr, addr->datasize, ...);Is there any api simular to mremap,or is ...

Hi,<br>I am having this peculiar problem.<br>one of the solaris box reboots itself after few minutes.<br>Can it due to any application running on this box ?<br>If yes, what are the situations in which this can happen.<br>and where to look to troubleshoot.<p>Thanks,<br>Ashish<br>

Hello,Can anybody suggest someways wherein I can get the overall %utilization ofCPU, Memory and disk for a sun solaris machine.Thanks & Regardstagdba_______________________________________________codeprof mailing listcodeprof at ...

Hi,I want to monitor my server resources status such as memory, CPU load,etc. I know top and iostat will do the work but I need utility programthat can store history, generate a chart, identify the peak hour,etc(similar to webalizer) so I can produce a weekly and monthly report,preferrably web ...

Hello:I have a problem with a DiskSuite 4.2 mirror, and I'd like some adviceon how to tackle the problem. I have a few two-way mirrors. I recentlydiscovered that some of the sub-mirrors went into a"Maintenance/Critical" state. One mirror is mounted as / and the other/varIn each ...

telnet , ftp and other inetd services hangs on Solaris 2.6 (Ultra- 10).we need to kill the inetd to start these services back. do anyone haveany insight on this why this happenning-rakesh------------------------------------------------------------------------Join the worlds largest e-mail ...

Hello Managers,Thanks for all who replied .Every one pointing to very less time required to do an fsck ,but it does need an fsck .It's a journal file system which will make log automatically.RegardsRaghuAt 05:54 AM 5/21/2002 -0700, Jason Wood wrote:>VxFS is inherantly a journelled file ...

Sorry for a late summary.Thanks to Carsten Boeddicker and Justin Stringfellow for their timeresponding my email.(Un-)fortunately I just got a new E4500, so I never try to swap the SBusboard.Anyway please find their idea :1. The swap could create a trouble since the controllers depends on ...

Hi, I have a E3000 which is running oracle 9i, however it hang on the bootup time after I restart the server. Below are the console output from theterminal. Is there any thing wrong with it? Because it just hang at "\" andeven wait for a few hrs, it still not ...

Hi gurus...Please help me out with this problem.I am new to Solaris and Administration.and in this organization the earlier sys admin used an ip series198.1.1.10/255.255.255.0 and with Solaris 2.6 and oracle database installon the server I want to change the ip to 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0 How ...

Hi all,how will I find the time since epoch in secs in solaris. I know in linux we have "date +'%s' " . can anybody give me some solution pls .Thanks&Regards,A.K.Rasanthph: 91-80-8522507 Ext 1626--------------------------------------------------------------Velankani Information ...

Whoops, sorry, I just discovered that I forgot to send this summary beforeI went on holidays...So here we go. My question was:> I'm looking for a possebility to do 'source routing'. What I mean with it is> that I want to be able to route based on the source, not the destination> ...

Hi ,Thanks to all who had replied to my posting.the best answer I got to find time since epoch is :/usr/bin/truss /usr/bin/date 2>&1 | /usr/bin/awk '/^time/ {print $NF}'Thanks a lot Mr Dennis Patterson.the other option is :perl -e 'print time;'Thanks to:Dan KellySchmitt MartinDarren ...

Hey,I am trying to understand something about Sun patches. Let's say that a system has 107226-18 installed. Then some applicationsays it needs 107226-17 to be installed, recommended for CDE users (whichsome users are). Does -18 supercede -17, or should -17 be installed as ...

Many, many, MANY of you replied - all with the same answer:Yes, a later patch always supercedes the earlier one, and contains everything therein, plus the new stuff.There's so many replies, I can't possibly thank you directly,but you have clarified this point for me quite ...

I have a Disksuite 4.2 metadevice that, due to a string of events, containsonly one submirror. One of the stripes on that mirror is now marked as"Last Erred" in disksuite. It is still online but I occasionally get errorslike the following in /var/adm/messages:May 22 11:18:20 server ...

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Hi Everyone,Is this a correct assumption that if RSS is larger than SZ, then the application have memory leak?SZ=total size of the processRSS=resident set size of processThank you all.________________________________________________Get your own "800" numberVoicemail, fax, email, and a ...

As opposed to using JumpStart I've heard rumour that disk cloning<br>with Symantec's Ghost is possible. Has anyone done it?<p>Thanks,<p> Ed<p>Ed Sanborn (978) 367-8478<br>Principal Network Administrator<br>SnowShore Networks<br>285 Billerica Rd.<br>Chelmsford, MA. 01824<br>

Just saw this advisory for in.rarpd, claims of local and remotevulnerabilities.So my question is, can this be disabled? The daemon is onlyrunning on two of our systems, one is a SunRay server and theother is our NIS master, and I can't afford to break either.A preliminary search for ...

Hi everyone!I have an E450 with 2 Symbios Logic SCSI LVD cards in it and it would notsee any of them in probe-scsi-all. I can see it on prtdiag though. I am thinking to upgrade OBP, it has ratherold version 3.16.2. Any suggestions?George ...

The votes are in and the package getting the most votes was: qpopper A number of other packages got good reviews: UWash imap servercucipoppopa3dcyruscourierimapgnu-pop3d Thanks to all who responded! I'm going to be evaluating several of thesebefore I make my final decision.Blaine OwensEastman ...

We have a SUN E450. It has a problem.The error message is: Read from PCF8574(FPM) failed read of LM75 failed Unix: warning: write to PCF8574 failed, addr=70 Fan Fail is 0x79, retries=3. PS Fan number 0 Failed. Fan Failure(s), system shutdown. (Fatal System Environmental control Error)I saw the ...

Howdy folks, Has anyone mass-cloned systems from a master system withdd? I have a fully configured Netra X1 that I simplywant to duplicate on other Netra X1's....-EdEd Sanborn (978) 367-8478Principal Network AdministratorSnowShore Networks285 Billerica Rd.Chelmsford, MA. ...

Hi All,<p>Does anyone have a procedure for recovering lost inodes after a Veritas<br>Files System has been shrunk. I believe there's a vxfs command that will<br>point to lost inodes so that one can rebuild lost files & directories. Any<br>help would be much appreciated. Thanks!<p>--ian<br>

Does anyone know if Sun offers a time-restricted version of SUNWut, or some form of package that is for eval purposes? I've had about 9-10 SunRay's land on my desk, and I need to idenfity their condition and make sure they're working, before moving them on.Thanks, and will summarize.Steve ...