Hi!i encountered a weird problem with my SunVideo card (SBUS in sparc10,prom2.10): after a fresh installation of Solaris 8 it said:WARNING: rtvc0 region "wbus" failed at word address 0x8 (8)WARNING: rtvc0 Error detected; board resettingWell, that's it. after the bootup i did not have ...

Solution:First create a device using lof admin utility, lofiadm: # lofiadm -a /path/to/iso/file/imagelofiadm will return the device name /dev/lofi/1Mount the iso image/device name just returned to your favorite mount point. # mount -F hsfs -o ro /dev/lofi/1 /mntAfterward, unmount the device ...

hi! managers,I concatenated 2 disks (each disk corresponding to one slice) using SDS .Imirror these two md's .When i use metatool GUI i am able to see the right things i.e 2concatenated partitons mirrored.But when i use df -k it shows the cappacity of only one disk whereas itshould show ...

Anybody out there done the Veritas Volume Manager<br>certification exam (310-101)or the Online Disksuite certification exam (<br>310-102)? If so, can you recommend<br>study guide/exam-cram doc?<p>Thanks.<br>

Hello,<br>I have sevaral nfs shared with root to few machines, but any body in the <br>network<br>can change the hostname to one of the trusted root host and write in to this .<br>how can we prevent this?<br>Regards<br>Raghu<br>

Is someone using solaris 2.9?<br>Any big differencies? What's better? :)<p>as usual, will summarize.<br>

I've having an odd problem. Over the weekend, we migrated many of ourfilesystems to a NASour automounter file was changed, and everything looked good.However, it seems that all was not well. Some of the _files_ in our homedirectory root are reportedas not accessible ('permission denied').The ...

Hi All,Yesterday I tried to do a:dd if=/dev/rdsk/c0t1d0s2 of=/dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s2 bs=4096as suggested on www.sun.comAfter about 2 hours, the copy was still not complete, and due to downtimerunning out, I had to abort. The disk was a 9 GB disk.Any idea what went wrong? I booted off CD as well to ...

Hello,<p>It`s possible to route a net with the route add command like<br>route add -net 123.123.123 gateway_ip<p>But is it possible to add a static route for a small subnet ?<br>I.e. a network with netmask 255.255.255.240.<br>If yes, what`s the syntax of the route command.<p>TIA, Dirk.<br>

Hi,This happens when trying to shut down a system, it is not s NFS server just a desktop (sunblade 100)Shutdown started. Wed May 22 17:46:24 GMT 2002Broadcast Message from root (pts/4) on tesler Wed May 22 17:46:24...The system tesler will be shut down in 1 minute Broadcast Message from root ...

Hi all,I am trying to setup a Netra X1 as a router without success so far. On the Netra I have the following files:/etc/hostname.dmfe0:=================192.168.1.8/etc/hostname.dmfe1:=================10.0.0.1/etc/defaultrouter:===============192.168.1.254/etc/resolv.conf:=============nameserver ...

Slightly off topic If i perform a backup to an LTO drive - can i then use a DLT8000 drive toread the tape ?.......****************************************************************************************This E-mail is from O2. The E-mail and any filestransmitted with it are confidential and may ...

Thank you all.It's a bad thing doing an rm without a backup. Think twice before a rmwith wildcards. There's no such good thing as the undelete command ofmsdos old days.But you can try Coroner's Toolkit ( http://www.fish.com/tct ). It acomputer forensic set of tools. A command gets all ...

Gurus,Is there a way to repackage a package once it has been installed via packageadd? I mean is there a way to do it with ease, instead of cross referencingwith the /var/sadm/install/contents file.I have half a dozen packages on a particular station I would like to zip upand install on ...

Hello,first at all thanx to all.I forgot to mention that this system is working under Solaris 7. So thesyntax of route add 123.123.123.128/28 gateway_ip doesn't work.Sorry for that (didn't thought that any differenses in this area of Solaris).The file /etc/netmasks seems not to be visited by ...

Hi guystoday one of my server got shutdown bcoz of power failure now when i restartthe server the ethernet is not coming up. it says read: ifconfig:hostname Badaddress.OS is Sun OS 5.6pls help me outrgdsbrij \\\/// / \ | \\ // | | (.) (.) ...

Hi all,thanks to all the responses I got so far. It appears that my question was not clear enough so I add this message to clarify things. The problem is to get a Netra X1 with two interface (dmfe0 und dmfe1) to be behave as a router from a subnet 192.168.1.0 to a subnet 10.0.0.0. The name of ...

Hello All,<p>Is there a command that allows real time monitoring of network traffic <br>through a specific interface? I need to measure bytes or kbytes per <br>second and netstat seems to report only in packets which can vary <br>significantly in size.<p>Thanks,<p>Vic Engle<br>

Hello!I had to keep my promise to summarize this issue, even if it is a long timeago...> Where should the replicas for the state database ideally be put?> Should the slice be put in the beginning, the middle or the end of a disk?(for performance reasons and/or stabililty)The metadbs ...

Hello to all,I have an exteranl disk(IBM model 8GB) attached to mySPARCstation-4 running solaris 2.4. Because we don'thave solairs OS for this old machine, we want tobackup the whole filesystem files (which is solaris2.4 installed on SPARCstation-4 now) onto thatexternal disk. We have solaris ...

Hi Gurus,I am having NIS on Solaris 7, and would like to know how to enable 8 Chars passwd, andthe clients are from 2.5.1 to 2.8. Is it possible to enable the 8 Chars(MIN) passwd ?Currently it is 6 Chars and Max 8 Chars.Thanks in advanceRegsSunnyYahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World ...

Hi,thanks to all that respondend to my problem and special thanks to Kamalan Govender who provided the last bit of the puzzle. The problem was caused by the second router in the 192.168.1.0 subnet. I had to add a dafault route to the DSL-Router on the net router and a route to the net router on ...

Question:=======Hi All,Yesterday I tried to do a:dd if=/dev/rdsk/c0t1d0s2 of=/dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s2 bs=4096as suggested on www.sun.comAfter about 2 hours, the copy was still not complete, and due to downtimerunning out, I had to abort. The disk was a 9 GB disk.Any idea what went wrong? I booted ...

hi! managers,<br>how can i make a non root users shutdown the machine on soalris <br>8...<br>any clues r appreciated....<p>M.Saqib.<br>Customer Support -Sun Services.<br>Apara Enterprise Solutions P Ltd.<br>9/14, East Patel Nagar,<br>N.Delhi<br>Tel # 5854645,5850487.<br>www.apara.com<br>

Hi,Just testing peoples memory.Anybody out there that would know anything about a possible disk size limiton Solaris V2.3?I was told that in that version of Solaris there seems to be a 40-50GB maxsize that the O/S will see per disk (not per filesystem).That means if you install a 100GB disk in ...

Hi all,I of my Ultra5 rebooted twice in as many weeks. Any ideas what ishappening? The OS is solaris 7 fully patched ./var/adm/messages saysMay 28 11:20:59 bugs unix: panic[cpu0]/thread=30002809380:May 28 11:20:59 bugs unix: segkp_delete: unable to find element to ...

Hi,only got one reply and many thanks to Pierre Zimmermann. it could be, that your system has some external file systems mounted via NFS(the /etc/init.d/nfs.client was started)but the RPC services (bind and portmapper) are not running anymore(/etc/init.d/rpc)The RPC services are basic services ...

Dear All,Many thanks to Elizabeth Lee who suggested stopping &restarting the lpsched daemon:# lpshut# /usr/lib/lp/lpschedand Sean Burke, who suggested deleting and recreating theprint queue:# lpadmin -x GEB50JR1# lpadmin -p GEB50JR1 -s geb50j!GEB50JR1I tried both of these on their own & ...

Hello Managers,we have a sun blade 100 with solaris 8 running. This machine works as a routerfor some subnets.It has two extra pci nics installed.Now it's the third time that the machine freezes. Only power-off the machinesworks.What's wrong? There are no error messages, no core, nothing. It ...

Hello to all Sun professionals,In the context of a performance measurement project,I catch all data we need in a Oracle DB via Sun Management Center.The most systems are E10Ks with lots of disks and CPUs,for this we use a 60 sec. time interval, the result is to much dataon the database.My ...

Hi All,I am trying to configure remote loging no my linux machine.I can onlymake logs of all the machines in a single file on the remote log server.that is logs of machin1, machine2 ..machine10 are comming in/var/log/message , /var/log/kernlog , /var/log/authlog etc files.But I want to separate ...

Hi All,I have a backup script which is to run as a cron job . for this I made an entry into /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root 0 0 * * * /app/AdNet/Web/bin/backup.shthe log file /var/cron/log says the following :CMD: /app/AdNet/Web/bin/backup.sh> root 6478 c Tue May 28 16:30:00 2002< root ...

Dear Sun Managers,I've some problem while setting up my X.25 ver 9.2.Can someone out there shed a light on the following?1. ) How to check and ensure that the physical layeris OK?2. ) How to confirm that the data layer is working well?3. ) How to confirm that the network layer is OK?4. ...

I am in the process of creating some scripts to auto configure disk suite onsome systems to be deployed at a customer facility. I am going to set upmirroring on a Sunfire server and would like to run through some tests tobuild confidence in my setup. One of the things that I would like to do ...

Hi gurus,My machine is Sun E250, Solaris 2.6Currently when CDE starts up, it make use of slice7 of the local disk (target 0 ). My problem is Im using this slice exclusively for somespecific tasks, which needs mounting and unmounting. While unmountingslice7, it shows slice is busy and ...

Hi folks!I'm suffering from LD_LIBRARY_PATH-itis. Fortunately it's only onedirectory that's contained therein: /usr/local/libI have added /usr/local/lib to LD_LIBRARY_PATH in /etc/profile, so on everyinteractive session the environment is set and everything works fine.Unfortunately if it's ...

Hi Sunmanagers,I have a couple of Solaris servers hooked up on a SAN box.Each server has a JNIC interface.Now I want to know the World Wide Port Number (WWPN) of each JNIC interface.Does anybody has an idea where I can find this?I know that when a server boots, it shows the WWPN and stores it ...

HI,First of all, thanks sunners!= Solaris 7 don't support disks over 32GB (only Solaris 8 +)= You do not buy a IDE Maxtor disk . . .My original question:Hi ,I have another problem.Now I want to format a disk IDE Maxtor in an Ultra 10 with Solaris 7.The format command: Cannot format this drive. ...

Hi everyone!One suggestion was to boot from CD 1/2, rather than bootingfrom the Install CD. Since I have bootet from CD 1/2, I triedto boot from the Install CD, it worked. ;-)cualexs> I have a problem installing a SUN 280R Server with Solaris 2/02.> After the network configuration the ...

Here are three examples of someone trying to call rpcbind on a server ofmine. In all three cases the IP is not in DNS, so it is most likely aDHCP wintel box that some developer is using and he or she is not evenaware that it is trying to contact my server. Since I have rpcbindwrapped on this ...

Please don't ask me why, but I need to know the system type byte to<br>program into the EEPROM of an Ultra 5. The hostid FAQ only goes up to the<br>Ultra 1, and I can't check on an other system either :-(<p>Any help would be greatly appreciated.<p>Walter Heukels<br>

Hi All,I am using Solaris 2.6. Installed Sudoers version1.6.3p7. I have two users x and y. Now I want to givesu permission to x user for only y user. So x should su only to y.So I added following line in suodersx ALL = /usr/bin/su yBut that didnt worked. Still it gives me followingerror ...

Dear Managers, We're trying to install amanda backup software on SPARC solaris 8.we are facing problem on configuring amanda.conf file, and also when i'm trying to use amcheck utility it says logfile files and host not found..Does anyone have step-by-step method, how to configure ...

All,I've logged a support call with Sun to see if Xvfb (X Virtual Frame Buffer)is supported in Solaris 8.Their official response was :-"I have done some digging around and found that Sun does not support VirtualFrame Buffering in Solaris 8 or previous versions. There is no way ofgetting ...

And the winner is:<p> 80<p>Thanks to Matthew Stier.<br>

Question:I have a Sun system (an NFS client) having CPU problemnow. The system/kernel processes have consumed 50% to70% of the CPUs. Here is the info from TOP: "CPUstates: 7.0% idle, 20.0% user, 72.9% kernel, 0.1%iowait, 0.0% swap Memory: 1024M real, 479M free, 152Mswap in use, 1639M swap ...

As always, thanks for the quick and helpful replies managers!General consensus is to go for V880 over E450 for the task at hand.I've pasted replies below.Original post...> We would like to replace our E3000 (EOL system). It will have Solaris 8 and> will basically be used to run Oracle ...

Hello to All,Does anyone know where to get pre-compiled g77binaries? We have a SPARCstion-4 machine with solaris2.4 installed, memory size 16Mbytes, and 512 harddrive. We don't have c compiler on this machine. Ithink it would be much more easier to get g77 binariesfor this machine instead of ...

# showrev -pld.so.1: showrev: fatal: libadmapm.so.2: open failed: No such file ordirectoryKilledSo I read the FAQ #2 at sunfreeware.com and set my LD_LIBRARY_PATH# echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH/usr/local/lib:/usr/openwin/lib:/usr/dt/libshowrev -p stills doesn't work, what package/s or variable/s am I ...

Hi,<p>Exceed seems to be a little bit pricey just to run xterms. I'm wondering <br>if there are any freeware PC X servers?<p>Thanks<br>