I am looking for a 3rd party package that will allow us to LOCK an accountafter 3 unsuccessful login/dtlogin attempts on Solaris 6 and Solaris 8. Ithink Solaris itself does not offer that capability, and it is a hardrequirement of an emerging environment at this site. Fortunately we ...

Hi,I have a Solaris 2.6 box with 2 hme NICs (active and standby) connectedto different switches. Starting from yesterday, netstat -in started showinga lot of input errors on hme0. When I switched to hme1, the input errorsstarted to appear on it with the same speed (ratio is ~4.2%):# netstat ...

For those who are interested, here is a summary of the responses that Ireceived:1) Check with Sun2) Try StatsView3) Try Sarge (having trouble compiling the many dependencies for this)4) Try SarCheck (not free)5) Use GNUPlotThanks to all who responded!"Olson, John C" wrote:> > ...

Hi has a quick question that I'm not able to find for some reason.Anyway I was trying to find a hard limit on the total number offiles that can be created on solaris using either ufs or vxfs.Also if possible an explanation of the performance impact of havinga very large number of small ...

We have 4 Solaris 8, latest level of recommend paths installed, V880.All of them have a PICLD daemon leaking memory.One machine is up for 28 days with PICLD daemon eating up 760 MB of RAM.and using about 1.3% of CPU.Any one has had this happened before? Is there a resolution.Any help would be ...

Thanks to everyone who replied and shared great ideas of what mighthave cause the problem:topherDarren DunhamGaziz Nugmanovtony bourkeVladeSteve MickelerAlmost everyone advised to double-check 100 FullDuplex settings on allNICs and switch ports, and the settings were correct.topher proposed to ...

H all,As noone has responded to the original question... It seems that loopbackmounting character devices is either broken or never meant to work?The major/minors of the devices are nothing like the actual device.. andattempts to operate on them (open for writing is the one for me, ie ...

Received a number of suggestions ....Some folks suggested using DiskSuite on the boot disks, andVeritas for data. Sun's Live Upgrade was also mentioned. We'relooking at both of the above as things we may switch to.For the near term, I've have decided to use information foundin a whitepaper ...

Hi to all gurus,with your help manage to work with the script/ircl1/bin/exp userid=system/maheshadmin file=`date '+%m%d%y'`.dmp full=ybut when the script is run form the cron the script gives an error/var/spool/cron/crontabs/exp2.sh: date: not foundand the file give an output in the a .dmp ...

Hi everyone!How or where do I get HBA information (HW type,HW revision, firmware level, driver level, bioslevel) for a particular SCSI card? I'm only giventhe product id (X6541A-X) and it's description.I've tried searching it in sunsolve but I get ...

Hi:I have some servers (from 2.5.2 to 8) working with hp print servers, all of them with jetadmin software installed, everything works fine (with your help from time to time), but now, installing a new server (t1 with solaris 8) I realize that hp does no longer distribute the jetadmin software. ...

Hi....I would like to seek for an assistance regarding on Netscape Directory ServerGateway. I'm using the Netscape Directory Server v 4.13 in Solaris 8 platform.By the way, my Netscape Console Administration Server is v4.2.How could I customized a page from which I would like to add some ...

Hi All,I am using Solaris 8 and Disk Suite 4.2 is installed.When i checked my data volume by du -ks and df -k command i found very high difference between output of both command.I checked the inodes, it dosent have any inode without files on file system. I used icheck.sh scripts which is ...

HiI've got to archive a lot of material off of one site to take toanother next week. We've just taken deliverly of three V100 desktops,which ship with Firewire ports.I don't suppose there's a sun firewire compatible DVD-R and CD-RWwriter available, is there? I know you canbuiy ones for Mac ...

Greetings:I was in the process of moving our Oracle server this morning (Ultra2/Solaris 7) and it hung on an autofs mount on shutdown. (That's a sideissue I'll work on later...) As in similar situations I eventually (afterwaiting about 10 minutes) Stop-A'ed and sync'ed the machine, then ...

It turned out I needed to have our NT Domain go through establishing amachine account for the Samba server host as MACHINE.SID changes with theupgrade/re-install. I was right all along...> -----Original Message-----> I recently upgraded Samba on a Solaris 8 server (2.07 to 2.2.4)... Then ...

Given the priority of having this machine up, the fact that I cannot findany information on the problem, and the noise the disk is making, I amassuming that the root disk is starting to fail and is corrupted. I amre-building the machine, after which I will mount the failing disk and copyover ...

I know there's not alot of people using Solstice Backup, but we got it fornothing so we use it. I'd like to build a backup "save set" that backs up everything BUT /u01,/u02, u03. The small amount of documentation given on this subject doesn't mention anytype of ...

Hello everyone,One of our SunFire 280 has an unconfigured 3COM RSC card. It is running Solaris 8(release version: 8/2000). After added the RSC package, I get the following error message while running the configure script(rsc-config).====can't load the "gpio" driverERROR: couldn't ...

HiyaYes, my reaction to the subject is the same as yours! :)However... it seems Oracle use NetApp Filers as storage for their owne-business databases. (gigabit ethernet of course). Does anyone have anyexperience with running Oracle 8 DBs on a Filer (either using NFS or DAFS)who could give me a ...

recently a post included two urls pointing to solaristuning sites.if you have this email, can you either repost it orsend it to me directly.thank you.Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World ...

I'm running solaris 2.8.I have old, unused processes I can't seem to kill as root.bash2 :2 root at santa 11:46:19; ps -flL -p 12001 F S UID PID PPID LWP NLWP C PRI NI ADDR SZ WCHAN STIME TTY LTIME CMD 8 R amalik 12001 11963 1 1 0 40 20 ? 754 ...

Hi,I am having problem with telnet on one of the SUN machines. It is runningSolaris 7. I am able to login to this machine fine from console from root. After Ilogin, if I do a telnet to the same host, it fails. (w.x.y.z is the IP address of the problem machine)rlogin is working fine.I checked ...

Does anyone have a line on a Sparc package for netatalk? Any OS version, any netatalk version - as long as it works? I spent about 4 hours trying to get netatalk to work with Redhat 6.2, and it was an ugly event.<p>Thanks in advance to anyone who can assist!<p>Steve B.<br>

Maybe my brain is not working today, this is what I have in my script#!/bin/kshPATH=/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/ccs/bin:/usr/ucb:/etcexport PATHI need to setup the PATH for the rest of my script to run...but theabove doesn't seems to do it...however, when I execute the same ...

Looking for brain dumps for Solaris 8 Part II System Admin course?<p>Thanks<br>

My original questions:-- Does anyone know the advantages and disavantages betweensunscreen andipfilter, in Solaris 8 and maybe in Solaris 9, both on 32-bit (sparc)machine and 64-bit (sparcv9) machine? Which one do you recommend to use? TIA Yann -- Ipfilter it's ...

Guru's.... Has anyone been successful in getting the Storedge Component Manager 2.2 to run? It seems to install without a problem, but when the application is started, it dies because it can't find the java library libjava.so. I've included the java lib path in my LD_LIBRARY_PATH ...

hello. :)when jumpstarting a set of clients, my requested swap partition size isbeing ignored. following the instructions provided in the 'advancedsolaris installation' guide, here's the relevant parts of my profile...**********install_type initial_installsystem_type standalonepartitioning ...

I think Alex might have it down...I added -x (as recommended) and it seemsthe PATH is executing just fine...however, after the script ran, I did anecho $PATH (which the old PATH) displays something else...you can notexport "upward" to the parent shell --only downward (forgot about ...

A server running disksuite just lost it's primary disk. It was replacedand now it won't boot. We've tried disk2,/pci at 1f,4000/scsi at 3/disk at 1,0:a and /pci at 1f,4000/scsi at 3/disk at 2,0:a. Allof which claim they can't open the boot device. Before the server wasshut down a ...

I have installed Star Office 5.2 as a shared server install, and thenend up having to do a user specific install for each user.I have cloned one user's install, and can use it as a prototype toreconstruct that user successfully (this is in kiosk mode on SunRays).In other words, when that ...

*duh* on my part...you need to run the script as . ./path.ksh --should seethe path just fine on your current shell as well. --so, the lesson isdon't forget that extra . (dot) . ./<script name>Thanks again. (roughly a dozen of you responded w/the same suggestion)- MikeBrain not working, ...

I have a Sun Ultra 1 with two 2.1GB disks running Sol 9. To maximizestorage space, I'm trying some wacky stuff that I don't think will workbut I'm going to ask anway. /dev/dsk/c0t3d0s0 is /.I have created several soft-partitions on c0t0d0. What I want to do isconcat c0t3d0s0 with d1 d2 and ...

Dear admin, Thanks for your information.Questions:================================================================= Background: Solaris Client(Solaris 2.X), Linux Server (Redhat 7.X) When I telnet/rsh from solaris to linux machine, sometimes, the backgroud for character is reversed ...

For some reason or other, the "xterm" on recent Linux versions is not completely backwards compatible with ordinaryxterms of common commercial Unixen. Try setting your TERM variable to "xterm-r5" or maybe even "xterm-old"; that has worked for ...

I have had that same problem.. Try "set term=xterm-sun" or "set term=xterm-color" that should do the trick.. Only thing I can guess as the cause is that redhat and solaris use slightly different (color patch for linux?) versions of xterm that have minor ...

/opt/sfw/bin/xterm and /usr/dt/bin/dtterm won't have such problem, /usr/openwin/bin/xterm does not support color mode.Best regards,K.W._________________________________________________________________Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. ...

I am trying to locate the SRC/P Software (and mandatory patches).Card is a PCI (DPT-branded) 3-channel LVD RAID HBA Controller.Software is called:SRC/P Storage Manager (?)CD:Sun StorEdge SRC/P Intelligent RAID Controller CDPatches:109700-01 (2.6)109701-01 (2.7)ThanksLes Connallylesliec at ...

Hi,How do I "tune" the JNI HBAs for better throughput? This is on a SAN usingInrange FC9000 switches and HDS 9960 disk.The only change I made to the default config is to put the following in/etc/system (and it might be wrong)set sd:sd_io_time=0x3cset sd:sd_max_throttle=16set ...

I would like to use the cpio command to backup an Oracle database. Isthere any way to get around the cpio command's 2 GB file size limit?Thanks.Darryl-----Original Message-----From: codeprof-admin at codeprof.com[mailto:codeprof-admin at codeprof.com] On Behalf Of Eva HarlingtonSent: ...

ftp on hpux has a "site subcommand. <br>So we can do things like ftp xxxxx<br> put filename<br> site chmod 666 filename<br>I don't see this command in the Solaris ftp, is there something evuivalent ?<br>

Am able to see drives and robotic device from the OBP ok prompt, but no luckgetting the OS to recognize them (no device files in /dev/rmt) once booted.Config and relevant info follow. Help much appreciated. Thanks.Configuration:E250Solaris 8, latest recommended patch setX6758A dual channel ...

Hi,I have a problem using Jumpstart with ISC DHCP server.We use Internet Software Consortium DHCP Server V3.0rc3We use Solaris8_0202 to boot.After it finds /JumpStart/Sysidcfg and finds sysidcfg, it looks forJumpStart directory to do the install and cannot find it.We added the vendor specific ...

Thanks for the Flood of answers everyone!<p>hers the one that made the cut and landed itself in my crontab!<p>tar cf - /EXPORT/FILE | ssh <A HREF="/execute/ask/?codeinfoid=14518">backupz at XX.X.XX.XXX</A> dd of=/dev/rmt/0 obs=32k<p>works like a charm!<p>thanks all :)<p>~phil<br>

Hi,I've been updating the firmware of A1000 Storedge when my session has beenclosed.My Openboot doesn't recognize the Array because the flash kernel of the array is probably corrupted and it doesn't load well.If I try to access from the console port, and if I execute a "send break" ...

The message I recieve is.Cant read disk label.Can't open disk label package.Can't open boot device.I tryed the probe-scsi and it is found. I tried show-disks selected thedisk and tryed to boot. That is the message I recieve.Any help would be great. Could I put the disks in another machine ...

I have running every variation of ldapclient and in each and every case I get the following, using -v verbose option::::::parsing -P optionfindDN: beginsfindDN: calling __ns_ldap_default_config()found 2 namingcontextsfindDN: __ns_ldap_list(NULL, ...

Hi, I'm trying to backup a filesystem on a remote machine to a tape drive attached to a local machine. Could you please help me out with a command to do this. I have solaris 8 installed on both the machines. To be more precise, I have a server A which has a tape drive connected to it. ...

Hi everybody!I'm trying to use setfacl to set permissions on a specific directory to aspecific group.I did it in this way:$setfacl -m group:computo:rwx usapnext I use getfacl to see the permissions for that directory:$getfacl usapuser::rwxuser:esanchez:rwx ...