Hi all,I have an old Ultra-2 (running Solaris 2.6), which has been offline forthe past few months. When I powered the machine on earlier today, I gotthe following error:ok bootBoot device: disk File and args:Boot load failed.The file just loaded does not appear to be executable.okI used a ...

HI GurusI have question ?Can we have second NIC card on the jumpstart server which is configured with different subnet .The reason for adding new card , we dont need to make new boot server for new subnet.If any one have done that type work or know about that or having any problems and wantto ...

Greetings all, I am using JumpStart to setup an Intel box (1xPentiumIII, 128 megs RAM, 18 gig SCSI HD, Matrox G2 video card). I've gone through the process several times now with moderate success. But there are a few items I want to nail down.Is there a way to make it skip kdmconfig the ...

Hi. I have a SUN E6500 with two I/O boards and one GbE (ge) in each.System is Solaris 8 up-to-date.These two interfaces are in one group and I'm using IPMP (second interfaceis standby). I get in /var/adm/messages errors from in.mpathd like Cannot meet requested failure detection time of ### ...

I have recently encountered a Tooltalk probem on a Solaris 6 standalone workstation for a client. One user uses dtmail and dtsession frequently from her NT box through Exceed. Recently, her $HOME/.TTauthority file ownership got mysteriously changed to root owner and she was blocked of all the ...

Managers,Im having the following error on my Ultra-1 (just installed Sol.8)Rebooting with command: boot Boot device: disk:c File and args: SunOS Release 5.8 Version Generic_108528-11 32-bitCopyright 1983-2001 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.Cannot mount root on /sbus at ...

If there is a service bind to a udp port, how can I check the send/receive queue usage?In Linux, I can use "netstat -a" to display the send/receive queue. But in Solaris, "netstat -a" only show queue for tcp port but nothing for udp port.Is there any other command of 3rd ...

Does anyone know of I can take a disk formated with UFS and plug itphysically into a Linux host and mount the filesystem rw? Are there anyimplications when that same disk is moved back to a Solaris/Sparc platform?What about going the other way? A linux filesystem (which one?) mounted ona ...

Greetings all, I sent these questions out a few days ago but I never sawthem make the list. Any help will be appreciated.Thanks,Eric---------- Forwarded message ----------Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2002 16:01:30 -0700 (PDT)From: Eric Blumenau <eric at candyland.techtv.com>Reply-To: Eric ...

I appreciate the enthusiasm of folks who have pointed me in the direction of/etc/default/login. However, if you think RETRIES is locking user accounts,I have some unhappy news for you.Yes, I already knew about /etc/default/login and the RETRIES parameter.Failure to successfully login with the ...

Hello, Does anybody know how to change the hostid of a SunFire 6800 domain ? The sames goes for a 3800 or a 4800... even pointers to a x500 machine... The old, true and tried methods at www.squirrel.com don't work on the new machines firmware ( doesn't known what a mkp is ) and we need to do ...

I just created a web start flash archive for solaris8 sun4u.Everything seems to go well with the jumpstart including thedownloading of the archive to the client. When the archivegets 100% extracted, I get this error:"error in unconfig_files: -4Error: unable to unconfigure the extracted ...

SUMMARY: panic assert messages problem...First, Thank you everyone that replied to me.I received 5 good helping mails. and it give so many helpness.. to me.thank you very very much.Hi, manangers!Please help me... I have a Ultra60 with solaris 7.Yesterday, When I installed 7_Recommended patch in ...

Fabrice Guerini <<A HREF="/execute/ask/?codeinfoid=14537">fabrice at bluemartini.com</A>><br>You may have a resource problem in your tmpfs. Try unzipping under /var/tmp<br>instead.<br>

Pierre Zimmermann <Pierre.Zimmermann at tecnomen.fi>you have fulfilled your swap space = /tmp and then the system crashed.To avoid this in future:- set a maximum file size for /tmp in /etc/vfstab:swap - /tmp tmpfs - yessize=100m(the "size=100m" ...

Casper Dik <Casper.Dik at Sun.COM>Is that the actual message? If so, then it's not one from theSolaris kernel (we don't have a src/sys/mem.c file in Solaris proper)If the message actually is a88ert and not assert, I have the suspicionsomeone may have hacked your box and isntalled a ...

"Joon Martin Hansen" <joon.martin.hansen at eterra.no>Hi!Don't know it this is the case, but it might./tmp is a RAM-based filesystem. Amount of RAM + Swap file/slice.If this goes full U get a big problem... Try to use a UFS filesysteminstead.Joon ...

"Broun, Bevan" <brounb at adi-limited.com>Do a "stop a" or whatever is needed to get to the ok prompt. Do "boot -b"to bring the system up in single user with only / mounted read only. Do afsck of / and then "mount -o remount /" to give you root ...

hi, sorry for trivial Question, but:in some .cshrc files i see "$path" in the "set path = ()" statement.is it necessary?. when it is removed, "echo $path" output looks normal. With it, all are ...

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Hello everybody,Any body knows where to find information about (TPM) transactions per minute? I have a request to find out what server configuration we need (H/W) to get 4,527 TPM using Oracle 8iIs there any way to convert TPM to TPC ?Any Idea?B.Regards,Deya Eddin AtawnehSun/Jeraisy Support ...

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Hi gurus<p>Anybody has downloaded Solaris 9 early Access for intel . Actually i need<br>unwrap script .<br>If anyone is having that please send it to me .<p>Thanks<p>Regards<br>Gurjeet Singh<br>

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Hi All,Anyone been able to download this from sunsite ? - i keep gettingmaintenance page up. Anyone know of a mirror site ?ThanksLaurence****************************************************************************************This E-mail is from O2. The E-mail and any filestransmitted with it ...

From: Jeffrey P MillerI just created a web start flash archive for solaris8 sun4u.Everything seems to go well with the jumpstart including thedownloading of the archive to the client. When the archivegets 100% extracted, I get this error:"error in unconfig_files: -4Error: unable to ...

Hello all,<p>Does anyone know if using release 0.3.6 of the Solaris Security Toolkit on<br>Solaris 8 02/02 will affect its EAL4 certification in any way? Any advice<br>would be appreciated. <p>Thanks very much.<br>Regards,<br>Chris<br>

Where can I get openssh package for X86?<br>

Greetings,I have two E450 and two A5000's. Both E450's areconnected to both A5000's. I have 4 volumes in a RAID1+0 config with VxVM(3.2) and VxFS(3.4). The machinesrun our oracle production environment. Both systemsare at the same patch level 108528-12. On the frontside of one A5000, I'm ...

Hi, I know "never change a running system" butI upgraded the system to Solaris 9 (just my working station)an d I am not able to install Ximian Gnome.The installer asks the system for the version number and of course thesystemreturns 5.9 (bad programming) and the installer quits with ...

Sorry I left out the OS, Solaris 7 X86.<p>Question:<br>Does anyone know where I can get the openssh package for X86?<br>

All,Just looking for something similar in SUN as available in base HP-ux OS.They have something called async io which when configured allows asynchronous IO for faster IO (i.e databases). Does SUN offer something similar or is such feature built into SUN already no need to ...

Has anyone come up with a methodology with removing obsoleted patches?We're using 'patch_check' for a large group of hosts, and to facilitate analysis we'd like to get rid of the obsoleted patches for the htm output. It sounds insignificat, but when dealing with 100 hosts, not having to ...

Managers, I know this horse has been beaten for a long time but I am a Tru64 admintransitioning to Solaris and am having trouble believing that I can't use apassword longer than 8 characters under Solaris 8. Am I going to have tosuck it up and accept this fact or is there any way to ...

Thanks to everyone who responded: Mike Hong, System Administrator Account,Darren Dunham, Jay Lessert, Hichael Morton, Thomas Knox, & Lonnie Ratliff.The problem was indeed the NVRAM. Replaced the NVRAM chip and now thesystem can actually keep track of the current date, and quit living in ...

Hi all,I am looking for a good "Getting started" document for qmail on Solaris 8. I have tried several sites including "Live with qmail" without success so far. The processes qmail_* are all running but the instuctions in TEST.deliver fail. I not even get anything logged in ...

Need to configure a dedicated proxy server on Solaris 8. The person wanted to use Apache. Can squid be used for this function. I would like more information on both of these products for a dedicated proxy server, I have never configured squid.<p>Thanks<br>

Hi,Can someone please tell me how to check current running kernel parameters and respective values on solaris < 2.7. I know 2.8 has kstatyou can run to check. Also sysdef doesn't really provide teh inof i'm looking for in 2.7 and below. I've heard about sysinfo, but don't knowmuch ...

Hi All:I would like to synchronise time/date for our unix network so I installedntp-4.1.1aand set-up rc2.d file S99ntpd and upon starting this I get [/etc/rc2.d]-> ./S99ntpd startStarting NTP daemon, takes about 1 minute... 10 Jun 16:15:32 ntpdate[1334]: ntpdate 4.1.1a at 1.791 Mon Jun 3 ...

Adam,Don't know if you got an answer or not, so thought I'd reply (even thoughlate)I just checked hp.com and confirmed that I can still download the package.SOLe118.pkgGive it another try.Les>From: Adam Bisbe <bblp at bisbe.net>>>Hi:>>I have some servers (from 2.5.2 to 8) ...

Hi,<br>Is there a way or command to find out the number of NIS clients binding<br>to a NIS master server (running OS 5.5.1)? <br>Thanks in advance.<br>Anit Shingal<br>Unix Administrator <br>GE Medical Systems<br>

Original message at bottom.replies from: Mark Montague <markmont at umich.edu> system administration account <sysadmin at astro.su.se> Allan West <allan at nwe.ufl.edu> Thomas Anders <anders at hmi.de>The resolution was on-the-fly editing of the .sversionrc file ...

I have a Solaris_Required installation of Solaris 8 and I am unable to getautomountd to start, below is the error message that comes up in/var/adm/messages:Jun 10 11:44:48 bv1 automountd[748]: [ID 956970 daemon.error] svc_create: cannot register 100099 vers 3 on ticotsordJun 10 11:44:48 bv1 ...

Gurus,How do you turn on/configure IP multicasting routing? I've checked google, sunsolve and including this wonderful list's own archive and haven't been able to find an answer.The box that is being configured is an Ultra60 with IPv4 running Solaris 8. Any pointers, like always, will be ...

Hi,thanks to all that responded to my problem with qmail. Most replies actually recommended to use postfix instead. Easier to configure,...So I went to www.postfix.org and got the sources. I have postfix running and am able to send mail to external email addresses but sending mails locally ...

on solaris 2.8, created a new dir under the /export/home.modified the/etc/passwd and /etc/auto_home accordingly for an user and rebooted. whentrying to login as the user i get: "can not find the directory; login asfailsafe ..or cancel,.".i checked and automountd was running.In ...

I know this has been a argument in the past about not changing root<br>shell, what about now in solaris 8 ? any reasons for not changing the<br>shell ? if so what's the best way or safest way ? .....any horror<br>stories<p>Thanks<br>

sems to be the case with 8 character directory name under /export/home/:on solaris 2.8, created a new dir under the /export/home.modified the /etc/passwd and /etc/auto_home accordingly for an user and rebooted. when trying to login as the user i get: "can not find the directory; login ...

Hi,I recently installed "lsof" to look at the file descriptors used in a httpdprocessI came across this line in the output.httpd 32479 root mem DEL 0,2 0 43253766/SYSV00000000Please let me know what does this line exactly means.hhmmm... and can this be a ...

Hi,I recently installed "lsof" to look at the file descriptors used in a httpdprocessI came across this line in the output.COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE NLINK NODE NAMEhttpd 32479 root mem DEL 0,2 0 43253766 /SYSV00000000Please let me know what does ...