It's a late summary, but I have not tried everything:This is the answer from <sysadmin at astro.su.se> which is the one I have used:-----------------------------------------------------------------------The SOLe118.PKG kit includes the HPNPL package, which works on Solaris 2.6 andup. ...

i happily use:cpio . -mount -print | sort | cpio -pvmdu [dest.]how do i exclude file (*.tif) from this happy process. Some files are toolarge and liketo avoid them from copied over.-S------------------------------------------------------------------------Chat with friends online, try MSN ...

I am trying to install RedHat linux 5.0 on a SPARC4. When I give it the boot cdrom command it tells me "bad magic number in disk label". Is there a way to create a bootable cdrom that I am missing? I can boot from the Solaris 2.7 cd that I was given just fine.Any input would be ...

Hi,I've configured PAM (pam.conf) to use kerberos.We installed an Active Directory config (sorry about that :-))and want to authenticate agains AD (via kerberos)login works, rlogin works telnet etc,but xdm doesn't.Does XDM use PAM at all?My pam.conf file:login auth sufficient ...

Hi folks,I will soon be looking into a multi-tiered authentication model for a network i am building and was thinking of using PAM to authenticate (the Solaris' boxes anyway).I'm interested in learning of others experience with running the OS and applications authenticating via PAM, how ...

Hi,thanx to all that replied.Almost everyone pointed to 'prtdiag -v', that chechs the power supplystate. The problem with this is, that I have to run prtdiag to checkit. Better would be, that I would get informed on /dev/console if onesupply fails.Terry Gardner mentioned snmpdx, that would ...

I'm looking for some detailed 2D templates for our E6500 serverwhich has a A3500 and several D1000's. This will be used to create a detailed 2D representation of our server configuration for management.Any web sites where I can obtain ...

Firstly thank you to all that have responded, perhaps I asked the wrongquestions really.Currently we have a E420R running Solaris 2.6, 4x450Mhz CPUs and 4Gb memory,we have a T3 attached (via fibre) to this that is setup as one raid5 lunaccross the 9 disks. This is then split via VxVM into ...

How one can check that Solaris is POSIX compliant ?<br>Any Document/URL out there that define the system commands/system calls<br>of a POSIX compliant system ?<br> <br>Will Summarize.<br> <br>Thanks<br> <br>Levi<br>

Many thanks to all the people who replied with suggestions as to whyI was having problems trying to configure openssh-3.2.3p1 on Solaris 8.Most people suggested I change the --with-ssl-dir option , or setthe LD_LIBRARY_PATH.However, none of the suggested variations worked.Thomas Anders ...

Hey everyone:Sorry for taking soo long to get this summary out. Here is what I got backfrom everyone (and THANKS for all of the suggestions =D ):Restricted bourne SHell: (man -s 1m rsh)Restricted ksh (rksh)chrootpdksh (Public Domain Korn Shell) available from ...

I am planning to setup an Ultra 10 at home and connect to net via my DSL connection. Does Solaris 8 have a PPPoE client? What are others doing, I know a router would be easier.... lol<p>Thanks<br>

Is there any kind of cable that can be purchased or switch so I can run my PC and Ultra 10 off the same PC monitor?<p>Thanks<br>

Hi,thanks to all the responded, especially to Fabrice Guerini <fabrice at bluemartini.fr> and <sysadmin at astro.su.se> who both suggested to put the following entries in /usr/local/etc/sshd_configAllowUsers rootPermitRootLogin yesand then do "kill -HUP <pid of ...

Well, kids, looks like a bug in Solaris 9...After talking with some techies in support, they were able to replicateour problems exactly, and are quite confident that this issue is a bug inthe OE, and that they'll begin work on the fix. That's what I get forhanging off the bleeding ...

Ultra 10, Solaris 2.6<p>How can I enable a screensaver for openwin which starts after 5 minutes of <br>inactivity. Thanks.<p> Doug<br>

Also, need it to be password protected.Doug S Johnson06/14/02 11:10 AM To: codeprof at codeprof.com cc: Subject: openwin screensaverUltra 10, Solaris 2.6How can I enable a screensaver for openwin which starts after 5 minutes of inactivity. Thanks. ...

Hardware: V880 with Sun Crypto Accelator 1000O/S: Solaris 8.0202Software: tcp wrappers 7.6, open ssl 0.9.6b, open ssh 3.2.3We are bringing up a new V880 with a Sun encryption card. We installed thesoftware that came with the card. The software and the instructions in themanual are geared ...

OK thanks to further suggestions from you guys, I have now got openssh-3.2.3p1to configure and compile with openssl-0.9.6d on my Solaris 8 machine.It seems the configure script was not linking with the "dl" library.So I ran./configure --with-libs=-ldl --with-tcp-wrappers ...

Hi Gurus,<br>How to prevent the following messages from showing up when shutdown a <br>solairs box:<p># shutdown -y -g0 -i6<p>showmount: us-jellybean: RPC: Program not registered<p>TIA and will summarize.<br>

The response:It is only possible to use the fmthard way if the disks are exactly the samein geometry. It is possible to mirror unlike disks by creating the slices byhand. The slices just have to be larger than those they are mirroring. Itwas also suggested that I could redefine the geometry of ...

Is there a package to do the opposite of Samba?I.e. I want to use (mount) Win filesystems from a Unix client.-- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Rick von Richter Production Support Manager Voice: 858-831-2222 rickv at mwh.com Maintenance ...

Has anyone been able to find any SCSI DVD writersfor use on their Sun workstations (eg. Ultra80)?Pioneer's A03/A04 models seem to be widely preferred,but they are ATAPI only. Pioneer's SCSI models seem tobe readers only (eg. 305S/505S).I've searched other vendors and this list's ...

I am looking for 3rd party software (freeware, if possible) solution underSOLARIS. Here is our problem.We would like to have a system with no single point failure primarily forNFS services. We are thinking about two Dual CPU 64-bit Ultrasparc processorsystems with heartbeat approach and common ...

Our jumpstart script has this:------------------------------Copyright 2000 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.Cannot find required executable /usr/bin/bzcatpkgadd: ERROR: class action script did not complete successfullyInstallation of <SUNWmdr> failed.bzcat (bzip2) is install but ...

I'm about to bring a DNS system online and wanted to get some feedback.-- Most Solaris system I've seen, named just runs/owns by root.-- Most Linux (ie. Redhat) I've seen, named runs/owns by named (user and group) --only /var/named and everything below owns by named (user and group).My ...

anyone in here know what would be the size of integer and pointer<br>in 64 bit SUN compiler?.-()<p>_________________________________________________________________<br>Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: <A HREF=" http://mobile.msn.com/default.htm"> http://mobile.msn.com</A><br>

I am embarking on a mail store transfer tonight between ufs and vxfs. Tar has a large overhead while ufsdump is obviously not an option. These disks are both local (fcal san attached) so no network issuesinvolved.I am thinking a combination of ufsdump piped to dd might be the mostefficient but ...

I have a bit of a project to undertake and thought I would seek advisebefore proceeding.We have a campus wide resource called the "U-Drive" that provides sharedspace students/faculty/staff can access from their own PC/Mac/Linuxdesktop. It is a Net App with gobs of disk set up with SMB ...

I've created duplicate disk (on target 1) using dd on E3500.I've switched the duplicate disk from target 1 to target 0 but it won't bootfrom the duplicate disk.I found this query from the archive but no summary. I'm having similar problem.How do I fix it?Hi All,I trying to make a root ...

Greetings and Salutations,We just bought a few Sun Blade 2000 with dual processors (U3Sparc) and highend video options XVR-1000 cards. These new framebuffers support dualmonitor and DVI interface. The systems are running Solaris 9. I figured outhow to set the dual monitor option and the ...

Hello,I Was wondering myself why sun blade 1000 disappeared so fast from themarket leading to sun blade 2000?Is there any hidden architectural bug ?Sun tells that a 900MHz UltraSparc III CPU will perform up to 50% faser onSun blade 2000 than Sun blade 1000, this because in the blade ...

I've always been pretty lucky when it comes to backups at places I'veworked at. Either the backups are already set up, or I have to set them upbut I'm backing up to gigantic multi TB tape libraries.This time, I have my own tape library, an L9 with LTO tapes and 900 GB ofstorage. In the ...

wkst came with symbios scsi card.<br>chmod -R 777 /dev/sc5<br>i get: sc*: no such file or director<br>wkst is ultra with sol2.8.<br>Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup<br><A HREF=" http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com/default.htm"> http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com</A><br>

Dear Managers,I have to install and configure Veritas volume manager & netbackup on E250. Iam new to veritas. I have 4 18GB disks on E250.I want to mirror 2 disks. please suggest some sites or some documentation, sothat i don't have to go through all the PDF's.if some one can pass on some ...

Question:=========Is there any way to stop copying the VTOC from the source to the destinationdisk with "dd"? i.e. can you only copy a single slice, instead of using s2forthe entire disk? Thanks so much.I have tried:dd if=/dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0 of=/dev/rdsk/c0t1d0s0 bs=4096kbut it ...

Question:=========Hi All,I'm going to set up a cluster of two nodes. I'm wondering what the opinionsare about clustering within a E3800, or using two V880's.Cost is not really an issue, since with Sun pricing - they are roughly thesame cost with hardware and support.Thanks for the ...

Hi, I just got it working yesterday.Discovered a couple of things: One was that it's nice to ensure that nisknows the netmask of the subnet. The other thing (probably this was theimportant one) was that you have to at least fudgeor 'get around' the defaultroute requirement. Ihave a few ...

Hi all,thanks a lot for all your replies (about twenty). I found that it is a very good idea to completly remove sendmail from the system before installing postfix. Both systems are supposed to work together but ...After installing postfix and creating a user postfix and a group postdrop I ...

Even more urgent now, message being resent at 8:45am. (argh.. wrongdomain)G'day,I've just spent all today installing Veritas Volume manager (first time)on a V880. After encapsulating the root volume, and setting up othervolumes, I rebooted as the instructions said, and it won't boot. ...

Thanks to the two people that replied, the problem was that Veritas hadchanged (or more likely me, inadvertantly) the location of the root dev.After changing (after lots of experimentation) the boot-device todisk3:e I managed to boot it. Oracle is now installed, and I can handit over quite ...

thanks a lot for all the infoMichael GoismanPeter EvansGreg PolanskiMartin Schmittand more ...answers pointed to :i) fixsolaris.sunhelp.orgii) suns jass toolkitregards peter-- GMX - Die Kommunikationsplattform im ...

This may come across as a really stupid question, but I honestly cannotfind an answer anywhere, so bear with me.I'm about to order a bunch of new CPUs and memory for the E4kdownstairs, and was wondering a cpl of things.a) Can you mix CPU modules on separate boards? ie - Can I have one ...

Archive-name: codeprof-faqSun-Managers' Frequently Asked Questions$Id: faq,v 4.31 2002/06/03 14:17:22 jdd Exp $This is collection of common questions posted to the codeprof mailinglist twice a month. It is intended to benefit Sun System Managers andreduce traffic to the list by providing quick ...

Is there any free web based admin software for solaris out there?-- Lito A. Lampitoc Foundation for Communication Initiatives phone:+63(2)8941345CodeWAN Project http://www.codewan.com.ph--"Technically, Windows is an 'operating system,' which means that it supplies your computer ...

Dear Sun Managers,<p>I've a very simple ps -ef question. <br>

theaccumlative execution time for the process.# ps -ef|more UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD root 0 0 0 Jun 07 ? 0:01 sched root 1 0 0 Jun 07 ? 0:03/etc/init - root 2 0 0 Jun 07 ? 0:01 pageout root 3 0 0 ...

Hi Guys,<p>How can I change Sol 8, 32-bit to 64-bit.I tried to locate on archives<br>without suceess.<p>Thanks<p>Muhammad<br>

Booting the 32-bit KernelLogged in as root, open a terminal window and type in the following:# su -# cd /# halt -yThe machine will result in something similar to this:syncing file systems... doneProgram terminated{2} okAt this "ok" prompt type in the following:{2} ok boot kadb -D ...

Hello all,Is it possible to disable the front power button on Ultra 5 via PBP orotherwise ?ThanksLaurence****************************************************************************************This E-mail is from O2. The E-mail and any filestransmitted with it are confidential and may also be ...