Can I use any naming convention for a direct automountmap, as long as it is preceded by auto_?<p>Thanks <br>

Hi,Problem solved:I deleted invalid entries from printers.conf and using 'printmgr'.I added new a new printer at host hp500dj(IP) HP500DJ:\ :bsdaddr=hp500dj,HP500DJ,Solaris:\ :description=HP DesignJet Plotter:and changed the printer name on wintel server to HP500DJ.We tried to ...

Dear Managers,At work we use LSF(Load sharing facility) from platform for workload andresource management, which includes licensing, running jobs acrossdifferent machines.I was wondering if anyone had used gridware from Sun, and would love tohear about your good/bad experiences.Our network here ...

Many thanks to all the people who sent me and soquickly! Very timely and helpful. Too many people tomention by name.The solution was to find the telnet sessions that werein use, kill those, and then restart inetd. No rebootrequired.G.Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World ...

Hello,I have a problem on several of my Solaris 7 and Solaris 8 systems wheresnmpdx is spawning an rpc.rexd every 4 minutes. All systems are patched to the latest releases as of 4th June 2002, andthe patchsets include the snmpdx patch 108869-17.Has anyone else had ...

Hello,I'm having problems with ntpdate -s -w <server1> <server2> hanging onboth Solaris 7 and Solaris 8. The messages file shows:Jun 18 17:32:21 rome ntpdate[10657]: [ID 398266 daemon.notice] waiting 300 seconds before trying againJun 18 17:37:21 rome last message repeated 1 ...

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Dear Gurus and Gurettes,I have just taken a director position for a new company that is primarily a Sun shop. My background is in the IBM and HP marketplace. I was hoping that you could possibly help me with the "gray market" issue that I have been reading so much ...

side. How are you able to know who has quality gear and how do you know where the gear originated? Is the cost savings that significant?I was just given my new hardware budget and I was hoping this group would be able to help recommend some cost savings advice for the Sun platform. I know ...

I have a sunblade 100 that seems to be<br>putting my hard drive to sleep. the wake up<br>time is like 10 seconds before i can access<br>anything on it. Is there any type of power<br>management that i can turn off?<p>thanks,<br>joe<br>

I have heard that ufs has been able to be grown for some time now (from<br>2.6 up) with "growfs". I cannot find this command nor can I confirm the<br>ability to do this.<br>Can anyone confirm yes or no that ufs can be grown?<p>Thanks.<p>~JK<br>

Hi All,Has anyone had any experience various versions of Solaris on the same hardware and seeing what the performance differences were? I'm wondering what the performance hit, if any, is when moving up a couple of Solaris steps.Cheers,Tony-- -------------- -- ---- ---- --- - - - - - -- - - ...

Hello,We have a new SunBlade 1000 and are trying to move some files from a Sun 420Rto the SunBlade via a cdrom.We can successfully create the file on the cdrom on the 420R:ex: /cdrom/cdrom0/filenameWhen we load that cdrom in the cdrom drive of the SunBlade and cd to cdrom, wecan only see ...

Our Oracle DBA is requesting some shared memorysetting that I can not find documented anywhere. Sothis may be an easy question, but I swear I have triedto figure this out.Here is the request.The very latest info on 9IAS version 2, says thekernel parameters should be (their were others but Iwas ...

I now have a bunch of SunRay desktops connected to a pair of E420R servers.The guy who used to support these servers is gone. There's some issue wherethe servers have to be rebooted at the same time for users to get connectedto both of them. Otherwise, all users get connected to the first one ...

I have a mail server with Netscape Messaging Server 4.15, The problem is:I want to filter the spam mail, but when i put this filter i can't sendmails but I can recive them. This is my configuration ...

I have a rather large install of SDS which is being used as my NFS server.It is in a state that I am having a hard time trying to figure out how tofix.System------E3500, Sol 2.6, 6 Photon arrays (2x5000, 2x5100, 2x5200)This server was sharing the arrays with another E3500 but it is alone ...

Dear Sun Gurus,I am concerned about my swap space because it does notappear that it is being used. It was working before Iinstalled Oracle and modified /etc/systems. This ison an Ultra Enterprise 250 running Solaris 8. Ipreviously had about 1 GB of Swap with 1 GB of RAM. My NIS+ seemed to ...

We need to recover the password for user "admin" for a Brocade 4100 switch.WE do have another user login and password, but it can not change thepassword for admin user ( not enough privileges?) The user can logonthrough telnet, but not through the web interface. Can the admin ...

I've used it for Linux.. Work well under Solaris? Specifically as a front<br>end for apache. is there something better?<p>Thanks<p>Les Connally<br><A HREF="/execute/ask/?codeinfoid=14794">lesliec at theplanet.com</A><p>(note: POP account.. not employee)<br>

if adding secondary drive to an ultra5, 1)what should be jumper settingon both primary and secondary.2)if the seconday is external, do i needpci IDE controller card added on also?. what should be jumper settng inthat case?.sorry, if this sounds too simple to ask. my first time to dealwith ...

Thanks to many people responding from the list (toomany to list, but you know who you are)Here are the links which answer many of the questionsabout Solaris 9 OE:Solaris 9 new features comparison ...

hey guysim looking for an old sun blueprint. Im not sure of the namebut i know what it was aboutit was about using 2 D1000s and 2 E250's in a redundant failoverconfigurationi think they used an extra ethernet cable for a heartbeat cableat the bottom of the blueprint they had a little script ...

Thanks to many people who responded.Most recommended looking up the following websites:Use procmail at http://www.procmail.orgThere are some spam avoidance code examples at http://www.sendmail.org Spam Prevention Early Warning System: http://www.spews.org/Spam Cop Blocking List ...

Hello,<br>I am new to Solaris. I wanna know the state of memory of my <br>Solaris8(intel architecture). We can do it by $free in a Linux,<br>but how to do it in Solaris8?<br>Thanks in advance.<p>Regards,<p>--Wen<br>

hi,Does solaris 2.8 come with drivers for symbios scsi cards?.Installed solaris 2.8 on my ultra, but i do not see any devicenode the scsi card. thought should get /dev/sc*?. how aboutif i do "ok>boot -r"?.rs_________________________________________________________________MSN Photos ...

Hello Admins, We have a E250 with running on Solaris 2.7 with current release patches.websphere 3.5.6 and IBM httpd running with 2 instances.The problem is the system panics dumping core. But the core panic stringsays .cpu 0 had the panicpanic string: free: freeing free frag, dev:0x2000000005, ...

Hello All,While working on Ultra 80 yesterday it hanged we were not even able to telnet it from other machine, so we had no choice but to switch it off, since then it is not booting, it even does not boot from floppy. It hangs as soon as it tries to boot, I have checked the devalias paths and ...

Hi all,I apologize if this mail was sent twice... My subscribtion adress wasdifferent than the one I sent from.How do I set up Solaris to both display console messages on the physicalconsole (connected via serial port) and saving all messages to afile.Will (ofcourse) summarize.With regards, ...

Hi All,When i run showrev wioth option -p i gethostname:/#showrev -pshowrev: get_env_var(single_netfail.tar, SUNW_PATCHID)Any clues ?ThanksL****************************************************************************************This E-mail is from O2. The E-mail and any filestransmitted with it ...

Update. Thanks to those who followed up.alex dyas wrote:> Original question:> > > I'd like to be able to determine the CPU's busy/idle states through> > Perl, much like the readout of top. A few attempts have so far proven> > fruitless:> >> > - vmstat ...

HiThanks to all who responded. It seems that this is a fairly common problem(on both 2.6 and 8), and the workaround I adopted was to change thenewsyslog script to stop it HUP'ing syslogd, and rather to stop and ...

Hi everyoneI want to mount a file system that exists on one server (server A) on amount point that exists on another server (server B).Both servers are Solaris 7 servers. Server A acts as the server and serverB acts as the client.On server A:Added the following line to the /etc/dfs/dfstab ...

Hello:I'm working with Solaris 7. For some reason all files belonging to the OS have777 permisions.Do you know of a way to restore default permissions?Thaks a lot.Julia-----------------------------------------------------------------Este correo electrsnico y, en su caso, cualquier fichero ...

I need to recuperate the original permission of the files of the operating<br>system. I began file to file until I could do a login, but turns out to be<br>enough heavy! Someone it knows as restoring it of quick form?<p>Many thanks by advanced<br>

People.<p>I didnt find in the Prometric Site <A HREF=" http://www.2test.com/default.htm"> http://www.2test.com</A> the Solaris 9 Beta<br>Network Exam 311-044 to enter with my voucher number received by e-mail.<p>Anyone already did the beta exam or marked it to do ?<p>Thanks,<p>Felipe Salum, SCSA<br>

Your opinion is valued...We are trying to decide between the Cisco PIX 525 and the Nokia IP530 w/ Check Point.Does anyone have any opinions about either of these, be it good or bad? They seem to be rather close in capabilities however, the Nokia seems to have better logging.FYI we are using ...

Hi All,I have installed Solaris 8 on x86 machine. The installation was successful. Applied the latest Recommended and Security patches.I have installed and configured two Network Cards on it. Ifconfig -a shows both card up and having their own mac address.I can not ping or telnet both the cards ...

I want to say thank to everyone who responded. Ireally appreciate your help in this manner. All ofthe answers were excellent.Thanks to Charlotte_RatliffJon AndrewssecroftJESSE CARROLLFirst semmap is obsolete in Solaris 8, I had searcheddocs.sun.com and found it in Sys Admin Guide Vol 2 soI ...

Hi everyoneI have OpenSSH 2.9p2 installed on a number of servers running Solaris 8. If Itry to connect to a server that is not available the ssh session hangs for aconsiderable amount of time before timing out.I have tried setting the ConnectionAttempts parameter on the command line andthe ...

Hello,Does anyone recall experiencing any E-cache memory problems on an Ultra80 Ultra Sparc II processor 450Mhz? There isn't much about it at sunsolve, I do vaguely recall reading about a bad batch of processor from SUN, and SUN wrote a E-cache scrubber fix for the problem . I'm looking for ...

HI,I am running a script which uses ufsdump and vxdumpand should store the a output file as well display onthe screen.----- start here ---#!/bin/kshufsdump 0f /dev/rmt/0cbn /xyz 2>/tmp/etc.out---- end ----the above will send the output to /tmp/etc.out fileonly but will not display the output ...

Hello everyone,Regarding webstart flash:My flash_profile looks like this:install_type flash_installarchive_location nfs://192.168.100.1/var/FlashArchives/image.flarpartitioning explicit###filesys c0t0d0s0 2000 /filesys c0t0d0s1 8000 swapfilesys c0t0d0s3 3000 /a01/appfilesys ...

All,<p>Please could someone let me know the approximate dates when Solaris 8 was<br>released and Solaris 9.<p>Regards,<br>Mike.<br>

thank you to everyone.running dtpower did the trick.joeJoe Rice(jrice at bigidea.com)@Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 01:20:30PM -0500:> I have a sunblade 100 that seems to be> putting my hard drive to sleep. the wake up> time is like 10 seconds before i can access> anything on it. Is there ...

Thanks to:Scott Croft for a kill -HUPLarry Snyder,Timon, Wade Stuart, for lsofJon Andrews, Terry Gardner, Facey, Aaron, Stuart Whitbylowering 'tcp_time_wait_interval' to 60000Dave leach gave some great links explaing things ...

I have an E250 running Solaris 8 fully patched. OBP info: OBP 3.22.0 2000/12/20 16:20 (latest)The system has 2x400 mhz cpus, but only 1 of them shows up after thesystem has booted. .asr shows everything enabled. .post shows everything as "OK".psrinfo -v only shows CPU0. The banner ...

Hi,We are looking to expand and looking for storage solution:we have looked at sun solution which compose of: I) SUN Enterprise E-280R Server, single 750MHz., 1GB. Memory, 36.4GB. FC-ALDisk. (Rack-mount)II) SUN L-9 (40-80GB. x 9) Desktop DLT-AutoLoader (Single Drive, 9 slot){Diff SCSI} Veritas ...

I have an ultra 10 that won't power up. The fan doesn;t even spin, nothing. Is<br>this is standard power supply? Could I swap in a power supply from a 3 year<br>old PC? The power supply is a MITAC MPU 250REF<p>thanks<br>

Does anyone have these images available?They've suddenly begun charging for Solaris 8downloads and I can't find the CDs I made a fewmonths ago. I already have the license stuff donebut need CDs to attempt to recover a machine whoseprimary disk is dying and in need of ...