No responses but I have progressed slightly. I probably should not have disconnectedthe SCSI channels c2 and c3. Once I reconnected them I was able to unconfigureand disconnect pcisch0:hpc1_slot0 (the X6541A - mult/hp). I still have both the"Attention Left Side" light displaying and ...

Hi, Does anybody knows what's a "Frozen file"? ISS reports some files as "Secure file not frozen" and in the remedysection says "Use the Security Manager frozen file subsystem to freeze thefile" What does it means? Thanks in advance,-- Rafael ...

Has anyone exported a display across a network? I'm trying to access an Oracle database on a different network, but the display freezes. I have tried to use xhost + before hand. I can use X -query X.X.X.X to bring up a login display from a remote server. After entering login credentials, the ...

Hi,<p>Can anybobdy tell me what could be the maximum email-id<br>length I can use using sendmail or may be other email programs.<p>A similar point would be , is there any restriction of characters<br>while creating userid in Unix.<p>Thanks,<br>Bibhas<br>

On a V880 I a have successfully hot-plugged an X6541A dual channel adapter.Both scsi channels show up in cfgadm. There is a tape drive (DLT8000 as ID 4)on one of the channels. Nothing I have done seems to make the drive visible tothe system. I have tried configuring each channel but it does ...

Hi All,I have been told by a local SUN vendor that the maximum possible memory foran E420R is 4GB. Is this correct?I currently have 4GB of memory in the server and am wanting to upgrade andwas wondering what configurations are possible, e.g. 5GB, 6GB, etc.I will ...

Thanks very much to everyone who responded.It indeed seems to be that the E420R can take a maximum of 4GB of Memory.-----Original Message-----From: Alan Bradley - CPX WC [mailto:AlanB at comparexafrica.co.za]Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 8:32 AMTo: SunManagersSubject: E420R maximum possible ...

Hello Sun managers,i rebooted the sun workstation and i got the following error messages:i am new to Solaris and the person incharge of this has left the compnay so your help, is deeply appriciated.The / file system ( /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0) is being checkedConfiguring network interface ...

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Hi, I would like to turn on num-lock from the command line (without touching the key) I can lit the LED with "xset(1)" but that's not what I want. Can anyone help? Mvh--------------------------------------------------------------Espen Martinsen Email : esm at ...

Hello Fellow Admins,A curious question. I am performing a user audit accross a large platformduring which I have noticed that some accounts have been locked out using/bin/false and some using /bin/noshell.My question is this. Whats the difference, if any and which such Istandardize on ?Many ...

Very shortly I am going to move our NIS+ root master from a Sun Ultra1 ,running Solaris 8 , with latestrecommended and security patches to a Sun Blade 100 , also runningSolaris 8 , with latestrecommended and security patches.I am considering the following approach :Shutdown NIS+ on the root ...

Hi managers,I am logging my router thru syslog on my Solaris machine with theselector local0.notice and action user0,user1.Every time when the sylog deamon gets an entry, it makes noises (a tone),how can I avoid this? (the noises)Thanky you in advanceRegards,Ramiro ...

Hi managers,Maschine: Sun E450, Solaris 2.6uname -a gives: SunOS sun10 5.6 Generic_105181-33 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-4I have a problem with the 2 Maxoptix MO drives T6-5200 and T5-2600.Normally when I write to a MO disk there are none or only very few errors.But when I try to write now there are ...

Hello codeprof,I am not sure whether this is Solaris related so please excuse if this is off topic. We use rsync to transfer files to our customers machines (Solaris 8). This worked great for months. Now we always get the following error message.Read from remote host <remote ip address>: ...

Ok, I have never used this before and I have gotten the following errors onall three of my servers. Can someone give me the basic command line I needto run to manually run fsck against my drives. Here is the error: THE FOLLOWING FILE SYSTEM(S) HAD AN UNEXPECTED ...

To all,I have a task to bring up an ldap server on a solaris 9 box.ldap is apparently "integrated into solaris 9". slapd is now called dsservd.Looking through the installed packages I have lots of IPLT packages, (presumably "Iplanet"), including IPLTdsr, Directory Server ...

Got another printer question for the group, unrelated to prior post.A print queue set up on a Solaris 5.8 server's worked perfectly since it wasoriginally set up way back when. Standard procedure is to create the queuewith "lpadmin -p queue_name -s IP_Address".Over the holidays, the ...

We have an ultra-10 that has an A1000 attached (via a PCI differentialSCSI card). Over the last few days, the machine has rebooted several times with the attached error below.Is this a problem with the system memory, CPU or the PCI card? Or something entirely different? Thanks. Will ...

When I type the command given to me I get the following. BAD SUPER BLOCK: MAGIC NUMBER WRONGUSE AN ALTERNATE SUPER-BLOCK TO SUPPLY NEEDED INFORMATION;eg. fsck [-F ufs] -o b=# [special ...]where # is the alternate super block. SEE fsck_ufs(1M).I have run fsck -y /dev/rdsk/cXdXtXsX and also fsck ...

Thanks to Reginald Beavers for his response but I located the reference to theprint queue's original IP address in the /etc/lp/interfaces/queue_name file.The printer's IP address had, indeed, been changed. Changing the entry in/etc/lp/interfaces/queue_name fixed things up just fine. Thanks, ...

My nfs server is running trustix 1.5, solaris boxes are running solaris8 with all applicable patches & updates.The solaris boxes will mount nfs mounts just fine but read/writeoperations to the nfs mounts are SLOW!!!! Almost 20% slower whencompared to my linux NFS client boxes. Anyone know a ...

Operating System and Version: Solaris8, SunCluster 3.0, Oracle RDBMS Version:8.1.7We are NOT running OPS (Oracle Parallel Server, = RAC - Real ApplicationCluster), just a normal instance which should fail over to second(standby-node) if really required using Sun Cluster HA for Oracle Agent.The ...

I'd like to thank these guys:Alex Stade, Casper Dik, David Foster, Glen, Joe Fletcher, Rick Mayberry,Rich Teer and Tim ChapmanFor helping me out with my NFS issues.I have a Trustix 1.5 NFS server (NFS v3, kernel 2.2.22, redhat-based)and 3 solaris clients running solaris 8 on ultra-1's with ...

Hello and Happy New Year,<p>I am new to SunBlades and have searched the archives for installing<br>a USB hard drive on a SunBlade 150. It seems that the drivers exist<br>for Solaris 9. But, does anyone know if a version of Solaris 8<br>supports USBs?<p>thanks<br>kiriaki<br>

Oh, I tested it with a 416mb transfer from the solaris client to thelinux server and here's the result:------------------------------------------------bash-2.03# time mv mandrake-disk2.iso /devsharereal 1m50.781suser 0m0.090ssys ...

Thanks to:Sean BerryDarren DunhamjsconiersPeter StokesThomas AutryI have come to the conclusion based on the experience of Thomas and advice fromPeter and having tried every conceivable permutation of devfsadm, cfgadm,tapes etc.,that the X6541A and the DLT8000 will not work together. The X6541A ...

Thanks to: "Elaine ." <cmap_sec at yahoo.co.uk>"Beavers, Reginald" <RBeavers at seisint.com>Mike O <ora7dba at yahoo.com>Alan Pae <turonaeda at yahoo.com>"Lynch, Julie K" <jklynch at sandia.gov>most people said just make a backup of ...

The X6541A is in fact a HVD card.At 09:25 8/01/2003 +1100, you wrote:>Thanks to:>Sean Berry>Darren Dunham>jsconiers>Peter Stokes>Thomas Autry>>I have come to the conclusion based on the experience of Thomas and advice >from>Peter and having tried every conceivable ...

Wondering if any of you have opinions regarding having the root user bean oracle database user.... Seems like a bad idea to me, but have anapp to install that requires it. Is this a bad idea? Why.TIA, kevinKevin CoradoManager of Information TechnologyMarketSoft10 Maguire Road, Suite ...

Hi Gurus,Could u plz help me to find out what causing these errors onSunOS 5.7 Generic_106541-20 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-60, os it alrming or ?1. I am getting Internal Transceiver, what is it ? unix: SUNW,hme1: Using Internal Transceiver SUNW,hme1: 100 Mbps full-duplex Link Up unix: SUNW,hme1: ...

hello,i have a ultra 60 with tape and external hard disk.when ,i boot solaris 8 on internal hard disk systemcheck external hard disk then display followingmessage for external hard disk:Warning :/pci at 1f,4000/scsi at 3,1/sd at 2,0 error for command:read (10) errorlevel:Retryable ...

hello,i have a ultra 60 with tape and external hard disk.when ,i boot solaris 8 on internal hard disk systemcheck external hard disk then display followingmessage for external hard disk:Warning :/pci at 1f,4000/scsi at 3,1/sd at 2,0 error for command:read (10) errorlevel:Retryable ...

Gurus,Looking at netstat I see very high numbers for the field udpnoports. Whatdoes udpnoport mean, and is this an issue. I do have a problem when a unixserver tries to rcmd to this Sun server (2.6) in that we get intermitttentattempts to connect.RegardsUnix like TeePee no windows, no gates, ...

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Hi,This is not a Solaris problem (?) but I am posting to see if anyone has experienced this strange problem. We have posted to Veritas forum and logged call with SUN, but, as yet, have not received solution, etc. Problem is with VRTSvxfs vxdump command.It appears that when a vxfs filesystem is ...

Hello.I've just come from a conversation with HP, in which they recommendagainst using SCSI reserve on shared tape drives in a SANenvironment. The reason for this is that any problem with theapplication will lock out the device entirely. What they recommendis to use an HP kernel tunable ...

Hi All,I have a server that is showing a lot of paging activity, but no swappingactivity.The server is running multiple Oracle 8 databases.The CPU usage never seems to get over +/- 70%.The "other" indicators, e.g. I/O ,etc. seem to be high but okay.I would appreciate any suggestions ...

Hi,I am trying to start Xsun on one of my server, i had installed the packages and installed Graphics card too, but i don't have keyboard or mouse installed in it.I tried to start the Xsun with the following commands/usr/openwin/Xsun :0 -nobanner -dev /dev/fb0 +nkeyboard +nmouse -coreI am ...

Seems that this problem is common to Windows 2000 with the SUN PCi 1.3software. Poking around the 1.3 directories I noticed SUN is justsymbolically linking the Windows 2000 drivers to the existing Windows NT 4.0drivers. Many thanks to David Edwards for pointing a cost effective workaround. ...

hi guys,Noted below is the output when i did a format and there is no overlapping;Part tag flag cylinders size blocks0 root wm 0-2031 100.12 MB 2032/0/0 20482561 swap wu 2032-3047 500.06 MB 1016/0/0 10241282 backup wm 0-16380 7.87 GB 1638/0/0 165120483 home ...

We've got an Auspex NFS box connected to a Cisco router for console. TheAuspex is running this:SPARCengine(tm)Ultra CP 1400 (UltraSPARC-IIi 303MHz), No KeyboardOpenBoot 3.10.9 ME, 576 MB memory installed, Serial #9567860.Ethernet address 8:0:20:91:fe:74, Host ID: 8091fe74.Solaris version on ...

Hi all,I'm curious if anyone has / knows a download location for a goodfunctional build of the Phoenix web browser [version 0.5 - most current- ideally ] to run on Solaris (Sparc and / or X86 platform).( learn about phoenix @ ...

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Hi, I'm wondering if apply the last Maintenance Update (MU)downloaded from sunsolve does upgrade Solaris to the last known release. i.e. apply the last MU to my old "Solaris 8 10/00" will upgrade to anequivalent of "Solaris 8 xx/02" . I'll summarize. ...

Hello fellow Sun Managers, I'm seeing a consistent problem with our servers running TIBCO'sRendezvous product (rvd/rvrd) on Solaris servers with a statistic innetstat called "udpInOverflows". Here's what I see running "netstat -s":IPv4 ipForwarding = 2 ...

Hi,today we got some strange /var/adm/messages entries:Jan 8 14:28:05 fermi unix: NOTICE: free inode /export/d3/1918782 had size 0x869ed1Jan 8 15:51:31 fermi unix: NOTICE: ufs_itrunc: /export/d3/1918782 new size = 0, blocks = -8380the box is an e250/solaris 7, filesystem is ufs logging, ...

All,<p>Is there a way to list file permissions in octal(i.e 755) vs. the rwxr-xr-x<br>format?<p>Tom Clift<br>FTI - K55<br>540-653-8023<br>

Hi gurus. I have some pesky DBAs that can't get Oracle 11i (oracleapps) to run in my 3 node SUNhardware/VCS cluster. Apparently Oracle isusing uname or another system call to hard code the machines hostnameinto it's configuration. Has anyone run into this? Is there a way totrick the app, ...

Well, I only got one response for this question, which was to make sure thatpoppassd was suid root. The poppassd on the old system was not suid rootbut worked, and setting the new one suid did not even change the errormessage.After many hours of code hacking and recompiling, I finally did fix ...