Ok, after going back and not pressing the F2 key so quickly, I found you can select a boot disk (F4), in this option you can select what slice you want to boot from (ie. slice 1 in my case). This must be done before you manually layout the disk slices.Thanks for the help........ >> > I ...

Gurus,As always, thank you for your timely and accurate responses. Special thanksto Mike KailDan Astoorian andMatthew StierAll correctly identified that my "test" is testing the string returned bymkdir and not the status of the command. My script is now functioningproperly and I am ...

Hi All,I searched the archive of this list and didn't see anything directly relatedto my problem.I hook up a A5200 to a 220R. I can see the six drives at the OK prompt,with show parent_children.However, after "boot -r". I can't see any drives through format. Nor do Isee /dev/es ...

Hi all,The asnwers were:switch off power save feature & load X patches.I turned off the power save but i didn't know which X patches to load. I don't want to load any patch clusters since i don't think its very advisable(correct me if i am wrong). But the problem still persists.Any ...

Sorry I forgot to mention this. OS is Solaris 8 and I saw thison the card "QLA2100". I searched QLogic web site only found 2.6and 2.7 driver. Does this mean I can't use it under Solaris 8?Thanks again for your help.Richard Ji-----Original Message-----From: Richard Ji ...

Well, the problem seems to have been a bunch of corrupted inodes. When I took the machine down to single-user mode and ran fsck, I found many, many errors. I ended up fixing the filesystem, then removing all the files and restoring them from a backup. Fortunately, the only thing on this ...

I was brought onto a team that manages servers in a remote data center. Oursite contains Sun servers with Solaris 2.6,2.7 and 2.8. All of the boxes usedual Emmulex cards to attach to our SAN which is made up of Brocade switchesand ultimately attach to an EMC Symmetric for disk and a tape ...

Thanks for all the responses (and those still to come...), Most people replied with put it in a script. While this is normally what I do, there are times that it's just easier/faster/better to do it this way (scripts wrapping scripts wrapping scripts etc, lots of small scripts files ...

I've opened a software support call on this and Sun is working on fixing it. There is a bug track that someone else opened on sunsolve.sun.com.When I get a patch, I'll re-summarize. thanks, PaulAt 10:26 AM 1/13/2003 -0500, Paul LaMadeleine wrote:>Greetings,>> ...

Dear Unix Admins,I have an Enterprise 3500 server with Solaris 2.6 and latest patches. Thesystem is booting from one of the internal FC-AL disks.I'm trying to install Veritas Volume Manager (version 3.2 or Version 3.5, Itried them both).As soon as I pkgadd the VRTSvxvm package and I reboot, ...

Sun Gurus,A new SunFire 4800 was delivered without HBAs whichwere somehow left off the order, now due to budgetrestraints we are looking for a lowest cost possiblesource for the HBAs. I believe we can use the QLogicSAN Blade 2200F, but not sure of any others. I wouldappreciate any advise, ...

having problems installing VxVM for Solaris 9. On the web site they say it does support Solaris 9, but when I go to install I get the following:This package, VxVM 3.2, is only supported on Solaris 2.6, 7, and 8; however, you appear to be running Solaris 2.9. That is not a ...

having problems installing VxVM for Solaris 9. On the web site they say it does support Solaris 9, but when I go to install I get the following:This package, VxVM 3.2, is only supported on Solaris 2.6, 7, and 8; however, you appear to be running Solaris 2.9. That is not a ...

Hi all,I have the following process running on Solaris 8 5473 ahoesch 1637M 292M sleep 60 0 0:10.50 2.3% BockelmannTask/4I tried to kill it as root with "kill 5473" (no error message) but the beast does not die, or at least it does not vanish from the process list. What am ...

Hi Gurus, I have a strange problem on my network. Few systems were having very slow response and reporting the following errors in /var/adm/messages between server1 with solaris 2.6 and server5 with solaris 8. Jan 20 10:08:18 server1 unix: NFS getattr failed for server server5: error 5 ...

Hi all,After a patch install and reboot, telnet and access to the console have failed on my Solaris 8 Blade 100. I still have ssh access and other services (POP, SMTP, Samba etc) are working fine so thankfully not all is lost.After the patch install I noticed that the pkginfo file for SUNWcsr ...

Hi all,<p>that was quick. All recommended to try<p> kill -9 <pid><p>Just when I wanted to try that the process was gone. I suppose it was <br>busy cleaning up swap space or whatever. Thanks!!!<p>Regards,<p> Andreas<br>

Hi....Unix supports printer-name upto 14 characters. We have corporate namingconventionfor printers which will include the subsidiary,location and dept name. Thiscauses someprinter names to be more than 14 characters. I cannot create them thrujetadmin as thelimit on printer names is 14 ...

Hello Managers,I heard IPSEC is supported and good from Solaris 8 rel3 and in between SPARC platform. Is it true? Hasanyone impletmented any TP software to run on Sol 7and between non SPARC platforms. If so I would likehere from them. Any web sites also appriciated.ThanksUman ...

Gurus,I have a tape written with tar. The block size is unknown. I have triedall possible drive devices(m,u,l,h,lc,....) and also -b option withpossible bs (80,512,1024) but every time it gives tar block size error.I tried tcopy it gives file 1: record nnnn ,.... But did not specify ablock ...

Hi All,Apologies for the late summary.Thanks to all who responded.Basically even though the paging is high all other indicators are that theserver is running well. I have made some changes to the autoup and maxpgioentries in /etc/system.I am now waiting to see the effect.Regards-----Original ...

G'day all,<br>I have a V880 with 12 36G disks, 6 internal and 6 in a D2, that a client<br>want to create a striped mirror across 10 of. What I want to know is<br>about how long this will take?<p>System:<br>Sunfire V880<br>2x 750Mhz CPU<br>4G RAM<p>Many thanks<p>Neil<br>

Hi,Thanks to everyone who responded, including Michael Kiernan, Brett Lymn, AP,etc.I had a number of suggestions such as:Option 1 use UDP and NFS Version 2abcd:/db2/temp/share /db2/temp/share nfs rw,bg,vers=2,proto=udpOption 2 reduce the write packets size std=32kabcd:/db2/temp/share ...

Hello all, I've just completed a dump/restore script that dumps a partition fromone Sun Netra to another, and then restores it. The following is the syntaxof the dump/restore command:vxdump -$BU_LEVEL -f - $LOC_PART | compress -c |\rsh $BU_HOST "cd /export/ro/u1 ; uncompress -c | ...

Hello all,<p>I'm trying to connect a 180GB harddisk to a U5 running Solaris 8. The<br>system can detect the disk but can't recognize it.<p>Can someone help please?<p>Thanks.<p>Fiona<br>

Hi,I have installed samba on my solaris running solaris 8.When i try to access the share from windows2000 machine, i can see the shares of my server.If i say \\ril09 it shows up the shares of ril09.When i click any of the shares it gives me an error \\ril09\homes is not accessiblenetwork path ...

Logs from SSH Version 1.2.33 [sparc-sun-solaris2.8], protocol version 1.5. :<p> Connection from UNKNOWN port 65535<p>And comand `who` gives: <p> root pts/1 Jan 22 11:17 (UNKNOWN) <p>What can it be?<br>

HiI have a problem installing extra packages with pkgadd.It seems like I have problems with the "-d" flag.Here is the pkgadd.sh script.PS. The package directory is correct (packages/packages)[root at jumpstart Scripts]# more pkginstall.sh#!/bin/sh# This script installs specific ...

Hi,I would like to use for different reasons the console in a gnome-terminalinsteaddtterm (dtterm provides the option "-C" for console).Do someone knows how to do it.Thanky you in advanceRegards,Ramiro SantosZIT P 4.22 Solaris Core Server*******************************************STOP ...

Hi I tried to install samba on Solaris 8, but it gave me errors when I envokethe .configure file to make the installation the error is as follows: loading cache ./config.cache checking for gcc no checking for cc no configure : error : no acceptable cc found in ...

I've been asked to spec a highly available syslog server. There will be asignificant amount of syslog coming into this server which will require alarge data store. I was thinking about VCS-Quicktart, a simple Vertias twonode cluster with a SAN/NAS device as it's data store. I haven't ...

Dear Sun Managers,I need your help urgently. I have an Ultra-2 machine running Solaris 8. I'm usingDiskless client administration tools to configure myOS services.The command I use to run is /usr/sadm/bin/smosservice add --auth-data/var/run/auth -- -xmediapath=/home/Solaris_8 ...

I seem to remember a version of grep that would give you the matching line<br>plus a specified number of lines before and after.<p>Drawing a blank as to where I have seen this though.<p>Any Ideas?<p>TIA<br><mike><br>

My apology first for this really late summary. In thequest for a solution, I have been flexible enough tomodify the problem itself so that it ceased to be muchof a problem any more.Needless to say that all the replies have been ofgreat help to my modifying/solving my problem, withoutmy ...

Many great responses Thanks to all:Original question:I seem to remember a version of grep that would give you the matching lineplus a specified number of lines before and after.Drawing a blank as to where I have seen this though.Any Ideas?TIA<mike>Answers:GNU grep has -B (before) & -A ...

A while back, someone in our group set shmmax in /etc/system to be 6Gb.Well, that's obviously a bigger number than a 32-bit unsigned int can hold.It turns out, the shared memory subsystem didn't fail. It loaded, and whenI run sysdef -i, it shows shmmax as 2Gb. We're running this on an ...

Hello!I would like know if in solaris 8 are there any command for assig,automaticaly , that a concret aplication (for example, netscape)execute always on a concret CPU?Thansk in advanced.--~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Antonia Gomez GonzalezFIB (Laboratori de Calcul) ...

We plan to buy a new server (perfer SUN) and move all of our Oracle databases and ORACLE AS on NT servers to this new server. Can anyone give me suggestion what sohould be consider before make decision for which server? (e.g. how big the database size?, how many current users? ...

Many thanks to Casper Dik, Rich Teer, and especially Michael Schulte forreminding me of some simple arithmetic.My question (paraphrased):My group has an E6500 server running Solaris 2.6 with the shmmax kernelparameter set to 6 GB. The system boots and is running just fine; however,sysdef ...

What is the Solaris 9 patch number for st.conf that supports Quantum 320<br>thanks<p> Eustace Fernandes<br>Technical Support<br> <mailto:<A HREF="/execute/ask/?codeinfoid=19950">efernandes at talisman-energy.com</A>><br>voice (403) 237-1534<br>

Hi all, I switched a server IBM running AIX operating system by a SUN V880running solaris 8. There are some differences in the vmstat command.Somebody knows why the machine is paging ? There are memory free. procs memory page disk faultscpu r b w ...

I'm having some problems setting up a shared diskset configuration withDiskSuite 4.2.1 on Solaris 8 (with the latest patches). They are onidentical StorEdge A5200 arrays, and are cabled "identically".The configuration is two Ultra Enterprise 220R's in identical configuration,as ...

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----Hash: SHA1We've got an Oracle upgrade project in the works, to migrate someapps to Oracle Applications 11i, with Oracle 9.2.mumble (probably,the DBAs may stick with 8.1.7.4) on the back end. I've got theOracle-generated technical assessment, and its ...

My original question:I just upgraded to Solaris 9 and noticed that I can't send mail > unless the sendmail daemon is running. Is this a requirement? > I get a message "An Error Occured when trying to send your message" The response I got from Rich Kulawiec summed it up.Mailtool ...

If anyone has info about Solstice Backup software , not the manuals <br>that are public, please send them to me.<p>- Documentation about installation.<p>- Training manuals<p>- Bugs, problems, reports, info docs, etc.<p>Best regards<br>F/<br>

Can Sun Quad FE PCI Adapater X1034A be used in a PC based system withSolaris 8 x86? I don't see it on the HCL and don't think it's compatible(no drivers?) but thought Sun hardware should work w/Sun OS whether ...

This post is a follow up to one I made a few weeks ago re getting Canonprinters to work under Solaris. I've not reached a final conclusion on theearlier post since a great deal of testing remains to be done (and I don'thave 24x7 to do it).None the less, I did meet with some success this ...

My refering back to my previous email about RBAC(given bellow). I was playing with it for while andnoted that user "passman" can change the root passwordalso. Is there a way to stop this ( other than ascript)?.ThanksUman.Previuos call ********************I have applied the patch ...

Hello,On one of my machines a process is trying to sent data to a specific ipaddress.I found the port and ip address with snoop, but now I'm wondering how Iam able to find the process sending the data to that specific IP. Thank you for your reply in advance.With kind regards, Siert ...

I am running sar -b on a Oracle server running Solaris 8 and clearlyfalling below 25% on a regular basis. What value can I change toincrease the write cache? I saw reference somewhere to bufhwm. Is thisaccurate?TIA~ke3vin-- Kevin P. Inscoe KE3VIN Geek and fixer of thingsDeltona, FL ...