I currently have a couple of 3800 clustered using VCS. I was thinking ofusing Sun's IP Multipathing software to allow for redundancy (and loadsharing, if possible) of the NIC card.Does anyone have any opinions on interoperability between VCS and IPMultipathing? At the moment, the NICs are ...

G'day folks,Well it seems my estimates were many hours off. General consensus wasthat this was a very fast process. In the order of minutes rather thanhours.Many thanks to the replies I got:Riddoch, John E SITI-ITDPEGJoe FletcherMohan DoraiswamyJay LessertBest response I got included a quick ...

Dear Managers,I have a predicament i was hoping ya'll could help solve.We have sun machines running Solaris 8 on all most everyone's machinehere, there are a few Windows based machines, most running Windows 2000that i would like to be able to install patches on etc from my machine.Is there an ...

Hello Managers:I have an E4500 which does not have any internal disk, as a result of that Ihad connectedtwo external unipack to it which i had assigned target id 2 and target id 3.Eventhought the target id. is obvious here the controller number is not andthat's what I willlike to find out ...

The answer to my question was: c0t3d0thanks to Steven Ruby [steven.ruby at emacdigital.com]and also: Hichael Morton [mh1272 at yahoo.com]who gave me this answer: ok probe-scsi-allwill show all recognized hard drives--external and internal. theoutput will be the physical path. sun has a ...

Summary for the above.My original mail was: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 ...

After searching around on the 'net a bit more, I found some unrelated issueswhich reminded me to update the firmware on these fibrechannel disks (notthe array controller or the host controller). I wasn't sure whether thatwould do anything or not but went ahead and downloaded Sun patch ...

Accessing a Sun Fire 4800 running Solaris 8 HW 2/02 via XDMCP takes a very long time to display the xdm login (dtlogin) screen (about 2 minutes). I am using X Manager on Windows 2000, also the same behavior happens when trying to access the system via an Ultra 10 (Solaris 2.6) from dtlogin ...

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Hi All,I would like to know if Solaris has a Journal Filesystem similar to the AIXjfs or Linux jfs?The reason I ask is that I have a server with quite a number of largefilesystems (> 400GB each).On a few occasions that this server has gone down without a proper shutdownit has taken up to 11 ...

Hi All,Thanks for the quick responses - I appreciate it.The answer's I received are to look at the Veritas filesystem or to enablelogging on the UFS filesystem.Here is one of the responses I received:For Solaris 7 & later, mount with the 'logging' option, e.g. in ...

Hi all,<p>The problem is caused by the faulty harddisk. It works without any<br>trouble for another new one.<p>><i> I'm trying to connect a 180GB harddisk to a U5 running Solaris 8. The<br></I>><i> system can detect the disk but can't recognize it.<br></I><br>Thanks all.<p>Fiona<br>

Hi all, Im new to Unix Workstation but can you add any IDE(ATA) 40 Pin Driveor is thier any limitations, I have had alot of contrasting infromation fromdealers stating that the BIOS has a limit.If anyone has any knowledge of if their is any problem put a standard IDEHard Diskon an ultra 10 can ...

Hello, We have an E450 running Solaris 9 suffering an intermitent problem: It suddenly looses the routes to the interface addresses. For example, Icannot reach 127.0.0.1 and I have to repeat the "ifconfig lo0 127.0.0.1". Before the "ifconfig" command, the routing table ...

Hi all.I've recently inherited an Ultra1 system thats configured to use an ethernet tranceiver. Unfortunately I didn't inherit the tranceiver so what I'd like to do is reconfigure the IDPROM/NVRAM to use the cat5 ethernet port instead. Having spent the best part of the day trying to find out ...

Hello all managers Well thx to all the people that gave me valuable advise i'd like to mentionsome:Stefaan MargotJohn RiddockOctave OrgeronAdam LevinJoe FletcherKevin Buterbaugh Basically the answers were the same that if you use that much data so dontuse RAID 5.The suggestions were to use HW ...

Dear Sun Managers,I've a Solaris machine. There is a mismatch on df anddu reporting output for /var file system usedcapacity.df -k reported /var used 3134883K of disk space.However, I sum up the output of du -sk * for /var, itreported only 371170 is used up.Why is there such a big difference ...

I'm installing the latest recommended patch cluster on our N4800 filerwhich is running Solaris 8. The patch install programme has rattled alongas normal upto patch 108528-18, where it's been sitting for over halfan hour. This patch does update some kernel stuff, but this seems tobe taking too ...

On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 01:51:20PM +0000, Gavin Kelman wrote:> I'm installing the latest recommended patch cluster on our N4800 filer> which is running Solaris 8. The patch install programme has rattled along> as normal upto patch 108528-18, where it's been sitting for over half> ...

Hi allI am trying to configure one these packages in aSolaris 8 env.Could someone forward a sample of config fileThank youMan pages are very confusing to me :(=====When tranquility is developed, what purpose does it serve? The mind is developed. And when the mind is developed, what purpose does ...

Thanks to Casper Dik for the ultra fast answer ;-) He has suggested installing the patch 112902-07 (or later), which correctsthe following bug:4691577 ASSERT(ire->ire_type == IRE_CACHE) fails in ire_cache_cleanup()when forwarding We will install it tomorow early in the ...

On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 04:46:21PM -0500, Igor Schein wrote:> Hi, > > I have a V880 with Solaris 9 running on it. I can't get gigabit> interface working. When I disable autonegotiation on both V880 ( set> ge:ge_adv_1000autoneg_cap=0 ) and Extreme Networks' summit switch, ...

Hi Managers, I am seeing a process in "top" (PID 18193) , which seems to beoracle process but not found in v$session & v$process tables in Oracle.Truss/lsof will not show any details (completely blank). If we kill thisprocess, we find few more within few hours. Can someone please ...

Many thanks to Greg Marsh & Anders Nordby for their replies to my query.With their help, I was able to locate some pre-cooked binaries for Sparc platform:ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/phoenix/releases/0.5 http://puck.informatik.med.uni-giessen.de/download/#SUN+Sparc+softwareThese work very well, ...

Hi,<br> <br>Any idea of a binary editor on solaris.<br> <br>Thanks,<br>Na.<br>

Once again those discussion lists proved invaluable. Thanks to everybody toresponded.In a nutshell, there were 2 proposals:1. To try boot -as and force the system not to read /etc/systems (thereforeavoiding the forceload statements introduced there by Veritas installer.This did not work..2. ...

I have a SunFire 280R running Solaris 8.The system has 2 disk drives. They were both partitioned like this.Part Tag Flag Cylinders Size Blocks 0 root wm 104 - 14084 67.84GB (13981/0/0) 142270656 1 swap wu 0 - 103 ...

What file or files are touched by the jumpstart sysidcfg line"security_policy=NONE"? I've just done a "Live Upgrade" to Solaris 9, notusing jumpstart, on a machine that I don't have easy console access to. Asit's booting, it's going to prompt on the console whether I ...

Hey all,I'm running a Ultra-2 with Solaris 8 108528-12 and I'm trying to getthis box to maintain the TOS bit in the TCP headers on related sessions.Namely I have firewall in front of the box that is setting a TOS bitbased on inbound interface however this bit is always reset on anyrelated ...

Thanks at all!My original question:>>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?The answer is:Use the pbind command, e.g.: pbind -b <processor_id> ...

4/5 says no, either PCI is not compliance w/PC based and no drivers.1/5 says maybe, if the chipset is by Qlogic or a known manufacturer,whom provides the driver.Note: SUNWqfed only on Sparc, I don't see it on Solaris x86.- Mike[ Packages: ftp.patriots.net (sparc/x86) | www.ondruska.com (x86) ...

All,My question is about binary editor for solaris.Thanks to- Paul Whittenburg, who suggests 2 programs:A VI-like binary editor called bvi at http://bvi.sourceforge.net/.The xd program at http://www.fourmilab.ch/xd allows you to dumpa binary to text, edit it with a text editor, and covert it ...

I have installed Solaris on Toshiba Satellite 2595 CDS laptop. Now I want<br>to install the PCMCIA network card.<p>I have following network card with me.<p>DLINK -690DXT<br>LinkSys - pcmpc100<br>NETGEAR -FA410<p>Is there any driver for these cards.<p>Thanks<br>SR<br>

Many thanks toChristophe DupreTim HespeMartin de KoningPeter Ondruskaks at betty.ub.uni-mainz.deBertrand_Hutin at notes.amdahl.comChris Hoogendykamw3They all suggested VNC, which i tried this morning and is already makingmy life easier.You can download from www.realvnc.comIt can be run from a ...

Hi,Does anyone have first hand experience as to the sort of hardware errorsthat the config-reader will report in SunMC and what it won't? i.e.would you expect it to give alarms for correctable ECC or CPU errors orjust fatal failures, e.g. fan's, disk's, etc? I know with the add-on'syou ...

I was recently told and shown an ultra 10 running a 40 gig maxtor 7200 rpmdriveI purchased a maxtor DiamondMax 9 7200 rpm drive and installed it as theprimary slave. I also replaced the primary drive with a 20 gig baracuda. The40 gig drive initially came up with a bad magic number. I booted ...

Hi AllMost of the answer is contained in this archive http://www.codeprof.com/pipermail/summaries/2001-March/000375.htmlThanks to Adam Mazza, for the link.I received answers from many others including those who have successfullytried it, too many to list, but thanks to you for your time and ...

Whoops! late response on my part....I can confirm that this card (the QLogic 2212F version) _will_ work in aPC - I've got one in an ASUS A7V233 MB running XP and using the Qlogic22xx drivers.Scott==================================================================Scott RuffnerComputer Systems ...

OK, I'm desperate. Been working this intermittent problem on Solaris7 for months. Now it follows me into my new installs of Solaris 8.I have recently patched (recommended/security patch bundles) Solaris 8and Solaris 7 boxes (most of them Netra T1s). While NFS mounts ontothose boxes are ...