Thanks to all who responded:Peter WallisMike BrownJohn RiddochPatrick O'ReillyNico WielandSean BurkeDanielJohn JulianLee WebbJuergen WaiblingerGurcan ErimA. Ayhan KanmazMarco Breedeveld- A lot of the suggestions were for 'iostat -En". That gave me what I waslooking for on Solaris 8; ...

Hi,I am trying this for past 10 days, posted this message on different newsgroups, still no solution.Any suggestion for thisThanksSRI am trying to mount the windows NT share to solaris 8.0 using Redhat 8.0nfs.Using smbmount I mounted windows share in Linux as /home/percipia/smb. I setupLinux as ...

Hi Gurus,I am looking for any tools(Prefrebly Web based) whichhelp in giving perfomance data of systems runningSunSolaris and SGI Irix, Any help would be great.TIARegardsSunny.Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up ...

hello guys:<br>one of our junior unix admins accidently deleted the /usr partition on one<br>of our servers. This server was not being backed up. Is there a way that we<br>can restore this partition? Please help immediately. Thanks and appreciate<br>it <p>GM<br>

Env Solaris 8I wanted to verify the amount of entries that I can put in my resolv.conf. If I edit the /usr/include/resolv.h and change the number, that will allow me to use as many as I need to enter. We are in the process of changing ISP's and want to have the new and old entries in so we ...

For my purpose the best answer was:<p>rpcinfo -p <hostname> |grep nfs<p>Thanks to all who replied<p>Mike<br>

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I need to purchase more memory for my SunFire 280R andOriginal Sun memory is a little pricey. The questionis would you recommend using 3rd party memory, and ifso which brand? What are my risks, I know Sun won'tsupport it, but I don't expect memory to fail after itis installed.Thanks for ...

Seasons Greetings !I am trying to bring up the second interface on a 280R system running Sol8 and get this output ..$ ifconfig plumb eri1ifconfig: eri1: bad address$ dmesg |grep eri1Dec 27 22:53:03 testbox ip: [ID 801518 kern.notice] ip_rput_dlpi(eri1):DL_ERROR_ACK for DL_ATTACH_REQ(11), errno ...

Hi,I have some best-practice questions about patching Solaris systems.It seems there have been a lot of changes since I did this and I justwanted a sanity check.I've just upgraded from Solaris 7 to 8. What is the recommended order ofapplying patches now? Would it be Maintenance Update and ...

HiI am trying to connect my PC ethernet card to Sun Ultar 5 ethernet card using a crossover cable. I have tested the cable by connecting the two ethernet cards on my PC, also the Sun ethernet card wroks fine for a normal cable. I am unable to get the link led up on the ethernet card of my PC ...

Hi All,I have an Intel PC running Solaris 8. It is setup to provide a jumpstartinstallation to a number of 4500 and 450 servers which will run Solaris 2.6.Everything was working fine, then the network guys decided they wanted tochange the LAN ip address range.I changed the IP address of the ...

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Hi, allI've got a SUN E450 running Solaris 7.We used SUN Disksuite to combine two ssd disks to form a mirrored md disk.The two ssd disks are : ssd0 ssd1and the md disk divided into four partitions: md0 md4 md5 md6.then the following is the output of sar : device %busy avque r+w/s ...

Hi<p> After aplying a patch, the machine rebooted but it didnt start again,<br>giving the following error:<p> /kernel/fs/procfs:undefined symbol/ on-ec-trap<p>procfs error doing common<p>Is ther any thing that I can do?<p>Osama<br>

Does a PS2 keyboard extension cord work on a Sun type 6 keyboard ?<p>Thanks<br>Dave<br>

Hi folks, I am using Solaris *'s stock in.ftpd server as myftp server. It works fine for anonymous ftp. Forregular ftp accounts I would like to restrict some of themto their home directory ( I do not want them poking aroundin parent directories). I understand that chroot is usedto provide ...

Thanks to everyone that replied.I ended up using a boot server and booted the X1 of it into sigle user mode.Edited /etc/shadow password file and off I went.Also, even though the boot server is a Netra T1 (U160 scsi disks) the nics andswitches all run on 100 full duplex the through put seemed ...

Hi All,Sorry - One thing I forgot to mention. All the machines including theJumpstart server are all on the same subnet.Regards,Alan.-----Original Message-----From: Alan Bradley - CPX WC [mailto:AlanB at comparexafrica.co.za]Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 2002 9:01 AMTo: codeprof at ...

Hi<p> After aplying a patch, the machine rebooted and then it didnt boot again,<br>giving the following error:<p> /kernel/fs/procfs:undefined symbol/ on-ec-trap<p>procfs error doing common<p>Is ther any thing that I can do?<p>Osama<br>

I have an old server with Solaris 2.5. Every time I type password to login,I get "ld.so.1 /bin/login fatal; libpam.so.1 can't open file: error=2". Icheck the system , but can't find the libpam.so.1. Somebody in the Internetsuggest to copy the file to /usr/lib. I can't find this in ...

I want to thank everyone for their response. Itsounds like non-sun memory will work just fine in mySun equipment, however Sun will not support it,apparently they can ever determine 3rd party memorywhen reading the dumps. We have Sun Maintenance andso we have decided not to buy non-sun ...

Thanks to all for the help. It did turn out to be a defective memoryproblem. I ended up pulling all but two of the modules and it worked OK.This was surprising to me because the modules all passed the power on selftest (I set the eeprom to test ALL the memory at power up). I thought ...

FYI:Patchadd of 113201-02 (or 111909-06), for VxVM 3.2 fails on Solaris 8. Sunhas documented the situation in an INTERNAL Bug ID 4786510 dated 26-Dec-02.~~~~Workaround:Remove the latest 'pkgadd' patch 110934-10.~~~~Comments:I could not remove 110934-10 because it is Jumpstart installed with ...

Happy New Year Everybody !!!First, it was my mistake, I posted the wrong syntax of the "ifconfig"command that I used, the output actually was# ifconfig eri1 plumbifconfig: SIOCSLIFNAME for ip: eri1: no such interfaceNow upon further investigation, as one of the group members pointed ...

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Gurus, I made tar backup about 22 GB (in Solaris 8), and it was came with successtar log output. But when I try to tar tvf those files, there are only 4files (about 20 MB) come out with the error : tar : directory check sumerror. Actually what is happened with my backup files ...

Archive-name: codeprof-faqSun-Managers' Frequently Asked Questions$Id: faq,v 4.35 2002/12/02 15:13:34 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 ...

Hi Admins....I am facing one problem with "ls" command on my E450 machine (SunOS 5.6).Whenever I load CD and try to copy the contents to the harddisk, one "ls"process will start and it will grab one CPU (i.e.25 ) and will keep onrunningwith PPID = 1.I cannot kill this ...

Happy New Year !!My sincere thanks to Glass, David <GlassD at bp.com> and Andrew_Rotramel at cch-lis.comfor taking time to respond.David provided an excellent script which suffices my requirements.Here is an extract from his mail ..---------------------------------I have a script which ...

I'm unable to find any decent doc on this, so hoping someone will havesome ideas... I've started using the SRS Netconnect from Sun. It keepsreporting hundreds of non-critical memory errors -- write cache high.Wondering how to figure out what this means and how to tune to prevent.SunFire ...

Hi,I have a brand new SunFire 280R server, delivered just beforeChristmas. I need to open the front door / panel to installa 2nd 36Gb FC-AL internal disk drive. All the literature I'vefound on the net and in the User's Guide suggest that all youneed to is turn the keyswitch to the ...

Good morning, all.I've got an issue with the overall performance of Solaris 9 on a Ultra5. It just seems really slow and sluggish. I will do a ls -la and itpauses for second before proceeding. At first, I figured it was justheavy loads on the processor, but that doesn't seem to be the ...

We have following configuration (v880):disk c1t0d0 (in E 450 it would be called: c0t0d0) is divided intoseveral slices:Part Size 0 1.95GB [*] / 1 1.95GB [*] swap 2 33.92GB 3 2.93GB [*] /var 4 26.98GB [*] /u01 (oracle) 7 100.16MB Slices marked [*] are made ...

Hi, I have a few workstations installed with solaris 8 using jumpstart, which are having problem with the permission modes of the /tmp. Actually I had a tmp directory in the jumpstart directory with 400 permission modes. After I identified the problem I had corrected the ...

Dear Sun Guru's, I am facing problem in installing the printer ' HP Deskjet 840C' on our machine 'SunOS dusun35.8 Generic_108528-07 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-5_10'. I am installing theprinter as a local printer using admintool. Each time I am getting admintool error 'add ...

Hello,I have to write a scrpt that rcp's daily, the newly createdoracle backup to a second machine (db2).right now my script does this manually, ie it takes thefilename as the second parameter...here is the current script:#!/bin/shTARGET=/back01/oracle/fullbackup/hsp1a/rcp -p $1 ...

Hi, I got a lot of useful solutions. Thanks to all those who have replied and provided suggestions/solutions. I have applied James' solution (a few others too provided the same solutions);- I booted the sytems through net from my boot server into single user mode, mounted ...

We've been called upon to support a fairly wide variety of Canon laserjetprinters under Solaris 2.6, 2.7, 2.8 and (soon) 2.9. What we've found is thatCanon has virtually no Unix drivers and zero support for what they do have.The only Solaris drivers Canon offers at present is for their IR210 ...

I am trying to enable perfdump in Netscape Enterprise Server 3.6 webinstance and I am getting following error in log.config (13508): func_exec reports: cannot find function named perf-initHere is my obj.conf:Init ...

I'm installing veritas 3.2 during a sol8 jumpstart onto 18gb d1000 drives on an e10k domain. Afterwards when I log in and add disks to the root disk group so I can mirror the root drive this is the partition table Veritas lays down...it is 1 cylinder short, partition 4 should start on cyln 1 ...

Ok, I am running 2 Sunfire 280R's in a test environment. They are identicalto my production machines. We are trying to get our Jumpstart workingcorrectly. I was able to successfully flash both servers, but when theyreboot I get the error detailed in the attached txt file. I am fairly newto ...

Hi AdminsAfter i install solaris 9 patches which 9_reco~1.zipfrom sunsolve.comwhen i do #showrev -pPatch: 112233-02 Obsoletes: 112737-03 Requires: Incompatibles: Packages: SUNWcar, SUNWcsu, SUNWcsr,FJSVhea, SUNWmdb, SUNWcsxu, SUNWcarx, SUNWmdbx,SUNWheaPatch: 112998-02 Obsoletes: Requires: ...

Does anybody know where I might find the source for the openwin clock application?(I.E /usr/openwin/bin/clock)thanksbob---Bob Krygerbobk at panix.com, bob.kryger at sac.comAIM: BobKryger, KrygerFamilyOffice: 212-813-8677Cell: 917-913-6670PGP Key: ...

Hi Folks,Can anyone recommend some free IP packet screening utilities besides SunScreen? I would like to run this independence of the switch ACLs. I will be running this on Solaris 8.TIA,Dan_________________________________________________________________Help STOP SPAM: Try the new MSN 8 and ...

When the system gets to the following line: "Booting with command: boot"You are supposed to hit the "ESC" 4 or 5 times and it should bring you to anOK Prompt. What should you do if this doesn't work. I have gotten to thispoint on my SunFire 280R numerous times, and no ...

Hey all-I have a previously known working jumpstart server (I won't rule out thatits gone bad!) that I am using with a Solaris 8 (02/02) flash image tojumpstart a Netra t 1120/1125 system.When I go to jump the system it comes back with one of those not sofriendly data access error messages, ...

Hi Everyone, and Happy New Year.Yesterday I reported problems accessing the front panel of a SunFire 280R.After worrying that a lot of wise people would tell me I was a dope, or wasmissing something obvious, it seems that many have had the same problem!All were unanimous in stating that ...

Thanks to: Casper Dick Matt HarissThank you guys for some debugging and file consistency tips.(pkgchk tools) The problem turned out to be a 64 bit version of gcc-3.2 and stock dbm version on Solaris 8 don't get along. Once I moved back to 32 bit version of compiler or used GDBM with ...