Dear managersi m having a problem in sendmaili have configured sendmail in my Solaris 8 OSbut when i m sending mail it reaches but it has machine name and domain nameas well in the sender's address , i want only domain namemy address seems like thisadnan at mx2.mydomain.commx2 is machine ...

Hi All,I have a 280 R that has no frame buffer - hence connectivity via consolewhile the box was being built / configured. Finding that a disconnection ofthe cable from the console port having same behaviour as removal of akeyboard from other sparc system - a drop to ok.Is there an obp cmmd / ...

Hi, fellowsThanks to Brett Lymn, Ryan, Kevin Buterbaugh, Hichael Morton.They suggested me to ignore the statistics for metadevices and concentrate on the statistics for the physical disks. As long as they are ok, then you are ok. The high wait times on idlepartitions is really just an artifact ...

Dear Guru's I have a 'HP Laser Jet 6p' printer installed on a windows XPmachine & I want to use this printer from my solaris machine(solaris5.8). I have installed samba on solaris machine but I dont know whatchanges needs to be made in smb.conf to enable solaris machine to ...

Hello,We have several Enterprise servers running Solaris 9.On one of these servers (Enterprise 250), the /etc/system file is a binary file, on the other servers (Enterprise 450, SunFire280R), /etc/system is an ASCII file.Is this binary format a new feature or a bug ?-- Gerard ...

Thanks to (in order of appearance):Laurinda ChamberlinAaron M HirschDarren DunhamJoon Martin HansenJay LessertJoe FletcherRaymond PlassartandKhalil HammidVolume Manager 3.2 leaves 1 cylinder unallocated by default when adding disks to diskgroups. There are 2 solutions, specify the offset for ...

Hi everyone,I tried to install a Linux distribution for Sparc on my ULTRA 5 Workstation,but all distributions (Mandrake 7.1, Redhat 6.2, Suse 7.3..)did some problems at the installation or after. I tried to get Solaris 9 towork but one of the Linux distributions killed the Sun disk label.Now I ...

I would like to thank everyone for their help. Everything was very useful.<br>I would mostly like to thank Andrea Soliva since she is using the same type<br>of console server as I and her input helped the most. But thanks to<br>everyone who sent me an e-mail.<br> <br>Chris Callan<br>

I have a need to setup a redundant set of DNCP servers that will configure<br>the client hostname from<br>information provided in the dhcp request.<p>Anyone using a DHCP server that they like?<p>TIA<p>IWS<p><mike><br>

Server: 2x SunOS sd01kn03 5.8 Generic_108528-16 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-880Sun Cluster 3.0Sun HA Agent for OracleOracle 8.1.7 (NOT OPS !!!)Veritas Volumne Manager, Veritas FilesystemEMC-StorageThe very interesting Sun Technical Whitepaper "Sun Cluster 3.0 Software -Cluster Filesystem ...

When I do the "who -b" command, I get no output.When I run "uptime" I get all the information except for how long the systemwas up.Does anyone know what may be the cause of this or where the system isgetting this information from?Thank You.Jeff WellensTechnical Support ...

This information is saved in /var/adm/utmpxSince this file was deleted after reboot, this is why I don't see thisinformation.Thanks to everyone who replied so quickly!!-----Original Message-----From: Jeff Wellens [mailto:jeffw at pbs.com]Sent: January 03, 2003 10:52 AMTo: codeprof at ...

One of our programmers is looking for the dbx dump-debugging utility ?Where does it come from ?Jay KoonzSr. Systems EngineerUSCO LogisticsMember, Kuehne & Nagel Group22 Spencer StreetNaugatuck, CT 06770Ph +1 203 597-5317mailto:jkoonz at ...

HiNow I have a problem since the sommer time was changed to the winter time inoctober....? I have Serial Mouse Clock for Time Sinchronisation and thesoftware for the synchronisation I use is xntp newest version. I compiledthe software with now problem and in the mean time all is OK and all ...

I'm looking for experiences from anyone who has successfully used XFree86on Solaris/Sparc. I need to determine, specifically, if it is faster thanSun's X11 implementation for desktop applications.Any insights would be helpful.benr.-- //Ben Rockwood - UNIX Systems Admin//email: benr at ...

Hi all,I am facing problem in removing tape devices which are previously configured.System is E-3500 with Solaris 8 installed.Previously Sun StorEdge L3500 was configured with 4 drives in system.SCSI IDs of drives are 1 2 3 & 4 respectively.System identified this as a 1cb, 2cb, 3cb and ...

Hello All,Thanks to Casper, Chris and Brain.The response on autonegotiation setting was mixed.Well, I decided to do some load testing with the autonegotiationenabled/disabled on a 100Mbps fdx environment.Thank You.==== Original Post =====On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 10:49:49AM +0530, Siebe_Jamnagar ...

Dear ManagersExperiencing a problem with a new jumpstart server from which I'm trying tojumpstart a new sunfire v100 (Sun Fire V100 (UltraSPARC-IIe 648MHz))The boot image is taken from solaris_8 (2/02), no patches have been applied.All directories and shares are ok and the jumpstart servers ...

I had solaris from the binary free promotion and isntalled it on U60.Now I am not able to access to sunsolve goodies (like having automaticpatch update program) because I have not a contract number.IS a SUN contract number mandatory to have access to sunsolve online witha login and ...

Just upgraded an E4500 to Solaris 9 from Solaris 8, and find apache startsok, but segfaults on all accesses, returning "document contains no data"in browser. Error log says (many times):[Sun Jan 5 10:24:57 2003] [notice] child pid 7333 exit signal Segmentation Fault (11)This ...

Earlier, I wrote:>Just upgraded an E4500 to Solaris 9 from Solaris 8, and find apache starts>ok, but segfaults on all accesses, returning "document contains no data">in browser. Error log says (many times):>>[Sun Jan 5 10:24:57 2003] [notice] child pid 7333 exit ...

I am trying to figure out a way to backup my boot disk. I am fairly new to sunadmin.I have a 9 gb drive partitioned into 3 slicesSWAPROOTEXPORTI have 3 other 9 gb disks that I could use to mirror or just do a raw copy butI have no experience with mirror.I also have a DAT-3 tape,I would like to ...

While doing a ufsdump on an hp 1537A DDS3 tape driveGot the followingwarning /pci at 1f,4000/scsi at 3,1/st at 3,0(st10)Error for command: writeRequested block 2625Vendor: HPSense Key: Media ErrorASC: 0x3b(sequential position error), ASCQ: 0x0, FRU:)X)write error 1606 feet into tapeAnyone seen ...

Can anybody with experience with the 6460's send me some pointers. I recently put together a v880 running solaris 8. I had two jni 6460 cards in there. They connect to two 3800 san switches that. 1 san switch has 2 tape drives. The other san switch has 2 tape drives and a robot (l180 IBM ...

Hi everyone,We are thinking of using Disk suite bundledwith Solaris 9 instead of Veritas but weare not sure if Disk Suite provides anythingsimilar to quick IO which veritas hasor not.Please give a pointer to a doc or if youhave any experiencein this regard will be helpful.As always, I will ...

I have oracle 9 installed on a dual CPU E420 running solaris 8. I need toupgrade the OS from flat 8 to 8/02. I also need to upgrade the memory from1GB to 2GB. Does anyone here see any possible problems?I worried about kernel parameters set by oracle during the install (which Ididnt do, Ive ...

Many thanks to everyone who offered suggestions to the problem.After much debate (OK, since it's a personal machine, it was about a 10minute debate) I decided to do a re-install (I had new hardware to addanyway). After installing the system, I had no problems. I applied theSolaris 8 Patch ...

Thanks a lot to folks who answered my question./etc/system MUST BE AN ASCII FILE.The strange binary /etc/system on my E250 was created during a Live Upgrade from Solaris 8 to Solaris 9.I used the lu routine on different servers and I think I was not lucky with this one.I copied a system file ...

I have added an X6541A dual channel adapter to a V880 running Solaris 8 using thethe "hot-plug push button method" as described in the Sun Fire 880 Dynamic Reconfiguration User's GuideThe operation appeared to succeed. The PCI slot fault LED blinked after insertion and thenpower ...

Hi,I have 2 server ( although quite different in capacity), sunfire3800 &amp; sun v880.I intend to put them in cluster to avoid any down times.But according the a sun architect sunfire has CPCI architecture &amp; V880 has PCI architecture which may create some issue.COuld anyone pls ...

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Hello, I'm in the process of implementing a backup strategy, which requiresme to dump filesystems from one server to another, and then restore thisbackup on the remote server. The backups are being done between two Netrasand the OS is Solaris 8. The filesystem in question is a veritas ...

Hi All,Thanks very much to everyone who offered help and suggestions.A number of suggestions were to run "snoop" and also "in.rarpd -a -d" on theJumpstart Server.The LAN I was working on is supposed to be an isolated DR LAN. However,when I ran these commands I discovered 2 ...

Hi,I am looking for 3rd party PCI GigE NIC copper based cards for SunBlade2000,SunBlade100, SunE250, Ultra10 machines. Can some one supply me with Vendornames?I tried to search Sun Managers archive, but submit button takes me to LSU homepage, wierd!Can some one point me to the correct ...

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Thanks to Andy Crichton, Brett Lanham, Kevin Buterbaugh, Christophe Dupre,John Eisenschmidt for respionces and I appologize for the delay. A couple of themes: 22G s a big /var.this is true, but I've had problems with all the systems I have for /varrunning out of space and this server is ...

Hello!I have successfully compiled and integrated sources of gimp-print-4.20, jpeg-6b, zlib-1.1.4, libpng-1.0.2, GS font files, and ghostscript-6.52 to give the "stp" driver. The GS for tiger.ps etc works fine for Ghostview but the output cannot be redirected to the c80 printer. The ...

Good Morning.I have a huge headache with backup and restore throughput on my network.I have re-cabled to get the following scenario eliminating a good amountof H/W to simplify:Database Server: Sun E4500 with Solaris8Backup server: Dell Optiplex GX400 with Windows 2000 ServerBackup software: ...

Thanks to all who replied so far. Received responses from John Julian, YongYi, Srinivas Duddupudi and Doug Winter. Suggestions so far were to:"use a Linux print server""use Ghostscript""usr lpadmin" ('lpadmin -p print -I any -s <Printer hostname>' a ...

Dear Sun Managers,I've a E420R machine running Solaris 8. After theroutine reboot of the system, one of the cron job isunable to startup and the cron log is getting thefollowing errors.> eda 1580 c Thu Dec 26 11:30:01 2002< eda 1575 c Thu Dec 26 11:30:01 2002 rc=137< eda 1576 c Thu ...

Hello,I have created Solaris 8 "Custom Jumpstart CD" with my own rules andprofiles. The CD works well and I am able to install Solaris OE (EntireDistribution with OEM) from this CD. However, I face problems when I try toinstall the Second CD. Normally, when the system reboots after ...

I have a disk partitioned and would now like to mirror the disk. However Ididn't leave a 10mb slice for the MetaDB.It is sliced into 3 partitionsSWAPROOTEXPORTMy question is:Can I steal 10mb from EXPORT (its far from full) ? I think I tried this oncebefore and killed it but in my naivety back ...

Env: Solaris 8 on E3000I am having some issues with setting up my virtual IP's.I do the following and can get my two solaris 8 servers talking to each other with the new IP address, but nothing else will communicate with the new ip. These two servers reside in our dmz.here is what i ...

Hi,<p>I Have Solaris 7 (Sparc). I want to get a hold of patch/package SUNWski. Which<br>will give me /dev/random on Sol 7. Any links or suggestions on getting it? I<br>cant find my CD's that Sun says its on?<p>Thanks<br>Rm<br>

Sorry for the lack of info. Here is what I did:- matched the broadcast and netmask to the hme0 settings and want to assign a new ip for hme0:1- have hme0 set for x.x.x.24 and want x.x.x.30 on hme0:1. - have hostname.hme0:1 with the .30 address and also put it in /etc/hoststhese two systems ...

Is there any way to mount ISO images on Solaris?Specifically, I have the new Solaris 9 12_02 ISO images and rather thanburning them to CD to copy their contents back to make a Jumpstart installimage, I am hoping I can just mount the ISO images directly somehow.Thanks,Thornton ...

According to this page http://wwws.sun.com/software/solaris/fcc/fcc.html ,Sun has enhanced RBAC in Solaris 9. Does anyone know what was enhanced inRBAC between Solaris 8 and 9?I found the following on docs.sun.com ... Role-based access control (RBAC) databases can be managed through theSolaris ...

We have a vxfs of 200G we need to split this up into 6 different filesystems. My problem is how to copy the data from that par to the new one. Do I use cpio, tar, or something else. What would be faster and why? Also I need to worry about links and file mods and owners and ...

> Is there any way to mount ISO images on Solaris?The partial answer is to use lofiadm. One person recommended the fbk driver.A couple of folks sent me the nice one liner: mount -F hsfs `lofiadm -a file.iso` /mntpointThis will give me access to the first slice on the image, but as far as ...

I need a quick and easy way (perl one-liner, shellbuilt-in, etc) to compare two date strings, such as:Tue Nov 19 08:56:06 PST 2002Mon Jan 6 15:43:59 PST 2003Possibly also how many days (roughly) they are apart.Any suggestions?TIAZaiguiYahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up ...