I have NTP setup and configured on my external Sun FW. How would i go about<br>finding out the time span between which it checks the atomic clock to make<br>sure it has the right time.<br> <br>Chris Callan<br>

Anyone ever seen this error message when running patchpro -IError: PatchPro failed: ERROR: Empty Patch List.--Don Schultz | Panvera CorporationUnix Administrator | 501 Charmany Driveph: 608.204.5060 | Madison, WI 53719fax: 608.204.5061 ...

(really, this is on topic for Solaris 8,)Well, today is MacWorld Expo SF. Apple comes out with an amazing new 17"PowerBook G4 ( http://www.apple.com/powerbook/index17.html). Microsoftputs up a new web page ( http://www.microsoft.com) that is unreadable ona Mac screen.So, I popped on over to ...

We have a CPU fan on a SUN PCi II card acting up. As the computer is notunder maintenance. SUN tells me they must replace the whole card as the CPUfan is not stocked. This is rather silly since the card would cost $500 vs$15 for the fan only.Does anyone know where I could get a CPU fan ...

I know this question has been asked a million times but I'm right now unableto find info about doing this. I have a space issue on a particularfilesystem and I'm wanting to merge the filesystem with another that is notreally being used. I know I could do some symlink stuff but that ...

Are there any third party products that come with a Solaris 8installation? I am particularly interested in the Citrix ICA Client,but would also like to know what other (if any) third party softwarecomes with a Solaris 8 installation. My thanks in advance to anyonethat can provide this ...

Thanks to James Matthew Vandevegt, Doug Floer, Steven Ruby, Sean Berry, JayLessert, and Glen HarrisonSeems I forgot to mention that I needed to newfs the partition after I wasdone with format. Of course I did do that, just forgot to mention it.Otherwise everything seems fine. Someone also ...

Geeting,I tried to find if I can use a linux as the Jumpstart install/boot server,but I can not find any information about it in web.If I can use a linux, could you please advice me more information about it.Any comments will be apprecatedThanks in advance Julie XuUnix/Network ...

Im doing a test run of an update install from flat 8 to 8 2/02 on a e420r.Im booting from the install CD. The installation CD sees the updateableroot filesystems, asks lots of questions and then ends with: Enter 'y' to accept these values and start the installation, or 'n' to ...

Hi,Looking to use syslog to email "su" attempts.Tried this as an optionauth.notice suattemptsWhere "suattempts" is an email alias.and also triedauth.notice suattempts at domain.com.auBut this didn't email me, do I need to do something else, OR is this notpossible and I will ...

Dear Managers,I am in search of a TCP Wrapper/Wrapper like toolwhich will scan through the packets (Not just theheader for the source IP address) and prevent attackslike Denial of Service. TCP Wrapper which I came across just checks the/etc/hosts file and decides whether to establish ...

Dear Sun Managers:I ran into some weird boot up problems with a couple of Netra X1 systems: At the prompt "lom>" (light output management) on theconsole on one unit, I tried to "poweron" theunit but it did not respond to this command. When I attempted to turn on the power ...

Hello all,<p>Does anyone know when I can get a good document on the best ways to secure a<br>solaris 8 Ultra server running Iplanet web server and oracle. I would<br>really appreciate this. <p>Regards<p>Andrew<br>

Hi all,Let me summarise the responses.Broun Bevan, Alex Stade, and Cian O Sullivan respondedto my query. Many a thanks to them :-)All of them suggested me firewalls like IPFilter. Iguess I too need to consider something like that. ButI am not sure how these firewalls can conclude on ...

Hi all, I am in deep trouble. I am trying to get a compiler working on my NetraX1running Solaris 8. I have downloaded binutilsbinutils-2.11.2-sol8-sparc-local.gz and gcc 3.2 packages. I installed themboth. When it try to compile programs I get this error.configure:1572: $? = ...

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----HiWe've recently completed tesing with Netscape LDAP server (version 4) as a replacement for NIS/NIS+.I've just been informed by a local iPlanet reseller that a per-user licence is required for the product. I believed that, if used as a NIS replacement for ...

I have been calculating the memory usage of apache processes on a busyserver and we are trying to get 2000 users onto an E250. I run thefollowing commands which count the amount of memory used (roughly as httpdprocesses are I assume respawning all the time)ps -eo pid,fname| \ awk ' ...

Hi experts,I've just acquired an E6000 with the RSM 2000 array controller and 2 diskarrays.problem 1 - how do you fit/remove a disk? There seems to be no slidermechanism for this.2. Can Disksuite be used on this system?3. is Raid Manager software a requirement or is this a substitute for ODS?I ...

Dear codeprof,I have a requirement. * I have taken backup using cpio onto a DLT tape.* After each project directory tree, there is an EOF mark.* I can move on to specific project using mt -f <dev> fsf <n>.* Now I am asked to delete project data for a particular project.* Is it ...

Hi, On further testing, I believe the problem is that the filesystem had not been flushed from memory to disk. Since vxdump (and ufsdump) backs up the rdsk device, therefore all of the filesystem was not being backed up. My solution is to perform a "sync" before performing the ...

Thanks to Chris Lovett, Reginald Beavers David Harrington and Sergio LuizNovaes.The upshot is that to unlock the disks, there's a small allen key in thelever.Disksuite (or other manager) works and the raid controller software is onlyfor use where a raid controller is installed ...

Hello, I recently adquire the administration of an old machine which is running solaris 2.6 and netscape webserver 3.5.1, the web teamdeveloper deployed jsp on a W2K server running Oracle 8i and IAS whichuses apache and jserv or jakarta tomcat to run jsp, I have theassignment to make allow jsp ...

Hi Guys,Is there a way to bypass an RSC configuration on a V280R. The vendor thatshipped the box which he tested using a the Remote Sun Center(RSC) feature.He also didn't ship me the USB keyboard and mouse. Now, I connected to theserial port and I get a login first. Apparently, it won't ...

Hi all,Got a X1 back in the office. Without any jumpstart environment setup andwant to rebuild the whole system, I am opening up the box, disconnected the2nd HD, hook up to an IDE CDROM, thinking that I can install from CD media.Do you think this will work?it boots up, `boot cdrom` ok boot ...

I have a small server room (less than 12 systems) composed of Enterprise450's, 3000's and 4500's. I've been using Lightwave CommunicationsKVM switches for years; without problem.We are considering replacing our Enterprise 4500's with Sun FireV480's. Since the V480's use type-6 (USB) ...

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----Numerous replies, all different!It would seem, on the basis of a consensus of the worst case senario, that the iPlanet directory server is free only with:-(a) less than 400 users;(b) less than 150,000 records;(c) deployed on fairly recently shipped Sun ...

Dear Managers Whether Solaris 8 supports Intel 850chipsets?I'm trying to install solaris on a P4machine.Installation media (CD) boots properly,scanhardware and proceeds upto installation options (1.Interactive 2.Custom Jumpstart ) and when any of the options isselected,installation ...

Hi all,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" My mail server is a different machine running Solaris 6. Does the smmsp local ...

Hello gurus, After getting advice from the group, Imanaged to change the ip address of the lantronix box. Couple of line printers areconnected to the lantronix box and wedid not do any changes other than ip/gateway/subnet.If we try to print,it is not printing and it stays on the ...

I want to thank everyone for all of there help and assistance with this. It ended up being something on our firewall that was causing the problem with certain address'. I finally got an IP from my LAN folks that works and I have it up and running.Thanks again to everyone for such quick and ...

I received several suggestions, ranging from switching to a serialconsole server to using KVM's from Avocent or Raritan.Thanks to Will Enestvedt for pointing out a USB to type-5 adapter fromUltraSpec.com for $175..I also found that Raritan sells a similar product (ASUSB) that I can buyfor ...

Seems our NIS+ master is sick and getting sicker.. If there a way to dump the information in the currently in the NIS+master, rebuild the NIS+ system and reload the data.. We are only usingit for directory services no user passwords... System is runningSolaris 5.8 Generic_108528-15 sun4u ...

Thanks to:Sid WilroyTom SchmidtAlex RanchouxZaigui WangMcMurtrey, Thomas MBertrand_HutinOver whelming respoonse was to use memconf which is a perl script. Sid Wilroy also suggestedusing prtdiag -v and the following script to get the DIMM sizes and banks..#!/usr/bin/ksh/usr/sbin/prtconf -pv | ...

Thanks for the helpMost pointed out that it is probe-ide, not probe-scsi.Here is the result:- X1 runs IDE, `probe-ide` or `pribe-ide-all`- After I setup the 2nd channel with an IDE CDROM drive `probe-ide` didn't see the CD drive.- Both IDE cables in the X1 are ATA100 cables. I switched the ...

Here is a little more about the problem I am having.. Updates arefailing.. If I do a nislsrose-hulman.edu.:org_dirgroups_dirdo a nisls -l rose-hulman.edu.:D r---rmcdrmcdr--- krb1.rose-hulman.edu. Fri Jun 1 13:27:29 2001org_dirD r---rmcdrmcdr--- krb1.rose-hulman.edu. Fri Jun 1 13:27:29 ...

I would like to know if there is a method to copy a system drive and thenmount it on another set of hardware, with some modifications, that it wouldbe bootable.I am currently doing this with Tru64 version 5 and this cuts down my buildand patch times to bare minimum.Any help with this would be ...

Someone mentioned Sun included the "screen" package on their CDs?If so, I can't find it, what's the name of the package SUNW<?>If not, I just download it someplace else, but prefer the CD.The CD listing is at http://docs.sun.com/db?p=/doc/816-2411Thanks.- Mikeftp.patriots.net ...

Hi allI have installed the newes Open Boot version on a Ultra 1. The Ultra 1 tellsme on the boot process following:Rebooting with command: bootBoot device: disk File and args:|NOTICE: 64-bit OS installed, but the 32-bit OS is the default for the processor(s) on this system. See ...

Thanks for all the replies, the package is in the companion CD not theCD 1/2 and 2/2. Package name is SFWscrn.- MikeOn Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Mike's List wrote:> Someone mentioned Sun included the "screen" package on their CDs?> If so, I can't find it, what's the name of the ...

Dear Sun Manager,<p>I need to copy all NIS+ information (tables, users, ...) from my old NIS+ server to a brand new NIS+ server, with the same domain name and machine.<p>Any idea?<p>thanks.<br>Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now<br>

Hello:A E420R system has crashed (happened 4 times in last 2months)and vmcore file was generated. No apparent HW problems in 'prtdiag' output,Solaris 8 1/01 distribution, kernel update only108528-05, with VxVM3.2 and VxFS3.4, 2x36G internaldisks,1 GB memory, 1.5GB swap. But no memory hogs, ...

How do I disable XDMCP / CDE login from a server. I want to remove all the overhead traffic associated with this. I'd like to be able to contine X-type logins from the console. OS: Solaris 8. Thanks, DonDon WeeksSr Systems AdministratorSpatial Wireless, Inc1651 N Glennville ...

Hi allWow many answers with several solutions.....but first thanks a lot to allwho answered! Firstable it must be said that the Open Boot must have thecorrect version 3.25 or higher. I use 3.25 and this is OK. Second it is onlyrecommended to use the 64bit mode if the above Open Boot version ...

All,Looking for a way to disable DPMS globally to all users for a specific Sol 8workstation. Specifically the screen blank feature. Due to the nature ofthis box, the display must not blank, regardless of who logs into it.I am familiar with /usr/openwin/bin/xset -dpms, however am unfamiliar ...

Hi Gurus, I am having a problem with my E250 server which is running Solaris 7 onit. yesterday suddenly the /var filesystem size increase and went up to97%, when I check which directory is having more size nos of file so Ican delete or null it. When I check the /var FS I found tmp folder ishave ...

Hi,We have a Sunfire V100 running Solaris 8 with latest patch applied. However,we have the following message inside /var/ad/messages every single seconds:su: [ID 643653 kern.notice] NOTICE: su1: ring buffer overflowDoes anybody have any idea about ...

Hi managers...<p> I have a box Sun Ultra 450 with Solaris 2.6, i try download some<br>packages from sunfreeware.com and sunfreeware.unam.mx but it doesn't<br>download...<p> Somebody know where i download packages for Solaris 2.6..?<p> Tank's advance<br>

Dear Sunmanagers,Thank you for the replies.Everyone agrees that it is risky to try any script for erasing thecontents. I express my thanks to the following persons; also theiranswers are included. I don't know whether i have missed any answers.* Olivier Kaloudoff gave me a script. Even I ...

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Hello all,I'm having a problem trying configure a HP 8150, printer to use the A3 tray,it defaults to the standard A4.The current problem is, modifying from the panel means every print job thatis channelled through to the 8150, willbe spooled on A paper.The server is a E3500 server running ...