V880 question

1067 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 0:22:00
Greetings ManagersI have a V880 which has a process running on it that is hogging an entireCPU. The program is cfgadm which has been running from boot time. As Iinherited this machine from someone who has now left I am unable to findanything in /etc/init.d or the rc directories that would ...

SUMMARY: NIS+ Problems.. (more info)

4723 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 0:22:00
Thanks to the following for giving me some suggestions:Jay Lessert <jayl at accelerant.net>Gary P Carr <gcarr at lanl.gov>Mr rich cole <rcole0424 at yahoo.com>After searching the FAQ some more( http://www.eng.auburn.edu/users/rayh/solaris/NIS+_FAQ.html) and thendoing more ...

Help]Keyboard beep sound

332 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 0:22:00
Hello Sun Managers,I have 4 blade150 workstation. The installed OS is Solaris8 2002/02 version.When I turn up keyboard volume on CDE Style Manager, it can't controlkeyboard volume. No sound. I know when turn up keyboard volume, I couldhear sound everytime I pressed any key.Please help me. ...

SUMMARY: V880 question

1201 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 0:22:00
Thank you very much everyone for prompt and useful responses.Special thanks to:Marco BreedeveldJoe FletcherBob WalkerThomas AutryIt appears that cfgadm runs at boot time and checks that all the hardware isplumbed in and working correctly. It is also more than a bit flaky whichmeant that it had ...

Solaris 8 DNS Lookup probs.....

804 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 0:22:00
Hi,I have a mail server that is trying to reverse lookup every networkconnection to it...I need this to stop A.S.A.PAs this mail server accepts mail from other machines on the net, wehave to be nice to our neighbors and accept mail from sources that maynot match the source domains mx ...

"Warning: force of misc/md_trns failed ….."

142 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 0:22:00
Can the "Warning: force of misc/md_trns failed .." messages that are<br>displayed during boot be hidden from the user?<p>Thanks<br>

Reconfiguration reboot device order

838 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 0:22:00
Here is my problem ...Have an E450 with an internal 4mm tape drive (scsi driver) and 12 fibreattached jukebox drives (lpfc driver). When I do a reconfigurationreboot the internal tape drive gets /dev/rmt/0 and the fibre attacheddrives get /dev/rmt/1 through /dev/rmt/12. I am hoping there is a ...

StorEdge L9 Autoloader authorisation problem

973 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 0:22:00
Good DayRecently I connected a StorEdge L9 Autoloader to an Ultra80 Sparc Station (solaris 2.6). The Backup software is Solstice Backup workgroup 6.0. I gotthe relevant authorisation code ( Autochanger 1-8 licence and WorkgroupEdition licence) from Sun Microsystems and enabled and authorised ...

[SUMMARY] Purposely corrupting a filesystem

2066 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 0:22:00
Thanks to:peter at ejs.isRich KulawiecThe suggestion was to create a bogus file, then run clri to clear thatfile's inode. This is fairly simple, but will not work with vxfsfilesystems, which will not allow you to run the clri command on them. Nomatter for my tests, I just created a ufs ...

dns (solaris 8)

1055 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 0:23:00
Sorry if this is off topic, but you guys are the gurus and it doesinvolve Solaris to a small extent.We are moving colocations this weekend, and want to make sure that ourdomain names switch over as quickly as possible to the new IPs. Rightnow we have 2 name servers running solaris 8 that have ...

Forcing use of sd driver on optical drive

2165 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 0:23:00
I have a project where I need to rapidly read in a bunch of magneto-opticaldiscs formatted with FAT32 file systems on a Solaris system. We haveseveral optical libraries under the management of AMASS software.I'd like to disable specific slots/drives inside of these libraries,so I can ...

No keyboard input on Ultra-80

583 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 0:23:00
Gurus,We've installed a Cisco 2509 as a terminal server & have connected acouple of boxes up to it, configured ports, etc.No problem on other boxes, the serial ttya console input/output seems toplay just fine - but our Ultra-80 has an issue, while we can see outputcoming from the machine ...

SUMMARY: Veritas Media Write Err's (84)

2718 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 0:23:00
Good day:It turns out that after contacting Sun they had me: /usr/bin/mt [device path] statuswhich resulted in an i/o error. It was then diagnosed as a bad drive; today it was replaced and am back-up and backing-up again.Thanks to those who replied.David Rieger####Original Message>I have ...

Problems using mailx

324 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 0:23:00
I have a problem when trying to send to specific email addresses usingmailx. Here is the output from an example.mailx -tFrom: xxx at xxx.comTo: yyy at yyy.comSubject: still testingthis is a ...

Jan 14 17:35:25 machinename sendmail[25760]: [ID 801593 mail.info]h0ENZPG25760: from=sender,

834 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 0:23:00
Jan 14 17:35:25 machinename sendmail[25760]: [ID 801593 mail.info]h0ENZPG25760: from=sender, size=116, class=0, nrcpts=1,msgid=<200301142335.h0ENZPG25760 at machinename.xxx.com>, relay=root at localhostJan 14 17:35:25 machinename sendmail[25762]: [ID 801593 mail.info]h0ENZPG25760: to=yyy ...

TWO NIC on SUN Box

472 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 0:23:00
Hi,I have two NIC cards on my SUN box (a DNS server). IfI send a request through one NIC card (172.111.111.1)how would I know it comes back through the same card(not 172.111.111.2). I need to disable the other cardvery soon. I have searched google and this listwithout any success.Thanks in ...

little bit OOT, unix virus ?

63 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 0:23:00
Gurus, <p>Is there virus on unix area ? <p>regards,<br>Dyah<br>

Veritas for HA - newbie questions

1420 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 0:23:00
Hi Managers,I have been looking at the Veritas site trying to figure out how all theVx* stuff works together.Basically I need to put together 2 Sun boxes + shared storage in anactive/passive setup for HA. Services to HA-ize are mail (Sendmail, imapd)and apache, the storage will hold user ...

workstation as NIS and NIS+ clients

355 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 0:23:00
Hello all,I have two Solaris 2.7 servers one is NIS+ server and the other is NIS. Ialready have some workstations configures as NIS+ clients.My question is that: am I able to set the same workstations as NIS clients tothe other NIS server?so both NIS and NIS+ users can use the same ...

Cachefs Problem

1454 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 0:23:00
Hi folks,I have a cachefs filesystem called /usr/apps on a workstationcalled say unixbox.e.g.Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on/cache/.cfs_mnt_points/apps-server:_usr_apps_13 11586696 8730530 1697506 84% /usr/appsOn the original NFS shared filesystem ...

Configuring network interfaces.

705 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 0:23:00
Hi all, If i have to network cards of type ce0 &amp; i want to configure both with seperate ip addresses.What would be the interface names.. One would be ce0, would other be ce0:1?Pls let me knowRegardsHimanshuGet Your Private, Free E-mail from Indiatimes at http://email.indiatimes.comBuy ...

Summary: Disabling rewind on close devices

3533 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 0:23:00
Thanks to those who tried on this one, but it looks like there'sno way to disable "rewind on close" devices from within theSolaris OS.Just in case Sun is listening, here's the reason why this wouldbe good...If you have a SAN attached tape device which is shared betweendifferent ...

record size 512 is not a multiple of dump block size (1024)

2055 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 0:23:00
> Hi ! Sunmanagers> > I am attempting to recover some archive data from 4mm DAT tapes. On> attempting to extract the contents using ufsrestore, the following error> is outputted "record size 512 is not a multiple of dump block size> (1024)". > > Does this mean ...

HiWE are currently rebuilding our web server.We are trying get all our users across from Solaris

523 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 0:23:00
HiWE are currently rebuilding our web server.We are trying get all our users across from Solaris 2.7 to solaris 8.Most our users have userids that allow them only ftp access. This was achievedon 2.7 by using /dev/null instead of a valid shell this allows them accessonly to their own home ...

error: cannot stop cpu1

8248 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 0:23:00
Hi all, My (fairly) new Sunfire 280R Solaris 8 is crashing at least once a day with the /var/adm/messages errors below - not always the same except for "cannot stop cpu1". Although it looks to me like a hardware problem (cpu or RAM or something else?), I have some doubts because ...

Blade 100 not booting...

1891 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 0:23:00
Hi Gurus,I know it sounds stupid, but my SUN Blade 100 died a few days ago and I4mpretty much out of ideas now. Maybe one of you can point a finger tosomething...I can4t boot from disk anymore. After "Use is subject to license term" thekernel panics but even though I tried it a lot of ...

SUMMARY: qfe.conf different speeds on the card

2873 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 0:23:00
Hello there came in a lot of suggestions some that were good and some bad. But basically there are three ways that i was suggested the first was tocreate a qfe.conf where my output would be like this: name="SUNW,qfe" parent="/pci at 1f,2000/pci at 1" ...

Summary: error cannot stop cpu1

10870 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 0:23:00
The overwhelming consensus was definitely hardware - call Sun tech.I am doing this immediately.While I am waiting I will check out the other useful suggestions that I received - checking the memory seating and also patch 108528 which has to do with various panic situations. (The system was ...

LDAP Authentication not working

1419 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 0:23:00
Hi all i have installed openldap 1.2.11 on solaris 9 ,mechine , i also changed the nsswitch.conf andpam.conf accordingly to enable the authenticationthrough ldap , i also run the ldapclient command andit has generated the nacessary file ldap_client_fileetc , now when i try to login using ...

SUMMARY: FTP Solaris x ftp AIX

599 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 0:23:00
Thanks to Josh.My question:I switched a server IBM running AIX operating system by a SUN V880running solaris 8. I have used the command "site umask" in ftp AIX for setthe umask files. Are there a similar command in Solaris ftp or othersolution?Answer:You can add a global umask to ...

4800 System Controller Question

568 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 0:23:00
Hello Managers,I need to know if there is a way to get access to the system controller on ax800 from Solaris. We don't have then system controller network on theseboxes. So the only other way I know is to take Solaris down and do everythingfrom the serial console.Thanks,Johnny W. HallUnix ...

Ongoing....Re: Solaris 8 DNS Lookup probs.....

3675 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 0:23:00
Thankyou to all those who have responded so far..There seems to be some mixed feelings on this one, I will try andclarify the symptoms..This does not just affect Postfix.when you telnet to the machine, there is a three min delay before thelogin prompt is displayedwhen you add an entry into ...

generate password tool

456 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 0:23:00
Hello Gurus, I am securing a Solaris Box which will be accessible fromthe internet, I want to put a generate passwords not easy accesible forthe users, Is there a tool that works on solaris 8 , I tried npasswd butit doesnt generate the executable. Any ideas I WILL SUMMARIZE -- Angel Alejandro ...

32-bit Solaris8 boot-file path

393 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 0:23:00
We have an old Ultra2, someone tried to force touse a 64bit kernel by changing the boot-file pathin the NVRAM. However the 64-bit kernel was neverloaded on the box. I looked at the value on someother systems, an it appears to be null value.I've tried setting it to null, but have been ...

SUMMARY: Problems using mailx

2321 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 0:23:00
My fault. Many thanks to those who provided assistance. Always make surethat the sender domain can be reverse resolved. I had a different dns nameconfigured than was being send as the sender domain. Seems that most emailservers allow for this, but some are tighter and more strict. I did ...

command execution recording

714 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 0:23:00
Sun GuruIs there a application can be used to record user's activities? Forexample, if users remove file, run kill command, etc, I can see all theseaction from a single file and able to tell who did what. I tried auditfunction but it's not what I am looking for.ThanxJCSTATEMENT OF ...

SUMMARY: 32-bit Solaris8 boot-file path

1532 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 0:23:00
Thanks to about 100 people.Most said update the EPROM version.I was already at 3.25, but when we installed the OS, we said "No to 64-bit"on that particular computer for some reason.Some people suggested "setenv boot-file "" or " "This didn't work, because it ...

iplanet mailing lists

296 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 0:23:00
Does any one know any lists specific to iplanet<br>products specifically iplanet messaging server ?<p>can some body points me there <p>regards<br>Prashant<br>Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now.<br><A HREF=" http://mailplus.yahoo.com/default.htm"> http://mailplus.yahoo.com</A><br>

fakiing hostid

349 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 0:23:00
Hi in some days i have to upgrade a SUN E450 with an V880 within Suncluster 3.0 As on the old machines there are some license servers running which connect to the HostID. Now it would be very helpful if the Hostid of the old Node could be migrated to the new one.We are using Solaris 8 02/02 Any ...

what is the difference between hostname and nodename

79 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 0:23:00
Hi,<br>What is the difference between hostname and nodename?<p>Thanks<br>SR<br>

dtpower error

291 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 0:23:00
All,<p>I'm trying to run dtpower on a Blade 2000, (Sol 8 02/02) and I get the<br>following:<p>#/usr/dt/bin/dtpower<br>/usr/dt/bin/dtpower[79]: >=2 : syntax error<p>I've reinstalled all SUNWpmxxx packages, still the same result.<p>Any and all help appreciated.<p>Regards,<p>Peter<br>

SUMMARY: update install drops to command prompt after doing little, /swap2 problem.

5896 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 0:23:00
Not much help on this one. The install script doesnt like metadevices buteven after I broke all these I had the same problem. I had the pop out the2nd internal disk for the thing to work!A sun engineer says that version 9 of solaris will work with metadevices.BBon Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at ...

no serial connection on E280's

919 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 0:23:00
Greetings, I have several E280's that I could do a console connect to in the normalway through serial port A - one of the big D type serial sockets on theback - using a standard serial connector cable. I am now overseas with saidboxes and assumed that I could use a cat 5 cable with cat 5 ...

SUMMARY: TWO NIC on SUN Box

1570 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 0:23:00
Hi again,Thanks to the tens of admins who responded so far. Couple of points to make (I should have mentionedbefore).1. I cannot plumb/unplumb the original NIC as it's inproduction environment.2.Snoop showed both IPs (expected to see only one). 3.The IPs were example not orginal (someone asked ...

looking for file perm/ownership script

1050 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 0:23:00
I've got 2 systems with nearly identical filesystems that I want to check out....I've got ssh on both of them....I'm looking for a way to compare file/dir perms and ownerships from one against the other & then report the differences (perhaps even an option to modify as well) - NOT THE ...

any one knows the reason for this error

1419 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 0:23:00
Hi all i have installed openldap 1.2.11 on solaris 9 ,mechine , i also changed the nsswitch.conf andpam.conf accordingly to enable the authenticationthrough ldap , i also run the ldapclient command andit has generated the nacessary file ldap_client_fileetc , now when i try to login using ...

Cheaper ways to Solaris Backup & Restore

676 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 0:23:00
Hi:Trying to find a solution to backup file systems onour test environment with 5 ultra 5/10, 5 x86 PC'srunning Solaris 8.With no backup software and no tape drives, thinkingof making tar archives and send them onto an NFSserver.How can i restore using the backup from a remotesystem?If i have ...

SUMMARY: Veritas for HA - newbie questions

3367 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 0:23:00
Hi Managers,Thanks very much to the following for their collective wisdom:Mark BergmanAPJoe FletcherEd KerekesHichael MortonYura PismerovMatthias GochtAlan PaeFor 1. VxVM is NOT strictly necessary to use VCS, although it is said tobe easy enough to use.For 2. VxFS is also NOT necessary, with ...

How to send STOP-A signal with KVM

268 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 0:23:00
Hi all,<p>How to send STOP-A signal through KVM(D-Link,DKVM-8) console using PS/2<br>keyboard, which there are no such function keys as SUN's keyboard are. I<br>do need your help, any suggestion are greate appreciated ! :)<p>Thanks & Best Regards,<br>Lee,Bin <br>

xml transformer

111 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 0:23:00
Hi,<p>Does anyone know if there's a download for a xml transformer on Solaris<br>8?<p>Thanks for the help.<br>