How can I jumpstart a machine without going into OK prompt and type "boot net -install" ?I'm remotely logged into this host throught ssh and have a shell.I tried man reboot and looked at eeprom, but still not clear on this one.I only need to jumpstart the machine once and then the ...

I am in need of an ident server for Solaris 9.I have tried pident, it does not work, I tweaked the configure script toget it to compile, but the daemon fails. I tried oident also, it failsto compile too. I then tried the sunfreeware.com pident for Sol 8, itfails too.I am running Solaris 9 on ...

Dear all, One of my solaris machine (model : E4500) attaches a A5200 StorEdgestorage (Totally have 5 boxes). I have formed some partition using VeritasVolumn Manager Version 3.0.4 by using Raid5 (5 harddisks, each of them fromdifferent A5200 boxes) without logging. However, the ...

Dear Managers.Sorry for off topics. Sun has following certification programs. but I have no idea what is exactlykey factor of exam. It seems to be for field/support engineers. Anyone have information about these?310-875 Level-1 Field Enginner examination 310-876 Level-2 System Support Engineer ...

Please ignore - testing after power-outage-related problems.<p>-- <br>bill bradford<br><A HREF="/execute/ask/?codeinfoid=24990">mrbill at mrbill.net</A><br>austin, texas<br>

Sunmanagers, I've got a Blade 2000 w/Sol 8 with a XVR-1000 and XVR-1200 accelerators.Is it supported / possible to run Xinerama across these two accelerators? Ican run Xinerama across two XVR-1000's without problems, but not sure aboutthis combination. The XVR-1200 guide states as a ...

I am preparing a system that will be used by the faculty, staff and students of University of Cincinnat. The primary use is hosting personal webpages. Users also have shell access. SAS will also be available. This system is not yet in production, but will in September.I have a SunFire 280R ...

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----Hash: SHA1Hi managers,Another question: I have a new Solaris 9 build I'd like to roll out,but we have an annoying bug.The user and root paths are set in /etc/default/login to include someextra directories. However, this is not picked up on login; both ...

Hi Gurus,This might be slightly off topic but I really need your help.I have a group of binary files with a big variable file size being transferred to a shared location(Solaris Machine). The transfer is done first by allocating a file name and then feed the bytes into it.i.e:ls -l -rwxr-xr-x ...

Hi,<p>I try to use the file /etc/lp/printers/myprinter/users.deny to disable<br>printing rights to some users, but no success.<p>How can I do to deny printing to some users.<p>Thanks,<p>[demime 1.01b removed an attachment of type text/x-vcard which had a name of rachid.boukhari.vcf]<br>

Hello Sun prosI need to give some developers the ability to recycle a service thatruns as root (rc3.d script for java listener > port 1024). It isdeathly important NOT to give them anything else, because they cannotbe trusted. They do stupid stuff like 'chmod -R 777' when given thechance.I ...

Hello List,i am experiencing some weirdness with the local NIS+ installation. Allsystems are solaris 8 sparc, with different patch levels. Being in theadmin NIS+ table i am obviously able to change/reset user passwords;however on some systems it turns out to be impossible. Here, ...

Thanks to Andrew Hay and Daniel Lorenzini for their responses. Suggestionsfrom them and Sun support ranged from using JumpStart to putting thearchives on one of the hard disks in the machine.Unfortunately, although we use JumpStart pretty extensively, I can't put aJumpStart server on these ...

Hi All, I have found that CDE will not launch if the device driver is/dev/fbs/gfxp0. But CDE will launchwith device driver /dev/fbs/m640 and /dev/fbs/cgsix0. Is there a way to addanother device driverbut not distrub the existing device driver? I also receive this information in ...

Hello allQuestion: how to debug flash archive installation ...?I have a simple network: +-------------+ | DNS-Server |----+ +-------------+ | +-------------+ | | BOOT-Server |----+ +-------------+ | +-+ +-------------+ | |S| | Flash-Server|----+ |w| +-------------+ ...

The eeprom output-device was set to ttya. I changed thisto screen and now the video monitor displays output. I cannot get into either openwindows or CDE. I get the dtlogin promptfor username and password and after putting in my username and passwordthe screen goes white and then immediately ...

Ultra5 reboots when closing CD, and it will not boot when there is a CD inthe drive. The lights on the KB blink. Oddly, it exhibits this behavioureven if the EIDE cable is NOT connected.It seems like my CD drive is toast. Will any EIDE CD ROM drive work in its'place?Or is there something I ...

for the wizards...General question...I have several netra20, 1120 & 1400 units that I need to know exact memoryconfigurations without physical access to the box. These units are in 24x7production and connot be taken out of service easily to unrack & open tocheck the configuration. Is ...

Wow what quick response. Thanks to the many folks who replied.The overwhelming response was to use the memconf.pl script available fromSunfreware or http://www.4schmidts.com/memconf.html.This provides exactly the detailed config info I needed. It works well formost systems, especially the ...

Hello all,We have a few E3000 boxes some of them with 2cpus and restwith 4cpus. We are currently in the process of consolidatingthem into minimum number of boxes each with 6cpus (MAX).The question is can I place a cpu board, part# 501-4312 intoslot 7 of an E3000? The box already has part # ...

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I'm looking for opinions on open source version control software suitablefor a Solaris / Oracle environment. Would appreciated thoughs on CVS, RCS,SCCS and others I may not be aware of. Which one does your organization useand why? Why would one choose one over the other? What are the key ...

Good Afternoon Managers,As always, here is yet another bizarre issue that we have come up with.<GRIN>Have an A1000 with a serial number containing all zeros ( 0000000000 ) thecontroller itself is accepting all functionality, including firmware upgrades,and lun creation.We have tried the ...

Thank you to everyone who answered my request for the 6800 Password unlockprocedure.Although I received many different emails, they all said basically the samething, that is as follows.SUN PROCEDURE FOR RESTING SC PASSWORD ON 4800/6800How do we reset the platform administrator's password if it ...

Hello,Im have Sun Ultra 10 that im trying to install Solaris 9, IM trying to doit through the serial console port ...to install from CLI instead if theGUI. from what ive read ...your suppose to be able to attach to serialconsole and the power up the box ...then i should be able to send a ...

Being the dummy that I am, I accidentally set a BIOS setting on the SunPCi II board to one that prevents the card from booting. On a normal PC, I would then jumper the board to reset the BIOS to defaults, or remove the CMOS battery.I can't seem to find either on this board. Help?I will ...

A colleague of mine has somehow managed to create a directory called "~"(without the quotes) in the /home directory on a server running Solaris8. Any ideas how I can delete it? # cd /home # ls -ladr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 1 Aug 13 09:54 ~ # rm -r ~rm: cannot read ...

Hello ManagersI have an E450 (4 CPUs, 4GB RAM) running Solaris 8. Yesterday I applied the 8_Recommended patch bundle. This morning I rebooted but the kernel panics thus:SunOS Rel 5.8 Version Generic_108528-23 64-bitpanic[cpu0]/thread=10408000: mod_hold_stub: couldn't load stub module ...

Hello<p>I have old Sun server running Soaris4.1.x with Sunlink4.1.4.<br>I want to make new OS instalation with SunOS4.1.x and Sunlink4.1.4. Unfortunetly <br>I lost my SunOS and Sunlink CD's. <br>Is there anybody who have those SunOS and Sunlink CD's or ISO images. <p>maris<br>

Thanks to everyone who replied (over 37 of you!). The main issue I was having trouble with was due to the fact that thedirectory was in /home and not a normal directory.I took another look at the /etc/autohome file... Again, on firstexamination, it looked fine, but then as I scrolled down I ...

> I have an E450 (4 CPUs, 4GB RAM) running Solaris 8. Yesterday I applied the > 8_Recommended patch bundle. This morning I rebooted but the kernel panics thus:> > SunOS Rel 5.8 Version Generic_108528-23 64-bit> panic[cpu0]/thread=10408000:> mod_hold_stub: couldn't load ...

Hello All,<p>How can i make a boot floppy for solaris 7 for intel platform ?<p>Any hints are appreciated. <p>Thanks a lot,<p>Best Regards,<br>Shravana Kumar.<br>

Dear SirI4m terribly confused about one problem in our environment. We have oneNIS+SAMBA environment, running in E450 with Solaris 7. Apparently, afterone system patch application, the password change is not working. Pleaselook this:1) In the server, with root account:# passwd user_testNew ...

Hi AllI am getting this message on Networker when I make changes to a client."Alias gatesmtp2 was once a client using client id: ( Id number) Recommend removing the alias gatesmtp2 from the list or renaming it"My question is how do I remove the alias gatesmtp2 from the list and how do ...

Hi Sun GuruI have java version 1.2 in my E250 server. Now I have installed java 1.3version in a different directory of same server & I want to run thatnew java version from root login , so pls. tell me, how should I creat alink of that new version so that I can run from root loginThanks ...

Hello,We experience very bad network throughput (1/10 of expected) in a firewalled network with to Sun Cluster 3.1 nodes running IPMP in fail-over mode. It seems like all netwok traffic frequently stop for a secound or so, and then resumes with lots of retransmits due to timeout, see snips from ...

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Hi all,I have tried to install the teTeX package from sunfreeware.com. It did not work for me. I finally decided to build it on my own. I downloaded the sources and did mkdir -p /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf gzip -dc /usr/src/tetex-texmf-2.0.2.tar.gz | (umask 0; cd ...

Hi,I'm planning to update latest 8_Recommended patches on a couple ofservers E3500 and E220 that are being used. I'd appreciate if you couldlet me know your opinions/experiences so that I can take the necessarysteps to prevent unexpected errors/panics.I will summarize your replies and post ...

Hi,<p>I'd appreciate if you can let me know if there is a limit on the max<br>number of groups that can be created on Solaris 8. I've done some<br>research but I could not find a reply for this question.<br>I'll summarize your replies.<p>Regards,<p>Sudhakar<br>

Hi,I have 2 Sunfire 480 hooked up to a A5200 with 2 fcal card each. They bothrun Solaris 9 4/03 with VxVM 3.5 MP1.I've configured all my disks (local and a5200), volumes, etc.. with noproblems.On reboots, I get that error message (on both servers):Aug 13 09:20:24 ann1-qc1 krtld: [ID 469452 ...

HelloCan someone direct me to some information on using a Qlogic 2100 F (PCI ) in a E450 to connect to a A5100 ? I have tried Qlogic's web site but , can't seem to find good info.ThanksRichard L. BonfoeyThe News TribuneInformation SystemsSuccessfully Meeting the Business Needs ofThe News ...

I have an Ultra 5 with Solaris 8 installed with disksuite. It was rebooted(while /var was full if that means anything)It hangs after after it shows the following NORMAL messages:ok bootBoot device: /pci at 1f,0/pci at 1,1/ide at 3/disk at 0,0 File and args: -sSunOS Release 5.8 Version ...

Some additional information regarding not being able to log into CDE or openwindows.Turns out I had a corrupted /.dtprofile file. In looking at the file with a cat command it was all garbage. I replaced it with another copy from my Solaris 8 machine and I'm now ableto log into CDE and ...

Hi,Karl Rossing told me that Sun had an opened Bug ID (4826150) for a similarsituation. But it's dated from last March, and got noassociated patches, workarounds, nothing else since.After looking around a bit on my system, I found out that the "sf" driveris included in the package ...

On Tuesday 12 August 2003 06:16 pm, you wrote:> Being the dummy that I am, I accidentally set a BIOS setting on the SunPCi> II board to one that prevents the card from booting. On a normal PC, I> would then jumper the board to reset the BIOS to defaults, or remove the> CMOS ...

Hey Sun Gurus ... I am in need of a way to determine either how much memory is in use on aSolaris 8 box, or how to determine if a Solaris 8 box is suffering from ashortage of memory. I know before Sun re-architected the Virtual MemoryArchitecture with Solaris 8, you could check the scan rate ...

Hello Gurus,I need help in the above subject, Solaris JumpStart/ Flash installations withVERITAS ( VxFS ) File Systems. Until now, I follow the Solaris "LU"techiniques to do that. I highly appreciate, if anyone could provide somehints/ URLs or documentation on this.Best ...

Hi Sunmangers,I have a solaris 8 system that i applied the reccomended patch cluster(108528-22) to (in run level 3) and now i am getting this error about"wordlist" when trying to apply any patches. i already have the 112396-02installed in case you ask.please help!!!thanx in advance! ...