THanks to both Larye Parkins and Charles Homan who gaveme the correct syntax.Here is how to do it.nistbladm -e value=hostname:/export/home2/user '[key=username]'auto_home.org_dirAnd my original question:First off sorry for such a basic and novice question I usually use Adminsuite to modify ...

Hi Sungurus,Pls let me know if i can use PC Netlink software withNIS, that is currently we have a Unix NIS domain andNT Domain separate, But can i configure a BDC for theNT Domain on a sun box using PC netlink, and use thepoint my nis clients to the BDC, if yes, pls let meknow how to achive the ...

Hi All,The solution is straightforward as I expected:Change "AllowOverride None" to "AllowOverride AuthConfig" for dir/export/home/www/htdocs, which is the DocumentRoot.One caveat: if I keep "AllowOverride None" for /export/home/www/htdocs and addthe following ...

I have a remote 4800 system that I'm babysitting while "dad" ison vacation, so I do not have any of the documentation on site.Said 4800 is clocking correctable errors on a DIMM and also lost aCPU. We took the box last night and remote hardware man replaced thefailed CPU and moved the ...

Hi dear partners: i have a Sparc Ultra-2 whit Solaris 8, and i been install Apache web server 1.3.27, all is ok but whern i want to run the daemon this is a message:"# ./apachectl starthttpd: Cannot find ELFKilled./apachectl start: httpd could not be started" and in ...

We have Sun Ray's on a one subnet being serviced by a session server (Version 2.0 of the Sun Ray Software) on another subnet. There seems to be quit a few packets going over the network between the Sun Ray and the session server even though no one is using the Sun Ray. The Sun Ray is just ...

I can't figure out what this error means and how to fix it.below is the output from the boot of our V880Can someone please shed some light to explain what " WARNING: cannot find ssc050_get_port_bit " means.ThanksChrisscreen not found.keyboard not found.Keyboard not present. Using ...

Hello SunManagers,We have a Cybernetics tape library attached to a LVD scsi cardon our E250 server. Only the Cybernetics devices (drives andjukebox) are attached to this card. As suggested in thedocumentation that came with the library, we had made an entryin our /etc/system file that drops ...

Fellow managers,I have been living the superuser lifestyle too long. On one of my servers,I recently helped a non-privileged user set the setuid bit on a shellscript. I used vi on it as root to make a small fix to it and it continuedto work. However, when the owner of the shell script edits ...

I have searched through the archives and found a lot of questions asking about how to find memory leaks but no SUMMARYs were posted. So, I have to ask.System is a E450, 2.6, 2GBOutput of swap -lSUPERUSER at centaur:/> swap -lswap file dev swaplo blocks free/dev/md/dsk/d3 ...

Hi Gurus,I have production Server (E4500) attached with A1000 and i created two LUNSwith RM6.22 an put both the LUNS under Veritas Voulme Manager (3.3) with RAID1. It was working fine from last month or so. Today i started getting emailsfrom VM saying that one disk (LUN) failed. When i checked ...

Hi all Managers ,I have to set up Sun Remote Control with ten E280R servers , I have somequestionsfor that :1- Should I install SRC Software in all E280R Machines or in One machineonly?2- How I can connect to other machines when I prompted to the server src ,is it tip ?3- What type of cabling ...

I'm using solaris 7 and my dba says he needs the package SUNWi1of for hisjava app to work right. The java font requirement page http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/font-requirements.html lists it, but I cannotfind it anywhere. Bigadmin lists it for solaris 8... Does anyone have aclue how to get ...

Hi..System: Sun Solaris 9 SparcMy df -k report:Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on/dev/dsk/c1t1d0s0 10327372 10286910 0 100% //proc 0 0 0 0% /procmnttab 0 0 0 0% /etc/mnttabfd 0 0 0 ...

Hello everyone,I've spent the last couple hours searching through the archives for a solution to an issue we are having. I found a few similar questions, though, not quite the same, and they were a little old. Here is my situation. I have a segregated LAN with 30 Solaris systems (Solaris 8 ...

Archive-name: codeprof-faqSun-Managers' Frequently Asked Questions$Id: faq,v 4.38 2003/06/17 19:29:27 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 all,Where can one find the required patches for :1. OS recommended patches for Solaris 8 (Fresh Install)2. OS patches for Veritas Foundation Suite 3.53. OS Patches for Oracle 8.1.7.44. OS Patches for Apache 1.3.26It will be great if we can find this out and document the same ...

Greeting,On the side: http://docs.sun.com/db/doc/806-6111/6jf2ve3fa?a=view said:------------------------------You can use a RAID 0 volume that contains multiple components for any filesystem except the following:root (/)/usrswap/var/optAny file system that is accessed during an operating system ...

Dear all,in my machine wtmpx keeps increasing .cat /var/adm/wtmpx | /usr/lib/acct/fwtmp | more 0 0 0000 0000 0 Thu Jan 1 05:30:00 1970 0 0 0000 0000 0 Thu Jan 1 05:30:001970 0 0 0000 0000 0 Thu Jan 1 05:30:001970 0 0 0000 0000 0 Thu Jan 1 05:30:001970 0 0 0000 0000 0 ...

Hello List,this problem refuses to go away by sitting it out and investigation as wellas browsing the archives (for "CDE small fonts" and similar keywords) didntresult in any enlightenment so you are kind of my last resort.Yesterday in the morning, all users of one of our Solaris 8 ...

Hi All,Simple question with regard to solaris installation on a intel platform.I have a Intel Pentium 2 machine. It has 2 disks. each disk has 3partitions.First disk, first partition has WINDOWS NT installed. Now, I would like to install solaris for intel on the second partition ofthe same ...

Hi powerful managers,I've got 2 A1000 managed by rm6 ,attached to my station .Yestertday I've removed one of them without rebooting the machine.I'm disturbed with "million" of mesages that appear in my console :scsi: WARNING: /pci at 1f,4000/scsi at 2,1/sd at 5,0 (sd50):disk not ...

Hi folks,when I install a file with a class action script its size (and necessarilyits cheksum) is changed.When I check the package with "pkgchk" a filesize and checksum error forthat special object is reported.How can I adjust the contents-file after the installation is completed?I ...

I know I ran into this problem many years ago with this strange CD but lost my notes on it.Using:Solaris 7E250 and a Enterprise 170.I can mount this CD and traverse the directories at the top two levels of it but I cannot see any of the files on the disk. If I recall correctly there were a few ...

Hello SunManagers,I herited a storedge T3 (Fiber Optic) array.My question is can I attach the Storedge T3 to one of the following severs:Netra T1 105 boxSunblade 150 boxUltra 5 boxAnd if so ,Storedge being FD what kind of card or adapter is recommended ?Thanks in Advance.John ...

Hi all,Not sure if I have asked for this before, but does anyone have a.) A setup guide for an A5000b.) Notes or advice on an A5000 setupc.) A URL to docs on setup help for an A5000I have just realised that I may not have actually ever setup an A5000 fromscratch and would like to have a read up ...

Does anyone know of any way to monitor the state of metadevices ?<br>I could probably script it, but I'd need to know all the possible states.<br>Is there anything that Sun already provides ?<p>thanx in advance<br>

Hello,Just wondering if someone out there has written a script in either shell orperlto search a specific folder/directory for new files? I have a need tosearch afolder and if there is a new file email a notification to a vendor. Thebad thing isthe file name isn't specific though the ...

Is there freeware backup software, which I can use to replace Legato OR<br>Veritas?<br>Rajeev<br>

Good day,this is a kind of partial and late summary of my earlier question,which i posted some 2-3 weeks ago regarding our continuous problems withClariion CX-400 disk storage array and, therefore, 2 Solaris serversconnected to it. It is late, since the problem remained (with variations) till ...

Ladies and Gentlemen; I have the following scenario:1. I have created a bootable Unix CD that copies a Third party Sun Package to the root disk root (/) partition and then installs it via a RC3.d script upon the first reboot. This works flawlessly to non-meta disked systems.2. When I ...

Thanks codeprof for your precious helps, specially Konrad Azzopardi..The answer for my problem is : fsck -y /dev/rdsk/c2t3d0s7 (yes for allquestions CLEAR).Ha Minh NGUYEN ----- Original Message ----- From: Ha Minh NGUYEN To: codeprof at codeprof.com Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 4:08 PM ...

I have a Netra A1000 with 6 disks split as 1,0 1,1 1,2 and 2,0 2,1 2,2 andRAID 5.Yesterday, I noticed an amber LED on the front panel under power LED. Also,there was an amber LED on disk 1,2. I took it out and then put it back. Itstayed amber but then I rebooted the servers attached to it and ...

Managers,I know that this is a rather remedial question, but most of myexperience has been enterprise and not really dealing with users.I have a user that has Acrobat Reader program that runs from an NFSshare. Within CDE and the file manager, he wants to be able to directlyopen the pdf file ...

I would like to thanks everyone who replied<br>The answer is AMANDA www.amanda.org<br>Regards,<br>Rajeev<br>

Hi Managers,I need to upgrade the OS on one of our Sun Serverswhich has Disk Mirroring done using Online Disk Suite.I have a few question about how to go about it.Do I need to break the mirroring and then upgrade theOS?If yes, bringing the submirrors offline would besufficient or do I have to ...

Hi,I received only one reply from Joe Fletcher and it did gave me hint on what tolook for.Thanks for the reply Joe. It was a problem of loose cable on controller. I didtighten it and reattached the plex with vxreattach command.Thanks for your Help Joe.Check the termination on the array.---- ...

I have a problem with few systems that don't set the $DISPLAY variablewhen I ssh to them. There isn't anything different in the shell profileof those machines, from the ones that set it properly. I tried anotherversion of ssh, played with the settings, but can't figure out what'scausing the ...

Thank you for all the responses. I did not definitively find a culprit but my guess would have been Samba. Since this is 2.6 I did not have prstat to run but I did do some of the other suggestions. Some are listed here. They have some good commands for your toolbox aliases.## From Jay ...

Solaris 2.7Forte 6 installedHowdy Folks,I'm trying to install a SSH server - to accomplish this I obtained Forte 6 from my campus softdist . I dutifully installed the license file and set my path to "see" this new installation:Here's the ...

Howdy Folks, thanks again for allowing me to land in your inbox.I have made some changes derived from the responses I have received (I will summarize at the successful conclusion of this installment of "how I was driven crazy by a machine yet saved by the goodwill of others"):What you ...

Hi,Have just the mailing list and will appreciate all your help.I have a Sun Enterprise 250 server which I use for our data networksmanagement system. Due to power failure I had problem with one of thehard-disk and its file system. Upon rebooting the machine always went onto Single User Mode ...

I have a Exabyte 430 tape drive hooked up to a V480 with a dual LVDSCSI3 card. Probe-scsi-all sees the devices (Library and tape drives)but the OS (Solaris 8) does not. I have st.conf configured per Exabyteand another working Solaris 9 server. I have done dozen's of boot -r anddevfsadm etc ...

Hello Managares, I have a sunfore 280R running solaris 9. There isfcip0 interface in this machine. When I installedsolaris o/s it detected this fcip0 interface. Now Ihave assigned IP address and netmask to it.But I can't ping this card from another machine on thenetwork. Not even by using a ...

Sorry for the late summary, I needed time to test a few softwarepackages.I did not get any replies for psynch from M-Tech but I gotanother suggestion from Dheeraj.Jangalwa which is usingControl-SA from BMC.I have tested some more such as Tivoli, Sun, Symark, etc... andconcluded that psynch from ...

Hi,The System hung and can't boot and displaying the following error message. Please helpBoot device: disk File and args:WARNING: cannot open system file: etc/systemSunOS Release 5.8 Version Generic_108528-21 64-bitCopyright 1983-2003 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.ifconfig: ...

hi all,I have 2 different networks in my office.Local Area Network 1:IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 10.60.3.149 (ip address of my windows computer)Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 10.60.3.1 (ip address of the Win2000 Server)DHCP Server ...

Managers,[Warning: This might be a bit off-topic]I'm trying to figure out the most efficient way to filterspam and email viruses. Our current solution is based onTrend VirusWall, Trend eManager and the sendmail access.dband blacklist_recipients features. Doesn't work very well...I'm ...

Dear all,<p>As I want to find out the part number of A5200 disk storage. However, the<br>storage is in remote site and we want to get those information asap. Can I<br>use any command, "e.g. luxadm" to find out the part number of it? Thanks.<p>Best Regards,<br>Henry<br>

Hi all,I was wondering if anyone has a Solaris Basic Training Manual in word or power point format which they wont mind to send to me. (i dont know if its leagal or not doing this)I just want a document on the which shows you the Unix command and what it does.i got something of the internet at ...