Hi - the answer to this might be obvious but that won't be the first time... I'm adding a bunch of packages from cdrom and instead of selecting themone by one (there are too many), I just selected "all". Is there an optionlike a "-y" or something that would spare me ...

Ok, I'm a bit of a salvage artist so I hope this doesn't go "too far out" there......I've got a ton of old equipment that I've kept spinning for years. I've gotten into thehabit of buying the OEM (std) drives and sticking them into the SPUD of the dead HD.Unfortunately, ...

I know that there is an executable for Solaris 2.6, which can be used to<br>change the hostid at prompt <br>Is there a similar executable available for Solaris8?<br>Thanks<br>Rajeev <br>

I have SunForum 3.2 in a Sun Ray 2.0 environment. We are using Solaris 8, 2/02. The audio in SunForum has stopped working for some reason. The error message is : IOCMessageLi failed to open IPC link: MediaSyncIPCLink Can anyone shed some light on this and tell me how to get audio back? ...

I'm hoping someone has run into this in the past.We have:e250512 MB of ram.Solaris 8 MU7Latest Sun recommended patchesDual Channel SUN LVD card with the latest patch and software.Fiber Gigabit Ethernet adapterSun L8 Autoloader with an LVD LTO2 tape drives.Veritas Netbackup 4.5Using disksuite ...

Can the gurus help me here ,<br>to resize a filesystem under veritas ?<br>How can I do that ? what are the consequences ?<p>Thanks ,<br>Ramesh<br>

Archive-name: codeprof-before-postingLast Updated: $Id: before.posting,v 1.19 2002/11/21 15:07:17 jdd Exp $NOTE: This message is posted periodically to codeprof on behalf of all members of the Sunmanager's mailing list. Please read it carefully before posting. This document can be retrieved ...

Hi, Whenever Sun Engineers visit our site, they quite often come equippedwith a Nokia Communicator phone which they plug into the back of aserver to act as a terminal. Our ageing WYSE terminals are slowly dyingoff and I was hoping to convince my boss that it would be a good ideafor me and a ...

hi!i asked if other people had problems with Sun forcing them to installSW that they don't need or want on StarCat domains.i got two people replying, who have more or less the same problem.Geoff Wright wrote:: Sadly Sun are very reluctant to support Starcats with anything other than: the full ...

Hi all, I have this configuration: - 1 SunFire 1280- 2 Sun Storedge 2Gb PCI Single Fibre channel network adapters- 1 8 port 2Gbit FC switch- 1 Sun Storedge 3510, 12 x 73 GB 10k RPM disks, FC-JBOD- Solaris 9- SAN Foundation software 4.2- Traffic Manager software for multipathing- Solaris Volume ...

Hello Admins,Iam looking for a script or a complete command to see/view on dailybases to monitor the backup status of each clients. Like, it should saystart date & time of each clients.(time per client backup)My daily backup starts at 2200hrs daily. Every day morning I want see the time per ...

Dear AllI am running iPlanet Application Server 6.5 SP1 on a Solaris E450 Box.. For last few days we have found that the app server tries to generate multiple threads randomly and at timesthe activity is so much that the app server hangs and as a result our application (jsp) stops to respond ...

All, I have E450 running Solaris 2.6 rev 32 with 4 400Mhz 4MB Cache cpusand 3.5 GB of RAM. The server has panic'd 4 times in 1 week. The 1stpanic/reboot was undeterminable, the 2nd complained about CPU3, the CPUwas then offlined with psr. The 3rd panic was about CPU3 again. The CPUwas then ...

Hi,One of the harddisk failed in A1000 Box with 4 LUNS.5 harddisk -- RAID 5 --1st LUN5 harddisk --RAID 5 2nd LUN1 harddisk -RAID 0---3rd1 Harddisk -RAID 0--4thNow one of the disk failed on RAID 5 LUN.How will i change theharddisk.?Raid Manager installed and configured.1.Shall I change ...

Does anyone who has applied patches 113207-05 and/or 112392-04 to VxFS and VxVM respectively on Solaris 9have any caveats or warnings in regard to their experiences. I am planning on applying those patches this weekend.I don't have a test system to test these patches. Any comments, concerns or ...

Thanks all specially brown, seminole for the fast responses.Special thanks to topher for the full listing of the commandsI tried with vxassist ...but it didnt work for me.Then I tried the vxresize with +2g option. But strangly enough, the filesystemwas resized to 4.5 GBAny comments on the ...

First, thanks to Eugene Schmidt & Mike Keplinger (and anyone else I might be missing... seems I'm forgetting to mention someone) for offering suggestions on renaming the offending packages - unfortunately, it didn't work. Waqar.Hafiz suggested removing entries for the packages from ...

I was a missing a patch 108725-13 addresses the hp'sst.conf and st driver.thanks Charlotte and other ppl who contributed.To: codeprof at codeprof.com Subject: LTO GEN2 L180 I have currently scsi3(X6758,sun part#375-3057) hba connects L180 tape drives (4 HPLTO GEN2). robot is ...

I have a sendmail question for the collective. I believe the problemcenters around the "new and improved" (harumph) sendmail shipped withSolaris 9.I do not run sendmail in daemon (-bd) mode on clients; only the mailserverwill receive email. So on the client (Solaris 9 with patch ...

The problem submited was about X applications not working over ssh.Everything seemed kosher and all sshd and client options were correct.Unfortunately nobody in the list was able to point out the problem. Thanxto my good friend Leo Massarskiy, who helped me make sense out of trussoutput, I ...

Thanks for the many replies. For those interested, the most popular answerw/ a few variations was:Create a file (i.e. /tmp/abc)/tmp/abc should contain the ...

Hello Everybody,I am running into the foll problem when trying to fsck a 390gb filesystem . Ithink the system is not able to allocate 384mb for fsck ( process memory limittoo small?). I am hoping that one of you "Sun Super Gurus" will be able topoint me to a solution, any and all help ...

Dear Gurus and Gurettes,I am getting ready to buy an A5200 (I will be hooking to an E250). I already have Veritas Volume Manager software. What I was wanting to know was if the VM will automatically recognize the Photon license. I have not had to do this before so I was not sure. I did not want ...

Hello Everybody,I am running into the ssh/(ssl?) problems when trying to connect to a newlybuilt server.I have already invested hours on installing the other software, so I cannotimagine this could be a hard problem to solve. However, I have yet to findany information on it that is helpful. ...

Ladies and Gents, I am running Solaris 2.6 with NIS+. The DSS requirement is to have as aminimum an alpha/numeric 6+2 password system enabled. Can this be done inSolaris 2.6 natively or is some other tool required? I have a DSS audit coming next week and need to get this implemented ASAP. ...

Hello Everybody,I thank Manohar Nayak for his reply which suggested the following.***************************************************You can try with the following setting in /etc/system:set kobj_map_space_len=0x200000You may have to reboot the system after this ...

Hello All,I need some help regarding the password protection on the NVRAM of the Netra t 105.I forgot the password so when the system boot up and stop at the security password asking me for log-in.I tried to stop-a so I can get at ok prompt, but it would not allow me to. If there's anyone ...

Hello managers<p>I changed time with "date" command when I used Sun Blade 150 server.<br>but time-lag happened and the time goes slow.<br>Is it hardware problem?<br>I'd appreciated if you give some comments.<p>thanks<br>Y.G Ku<br>

HiA SPARC newbie I'm affraid. I'm trying to install Solaris 9 on a 420R server. From the PROM I use:boot cdromThe system starts the boot process, but reports the error "Can't open boot device". Since the machine had been transported between sites recently, I though I would check to ...

Hi,As original poster did not post a summary, I do this for other people interested in problem.See http://docs.sun.com/source/806-6593-15/dak_rr_a.htm#1005323Patch 110849-14 fixed this on our ...

I originally reported:> I'm having problems with a new install of Solaris 8 10/01 on a Sunfire> 880.> On reboot, we get a rash of errors, of the form:>> ... picld[312]: Received signal: Segmentation Fault> ... picld[312]: WARNING: Starting up in DEGRADED mode> :> ... ...

Greetings,We have two systems (E4000 and E4500) each attached to an A5000 FC array.The machines are running Solaris 8 2/02 with the latest rec. patches andfirmware, and the arrays have the latest firmware. Alternate pathing isenabled. These machines are used as mail servers, and half of the ...

Sorry. No response, just a few 'let me know what you find out' replies.As I remember, this was a pretty cool tool. I wonder if it was simply renamed or incorporated into another tool.-Eric----Eric P. ForgetteUnix Systems Administrator http://homepage.mac.com/e4jet/sysadm/On Wednesday, July ...

Does any body have any tips or advice ?I'm taking the test tomorrow.Does the test ask for command arguments i.e. stat -c ?What about the error codes from install packages ?How about signals 1-15John Corcoran978-741-012627 Congress StreetSalem, Ma 01970Unix system ...

I use the find command to send files to cpio for our nightly backups. Theproblem that I'm having is that find wants to go down my remotely mounted filesystems (which takes a very long time to complete). Here's the command thatI'm running:find / -local \( -name remote1 -o -name remote2 \) ...

Hello Guys Can you give me some advice or has anyone seen this type of issuebefore. We have a Customer that runs one of our applications via BMCPatrol on Solaris 8. We recommend running the application via/etc/inittab. But because of advice from Sun about a limit on the numberof applications ...

Dear Guru and Gurettes,Thank you all for your kind help on this matter. The short answer is YES, but with limitations. Christopher Wilkinson had the Gold Star reply...yes, it will be recognized. allthough the way veritas will handle thelicense does depend on the version of vxvm you use. please ...

Hello Manangers,I need your help with the following problem (is anyone here that saw thiskind of error?).Thanks,Daniel.2 Sun Fire V880 ServerSolaris 9Sun Cluster 3.0 (05/02)SY.ase (Sybase Data Service for Sun Cluster 3.0)Solstice Backup 6.1.3L180 (fiber channel tape library)SAN environment ...

Dear Sun Managers,This is not severe but strange.I have vold (volmgt) running on my V880with Solaris 9 (with latest patches).This machine has 3 CD-Drives (in factinternal DVD and 2 external old CD-Drives).Looking at /cdrom directory I can see:drwxr-xr-x 5 root nobody 512 Jul 25 ...

It seems what fixed the problem with the find command spanning across theremote file system was to remove the-local parameters. I had already tried -fstype ufs, but that didn't workeither.This command DIDN'T go across remote file systemsfind / \( -name remote1 -o -name remote2 \) -prune -o ...

Hi List,i hear of a problem my colleagues had when they tried to run an IBMUltrastar 36GB drive that originated from an A1000 in one of the E450's.The server would eventually freeze for some seconds and then sprew outthese errors:glm0Jun 23 22:25:20 sysccv01 scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] ...

Hi all,I'm backing up a database server via tar over anethernet to a remote tape. Both servers are connectedto the same switch, 100mbit fdx. There is minimaltraffic except for the actual tar.I'm running the command:tar -cvpf . | rsh remotebox buffer -o /dev/tapeTar version is GNU tar ...

This is a detailed summary because this is important info and I really wantto get this summary into the archives:I asked:> I have a sendmail question for the collective. I believe the problem> centers around the "new and improved" (harumph) sendmail shipped with> Solaris ...

I'm trying to build Apache 2.x with LDAP AuthLDAP & SSL and running intothe following I'm not sure if it's because I'm using theldapsdk5.08-SunOS5.864_OPT.OBJ.tar.gz and my current OS is Solaris 9Here is some information from the configure script.I'm using the following. /configure ...

Netscape with the reproducer of flash in the sites which access thatcontains material made in flash this application closes to me suddenly, Ihave read in sunsolve on the matter and is bugs but I have not found theform to solve the problem. Initially the problem occurred me taking ...

Hello Managers,<p>I am trying to determine if it is possible to allow telnet access into a Sun<br>machine but not allow telnet access from this same machine. Basically, only<br>permit a one-way in telnet capability.<p>I appreciate in advance any thoughts.<p>Thanks,<br>Brent<br>

It appears that these patches can be installed with little or no problem.Thanks to Topher Dick and Mads Vaagland.I appear to have both installed, and I don't seem to be having anyissues --to be fair, I think I may have just installed it with the media thathad it on there...but the 3.5 install ...

When I scswitch a failover resource group from one cluster node toanother, the following error message appears in the message log:--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Jul 25 ...

Well, after a HUGE amount of go-round with Sun the conclusion, whichtotally amazes me, is that this is within normal tolerances for ExabyteMammoth drives. This quoted from Exabyte themselves by Sun. A bit more info than the original message: Turns out that theproblem has to do with ...

Managers, I have several Solaris 8 machines on a private, non-routable networkfrom which I need the ability to send email to the outside world. One ofthe hosts on that network is a bastion between the private network and thepublic network. This host is running sendmail and uses the DS ...