why is cd command not a binary ?

472 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 1:49:00
Hello managersCan some one tell me why the cd command is not a binary but a shell script ?Thank You.Reza.-- __________________________________________________________Sign-up for your own personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signupCareerBuilder.com has over 400,000 jobs. Be ...

SUMMARY: solaris boot floppy for x86

943 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 1:49:00
Thanks a lot to "PatMcAleavey at netscape.net"Summary goes like this.....------------------------------------Try the following site: http://access1.sun.com/drivers/driverMain.html#CASSTFCSJust follow the instructions there and you should be able to create ...

need immd. help

1158 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 1:49:00
Hello gurus,On one of the ultra 60 machines, i did following1) init s2) swap -d <dir>3) \rm -r <dir>4) init 3and now i am not getting root prompt... it has been 10 minutes.. whatshould i do ?should i reset using stop-A or wait further ?any clues are welcome--Thanks and Regards,Anil ...

Jakarta-Tomcat 4.0.3 containers

448 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 1:49:00
Hi ,How can I config the Tomcat to listen on each container on a different port ?I have two WEB-INF(s) under /usr/local/jakarta-tomcat-4.0.3/webappsdirectory : 1. domain1/WEB-INF/... 2. domain2/WEB-INF/...I want that domain1 ==> will work on Port 8008 domain2 ==> will work on ...

remote printing

1102 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 1:49:00
I have a requirement to have remote printing through a firewall. Theserver and the users will be one side of a firewall while the printers willbe the other (best not to ask about the logic of this). My question, is howdo remote queues communicate with the queue on the remote host. Google ...

how much space left on a dat tape?

96 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 1:49:00
Hi all,<p>Does anyone know how to find how much space left on a dat tape?<p>Regards,<p>Hakan<br>

SUMMARY : need immd. help

1364 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 1:49:00
Original post:----------------------------------------Hello gurus,On one of the ultra 60 machines, i did following1) init s2) swap -d <dir>3) \rm -r <dir>4) init 3and now i am not getting root prompt... it has been 10 minutes.. whatshould i do ?should i reset using stop-A or wait ...

in.mpathd failure detection time

753 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 1:49:00
hi,solaris 8.we use in.mpathd on our server.while we are backingup this server to a remote server we get the follwingerrormessages: "Cannot meet requested failure detection time of 10000 ms on (inet fjqe0)new failure detection time is 37590 ms " in the man page it says that the round ...

wondering (veritas)

345 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 1:49:00
Does anybody have a script that one can use to check the mirror-configuration for disksuite- and veritas-configured servers ?Parsing the output of metastat -p isn't hard.. but vxprint is a bitch. Any help is appreciated./Stephan-- Stephan van BeerschotenSun Microsystems, EMEA PSC ...

Bad Performance of Gigabit Card

599 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 1:49:00
Hello,Scenario is a V480 with additional Gigabit MMF Card connected through Cisco Catalyst 4506 on the same Cisco board to an IBM RS6000 System. With FTP the transferrate is in both direction round'bout 8MB. This would be a normal value for 100Mbit but not for Gigabit.Any idea what's going on ...

formatting output of date command

215 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 1:49:00
Hey kids, here's one for you...<p>I know that if I need to produce a string that matches today's date, I can do:<p>date +%Y%m%d<p>What if I wanted it to print yesterday's date...<br>Any ideas?<br>Thanks Mucho<br>

SUMMARY - E3000 CPU board question... (fwd)

2550 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 1:49:00
Hello all,The answer is YES, board 501-4312 can be placed in slot 7 of E3000.Many people have done it. Apparently, this slot is (known to be) atight fit for the board. Patient attempts helped us to install theboard on the slot 7 and the system is doing great.BTW, in my original posting, I had ...

SUMMARY: Problem with Solaris 9 4/03 ?

2738 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 1:49:00
Firstly thanks to the following people for their comments: Nathan Jeffrey Jim Ennis Jason Price Michael Lehmann Richard HampshireIn the main the comments were along the lines of it not affecting machinesthey had or on if the ISO images were burned to the CD-Rs correctly.After a lot of ...

Synchronising a number of directories and their contents

1279 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 1:49:00
Hello,I'd appreciate some advice on the above topic...OS is Solaris 8.We've got a main file server which has a large HD containing project andapplication data in 2 different partitions. These partitions are NFS sharedto user machines. I am in the process of setting up a second file ...

Panic error

3410 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 1:49:00
Hi, Our Production DB(Oracle) is running on Solaris 5.7 and the server is E450.The server crashed today with panic error message. Aug 14 10:35:38 aeer-db unix: /pci at 1f,4000/scsi at 4,1 (glm3):Aug 14 10:35:38 aeer-db Cmd (0x9705238) dump for Target 3 Lun 0:Aug 14 10:35:38 aeer-db unix: ...

NIS+ doesn't appear to be installed?

908 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 1:49:00
Hello all, I have 2 identical R420's that I installed Solaris 8 on several months ago.One was to be a NIS+ master, the other I didn't name a naming service forit. After install, the NIS+ master plays fine, and I had no problemsinstalling NIS+ clients on some U60's to play with the server. ...

Solaris 9 4/03 install help !?!?

958 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 1:49:00
ok ...ive finally got the OS installed ...but get this...the first timethe machine boots up ....it fires up CDE ..which is ok ..BUT i prefer thecommand line... also ...i went to add another user ...by doing#useradd newuserit created the user ..but didnt create the home dir. so i figured ...

LDAP and Solaris 9

796 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 1:49:00
Quick question for you all.... With the release of the Solaris 9 12/02, password accounting is nowsupported in the LDAP directory server via pam_ldap. Now has anyone hadexperience with this ....like does it work? Second we are trying to force a user to change his or her password whilelogging to ...

SUMMARY: in.mpathd failure detection time

1490 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 1:49:00
Hi,thanks to Kanellopoulos Yiannisexperienced a similar problem.he suggested, that the pinged default gateway has changed its ip adress,but this wasnt our porblem.Our problem seems to be the limited bandwidth during backup time.Therefor the ping needs longer than the configured amount of ...

init 5

207 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 1:49:00
Hi,<p>Our ac failed today. So i would like to remotely turn off an e450 later <br>tonight.<p>will init 5 shut the system down and turn off the power to the e450?<p>Just tripple checking.<p>Thanks,<p>Karl<br>

SUMMARY: Adding static routes

1421 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 1:49:00
----- Original Message ----- > What is the proper place to configure static routes for a Solaris host? I> mean, besides the default gateway configured in /etc/defaultrouter...>> I need to add a second static to point to a certain net via a dedicated> gateway. I checked SunDocs ...

SUMMARY:Patch updates

778 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 1:49:00
Hi All,Thanks a lot for all the replies that you have given, each and everyoneof them is a very valuable bit of information.The summary of the replies is as below:1. Ensure that the backups are current2. It is suggested that the patches be updated in single user modethough it can be done in ...

SUMMARY : Synchronising a Number of directories and their content s

1024 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 1:49:00
Folks,Thanks for all who replied, too numerous to mention.Basically, my query was what was the best mechanism for synchronising anumber of directories (and their contents) between a local directory on asecondary file server and corresponding NFS-shared directories from aprimary file server ...

ADMIN NOTE: TESTING (ignore)

173 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 1:50:00
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>

Xinerama With XVR-1200 and XVR-1000 Accelerators

651 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 1:50:00
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 ...

re-partition drives that are mirrored using DiskSuite

12715 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 1:50:00
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 ...

root and users' paths in /etc/default/login on Solaris 9 ignored

1662 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 1:50:00
-----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 ...

Knowing EOT or EOF from a shell script

986 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 1:50:00
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 ...

disallow printing

287 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 1:50:00
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>

non-root ability to run /etc/rc3.d script

788 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 1:50:00
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 ...

NIS+ passwd pains

2779 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 1:50:00
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, ...

SUMMARY: Flash Archive issues

5523 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 1:50:00
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 ...

CDE will not launch with TSIgfxp(gfxp0) device driver on Solaris 8

1795 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 1:50:00
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 ...