about a 20 second delay before the "Giving up." messages come out. I geta core dump.XNeWS: internal error detected (SIGSEGV). Report this to a knowledgeable person.Giving up./files/openwin2/bin/xinit; Connection refused )errno 61): unable toconnect to X serverPeter C ...

Okey doke. I'm getting tons of great suggestions and tons of sanitychecks. I'll summarize in a later e-mail. Basically, though, itappears that have a software RAID5 /var directory isn't a great idea(especially when the box is a mailserver and when it's an e250). I wasseeing upwards of ...

I recieved only one reply to my query regarding CDE actions. Alan Paesuggested running the target script on server1 instead of server2.Unfortunately, due to the system configuration and the way the script hasbeen written, this is not possible.Since my original post I've done some more ...

I've just acquired a Sun StorEdge L-280 Autoloader Tape Drive which I planto use on my E450. I've currently been using a DLT7000 (single drive). Iplan on continuing to use ufsdump to backup my volumes. Question: Does anyone have any examples or scripts on how to backup andmanipulate the ...

Hello managers I have a strange phenomena occurring in a E3500 which isconnected to a HItachi array.I did an analisis report because sometimes the machine gets very slow.Ican detect scanrates (sr) with vmstat over 200 por a considerableperiod of time, also the RAM is completly exhausted. bue ...

Hello, Guys, Please give me a helping hand in order to solve a tricky problem. I ordered an SG-XSW8-2GB FC Switch in order to link it to anexisting E3500 and one new T3. The HBA on the E3500 is a X6730A FC-AL100MB/sec Dual Channel SBus host adapter w/1 GBIC module. Our technical ...

Hello,could anybody tell me (in theory or practice) which configuration will result in better performance (i.e. more MB/sec I/O).System is a E450. The system will act as a fileserver (Samba and NFS).Config 1:Connecting a 3310 with 2 HW-Raid Controllers and using Raid 5Config 2:Connecting a ...

cPCI is the only option in Sun E3800 servers.<br>Looks like it's impossible these days to find cPCI Ultra 160 SCSI 3U<br>form factor adapter.<br>Does anybody have an idea who may produce them ?<p>Thanks in advance.<br>Robert.<br>

Hello,I've just seen a weird problem on a user machine, it's a SUN Blade 2000running Solaris 8 and CDE windowing system.The user who is seeing this problem uses Framemaker v5.5. When hechanges the Zoom option within this application to 200%, he is dumpedout of CDE i.e. to the login screen. ...

All,I don't know if this is possible or not (or if it'stotally stupid) but is it possible to boot off a localcdrom (of a client) and then have the jumpstartinstall server take over. The client server and theinstall server are on 2 different subnets and I don'thave another server on the same ...

I was wondering how the Sun RAy technology works. More specific, you have a server running the Sun Ray software. You have a Run Ray appliance, how do they communicate? Is there hard coded information inside the appliance that just waits for the Sun Ray software to start?How do they talk to each ...

Hi,I can't find any information in the archives with regards toformatting a drive larger than 36gb (Solaris 2.8).I have a Seagate 73LP which the format tool recognizes the modelnumber, cylinders and heads, but not the sectors/track. Even when Ienter the configuration manually I can only get ...

Hello fellow admins,In the last year, we have had three occurances of a script in production thatloops and backgrounds processes until no user can fork a new process. Im justcurious how people are solving this these days other than trending and settingmaxuprc. This morning all I could do is ...

Hello gurus,I am pretty much a newbie and have a question that my have a simple answer.I have an E4500 with no internal disks. All disks are located in a D1000 array connected via scsi. The problem I am having is that when the system boots it sees no internal disks and tries to boot off the ...

Thanks a lot to all Unix gurus who responded fast. Q. I need your help. I am not able to name the partition as /opt on the second drive thru the format command. Please advise.A. You never define its path with the format command.The command does expect a "tag"; the legal values are: ...

Hi Gurus,<p>How to configure the solaris server to send syslogs to another log server on a different subnet?<p>Please help.<p>Thanks<p>PS<br>Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now<br>

Hello,<p>Will a "Sun GigaSwift Ethernet MMF Adapter" work on a Ultra 60 running Solaris 8?<p>Also Side question does anyonne know of a good link that talks about the chages from solaris8 to solaris9?<p>Thanks Up Front.<p>Rob<br>

Managers,I'm trying to jump some new Netra 120s using the Solaris 8 02/02 release.When I use this image to do the jump the following "parse dynamicclustertoc: " messages appear. The weird thing is I don't get thesemessages when I jump a Netra 20, just the 120's (and older T100s ...

Greetings,I have a netra T1 105 running OE 9 with the latest patch cluster, and a D1000 that I would really like to use with the netra. I have the x6541a card installed in the pci slot of the netra, and a terminator for the D1000. The option switches on the back of the D1000 are set to factory ...

Greetings oh gurusWe recently lost an E450 that was running an oracle 9i database .... Wehad another E450 same configuration and we moved the drives over ....The system came up, dns started working, the drive array came up ....but oracle does not .... I get this error whenever any oracle ...

Thanks to all that responded so quickly. Casper Dik correctly pointed out that I had booted with a 32 bit kernelinstead of a 64 kit kernel. The new 450 had a pointer to the 32 bitkernel set in the boot-file parameter in the eeprom. Clearing this outso that the machine would use the default ...

System Managers,<p>The ps command limits the command line output and its argument to 80<br>characters. Very long command lines are truncated. Are there options to<br>the ps command to extend this? Is there another comand that can be used<br>that provides more information?<p>Thanks,<p>Jack<br>

Hi, Folks. I have jumpstart installed at /mnt/jumpstart_sol9. In this directory, there is the dir '.install_config', which is where rules.ok resides. the contents of rules.ok (I've included line numbers throughout for convenience): 1 hostname stink - stink - 2 # version=2 ...

Archive-name: codeprof-faqSun-Managers' Frequently Asked Questions$Id: faq,v 4.35 2002/12/02 15:13:34 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 ...

I have an E250 all of a sudden it froze. The keyboardand mouse dont seem to work at all. But afterre-plugging them in the keyboard does light up. Themonitor is stuck on standby status and the Server isnot responding to any ping. However its Lan connectionis green. Switched it off view the Key ...

Use: /usr/ucb/ps -auxwwThe SysV version of ps is limited, however the BSD version of ps allows bothextended (-w) and unlimited (-ww) length. For more info: man -s 1b psGot many, many responses to my post.Thanks.-----Original Message-----From: Jack Burton Sent: Saturday, February 01, 2003 11:22 ...

I plan to "telnet" from SUn Box (solaris 8) to Redhat Linux 8.0. I have no luck with following error:%telnet 172.29.84.13Trying 172.29.84.13...telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refusedIf I use "secure telnet with SSH" from PC, it work correctly. Does ...

Hi,<p>Has anyone got rdesktop running on Sunrays? If so have you connected<br>any usb devices directly to the Sunray's built in USB ports? If so can<br>windoze see the devices?<p>[demime 0.99c.7 removed an attachment of type text/x-vcard which had a name of lukep.vcf]<br>

Little off topic-There use to be a tech place (based out of boston or newyork) that did classes (perl, KSH, admin, cisco) in chicago and other cities. They were like 3 day or 4 day classes. I lost the name and the catalog. Does anyone know of such an organization or any organization besides ...

GreetingsWhen I log on to any machine I need the hostname of the machine to be seenon the x-term window.Will summarizeThanks in advance.VIJAY RAGHAVANPatni Computer SystemsElectronic Sadan III,TTC Industrial AreaMahape, Navimumbai - 400701Tel: 7611090/7619681 Ext. ...

HiSITUATION - On a production APP Server having about 4000 Concurrentapplication processes ,the memory allocated does NOT seem to be getting freed even though theapplication program is issuing the respective call to Free the memory .Qs Any /etc/system parameters , OS patches which should help ...

All,Sorry for the late summary but I received so many responses that it took awhile to filter through a lot of them. This list is great. Although I got many responses, special thanks go to:Darren DunhamTristan BallBrett LymnAll of them forced me to revisit how PATH was set when running under ...

hi guru,<p>could you guys help me how to create raid 5 in my solaris box using disk<br>suite...?<br>please write it on steps that I can understand (from the first step until the<br>last step)...<p>Thanks in advance...<p>Regards,<br>Agung Lesmana<br>

I try to recover a Sun Microsystems Server running Solaris 2.6 (SunOS G9JYG5.6 Generic_105181-23 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-4).The directories /dev and /devices are not recovered probably. I used a Solaris8 (7/01) CDROM to boot the Server.I used the Solaris 8 devfsadm Command to recreate the /dev ...

Original post below.The answer, which is in Sun's INFODOC #15010 is the following:Go to the ok> promptInsert bootable Solaris CDboot cdrom -swmount your_new_boot_disk /acd /a/dev/dskrm c*cd /a/dev/rdskrm c*cd /drvconfig -r /a devices -p /a/etc/path_to_instdevlinks-r /adisks-r /atapes -r ...

I've got GCC 2.7.2.1 from the SunFreeware site on my 2.5.1 machines. NowI'm tryuing to build the latest Amanda, and I'm runining inot problems. Thewisdom of the Amanda hacke=rs is to upgrade to a more modern GCC. Problem is, I cna't find one on SunFreeware, that doesn't require the ...

I'm trying to get OpenSSL to compile on Solaris 8 using gcc from the GNUCompiler Collection 3.2.1.FYI - I linked gcc to /usr/sbin/cc in order to even get this far.Any assistance getting this to finish the make process would be greatlyappreciated.# makemaking all in crypto...make[1]: Entering ...

Hi i am running Sun os 5.7 , it was working great tillnow , but since last 2 days i am facing wieredproblem,i am not able to "su -" to the system , i can telneton the system and login with normal uid , but when igives "su -" it asks for password , and then just getshang ...

THANKS TO: Osama Ahmed, Ric Anderson, Julie Baumler, Mark Cain, NealCurran, Tim Evans, Joe Fletcher, Eric P. Forgette, Rob McCauley, PeterStokes ORIGINAL QUESTION: I've just acquired a Sun StorEdge L-280 Autoloader TapeDrive which I plan to use on my E450. I've currently been using a ...

There is no summary. I got no responses back.> My security software reported that the /etc/path_to_inst and> /etc/path_to_inst.old files changed on an old sparc5 running well-patched> Solaris 8. Sure enough, the timestamps on both files were changed.> However, no one with root ...

Got 2 responses (included below) from Tony Walsh and Al Hopper. Thanks.While there are no guarantees, both felt like it should work.The basic assumptions showed to be the same.If we get the funding, I will follow up with anyone who is interested in theoutcome (or the list if the level of ...

I have just lost my boot disk in an UE2. It has an external disk packwith four drives in it, striped using DiskSuite. I reloaded the machinefrom FlashArchive, copied back a, known good and up-to-date, mddb.cfinto the /etc/lvm directory, ran 'metadb -p' and rebooted. I have donethis a number ...

Hey it was a four day weekend, and I plugged the external pack into thewrong SCSI controller on the back of the machine, ID'S all wrong. Butto be fair, it wasn't me that disconnected them, ;-)Sorry,David=====Checkout the McWilliams family website @ http://davidmcw.tripod.com/Yahoo! Mail Plus ...

Hello, gurus,I had an Ultra10 connected to an A1000 with three mirrored disks. We had a serous power failure problem last night, and today I can't connect to the A100 anymore.A probe-scsi-all sees the seven channels attached to the three mirrored disks, plus the hot spare, and that's all. ...

Hello,I'm doing a net install on a SunFire V100, and after I go throughthe name service config in the installer I get this :--The following error occurred while trying to configure the name serviceswitch file: config_nsswitch error -3, errno 2, No such file or directory. To resolve this ...

I'm planning to transfer applications from 2 E3500(Solaris 2.6)to 1 V880(Solaris 8). Is it a good idea?The first E3500 runs oracle with 4 CPUs (400MHz)and 4GB memory. It's loadaverage always hasbeen below 2sometime even below 1.The second E3500 runs clearcase, sun compiler and some 3rd ...

Hello Admins, I have 2 servers server1 and server2, where the regular users should onlyhave accessto a menu - not dollar prompt.The users can telnet only into server1 and from here they get the menulike this:1. Please type 1 for server12. Please type 2 for server29. Exit And here is the ...

I searched the archives at www.codeprof.com and didn't see many summaries on using Sun's "new" PatchPro tool. I have a mix of Solaris 2.6 and 8 boxes. I notice their white paper on Recommended Patch Strategies seems to indicate that they are moving toward this tool as a standard ...

Is there any way under Solaris 8 to restrict su to allow only certain<br>users to su to root. Similar to the wheel group in BSD.<br>-- <br>Ron Clark<br>

Thanks for the quick replies.<p>Suggested methods - sudo or RBAC<p>In my case RBAC looks to be what I need.<br>-- <br>Ron Clark<br>