Does anyone see any issue with creating a /var/spool/cron/crontabs.bakdirectory? We have crontabs we want to remove from the crontabs dir, butwant to keep them around for archiving/disrec. Just want to make surethere isn't some wacko process out there doing a 'for ...

Well, it's not perfect but I'm a lot closer than I was.Many thanks to Roman Pestka for his help.I wasn't actually using `sysidcfg` for my install, I was entering config datamanually.My `locale` (correct syntax for a profile keyword) setting was configured inmy profile but, try as I might, I ...

I post again because hotline send me a workaround:the solution is to remove the "FNS Support For X.500 Directory Context" sw-package:# pkgrm SUNWfnsx5 i can do it without trouble because i don't use thisIn my original post, i said automountd died unexpectedly After ...

>> is it safe to put a 25Kg SONY monitor on top of my ultra 2 desktop ?The Sun 20" VDUs most people bought back then (and put on Ultra 2s) werearound 40kg, some of the older VDUs were in excess of 50kg. No worriesthere, sturdy boxes. thanks to many people who replied to ...

Dear managers,thanks to all that responded. Jim Musso and Bobby Williams suggested to put a boot block on the second disk. I executedinstallboot /usr/platform/`uname -i`/lib/fs/ufs/bootblk /dev/rdsk/c1t1d0s0and hoped this would be it. However, I get ok nvalias bootdisk /pci at 8,600000/SUNW,qlc ...

I installed the June Recommended Patch cluster for Solaris 9 today andrebooted. I logged into the machine via usual way with SSH and noticedin the upper right hand window last login read last login from 0.0.0.0 I then typed last and noticed it had the correct source IP of myworkstation I logged ...

Hi Admins, I try to install open-ssh on a Solaris 2.7 server.I installedthe lates version of openssh-3.6.1pl-sol7openSSL0.9.7bzlibgcc-3.3 When Itry to start the sshd I get the following error:# /etc/init.d/sshd startstarting SSHD daemon# Couldn't connect to PRNGD socket ...

Hello all !I inserted 2 new disks (FC-AL 72G/Seagate - ST373405FSUN72G) in a A5x00 Array.The disks are visible by format and luxadm display (See at the end of this mail)The firmware is not up to date ! But, before spending my weekend with patching i just want to check if i didn't miss ...

Ok here's the summary:I get a lot of "Out of Office AutoReply's" :)And the solution from Doug Granzow.The new disk didn't have a backup partition on slice 2.So i labeld the disk and did vxdctl enable again.After this all disks were visible.Thank you for your help .... no i can go ...

Hi Sun Gurus!I am making a laboratory with SMC 2,1 in Solaris 9.What I want is to simulate a present situation that I have with a client.What I did was uninstall and then re-install de SMC 2.1The packages were:application SUNWmc Solaris Management Console 2.1 (Server ...

Hi,Thanks for the replies from:Darren DunhamHichael MortonStephen CawleyAlex UgoliniAlan PaeFinally, I have to bring the machine to single user mode with basic filesystem mounted. There is one new, big file under one automount point. I still have no idea how such file created since the ...

Dear managers,thanks a lot toMike KeplingerBobby WilliamsDavid Stempnakowskiand many others that tried to help me. I went through the whole setup once again, waited for the resync and tried again. This time it worked. Could not find out what went wrong the first time. However, it seems to be ...

Solaris for Dummies.I typed in vi /etc/nsswitch.conf.How do I exit or quit 'vi' in Solaris?Thanks in advance,Ty_________________________________________________________________MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE*. ...

Hi managers:I can't view the cdrom device:bash-2.05# mount /cdrommount: mount point cannot be determinedwhy?i have Sun Blade 1000 with solaris 9, recommendedpatches, JASS script and ipfilter, i view dmesgcommand and this is the same that the/var/adm/messages, i search in /etc/vfstab file ...

Hi, i need to replace my old StorEdge by a nerw one. I bought a new one andnow i'll replace it and what io nned is to know if i change the SCSI RAIDController the new Controller could retrive the old RAID configurationautomatically or i need to do a new one over the old.--Thanks && ...

Gurus,I am getting this error on E5500. This is the 3rd time since last 24hrsthat I have got this error. Any help will be highly appreciated. I haveSun solaris 8 on it.Thanks,Date: Jun 27 2003 13:05:0035:Jun 27 12:55:17 einstein SUNW,UltraSPARC-II: [ID 469430 kern.notice][AFT0] Corrected ...

Hi,I have a Sun Blade 150 connected to a regular PC keyboard via a KVM switch.Root password isunknown. In order to boot from the CD, I need the ok> prompt... How do I getit?R_CTL+F1-A which works on an Ultra 5 doesn't work, nor does CTL-Break... Anyother suggestions?The difference between ...

gurus,Here is the output from the log file in decending order of occurrence. Ifyou notice it is cpu8 on board 2 j3401, cpu9 on board2 j3400, cpu8 on board4j3401 and cpu8 on board4 j3401. Which memory/board is bad?Thanks for all your help.Date: Jun 27 2003 13:05:0035:Jun 27 12:55:17 einstein ...

Is it possible when booting cdrom -s# boot cdrom -sto mount an NFS partion from another host?# mount -F nfs hostname:/DATA1 /aI tried it and got an RPCbind error.I know I can mount local partitions on /a but how aboutnfs shares from other machines?Thank YouDave ...

Sorry that my question was so basic. On a Friday afternoonwith 15 minutes left in the work day my brain was in 1st. gear.Thanks to those that replied with helpful suggestions. Turns out all I needed to do was to start the nfs client/etc/rc2.d/S73nfs.client startand then do my mount using the IP ...

Hi managers<p>I can view the cdrom device, the vold and JASS was the<br>problem, i moved /etc/_vold.conf.JASS_blablabbla to<br>/etc/vold.conf, /etc/init.d/vold start <br>and voila!!! :p<br>

Hello everybody,I was wondering if any of you had "writen or invented" a Handheld scannerbased tape inventory system. If you have could you please share scanner (make/model) & software/script information. Your help will be greatlyappreciated . I will definitely summarize.Anil ...

HI,We have updated patch on one of E4500 Server & we are trying tolog from one E220R server through CDE to E4500 Server .We are getting the following error on the remote servers(4500) /var/dt/Xerrors.and CDE hangs with hour glass symbol forever.any idea?ON BELESER server we updated ...

Hi managers,My apologies for posting an offtopic query. I have a sun server connected to a clariion FC 4700 with veritas dmp installed. I have 2 disk groups and vxdg list shows that one disk group has been disabled. How do I bring the disk group online. I am pretty much new to veritas. I am ...

I recently did some major upgrades that needed to be done to my E420Rrunning Solaris 8 (64-bit), Compaq HSG80 SAN drivers and NetBackup.Here is a list of what I did:-Updated recommended patches as of June 26/03 (I tested these on my testSolaris 8 box and all was fine)-Applied patch 110912-03 ...

Hi,Just need a confirmation I'm going about this the right way:I'm installing a Sun D2 storage array to be shared between two SunFire280R systems which will be running Sun Cluster 3.0Each 280R is running Solaris 8 and has two dual-port PCI SCSI Ultra-3cards. The SCSI cables run from the first ...

Due to some misconfiguration of mirroring root partion( using disksuite ) , my system keeps rebooting with"no crash dump device ...".I can boot with "boot cdrom -s " and I have theoriginal copy of /etc/vfstab. But restoring only thisfile seems does not solving the ...

I want to install solaris thru the flash archiveinstallation method and NFS.I need the syntax for the NFS on the server and on theclients as well.thanks__________________________________Do you Yahoo!?SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per ...

I am running into a problem configuring a Solaris 8 server to be an ldapclient of a Solaris 9 server running iPlanet DS 5.1 with the connection running over TLS. I have gotten the client to work using simple authentication but not TLS. I am pretty confident that the keys / certificates are ...

Thanks to anderson_baptist.sspam at uol.com.brPaul Richards <p.richards at ukonline.co.uk>James Noyes <jnoyes-sml at retrogeeks.com>Grzegorz Bakalarski <G.Bakalarski at icm.edu.pl>Scott Mickey <mickey at denver.net>Paul Boven <p.boven at chello.nl>levins at ...

Solaris will let you mirror using 1+0 your root and other drives, as I had that setup with our Solaris 8 machine. However, I'm trying to install Solaris 9, and I can't find any way to get mirror/striping to work with the installation system. I've got a V880 system with 6 36GB FC-AL ...

Has anyone had experience of duplicating system disks between two hosts,especially when using Disksuite on the hosts?We have a pair of 280R's that are used as a production and a test system. Bothare similarly configured with two internal disks and both connected to anexternal D2 cabinet. The ...

Hi Gurus, Is there a way to directly mount a partition that has Solaris VolumeManager / Disksuite databases on it ?I have slice c0t0d0s6 (and c0t0d1s6) which was mirrored /opt and hadmetadb's on it. Now I want to boot from the network/cdrom and then mountthis slice on /mnt outside of ...

Hi managers,I have a basic question regarding -i flag for metainit. What does thisinterlace size mean in terms of actual disk writes ?Suppose I have an application that writes in 64KB chunks. I want SolarisVolume manager (on solaris 9) to match this: I am trying to dodge multiplewrites per ...

Does anyone have any realworld evidence on the ratio of Solaris servers to <br>administrators for a<br>heterogeneous network of 100-150 servers?<p>Thanks/<br>Chris<br>

Hi All, How to find out the present color depth? in Sun Ultra machine running Solaris-8, I have afbconfigcommand available but it is not giving me the colordepthinformation. In my other machine I have m64config commandavailable, using that command I can find the depth. Sorry, if ...

Hello all, Has anyone been able to implement netgroups in LDAP using Solaris9/12-02 (native pam_ldap.so.1) and iDS5.1sp1? I have the Directory setupand authenticating users and I even have the netgroups setup correctlyto further restrict users to machines. However it seems that pam_ldapdoes not ...

Ok, there seems to be no way to setup mirroring from the install. I was told instead that I'd need to do everything after the install. I was also told that striping on a boot required disk isn't a good idea, and that I should just mirror the partition.The second note, is there are some ...

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Many thanks to Kevin Buterbaugh for an excellent reply and book rec.> The "-i" option to metainit is the amount of data that > is going to be written per disk before moving to the next > disk in the stripe. Therefore, in your RAID 0+1 example, > an interlace of 16K ...

Hi Gurus,I have an e250 with two a1000s attached via two UWDS HBAs. I'm creating astriped volume on each a1000 using Raid Manager 6.2 and mirroring thevolumes with solstice disk suite 4.2. This is for a software developmentdatabase that will handle mainly random IO. Each volume will consist ...

Team:Please help me on the following error on a E250.Format doe not list this from the menu.iostat -k sd21,err output:sd21,err:Soft Errors 0 Hard Errors 1 Transport Errors 0 Vendor TOSHIBA Product XM6201TASUN32XCDRevision Revision 1103 Serial No 12/12/97 Size 18446744073709551615 Media Error 0 ...

Dear Managers,I just installed the Solaris 8 recommended patches from sunsolve.sun.comon my until then working Sun Blade 1000.After install, i rebooted the machine, and i get this error.Boot device: /pci at 8,600000/SUNW,qlc at 4/fp at 0,0/disk at 1,0 File and args:SunOS Release 5.8 Version ...

Hi managers,I have a set Solaris 9 servers and Linux PCs. When I installed Sol 9 I didn'tchoose Kerberos authen option. Now I need set up some users to log ontoSolaris servers from Linux using kerberos authentication. How can I achivethis? Any usefull documentation?.Thanks in ...

Are there any native logging / auditing options (BSM or other) that may be<br>enabled to perform keystroked logging?<p>Thank you.<br>

Hi,I want to update my NTP server time in my NTP clients machines forevery 30 min.I can use crontab file in clients machies or any othermethod is there.I am using "ntpdate -q <server ip address>.Thiscommand will update my client machine time.This is the correct procedure or not.We ...

Hi all,How can I find out what utility is used to set the resolution for a Creator 3D videocard on Solaris <besides google>?And can anyone give me some background as to why we have to use a proprietary utility to set theresolution ? I come from a background of using XFree86 where I can ...

Hi Managers, I am getting the following messages on my /var/adm/messages from A1000 that is connected to my system. Everything is working fine. Users are able to access the data. I get these messages in the midnight from around once a week. Seems that some checkup is running everyweek on the ...

Hi Managers, Is it possible to have a cluster on Ultra 10 machines. If so iwould like to know what would be the requirements and componentsof the cluster. Is it possible to use a multipack as a sharedstorage for the ...

Quick (slightly) off topic question.Can someone quickly send me a link as to WHERE I need to look totighten up directory permissions on my web-server?Currently at home directory, I can put a existing dirctory name in to see thecontents.Do I just need to tighten up the UNIX file permissions so ...