Many thaks to Sal Serafino and Rachid who saidHi Alejendro,If I understand well what you need , you want to restore a file from atape that you can't identify.As you did on your ufsdump commands I think it won't be possible tospecify the right tape.For future dump you must add the ...

My Original message is posted below. I was unable to get my system to bootagain so I was forced to backup the system and move all data to anothersystem via mounting the remote system. I would like to thank Hichael Morton,Randy Romero, Rajeev Jain and Eugene Schmidt for their suggestions ...

I've made a mistake and initially create just on metadb replica on ametadb slice (on each mirrored disk).man metadb says "All replicas that are located on the same slice mustbe created at the same time." So I figured I can not just add one morereplica to the same slice.So the ...

HowdyWe have a D2 storage array with 4 x 18Gb disks attched to a 2 node sun cluster 2 x 280R Sunfire systems, Colaris 8 (02/02), Sun Cluster 3.0 and Dusksuite 4.2.1The diskset we created for the cluster has contains these 4 disks. What we want to do isDisk ESMA 1B ...

Hi Managers,I am trying to compile gcc-3.2.3 on Solaris 9 and getting the follwing errormessage. I am following sunfreeware documentation.Configuring for a sparc-sun-solaris2.9 host.Created "Makefile" in /export/home/santhas/gcc-3.2.3/objdir using "mh-frag"../configure: cc: ...

Hello,I have some problem with vold.it won't mount automatically any CD I insert in hte drive.The CD led keeps flashing and nothing happens, and the CD is not mounted.if I disable vold daemon and mount the cd manuallymount -F hsfs /dev/dsk/c0t6d0s0 /mnt/cdromeverythign works fine and CD is ...

The ufsdump command now works fine with files > 2gb if I use the root user. Prior to the patch, the ufsdump command worked for theOracle user, which was the user that was calling the command in the scripts After patching, this no longer works for the Oracleuser, general things such as ...

My impression from the reactions to my complaint that the sun L20 taperobots seem to fail so often is that this is a general complaint. We had asun engineer who replaced two scsi boards and the motherboard yesterday, andnow the machine is at least able to come up again without hard errors in ...

Hi,We want to use cd-rom or dvd-rom drive with Sun Ultra1.370-2816: 12X CD-ROM but not available370-3416: 32X CD-ROM but not available.390-0025: 10X DVD-ROM but we don't know, is it compatible or not?If you an experience about this please propose a device to use with ...

Big thanks to Bevan Broun, Rick von Richter and Darren Dunham.The bottom line is, my plan is good as long as I don't reboot the boxduring the re-arrangements. Also the replicas will get in syncautomatically upon the creation, so nothing else needs to be done. Thanks again everybody.Yura ...

Dear managers, I just want to know, what is the best & fastest way to move NIS server from one server to another server . The current NIS server working on solaris 2.6 and the New server will be in Solaris 8. I'm very new in unix world so please guide me like father guiding his sun : ...

Hi all. Strage symptoms.machine stage will no longer accept the password for a user when ftp'ing tothat machine.no error messages, user can log into box (telnet or ssh), and others can ftpinto the box.nothing in syslog. tried changing password, locking, unlocking id, nothing.havent tried ...

Sorry, forgot to mention user isn't listed in /etc/ftpuser. (and I justnoticed that ksh seems to work, but with /bin/sh it fails.Mitch-----Original Message-----From: Bruntel, Mitchell L, SOLCMSent: Thursday, July 03, 2003 8:13 AMTo: codeprof at codeprof.comSubject: FTP not working for ONE ...

thANKS TO many.a) user WASN't in /etc/ftpuserb) /etc/shells no longer contained /bin/sh(very strange...)The date on the file corresponds to the date user said it stopped working .question is:Symptoms were:user couldnt ftp to box, even though password WAS correctother users could get ...

Thanks to all who responded and sorry for the delay...It seems most are of the opinion expressed bellow by Tony Magtalas :On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 02:17, Tony Magtalas wrote:> Mohamed,> Welcome to the Third Party disk world.> What you had was a Seagate drive, *not* a Sun> certified> ...

Hi!I have a SUN AXi Motherboard (SCSI onboard) but because of the price of the SCSI HDs I would like to install IDE Hds (Seagate Barracudas)...(and to make Veritas and Solaris 9 supporting them)The devices are attached, the OBP extended probe mode recognizes a PCI card (but just a PCI with a ...

Hi Gurus,I am running out of space on my sun. I noticed that my /var/crash/`uname -n` contains crashdumpAccording to http://docs.sun.com/db/doc/802-5750/6i9g464ts?a=view< http://docs.sun.com/db/doc/802-5750/6i9g464ts?a=view> I can do it.Can I happily delete those files ?TIAVincent ADP ...

Hello,I've just installed an Ultra 1 with Solaris 8 from scratch, and when i rebootedit it started booting and then repeating the following:automount: dir auto_share -ro,bg,retry=2,intr,nobrowse,soft must start with '/'I then have to hit Stop-A to halt the system, otherwise it just ...

Hi,Does anyone how to define the order in which network interfaces are booted?1)I thought you can do it by changing the order of lines in path_to_inst butit is not so.2)How to set primary network interface?Need this info a lot. I have about 5 interfaces and it is critical to havethem set in the ...

Dear Sun Managers,I need someone to enlighten me on this to verifywhether my steps are correct.I have a configuration for /data partition (output ofdf -k)1. /dev/md/dsk/d11 2052605 375081 1616916 21% /data2. d11: Mirror ( output of metastat -t d11) Submirror 0: d9 ...

First of all Thanks to all that replied mlh at zipworld.com.auAndrew Hay Sandwich Maker" <adh at an.bradford.ma.us> Timothy Lorenc" <tim at load.com> Jay Lessert" <jayl at accelerant.net> Charles Gagnon" <charlesg at unixrealm.com> Heilke, ...

I bought a few used Netras T 105's and am looking for the softwarethat should have come with them (I need this in order toconfigure the LOM module)Does anyone know of a source for this software (otherthan Sun who doesn't seem to sell it directly accordingto store.sun.com)I can provide serial ...

Hello gurus:First time trying to install a printer on my Solaris 9 server./etc/printcap has:_default|lp|kinkos:\ rm=155.247.27.69:lp=:sd=/var/spool/print/kinkos:lf=/var/log/kinkos-err.log:st=/var/log/kinkos-status.log:Used lpsched to start the service. But when I try 'lpr' I receive_default: ...

Well, egg on face. It turns out that the software is partof the distribution, and in the case of Solaris 8 02/02it is located on the Supplemental Software CD.Thanks to Hichael Morton for telling me that it's partof the O/S distribution.. LenI asked the list about:> I bought a few used ...

Many thanks to Yura for the answer.I usedlpadmin -s 155.247.27.69\!text -p lp -D "Kinkos"; lpadmin -d lpto add the printer. Worked perfectly.Some people mentioned the GUI 'admintool' too.I also discovered that I could "man printers.conf" for even ...

Thanks to:Jay LessertDarren DunhamTamas ErdeiFor their suggestions regarding mirroring diskset metadevices in a SunCluster.The feeling was the best way to do it is with RAID (1+0) where a stripemetadevice is made up of the data disks (A and B), a stripe metadevice ismade up of the disks which ...

I downloaded and installed PatchPro from SunSolve and followed all the setupinstructions inthe README, but when I try to select my patch server with /opt/SUNWppro/bin/pprosetup -Phttps://patchpro.sun.com/servlet/com.sun.patchpro.server.PatchProServerServletor any of the servers specified in ...

Hi Gurus...I have a monitor Compaq V500, but also a Ultra1 without monitor, I have a converter of video cable, when i connect the monitor I can4t see anything, do you know how I can configure the monitor, (if its possible) thanks for youy ...

Hello, I have an urgent request for help. We have a SUN ultra 60 with aSUNpci2 card installed. Currently it has win NT4.0 WS on it. We need toupgrade it to Win2000 and all goes well with upgrade process until the setupis looking for a valid CD key then we get a popup explaining it cannot ...

Dear All,I need to uninstall CDE and reinstall again.I know that 2.5.1 iscoming with seperate CD.But Solaris 8 how to do it.Shall I go aheadand remove SUNdt* packages .Or is there any procedure.?and how to reload the CDE ?RegardsSajeev___________________________________________________Click ...

My original post is below.Thanks to: Shaw, Matthew Kevin Buterbaugh Casper Dik Johan Hartzenberg Terry Gardner Darren Dunham Bruce Kirkland Mike Salehi- This could be due to a stuck process, swapping and paging,tape-backup, or many other things. Try iostat -xncz 5 Let it run for a few ...

Hi Gurus,We are trying to use cron to schedule a mission critical job. Mycolleagues said that cron is not reliable and had a limitation on thenumber of jobs it can handle. They said that it only can handle 20 Job.Questions in brief: - Can I depend on cron to schedule a mission critical job ? ...

Hi Managers,I am running Sun Cluster 3.0 on 2 x Sunfire 880's cross connected to 2 x3310's. Uses Solaris Volume Manager for both local mirroring and shareddisksets. To fix a dead node (long story, not important) I deleted a host from theshared disk set with the command :metaset -s ds-prod -d ...

[IMAGE]dear all I have a Enterprise 5500 running solaris 8 with thekernel patch version 108528-21 and oracle 9i.The physical memory size is3072MB and the swap space size is 6.5GB.Then the IPC parameter for oracleis setup below 3221225471 max shared memory segment size (SHMMAX)1 min ...

Killed and restarted rpc.metamedd. Works fine now.-ansh> -----Original Message-----> From: Anshuman Kanwar [mailto:anshuman at expertcity.com]> Sent: Friday, July 04, 2003 1:56 AM> To: 'codeprof at codeprof.com'> Subject: Sun Cluster 3.0 -- issues trying to add back a node.> ...

Hi !I encounter a strange problem on one system where, in one local UFSfilesystem (/export/home) I cannot create any directory or subdirectory evenwhen I'm root:# mkdir /export/home/xxmkdir: Failed to make directory "/export/home/xx"; Invalid argument The system is an E10K domain ...

Hi,Is it possible to use Intel Etherexpress pro/100 Intel platform card onSolaris 9 SPARC (Ultra 60)?And also Intel platform Adaptech Ultra 160 SCSI controllers on SPARC.Thanks and Regards,S. Subin**************************Disclaimer************************************Information contained in ...

Hello All,I'm attempting to install a Sunswift card on an Ultra 1. I've completed thephysical installation but 'show-devs' at the boot prompt doesn't pick upeither the card's ethernet device or its SCSI-2 device i.e. the card isn'tbeing seen at all by the Ultra 1. I've tried the ...

Dear managers,I need to parse a script in bash as follows . /opt/GNUstep/System/Makefiles/GNUstep.shwhenever a user logs in. Where's the best place to insert this on Solaris 8? We use bash and tcsh. I have already done this on one machine but I can't remember which file I used.Thanks a lot, ...

Hi managers<p> Look. I need change value to shmmax variable, but i don't know if need<br>reboot the server for Solaris lookup this new configuration.<p> I can't reboot my producer server, any ideas?<p> Oracle database take changes if i not reboot my server?<br>

Dear managers,thanks for your replies. The answer to my question of course is /etc/profile. It was too late last night for me to remember. Sorry for the bandwidth.Best regards, Andreas>> Dear managers,>>>> I need to parse a script in bash as follows>>>> . ...

When I use smpatch program or smc on my local host<br>I am promped for a passwrd.<br>it is not the root password because it fails...<br>anyone know which user password is needed for smc?<p>thansks a lot<p>Rick<br>

Dear AllAfter upgrading OBP to latest version (OBP 4.10.7 2003/06/11 07:04)and patching system with latest recomended (June/27/2003) patchesafter reboot I can find in /var/adm/messages the followingmessage:picld[68]: [ID 629804 daemon.error] do_ioboard_init() failedThis looks strange, however ...

Hi Guys,I have searched everywhere with no luck and this is sort of my lastresort. I installed Solaris 9 on a ultra5 that I have just purchased. Iadded the gcc package successfully from sunfreeware.com. I am trying toconfigure a package manually from source but get the following error whenI ...

Hello Sun Managers, I'm new on this forum.Stuck in one problem. Any help is highly appreciated.I have a Sun Fire 280R server with two disks of 36GB.Created Mirror for the primary disk on the secondarydisk.Everything seemed to ok to me, when I created themirror."metastat" command ...

Hi everybody..<p> I have veritas volume manager v 3.1, one volume are stopped, a disk<br>fail...it's posible remove this, and restart my volume normally?<p> any ideas?<p> Tank's managers<br>

dear allI have a Enterprise 5500 running solaris 8 with the kernel patch version 108528-21 and oracle 9i.The physical memory size is 3072MB and the swap space size is 6.5GB.Then the IPC parameter for oracle is setup below 3221225471 max shared memory segment size (SHMMAX)1 min shared ...

Hi, I would like to know if there is any web which contains the in.named roadmap comparing in.named versions that Sun Microsystems includes in its packages and the "Internet Software Consortium" in.named versions. Thanks in advance and regards.---------------------------------Yahoo! ...

Hi. Gurus.I want to get a copy of Forte/Workshop compiler and its demolicense. Where can I get demo license?Thanks in Advance!!-- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------From:main(){int ...

Hello managers,I have a SunFire 280R with the following open boot prom settings:auto-boot? true trueboot-command boot bootdiag-filediag-device net netboot-fileboot-device disk net disk netThe switch is set to I, so ...