>From the numerous responses I received, I went with: devfsadm -C -c tape -vwhich did the trick.Regards,Peter-----Original Message-----Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 1:59 PMSubject: Remove Tape Drive From Live SystemAll, I have a Sunfire V120 w/Sol 8 which has an external tape drive attached ...

Thanks for all the replies. While there were various answers, the averageconsensus was 254. While that is the limit that Solaris
imposes, yournaming service also factors into this, in my case DNS. Thanks to PaulAlbitz & Cricket Liu the correct answer, for my particular situation, is ...

Hi,We run progress databases and veritas does not have a db agent for progress. So I'm using rsync to copy over 22GB from one drive to the other for a nightly backup.I liked rsync because the exclusions are easier to setup.The copy take 50 minutes which is kinda slow.We don't need exclusions ...

Hi managers..<p> Ugh..for auditory.....we need known how many files are in my Solaris<br>server?<p> Any ideas..?<br>

Managers, I need to find out if any of you have ever used an internal PCI modem inone of the newer (Sun Fire) Sun servers. I have a need to install twomodems into a Sun Fire V240 and was wondering what others have done sinceSun does not support any type of modems on the Sun Fire platform. ...

Hi all,The backup utility, tar, imposes a limit on the number of characters that afile name can have.It imposes a similar limit on the prefix of the file name( i.e the full pathname).Can anybody here help me with the following queries:1. what are the limits for the file name and the prefixes ...

How I can extract of an endorsement made with ufsdump in a tape LTO them<br>name of all the images that are endorsed and thus to avoid the use by each<br>image of the ufsrestore ivf /dev/rmt/0n command to be able to extract the<br>name of the images.<br>

Hi,Is there any way to determine the part and serial number for memory that iscurrently in use? I do not want to shutdown the server and open the casing,as this is a production server. I have used the command "prtconf", but theoutput are really alien to me. Thus, is there any clue on ...

I am trying to use a wireless mouse on sun box running solaris 9.I tried the microsoft intellimouse but Xsun will not run anytime I try it.Is anybody aware of a wireless mouse that will work on solaris or something I can do to the one I have.Thanks in advance for your help, I will send a ...

Hello Managers, My system doesn't start Xserver when I boot it.Everything was ok last night. but today it is givingthis message.There were no strange messages when booting, then: ************************************************************* * * Starting Desktop Login on display :0... ...

Here's an annoying thing that's likely bothering someone else too:I have a great deal of local software, set up in /usr/localamong the directories there is a /usr/local/man directoryNow: My .profile man path (ksh), showsMANPATH=/usr/share/man:/usr/local/manProblem: can't get any man pages ...

OK. it was a simple little thing... I Presumed that the main /etc/profilewhich set the MANPATH actually exported it too ... oops?! shows how somethingcan go wrong.EXPORT MANPATH!oh yes. catman -M /usr/local/man CMDNAME does work too. But without manpathset, it cant find anything.Thanks ...

Hi guru's.Gotta problem with ufsrestore. From another site I got a tape with onesingle ufsdump file on it.The dump was made on Solaris 2.5.1I've inserted the tape in a L280 autoloader, and loaded the tape with thensrjb command (I use Solstice Backup for regular backups)I used# nsrjb -j mt1 -l ...

Try# ufsrestore tf /dev/rmt/2ubn # tf instead of tbecause /dev/rmt/2ubn is your ufs dump file, not the file to be restored./dev/rmt/0 is the default tape drive. (See also man ufsrestore)Kind regardsDaniel JaimeAndy.Kannberg at lgphilips-displays.com@codeprof.com am 11.07.2003 15:21:31Gesendet ...

OK, OK,I'll go back into my corner.....I had to use the f option (ufsrestore -if /dev/rmt/2ubn)Shame on me. Well. It's friday afternoon and my brains are already inweekend mode.Sorry folksAnd thanks to all people for replying.Andy KannbergSystem EngineerSPIRIT UNIX groupLG Philips Displays ...

Thanks to all that replied.The concenus seems to be that it cannot be done, but a few mentioned proxyarp. I will look into the proxy arp solution to see if its viable.Regards,Sajesh Singh-----Original Message-----From: Sajesh Singh [mailto:ssingh at iisl.com]Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 1:09 ...

Dear All,Having now banged my head against a brick wall for the last few days and acheived nothing I am now turning to you all for help....pleeeaassseee!I have a metadevice of 36Gb (a) defined as such - /dev/md/rdsk/d10. This consists of two drives (concatenated/striped) - c0t1d0s0 (18Gb) and ...

Hi,<br>any recommendations for an external DVD-R[W} Writer ( SCSI )<br>that works well with Solaris cdrecord ( Joerg Schilling )?<p>Werner Mohren<br>System- and Networkmanager<br>Research Center Ornithology of the Max Planck Society<br>Max Planck Institute for Behavioral Physiology<br>

I got alot of responses.Karl Rossing/fhcc wrote on 07/10/2003 03:32:09 PM:> How do i get newfs to not ask me any questions?echo 'y' | newfs -v -m2 /dev/rdsk/c10t0d0s0A couple of people mentioned that newfs is probably a bad idea since the filesystem may not be fully laid out before the ...

Hello Managers:We're trying to figure out which is the maximim number of files allowed in adirectoryin a Unix Solaris 8 environment. If there is any document out there which explain this info in detail could you please point me to it.Thanks in advance,Vinnie----- This message is for the ...

HI all, I have a extrange network problem with a Sun Fire V480. It has adual network adapter ce0 and ce1 in a PCI card. They work at 100Mbps halfduplex. I have orca monitoring the hardware performance. Orca plots severenetwork problems on its graphs and the underlaying "se" ...

Folks -There were a number of replies with several pointing me to the MU(Maintenance Update) something that I didn't know existed (hadnever needed it before and didn't have a sunsolve login). I gota hold of that and updated the system with that. It took lesstime than I had expected, but ...

Folks -OK, on my two 880 servers I now have them at the same OS & patchlevel (Solaris 9 update 12/02), except that one is a developmentsystem and one is not.The development server has both Forte 6 update 2 and Sun ONEStudio 7 (aka Forte 7 :-) with the connector installed whilethe ...

I'm getting this message over and over in my messages file. This is a sunblade1000 running solaris 8 10/01 revision with no external storage attached to it,only a single 36 gig internal drive. I called SUN and was told I needpatch 111097-12 along with the SUNWsan (San Foundation Kit) package ...

Hi Managers,I have a set where I have Sun420R connected to a A1000Disk Array. I also have the Raid Manager 6.22installed on that Sun Server for the Disk Array.Now I have all the partitions under the control ofVeritas Volume Manager. This is how my partitions looklike:/dev/vx/dsk/rootvol ...

Folks -Thanks to Peter Kunst, I've got those libraries matching.I'd forgotten about some Forte patches (111711-02 & 111712-02)that I'd previously installed on the development system (whichI'd assumed weren't needed for the non-development system, butclearly that assumption was ...

This is probably an easy question so go ahead and blast me with you emailsabout too easy a question.I have a text file that looks like this:a b cd e fg h iin korn shell i want create a loop to parse this file so that for each loopi read one line and assign the 3 columns ...

hythe name of our company changes. so my question is: it is possible or how do i change the default domain-name of our Netscape Messaging Server 4.15sp7?i have the folowing installation:Solaris 8Netscape Messaging Server 4.51sp7 with LDAP, ADMIN and Messaging moduleNetscape Certivicate Server ...

thanks for all the replies to the question, here is the answer (it was touse "read")cat $FILE | while read ONE TWO THREEdo echo $ONE $TWO $THREEdone>This is probably an easy question so go ahead and blast me with you emails>about too easy a question.>>>>I have a ...

Hi Lately, I have noticed on every reboot on Sun-fire V880, the systemreports the following warnings: pci_pci: [ID 370704 kern.info] PCI-device: SUNW,qlc at 4, qlc1 Server1genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] qlc1 is /pci at 9,700000/pci at 4/SUNW,qlc at 4Server1 qlc: [ID 486054 kern.info] Qlogic ...

Hi all,Thanks for those who have reply to my earlier question. I have quite anumber of email reply mentioning the usage of this "memconf" perl script. Itgives a very detail configuration of the memory setup. Info display includethe memory address, the number of bank in the system. It ...

The question was (summarized): I'm trying to get a Fujitsu model MCM3130SS-S, 1.3GB magneto-optical (M-O), drive working under Sun Sparc Solaris 7. Hardware is a Sun AXi motherboard. In brief: probe-scsi-all "saw" the device, but Solaris wouldn't otherwise do anything ...

You can consider Veritas Volume Replicator, it does volume level replicationover IP. You also need Veritas Volume Manager. Better way would be to do (external) storage level replication using such asCNT-CLARiiON, Symmetrix SRDF, HDS Remote Copy. Sun also has SNDR (Storage Nework Data ...

Hi all,<p>Is it possible to find out all of the NIS+/NIS clients of a NIS+ server running in NIS<br>compatibility mode ?<p> -aW<br>

Hi All,I would like as many recommendiations as possible for the following critical problem that I have to solve at the earliest:I have a database server behind the firewall and have an application running in this serverwhich sends mails to all domains.My mail host for this machine is my ...

Hi. I'm trying to install Solaris 9 x86 on Dell 2650.In fact I did but have some problems with onboard GbE - it's Broadcom(BCM5701) - Broadcom does only supply drivers for Solaris 7 & 8. If I usedrivers for Solaris 8 - it almost works but I go a lot of messages in/var/adm/messages ...

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----Hash: SHA1HiI have a destination machine which is Solaris 8 with SSH corp.'s secureshell installed on it.I have a source machine which is a newly installed Solaris 9 with Sun'sversion of OpenSSH.scp from target to destination fails when triggered from target, ...

Hi Everybody,can you help me concerning following problem:I want to remote backup with tar or dump from linux to solaris box?When trying " tar cvf remotehost:/dev/rmt/0 /"I get the error message: " Cannot open: input/output error.... tar: error istrecoverable: exiting now"I ...

detailed info:..... rsh also doesn't workand both, dump and tar doesn't work. I only mixed up the syntax for thecommands when writing the mail.And ssh is available only on the linux box, not on the solaris system, so it'snot considerable at this moment to use ssh ...

Hi list,I use rsync in scripts to copy which hang because there were lot of xauth processes system is generating $ps -ef |grep xauthcontent 11566 11565 0 17:00:24 ? 0:00 sh -c /usr/openwin/bin/xauth -q - content 4194 4193 0 21:25:33 ? 0:00 sh -c /usr/openwin/bin/xauth -q - ...

Hello all,<br> I need to move alot of data (60gbs) from one box to another.<br>I am not able to use tape, what have people found to be the fastest method?<br>Be specific I am not really a Unix admin! I just play one on TV.<br> <br>Thanks,<br>Gus<br>

Good Morning , Today as I walked into the office I noticed that one of the drives had failed and the hot swap had taken over . I tried to start up the recovery utility from the raid manager, but it refuses to start up. The raid utility has just frozen up. I tried logging back in but in vain. ...

I have sun OS 5.8. The raid manager utility is rm6, and i have a StorEdgeTek A1000. (sorry forgot to mention it earlier)Good Morning , Today as I walked into the office I noticed that one of the drives had failed and the hot swap had taken over . I tried to start up the recovery utility from ...

Here is the Answer to my question below:Thanks very much to those of you who help.The below document is from Sun Microsystems explains that.#################Start of doc####################Bug ID Synopsis Date 1224920 Cannot create more than 32, 767 files in a directory 20 Aug ...

Sorry to be replying to the list, but someone sent me a very good solution,but the message got permanently by accident.The solution was to start the installation from the Solaris installation cdand then when prompted point the install to a flash archive via http.Whoever sent the email thank you ...

Hi, Thanks to many who had drop me an answer. So far I had noimprovement. I turned out Gigabit compatibility with no luck. I'm waitingfor a scheduled downtime to try patch 111883 as suggested. I had tocheckout also if any of the switches in the datacenter is a Cisco whichhas issues with Sun's ...

Hello,I have a system that I cloned using ufsdump/ufsrestore. The cloning went fine the system boots clean. The issue I see iswith CDE the gui for the CPU/DISK activity on the task bar is not working? It just stays in the same position. Does anyone know of a way I can fix ...

Is there are a good document/book that could describe most or all calls asseen when trussing the output:e.g.2728/1: kaio(AIOWRITE, 389, 0x01A576A0, 4096, 12288,0x01A556B0) Err#48 ENOTSUP2728/1: lwp_cond_signal(0xFEB45FA0) = 02728/7: lwp_cond_wait(0xFEB45FA0, ...

I'm thinking of purchasing the new SunFire V65x dual Intel Xeon box<br>and want to put Red Hat Linux on it. Does anyone have this box with <br>Red Hat and did you run into any problems installing Red Hat on it?<br>The price seems pretty competitive.<p>Thanks.<p>David Martini<br>LLNL<br>

We have Solaris 8 and Sun Ray Software 2.0 installed on our Sun computer. I have set up a Sun Ray on the WAN such that its DHCP server is the aforementioned Sun Computer. The Sun Ray comes up, but loses network connection every 40 seconds or so and then comes back on line after about 5 ...