Thanks for all the responses. <p>It turns out that when I secured my system<br>I pounded out the rstatd daemon, I un-pounded, rebooted and it works fine...<p>Thanks<br>Ron<br>

Hello,I am having a strange issue with cron, and was wondering if anyone hasscene anything like this:A user has a crontab file setup to run various nightly jobs. The time inthe file is as follows:08 20 * * * /foo/somejob15 20 * * * /foo/somejob245 20 * * * /foo/somejob3This was enabled in cron ...

I've installed Sun ONE Directory Server 5.2 on a Solaris 9machine. The appropriate packages were loaded, as were thenecessary patches.However, directoryserver complains when its binary is run: # /usr/sbin/directoryserver idsktune ERROR: Need package SUNWtlsx 3.3.2 with minimum patch ...

OS: Solaris 5.8 02/02Machine: E250Today, while cleaning up some backup files and other cruft from a system,making it ready for production, I accidently wiped out part of /etc.The system would not boot (obvisouly). /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow aarestill in place. Looks like I stopped it around ...

Hello allWe have a E250 with 1024 MB in memory, 2 disks 18GB each. We reinstalled Solaris 8, as an initial installation, duringinstallation redefined partitions and so. Everything was going ok, butsuddenly before finishing installation, before first reboot, the systemgot into a boot cycle... ...

Will I run into any issues by doing the following:<p>1: Mirror Solaris 8 on an E4500 to D1000 disk<p>2: Break mirror and connect D1000 to V880<p>3: Boot Solaris 8 mirror on V880<p>4: Upgrade Solaris 8 to 9<p>TIA!<p>Mike Willard<br>

Hello, I replaced the faulty disk, new disk works fine. However, the rm6 utility is still not starting up (status/configuration/recovery). Christian Nicca mentioned that a failed disk could cause the rm6 to slow down. I guess I will just be patient and check the utility tomorrow.Thankyou ...

Only had a few replies about why not use x86 instead of Linux.x86 is not certified with Solaris 9 as far as I know so that's whyI'm interested in Red Hat Linux. Plus, not as much software runson x86 from what I understand. My original questionI'm thinking of purchasing the new SunFire V65x ...

Hi,We are in the process of consolidating 6 Servers (E4000s and E3500) to a newE6800 with 14 CPUs of 1.2Ghz each. Has anyone worked out or using any product tomanage the resources effectively. Our main databases are Oracle and SAS and mostof applications are client-server based. Our Management ...

Hi ManagersI am facing a problem in changing the NIS passwd in solaris 2.6 environment."/usr/lib/netsvc/yp/rpc.yppasswdd -D /var/yp -m" is running in the server.Following are the daemons running in the server.# ps -ef |grep yp root 16680 1 0 12:20:06 ? 0:00 ...

hi!we've recently bought two Starcats, and are in the process of integratingthem into our environment. one of our biggest headaches is the claim bySun "Professional" Services that Sun does not support SF15K domains withanything less that the SUNWCXall cluster installed (Full + OEM ...

Hi There,I'm trying to install an old Exabyte EXB-8200 drive on a 280R to rescuesome archived data from an IBM RS6000 AIX machine. I have tried both aterminated and unterminated Wide -> Narrow (Centronics) cable to connectthe drive to the machine. Both produce the following output on a SCSI ...

Hi all...Has anyone used chroot (or any other tools) to create highly isolated'sandboxes' that can be used provide reproducible envionments? This is notfor security purposes. The goal is to make sure that we're very explicitabout which versions of which tools we make available in the ...

Hi codeprof,I have problems in reading one disk :fsck /dev/rdsk/c2t3d0s7** Last Mounted on /hom3** Phase 1 - Check Blocks and SizesCANNOT READ: BLK 985376CONTINUE? yTHE FOLLOWING SECTORS COULD NOT BE READ: 985392 985393 985394 985395 985396985397 985398 985399 985400 985401 985402 985403 ...

Dear Sun Managers,I've an SF280R machine with Solaris 2.8 (Kernel patchis at revision 18). There is no console and keyboardconnected to this machine and it makes mytroubleshooting more difficult.Recently, I encountered frequent hung in this machine.Machine is able to response to ping but when ...

Hi, Thanks for your help. I was told to turn out Gigabit capabilities,set ndd parameters to force 100fdx and disable auto-negotiation, toinstall patch 111883, and to disable auto-everything in the switch if aCisco switch is used. The solution was to force 100hdx (half duplex) in the ...

WARNING: qlc(1) Loop ID is now reassigned; old pairs: [21700, 2] and[21100, 0]; new pairs: [21700, unknown] and [21100, 2]WARNING: qlc(1) Loop ID is now reassigned; old pairs: [21500, 2] and[21100, 0]; new pairs: [21500, unknown] and [21100, 2]WARNING: qlc(1) Loop ID is now reassigned; old ...

SUMMARY : EXABYTE 8200 doesn't function on 280ROld Exabyte EXB-8200 drive on a 280R to rescuesome archived data from an IBM RS6000 AIX machine. I have tried both a terminated and unterminated Wide -> Narrow (Centronics) cable to connect the drive tothe machine. Both produce the following ...

Hi all.I have a Sun Enterprise 450 server, running an upgraded version of Solaris9. Just within the last few weeks users have not been able to login via theGUI. Tlenet, rlogin and ssh work fine. But when loggin into the servervia XI get the "The desktop messaging system could not be ...

Has anyone come across this?One of our junior admins had wiped /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 and rebooted Solaris 9 thinking it would be recreated. However, on boot, the system gives the following error message:The file loaded, does not appear to be executableI have used installboot to reinstall the ...

Does anyone know of/have a clusteragent for sendmail for suncluster?The issue is having two (or more) suns connected to a raid (probablya 3510) and speaking sendmail. One senses the app is down on the otherand takes over the others identity. In other words truly fault tolerantsendmail.TIA ...

I would like to create a script that will grep thru #metastat (Solstice Disk Suite ) output looking for errors or problems, cron them to run every hour and send email if any problems are found. This is mainly for the mirrored boot disks.Anyone who well and good in script plese help.I am very ...

Has anyone out there had success in mirroring 2 disks of different diskgeometries? Also what problems if any did you experience? Particularly, if you experienced a failure on the primary, were you ableto keep your system up and running via the secondary or vice versa? Thanks in advance for ...

Recently one of my Sunfire 280R's threw this message at me:Jul 15 01:08:38 imd31 SUNW,UltraSPARC-III+: [ID 688043 kern.info] NOTICE:[AFT0] WDC Event detected by CPU0 at TL=0, errID 0x001c6f7c.fb45abd8Jul 15 01:08:38 imd31 AFSR 0x00000040<WDC>.0000003e AFAR0x00000000.76570050Jul 15 ...

>>> mh1272 at yahoo.com 07/15/03 02:16PM >>>these are not error messages.they are kernel information messages: kern.infoyou can turn these off if you wishecache is designed to be self-correctingkern.warn and kern.erro are the biggiesthe solaris system administration guides are ...

Gurus running web sites:Do you use any utilities to measure your site's performance?Something like what TracePlus32 Web Detective 2.4 does on windows (pulls aweb page and other links and helps determine what the bottleneck is).I know there are 3rd parties doing this from a gazillion nodes ...

Hi everyone:<p>I will be on vacation from July 14 until August 11 2003, please address all your calls to the link in our web page for your service calls.<p>thank you all<br>

We have a sun 4500 in our Oracle testlab that we are playing with and I amwondering what kernel parameters people are using in their /etc/system file. Any insight into how increasing file system buffer cache, etc has helpedyou would be appreciated. FYI Sun 4500 8cpu 8gb ram, storage on netapp ...

First off sorry for such a basic and novice question I usually use Adminsuite to modify user accounts but in this case I have a userwith a UID below 100 and I get an error that I can't modifysystem type accounts so I'm hoping command line will work.I want to change someones physical path to ...

Hi everybody,We have an Ultra5 that is giving us some very strange results when running the date command, seebelow, taking note of the second.# dateWednesday July 16 04:01:57 EST 2003# dateWednesday July 16 04:01:56 EST 2003# dateWednesday July 16 04:01:57 EST 2003# dateWednesday July 16 ...

I forgot to mention that when the date goes into this state it actually jumps backwards sometimes bya couple of hours. This means that xntpd wont change the date because the difference is too big. Wealso can't put an entry into cron to run ntpdate every 10 mins because once the clock gets into ...

Hi,my question was:any recommendations for an external DVD-R[W} Writer ( SCSI )that works well with Solaris cdrecord ( Joerg Schilling )?The answers are:1) 14 out-of-office vacation messages, that's what I needed. :-(2) D.Foster from ucsd wrote :For DVD, we're using a Pioneer A04 (an A05 just ...

Hi All,Apache basic authentication is fairly straightforward and worked well for mebefore, only this time it totally has no effect.- My basic configuration is shown below:1. solaris 9 sparc2. Apache/2.0.46 (Unix) DAV/2 mod_jk2/2.0.23. Tomcat 4.1.244. mysql 3.23.53- I try to set the directory ...

Dear Gurus,I have a sun workstation ( Sun Blade) and its connected to the LAN network with other Windows machines. I would like to know if i can configure my sun workstation to use a dynamic ip address rather than a static one. The DHCP server will be one of the windows machine.Could you ...

Hello managers,i have a new Sun Fire 480R, connected to the networkvia the Gigabit Twisted Pair (RJ45) connector. The switchLEDs to me seem to "shine" correctly.Now i try to install Solaris-9 (from DVD) onto that machine and it "says":...Skipping interface fcip0Skipping ...

Hello managers,my thanks to all who answered to my question (see below)!joe.fletcher at btconnect.com said:> You should be aiming to use either ce0 or ce1.> The fcip0 is IP over fibre-channel. and all the others said about the same.Nevertheless i'm astonished about the differences in ...

Hi folks,I've hunted high and low for some decent documentation on howto implement the passwd.adjunct file on NIS, but there is a lot ofconflicting info around.We curently haveSol 8 NIS master and two Sol 8 NIS slaves.In our map directory on tha master we have a passwd and a shadow file.I ...

Hi,I'm sure this is FAQable but can't find it and can't download the FAQ right now (firewall block on ftp).I want to automate a load of parallel restores of compressed vxdumps.The basic command is something likegunzip --stdout whatever.gz | (cd whereever; vxrestore -xf -)Easy enough until it ...

I have something called a 'root' account on a server here at work. I am supposed to maintain it, but I have some questions. Someone told me to google, but I typed google on the screen and nothing happened. I need to find out what files are on the system, can someone email me a script or a ...

Dear managerswe have two different domain1. @1234.com2. @abcd.comwe have mail server in our E250 running on solaris 7(ESMTP Sendmail 8.11.6+Sun/8.9.3). for local mails it works perfectly. Now i would like to forward all mails apart from local mails to another domain (users at abcd.com).If any ...

Hi,Useful sugestions from Mark Hargrave, Marian Dragomir and Reggie Beavers. use vxrestore -rf (requires some care and may not be applicable in every case but I'll try it)insert an additional entry into the brackets ie gunzip --stdout file.gz | (cd dest_dir; vxrestore -xf - ; /usr/bin/echo ...

I inherited a Netra T1 105 model server and need to find a way I can access<br>the prom monitor to install a new OS.<p>how do I hook up a monitor and keyboard to it ?<p>John Corcoran<br>978-741-0126<br>27 Congress Street<br>Salem, Ma 01970<p>Unix system Administrator<br>

Thank you Ingo, NetComrade, Terry, Eric, Eugene, Danny, and Ryan foryour responses. I appreciate your sharing your experience with thisissue. My original question was as follows:Has anyone out there had success in mirroring 2 disks of differentdiskgeometries? Also what problems if any did ...

I've got some older tape libraries/robots I'd like to connect to my SAN -they are all LVD/SE devices, and I'd like to use the ATTO 2300R bridge -I've got the QLA2212 HBA's in some Suns and PCs and they are connected viaa Qlogic Sanbox-8 switch. Has anyone got experience with accessing ...

What log can I look at to see messages that pertain to boot issues? There<br>would be messages that appears on the console before they start to to go<br>/var/adm/messages.<p>Thanks in advance!<p>Jeff<br>

Hey list,We hit a snag with a recent patch cluster upgrade on our Solaris 8boxes. My co-worker did some research and found that several commandsissued with the /xfn directory will hang. He found some old posts thatrecommend removing the entry out of the /etc/auto_master file orpointing it to ...

Hello sun managers,I am getting intermittent permission denied errorwhen I try to cd to NFS automount directory on theclient. The problem occurs even when I try to cd asroot.Here is my configuration:NFS Server:nfsserver1 [root] # ls -la /share1/VK_opt* | grepapachedrwxr-xr-x 3 root other 512 ...

Hello,I didn't get too many responses on this. I did find out from Sun that theSMART/PFAfeature is supported in RM 6.22 and 6.22.1. I also found out that in order toto utilizethe SMART support, you have to have SNMP setup and configured. I'm still not100%clear as to what types of messages ...

Hi Sungurus,I am looking for transfer of 4 files * 4 GB of data (mostly tar.gz files) transfer between America andAsia, This will be on solaris, the inbuilt ftp istaking lots of time it is taking more than 18 hoursnow to transfer a total 16 GB of the data ( 4 * 4GB inparallel) Pls suggest what ...

Hi Sungurus,I have sun solaris 2.7 server which is a acting as DNSmaster server, I am planning to upgrade the server toSolaris 2.9. Before doing this i am looking in to duplicating theOS disk, the OS disk is of 18GB and i have a simliardisk, pls let me know what is the best way to achivethe ...