Dear Managers,First of all thanks to all who replied.Original question:> How a Qlogic fibre channel card (375-3019) should appear when executing> prtdiag?Answer:There was no fibre channel card in this system. This Volume Manager messagelead me into error: It was software license to use ...

Hi Managers,When I run the following on the command line it works fine:for mypid in `ps -ef |grep pattern |grep -v grep | awk ' {print $2}' ` ;do kill $mypiddoneBut when I run it in a script it doesn't work. I have tried it with puttinga sleep inside without any ...

Hi Gurus,First of all thanks to all who replied. Everyone who replied said there's nocommand to find the serial number using Solaris.On 6800 I found a command to find the serial number for all domains(usingplatform shell)sc>showp -p mac MAC Address HostID ...

Hi all,thanks for the many replies. In my summary I will line up all answers. Butmy problem still exists.I guess I need to add some info, as I checked most resources already mostpeople send to me, and my first mail was not that complete as I thought.Problem is this:I wanted to connect a Sun ...

Hi Managers,Thanks to Attila to reminding me about the xargs.Working solution:ps -ef |grep pattern |grep -v grep | awk ' {print $2}' | xargs kill>/dev/nullThanks to others also for taking time to reply.PS: pgrep and grep -v doesn't work ...

Thanks to everyone who replied on this, far to many to mention you all.I received mixed feelings on this but the majority said that they weregood little arrays. Easy to configure using rm6 software. Hotswap driveswork well. Really a case of set them up and forget about them untilafter 2 years ...

Hello,I Wanted to ask how much is reliable a succesfull POST operation, how muchcan I Trust it.I have ultra2 which had problems out of the box (Refurbished) telling me amemory bank was in failure, the machien did not even boot.THere was a very old OBP and POST installed.After I installed the ...

Hi AllRunning Sendmail-8.12.8 (Solaris 9 Latest Revision & Patches) on Solaris9I have set the relay-domains to list only our servers that are allowedto relay through it, however, when I ran a check on www.abuse.net itsays that the server is open to mail realys?Could anyone offer any ...

Hi all.I am trying to find the last version of HP jetadmin for solaris 2.4.I believe it may be version D.05.15 or higher. I can't seem to findit on the web and of course it is no longer available from HP.Can anyone point me to a place to download it, or can you send me a copy?Much Thanks, ...

Hello Managers:I have a Netra T1 105 that had two Sun18Gb disks in it. The disks weremirrored using Disksuite.> Ultrasparc II-i 360Mhz,> 1024Mb RAM,> Solaris 8, Generic_108528-17 32-bit> OBP 3.10.24 1999/08/16 17:37 POST 1.15.0 1999/04/02 11:23Recently it looked like I lost the ...

Dear managers,suddenly telnet stoped working on SF 6800 server amazed to see two inetd -s one run by user other by root runnig on it.Adress already in useAug 8 21:18:54 agni inetd[25922]: [ID 161378 daemon.error] fs/tcp: bind: Address already in useAug 8 21:18:54 agni inetd[25922]: [ID 161378 ...

Greetings,I have two Flash Archive issues. The first is an installation problem. Thesecond is a production question.I am attempting to get a working configuration wherein I can boot from a CD,then install the system with a flash archive on a (different) CD. I seem tohave hit a roadblack. I ...

Has anyone out there successfully gotten a qfe card in a V480 runningSolaris 9 to work? No matter what I try,Aug 8 10:33:10 clrftp1 qfe: NOTICE: SUNW,qfe4: No response from Ethernet network : Link Down - cable problem?This is a brand new V480. Everyone here is stumped, our local Sun techsare ...

I wrote:>Trying to complete upgrade to Solaris 9 4/03 via Live Upgrade to my>Alternate Boot disk. First pass suceeded:>>luupgrade -u -s /cdrom/cdrom0 -n bootdisk>>[ "bootdisk" is the alternate boot environment name ]>>Per the man page, I need to run luupgrade ...

I just upgraded from 8 to 9, and now NIS+ does not work.I create users, and I can see them in the tables. The cred.org_dir tableshave the local and des credentials for the user. The passwd.org_dir has theuser information.Then, when I try to create a password for the user I get the ...

Hi Managers,I just want to compile a comparison report of Microsoftcluster Vs Sun Cluster 3.0I was wondering if any of you could assist me, in comparing these twoclusters, The Database serverWill be Oracle 9i.Regards...NitinDISCLAIMER:This message contains privileged and confidential ...

All,Thanks for the responses. First time using this mail list and I'm impressed!The suggestion below worked great. Simple and effective. Thanks again Darren.Jeff -----Original Message-----From: Darren Dunham [mailto:ddunham at taos.com]Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 10:31 PMTo: Donovan, ...

Thanx for all the responses, the answer i used was to install openssh onsolaris9 and that works fine.original question:I have a job i run that ssh-es to all my servers and runs a command, itworks fine from the command line but from cron it hangs on each host, thessh process does not return from ...

Hey everyone,Back again with another password question..I now have a 6800 system controller that has a password on it. Similar to aprom password, only lower level. We can't do anything to the machine withoutit.. I know from past conversation that there is a way to circumvent thispassword, ...

I have 5 scsi disks in a D1000 (Adaptec 3944 Controller) all works ok.The controller sees all the disks sd0-5I can see and have installed SOL9 on the FIRST DISK sd0/ (/dev/dsk/c1t0d0s0 ): 928150 blocks 408408 filesbut the other disks are NOT THERE.I have done touch /reconfigure and disks2 ...

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As expected the dire warning was a mistake.quoting Tony Walton of Sun writing in comp.unix.solarisThis patch has now been reissued without the offending postpatch script,which was left in place in error. I've compared the MD5 checksums of allfiles in the previous 112233-08 (as downloaded by ...

can i compres or gzip a file to a different directory from where the file<br>resides?<p>for instance my file is in /usr and i want to gzip it to /tmp because<br>neither has enuf space.<p>thankls<br>

here is how to doit with gzip<p>gzip -c file > /tmp/file.gz<br>

Hi,Pls advise on booting from an external disk on Sunblade 1000 running Solaris 8.I cloned the system disk to an external disk and intended to boot from this disk in case the internal system disk crashes. I have run "installboot" on the disk. The device address of the external disk ...

Hi SunmanagersLooking for a Solution "FREE OF CHARGE" of:SMTP Antivirus Gateway and SPAM FilterAll will be installed on Solaris 8. Anybody any recommandations, docus etc.Was thinking about seagator and spamassassin with clamav. Somebody use thisconstallation? Anybody use other ...

Hi <p> I've been battling this for a couple of weeks and constantly<br>fail :( So if anyone ever succeeded in adding the <br>host-resources mib to Sun's snmp agent, please send me a reply.<p>TIA <p> Paolo <br>

[ This isn't really a summary, because I didn't ask a question. However,given the increasing amount of traffic focused on this question, orones very much like it, I decided to adapt something I wrote elsewhereand present it here in the hopes that it would help some people out.I've been ...

Hi All,I would like to restrict direct root login to the server using sshd, plshelp thanks,Best Regards,Shanker Durgad,IT Infrastructure & Operations,Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing Ltd.DID : 63601749[This e-mail is confidential and may also be privileged. If you are not theintended ...

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Hello sun managers, i have a sun XVR-1000 vga ,i want install software on solaris 8 2/02 .i can't find software package driver in internet.only find source code .i need software packages. please guide me to download or send me following packages:thanks ...

RE: Destroying a Solaris system - for Fresh installThanks to all responded.Sorry for the delayed summary as i am too busy destroying few systems! Hereare some of interesting answers, thanks so much for all the informationgiven. - If all you want is a clean install, just partition the disk and ...

hi all!i want to use patchpro without running sun management console on mysolaris 9 server. it works on my client machines where i have removedthe smc packages, though i do not want to do that on the server.is there a way of letting patchpro to do this -- that is do not try toconnect to the ...

Hi,Thanks to all who replied but problem got solved only after a reboot , some people suggested trying lsof -i and netstat -anp didn't help.i did some brainstroming with this problem , by default if some one run's the inetd -s you will see all the misleading permission denied errors for ...

Hi!I upgraded my Sun E450 from Solaris 7 to Solaris 9.The upgrade was fine, but I am not seeing the RAIDcontroller or any of the disks in it:0) I installed the whole package including OEM support.1) The root gets an email upon boot:something to the effect that "... array event from Unknown ...

Hi gurus,One of our Ultra 10 is not coming up after reboot. while booting itgives the error as in the subject.i searched the Archives and FAQ and they seem to point out either an oldversion of OBP or /root greater than 1 GBBut in our case both are not true..OBP is 3.25 and /root is 667 MBwhat ...

I need to do this with some urgency :Upgrade an Ultra 5 , currently running Solaris 8 , which is our DNS primary ,to Solaris 9. Are there any show-stopping items that anyone out there knowsof , or sites offering practical advice abouth the specifics of this task ?Upgrade a Sun Blade 100 , NIS+ ...

Solaris 9, v880, graphic adapter: XVR-100I am logged out of console. When I run prstat, I can see: PID USERNAME SIZE RSS STATE PRI NICE TIME CPU PROCESS/NLWP 1008 root 42M 6536K run 10 0 66:55:34 17% Xsun/1 59 root 7200K 6424K sleep 59 0 1:20:32 0.2% ...

hi all,I am a vendor and i was at a customer place today to install solaris 8 on a Sun balde 150.Prior to that, Solaris 8 was installed but i has to reinstall it again to change the slices etc..anyway i have installed Solaris 8 many times but this time i got this error message before, (taken ...

I have a Qlogic 64bit PCI dual fc-al adapter with chipset QLC ISP200A. Ihave 3 420's (running solaris 8 108528-23) with 2 of these in each ofthem. None of these machines can see the multi-pathed arrays (A5000's)attached to them.The following is relevent info from prtdiag -v on all of these ...

I am aware of issues with encapsulated veritas root/swap disks and that factthat correct dumpadm config can't really be done due to the encap. process.However, I may be wrong and I'd like to ask other Sun managers how theyprovide effective savecore support if they have there root and swap ...

Does anyone know if it is possible to put a 450 MHz processor togetherwith a 360 MHz processor into a 220R. Also, I would imagine that Iwould have to set the jumper setting for the slower processor, and thusbe limited by the slower processor. So IF it is possible then the extra credit question ...

Those for all of the quick answers. Verdict is in; you cannot mix/matchthe CPUs on a 220R, it is not supported. Here is the excerpt from the220R User's Guide. Thanks to Dan Burton for sending that link. Configuration RulesThe following rules apply for your system: . . .* If you ...

All,Is there an easy way to capture network traffic activity? I've been taskedto monitorwho is connecting to an oracle database on one of our local servers. I needto monitorthe IPs and the number of packets that are sent and received for port 1521based on IP.I need to generate daily and ...

I asked:> Has anyone out there successfully gotten a qfe card in a V480 running> Solaris 9 to work? No matter what I try,> > Aug 8 10:33:10 clrftp1 qfe: NOTICE: SUNW,qfe4: No response from Ethernet network : Link Down - cable problem?> > This is a brand new V480. Everyone ...

Our network admins have hp openview installed on a PC. They would like to use hp openview to monitor some Solaris 2.8 computers that I am the sys admin for. We have not been able to determine how to accomplish this and would appreciate any/all suggestions on this topic.<br> <br>Thanks,<br>Greg<br>...

I am running Solaris 2.6 the 33 kernel. Has anyone run into an issue withautomountd dumping core, and a huge core at that? It has happened to metwice in the last 3 weeks, the core was > 1g in size. Sun suggests a listof patches including the 35 kernel. Has anyone seen this? Was a root ...

Thanks to all that replied. My original message is below. Some url's that were recommended: http://www.setoolkit.com http://www.sarcheck.com http://www.orcaware.com/orca http://developers.sun.com/solaris/articles/prstat.html The tools that are NOT recomended:perfmetertoppsrinfo The tools that ...

Hello, I have Sun-Fire-880 running SunOS 5.8. What deamons should be running for xwindows? Some of the recent activities that may have affected it were: - as a security measure I closed some of the unnecessary ports(but then reopened them)- installed OpenSSH (works fine) We use ...

Sorry that's ISP2200A ( i was missing a 2)On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 sunguy at cyrion.net wrote:> I have a Qlogic 64bit PCI dual fc-al adapter with chipset QLC ISP200A. I> have 3 420's (running solaris 8 108528-23) with 2 of these in each of> them. None of these machines can see the ...