Hello,I have Veritas Volume Manager 3.5 on a 420R running Solaris 7. I'm trying to connect two disks defined on an IBM ESS Shark through an Emulex LP8000 HBA.I can see the disks correctly and configure them in VM without a problem.At boot time though, the polling of the disks takes quite a ...

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I have a sparq ultra 10 that im trying to install solaris 9 on via cdrom.the firstime it came up ok ...i didinit 0and it rebooted off the cdrom ...but in the middle of the installation wehad a power outage and since the mahine just keeps resetting itself ...the message im getting ...

Hello Gurus,We've recently obtained a SunFire 280R but we're not able to get anyprompt from it. Here's the description of our setup as per sundocumentation:Win2k Terminal Console <===> DB9 to RJ45 Converter <=======>Patch Cable<====> RJ45 to DB25 Converter <===> Port ...

We've run into the situation where we had a sudden power outage in a remotedata center that caused some systems to not come up due to fsck need on root.We have terminal concentrator ports but some how the "known" root password isnot we thought. This should have been no problem but ...

Hi,I have a newly upgraded Solaris 8 machine and I'm seeing thefollowing messages in /var/adm/messages after starting utmpd.:/usr/lib/utmpd: File Descriptor limit exceededThe upgrade was done via jumpstart, and it grabbed a coupleof old configuration files. I think I've tracked this message ...

Dear Sunmanagers,Can anyone recommend a good PCI ethernet card for a 280R?Specifically a manufacturer that has gig ethernet forSun. Have checked ebay, and used google "280R fast ethernet"with limited results. Have also checked Sun's hardware, butwould like to find 3rd party to ...

Hi codeprof,I have a peculiar problem with automounter which I hope to get someanswers from this list. I will try to explain as best as I can:There are 2 sun servers, say A and B. Both run solaris 8 with latestpatches installed. Server A is a file server and shares among others, adirectory ...

Dear all,I am using solaris-7 on Sun E-3500. Oracle 8i isrunning on this server, with one more application.Is there any command or tool which could give me thecumulative resource utilization of all the usersconnected to the server.The output should be like, how much of resource(cpu,ram) is ...

All,We appear to have a strange problem with a single Fibre GB N/W connectedV480 with CE i/f running NBU 4.5.The single network link drops out at will, however N/W backups from otherclients are stilll working. No telnet/rlogin/ping/ssh ETC works.The problem is fixed by pinging out from the box ...

Hi managersI'm look towards the future, and it seems like that 9i RAC will be ournext deployment of Oracle. We currently run 8 in HA, with Veritas Cluster, and we're very happy with it.Unfortunately, the supported configurations of hardware for 9i RAC seemvery limited, especially when one ...

Did not really find what I was looking for (the ability to add a header to all e-mails going out of a SendMail Server), but thanks to those who were kind enough to give it a shot. Looks like I will have to applications developers address the issue within each particualar application sending ...

late summary, but anyhow : simply stated: our V100's running Solaris-9 needpatch 114388-02 to do properly the auto-negotiation of Ethernet-line whentheir cable is unplugged/plugged. All other reasons why this was nothappening correctly are irrelevant. Thanks to Hichael Morton, Joe Fletcher, ...

Hello allQuestion: how to debug flash archive installation ...?I have a simple network: +-------------+ | DNS-Server |----+ +-------------+ | +-------------+ | | BOOT-Server |----+ +-------------+ | +-+ +-------------+ | |S| | Flash-Server|----+ |w| +-------------+ ...

The eeprom output-device was set to ttya. I changed thisto screen and now the video monitor displays output. I cannot get into either openwindows or CDE. I get the dtlogin promptfor username and password and after putting in my username and passwordthe screen goes white and then immediately ...

Ultra5 reboots when closing CD, and it will not boot when there is a CD inthe drive. The lights on the KB blink. Oddly, it exhibits this behavioureven if the EIDE cable is NOT connected.It seems like my CD drive is toast. Will any EIDE CD ROM drive work in its'place?Or is there something I ...

for the wizards...General question...I have several netra20, 1120 & 1400 units that I need to know exact memoryconfigurations without physical access to the box. These units are in 24x7production and connot be taken out of service easily to unrack & open tocheck the configuration. Is ...

Wow what quick response. Thanks to the many folks who replied.The overwhelming response was to use the memconf.pl script available fromSunfreware or http://www.4schmidts.com/memconf.html.This provides exactly the detailed config info I needed. It works well formost systems, especially the ...

Hello all,We have a few E3000 boxes some of them with 2cpus and restwith 4cpus. We are currently in the process of consolidatingthem into minimum number of boxes each with 6cpus (MAX).The question is can I place a cpu board, part# 501-4312 intoslot 7 of an E3000? The box already has part # ...

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I'm looking for opinions on open source version control software suitablefor a Solaris / Oracle environment. Would appreciated thoughs on CVS, RCS,SCCS and others I may not be aware of. Which one does your organization useand why? Why would one choose one over the other? What are the key ...

Good Afternoon Managers,As always, here is yet another bizarre issue that we have come up with.<GRIN>Have an A1000 with a serial number containing all zeros ( 0000000000 ) thecontroller itself is accepting all functionality, including firmware upgrades,and lun creation.We have tried the ...

Thank you to everyone who answered my request for the 6800 Password unlockprocedure.Although I received many different emails, they all said basically the samething, that is as follows.SUN PROCEDURE FOR RESTING SC PASSWORD ON 4800/6800How do we reset the platform administrator's password if it ...

Hello,Im have Sun Ultra 10 that im trying to install Solaris 9, IM trying to doit through the serial console port ...to install from CLI instead if theGUI. from what ive read ...your suppose to be able to attach to serialconsole and the power up the box ...then i should be able to send a ...

Being the dummy that I am, I accidentally set a BIOS setting on the SunPCi II board to one that prevents the card from booting. On a normal PC, I would then jumper the board to reset the BIOS to defaults, or remove the CMOS battery.I can't seem to find either on this board. Help?I will ...

A colleague of mine has somehow managed to create a directory called "~"(without the quotes) in the /home directory on a server running Solaris8. Any ideas how I can delete it? # cd /home # ls -ladr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 1 Aug 13 09:54 ~ # rm -r ~rm: cannot read ...

Hello ManagersI have an E450 (4 CPUs, 4GB RAM) running Solaris 8. Yesterday I applied the 8_Recommended patch bundle. This morning I rebooted but the kernel panics thus:SunOS Rel 5.8 Version Generic_108528-23 64-bitpanic[cpu0]/thread=10408000: mod_hold_stub: couldn't load stub module ...

Hello<p>I have old Sun server running Soaris4.1.x with Sunlink4.1.4.<br>I want to make new OS instalation with SunOS4.1.x and Sunlink4.1.4. Unfortunetly <br>I lost my SunOS and Sunlink CD's. <br>Is there anybody who have those SunOS and Sunlink CD's or ISO images. <p>maris<br>

Thanks to everyone who replied (over 37 of you!). The main issue I was having trouble with was due to the fact that thedirectory was in /home and not a normal directory.I took another look at the /etc/autohome file... Again, on firstexamination, it looked fine, but then as I scrolled down I ...

> I have an E450 (4 CPUs, 4GB RAM) running Solaris 8. Yesterday I applied the > 8_Recommended patch bundle. This morning I rebooted but the kernel panics thus:> > SunOS Rel 5.8 Version Generic_108528-23 64-bit> panic[cpu0]/thread=10408000:> mod_hold_stub: couldn't load ...

Hello All,<p>How can i make a boot floppy for solaris 7 for intel platform ?<p>Any hints are appreciated. <p>Thanks a lot,<p>Best Regards,<br>Shravana Kumar.<br>

Dear SirI4m terribly confused about one problem in our environment. We have oneNIS+SAMBA environment, running in E450 with Solaris 7. Apparently, afterone system patch application, the password change is not working. Pleaselook this:1) In the server, with root account:# passwd user_testNew ...

Hi AllI am getting this message on Networker when I make changes to a client."Alias gatesmtp2 was once a client using client id: ( Id number) Recommend removing the alias gatesmtp2 from the list or renaming it"My question is how do I remove the alias gatesmtp2 from the list and how do ...

Hi Sun GuruI have java version 1.2 in my E250 server. Now I have installed java 1.3version in a different directory of same server & I want to run thatnew java version from root login , so pls. tell me, how should I creat alink of that new version so that I can run from root loginThanks ...

Hello,We experience very bad network throughput (1/10 of expected) in a firewalled network with to Sun Cluster 3.1 nodes running IPMP in fail-over mode. It seems like all netwok traffic frequently stop for a secound or so, and then resumes with lots of retransmits due to timeout, see snips from ...

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Hi all,I have tried to install the teTeX package from sunfreeware.com. It did not work for me. I finally decided to build it on my own. I downloaded the sources and did mkdir -p /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf gzip -dc /usr/src/tetex-texmf-2.0.2.tar.gz | (umask 0; cd ...

Hi,I'm planning to update latest 8_Recommended patches on a couple ofservers E3500 and E220 that are being used. I'd appreciate if you couldlet me know your opinions/experiences so that I can take the necessarysteps to prevent unexpected errors/panics.I will summarize your replies and post ...

Hi,<p>I'd appreciate if you can let me know if there is a limit on the max<br>number of groups that can be created on Solaris 8. I've done some<br>research but I could not find a reply for this question.<br>I'll summarize your replies.<p>Regards,<p>Sudhakar<br>

Hi,I have 2 Sunfire 480 hooked up to a A5200 with 2 fcal card each. They bothrun Solaris 9 4/03 with VxVM 3.5 MP1.I've configured all my disks (local and a5200), volumes, etc.. with noproblems.On reboots, I get that error message (on both servers):Aug 13 09:20:24 ann1-qc1 krtld: [ID 469452 ...

HelloCan someone direct me to some information on using a Qlogic 2100 F (PCI ) in a E450 to connect to a A5100 ? I have tried Qlogic's web site but , can't seem to find good info.ThanksRichard L. BonfoeyThe News TribuneInformation SystemsSuccessfully Meeting the Business Needs ofThe News ...

I have an Ultra 5 with Solaris 8 installed with disksuite. It was rebooted(while /var was full if that means anything)It hangs after after it shows the following NORMAL messages:ok bootBoot device: /pci at 1f,0/pci at 1,1/ide at 3/disk at 0,0 File and args: -sSunOS Release 5.8 Version ...

Some additional information regarding not being able to log into CDE or openwindows.Turns out I had a corrupted /.dtprofile file. In looking at the file with a cat command it was all garbage. I replaced it with another copy from my Solaris 8 machine and I'm now ableto log into CDE and ...

Hi,Karl Rossing told me that Sun had an opened Bug ID (4826150) for a similarsituation. But it's dated from last March, and got noassociated patches, workarounds, nothing else since.After looking around a bit on my system, I found out that the "sf" driveris included in the package ...

On Tuesday 12 August 2003 06:16 pm, you wrote:> Being the dummy that I am, I accidentally set a BIOS setting on the SunPCi> II board to one that prevents the card from booting. On a normal PC, I> would then jumper the board to reset the BIOS to defaults, or remove the> CMOS ...

Hey Sun Gurus ... I am in need of a way to determine either how much memory is in use on aSolaris 8 box, or how to determine if a Solaris 8 box is suffering from ashortage of memory. I know before Sun re-architected the Virtual MemoryArchitecture with Solaris 8, you could check the scan rate ...

Hello Gurus,I need help in the above subject, Solaris JumpStart/ Flash installations withVERITAS ( VxFS ) File Systems. Until now, I follow the Solaris "LU"techiniques to do that. I highly appreciate, if anyone could provide somehints/ URLs or documentation on this.Best ...

Hi Sunmangers,I have a solaris 8 system that i applied the reccomended patch cluster(108528-22) to (in run level 3) and now i am getting this error about"wordlist" when trying to apply any patches. i already have the 112396-02installed in case you ask.please help!!!thanx in advance! ...

Hello,What is the proper place to configure static routes for a Solaris host? Imean, besides the default gateway configured in /etc/defaultrouter...I need to add a second static to point to a certain net via a dedicatedgateway. I checked SunDocs but I've been unable to find anything ...