Ladies and Gents, Gurus all of you:I am having a really strange problem with getting my keyboard to work at theCDE login prompt. I am not able to enter in my username and / or password.I can hit 'stop-a' and boot the system into single user mode and login, usecommands as normal. Does anyone ...

Hi, managers:I have installed Acrobat 5.0 in my SUN Blade 2000 with Solaris 9 system.How can I link it to the PDF file so that I can open this type of fileautomatically? Thanks.Bin Chen-------------------------------------------------------------------Bin ChenDepartment of Mechanical ...

I would like to thank all of those who sent an out-of-office reply and theoneindividual whos mail service thinks Sun Managers is a spam source.I did not get the answer I was looking for. For the record I knew how tocorrect the password issue and we have multiple copies of the ...

Hi everyone,I have installed Salaris 8 on an old SUN Ultra 1 SPARC machine. When Iboot the machine I will get the message as follow:SC Control: EWP:0 IAP:0 FATAL:0 WAKEUP:0 BXIR:0 BPOR:0 SXIR:0 SPOR:1 POR:0Probing Memory Bank #0 32 + 32 : 64 MegabyesProbing Memory Bank #1 16 + 16 : 32 ...

Hi everyone,I have installed Salaris 8 on an old SUN Ultra 1 SPARC machine. When Iboot the machine I will get the message as follow:SC Control: EWP:0 IAP:0 FATAL:0 WAKEUP:0 BXIR:0 BPOR:0 SXIR:0 SPOR:1 POR:0Probing Memory Bank #0 32 + 32 : 64 MegabyesProbing Memory Bank #1 16 + 16 : 32 ...

Hi Gurus,I am having an issue with Swap file system on Solaris 7 which under VeritasVolume Manager control.Swap size is 1GB but some how df -k output shows 15256K Total because of whichNetworker (Legato) backup fails complaining about not enough swap space.Hers is the output :df -kl swap ...

Hi SunManagers,Normally I used the following command to install multiple patches. patchadd -M /var/spool/patch patchlistIs there other better ways to do the above?Thank you,Ranggon.-----------------------------------------This email was sent using DACafeMail.Get Your FREE 50 MB eMail Account ...

Hi SunManagers,How do I list out all the contains of backup tape createdby ufsdump?Thank You,Ranggon-----------------------------------------This email was sent using DACafeMail.Get Your FREE 50 MB eMail Account ...

Hello all,We have a SAN where tape drives are shared across a number of systems.I have been able to configure the Drives on a Sun machine running, But donot know how to configure the robot on the silo on this Sun machine.The sun machine is running Solaris 7We use NetBackup 4.5 DataCenter to do ...

Has anyone encountered this? I've been having this pop up when I tried to install patch 112438-01 (the /dev/random patch) under Solaris 8. I've also been seeing this pop up when I try to install the Solaris Volume Manager packages under Solaris 9 (SUNWmdr, SUNWmdu) while ...

Archive-name: codeprof-faqSun-Managers' Frequently Asked Questions$Id: faq,v 4.40 2003/08/05 17:50:26 jdd Exp $This is collection of common questions posted to the codeprof mailinglist twice a month. It is intended to benefit Sun System Managers andreduce traffic to the list by providing quick ...

Hello All,We have just purchased a new Sun Fire 4800.... And I thought that during the time to go to production I could use the patchpro facility to automatically update all patches.Is it a realistc goal to aim for NO required patches (with a sunsolve account) being displayed from ...

I have a Solaris 9 (just updated from Solaris 8) running NIS+. Root cannotchange passwords of regular accounts. It returns a "Permission denied"However, logging in as a regular user, the regular user can change his/herown password, and it gets updated in the tables.Am I right in ...

Hi,i am facing a very weird problem.we have a user's home on one of the ultra 10 Solaris 7 machines say HOMEwhen i do <su - user> sitting on the HOME console, it take 15-20 minutesto give me the user shell, but from any other server it takes fewseconds..Also if i telnet to HOME, after ...

HiI am interested to know the tools and utilities to manage NFS in a networkedenvironment.I am currently using Sun Management Console. I am also planning to useWebmin..Anybody guide me, what are the other best products available for managing NFSin a networked environment.It can be open source ...

Hi all,I want to set quotas for users.Now my doubt is quotas file has to set in the/home slice or individual users /home/xx.if i set for /home then quota -v for xx does not show any value in usage field.pls clarify.thank u---------------------------------------------Geetha ...

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----Hash: SHA1Managers,Thank you to all who responded on the san/nas, sun and oracle 9i questionIt's hard to summarise fairly where things don't have a one clear technicalanswer, but the following was suggested:-* If it is a supported Sun Cluster/Veritas Cluster ...

Hello All,I am getting exactly the same error on running the diagnostics for my E250running Solaris 8.I am able to boot the system in single user mode. However /var directory isempty.Rebooting gives an error indicating that /var/adm/utmpx cannot be accessed.Can somebody shed some light on this ...

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----Hash: SHA1Hi managersSurprisingly few responses to my eariler question.Crist Clark asked if users were actually using 'login' to login. We'reusing Solaris 9 standard SSH, the OpenBSD derived version supplied bySun. In our previous Solaris 8 build, we used ...

Hello ManagersI have an E450 with disk problems. The machine has 4x18GB SCSI disks in a hot-swappable SCSI rack.iostat -E reports 4 transport errors on sd3 and now there are also 'No device' hard errors appearing two of the other drives: sd0 and sd2. Is it likely that the transport errors on ...

I've failed miserably trying to find a way to rack mount a L25 into thenewer Sun Rack 900.I can resort to a Shark Rack shelf I think but does anyone manufacture anadapter for the Sun Rack 900 ?Has anyone found a rack kit to mount an L25 into a Sun Rack 900 ?In the Sun engineers handbook on ...

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Hello,I got a few responses. Someone suggested that it lookedlike a workaround for an old version of Solaris, and theysuggested removing it. I did end up removing the MAX_FDS linefrom the /etc/default/utmpd file.Here are a couple of the other responses:"Use rlim_fd_cur and rlim_fd_max ...

Hi Guys,I have just jumpstarted solaris 9 on one of my servers and want to transfermy imap server from my redhat boxes to this new solaris machine. However, Iam unable to find imap on the solaris 9 box and was wondering if this issomething that comes installed in solaris 9 or would I have to ...

Greetings,We got a problem recently with one of our disks on a E250 server; Aftertaking out the disk and placing it on the same place the disk started towork again (well, thats what the format utility tells us).We broke the mirror on the server before taking out the disk and now weare trying to ...

Has anyone seen the following message on power up?3:1 jumper is on but module is not in 3:1 modeI've searched SunSolve, to no avail. The Box powes itself down afterdisplaying the message.To try to troubleshoot this, I've swapped processors, removed one, then theother and triedeach processor ...

Hello,Im running a newly installed solaris 9 4/03. In trying to reset the rootpassword to something cryptic ..i found that you cant have a passwordlonger than 8 charactors. One of the main reason of upgrading is thatsupposedly Solaris 9 has support for long passwords ...such as 12charactors? ...

Ive tried editing the file /etc/default/passwd and changed to 12PASSLENGTH=12 its by default 6I dont get this BSD has the abilty to this with no modifications, rightout of the box uses PAM and has long password support. Im all ears ifanyone else has suggestions-- Brent Bailey CCNABmyster ...

Hello,some of us are still using the old calendar tool (dtcm). They all connact to one Sun Server running under Solaris 8. Everthing works fine till this morning after this server was rebootet last night. A second boot doesn't change anything. If you invoke the dtcm now you get the following ...

I just tried to see what was installed on a solaris 8 system with"pkginfo -i" and got the msg: "pkginfo: ERROR: pkginfo file is corruptof missing".Does anyone know of a fix for this?Thanks!Judith Reedjreed at navisite.com"They that can give up essential liberty to ...

Hello,I'm not sure what happens to the system in regards to accounting practices, but I'm running Solaris 8 and I come to a prompt where the system can't write to utmp or utmpx. I come up to an option to run in run level 0-6 or S, but I can't go into S,0, or 1.I haven't done anything to ...

OK I have read the archives but no answer for my question.Our standard install to this point has been a mirror of the OS disks using SDS. The key point being that if you lost a disk you would still have 50% of your metadbs and it would still boot off the remaining disk.On Solaris 9, SDS ...

Hi Managers:After installing the LDAP patches , setting up the ndd prameters, applyingthe HotFix2, and installing the Directory server 5.1sp2, I see thefollowing warning in my error log as follow:[18/Aug/2003:15:00:14] info (14751): Loading IWSSessionManager by default.[18/Aug/2003:15:00:14] ...

Folks,We have a 280R and a V480 connected to an enterasys switch (2 diff blades,as one is copper, the other optical) forming a gigabit link. Solaris 9 - latest patchset 280R has Ge0 interface (OPtical)V480 has Ce0 interfaces (copper)VxFS V3.5Data to/from RAID5 on 3310 Array.When I ftp files ...

Hi there : though I've looked into Sun docs I couldn't figure out what this messages means, please someone give me a hint here : Aug 13 11:31:40 HMainSSP syslog: [ID 702911 local0.error] datasyncd: ERR: foClnt.c, 93: fo_clt_get_state: door_call failed, errno: 11and the spare SSP also gives ...

hi you all,i'm working with a sun fire v880 server with 8 ultra-sparc processors (750MHz each) and 16Gb Ram memory (4Gb each 2 processors)when i run some heavy processes and check for the resources consumed by the server machince, i realize that only a few percent of the resources are in use ...

Hi All , I have a strange problem , I hav 2 sun sparcV100 installed with solaris 8 . I had the samefilesystem set in that , the /var has been allocated48 MB in both the machines . Now suddenly I find thatone of the machine has 87 % capacity and the other has12 % capacity . Again on ...

Hi, Judithplease try the following (to get the info which pkginfo-file is corrupt) inksh or sh (login as root):cd /var/sadm/pkgfor i in *doecho "============================================"echo $i :pkginfo -i $idoneExamine the output for the wrong or missing pkginfo-file (located in ...

FolksTrying to get a SUN Fire V120 SOalris 5.9 talking though a JNI FCX2-6562 card to a IBM FASTT700 SANEvery thing seems ok except I can only ever see LUN31IBM uses LUN31 as a special area to store the configuration of the SANMy sd.conf is:name="sd" class="scsi" target=0 ...

The problem seems to have been a faulty disk, (not a faulty bus) and that seems to have caused hard errors on the other two devices which have since worked fine (subsequent to the faulty disk being replaced.)Special thanks to the 15 plonkers who's Microsoft Exchange servers send 'Out of ...

Hi All<p>I have a customer who is trying to add some large 180Gb IDE disks in USB<br>2 chassis to his Ultra 5.<p>Anyone tried this and can recommend controllers/versions of software<br>etc.<p>Thanks<p>Peter<br>

Hi ALL:Had a similar problem with pkginfo/rm/add:QUICK Question-->What files need to be removed in order to overcome a error 2 warning whenpackage REALLYdoesnt exist (or work!)Installed SUdo from freesolaris.com fine on 6 solaris 8 systems.on one it failed, so tried:>>root at webber: / ...

I am doing SOlaris 9 X86 installation on Laptop (DELL). This computer has one big disk and partition two parts. One for Win2000 (already install) and one reserver for Solaris 9 X86. The installation program asked me about video card , monitor and Solarsi paratition. After I assign Solaris ...

Thanks to all who replied. As always this is the best forum for quick andpracticable fixes.The problem actually looks a bit easier than I thought. As we only use thelp system we should only need port 515 open through the firewall. For oncethis is not something that they only realised needed ...

Hi all,i want to install ssh on Sol 8.A Patch must applied to do that. But the following happens: # patchadd 112438-01Checking installed patches...Verifying sufficient filesystem capacity (dry run method)...Patch 112438-01 failed to install due to a failure produced by pkgadd.See ...

First my thanks to Michael Grice, Stuart Little (? :)) and Eric van deMeerakker for their tips into solving this issue.I found than the problem was that TCP wrappers was not letting me toreach the daemons required by metatool. I use TCP wrappers to protectall the daemons that rely on inetd.1) ...

Hi SunManagers,Thanks to all who responded.ardy, AndyPeter StokesSimon BurrMorgan JonesLumpkin, Buddyjoe.fletcher at btconnect.comThe command below works perfectly.# ufsrestore tvf /dev/rmt/0Thank you,Ranggon.> Hi SunManagers,>>> How do I list out all the contains of backup tape ...

I reported a problem with pkginfo, which when run without a packagespecified, eventually stops with "pkginfo: ERROR: pkginfo file iscorrupt or missing".I received a number of suggestions on how to populate /var/sadm/pkg sothat the info necessary is there, and indeed there are ...

Hi All i'm trying to install a 20 Gb H.D.D, Seagate model ST320013A, firmware 3.31 - Barracude ATA Vin a Sun Ultra 10 UPA/PCI 300MHz OpenBoot 3.11 but systems only recognize half capacity (even i try to install solaris 2.6 or mount disk) this machine had a 8 Gb disk, but system only recognize ...

I have recently downloaded the tcpdump solaris8 package fromsunfreeware.com namely, tcpdump-3.7.2-sol8-sparc-local.gzI placed the file in /tmp and when I ran ..pkgadd -d ./tcpdump-3.7.2-sol8-sparc-local.gz... I got ...pkgadd: ERROR: no packages were found in </var/tmp/dstreAAAZMaWTZand then ...