Thanks to Bruntel Mitchell and Kevin Buterbaugh for ideas.The problem was caused by cron entries for the sa1 process being ran by rootand sys at the same time. This caused corruption in the /var/sadm/sa/sa?Files. Sa1 should only be ran by the sys user, and you must use care toensure sa1 does ...

Hi,<p> I get the following message on power up on my Sun Fire 280R:<p>ok Corrected ECC Error<br>ok<p>I can't boot the machine. <br>Is my Memory bad?<p>Thanks,<p>Carlos Ufano<br><A HREF="/execute/ask/?codeinfoid=25101">ufano at telefonica.net</A><br>

Hi Gurus,Can we configure sendmail such way that it stopsmails having *.ext (some extensions usually virus affected mails) as attachements to a particular account. thanks in advance---------------------------------------------Geetha ThanuTechnical ...

Hi,I'm trying to get my E250 solaris 8 machine to talk to an old a1000which was lying around here. After installing the latest recommendedpatches, the 6.221 raid manager and some small patches (112126-06) and ,I rebooted the machine and it recognized the A1000. Whoohoo!But then it happened: ...

Hi all,i need that only a few clients cannot access one of our servers.All others must be able to connect with telnet. hosts.allow:in.telnetd:ALL hosts.deny:in.telnetd:<IP of clients that should not connect> I guess this must work, but it doesn't!Where is the fault? This is a real ...

> The system is being initialized, please wait... \> The following errors were detected in the archive(s) you selected:> - Unexpected error found with media or archive selected> Please reselect the Flash archives you want to install.I didn't get any answers to this one, but here's ...

Hi,thanks!one of my colleagues has modified /etc/inetd.conf.There was only tcp6 instead of tcp in /etc/inetd.conf!BIG THX to all responders!!!greetzAleks-----Urspr|ngliche Nachricht-----Von: Niels van Sluis [mailto:N.vanSluis at amc.uva.nl]Gesendet am: Donnerstag, 21. August 2003 15:45An: ...

Hello All,I've got an Ultra 5 running Solaris 8 and with OBP version 3.31.0. When Itry to boot from cdrom, I get the infamous "Fast Data Access MMU Miss"error. I am aware that there is an issue with faster (> 419 MHz) CPU's whichcan cause this problem for Solaris 6 and earlier ...

Hello,I meant to send this to a perl mailing list and sent it two codeprof sorry. But Incase anyone needs this though:bash-2.03# ./create.pl host.list > newhost.out#!/usr/bin/perl -nlw while (<>) { # safely remove a carriage return from the file chomp $_;next if ($_ eq ...

Greetings, We have reached a sitaution here on some of our Solaris 8 systems here, where it looks like the users are experiencing difficulties when they try to access a sym link that is buried deep inside the path, meaning, a sym link pointing to a path which is a sym link to another path ...

How do i disable a failed CPU from OBP. System panics and does not boot E 3500<p>ok .asr <br>ok .xir-state-all<p>does not give anything.<p>Any ideas?<br>

HiI am trying to copy the DIT from my Intermail Directory to SunONE directory.When I check the schema in both, they differ so much. Is there any procedureto do schema checking or any suggestion for this ...

I have a script which generates output similar to this and simply emails mewhenever it sees "not running". What I'd like to do is filter this to showme only the server which is down. Essentially, I'd like to turn this: Connection point: /someserver1 Server State: ...

Thanks to Eugene who suggested the following:cat /tmp/z|awk '{if ( $1 == "Connection" ) printf("%s ",$0)else print $0}'|grep "not running"cat /tmp/z|awk '{if ( $1 == "Connection" ) printf("%s ",$0)else print $0}'|grep "not ...

Hi,I'm trying to compile stunnel 4 on a Solaris 8 (with /dev/random) boxusing gcc 3.3 and openssl 0.9.7b and I'm getting the following errormessage when I run "./configure":checking size of unsigned char... configure: error: cannot compute sizeof(unsigned char), 77I could not find ...

I've looked this up in Google, Quantum's DLT guide, Sun's documentation,and I can't seem to find out what I'm doing wrong.I've got a Sun (Quantum) DLT 4000 drive hooked up to a SunFire 280R.I can't seem to get more than 20G (exactly) on the tape - and I *know*what I'm putting on there ...

Special Thanks all below Guys, who has really helped to restrict root loginusing SSH.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Edit /path/to/ssh/etc/sshd_configun-comment it and add no :PermitRootLogin no ...

I have one network of 192.168.1.0I have Solaris 5.8 running on Ultra 60. This is on my private network.IP address is 192.168.1.10, Hostname is "MERCURY" and my FQDN is"dev.logix.com".I have another network of 172.16.101.0Here I have the same Ultra 60 box on the private ...

hi,One of my user is running a gate level simulation. While there is amplespace in his home and there is sufficient swap space but still theapplication terminates with the following error.Error! [DAI-WRITETRN] Could not write to transition file: File too largeI searched google and ...

[original post at the bottom]it seems I *really* should buy glasses: the keyword is root_password andnot root_passwd (strange the jumstart complains about badlyformatted values for a keyword but not about unrecognized keywordsthough)Anyway, fixed :)tx for all the suggestions and ...

Hi,Apologies for the delay in this summary.Thank you to all the many, many, many responses.Seemed I was on the right track to...boot cdrom -s (I didn't have the '-s' option)mount <boot disk> /mnt (or /a)Alter the /a/etc/passwd file.init 6CheersCraig.that any use or dissemination of ...

Hi,Okay, so I haven't RTFM, but this group seems to be quickest, fastest, easiestwayof getting information. And I hope I'm not "OFF TOPIC" also. :-)And I had a quick search for "filename format" in the Summaries and Fullmessages, buthad no results returned.I am burning a ...

Hi managers,got a strange problem here with a file of abt. 500Meg.The file can be deleted (with rm), but when I try to mv or cp it, I get anerror-message reading "Invalid argument".An ls -l shows:-rw-r--r-- 1 mbrinkma mic 540613119 Aug 21 18:26 /tmp/xxx1/tmp has enough space to ...

Hi all,I now am able to completely jumpstart a machine (with webstart flasharchives) but is it normal that, when I specify root_password in thesysidcfg file, that the /etc/shadow file gets completely overwritten andonly the root_pasword is filled in there?I have normal users as well, and when ...

Hi,i am trying to compile netatalk on my machine,and running in some problems (maybe missing some libraries) ormissconfigured gcc.Question: Do somebody have allready one compiled version of it for Solaris8?Would be great getting some responses.Thank you in advanceRamiro ...

Greetings Managers,I have two servers running Solaris 8, with 4GB Ram and2 CPUs each. Storage is on an EMC. Both servers runSybase (ASE 12.5) and perform the same function. TheDBA is having performance trouble from ServerB. What Isee is:iostat -xn ServerAr/s w/s kr/s kw/s wait actv wsvc_t ...

Hello,I have an older soon-to-be-retired systems running an imporant app onSolaris 2.6 with {sun-branded} VxVM 2.5., running SUN cluster 2.2It also has legacy sun disk, using VxVM for mirroring.If the active node crashes, when SC tries to start the volumes, if they'renot synced it takes about ...

Hi, I want to build a script from which I can make a small confirmation windowpopup on user's CDE-desktops, even in all their workspaces, but cannot findanything on Internet or man pages. Anyone knows about any utility that can display a small window with a textand an "OK" button on ...

All, Lets me first state that I am a Solstice newbie. Ive inherited a SunEnterprise 250 which has a tape Backup job that keeps failing (see/nsr/logs/messages output below.) I know little about Solstice andunfortunately have no one I can call for assistance. Heres what I know.I do have a ...

I have a Solaris 7 (sparc) box with a fairly large UFS data partition.It's currently mounted without UFS logging. I'd like to addlogging without rebooting, with mount -o remount,logging ...I've tried this on a test filesystem, and it seems to work.However, the mount_ufs man page says the FS ...

The unanimous response is that it's OK to add logging on the flythis way, and people do it all the time. Of course, the logging optionshould also be added /etc/vfstab.Thanks, and I hope those out-of-the-office are enjoying their vacations :-)-DavidOriginal question:On Fri, 22 Aug 2003, David ...

Hello all,----------------------------------------------------------------------Solaris 2.8 (Kernel 108528-22) Disksuite 4.2.1 with 108693-17----------------------------------------------------------------------Q1:Disksuite 4.2.1 Answerbook documentation says that UFS logging can be ...

Original message -> I am writing here because I had a peculiar situation and due to > time constraints did not have time to write before. Basically the > situation is that trying to unlink a file in /usr/lib, I accidentally > unlink /usr/lib. This wouldn't be such a bad thing ...

Hi,<br>Can anybody help me in finding the URL for downloading<br>maintenance update for solaris 7 that was released in Feb 2002<br>I tried to find that myself, but I am getting the links to the documentation<br>but not the software.<p>Thanks<br>Ramesh<br>

This may appear to be a rediculous questions, but I have been frustrated in looking through the documentation and instructions and searching through docs.sun.com.The install instructions for Mozilla 1.2.1 on Solaris 8 Sparc say that you need either gnome or just the GTK2 libraries installed ...

SOLUTION:add the different drivers to /etc/dt/config/Xservers file :0 Local local_uid at console <mailto:local_uid at console> root/usr/openwin/bin/X -dev /dev/fbs/gfxp0 :0 Local local_uid at console <mailto:local_uid at console> root/usr/openwin/bin/X -dev /dev/fbs/m640 ...

In my Workstation Sparcstation 4, when it started to power-on in the screen I can see the message "Disk 1 isn4t unique."I don4t know the cause of problem. Do you know about this subject. Because, the funcionality of my Workstation is normal.Can I do whit this problem?Thank ...

Good afternoon, when I power-on a Workstation, in the screen the unique message is "Memory not aligned". Do you know a possible solution for it4s problem? I changed the memory and it started. I would like if the memoy is bad. If this case, do you know any place where I buy the memory ...

Thanks to David,I could locate the MU with ease.Ramesh----- Original Message -----From: "Davide" <davide at picasso.ucsf.edu>To: "Ramesh Pathak" <ramesh.pathak at vinciti.com>Sent: Friday, August 22, 2003 10:44 PMSubject: Re: Maintenance upgrade> Hi,>> ...

Thanks to Alan Pae and Reggie Beavers for responding.Summary:Seems that regardless of any overriding setting, whether instance=uniqueor MAXINST=2, if the package is the same architecture and version, it isonly going to install one instance - period. This is unfortunate forinstalls such as a ...

First, many thanks to:Ramiro SantosBen GreenKevin Buterbaugh Moamer O. MohsinAll responses proved useful. Kevin knew actually what caused the problem: Sybase was using 3.5 of of 4GB,not leaving enough memory for the OS in genernal.Reducing Sybase's shared memory usage to 3GB solvedthe problem. ...

All:I have some questions on Solaris 9 & Volume Mgr etc.1) The first one is about general consent about Solaris 9. Are you allmoving to Solaris 9 orgoing to wait till Solaris 10 is released and move to 10? and why? I haveheard that 9 is like Solaris 7 that not many folks aremoving toward to ...

I've attached an external SCSI Exabyte VXA-2 drive to our Sun box running Sol9. An internal DSS-4 drive is also hooked up. Per the instructions, I added this to st.conftape-config-list="EXABYTE VXA-2", "Exabyte VXA-2", "VXA-2";VXA-2 = ...

I swear that I once saw something about this, but can't find it.I'm doing remote upgrades of mirrored systems, mostly Netra T1 120's,which is working great for the most part. A few machines are Netra T1200's, though, which aren't happy booting a disk prepared for an olderNetra T1. I can ...

Hi Guys,I am having a very hard time trying to compile MySQL-3.23.53 on my Solaris 9box. I keep getting the following error when I run make:mysqld.cc: In function `void* handle_connections_sockets(void*)':mysqld.cc:2410: error: invalid conversion from `size_socket*' ...

Dear Gurus, 23rd July 2003 I have a SUN Ultra 10 With Ultra Sparc IIi333 Mhz, 8GB internal & 8 GB extrnal HDD, Solaris 7.Now I want to upgrade the os to Solaris 8. I havefollowing questions.1. WIll SUN Ultra 10 support SOlaris 8?2. Where can I find the Solaris 8 software. ...

Dear Gurus-I have some problem with Solaris 9 Machine which is Mail Server . DNS,Webserver . usually after spam or junk mailmy solaris stop reponding and its swap is fulli see message like thesefork : Not enough spaceso i cant telnet nor login through console as wellthe only option left STOP -A ...

Archive-name: codeprof-before-postingLast Updated: $Id: before.posting,v 1.19 2002/11/21 15:07:17 jdd Exp $NOTE: This message is posted periodically to codeprof on behalf of all members of the Sunmanager's mailing list. Please read it carefully before posting. This document can be retrieved ...

Hi,Thank you to all the responses regarding my query.All responses were very similar in adviceAnswer: ISO 9660 only supports 8.3. Microsoft uses Joliet extensions to getbeyond that. Unix uses Rock Ridge extensions. So burn your CD with RRextensions (most Windows programs support this).Thank you ...

Holidays are getting to their end, given the reducing amount of'Out-of-office' replies ...Anyway, as usual tons of usefull replies:Nearly unanymous : use "xmessage" (www.sunfreeware.com)Other suggestions : use "/usr/dt/bin/dtksh" altough I haven't found any manpage of it, ...