Just wanted to know what the most reliable SUN LCD/KVMcombo people recommend in the industry. I'm lookingfor a 1U solution for the KVM and 1U for theLCD/Keyboard with a minimum of a 15' display. Regards,steve__________________________________Do you Yahoo!?Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, ...

Hello,I'm looking to to incorporate antispam and blacklist into my Solaris 9 mailhost (with latest patches). I have found several discussions and how to's. What I haven't found is something to reassure me that if I use /usr/lib/mail/cf/main.mc that I won't lose any of the functionality / ...

Sun managers,I am trying to setup npasswd on my solaris 7 machine.I followed all the stepsexactly as given in the Installation and buid manual. 1. Uncompress the file$ gunzip -c npasswd-2.05.tar.gz | tar xf -$ gunzip -c npasswd-words.tar.gz | tar xf - $ mv npasswd-2.00/dict/* npasswd-2.05/dict ...

Hello Gurus, I have one question.I have one 280R which has 8Gb of RAM in 2 banks (0 and 1 )today one of the dimms of bank one damaged.I alredy report it to sun service, but for warranty detailts the partand the Enginer will be available in 24 hrs. This machine is very important, But I can not ...

Hi!I'm experiencing a problem with Solaris PC NetLink software, version 2.0.The PC NetLink Server installed on Solaris 9 offers some tools for WindowsNT administration like User Manager for Domains. I execute this tool from aWindows 2000 client to manage user properties. When I double-click a ...

Hi All,I have been trying this for a couple of days now and have searchedgoogle and not found any answers.I am trying to build a 64-bit OS from a Jumpstart server. The machineis a Sparc 20 with 128MB RAM.I want the entire distribution to go on there so I have used theentire-distribution.profile ...

Thanks to.....Casper DikChris PinnockGeoff ReedThe Sparc 20's don't support 64-bit.Heres a link to what does and doesn't.... http://docs.sun.com/db/doc/816-1664-10/6m82lv9l9?a=viewThanks againOriginal message below...Hi All,I have been trying this for a couple of days now and have ...

Thanks to Alan Pae who pointed me to an article on Sunsolve. It appears thatthat particular error occurs when the SSA firmware checksum is incorrect. Thereare work arounds to prevent it happening on an upgrade, but apparantly the onlyfix is a replacement of the controller board.We have ordered ...

Hi,This is just a quick survey if people don't mind. At my site we've had a lot of memory problems on V880s. I'm interested to know how many other people recognise this type of error on their own 880s and have had DIMMs or CPU boards replaced as a result.Aug 12 01:51:34 d034ux3505 ...

Hi everybody,I've a litte script wich I'd like to start periodical as cron job. Thescript should run in background:stty -tostopdate +20%y-%m-%d > ~/date.txtWhen lauched by hand - ./getdate.sh - it produces a: "[1] + Stopped(SIGTTOU) .getdate.sh &" and the "date.txt" ...

Hi all, I have some silly problem here that is driving me nuts. On myBlade100/Solaris9 the defaultroute is not used.The local network is fine, everything ist reachable but when I try to reacha maschine not on my network, instead of sending the data to the defaultrouter my Blade is trying to ...

Thanks everybodyNearly everyone told me to user absolute calls for the date command(/usr/bin/date).The "stty" call produced the SIGTTOU since no stty is attached.Therefore I modified the script:#!/usr/bin/ksh/usr/bin/date +20%y-%m-%d > ~/date.txtthankx again ...

Hi,I have Sun Cluster 3.x installed in Sun fire 15K systems. I am looking fora script to run when a resource group comes up. My customized script needto be executed while logical IP resource or Hastorage plus resource comeup. I have added my script as "Runbeforestartmetod" ...

Dear Managers,<p>What is Max TCP/IP packet size in solaris 8, What are the factor's on <br>which it depends ?<p>I will summarize .<p>TIA<br>Raghu<br>Systems Adminstrator<br>Lucent Technlogies<br>

Thanks to all for your help, shame on me, it was a faulty routerconfiguration, the configuration on thesun was ok. I was only looking at the wrong place as was suggested by CasparDik:>You're interpreting what you see incorrectly; the IP packets are>supposed to have the remote IP ...

I have a unix user id eppi_pr_link_dba,this id is 16 character long.when i submit a cron job with this id it is not executed it give's a errorin the log file /var/cron/log.The error is ;! No such user as eppi_pr_link_dbeppi_pr_l - cron entries not created WedAug 27 17:26:14 2003If the user id ...

Executive Summary: Solaris 9 version 8/03 has this functionality: It canhandle "disks" up to 16TB in size, and filesystems of the same size. Thisfunctionality requires running the 64-bit kernel.Thanks to several people for responding:Justin StringfellowCasper DikJay LessertHichael ...

hi guruI have Sun Ultra 10 m/c running solaris 8 with PCI symbios 53c875 daulchannel scsi card . I have connected a external 12/24 dat on thatcard. That SCSI card and Dat working fine. I have taken out that cardfrom ultra 10 m/c & put that card on my window m/c. After one month Ihave ...

Hi all,I have a StorageTek L20 connected to a PCI Antares U3WL SCSI card on a Ultra5 running Solaris 8. The SCSI card is detected at boot up and the driverfor the L20 DLT8000 is loaded as expected. And the devices are successfullycreated in the appropriate /dev and /devices directories. The ...

I need to rescind a piece of advice that I previously handed out,due to a significant operational change which renders it wrong:On Sat, Aug 09, 2003 at 03:46:36PM -0400, Rich Kulawiec wrote:> One such DNSBL is SPEWS, the Spam Protection Early Warning System. [...]>> Here's where you ...

Our backup network is running on gig ethernet, ge interfaces. When the client boots it hangs after getting the bootblk (tftp traffic). Running snoop on the jumpstart server we can see all of the tftpboot traffic over the ge interface (snoop -d ge0 8:0:20:c7:ff:74). After the last packet is sent ...

I have an Ultra-10 running Solaris 8. I recently tried adding the followinglines to my/etc/system file to force it to always connect at 100mps full duplex.set hme:hme_adv_autoneg_cap = 0set hme:hme_adv_100T4_cap = 0set hme:hme_adv_100fdx_cap = 1set hme:hme_adv_100hdx_cap = 0set ...

Hi folks,I have an Ultra10 here which was fine until, I believe, a power outage.It just won't boot up. Here is a summary of the problem and what I'vedone so far.The OpenBoot PROM is version 3.15 on a Sun Ultra10, 360 Mhz machine.When I boot the machine, I get:-------------Short disk ...

Hi,<p>We are seeing syslog message like this?<p> Aug 27 10:46:48 mdaivr1 telnetd[7910]:[ID 485252 daemon.info] ttloop: peer<br>died: Invalid argument<p>I don't know the reason for this error message? How will I fix this prolbem?<p>Thanks<br>SR<br>

I had a vendor "upfrade" a couple of Solaris boxes yesterday. now whne Issh from one of them to the other, I'm prompted for a password. I've runssh-keygen on both ends, and copied the *.pub files intot authorized_keyson teh machine I'm ssh'ing to, and still not luck.here's the ...

Hi AllHope you can help me with this one as it makes no sense to meI two systems which I loaded and should have the same version of 2.6installed (they were loaded 1+ years ago and have differing packagesloaded). I have setup both to simply send mail out without using amailhub (sendmail.cf.new ...

Hi all,When I calculate the % of the disk used by dividing the column "used" by thecolumn "kbytes" the % got is very much different from theone that is displayed under the column heading "capacity". In fact this istrue for all the file systems and for several ...

Hey all, We've recently begun seeing a problem with automounts that is causing some concern. The network guys swear it's not them and the people that control the homedir machines say it isn't them. The problem is automount only works to some machines. It was working just fine to all ...

Hi Guys,I have just built my Solaris 9 box as a dns server and have installed bind9.2.2.$ uname -aSunOS shinda 5.9 Generic_112233-05 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-5_10I have it working just fine from all my unix boxes, for example:$nslookup enermax <- returns the expected output with the correct ...

Thanks for all the replies.It seems that the real answer was to put the line with thehme_adv_autoneg_cap setting last in the sequence like this:set hme:hme_adv_100T4_cap = 0set hme:hme_adv_100fdx_cap = 1set hme:hme_adv_100hdx_cap = 0set hme:hme_adv_10fdx_cap = 0set hme:hme_adv_10hdx_cap = 0set ...

A sendmail/solaris 9 problem:On most of our solaris 9 machines, I have configured them to not run indaemon mode. An outbound email message is sent straight to the mailhostand is processed there. The only difference between this implementationand the sendmail implementation that shipped with ...

Hello codeprof,We have a solaris 7 production server and a DR server.The user passwords on these two servers are somehowdifferent. I have been tasked to write a script toautomatically synchronize the user passwords on boththe servers. The catch is that the UID for many usersare not same for ...

Hi Guys,Thanks to everyone for their reply. Special thanks to Lars Hecking, GaryCarr, Alan Halachmi, Paul Greidanus and Bill Williams for their reply.Windows has a similar option as the unix /etc/resolv.conf (searchchamkila.org) under the DNS option of the tcp/ip settings for the nic.. Iset ...

I sent this to the other admin-related mailing lists to which I'msubscribed, but somehow didn't think about this one. Sorry.As many of you *should* be aware: relays.osirusoft.com has beenexperiencing problems. As of Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2003, ISPs beganreporting that non-dialup, dedicated ...

Hello -We've been seeing problems that one of our developers thinks arememory access problems with the Standard Template Library (STL)for Forte 7 (aka SunOne Studio 7 aka Forte Developer 7 :-) on ourSolaris 9 systems.Are there any known problems like this? One conjecture is that theproblems ...

Let me thank all the great guys who responded to my query so fast.Here are the excerpts from the mails that I received.The reason is "minfree" taking some bytes out from the user.And Paul also suggests that fragmentation may add to it further.Thanks to all of you,RameshMichael ...

Dear Sun Managers:This afternoon, I just upgraded my Ultra 5 (Solaris 8)to the latest kernel update patch 108528-23; andsuddenly I am no longer able to run Sun VTSdiagnostics to test memory on this desktop. The errormessage is:FATAL mem: "Unable to read pointer to memliststructure"and ...

Hi Managers, I have a U10 box with 40gb disk and 128mb RAM running Sol9 at home, and I want to install Oracle 9i. Oracle 9i insatll requirment is min 256mb of memory. Has anyone tried to install Oracle with < 256mb memory before? Thanks in advanceSriman---------------------------------Want ...

Hi all,Not sure whether right alias or not?I have ipv6 question. I am treying to configure IPv6 network. Following is connectivitySunsystem fec0:db8:200::2 --- RouterA - Interface -1 (fec0:db8:200::1) Router A - Interface-2 (Fec0:db9:400::1) ----- Router B Int-1(fec0:db9:400::2)I am able to ...

Hi All,Interesting problem here. I have a Solaris 2.8 boot disk, (install wasinitially performed on a Sun 3800) I now work in an Environment with noSun hardware, all Fujitsu SPARC. I have some files which I wish toretrieve from the boot disk. Here is my problem1) The boot disk has ...

Hi Admins,I am facing problem in Sun Fire V880 is that automounter is hanging veryfrequently.Current recommended patch no is Generic_108528-21. Also picld deamonis not running currently.Any suggestions on this.Regds/Lalit"DISCLAIMER: This message is proprietary to Hughes Software Systems ...

For what is truning our to be a long battle I have the following:SunfireV120 runnign Solaris 5.9JNI FCX2-6562 Dual Fibre Card PCIIBM FASTT700 connected via a Fibre SwitchThe JNI card installed OK.I can see the SAN ok.I have successfully mapped LUN's off the SAN. These are apprearing as disks ...

Thank you to those who gave vlueable suggestions.It turns out that on the storage manager I has assigned the wrong WWPN to the various grpups that had been given access.Once these were corrected ones the LUN's became avilable.Now I can see the LUN's but I can not write to the disks.I'll ...

Dear Sunmanagers,I am quite confused regarding the difference between RAID 0+1 and RAID1. The Raid Manager Documentation doesn't distinguish between the two.So my question is with RAID Manager can I do either mirroring {RAID 1}or striping {RAID 0} or else I can do a combination of the ...

Hello,I have a Sun Fire 280R ( 4GB RAM) with Solaris 8 installed. It has beenworking fine since last May however during the last week or so it has beenrebooting on an almost daily basis. When looking at the /var/adm/messages Inoticed that it is rebooting every time with a different error ...

I'm about to install Solaris 8 02/02 (MU7), and wonder if I should applyother patches.As a general rule for Solaris 8+ installation, would you recommend to staywith last MU (until next MU), or to immediately apply latest up-to-date8_recommended patch cluster available on SunSolve (in other ...

Hello,I will be sending parts of the /var/adm/messages since attachments aren'taccepted.Aug 18:Aug 18 20:27:24 C3P2 genunix: [ID 540533 kern.notice] ^MSunOS Release 5.8Version Generic_108528-18 64-bitAug 18 20:27:24 C3P2 genunix: [ID 913631 kern.notice] Copyright 1983-2001 SunMicrosystems, ...

Aug 20:Aug 20 01:46:37 C3P2 SUNW,UltraSPARC-III+: [ID 907958 kern.warning] WARNING:[AFT1] Uncorrectable system bus (UE) Event detected by CPU1 Privileged DataAccess at TL=0, errID 0x00006012.eeaea3b0Aug 20 01:46:37 C3P2 AFSR 0x00100004<PRIV,UE>.00000071 AFAR0x00000000.fe2fa590Aug 20 ...

Aug 21 cont:Aug 21 11:39:52 C3P2 SUNW,UltraSPARC-III+: [ID 717358 kern.warning] WARNING:[AFT1] EDU:ST Event detected by CPU0 at TL=0, errID 0x00000381.4437d1d8Aug 21 11:39:52 C3P2 AFSR 0x00000008<EDU>.00000082 AFAR0x00000000.f14b7a30Aug 21 11:39:52 C3P2 Fault_PC 0x10314374 Esynd ...

Aug 21 cont:Aug 21 13:52:09 C3P2 genunix: [ID 540533 kern.notice] ^MSunOS Release 5.8Version Generic_108528-18 64-bitAug 21 13:52:09 C3P2 genunix: [ID 913631 kern.notice] Copyright 1983-2001 SunMicrosystems, Inc. All rights reserved.Aug 21 13:52:09 C3P2 genunix: [ID 678236 kern.info] Ethernet ...