Hi all,I have a strange one here,I have a Gigabit Ethernet card installed on my SUNFire 6800, the cardfunctions fine when the machine is up and running but once I rebootthe card does not respond at all, only after I have taken the cableout and re-inserted it does the card respond? Anybody heard ...

We have shared /export1 on Solaris 8 machine.We usully mount some of dir from export1 onto all Redhat linux machines.For a only one machine we have problem related to nfs.After we mount the directory,if we give 'ls' , the linux machine just hangs!!How could i trace out the communication ...

Hi ,I am facing problem with my E450 running Solaris 8. It paniced and I amnot able to trace the cause. The errors as observed in /var/adm/messages is asbelowIs this a CPU or memory problem ? Memory error is occuring on CPU1 aswell as CPU3.However the bank 170x is same.Kindly help me out.Feb ...

Hello, Have anyone implemented Sun cluster on SunFire 12K or 15K. I have 2 domainsin them and want to implement Clustering. Pls help me with your suggestions.Thanks,Vani----- Original Message ----- From: <trevor.mclachlan at richemont.com>To: <codeprof at codeprof.com>Sent: Friday, ...

Dear Sun Managers,I need some help on this. I've machine A which already in production and havethe following major number.$ grep vx name_to_majorvxdmp 222vxio 223vxspec 224vxportal 225I need to configure machine B in Cluster environmentand I need vxio, vxspec to be the same major number ...

Dear Sun Managers,I've a Solaris 9 machine. I'm getting file system fullalthough df -k shows file system is not only 67% full.I suspect that the problem is caused by fragmentationas there are many small files in this file system.As proved and shown below:# fsck -N /dev/md/rdsk/d10** ...

Greetings,Have you ever experienced a problem with "^C" not working in ksh on anewly built Sun box? If I 'exec csh', then it works. Here is the sttyoutput:$ stty -aspeed 9600 baud;rows = 42; columns = 125; ypixels = 0; xpixels = 0;csdata ?eucw 1:0:0:0, scrw 1:0:0:0intr = ^c; quit = ...

Got two helpful answers.Jim Vandevegt suggested to- Create an interface script with the following content:## --------------------- BEGIN SCRIPT ------------------------#! /bin/shreqid=$1shift; shift; shift; shift; shiftfiles="$*"for file in $filesdo ...

Hi Guru,I have two v880 sun ray server and I want to mount the homedirectory of the primary sunray server(hostname) to a linuxserver. On the linux server I have edit the /etc/fstab withthe following: hostname:/export/home /home nfs rw 0 0now I enter the mount command as follow: ...

Can anyone point to me any documentation that may exist that lists the<br>configuration for Windows/hyperterm when connecting to the console port<br>of a E3500?<p>Or, can someone tell me what the hyperterm setting should be?<p>Thanks!!<p>Dale<br>

Hello managers, <br> This should be an easy one=<br> What is the key combination to stop Solaris during the <br>boot process with a none Solaris keyboard?<p>Thanks in advance,<br>-David <br>

I am looking into creating an index/database of the entries in a filesystemsuch that this index can be queried for things like file attributes (owner,permissions etc). I know a tool like 'glimpse' creates an index that can beused in doing text searches of files within a filesystem, but what I ...

Hello List,On Feb 20, 2004, at 5:45 AM, i wrote:> Hello List,>> i hope everyone is going to have a great weekend.>> Out of curiosity i'd like to ask for your experiences regarding the> SIEBEL software. I hear that people prefer Windows for the application> server because ...

Hi,<p>I am experiencing a problem on a server that creates lots of small files<br>in the swap /tmp area and because of this I am unable to write to the tmp<br>file system even though it is showing only 1% usage. Does anyone no a<br>work around for this?<p>Thanks<br>Jordan<br>

Thanks to James Vandevegt , Jallogui, Rafael Angarita , ippy and Mike Salehi for the speedy and all correct answer. CTRL + Break will do it but as James pointed out since I was using a serial connection via a Linux box running minicom I had to send the ctrl+break from the app.Thanks ...

Hello,I've recently had a situation where a user reported that when they ran thecommand"quota -v username", they recieved the headers to the output, but no diskusage information.Upon further investigation, I found that some users in this filesystem hadquotas set,and others did not, ...

Hi,On the sunray server the linux server is in the/etc/dfs/dfstab file(share filesystem) and the name/ipaddres is in the /etc/hosts file on both machine.this is the rpcinfo -p kemper (linux server) from thesunray2 server:$ rpcinfo -p kemper program vers proto port service 100000 2 ...

First, thanks to the multitude who replied to my little survey. Among other things, I learned how to better construct a survey for a nice disparate mailing list <g>.I had 22 folks from the list respond; since I've no idea how many are actually on the list, I can't say if that's a good ...

We have purchased some used V65x servers but need to put 4Gb of RAM in them. From looking at Sunsolve, it seems they just use Registered ECC DDR266 DIMMs. If this is correct, would any good quality memory that matches these specifications work? Of course, I will need to put them in pairs.Will ...

Hello,I've purchased a refurbished Ultra 10 333 MHz that came with no graphics card. I ordered a Creator 3 (FFB2+) card for it, but when I installed it, there was no response on the monitor. The monitor is a 21 inch Sun monitor, also refurbished, but it works. I realize that the graphics ...

Hi Buds This is my first post.I am not sure if am allowed to post this.I need to make my 450 Internet ready.I am using a speed touch USB cable modem for my PC .How can I use the same conection on my E450?How can I set up Rlogin so a freind can login and can try to set it up as a ...

Hello all.I'm trying to setup access restrictions via host attribute in ldap.I can't figure whether I need some setting in pam to enforce thechecking of that attribute ( like with PADL stuff ), or if this issupposed to be checked for by default and doesn't work for me for somereason. The ...

We are looking a possibly purchasing a SunFire V240. The Spec Sheet says that it has 4 x 10/100/1000 MB Ethernet Ports. Are these four ports compatible with switches/routers that have 10/100 MB Ports?<br>TIA,<br>Greg<br>

I've checked codeprof archives and looked online and spoke to an admin here that has much more experience than I do and I'm stumped with the following problem.I'll try to be brief but detailed but usually when I post it seems I always manage to miss something that someone thought I ...

Does anyone know of a tool that would allow us to monitor the traffic on a <br>single tcp connection. Things like send and receive queue lengths, number <br>of packets, retransmits, etc.<br>

SUMMARY: Help troubleshooting bare-metal restore procedure.Thank you: Anand Chouthai Roy EricksonWith help from contributors I identified two things wrongw/ the procedure I was implementing: 1. I needed to update /dev,/devices, and /etc/path_to_inst so that the replacement FC drive w/ a ...

Hey All, Quick question: Has anyone has success replacing dead batteries in theA1000 hot? I know sun says no, but the batteries are dead anyway and justseems ridiculous you have to take down a system to replace it. Just looking for some first hand experience with ...

I have an old Ultra 1 with no removable media drives so to installa new OS, a Jumpstart is the only real choice. It is the only Sun onits LAN. Since rarpd, bootparamd, tftp and NFS are standard Unix tools(and since I know others have done this), there is no reason I shouldn'tbe able to do this ...

Sorry, I was not specific enough. I don't want to look at each packet, but to see the packet and byte counts or reates for a socket connection.>X-Original-To: codeprof at codeprof.com>Delivered-To: codeprof at codeprof.com>X-Sender: carr.gary at email.atdiv.lanl.gov>X-Mailer: ...

Well, didn't take long for someone to find my error. A big thanks to Henrik Mortensen for this suggestion."shooting from the hip, I'd bet some overzealous system-hardening-fan-of-little-clue changed permissions on /dev/zero from 666 to644, but truss -f -t open -p ...

My thanks to Tim Chipman, Andrew Hall, Francois Dion, David Foster, Simon Burr, Chris Ventura, Kris Hogg, Ryan, and Mike.Original question was:> We have purchased some used V65x servers but need to put 4Gb of RAM in> them. From looking at Sunsolve, it seems they just use Registered ...

Has anyone had any luck with third-party rails for a V240? My cabinet <br>is only 18" deep and I can't shorten (enough) the fancy rails that came <br>with the machine. Thanks.<p>-- <br>John BOSSERT<br>

Hi,We have a batch of Ultra 5s (& a couple of Netra - the slim 1u type)that crashes to OBP 'ok' prompt. On some occasions they becametotally unbootable & need the CPU board to be swapped & on oneoccasion when it crashed to 'ok' prompt, I issued 'sync' to make itcreate a ...

Hi,<p>I'm looking for a way to collect account information for the amount of<br>tcp/ip traffic generated<br>On a system per each user logged on to that system.<p>Any idea?<p>Thanks, Yossi.<br>

Hi Scott, I saw your posting about a problem you were having with the 210and figured you _may_ be able to help. :) I want to use the SCSI control method. I set the scsi IDS to 3,4 and 5 for the library, drive1 and drive2, respectively. When I rundrvconfig, no /dev/rmt or st* entry in the ...

E450, Solaris 8, SunRay Server Software 1.3, 20 SunRay1's in Restricted Access Mode.Last Friday I did the latest Recommended and Security patches. Last done a little over a month ago. This morning I rebooted the server around 7am.Mid afternoon today, my SunRays started failing. First two were ...

Hi All,<p>We have a Ultra 5 workstation running Solaris 8.<p>I would like to insall Solaris 9 on it as a DUAL BOOT!!<p>So that i can have both Solaris 8 and Solaris 9 on a single machine.<p>Thanks<br>-Dilip<br>

Dear All,I have a Solaris 7 Sparc Netra Machine. I was initiallusing one 18 GB HDD and was working on with it. Lateron I tried to add another 18 GB HDD; the OS is notable to detect it.But my probe-scsi is able to read both the HDD withthe correct label information. Should i do any changesin the ...

Archive-name: codeprof-faqSun-Managers' Frequently Asked Questions$Id: faq,v 4.42 2004/01/27 18:02:16 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 ...

Hi all,<p>I have searched the web and the codeprof archive, but without much luck.<p>Sun's snmp comes with just one MIB, sun.mib. Do you know if you can install<br>another MIB to Sun's snmp like the host resources mib for instance ?<p>Rgds<br>Trev<br>

Hi, I striped Oracle filesystems with high I/O rate, also filesystem was mounted with noatime and forcedirectio, to improve performance, but reponse time of aplication worsened. Can anyone help with some advice of stripe ? Version:Solaris 8Volume manager 3.1Oracle 8.1.7 Stripe:vxassist -g ...

The following card was installed in one of our systems X6767 2Gbit fibercard. Where can one obtain the drivers, as they are not bundled in the OSwhich is Solaris 9/02RegardsUnix like TeePee no windows, no gates, Apache inside. Paul ClaytonGlobal Unix Co-ordinatorIntec Telecom SystemsPh +27 (0) ...

Dear Readers,I've recently asked a question about IPFilter (see below).Finnaly I've got info from developers team, that this is knownproblem and will be fixed in next release of IPF (4.1.1).So my statement is one should not use IPF v4.1 with Solaris 9on production servers.In the end I ...

After much hunting, I finally managed to get the x6767a QLC 2gbit FibreCard to show up and present drivers in the /devices directory. However Inoticed, that no SSD devices with WWN numbers appeared.Has anyone got an idea why?My problem here is the machine I am trying to fix is some 7000 miles ...

We've recently been having problems with our StoreEdge L9 tape autoloaderor Solstice 5.5.5, I can't tell which is causing problems. The StoreEdgeL9 is attached to an E450. Recently when it's time for backups to run theSolstice software indicates that it can't read a label on a ...

HiMany apologies that this is so late, I am guilty of not reading the SunManagers FAQ, please accept my pologies for this, this list is a valuablesource of information for me and a SUMMARY of the data received regardingmy Performance Poll should have been posted. Again, apologies, I am newto ...

Hi,Since SunSolve (and its mirrors) doesn't provide it anymore, is thereanyone who has the following file available? I'd like to have it tohave an backout situation for an OBP upgrade from 3.19.4 to 3.31flash-update-Ultra60-05It is a part of the 106544-09 patch. On SunSolve, only 106544-11 ...

It turned out in the end to be a list of required patches, which weredocumented in about 5 different places.On installation of the patches all worked. Thanx to all who responded, you led me down the right path.111847-08 113039-04 113040-06 113041-04 113042-05 113043-05 113044-04 113277-17 ...

Hi All;I have a curiousity and am just wondering if anyone else has seen thisbehaviour: The standard Sun bash (ships with sol 9) crashes on the SunRayswhen you enter the following: "cd ~[tab]" It seems that there's somethingin the tilde/tab combination that bash cannot deal ...

Since I accidentally sent the original question to allof codeprof... Thanks to Sydney Weinstein (syd_ at t_myxa.com) forpointing me in the right direction to check out sst. Solaris 8's bundled sgen works just like sst. Editingthe sgen.conf file and doing drvconfig/devlinks createsthe control ...