Hi,I need to limit the resources that any user can access on public accessworkstations. The limits I want to set are virtual memory allocation andcpu time.I see that I can set soft limits in /etc/profile or /etc/.login, howeverthese can be overidden by the user.I haven't been able to find ...

Thanks for several responses, Darren Dunham got me looking in theright place, but Ole Morten would have lead me to the exact problemif I hadn't found it from Darren's suggestion first.On the diskless root directory, <jumpstart>/Solaris_8/Tools/Boot,the nodes in devices/pseudo had not ...

Hi Gurus,I'd like to thank the following for their response for my post, I appreciateall of your quick responses:Jacob RieperKevin S SecorLewis HandyGlen IppolitoWarren PowellI do apologize if I've missed anyone.I got replies which can be summarized as below:- It is better to mirror using ...

I have recently been requested to install a netra 1120 for a lab<br>with no documentation no cables just given the box. I have build ultra 10's<br>before<p>my question is which port do you connect to for a console session?<br>and is there a specific pin out required?<p>thanks<p>Warren<br>

I'm trying to reinstall Solaris9 (12/03) on a Netra T1/105, currently running Solaris9 with a Generic 64-bit kernel (probably a Core installation.)Trying to boot with "boot cdrom" results in:Boot device: /pci at 1f,0/pci at 1/pci at 1/ide at e/cdrom at 2:fCan't read disk labelCan't ...

i have .ssh/authorized_keys and .ssh/authorized_keys2 in roots homedir<br>with the same sshd_config on both plaforms (without-passwd for root<br>login) specified.<p>This works beautiful on solaris 8 but solaris 9 it's still asking for<br>password.<p>can someone help.<p>-Chris<br>

Somehow our copy of Frame 6 for Solaris media has gone astray.We find ourselves needing the CD to reinstall, and despite beingoffered money to cut a special CD it seemes Adobe cannot supply one.We've even been looking at eBay, apparently.Well, this list has always come up trumps before. Does ...

Good evening all,I know this is most likely a simple question, unfortunately I must besearching for the wrong thing, I cannot find an answer..I have a customer who has a SB1000 and 2 video cards. He wants to run dualheads, and expand his desktop across the heads. Can someone please shed ...

I have my servers hosted in three locations e.g. A, B, CCommunication between the locations are made via NAT'ed/public IP e.g206.206.206.X and communication within the location is made via physical IPof the server e.g 192.192.192.XPlease suggest that what would be the best way to architect ...

Thanks to John Malick, Darren Dunham, Pete Geenhuizen and Rich Kulawiecfor their responses, all of which lead to the same conclusion, which isthat ufsdum will only do incremental dumps of complete filesystems and hasno way of excluding files.Darren's clever suggestion of dumping a lofs mount ...

I have my servers hosted in three locations e.g. A, B, C Communicationbetween the locations are made via NAT'ed/public IP e.g 206.206.206.X andcommunication within the location is made via physical IP of the server e.g192.192.192.X Please suggest that what would be the best way to ...

Hi,I have a 280R and just started getting a Fatal Error reported by: (PCI-PBM) message followed by a crash. I checked the list archives and found a few others with this problem, but no one had a solution. Anyone have any thoughts? Please see the log below that I made while I was logged in as ...

Hello all,This question is related to the one that I just posted about my 280R crashing. I am looking for some insight on the UFS logging mount option. When I fsck'ed the /var file system on my crashed 280R, it had many reconnect errors. I am wondering if there are any situations when it ...

I wrote:> Somehow our copy of Frame 6 for Solaris media has gone astray.> > We find ourselves needing the CD to reinstall, and despite being> offered money to cut a special CD it seemes Adobe cannot supply one.> We've even been looking at eBay, apparently.> > Well, this ...

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Hello Managers,<p>I want to configure a LOGIN ID in such a way that the account<br>should be locked and also ordinary users should be able to do "su" into that<br>account and get a shell to work.Is there any possibility of doing this?<br>Thanks in advance.<p>Sridhara<br>

Hi all,Thanks to everybody who replied with their input, in particularPadraig Lennon who gave the correct solution.1. I made sure Auto Negotiation was off on the switch side2. Entered the following into /etc/system:* Begin Gigabit Network interface settingsset ge:ge_adv_1000autoneg_cap=0set ...

Hi folks,is there any way to restrict the maximum amount of CPU for a particular process.I would like to start a job and allow it a maxof say 10%CPU.Thanks for any help/info/suggestions.==Paul PorcelliVisit us at www.aggreko.com ...

Hi,To evaluate anti-spam products, I'd like to forward all my e-mails tothreee-mail servers (duplicate each mail and send a copy to each anti-spamrelay).This could be done perhaps :- using a sendmail config- using a .forward with a perl script- using procmailHas anyone ever set such a config ...

Gurus,We have two identical servers, one is a dev server andthe other one is qa server. They both have the sameVxFS version (VxFS 3.4 Patch 3). We're getting thefollowing error in the dev server but not in the qaserver:vxfs: mesg 008: vx_direrr: vx_dirrem_5According to sunsolve.sun.com, ...

hii know its horriby insecure etc but i have no choice.Anyway, i'm having problems setting rcp up. I can setup scp ok but unfortunately not whats needed. Typical.:)I have two solaris 8 boxes server1.domain andserver2.domain.both have a user "person".so in person home dir i have a ...

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Dear Sun Managers,I have 2 machines node A and node B and both are SF480machine. Node A is in production machine and isrunning veritas volume manager and the OS isencapsulated. I need to clone node A into machine Bdue to some specific reason that certain system filesin /etc needs to be ...

hithanks everyone for the suggestions about rcp copyingBUT it was even stranger than most of you thought. I got permission denied because inetd was started witha -s -t option, when i changed it in/etc/init.d/inetsvc to just start with the -s (no -t)it worked!V.strange but fun to figure out. ...

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I did not see any replies to this post from Aprilof 2003. I've also recently started seeing theseon one of our E6500 servers (10 x 400MHz cpu, 8GBmem), and one GigaBit NIC is configured. The system has asecond GigaBit NIC that's not configured.When network traffic is light, hardly any Ierrs ...

On my solaris 8 machine I get the following:root at shanghai:~# localeLANG=LC_CTYPE="C"LC_NUMERIC="C"LC_TIME="C"LC_COLLATE="C"LC_MONETARY="C"LC_MESSAGES="C"LC_ALL=but if I check the /etc/default/init I get thisroot at shanghai:~# cat ...

Hi managers,we have an Auspex 3010 which runs perfect, but as Auspex is no longer on the market,we would like to use the hardware in some other way. E.g. using the disks in an raid array.Or running the thing with some brand of Linux !Has anybody thoughts or experience with this problem ...

Please ignore the "Important notify about your e-mail account" spam that triedto make it through the list this morning. I'm in the process of attempting to spank whomever's responsible for thisat Lucent. Thanks.Bill-- bill bradfordmrbill at mrbill.netaustin, ...

Hi all,I'm writing a script and am having a mental block with respect to one aspectof it....Here's the scenario:I run a cronjob that performs a certain task every 5 minutes.... I need tocontinue doing that, but at specified times (say midnight, 6am, noon, and6pm), I want to do a separate ...

Hello,Thousands of critical/high availability systems with an oldSolaris 2.4 were sold a few years ago. Now we have a customercomplaining about regular reboots in his many systems. Wetracked this problem to an "old" Solaris bug, "system hangswhen lbolt wraps around", which ...

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Folks,On one Solaris 8 machine I have the following locale settings; but if I runthe following command (rsh shg1ap05 '(/usr/bin/date)' from another system,it returns the date in EST. "Example: Wed Mar 3 10:25:24 EST 2004". Whatcould be happening? Running the date command locally ...

Hi guysHope everybody is well.We have recently acquired a V880 (2x1.2ghz USparcIIIcu, 4GB ram, 6x73gb 10k rpm disks), this is going to house a large database running on a PICK variant RDBMS (42GB - made up of smaller files - largest 3.5GB), setup wise I have applied the following:2 disks for ...

Managers,I have a 280R with two mirrored bootable SDS disks installed.OS: SunOS nms2 5.8 Generic_108528-23 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-280RI've had a consistant issue with SDS having a penchant for resyncing every time we reboot the box. The box runs Solaris 8. I have similar Solaris 9 based SDS ...

A new "social engineering" virus is going around which sends messages thatpretend to be from system administrators of various mail servers, includingcodeprof.com The message is allegedly to the user of e-mail server"Sunmanagers.org", and claims that your email account has ...

Thanks to everyone who responded (and there were a ton of you).My situation doesn't lend itself to two different cron jobs all that well, soI used a combination of suggestions to get a script that looks something likethis:....MINS=`date "+%M"` ; export MINSecho $MINSHR=`date ...

All,Root can not cancel queued print requests for any userincluding itself. I receive the error "permission denied".If I set user-equivalence to "true" for the print queue, thenroot can cancel print requests for that print queue.I should not need to set user-equivalence for ...

My original message is at the bottom. I've got noanswers from the mailing list, and only when I openedservice case with SUN Support I've got a solution:they recomended to enable recieve and transmit pause:ndd -set /dev/ge adv_pauseRX 1ndd -set /dev/ge adv_pauseTX 1 (it looks like the second ...

If I login to console then locale reports the correct parameters.What is the difference between logging in through console and throughSSH, except the actual dev that I am connected to console or/dev/pts/#?-ChrisOn Wed, 2004-03-03 at 09:00, Chris Denneen wrote:> On my solaris 8 machine I get ...

Hello Gurus,<p>I have 1 unit remote workstation Sunblade 150 and 1 unit server 2000<br>Enterprise in HQ.<p>I need to ftp one file from that workstation into Sun Enterprise using script<br>and set the schedule FTP on Crontab.<p>Anybody knows<p>Thanks<br>

What could be the problem if I run -<br># mkdir /opt/abc<br>and I get the error:<br>mkdir: Failed to make directory "/opt/abc"; No such device or address.<p>The executible mkdir is the same size and date on any of my other<br>servers.<br>

Hi All,i run solaris 8 with latest patches on 12 boxesthey all use Sun freeware ntp to connect to our internal ntp server, i alsotried using sun xntpd (SUNWntpr and SUNWntpu).None of the servers seem to be getting the time correctly from our internalntp server, i think its a problem with our ...

All,I searched through the summaries and didn't come up with anything specificto this question.I had a question about RM 6 and how it handles drive issues pertaining toRAID 0...If you have a RAID 0 LUN, and a disk is getting flakey - not failed - RM6will continue to use this drive and be ...

More information -<br>The filesystem /opt is mounted and available. There are other<br>directories and filesystems mounted on top of /opt, and I can access<br>them.<br>

Hello all:Recently acquired a Sparc IPC that used to be part of a NIS/YPclient-server environment.When I boot, the machine tries to constantly connect to the NIS server,which no longer exists.Hitting ENTER/RETURN does not get me a login prompt.STOP-A will get me the chevron (eeprom) but Im ...

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Hello Gurus,<p>I want to set some enviroment variables for all users on Solaris 8.<br>It's correct modify the file /etc/profile ?<p>Thanks<p>Mauro<br>

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