Soltice Network Data Replication problem

490 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:02:00
I'm using the SNDR software to replicate a server file system on the backupserver. When the replication is activated, the write speed on the principalserver is decreased by 60.Has someone experienced this problem ?I'm using Solaris 7 on a E450 with Raid5+1 harware.Thanks in advance for your ...

SUMMARY: OpenPKG problem

2639 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:02:00
The config files are in /openpkg/etc/<package> and default to 127.0.0.1.You need to change the config and stop/start the daemon, which locatedin /openpkg/sbin and /openpkg/bin.- MikeOn Mon, 15 Mar 2004, Mike's List wrote:> > I've installed OpenPKG 2.0 and some of the rpm binary ...

mailing list management

461 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:02:00
I'm subscribing to more mailing lists and was wondering if someone has ascript/procmail setup that puts each mailing list in it's own folder?At the present, all mailing lists are dump in INBOX, which is chaotic.(I'm on five mailing lists and planning to add a couple more.)Server is standard ...

SUMMARY: Recommended Patch cluster backout

1912 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:02:00
Thanks to Gary Chambers. He was very quick. I did get lot of responsed, thelist is too long.Thanks guys.Below is the concept i used. Hello, AGAIN, my friend!!> How do I backout the recommended patch cluster, I installed it with> save option. Is there a single command or do I need to used ...

Flash Archive and shadow,passwd,groups

348 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:02:00
I'm using flash archives as a way of protecting my veritas servers.When i do a flash archive it seems that the following files are not retained passwd,shadow,group,nsswitch.conf,resolve.confI'm going to write a little backup and restore script. I'm wondering if there are any other files i ...

UPDATE: mailing list management

1282 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:02:00
I'm using an older version of PINE, there's no filtering. In addition,I prefer a procmail or script, as I might migrate to a different mailprogram and don't want to mess with filtering again. Thanks.- Mike[ In addition to www.sunfreeware.com more packages at ftp.patriots.net ]On Mon, 15 ...

SUMMARY: Jumpstart running very slowly

1457 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:02:00
Lot's of responses suggested some kind of network problem - possibly anauto-negotiation problem. In fact, the connection to the switch was runningin half-duplex mode. Replacing the switch fixed that problem but didn'timprove the slow installation.In the end, the problem was tracked down ...

IPMP with multiple "testpartners"

732 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:02:00
Hi all,Had a situation last night where IPMP failed all interfaces on a serverbecause the router hiccupped. HSRP kicked in, but not quickly enough forIPMP to keep everything alive. Death for a VCS resource group. Anyhow, I'm looking at Sun infodoc 43720 which says I can somehow ...

Display Error

236 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:02:00
I'm trying to run Netscape on an x86 Solaris 8 box. The error I'm getting<br>is:<p>Error: Can't open display:<br>Error: Can't open display:<p>What should my DISPLAY variable be set to so that Netscape will run?<p>Thanks,<p>john<br>

SUMMARY: T3 array battery

3901 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:03:00
I am quite impressed; I got more than three times as many helpful answers as "Out of Office Reply" messages from folks with misconfigured email clients. >8^)Information I gleaned from the replies:1) T3 array batteries have a life-cycle timer which causes them to stop after some ...

SUMMARY: UPDATE: Bizzare date issue, time out of sequence

4997 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:03:00
Original Post is below: Thanks to all who replied (even if it was just to let me know you were out of the office). It ended up being a hardware issue. I had Sun replace the System Board ( along with the NVRAM and Battery). I ran my little script all weekend and then pumped the out put through ...

Need VVM Media 3.0.3-3.0.4?

560 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:03:00
Anyone here VVM Media 3.0.3-3.0.4 or close to it? If so it would be muchappreciated if I could download it as a gzip, cpio, tar etc.... Jeremy S. Loukinas Unix Systems AdministratorEvenflo Company, Inc.<mailto:jeremy.loukinas at evenflo.com <mailto:jeremy.loukinas at ...

SUMMARY: Issues w/ veritas on solaris 9.

3173 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:03:00
Thanks for the quick feedback from Clift Robert T CONTDLVA & Loukinas, Jeremy.Turns out all it needed was another reboot. :-)Thanks !--- "N. Z." <nizan1372 at yahoo.com> wrote:> Hello,> > I'm having some issues w/ veritas. I am using an> e4500> running ...

CacheFS Issues

3632 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:03:00
Gurus, I'm hoping that someone can help me out. I've been beating my headagainst this for a few days now and can't seem to come up with a reason asto why this is happening. We've got two 240s running VxFS/VxVM/HA and acting as aprimary/secondary NFS server, with an A5200 as the storage ...

format, type, auto-configure fails

573 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:03:00
Hello,I have a SunFire 6800 that is connected to an EMC SAN via Emulex 9002.We had a lun that was 8.4gb under Veritas Volume Manager 3.5. That lunwas removed from vxvm, deleted in the symmetrix, and represented as an80gb lun. I did a devfsadm -Cv and then went into to autoconfigure thedrive ...

SUMMARY: IPMP with multiple "testpartners"

1679 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:03:00
A huge thanks to Ed Quillen, who pointed to me to Sun infodoc ID70062, whichdetails this configuration.Those running IPMP take note- implementing the config as defined in thisinfodoc eliminates your defaultrouter as a SPOF. Even if the router dies,IPMP will not erroneously report the NIC as ...

Summary:Need VVM Media 3.0.3-3.0.4?

2756 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:03:00
Forgot all about getting it from the FTP site. Thanks Lance.-----Original Message-----From: Lance Tost [mailto:lance.tost at respironics.com]Sent: Monday, March 15, 2004 3:35 PMTo: Loukinas, JeremySubject: Re: Need VVM Media 3.0.3-3.0.4?Call Veritas support or your local guys. Everything I've ...

SUMMARY: nic speed

89 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:03:00
This does the trick<p>kstat ce:0 | grep link<p>Thanks to all who responded.<p>-Daniel<br>

e450 failure

1058 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:03:00
Dear managers,When our enterprise 450 produced RED state exception errors (throughout,even on reboot), we purchased another motherboard (for 4 480 MHz CPUs with8MB cache), after Sun's advice. Lo and behold, the problem still exists (sawit once, on the first boot):( So I'm afraid it's one (or ...

reboot account in solaris

229 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:03:00
Hello managers,<br>I want to create an account for an ordinary user to reboot the<br>solaris system so that when the user login with this account it should reboot<br>without entering the shell.<p>Thanks in advance<br>Sridhara<br>

Intermittent mouse failure on SB100

672 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:03:00
Hi all, I have a SB100 here where the mouse fails intermittently. While the mouse buttons continue to work fine, the pointer stalls - it may work for a few seconds, then stop for 10 or longer, work again, and so on. I have swapped the mouse, but it is not the problem, and it works fine on other ...

sudo

358 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:03:00
Hi All,Trying to set up sudo on my servers and getting completely lost in thesudoers man page ... Very confusing.Basically I have a few developers I want to to give sudo access to,bascially to be able to run anything.Can anyone point me in the right direction, or pass on a sample/etc/sudoers ...

alom console question

743 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:03:00
Hi,I've v210 with ALOM version 1.3. Everytime I try to change from the scconsole to thesystem console I only get read access because the console is apparentlyalready in use.miraculix-sc> consoleConsole session already in use. [view mode]Enter #. to return to ALOM.This is a bit strange as ...

Hi anyone know why I can't get my keyboard to work with GNOME 2.0 It workswithin Mozilla and

490 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:03:00
Hi anyone know why I can't get my keyboard to work with GNOME 2.0 It workswithin Mozilla and StarOffice and a host window started from the CDE menuin Gnome but I get no response with anything else started in gnome e.g.the terminal,the 'notpad' programme and any system menus ? I'm ...

SUMMARY: RE: nic speed

877 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:03:00
This does the trick:kstat ce:0 | grep linkThanks to all who responded.-Daniel> -----Original Message-----> From: Daniel Teklu > Sent: Monday, March 15, 2004 10:20 AM> To: codeprof at codeprof.com> Subject: nic speed> > On Sun 480 R running Solaris 9, The nic type is ce ...

Help with adding vxvm to jumpstart

238 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:03:00
Does anyone have a doc or howto for this?<p>Thanks<p>__________________________________<br>Do you Yahoo!?<br>Yahoo! Mail - More reliable, more storage, less spam<br><A HREF=" http://mail.yahoo.com/default.htm"> http://mail.yahoo.com</A><br>

SUMMARY: mailing list management

1998 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:03:00
If you are using a later version of PINE, there's a built-in filter.You should explore your e-mail software for built-in filter option(s).Thanks to: David Markowitz, Rich Kulawiec, Lajber Zoltan, Andrew Caines,and RA Lichtensteiger for .procmailrc code. The below .procmailrc codedoes basic ...

SCSI confusion

927 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:03:00
Our intent is to attach an Overland LoaderXpress Tape autoloader withone LTO-2 Ultrium tape drive(LVD) to a SunFire V440 Server. The specifications for the V440 state that among the "Standard IntegratedInterfaces" is "One Ultra320 SCSI (LVD)". I have confirmed that the ...

growfs on concat or stripe?

913 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:03:00
Hello all,An easy question: I have a two disk volume :5:25pm ~ # metastat -pd10 1 2 c0t2d0s3 c0t3d0s3 -i 64bwhich I tried to expand by adding devices c1t1d0s3 and c1t0d0s3:5:27pm ~ # metattach d10 c1t1d0s3d10: component is attached5:36pm ~ # metattach d10 c1t0d0s3d10: component is ...

migrating emc disks to another sun server.

1210 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:03:00
Hello.We are upgrading from a e420 (solaris 8) to a e4500(solaris 9). The old server (e420) was also connectedto a EMC symmetrix (jni cards were installed on thesun box). We need those disks to be seen in the newerserver (e4500). The e4500 has 2 jni fce2-1473 cardsinstalled, drivers installed, ...

how to recover the file after unlink

798 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:03:00
Guru's,By mistake I did #unlink <filename> but now I am not able to see that file, isthere any way to recover that file. How to revert it back.Can any one help me?Thanks in advance,Mallesh.This e-mail and any files transmitted with it are for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and ...

rpc.pcnfsd or alternative for it

383 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:03:00
Hi Gurus,I've a number of clients who need to authenticate to a Solaris 9 server andthey use Humming bird NFS client on their PCs for that. I searched for pcnfsdfor Solaris 9 on the web and archives in vain, I'd appreciate if you gurus canpoint me to some resources or alternatives for ...

E250 problem: fan failure has been detected (at ok prompt, and boot up)

931 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:03:00
Configuration: E250 with OBP=3.31 (latest); Solaris 2.7; loadedsystem with 2 cpu and 2 GB of memory. Dual powersupply.Both at OK prompt level and during boot up, thissystem gave the following warning message:WARNING: Fan failure has been detected.(yes, this message also was detected at boot ...

Problems with my monitor in Solaris 9 x86

624 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:03:00
HelloI have a DELL LAtitude D505 laptop computer and Intel 82852 GraphicsController.I have installed Solarisx86 9.0 12/03 and tried several times to work ingraphic mode but I have failed finally.I try with all models DELL Latitude listedBut failed, failed ...My monitor is good, because i have ...

SUMMARY: growfs on concat or stripe?

1954 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:03:00
Answer: Yes it is safe ;-) I just did it and it seemsto be working ...Many thanks to Kelly Setzer and Rainer Heilke fortheir lightspeed answers!..AthanasiosOn Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 05:46:20PM +0200, Athanasios Douitsis wrote:> Hello all,> > An easy question: I have a two disk volume ...

jumpstarting v210

1039 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:03:00
Hi,I want to jumpstart a sun Sunfire V210 with solaris 9 and the processaborts with:29200 retained OBPnvram page at 0x123f000000device path '/pci at 1f,700000/network at 2:dhcp'client path '/pci at 1f,700000/network at 2'100 Mbps HDX Link uppanic - boot: Could not mount filesystem.Program ...

Encrypted document

207 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:03:00
[IMAGE]<p>[demime 1.01b removed an attachment of type image/bmp which had a name of idyscuqjvk.bmp]<p>[demime 1.01b removed an attachment of type application/octet-stream which had a name of details.zip]<br>

StorageTek, Veritas Sun

580 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:03:00
Hi,Hope to find answer to my query.I've got a Tape library STK L80 managed from a W2k server via NetbackupDatacenter solutions, doing backups of Sun and storage filers.My problem is that I would like to have it seen on a Sun machine on/dev/rmt via SCSI cable, if possible, and dedicate one ...

Problems with A1000

1818 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:03:00
Trying to convert a (12x) D1000 to an A1000 by replacing the controller module.Here's what I'm seeing:# raidutil -c c3t5d0 -iLUNs found on c3t5d0. LUN 0 RAID 0 10 MBVendor ID SymbiosProductID StorEDGE A3000 <-- NOTE!!!Product Revision 0301Boot Level ...

ultra 10 not getecting tape drive

724 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:03:00
hii am having a sun ultra 10 which is having solaris 2.6 h/w:2 patch level3.......now i have newly installed a 375-0097 Single-Channel Single-Ended Ultra/Wide SCSI (PCI)on the riser board pci slot 4.....now i am able to view the card on okprompt "show-devs" but a tape drive or cdrom ...

Error 7: stat/open with SSH (fwd)

1238 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:03:00
Dear Sun Managers,I posted the question below to an SSH newsgroup with no responses so I'm hoping someone at Sunmanagers might know the answer. TIA.Tom Walter===================================================Good Afternoon,Symptoms: When I attempt to upload files/directories to an existing ...

useradd command script help

1117 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:03:00
Hi,I need some help with a script to read text file username.txt then executeuseraddscript to add user. I am having problem to read the file username.txtas psoftid,userid,last,first,middleinit,company as a line without any spacein between. If I add spaces in between then the script will pick ...

Solaris 9 stock sendmail problem

1019 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:03:00
Hello:I have an E250, running Solaris 9, with Sendmail not running as a Daemonmode.I just want this box to periodically mail reports back to me via my mainmailhub from Cron.With Solaris 8, I could just define the DS variable in/etc/mail/sendmail.cf like thisDSmailhost.mydomain.comThen I ...

hinv on Solaris

1531 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:03:00
Hi,Is there any command (or combination of commands) that give me the sameresults than Irix's hinv?I need a detailed report of the hardware of my machines (processors,memory, installed cards, etc.)ThanksOsvaldoHYPERLINK " http://www.gmc.net/" \nOsvaldo C. Santana ...

Summary: root mirroring using SDS 4.2.1

2031 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:03:00
Thanks for everybody who replied to my email.We got around this problem with making the number of blocks on the secondmirror slightly bigger than the first mirror. For example, the first mirrorwas 1.97 GB and the second mirror was 1.98 GB. It was a bit tedious tocalculate the number of blocks ...

Security audit software for solaris

239 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:03:00
Can anyone point me to a good freeware security audit software (like nmap<br>but not nmap) which can make recommendations with detection i.e. which ports<br>needs to be closed i.e. telnet, ftp etc.?<br>I would appreciate any reply<br>R<br>

Veritas NBU issue

776 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:03:00
G'day folks,I realise this is not Sun specific, but it is running on a Solaris 8V880. I have sent this email twice to the veritas-bu list and havereceived zero replies thus far.I'm having an issue with my recently upgraded NBU installation. I haveset it to perform a DB backup "after ...

mails acknowldgement

334 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:03:00
Hi everybody, My e-mail messages sent from the client( solaris )boxes to the outside world, the acknowldgement is queued up in/var/adm/messages instead of /var/log/syslog. I am unable to trace theforwarding variable in any of the files. Any suggestions are highly welcomed.Thanks in ...

pcipsy-0: PCI bus 2 error with E250

17444 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:03:00
Dear all,I've faced a problem with my E250... It hang after running some days. Pls see error from /var/adm/messagePls adviseThks Cuong---------------------------------------------------------Mar 7 14:36:04 sun pcipsy: [ID 831440 kern.warning] WARNING: pcipsy-0: PCI fault log start:Mar 7 ...

SUMMARY: e450 failure

5415 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:03:00
Dear managers,Thank you to Ashish, Steve, Glenn (sorry if I missed anyone) for pointingthat it's most likely a faulty CPU. I did have a faulty CPU, which resultsin the machine not booting at all. I initially thought that I could use thediagnostics given ...