E250 Server Solaris 5.7 crashs with kernel panic

439 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:03:00
Solaris 5.7 is crashing with the following errors. Has anybody come acrossthis ? Any help is appreciated.Mar 16 19:05:49 unix: kernel memory allocator:Mar 16 19:05:49 unix: invalid free: buffer not in cacheMar 16 19:05:49 unix: buffer=30004183b30 bufctl=0 cache: kmem_alloc_8Mar 16 19:05:49 ...

CANNOT READ DISK LABEL

702 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:03:00
Dear All,I have a SUN Netra machine, Problem FacedWhile booting the SUN Netra, I get the followingmessage with boot disk 0, CANNOT READ DISK LABEL CANNOT OPEN DISK LABEL PACKAGEThe machine already has a bootable image. I am still not able to boot. Kindly suggest how we canproceed to boot it and ...

Sun Managers Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

114524 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:03:00
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 ...

UPDATE: Veritas NBU issue

1227 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:03:00
G'day,Extra info:tape device is /dev.rmt/0cbnrobot is : /dev/sg/c1t0l0Neil-------------------------------------------------------------------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 ...

Storedge 3310 configuration problems

1922 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:03:00
Hi I have a Storedege 3310 attached to a V120 running 5.8 Generic_108528-29I want to have just one LUN to this one host.The top left and top right SCSI connectors on the rear of the 3310 areconnected, the V120 is attached to the top middle connector like this: _______________ & ...

multiple alias files under NIS

581 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:03:00
Hi,I'm hoping someone can give me advice about alias files.I'm using NIS with a Solaris 8 Sparc box as the master server and thealias flat file has grown rather large (it contains aliases for my users,an include, and mailing list aliases).What I'd like to do is break up the current NIS alias ...

Rv: Security audit software for solaris

1786 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:03:00
You can use many other tools of vulnerability assessments such as Nessus, afree security scanner.get it at www.nessus.org.regardsEnrico--------------------------------------------------------------------------Enrico Sorge - ITsys s.r.l.e.sorge at itsys.it - berry at cryptogeeks.netPGP/GPG Key ...

hinv on solaris - solution

1410 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:03:00
Thanks for all your help, the command is:/usr/platform/`uname -i`/sbin/prtdiag -vThank you allOsvaldoHYPERLINK " http://www.gmc.net/" \nOsvaldo C. Santana ...

dual boot ultra 10

484 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:03:00
i want to add multiple OS to an ultra 10 ie. Solaris 9, Solaris 10 andlinux.What's the best way to manage the boots?would muliple entries in the "nvalias" be ok?Is there a boot manager for a sparc?ThanksDan.###########################################This message has been scanned by ...

listening UDP broadcast on Solaris 9?

1193 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:03:00
OS: SunOS xxxxxxx 5.9 Generic_112233-11 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-280RI have 2 programs who try to listen UDP broascasts, both fails.The first is rwhod (I use it to monitor a lot of computers): # lsof | grep rwho | grep UDP in.rwhod 891 root 3u IPv4 0x30002675e60 0t0 UDP *:who ...

RSYNC

767 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:03:00
Hi folksSorry for the slightly OT post - does anyone have an Intel Solaris2.6 buildof rsync (and popt) available? SunFreeware only has it for Intel Sol8...Thanks!Steven-----------------------------------------------------------------------The information in this email is confidential and may be ...

Cheap Thrills: an E4500 doesn´t respont

1042 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:03:00
Hi fellow forumers,We have an E4500 wich we can4t login. It seems to autenthicate but we neverget the prompt:"Escape character is '^]'.SunOS 5.9login: bogususerPassword:Login incorrectlogin: validuserPassword:"If the login is valid, it autenthicates an locks. Same happens to ...

Server Solaris 2.5

464 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:03:00
Hello, in my server I have the problem, when I start it Ishowcan4t read disk labelcan4t open disk label packagecan4t open boot deviceDo you any solutions without use cdrom?Thank you for responses_________________________________________________________________Las mejores tiendas, los precios ...

UPDATE: Cheap Thrills: an E4500 doesn´t respont

2056 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:03:00
Forumers,I think a bad thing happened with /usr/lib.Tha machine is mostly funcional, but we can4t still log-in.Im my perception, the following message we get when a console is attached, isthe key:INIT: Command is respawning too rapidly. Check for possible errors.id: co "/usr/lib/saf/ttymon ...

V240 with 146GB U320 drives?

212 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:03:00
Has anyone used Seagate 146GB 10K Ultra-320 SCSI drives in a V240?<p>Regards,<p>Nick<p>Nick Pettefar <A HREF="/execute/ask/?codeinfoid=29425">Nick at Pettefar.com</A> DoD 1069 MAG 73516 Bros 650 ZZR1100D<br>

wuftp error

583 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:03:00
Hello all, In try to ftp to one of our servers using wuftp Iget the error below 421 Service not available, remote server has closedconnectionLogin failed.No control connection for command: No such file ordirectory And message below is displayed in the syslog.ftpd[3668]: [ID 148269 ...

Problems with A1000 - UPDATE

11157 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:03:00
As a followup to my earlier request for help, here's the output ofprobe-scsi-all and the boot sequence.I swear, the exterior of the controller says it's an A-1000 (!) Also,there are 12 drives inside - why are only 8 being seen by the probe?-------------------------------ok probe-scsi-all/pci ...

Printing HTML

282 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:03:00
How can I print html files and have the output recognize the html tags instead<br>of actually printing the tags? I'm trying to create a script that will be<br>run from cron to print html files. This is on an Intel Solaris 8 System not<br>running X windows.<p>Thanks,<p>john<br>

SUMMARY:Solaris 9 stock sendmail problem

2031 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:03:00
Hi:Ever feel really stupid for asking a question you kind of knew the answer toalready? So first, a big apology for not reading the Sendmail.org FAQ morecarefully. And thanks to everyone who replied, this is now workingcorrectly.Solution #1Just edit /etc/mail/submit.cf, find the entry for DS ...

SUMMARY: SCSI confusion

1451 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:04:00
I posted this yesterday and only got four responses, but I felt a summaryshould be madewith what I got. Two people pointed out that the SCSI controller on the V440 is a dualchannel controllerwith one channel being used for the internal disks and the other going tothe HD68connector on the rear ...

Problems with A1000

11176 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:04:00
As a followup to my earlier request for help, here's the output of probe-scsi-all and the boot sequence.I swear, the exterior of the controller says it's an A-1000 (!) Also, there are 12 drives inside - why are only 8 being seen by the probe?-------------------------------ok ...

SUMMARYRe: Problems with my monitor in Solaris 9 x86

1490 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:04:00
Thanks for your help to allCasper dickMarkusScott MickeyMike,s listKasiimmAngelo....I tried with VESA driver and my graphics is very goodRegardsSANDY----- Original Message ----- From: "Dvhr, Markus ICC-H" <Markus.Doehr at siegenia-aubi.com>To: "'Sandra Washco C.'" ...

SSH with Sun Cluster

354 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:04:00
Hi all,We have a 3 node cluster with two active and one failover spare foreither active server. Is there a document or anyone have experience onhow to failover the host keys so after a failover the spare continues toallow ssh connections without complaining about the hosts key changing?Thanks ...

Problems with A1000 - Summary

829 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:04:00
Thanks for all the responses (and congratulations to those of you on holiday!)The first consensus was that, since the A1000 is a hardware raid device, the "disks" are really LUNs and are perhaps remnants of a previous install. Regardless, they don't map to the number of physical ...

"ps" problem with Solaris 9

1255 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:04:00
I have installed Solaris 9 on a Sun Sparcstation 20 and I'm having anodd problem.The "ps" command is no longer giving any output but other processcommands, like ptree, work just fine:# ptree | grep http 22625 grep http14812 /opt/httpd/bin/httpd 25388 /opt/httpd/bin/httpd 25389 ...

SUMMARY: V240 with 146GB U320 drives?

754 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:04:00
Thank you for the quick info!I have now installed the SEAGATE-ST3146807LC-0007 drives in machinesV240, V880, V240 and E450 and all are working fine. The E450 is Solaris 6and the rest are 8.Regards,NickNick Pettefar SpaceTelescope.org DoD 1069 MAG 73516 Bros 650 ZZR1100D---------- ...

How to determine the Block Size

796 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:04:00
Hello Admins,The UFS file system block size in Solaris 8 can be 4096 or 8192# man newfs...... -b bsize The logical block size of the file system in bytes (either 4096 or 8192). The default is 8192.How can I determine what is the block size of an existing file system(one that ...

wuftp question

461 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:04:00
Hi admins,A user is required to upload the files to his home directoy, and another user at same group should read/delete for this file. The user always drop the file without write permission for group. What I like is to do the umask at somewhere to set the uplpaded file permission like 660, ...

Can Solairs 9 export sub folders?

1097 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:04:00
Is there a way to share a sub folders in Solaris 9?In my /etc/dfs/dfstab file I have this entryshare -F nfs -o rw=ntw:sunw:sgiw:macw -d "home dirs" /export/home1and I want to also share this folder under /export/home1share -F nfs -o rw=ntw:sunw:sgiw:macw -d "martinidir" ...

Problems with GNOME & Solaris (& Apple fileserver)

1779 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:04:00
Hello -A bit off-topic, but y'all seem to have answer to everything. :-) We are in transition of moving users from an E450 Solaris 8 fileserverto an Apple OSX 10.3.2 fileserver, but are running into problems withusers who are using GNOME. They are finding that gconfd hangs and areunable ...

Summary: How to determine the Block Size

3284 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:04:00
Thanks to all who replied.I got mainly three answers:1. df -g -> reports block size 81922. fstyp -v -> reports bsize 10243. mkfs -m -> for vxfs reports bsize=1024Example:======# df -k.../dev/vx/dsk/rootdg/volt 4194304 527396 3437759 14% /datavol1# mkfs -m ...

SF480R freezes when importing a large table into Oracle DB

2781 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:04:00
Hello everyone!We had a horrible thing happen, and as of now we are clueless about itsorigin.We have two SunFire V480R connected to two D2 arrays using Dual Ultra3 SCSILVD HBAs (X6758A). Each D2 is configured as a single bus andmulti-initiatedbetween the two V480'sEach server has:2x 900Mhz ...

allow permanent idle connections

442 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:04:00
Hello,I need to allow permanent idle connections. How can Iconfigure this on the local server itself? I amprimarily asking in regards for a linux server butperhaps it would be similar to a sun machine.Any help is appreciated.Thanks !__________________________________Do you Yahoo!?Yahoo! Mail - ...

can you fssnap a vxfs filesystem on solaris 8?

97 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:04:00
can you fssnap a vxfs filesystem on solaris 8?<p>i want to use solaris fssnap.<p>thanks!<p>Ev<br>

moving to v440 from E3000 and E4000

326 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:04:00
We are planning to buy v440 to replace our E3000 and E4000 servers. Cansomeone give me some feedback on:1. Good documents or websites to do the acutal move2. Glitches and issues I should be aware ofWe mostly run Solaris 7 on these boxes. Do we need to go to Solaris 8 beforewe can replace them ...

The network interface of sun Fire V440 can't work correctly

1567 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:04:00
Dear all, I have setup a brand new sun fire v440 system, with the os solaris 8 07/03. Then I added the path 8_Recommended in it. There two built-in network interfaces on the system. But only one network interface can connect with other system with the ping utility. details of ...

E450 PROM 106122-11 / Vpp Range Error...

606 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:04:00
All,I'm trying to update the PROM on a E450. I have copied the file to / andnamed it 'flashme'.I am able to run the utility by running this command from the OK prompt:boot disk0 /flashmeThe flash utility loads, I use the 'sa' feature to select both OBP andPOST to be upgraded. It starts ...

Netra Panic

548 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:04:00
Hi Gurus,I have a Netra t105 running Solaris 2.6 with Patch level105181-34. It has rebooted twice in a month with following error in /var/adm/messagesunix: panic[cpu0]/thread=0x60e43360: ufs_ifree: freeing free inode, mode:0, ino:454028, fs:/opt Also some of the files (not all ) which i zipped ...

post-boot frame buffer init.

261 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:04:00
Dear Roots,<p>Is there a way on a server which started headless, to force the <br>initialization of the keyboard and of the monitor, while the system and <br>Unix are actually running and without interfering with its normal <br>operations?...<p>Thanks, Eric<br>

Station with dual head hangs.

413 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:04:00
Hi, I am using Solaris 8 workstation configured with dual monitor.The driver for the video card was installed & was working fine.Now if I remove the video card [secondary] and try to boot my system it hangs! Please let me know if there are any possible reason and solution to this ...

How to install Japanese language ?

6513 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:04:00
Hi,I have English edition of Solaris 9.Now how could i install Japanese language ?Am i need to install each and every pkg of that ? or is there any other methodI tried :Inserted the Language CD(First CD) and selected Japanese.It installed these pkg's ( #pkginfo | grep -i jap )system ...

change date stamp on files

211 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:04:00
Is there a easy way to change the timestamp of files. I am having<br>difficulty for our batch jobs with some files when ftp-ed accross different<br>Timezones. Time stamp change can easily help me.<p>Thanks<br>

Backup script

706 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:04:00
Hi all, Scripting ain't my strong point :) I am running my backup script from the command line like this - # ./backup_script And trying to get the ufsdump output to go to log file, but it's not happening ... I have this line in the script for the ufsdump command - ufsdump 0uf $DEVICE /export ...

Summary: The network interface of sun Fire V440 can't work correctly

3164 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:04:00
thanks for the people who replied, especially for Darren Dunham, Charles Rawls,Russell_C_Page at national.com.au,Adrian Cole, and so on. You can get the answer from the email of Darren Dunham as the following:> > > > Dear all,> > I have setup a brand new sun fire v440 ...

Backup

1246 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:04:00
Hi all, A few things to ask before I start using this script to backup a server - I have read that backing up a mounted filesystem can give you a corrupted backup. With our production server, we have mirroring so I plan to detach the submirror, backup the detached disk, then reattch it. Will ...

loss of ethernet link

190 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:04:00
Is there anyway to fool a nic card into not detecting a loss of the<br>Ethernet link? I was hoping maybe there was some ndd setting I could<br>change or something like?<p>Thanks,<br>dave<br>

SUMMARY: Storedge 3310 configuration problems

3711 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:04:00
Hi allthanks for all the brainware and expertise used on this problem and for the answers from: Dagobert Michelsen Grzegorz Bakalarsky (special thanks for many useful config hints :^)) Austin, Annie Darren Dunham Matt Clausen Arpad I Toth kristianto.setiawanThe main problem was:There is a 1TB ...

force kernel parameter "link_status" to "1"?

234 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:04:00
Is there anyway to force the interface kernel parameter "link_status"<br>which is READ-ONLY to a particular value. I want to force it to 1 (link<br>up) always, even when it is really supposed to be 0 (link down).<p>-dave<br>

SUMMARY: Cheap Thrills: an E4500 doesn´t respond

3698 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:04:00
Well, thanks for the usual great responses, but that was an symptom of alarger problem.The message I pasted was, unfortunately, bogus. Our operator typed itincorrectly. There is no such thing as a 'uname -h' in Solaris............The whole problem turned out to be a swap problem.The user we ...

Summary SSH with Sun Cluster

1047 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:04:00
K.I.S.S - Keep it simple stupid I guess is the answer here. Overwhelmingresponse was to just copy one set of keys to all three hosts. I guess I wasthinking too hard because that makes total sense. Thanks to whoever keeps thislist going, it's a fantastic tool. Thanks to the following for ...