First, thanks to Darren Dunham for his help, as that pointed me tothe problem.Second, thanks to Jason Santos as he was leading me down the sametroubleshooting path, one email exchange behind my email from Darren.I'm guessing I botches a package or patch install, which resulted ...

Thanks alot to Bryshyam Rai, Mark Scheufele and Joe Manning, who responded with this to direct output of ufsdump to log file - ufsdump 0uf $DEVICE /export >> $LOG_FILE 2>&1Told you scripting wasn' my strong point !!! Original post below ..... Thanks againTisTis Unix ...

Ok, the EMC support matrix says MPxIO is not currently suported with MPxIO(aka StorEdge Traffic Manager) but I thought I try it anyway.Machine is a V440 with two Sun supplied Qlogic 2Gbit fibre HBA cards, eachconnected to a EMC Symmetrix box. I can see 5 LUNs on each card just fine.So I set ...

Hi<p>As I now use the Sun Ray's for my day to day work, I really would like<br>to use a scroll wheel/wireless mouse for browsing etc. Anyone have<br>experience of using one on Sun Rays and how to do it?<p>Thanks <p>Peter<br>

I am attaching an external HD to an Ultra-1..It sees the HD onprobe-ssci-all but I keep getting these errors:WARNING:/iommu at 0,10000000/sbus at 0,10001000/espdma at 5,8400000/esp at 5,8800000/sd at 3,0 (sd3): auto request sense failed (reason=timeout)WARNING: /iommu at 0,10000000/sbus ...

Hi all,I am running from cron a backup_script to backup my servers .....Crontab entry -00 17 * * 4 /usr/local/backup/backup_script > /dev/null 2>&1Output of ps -fe | grep backupps -fe | grep backup root 4439 21375 0 17:10:36 pts/4 0:00 grep backup root 4175 4173 0 ...

Hello Gurus,<p>I have a K shell script and I want this to run for all the users whenever<br>they log in to the system. Can anybody tell me where I can put this script<br>so that it runs for all the users as they log in.<br>Appreciate your help in this regard.<p>Thanks,<br>Vani<br>

The answer to my question is you can't export a subdirectory of anexported directory. However, you can mount it with the mount command.My original questionIs 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 ...

Dear Freinds ,I am referring to a solaris 8 book (I will receive 9 books in a week).I am trying to configure Raid 1 on my E450 .I have 4 disks .I am using 1 for OS 1 for its mirror.2 for the volume...(1 + 1 for its replica)I am trying to configure volume manager first time everything seems to ...

Hello Gurus;The load average of my SUN Ultra-10 keeps on increasing day by day. AndFinally it will not allow users to login.It access lot of NFS mounts. But CPU is 98 % idle and it's using veryless memory and swap usage is 0%.Can somebody show mw some direction.sh-2.05# uptime 10:00am up 5 ...

It turned out that I had a bad DC distribution panel (a small board lies right beneaththe system board). Replacing this board fixed this problem.I received no reply to this questions other than Auto-reply Out of the Office messagesbtw, the OBP was 3.30 (not 3.31). I stand corrected.Tony--- ...

In reading the sun docs... I don't think it is necessary... except that in some cases the performance may be worth-while... can someone give a definitive answer on this? I've been told by one of our hardware vendors that "Solaris is designed to have swap mounted as /tmp and it cannot ...

We are moving from E4000 running Solaris 7 to v440. We will definitely haveSolaris 8 on v440.Can some one point to me some documents explaining the steps? My questionsare:1. Is there a migration path to move from E4000 to v440.OR2. Do I have to install Solaris 8 on v440 and then install each ...

Summary: No it doesn't have to be mounted like that.#2: One suggestion was that it is probably bad to leave it at the default as it can cause a DoS attack by simply using up all space on /tmp/. This is a good point, an if you read my NOTE below, you will see why....#3: Most of the ...

We have a Sun V1280, running Solaris 8, patched to 108528-23, Veritas VM3.5.I was called today to look at a huge log file of approx. 134GB size, orso ls -la reported.The application person did 'cat /dev/null > applogfile'. When thecommand was finished,'ls -la applogfile' showed the file ...

After my first summary post, I received several more pieces of useful information.There actually is a group within Sun which still carries the batteries. They will sell the battery, or the whole power supply. Linda is the person to contact, at least for my area. She can probably point others to ...

Hello,There is a "rumour" that one can install Veritas Foundation Suite 3.5with a rootdg set to null or set to a null device. Unfortunately thisdoes not make much sense to me however it is quite interesting to knowif this can be achieved.There is documentation on the net regarding ...

I'm in the position of trying to recover a Veritias Volume Manager filesystemwith no Veritas support. The plexs are made up a concatenated array on two SunT3's which are then mirrored by Veritas.Below is the current state, as shown by vxprint:bash-2.03$ vxprint -g datadg u01TY NAME ...

Hi,I have a A1000 (12x18Gb disks) connected to a U5/diff SCSIcard. It was setup as a raid 5, with 1 hot spare and I went with thedefault (?) 1 big LUN setup on c1t0d0s2 of approx 170GbI had then created 2 slices of approx equal size on c1t0d0s6 andc1t0d0s7. I'm assuming thats what I did as ...

Hi gurus I have ancountered a problem that I don't know why it happens and/or howto resolve it (I did find a work around for it though, but more about itlater). I installed 2 V440 systems today with solaris 9. I tried to installSolaris 9 by starting the process from the Install CD. Once the ...

Dear managers,Has anyone managed to run mathematica license manager 5.0.1 on Solaris 9?Wolfram support is currently going reallyy slowly for me about this, but ifanyone has any ideas, I will appreciate hearing about this. At the momenteven when I have mathlm running on the right port, ...

We are looking at using Sun Rays to replace our workstations. Of course,this means coming up with lots of alternate software from good old Windows.One of the pieces of software we are looking for is client 3270 emulatorsoftware to access our mainframe. Freeware is best, but I didn't see any ...

Dear managersI have a Sunfire V440 installed with Solaris 9 and Sendmail 8.12.10.Every thing looks OK except I am getting this message continuously onthe console.Mar 19 10:57:37 csunb sendmail[21654]: [ID 801593 mail.alert]i2INvZuq021654: Losing ./qfi2INvZuq021654: savemail panicMar 19 10:58:43 ...

Hi,I have a Solaris 7 box running syslog-ng that numerous firewalls send their syslogmessages to & their messages will be stored/sorted in such a way that : /logs/firewall_1_hostname/....yyyymmmdd.log.1 /logs/firewall_2_hostname/....yyyymmmdd.log.1 ...

We have Sendmail 8.9.3 on an internal mail server running Solaris 2.6. Iknow that the "DH" entry in the sendmail.cf file tells Sendmail where tosend incoming email. Our "DH" entry is set to our internal Notes server.How does Sendmail know where to send outgoing email to ? ...

Running Solaris 8 02/02. A large number of these packets being sent from theserver. Causing grief in the default router.Seems like some DoS or errant program, can't findmuch on the web, especially the root cause. Packetshave no source or destination port.Anyone ever hear the cause / ...

I have a Solaris 8 system with what appears to be a mail problem, it isproducing the following error:Mar 18 21:45:00 system1 sendmail[27532]: [ID 801593 mail.alert]i2J5j03K027532: SYSERR(root): queueup: cannot create queue temp file./tfi2J5j03K027532, uid=10022: Permission deniedI cannot send ...

Hi All,One of my engineer unfortunately has forwarded thesystem date. Now I changed it to todays date but myapplications is not running now. Its saying systemdate appears to be changed plz set back the systemdate to today date. Can any one tell me how to solvethis problem? ...

I'm using the ISC dhcp server to provide all necessary information tothe jumpstart client. In my current config a machine type is identifiedover the vendor-class-identifier. The problem now was that I had a typeerror in this variable so the machine didn't get assignedto the class ...

Hi,Tony Walsh had the answer to my problem:This will continue to happen while you are using the NET-MGT port toaccess the console and you still allow the serial (aka. Ser MGT) consoleto time-outand 'grab' console ownership (this happens after 60 seconds by default).The only way around this ...

Hi Everyone, Thanks to all of you who responded, there were too many to mention. Orginal question - > 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, ...

Hi, We have an e10k with a SE6910 (san) connected.Due to maintenance we had powered off the e10k and SE6910.We powered on the whole system according to the guides of Sun.Since we powered on we have a problem that the slic daemon on the serviceprocessor of the se6910 cannot communicate with the ...

Hi! Setting up users and passwords on all our Solaris machines is starting toget a bit tedious.We don't want to use NIS and a sync with NT domain passwords would be great. Does anyone know a solution/software that can manage users on severalSolaris machines.We don't want all users on all ...

Hi,How can I find out what is causing commands to stall when users typethem.This is an intermittent problem which I can sometimes reproduce:-I have a directory with 956 files one of the files sol_crash is a link to /net/fileserver4/vol/vol1/sol_crashIf I wait for the automounter to unmount ...

Hi All, My backup is failing when running ufsdump in a script from cron - In the logs, it asks for the 2nd tape, then the dump aborts .... Extract from log - DUMP: Change Volumes: Mount volume `#2' on `richemont1:/dev/rmt/0n' DUMP: NEEDS ATTENTION: Is the new volume (#2) mounted on ...

Hello,I've just added a network printer to a Solaris 8 machine using LP commandsbased on a standard sequence from SUN's "System Administrator's Guide" (2ndedition) by Janice Windsor... it's the lpadmin / accept / enable sequenceand I'm pretty sure I've done it correctly, this ...

Is there a way to move non-root volumes from rootdg? I was getting ready toupgrade VVM on a system and as I was preparing documentation I noticed thereare about 5 volumes in rootdg that do not belong. I assume the upgradescripts included with VVM will not like this at all. Env: SunFire V880 ...

I'm pretty sure I know the answer to this already but I want some admins with more hardware experience to tell me for sure. We just purchased a Sun Fire v240. All of our other hardware, Dell servers, Ultra 5 Suns serving as servers and an Enterprise 220 are on a KVM switch. We're just a ...

Thanks to all tried to help me.I'm started smc with edit mode, I created a new toolbox using tool actionsto manage NIS+,but now, there is some tables that I had not on solaris 5.6 and there is onsol 9.How can I populate auth_attr, prof_attr and project?Mar 17 17:02:18 grumari ...

Hello Gurus,<br>I would like to integrate LDAP with SAMBA and sendmail. Can anyone guide how<br>to go about this process. I want for OpenLDAP and SUN ONE Directory Server<br>5.1.<br>Have anyone done this before?<p>Thanks for all your time and help.<br>Vani<br>

What I like about this group is that you get real answers. Thanks to all whoreplied. As usual, too many good answers to mention everyone by name. Thenumber one package recommended was x3270.3.x.x.x -- the x's being variousversions. There were a number of websites all pointing back to this ...

Thanks to everyone who helped me on this.This is what we are going to do:1. Install solaris 8 OS on v440. (Note that everyone suggested us to go toSolaris 9)2. Install all the applications (Oracle, Legato etc.)3. Move the data from A5100 to Sun StorEdge 3100Our Sun Reseller suggested to use the ...

We are planning to move our E4000 with A5100 to a v440 with Sun StorEdge 3100.<br>Our Sun Reseller suggests that we will not need a Veritas Volume Manager for<br>the newer type of arrays like StorEdge 3100.<p>What do people usually use to manage these arrays?<br>

Hi all, I am looking for a SAN Training course ( preferrably with handson and emphasis on Zoning and LUN Masking ).I did check EMC,SUN,McData andthey turn out to be very expensive ( what else would you expect ?!!! ).Do anyone of you know of any third party companies / vendor ...

Hi,I have (8) SunFire V880's. I have a problem with 2 of them. I have gottenthe following burst of errors about six times over the past two months. Thetime interval ranges form 1 second to 10 minutes. The output below is theonly time that the a server panicked. V8808x900MHz16 Gb(3) 72Gb ...

Just a quick question which I should know the answer to, but for some reasonit escapes me and I can't find it on Google with keywords that make sense:What is the difference between disk state "stable" vs. "clean"? (asreported in a S9 release boot up ...

My uux fails on my ultra 5 running Solaris 8.It has been running flawlessly for ages fince now.I intercepted this error:arg - baobab!rmail:arg - (bilink.it!h-aphm):arg - baobab!rmail (bilink.it!h-aphm) xsys baobab file - C.baobabAc633 ASSERT ERROR (uux) pid: 11211 (3/19-19:46:50) FILE ...

Hi all I am running Solaris 8my /var is 100% utilized there is no way I can increase the size. Is there a work around this I have deleted everything that can be deleted Please help When tranquility is developed, what purpose does it serve? The mind is developed. And when the mind is developed, ...

Thanks for the quick turnaround! The answer is YES! (I thought it would be no) my graphics card will work in the Sun Fire v240 so that I can put it on a KVM switch. I had already issued a boot -r after installing the card so the system knew the card was there I just had to issue 2 commands to ...

Ug, this is so lame, I can't get console on this 480.Serial is RJ45 out the back. And it comes with a RJ45->DB25 connector.However, my laptop only does DB9. I tried using all the RJ45->DB9s Ihave, nothing worked.Anyone else have an issue? Anyone know where I can find the pin-outs forthe ...