All:<br> If anyone doing this I'd be very interested in hearing about what<br>you are using for hardware, software (free or not), interface (USB,<br>firewire, etc.) and format. Any tips, techniques, howtos would also be<br>appreciated. I will gladly summarize.<p>Thanks<br>Dave <br>

Dear All , I planning to give Sun Certified Data Management Engineer withVeritas , but I am not geeting the proper document for this exam . so anyone is there who can guide me for same , i will be thankful to you .Regards ...

Dear All,Apologies for the slightly delayed summary posting - sicknessintervened. As usual some really useful information was received.All the replies can be found after the replication of my originalquestion.Many thanks to all who replied, Brilliant info.ShinPS. To those that replies about ...

Hi All,Something very weird has happened and I have no idea why ......I first new there was a problem when I logged in as root, and couldn't runany commands .... Nothing was recognised ... Like this -[root@]> uname -auname: not foundCouldn't find the path for any of the commands ... Then I ...

Managers, I have a perl script that monitors EventLogs on Windows servers and generates reports for each server. Rightnow, this script is on a Windows box and is running every night. I want to move this script to a Sun box running Solaris 8. I am using Win32::EventLog module in my perl script ...

First off, I appreciate the fast and numerous responses. Secondly, Iapologize for asking a question that had already been asked in a slightlydifferent format earlier. Sadly, time prevented me from a more exhaustivesearch.The best solution was to create an admin file and use the -a option ...

Hi managers,We have a Sun Blade 100 here to do some tests and to get the ability to save ajob log, I wanted to hook up the workstation to a laptop, using a serial cablesetting. Normally, when not using monitor, keyboard and mouse, Sunworkstations/servers are redirecting input/output to the ...

I finally rafined my "search keywords" on the Sun Microsystems' website andfound the anwser to my problem. In fact, the "Stop" "N" combination was okfor "non USB" keyboard systems... ...and that was my problem, since SunBlade 100 uses USB keyboard and ...

I have an old Netra X1 that can't seem to get into ok mode from Lom> modeIt keeps saying "Console is not shared" Specs: Netra X1 256 MB Mobo 375-3058 Rev 51. Good power supplyA lom port connected to another sun. lom> poweronevent t0hom31 host power on lom>consoleconsole is ...

Hi All,I am trying to console into Sun Fire V60x but have not succeeded yet. Ifollowed up and updated the BIOS as per this document - http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/hardware/docs/html/817-202311/CH4_Configure.html#37764But that did not resolve the problem.Any ideas?Thank ...

We are in the process of relvaluating our DR purposes.In our situation we have created cd images of the production machinesfor faster recovery. Currently we are using Netra 220R the recoveryworks fine on the netra range of machines.We tried testing on a E250 which is a Ultra-250 while the 220 ...

Dear Managers,Our dhcp server (used for sunrays) seems to sometimes stop on its own aftera while. Since we do not have any free IP addresses left, is there a timeoutsomewhere that results in the dhcp server stopping? Thanks inadvance.________________________________________________Message ...

Archive-name: codeprof-faqSun-Managers' Frequently Asked Questions$Id: faq,v 4.43 2004/03/18 18:31:31 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 ...

Thanks to everyone for your responses ...... I guess if I spent more timelooking around I am sure I would have found this, but pretty much panic'edwhen this happened :)Tim Pointing nailed it though (his response below) ...... The PATH hadbeen changed it in the /.profile, and for some reason ...

Hi guysThis is possibly a very simple question for most people, but I am having problems trying to modify the auto_home map in iDS 5.2, I have added a directory_map into the automounter named tracking, this can be mounted from any two machines; however I accidentally missed out the priority ...

Dear fellow forumers,We are experiencing a weird situation here.We configured VXVM on a Solaris 8 box. OK.The volumes were created OK.Previously we created filesystems on the CTDs. OKThe system are all patched.The JNIC driver is the latest (well, I was told so).BUT.... when we tried to create a ...

G'day all,I have five unix workstations (2.8) and two linux workstations which allwrite to a raided fileserver which is also running Linux (redhat 7). NFS isworking fine for the most part. Recently, on separate occasions, we have hadsevere and unexpected power failure which has caused two or ...

Hello everyone,A local machine (SunOS xxx 5.8 Generic_108528-15 sun4u sparcSUNW,Sun-Fire-880) was hacked at our site earlier in the week. Thismachine was then used to launch a DoS attack on two other sites. Thetime-line of the attack is as follows:At around 5pm port 32773 (ypxfrd) was probed. ...

Hi everyone,I'm trying to add the Tivoli backup/archive client to our miniroot, so we can have it available when booted with 'boot net -s' for quick recovery.We installed the TIVsmCba and TIVsmCapi packages on our jumpstart server. These two packages require two patches, the first installed ...

Dear Guru's I have a Solaris 8 Ultra Sparch systemrecently upgraded from Solaris 7. After theinstallation we found that the CDE gets hanged aftercertain period and there no display in the monitor.Then we manually have to reset the system bycompletely switching off and on the system. ...

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Hi there,<br> If a JDK has been install on a Solaris machine, how can you tell if<br>its 64 or 32 bit. I.e you could have a box running Solaris 9 in 64bit mode,<br>with a JDK of 32bit. But you didn't actually install it in the first place.<p>regards,<p>Alistair Mckeown. <br>

Hello All,<p>I did search from the archives and google and found some answer that at most<br>I can add an IDE drive into<br>Sun Ultra 10 is: 120GB. So I just need your suggestion what Model should I<br>buy? Does it matter?<br>This drive is not from Sun.<p>Thanks,<p>Vinh.<br>

I am getting the error <p>rcmd: socket: Cannot assign requested address<p>when running a number of concurrent rsh commands on Solaris 8.<p>Is there a system parameter I need to tweek?<p>John<br>

First, thanks to all who replied, it definitely looks like folks have itworking using a couple of different approaches:-Dave Foster, he also included a perl script, which can be found at theend of the summary-David Videchak-Mats Oberg-Peter Stokes, it turns out that he posted a SUMMARY for a ...

I am trying to setup RBAC to kill and restart a process that is normally done by root. So, to kill the processes first,My /etc/secirity/exec_attr entry looks like thisbouncews:suser:cmd:::/bin/pkill:euid=root,egid=binand I created a role called bouncews as:#roleadd -m -P "bouncews" ...

I plan to yse "Tera Term" replace Hyperterminal software on Windows. I search download.com but not found it. Does anyone know where it is?Thanks._________________________________________________________________Is your PC infected? Get a FREE online computer virus scan from McAfee. ...

I have a 2-way mirror of the boot-disk using SDS on Solaris 8. To backup my boot-disk I bring in a 3rd disk (of identical geometry) create the metadevices , attach it as a mirror and then detach it after it has resync'ed. For example the 3rd disk has a metadevice d40 which I attach to ...

> Dear managers,> I'm looking for a way for automatic unix2dos conversion of our> SAMBA shared Solaris 8.0 files.txt,> and I don't know where mail list to ask for.> I already use the unix2dos versions of NT/W2K and Solaris 8.0 but> it needs manual command unix2dos to ...

I am looking for a document or something that lists out what each Sunmachine has for an Ethernet device name... for example.. an Ultra 10 hasHME and a Sunfire v100 has DMFE and a Blade 100 has ERI ... does anyoneknow where there is a list that states what each machine has?I really need to know ...

HI,<br> Does anyone know the ports used by NFS?<br> We have firewalls between two solaris 8 servers.<br> the firewall is blocking the NFS mount <p> I need to find out the ports used by NFS in order to ask Security to<br>open up the firewall rule.<p>Regards,<p>Ken<br>

Hi,I have a script which I use to generate a listing of allmy Sun boxes (OS, Version, RAM, Clock Speed, etc.)for all of my remote offices. Works well.Now, mgmt wishes to know what monitors are attachedto these Sun boxes. Make, model, display size (21") etc.And there are several different ...

I have looked throught the archive and am not getting any realspecific help in there. Likewise Googled.SO... Here's a non-critical topic for Monday:I have Sunfire v880 which has the single 'A/B' "big-mouth" serialport. I need to attach an APC SmartUPS via this serial port.1. Do ...

I was wondering if Samba works with 2000 and XP clientsand also if it authenticates the usernames to active directory windows2000 and 2003 servers?We're using Totalnet Advanced Server currently and I'm wonderingif Samba will do the same thing that Totalnet does minus the AppletalkRealm ...

Hello,I found alot of hits for this in the summary archive, but nothingthat actually answers the question, see this for example: http://www.codeprof.com/archives/1998/1838.htmlDoes anyone know, if I have the TZ set to Pacific, will my cron jobsbetween 2am and 3am (or whenever the "time ...

Hi Everyone,I know there was a post about this solegg irc rootkit, but nothing muchbeyond that. Does anyone know anything else about it? I'm moreconcerned with out it got on one of our boxes.Octave__________________________________Do you Yahoo!?Yahoo! Small Business $15K Web Design Giveaway ...

Hi All,When i am starting the dtfile from the commandprompt,it takes a almost 90-92% of the CPU and it'snot showing the contentwhen i am starting from the desktop, it's giving errorThe request to service this action has failed for thefollowing reason:TT_ERR_NO_MATCH There is no running ...

Hello Gurus,<p>Can anyone tell me how to access network in single user mode. I assume by<br>default it is not possible. someone told me that its possible. Please tell me<br>what are the files to be modified in order to access network in single user<br>mode in solaris.<p>Thanks,<br>Vani<br>

Admins,Yesterday evening we applied the following patches to both nodes of our Suncluster (Sun cluster 3.0 - Solaris 8).111118-10 (Vxvm) Reboot108528-29 Patch kernel109885-14111883-24108974-38109657-09Everything went fine, except that the above message repeated several timeson both nodes:Apr 2 ...

Gurus,Am getting the error "pkginfo file is corrupt or missing" when trying toretrieve the list of packages installed using "pkginfo" It displays aseries of packages but then exits with that error as seen below:(snipped for brevity)system SUNWlccom Localization ...

OK, I can see that the pkginfo file for the package SUNWlibm is corrupt.Is there an easy way to fix this?-----Original Message-----From: codeprof-bounces at codeprof.com[mailto:codeprof-bounces at codeprof.com] On Behalf Of Brian LucasSent: Saturday, April 03, 2004 9:47 AMTo: codeprof at ...

OK, I figured it out. I just replaced the pkginfo file in SUNWlibm witha good one from another server and everything works well.-----Original Message-----From: codeprof-bounces at codeprof.com[mailto:codeprof-bounces at codeprof.com] On Behalf Of Brian LucasSent: Saturday, April 03, 2004 9:56 ...

Has anybody tried booting a solaris box off the SAN ?If yes, could you please tell me the steps involved in doing so.Is it possible to jumpstart a SAN attached LUN on an HDS array and then boot off it ? thanks and regards, VishalYahoo! Small Business $15K Web Design Giveaway - Enter ...

I have defined a HP2500CM network printer with lpadmin as a normal ps printer in Solaris 7. It works, but I would like avoid the job/banner page after each print job. The problem is that the printer hang using the nobanner option:lp -c -o nobanner -d hp2500cIs it possible to strip away the ...

Dear managers,I have a sunray 100 that is stuck in 9D...it gives a warning and a USBsymbol. According to http://docs.sun.com/source/816-6753-10/t-s.html, thesymbol is a "Bus busy" warning, but this doesn't seem to be relevant in thiscase. Does anyone have this experience before, and ...

Hi, when I telnet to a machine of my enterprise it responds the next:UNIX(r) System V Release 4.0 (b21)login: caiPassword:Last login: Mon Apr 5 09:33:00 from 13.9.200.213Sun Microsystems Inc. SunOS 5.5 Generic November 1995/dev/fb: Permission deniedGraphics Adapter device /dev/fb is of ...

Hi folks,I have a V440 which comes with two GigaSwift ethernetinterfaces built in.First card is connected to network and working fine.When I try to add the second card, it appears to have thesame Mac Adress !! These should be unique.Any ideas what the problem is and how to resolve it.Without a ...

Hi all,with all your advices included the mail of virus scanner in DS smart relay host and forwarded the mails to mailgateway machine which is the virus scanner. But mails are bounnced back as pasted below.But if I telnet to mailgateway system through port 25 and sending the mails are ...

Thank you all of GURUS, especialBill R. Williams, andHarvey Wamboldt.By the way, I wanted to do a listing off all predinfined and definedhardware elements in Solaris, but could not get the right command, likethe one in AIX, "PdAttr" command. Does anyone know such a command inSolaris. ...