Anyone been successful at installing Solaris 9 x86 on a Dell Inspiron 5100? Last time I tried had some video problems. Jeremy S. Loukinas Unix Systems AdministratorEvenflo Company, Inc.<mailto:jeremy.loukinas at evenflo.com <mailto:jeremy.loukinas at evenflo.com> ...

Thanks to those who replied. I seem to understand the nature ofthe problem and are working to implement the scripts andsuggestions:Susan Hanna" <hanna at uwyo.eduPavic, Aleksander" <Aleksander.Pavic at telekom.de>From Susan: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Remote-X-Apps-7.htmlX ...

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----Hash: SHA1Hello SunManagers,maraudingpirates.org seems to be down, does anyone have a location foripfilter binaries for Solaris 9?Ed SchernauSystems Management Specialist, ECCCitizens Bank, East Providence Operations Center401.282.1262 ed.schernau at ...

I got two replies and very thankful to them for their valuablesuggestions:RussellIt might be easier to create the list of directories with find, and thenprocess it with sed to remove the ones you don't want. If the list isn'tall that big, and you don't need to do this very often, it may ...

We have an 880 running Solaris 9 on it. A former vendor who sold us an LSISAN's ( 2400) said that the version of rdac ( 07.10.05.01 ) would work.Vendor gone and the rdac when doing a pkgadd , comes up in the end withthis rdac is not for Solaris 9. Does anyone know what version is ...

Ok, I have a problem that is stumping myself and the other admin here. Wejust got some new servers in, a couple of V880s and some V240s. We installedSolaris 9 on them (12/03 on the V240, 06/03 on the V880 when we saw problemson the 240) For some reason, sar is not working as it does ...

Hello -According to Sun, the /var/adm/loginlog file is for remotelogin attempts only (rlogin or telnet), but not for localconsole login attempts (CDE, GNOME or failsafe). There are two options for logging failed login attempts from thesystem console: turn on BSM or add a debug option to ...

Hello, Thanks all people sent your comments, the resume.For free clustering I think you'll need to use linux rather than Solaris. For cheap(ish) clustering look at RSF-1 from www.high-availability.com. Then again you could always buy a couple of second hand VAX machines. ;-)by Joe ...

I have a 280R sun box running solaris 5.8. I need to connect this systemto a HP MSL5000 tape library with LTO Gen2 tape drives using a qlogic 2300fibre channel card.I have drivers installed for the qlogic cards and have edited the st.confand qla2300.conf files and have entries in /dev/rmt for ...

I have acquired a sun box and am now responsible for it. I need a bit of<br>help with some complex scripts.<p>I was wondering if any of you gurus knew of some groups for this forum. Help<br>with scripts. <br>I know this site is not for that purpose.<p>Thanks in advance<p>Rod<br>

Dear All,I would like to know how to find the Model number &version of a sun sparc machine.Thanks ,Naresh. __________________________________Do you Yahoo!?Yahoo! Tax Center - File online by April ...

Hello everybody,<p>I have a doubt, while creating a files in a directory under Solaris. Is<br>there any limitation of files?<br>sufficient free space available under the directory.<p>Thanks for receiving my mail in advance,<p>Thanks & Regards,<br>Venu.<br>

Hi I downloaded the vim6.0 from SUN download center.I added the package SFWvim ( for vim 6.0 ) and it was installed in /opt/sfwWhen i try to open gvim (in /opt/sfw/bin/gvim ) it shows the followingerror. Installation of <SFWvim> was successful.# cd /opt/sfw/bin# lscxpm gvim ...

A client I have wants to cluster nisusing vcs 3.5mp2 is this possible? Judging from my research I don't believethis will work but I can't find adefinitive answer.If anyone has any experience with doing this any and all help would be greatly ...

Hi all,I've a working mail server (postfix+openldap+courier) on my SunBlade 150w/ Sol8. Now I would like to authenticate users of various services likessh, login, ftp, login against my openldap through pam. I compilednss_ldap and pam_ldap from padl.com. My purpose is to get a singleusername ...

Hello Everybody,<p>I need your help to find out a differences between Unix file system vs.<br>journalized file system,<br>Thanks for receiving my mail in advance,<p>Thanks,<br>Venu.<br>

hey all,I'm testing OpenSSH 3.8p1 and I've got a problem with root-forcing passwordsfor long logins...when I force to change password (passwd -f ; there is a start password notblank one) and login, I got the following message:"WARNING: Your password has expired.You must change your ...

<br>Hi experts,<p> I have an assignment to upgrade various o/s<br>servers to solaris8 on various hardware. If you have any important<br>suggestions,tips,exp. or docs, plz pass on to me.<p>Thanks in advance,<br>Murthy<br>

Hi admins,<p>Unlike all servers one V880 doesn't seem to make XDMCP broadcast<br>How to enable XMDCP direct broadcast mode on this server.<p>Regards,<p>Rachid,<p>[demime 1.01b removed an attachment of type text/x-vcard which had a name of rachid.boukhari.vcf]<br>

How would I specify a second route besides the default ? Just modify the /etc/defaultrouter and add the second? Jeremy S. Loukinas Unix Systems AdministratorEvenflo Company, Inc.<mailto:jeremy.loukinas at evenflo.com <mailto:jeremy.loukinas at evenflo.com> >937-415-3353 ...

> Gurus,> > How do I map devices in the /devices directory to device in the /dev> directory permemnatly, so that when a reconfig reboot is doen, the devices> don't change names.> IE I have tape at /dev/rmt/0 and /dev/rmt/1. If we disconnect /dev/rmt/1> and bring it back ...

Thanks to everyone who has responded so far. The suggestions have been goodsanity checks, but so far no one has figured out the problem. Here is someadditional information.- If I "su - sys" and manually run /usr/lib/sa/sa1, it works fine. So itappears to be a problem in cron.- If I ...

hi all,i am having an E3500 sun server with solaris 8 (patch level 12) with aD1000 sun storedge attached to it....the root disk of this server having/,swap,/var & /export/home has crashed.i am trying to restore the same from my backups which was taken inmultiuser mode with all the users ...

Hi forumers,I4m just a bit confused here.A printout of my E10000 domain: Bus FreqBrd Type MHz Slot Name Model--- ---- ---- ---------- ------------------------------------------------ 3 SBus 25 0 QLGC,isp/sd (block) QLGC,ISP1000 3 SBus ...

Many thanks to everyone who replied. On Darren Dunham's suggestion, I trussedthe running cron pid and found that it was having pam troubles. After somegoogling, I was able to come across some sunforum posts saying that somewherealong the line, Sun changed how PAM behaves in Sol 9. I added ...

We are trying to setup an iplanet web server to allow access based oncertificates only. No username/password access.We have it working so that a client cert. that is from our approved listof CA's is allowed all others are denied.Now we want to get a little more granular and pull fields out of ...

Hello,Is there a way to start a CDE session from a remote SSH session usingsomething like Reflections for Windows or from a shell on Linux? I can bringup SMC, and other GUI tools this way, but would also like to bring up theentire CDE. Thanks!Anthonygunia at ...

Hi list, I am running Sendmail 8.12.10+Sun/8.12.9 on Solaris 9, I am seeing the following errors in /var/adm/messages related to sendmail SYSERR(verity): openmailer: insufficient privileges to change uid, new_euid=0, RunAsUid=102Apr 14 13:51:01 verp002 sendmail[5671]: [ID 801593 mail.crit] ...

Dear Friends,I have a following problem:our supplier of data sent us data on IDE harddisk in USB 2.0enclosure. The disk has NTFS file system. We are almost MS Windows free site. But the vendor is almost MS Windows only site.I have new V440 with Solaris 9 12/03 which has 4 USB 2.0 ports.I ...

Hi, I want to know if its possible to copy a NFS file system to anotherdisk via ufsdump/ufsrestore commands. The NFS server (source disk) is alinux system and the machine with the local disk (target disk) is asun/solaris8.ThanksRichard RodriguezYahoo! Tax Center - File online by April ...

I've got an E250 running Solaris 8 with kernel patchlevel 108528-18. It'smy jumpstart server, as well as being an FTP server and DNS server.It's got two hme interfaces, the primary hme0 on 10.20.21 (FTP, DNS) andthe secondary hme1 on 10.20.20. This is because we've got servers thatneed to ...