SUMMARY: need help with multiple network interfaces on v480

8939 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 1:58:00
Well, this is sort of amusing (other than the fact that I've beenbanging my head all afternoon).Apparently another group was trying to install a windows server and ranacross the same problem. In addition, they could ping other hosts onthe 10.10.30 network, but not the default route ...

Virtual Machine

406 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 1:58:00
Hi ! ! My name is Ma. Elena, and I was looking for information onInternet about virtual machine, and I found this page.I have a machine with Solaris 8. I want to create a virtual machine onthis computer. This virtualmachine must also install Solaris 8. Do you know how can I do this?I ...

Hi, Dear Expert,I am new in this sun cluster area,I have two nodes(Netra 1405), one D1000 6 disk

1309 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 1:58:00
Hi, Dear Expert,I am new in this sun cluster area,I have two nodes(Netra 1405), one D1000 6 disks, 4 SCSI cables.disk 4 is mirror for disk1 and disk 3 is spare,disk 5 is mirror for disk 2 and disk 6 is spare.disk 4 also serves as quorum disk.running sun cluster 2.2 clusters in both nodes,node1 ...

32-bit vs 64-bit Drivers

839 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 1:58:00
I have a number of Sparcblades (PICMIC-216) which use the 500 Mhz UltraIIe processor. Our engineers are scared to death of 64 bit mode because one of our original vendors driver was a Solaris 7 driver and only worked in 32 bit mode. (They have since released 64-bit drivers). Now, 2/3 of our ...

Re-configuring NIS on Solaris9

1159 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 1:58:00
Hi,I have a Solaris9 Ultra10 that has moved from one IP address system toanother. I have vague memories that you can do a special reboot that will getthe box to present the basic installation windows on the next boot, but Ican't remember what the whole process is. I found a reference ...

serial console on NetraT1 hanging

2087 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 1:58:00
hi thereI have a netra t1 with Sol8 both with a serial connection which seems tohave a serial problem: When i boot the machine, i get the usual output tothe console and login runs prompting me. I can login and play around withthe machine for about 5 minutes then the console seems to "stop ...

SSH X connection to remote locations

672 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 1:58:00
Hi list,I have a E250 running *Solaris 9*, /*OpenSSH_3.6.1p1, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0*/.What I want to do is to log into a remote system (out of my local network but completely identical to my E250) via a dtgreet screen.Is this possible?I know that ssh can perform "port forwarding" but ...

VVM 3.5/A5200 licensing issues

438 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 1:58:00
Hello, Guys, Please help me with an workaround or a way to license the VVM 3.5 whichcomes bundled with A5200 storage, connected to a V880 server via a JNIcard.It seems that JNI card doesn't support the luxadm protocol for theauto-licensing procedure, so we can't license and use the ...

SUMMARY: veritas vs ufs performance comparison

739 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 1:58:00
Thanks all who responded.In general there are two documents (in fact three) which comparesVxFS to UFS. But it was foreseeable that doc from SUN says that UFSis faster then VxFS and document from Veritas says that ... guess what :-)Below original question.przemolOn Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at ...

MEM Leakage

1353 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 1:58:00
Hi All , I have a problem with my ,SunOS sun1 5.7 Generic_106541-08 sun4u sparcSUNW,ultra-5_10The problem here is that I hav a MEM Leakage in thismachine but by running "top" or by running netstat -aI am not able to isolate the process which takes upthe maximum memory usage . ...

Date command weirdness

1952 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 1:58:00
Folks,Has anyone come up against this one before. I can set the date to now(ish) and but the machine still thinks it is 1977.....bash-2.05# date 0911144703Thu Sep 11 14:47:00 BST 2003bash-2.05# dateMon Sep 5 08:47:40 BST 1977bash-2.05#Some info on the machine in questiono/s - 5.7 ...

unaccepted Gig E speeds between 6800 and a V880

634 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 1:58:00
Hi ALLI have sunfire V880 and a 6800. I ftp a 10gig file between my GigE interfaces on the 2systems on a Gig E switch and I'm getting a transferrate of 22MB/s. What is the acceptable rate?, I'm Idoing anything wrong on the systems?, do I need to setcertain parameters on the CARD to get ...

mount exceeded message

1500 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 1:58:00
Hi,I have a Solaris 8 Ultra-30 machine that has a external SCSI HD attached. The system sees the drive under the format command. AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS: 0. c0t0d0 <SEAGATE-ST34371W-0946 cyl 5081 alt 2 hd 10 sec 165> /pci at 1f,4000/scsi at 3/sd at 0,0 1. c0t1d0 ...

UPDATE: nfs woes NFS lookup failed for server terra: error 7 (RPC: Authentication error)

721 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 1:58:00
Having cleaned up my NIS configuration and my netmasks, I am now seeing many errors like the above. googling and searching Sun's site for this error reveals very little. Any clues on this error?My netgroups file seems to be OK. Root is in 11 netgroups but these are 2.7 and 2.8 solaris servers ...

SUMMARY: NFS cache

2647 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 1:58:00
Hi all !First of all: thanks a lot for your answers.With your help here is what I did:1/ During the copy, with snoop I've analysed the network traffic beetween the NFS server and the client: $ snoop -d ge0 rpc nfs and nfs_client_machine and nfs_server_machine2/ the trafic was huge, so I ...

SUMMARY: mount exceeded message

2728 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 1:58:00
Hello,Thanks to everyone that suggested fuser /export/sysa. That should me two process that where using that dir:# fuser -f /export/sysa/export/sysa: 1643c 1618c# ps -ef|grep 1643 root 1643 1618 0 07:29:07 pts/4 0:00 /bin/csh root 1834 1681 0 08:18:41 pts/6 0:00 grep ...

default ACL rules not applied to file when ftp'd

1892 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 1:58:00
I am running the Solaris default ftp daemon on a Solaris 7 server. I havecreated an ftp account and set default ACL's on that user's ftp directory, toallow another user read/write access to the ftp user's files. If I touch afile, or copy a file into the directory structure, including ...

problem with some UIDs

1394 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 1:58:00
Dear ManagersWe have an intermittent problem on one of our 2.6 machines where randomusers find that they cannot log in. When I reset the password they stillcannot log in. I am able to su to the user from a priviledged user but amunable to login as that user.The work around is to use usermod ...

procmail users list?

991 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 1:58:00
Does anyone out there use procmail? I have a problem with it so I wantedto subscribe to the mailing list as instructed on www.procmail.org, but whenI tried to subscribe I got a sendmail bounce for non-existent user:550 5.1.1 <procmail-request at informatik.RWTH-Aachen.de>... User ...

SUMMARY: procmail users list?

1251 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 1:58:00
I asked:> Does anyone out there use procmail? I have a problem with it so I wanted> to subscribe to the mailing list as instructed on www.procmail.org, but when> I tried to subscribe I got a sendmail bounce for non-existent user:> > 550 5.1.1 <procmail-request at ...

"lost" default route

2382 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 1:58:00
SunOS NAME 5.8 Generic_108528-08 sun4u sparc SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIi-cEngineOne of my Solaris 8 servers "lost" its default route today. netstat -nrshowed the following (Note lack of default route):Routing Table: IPv4 Destination Gateway Flags Ref Use ...

Urgent ! Ultra 1 with with internal disk of E250 not working

600 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 1:58:00
Hello Managers, I Have a Ultra 1 which cannot be change because its theonly machine with a SBUS adapter for a specific card.We put a E250 Disk , diferential scsi disk on that machine, It workedpretty good, We installed Solaris 2.5.1 (stuck to that version) +Patches.We reboot it, and now the ...

Update: Sparc AXI remote console logout problem

2923 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 1:58:00
I got one responses that I have not yet looked into. Because these areproduction systems I will need to set up a lab environment and test it out.Here are the response that I got from David Glass:Somehow the logout process is sending a break signal. Thisoften happens when power cycling a serial ...

Max lun's visible to a qlogic hba and solaris 8

367 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 1:58:00
All;Does anyone know the max amount of lunsyou can attach to a qlogic hba?I believe it is 255 but I can't findit in writing anywhereJohn__________________________________Do you Yahoo!?Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design ...

Summary: native ldap and sudo

944 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 1:58:00
Thanks to jrwren at oakland.edu, who provided thefollowing hints, which worked.My original question was how to make sudo work withthe Solaris 9 ldap client (with password agingenabled).Thanks!> If you are using sudo from sunfreeware, it is not> compiled with PAM > support, thus it ...

how to combine the files

3533 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 1:58:00
Note: forwarded message attached.----- Original Message -----From: "richard kumar" <mailtorichard at email.com>Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 22:14:31 -0500To: codeprof at codeprof.comSubject: Fw: splitting and grouping files-- ...

TC Gateway

734 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 1:58:00
Hi Managers,I am having a TC is SUN Cluster onfiguration.TC is configured with IP address 10.162.2.143 and Gateway as 10.162.2.1 with Netmask as 255.255.255.0 . My SUN machines are also in same subnet.The problem is that from a different subnet , I am able to ping or telnet to my SUN machines ...

SUMMARY: [2] veritas vs ufs performance comparison

691 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 1:58:00
On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 01:56:34PM +0000, Przemyslaw_Bak at pgf.com.pl wrote:> Thanks all who responded.> In general there are two documents (in fact three) which compares> VxFS to UFS. But it was foreseeable that doc from SUN says that UFS> is faster then VxFS and document from ...

Binary file editing using standard tool ?

496 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 1:59:00
Hi,I found a very interesting problem yesterday. I had to modify a binary file (replacing a '0' with '1') on a solaris 2.6 system.The host was on a high secure net and could not have 3rd party product installed.To change binary file, I use either vim/xxd or perl, unfortunately these tools ...

veritas, mirrored fiber system disks, dd

925 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 1:59:00
Hello gurus,I'm looking for advices on backing up a fiber system disk.On our 480R, both internal fiber channel disks are mirrored with veritas( unfortunately, we couldn't use disksuite because it cannot handle themirroring of fiber system disks ). To backup this configuration, myfirst thought ...

Hardware question: okay/how to connect X844A tape unit to SunBlad e 100?

1223 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 1:59:00
I recently became responsible for a SunBlade 100 server running with Solaris8. I need to perform a system backup to tape before installing additionalsoftware which must be installed within the next couple of weeks. I haveavailable an old SUN tape unit, Model 411, Service Number X844A-NC, and ...

preliminary SUMMARY Problems with some UIDs

1656 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 1:59:00
Thanks to:Caspar DikMichael J WatsonReggie BeaverMatthew StierJames ZhaoA couple of suggestions here are to:zap the /var/adm/lastlogin as this could have some spurious entries in it.restart the Naming Service Cache Daemon in it.I shall give these a try next time the problem crops up.For ...

mount exceeded message

2625 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 1:59:00
FYI... I have fsck'ed the slice then tried to re-mount and no go.....# fsck /export/sysa** /dev/rdsk/c0t2d0s7** Last Mounted on /nabu** Phase 1 - Check Blocks and Sizes** Phase 2 - Check Pathnames** Phase 3 - Check Connectivity** Phase 4 - Check Reference Counts** Phase 5 - Check Cyl ...

MEM Leakage

5396 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 1:59:00
HI All , Thanks for the good replies . I was able to find that the CDE was taking up some MEM, The dtwm process is consuming also. It is the CDEdesktop manager and is occupying approx. 400Mb !! 471 isos 8 59 0 432M 6624K sleep 42:42 0.00% dtwmKindly let me know whether this MEM ...

T3+ troubles

3078 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 1:59:00
Hello again. Well, I am still in the same boat with this T3B of ours.I have since changed the controller with a known good one...not surewhat to do now. Updated every patch I could on my E3500/Solaris 9.Help me! I'm drowning in this thing...-----Original Message-----From: Kevin BoykinSent: ...

telnet connectivity slow

382 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 1:59:00
Dear sirs,When ever I try to connect to my solaris -7 server through "telnet" or any other connection it has started taking 2-3 minutes to authorise, since monday. I get the connection fast but the user passwd authentication takes 2-3 minutes.Any help would be appreciated.with ...

SUMMARY: 240 vs 280

5695 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 1:59:00
Dear All :-)Here is summary on 240 vs 280 ...Thanks to all who replied for highly valuable answers,which are attached below. General comment is that 240should be valuable machine and 280 should not be betterfor heavy DB usage or HPC ...Kind regards,GBOriginal Question:=================> We ...

Solaris 8 to Linux dump compatibility question

670 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 1:59:00
Hi, I don't know if anyone knows the answer to this but here goes...I have a user that's leaving and wants to take 38gb of data andreports with her to her new job. That's OK but they are usingLinux and we have Solaris here. They have DDS4 tape drives andso do we. Will x86 Linux read tapes ...

Solaris CD's packages question.

369 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 1:59:00
Dear Managers.I have two plastic folders with Solaris 8. One of them is dated to March2000 and contains 4 CD's. On the other hand I have one for Feb 2002 andcontains 6 CD's. Would anybody please tell me if the Mar 2000 CD's hasactually 4 CD's? I couldn't find anything in the Sun's pages ...

Solaris 8 to Linux dump compatibility question -2

1095 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 1:59:00
I need to add that I cannot use tar (as far as I know) becausethe data is larger than one tape.Regards,NickNick Pettefar Nick at Pettefar.comTel. +49 1728 176 804 DoD 1069 MAG 73516 ZZ-R1100---------- Forwarded message ----------Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 18:32:19 +0200 (MEST)From: ...

SUMMARY: Problems jumpstarting v210 servers

3168 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 1:59:00
Thanks to Ole Morten Xian for his help.The easy solution is to obtain Solaris 8 2002/12 or 2003/05.Here is the hard way (not completely tested):You will need to patch the boot image first; Assuming Solaris 8 2002/02 isinstalled in /jumpstart/OS/Solaris_8_2002-02/patchadd -C ...

StarOffce 6.0 nightmare

448 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 1:59:00
All,# E420R's all running Solaris 9 fully patched. 300 user population access via SunRay1.3. All was working well till yesteray when StarOffice stopped working. Patching top StarOffice 6 patch level 3 had no effect. Comes up but crashes with a box that says "An unrecoverable error has ...

FOLLOWUP: Netra X1: How to break the LOM prompt in order to get into

2713 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 1:59:00
Hello -I was at the same state as Tony but on a Netra T1 AC200,but have since gotten in to LOM via the JP13-14 jumper andgotten past the "console not shared" thing by using the -uoption to bootmode: lom> bootmode -u lom> reset power cycle the ...

SUMMARY: Urgent ! Ultra 1 with with internal disk of E250 not working

539 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 1:59:00
Hello, at the end another device was using the target 0 of the firstcontrollr, this machine is connected to a special medical device.A lot of you offer some help, but moving the disk to the c0t1 slot andchange the entries in /etc/vfstab worked like a charm.Thanks to all who reply ! you know who ...

telnet connectivity slow

689 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 1:59:00
Dear sirs,Thanks for the help extended for my previous quiery regarding slow telnet connectivity.Server=sun solaris 7 sparc 64 bit,has 3 NFS mounts from 2 servers.NO DNS OR NIS is configured on this server.One web application is running on this server. When i telnet immediately get the login ...

Solaris 9 Routing problem

3470 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 1:59:00
I've got a routing problemNetwork is as follows:192.168.0.2 (Windows XP Pro PC "silver", default gateway 192.168.0.1) | 100Mb switch |192.168.0.1 (hme0 100Mb interface on Sparc5 "blue") |10.0.0.1 (le0 on blue) | 10.0.0.138 (adsl router "adsl") Sparc 5 is ...

bus error

456 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 1:59:00
I just restored a ultra 5 with solaris 8 operating system.Logged in as root# >passwd johncNew Password:Re-enter new Password:Bus Errorcan any body help me ?Best Regards,John CorcoranPhone: 978-741-9126jcorcoran at taxware.comUnix System Administrator <<ole0.bmp>>[demime 1.01b ...

installing SUNWvts 4.0

610 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 1:59:00
Managers, I just want to know how I can install SUNWvts 4.0, I just downloaded from sun as tar file, I untar it then I have this four files/dirc-rwxrwxr-x 1 85158 15 12610 Dec 9 1999 pkgmapdrwxrwxr-x 6 85158 15 512 Dec 9 1999 reloc-rw-rw-r-- 1 85158 15 ...

Missing showrev command

622 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 1:59:00
Hi everyone!I've got a simple question for you: What package provides the showrevcommand? I have two core installations where it seems to be missing.Bonus question: How can I find out what package contains showrev on asystem where showrev is available?Thanks all!-martin-- ...

SUMMARY: Missing showrev command

1784 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 1:59:00
Here's the summary already. :-)Pete Bentley had the solutions I was looking for:1. showrev is contained in SUNWadmc2. grep showrev /var/sadm/install/contentsThanks a lot to you, Pete!-martin-- +-------------------------+------------------------+| Martin Schmitt | Schmitt ...