Hi Managers,Any idea about doing clustering with sun machines? merging many smallboxes to have a big compute capacityIs ti possible, is there any software or requirements?Regards,Rachid,[demime 1.01b removed an attachment of type text/x-vcard which had a name of ...

Hello All,I have installed Solaris 8 2/02 with the OS Recommended Cluster patches inSun Blade 150 Workstations.It was installed with default locales.Now if I tried to install any Asian Locales it says is it installedproperly.But when I set locale , it is giving following error.# export ...

Hi all,Quick question, I recently setup IPMP on my 15K's system controllers,SC0 and SC1. This was done to my knowledge correctly. Then I had toupdate firmware on the system boards and for this to take effect theboards had to be powered off and powered on again. (setkeyswitch -ddomainname off)I ...

Managers, I just want to know, what the following error means, I got those when I run a test using VTS. I'm using Ultra 60 + solaris 8.Error 1SunVTS: VTSID 8004 pmemtest.FATAL mem: "Unable to read pointer to memlist structure."Error 2VTSID 6063 afbtest.ERROR fbs/afb0: Can't access ...

Hi folks,Sorry I am a little late in summarizing. Here is a summary of theresponses I received. Thanks very much to the prompt and helpfulresponses from Andres Rojas, Hichael Morton, Joanna Borg, Andrew Hay.I had more than one helpful suggestion from Andres.Based on the responses, on the fact ...

Hi,I have a running linux machine, a Solaris 9 DVD and a Sun withoutCD drive. Now I have setup a Jumpstart Server on the Linux machine.Since setup_install_server doesn't run properly on Linux machines,I've copied the DVD as it is. I guess that might be the reasonfor the problems, maybe ...

Hi,<p>I just tried <p>/sbin/metainit d7 -f 1 1 c1t0d0s7<p>but received the error message <p> "there are no existing databases"<p>Unfortunately, I didn't find anything about this <br>in the Solaris Volume Manager manual. How can I <br>create this database?<p>regards<br>Hadmut<br>

In the past going from one environment to another I used tar. Ensure thatthe no hardware compression is used. Compress or gzip should be compatible.Grant Cullen-----Original Message-----From: codeprof-bounces at codeprof.com[mailto:codeprof-bounces at codeprof.com]On Behalf Ofcodeprof-request ...

Hi Gurus,I'm using a good ol' Ultra 5 as a mailserver, and to make mailing mor secure,and reduce Spam, I installed amavis.Works fine, but only in debug mode...When I run /usr/local/sbin/amavisd debug, everythings fine, I can telnet toport 10024, send an email, and amavis scans it (i. e., ...

Hi Managers, It's a long due summary, I was going to give summary after configuration but unfortunate event happened. My employment made redundant while I was configuring the server and the 3310. I received valuable informations from:Jose R. Garcia Smith, Kevin Peter Watkins So far what ...

I'm setting up for the first time a 3310 StorEdge expansion unit JDOB with 5 disks to beconnected to a StorEdge PCI Dual Ultra3 SCSI Host Adapterin a Sun Fire V120 server with Solaris 9. I want to do the simplest configurationand use the disks as just a bunch of disks.It is not entirely ...

Dear managers & adminsWhen I make a routing table entry with the route add command, my changesare implemented prior to rebooting the machine. However after rebooting themachinemy new route entries do not exist and I have to readd the route.What is the command that makes the routing changes ...

Is it possible to install Solaris 7 on Sun Blade 100 boxes?<br>

HiI got a really quick response, thanks to Mr. Dinesh Kumar. The response isbelow:You can create a file /etc/rc2.d/S99staticroute and put the the staticroute inside the file,and change the permissions of the file to 755.RgsDinesh-----Original Message-----From: shiroma at hutchison.lk ...

HiPatching a cobalt RAQ 550 through the BluLinQ web interface is quitestraightforward but timeconsuming. Each package has to be installed individually, taking severalminutes each, (oftenwith a forced reboot after each one). Is there a way of doing them all inone hit? Can it be ...

Dear Managers,I have three mail reciepients who are supposed to know the status of eachbackup. their mail ids are admin1 at mydomain.com, admin2 at mydomain.com,admin3 at mydomain.com respectively. I edited the /usr/openv/netbackup/bp.conffile and specifiedUSEMAIL = admin1 at mydomain.com ; and ...

I'd be grateful to hear from anyone on this list who's had Samba working with Solaris for x86/Sparc in conjunction with Sun ONE/iPlanet Directory Server or OpenLDAP for user authentication.There are howtos on the web relating to different pieces of the puzzle, but nothing that sets out all ...

Hello managers, I need help with the following error that keeps re-occuringon the console of an Ultra 60 with three scsi Hard drives attached twointernal and one external and I have two scsi cds one internal is stock suncdrom and external is a plextor cdrw. All on patched sol 8. Any ideas ...

Hi All , Need your help to find out the MEMLeakage We were using prstat and top but both doesnot help , Kindly suggest any tools to find out theMEM Leakage .We need to find whether any hidden fileor any zombie process or any kernel parameters iscausing the problem . This has to ...

Hi managers,sorry for the late summary, but I was a little bit busy in the last days.Thanks to all who replied, unfortunately, I was unable to discover what'sgoing wrong here. Some of you suggested looking for special chars in thefilename, but that didn't help.Hm.... I think it's magic, and ...

Hi,sometimes I have tasks like investigating the versions of some installedpackages,across our server farm, ca. 600 servers.Most of the servers don't have SSH installed on it, which means, I must usetelnet.I would like to automate such tasks, do you have any ideas how to do that,of course we ...

Dear Managers,This regards security of my server, which I'm aware recently..I've tried to compile iplog, but found strange problems withlibpcap ... Then I found there was a disscusion about the problemon this list in August ... Final suggestion was to download a compiled package from ...

Although its not completely probed, all indicates its a HW problem since when I tried again a probe-scsi-all it showed only the disks seen by format.Thanks to:Karl RossingGlenn J Franshaw Jason SantosRegards,Jesus> -----Original Message-----> From: J Marquez [mailto:sunsol19712003 at ...

Dear AllMachine, V880, Solaris, all recommended patches up Sep/11/2003I have a disk 73GB (FC - plain disk - ufs with no mirroring,one big partitition). Mounted with logging.There is a big file on it (a tar archive from my DB system).The size of the file is 60404773888 bytes ...du -h shows 56GB ...

I am connecting an EMC Sym to a Sun V880. The V880 will connect up viaEmulex Fiber HBA's. How do I take output from a probe-scsi-all command and convert that toworking LUN info for my sd.conf and the lpfc.conf? {7} ok probe-scsi-all/pci at 9,600000/lpfc at 2Target none DID 610b13 WWPN ...

I would like to test some configurations of Sparc servers in terms ofperformance. But to make real tests I would like to simulateworkload of some of our production servers. I have read about prex command which can "record" e.g. io activity. But what application can Iuse to ...

Dear ALL.Some more info. Digging out little bit more, I unmounted thefilesystem (fortunately I could do this!) and run fsck.Here is result:# umount /disk/c1t3# fsck /dev/rdsk/c1t3d0s2** /dev/rdsk/c1t3d0s2** Last Mounted on /disk/c1t3** Phase 1 - Check Blocks and Sizes** Phase 2 - Check ...

Sunmanagers,I'm looking for help monitoring my E450 information (such as CPU load,ambient and case temp, etc.) with MRTG. I've had little luck findinganything with Google. If anyone could provide me with any sampleconfiguration files, or a link to a location/site that has some ...

Hi everyone, Does anyone have the source for the Solaris 8 crypt command? I am doing some work on some files produced from a Solaris OS but currently do not have access to a machine.Is there a fundamental problem with compiling this in Linux Environment.If a rapid port is problematic has ...

Dear All,Thanks to Denis Perchine <dyp at perchine.com> and joe.fletcher at btconnect.comfor discussion. At present I think I found the originof this behaviour. It seems to me this is a bug in Solaris 9 8/03(or possibly any Solaris 9 patched to recent recommended pachtes).I found the ...

hi you all!i need my sun V880 server be running nicely, but i got some problems...the software i'm using is not ready for multi-processing, but i was told Sun One Grid would make it to split the sub-processes of my software in a way that i can make use of the 8 processors and make the software ...

Greeting all. After obtaining a Sun Ultra 2, the owner has forgotten the original password, and I am sort of familiar with Sun's booting procedure, and have also searched extensively on google for any similar question (+"boot single" +cdrom +iso, etc) and I haven't found a similar ...

Hello, I have a few boxes running SunOS 5.6 and they are to have new IP addressesassigned to them. Some of them are in a different location so I will make thechanges remotely. Since these are 7/24 boxes, is there a way to chage just theIP information (not hostname) and appyling these ...

Well as to be expected the solution was an irritatingly simpleoversight.I had tried to populate all slots with 9GB FCAL drives and did notsucceed, this was done because we do not have 9 of the 36GB FCAL drives.What fixed the problem was placing one 36GB drive in the first slot, andplacing one ...

I received many many replies to my request for help about whichtape format to use to save data from Solaris and restore on Linux.Lots of good advice, but also many misleading answers, and somejust completely wrong! It seems that many people consider tapesto be more of an art than a science...I ...

I just took over a project where I need to move portions of a web site fromSolaris to HP and portions of the same web site from Solaris toVignette(Windows).I found that the content managers made all the .html files with fullyqualified dns name links vs my preferred relative links.Whats the ...

Hello Admins,I have two identical SUN E3500 running Solaris 7.I have the same swap configuration for both systems, it is onSection 1 of the root disk.The section 1 of the root disk has the same length on both systems:Current partition table (original):Total disk cylinders available: 7506 + 2 ...

Hello,I'm having a bizarre problem with a Sun E3500. There are two Seagate 9G FCdrives which were removed, but are still being listed in /devices (though notin /dev or format). I've had to go so far as to handlib /etc/path_to_inst toremove the references there to their wwns, have performed ...

I had another Sun box lose its default route over the weekend - completelyseparate network. I haven't seen this problem before, but it has nowhappened to two unrelated boxes within one week.Responses to original question below.New information: Second server: SunOS SERVER2 5.8 ...

Can any point me in the direction of information about passive ftp on<br>Solaris?<p>Mark L. Roberts<br>Network Services<br>Open Systems Support<br>

Thanks to everyone who replied: Claude Charest Jason Santos Johan Hartzenberg Eugene Schmidtjoe fletcherMatthew StierJeff Woolsey I have received different answers, some say it will not work,some say must cross the fiber cables to work and some say tojust connect them and it will work.I will ...

All, Thanks for the quick responses. I got a bit of conflicting information onwether a reboot is required, but the general consensus is to run the "ifconfig"and "route add" commands and the changes take place immediately. I will havesomeone onsite in case I lose ...

I heard under Solaris 9 their has beeter way to setup bootable mirror disks. Before Solaris 9, if upgrade to new release we need break mirror first. Does anyone has document ot point me tothe web site how to setup bootable disk mirror under SOlaris ...

We run a number of desktop machines running Solaris 9 and Red Hat 9. RedHat 9 uses GNOME2 by default, and we're considering installing GNOME2 onSolaris 9 (it is my understanding that Solaris 9 8/03 comes with GNOME2 bydefault).However - we have NFS shared home directories, and configuration ...

All;I am attempting to setup BSM with real secure afterthe installation and configuration it appears theaudit logs aren't writing properly or I maybe doing something wrong when trying to read theaudit files.Below is what I get from the praudit command. It justhangs. Any ideas would be greatly ...

Did Sun distribute an SNMP agent with Solaris 2.5.1? If so, what werethe package names? Apparently the Solstice Enterprise agent only came into being for 2.6 and later? We can't seem to dig one out in our cursorysearches of our old 2.5.1 CDROMs. Sun support is not being all that helpfulsince ...

Hi,one disk has problems in my StoreEdge T3 box. It's RAID5 with onestandby disk:volume capacity raid data standbyv0 253.4 GB 5 u1d1-8 u1d9After the disk problem, fru stat shows..DISK STATUS STATE ROLE PORT1 PORT2 TEMP ...

Hi All , One of my sun netra has rebooted with theerror message in /var/adm/messages with the followingmessage , Kindly suggest the reason for the machinecrash and methods to solve it from occuring again , 0 17:11:50 MCTSNG-1 unix: WARNING: [AFT1]Uncorrectable Memory Error on CPU1 Data ...

Hi all,<p>Hi folks Is there any way to know what commands were given<br>by the users during the day on a sun machine.<p>Regds and thanks <p>Geetha Thanu<br>Technical Officer<br>CDFD,Hyderabad.<p><br>-<br>

Hi all,I have a E450 running Solaris 5.6 which had a NFS file system fromsystem "X", but now system "X" is now longer on the network and Ican't umount this mount point it gives following error.nfs umount: /nani: is busyI have also tried deleted the entry in the /etc/mnttab ...