I have a nice Dell TFT screen but my Ultra-10 won't recognise thatit is connected to the SVGA port and the screen isn't activated orany screen signals output.Has anyone else had this problem?I want to get rid of all the large heavy Sun monitors at work to savemy poor broken back...Maybe ...

Continuing in my troubleshooting of a D1000 that experienced problemsearlier, I've managed to get all but one of the Veritas controlledpartitions (volumes?, plexes?) back up and running. That last statementshould indicate that I'm not well versed in Veritas, and I'm really notunderstanding ...

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Sorry about the first posting which didn't go through correctly...==================================================================If have three V440s with the ALOM network management port setup. I cantelnet to that port on all three servers, but on two of the servers I can'tget a write ...

"Let it be known that Mike McShane once said.."> I've scoured the 'net and have come up short. Does anyone know of any> drivers for 3com or Intel PCI cards that I can run under Sol8 on a> SunBlade 100? Or, perhaps a driver for a NIC that I could pick up at> Best ...

My Question wasHi,> > One of our developers has written a simple shell script which monitors> (greps) a process and if this monitored process does not exist, it starts> it. > > This script is run as a user as a backround job (script &) from a command> line and then ...

What is the determing ifconfig setting to help match the proper MTU for a PPPoE aDSL connection so thatmy mail server TIMEOUT errors subside?Running Solaris 9 Ultra 10Current ifconfig is# ifconfig -alo0: flags=1000849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4> mtu 8232 index 1 inet ...

Hi!I have a problem with VXVM 3.5 in Solaris 9.VxVM not recognizes the array as a SE 3510 however it recognizes like afabric* array. This happened when I disabled the Veritas DMP driver fromthe server, while I enabled Traffic Manager and then reboot.Anyone knows how can I do it?Thanks in ...

Hi All, I want to use my entire EIDE 20GB hard drive. Currently, I have Solaris8 installed on an Ultra 5 and I can only see 8GB.I noticed a hit in the archive that deals with this issue. So I triedrunning the command: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rdsk/c0t1d0s2 bs=1b count=16it did some things like ...

Hi AllThanks to all who replied . Special thanks to Crist Clarkthe suggested solution worked for me. It was the DNS lookup problem....RegardsManish> -----Original Message-----> From: MANISH OBERAI (WT01 - TELECOM & INTER-NETWORKING SOLUTIONS)> Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 ...

Hi all,I have a problem with memtool. I need to know the amount of memory that oracle processes are consuming. I probe with ps, but it not show me the anonymous memory it is consuming.I find memtool (RMCmem), but memps not show me oracle processes.I probe "pmem ORACLE_PID" and obtain: ...

Dear readers,there's a problem when turning on brand new Sun Fire 280R without a videocard. Server doesn't print any messages to terminal.An ascii terminal (Tera Term Pro, 9600/8N1) is connected to A port,and turned on first. I'm using cisco serial cable with RJ-45/DB9 jacks.I also tried ...

Hi folks,I want to run this one by you to see if any of you have any suggestions. - Apologies in advance for the long winded mail.We recently had a lot of spurious error messages in /var/adm/messages on one of our servers after presenting new disks from an external storage array using JNI fibre ...

Hi managers,I currently have CDE running through VNC on a solaris 8 server. An applicationwe run requires that we have a valid CDE X-windows session running at alltimes for this purpose. The current setup runs fine, but once a month thesession automatically logs itself out and returns to the ...

Dear Sun Managers,I'm able to determine the number of inodes currentlyin use in a particular VxFS (Veritas) filesystem, run'df -g' on the filesystem in question, and thensubtract the reported number of "free files" from thereported number of "total files".BUT I would like ...

Just to share some real world performance comparison :We moved our DataWarehouse app (ETL with Syncsort/UnixShell/Cobol + Database[DSS] with Oracle 8.1.7.4-32bits + Solaris 8-64bits) : - From a Sun E6500 : 18 x Ultrasparc 2 @ 400 Mhz, 24 Gb memory- To a Fujitsu PW900 : 8 x SPARC64-V @ 1,3 Ghz ...

Hello Gurus!I am experiencing a problem with a Sun Ultra 10 running Solaris 2.6. Uponbooting, I get an UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY error from fsck when it tries tocheck /. Every subsequent filesystem check also fails for the same reason.This causes the boot process to fail.When I login in ...

Hi, thanks to the people who replied, original questionwas how to establish secure connections to externalNetbackup clients. Aaron M. Hirsch and Ann Kurokawapointed to stunnel (www.stunnel.org):"stunnel program is designed to work as SSL encryptionwrapper between remote clients and ...

Hi Folks,Thanks to the following, in order of mail receipts: Adrian PhippsShailendra DawaneEugene SchmidtOne said a reboot did the trick, which wasn't an option for me as this is a production server, and the other two said to use the vxedit command, to wit :# vxedit -g rootdg set failing=false ...

Hi Managers, I've got 2 AIT tape drives ( rmt/2 and rmt/3 ) connected to a V880for the last 2 years they where running without problems. Suddenly thetranfer rate on one of these tape drives has gone down. While rmt/3 hastranfer rates between 5 to 8MB, rmt/2 only reaches 1.5 to 2.3MB. If I ...

A bit of background on this problem. We've got two sparc Solaris 9 Sunfire V480Rsin a Veritas cluster with the cluster managed by VCS. The cluster offers nfs servicesto a large number of workstations. When i benchmarked the i/o speeds to the cluster,i found that the read bandwidth was high, ...

Just a quick note: After going thru a (QUITE painful) qmail install onOpenBSD, I noted that a standard Qmail installation uses a series ofprograms called daemontools (also written by same author of qmail).Daemontools does EXACTLY this.It Supervises that a process continually runs, and restarts ...

Hi All,I have a server that is exhibiting strange tendencies :)It is a V440 with 8GB Memory and 4 x 1062Mhz CPU's and fibre attachedinternal disks.This system is running Oracle 8.0.5.2.1 Database and Oracle Apps 11.0.3.It runs fine for a while and suddenly hangs up. What happens is that ...

Hello the NetExpert,I have only 1 network interface (eri0) and this is the exist network config :Hostname : hostaHost IP Address : 172.16.1.6/etc/hosts :## Internet host table#127.0.0.1 localhost 172.16.1.6 hosta hosta.buana.co.id loghost172.16.1.7 hostb hostb.buana.co.id/etc/netmasks ...

I have encountered a major problem with SunPCi 3.2, and was wondering whether anyone has experienced similar issues. We deploy SunPCi the follwing way: - an initial W2k image is created, and W2k installed on it - shared networking is configured as described in the user's guide - all required ...

Hi, we have a setup where remote hosts are configured as LDAP clients, and we"ssh -X remoteuser at remotehost" where <remoteuser> doesn't have ahomedirectory on <remotehost>. In this case, the remote sshd attempts tosave the X11-cookie into remoteuser's homedir, but ...

Many thanks to the following:Allan WestAndrew CainesAsif IqbalDavid BoothMitchell BruntelWilliam ColeDebbie Tropiano"hike1272-sunhelp"And the list continues to grow as so many others were willing to take thetime out to respond. So if your name is not listed, it is not on purpose,but ...

Since I kept receiving comments on my summary I'll include this addendum.> > 3. to be able to log onto other systems on the network as root.This was a typo as I do not want this user even getting close to the othersystems so I apologize for the confusion this comment caused everyone.The ...

I have a Solaris 4/04 Beta that Sun let me take a look at to work with some of the Blade 2500s we bought, but I don't want to put a whole lot of effort into it if I can't upgrade easily to the 4/04 final when it comes out.. Has anyone done this with previous beta -> full release of Solaris ...

I am going to summarize as I have gotten little response. The basic consensus - most of which I already knew - is that the routers are not allowing or are erroneously setting DF (dont fragment.)I am trying to determine if my system is causing this. Solaris has always acted strangely over ...

Hi guys,By a stupid mistake I've renamed the /usr/lib/ld.so.1 file, the resultis taht I could'nt excute any command . How can I manage to resolvethis problem.I don't want to reboot the machine and boot from cdrom on a single usermode , some daemons are running and I could'nt stop the ...

Thanks everyone for your Assistance.Here are the findings. In random order.1) www.adminschoice.com - has some decent basic basic stuff2) http://www.eng.auburn.edu/pub/mail-lists/ssastuff/ - has some useful links3) www.cuddletech.com/veritas - BEST ON THE WEB in my opinion4) ...

Hi List,I just set up a V440 attached to a Hitachi disk array without any problems. Myproblems start when I try toftp a large file (>70GB) to that disk array (or to internal disk)... Once thefile size gets up to 22GB, the ftpstops. I've tried several times, and each time it stops at the ...

Running Solaris 2.6 trying to install patch 105181-35... ap03:/root>patchadd -d /tmp/105181-35 Checking installed packages and patches...Executing prepatch script... Do you wish to continue this installation {yes or no} [yes]? (by default, installation will continue in 60 ...

Thanks to everyone who respnded (and very quickly, too)Looks as thought the problem was on the system I was pushing the file from...WhenI ftp'd using "get" on my V440, it worked like a champ...I found some info on Sun's site regarding setting that might help on my NICcard, as ...

Problem: Dtpower does not start on CDE or command line.Thu Feb 12 10:03:24 2004 (/usr/dt/bin/dtexec) /usr/dt/bin/dtpowerWarning: Cannot convert string "-monotype-arial-regular-r-normal--*-140-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1" to type FontStructSystem Enterprize 220R, Solaris 9 with Feb 04, 2004 ...

Sorry for the attached pic but I am in a jam and don't know how to fix myproblem.I run all my sun servers in a text/command line mode only. I have an E250that I wish to install a piece of software but the problem is that theinstallation program only runs in a GUI fasion. I have a Xsession ...

Hi Gurus, I've just had one of production go down and after Irebooted and check the logs all I it tells me is that the system is bootingafter a fatal error FATAL, the system is a E450 with 4cpu @400mhz, 2 gigsof mem. It is a critical production server so I would like to prevent thisfrom ...

Thanks a lot to all who've answered ;The solution is to use commands in /usr/sbin/static which are staticallylinked and don't need this library. I used /usr/sbin/static/mv.To use that you must have already a console on the system. I've reachedfrom the serial port.Regards,Rachid,[demime 1.01b ...

Memtool Solaris 2.6: http://playground.sun.com/pub/memtoolOn some Solaris 2.6 installations... I can load the kernelmodule for MemTool. Howerver on others I can't... has anyoneseen this problem and knows a solution?Most of the applications work... but the ones that depend on theloadable module ...

Hi,<p>My "last" command does not work anymore...It will show only<br>the information for the month of Dec. 2003, nothing for Jan<br>and Feb. 2004.<p>Jennifer<br>

Hi,I need a external usb storage device for sunray applicancesystem...We have about 1000 sunray applicance(thin client) and twoV880 sunray server...and i need some kind of externalstorage device that can be connected to the sunrayapplicance 1--it has two unuse usb port on the back of ...

Hi dear partners: i'am new in the backups and systems recovery, for this can you help me, to chose which server backup, open source, is better for a Data Base ? I have 2 Sun Enterprise 450 and want to make a mirror o system backup for a uninterrumped service for the DB.. ...

Hello again,Thanks for the replies, though none of them close to solving the problem.My problem boiled down to multiuser login working fine yet in single usermode I could not login at all. Doing truss on login I stumbled upon the useof the 'pam_debug' file. Touching this file and rebooting ...

Hello,When doing an SSH connection from a Solaris 8 machine to a Debian Linux machine using OpenSSH 3.7.1p2 and tunneling port 23 (telnet) back over a non-standard port, I notice that connections to the Solaris 8 machine through the tunnel cause this to be printed:connect_to ::1 port 23: ...

Storage gurus,1) Can you mix them with A5200 through Brocades/Sanboxes (and is thissupported) 2) What's the deal with only 2 LUNs? 3) Can you mirror across arrays (w/o Volume Manager) 4) Will the controller tell OS "written" and cacheand write later (good for oracle redo logs) 5) ...

Hi all, I am using a Solaris 8 workstation.When ever I do 'rlogin' to another station, I find that there is some sort of hesitation between keyboard & the display.There is no delay when I rlogin or when it requests for a password, It happens when I randomly type some characters at the ...

Dear Sun managers,First it looks a lot of actual tape devices don't support tar appending (the'r' and 'u' parameters).In my case and for my Tandberg DLT100 I think it was confirmed by themessages in /var/adm, which reported an "Illegal request" error straightright from the ...

Dear SunManagersCurrently we are running NIS+ on a domain with a single root master , this machine isa Blade 100 , running Solaris 8.Each night a cumulative incremental backup of the server is taken using Veritas Datacenterto SDLT tape. At the weekends tow full backups are made of the ...

Hi All<p>I have looked most places I can think of and cannot find any rip/encode<br>to MP3 software so I can get my audio CD's to MP3 on my Ultra 10.<p>Anyone have experience of such software?<p>Thanks<p>Peter<br>