Hello All;Lot of people suggested me to look into cron, but cron is not runninganything for every 5 min. I think It's the patch level where I need tolook, uname cmd shows this.======================================# uname -aSunOS cds11744 5.7 Generic_106541-17 sun4u sparc ...

Hi Managers,has anybody else ever had difficulties with IPMP on Solaris(8/9) whileconnected to a Foundry's BigIron using GigaBit Copper? We are experiencingstrange behavior on the switch/router side in case cables areunplugged/plugged up to total failure of VRRP-functionality and ...

I was crusing along on my keyboard, installing various packages onSolaris 8 with pkgadd, and accidently installed the /dev/random patch(112438-02) with pkgadd instead of patchadd. Before I realized this, Irebooted to activate /dev/random, but it doesn't exist. A coworkersuggested trying ...

Im in the middle of hardening Solaris 9 4/03...and i want to disable<br>dynamic routing...i know this can be done wiht the route command ..im just<br>unsure as to which command it is ..<p>so what is the route command to disable dynamic routing ?<p>-- <br>Brent Bailey<br>

Hi Folks..I have attached a Sun A5200 Disk array with JNI FiberCard on an E450 system. The system does not see theexternal disk array.Any idea as to why this is the case?.The A5200 Array works with a Sun GBIC card..All suggestions are greatly appreciated__________________________________Do you ...

Im just finishing up an installed and hardening a solaris machine...fromwhat i read ..i need to install the patches that comes on the SunManagement Center CD. ..it says i have to install the sun managementcenter first ?or can i just install the patches?i guess im unsure how to install the ...

I trying to perform jumpstart using a flash archive. It seems to work butwhen it's finished extracting the archive I get this error message...ERROR: Could not stop the extractionERROR: Could not extract Flash archiveERROR: System installation failedI've seen other postings of the same ...

I have a Solaris 2.6 server with Perl 5.6.1. We have an application that isuses Perl DBI. I am trying to replicate the env for an Oracle upgrade.According to some posts I found I can only use perl DBI-Oracle with v5.6.1which I will need to compile. ( no problems there ) . How do I remove ...

The easiest/safest answer was to use the 'patchadd -u' whichunconditionally installs the patch. It worked!Thanks to all for responding.-- Jim---------- Original message ----------I was crusing along on my keyboard, installing various packages onSolaris 8 with pkgadd, and accidently installed ...

THis is a summary of the question i asked today,.Question 1... how do you disable dynamic routing on solaris 9Answer... put a file named "notrouter" in /etc/Question 2... how do i do patches of a new system...Answer... i went to ftp:sunsolve.sun.com and downloaded ...

Anyone know of a socks client for solaris 8?<p>thanks!<p>Evan<br>

Has anyone located patch T110943-04? It fixes an annoyingproblem with tcsh in Solaris 8 whereby 'ls -F' and filename completion do not work. I have a Sun Spectrum Support contract, but I cannot find this T-patch on SunSolve anywhere.Recent alert: Sun Alert ID: 57460 Synopsis: ...

Dear Managers,This might be out of scope but I've exhausted my primary source ofinformation so please allow me to ask:We are developing an application that uses the ipc messaging system andduring its tests it's receiving an EINTR signal which origin is unknown.I'd like to know if someone ...

Guy and Gals<br> <br>Anyone know where I can download a SDS for solaris 2.6 .. ?<br> <br>Renee<br>

Thanks to all that replied. It turns out that the codes are in the addpatch executable, which is just a shell script itself. Code #35 is :"Later revision already installed." I had found them inside of the MU clusters before, but didn't see the newest codes. Might be nice if the ...

Thanks for all the responses.Most people agree the CONSOLE setting should be CONSOLE=/dev/consoleThis prevents allowing users to login directly as root. Direct root access to the console is recommended for emergency situations (disk space, swap, expired user accounts etc etc where normal users ...

Well, this was pretty stupid, sorry for the noise. I hadpreviously been given the recommendation to boot from CD andthen put in CD with firmware patch on it, I wanted to verifyif this would work.Consensus is it won't, system will probably panic during firmwareupdate which is a Bad Thing.Better ...

hi,i have got an ultra 60 system which is not giving any display,i havetried to view the POST through hyperteminal on a nearby windows machinebut there was no display.the system configuration is a follows:1>12 dimms of 128mb each2>1 ultra sparc II processor3>2 display cardsi have tried ...

Hi All...<br>I've get this errro message during doing backup my things....<br>DUMP: NEEDS ATTENTION: Cannot open `carl0s:/dev/rmt/0'. Do you want to <br>retry the open?: ("yes" or "no") no<p>What are possibilities that can cause this thing.... <p>Thanks...<br>

Hello,* Apologies if this has been answered before. *We're looking at the possibility of using the Sun Fire Blade B1600 due toits high density and the ability to use multiple processor architectures.However, I would like to ask if anyone here has actual experience inmanaging it.SPARC: Were ...

G'day all,I've got a backup problem with a sun E250 on which we changed the tape drive a number of weeks ago. Directly after the change everything worked fine, until last Friday when the backup script started failing. The error we get is: '/dev/rmt/0n: write protected or reserved.'. The ...

Greetings Gurus,I have a question.....When I login to one of the UnixBoxes in the network,all my settings getchanged e.g home, aliases, and prompt etc.This happens only in one machine not with all others.This has started happening only after my loginID was included in new UnixGroup and ...

G'day All.In addition to my previous mail, I just found an install manual for the HP drive, which had an example st.conf entry in it. My syntax was wrong. I'm ashamed... Even so, the work-around doesn't work. After correcting the st.conf, and another reboot (with -r ) the drive locks up. ...

Hi managers,I'm running a squid software on a SunFire 280R (1 x 900 MHz, 2 GB memory)for my caching system. It is running with the following status:load averages: 1.02, 0.96, 0.82 Cache 15:12:5151 processes: 47 sleeping, 2 running, 1 stopped, 1 on cpuCPU states: 0.0% idle, 20.0% user, ...

It turned out in the end to have 14043 subdirectories each with a different inode number. I use the following script to fix it.#!/bin/shloop=1dir="homer"while [ -d "${dir}" ]; do echo "${loop}" loop=`expr ${loop} + 1` cd ${dir}donecd ...

Hi,I'm trying to add support for the bge network interface to SEToolkit buthave a bit of a problem mapping the kstats parameters in netif.se as it isexplained in the FAQ. My hope is that someone has already done this and arewilling to share their kstat.se and netif.se files with the ...

Hi,I'm trying to setup a new V440 from the ttyb port of another Sun machinevia the "tip hardwire" command, what is the appropriate teminal mode touse (vt100,ansi...), same question if I'm using an hyperterminal fromwindows laptop.Normally for such installation, I'm using a blackbox ...

hi,<p>our application team wants to port a script from aix to solaris. there<br>is a command setmaps in this script. is there a solaris equivalent?<p>thxs,<br>/matthias preiszl<p>-- <br>Preiszl Matthias <<A HREF="/execute/ask/?codeinfoid=28788">mailinglist at preiszl.at</A>><br>

I have a problem with Sunray server 2.0 and wondered if anyone has seen thesame problemand maybe know of a fixWe run the servers in kiosk mode so when a user logs in it automaticallylaunches a Citrix sessionThe problem I have is hot desking when a user pulls out his card from theSunray and puts ...

Hi,I am trying to install Solaris 8 2/02 on to a V100. I am using a V120 as theinstall server.When I issue "boot net -install", I get the output shown below.Thanks in advance for any help, I will summarize as soon as the problem isresolved.ok boot net -installLOM event: +1d+0h20m42s ...

I have a problem with Sunray server 2.0 and wondered if anyone has seen thesame problemand maybe know of a fixWe run the servers in kiosk mode so when a user logs in it automaticallylaunches a Citrix sessionThe problem I have is hot desking when a user pulls out his card from theSunray and puts ...

Thanks to Adam Kirby for being the first to point out that there should be aspace in the command "boot net - install" - just goes to show that whenyou're copying and pasting from a list of commands, it's important to makesure your documentation doesn't have any typos! -- Kevin ...

hiJust an update that i'm still no further on and opento suggestions on why cdrom isn't working...iinstalled the o/s from cdrom so it must have picked itup ok and it was 6 that showed then as where itwas....also it doesn't show in df so whether i'm in itor not doesn't matter as i can't cd ...

i would like to monitor my savecore filesystem for available space tohandle a savecore after a system crash.is there a way to calculate how large the vmcore file would be if thesystem crashed?I could do it with savecore -L but I don't want it to actually dumpanything to make the ...

A short while ago I asked:> Can I use my SPARC based Jumpstart server to build a x86 based> client with Solaris 9 x86 08/03. I'm having a problem running the> "setup_install_server" part cause I can't seem to read the boot> image from the CD on my Sparc server.> > ...

Hi All,Something has me stumped and after reading man pages etc, I'm not sure whatis going wrong !!I am having the same problem as this, which was in Sunmanagers archive - http://www.codeprof.com/archives/2000/0526.htmlI have added dns to /etc/nsswitch.conf as suggested in this fix, but ...

I am still struggling with the Jumpstart of my new v65x from a SPARCbased Jumpstart/Boot server. Now I get: Intel(R) Boot Agent Version 1.1.08 Copyright (C) 1997-2002, Intel Corporation CLIENT MAC ADDR: 00 0E 0C 08 66 C0 GUID: 32CA5826 279D 11D8 BE6B ...

I have a freshly installed Solaris 9 system. Im in the middle of hardeningthe system. (it will be a server at some point )anywho one of the things a read on hardening is to set in /etc/vsftabunder mount options:mount / with options "remount,nosuid"/var with options ...

Hello:I have recently tried to format and recycle some older 4.2Gb drives.When I first stuck them in a system (E250), they all powered up and showed adefault disk label/partition.However when I tried to format the first one, it appears the disk wentoffline. In any event the machine hung on the ...

Can someone please tell me where to get a socks proxy client for sol8?<br>I want to use it for ftp.<p>Thanks!<p>--------------------------<br>Sent from my BlackBerry Wireless Handheld<br>

As per below's post. forgot to mention a few things -YES - I have configured .rhosts AND hosts.equiv on BOTH servers (did bothjust to set my mind at ease)I can ping both servers hostnames from each otherI have tried this as both a regular user AND as root.Any ideas would be ...

Did anyone ever run the Device Config Assistant from a serialconsole on a V65x (or V60x or other x86 Sun platforms).Having problems with the PXE setup, I copied the DCA image on afloppy and tried to boot from that floppy. I get some boot messagesand than: SunOS Secondary Boot version 3.00 ...

Due to the CPU licensing that Oracle has, has anyone limited the amount of <br>CPU Oracle can use with Solaris Resource Manager.<p>I think it would be easier to use pbind or psrset.<p>Thanks for any info.<br>

Could anyone suggest an excellent sysAdmin book for Solaris please<p>Thanks<p>Andy<br>-- <p>perl -e 'print qq^;@) [###]^^qq^z\.MY{eLQ9^'<br>in:control developer, Telindus, RG27 9HY<br>DDI: +44 1256 709211, GSM: +44 7810 636652<br>

Hi folks,I have a SPARCstation 20 running SunOS 4.1.3_U1 released in 1995. From a month ago the clock is about three hours behind the real time. An IT staff tried to help me to reset the date but failed. And after he deleted some time/zone files, my computer got frozen. When I turned off and on ...

I wanted to thank those who replied to my post .QUESTION was --- I have a freshly installed Solaris 9 system. Im in the middle of hardening the system. (it will be a server at some point ) anywho one of the things a read on hardening is to set in /etc/vsftab under mount options: mount / with ...

Hi All, I want to connect to a Solaris telnet session using my Microsoft NT domainID .How do I need to configure it ? Can someone guide me ? Thanks and Regards,Moorthy************************************************************************** This email (including any attachments) is intended ...

I've been RTFMing, but I am truly SED illiterate. Can someone give me aone-line SED command (or AWK if that is better) to replace all CR/LF in afile with spaces? We have some 3-4 line files. We need to put all 3-4 linesinto a a single long line to format this data for upload to our ...

Hi,Anyone have a working example of a call to pset_info() ? Short of the man pages, documentation on this is pretty sparse. I'm getting hung up on the argument types.I've created a processor set and attached a CPU to the set using psrset.Any one-line examples or pointers to any other examples ...

Don't know if you have access to perl, but the one line script would bethis:perl -e 'while($l=<>){chomp $l;push(@all,$l);};print join(" ", at all);' <in_file.txt > out_file.txtthere's room for improvement------------------------------------Osvaldo C. Santanaocs42 at ...