All,<p>Where can I get Solaris for Intel? Is is possible to download from some site<br>?<br>Please let me know from where I can get this dist.<p>regards<br>Glenn<br>

Original question: http://www.codeprof.com/pipermail/codeprof/2003-August/024529.html Thanks to Casper Dik for the (only) reply:| Check that ufsboot was properly installed during the upgrade. So I re-ran installboot, and all seems ok now after a reboot. No thanks to the lusers who can't set ...

Hi,Curious. Within minutes of posting this summary I've had a rash of new respondents (who presumably missed the original post) all of who are having similar nightmares to me. The balance currently stands at 80% with problems. DIMMs and CPU board replacements are top of the list, with a couple ...

Hi gurus,Pls let me know if any one have procedure to upgradebind 8.2.2 to bind 8.4.1, if some on has already done,inputs will be welcome, I have solaris 2.7 with bind 8.2.2, planning toupgrade to Solaris 2.8 with bind 8.4.1. thoughts/problems faced during the same are of greathelp.Thanks in ...

Hi gurus,I am planning to have PC netlink software for passwordsync between windows NT domain and unix nis domain, if any of you have inputs/thoughts to share will bewelcome, The NT PDC is on windows nt 4.0 and NIS master is onsolaris 2.7Thanks in ...

I added a two external disks t3 and t4 (mirrored) to create an extra FS on a server. I already have and existing replicas on my internal disks. Do I still need to create replicas on t3 and t4. Pls advise. # metadb flags first blk block count a m p luo ...

Hi Guys,I have successfully installed bind 9 but I am having some issues with doinga nslookup from my internal network.>nslookup google.comServer: shinda.chamkila.orgAddress: 192.168.0.5DNS request timed out. timeout was 2 seconds.*** Request to shinda.chamkila.org timed-outThen when ...

Help,Does anyone have any idea on how to debug this? I do know these are tape SDLT related errors.Sep 2 11:33:16 chi-backup scsi: [ID 365881 kern.info] /pci at 8,600000/pci at 1/scsi at 2,1 (glm3):Sep 2 11:33:16 chi-backup Cmd (0xb5b58ac8) dump for Target 3 Lun 0:Sep 2 11:33:16 ...

OK, I give up. I've been trying to find some hint as to the direction Sun plans to take with it's hardware platform. I've found lots of info about their philosophy and products (aside from hardware). I'm hoping someone out there may have some inkling as to where they are planning to go ...

Hi all, I have a sun e3500 with Solaris 8 and I have the next situacion: Some users close the terminals emulators (on pc's) without logoutfrom the system, others reboot or shutdown yours pc's without logout. Sometimes, these proccess stay alive on the system and consuming toomuch cpu ...

Hi all,I am having a bit of trouble booting a netrax1 from cd. I have tried thisbefore and usually at the ok prompt boot cdrom works fine. However when Itry it on this machine I get the errorok boot cdrom Boot device: /pci at 1f,0/ide at d/cdrom at 2,0:f File and args:Can't open ...

Hello,How do you install staroffice as root and have other users be able to use it. I installed (./setup ) with no errors and the /opt/staroffice6.0 dir has good permissions. When root runs soffice it starts fine. But when a non-root user runs soffice, it gives the following:The application ...

Solaris 8 Mu7<p>I have an nfs client and i need to refresh the /net directory<p>Without having to resort to rebooting, is there a way of doing that?<p>i tried autofs stop;autofs start and it gave:<br>mount: /net/server/path busy<p>Thanks<p>Karl<br>

I replaced both disk drives on a Tatung Sun Ultra 10and am now getting "Trap 3e" when I power on the systemor issue 'reset' at the OK promptHOWEVER, it boots fine when I type the command, boot. ok bootWhat changes do I need to make to get this system to bootat power on?eeprom, ...

Hi Guys,Thanks, to Lars Hecking, Crist Clark and James Zhao for their quickresponse. The fix was to take out the forwarders options in my/etc/named.conf file, which seems to have fixed the issue I was having.Also, the secret rndc_key that I posted is not the oneI am using :) but thanks for ...

Hi managers.. I patch my Solaris 8 box, when try apply a patch send this message: One or more patch packages included in XXXXXX-YY are not installed on this system. Patchadd is terminating. Workaround: Ignore the message But....it's right? SUN docs say > Mario ...

List-I have more then 50 boxes and users sometime requires sudo access to themon need basis. This makes me logon to server edit the file and enable theaccess and then disable off-course. It very time consuming.Any sharp minds !!! I am thinking of creating a web interface and allowaccess to my ...

Sir,Can i use prstat of solaris 2.8 on my solaris 7 OS. I tried it but I am not able to excute it.I get theerror "prstat: cannot find/execute "prstat" in ISAsubdirectories"Can anyone tell me is there any way to run this.ThanksGirish__________________________________Do you ...

Dear Sun gurus,I dont know if this is relevant or not in this posting but anyway...if i have a *.wav file and i want to convert it to an audio file ( *.au) so that i can hear it in the Sun workstation but i don't know how to do this.i tried using the audioconvert -p command, but i got this ...

Dear Managersi received an email from ORDB.org that my servers is listed on their databaseas spam server ,can any one of u refer me to some site or documents to securemy server and Sendmail ,i m using Sendmail 8.10.2 on Solaris 8 operatingenvironmentmy server was sucesfully removed from their ...

Iam sorry, i forgot to put the subject earlier.Thanks.From: "Dinesh Kelvin Paul" <dinduman14 at hotmail.com>To: codeprof at codeprof.comSubject: (no subject)Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2003 16:30:24 +0800Dear Sun gurus,I dont know if this is relevant or not in this posting but anyway...if ...

We have configured lp with a printer called deskjet.We print lp -d deskjet -n2 /etc/hosts ; it only prints one copy of thefile.We do lp -d deskjet -n 2 /etc/hosts; it does the same.We are running Solaris 8.Thanks in advance for any help.RegardsSujit-----------------------------------Sujit ...

Good Morning Sunmanagers, We have a R420 SUN Server with an A1000 Array. After boot up we are unableto see the array and we receive the following message."/usr/lib/osa/bin/arraymon: No RAID devices found to check". We tried bothSolaris 2.6 and Solaris 8 and get the same message. A ...

(original post at the end)Tx to Azzopardi Konrad who gave me the courage to play around with the serial console of the A1000, I managed to get my controller back online.Here's how:1) connect via a null-modem cable to the serial console of the a1000. I had to use settings of 2400/8-N-1 and no ...

Hi,<p>I've heard about "Sun Blade1500", does any one have any information<br>about it.<p>Regards,<p>[demime 1.01b removed an attachment of type text/x-vcard which had a name of rachid.boukhari.vcf]<br>

Anyone know what's happened to it. It doesn't seem to be answering anymore<br>

I asked for alternative locations to download Solaris 9 binaries: http://ftp.pucpr.br/sunfreeware/ftp.htmlwww.blastwave.org http://solaris-freeware.saix.net/planetmirror.comftp://ftp.uio.no/sun/sunfreeware/sparc/5.9ftp.ibiblio.org http://www.fstha.comThanks to all of you who ...

Hello List,Last week we began implementing a SAN including 2 silkworm 3800switches, an EVA 2c8d array and an HP LTO tape library. The library isattached to the fabrics via 2 network storage routers, NSRs. One NSR hasthe robot and 2 tapedrives and the other NSR has the additional 2 tapedrives. ...

Hello,I have an external scsi hd that is 9 gb that I use to boot off of my U5's for cloning. On this system I installed an internal 80 drive. Booted off of the 9gb drive fine, did format and labled the new 80 drive. Usually I create the slices and ufsdump on the new disk. But this time I tried ...

HI Manager:<p>Is it possible to replicate from V4.16 to V5.1sp2HF2 ? If yes, can you<br>provide me with support document or steps to complete this task. As usual I<br>will summarize.<p>__Farshid<br>

Generally, how to determine a system to use RAID0 or RAID5? Based on what?<p>Thanks in advance!<p>Hong<br>

Hi list,<br> <br>I am running Solaris 8 on Sun Fire server, I noticed nslookup, mailq commands just hang. Truss output is not much helpful, anyone know how to fix this?.<br>Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software<br>

Recently, three Ultra 1 servers were upgraded from Solaris 7 toSolaris 8 (in-nplace) plus the latest Security & Recommended patches.Now the machines are exhibiting very high CPU utilization by init, ie.prstat or top show CPU utilization by init somewhere around 80 to 90 %.Has anyone ...

I have an odd problem with a downed, unplumbed gigabit nic. My server is aV480, running Solaris 8 [kernel: Generic_108528-22] and in addition to thetwo onboard gigabit nics [ce1,ce2], there is also a gigabit fibre card[ce0]. Only ce1 has an active, plumbed nic with a working networkconnection. ...

A few people responded with yes I was hosed. But Darren Dunham replied with this:"The data displayed is coming from the label, which was copied from the other disk.I would try destroying the label and then having Solaris construct a new one.dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s2 bs=1b ...

Folks,Thanks to several folks who offered assistance with this, but we found thatthere is a bug with Some V880 Boards attached to new generation Switches. Aparticular binary sequence in the payload would freeze up the session forFTP or NFS or NetBackup or whatever. Curious indeed, payload ...

> > I asked for alternative locations to download> > Solaris 9 binaries:> >> > http://ftp.pucpr.br/sunfreeware/ftp.html> > www.blastwave.org> > http://solaris-freeware.saix.net/> > planetmirror.com> > ftp://ftp.uio.no/sun/sunfreeware/sparc/5.9> ...

Managers, We have been using JumpStart for our Solaris 8 machines for quite awhile now with great success. However, we have recently installed Solaris 9to our JumpStart server and are having issues while installing some of thepackages required for Sun Volume Manager. The errors reported ...

Thanks to the following people:"Liston Bias" <bias at pobox.com"shailen_singh" <shailen_singh at indiatimes.com>"Justin Stringfellow" <Justin.Stringfellow at Sun.COM>"Vizdy" vd129052 at helix.India.Sun.COMas Justin Stringfellow summarized ...

Dear Sun Managers,Where can I find the list of supported FC-AL cards for Solaris 9 12/03 , x86 version ? Thanks in advance.Regards,Andrew__________________________________Do you Yahoo!?Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design ...

Hello,I'm planning to setup a new solaris server. This new server will be used asa data warehouse with Oracle 9i.I've read the differences between solaris 8 and solaris 9, as well as thenew features (ipmp, svm, threading, etc...) that the new version has, but Ihave no idea about how solaris 9 ...

> Hi>> I have a Sun Enterprise 4500 connected to a Micro Annex Terminal> Concentrator but I just can't seem to get a console through the> annex. I can't even get a tip session from the admin port (1). What> could possibly be wrong? I have checked my cables as well as my> ...

Hi list,<br>Where do I make changes to configure Jumpstart to install Entire distribution?, I noticed Jumpstart is installing basic OS, please let me know.<br>Thanks<br>Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software<br>

sorry for my late reply, and thanks to marco.breedeveld, walter heukels, sean berry and andres rojas.for the fisrt part, a save set is 2GB big, so to save 14GB, there is need of several save sets idfor the second part, i can't reproduct the problem, now it worksinstead of using scanner, ...

I am part of a team of administrators responsible for moving from an older 2.6 machine where some users had root to a newer 5.8 machine and sudo. This is being done for reasons of security, auditing, and configuration management (e.g., "who broke httpd.conf?").However, these users are ...

Hello,I try to use a 256 MB flash disk under Solaris 8 on a SunBlade 100.I cannot find any documentation about USB at Sunsolve.how to mount and manage USB disk devices under Solaris 8 or 9 ?When I connect the usb device, I can see in the /var/adm/messages :Sep 4 12:17:12 zanzibar pcipsy: [ID ...

All,I'm looking for some feedback for individuals who have been tasked bytheir company to move away from using r* services (rsh, rlogin, andrexec). It seems that SSH is the best fit for a drop-in replacement aswe already use it on a daily basis on our Solaris boxen.However, some of our ...

Hello Guru's,The problem:we have a T3+ at our disposal in the lab. It was previously used in anunknown configuration/environment. We just want to reset it andconfigure anew. The problem we have is that it constantly reboots. Wecan "hit enter to cancel within 3 seconds" to stop ...

System=UE450, Sol8, 3 x 300MHz x 4GBAn lpstat command shows this;#lpstat -o cohpisd007cohpisd007-54197 macevedo 146118 Sep 02 14:47 canceledcohpisd007-204 macevedo 63764 Sep 03 14:50 canceledcohpisd007-298 macevedo 67973 Sep 03 15:01 ...

Folks,We were installing some Fujitsu 73 GB drives in our V880 and noticed thatonly the fujitsu 73's had a quirk for the last digit of the WWN. For thesame FC/AL disk, the last digit would change based on what path was used toreach it. On a 280R (with no redundant internal pathing), the last ...