[SUMMARY] E420R with very high kernel activity (how to debug)

4456 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 2:58:00
Platform: E420R, Sun T3+ fibre-channel, Solaris 8, 108528-27 kernel patch, recent recommended patches installedI realized after the first few responses that I should have been lookingat this as an NFS tuning problem...at first I thought I had a kernelproblem. Turns out both were correct, ...

remote restore after boot cdrom

2000 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 2:58:00
I'm trying to recover an E450 using ufsrestore and the tape drive on another server, an E250, both Solaris 8 revision 10/00 with recent patches.The backups were done using ufsdump over the same path I'm trying to use for recover.The difference is that I'm trying to restore when I am booted ...

SUMMARY: A1000 battery question

1470 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 2:58:00
Well...the votes are unanimous (for the most part), and the answer is yes,they are hot swappable.So far I have swapped out 4 batteries - 4 remaining, and I have not had anissue as of yet. I took the suggestion to disable write cache on the arraysabout 15 minutes prior to replacing the battery ...

upgrade CommandPost (PEM)

427 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 2:58:00
Hi all,We have 2 sites (Production and DRC) that installed CommandPost (PEM) fromBMC. Right now both operating system are RS/6000 AIX but in future we have aplan to upgrade our CommandPost(PEM) and change the Production siteoperating systems into SUN Solaris.Please advise me - What we have ...

dmfe1: PHY 1 link down, dmfe1: PHY 1 link down

2059 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 2:58:00
Gurus, Need your help again. I already consulted sunsolve.sun.com but I can't see the solution. Our dmfe network interface on our netraX1 suddenly gives an error. This has been working for long time. The error message is shown below. What should I check/do to determine the root cause of the ...

OT: smtp benchmarking

565 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 2:58:00
HiSorry for the OffTopic mail. Has anybody come across any tool (preferably free) for smtp benchmarking. I need a tool which is capable of simulating mails with mime attachments. I have used smtp-source but it cannot process attachmentsThanks in ...

PHP for Solaris 8

724 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 2:58:00
Hi all,Can anybody direct me to a site where I can download PHP for Solaris8?regardsAdrian Phipps90 Durban RoadIT BuildingBellvilleWork 021-949 4642Cell 082 787 7321Fax 021-945 4740 <<Picture (Metafile)>>==================================================================This e-mail ...

SUMMARY: PHP for Solaris 8

1577 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 2:58:00
Thanks for the replies,I was actually looking for a binary version but it looks like I willhave to settle for the download on www.php.netAdrian Phipps90 Durban RoadIT BuildingBellvilleWork 021-949 4642Cell 082 787 7321Fax 021-945 4740 <<Picture (Metafile)>>> -----Original ...

nbu db backup problem

1040 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 2:58:00
Hi all,I posted this problem on the veritas-bu mailing list and I got noresponse. I am hoping some kind person in codeprof can assist orpoint me in the right direction.Setup:Recently upgraded from NBU 3.4 to 4.5 FP6. Running on Solaris 8with L9 drive.Current problem:After a backup schedule ...

free block in df -g

1084 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 2:58:00
Dear Sun Managers,I need some pointer and clarification on this.When df -g show:/data03 (/dev/md/dsk/d73 ): 8192block size1024 frag size120324236 total blocks 53337766 free blocks 52134524available14470400 total files 9232378 free files 22282313 filesys id ufs ...

Arp Watch

492 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 2:58:00
Hi all, I have a ultra 10 system with 2 Fast Ethernet Interface , both areconnected to different networks. I want to track all the using IP address onone of the network. I have installed arpwatch on that system.I am using command arpwatch -i home3 It's giving bellow error.arpwatch: bad ...

help how to recover from a filesystem reformatted

1140 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 2:58:00
hello,i did a very bad thing, instead of upgrading a blade station, i did an install, so i lost files on a particular partition.But, perhaps, i can recover some files, because the partition /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s3 was only reformatted, but not modified since the last rebootif i do:od -c ...

SUMMARY: Dual Head on SB1000

1183 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 2:58:00
Good morning all,With thanks to the following people (Wolf, Ryan, Pablo, Reni, Howard, Paul,Rick, Sean, and a couple more that I accidentally deleted the email), we wereable to get this customer up and running as requested.In order to activate dual heads on a Sun machine with 2 video cards, you ...

sa1 - system activity report error

1670 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 2:58:00
Hi - has anyone seen the error I seem to be getting as outlined below?**Your "cron" job on xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/usr/lib/sa/sa1produced the following output:sadc: can't lock data file: Resource temporarily unavailable**Platform:Sun E220R 512mb RAMSolaris 9 - 112233-11The crontab for ...

Snmp question

1062 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 2:58:00
Hello,I'm trying to set up a CPU usage monitoring with ucdavis snmp. I've read ina tutorial which says to sum up this 3 variables:ssCpuRawUser + ssCpuRawSystem + ssCpuRawNice to get an active cpu usagevalue.The problem is that ssCpuRawNice seems to not exists in Solaris.bash-2.00# snmpwalk -c ...

Jumpstart

775 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 2:58:00
Hi everyoneI am still having problems with my jumpstart server (you may have seenmy previous posts).Unfortunatley, I am a relative novice when it comes to jumpstart and theserver was built by a contractor who has no left.When I boot net a Sunfire V120 from the jumpstart server (Solaris 802/02) ...

Need log scanner in pkgadd format

438 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 2:58:00
Hi all!Can anyone reccomend a good log scanner for sol8? it must be in a pkgaddformat.I was looking at swatch but cant seem to find a pkgadd version on google orsunfreeware.I use big brother but can't seem to fine tune the log scanning enough. Iwant to get emails on certain log entries in ...

"Solaris Crash Analysis Tool" Documentation?

163 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 2:58:00
Does any one have any good documentation on the "Solaris Crash Analysis <br>Tool"?<br>Can't find much of anything on the net/etc.<p>thanks,<br>David<br>

[SUMMARY] remote restore after boot cdrom

4513 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 2:58:00
I got several replies that could have been useful. After sorting through them, the first one I tried did it. Additional possible answers came from Padraig Lennon, Kristianto Setiawan, and Peter Bauer.The BINGO goes to Chuck <steeler_dude99 at yahoo.com>:-------- Chuck's Answer ...

Static Route Setup

648 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 2:59:00
Hello:I am working on setting up static routes for some Solaris 9 servers and wanted to get some feedback from you in regards to your experiences, best practices for this in Solaris.Have tried to work with /etc/gateways to no avail and the docs available don't offer much help. Found some that ...

what is problem in case?

772 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 2:59:00
Dear Sunmanagers...^^what is problem in case?we using system are sun system that theSunFire-v480(SunOS8) and S1 storEdge when i boot on OBP Level, the S1 storEdge disks deviceis not display (probe-scsi or probe-scsi-all)what is problem?more information Please help me..$Q$LGood luck to ...

Two networks on one nic

523 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 2:59:00
Hi everybody...We have a SunBlade running Solaris 8 and one Ultra 1 with Solaris 2.5.1Is there a way so I can configure two networks on just one nic?I've read that I just must add the new host ip & name to /etc/hosts, thenew netmask to /etc/netmasks and finally just have to add a file ...

TIMEZONE issue

979 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 2:59:00
All,I'm confused.... (no change there then!)I have 2 Netra T1's running sol8 - I needed to change the timezone settingsfor them. Created the required file in /usr/share/lib/zoneinfo/src and thenran 'zic' on it, I then edited /etc/TIMEZONE to point to the new zonefile Icreated. Rebooted ...

E10000 boot disk - failing to boot it on a E420

8043 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 2:59:00
Hi Fellow Forumers, Few weeks ago I submitted a question about trying to boot an originallyE10000 installed boot disk on other platform. The feedback was great, and thanks again to those who shared theirexperience. But... when we tried it in real life some weird and unexpected things ...

Why can't I push a new NIS map

3141 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 2:59:00
Hi,My NIS master is brscs14 running Solaris 8 Generic_108528-26 and is pushing all my standard map OKI have just added the project map entry to the Makefile and it just sits there at :-root: makeupdated projectIf I run :-root: /usr/lib/netsvc/yp/yppush -v -h brscs12 -d brs.infineon.com ...

SUMMARY: Static Route Setup

1998 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 2:59:00
Thank you to all that responded. Provided a lot of insight into this issue.Thanks again,Lauri->-----Urspr|ngliche Nachricht----->Von: codeprof-bounces at codeprof.com>[mailto:codeprof-bounces at codeprof.com] Im Auftrag von Lauri>Bettencourt>Gesendet: Donnerstag, 4. Mdrz 2004 ...

e10k hardware config?

616 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 2:59:00
Hey all,I'm back again.. This time with a brain teaser... Atleast for me...I have an e10k that is remotely located (Different continent) in a lights outdata center I have remote access to the SSP.I need to be able to run a command or commands that will tell me what theconfiguration is in the ...

luxadm doesn't see A5200

1215 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 2:59:00
Gurus,We recently hooked up an A5200 to an old Sun clone (e420 equivalent) viaan Emulex LP8000.The system sees the disks via format3. c2t0d0 <SEAGATE-ST336704FC-FA17 cyl 13978 alt 2 hd 12 sec 424> /pci at 4,4000/lpfc at 2/sd at 0,0[...] 24. c2t26d0 ...

Hi.I am experiencing a problem booting up a Suun Ultra UltraSPARC-IIi box running Solaris.When

1893 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 2:59:00
Hi.I am experiencing a problem booting up a Suun Ultra UltraSPARC-IIi box running Solaris.When booting, just after displaying the boot message(banner), I get the following error repeated many times scrolling down the screen.INITSH: /dev/console^M: cannot open INITSH: /dev/console^M: cannot open ...

SUMMARY: Need log scanner in pkgadd format

180 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 2:59:00
several people reccomended "logcheck" from sunfreeware.<br>thank you very much!<p>Evan Gold<br>Financial Security Assurance<br>Tel: 212.893.2762<br>Fax: 212.339.0852<br>

RCP error....

1462 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 2:59:00
Hi Gurus....Anyone know something about this:03/04/04 03:08:57 PM nsrd: RPC connect to nsrmmd failedIcant open "nsrwatch, nwadmin...etc"Thank.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...

Weird results from df -k

951 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 2:59:00
wnpir_ccm_1_2_13:> df -kFilesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 5038454 2334205 2653865 47% //proc 0 0 0 0% /procfd 0 0 0 0% /dev/fdmnttab ...

v1280

659 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 2:59:00
Does anyone out there have a v1280? Can you let me know what the devicenames for the 72gb internal drives are?I jumpstarted it using a flash archive of a 4800 w/ 2 A1000's. My jumpstartprofile used c1t0d0s0 to define the partitioning. It worked fine but when Ibooted, the dsk devices were - ...

SUMMARY: Docs on SPARC station IPC

3197 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 2:59:00
Thanks to everyone who email me.I should have been more specific in my original post. I know that theeeprom has nothing to do with the failure to get a login prompt.I was looking to reactive the 'help' command. Since 'power-off' returns a'?', I was looking for other commands to power ...

cluster monitoring

263 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 2:59:00
I have a Sun Cluster 3.0 implementation. The cluster failover between servers<br>quite often. Is there a easy way to determine how long cluster was active on<br>each node.<br>Also is there way to redirect the log to other than to /var/adm/messages.<p>Thanks<br>

Solaris ldapclient (use of -B switch)

2333 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 2:59:00
Hi all. We're migrating Debian GNU/Linux, Solaris 8 and AIX 4.3.3 (to beupgrade to AIX 5 shortly) boxes to centralised LDAP user authentication.I've been involved in projects like this before and it is proceeding ok.We have a requirement for users to be members of different groups ...

SUMMARY:Login to locked accounts

1269 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 2:59:00
Hello Managers,I am pasting the summary for the problem below.The problemwas:I want to configure a LOGIN ID in such a way that the accountshould belocked and also ordinary users should be able to do "su" into thataccount andget a shell to work.Is there any possibility of doing ...

SUMMARY : New routing table - Solaris

4665 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 2:59:00
Sorry for late SUMMARY,I got several replies that could have been useful. Some people comment to add NIC, run command 'route', and *not impossible* Thanks to Bageshwar Kumar,Peter Stokes, Darren Dunham, James Zhao,Crist Clark, Jim Seymour, Russel Page for their response.Any way, the routing ...

SUMMARY: Solaris 8 UFS logging

1544 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 2:59:00
Thanks to all who responded. Just about everyone whowrote said that they use the logging mount option on theirfile systems with great success. The biggest advantageseems to be recovering from an ungraceful shutdown. Forwhatever reasons the engineers who performed the original installs on my ...

T3 on V880 won't "export" its RAID volume to host

5608 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 2:59:00
Hi,I have a V880 / Solaris 8 with 12 FC-AL disks and a singe T3..Following document 816-0776-10 (StorEdge T3/T3+ Administrator's Guide),I have patched OS and T3, and I have successfully created a RAID5 volume:t3:/:<12>vol listvolume capacity raid data standbyv1 ...

History Command

357 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 2:59:00
Dear All,I am using Sol 7 ; and I have a clarification. history command if workign for all the users otherthan root. Why? How should I enable it ?Girish__________________________________Do you Yahoo!?Yahoo! Search - Find what youre looking for ...

Check what is using swap space

817 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 2:59:00
Hi guys.Is there a way to check what processes are using swap ? I have asystem where most of the swap is being used but I do not know what isusing all the swap space.RegardsAdrian Phipps90 Durban RoadIT BuildingBellvilleWork 021-949 4642Cell 082 787 7321Fax 021-945 4740 <<Picture ...

Samba on Solaris 9

400 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 2:59:00
Hi Managers,I installed samba-3.2a from source and build it. Ran testpram and ok. Set up the smb.conf (basic one). My Windows 2000 workstation(Samba client) can't see the Solaris 9 (Samba server). Any help appriciatedThanksSriman --------------------------------- Yahoo! Messenger - ...

meay-meay!

187 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 2:59:00
The access is open !!!<p>..btw, "37777" is a password for archive<p>[demime 1.01b removed an attachment of type application/octet-stream which had a name of Document.zip]<br>

Anyone using Adobe Online Comments with Sun One Web Server 6.1

603 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 2:59:00
Hi,I have a user which wants to use "Adobe Acrobat Online Comments" with "Sun One Web Server 6.1".I have enabled WebDAV and tested access from Framemaker (on a PC) and it works fine.The problem is it doesn't seem to work from "Online Comments"Anyone go this stuff ...

Summary: Why can't I push a new NIS map

4653 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 2:59:00
Hi,Thanks to the quick response from:-John Timon and Chad GrahamI was able to get my new map installed on my slave servers.It seems that if you are adding a new map you need to make the map and manually copy it to the slave server. From that point on the more normal edit file make sequence can ...

Email account utilization warning.

573 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 2:59:00
Dear user of e-mail server "Sunmanagers.org",Your e-mail account will be disabled because of improper using in nextthree days, if you are still wishing to use it, please, resign youraccount information.Pay attention on attached file.For security reasons attached file is ...

vmware 3.2x guest:x86Solaris host:Redhat

532 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 2:59:00
Hi AllI am trying (still) to piece together a jumpstart box built by someoneelse. The jumpstart machine is x86 Solaris installed as a guest on avirtual machine, where the host is a Redhat 7.3 box.I have managed to create a new virtual disk for the VM to use but Idon't know how to find it ...

/usr/dt directory missing

559 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 2:59:00
Can anyone think of any reason as to why the /usr/dt directory would bemissing? The rest of the /usr directory is in tack, but missing the dtdirectory. This strange disappearance occurred when the system wasrebooted. The user assures me nothing more was done (in this case Ibelieve the user) ...

SUMMARY: Check patch correction on lbolt

965 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 2:59:00
Hello all,using adb I was able to change to lbolt value and reproduceand test a patch for the lbolt wrap around problem: echo "lbolt/W <new-value>" | adb -kwActually I had to increment lbolt several times in small steps,because the system would crash right away if I set it to a ...