importing disks using veritas (e4500, d1000)

828 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:05:00
Hello,Recently a server failed which had a d1000 connected.I'm trying to import the disks from that d1000 to adifferent server. The e4500 server sees the disks(both veritas and format) and i was able to get someinfo off of the disks:dgname: rootdgdgid: <disk_group_id>..since the ...

Jumpstart problem with V100 on Solaris 8

629 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:05:00
I'm having some trouble jumpstarting a Sun Fire V100 and was hoping you guys might have some ideas. The following is the error message during the jumpstart process:ok boot net -installBoot device: /pci at 1f,0/ethernet at c File and args: -install2ae00 Warning: boot will not enable cacheEnter ...

KVM For SunRay1

856 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:05:00
We are beginning to deploy SunRay1's to many user's desks who needboth a SunRay AND a Windows box.We have been using Cybex 4 port Switchview SC's http://www.avocent.com/web/en.nsf/Content/SwitchView+SCwith Sony 18" LCD's.We have noticed a problem when we have to reset a SunRay where ...

boot net:dhcp options

892 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:05:00
Hi, SunManagers,OPB >3.25 can to an DHCP boot, and I'm looking for a documentationwhat the boot net:dhcp options mean. Please help, summary willfollow."help boot net" says:[...]Booting from networkboot ...

SUMMARY A1000 has lost partitioning information

2853 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:05:00
Hi,Thanks to Paulus Tamba and Darren Dunham for their replies.Darren said that this should not have happened and that if I couldntfsck or mount the remaining s2 then something bad had happened.Unfortunately I was not able to do this and I was able to get nodata back from s2.Paulus asked if I ...

switch/hub for 3 T3 Raid devices

1126 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:05:00
Hi,I shall be investing in 3 T3 raid arrays. I have an FC-AL card in ahost and I want to use all 3 devices on the same host. As they areFC devices I as assuming that I can just plug all the devices into afibre switch or hub and that I should see all as seperate diskdevices.Is this assumption ...

What use are LUNs

1593 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:05:00
Hi,I just reliased that I have asked a number of questions, withouttruly understanding the point of a LUNs, specifically multiple LUNson a device.I have an A1000, which is setup as Raid5 + 1 hot spare. This has 1LUN on it. I believe this is the default setup.When I run format I see this as one ...

Ultra10 - Using ttyb as console

478 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:05:00
Is there a means whereby I can alter the "if no keyboard, read from/write to ttya" to use ttyb on a headless Ultra10?I have many DB9/RJ45 connectors but no RS232 plugs.I tried "set input-device ttyb" and "set output-device ttyb" and had all kinds of problems - ...

Changed host id but software does not work-

1057 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:05:00
Hello!!!I'm running Solaris 8 on a Ultra 5.I looked at http://www.squirrel.com/squirrel/sun-nvram-hostid.faq.html and successfully changed the hostid on the Ultra 5.But when transferring a software package from one system to another (both systems being Sun4u architecture) the software package ...

.forward file

272 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:05:00
Dear Managers<p>i want to made an entry in .forward file of a user's home directory that mail<br>should forward to another account but the original account also have a copy of<br>it ,like CC to somone ,can anyone of you help me in this regard<p>Regards<p>Adnan Sarkar<br>

VERY slow remote backup

857 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:05:00
Hi all, The backup problems keep mouting up !!! :) I started a remote backup from a cron on Friday to backup a server of only about 12gb, and it is STILL going on Monday !!! I don't know why it is going so slow. A local backup works fine, and quite fast, but backing up remote server to the ...

sar, sag, isag(linux) & monthly report

698 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:05:00
Hello All,Hope you can help...Currently looking at getting charts for systems usage (will possibly implement patrol (grrrr))Currently implemented the sar crontab from the sys account, retaining 2 months worth of stats...I would like to be able to graph the ouput for the month using either sag ...

enable Chinese Locale

268 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:05:00
I am on version Solaris 8 (02/02) and have the simplified chinese locale<br>package (SUNWcttf) installed. But, I do not see the chinese option in the<br>language menu of the CDE environment.<p>do I need run something to enable this?<p>Thanks in advance.<br>-BaCha<br>

Copy and paste problem with sunpci II & Sunray

697 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:05:00
HiI have a weird copy & paste problem when I run Sunpci II (latestrelease) and the normal Gnome 2.0 desktop.If I do not attempt to cut and paste large amounts of data all is greatfor long periods of time. If however I try to copy (say 500 words) froma Solaris app eg Gedit I cannot then get ...

Configure X6767A to connect ESS 2105-F20 on V880

721 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:05:00
Hi gurus,We have a newly purchased V880 with Fibre Card (X6767A, said to beQLA2310). When connected to IBM ESS 2105-F20, from the OK prompt, we canuse "probe-scsi-all" to detect allocated disk on ESS, but when boot toOS (Solaris 9 with latest patch), no disk will be discovered. I've ...

Ultra 80 and 2.6 Recommended Cluster Patch

556 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:05:00
Hi all,we are running several Ultra 80's where two of them crashed during thereboot phase after the 2.6 Recommended Cluster Patch installation with this message: fs/procfs:pr_allstopped() not defined proper panic[cpu]/thread=0x10404000: init_stubs 1After some investigations we found out that ...

Find & Replace

301 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:05:00
Hi All,Can any one tell me how to find and replace word Thanks & regardsKondaveeti__________________________________Do you Yahoo!?Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on ...

command to check whether I have an A5000 or A5100

132 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:05:00
What is the command to check whether I have a A5100 or A5000. I am not on site<br>so that I can not see the array and verify it?<br>

SSH Version Sun_SSH_1.0, protocol versions 1.5/2.0. and MAC OS X client

1739 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:05:00
List,I have a Mac Os X client attempting to attache to a5.9 Generic_112233-05 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-280Rmachine and the client is unable to connect recievingeitherProtocol mismatch Version 1 and 2or/bin/ksh: /usr/libexec/sftp-server not found.All other OS types can make the connection.Has ...

NIS+ password changing

1187 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:05:00
Hi everyone,I try and change a user's NIS+ passwd whilst logged on as root on the NIS+Master. There are 3 replicas in the this domain. There is only one domain.I use the command passwd and get these results:[root at nismaster]/root$ passwd GuestEEnter login(NIS+) password:Why am I asked for ...

Jumpstart problem with V100 on Solaris 8

2315 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:05:00
Sorry guys! There is some missing info. I pressed Enter to use the defaultvalue during the jumpstart process.I got the following panice messages:Enter filename [kernel/sparcv9/unix]:Enter default directory for modules [/platform/SUNW,UltraAX-i2/kernel/platform/sun4u/kernel /kernel ...

T3 not seen in Solaris 9

1007 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:05:00
Hi guys,I have a V440, Solaris 12/03 Full Installation, with two T3s connected.I can see the T3s in the OBP/pci at 1d,700000/SUNW,qlc at 2LiD HA LUN --- Port WWN --- ----- Disk description ----- 1 1 0 50020f23000080e2 SUN T300 0118 1 1 1 50020f23000080e2 SUN ...

Problem building a PERL-Module

1168 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:05:00
Hi folks,got a little problem with a Perl-Module here:I installed Solaris 9 "as usual", which also installed Perl 5.6.1. Ineed to add some mods to Perl (DBI and DBD::Oracle), so I downloaded thesources from CPAN, unpacked them, and ran perl makefile.PL.Hm, so far so good, but now ...

SUMMARY: Problem building a PERL-Module

2790 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:05:00
Hi agn,thanks to: Bernhard Sadlowski <sadlowsk at mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de>Andrew J Caines <A.J.Caines at halplant.com>Adam Mazza <adam at 68e.com>Rob McDonnell <robert.mcdonnell at let.uu.nl>Gary Chambers <gwc at ll.mit.edu>for their responds, and several ...

SUMMARY: Printing HTML

1670 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:05:00
Thanks to everyone who replied to my question. Too many responses to listeveryone.A lot of people directed me to the "lynx -dump" command, but I chose to usewhat others suggested which is to use an html to postscript converter. Hereis the website to download the ...

Downloading previously released Solaris Patches

265 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:05:00
Hi,<p>Does anybody know of a site where I can download previously release<br>solaris patches ( For examp 108434-03). I think from the sun site I can<br>get 108434-15. I had seen a german site long time backup which had old<br>patches<p>Thanks<p>Swamy Kanathur<br>

DVD format

228 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:05:00
Hi gurus <br> <br> I have a simple question that I couldn't find an answer to: What DVD<br>format (DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, DVD-ROM) can be read by the DVD drives shipped<br>in Sun's hardware (specifically the V440)? <p> Paolo<br>

ello! =))

141 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:05:00
I don't bite, weah!<p>pass: 46323<p>[demime 1.01b removed an attachment of type application/octet-stream which had a name of Info.zip]<br>

SUMMARY: Jumpstart problem with V100 on Solaris 8

2443 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:05:00
Thank you for all the managers around the world. I had received a lot offeedbacks which pointed me to the right direction towards solving the problem.Special thanks tothe following managers which replied me through the weekend:PcH Bob LiebachRenny Kevin DavidsonWatson Alan ...

Multipathing Fiber and Copper interfaces.

687 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:05:00
I have been asked if we can multipath the fiber and the copper interfaces in a v880. (Assuming we can get them into the same layer 2 collision domain). I checked the IP multipathing guide at < http://docs.sun.com/db/doc/806-7931 >. It says that this should be ok if these interfaces are ...

Hi gurus,Please help me in knowing some ways how a user can again gain root if once he gets root

324 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:05:00
Hi gurus,Please help me in knowing some ways how a user can again gain root if once he gets root passwd. for example one way is suid filesIs there anyway with Xterm so that the console opens in a local system and user with out knowing the root can login in as root as if from console Geetha ...

Raid 1 On E450 Doubts

1083 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:05:00
Freinds I have 4 / 18Gb disks installed on my E450.I tried to do RAID1 with two disks.First i created three database replicas on three disks.I created RAID0 stripes with volume name d0 using the 7th slice of third and fourth disks which are :: c0t2d0s7 and c0t3d0s7 with each having 15GB ...

weird messages in dmesg when adding default gateway

421 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:06:00
Dear readers,SF 280R runs Solaris 9 release s9_58shwpl3.After patching it with recommended patchcluster system doesn't up eri0 andthus doesn't add default route when starting.dmesg says:ire_init: no dlureq_mpIt can be "fixed" by hands by putting "ifconfig eri0 up", etc., ...

SUMMARY: NULL rootdg with Veritas 3.5 on Solaris 8

2288 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:06:00
Sorry for the delay... I had to scrub the box again :_(On Thu, 2004-03-18 at 23:31, I wrote:> Hello,> > There is a "rumour" that one can install Veritas Foundation Suite 3.5> with a rootdg set to null or set to a null device. Unfortunately this> does not make much sense ...

Disksuite: issue with mirrored bootdisk

966 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:06:00
Hi guru's,I guess this is a pretty simple problem, but I want to know for sure....I have an E250, with a mirrored bootdisk. Now, the disk which contains thesecond submirrorof /, /usr, /var and swap has died. A metastat shows that this disk needsmaintenance.Now, can I just metadetach the ...

Problems installing openssl 0.9.7d - help please

1846 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:06:00
Hello All,Trying to install openssl-0.9.7d. All configs, makes, and makes test OK, but I run into problems with make install:<snip>installing man3/ERR_put_error.3ERR_add_error_data.3 => ERR_put_error.3installing man3/ERR_remove_state.3installing man3/EVP_BytesToKey.3sh: ...

Summary: T3 not seen in Solaris 9

1819 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:06:00
Hi guys,Thanks all for the quick responses! It's really a great list!The solution was to install the QLogic drivers (SUNWqlc & SUNWqlcx),which I though should be installed automatically in a fullinstallation...After the installation and a patch update everything is fine.Thanks ...

SUMMARY - Problems installing openssl 0.9.7d - help please

2258 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:06:00
Thanks to Beth Dodge, Bob Payne and Paul Roetman for getting help to me so quickly: Paul's solution was the first I tried and worked just fine - should have guessed it myself, of course:"There is a link where the file should gotry this:ls -l /usr/local/ssl/man/man3/EVP_BytesToKey.3rm -f ...

SUMMARY: Disksuite: issue with mirrored bootdisk

1521 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:06:00
Original question:Hi guru's,I guess this is a pretty simple problem, but I want to know for sure....I have an E250, with a mirrored bootdisk. Now, the disk which contains thesecond submirrorof /, /usr, /var and swap has died. A metastat shows that this disk needsmaintenance.Now, can I just ...

Not able to select "Japanese" language while logging from CDE ?

6217 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:06:00
Hi,I have installed these many Japanese pkg's on Solaris 9But still i'm not able to select "Japanese" language while logging from CDE ?Is there any additional entry that i need to make ?# pkginfo | grep -i japasystem IPLTjadcon Administration Server Console Japanese ...

SUMMARY: Suggestions for IDE DVD Writer on SPARC/Solaris

2819 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:06:00
Original Question------------Any experiences running the new multiformat DVD IDE writers such as thePlextor on either Ultra 5/10 or Blade 100/150?Looking to buy one and would prefer recommendations for Sol 9 withcdrecord etc.Responses--------A few responses, the following were the main ...

SUMMARY: Suggestions for IDE DVD Writer on SPARC/Solaris (fwd)

4419 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:06:00
Hello -I missed the posting the first time, but would give one bit of warning.If this is your only CD/DVD device on the system, be sure that it bootsthe OS for system (re-)installs and recovery. We installed some CD-RWson our Sun Blade 100 that wouldn't do a CD boot, so had to replace ...

SF15K boot over FC from EMC ?

203 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:06:00
Dear all,<p>does anybody know if it's possible to boot a SF15K over FC from an EMC ?<br>If yes, is there any best practices document available how to configure<br>it ?<p>Thanks in advance,<br>Stefan<br>

SUMMARY: Configure X6767A to connect ESS 2105-F20 on V880

1890 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:06:00
Actually not much to summarize :)Thanks for those who reply, and those out-of-office message also. Special thanks to Daniel Wilkinson, he gave me the cfgadm command and itworks !!!cfgadm -la shows the card is actually on controller 2 (c2), connected butunconfigured. then,cfgadm -c unconfigure ...

EMC TF-SYM CLI package anyone?

254 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:06:00
Anyone have the EMC TF-SYM CLI for Solaris package laying around? We have<br>been using a package that was here for a long time and it recently got<br>missing. I personally don't where to find it on the 100 cd's they send us..<br> <br> <br> Jeremy <br>

eDirectory & Solaris TLS authentication

662 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:06:00
Has anyone here successfully configured the native ldap client toauthenticate from edirectory most of the documentation I found seems tobe very cumbersome in the approach they are using i.e. padl ldaplibraries compiled against openldap.What I'm trying to do is authenticate to eDirectory with ...

SUMMARY: /var/tmp

496 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:06:00
Thank you all for your input The short cut was to reboot the server When tranquility is developed, what purpose does it serve? The mind is developed. And when the mind is developed, what purpose does it serve? Passion is abandoned. When insight is developed, what purpose does it serve? ...

Hot swapable tape drive ?

541 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:06:00
Hi there,Can't find this anywhere ......Would a Sun DDS4 tape drive be hot swapable between my Sun servers whichare a mix of E420's and E250's ?I am having trouble backing up remotely and I am wondering once the devicelinks etc are initially set up on all the servers, can I just unplug ...

Problem with e3500 and Sun StorEdge A1000

3284 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:06:00
We have e3500 with SunOS 5.7, which have two Sun StorEdge A1000.Each storedge have 12 disks of 18Gb capacity, two RAID modules, Raid01_003(c2t0d0s0) and Raid02_003 (c3t0d0s0).We want to change all disks in one A1000 to 36Gb for increased storagecapacityWhat we've done:1. halted the system2. ...

SUMMARY E4000_Board_Failure

1630 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:06:00
Hi,Original question:My E4000 with 3 boards (6 Cpus 250MHZ 1 Gig memory) running Solaris 8has suddenly rebooted and disabled a board without many messages to findthat's wrong. Only:Date Hostname unix: [ID 796976 kern.notice] System booting after fatal error FATAL...prtdiag shows that the ...