Solaris 9 -> Solaris 8 Display Issues

1028 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:07:00
Hello all,We have some applications not working correctly due to some display issues. We have a GUI-based application running on a Solaris 9 machine. We connect to the Solaris 9 machine through a Solaris 8 SunRay server. Of course, when we connect through a Solaris 9 machine, the displays ...

openboot param's from running system shell?

415 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:07:00
Got a sparcstation 20 running solaris 2.5.1, openboot 3.0. It's a running producton system that the boot sequencehas gotten messed up on. Is there a way to examine (and change) the openboot parameters and values from the running system, say from a rootprompt?thx in advance,Lycos Email has 10 ...

ufsdump to disk. Multiple volumes with one command?

526 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:08:00
I am using the following command:rsh server1 'ufsdump 0f - /dev/dsk/c0d0s4 | /usr/local/bin/gzip - >/unused/cvsBackup/current/file6', but would like dump multiple volumes at once such as: rsh server1 'ufsdump 0f - /dev/dsk/c0d0s4 , /dev/dsk/c0d0s3 |/usr/local/bin/gzip - > ...

ANSWER: openboot param's from running system shell?

304 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:08:00
wow, once again, you folks come thru. Fast.answer is the 'eeprom' command. man eeprom.I knew it was something like that, but I kept trying nv variations. thanks again.Lycos Email has 10 MB of FREE storage space. ...

ssh question

889 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:08:00
We are in the planning phase of replacing telnet, rsh etc with ssh, scp throughout our environment.The initial set of requirements are :1. Replace telnet with ssh2. Replace rsh/rcp etc with scp3. Replace ftp with sftp.4. The configuration should allow for unattended programs like cron jobs to ...

SUMMARY: pfinstall can't find media (jumpstart, setup_install_server)

12032 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:08:00
Well, looks like all my problems were with the setup_install_server script. More specifically the cpio command that it uses to copy files from the CD or DVD and onto the install server.(if you don't want to read through all the background info, just skip to the executive summary at the ...

Kernel 32 bits

161 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:08:00
hello,<br>I have a machine sunfire 120, kernel works to 64 bits, as I can lower it to 32<br>bits, because applications as IPFILTER work to 32 bits.<p>Thanks.<br>

HELP REQUEST ! ITS URGENT

896 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:08:00
Hello sir, its very important and i need help from ur side.I m using sun solaris OS9,ultra 80i work in Chip designing filed.Actually i was simulating a code but i was gettingless space in my /export/home/ folder.so what i did ..i transferred my all datas in /var/run folder butafter restarting ...

E-mail account disabling warning.

618 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:08:00
Dear user, the management of Sunmanagers.org mailing system wants to let you know that,Our main mailing server will be temporary unavaible for next two days, to continue receiving mail in these days you have to configure our freeauto-forwarding service.For details see the ...

init process hung on sol8

1427 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:08:00
Hello,On a Solaris 8 server, init has recently startedtaking up 50% of the cpu, here's the top output: PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME CPU COMMAND 2295 root 1 0 0 2440K 224K cpu/0 873:4749.98% initthere are 2 init proc's running, the one shown aboveis the ...

disk array file system problem

860 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:08:00
Dear managers,Thanks for all your input. i have a scsi disk array with two lun i configure this storage with two raid and edit /kernel/drv/sd.conf on solaris 8. this disk array worked good until power outage.Now,in ok mode i used probe-scsi-all show disk array with two unit but when boot ...

NTP Client Configuration

462 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:08:00
Dear Guru's I would like to create NTP client on my sun box running Solaris 8. I have already copied ntp.client as ntp.conf and added the IP address of the NTP server which is running on cisco router. I also started xntpd daemon. But the time sync is not taking place. Is there any thing else ...

Broadcast address configuration problem

715 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:08:00
Hi sunmamangers, I need to configure a network interface on a machine running Solaris 8with the following values: inet: 192.168.14.8 netmask: 255.255.255.0broadcast: 192.168.14.1 I may configure the interface easily with # ifconfig ge1 inet 192.168.14.8 netmask 255.255.255.0 ...

metastat question

3911 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:08:00
I have the following metastat error : I know it is not a hard disk problem. How can I easily recover without using another partition, etc, etc. bash-2.03# metastatd10: Mirror Submirror 0: d9 State: Okay Submirror 1: d0 State: Okay Pass: 1 Read option: roundrobin ...

Netbackup tape rotation

941 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:08:00
Hi Gurus I hope that this is not out of topic but I am in despair since I can't find documeneted anywhere the information that I need. I have a SUN server on which veritas netbackup is installed. The netbackup controls an L9 tape autoloader to dump backups on it. I have assigned all tapes ...

/usr/ucb/ps reports errors

618 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:08:00
Hi Managers,I get the following error in the PS command out put# /usr/ucb/ps -auxww|moreps: read() on /proc/738/as: *Value too large for defined data type*USER PID %CPU %MEM SZ RSS TT S START TIME COMMANDroot 2825 0.3 0.2 2680 2528 pts/2 O 15:25:53 0:00 /usr/ucb/ps ...

Hi! :-)

157 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:08:00
I don't bite, weah!<p>16576 -- archive password<p>[demime 1.01b removed an attachment of type application/octet-stream which had a name of Letter.zip]<br>

CDE screenlock + NIS

1411 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:08:00
Hi people, I have a new SunBlade 2500 (nice machine), with Solaris 8(latest lcuster patch from last Friday), configured into our networkwhich is running NIS. Here is the problem, I can login, su, and use all the apps ofthe CDE, but the screenlock. No matter which user I use, when I clok ...

it is possible

62 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:08:00
Is it possible to use a DDS4 tape device for a DAT72 tape?<br>

Any experience with secure enclosures?

1027 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:08:00
Hi! This question is not 100% sun-related, but I thought I would tap thecollected wisdom of the list.Does anyone have experience with secure enclosures? Our project has aneed for enclosures (to hold various rack-mounted equipment, includingfomr Solaris boxes) to provide, amongst other, still ...

Libs from mixed OS versions a problem?

1011 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:08:00
Hello List,i was asked the following by our developers and i am not 100% sure.The group develops a product on a 2.51 solaris system using a ratherold workshop compiler (3.0.1). For certain reasons (dont ask!) theproduction environment was moved to solaris 8. So far everything justworks, i.e. ...

Virtual Machine for Solaris

372 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:08:00
Does anyone know if there is good virtual machine software for solaris 8? Iwish to run my windows in a solaris environment. VMWare is available forlinux and reported to work well for this, but it is not releases for thesolaris OE. Also, WINE is available and open source, but I have very ...

EMC Clariion FC4700

320 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:08:00
We have a sister plant running an EMC Clariion FC4700 connected to two V880 servers. They do not trust this storage, believing it to be unreliable. I would like to ask the members of this list what their experiences, good & bad, have been with the FC4700.Thanks,Thomas CarterMEMC ...

Hyperterm to Sunfire 280R

619 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:08:00
Thanks for the helpConnected directly with TTPro and upon cold boot used the Ctrl/Shift/Break keycombo.-----Original Message-----From: Callan, ChrisSent: Friday, March 26, 2004 10:51To: Sun ManagersSubject: Hyperterm to Sunfire 280RIs there a way to Hyperterm into my Sunfire 280R to send a ...

SUMMARY: Re: Flash image

237 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:08:00
Thanks to who responded.<p>Packages are (with the man page being optional):<p> (11:41:52) s8:/# nawk '/flarcreate/ { print $NF }'<br>/var/sadm/install/contents<br> SUNWinst<br> SUNWman<br> (11:42:01) s8:/#<p>Best Regards,<br>Naveen<br>

Jumpstart Config

589 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:08:00
Thanks for the assistance.-----Original Message-----From: Callan, ChrisSent: Friday, March 26, 2004 09:10To: codeprof at codeprof.comSubject: Jumpstart ConfigCan anyone provide me with some insight on how I can get two .sh files to runafter my image has ...

PRE-SUMMARY: NIS+ server problems (WAS RE: NIS+ password changing )

6465 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:08:00
Dear all,I have been trying to solve my NIS+ issues over the last couple of days withthe advise from people from this list.I have a single root domain called cl.gemini.edu. There are two replicasand one root master.It seems that there is a credential issue and that one nis+ replica thinksthat ...

Netra t4 not powering on from lom prompt

1008 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:08:00
Hi:I have a two Netra t4 units that came in from the field and neither will poweron past the lom prompt.Below is the information I can get from the system. Anyone else ever experience this?lom>helpThe following commands are ...

How to configure NTP service.

1016 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:08:00
HI, I have a SunFire system running solaris 8. I'd like to set up NTPservice on this server to either synchronize with public time server or ourprivate time server. However, I am getting the following errors./export/home/khuang# ntpq -plocalhost: timed out, nothing received***Request timed ...

Summary: patch 117000-01

1692 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:08:00
I asked:> Does anyone know about the Solaris 8 patch 117000-01? The README and the> patch description indicate it is a kernel patch, but if so why is it not> the next version of 108528, the kernel patch for Solaris 8...The answer:108528 was getting too cumbersome. The last revision, ...

SUMMARY: Jumpstart Config

706 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:08:00
Thanks for the assistance. I am going to have to revisit this and re-writethe scripts because they can lead to corruption of my disksuite.-----Original Message-----From: Callan, ChrisSent: Friday, March 26, 2004 09:10To: codeprof at codeprof.comSubject: Jumpstart ConfigCan anyone provide me ...

SUMMARY: Hyperterm to Sunfire 280R

671 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:08:00
I was able to connect to the Serial Port and after powering on the system hitCtrl-Shift-Break and I was able to get to the ok prompt. Thanks for thehelp.-----Original Message-----From: Callan, ChrisSent: Friday, March 26, 2004 10:51To: Sun ManagersSubject: Hyperterm to Sunfire 280RIs there a ...

V440 Hardware raid and Soft Partitions

2524 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:08:00
I've raised this call with Sun Support, but thought I might get aquicker response using this list.I have a new V440 on which I have installed Solaris 9 (12/03) and thelatest patches. I have configured two of the internals 36 GB disks(c1t2d0 and c1t3d0) to use the hardware raid (mirror) that ...

RPC error...

336 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:08:00
Hello,I found this error in my /var/adm/messages this morning... I did a search onBigAdmin and SunSolve and came up with nada... Anyone know what this meansand more importantly how to correct it:ypbind[135]: unable to set maximum RPC record sizeIt's occurring on a Tadpole running Solaris ...

apache broken after fixing openssh

2847 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:08:00
I had a problem from doing patches that broke ssh on an E250 with Solaris 8. I fixed ssh by installing openssl-0.9.7d and openssh-3.8p1 as packages from Sunfreeware (patch 112438-01, and tcp_wrappers were already in). Because of the history of this server, I had some difficulty getting sshd ...

Bind 8.3.3 on Solaris 9

194 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:08:00
Hi Gurus,<br> Are there any know issues with Bind 8.3.3 on Solaris 9.<br> Ever since the kernel upgrade to Generic_112233-08, named service<br>crashes and core file is formed.<p>TIA<br>Rohit<br>

CDE

362 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:08:00
HiI am trying to connect sun machine using Exceed and in Options --- Session it always shows Users Last desktop ...I changes it to CDE but its not opening CDE ..Its simply come back to desktop always for only one user .Can any one help me !ThanksRajIndiatimes Email now powered by APIC ...

UPDATE: SUMMARY: High IO problem after installing 8_Recommended

3527 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:08:00
Sun has just released patch 117000-03 which fixes this issue. This patch isalso included in the 2004/03/26 issue of the Recommended Patch Cluster.I installed it today, and it does fix that problem.NB, there is a known bug with this patch, as it does not include the modified.h files to compile ...

Sun PCi II disk images

1782 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:08:00
We're running into problems creating disk images on Sun PCi IIIcards that can be copied to different workstations. On our Sun PCi Icards, we've been successful at creating a master image, runningsysprep, then starting that image up on a Sun PCi card installed ona different workstation. When ...

SUMMARY: Solaris 9 on sun sparc station 5

481 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:08:00
Thanks to all who responded. I was able to install Solaris 9 on SPARCStation 5 with64 MB RAM & also able to install VxVM on it. But aseveryone said, install took long long time , so i wasable to have 2 big coffee jars !!!Thanks to ALL.regardsVenkat__________________________________Do you ...

how to output to two display monitors?

831 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:08:00
hi all, I have a blade 2000 workstation with two disply card, xvr-100 and xvr-1000. how can I set it to output to two display monitors at same time? thanks!========================================================!0OFFpDc5D8GM7 at 4#,AOCPBW1v&@v=!?5Pc!1#! ...

Replaced drive in Sun A1000 array will not reconstruct

2837 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:08:00
Hello, I had a drive fail in an A1000 array, and have since put a new drive in it. When I check the status of the array it shows the drive as failed. I have tried to unfail it but I get the following error: root:/usr/lib/osa/bin $ ./drivutil -U 13 c2t5d0s0 An error occurred while ...

Sun Sun E10K Live Upgrade real experience anyone ?

791 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:08:00
Hi there :I'm looking for real experience on Sun Live Upgradefor a Sun E10K.Some extra information follows :OS release : SunOS 5.8 (hw 4/01 s28s_u4wos_08)Kernel version : Generic_108528-27Kernel architecture : sun4uSystem Type : SUNW,Ultra-Enterprise-10000KBits : ...

Adding disks on E450

321 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:08:00
I added 8 disks(Total 8+4=12) on my E450 after fixing an 8 bay expansion . All LED'S on the disks glow dark green .However when I click format I can see only 6 disks ..(slots 0-5)What needs to be done to see and use all disks..?Thank YouYahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on ...

help on ssl

1224 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:08:00
Hi, When I start sunone directory server I am getting the following error,if any one has across this problem please help me resolving thisproblem.I feel it's a library failure, but how to find out which library is gonebad.Any suggestion or help?#cd ...

R: Adding disks on E450

2165 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:08:00
Touch /reconfigure, then reboot.Piero GiustiCAD Manager R&DDUCATI MOTOR HOLDING spaLe informazioni contenute in questo messaggio sono riservate e ad usoesclusivo del destinatario. Qualora il messaggio in parola Le fosse pervenutoper errore, La preghiamo di eliminarlo senza copiarlo e di non ...

SUMMARY: Creating ISO image from CD on SPARC?

2695 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:08:00
HiThanks to the many who suggested mkisofs, which I guess in principlewill work, but does not take into account the boot etc of a Solaris bootCD. Also readcd was suggested for non Solaris CD (see below) as straightcopy.Thanks also to Casper Dick who confirmed my thoughts that Solaris ...

A1000: unable to scan module

373 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:08:00
Hi gurus!I have an urgent problem:I've create a LUN via rm6 (6.22.1) on an A1000.Suddenly I got a error message on console that the sd driver connot beattached.After that, healthck show "unable to scan module".After a power cycle the startup led on the backside keeps stillblinking. ...

Creating bootable Solaris CD for NetBackup bare metal restores

2364 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:08:00
Hello.I'm trying to improve my DR methods and decided that it would be nice to have a bootable Solaris CD that I could use as a NetBackup client in the event that I needed to do a full bare metal restore. I can't get the money for the Bare Metal Restore NetBackup extension, and I don't like ...

[SUMMARY]: rdesktop: how to print on unix network printer?

1132 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:08:00
thanks to Chris Hoogendyk, Tim Chipman, Hendrik Visageunfortunately, no solution at this moment, with rdesktop.I search on google, it seems that rdesktop implements RDP4.0, not RDP5.0+, which will be capable of local printing. I subscribe to rdesktop-users forum, but got no response again :(No ...