E4500 trouble

621 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:08:00
Hello,I've just tried to boot up an old E4500 after a couple of weeks powered off and got the following message:clockboard TOD does not match tod on any io boardThe system doesn't boot but comes up to the OK prompt. It seems that the I/O Boards not activated and the maintenace led on the ...

[SUMMARY: E4500 trouble

1113 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:08:00
Hello,again as fast as possible.The winner is:Alex Madden <Alex.Madden at betfair.com>--read about the obp command copy-clock-tod-to-io-boards--Dirk Boenning wrote:> Hello,> > > I've just tried to boot up an old E4500 after a couple of weeks powered > off and got the ...

SCP/SSH from OpenSSH (Solaris, HP, ...) to Solaris Secure Shell' D returns error code (-1) ev

2922 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:08:00
Hi,anybody experienced similar problems when copying via scp from an (open)sshdto a solaris secure shell'd? This happens on solaris8/openssh,hp-ux11i/openssh, cygwin, ...This problem does NOT appear when copying between two solaris secure shellsor when copying from solaris secure shell to ...

Lockstat output analyse (help needed)

2604 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:08:00
Hello, Is there any tuning expert that can help me analyse this output fromlockstat ?I've been told that spending 174455370 ns in ufs_dirlook is very long.Have you any experience with this ?I have a performance problem with this box and I'm trying to find where itis.Thanks in advance for your ...

scp/ssh from OpenSSH

475 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:08:00
Hi, all,I have a question regarding to scp/ssh. I have Sun Blade 150 with Solaris 8. Iinstalled open-ssh and open-ssl pkgs which download from sunfreeware.com. When Itry to run scp, it gave the following message:nmrl3v400:vnmr1 15>/usr/local/bin/scp -r source_fileuser at ...

Removing an external scsi device

768 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:08:00
Hello, I have an external Tape Autoloader that is hooked up to its own SCSIchannel. I would like to remove it so I can service the chasis withouttaking the whole system down because it is a file server via attachedstorage on another SCSI channel. Is there a safe way to remove the tapedrive ...

/dev/null

165 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:08:00
Hi<p>Is there any way to recreate /dev/null file .<p>Thanks<p>RajIndiatimes Email now powered by APIC Advantage. Help! <br>HelpClick on the image to chat with me<br>

SunFire4800: Ping Problem

3242 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:08:00
Dear SunManagers, I got a connection problem between my server and its workstation.Both machines are connected to the same hub as follow:Servername's SC0 is connectedServername's SC1 is not connectedWorkstation is connected Problem: my workstation can do a ping to SC0, but not to my server. ...

V100 -- can't open boot device / stuck in OB PROM

3570 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:08:00
After some issues with my last V100, Sun sent me a brand new one to replaceit. I tried upgrading the Solaris 8 to 9, but it was unable to mount thesecond installation disk. I checked the disk, and sure enough, there was abig ole scratch, and I figured it was just a bad disk and set it aside ...

how to see full command with ps ?

497 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:08:00
I have a long vxassist command running and cant seem to find a way to seethe whole command with "ps".is there a way with "ps" or some other command to see the entire commandthat is running?here is my example:root at myhost:/root# ps -ef|grep vxassist|grep -v grep root ...

hard disks(compatible!!!)/Thanks a lot

873 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:08:00
Thank You everyone who helped me with my request earlier.Appreciate your help..I have an odd problem and am unable to figure where I am going wrong... I have 4 Fujitsu /2 seagate / 8 IBM hard drives. (For the 4+8 slots and 2 spare)All fujitsu seem to work always good...Now there is some problem ...

works in graphic mode but without the warning "using short name"

800 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:08:00
HelloI would like to help me. I have a DELL LAtitude d505 with solaris 9, thegraphcs part is very good with yours recomendations of install like VESA.Now i have the message error"unable to qualify my own domain (cuenca) --- using short name"But when i change en /etc/hosts putting an ...

ipaddress conflict/problem

2566 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:09:00
Im am running out of ideas and am hoping that someone can help me resolve this issue. I am running solaris 9 and recently built up a new v440 sol 9 and migrated an oracle database from a e450 to the v440. The migration went fine however am having trouble resolving an ip address issue.The ...

UPDATE: luxadm refuses to work (e450,QLA2200F,A5200)

3220 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:09:00
Thanks to Shailendra Dawane and Ken Zachmann.. I had to change /kernel/drv/sd.confNow I am able to see all the disks. (for some reason I thought I didn'thave to do that for Qlogic cards).However, luxadm still doesn't see the array.. bash-2.02# luxadm probe -pNo Network Array enclosures found ...

SUMMARY: Removing an external scsi device

2381 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:09:00
Thanks to all the people who replied. (especially those who are out ofoffice) Sorry if some of you thought this was too basic of question for this group.I did search google and the past codeprof archives. I got a lot of mixedadvice from both of those routes. The consensus seems to be its fine ...

SC has stopped responding ?

527 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:09:00
Hi,I was recently doing some testin on a Netra 240, solaris 8 o/s with ALOM 1.0. I was monitoring the logs and got the following in /var/adm/messagesJan 30 00:32:22 robustness unix: WARNING: SC has stopped responding From then on, the logs to that file were no longer being reported here until ...

Sun VARs

471 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:09:00
To all of you looser Sun vars out there that insist on cold calling me aftergetting my name off of this mailing list.Go away. You do NOT have permission to call or email me to solicit mybusiness.Sorry for the OT rant. I just fielded another call from a var "who wants tobe my Sun partner ...

Max group members?

260 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:09:00
I have a need to put hundreds of members in a group, but... What is the<br>maximum amount of members you can have in group in Solaris 8? Is the number<br>different on Solaris 9?<p>RCA<br>--<br>Unix Administrator<br>Desk: 763-572-6684<br>Pager: 952-235-9936<br>

Solaris 2.6 on new Sun hardware?

436 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:09:00
Has anyone successfully installed and run Solaris 2.6 on newer Sunhardware? From what I can tell any new hardware that you purchase willnot support Solaris 2.6. I didn't know if that meant that it could run2.6, but not be supported, or if 2.6 wasn't capable of running on thenewer servers.I ...

Live Upgrade not excluding properly

1651 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:09:00
I am upgrading from Solaris 7 to Solaris 9 (12/03 release) ... I am usingthe lucreate command to create my BE and copy the data to the new drive ...I have non-OS filesystems that I do not want copied ... I have tried the -f,-z, and -x options trying to exclude the data and I am getting the ...

SUMMARY: V880 and SAN hanging issue.

506 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:09:00
Hi,Thank you to all the responses.Unfortunately, the solutions presented didn't seem to work.I now have EMC technical staff looking at the issue.CheersCraig.that any use or dissemination of this communication is prohibited.If you receive this transmission in error, please notify us ...

sar file format?

679 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:09:00
Hi. Gurus.I need to get output of various version of sar file using sar commandat one system.The problem is that I can't tell which sar file need to be processed withwhich version of OS's sar command.How can I tell which version of OS's sar will be needed by just looking atsar file ...

OpenSSL 0.9.7c vulnerability

302 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:09:00
hey all,I've got OpenSSH & OpenSSL installed on the server;and my question is:OpenSSH use OpenSSL's libraries, and when I change OpenSSL (due to theVulnerability Alert), should I also recompile OpenSSH?does OpenSSH use dynamically OpenSSL libraries?thx in ...

SUMMARY #2: Creating ISO image from CD on SPARC?

5372 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:09:00
HiAfter my original SUMMARY, I received a few more bits of info which I thinkare worth putting into the archive etc.Both are along the lines that you can create an image bootable Solaris CDunder Solaris from a Solaris CD.Basically the idea is to use dd on each defined partition and cat them, ...

System Crash

3883 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:09:00
Hi Experts,I have a E 3000 machine which crashes frequently. I have been trying toisolate the issue by disabling all third party agents/applications etc. butno success. The error message is as follows from /var/adm/messages.Machine Spec:2 CPU machine with 2 GB RAM and running Solaris 8 SAN ...

set sticky bit on /var/spool/lp/fifos/public

1855 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:09:00
Dear Sun Managers,I have a Solaris 8 machine and due to company policyrequirement, I need to set the sticky on the directoryof /var/spool/lp/fifos/public.The default permission settings for the public filesis shown below.# pkgchk -l -p /var/spool/lp/fifos/publicPathname: ...

vxresize error

7181 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:09:00
Hellow Managers I am getting following error while i am trying to reduce the size of one volume , Please help me how to resolve this problem , df -k output of the filesystem is /dev/vx/dsk/apmigra02/migration 57671680 30759999 25667817 55% /migration1 vxresize -g apmigra02 ...

Summary: /usr/ucb/ps reports errors

1669 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:09:00
HI managers,Thanks to every one who replied to my questionCasper Dik's answer was more related to my problem."No, it points to the fact that you do not have a 64 bit version of/usr/ucb/ps installed. (proc 738 is likely a 64 bit process). "I installed 64 bit version of ps from ...

OpenSSL 0.9.7c vulnerability (part II)

1557 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:09:00
Thanks for the answers, but I think I have to make additional statement to myproblem...in fact, I've tested installing OpenSSH without recompiling it and it workscorrectly, but the problem is, what libraries OpenSSH use: from OpenSSL 097cor from new OpenSSL 097d (are they bind to OpenSSH ...

SUMMARY : CDE screenlock + NIS

2961 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:09:00
Thanks a lot to everyone who answer.. And thank to all the vacationmessages which makes me feel quite sad...:(Anyway, Johan Bengtsson was the closest one. The problem was that theCDE screenlock use dtession as a method of authentication, and I didn'tconfigure it in /etc/pam.conf, so I changed ...

SUMMARY Solaris 2.6 on new Sun Hardware

328 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:09:00
Thanks for all that responded.Solaris 2.6 and also Solaris 7 will not run on new Sun hardware. Infact, I learned that in many cases if your version of Solaris 8 is tooold, it will not run on the newer hardware either.Solaris 2.6 has reached end of life, but its end of support life will beJuly ...

SUMMARY: SunFire4800: Ping Problem

3626 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:09:00
SunFire4800: Ping ProblemSolution: Fixing the related LAN port.It was nothing to do with myserver's setupdomain or setupplatform. BR, Slamet -----Original Message-----From: Slamet Ahmad Fadilah Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 4:41 PMTo: 'codeprof at codeprof.com'Subject: SunFire4800: Ping ...

scp/ssh from OpenSSH

1227 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:09:00
Thank you all so much.I got many many responses in very short period time. Every one hit right on target.Apply patch 112438.It is working now.Thanks all the responses. It is too many to list individually in here.FengFeng Qiu wrote:> Hi, all,> I have a question regarding to scp/ssh. I have ...

Locale creation (general locale issue?)

2078 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:09:00
In the process of creating a new locale I found that I seem to have ageneral issue with locales. I cannot find the source of the problem andthe sun documentation has provided very little guidance. I haveinstalled the Spanish locale packages from the Solaris 8 languages CD.SunOS athena 5.8 ...

help on ssl

2069 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:09:00
Hi,I have copied some of the libraries to /usr/lib its working fine.Thanks to Terry & shailendra.Thanks & Regds,Mallesh.-----Original Message-----From: Terry L Moore [mailto:TLMoore at raytheon.com]Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 8:02 PMTo: GB, Mallesh (Cognizant)Subject: Re: help on ...

SUMMARY: post-boot frame buffer init.

939 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:09:00
Hi,Sorry about the delay of my summary, I have been absent.My question was:Is there a way on a server which started headless, to force the initialization of the keyboard and of the monitor, while the system and Unix are actually running and without interfering with its normal operations?...With ...

password ageing, what happens if password is expired

1062 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:09:00
Dear All,I've been away from a Sun system for a while, and now that I'm back I've no more root access to it...We gave the root password to people there and it's possible they changed it, I still don't know. But as I know the password was close to expire, I'm wondering what does occur on a ...

e3500 not recognising hp surestore

989 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:09:00
hii have a 4 mm tape drive of HP Surestore 6000 on e3500,running solaris 8patch level 12.the tape drive is getting detected at "ok probe-scsi-all"but after "ok boot -r" or numerous "devfsadm" the tape drive isnt gettingrecognised by solaris...then i tried out# cd ...

UNIX System Crash Dump Analysis Books?

1010 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:09:00
Hello all...I have read some reviews on the below mentioned book. It was written in1995.Does anyone know of any book as good but more current?PANIC! UNIX System Crash Dump Analysis Handbook (Bk/CD-ROM)By Kimberley A.D. Brown,Chris Drake John Kompare Unix System Administrator (USA) McKesson ...

OK prompt

410 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:09:00
Hi I am facing same problem on two servers ( One is V880 and another one is V240 ).Both machines will come on OK prompt if 1) I reboot machine ( by default it should come to init level 3)2) If I remove serial port cable .Both machine running Solaris 8 .Any suggestion.ThanksRajIndiatimes ...

Dead Ultra2

1056 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:09:00
hiI've aquired a Ultra2 which seems to be dead. the unit has no frambuffer & I've been connecting via a null modem cable.the only output I seem to get from the box is a - sign & nothing else. I have reseated the memory, moved the memory in different banks, tried new memory in the ...

Automatically installing packages

1301 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:09:00
Hello Gurus,I'm trying to script some automatic package installations on Solaris 8 and Iran across the following (to me at least) bizarre behaviour:- If I add the pkgadd manually, and answer the questions interactively,everything works. For example: # pkgadd -d /tmp/ANTRagex.pkg When ...

Setting up Raid 5/E450

852 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:09:00
Here we go....I have 12 /18Gb hard disks ..that I need to use for a webapplication(Too much internet activity) using Raid 5.I will use MySql /Apache... Here come my doubts... 1.I am planning to use one for the OS and one its mirror...Is this right...2.I am planning to do Raid 5 on the rest .3.I ...

Change from EST to GMT! URGENT.

402 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:09:00
Hi,We are going to change the time zone on Solaris servers from EST to GMT.Total we are having upto 40 servers and all servers having crontab scripts.I need help on already available crontab entries. It is very Urgent.please I need your help/suggestions/recomendations.Any help would be ...

pub_key and priv_key configuration know about

841 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:09:00
Well, it migot be not the right way to do it, but I just read yourOpenSSH is running and working. I just finished installing OpenSSH andup to configuration as to use the pub_key and priv_key and I cannot goanywhere further. How did you go about this tasks?I have SUN V480 and runing sun 8I am ...

changes in sendmail to route outgoing mails

557 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:09:00
Hello all,I have put up and Antivirus mail gateway in between the firewalland the email server and port forwarded all the emails to theAV mail gateway system from the firewall. After scanning, it forwards the mails to mail server.But ougoing emails are not taking this route and is directly ...

SUMMARY: switch/hub for 3 T3 Raid devices

8000 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:09:00
Apologies for the delayed summary posting. Once again many thanks to all who replies. Original question followsthen the replies.Thanks to all,ShinOn Sun, Mar 21, 2004 at 09:16:00PM +0000, Shin wrote:> > I shall be investing in 3 T3 raid arrays. I have an FC-AL card in a> host and I ...

SUMMARY What use are LUNs

17806 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:09:00
Dear All,Apologies for the slightly delayed summary posting - sicknessintervened. As usual some really useful information was received.All the replies can be found after the replication of my originalquestion.Many thanks to all who replied, Brilliant info.ShinPS. To those that replies about ...

Smart relay host IP

1591 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:09:00
Hello all,Thank you all those who replied and asked to configure me the Smart relay host in sendmail to forward mails to virus scanner.But when I did that , the mails bounced back saying Host unknown (Name server: mailgateway.cdfd.org.in: host not found) .I have included the mailgateway in ...

SUMMARY: [V880 Solaris 9 ) prtdiag problem

2062 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:09:00
Dear AllSorry for late summary. But I wanted to check one advice (i.e.turn off the system fully any start with full test mode - then restart again). This din't help. As a workaround following otheradvice I copied /usr/platform/SUNW,Sun-Fire-880/lib/libprtdiag_psr.so.1from other unpatched ...