Thanks to Sal Serafino for his speedy answer.I uncommented the EMULUP line in /etc/init.d/rpc and rebooted. The SS2booted up as soon as the master came back up.Here is Sal's advice:All you have to do to set YP or NIS compatibility mode is to restartrpc.nisd with the correct switches. Edit ...

HelloWe have a vendor in and is running a new process on 450 test system. Thefollowing errors showed up in /var/adm/messages May 11 15:15:43 mike WChermdaemon: [ID 250203 user.error] Unable to forkMay 11 15:15:45 mike WChermdaemon: [ID 980060 user.error] Unable to executeblocking task ...

Hi,We have a SunFire 6800 with 3 domains running Solaris 8 connected to a IBMFastT900 SAN. Does any one has come across a MIB library to get the I/O datafrom disk effectively. We are looking for data on disk reads/writes etc andcollect the data through Cricket or Spectrum type of monitoring ...

Hello managers,I would like to know is there any way to set ACL ondirectories and all its sub directories.Because I am able to only set the ACLfor the parent and traverse each and every subdirectory to set the ACL.Ifyou have any solution for it please send me Thanks in ...

I have been trying the net but without avail for a full clearinformation (explanation) of the fields in the "vmstat 5" output and"prstat -a" output. Of late my system have been performing badly and ran"vmstat 5". The output which I got is as follows:procs ...

Hi,I have installed Solaris 8 on Sun Ultra-10 machine (Sparc Architecture). Later on I have installed language packs on the same machine. But now when I try to change the language to any other language on CDE login screen, login screen is not appearing in the new language selected. For example, ...

HiI have installed the patch 112438-03 which creates the /dev/randomdevices so that I can install openssh, but after installing this patchyou must reboot the server, but this is a live server. I saw on the netthat with the installation of 112438-02 that there is a script/way thatyou can install ...

Hi, AllI am facing one small problem in attaching the storage to secondsun server (I want to share or make available this D1000 Storage between twoSun servers)Please find the output for device information of our two sunserversPlease consider that main problem our case is ....We have Two ...

Hello all,I need to upgrade the IB Boards on my 4 A5000's and I'd like some advise fromthose who've gone through this. Currently the disks on these arrays are under Veritas VM control. I've read in the firmware readme that the arrays need to bequiet when I upgrade the firmware so I'm ...

Does anyone know if there is DCE client (preferred open source) can be <br>running on Solaris?<p> <p>TIA<br>

Sorry if this is off post, but can't find much info on this -This is not mystrong point by the way ..... So patience please :-) I just compiled the latest version of openssl on my E420/Solaris 8 I got some unexpected things. I copied the old /usr/loca/ssl to /usr/local/ssl_old, the compiled ...

Gurus, OK, I have a weird one...or maybe just a problem ofcompatibility... I got a new SunBlade2500 and installed it with Solaris 8, now Iinstalled Xfig (the same version I had running on a Ultra10 Solaris8)but when I try to run it, I receive:ld.so.1: xfig: fatal: libXi.so.6.0: open failed: No ...

Thanks for your replies, some of you nailed it ... Although I had just re-compiled before getting all of your replies through with the "shared" directive and that created the .so files for me, which is what I was missing. But thanks anyway ..... Thanks to Matt Clausen, Rob Foehl and ...

Hello Sunmanagers,first I wanted to thank everyone who replied to my message, some of you wrote me back a couple of times. Thank you!I had quite a suggestions that I will highlight briefly. The included: >>> make sure and run the install per the docsYes, I did this, and have them ...

Hello -Wow!! Lots of good replies and only one out of office bounceand one direct sales call (from a truly clueless idiot).Anyway, the general consensus is that while Sun may say thatit'll void warranty, most have done it and been happy doing so.One person mentioned possible difficulties with ...

I'm having a problem using an APC Smart-UPS with our Netra X1. The X1 hasan RJ45 connector for serial link (much like cisco routers), and theconnector from UPS is DB9. I made a connector to convert the DB9 to RJ45according to the Netra manual. This is where I think the problem lies.These ...

Hello Sun Gurus ,I have SUN Fire V880 server , with 8GB RAM , dual CPU . I was runningSTOP+A Command and i got Ok prompt. I have given some commands like test-net etc. and go.Suddenly my system crashed , with PANIC: cpu thread , bad trap ....After restart , i didnt get any crash image in ...

Hi,I'm trying to upgrade E3500 from Solaris8 to Solaris9 12/03 with LiveUprade. I installed packages SUNWlur and SUNWluu from Solaris9 12/03 CD and created alternate boot environment "Solaris9". I upgraded "Solaris9" environment from 1st Solaris9 software CD. No problem so ...

FC router, scsi tape, poor performanceI have a 280R, solaris 8, up to date patches, with one channelof a Sun dual 1Gb qlogic 2200 hba going to a Chapparal vfs226fc-scsi router (test configuration). A tape library and a standalonetape drive and some scsi disks are on on its 6 lvd-160 scsi ...

The rule of thumb I found out was to never use any serial line except TXD,RXD, and GND. If you try to connect any of the others you run into problems(since the DCD line does not exist in 8-pin rj45 serial). If you connectthese three lines and it does not work then reverse RXD and TXD (I made ...

Hi gurus,I have 2 EIDE drive of different capacity (8GB and 40GB) mirrored in SunBlade 100. i have done a installboot from the Pri disk(8GB) to theSec Disk(40GB).When i try to boot up from the 2nd disk, it always show Can't locate bootdevice. Any suggestions?OK> boot pci at 1f,0/ide at ...

hello all,i notice sun has released an offcial mozilla-1.4, fine for my users (junk contro, etc...)but if i compare footprint memry between mozilla-1.2.1 and mozilla-1.4, there is a difference of 30 Mo (40Mo for 1.2.1 and 70 Mo for 1.4).Anybody has noticed it?i have to install it on a sunray ...

Thanks a lot to all of you, especial Terry L Moore and SreanathSarikonda.Sreanath made available to me an explanation which he got from Bret.>From what I picked up from all the mails which I got, most of youpointed "man vmstat pages". As for "prstat" there is a ...

Hi managers,An urgent question: I installed 108940-62 patch which causes thesystems to reboot after I power them up.The problem is that I can not remove it. When I type# patchrm 108940-62the system crashes immediately.Can somebody tell me how to remove this patch and what to do.Thank you ...

Hi all ,,Our DBA sent us to the wrong direction :) The problem was super blockcorruption. " fsck -o b=32 raw_disk " solved the problem.Thanks to all..STS> -----Original Message-----> From: codeprof-bounces at codeprof.com [mailto:codeprof-> bounces at codeprof.com] On Behalf ...

Hello Gurus,the following errors showed up in /var/adm/messages on Solaris8 :May 5 15:24:01 fhbdbs04 login: [ID 722452 auth.error] user2netname: (nis+lookup): Error infile... is NIS+ installed?May 5 15:24:01 fhbdbs04 login: [ID 326624 auth.error] n2a get_local_info:open to get interface ...

When testing my restoration procedures, using "ufsrestore", I removedthe /usr/bin catalogue and then restored it from my backup tapes. I usedthe procedures given on page 595 of the "System Administration Guide,Volume 1 -February 2000. The restoration took a long time to ...

Thanks to all those that replied.Special thanks to Kanellopoulos Angelos who came up with a simplesolution./usr/openwin/bin/resizesolves all the problems with associated with vi through a consolesession.Thanks all.-----Original Message-----From: Dan O'CallaghanSent: Tuesday, May 11, 2004 10:31 ...

Thanks a lot to all those who had their time trying to get what couldhave gone wrong with post problem. I managed to sort the problemstraight somehow. After restoring /usr, I then went on to restore /(root) as well. Though I am not quet sure whether such a procedure isneeded, If I only have the ...

Hi How do i add network printers with Axis lp interfaceto sun systems with Solaris 8 OS as network printers.Please suggest.Ravi __________________________________Do you Yahoo!?Yahoo! Movies - Buy advance tickets for 'Shrek 2' http://movies.yahoo.com/showtimes/movie?mid=1808405861 ...

Dear All,Machine V880, Solaris 9, lastly patched on March 10, 2004(running kernel 5.9 Generic_112233-11)Has any braveheart installed recently recommended clusterof patches? Any caveaties? Remarks?I'm asking because there was kernel patch 112233-12 released recently, sd & sdd patches and ...

Hi All,I have a very strange problem with PC Netlink that I would appreciate helpwith.This morning the PDC fell over and another (BDC) server was promoted to bePDC.I have 4 servers running PC Netlink. On all of them I did a "joindomain"and entered the necessary details to point to ...

Hi managers,We just received a splendid SunFire V480 here, and I have performed a Solaris8, hardware rev. 2/02 installation on it. On the SunFire V480, there's twoonboard cards, which are "ce0" and "ce1". These two interfaces seem to be ok(I've seen both with the ...

Dear All, One disk of my disk array (D1000) is under status "Needs Maintenance". Here is its metastat of the faulty disk:---------------d81: Mirror Submirror 0: d16 State: Needs maintenance Wed 12 May 2004 05:02:54 PM GMT Submirror 1: d33 State: Okay Tue 11 May ...

first thanks for try to help me.can anyone tell me why im getting this error when running "cfgadm -cconfigure c3" ?How can I fix?root at sunserver:/root# cfgadm -c unconfigure c3root at sunserver:/root# cfgadm -c configure c3cfgadm: Library error: failed to create device node: ...

The world is getting nastier, and it seems that even with removing almost everything from inetd.conf, using tcp_wrappers, using ssh and turning off ordinary telnet and ftp, keeping up patches, etc., servers are still getting hacked.So, I'm wondering how many sysadmins go ...

Re-capThanks very much to all that responded. Most every one pointed to - you areout of memory. The process, textprocmain.ksh, turned out to not be theproblem , just an innocent bystander. When I ran top lo and behold, here isprocess consuming lost of cycles. This is a vendor process and ...

HelloI have Solaris 9 were installed SMCvim with required packages fromsunfreeware.com . Alias vim executable ends with following error :# vimld.so.1: vim: fatal: relocation error: file/usr/local/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0: symbol gdk_font_equal: referencedsymbol not foundKilledHere is more ...

I apologize if this is a basic question, as it seems like something that I should know, but coming from a BSD background none of the things I'd usually look at to figure out what need to be tuned seem to be around.Basically, what I'd like to know is, what determines how many established TCP ...

Hello All:Following a power loss that affected only client workstations, not the file server, two of the clients have lost automount privileges.The error is the standard "permission denied".Below you can see csarfl08-029 is working while 036 is notcsarfl08-029 root / 4 > cd ...

I have a Netra T1. The system crash with MMU error. How do I recocer this withour rebuilding the system. The system is not booting right now. Pls advise. Thanks, JA eset Control: BXIR:0 BPOR:0 SXIR:0 SPOR:1 POR:0 Probing upa at 1f,0 pci pci pci Probing upa at 0,0 SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIe ...

I'm using Solaris 7 on IA and I've encountered a problem when trying touse the ps command in a Korn shell script to obtain the parent processid of the executing process. I'm able to reproduce the problem using thetwo test programs below (test-a and test-b). As the "typical ...

Hello All:This has to be summarized as a mystery. Approximately 5 hours after the issue appeared it disappeared.Thanks to Chad for taking the time to drop me line.-- Christopher DantosMotorola Labsphone 954-723-5915 cell 954-608-7553SKYTEL 2WAY 7235915 at ...

Dan Astoorian and Darren Dunham both explained what's happening. Belowis Dan's reply. Also, William Hathaway noted that $PPID is another wayto obtain the parent process id under ksh. Thanks.John-----Original Message-----From: Dan Astoorian [mailto:djast at cs.toronto.edu]Sent: Thursday, May ...

Hi Gurus<br>Has anybody configured STMS on the V880 boot disk.<br>Version SAN 4.4 now supports boot disk's but I am unable to find any<br>information on how to configure it<br>Can any one help please<br>TIA<br>

Hi,I have a problem with dhcpmgr.I have the same problem on both sparc and x86 running solaris 9.I have applied the latest recommended patches and the J2SE recommendedpatches.I have successfully setup a DNS server (bind 9.2.3) and tested same(nslookup dig).When attempting to use dhcpmgr, DHCP ...

Dear Sun Managers,I've an E4500 machine with Solaris 8 with thefollowing configuration.Sun 8-slot Sun Enterprise E4500/E5500 (8 XUltraSPARC-II 400MHz) Intrlv. Intrlv.Brd Bank MB DIMMs Status Condition Speed Factor With--- ----- ---- ----- ------- ---------- ----- ...

Hi all,We have just been experiencing a strange problem. We have samba set up on our solaris box and a couple of users were reporting problems of files not opening, or not being there, but on refresh were present.The same thing occur on the actual box, through a unix login. Do an ls, and the ...

hi gurus, i dont know if this topic is related but please help...I have a Sun machine in my office which i use to connect to customerX Sun machine via dial-up connections. The customerX client Sun machine is then connected to the server which is in its LAN network. I would like to find out if ...

Hello,could anybody confirm/defirm that I could connect an external DDS-4 to the onboard SCSI from a V440. If it's not possible which HBA should I use (X Option).TIA, Dirk.-- CCF AGDirk BoenningDaimlerstrasse 10D-64347 Griesheimt. +49 (0)6155/6668-0f. +49 (0)6155/6668-68e. dirk.boenning at ...