Thanks for the replies, but I still don't have this nailed, and it hasgotten more curious.It would appear that /var/adm/utmpx is not updating fast enough.Meaning that I log in. Run "w", and can't see myself.Then I check /var/adm/utmpx and see the date stamp.About 60sec later, the ...

Ok, well that's embarrassing =)<p>Thanks to..<p>Mark Cain<br>Donald Mayers<br>Darren Dunham<p>....for so rapidly pointing out exactly my malfunction.<p>However, I must say I'm a bit surprised that utmpx does not get updated<br>till the lookup times out.<p>Thanks much, and sorry for the noise.<br>

Thanks to all who replied. Everyone gave me good clues. The answer was my .rhosts file was incorrect. on hostB is should be "hostname username" and then in the users home directory create a .rhosts file that has "remote-host username". Thanks again all.. I appreciate all ...

So the original problem was that after logging into a server withopenssh, the user would not show up using either "w" or "who". Onlyafter waiting about 60sec would the user show up.Further investigation showed that it was /var/adm/utmpx that was notupdating in a timely ...

Archive-name: codeprof-faqSun-Managers' Frequently Asked Questions$Id: faq,v 4.43 2004/03/18 18:31:31 jdd Exp $This is collection of common questions posted to the codeprof mailinglist twice a month. It is intended to benefit Sun System Managers andreduce traffic to the list by providing quick ...

Dear Sunmanagers,this week I applied the recommended patches on my SunFire 280R (Solaris 9).(Apr/13/04). Though cron seems to start jobs according to its log file,these jobs do not to run at all. I have OpenLDAP's pam_ldap and nss_ldap,but cron did its duty until now. (I have reinstalled these ...

Hi All, Is there any standard set of documentedprocedures so that we can hunt down the system diskspace eaters without missing anything.Thank youSree __________________________________Do you Yahoo!?Yahoo! Photos: High-quality 4x6 digital prints for ...

HiI have problem configuring plotters through Jetdirecton Solaris 8 OS.All printers/plotters are reachable with Ping commandbut when i try to add printers/plotters usingjetdirect software it just gives me an error message"not reachable".>From command line and normaly lp commands ...

This is probably an easy question for the less experienced Solaris<br>user......<p>After I have plumbed a new interface (on a Netra T1) how do I keep the<br>information between reboots. I have a Sun box that is losing an<br>interface configuration every time I reboot.<p>Thanks<p>Andy<br>

Greetings, I am trying to flare a system (V480R) using a flare archive that I have previoulsy created and I am experiencing the following error after it extracts 100% of the archive:fopen: No such file or directoryERROR: Unable to unconfigure the extracted systemAny clues as to what is going ...

I'm trying to install 2 SF6800 Domains via Jumpstart/JETand need to install via port 0 of the ce interface in IB6, Slot2.Since this physical path (according to OBP) is ce2, the Client'ssysidcfg file has "network_interface=ce2".The initial inet kernel/miniroot boot works fine (the ...

Thanks everyone for responding - a sharp, concise, accurate response<br>as ever ;0)<p>I created an entry in the following...<p>/etc/inet/hosts<br>/etc/netmasks<br>/etc/hostname.eri0<br>/etc/hostname.eri1<p>Andy<br>

Hello I have some trouble running Solaris 9 on my unix box. I have Intel motherboard (chipset 7501) with AIC-7901 chip soldered upon it. When boot without user intervention the system loads the kernel then dies saying "unable to mount root filesystem" . Seems to be driver ...

> Dear Sunmanagers,> > this week I applied the recommended patches on my SunFire 280R (Solaris 9).> (Apr/13/04). Though cron seems to start jobs according to its log file,> these jobs do not to run at all. I have OpenLDAP's pam_ldap and nss_ldap,> but cron did its duty until ...

Hello,* Apologies if this is the wrong list as I cannot seem to find a mailinglist for SunOne. *Platform: iPlanet/SunOne Web Server 6.0Has anyone tried creating a performance bucket where each bucket is a page(primarily jsp pages)? I'm trying to find which pages are havingperformance issues ...

Hi,We have an application which requires someone to login to the console,and enter the xhost + command. However, there is no locale console onthat server. Is there by any means, I can run the xhost + commandwithout actually doing a login to the console. Any info in this regardwill be of a great ...

Folks, I made a mistake of mounting the wrong partition as / file system, and now the system boots up only in read-only for root, and i can't modify the vfstab file anymore. Single-user mode doesn't go forward after typing the password, hangs there. Is there any other alternative to be able ...

Greetings Forumers,This is not quite an summary. We weren't able to test the solutions provided,but I think there is some information that deserves to be shared.1 - One solution would be using exclude or include files for tar (-I and -Xoptions). It doesn4t help us, mostly because the tape have ...

This list rocks! Most suggested remounting it, and that worked. Thanks,Anjan -----Original Message----- From: Anjan Dave Sent: Mon 4/19/2004 10:27 AM To: codeprof at codeprof.com Cc: Subject: mouting / filesystem Folks, I made a mistake of mounting the wrong partition as / file system, ...

Hi Everyone,<br> the /var slice on our system is 97% full.Any suggestions for quick fix.I tried to clear all logs and all kinds of messages but could do nothing.Immediate help would be appreciated.<br>Thank you<br>sree<br>Yahoo! Photos: High-quality 4x6 digital prints for 25"<br>

I have a SDS/ SVM question. I am trying to backup a boot disk so I create metadevices on the backup disk, attach them as submirrors and let it sync up to the boot disk. Thereafter I detack the backup disk submirrors from the mirror and am trying to mount the backup disk submirror to take it out ...

I have tasked to find most cost effective hard drive size upgarde for a Sun280R server, I am looking around 120GB from existing 36GB drives. I havecalled Sun support and according to them the maximum size available ininternal HDD is 73GB and recommeded using external disk pack costing around6K. ...

This is the output I have from dfu and df.bash-2.03# du -sk /var10364 /varand df -kFilesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on/dev/dsk/c1t0d0s3 246466 214812 7008 97% /varI guess both are different.Please let me know what should I do now.I am a bit relieved. Thank youStepan ...

Hello All...Anyone have any ideas?Two Sun Fire 280Rs (A & B).Solaris 9 (5.9 Generic_112233-05)Dual 900MHz CPUs, 2GB RAM, Dual 36GB Disk as SVM Mirror set.The only difference in config between the two (apart from the usualsysidconfig stuff) is the patch revision (System B having a newer ...

Hi all, I am new to sun managers group.We have few production servers.If there is a crash can I boot system into single user mode using a cdrom and run fsck on all the disks on the systems.So that when I reboot it wont go into single user mode and refuse to run fsck on mounted root ...

Hello all,In Veritas SF 4.0 - there is no necessicity for creating rootdg anymore(waiting for this for a long time !!) - but assuming that we use this optionand have only the application disks under applicationdg - leaving the rootdiskalone - any idea how to mirror the root disks (since the ...

Please let me know if I can kill and restart sac and ttymon adn how to do that<br>Thank you<br>Yahoo! Photos: High-quality 4x6 digital prints for 25"<br>

hello, 1.) when running add_install_client, is the ip (whenusing -i <ipaddr>) the ip currently assigned to theeth device displayed when issuing banner at the okprompt? or is that the ip of what we want to assignit?2.) inetd.conf has the tftp entry:tftp dgram udp wait root ...

Is Apache installed on the solaris 9 OS by default install ?If so, where can I find information to config apache on sol9 os ?Thanks in advanceJohn._________________________________________________________________Watch LIVE baseball games on your computer with MLB.TV, included with MSN Premium! ...

Hi,We are facing problems while using the IPSEC features of Solaris 9, the details are captured below.Problem Statement and Description (using Solaris IKE/IPSec feature):The application scenario is as described below:1. We have a TCP client connection with a peer application, which is a TCP ...

My system is patched to the latest patch for the SUNOS 5.8. On thewww.sunsolve.sun.com < http://www.sunsolve.sun.com/> page I noticed that thereis a security alert on "Security Sun Alert Collection" on passwd. There issomething which I do not quite understand, thus:This issue ...

Hi, I have a similar problem to the one Angel Alejandro Vega Soto had earlier: http://www.blacksheepnetworks.com/security/resources/summaries/2004.htmlI'm trying to make a SUN Netra X1 boot from a CD-ROM that I've attached on the second IDE-interface.I have tried to connect one end of a ...

Hello to allI was wondering if anyone had already compiled "mutt" email utility forSolaris 8 & would be kind enough to send me the binaries...I have tried to compile it from source, but it's not really my strongpoint & doesn't seem to work !!Thanks in advanceAndy ...

Hello all.. I`m looking for some documents about device_allocate , device_map and howto configure device management components.. I need some docs or links..Thx in advance!--------------------------------ARPA Freemail, POP3/WebMail accountsMultiple domains! ...

Hi allI've been using IPC::Shareable to share a hash that has 700 entries init, between two processes. The hash is as follows....$data{<ip address>} = timem();I am getting errors on my Solaris 2.8 (Netra T1) server that I don't geton other Linux systems, such as .....Corrupted storable ...

Hello all,We have about 100 user accounts/data across different filesystem/disks.As those disk getting old, now we need to move all user data to a newbig filesystem. All the other issues (path, data copy using tar/untar)have been taken care of, now comes the quota issue, because eachuser's ...

Thank you everyone. I am really happy that I had so many reponses for my question (97% /var full). The real problem was some one was deleting the open files like mail,log,etc files .Hence du -k and df -k were different.I rebooted the machine and /var was 5% full. However some of the ...

i need help parsing a text file in korn shell on solaris 7. I cant useperl.i want to grab each line of an input file then break out the columns(probably using awk).here is a sample input file:TEXT,04/04/04,04/20/04,05/01/03,a description with spaces in it.JUNK, 4324, 4323432, 324231, another ...

Hi folks,I have burnt a Solaris8 FlashArchive onto a DVD and am tryingto build a clone system with it.I an running Webstart (booting from the Solaris8 OE DVD), but whenI get to the part where you specify the media, I cannot eject theSolaris8 DVD.When presented with the menu for secpifying the ...

Hi there,Does anyone know the correct and sure way of changing a normal NIS+ user'spassword, when they do not know their original password.The problem with the procedure below is this:[root at RMS]nis$ nispasswd GuestNew password:Re-enter new password:NIS+ password information changed for ...

Greetings Forumers,We are planning to do a huge data copy between servers by NFS. Performance isa big issue, indeed.We have to copy various filesystems from E10000 domains in the shortest timeas possible. The total amount could get up to 750Gb.We already did tests performing various ...

Hi all, Thanks to everyone who replied to me.Original post is included at the end of this mail.* Decided that it was a 3rd party app calling ifconfig. Added an ifconfigwrapper to log ifconfig usage.* Removed extra entry from /etc/netmasks.* Rebooted machine.After reboot watched the logs and ...

thanks to all who helped, i recieved over 20 responses in 10 minutes.Several people mentioned the list is not for this type of question, sorryabout that.if anyone knows a good shell script list id like to know.the solution was to to use the IFS variable, which i think tells cat to usethat value ...

Hi People,<p> Somebody can send me the complete list of ok> prompt commands?<p> Thanks in advance<p> Marcelo<br>

Hello!This is my 1st post to this list, so please let me know if I'm doinganything incorrectly:The OS we're working on is Solaris 8, with a sprinkling of 7 and 9. Theversions of 8 vary from 10/01 onwards.The computers vary across the board from Netra T1's to 880R's (andalmost everything in ...

Hello Sunmanagers !!Here we have a problem with Legato Networker On a SunFire 280where there is only the client side.We're backing up on a Ultrium JB connected in fibre channel.In this way we save time and network load.The backup is running fine but the recover fails, The serverlogs that it ...

Hi All,I am trying to create a cross-platform install server on a SPARC system.As per Solaris 9 Installation guide, the x86 1 of 2 CD media shouldcontain slice s0 and slice s2. But the x86 8/03 media CD does not seemto contain these links as mentioned in the guide.The link from ...

We just purchased an additional 4Gb RAM for our Blade1000 (Sun licensed 3rdparty). We have removed all existing RAM to keep things simple. While thesystem starts to boot, it hangs shortly after the "Print service starting"message.Has anyone else run across this type of problem? I ...

Im setting up a sunfire v440 w/ solaris 9 12/03 ...the machine didnt comewith a keyboard so i have done the install from the SC (service console)and a laptop ...now that the system has been installed i want to apply therecommended updates however ..the way i have done it in the past is# init ...

Hi Managers,I do apologize for the delay that in the summary.I would like to thank the following Managers for their replies first:Tim EvansJames MattRobKevin KorbHoward HurstHendrik VisageVihn CaoMike SalehiAnthony TalltreeDavid FosterThe following are the suggestions that I got from the ...