Can SunPCI III boot from floppy?

424 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:18:00
As above. I couldn't find anything in the user guide that suggests it is possible. Background: http://www.codeprof.com/pipermail/codeprof/2004-February/028685.html We are unable to use any version of SunPCI 3 software newer than 3.01. Now, we have found another software to try (Norton Ghost ...

Summary: solaris password settings

1765 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:18:00
Thanks to everyone who responded.For setting the strong password requirements, mostly everyone suggested touse "npasswd."For cracking the weaker passwords which are already used on the system, thegeneral advice was to use "Crack," "John the ripper" etc. ...

SUMMARY: ssh doesn't care about password aging

1665 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:18:00
<Original question below>Hi agn,and thanks to Matt (mlh at zipworld.com.au) for the fast reply! It seems weneed a newer openssh or a patch for the old one. It's a known behaviorof the old-fashioned ssh servers, :-)Matt's reply:==================/snip/======================Get a recent ...

notify users about password expiry

905 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:18:00
I am looking for some programs to notify users about their "upcoming" passwordexpiry. I set everyone's password to expire in 60 days and give the users awarning 10 days earlier. So, now when the users login to the Unix servers,they see the message that "Your password is going to ...

OT - Storage Experience

237 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:18:00
Hi,<p> our SAN Storage needs expansion and instead of upgrading our Storagetek<br>D-178 my boos insists of getting EMC Hardware. Does anyone has experience<br>with the Clariion CX700 or the Symetrix DMX800/1000/2000<p>Thanks<p>Soeren<br>

SUMMARY: exe request

884 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:18:00
Many thanks to all who assisted.Stuart.-----Original Message-----From: Stuart Morris [mailto:stuart at IBS-PUBLIC-SERVICES.CO.UK]Sent: 28 April 2004 11:33To: 'codeprof at codeprof.com'Subject: exe requestHi all,Is there any chance someone could email me a copy of the /usr/bin/moreexecutable ...

Solaris 9 ssh won't read local env

690 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:18:00
I have a number of Sol9 server running ssh that will not read the local env.Basically it drops my path off and defaults to a system path. . It worksfind on servers running solaris 8 with openssh packages from sunfreeware. Anyone else run into this yet? Jeremy S. Loukinas Unix Systems ...

NIS password "Permission Denied"

705 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:18:00
Hi Everyone,I just configured an NIS domain and server at a site in India and am havingthe follwing problem:Everything seems to be running (yppasswdd, ypserv, ypbind), ypwhich shows theright binding,ypcat -k passwd shows the right users. However, when I log in as any of theusers and try ...

Issues with a SunFire 280R & PCI Dual Ultra3 SCSI Card

2429 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:18:00
Below is the information from the SunFire 280R after a Sun StorEdge PCI DualUltra3 SCSI Host Adapter was installed in PCI Slot 5. Sun Part # X6758A It is connected to a StorEdge L9 Autoloader. Cables have been checked andrechecked. The Tape Drive is working and is recognized by another 280R. ...

hba info

1041 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:18:00
I have a sunfire 260R with an hba card in itI/O PCI 8 A 1 66 66 1,0 okSUNW,qlc-pci1077,2312.1077.10a.2+I/O PCI 8 A 1 66 66 1,1 okSUNW,qlc-pci1077,2312.1077.10a.2+ luxadm fcode_download -p Found Path to 0 FC/S Cards Complete Found Path to 0 FC100/S Cards ...

Solaris 8 Patch Breaks Commercial SSH ?

466 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:18:00
We applied the latest Solaris 8 Patch Cluster to our boxes that runCommercial SSH.These boxes normally have a load average of around 1 - 2, and now they aresitting between 8 - 12.SSH has been hanging so we have no access to the boxes.I have tried restarting SSH which did not help.Any ...

basic question on userids and groups

467 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:18:00
We have some users and groups with the same name (example, say ptldt). So, ifI delete the userid ptldt, does it affect the group "ptldt."1. In other words, userids and groups are two completely different entities -right?2. There are some files owned by the user ptldt in some of the ...

Solstice Backup mounting pool Default

617 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:18:00
I'm using Solstice Backup 6.1. I've recently added a Windows system as aclient. I've created new groups (PCFull & PCIncr) and new pools (PCFull &PCincr) for this Windows client.But when the backups run for the Windowsclient the Networker server wants to use tapes from the ...

Network Adapter Teaming

337 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:18:00
Has anyone heard about teaming network adapters in Solaris?I understand the idea that couple of interfaces can be made redundant tofail-over.I would like know how will load-balancing work with network teaming?Can network packets be send out from more than one network interface usingthe same IP ...

SUMMARY: why so many ports open on Solaris

35494 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:18:00
boatload of replies. thanks to everyone. it looks like I have some serious work to do. I'll do a very brief summary, but the only way to do justice to the richness of the replies is to include a number of them at the end of this, after my original message.key item that one person gave me was ...

SUMMARY: Solaris 8 Patch Breaks Commercial SSH ?

407 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:18:00
I replaced my pam.conf and restarted sshd, I will continue to monitor butfor now the cpu load is holding.--------------------Probably a change to the pam.conf file -- and you may well need torestart the whole server. Bummer. Can you log in locally? Also, if there were local changes to the ...

Ultra-2 POST status code question

926 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:18:00
I've got an Ultra-2 that recently went down as a result of a power failure.After restoring power, the machine refused to boot to the internal disk.Booted to a Solaris install CD so I could run format to check the disks, and it turns out that the disk that WAS the bood disk is now no longer ...

solaris 8 - orca "Segmentation Fault"

1896 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:18:00
ive compiled orca on my solaris 8 sparc machine, it has the latest patchcluster.im using perl 5.8.3 and gcc 3.3.2.ive tried 5 times and it seems to compile ok, ive also made sure all theperl modules are installed, but i keep getting a "Segmentation Fault" whenrunning ...

Read OK, Write Errors

930 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:18:00
I am having trouble writing to, but not reading from, an array.It is a Raid 5 array conntected to an E450 running Solaris 2.6. Theconnection goes from the server, through an Antares P-036 fiber card,through a copper cable, to a Gadzooks 1 GB fiber switch, through a coppercable, to an Infortrend ...

SUMMARY: What versions of Solaris will run as LDAP clients?

583 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:18:00
Looks like you must be at Solaris 8 or higher to run theLDAP client on Solaris.There are two main LDAP inplementations, Sun One Directory Serverand Open LDAP. If you have Solaris systems, Sun One Directory Serveris SUN's version of LDAP.Also, there is an article in the May issue of SysAdmin ...

NFS with Virtual IP and Firewall

1156 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:18:00
Mgrs,There is a post from Jan 2004 concerning this topic, but with no summary [so far :-) ].I've got:- host A with address ..12.1 sharing out an NFS fileystem.- host A has a virtual IP address ..12.99 defined in DNS as host AB1.- host X is on the other side of a firewall, with address ...

Scripting Problem

768 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:18:00
Hello Guys,I need some help and thought someone on this list might know. I am tryingto do some scripting but am running into the following problem:I have a file that contains a bunch of the following entries:trusty.F.0038 02/11/02trusty.F.0058 04/11/04trusty.F.0063 05/12/02trusty.F.0064 ...

Solution of preventing telnet login

225 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:18:00
Hi All,<p>I want to allow a user to use ftp command to put somethings on my server<br>only but I do not want him to use telnet to login into my solaris 8 server,<br>what should I do? much thanks.<p>Best Regards,<br>Henry<br>

sunfire v250 SCC

489 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:18:00
What is the SCC on a sunfire v250? I assume it keepsthe system configuration but it seems really clutzy ifthat's all it does. I've searched high and low buteven sun's website doesn't seem to have a lot of infoon it.-Ed. __________________________________Do you Yahoo!?Win a $20,000 ...

SUMMARY: fsck, corrupt lost+found

1317 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:18:00
I didn't find any workaround for this problem. Ended up making a newfilesystem and restore from backup.Thanks to Andrew Rotrame and Lars Heckingregards<Leiv>-----Original Message-----From: Leiv Jarle LarsenSent: 28. april 2004 11:11To: codeprof at codeprof.comSubject: fsck, corrupt ...

Sendmail novice

420 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:18:00
Hi all,I have received a request from one of my users and it has got mestumped since my knowledge of sendmail is very poor. He wants me tosetup sendmail that if the main relay server does not respond thensendmail should use a failover server. Is this possible and if so howdo I specify to ...

seek for solution of merging 2 files produced by dd

343 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:18:00
Hi All,I have spanned a 2G zip file into two 1G fileby using dd command as followdd if=test.zip of=test.zip1 bs=1024k count=1000dd if=test.zip of=test.zip2 bs=1024k skip=1000Now, I want to combine two 1G file into the original one by using ddcommand, what can I do? Please help and thanks a ...

/var gone!

1224 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:18:00
Hi - bit of a shot in the dark this one, but here goes! A colleague of minehas been using rsync on a server running Solaris 8 (SPARC) and managed to blowaway everything in /var.The server is running & I can log in fine. Its runs as an Apache web serverwith ColdFusion. I am soon going to be ...

Solstice DiskSuite Tool problem

437 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:18:00
Hi ! Excuse for mine bad English.I use Solstice DiskSuite by the machine: SunOS 5.8 sun4u sparcSUNW,Ultra-80 .I login on my machine using telnet protocol.At start DiskSuite Tool I see the message:bash-2.03# metatool &[1] 11306bash-2.03# Couldn't open display!Is your DISPLAY variable set ...

./configure errors - building enlightenment_16.6

2347 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:18:00
Hi all,I am in the process of building enlightenment_16.6 from source on aSolaris 8 2/02 s28s_u7wos_08a SPARC box.Currently the GNU autoconf configure script is failing.Here is what is happening:shell> pwd/var/tmp/enlightenment-0.16.6shell> ./configure --disable-hints-gnome ...

3510 / JNI / V480 / Sol9

3326 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:18:00
I'm having problems with a 3510 RAID box connected by fibre to a V480 serverrunning Solaris 9 (with current recommended patches) via a JNI card. The3510 and it's disks have the current recommended firmware, the managementsoftware is all at the current recommended release and patch level. ...

Help Needed.

275 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:18:00
Hii,<br>Could anyone help me in solving the problem which i face,<br> Problem is this, i'm not able to make a ftp login to my Solaris 5.7<br>machine which is a E450 Machine,i dont know what to do,any suggestions,it<br>will be a great help.<p>Regards,<br>Brijesh Kumar.<br>

cpu stoped working

5186 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:18:00
Hello guru we have cluster configuration are cluster 2.2 e420R server x 2 sunstoreedge d1000 x 2 oracle is running on both the server to day i faced problem like root can login by telnet and work but normal or regular user were unable to login to the server .but cluster ...

how to fix mtu on interface

240 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:18:00
Hi all<br>I'm running Solaris 8, how can I fix mtu on network interface so i don't<br>have to change every bootime?<br>Now I use a script to rise up eri0 with mtu value fixed to 1450 using<br>ifconfig.<br>Thanks in advance<p>-fabrizio<br>

SUMMARY: Sendmail novice

1274 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:18:00
Hi there,Thanks to Nicolas Figaro for his information. Apparently sendmail doesnot have this failover function but using a third party tool like bindcan help."sendmail doesn't know how to do this, but setting mx entries in yourdns can help.Ask your dns administrator for this config, or ...

solaris 9 upgrade tips

1204 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:18:00
Hello Gurus,We are in the process of upgrading a couple of our e450 servers fromsolaris 7 to 9. These servers mainly run oracle 8i and some of themiPlanet web servers, I was wondering whether you had any tips, caveatsto offer regarding these apps and in general upgrading to solaris ...

Sendmail email To question

1325 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:18:00
To all - We have Sendmail version 8.12.9 on a Solaris box and we have an issuewith the incoming email address domain being changed. For example, we haveserver "mail1.pc.com" which receives an email destined to "joe at pc.com".The server "mail1" is configured ...

Tape library problems and veritas

1890 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:18:00
We are running Solaris 2.6, and veritas 4.5 MP6.The tape library had been experiencing some odd errors, and this was putdown to the firmware release that was on the library.We upgraded the library and the tape drives, and had no errors in theprocess.The library is a L3500 and upgrade the ...

Tape Libraries Evaluation

420 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:18:00
Dear Managers,We are looking to renew the tape library.We had a L1000 from Sun with DLT7000 .We are looking now for a mid-range tape library:StorageTek L180ADIC Scalar 1000Overland Neo 8000I would like to hear from you about your field hands-on experience andstories with those libraries or ...

Solution of preventing telnet login

1763 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:18:00
Many thanks to all of your help, especially Joe suggestion and I haveimplemented it and it work. Thanks.Best Regards,Henry <j.pagano at telesci ences.com> To: <hchang at kgia.com>, <codeprof at codeprof.com> ...

Window Manager

410 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:18:00
Managers,Thanks to all of those who replied.My original problem was being unable to get the Ion window manager to work under solaris x86. Turns out the guy who packaged it accidentally had paths hardcoded into the binary, so Ion was unable to load the proper files (config files).For future ...

seek for solution of merging 2 files produced by dd

1652 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:18:00
Many thanks for your help, especially thanks for Richard and James.THanks.Best Regards,Henry <Richard.Skelton at in fineon.com> To: <hchang at kgia.com> cc: 04/29/2004 04:02 PM Subject: Re: seek for ...

Help Needed.

1551 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:18:00
Hii,I'm sorry,i didnt give u the full details of the problem which i'm facing here,C:\>ftp sapphireConnected to sapphire.220 sapphire FTP server (SunOS 5.7) ready.User (sapphire:(none)): team1331 Password required for team1.Password:530 Login incorrect.Login failed.ftp>Above mentioned ...

SUMMARY: Read OK, Write Errors

1530 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:18:00
Turned out it was the switch. I connected the array directly to the server,copied 13 GB, and got no errors.Thanks to Tim Chipman for his suggestion that the disks in the arrays mayhave bad sectors.Thanks to Alan Pae for his suggestion that I talk to the vendor, which Ihad already done. It was ...

Ultra 60 Does Not Boot

851 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:18:00
Hello All,I am very new to Sun systems, so please bear with me. I have spent thelast few hours trying to fix what I broke and I really need some help.I have a Sun Ultra 60 that I wanted to move to a different IP subnetwithin our network. I edited /etc/hosts and /etc/defaultrouter to workwith ...

replace 36gb encapsulated and mirrored boot disks with 72gb disks

464 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:18:00
Hello Gurus,Can you please email me the procedures on replacing36gb encapsulated and mirrored boot disks with 72gbdisks. Thanks a lot. I will summarize the replies and send tothis mailing list.Sunsa __________________________________Do you Yahoo!?Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! ...

move boards (15K server)

969 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:18:00
Hi GurusI need help with my 15K server, the problem description is:I have two domains with this components:Available Component List for Domains:=====================================Available Component List for domain B: SB2 SB3 SB4 IO2 IO3 IO4and other domain with this:Available Component List ...

how to clear a stale soft partition

4185 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:18:00
Hello managers,This one's been bugging me for a while. I have a V480 running Solaris 8 andDiskSuite 4.2.1 that used to be attached to an FC StorEdge A5200. This machinewas moved to another location where we had no use for the A5200. However,before moving the server I did not clear any of ...

help w/ tcsh (sol9) - read user input

901 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:19:00
hello... printf doesn't seem to work with /bin/sh on mysolaris9 box. i tried it from the command line in tcshand that worked. so for a tcsh script, how then do iread in user input? usually i use /bin/sh and do this:input_script:- - - - - -#! /bin/shecho "helo:"read AAecho $AA- - - - ...

Solaris Data Backup Utility 5.5.x Media?

492 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 3:19:00
Anyone have this CD-ROM available for loan or download? I need to transfer mylicense to a new system, and cannot find mine.Thanks.--Tim Evans, TKEvans.com, Inc. | 5 Chestnut Courttkevans at tkevans.com | Owings Mills, MD 21117 http://www.tkevans.com/ | ...