Dear Sun Managers,I remember a couple of years ago, Sun providedSunsolve CD to Sun Partners' engineer and contractcustomers. Due to cost cutting, Sun no longer provideSunsolve CD to them.As I'm an on-site engineer, accessing online sunsolvesometimes is not possible in certain secure site. ...

Hi,Sorry for the delay;well I have no other solution except to create special netgroups for this purpose .rachid boukhari wrote:> Hi Gurus,>> I would like to makea NIS map "ro" mounted for some clients and "rw" > for others. How can I procede.?>> rdc_23 ...

What are people using for disaster recovery / cloning of their solarisservers? I was looking into Jumpstart, but that appears to be for cold installationfrom CD images.I also looked at Flash archives, but that appears not to supportmetadevices. I'm running both Solaris 8 and ...

Thank you all for the immediate and volumunous responses I got to thismy question about locating the PID owning a given network port.The near-unanimous response was to use 'lsof', or more specifically: # lsof -i TCP:<port#>(or some variation of the above)Now I just need to find a way ...

I am using the bundled Sun One Directory server on Solaris 9. I am movingfrom NIS to LDAP so here is what I am doing.... I take a ypcat passwd and send it thru the ringer to extract the user/passwdand append some ::::::: and a passwd age to get my shadow file. I use theNIS make files and import ...

Dear gurus,I would like to make a new fresh install of solaris 9 on my NIS masterserveur (let's say A)I've setup a NIS slave master (let's call it B) running Sol 8The main idea is to reconfigure A without stopping the clientsI would like to have your opinion.First, make the NIS slave-master ...

Hi all.,Previous to my last two emails, I thought I'd update you and ask for abit of feedback.My orginal email asked if anyone knew whether it was possible tobackup and restore solaris2.6 images created via flarcreate andrestored via a jumpstart webflash archive on a solaris 8 box.Well, I ...

I am running into a strange problem with a flash install using jumpstart. Ihave taken a flash archive of an existing Solaris 8 client (No errorsreported) and I want to test the flash install to the same client.I have the jumpstart server running as required but when I try to runboot net - ...

Good Morning,Thanks for many valuable responses. I backout the patch and sendmail works finn now.I like to share a couple of great solution/recommendations from Allen and Erek:Allen wrote:Looks like the patch cluster replaced your custom sendmail binary.. try doing /usr/lib/sendmail -bt -d0.1 ...

If it can be done no one here knows how. I've triedvarious ideas, nothing worked. Once an x86 system isinstalled the boot disk is stuck to that drive bay. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard. ...

In summary-- Its sounds like the majority consensus is to use gaim.Thanks for all who replied.Joe AstrologoUnix Systems EngineerFactset Research SystemsVoice: 203-863-1562 jastrologo at factse t.com Sent by: To ...

Hello,We have a very ghetto Sun Ultra 2 (creator) being used as a critical database server. Don't ask me why that is, I just got here. I've lost count of the number of external SCSI hard drives connected to this thing. As near as I can tell, there are five, the wires of which are entangles ...

I did a reboot and heres what I got after my solaris 8 got rebooted:<p>WARNING: /proc could not be mounted<br>/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s1: Overlapping swap files are not allowed<br>...<p>this keeps repeating itself in a loop<p>Whats going on? Clues please?<p>Omon<br>

I'm having some trouble setting up iPlanet Directory Server 5.1. Thepackages are already installed on the system (IPLTdsr, IPLTdsu, IPLTdscon,IPLTdsman), but no directory server has been configured. I've been tryingto follow the installation instructions at docs.sun.com, but they allseem to ...

I have below file systems and problem is strange../dev/vx/dsk/apollodg/vapps 10485760 3880195 6197900 39% /apps/dev/vx/dsk/apollodg/vselprd 20971520 11097600 9256832 55% /apps/selprd/dev/vx/dsk/apollodg/vscprod 10485760 3880195 6197900 39% /apps/finpd/SCPRODWhile ...

To AllI am preparing for a Disaster Recovery plan for all of my solaris server. One of the first steps is to create a script that will collect the storage structure and other specification of the system. Does anyone have a script or know of a program the will get all of the information that ...

I researched this problem and found a couple of archived msgs that really had no resolution. Listed below are the errors I'm getting. Please Help !!Not sure if this error is related to my not connecting to anything across my router. I can ping /telnet/ftp & exceed into the unix boxfrom ...

I researched this problem and found a couple of archived msgs that really had no resolution. Listed below are the errors I'm getting. Please Help !!Not sure if this error is related to my not connecting to anything across my router. I can ping /telnet/ftp & exceed into the unix boxfrom ...

Hi AllThanks for all for the replies.> ERROR: The following devices are disabled:> scsi> netThanks to Michael for suggesting to use asr-clearAt the OK prompt,asr-clear clears all the disabled devices> INIT: Cannot create /var/adm/utmpx>>> INIT: SINGLE ...

Dear Gurus,<p> I have sendmail version 8.11.x running on Solaris 5.8. I want to<br>know if it is possible to upgrade the existing version to 8.12.x or do<br>I have to un-install and re-install the new version.<p> Any help will be appreciated. I will summarize.<p>Best Regards,<br>Jay.<br>

I am curious as to how other members of this mailing list are obtainingSolaris install media (CD or DVD). Does Sun have any automatic notificationmechanisms for alerting when new Solaris versions are released? Is thereany easy way to request this media be shipped on CD/DVD? I know that I can ...

Hi, I am putting the problem again..Problem is /apps/finpd/SCPROD. If I check df -k, mount, /etc/mnttab etc seems alright. But whenI do df -k /apps/finpd/SCPROD problem pops up..-----------------------------------------------------# df -k /apps/finpd/SCPRODFilesystem kbytes used ...

Good morning everyone,Can or has someone had success adding an IDE drive to a Sun PCI lll cardbased on the info I provided below;The Equipment:SunBlade 150, 512Mb Ram, 40Gb Harddrive, Solaris 8.0Sun PCI lll, 256Mb Ram, Win 2K Service Pack 4What I Would Like To Do:I would like to attach a 3.5 in ...

I had a lot of good replies. The one that I liked the best was from Ed Alexander who sent me a script that gave me all of the information I needed to recover from a disaster. see attachmentSome other optionsfrom przemolLook at the ...

I am trying to run a script that is doing a find for suid and guid files ona system.Basically I am using this command :find / -perm 4000 -printOn one of my server (E450 with Solaris 7) this command returns an error :# find / -perm 4000 -printfind: cannot open /: Value too large for defined data ...

Does anyone know what the limits are to the length of a file name in Solaris<br>systems?<br>

Good day,I have to set a pair of Sun Fire V880 machines, a pair of T3+ storagearrays and a pair of SG-XSW8-2GB FC switches in the following way(the idea of the setup being high availability of the data on the T3+s):[V880]---[fc switch]---[T3+] | | | +--------------+ ...

Maximum length of a file name based on POSIX = 255Maximum length for user names is 32thanks to Mr. Bhatia----- Original Message -----From: "Sanjiv K. Bhatia" <sanjiv at aryabhat.cs.umsl.edu>To: "Omon Edeki-NOWELL" <omon.edeki at nowellgroup.com>Sent: Friday, ...

Below are outputs of df -k, cat /etc/vfstab, mount...======================================================# df -k | grep -i apps/dev/vx/dsk/apollodg/vapps 10485760 3882147 6196070 39% /apps/dev/vx/dsk/apollodg/vselprd 20971520 11098169 925629855% /apps/selprd/dev/vx/dsk/apollodg/vscprod ...

A few questions regarding Veritas Volume Manager:(1) I am licensed for V3.5 Veritas Volume Manager.Will this license work for Veritas Volume Manager 4.0?(2) Is there any way to install Veritas Volume Manager3.5 on Solaris 10 (The installation script saysSolaris 10 is not supported, is there any ...

Hi, I've just put an Intel Pro/1000 Quad port NIC into a DELL running Solaris 8x86.I've donwloaded and installed the e1000g driver (INTCGigaE.pkg) from ...

G'day All.Forgive me if this is off-topic, I'm really out of my depth here.What I'm trying to achieve is a delegation in 3 domains. I've got twodnsservers, a master (srvr1) and a slave (srvr2). Apart from theirrespective roles the setup is exactly the same.srvr1 is a Netra t1 105, solaris 8 ...

Hi, Sorry if this is not so appropriate. I'm trying to get myself up to speed with the above products & hope ifsomeone can point me to relevant websites/urls & books that Ican read up to get myself familiarized with the commands. I needed them badly for my new job & paying for ...

Hi All,<br> <br>I had a boot disk failaure and want to restore my attached disk arrays (configured in DiskSuite). I have good backups of all files from the system. Is there a document or procedure that will make retoring the DiskSuite config easy?<br> <br>Thanks,<br>Mark Gosselin<br>

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I recently purchased a Sun Fire v20z server with two 73GB scsi discs. All original Sun parts. After istalling the OS I was about to mirror the discs with Solaris Volume Manager. I found out that the discs are made by different vendors _and_ they have different geometries. This also means I ...

Dear managers,I just removed an alias dherbst: pkoppfrom /etc/mail/aliases and run newaliasesI also did "postfix reload" and "postfix stop", "postfix start", but mails to dherbst are still forwarded to pkopp.Jan 24 12:27:54 centrino postfix/local[23699]: [ID 197553 ...

Hi,we have a E15K domain running Solaris-8, and connected to a SAN viaQLogic-2300 Host Bus Adapters.A bunch of EMC-Symmetrix disks are already made available to the serverand being used for filesystems through VxVM.Now we need to add an extra LUN coming from an EMC-Clariion CX600 array.The new ...

Hello Sun managersI am using the following procedure to delete a NIS+ replicaSYNOPSIS: Remove a nis+ replica or recreating a replica.DETAIL DESCRIPTION:As root user on the rootmaster nis+ system:1) nisrmdir -f -s <actualreplicaname> org_dir.yourdomainname. < you need this end dot ...

Need useradd script for Sun One Directory server..<br> <br> Jeremy S. Loukinas <br>

Hi dear gurus: I have a problem with my backups, i have 4 servers SUn and one more with a tape drive, i have doing this:local backup in every server, whit tar and gzipcopy that backup in server with tape drivemake a backup of every file *.tar.gz in tape with ufsdumpmy question is, i ...

Hi all,am in the finishing stages of a project i started a bit more than a year ago, am trying to document the proper (in my own opinion) way to properly install add on software on the Solaris OS, add on meaning apache, mysql, postgresql, bash, ssh, ssl, php, etc... anything i could get my ...

Dear managers,<p>are there any recommendation for hardware sizing Sunscreens firewall's ?<br>We want to use Sunscreen 3.2 in bridge mode.<br>One another question : has Solaris10 IPFilter a bridge mode? Sunscreen <br>is being EOL.<p>Thanks Managers.<p>Stefan<br>

Hi... I have a server that often df -k command show /var partition isfull, but if run a du -ks inside /var the result is completly different,the amount used is minor than all disk and I know that is not fullbecause I almost not use the partition, but the system send messages andwarnings ...

the answers were split up as follows.about 45% of production systems, had the sw compiled on a dev box from source and then moved it to prod.the other 45% used sunfreeware, or blastwave for all if not most of their s/wtwo responded stating that they use other sw pkg's,other responses were, ...

I apologize in advance if this is consideredoff-topic.We've recently upgraded to NetBackup 4.5GA on ourSolaris 8 Sun box which acts as our NetBackup Server.I would like to know if there is a way to increaseverbosity or have the trylogs print more details(files i'm referring to are ...

We have several admins having access to a privileged perl script(accessible only by root), and I'd like to record which admin ran thescript, as part of the script output. However, env, set, id, etc. do not give me what the id was before "su -"ing. Is there a good way to find ...

Hi Experts,Problem description:Using VCS windows cluster manager (Java console) on window XP to connect to VCS4.0 MP1 cluster and not able to connectSetup - VCS 4.0 MP1 running on 2 solaris 9 nodes clusteredJava console on windows XP to connect to the clusterVCS is behind a firewall and hence ...

Hi Everyone - I sent this email last Monday (MLK day) and worry that many folks might have deleted it in the rush to catch up on Tues. I also only got 3-4 users responses and 10+ sales responses. If any other users have any feedback, I would truly love to hear from you. Again - I will ...

Dear managers,thanks to1) "Webmaster - ITServ GmbH" <webmaster at itserv.de>2) Marian Dragomir <marian at romsys.ro>3) "Michael Schneider/calispera.com" <michael.schneider at calispera.com>(and many other, I accidentally sent the summary to Michael instead ...