G'day all.It seems that I succeeded in completely obfuscating my problem. I apologise for that... it was late and I may have been a bit giddy after days of trying to solve this.Allow me to start afresh.*Justification:* "I am a Unix SysAdmin and have been so for over a decade. I started ...

Hi. Managers.I have disk that has 3 slices in it and is growing datasize rapidly. Here's df -k output and slice table./dev/dsk/c0t1d0s0 288603 42112 217631 17% /root.back/dev/dsk/c0t1d0s5 2056211 184984 1809541 10% /home.back/dev/dsk/c0t1d0s6 15042643 14141316 750901 ...

Thanks all for the answers and suggestions, some of which confirmed whatI found out myself in the mean time: the array-support for Clariion wasnot included by default in the VxVM installation ("vxddladm listsupport|grep DGC")So I downloaded from the Veritas web site the package ...

Hello all,I installed VVM4.0 on our Solaris9 V880 yesterday and had a fewproblems. I went through the process of installing all the packages thendid the patching side of things. Then I encapsulated the root disk andadded a mirror for root and synced them up. But each time I rebooted thebox the ...

We're using Sendmail 11.9. Local email to root, sent from cron or me, isgetting relayed externally. There's no /.forward. Anybody know what'smisconfigured?echo "foo" |mailx -s "testing" rootsyslog looks like this. it appears the first line says the relay isroot at ...

Hello,I have just created 5 new meta devices on our CX300 and when I run ametastat I get the following output at the end:-Device Relocation Information:Device Reloc Device IDemcpower2d No -emcpower2b No -emcpower2a No -emcpower1b No -emcpower1a ...

Hi guys:I have to write a script that monitors the system logfiles forcertain words and send alerts if it finds one. I have a skeleton perl scriptthat does some of the logic. However, is it possible to run a perl script as adaemon rather than running it via cron every 1 sec so that the log ...

I need to verify that a flasharchive that i created has some directories excluded.I read threw the man page.The options for flar -i (extract info) subcommand are asfollows:-k keyword Only the value of the keyword keyword is returned.-l List all files in the archive. Does not process ...

I have a system that is running Solaris 8 and uses Disksuite to managea software RAID-5 device. The metadb is spread across a variety ofthe disks, and everything is currently happy.I'm considering installing Solaris 10, but I don't want to lose 1) mydisk setup or 2) any of the customizations ...

Hi All, Thanks to Daniel Nuno for the only response. He pointed me to http://www.unixway.com/vm/solarisvm.html which provided me with what I needed.Simple process: Replace hard drive, reinstall OS, install DiskSuite, restore /etc/lvm/* from tape, restore lines to /etc/vfstab that mount ...

Hello--I am running a NIS+ server on a Sun Fire V240 server running Solaris9 (pathbundle117171-05)I'm trying to change the shell environment for a NIS+ user using thefollowing command:# passwd -r nisplus -e user1Enter root's password:Old shell: /bin/tcshNew shell: /bin/bashpasswd: password ...

Hi,<p> I need enable OSPF + Zebra in Solaris 7 :-) !!<br> Any suggestion ?<p>-- <br>[ ]'s<br>Humberto Sartini<br><A HREF=" http://web.onda.com.br/humberto"> http://web.onda.com.br/humberto</A><br>

Hi allI need help with an issue in a SF15k domain with veritas volume manager 3.5. This domain have two Qlogic's 2200, these qlogic are connected by fiber to a symmetrix box the provides several disks to the domain.After a reboot, with "boot -r", I can't see any of the symmetrix's ...

>Hell Gurus,> I was checking the routing table of my>system and it was chaning automatically. I have>/etc/notrouter. Could some one explain this to me? First of all thank you to Russell Page, BruceKirkland, Ryan Krenzischek, Crist Clark,Matthew Stier and jzhao.My problem ...

I've searched the sun site, but can't seem to find any add-on packages for<br>answerbook. I am looking for various add-on's such as for the V880, V120,<br>etc. Are any of these linked on the Sun site? Thanks.<br>

Emulex LP9000Solaris 8/9lpfc 5.x driverDoes anyone know of a reason not to manually edit the/etc/path_to_inst file to fix the the lpfc instance namesto WWPNs?The problem... lpfc targes change during Flashing of EmulexFirmware, during rebuild of systems or OS upgrade. The rightsolution is to go ...

Solaris 8SUN patchesAfter Patches in Single user mode reboot -- -rProblem: telnetd: open /dev/logindmux: No such device or addressI saw some postings and tried to load it manually but can't. Itresets the name_to_major back to 4 and can't load it:# rem_drv logindmuxDriver (logindmux) not ...

Hello,after applying the recent patches to a V240 running Sol 9 (04/03) (now 117171-17) and a reconfigure reboot the system came up with the message:checking ufs filesystems/dev/dsk/emcpower0a is logging (ok, first disk in a emc-box)/dev/dsk/emcpower1a is logging (ok, 2nd disk in a ...

Hi all, Looking at implementing UFS Logging on our servers by adding the loggingentry in /etc/vfstab, the servers can have a habit of unscheduled poweroffsand with potentially huge chunks of data attached logging enabled could givehuge benefits in revovering a system like this. Are there any ...

Good Morning Sun Managers,I'm having a serious problem with several of our Solaris NFS servers andclients. From time to time certain files on NFS-mounted filesystems arebecoming, for lack of a better term, "locked". When a user processattempts to access one of these files it hangs ...

Thanks to all those that responded! So many replies, seems the advantages far outweigh any performance deficitespecially in our environment. I included this reply as it was by far my favourite ( Credit to MichaelHorton!) ==================== no calls to fsck disks during reboots will make you ...

Hi everyone,I am getting display error when I am trying to install oracle client 9.2.0, here's the errors I am getting can some one help.Initializing Java Virtual Machine from /tmp/OraInstall2005-01-26_09-13-39AM/jre/bin/java. Please wait...uFont specified in font.properties not found ...

Hello Managers, <p>Does anyone know what the maximum # of users that can belong to 1 user<br>group is under a NIS environment.<p>I need about 500 users attached to a certain user group and am not<br>sure if this is possible or not.<p>Thanks for your time.<p>Rith<br>

Hello people,<p>I am little novice on Solaris.<p>I wanted to know from experts that what is the main difference between<br>sd and ssd driver on Solaris native platform and when to use which ?<p>Thanks in advance,<p>Vivek Mehrotra<br>

We are trying to install HP OpenView Network Node Manager from CD. We get the following error message: "HP Openview Network Node Manager Multicast cannot be installed on a Remote Console or system configured for Service Guard but not running in Service Guard" We are then directed to ...

Hi. Thanks everybody, I have received a lot of Ideas, but I cant fixed...I did some things that people sent. For example, turn off processusing /var, restart or delete some log files, looking for long files,checking if I have used all the inodes, but I have inodes availables,etc... I ...

I have been challenged to come up with a script that will e-mail out when ausers password is due to expire within 7 days. Any pointers as to where Ishould start, commands , snippets are always welcome. ;-)Thank you allThis e-mail may contain data that is confidential, proprietary or ...

Hello Guru's, Follwing the solaris hardening priciplesI set the default umask as 023 for the files in/etc/default/login file for our new systems. I am ableto create directories using ftp session. But I am notable to further descend into the diretories created byftp session, in ...

I finally solve my problem :The problem is the /proc pseudo file system which may contain some 64 bitsprocess information. These files can't be accessed by the default findcommand available in Solaris 7. This explain the following error message.find: cannot open /: Value too large for ...

Hello everyone,I tracked down a file on one of our file systems that is indicating it is over350GB in size. This obviously makes no sense, as I believe the limitation ofa file is 32GB. Has anyone heard of a bug that causing the file size to bemisrepresented when it reaches 32GB? I looked on ...

Very quick response! Basically Mike Salehi and Tom Schmidt indicated that Iam probably seeing a sparse file which has a larger address space than theactual size of the file. According to Mike, this can happen with databasefiles, which this file happens to be, and this isn't a problem.Thanks ...

/apps was the mount point. I changed its permissionsand remounted and it worked. If you try to delete adirectory without aforementioned changes then you getthe following errorrm: cannot determine if this is an ancestor of thecurrent working directoryThank you,Sreenath.> Hello Guru's,> ...

Hi,I have just discovered that a command that runs fine from command line:ssh sxsprdb01 "mkdir -p /mnt/backup/sxsppdb01"Hangs when run from cron.SSH 3.9p1 / Solaris 9 Generic_117171-09Any thoughts?Thanks,Stephen W. BarnettSystems Consultant - Unix DivisionDatacom Systems ...

Hi Everyone, I need to parse through a script to get the exact syntax of acommand it is running. Unfortunately the script is written withfunctions.ksh -vx will give me the output processing of the scripts, but doesn'tgive the output processing of the functions inside the script. Doesanyone ...

Hi,It turns out that it's a stdin issue. The following command works:echo "mkdir -p /mnt/backup/sxsppdb01" | ssh sxsprdb01Thanks to Doc G, you weren't too far off the mark afterall.Cheers,Stephen-----Original Message-----From: codeprof-bounces at codeprof.com[mailto:codeprof-bounces ...

I wanted to thank everyone who offered suggestions. Because of them I wasable to see what I needed to.So, quick summary:I need to parse through a script to get the exact syntax of a command it isrunning. Unfortunately the script is written with functions.ksh -vx will give me the output ...

Hi. Managers.Thanks for your kind reply.Nearly all admin. said that I can't do it without rebuilding slice table andfile system. but hhuseman at aragorn.dh9dat.de gave me mail like this.---two questions before:What OS is the machine running? Solaris 8 or greater? If yes, there IS a+possibility ...

Dear managers,in the comany I work we use netscape directory server 4.1 as our LDAP server. We store all our user data in it and it was working perfectly. But recently we have faced a problem which is we can not add users into it. We can open the directory server gateway, the netscape console ...

Could anyone guide me ( or point me into the direction ) on how to set up LDAP server/client ? Where do I start ? <br> <br>Thanks<br>Anne<p>---------------------------------<br>Find local movie times and trailers on Yahoo! Movies.<br>

Hi Gurus,I have no idea about wireless LAN and now in our institute we like to add some wireless LAN also as an extension to our LAN. I am confused with the hardware requirements..Is just few access points and wireless cards in PCs or Laptops is enough or is there is a requirement for antenna ...

Hi,I have a new setup for Jumpstart, where clients boot via DHCP to findinstall server and so.Whatever I try, with all other similar situations discussed onSunManagers by other people, I can't get the installation to proceedwithout interaction.It always proceeds as follows :ok> boot ...

Hi all, Has anyone got suggestions for a compact storage device? We have used Nexsan's Atababy which is nice and compact, simple to set upand use. Unfortunately it is an old product now and has a low transfer rate,this seems to be giving us grief and I am unable to get one to work reliablywith ...

A belated thanks to Iain Millar, Daniel Nuqo and Dan O'Callaghan whokindly enlightend me to use the -S switch which doesn't spend timeprocessing the flar archive size, along with some very usefulinformation. I was also told that when recovering the flash images,the jumpstart server ...

Hi everybody,I have a DLT8000 which won't unmount the tape that is currently loaded.According to the OS there is no tape mounted:-$ mt -f /dev/rmt/0 status/dev/rmt/0: no tape loaded or drive offlineI have the following error in /var/adm/messagesWARNING: /pci at 1f,4000/scsi at 3,1/st at 4,0 ...

Thanks to everyone who replied. Most told me that flash'ing a system withmetadrives is not a problem, you just need to recreate them after theinstall. For my situation that's all I need (all user data is recovered viabackups after the system is ...

Sunmanagers,I have an A1000 exhibiting odd behavior. It appears to be operating correctlyexcept for when I go to view the luns using lad. Lad reports 10, yes 10,identical instances of the controller. Since the machine is in a testenvironment, I have been able to connect it to a ...

Hi,We have 16 v210s that process SAS jobs. Every month or so one or two of themhave a disk die. The disk has to replaced and the host re-jumpstarted. The machines areall in a rack environment. Anyone experience this type of behavior? Thanks,Bill-- --------------------William M. ...

I have been asked to gather disk arm utilization stats on my E220R servers,running Sun LDAP 5.1 SP3.I am gathering stats via iostat but I am being asked specifically for "diskarm utilization" information.I am running:iostat -pnx 1 2 extended device statistics r/s w/s ...

Hello, I have an E250 that I opened up to check outfunctionality of some CPU's and Memory. It wasworking fine till I got ahold of it. Now it will notecho anything out the frame buffer or consoleconnection. When I switch it into Diagnostic mode onthe switch I see no Keyboard lights ...

I am trying to replace 10 lines in one file with 10lines from another data file. The 10 lines I amreplacing I've setup with "holders" so they are easyfor sed to find. Thus line 1 is set to "holder1" the2nd line is set to "holder2" and so on. The datafileonly ...