We are looking to replace NIS+ with LDAP or LDAP+Kerberos. When comparing looking for Sun Java|ONE Directory Server and OpenLDAP, I'm only finding "Sun is proprietary, but extremely fast" and "OpenLDAP is open source, but slow and resource intenstive".Anyone have ...

Sorry for the off topic, but I can't find any other group of people that maybe able to help.I've got clients that ftp pdf files to my anonymous ftp site. My IntelSolaris 8 shell script processes these pdf files and converts them topostscript which in turns sends the job to a postscript ...

We just put some new machines in service. They are:SunOS AW0001 5.8 Generic_108528-13 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Blade-100The networking seems very slow, and I'm suspicious that it's a mismatchbetween the hub and the nIC's in these machines. The interface in questionis hme0. How cna I find out the ...

Hello Sun Managers,I had issue with one of my Netra T1. One of the guy in the teamincorrectly modified vfstab, after rebooting found that system had issuesto come up, knowing that can't boot the system with cdrom as there isn'tany cdrom. Also, trying booting the system in single user mode ...

i need to add an emulex hba to a 420 to attach it to a storage network.For the quickest data xfer of the old data to the new i'd like to take thehba that is in the 420 which is attached to a t3, and move it to adifferent pci slot. The reason is that the old card is in the 64 bit pcislot which ...

We have an A5200 that has been moved into a lab. The lab guys want touse it on a windows box. The win2k box is asking for drivers, but wecan't find them anywhere.Anyone here ever do this? Seems wrong to me win box on a sun array, butthat is what they need.Any help would be ...

Hi All,Please suggest me any good Solaris Security Hardening Tool, which provides agood GUI and works well with Solaris 8.RegardsManishConfidentiality NoticeThe information contained in this electronic message and any attachments tothis message are intendedfor the exclusive use of the ...

hello everybody,I am having a problem with Sun V880 server.The Systemhas a Sun stor edge PCI dual ultra3 scsi controller onwhich i have a LTO drive(200/400 gb) is connectedexternally.The system recognizes the LTO drive asUltrium drive at OK prompt.But if i do a boot -r itdoes not create the ...

Hi All,Thanks for responding, it helped me find tools and articles.RegardsManish Oberai> -----Original Message-----> From: MANISH OBERAI (WT01 - TELECOM & INTER-NETWORKING SOLUTIONS)> Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 9:06 AM> To: 'codeprof at codeprof.com'> Subject: Solaris ...

Hi all, My project is in urgent need of Sun Solaris Ver 5, local vendors are sayingthis version product is obsolete and it is not available in the market.Please let me know how to get sun Solaris ver 5.Thanks,Mohan************************************************************************** This ...

Hi All,Thanks once again fro sending me information about the following tools.www.sun.com/blueprints for lots of good articles or search for jasswww.sun.com/bigadmin (BigAdmin is a good area). Here's the list:www.sun.com/bigadmin --search for ...

Hi,Received some good suggestions as how to perform mirroring without datacorruption.The best way is to shrink the SWAP slice and create the new freed slice asthe State Database.below is a good article on the steps by steps to create ...

Hi managers A few days ago somebody has gave me an old SparcStation 20, where can I buy a internal hardisk and memory to this box? or where can I buy the bracket to attack a SCA scsi disk to this box? A few months ago I have listen that there is a web who sell's spare parts for those mahines ...

Dear All,My Solaris 7 system has 2 HDD mirrored. By mistake Ihave the /usr slice as "ro". If i change the mnttab to"rw' and reboot the system will it affect both the/usr in the mirrored disk. Will it have any problems.Please do let me know.Thanks and ...

Helo expert,If anyone have information regarding maximum number of inodeor minimum block-size of inode, please inform me ...Description:------------Due to its application requirement, i needto have 2.000.000 (2 millions) inodes on its 200GB file system.Because the file system has not been made ...

Hi All,The system has been VERY busy all morning, and I am not sure of the best plan of attack, so any suggestions would be appreciated.....Really not sure where to start looking ... New to this !!E250, Solaris 8Sar output -08:00:00 %usr %sys %wio %idle08:15:00 96 4 0 ...

Dear Sunmanagers,Our suppliers installed a SUN Ultra 10 used as a firewall and there are two 9 Gb hard disks hard disks.root at firewall #formatSearching for disks...doneAVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS: 0. c0t0d0 <ST39120A cyl 17660 alt 2 hd 16 sec 63> /pci at 1f,0/pci at ...

Hi AllWe are currently experiencing heavy performance problems on our v880 "1cpu board". I took a sar of the box and saw that there is a lot processwaiting block I/O.[maverick]root:/var/adm/log> sar 5 100SunOS maverick 5.8 Generic_108528-26 sun4u 05/06/0412:25:16 %usr %sys ...

Thanks to those that responded:3 recommended the use of Sun's directory server for reasons such as product support, ease of management, and to avoid implementation problems. In addition, it was recommended that Sun's implementation of Kerberos (SEAM) be used in favor of MIT's, for the ...

hi,I managed to solve this problem:), however thanks to the clues you sent me -THANKS!!!the clue was, that rdist expect a "clear channel" for the protocol, in fact myservers had 'banner'...so when rdist has contacted the server, it sent to rdist the banner (the firstcharacter was ' ...

Hi,I have a couple of sunblade1500's that doesn't work well when connected at10mbps.The problem is that at random intervals the machine cannot comunicate out ofit's subnet, but everything works within the subnet.I can connect to it from my machine, but not from our central fileserver thatis ...

Hi all!We want to mount a solaris NFS share on a Linux Server in a DMZ.Using "rpcinfo" I see that the mountd hast different non-static ports onthe different Solaris machines "sun1" and "sun2":# rpcinfo -p sun1 | grep -i mountd 100005 1 udp 32787 mountd ...

Hello all, I have a sunblade 2000 and 1500 that are running Solaris 8. I need to find out what kind of graphics card is in them. Is there a command to locate this ? Is it found at the OK> prompt ?Thanks for taking the time to respond.-- Gary LopezUnix Systems AdministratorCatapult ...

I should probably clarify what I'm after. I'm not trying to limit the maximum number of users that can log onto a machine. I'm trying to limit the maximum number of concurrent sessions a single user can have. With the Resource Management kit this was accomplished via limadm but I can ...

Thanks go to Jonathan Voigt and Matt Clausen. They both pointed out thatthis is not possible in Solaris yet. Matt said that Solaris 10 will beable to do it though.Jonathan Voigt writes:You can't change mountd port for solaris - Only Linux.Normally you don't do any RPC services through a FW... ...

Hi,I've got a strange problem with an E420.Yesterday, this box which runs an oracle db, crashed twice within onehour with absolutely no output to syslog, messages, /var/crash. Nothing.It has a T3 attached to it, but I couldn't see any issues with thateither, nor any connection between the ...

Hello.<p>I've been looking around the Sun System Handbook but I cannot find<br>anything about the Netra 1125 exhaust. I'm guessing about 1200 BTU/hr<br>but I really do not want to guess.<p>ps - I believe the PrimePower 650 fully loaded is about 6019 BTU/hr. Can<br>anyone confirm?<p>Thanks.<br>

Hi all,I am having a weird problem with a 4800. Configuration is standard,CPU run at 1.2GHz (III+), 2 I/O assemblies and a D240/HD2 connected tothe machine.probe-scsi-all shows correct info (finds D240 with everything inside).I am installing from a jumpstart server, things start ...

I have about 40 Solaris clients ranging from Solaris version2.5.1 to Solaris 9 and have an NIS+ server that they authenticate to.Is it possible for Solaris clients to authenticate their logins (usernameand groups) to a Macintosh OS X server running Apple's Open Directory?I'm looking for a ...

Thanks to all who replied.I had several answers. But the one which gave me the info I really needed to know came from Marcelino Mata.I used "/usr/platform/sun4u/sbin/prtdiag | grep display" to get the type of card.Other useful commands were: "fbconfig -prconf", ...

Many thanks to :- Dave Mitchell- Grzegorz Bakalarski- Michael Schulte- Darren Dunham- David Markowitz- Sal Serafino- Christ Clarkafter i recheck again, the right count was :)200000000000/2000000=100000bytes=100kbytes per inode RgdsKrisT----- Original Message -----From: kristianto.setiawan at ...

Hi Gurus Could anybody tell what is 440 in SUN FIRE V440 ? Thanx a lot. Regards,Saravana Babu. Disclaimer:This message and any attachment(s) contained here are information that isconfidential, proprietary to HCL Technologies and its customers. Contentsmay be privileged or otherwise protected by ...

Well, I still haven't found any solution to my problem, got a couple ofansweres that suggested setting the interface to 10-hdx with ndd which doesn'thelp. ( I even tried full duplex, hard settings on both card and switchport )The problem seems to be with routing, since there's no problems ...

Thanks to all who replied, the general consensus is its trouble free.There are certain exceptions like if you have your root disk under thecontrol of vxvm (which is not in my case) then it can be a bit painful.Some useful tips passed on by David Foster:Upgrade Troubleshooting TipsBefore ...

Problem summary:after I installed the Recommended patch cluster on my Sol9 box, cron wasn'table to start any processes any more. (Patch Cluster Apr/13/04).Solution summary:I installed a new Recommended patch cluster (Apr/27/04), and the problemdisappeared.--This patch might caused the ...

Does anyone perhaps know where a copy of this can still be obtained?<p>Thanks<br>

I apologize for off topic question.<p>Does Native Ldap and Sun One Dir Server have the ability to manage printers?<br>My research is turning up conflicting info.<br>Any sources would be greatly appreciated.<p>TIA<br>Mike<br>

Hi, I have an Ultra 5 who's NVRAM won't keep variables. My guess is the lithiumbattery is dead. Now I see that the battery and NVRAM is one unit. Is therea way to replace just the battery? Is it true if you get a replacement thatyou have to get it programmed with the serial number, machine id ...

Hi there, Really basic obvious thing to know, but can't seem to find anice command to do it. Anyone out there know how to list files over acertain size in all directories. I.e searching through to find large files.I can do it for large directories, du commmand. One of my disks is full but ...

Many thanks to you all :-<p>find . -size +5000 -exec ls -l {} \; | sort +4 -rn | head -300<p>seems to work amazingly<p>Many thanks!!<br>

Hello guru we want to take the backup of the entire O.S and entire Oracle database using the tar command to the local system harddisk of capacity of 18Gb and the is it possible and what is the procedure to followWith Respectfull ...

Hello,I've this message sometimes in my /var/adm/messages:unix: WARNING: interrupt level 0 not servicedCould someone explain me, chat this message is for ?PS: I'm using Solaris 7 on E250 and E450 boxex.Regards,--Sibastien Cantos <scantos at technodiva.com>Responsable riseau et ...

Folks,Many thanks to all who responded, we fix our issue by setting up a jumpstart server and mounting file system on the network as a single user mode. Webrought the system back to it's normal stat.Kind regards,Friendly system adminOn Wed, 5 May 2004, Cyber Freek wrote:> Hello Sun ...

Many thanks to Darren Dunham, KR (rossman at columbia.edu), AnnamariaHeupke/Denic and Aleksander Pavic for their time and suggestions.Special thank to Darren who got it right.Keywords:---------"disk no found", D240, SF4800, X6758A, Solaris 9, ...

I want to test out sshd being call from /etc/inetd.conf instead ofhaving sshd daemon running. The below is what I have in inetd.conf,nmap shows the port is open, but I can't seem to connect. Anythingelse I need to check or modify? I have stop/start inetsvc and sshport is in /etc/services. ...

I figured this out on my own, it seems I need an absolute path forsshd -i (instead of just "sshd -i") probably the particular path isnot set.On other note, a couple of suggestions mentioned the overhead ofsshd being spawn for each request causing high overhead. Since I'mrunning IP ...

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Trying to install Solaris through Flash archive, and got the following errors every time: ... ... Extracted 2323.33 MB (100% of 2323.33 MB archive) Extraction complete Postdeployment processing No local customization defined Customizing system files - Mount ...

Follow the output sar on my Fujitsu PP2500 (Solaris 5.8 + Veritas 3.5).Even after a reboot i've on idle time 0 and a wio near 100%.The disk activity is very low (external and internal).Any idea?Thanks,Armando21:03:04 %usr %sys %wio %idle21:03:05 0 3 97 ...

Dear managers,I have PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/ccs/bin: SUPATH=/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/ccs/binin my /etc/default/login on Solaris 9. When I log into the machine with telnet I have /usr/ccs/bin in $PATH. When I log in with ssh I don't have it. I don't understand why this ...