Folks,I actually managed to get my Solaris 10 downloaded, assembled, and partially installed (it's in progress as I submit this).I've installed Solaris 8 and 9 (SPARC), and now 10 (x86). Every time, it always seems that DNS for name resolution complains during setup mode.Going through, it ...

Hi SunManagers,I'm with a bit of a problem with a Sun Fire V240. It looks that for the 1st time I got myself totally locked out of a Sun.I installed solaris 10 last month in order to test the new goodies, at the time I had problems logging in to the ALOM (unknown admin password) but as I had a ...

Hello,After picking through the manual, I can't work out how to see thenumber of processes in the run queue (as one can with vmstat) in sar.I'm trying to produce some meaningful graphs from archived sar data -if anyone knows how to find this, or an equivalent metric of whetherprocesses are ...

Seems there's more going on than I realized. When I reboot reconfigure,the host sees the other path to the devices, however, the host hangs whentrying to load the 'sys' module into the kernel. I have Sun and EMClooking into the dump now. Thanks for your replies.RegardsDM ...

Hi gurus. I've got an issue that on console serial ports. I got that one resolved, which I will summarize soon, but right now I have a more urgent matter. I'm upgrading to VxVM 3.5, and one of the dependencies is patch 110722-03. When I got to add it, I get this: ROOT at ...

Well, I got a number of replies. On this. Thanks go to the following individuals: Ric AndersonHutin BertrandDale BewleyBernd SchemmerDarren DunhamMichael PalamaraLohn LeadehamAndy YotherPerrier KentDebbie TropianaJohn Julian Some asked to see if I was using the right cable. I checked the ...

Is there anything special that needs to be done to changea root password on a NIS+ server. # passwdand or#chkey -p#keylogin -rWhat about changing the root password on a NIS+ client? I seem to rememberthe procedure for the NIS+ server was different.Thank YouDave ...

Hello gurus: I'm sorry by this late Summary.... thanks for all your help!!My Question was:*************************** I have a problem with my backups, i have 4 servers SUn and one morewith a tape drive, i have doing this:local backup in every server, whit tar and gzipcopy that backup ...

I tried to install the package lpfc-5.02c-sparc.tar for a LP9002-E /LP9002L-E but I get this error message.uname -aSunOS sju01cn1 5.8 Generic_117350-15 sun4u sparc SUNW,Netra-T12(sun4u) Release 5.02c lpfc (FCP) / lpfn (IP) combo driver Copyright (c) 2003, Emulex Corporation ...

A little more info.Years ago it was recommended to do a # passwd# chkey -p# keylogin -rto change a root NIS+ password or the root password on NIS+ clients.The /etc/.rootkey file doesn't get modified with the chkey -p or the keylogin -r which is good. Is this still the case today?It was also ...

Hi all, We want try and Buy Forte C 6 update 2, for SPARC.Now, when i download Demo Licenses ( sparc.dat ) this file Licenses valid until 6-Feb-2005 ( only 3 Days !!!!? ) Please Help me get file for 30 Days. ThanksTired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around ...

Are the SUNWsan packages needed to optimize a Solaris 9/10 system<br>connecting to an EMC CX300?<p>I'm using Emulex HBAs and McData switches (EMC OEM).<p>We're using EMC Powerpath for failover.<p>Thanks!<br>

Apologies for coming here for what seems to be a simple question butsearching for this on the net yields a TON of useless links (mostly saleslinks :(). Anyway I have an Enterprise 250 machine running Solaris 9 thatI want to swap a hard drive on (actually the drive itself is in anexternal ...

That was great. Wade, Mohil have directed right towards lofs mount to earlier than later as below..It was cool. Appreciate it a lot, fantastic. Couldnt get downtime so completed it coupld of days ago..Thanks and regardsPrashantOk.... I think I have a handle on this. move: /apps/finpd ...

Gurus,I'm having a heck of a time trying to find a part number for the Enterprise 3500's FC-AL cable organizer. Does anyone know what it is? I am trying to find one for purchase, as our used E3500 did not come with one attached.Any help would be appreciated. I will ...

Hopefully this will work this time... I always have problems w/ the"SUMMARY" messages. Anyway thanks to:Jacob RieperJULIAN, JOHN C (AIT)Michael HortonEstebanfor the quick responses. Lots of good ideas running pretty much along thesame lines but Jacob's was first[1] so I'm ...

Hello Gurus, At console when I tried to login using user id root it throwsfollowing error and comes back to console login prompt.aviator console login: rootFeb 4 10:59:02 aviator last message repeated 8 timesFeb 4 10:59:05 aviator login: load_modules: can not open ...

Hello,We have a E5500 working on Solaris 2.8 and Veritas Volume Manager withL7 Autoloader. We are taking backup everyday with ufsdump. Our backupscript seperates mirrors, quisesces Sybase and takes backup on theseperated side. Our backup takes about 4 hours normally. For a couple ofweeks, that ...

Dear Sun Managers,I have V210 and V240 machines and I would like to usethe SERIAL MGT port to access the ALOM and has asystem console. I would like to confirm whether I should use a normalnetwork cable or crossed a cross cable if I'm usinganother Sun sparc machine or Window hyperterm to tipin ...

Hi I have 2 servers running solaris 7 and 8.Tapedrive(DLT) is connected to server having solaris 8and iam runing following script from server whichhaving solaris 7mt -f 172.168.100.3:/dev/rmt/0 rewufsdump 0uf 172.168.100.3:/dev/rmt/0 /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0by running this script its saying device not ...

I have a UltraSPARC E250 Server 250 running Solaris 10. After I installed Sun Ray Server Software Version 3, it works fine.Sun Ray DTU boots, and stops at OSD 26D.It leaves following messages in /var/dt/Xerrors: error(pid 1014): Server for display :3 terminated unexpectedlyld.so.1: ...

Hi All,I have to open one of my server to telnet ( so networks team canconnect from a router - which has a non ssh client ios installed - dontask )Anyway i deployed tcp wrappers, and configured inetd.conf as such,uncommenting and editing the telnet line.telnet stream tcp6 nowait root ...

Hello, list, and thanks to everyone who reponded, particularly:Neil Quiogue"the hatter"Dik CasperChris KeladisMichael PalamaraCalin SiuleaChrister ErikssonDavid FosterMeder KydyralievBasically, it's the X-Org SunOS rootkit from Sept 2001, which replaces,among other ...

Hello all,<p>Thanks to John Leadeham:<p>sar -q (the runq-sz column)<p>No answers on mutex stalls yet - sing out if you have any ideas.<p>Steve Nelson.<br>

Hi All,A combination of having tcpd for ipv4 while specfiying tcp6 in inetdand having a typo in hosts.allow.i deployed tcp_wrappers_ipv6-7.6-sol8-sparc-local and corrected thetypo,Thanks to all as always for pointers.......................................................Hi All,I have to open ...

Thanks to all of you who gave me suitable hints!!!My question was:Hi all,we are testing a solaris machine connected to a HP EVA5000. We decided touse HP HBAs and because of this we have to use HP securepath software. Upto the point we are adding the second SAN switch everything is working ...

Hello,I'm looking for a hardening cookbook or script(s) to hardening a Solaris 9 Sparc System for the use as a Checkpoint Gateway (with VPN). I know Lance Spitzner's scripts but they are for older Solaris. I even know 'bout JASS but I've never used it and seems to be a little bit ...

Hi gurus, I was wondering if the is a couple of commands or a simple scriptthat could count the number of events per hour from a text file I have whichjust contains the times themselves. Some how I need to see how many eventsare happening per hour.Heres the start of the txt file for example ...

Hi ,I was facing similar problems as mentioned in the mailbelow from Chris. Current Setup is E450 server withDLT 7000 drive connected to it.Feb 4 16:46:56 vmail scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning]WARNING: /pci at 1f,4000/scsi at 2/st at 4,0 (st11):Feb 4 16:46:56 SCSI transport failed: ...

We are running Sparc Solaris 9. Our setup is probably a little differentthan most because we boot our system off of our external StorEdge 3300 (wedon't use the internal hard drive to boot). We want to use the internalhard drive to boot only if there is a problem with our StoreEdge device. ...

Hi Gurus,I need your help. I am new for UNIX. First time I am doing upgrade mysystem from Solaris 7 to Solaris 8. I have sun system ultra enterprise450 machine.Could any one of you give me step-by-step instructions how to upgradefrom Solaris 7 to Solaris 8.Awaiting for your valuable ...

Thanks for the quick response :DForrest---------- Forwarded message ----------Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 15:52:59 -0500From: Jacob Rieper <jacob.rieper at verizon.net>To: Forrest Houston <fhouston at east.isi.edu>Subject: Re: How to hot swap hard disks?At 03:38 PM 2/3/2005, you ...

Got it many many thanks, so easy when you know how, or know some gurus! Iwas going to write a 12 page script!cut -d: -f1 my.log.file |sort|uniq -c -----Original Message-----From: Alistair McKeown [mailto:Alistair.Mckeown at jacobsrimell.com] Sent: 04 February 2005 12:41To: codeprof at ...

I'm having the same issue, but could not find a solution in the archives. Can anyone help out?Thanks,-Steve-------------------ORIGINAL POST-------------------------Hi all,While trying to install v0.9.7e of openssl on a Solaris 9 machines , the build completes fine, but it bombs out during ...

Fellow managers: I've recently spec'ed a hardware acquisition for a database-and-java-heavyinventory management application to be deployed on at my workplace. Ourcurrent system is running on a 2x250MHz E3000, if that gives you any hints. :) I spec'ed a 2x1200 V480, which seemed FAR more ...

Since the SunFire V490 has no RSC, SC, ALOM, or Network Management ports, isthere anyway to access the console without hooking up a terminal or tip'ingin from another server or laptop? Thanks. Bruce PerttunenBlue Cross Blue Shield of MIThe information contained in this communication is highly ...

Hello,Now that I have a D1000 up and running, I'm looking to do a ton of disk cleanup. The most major part of this is as follows:One one of our systems, SDS is showing a single disk as a submirror of a mirror. That single disk is in "Last Erred" mode, and format is showing it to be ...

Hi,<p>I'm wondering what your using to manage your LDAP directory.<p>We are using a bunch of perl scripts.<p>My manager would like us to use something similar to the Active directory <br>user and groups.<p>What are you using to manage user accounts?<p>Thanks<br>Karl<br>

Here is a newbie jumpstart question:I am trying to configure an environment for jumpstart.I will need to have the boot server on the frontnetwork but the install server needs to be on the backnetwork.How do I go about configuring jumpstart so that it canplumb and switch to the back network ...

Hi Gurus,I have some sun sparc servers (280s, 480s) running solaris 8.Instead of mirroring the root drives, i use ufsdump piped to ufsrestore,prtvtoc and fmthard to copy the root disk (c1t0d0s0) to another drive in myserver (c1t1d0s0).This works fine, but I have never tried booting off the ...

Thanks to Lance and Anatoliy who helped me with the answer:Lance gave me this excellent answer with all the info I needed.Anatoliy and Ken notes to check the /etcc/vfstab on the second disk or itwont be useable to boot from.Thanks everyone!SOLUTION:do an ls -l of /dev/dsk/c1t1d0s0should point ...

Dear Sir, I have installed solaris8 on an E420 server which is havingoracle8i and is connected to a windows2000 HP server.How can I configuremy sun server to a particular windows based DNS server.How can I againreconfigure my sun server to a different DNS server.I want my sun serverto ...

Hello All;Firstly thanks to ALL who replied.This is indeed a wonderful list!Original Problem------------------------I wanted a rule of thumb or some sort of guideline to assist me inestimating the initial size of the primary swap area residing on the rootdisk.Summary---------------Most agreed ...

Dear Sunmanagers,How are you all doing, very well I hope.I have noticed lately that a "strange" error message appearing in my/var/adm/messages saying:"sshd[9744]: [ID 800047 auth.error] error: channel 0: protocol error:close rcvd twice"Although I can ssh to the machine fine ...

Hi!Anyone here who have successfully setup SRSS 3 on Solaris 10 B72?I have tried to install and setup SRSS3 on my Solaris 10 B72 on a couple ofE250 servers but run into some problem. Have two months ago try to do the sameinstallation onSolaris 10 B62 which didn't work even if I come longer in ...

Hi gurus. Thanks for all the quick responses. I would like to thank the following people: Mossey FaheyDavid FosterJohn EnglandTim EvansDaniel NunoDarren DunhamEstebandflores at smi-ps.com Most replies that I need to have Sun's Alternate Pathing installed, as this is the patch for AP. Plus some ...

Hello, I am trying to find out if there is a way to force NFS v3/tcpfor a jumpstart installation. I am doing this because I get "NFS servernoo responding" messages. At that point I have to restart the Jumpstartprocess because it won't continue past that point. I figure thatrunning ...

Hi All , I have a su netra server and it in ok promp .when i use the hyperterminal it displays that the system is in ok prompt ...but i could not type boot disk in the hyperterminal console.pls helpRegardsA.Richard_________________________________________________________________Millions ...

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Hi, I need some clarification regarding the clusterinterconnect. In most of the RAC environments the datatraffic between the nodes of the cluster is routedthrough the cluster interconnect, this is done bysetting the parameter <cluster_interconnect=I.PAddress) in the oracle's ...