Hi All,I am trying to turn off password expiry on a server running Solaris 8.passwd -as showsusername PS 02/07/05 7 56 7/etc/default/passwd is ...MINWEEKS=1MAXWEEKS=8WARNWEEKS=1PASSLENGTH=8I have run passwd -x -1 username and the entry in /etc/shadow and thepasswd -as shows the ...

Thanks to Neil QuiogueWhat I have done is taken the password entries out of/etc/default/passwd and set the expire for the accounts that I want toexpire.I am waiting a day to see if this works.If any knows that it doesn't or knows of a better way to do this thenlet me ...

Just upgraded from Solaris 9 to Solaris 10 (upgrade install). Installdid not report any errors, and system appears to be running ok.However, CDE users cannot log into their desktops. (Java desktop worksok.) Pop-up error message is that "desktop messaging" can't be started, and ...

Hello everybody.I have been facing a problem with 2 SUN machines during the boot time (the one is SUN FIRE 280R and the other SUN Ultra Enterprise 450).To be precise when the system boots, I am given the following warning errors:Feb 7 16:39:12 iason genunix: [ID 115966 kern.warning] WARNING: ...

Does anyone know of a script/tool to parse the utmpx file from aSolaris 8 system besides last?We're trying to do some auditing after a possible compromise butlast does a lookup on the src IP address so we're getting a bumdomain name rather then something more useful.Thanks for any ...

Hi, After recently installing some multipacks on Blade 1000's using disksuiteand patching Solaris to the latest levels we seem to have hit a problem. Theengineer seems to think it may be a hardware failure but we areunconvienced. Could it be to do with the patches, solstice disksuite, oreven ...

All, These settings are in /etc/system but are not being recognized atstartup as valid. Does anyone have the correct way to start this eri0 as100Base-t fullduplex?set eri:eri_adv_autoneg_cap=0set eri:eri_adv_100T4_cap=0set eri:eri_adv_100fdx_cap=1set eri:eri_adv_100hdx_cap=0set ...

All,I am running Bind 9.1.2 on Solaris 8 and just recently started receivingthe following error.Feb 7 01:38:17 wolverine.stromix.com /usr/local/sbin/named[4545]: [ID866145 daemon.warning] zone_expire: zone ds.stromix.com/IN: expiredthe ds.stromix.com zone is a windows based zone that hosts our ...

Hello list,First of all, the configuration:Solaris 8Netbackup Datacenter 4.5MP6SunFire 6800Robotic library ADIC Scalar 100 - 50 slots - 2 tape drives SONY SDX-700Cconnected via SCSI.SAN Clariion CX600 - Connected via FC.HBA QLOGIC ISP10160 - QLogic Ultra3 Scsi driver ...

Hi list,We have a L25 tape library hooked to a v880 running Solaris 8 (both L25and the SCSI card on the v880 are HVD). We have been having problemswith power-cycling the L25 since we started using it: 1) Everytime after we power-cycle the L25 library, the SCSI mode willdegrade and the write ...

Hello Guru's I was upgrading a 8gb/4CPU/2CPU boards,fully populated v480 to 16gb. Now the system has onefully populated cpu(2cpus') board with 8GB memory. Iget this error at post. I put only one CPU board sothat its easy to find the failed DIMM.POST Message: CPU2 Bank 1 Dimm 0, ...

Hi list, I am trying to configure Network time protocol on Solaris 9, I am getting the followin errors when I startxntpd deamon:07/Feb/05 16:17 EST 07/Feb/05 16:17 EST 1 xntpd[]: [ID 132455 daemon.error] trusted key 0 unlikely07/Feb/05 16:17 EST 07/Feb/05 16:17 EST 1 xntpd[]: [ID ...

Apparently the hostname information is recorded at login ifavailable, otherwise the IP is recorded. Therefore, if a reverseDNS lookup succeeded then there is no way to access to the IP address of the connecting system after the fact.> Does anyone know of a script/tool to parse the utmpx ...

I had several replies to do a1. # passwd2. # chkey -pand3. # keylogin -r (not mandatory)I did 1 and 2 above and it worked ok.There was one client where it would not take the secure RPC password# chkey -pUpdating nisplus publickey database.Reencrypting key for 'unix.hostname at ...

I wrote:>Just upgraded from Solaris 9 to Solaris 10 (upgrade install). Install>did not report any errors, and system appears to be running ok.>>However, CDE users cannot log into their desktops. (Java desktop works>ok.) Pop-up error message is that "desktop messaging" ...

Hi <br>Can some point point me where to get setoolkit, it seems that www.setoolkit.com/net/org are not available ?<br> <br>thanks in advance<br>MGR<br> Yahoo! Search presents - Jib Jab's 'Second Term'<br>

Thanks to those that provided the following answer.Within the <openssl src root>/fips subdirectories there are several Makefiles that use a syntax construction that confuses the compiler.Look for Makefiles where EXHEADER is not assigned a value:EXHEADER=and the following line appears:for ...

Thanks to everybody who replied. A lot of recommendations were for Swatch,logchecker, fwanalog.sh, syslog-ng, logsurfer and a few mondules in perl. Somehowever were kind enough to share their code with me..and that is what I amgoing to go with. Would be customizing it to serve my needs here. ...

Hi all,I would like to know if it is possible to take the memory from one E450(4x296Mhz processors) and use it in another E450 (4x480Mhz processors).>From looking at http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/Devices/Memory/MEM_U450_UE450.html,it appears that all memory for an E450 is rated at ...

Hello,For the jumpstart installation of Solaris 10 I prepared a sysidcfg filewhich contains (among other lines) the following: network_interface=PRIMARY {netmask=255.255.255.0 protocol_ipv6=no}With Solaris 8 the jumpstart would have used RARP to figure out its IPadress and setup the ...

Thanks to all who replied, The solution that worked for me is the one proposed by Damien Kilkenny: vxassist shrinkby swapvol 6gCheersLoris-----Original Message-----From: codeprof-bounces at codeprof.com[mailto:codeprof-bounces at codeprof.com]Sent: 28 January 2005 10:28To: 'codeprof at ...

Hello GurusWe have got SUN V890 Server with Ultra-3 SCSI HBA(P/N X6758A). we are havingexternal DAT drive which we connected to this HBA, I am able to see the HBAconfigured in cfgadm command, & also I gave boot -r command but it is notdetecting DAT drive, Will somebody advice what are steps ...

Thanks to those who kindly responded: David Foster, Michael Horton, TomGrassia, Tim Evans, Ray Pengelly, joe_fletcher.My question was:> We have a L25 tape library hooked to a v880 running Solaris 8 (both> L25 and the SCSI card on the v880 are HVD). We have been having> problems with ...

Guys: a simple question..does a /etc/defaultrouter change require a reboot for<br>it to be read ?<p>-Geon Reuben<br>

Many thanks to all those who responded, especially Michael Horton, KenRossman, Wade Lich, David B Harrington, Andy Yother, and Alex Stade.The general consensus is that there should be no problem swapping thememory, as "the memory used in the older machines is the same that wasused in the ...

On Tue 2005-02-08 (15:30), Helmut Kreft wrote:> For the jumpstart installation of Solaris 10 I prepared a sysidcfg file> which contains (among other lines) the following:> > network_interface=PRIMARY {netmask=255.255.255.0 protocol_ipv6=no}> Chad Mynhier was quick to point ...

I am migrating printers from a Solaris 2.6 system to a Solaris 9 system. Theproblem I am having is some printers that are remote print the job more thenonce? These printers are mostly hp printers. Some using HP Jetdirect cardsand some using old Extendnet boxes. The thing is they work ...

Hi all, I have 2 GDD in my sun netra . But one of the disk drive is not being detected by the system as shown below. can anyone help how can i repair or format that disk .root at annex2CS1 />formatSearching for disks...doneAVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS: 0. c0t0d0 <drive type ...

Hello, list; I want to configure Samba to use winbindd (and thus OpenLDAP) to handoff passwords to an Active Directory server for Samba, but not for SSH,rlogin, CDE logins, or anything else. Which parts of the PAM &nssswitch.conf instructions detailed in "The Official Samba-3 HOWTO ...

Anyone know of a guide for svcadm? We jumped fromSolaris 8 to Solaris 10 and I'm trying to start someservices with svcadm. One particular service saysit's online but it's not.I'm really looking for a troubleshooting guide. Orperhaps some options to make the command ...

Thanks to Darren Dunham's advice on changing the order for protocols in/etc/netgroup all jumpstart NFS traffic is now going over TCP. Irearranged the order of the protocols to have tcp/tcp6 first thenudp/udp6 on the miniroot, and that enabled NFS over TCP by default.Thanks to everyone that ...

I am attempting to use Sun Patch Manager running on Solaris 9 to updateremote Solaris 8 systems. The manual does not go into detail about thisfunctionality, it appears as if you log into the Sol9 box as root and runsmpatch analyze -n remote-system. However that does not appear to work, itasks ...

Sorry but make that the /etc/netconfig file instead of /etc/netgroup.Chris-> -----Original Message-----> From: Donovan, Chris> Sent: Wednesday, 9 February 2005 9:36 AM> To: codeprof at codeprof.com> Subject: SUMMARY: Solaris 9 Jumpstart NFS over TCP>> Thanks to Darren ...

Hi managers,At present I have a setup with Sun workshop 6 running on my licenseserver. I would like to make this server as to host for Sun workshop4.2. Is that possible? I had seen in the license information of WSstates for multiplatform support is available but not for multi-version.Please let ...

Hi - hoping someone can help me with the above, I know this has beencovered before ... many times. But I'm having problems doing this on theserver detailed below, the server is networked with other Sun Enterprise450's connected using CISCO switches. The CISCO switches ports are allforced to ...

Hi,The E450 server had a A1000 storage connected to italong with DLT 7000 drive. The controller id's on DLT& A1000 storage was same (5). Changed the controllerid on DLT drive & tested backup.While taking ufsdump got some file system inoderelated errors & ufsdump asked if u want to ...

Hi all,First of all thanks for the attentionI've benn searching information in the list and on documentation, and it's not claryfing... even more confussing.Question?It's possible have a graphical interface in a V440 (we have graphical cards) through a KVM and ALOM management at the same ...

Question: Which release of SUN Workshop with the f77, f90, and c,compilers is supported on Solaris 9 ? I need to purchase the appropriate WorkShop with licensing fromSUN.Thanks for your help, Alan Beardsley Raytheon ...

Hello,I recently upgraded an Ultra10 from Solaris7 to Solaris9, This machineis my NIS server, Samba server, and an application server. All other userson the network have no problem with their systems. The user who logs ontothis system reports very slow performance. Takes forever to open a ...

hiIs it possible to disable the onboard Ethernet on an ultra 10 throughthe OBP??cheersDan.--The information contained within this e-mail and any files attached to thise-mail is confidential and in addition may include commercially sensitiveinformation. The contents of this e-mail are for the ...

Just to confirm, i need to disable through the OBP and NOT the OS.The onboard ethernet hangs during bootup; takes ages to timeout. cheersDanOn Wed, 2005-02-09 at 15:08 +0000, Dan O'Callaghan wrote:> hi> > Is it possible to disable the onboard Ethernet on an ultra 10 through > the ...

Sun Managers, Some time ago I submitted the following;I have been challenged to come up with a script that will e-mail outwhen a users password is due to expire within 7 days. Any pointers as towhere I should start, commands , snippets are always welcome. ;-) Thankyou allI( have received ...

We are running SendMail on our Solaris 9 server. We keep receiving thefollowing error message in /var/adm/messages:Feb 9 10:04:16 mail tmpfs: [ID 518458 kern.warning] WARNING: /tmp: Filesystem full, swap space limit exceededFeb 9 10:04:18 mail last message repeated 3 times However, df -k ...

Well thanks to all those that replied - to many to mention!In a nutshell I did this whilst the server was up:ndd -set /dev/ce instance 0ndd -set /dev/ce adv_1000fdx_cap 0ndd -set /dev/ce adv_1000hdx_cap 0ndd -set /dev/ce adv_100fdx_cap 1ndd -set /dev/ce adv_100hdx_cap 0ndd -set /dev/ce ...

Hi all,I don't know if anybody mentioned the problem, but I have neverseen it mentioned on this list so far. The problem is kind of oddand may cause troubles to some of you on the field.Keywords: Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) 4.0, Solaris, logging,encapsulation, nologging, boot, UFSThe problem ...

Folks,<br> <br>Can someone brief me abt changing a failed drive in EMC Symmetric DMX1000.<br> <br>Rgds<br>Muru<br> Yahoo! Search presents - Jib Jab's 'Second Term'<br>

The broadcast address and the netmask of a server has changed. Is it possibleto configure the changes so that it is seen at boottime. Right now whenever Ireboot, the changed settings - which i had done via ifconfig - disappears.Anyideas how I can configure the new netmask and broadcast address ...

We have a Solaris 9 server that does not close its connections. When aprocess finishes (scp in this case), netstat -a output shows that thetranfer itself is in TIME_WAIT and sshd is ESTABLISHED. The sshd processwill remain ESTABLISHED. So this server right now has 28 logins:(~) server % w | ...

Sun Managers, In my /etc/netmasks file is 255.255.255.128 and what comes up afterreboot is 255.255.0.0I can set it using ifconfig -a with no problems, but it changes on reboot.Here is what the /etc/netmasks looks like.xxx.xxx.xxx.0 255.255.255.128Should it be:xxx.xxx.0.0 ...

Scenario:==========Sun E3500Solaris 9 (Generic_112233-12)Oracle 9i Server (9.2.0.4)Problem:========/var/tmp/.oracle directory contains scores of files of type "AF_UNIXaddress family sockets", the permissions are srwxrwxrwx.>From what I understand the files are created by the Oracle ...