Solaris 10 install problem: How to add printer/NFS mount a PC file system?

998 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:35:00
I am having some problems during installation ofSolaris 10, build 74 (Solaris Java desktop version 3:On my Ultra 5 with 256 mb of memory; I was able toload Solaris OK, however I am unable to add remotePC printer to it. When I clickedLaunch->Preference->System Preferences->Add ...

Messages from IPMP....

478 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:35:00
Feb 22 10:16:43 goku in.mpathd[31]: [ID 122137 daemon.error] Improvedfailure detection time 11802 msFeb 22 10:16:44 goku in.mpathd[31]: [ID 122137 daemon.error] Improvedfailure detection time 10000 msFeb 22 10:45:44 goku in.mpathd[31]: [ID 398532 daemon.error] Cannot meetrequested failure ...

Finding system shutdown information

584 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:35:00
Hi all,One of my Sun Solaris server got turned off this week end. I am trying tofigure out how it happened (Sofware/hardware/ or somebody turned off)Hardware : Sun Fire 880OS : Sun Solaris 9.Application : OracleI checked following items, but I didnt find any use full information..sh_history ...

Amanda Support for Sun Storedge L8

880 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:35:00
Hi Gurus,I am planning to implement Amanda backup software.I would like to confirm, whether L8 is supported for Amanda.I had searched on sun site, and amanda site, but not getting the properinformation. Is anybody implemented L8 on Amanda, If so could you pleasehelp me out for supported version ...

Buildung Apache/mod_ssl on S10 fails

1554 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:35:00
Good morning, everybody,I have trouble compiling apache with mod_ssl on my S10/intel system. Whencompiling, I get this error message:<=== src/modules/proxy===> src/modules/sslgcc -c -I.. http://os/unix -I.. http://include -DSOLARIS2=2100 -DMOD_SSL=208122 -DEAPI -DUSE_EXPAT ...

SUMMARY: Blade 1500 OBP Patch; Three Beeps and Out

2350 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:35:00
I wrote:>I've just applied the latest Open Boot Prom patch #116698-03 to my Blade 1500.> The patch apparently succeeeded, according to the onscreen messages. At the>end of the process, the system beeped three times and powered itself down.>>The same thing happens when I turn ...

Solaris 10 and the zfs file system

204 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:35:00
Does anyone know what release of Solaris 10 the zfs file system will be<br>available on?<p>Joe Astrologo<p>Unix Systems Engineer<p>Factset Research Systems<p>Voice: 203-810-1562<p>Fax: 203-810-3178<br>

RBAC in NIS environment

488 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:35:00
Hi Admins,I have been asked to develope and implement a concept for RBAC with the ability to audit different roles.There is plenty of information on the net (google) regarding this subject, but I haven't been able to find information regarding RBAC implementation, with the basic security ...

Solaris 10 Sendmail Problem

345 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:35:00
Hi All,I have installed CSWsendmail package in solaris 10./etc/init.d/cswsendmail start takes a long time to execute and givemessage Hangup but send mail does not get running . when i try to run#sendmail -bt then no response.... also when i try to telnet port 25connection is refused....... ...

X25 does not show bge devices

256 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:35:00
Hi Folks<br> <br>I am trying to setup X25 over the LAn using x25tool on Sun solaris 8 on Sun V240 with bge quad port.<br>When I choose LAN as the device, I do not bge as an option for my device<br>I can see hme qfe etc ..<br> <br> <br>Regards <br>Kevin<br>

Network Interface

453 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:35:00
Gurus,Is there anyway to know on a remote server which network interface has acable plugged into it if that interface has never been configuredbefore? I have a remote server (never seen before) that a user says hehas plugged a network cable into and would like configured. Under /dev,I see ...

SUMMARY: Network Interface

1415 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:35:00
Thanks to Angelos Kanellopoulos and Kendall Lloyd for their quickresponses.The way to detect it was to plumb each of the interfaces in turn andthen snoop for packets on the wire.For instance,# ifconfig qfe0 plumb# snoop -d qfe0>From this I was able to detect the link.Thanks, ...

Two unforced reboots in the last 24 hours on an E3500

1935 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:35:00
Hi,I have had two unforced reboot in the last 24 hours on one of my E3500'sThe system is running Solaris 8 Generic_117350-16This system has 8 * 400 MHz CPU' and 8 GB memory.We have had E$ errors in the past so I disabled CPU 6 which is on board 3As the CPU is only disabled in Software should ...

Strange problem with NSS_LDAP in Solaris 9

2700 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:35:00
Dear allI4m installing a OpenLDAP in one Solaris 9 server. Everything seems to workok, but I realized a strange behavior. The slapd daemon initializes too slowly(approximately 1 minute) and generate this error log:Feb 23 13:58:41 arrakis slapd[1989]: [ID 702911 local4.debug] @(#) ...

Script help with read

2048 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:35:00
Below is a script I am trying to make work but I just can't seem to make itright. The purpose is to send an e-mail to a user who is over their quotaand still in the grace period to alert them. I want to include some userspecific details like timeleft usage and quota. The catted file is ...

RSC on Sun-Fire-V440

254 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:35:00
I have a Sun-Fire V440 that came with a RSC card however from the<br>literature on Sun's website it doesn't look like the V440 is a supported<br>platform. Has anyone had any luck in trying to get rsc to work on a<br>V440?<p>Thanks<br>Scott Elliott<br>

sendmail MASQUERADE_AS

1948 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:35:00
Hi --I'm trying to get masquerading to work with Sun's sendmail 8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7, Solaris 8.It works fine when I use any existing name for host.domain -- except of course the name I want to use -- using the following statements in sendmail.mc: MASQUERADE_AS(`host.domain') ...

server room temp

441 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:35:00
Hi all, I have servers like sunfire V100 ,v120 ,sunfire 240R 280 R .....kindly let me know whats would be the best room temperature that i need to maintain for this servers to run 24 hoursRegardsA.Richard_________________________________________________________________MSN Spaces! Your ...

IMPORTANT: Read this before posting to Sun-Managers

6236 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:35:00
Archive-name: codeprof-before-postingLast Updated: $Id: before.posting,v 1.19 2002/11/21 15:07:17 jdd Exp $NOTE: This message is posted periodically to codeprof on behalf of all members of the Sunmanager's mailing list. Please read it carefully before posting. This document can be retrieved ...

Windows Desktop on Solaris

626 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:35:00
Hi Guys,May be slightly off the topic..but its worth to askfrom experts.We are using TS Citrix Server Version 4, Meta FrameVersion 1.8 on NT 4 Term Server to access Desktop(windows) from Sun Machines (locally so that staff canaccess MS applications or MS Office n docs).I upgraded NT 4 to 2003 ...

system not booting

828 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:35:00
hi all, I have a ultra -60 machine which is not booting.I amable to boot in single user mode ,but when i try toboot in init 2 or 3 it stops after volmgt starting andthe systems hangs .It doesn't look like a hardwareproblem. I have put echo in the rc scripts after S92*,which tells that the ...

Legato Label write I/O error

327 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:35:00
Hi, I have a Storedge, L280, 8 slots and use Legato to do the backup on Solaris 9. When I label the tapes, I've got an error " Label Write: I/O error" Any sugestions, please help. Thanks.Anne---------------------------------Find local movie times and trailers on Yahoo! ...

rmt device of Storedge L280

320 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:35:00
Hi, I used ufsdump 0uvf /dev/rmt/1n to backup up the filesystem, it got an error" DUMP: NEEDS ATTENTION: Cannot open `lasun086:/dev/rmt/1n'" Any sugestions, please help. ThanksAnne---------------------------------Find local movie times and trailers on Yahoo! ...

Dynamic Reconfiguration of PCI adapters

581 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:35:00
Hi Gurus,We are trying to dynamically reconfigure a Qlogic FC-HBA adapter on SunFire V240 (Solaris 8; SPARC), using cfgadm. The system has two suchcards installed. When we run cfgadm, Ap_id column doesn't show any PCIrelated entries.Our questions are:1. How to list hot-pluggable PCI ...

Linux 2.6.10 on SUN e450 -> no serial console?

362 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:35:00
Hello,i just wanted to test Linux 2.6 (gentoo) on my Sun e450. With kernel 2.4.28 i had no problem to get my serial console workin but since i installed kernel 2.6 i lost my serial console. Can anybody tell me what i need to have compiled into the kernel to get my console working?Has anybody ...

SUMMARY: Buildung Apache/mod_ssl on S10 fails

2580 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:35:00
Very strange: after reproducing the same problems on Solaris 9/x86 andfinding a workaround there, I reinstalled my S10. After that, apache couldbe compiled without any problems.So the problem is gone. Very, very strange.... Peter----- Original Message -----> Good morning, everybody,>> ...

Canon IR 2200 and CUPS

1591 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:35:00
Dear Sun Admins,We have a Canon IR 2200 printer that does not have driver support in Solaris(Vendor website says that). It is installed as a NIS network tcp printer andavailable to users through NIS mapping. The probelm we face is that no otherfeatures are availabe to the users (tray selection ...

xwindows freeware

563 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:35:00
I have an ultra 5 that I am using to practice my unix skills on my home network and would like to access it thru my pc so I dont need to have more than one keyboard and crt - if I buy exceed hummingbird at auction like on ebay do I need an activation key or can I just install it and run it? If ...

SUMMARY: Can't install Required Patch for Oracle10g client install prep - Sol8Sparc e450 box.

6207 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:35:00
Thanks to Christopher L. Barnard, the one response to my query. He suggested I verify patch dependencies in the README file in the 108921-16 directory. Alas, this was something I had already done but neglected to mention in my original posting. (oops).I ended up fighting with the jolly ...

offtopic: need good redhat enterprise mailing list

659 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:35:00
Sorry for the offtopic, can anyone tell me a good redhat enterprise mailinglist as good as this list?thanks you!____________________________________This e-mail message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) andmay contain proprietary, confidential and/or privileged information. ...

RealWorld Comparison: Solaris 8 - 9 - 10 on e450 calibre hardware, Baseline Performance "gu

1939 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:35:00
A rather classic/typical/lame question, but as always somewhat difficult to get "real world from the trenchs" feedback / observations.Now that Solaris 10 is truly released, Solaris9 is well and truly ... old enough for stuck-in-the-mud types to consider it :-) ... I am curious if ...

SUMMARY: offtopic: need good redhat enterprise mailing list

884 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:35:00
Thanks alot, everyone answered super fast!turns out that the nickname for redhat ES3 is "taroon".here were the 2 i liked: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/taroon-list http://www.linuxmanagers.org/____________________________________This e-mail message is for the sole use of the ...

QLA2342 HBA issue

772 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:35:00
One of my colleagues and I are having an issue with a QLA2342 dual-portHBA. These are on a V240 running Solaris 9 attached to an IBM FAStT.The OS can see the LUN's, but the disk geometry doesn't show up when yourun format. You can't partition the LUN's, either.However, the LUN's look ...

V880 and CPU offline

6140 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:35:00
HelloOn the recommendation of a software vendor, to handle their databaseapplication ( progress ), that the values seminfo_semmns and seminfo_semmnube increased from 3000 to 20000 each. On the reboot of the 880 runningsolaris 9 one of the CPU's went offline, extract from messages:Question did ...

SUMMARY : RSC on Sun-Fire V440

920 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:35:00
Thanks to all that replied.Original question:I have a Sun-Fire V440 that came with a RSC card however from theliterature on Sun's website it doesn't look like the V440 is a supportedplatform. Has anyone had any luck in trying to get rsc to work on aV440?Answer:The card inside the V440 is an ...

SUMMARY: Script help with read

8830 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:35:00
Thanks to:Chris SchroenChrist ClarkMichael DeSimoneMatthew StierDavid DEAVESSteinAxtRob McMahonJohn F WallAlex StadeJohn JulianStephen BarnettJohn LeadehamDamir DelijaMats ObergJonathan BirchallAlan CrosbyHutin BertrandDoc G (Tim)Luc SuryoThad MacMillanReggie BeaversThe problem with the ...

need to create a gui front end for my scripts.

855 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:35:00
Hi all,Im running solaris 8 with the latest patches.I need to create a gui front end for some scripts, besides a web page doyou have any suggestions?The only thing I can think of is TCL, but I have never used it before.I am an amature programmer, so I guess C++ or java is out?thank ...

Disk Array 3310

1662 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:35:00
Hi Gurus,I recentally installed a Sun StorEdge 3310 SCSI Disk Array to a SunNetra 20 Server.I partitioned the 12 disk to have 2 logical drives of 5 disk each useRAID5 and 2 global spares.I only have one controller in the Netra Server but I guess the DiskArray has two. I connected the Disk Array ...

Hard Fisk Fail

3235 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:35:00
Hi Admins,I want to congratulate this Sunmanager List for his high technicallevel of knowledge hopping you can help me.I need to replace a Hard Disk that is part of a may be D1000 or A1000or A5200 array, the server has configured Solaris 6, and it hasinstalled the Sun Cluster 2.2 software and ...

NFS stale file handles

429 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:35:00
Hi, I am in the process of moving NFS server, because of which all the clients using automount & mounting from this NFS server get stale file handles. Can you suggest which is better way of unmouting those hanging automounts on client side. I know umount -f works in solaris 8 but sometimes ...

High Availability Shared File System Recommendation

2586 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:35:00
Hello,I am currently trying to figure out what is the best file system touse in a highly available system. I would appreciate any adviseanyone can provide and will summarize upon completion.A little background first, I am configuring a system with 4 Sun Fire240s and 1 fully populated Sun ...

Generating a file of a given size

198 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:35:00
Not so much a sun question as a more general question.<p>I need to generate a file that is 250MB big. How do I<br>do it? It doesn't need to do anything but take up<br>space.<p>Thanks,<br>Rodney<br>

can´t read dvd on sunblade100

319 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:35:00
Hi guys,I have a problem with a sunblade100, i can4t read theOS installation disk, daemon vold is running, i haveseen the Document ID: 4531636 in sunsolve page butthey don4t have the solution.please, help me! I have spent 8 hours trying toinstall solaris 9 OS!thanx in ...

SUMMARY update: Buildung Apache/mod_ssl on S10 fails

3640 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:35:00
Summary update:The problem was produced by not using the S10-supplied flex-2.5.4 (installedin /usr/swf/bin), but using the flex-2.5.31 from sunfreeware.com. It looksas the newer flex is broken or incompatbible withapache-1.3.33/mod_ssl-2.8.22.In other words: don't use the sunfreeware.com ...

Solstice tape format

456 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:35:00
I am running solstice backup version 6.1.4 on a SPARC Solaris 8 systemwith an attached Sun Storedge L100 tape library. I would like to know what sort of tape format solstice backup uses and if the format is sunproprietary. In short, I need to know if I can take a backup tape created with ...

Offtopic : Storage System (SAN) Evaluation

1281 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:35:00
Hi,Firstly I apolozige for an offtopic question.We are in a process of evalauting a Storage solution for our environment. Particularly we are looking at the HDS 9585V storage system and EMC CX700 storage system can you please share your inputs and preferences wrt these storage technologies. Any ...

[Summary] generating file or arbiatry size.

171 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:35:00
I got a lot of responses. Thanks everyone.<p>The answers are:<p>1. man mkfile<p>2. dd varations.<p>dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/dummy bs=1024 count=1024<p>Thanks,<br>Rodney<br>

Sudo Stuff..

906 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:35:00
Folks, I need to give permission to set of usrs to only create symbolic links in/usr/lib. I am able to run the user "ln" allover to create links. Butwanted restrict him only from /usr/lib.. Any hint will be appreciated and summarized. Thanks, - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ...

Sun One Directory Server vs. Iplanet Server

437 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:35:00
Is the Sun One Directory Server the same thing as theIplanet Directory Server in Solaris 9?Iplanet server stuff is located here/usr/iplanetwhich I havebut it doesn't look like the Sun One Directory gets installedwith the default Solaris 9 installation because I don't ...

cache flushing ? Please help

364 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:35:00
Hi,I move a filesystem and didn't realize it was cached. No machine can get to it w/o a reboot.That could take a while. Is there any way under solaris 8/9 to flush the cache ?Any help would probably save me hours of time.Thanks,Bill-- --------------------William M. FennellNetwork ...