Hi, altough this might be a rather pure MS-problem, I am in such desparate needfor assistance that I still post it on this wonderfull list because it isstill related to Sun users: We have 2 SunRay servers that provide redundant desktops to users. Fromthese SunRay servers, they can also launch ...

Hi all,Last week our newly SUN StorEdge 3510 FC arrived. Currently, I am (trying)to configure the damn thing, but for some reason, I can't seem to execute a'newfs' on the LUN'sConfiguration is as follows:2 logical drives, one in RAID 1 (consisting out of 4 disks) one in RAID 5(consisting ...

This was a quick one : thx to Christopher Saul who mentioned the existence of "rdesktop"(SourceForge freeware). Got it from "www.rdesktop.org", compiled withoutspecial options, and it worked. Kicked out Citrix and their dumb supportcontract.Life can be beautiful, even for ...

Hello folks,I'm using Sun Management Console 2.1 under Solaris 9 (sparc) to administrateNIS+ user accounts.* I add a user "user20"* I choose home directory "/export/users"* And it writtes in passwd.org_dir the home path as /home/user25 and createthe dir ...

Managers, I am wanting to apply the latest 109962 patch to several of our V880sand I was wondering if booting from a JumpStart server and applying thepatch would suffice - instead of having to unconfigure SDS for all of thedrives. Any suggestions, comments or gotchas are greatly ...

Hi,I have some more info concerning the terminal server problem! I don't knowwhy it did not occur to me to do this previously, but using telnet6.52.9.104 2048 enables me to telnet into the prime terminal server from ourold 2.6 box. Typing exactly the same command from our new Solaris 9 box ...

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Had an interesting problem crop up the other day. We use IBM FastT storageconnected to Solaris/AIX/Linux. The SAN folks put one of the hosts in thewrong host group and one of the AIX boxes grabbed a drive that was in use onone of the Solaris boxes. In doing so, it set the disk reserved bit ...

Below, you will see the output from a metastat command that shows submirrord31 needing maintenance. I run a 'metasync d3' command and the system showssubmirror d31 resyncing. However, after completion, it returns to the"Needs maintenance" state. I am a little baffled as to why ...

Thank you all of you,for ur timely support. As suggested installed the package SUNWsprot from OS CD, then installationgone smoothly......Thanks and Rgds,Venaktakrishna----- Original Message -----From: Venkatakrishna P.VTo: sunmanagerSent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 8:50 PMSubject: Patch ...

Thanks for all your helps and suggestions.On further investigation, I think my description of a terminal server mayhave been a bit misleading. True, it is a box into which plugs 8 terminals,but communication with the server is via tcpip.Consequently, the problem is more akin to one computer not ...

Dear Admins,I setup a NIS server with C2 security (passwd.adjunct) on a solaris 9server.When a user changes his passwd, the new passwd is only taken into account10mn minimum after: the user then cannot login during this period.Is this normal ? I though the change would be immediate !I don't ...

Hi Managers,I'm getting this on my new SunBlade 150 with Solaris 9 after some period oftime under no load:May 22 11:31:35 mzwarts dada: WARNING: /pci at 1f,0/ide at d/dad at 0,0 (dad0):May 22 11:31:35 mzwarts transport rejected (-2)May 22 11:31:35 mzwarts dada: WARNING: /pci at ...

Gurus,<p>Is there are a way to share a 3310 disk array (same disks/same<br>data) between two nodes direct-attached? (not direct attach to one and NFS<br>to another)<p>Veritas? What pieces of software? (Cluster File System?)<br>Anything else?<p>Thanks.<br>

Hello,I'm installing a Sun L8 SDLC tape drive onto a V880. I've gota sun scsi controller that came with the l8... installedthe card in slot 2... cabled up the tape drive... powered it up.Did a stop-a and probe-scsi-all... The controller and the tape driveshow up just fine.Did a boot ...

I was wondering if anybody has been using Tivoli to track patches?Basically, what we're going to be doing is installing patches from the Sunrecommended patch cluster, and use Tivoli to ensure the patches have beeninstalled. We supply the file name and file size to Tivoli and Tivoli issupposed ...

I wrote:>I have an OEM-assembled "Ultra 5-alike" available for donation to a non-profit>organization. This system is based on the Sun Microelectronics Ultra AXi>system board. See:The system has found a good, nonprofit home.Several of you had trouble understanding some part ...

I inherited responsibility for a SUNBlade100 with Solaris 8 OS about a yearago. Someone had already set up mirroring for the / (d0), /var (d4), and/export (d7) filesystems and, additionally, had created names for the twolarge disks (d8 & d9, each RAID 1), but instead of making two ...

Hi again,Here is a partly summary. The problem is still there, and I've logged acall at the SUN Support Center as I don't know anything else to do.Thanks toMatt ClausenPeter OndruskaJim McVeyCharlie GianettoChris Lovettand special thanks to John Malick for their advice and input.Most advice ...

Thanks to Deborah Crocker, who confirmed that the layout I proposed wascorrect.I also learned that there are 4 additional fixed slots. I can't see thesesslots with the Netbackup SCSI control software "robtest" (it only shows 96slots), I guess they are not controllable by the SCSI ...

Hello,I experience several-second delays when solaris 8 ftp serveraccepts login/autorization. Delays appear not for all clients.Clients are on LAN so it's not network speed issue.Delays seem to appear only for clients which are not in DNS.When I remove dns from /etc/nsswitch.conf , delays go ...

Hi,I have a problem with two machines: when the application crashes and wantsto dump core the disk write speed goes down to about 1MB/s as opposed to thenormal 100-200MB/s of these devices. So the slow speed only shows its uglyhead when writing the corefiles to disk. I have no problems ...

Dear Guru,I want to run explorer on the server & cature the output ...the procedure to install the package,#cp SUNWexplo.tar.Z /var/tmp#cd to /var/tmp#uncompress SUNWexplo.tar.Z>tar xvf SUNWexplo.taror, if I have gzip installed,#zcat SUNWexplo.tar.Z | tar xvf -This will extract the ...

Hi there, I am trying to setup to login to server2 from server1 via ssh without a password ... This is what I have done so far - On Server1 - ssh-keygen -t rsa .... as <user> This produces the following in /.ssh $ pwd/home/trevor/.ssh$ ls -altotal 10drwx------ 2 trevor other ...

Hi All,<p>Has anyone got a document or URL they are willing to share that details how<br>to replace a internal fibre channel boot disk in a SunFire 480/280. The<br>doc/url should ideally deal with differing WWN's, path_to_inst and any other<br>gotchas'<p>Thanks in advance people.<p>Kev Smith<br>

Thanks to the people who told me they where on holiday [Vacation] !Thanks to the people who told me to look up luxadm using the man pages! ;-(Special thanks to Brent McDaniel who came up with exactly what I was lookingfor:>>Good explanation here. You will have to have a valid support ID ...

Hi,What is the correct way to establish a connection between a SUN Netra X1 and a SUN Fire V100? I want to access the LOM-prompt on the V100 so I have to plug in an RJ45 in it's Serial A (LOM)-port. But where should I place it in the X1. In the Serial A or Serial B port? What kind of RJ45 ...

Hi,is it possible to physically connect 2 servers to 2 A1000s in such a way, thatone machine could access the LUNs written by the other machine, in case thelatter is down and the first machine wants to take over the applications ofthe failed server ? How should the cabling be done of the ...

Hi all,,Finally, here is the summary. It appears that the 3510 is running smoothly,but we have some issues on the SunFire 3800 to which the 3510 isconnected.The firmware and drivers of the Qlogic Fibercards is not up todate to handle the 3510 correctly, and we have some pkg/patch issues ...

Addition: the /etc/resolv.conf on the server is ok, addressof the dns server is set correctly and dns is working ok.-------- Original Message --------Subject: server-side ftp autorization delaysDate: Thu, 27 May 2004 11:26:42 +0200From: Jacob Lerner <qlerner at netvision.net.il>To: ...

Hi Gurus,I have Sun Fire 280R Box where I have connected A1000 with PCI Diff SCSIController in slot PCI2 and am getting following error messages whilebooting:And sits there forever.WARNING: /pci at 8,700000/scsi at 3,1 (glm3): Connected command timeout for Target 3.0WARNING: /pci at ...

Sorry forgot to add from OK prompt I can see the A1000ok/pci at 8,700000/scsi at 3,1Target 3 Unit 0 Disk Symbios StorEDGE A1000 0003 Unit 1 Device type 20 Symbios StorEDGE A1000 0003 Unit 2 Device type 20 Symbios StorEDGE A1000 0003 Unit 3 Device type 20 Symbios ...

Sorry for asking a networking related question here but since most of you deal with this issue ...thought you could help me with this urgent problem... I am trying to host multiple webistes on my 450.I am using a static IP for my Linksys router.I am using webmin control ...

Hi there,I was trying to clear disc space on a Solaris 8 box and though thatrunning...echo > /var/adm/wtmpx ; echo > /var/adm/utmpx...was a good idea!Now I have the error message:No utmpx entry. You must exec "login" from the lowest level "shell".I have brought the ...

Thanks all and sundry who responded so quickly.My commands;echo > /var/adm/wtmpx ; echo > /var/adm/utmpxIntroduced a new line into the file. I had forgotten that.Some methods that work are:1.e# cat /dev/null > /var/adm/wtmpx# cat /dev/null > /var/adm/utmpx2.# > /etc/utmpx# > ...

Hi Folks,<br> <br>I am having issues in finding the memory leaks on solaris 8 server. Can anyone guide me what/where to look the memory leaks?<br> <br>Thanks<br>SunAdmin/<br>Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger<br>

Greetings,I have a Solaris 9 server. It is exhibiting an odd problem I have neverencountered before. On startup the driver for the network card is notloaded and the networks are not started. There is a hostname.e1000g0file in /etc (its an Intel nic) that maps to a valid IP in /etc/hosts .I can ...

I have a group of users which require both shell and ftp logincapability. The shell login reads .cshrc/.profile just fine, butobviously ftp does not. Is there a way to make the ftp login%cd /big/long/hairy/path/on/production/server/to/applicationautomatically on the first login action, because ...

Hi,I have the first SUN B1600 installed for the past 6 months and there are threeblade failure due to overheat issue. The blade shut itself off and we have topower it on manually. The chassis is only half filled (10 blades only, out of16 slots). I checked ventilation and airflow and they appear ...

Hi Guruz,We have a V240 and I can't login to thisbox via the console port, because it doesn'trespond to any key strokes...I can see the boot process and the login prompton the console screen, but I can't login, norto issue the Ctrl-Break.I already tried to change the console cable, andthe ...

Argh, i don't like the plaintext :)<br> <br>..btw, "75004" is a password for archive<p>[demime 1.01b removed an attachment of type application/octet-stream which had a name of AttachedFile.zip]<br>

hello all !help me pleas.Problem with Soltice Disk suite on spark solaris8.At initial system boot the messages are given out:warning:/ pci at 1f,400/scsi at 5/sd at 8,0(sd37)error for command: load/start/stoperror level: retryableerror block:0can t open /dev/md/rdsk/d1In what a ...

Hi All,<br> We are planning to dedicate a UPS for our Data Center. Can you please<br>suggest how to know the Wattage rating of following servers and Storage.<br>1. Sun Server E450<br>2. Sun Ultra10<br>3. Sun Storage D1000.<p>Thanks in advance.<p>Venkatakrishna.P.V<br>

hi all i have problem with live upgrade process. when i upgrade the os i got error below : #luupgrade -u -n solaris9 -s /Spare/sol9 Validating the contents ...

Hi,Hoping someone might be able to give me a few ideas on this.We've got a system running oracle being used for performance testing. Thetests are run from a baseline image of the database. Compressed copies of the dbffiles are help on disk and restored at the end of each test to regenerate the ...

Greetings,I have a Solaris 8 system on an Ultra 5 with an hme interface with 2 IPaddresses bound to it. I am looking for a way to have a chrooted environmentto be restricted on this system so that it can only see and use 1 of theaddresses. The reason for this setup is that I am looking to ...

I have just installed on vnc 3.3 on my Solaris 8 server (ftped fromfreeware.sun.com). I did the package add and everything went well. When Itried to run vncserver by:cd /usr/local/binvncserverI got the following error:ksh:vncserver not found. I checked the execute permissions and it ...

Hi Gurus.Is there a way we can stop monitoring all child process except parent, thorughGeneric Data Serivce, in sun cluster 3.0.There is a way I know of is to change the extension property Child_mon_levelto Zero, and I did that.the scrgdam -pvv -j < Resource > out put is showing this ...

I am having several severs spontaneous shutting down, I believe it might beheat related.Anyone have a good script to monitor temperature on E220s, E450s, E4500s?Thanks!Mitchell LewarsPenske Truck Leasing Co.mitchell.lewars at penske.com ...

Thanks to Dr. Deborah Crocker for pointing to me to the right direction.Also thanks for everyone who flamed me saying that why I did not try the./vncserver -:)Problem was that vncserver is a perl script and the perl was pointing to/usr/bin/perl. So, when I edited the first line in the vncserver ...