Hi,Thanks to all who replied especiallyTony WalshAnjan DavePascal>From whom I got the hint what to check for. Finally I figured it out.The problem was Active termination Jumper on the Diff controller card(SYMBIOS LOGIC - SYM 22802) was on (enabled). Disabled (Off) it and itstarted ...

Being a solaris sys admin with limited knowledge of sendmail. I was given the task of implementing the following setup. All the servers referred to in this email are running Solaris 9 andSendmail 8.12.10+Sun/8.12.10. I have server A with the following needs, * Has to send out mail as ...

Hi,Not exactly sure who the prize goes to for helping cracking this one....There were so many great responses!To fix the problem I sat down with Server and had a long hard talk about howhis serial port was setup. We worked out I could get to his LOM prompt if Ichange every concevable PC serial ...

Hi All,Sorry for the late summary, but I just got my vendor (anysystem.com) toreplace the CPU. [Excellent Vendor BTW!!! I highly recommend them toanyone looking to buy a sun stuff for cheap]. Anyways, I want to thank:NetComrade <netcomrade at bookexchange.net>joe_fletcher at ...

I was installed solaris 9 12/03 on 2 sunfire v880 server with os info follow:#uname -aSunOS ora-1 5.9 Generic_112233-10 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-880after 1 hour, all my servers's load inscreasing very high without any broadcasting service or cde console login:# w 10:12am up 8:57, 3 users, ...

How about the maximum length for cables connect between serial <br>interfaces (with apps: console and ups control) ?<br>rgrds<br>

Hi Guyz,I'm having problems with my D1000 which is connected to a e4500. Thiswas working fine until this morning when we shifted the server. I madesure the drives, the cables and everything is seated properly....This is kind of freaking me out and I would sincerely appreciate anyhelp:8-slot ...

Hi Guyz,I'm having problems with my D1000 which is connected to a e4500. Thiswas working fine until this morning when we shifted the server. I madesure the drives, the cables and everything is seated properly....This is kind of freaking me out and I would sincerely appreciate anyhelp:8-slot ...

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Hi All,This is the best list ever!!! And I publically announce that I will takeChintu out for a nice dinner/beer when he comes up to Vancouver BC!!* ChinTu (cp-sm2 at mil.sunysb.edu) wrote:> check the pins in the scsi cables. And if you have an external> termination, please remove it and ...

Thanks to all who answered: Len Muller, Peter Bauer,Muthukumar Guhadoss, Samir Sethi, Walls Peter, Kevin Inscoe,Bill Williams, Ray Trzaska.The winning answer that solved my problem came from Bill R. Williams;thanks Bill:Bill R. Williams wrote:>I have a possible fix...>You say:> ...

Dear All , I am getting some problems in the ports . I have one of theProduction server which is running Solaris 8 and Oracle database 8.1.7 andoracle APPS also . whenever am doing telnet or Ftp it is connecting , butafter sometime it is giveing connection closed by foriegn host . so I ...

Hi,I have one Sun Fire V880, 4 CPU/mem boards, 8 CPUs x 900Mhz,16 GB RAM (4 boards x 16 mem slots x 256MB DIMMs)The system runs an oracle database server under a decent load(uses all memory).Since a couple of days I have this in /var/adm/messages, andit's reported approximately twice per ...

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Hi again,Thanks a lot to Joe Fletcher, Peter Ondruska, Prasanth Mudundi,Mike Ekholm and Eugene Schmidt for their support and advice.In short form, the machine was shut down and the faulty memorychip was removed along with its three "siblings" from the memorygroup, saving the day at ...

Hi Guruz,On a SUN box someone has deleted the mirror byediting the system and vfstab file and deleting allof the related lines...Now, I had to remirror the disks but when I issuethe metadb and metastat commands than I can see thatthe system thinks that the disks are still setto mirror.I'm not ...

hello Admins, I am receiving errors in daemon.log May 31 08:18:48 sd1 nisd[29848]: [ID 357067 daemon.warning] Couldn't fork a process! Pl find ps -el output.ps -el 8 S 0 29883 1 0 53 24 ? 585 ? ? 1:09 rpc.nisp 8 O 0 29848 1 46 99 20 ? 99311 ...

Hi gurus ..I'm try to automating telnet like this :%telnet 10.222.222.22 99999telnet> Trying 10.222.222.22...Connected to 10.222.222.22.Escape character is '^]'.Available Services:ASCII EXITAnd i must to type the ASCII manually.So i've made the script scriptTelnet.sh ...

The consensus is that Solaris 10 should be able to provide this sort offunctionallity.Unfortunately, due to our current resource load I am unable to upgrade toSolaris 10 at this time. Many thanks to all those who provided feedback.Original Question:I have a Solaris 8 system on an Ultra 5 with ...

Hi!I'm setting up a LDAP+Kerberos environment, with:- LDAP server: OpenLDAP 2.1.22- KDC: MIT Kerberos 1.3.1- LDAP & Kerberos clients: default from Solaris 8 distributionI installed all Public patches recommended by PatchPro expert (including108993-33).Problem is:When I try to log in with a ...

Hi,I m having a V120 and im facing a problem that space taken by my exportis 23% shown by command "df -k", iused du -sk also but i won't be ableto make any file(not even a zero byte) in that. It says no buffer spaceon device.So I checked for inode numbers but that are only 60%used. ...

testing after a mailman upgrade. thanks.<p>-- <br>bill bradford<br>austin texas<br>

Running Solaris 8 with April 04 patch cluster.I have upgraded a Blade 1000 from 1.5Gb to 5Gb several months ago and Istarted to get serious kernel panics on a regular basis (every 40-75minutes). The computer is fine when it is under any significant or heavyload but once it becomes idle for ...

Folks,I seems to have smiliar issue posted back in April 2001 however, its notrelated to nfs. Please see the result below from the jumpstart client:<snip>ok boot net - installResetting ... SPARCstation 5, No KeyboardROM Rev. 2.15, 64 MB memory installed, Serial #7870663.Ethernet address ...

Hi everyone.<p>Got a problem with a JBOD so I need to recover my data. Problem is -<br>the data is under Sybase so it's stored on a raw device. Which is the<br>best way to move raw data from one disk to another? Matter is rather<br>urgent.<p>Thanks.<br>

Hi ,I am facing a problem in getting D1000 Storage shared between the twosun server So I got a proper responce from sun managers .. thank you verymuch for that ........But while doing that I have faced problem...I mean Idon't knwo what ID I need to change ?Please check my steps ..am i doing ...

Hi all friends;<p>I have installed sun one directory server 5.1 on solaris 9.How could I<br>configure user authentication from ds51 (telnet,login)?<p> <p>Please help me..<p>Thanks.<p>Regards..<br>

HI,Yesterday, i try to for first time, install a solaris8 whith JumpStart.After instal and configure the boot server and install server (as the same), the client cant?t start trhe instalation.The message that it show-me is a timeout for RARP packect. The Network segment is the same (its a ...

Can anyone point me to documentation to setup and use samba to mountNTFS shares (win2k boxes) and printers on Solaris.I'm trying to mount NT shares and printers on my Solaris box, I can findplenty of documentation to do the opposite but information seems to bescarce on using samba as a ...

Hi ,We have a tape library L3500 with 4 dlt7000 drives connected to E3500 server with veritas netbackup installed.Can someone tell me how to find out the serial no.s of dlt tape drives from solaris or L3500.Advance thanks .Thanks & Regards,Krishna.Sys admin-- This allows you to send and ...

Hi everyone.Am a bit confused by different types of SCSI host adapters, couldanyone please explain to me the difference between Fast SCSI, UltraSCSI, Wide SCSI, Differential SCSI, Single-Ended SCSI, Ultra3 SCSI,Low-Voltage and High-Voltage SCSI ;)that's in general.in detail - I need to know ...

Hi all i am trying to install proline line printer on v440system .anybody can please help me how to confiurethis printer thru serial port and what will be the port setting waiting for ur replay thanks and rgdsraji __________________________________Do you Yahoo!?Friends. Fun. Try the all-new ...

I'm running Solaris 9 on a Dell GX260 with Intel NIC chips on the motherboard(equiv to an Intel Pro/1000 card and using the latest INTCGigaE drivers fromIntel.)The current recommended patch set makes the PC act in a very strange manner.The kernel CPU goes to about 50% and stays there and ...

Hi Managers,today I tried to run nessus on my Sol9 box, and some users were logged offduring the test. I found that the port-scan made by nessus caused that.I tried to identify the problematic port. Using nmap I found that nmap-ingport 6010 (sometimes) causes some users to get disconnected.Here ...

I have newest VNCserver software installed on SUN Solaris 8. I use following command display X-Window to my PC: vncserver :1It only have Windows pop-up with Xterm in it. On LINUX I can modify ~/.vnc/xstartup and put: unset SESSION_MANAGER exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrcit will work. How ...

I have a v480 with Solaris 9 installed currently running with the April '04 Recommended patch cluster. I can't say I began having the problem with the installation of the last patch cluster, but after installing it is when I began to notice it. This server runs an oracle database with an ...

Gurus:<p>I am wanting to extract two files from a tar archive that I created. Is<br>this possible? If so, how? Unix man pages / google are not producing any<br>solutions. I am running Solaris 8 on a 280R. Will summarize.<p>Thank You,<p>Paul Fiengo<br>

Good afternoon all,I hope for those of you that celebrate Memorial day you had a wonderful andsafe holiday weekend..On a realistic topic, I am having a strange problem with a V880.When I first boot up the machine, I get the following error at the OBP levelBEFORE the OK prompt ...

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Admins, I am facing a peculiar problem. If i try to do run afollowing command, i am able to get the outputniscat -M passwd.org_dir | cut -d: -f3 | sort -n | wc -l InsteadIf i try to run the following command i get an error niscat -M passwd.org_dir | cut -d: -f3 | sort -n | tail -1can't list ...

Dear SirsI'm trying to install solaris 9.0 version 4/04 on :Intel xeonMP 1.5GHZ 4 way processor,2GB ECC RAM4*73 GB Ultra 320 MBPS SCSIcntlr(Adaptec 39320D -R)Onboard VGA SPSH4 mother board.please suggestme whether soalris 9 x86 can be installed with theabove saidconfiguration?If yes what is ...

Hi SUN Managers, I have a question about upgrading Solaris.I want to upgrade a system that is running Solaris 2.6.Root disks are mirrored with DiskSuite & the data disks are managed byVolume Manager 2.5.I only need to upgrade the O.S. (although the rest could also use anupgrade :) ).Does ...

I received much useful advice and information from Peter Bauerpeter.bauer(a)itserv.de. I learned from Peter:1) The following can be used to find the cause of the error in the messageslog: grep -n maint /var/adm/messages*Just a few lines ahead of this should be the SCSI warning ...

Hi Managers,I'm trying to get an online backup of my iPlanet Directory Server 4.1x database.Database should be checkpointed in order to take a snapshot using point-in-time software from the SUN Avalability Suite.Directory Server includes a tool called db2bak for online backup but it does too ...

Dear All,Urgent help required.........We are getting the following errorand we are not able to send any mail from unix-mail to open-mail(outlookexpress)problem creating SMTP socketJun 2 12:01:24 del192rdsendmail[19225]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): opendaemonsocket: cannot bind: Addressalready in ...

Hi,Trying to erase a disk content with Solaris 2.5.1 with "dd", I get thefollowing error : # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rdsk/c3t2d0s2 bs=1024dd: /dev/rdsk/c3t2d0s2: open: I/O errorTrussing the "dd" process, it seems it tries to create the output file,although it already exists ...

Hidden in the tidal wave of "out of office" replies were a couple ofsuggestions to look at NIC autonegotiation. I've checked that and even whenthe NIC is forced to the required 100M/duplex the problems remain. Plusthat doesn't explain the constant 50% kernel CPU.By applying ...

Hi there, Does anyone know how you control large files on Solaris 8?I.e a log file that goes beyond 2Gs can solaris cope with it? Whats the maxsize you can have for a file? or can you change this setting somewhere? Orif it goes beyond a max size what happens?Kind regards,Alistair ...

Thanks to everyone, and particularly :- Casper Dik, who suggested to verify the disk label :>prtvtoc /dev/rdsk/c3t2d0s2prtvtoc: /dev/rdsk/c3t2d0s2: Unable to read Disk geometryCasper also add that the creat() syscall will not try to create the file ifit already exists, as stated in the ...

We have several SUN E480 and 240 servers with Solaris 9 installed on it. I found one server when I issue shutdown command (shutdown -y -g0 -i6 or shutdown -y -g0 -i0). It did not execute files under /etc/rc0.d/Kxxxx. There has message on scrren show "kill all processes". Look like ...