First ..i want to than everyone who helped me :-)My question was :Im setting up a sunfire v440 w/ solaris 9 12/03 ...the machine didnt comewith a keyboard so i have done the install from the SC (service console)and a laptop ...now that the system has been installed i want to apply ...

Greetings,We have a V240 with Solaris 8 StorEdge PCI Dual Ultra3 SCSI Host Adapter, X6758Aconnecting to a StorEdge 3310 with dual scsi controllerand am wanting to use multipathing.I've configured the SE3310 so that it presents the same volumes via multiple scsi id'sAVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS: ...

Does anyone know the maximum or recommended MTU for a Sun gigaswift networkcard? I've read in a couple of places that the Sun cards do not supportframes larger than 1500. Is that correct? I was going to push mine to 9000if it's possible. Ifconfig complains that it's an invalid argument. ...

Hi Gurus,We have Sun E 4500 Running Solaris 8. Recently Server got rebooted withfollowing ...

I've searched the Sun Mangers archives for this and spent considerable time on Google looking for an answer but haven't been successful although it seems like I should be finding the answer. I'm sure you all can help me.I'm in the process of configuring a new Sun Fire v240 server running ...

I would like to uninstall disksuite and also remove root disk encapsulation.<br>Does anybody know how.<p>Thanks<br>

Dear, GurusHi, I'm Have Sun OEM Product on Super Sparc processor. When use 'probe-scsi' or 'probe-scsi-all' on ok prompt, probe failed.Follow messages failed after 'probe-scsi' or 'probe-scsi-all' :==========================================================<#0> ok ...

Can i rename a created NIS+ User without removing the user and recreating the same. For eg:Nis+ user : ABC1 I need to rename ABC1 to ABC.Please let me know the command thanks. Thanks in Advance ShailYahoo! Photos: High-quality 4x6 digital prints for ...

Dear sun-managers,We are running sendmail ver. 8.11.6-15 Problem being faced is that whenever a user tries to send a single emailto multiple local recipients and if accidentally mistypes even a singleemail ID, then the message remains in the out box and is not even sentfrom client to Email ...

Can someone suggest me a good webhosting company which has colocation/greater than 10Mb dedicated broadband line closer to the Bay area and SF CA.<br>Need to colocate .<br>Thank You<br>Yahoo! Photos: High-quality 4x6 digital prints for 25"<br>

Many Many Thanks to Tim Villa for a quicky. My questions were 1) to rename an existing NIS+ user to a different answerfor eg rename ABC1 to ABC2) To Modify the home directory.for eg change /home/ABC1 to /home/ABC Solution : # nistbladm -e name=ABC \[name=ABC1\],passwd.org_dir# nistbladm -e ...

Hello,I've got this sort of message in my /var/adm/messages:unix: WARNING: ufs_readir: bad dir, inumber = 6764875, fs = /exportI've found the directory which is in cause of this error using find -inum .I've tried to delete the directory but couln't manage to do it, it says thatfile exists ...

Hopefully, this isn't to basic. I've had a quick search on google, Sun Documentation center and Sun Blue Prints, but haven't been able to track down what I'm looking for. I need a reference for a comprehensive quick list of things to look at/for when a Solaris server crashes. I know there ...

Dear admins,Does anybody know how to check what the update version is on my solaris 8server ?I'm not asking for the release version (which I can easily get with theuname command) but for the update one.To move to a new disk array, one of the prerequisites is to have a 7solaris 8 OS update ...

hi thereI've just picked up a copy of Solaris 9 for mucking about with and I amattempting to install it from the console using web-start.Got to the modifying slices stage.I want to modify the swap slice but web-start tells me that "This slicecannot be modified because it is either the ...

Hi,Just downloaded a GCC compiler " gcc-3.2.3-sol7-sparc-local.gz " from http://ftp.iasi.roedu.net/mirrors/ftp.sunfreeware.com/pub/freeware/sparc/5.7/My box is :# uname -aSunOS brahma.india.bristol.com 5.7 Generic_106541-32 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-5_10======================How could i ...

Hi allI have a sol7 and sol8 box at a remote site.I want to make them jumpstart servers but I don't have physical access tothemWhen I tried to nfs mount the solaris cds to them to runsetup-install-server I run into trouble because of the slices on thesolaris cdroms not all being available.Has ...

Hi All, I am trying to consolidate my syslog messages.I am concerned with messages related to system crash.I dont want to log anything ,such as mail and cron,which I wouldnt be able to monitor. if the entry in /etc/sylog.conf is kern.debug /var/adm/messages ...

I am trying to change SHMMAX for a Solaris 2.8 system so I can furthertest IPC::Shareable.In /etc/system I am setting this value with set msgsys:msginfo_msgmnb=8388608... but It defaults back to 1048576 i.e. shell> sysdef -i | grep SHM 1048576 max shared memory segment size (SHMMAX) ...

Dear admins,First and foremost thanks a lot for all your answers !Here is the solution:$ cat /etc/release| Solaris 8 10/01 s28s_u6wos_08a SPARC| Copyright 2001 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.| Assembled 12 September 2001The current update version of our Sol8 server is then ...

Thanks to everyone who respondedI followed the suggestion of setting....set shmsys:shminfo_shmmax=8388608No-one suggested 'RTFM' or more pertinently perl -e 'print$i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'ThanksAndyOn Wed, 2004-04-21 at 14:46, Swamy Kanathur wrote:> set ...

Has anyone seen an issue where the symbolic link .../Solaris_9/Tools/Boot/etc/inet/hosts(which should point at .../Solaris_9/tmp/root/etc/inet/hosts)gets overwritten as a regular file at the beginning of the jumpstart?I really didn't think I was doing anything unusual here but this hasgot ...

Hi All, I am trying to give root access to some other users.I set up a role with execution profile Primary Adminstrator and editied entries of /etc/user_attr such that role(which other users assume to become root) has same entries as root user.It works fine but when I use su - someuser ...

Many thanks to those who gave suggestions. I can not give the exact reasonor solution to the problem but I did upgrade the OBP to the latest and itworked. As the computer is needed, I could not waste any more time findingout the root cause. I did learn that setting diag-switch?=true ...

Hi Managers,I'm administering a few Sun servers with A1000 arrays under control ofthe Raid Manager 6.22 software. The problem is that array statuslogging/reporting is insufficient for my needs. Servers are remotelyoperated but emails sent to root account (and forwarded to where theycan be ...

Hi all-<p>Does anybody know if it is possible to do a JumpStart or similar configuration <br>using Live Upgrade so that software package changes can be made in the same way <br>as a regular OS upgrade?<p>Thanks,<br>-Sal<br>

Hopefully someone can help me. I have WU-FTPD2.6.2 on a SUN Blade 150using Solaris8 and I noticed that the upload clause in the ftpaccess fileis not being used. I know it is using the ftpaccess file by virtue of thebanner page. I have looked at all the WU-FTPD HOWTO pages and FAQ for ...

So we've got an Enterprise E3500 running Solaris 8 04/01 with the latestrecommended patch cluster (as of last week).I've got a brandy-nifty new NetApp FAS960c with SAN functionality. It'sconnected to two Brocade SilkWorm 8 port switches.I've got two Sun SBus dual-port HBAs in my E3500 ...

Hi,I received only one response in this regards and very much thankful toTom Davis for that.The Problem seems to be a faulty Hardware (CPU1) in this case and needsto be replaced.Thanks TomMy Original Question was:Hi Gurus,We have Sun E 4500 Running Solaris 8. Recently Server got rebooted ...

Well, here I go again, replying to myself.Turns out everything is working correctly. It was a matter of getting thecorrect controller on my end (c11/c12/c13/c14) and matching that up withthe correct WWN on the other end.When I re-read the install guide, I decided to just do a cfgadm ...

Can anyone help me in finding how much memory each instance of oracle takes.I have a task of assesing whether our current system can handle one more instance.I checked pmap output but it doesnt specify how much each instance would take.Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you ...

This might be a very basic question but... Can someone tell me why various tools under Solaris show 2.3Gb SWAP used and3.3Gb RAM used when it has 5GB RAM? I know it is not a tmpfs issue since/tmp only has 2Mb of files. I get those numbers from xosview, top, swap -s and SUN's CDE ...

Due to power outage that caused a disk failed to boot up, I attempted toboot it manually from ok prompt but it kept failing. Is there a way tofix it? And I'd like to know what the error message means.*******************************************************ok bootResetting ...Netra t1 ...

got an utra10 with solaris2.8.seems like SUN display monitor is bad with "no input signal"message. (Green indocator turns to yellow on two ultra10's).how do i know if m64config or fbconfig is used to configurethe graphic card?.how to re-enable built-in display port with a new NIC or ...

Originally posted as> Has anyone seen an issue where the symbolic link> > .../Solaris_9/Tools/Boot/etc/inet/hosts> > (which should point at .../Solaris_9/tmp/root/etc/inet/hosts)> > gets overwritten as a regular file at the beginning of the jumpstart?> I really ...

I'm having a dilemma wherein the Veritas VM is not able to see the T3properly but when I execute the format program, the Solaris box sees it.Whenever I powercycle the T3, the Solaris box sees the offline/online status(through /var/adm/messages) also so what could possibly make this happen?On ...

Sorry for the late summary.Basically, it does seem to be a weekly thing. A few people pointed out thatit was a health check and the error is a result of some drivers that are notupdated.A few more people indicated that they get the same thing and would like tosee a summary.If anyone has ...

Dear sun managers,Recently, my tape drive failed to response with "Device Busy" whenever I tried to touch on the tape drive by just any command include "mt rewind" or "tar clvf /dev/rmt0" I have switched the tape drive off and then on again but problem stilll ...

Hi, on some of our servers (all of them configured with two internal boot disks,mirrored via DiskSuite) we have sometimes more than a single "rpc.metad"process running. We are wondering how this can be, since they are launched by "inetd". Theman page says little about the ...

I am not sure if am of the topic. But if any one could provide me with some good site on BMC Patrol Event Managment - Configure and Manage Events. That would be helpful.<br> <br>Thanks <br>Shailendra<br>Yahoo! Photos: High-quality 4x6 digital prints for 25"<br>

Dear Sun Managers,I would like to know what is the default number offile descriptors in a Solaris 2.8 machine? What arethe commands to check?Also, is there any Solaris command to check how manyfiles descriptors had been used by the running systemso far and how many had been left? I need to ...

At what stage In the installation of solaria 8 do I do the disk partition.After doing an auto-install I noticed that there is the root (/) and the"/export/home" directory partioned and mounted. When I wanted to diskpartition, with different sizes of slices using "format" and ...

Hello,It seems that the internal mapping (on how the OS sees the device) waschanged somehow. So what I did was the following:1. Remove the Disk for Replacement option (vxdiskadm)2. Placed the Disk in the control of VxVM (through vxdisksetup -i [device])3. Replaced the failed or removed disk ...

Hi admins,I've just add a new map in NIS database but I haven't succeed to make itavailable in servers and all client without rebooting the system.Here is the things I addIn /etc/nis/auto_master/sg auto.sg -browsecd /var/ypmakecd /sgNo such file or directoryI've stoppeed and ...

Nobody has ever run into this? Seems like what ever I set the uploadmasking to in the upload clause it always uses 755 after the user uploads.Thanks.> Hopefully someone can help me. I have WU-FTPD2.6.2 on a SUN Blade 150> using Solaris8 and I noticed that the upload clause in the ...

hello all,i buyed a 40gb from sun (P/N 370-4440-01) but os see only 20gb.At the ok prompt, i seeok probe-ideDevice 0 ATA Model: ST340016Aand when i boot from sol9, i see:# iostat -Enc0t0d0Model ST340016Abut with format:# formatSearching for disks0. c0t0d0 <ST320414A...from seagate, the ...

HiI'm using a jumpstart server to build disks for sun CP2040 cards.As it's a card in a chassis, the disks are non sun standard and don't have alabel on them.Is there anyway from a script to label disk?I've tried playing with format command but format behaves differently withun-labelled ...

Hi admins, My company is considering getting a second user E10K (cheap). Cananybody point me in the direction of useful tips/documents/utils etc.and... can anybody let me know of any pitfalls or gotchas as I'll bestuck with maintaining the system on my own. Thanks ...

Hithanks for the replies.Unfortunately, I don't think I can use fmthard as they have several differentdisks in use, some 9, 18 or even 36 gig disks, they're not even buying disksfrom the same manufacturer, so the vtoc output would be different for thedisk.ThanksDan-----Original ...

Thanks a lot to all those who corrected my mistake. I.e. sending an empty mailto all codeprof. What I intended to do was:Thanks to all. All of you pointed somehow to manual layout the slices.My original problem was:At what stage In the installation of solaria 8 do I do the disk partition.After ...