very thanks to all who responded, now it works!i found another old contribution here: http://sunportal.codeprof.com/pipermail/summaries/2003-November/004570.htmlfor me, the correct thing is to do:hobbit-root% dd if=/setup.log of=/dev/dsk/c0t2d0s2 count=16 bs=655360+1 records in0+1 records outif ...

Gurus,We are moving offices, and the construction company is bugging us aboutpower and AC requirements for a new server room (we have 3 half fullracks)We have looked at the servers, and e.g. an E450 has a maximum power usageof 13.6Amps (I would guess at 100V), and maximum heat output 5680 ...

All,I thought I try this one more time - I hope no-one minds!Please - any ideas would be welcome...Kind Regards,SM-----Original Message-----From: Simon Mullis Sent: 19 April 2004 17:08To: codeprof at codeprof.comSubject: i2c woesHello All...Anyone have any ideas?Two Sun Fire 280Rs (A & ...

Yeah,thx very much !I have overlooked...... and killed the tar process (not running for days)and everything is working again now.Frank----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Schulte" <mike at babbage.cs.umsl.edu>To: <chocobofrank at hotmail.com>Sent: Thursday, April ...

Hi everyone,(I've been posting a lot recently!)We have a Sun StorEdge L1000, with two DLT units installed. This isconnected to a Netra.I have loaded DLTs into the jukebox and one into the single DLT port aswell.I want to use ufsdump to access the device.To check that all is well I tried using ...

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Hello managers, I have a strange problem which involves and old SB150and a new V240The V240 will be a NIS+ client of the root domain (company.com)Running Solaris 9 12/03 Mega Patch of April 2004.The SB150 (Solaris 8 12/02 ) is already a client of the NIS+ root domainso I copied the following ...

Hi Managers,I'm posting this question to the list after searching the web in vain for asolution for the following question:There is a "user1" who just needs to run a command by logging in as "user2"and then logging out without knowing the password of "user2". I ...

Hi,I'd appreciate if you can please advise me with options other than "sudo" assudo cannot be installed on the server.Regards,Sudhakar----- Original Message ----- From: "Sudhakar" <sudhakar.peram at corpusinc.com>To: <codeprof at codeprof.com>Sent: Thursday, ...

I've set up a Solaris 9 machine to house an application. Included in the setupare a number of custom-written scripts which handle specialized printingtasks. The script becomes the "interface" for the printer.In most cases, my custom interface:1) does some processing2) (important part ...

Hello all,I am using an SNMP-based agent on a 480R with 2 GigE interfaces, ce0 andce1, configured for IP Multipathing. I do not have root, I did not set themup. I can only connect to 1 of the aliased interfaces, the 2nd one, if Iconnect to the first one, a snoop done on the machine shows my ...

Has anybody heard/used of<p>USB attached storage to Sun Sparc servers running Solaris8.<p>Also, how is the performance/speed.<p>Thanks<br>

Our comms provider is giving us two ethernet (RJ45) connections for each device. Most of our Sun systems are running Solaris 8 and have at least two ethernet interfaces. I would like to provide Active/Passive redundancy. My problem is that I don't have large enough IP address spaces to ...

Some web sites say to disable multicasting with IPv4 as a security measure.In looking over the RFC's for IPv6, IPv6 seems torely on multicasting to get quite a few things done.Does this rule still apply to IPv6 or doesturning off multicasting with IPv6 cause a fewthings to actually stop ...

Hi All, I found a error message in the /var/admin/messages file " Apr 22 20:05:04 ISOS1 unix: WARNING: [AFT1] WP event on CPU2, errID 0x00156807.014a8af8 " can anyone let us know what this error ...

Hello,Situation: An already installed server (solaris 8) has a wrong hostnamefrom the beginning. I change the hostname in these files andreboot: /etc/hosts /etc/hostname.hme0 /etc/net/ticots/hosts /etc/net/ticlts/hosts /etc/net/ticotsord/hostsProblem: When it starts coming up it fails ...

Hello Guru We have a Sportster voice 28.8 faxmodem with personal voice mail external modem connected to E420 R sun sever which is running solaris 6 and having 4GB memory. the modem is not working i want to replace the failed modem . do i need to shutdown the sever to dissconnect the modem ...

Hi, we have a pair of (Solaris-9) Oracle-servers connected via FCAL to EMCstorage, with RAID-5 LUNs from that storage array managed by Veritas VolumeManager on the hosts. On these LUNs, we have create filesystems to hold the Oracle files. One ofthem, that contains the actual data-files, is ...

Dear All,I am using a Netra 1120 host running Solaris 7. I seethe below message often. Can you please let me knowwhat is the error and will it affect the system in thefuture.Apr 22 20:05:04 ISOS1 unix: WARNING: [AFT1] WP eventon CPU2, errID 0x00156807.014a8af8Apr 22 20:05:04 ISOS1 AFSR ...

Dear admins,We set up a Sol9 NIS server which works fine and we're looking for a way torestrict users to some NIS client machines.For example:There are 3 unix servers: server1, server2, server3User users1 can connect to NIS client machine server1 but not to the 2other onesUser users1 can ...

Hello!<p>We have lost the admin password of the Sunscreen , Is possible recover? <br> or restart?<p>Thanks in advanced!<br>-- <br>-- <br>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br>Antonia Gomez Gonzalez<br>FIB (Laboratori de Calcul) UPC<br>Barcelona<br>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br>

Hi All,We have two name servers and having huge mx entries on that and updated onename server for some reason. Now the problem is some records are missing inone name server. so i need to check the difference in both servers and want torectify it. Can anybody help to write the script to check on ...

Hello folks,I have just created a bootable DVD using the Instructionsin the Sun blueprint article: http://www.sun.com/solutions/blueprints/0404/817-6991.htmlI followed the procedure exactly as it says in the documentuntil the part where you burn the image onto a DVD.In the document John Howard ...

Thanks!<p>The solution is:<br>ssadm with command authuser<br>-- <br>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br>Antonia Gomez Gonzalez<br>FIB (Laboratori de Calcul) UPC<br>Barcelona<br>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br>

Hi,We have a Sun Fire V880 running BMC PEM. It's just gone into productionafter significant successful testing but the PEM aotd process diesfrequently, effectively rendering our integrated systems useless. I amwondering whether there is a memory leakage issue related to the aotdprocess, but ...

First, many thanks for the info received. Mostly caveats :-) However, there used to be a shareware program called "Java StarfirePlanner". I'm trying to locate copies for Win2K and Solaris. Doesanybody know where this might still be around? The original website isnow an ISP. Thanks ...

I have gotten no responses on this issue. Seems to be a real mystery. May just have to use an older version. We still can't get it working. Thanks.> Nobody has ever run into this? Seems like what ever I set the upload> masking to in the upload clause it always uses 755 after the user ...

Is there gotchas with making a client/slave the master? If so how is itdone. I have a very simple NIS env but I am getting rid of the server actingas the master and replacing it with the server acting as a client. Jeremy S. Loukinas Unix Systems AdministratorEvenflo Company, ...

Hello Everyone, I have been receiving a very strange error message the last fewweeks, I believe after I installed the latest patch cluster. Thestrange part is I think my PAM config is fine. In my /var/adm/messages,I see:Apr 22 14:25:51 hostname sshd[19874]: [ID 800047 auth.error] error: ...

Hi Gurus,Sorry for troubling once again but we had one more E 4500 Hardwarefailure.Would appreciate it if some can guide me what exactly is failed as thisServer is located at remote location.1) Board 0 and 22) Memory on Board 0 and 2 - Bank J3201 and J3101 or all memorieson board 0 ...

Hi Guru,<br> <br>Any of guru out there know the script/utility that can display the date-time<br>with precise in mili-second, and/or the date-time of process in<br>mili-second? Thanks in advance.<br> <br>The' V. Tran<br>

Hi all,I have a Netra 240 and am trying to set up a modem connection to it.In the documentation it says to login to the ALOM and set the if_modem to true.Then it say to connect the modem to the port.I had an RJ-45 to DB-25 special connector made as per the documentation to do this.A have ...

Thanks to Mike for pointing out that I should list the modem.I am using a Microcom DeskPorte 28.8P V.34 modemRichHi all,I have a Netra 240 and am trying to set up a modem connection to it.In the documentation it says to login to the ALOM and set the if_modem to true.Then it say to connect the ...

I need to set the strong password policy at our site.This is what our audit company quoted as strong password:(A password policy is developed and delivered to all users requiring strongpasswords. A strong password should require a combination of numbers andletters, not be equal to the user ...

Well got one reply besides out of office mails.Grateful to Anjan Dave for his quick and accurate analysis.Its Memory in 4 Banks that went bad at the same time - StrangeWill replace the Memory and see how it goes.Thanks AnjanMy Original Question Was:Hi Gurus,Sorry for troubling once again but we ...

I have sent an earlier question on strong passwords. Later I realized that myquestion was kind of vague.I am re-wording my question:What should I set on my Solaris 7 and Solaris 8 servers so that when peopletry to change their passwords, the system does not accept a weaker password.It asks the ...

i have install iplanet messaging system 5.2 and mailman ; i create a mail list on mailman but do not send mail maillist owner; i have a error that is connection refuse.How could i solve this problem?How could i configure mailman on iplanet?I solve this problem until monday...Please help ...

Dear Managers,I will try to explain the situation experienced the best as my shortenglish will allow me.This is a Volume Manager 3.1.1 under Solaris 2.6 configuration. If this isout of scope please excuse me.During the creation of a new volume under group disk "arraybds" one of ...

I have a daily backup job which the tar process will never ends.... In the early morning when another backup job want to start, it failed with device busy. I have run a truss on the process and have the following : -getdents64(5, 0x00058770, 1048) (sleeping...)Any idea why the backup job won't ...

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Hi I am getting following message, when ever i am tryingto "su" as superuser or "su" to any other user -through my normal userid.------------------------------------------------------yp_bind: clnt_tli_create: RPC: Miscellaneous tli error- System error (Permission ...

Hello,I'm having issues installing Mandrake 7.x on Sparc 5 platform. I havetried customized/expert/auto type of installation but not having any luck. Theinstallation goes well except when system is starting instead of loadingOS stuck at Ok prompt. I haven't encounter any error messages during ...

I obtained a StorEdge L8 Autoloader with LT0 2 tapes to enable a faster backup and increased capacity per tape. Loaded Sun Packages SUNWqus & SUNWqusu both 32 and 64 bit versions. I installed a dual channel SCSI host adapter X6758A. Added PatchId 113277-19 112706-03. I did not make any ...

Hello, I am trying to jumpstart a Netra X1 with an older Solaris 8image. The system already has an installation loaded on it that runs,but I want to reinstall to change the disk partitioning - the systemdoes work. I have updated the OBP, added the SUNWdmfe package andapplied about 25 patches ...

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Hi all,I lost the OS disk on my OLD Sun Enterprise, which was running Solaris 6....I've replaced the disk and have been able to installa new OS (Solaris 8), in process now... However, I have an external SparcStorage Array that housed some fairly important dataand was managed by Disk Suite... ...

Hi managers!I've run in to a problem with the Creator 3d in my Ultra 10.I'm using a non-sun 13w3 to VGA adapter and a old MAG DJ920 monitor.I'm runnig Solaris 10, also tried with Solaris 9.If I try to change resolution (even to a lower) to any other then1152x900x66 to screen gets black. ...

Hi,Thanks for fast reply, esp. to Alan Pae and Hutin Bertrand (sorry guysfor not replying directly).Alan, as for my understanding, problem lies not in the script itself. When the script is invoked, event is outstanding for the whole time ofscirpt execution (I found no way to clear it earlier) ...

I use ufsdump to backup solaria 8 file systems on one tape. Of late I wantedto go the restore procedure preparedness using ufsrestore. When I do "ufsstoreitf /dev/rmt/0" I get root (/) file system listing only. If I run "ufsrestorevt /dev/rmt/0", I get "Level 0 dump of ...