SUMMARY: What's the point of switches in Arbitrated Loop?

5492 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:15:00
Thanks to all who replied.. Based on the following, perhaps will researchBrocades, althought I thought the Qlogic switches had better support forSun hardware, given that they make fibre cards for Sun.Here are the replies I got, original email below:"Buy the Quickloop license from Brocade ...

SUMMARY: What is __sincos ?

1173 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:15:00
HelloFast and right answer to my question. Thanks !With best regardsMartynas -----Original Message-----From: Ole-Morten Duesund [mailto:olemorten.duesund at gmail.com] Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 8:42 PMTo: martynas at ti.comSubject: Re: What is __sincos ?On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 20:28:51 +0100, ...

Ultra 10 will not recognize new NIC

1633 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:15:00
Greetings, all,I am working with a group that has an Ultra 10, running Solaris 8, on which the onboard Ethernet has died. Unfortunately, they let the hardware maintenance lapse, so we are trying to fix it ourselves. We grabbed a 3Com 3C905 card from a stash of parts and plugged that into one ...

FTP Proxy server

290 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:15:00
Hello Managers,<p>I'm looking for a good Solaris FTP proxy server that is ether open<br>source or commercially available. The purpose is to log all<br>transactions and limited access to the box. Any suggestions or comments<br>would be appreciated.<p>Thanks in advance,<p>Cedo Vicente<br>

[OFF TOPIC] SSH: cannot log in anywhere, even to localhost

11818 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:15:00
Greetings forumers,Sorry about the off topic issue (although it involves a Solaris box),but I am stuck with this and this is a really great forum.I will summarize.- Secure Shell A.03.81.002 ;- Can login by ssh from any hosts, no problem here;- Cannot login to anyhost, even to localhost;- ...

Status: Disaster Recovery: metadevices & bare-metal

3680 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:15:00
This is just a status report on my original post:* I had a couple of suggestions for commercial products. (I'm just not really sold on either of the suggested offerings to give me what I need.)* I had several requests for information on any solutions I might find. (I'm not the only one ...

SUMMARY: Ultra 10 will not recognize new NIC

3331 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:15:00
Greetings, all,This is a summary of the responses I received to my posting about using a 3Com 3C905 PCI Ethernet card in an Ultra 10 (original message below).Apparently, the 3C905 is meant only for Intel-based systems and not for SPARC systems. It was worth a try since it was lying around, but ...

RSH authentication

556 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:15:00
Greetings, all,I am trying to setup authentication using rsh between two servers running Solaris 9. On host A I have entries for rsh in /etc/inetd.conf as follows:shell stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/in.rshd in.rshdshell stream tcp6 nowait root /usr/sbin/in.rshd ...

Corrupted kernel - Sun-Fire-280R

2637 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:15:00
Hello Sun Gurus, We have SUNW,Sun-Fire-280R and /kernel was corrupted during therestore it overwrite the / partition. We tried to boot it from CDrominorder to recover but it gave us the output below. The system couldnot even recognize any commands. How could we boot the system torecognize the ...

how to fix DiskSuite when both submirrir "Need maintenance"

2174 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:15:00
I am having a really big and urgent problem with disksuite on a Solaris 8 machine (U60). I deadly wish someone can kindly give me help.I have my /home FS on a mirror d60, with each submirror having 2 disks as a stipe.d60 = Need Maintenance d61 + d62 d61= Need Maintenance ...

BAD TRAP; type=34 error

435 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:15:00
Hi,I have a problem with my Ultra 5 machine with Solaris 9. I was getting BAD TRAP; type=34 error messages and system is hanging.I updated the Flash PROM with latest patch 106121-18After updating the now the system is crashing continuously...This is problem with Hardware or any thing ...

BAD TRAP message and System rebooting frequently

367 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:15:00
Hi,I have a problem with my Ultra 5 machine with Solaris 9. I was getting BAD TRAP; type=34 error messages and system is hanging.I updated the Flash PROM with latest patch 106121-18After updating the now the system is crashing continuously...This is problem with Hardware or any thing ...

Netscape 7 binary for solaris 8

1074 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:16:00
Hi All, Please advice from where we can find netscape7 binary for solaris8.Thanks and Regards,Venkatakrishna. http://www.patni.comWorld-Wide Partnerships. World-Class Solutions._____________________________________________________________________This e-mail message may contain proprietary, ...

E3500 board 5 off lined

1277 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:16:00
Hi SunManagers,One of my E3500 systems re-booted its self this morning and off lined board 5There are no errors in /var/adm/messages and no core was dropped.Does this console log give any clues to what the problem is (CPU memory ?)3,0>FATAL ERROR 3,0> At time of error: System software ...

SUMMARY: How long does a failed nfs mount hang at boot?

2175 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:16:00
Hello, and thanks for the many responses I received.Rick Niziak,Alan Pae,Michael Horton,Neil Dombrowski,Tim Chipman,David harrington,Frank Smith,Michael Connolly,Matthew Stier,and othersThe most common answer was: it will wait almost forever if you use the default values, which is hard mount ...

unable to read a tape

1427 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:16:00
hello all,last week, i have a question concerning backup and receive many responses, but didn't do a summary yet, because i can't work with tape.To backup filesystem, i try:client-henry% tar cvpf - grand-1999.jpg | ssh server /bin/dd of=/dev/rmt/6ungrand-1999.jpg1040+0 records in1040+0 ...

help regarding CDE autologout

823 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:16:00
Respected sir,I am Pramod from INDIA, a UNIX sys admin wants to knowabout CDEreconfiguration regarding Dtsession locking and autologout.I amtrying to find a way to automatically logout a user from a CDE session aftera certain amount of inactivity time.I have read about the ...

patches

255 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:16:00
hi,<br>i want install oracle 9i on Solaris 9 12/03 but can't find installation document .<br>(for solaris 9 patches list).<br> <br>Now, i need solaris 9 patch number for oracle 9 installation.<br>thanks<br> The all-new My Yahoo!  What will yours do?<br>

ce0 interface on V480

942 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:16:00
Hello experts,We have 2 identical V480 (nodes of a cluster). Both have one scsi card withtwo ethernet ports in it. There are two builtin ethernet ports on V480. On one box the built in ethernet ports come as ce0 ce1 and the ethernet portson the scsi card come as ce2 ce3 (which is the way I ...

Summary: Re: # of cpus

1594 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:16:00
All said that this was because of hyperthreading. The below link has goodinformation. http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-9-75457-1.Thanks to the foll people who replied.John Douglas, Ray Pengelly, AlexMadden, Fishwick Chris, Swamy Kanathur, 'no spam', Rob Windsor, Alan Pae, ...

[Summary] [OFF TOPIC] SSH: cannot log in anywhere, even to localhost

19405 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:16:00
Weird problem, weird solution.Set "BatchMode no" on ssh_config and tnings worked.The strange thing is that none level of verbosity gave a clue..... Hadto compare with other functioning box.Thanks Jason Marshall, Andrew Hall and J. Oquendo. This is a greatforum, indeed.Filipe.Original ...

SUMMARY: PCI SCSI Adapter for Sun E-45

1213 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:16:00
Thanks go to the following, among others: Michael Lehman, Michael Horton,Matt Ungaro, and Alan Pae.Adaptec SCSI cards are not supported on Sun/Solaris. We have decidedto get an LSI 20160 adapter instead.-Mike Fletcher----- Original Message -----From: "Mike Fletcher" <mlf at ...

Disksuite like software on Linux

277 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:16:00
Hi Guys:<br>Sorry for the offtopic post. I wasn't able to find information anywhere.<br>Is there a RAID software out there for the Linux OS something like<br>Solaris disksuite? I was more interested in freeware rather than<br>commercial software.<br>Thanks much.<p>-George<br>

Changing NIS server domain name

149 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:16:00
What's the easiest way to change the domain name of an NIS server<br>without destroying the existing NIS maps?<p>Thanks.<br>Dave Martini<br>LLNL<br>

Changing NIS domain name more info

790 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:16:00
I'm wondering how the NIS domain name actually gets set.I don't see a reference to domain name when running the script.hostnameofmachine# ypinit -m In order for NIS to operate sucessfully, we have to construct a list of the NIS servers. Please continue to add the names for YP servers in ...

mysterious reboot

1640 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:16:00
Greetings,We had a mysterious reboot last night.This morning, I found that my develpment box (E4500) was notresponding.Logged in to prod and went throught the terminal server to theconsole,after a few minutes, it reported "the system is coming up"System is Solaris 2.6The system came ...

cant mount cdrom

437 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:16:00
Hello ...im using a ultra 10 w/ solaris 9 iv been trying to mount a cdromdisk from what i understand automountd should automatically mount the cdromdrive when you put a cd in it...this isnt happeningis there a manual way to mount a cdrom ?mount -f udfs raw "raw_device_name" mount ...

help mounting cdrom

433 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:16:00
Hello ...im using a ultra 10 w/ solaris 9 iv been trying to mount a cdromdisk from what i understand automountd should automatically mount the cdromdrive when you put a cd in it...this isnt happeningis there a manual way to mount a cdrom ?mount -f udfs "raw_device_name" mount point ...

Continuous INCORRECT BLOCK COUNT only during INIT level 3

110967 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:16:00
Recently, starting 2 days ago, my beloved Ultra10 has encounted a handfulof kernel.warning errors (see attached var_adm_messages)The kicker: This only happens during run level 3.When I first boot up into run level 3 the rc2.d scripts beginning running.At S49apache, I begin seeing about 5 ...

Terminal Windows

596 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:16:00
Good Afternoon, I have done some searches and not found anything useful. I tried to search sun managers but I keep getting "page not found". I only need to know a couple of things or where to go to find the answer. 1. How many terminal windows can we open on Solaris 8 ? 2. Is this ...

/etc/mail/access file question

1064 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:16:00
>Hello,>>In my Sisyphean task to fight spam I have initiated an >Feature(mail_access) directive for sendmail. I have one pernicious spammer >that uses different urls (big surprise) but always uses the same box - for >example in the access document one can place: spammer at ...

SUMMARY: Changing NIS domain name

1458 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:16:00
Thanks to everyone who replied!!!The easiest things are the ones that cause the most frustration sometimes.The /etc/defaultdomain file has to be set prior to running ypinit -mwhich I did not do. I re-ran ypinit -m after this and ran into a problem where by the machinewould hang with the ...

Overcome the limitation of /etc/group in NIS

600 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:16:00
Dear Admins I have NIS running on Solaris 8 and we hv got 700 users whom we need to put in single group in /etc/group but when we run make, it comes out with error :--.** Error code 1*** Error code 139make: Warning: Target `all' not remade because of errorsCurrent working directory /var/yp*** ...

Display Proble

280 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:16:00
Hi All,<br> <br>I have replaced my 15 inch monitor to 19 inch monitor to my blade 100. with Solaris 8.<br>But now it's showing "Sync Out of range.."<br>can any one tell me how to solve this problem?<br> <br>Kondaveeti<br> The all-new My Yahoo!  Get yours free! <br>

Waiting for NIS to Come up

256 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:16:00
Hi,<br>I have a problem here on my Ultra 5 machine with Solaris 9.<br>The system is binding to nis server and waits for the NIS to come up<br>message.<p>System is also not pinging to other machines.<p>Any solution pls let me know...<p>Thanks,<br>Pani.G<br>

Installing Solaris without CDROM/Floppy

437 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:16:00
Hi All, I have a netra t1, 105 without CDROM or floppy drive.I want to install solaris 9.0.But how? I have another solaris boxrunning with CDROM, can i mount that... I only have a com ports( nomonitor). Any urls etc would be of great help!I have no past experience with solaris, but ...

Enterprise System Management Freeware software

1363 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:16:00
Hi, Firstly I am Sorry for being offtopic. I am looking for a freeware solution for Enterprise System Management so as to monitor the systems at our premises running various flavous of Unix like Linux, Solaris, HP-UX and Microsoft Windows Operating system. Any pointers for a freeware software ...

SUMMARY: NFS automount on Aix 4.3.3

2200 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:16:00
Hi Gurus, Very few answer to this ! The original subject was :> I have some difficulties to find the best way to configure an AIX box> to automount Solaris NFS filesystems.> Does anyone know some URL (or any other list) which may summarises> all things to do and check ?> Only ...

UNIX User Administration references

681 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:16:00
cross-posted to SAGE and codeprofI'll summarize. Hi All, I'm going to write a doc for my customer concerning UNIX User admin. Concerns are about : - should they have one UNIX user per human user - how to deal with "generic/application centric" users - root password and connection ...

ipcrm msqid Error

1058 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:16:00
I am running a script via cron on a Solaris 9 box, and I am getting the following error mailed to root after it has run:Your "cron" job on servername/path/to/scriptipcrm: msqid(0): not foundusage: ipcrm [ [-q msqid] [-m shmid] [-s semid] [-Q msgkey] [-M shmkey] [-S semkey] ... ]The ...

ldapmodify not working with Sun Directory Server 5.2

1467 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:16:00
Hi there,I do have a problem in a educational environment.Teachers need to change the pupils passwords without knowing it.The authenticaton works agaainst the Sun Directory Server 5.2.I thought about a script which uses the command /var/Sun/mps/share/bin/ldapmodify but have no success.I alway ...

File size limit solaris 7 with veritas

1361 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:16:00
Hi,Does anyone know how to remove the 2Gb file size limit on Solaris 7 withVeritas File System?ThanksOsvaldoHYPERLINK " http://www.gmc.net/" \nOsvaldo Carvalho de Santana Dagda Ltda.Rua Augusta, 141501305-100 Sco Paulo SPHYPERLINK "mailto:ocs42 at uol.com.br" \nocs42 at ...

RES: File size limit solaris 7 with veritas

3552 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:16:00
Thanks all for the quick answers.BestOsvaldo -----Mensagem original-----De: Frank Smith [mailto:fsmith at hoovers.com] Enviada em: quarta-feira, 1 de dezembro de 2004 14:20Para: Osvaldo Carvalho de SantanaAssunto: Re: File size limit solaris 7 with veritasNot sure if it's the same on Solaris ...

SSH With Password Aging

407 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:16:00
Greetings forumers,We need to do perform some security configuration on our Solaris boxeslike passwortd aging and warning, expiration, etc.But... We access solaris through ssh, and the ssh framework itselfdoesn't seem to offer this kind of configuration. We probably shall usePAM, but we ...

Custom Jumpstart- Mirroring with SVM not working

315 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:16:00
Testing out the mirror feature of Jumpstart included in Solaris 9 4/04... Ihave tried adding the mirror keyword every way shape form and fashion and Iget the following.... ERROR: The boot disk (c0t0d0) is not selected Anyone see this before? Jeremy S. Loukinas ...

SCSI timeout errors when using external disk pack

2034 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:16:00
System setup is an E450 running Solaris 9 kernel patch 117171-07.The system has 4 internal 4.2GB disks (Model: DDRS-34560) and anexternal SPARCstorage MultiPack 2 with 4 of those same drives, used formirroring the internal drives.The problem seems to be with the external disk pack as the ...

clean shutdown upon powerbutton press ....

291 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:16:00
Hi all,<p>Can someone please tell me how I can confirm whether or not a Solaris 8/9<br>box will do a clean shutdown upon a power-button press ?<p>This is more than likely controlled by ACPI on i386, but I'm not sure<br>how the SPARC architecture implements this.<p>Ideas people ?<p> -aW<br>

Sun Managers Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

113970 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:16:00
Archive-name: codeprof-faqSun-Managers' Frequently Asked Questions$Id: faq,v 4.46 2004/11/18 15:24:41 jdd Exp $This is collection of common questions posted to the codeprof mailinglist twice a month. It is intended to benefit Sun System Managers andreduce traffic to the list by providing quick ...

file system full ad 85%

2775 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:16:00
Hi!We are providing an e-mail service for our customers on a sun-box.(SunOS tppopu01 5.8 Generic_117350-08 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-280R).The problem is, that its reporting "file system full" at only 85%. Theminfree variable is set to 1%, I have rebooted the system and made ...

SUMMARY: Problem with alerting from Raid Manager

1793 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:16:00
HiIt seems that not only has my question been asked, it has been answeredbefore:- http://www.codeprof.com/pipermail/codeprof/2002-March/011374.htmlAn alternative to the approach described above is to turn offauto-checking of parity altogether and run /etc/raid/bin/parityckmanually out of cron ...