Hi I am getting this error when take backup manually/cronjob .DUMP: NEEDS ATTENTION: Cannot open `alpha:/dev/rmt/0n'. Do you want to retry the open?: ("yes" or "no")ThanksRajIndiatimes Email now powered by APIC Advantage. Help! HelpClick on the image to chat with ...

Hi,I am working on adding the bge (I have a couple of V210) interface toSEToolKit 3.3.1 to collect the system stats. I have looked at the FAQ,setup all as explained, still no luck. If you have done it and isworking, It would be great to get the pointer on how to?Regards, ...

I wrote:>Anyone have this CD-ROM available for loan or download? I need to transfer my>license to a new system, and cannot find mine.Thanks to Gerard Henry <ghenry at cmi.univ-mrs.fr> for making a copy of the CDcontents available for downloading. Sun wanted a blood-signed affadavit ...

Client and server are running generic Solaris 9 patched to a recent9_Recommended.Both have OpenSSH 3.8p1. Sun's version of ssh has been completely removed(including /etc/ssh). I've also explicitly disabled OpenSSH protocol 1.Config files and keys are set properly to allow for hostbased ...

I have picked up a SunRay 1 to play with in my at home lab. I feel that I am very close to getting it up and going, but I am stuck with an OSD 26D error from the SunRay. The full OSD square gives me the MAC address, the DCHP IP address as assigned by the SunRay server, 100F for a 100 Mb full ...

Hi all,I have a strange one, my /var file system is showing 100% full butwhen I look at the output of du -k, there are no directorys taking upall that space. Any ideas?hostname(/)# df -k /varFilesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on/dev/vx/dsk/var 4131866 4056268 ...

HelloI have an /etc/power.conf set as follows>statefile //.CPR>autoshutdown 30 18:00 09:00 shutdown>device-depenency-property removable-media /dev/fb>autopm disableHowever my sun ultra 1 running SunOS 5.8 continually shuts down during theday if left unattended for 30min. For my ...

Hi all,The general consensus was that the quickest way to resolve this willbe to reboot the server, as I do have this option I think that areboot will be the next step. Thanks to all that replied with theircomments.ThanksAdrian Phipps90 Durban RoadIT BuildingBellvilleWork 021-949 4642Cell 082 ...

About installation [GENEREX UPS Software UPSMAN V4 / RCCMD CD-ROM Release 4.17] on Solaris 2.6Documents printed in Unix.Solution software that it can support SUN SOLARIS 2 SPARC CPU, SunOS 5.1, 5.6, 5.7 and 5.8 also,but I can't see any option for SunOS 5.6 in installation states.I tried ...

All,Thanks again to all of you who responded.The solution is the netgroup.For those interested, you will find below John Timon's explanation whichwas very useful (the man page for this didn't help me ...

Hello all,I've been looking at this for a while, but I can't figure out what's wrong: I get no messages whatsoever in /var/adm/messages, even though there are plenty of things pointing to that file in /etc/syslog.conf. Syslog is running, the files exist, but aren't filled.Any ...

I would like to extend my thanks to Chris Pinnock who helped with thisissue. Thanks,JamieDo a "make distclean" to remove any cruft or untar the sources again../configure --with-berkeley-db=/usr/localor./configure --with-berkeley-db=/usr/local/include:/usr/local/lib./configure ...

I am running solaris 8 latest release with Oracle 9i (32bit) and Veritasvolume manager running on a 6800. The 6800 has 24g mem. I want to improve IOperformance without using raw file IO. We are trying to test direct io andcompare performance with and without direct io. My questions are:1. ...

I just noticed on one of my serversthat / had just filled up to 100% ...With further investigation, /proc is taking up a lot of space ..... Cananyone tell me what /proc does, and why I might be getting lots of dumps tothere today ?This is the listing in /proc - (notice towards the end lots of ...

Im running qlogic QLA2340 hbas to connect to SAN disks (a sun 6320) onsolaris 8 02/2004 on a V480.Do I also need SUN SAN 4.4?What exactly does SUN SAN do for me?should i also use sun mpxio in /kernel/drv/scsi_vhci.conf?any other hba config info would be appreciated.thanx alot in ...

Hello codeprof,A big Thank You to all that answered to the question about the tapelibraries evaluation:Matt ClausenSimon PhillipsEd AlexanderRichard BondDavid FosterKaryn Wiliams.#######################################################The original ...

Hi folks,I have just removed a working Multitech MultiModem ZDXfrom an E3000 running Solaris 6and plugged it into the 9 pin serial port on a new V440running Solaris 8I used admintool to configure the Modem on /dev/ttya asfor dial out only.i.e.# pmadm -lPMTAG PMTYPE SVCTAG ...

I pulled a bonehead move - I found an indication that ld.so.1 might have beenhaving problems, and I was in the midst of replacing it with a good copy. Imv'd it to ld.so.1.keep rather then copying it...and of course now I can't doa thing.I have the solaris 8 installation cd's and I can boot ...

Attachment did not go through last time here it is in the email.Sun Microsystems Inc. SunOS 5.8 Generic February 2000You have mail.# May 3 11:59:06 bohr scsi: WARNING: /pci at 1f,4000/scsi at 3/sd at 2,0 (sd2):May 3 11:59:06 bohr Error for Command: load/start/stop ...

According to the OpenSSH documentation, the ssh client program does notneed to be suid root to use hostbased auth. There is another programcalled ssh-keysign which *is* suid root and is used by the ssh client toread the private keys.Henceforth, that is why I classify hostbased auth only ...

I can't get this to work: zone "52.168.192.in-addr.arpa" { type forward; forward only; forwarders { 192.168.52.124; };}; I want my Bind server to resolve all PTR for 168.192.in-addr.arpa exceptthis one zone which I want to forward to another BIND server ...

Group, Recently we've began implementing a gigabyte network for ourClearCase environment. We are seeing something very odd and I'm wonderingif anyone out there has experienced this or at least has worked with Gig-Eon E4500's and E6500's. We also have 280's connected to this ...

Hi all,I posted this last week, but I think it got lost in the other questions so I will try again since I am still having problems connecting a modem to the console port.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 ...

Good Day.I'm trynig to gain information on how folks control resources on oracledatabase servers. Basically, can I control how much resources a particulardatabase instance can consume? Can I guarantee that DATABASE1 will alwayhave a minimum of 75% of the CPU and memory resources over the other ...

Hi all,Just updated to patch 117000-03 from 108528-18 and someone pointed outthat a simple ls was sorting differently now, upper case letters are nowbeing displayed first. However when I look at the binary the /bin/lsfile hasn't changed. This is consistent though with servers that wereupgraded ...

Well, I ended up solving this one myself. I was able to remove the softpartitions by bringing the SDS patch level up to 108693-24.-jeff--- Jeff Horwitz <jhorwitz75 at yahoo.com> wrote:> Hello managers,> > This one's been bugging me for a while. I have a V480 running Solaris 8 ...

Thanks for the quick response to:Rainer HeilkeEugene SchmidtKris BriscoeRainer and Eugene were right on the money.This had nothing to do with the patch upgrade, just coincidence and probablyhas been this way except no one paid attention until after the upgrade.Problem was my locale settings are ...

Hey,Would anyone happen to know how to limit the number of concurrent logins under Solaris 9? I know with 8 or less you could get the Resource manager and run limadm. However, according to Sun's website the RM has been bundled into 9. I can't find what to edit or run to set the concurrent ...

I have a stable of Netra T1/105's that, when I've needed to provision, I've configured a pair of disks (using Solaris Disksuite, too) on a separate T1/105 sandbox and then moved the disks to the target chassis.I've also used this approach to pre-configure spare boot/system drives such that ...

anyone know if you can get a demo of theSun Java DesktopI had a look around the sun site and it seems you have to payfor it. I want to try out some performace tests etc -- Greg Wilson Senior System Administrator gwilson at ...

Solaris 8RICHPseTCP Stack Retrans errors.The system is a back-end for an Internet Application/Portal:Weblogic (15 intances/apps)Java JDKWebservers (with hooks to DMZ and external Internet clients)Communication to Internal Network Oracke and MQ systems.One NIC card (100/Full-Duplex no packet ...

Solaris 8E4500hme0, hme1, qfe0/1/2/3I want to configure the machine so that all traffic on hme0 comes in and goes out of hme0. Also, all traffic for the othercards comes in and goes-out the same card only. I want tocompletely bind application traffic to a dedicated NIC. Mostthings to hme0, ...

Hello gurus,I have a problem.I have a normal userid and i have created a directory inthe /home/xyz/x111 file system where i have kept some files which i needothers also to access as normal users.I need a virtual link to thatparticular directory.I need to ftp files from the above mentioned ...

I'm having a prob with scripting over ssh.If I try to start a script over ssh on another machine, it hangs after finishing the script, and without a ctrl+c it doesn'treturn:oracle:tisdwh04.utalan.at $ ssh tisdwh03 ' echo " ###### Trying to start DB on tisdwh03"> ...

Hi gurus,I have a SunBlade 150 with only 1 harddisk and applications running. I amthinking of adding 1 more harddisk andmirror to the Primary Harddisk.How can i Mirror both disk without distroying the current harddisk data?Can the State Replica be stored in existing slice, e.g. /opt or ...

Hello Managers: SunBlade 1000 with SCSI attached disk enclosure, each drivebeing a separate UFS filesystem that is shared out (NFS). One of thedevices has failed. I have been able to unmount the filesystem fromeach host that mounts it over NFS, however, on the host where ...

Hi , In the last few weeks I have a serious problem with my emails . I seem to be losing part of my emails that stored in /var/mail/username file . my mail tool is netscape 7.0 and this configured as POP face to our unix mail server . I noticed that there is another process in ...

hello all,I've downloaded rdist 6.1.5 to distribute files using ssh (this rdist has -Pswitch to choose trasport medium);when I've tested using localhost everything is OK,when I've tried to use server-name (for local server) or another server I gotthe following message:<server-name>: ...

As suggested, I've unshared it and still cannot umount it (with orwithout -f option), I keep getting messages in /var/adm/messages aboutthe disk being offline/invalid geometry/not responding to selection.Hello Managers: SunBlade 1000 with SCSI attached disk enclosure, each drivebeing a ...

Hi all,I have a Netra T1 that which will not boot to the OK prompt. When it ispowered on, it immediately displays the following message:**********************************************MEM_malloc: No memory big enough avaliable ...

We patched to the latest April Sun Cluster Patch on 2 Solaris 8 servers thathave not been patched for 3 years.One box is operating without issue, the other is throwing SNMP errorsconstantly to /var/adm/messages.May 5 06:47:58 penskec1 /usr/lib/snmp/snmpdx: [ID 702911 ...

Thanks to Terry Moore, Galen Johnson and Mr. Rene Occelli:First as folks pointed out, it is "umount", not "unmount" (it wasearly).- unshare the filesystem- remove the entry from /etc/vfstab- manually unmount as much as possible, and,- rebootThanksDave ====Original ...

Hey,Figured it might be good to repost this when everyone is actually wake...Would anyone happen to know how to limit the number of concurrent loginsunder Solaris 9? I know with 8 or less you could get the ResourceManager and run limadm. However, according to Sun's website the RM hasbeen ...

After some investigation and swapping of components, Sun have decided thatthere may be a problem with the controller hardware and are sending anengineer to conduct some tests.Thanks, On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 11:56:13AM +0100, Geoff Lane wrote:> I'm having problems with a 3510 RAID box ...

We have 3 Sun V480R systems each with 2 single channel JNI FCX-6562 (notthe -L version) fibre channel cards.They are connected to 4 brocade 3800 switches through to two XP1024.When test-all is run from the OpenBoot, the cards appear to fail selftest and stay marked afterwards.How do I ...

Okay - just to reply to myself:Thanks to all that replied, I'm back up and running.I didn't know about /usr/sbin/static/mv - so those that pointed me at it,thanks! I did have one problem, there, though - for some reason the filesystem came up unwritable. But, boot cdrom -s (thanks to those ...

Group, I've researched this one with no success. I want to invoke cshell and force it to look at a particular .cshrc file. For ksh this iseasy, I simply set a variable called $ENV and the ksh picks up on that. ForC shell I've not been able to find the equivalent. Any ideas? ...

Thanks to Terry Moore, Galen Johnson and Mr. Rene Occelli:First as folks pointed out, it is "umount", not "unmount" (it wasearly).- unshare the filesystem- try using fuser or lsof to see if a local process is using thatdevice?- remove the entry from /etc/vfstab- manually ...

Just to clarify....what I am needing to do is invoke a c-shell from within aprogram and have that shell source a particular cshrc file. This needs tobe automated.... My program kicks off a csh session for a user, but I don'twant the user to have to source this file. It's needs to be ...

Hi all,I created a resticted user using /usr/bin/rksh. He can do everything hewants just in his home directory.However, he is unable to open an ftp session to the server. what could bethe problem? He can login and goes straight to his home directory and alsoother users are still able to ftp to ...