unlock a user account

895 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:19:00
I mean that i can't use this user with ssh and ftp.I want to reset the attempt login for this user.Thanks,Josue IrizarryMPROC IT-----Original Message-----From: codeprof-bounces at codeprof.com[mailto:codeprof-bounces at codeprof.com]On Behalf Of IrizarryRodriguez, JosueSent: Thursday, December ...

unlock a user account

1418 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:19:00
/etc/shadow entryats_prod:adsdwSXXa.:12741::::::Dec 16 15:47:28 del sshd[12426]: [ID 800047 auth.error] error: PAM: Maximumnumber of attempts exceeded for ats_prod from localhost[root at del /etc] passwd ats_prodNew Password:Re-enter new Password:passwd: password successfully changed for ...

remote syslog and syslog.conf question

589 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:20:00
Hello All,I am trying to set up remote syslogging on a system.I have added the log server to the clients host file and added the following to the syslog.conf:auth.notice @syslogauth.notice /var/log/authlogI have HUP'ed the syslog services on both boxes and while things are being logged on the ...

StorEdge T3 and V20z

521 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:20:00
Hello Sun Managers, Whenever I connect the T3 to a SunFire v20z, I'm able to detect the T3. However, when I connect the T3 and the v20z to the FC Switch (an OEM'd QLogic SANbox-8), I cannot see the T3 from the v20z. There's nothing else connected to the FC Switch ...

Jet direct continous printing

629 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:20:00
Hi Guys,I have jetdirect 175x with hp laserject 1200 seriesprinter. It is/was working fine, but when some oneprinting on the web using netscape 7.0, it is printingcontinously (no problem with windows). I deletedprinter and added but no sucess. On the same serverother printers working fine with ...

Sun Managers Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

113970 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:20:00
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 ...

SUMMARY: StorEdge T3 and V20z

1091 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:20:00
Well eventually, it boiled down to patching up the T3. With109115-17, the V20z was able to detect the T3 through the FC Switch.Regards,Neil QuiogueFriday, December 17, 2004, 11:19:44 AM, you wrote:NQ> Hello Sun Managers,NQ> Whenever I connect the T3 to a SunFire v20z, I'm able to ...

ufsdump Warning Warning - block 1650744928 is beyond the end of...

6408 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:20:00
Hi Managers, while performing backup I get some strange ufsdump warnings.DUMP: Warning - block 1952998516 is beyond the end of `/dev/md/rdsk/d10'DUMP: Warning - block 1751840906 is beyond the end of `/dev/md/rdsk/d10'DUMP: More than 32 block read errors from dump device ...

Exceed remote login to Solaris doesn't return anything back

1203 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:20:00
Hi Managers,We use Exceed 8.0. to connect to servers with Solaris 2.8 on them.There are some other machines which we connect to remotely, and theyare mix of Solaris 8 and Solaris 9. Servers are E4500 and V880. When Iuse Exceed 8.0 XDMCP Broadcast I can see all the machines on which Iwant to ...

Building Apache 1.3.7 on Solaris 9

1135 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:20:00
Dear managers,I am trying to build apache on Solaris 9 followingthe instructions on www.sunfreeware.com. When I configure apache I get ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/apache --enable-module=all --enable-shared=max --enable-rule=EAPI --with-layout=ApacheConfiguring for Apache, Version 1.3.27 + ...

Summary: Sun-fire system controller password - revisited:

1123 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:20:00
Summary:Since I received only 1 response (who was asking me to pass on any informationon this), I believe that it is safe to assume that Sun did disable the processof clearing the system controller's password. I did have to back track throughmy vendor for the password.Thanks again and happy ...

Apache with mod_ssl on Solaris 9

3068 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:20:00
Dear manager,I am desparately trying to get Apache (https) working on a Soalris 9 machine. I did pkgadd -d openssl-0.9.6i-sol9-sparc-local pkgadd -d apache-1.3.27-sol9-sparc-localand then configured prngd as follows cd /var/adm cat messages > /usr/local/etc/prngd/prngd-seed mkdir ...

Summary: Building Apache 1.3.7 on Solaris 9

2116 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:20:00
Hello,thanks a lot to"Imrick, Michael (GE Consumer & Industrial)" <Michael.Imrick at ge.com>"Michael Schneider/calispera.com" <michael.schneider at calispera.com>The following did do the trick. cd apache_1.3.27 export CFLAGS="-I ...

[SUMMARY] Re: remote syslog and syslog.conf question

160 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:20:00
I want to thank Darren for his quick response.<p>The answer was starting syslogd with the -T flag.<p>Next time I will read the man page.<p>Thanks,<br>Rodney<br>

S8 creation of /dev/pts devices

623 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:20:00
One of my solaris 8 systems (Generic_117350-06) created additionalpts devices (65 thru 128) yesterday around 11:01 am for no reason Ican see. There was nothing in /var/adm/messages or /var/log/anythingnor was lastcomm or last particularly interesting. No software changeshave been made on this ...

Native LDAP secondary group problem

441 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:20:00
Sun Managers,Solaris 8 (recomended patches from September)DS 5.2Native LDAP configured with idsconfigUser and group accounts were imported from a DS4.12 server using an LDIF file.User accounts show only the primary group when the ID and no secondary groups. The groups command also doesn't show ...

Upgrade from SunFire V440 Options

1489 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:20:00
We are in the process of upgrading our hardware from Sunfire v440 's ( 2 x 1G cpu's , 8G RAM) to more powerful systems because they just cannot support the # of users we have to support. The current implementation can only support 50 users satisfactorily. During one of our load testing ...

sun identity server on sun webserver,

6673 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:20:00
hi all am not quite the most experienced at the sun one server, and am at a stumbling block right now,the websrv was running fine, i think installed identity server, and now when i went to restart the wbsrv i get the following error,i would appreciate any pointers will summarize as soon as i ...

Apache with mod_ssl on Solaris 9 (from source)

2528 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:20:00
Dear managers,I am still trying to get this working. Somebody mentioned that there was a problem with the openssl 0.9.6i package from sunfreeware.com. Therefore I decided to install from source. I did the following: gunzip apache-1.3.27.tar.gz tar xvf apache-1.3.27.tar gunzip ...

Summary: Apache with mod_ssl on Solaris 9 (from source)

8881 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:20:00
Dear managers,thanks toChristophe Dupre <duprec at scorec.rpi.edu>"Luc I. Suryo" <luc at suryo.com>and others. I was finally able to build Apache from source on Solaris 9and get ssl to work. I thought this would be less tricky. First toApache 2.x. These sources did not ...

SUMMARY: S8 creation of /dev/pts devices

1515 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:20:00
Based on the responses, Solaris 8 and above dynamicallygrow the number of pts devices without changing /etc/systemor rebooting. Exactly what criteria is used to "decide to grow"and "how much to grow by" still seems to be a mystery. In mycase, device /dev/pts/32 being used ...

Dump or restore dropping/missing files?

1103 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:20:00
Hi,Well, I've Google'd for this one and checked the FAQ, and come up bupkis.$ uname -aSunOS jimsun 5.7 Generic_106541-29 sun4u sparc SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIi-EngineTrying to upgrade the system from a Seagate ST39175LW (9GB) to anST318436LW (18GB). Created the slices on the new drive, then ran ...

Sun StorEDGE 3511

324 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:20:00
Hi Gurus, I am in a process of evaluating Sun Storedge arrays with Serial ATA Drives (SATA) - Sun StorEDGE 3511FC. Does any one has any information how much is the speed of these SATA drives in 3511FC? Sun site doesn't talk about this.Any help/pointer will be greatly appreciated.Will ...

[SUMMARY] Dump or restore dropping/missing files?

3465 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:20:00
The question:> > $ uname -a> SunOS jimsun 5.7 Generic_106541-29 sun4u sparc SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIi-Engine> > Trying to upgrade the system from a Seagate ST39175LW (9GB) to an> ST318436LW (18GB). Created the slices on the new drive, then ran a> script to, one-by-one:> > ...

Raid Manager 6 error messages

1996 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:20:00
Hi Guys,In the rmlog.log there are a lot of error(?) ...

V210 to V240 upgrade

520 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:20:00
HiI was wondering if anyone has upgraded from a V210 to a V240This is what i want to doremove HDD from v210 insert in V240remove smart card from v210 insert into V240boot up v240 and it should have the same hostid as the old V210also does anyone see a problem with swapping disks..from what i ...

DiskSuite / Mirror / Soft Partition problem

2331 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:20:00
On a Solaris 9 system I have a DiskSuite mirror which I cannot repairfollowing a failed disk replacement. I've tried working through the manualswithout success - probably because I'm unfamiliar with the use of softpartitions (the config was set up by someone else.) I'm reluctant ...

IPMP - Default router

907 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:20:00
Hello Sun Managers!,I have a question regarding IP Multipathing:I'm working on a Sun system that has at least 4 NICS. I want to setup 2Multipathing groups each with 1 VIP and two physical interfaces. In thiscase both primary IP addresses (for example a, b) have to be on differentsubnets. The ...

Routing after reconfiguration of interfaces

897 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:20:00
Dear managers,I have two machines with two interfaces each. Both machines were routing traffic from external interface to the internal one. I had to change the external ip-addresses of the machines. I did this like so.ifconfig dmfe1 downifconfig dmfe1 <new ip-address> broadcast ...

Ultra 2 hangs while booting

1269 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:20:00
Folks -I have an old Ultra 2 system that hangs while booting.We thought it might be a bad DIMM but POST passes justfine so I ran a 'boot -a' and it hangs (the spinningline stops and the system beeps once every minute orsomething) after responding to the prompt for Physical name of root ...

Enlarging disk slices after installation

847 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:20:00
Dear managers,I am setting up Solaris 9 on a SunFire 280 R. It seems I got the wrong installation method. Normally setup the slices as follows c1t0d0s0 / 23696 MByte c1t0d0s1 swap 7001 MByte c1t0d0s3 /var 3000 MByte c1t0d0s4 crash dumps 1000 MByte c1t0d0s7 state database 31 MBytebut ...

Install requirements SunScreen 3.2

264 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:20:00
I am missing two packages:<br>SUNWjvrt<br>SUNWcryr<p>I can't seem to find them anywhere! OS is Solaris 9 x86<p>According the the install guide for SunScreen they are a prerequisite. I<br>looked on both CDs without any luck.<p>Any thoughts?<p>Thanks<br>Marco<br>

Freeware VPN Options

309 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:20:00
Hi all,I was thinking of installing SunScreen 3.2 so I could setup site-to-sitevpn. However, I recently discovered that Sun has EOL'd SunScreen...so I amlooking back to IPFilter...however, I wanted to put in a site-to-site VPNsolution in place. Are there any ...

Offtopic: Storage System Comparison

1540 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:20:00
Hi,Firstly sorry for this offtopic question.I am in a process of evaluating different storage system for setting up our enterprise SAN and would like to have your feedback and would like you to share your experience on the same. The Storage systems we are looking in for are namely EMC's CX700 ...

Offtopic: Storage System Comparison - Updated

2112 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:20:00
Hi, Sorry missed out a couple of points as pointed out by one of the instant reply I got from Pablo Jejcic <pablo.jejcic at smartweb.rgu.ac.uk>. We would be plugging open systems including Sun Solaris hosts, IBM AIX, Windows, HP-UX to this Storage system in high availability mode. That ...

NIS+ Servers not responding

483 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:20:00
Hi all,Anyone know if you don't checkpoint NIS+ would it eventually end upreporting NIS+ Servers not responding?We have a system that has a lot of NIS+ updates going on regularly, in themessages file we had reports of checkpoint required. No checkpoint was runand later reports of NIS+ not ...

mozilla/firefox and Xprint bad prints

347 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:20:00
Hi all,on solaris, with GISWxprintglue to launch an Xprt server, results are badaccording Xprint FAQ, i have to install patch 112785-21, but i've newer version of this patch (-44)this glue uses Xprt binary from sun, FAQ says we can use another binary GISWxprint), anybody has experience with ...

Problem in SUN Netra 20 hardware

1676 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:20:00
Hi all,A new bie here...The two of my SUN Netra 20 machines showing all the system LED's on.While on other four SUN Netra 20 machines these LED's are off. It seemsthat there is some hardware problem in these two SUN Netra 20 machines.Can anyone please guide me how can I trace which factors ...

veritas volume manager upgrade

309 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:20:00
Hello,I have about 20 various Sun boxes running Veritas Volume Manager 3.0.2 &3.0.4 and I want to upgrade these to 4.0. How easy is this?I have read the documentation and it looks like all I need to do is torun the upgrade script, is this so?Any advice would be ...

Gotchas for Patch Cluster on Sun Cluster?

243 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:20:00
Seasonal Greetings SunManagers<p>Just a quick q. Am about to install Solaris 8<br>Recommended Patch Cluster on a Sun Cluster. Are there<br>any issues with installing the recommended set of<br>patches on a cluster of suns?<p>regards<p>Matt<br>

T3+ ping : sendto error 5033

996 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:20:00
Hi,I've just manually set ip address/mask/gateway (static, RARP disabled) of aT3+ (via console port), and connected it to the network.Whenever I try to ping any IP address from the T3+, even the T3+ own IP, Icatch a "sendto error 5033".Any idea ?sfret3p1:/:<34>setbootmode ...

A few PPPOE questions - Solaris 9 x86

904 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:20:00
Hi all - using Solaris' bundled ppp which includes pppoe support.I got pppoe working OK for the most part. However, I have a few issues:1) DNS - I get the DNS servers but it doesn't put it in the right spot.Now I know this part can be scripted with an ip-up script; however, when Ido a ...

SVM RAID 10 file system problems

6891 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:20:00
Hi,I have a system with multiple file system created under SVM. The serveris connected to D1000 disk array. I had a short power failure (over 20seconds). One power supply on D1000 is connected to clean power, secondpower supply to dirty power.D34 / D33 mirror is giving me Needs maintenance / ...

SUMMARY: Gotchas for Patch Cluster on Sun Cluster?

913 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:20:00
And the answers (apart from the dozen or so of ' I'm ooto') are:yes. should be ok. do it at init 1 or boot in single user non cluster mode: boot -sx the nodes one byone.take UFS dump backup of OS slices before starting, so you have "disaster recovery" fallbackAlso found this ...

hidden UDP timeout?

1583 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:20:00
Hello all, I'm running an SNMP polling application on Solaris 9. I'mfinding that despite an application setting of 30 seconds for a timeout,that if the polled node responds in > 20 seconds, the Solaris machinereturns a UDP port unreachable to the remote machine.While I argue with my SNMP ...

Summary: Enlarging disk slices after installation

3652 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:20:00
Hello Managers,thanks to"PSI" <sipark_m at fineit.net>"Ghassan Qanzu'a" <ghassan at sts.com.ps>"Bill R. Williams" <brw at etsu.edu>and especially toDarren Dunham <ddunham at taos.com>who guided me through the process of rescuing my setup.I ...

Routing after reconfiguration of interfaces

2920 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:20:00
Hello all,I got a few responses in the meanwhile but nothing did the trick sofar. I have changed the ip-address an plumbed up the device. I haveadded a default route and can access the machine through the externalinterface. But the guy is not routing, inspite of /usr/sbin/ndd -set /dev/tcp ...

SUMMARY: Freeware VPN Options

624 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:20:00
Thanks to all that replied...way too many to mention.Among the suggestions:1) http://openvpn.sourceforge.net2) http://www.freeswan.org3) http://vtun.sourceforge.net4) Some Solaris daemons...ipsecconf(1M), in.iked(1M), and ipseckey(1M)After doing some reading, I am thinking that OpenVPN is ...

SUMMARY: Install requirements SunScreen 3.2

223 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:20:00
Thanks to Rich Teer. He suggested that SunScreen is being EOLd and Solaris<br>10 is actually bundling IPFilter, which is a product that I have used in the<br>past. Only it was a much older version.<p>Regards,<br>Marco<br>

SUMMARY: Sun StorEDGE 3511

922 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:20:00
Thanks a lot to nouce for his valuable info.Sun StorEDGE 3511FC uses Hitachi 7200 rpm SATA Disk - 1.5 Gb/secThanksBhavesh-----Original Message-----From: Bhavesh ShahSent: Sunday, December 19, 2004 10:29 AMTo: codeprof at codeprof.comSubject: Sun StorEDGE 3511Hi Gurus, I am in a process of ...