Sorry for the late reply, but have had lots of stuff going on with the holidays. Anyway, I got the problem resolved over at BigAdmin at Sun. There were many various answer, which partly solved the problem. But the user hassmaschine over there helped me solve the problem by putting all the ...

Hi all, I am not sure what I did wrong or why this is not working but hereis my problem.I downloaded and installed Solaris 10 b69 on my Sun server.My problem is that I can do nslookup to resolve hosts etc but my programssuch as ncftp do not work.To illustrate my problem here is an ...

Is there any way to update Solaris 10 beta 69 to Solaris 10 beta 72?What would I need to do to update? Do I install everything over? Or arethere any patches to bring up the version to the latest?I though Solaris 10 would be released in January, but when I go to thewebsite there is still beta ...

I need to add the root user to the nobody group for some testing. If I tryto do this as root it tells me I cannot add a group because I am logged inas that user. And none of the other users have permission to add a group toroot. Is there a way around this? I thought maybe the sys user would ...

Hi guys, I am connecting to a 280R from my laptop via serial. After I coldboot the system, I see the outpu and the ok prompt, however I don't see anyoutput when I type. Below is the message I see after I cold boot:----------------------------------------~screen not found.keyboard ...

Resending with proper subject...Hi guys, this is a time critical issue andhence am posting on this board.I have set up a serial connection from mylaptop( usb to serial ) to a Sun 280R. Everything appears to be fine when Icold boot the system ( I get the usual output and hte ok prompt ) ...

Anyone out there using IPMI on V20z with Linux, Solaris?<br>What is the "gotchas", experience?<br>What rpm, version would be recommended?<br>Thanks<br>

I'm trying to upgrade the internal disks of a Netra X1 to use as an FTPserver. I took out the factory 20GB disk and replaced it with a new 160GBdisk (Seagate ST3160023A). The disk is seen properly from openboot:ok probe-ide Device 0 ( Primary Master ) ATA Model: ST3160023Abut format ...

Thanks to Tim Chapman for the pointer that allowed me to google for thecomplete answer. Thanks to:Edmunds ChrisMao YSRoland MerkJuergen Waiblingerfor letting me know they were out of office.This thread on the Sun support forums has the complete information on howto use format to make the X1 ...

Hi gurus. I'm running an E420, Solaris 9, fully patched, with 2 GB RAM and 2 procs. I would like to know if anybody has experience with this tape library. I'm having a very frustrating time with this and getting it to work with NetBackup. robtest can move tapes around, but for some reason ...

Dear Gurus,<p> I am just asking a bit off topic query.<p>I want to know the difference between PAGING and SWAPPING.<p>Best Regards,<br>Jay.<br>

Good morning,What is the command which shows all SCSI devices, external and internal,after the system is up and running?Thanks.Disclaimer************************************************************************Aan dit bericht kunnen geen rechten worden ontleend. Dit bericht isuitsluitend bestemd ...

Hi experts,I send around a 100 h323 setups( that involves a tcp connection) to a machine. All the 100 tcp connections get setup( the three-way handshake getscompleted). However for around 66 connections, the machine sends backa RST and closes the connection.I set the parameter ...

Hi all,We have a storage library StorEdge L1000 attached to E3500 sun machine which ahs solaris 8 as OS. As the 2 drives in the library are seen as/dev/rmt/1/dev/rmt/2how to find what is the logical or physical path for the robotic arm.waiting for your answers.thanksGeetha ...

Good morningI was wondering whether anyone has experience with the CATVision/MC system: http://www.gdsys.de/gen/html/G%20&%20D%20KVM-Extender%20CATVision-Multichannel_en.htmCurrently I am using one and it disables the Sun keys. Any advice on how tosolve this issue would be greatly ...

On Tuesday, 2005-01-04 at 10:05:34 +0100, Lupe Christoph wrote:> ...> So I would like to ask for your experiences with filesystems larger than> 4 TB.Thanks to:Bousquet FrancoisJason ShatzkamerMao YS-qch1521Juergen WaiblingerSirisena, NaviRoland MerkBallesteros, Dave DStott, Trevor ...

Thanks to Anthony D'Atri. iostat -EDisclaimer************************************************************************Aan dit bericht kunnen geen rechten worden ontleend. Dit bericht isuitsluitend bestemd voor de geadresseerde. Als u dit bericht per abuishebt ontvangen, wordt u verzocht het te ...

Dear Siri work on a sun server E250 with solaris 8for sometime it was stable but recently...i had the following problemwhen i make a command ls -al on /var/maili got such messages ./fileX no such file or directoryi got that message for the whole filesand when i do the command for the second ...

Can i take backup of RAW partition by using Sun Enterprise Backup Software insolaris 9.We have two node database(v880) server attached with 6120 storage. L-25 isused to take backup.Thanks and Regards,Debjit MandalCustomer EngineerHCL Infosystems ...

I am running into problems with hidden .nfs files that seem to be related tofile descriptors. First I'll give a brief description of our environment:We have 2 V880's that are running apache / Tomcat and one V880 that is anOracle Server. WebServer1 is connected to a T3 storage array by ...

Solaris 10 downloading.......Can anyone help me figure out how to download and install solaris 10? I I have a cd burner on my pc, but not the software that the on-line doc talks about........ Anyone got a workaround?? Craig Robertson.............. "In a bullet-proof vest,With the windows ...

Good evening,Does anyone have information about sparc clone manufacturers who producereliable hardware?Thanks,Disclaimer************************************************************************Aan dit bericht kunnen geen rechten worden ontleend. Dit bericht isuitsluitend bestemd voor de ...

Thank you all who responded.Here is what I got.These sites have practice exams for sale:www.unixed.comwww.cramsession.comwww.sun.comThis site has a free exam which is mostly a general Solaris exam:www.sunguru.com < http://www.sunguru.com/>I also was notified that ebay sells practice exams ...

Does anyone know what the impact is from having mpxio-disable="no" setin the /kernel/drv/scsi_vhci.conf file and not having any other path ?I have a v240 using a 500 GB slice from a 6120 that has very poor writeperformance (20-30 MB/sec). Other slices on this same array that ...

All,<br>I need to remap my F1 key to bring up something other than help. Does<br>anyone know how to disable F1 key as the Help key in Openwin for Solaris<br>8?<br>Thanks,<br>Richard Jaehne<br>

I've opened a case with Sun on this problem but theydon't feel it's urgent. So.... I have several new v20z and v40z's here. I installedone box with Solaris 10 beta 72. I created a flasharchive with:flarcreate -s -n install /install.flarI booted a second v20z (client) and connected it ...

I have a V440 that acts as a legato networker backup server, running Solaris 9. It has two ce interfaces, running Sun Trunking 1.3. The system has recent patches for all (hopefully) software/hardware. The system has 4 1,28GHz Ultrasparc IIIi CPUs. The load is fairly evenly spread over both ...

Hi all,Im in need of some help, we seem to have some diskfailures for one of our raid groups:# metastat d55d55: RAID State: Needs Maintenance Invoke: metareplace -f d55 c3t8d0s4 <new device> Interlace: 32 blocks Size: 35316468 blocksOriginal device: Size: 35319424 blocks ...

Dear Sun managers, Good afternoon. I am trying to install Solaris 8 on a Sun Ultra 10 Sparc workstation. This system formerly had Solaris 8 on it, but we decided to do a reinstallation to configure things the way we wanted them.Before doing that we encountered a few problems 1.The system failed ...

Dear managers,I am currently trying to build hylafax 4.2.0 on Solaris 9. Configuring this package gives meNo strftime function located in system libraries.The strftime function used to format date&time information was not locatedin the normal C library or in the -lintl library (present on ...

Guruz,I have to write a script that online monitors alog file to check if a particular error messageturns up there.The log file is quite big and I need to run somecommands right after the message appears in the log.So, to grep for the message in every 1 second won'twork, because at the time ...

Hello all,We may need to implement tomcat on x86 platform usinglinux. Our choices are Suse, solaris x86, Sun JavaDesktop(sounds good).Any suggestions of which platform & IDE environment ismore robust & popular? Right now I am using Netbeans4on Mandrake10.1.thanks & ...

All,We are considering replacing our 4xa5200's with VxVM on top to 4x3510FCarrays. We will be losing almost half the spindles in the process (88 vs48). However, that doesn't worry me _that_ much yet, since judging bylooking at current IO operations per second we should be fine, however ...

Here are NFS files opened by ccfe when it stuck:COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAMEccfe 10099 atule cwd VDIR 258,20 4608 23093953/home/atule (nfs-cam:/export/home/atule)ccfe 10099 atule txt VREG 258,1 4514552 354415/genesys/local ...

Hi.I have one Sun Fire 280R server and i installed bind-9.3.0. This software workedvery well but after this application process stop and don4t work well. It showme the followings messages:Jan 4 15:01:05 ns named[238]: [ID 866145 daemon.notice] starting BIND 9.3.0 -c/etc/named.confJan 4 ...

Guys,I want to backup an Ultra 10 to a remote DDS3 tape drive, but I don't know what obs size should I use...Is there any recommendation?ufsdump 0uf - /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 | rsh <remote> ddof=/dev/rmt/0n obs=??I already used 64b 1024b 32K and 64K but the backup of100MB data always took at ...

It takes more than 2 days to install solaris 8 using console ...any idea_________________________________________________________________The real power of teamwork. Experience it in real time. http://www.microsoft.com/india/office/experience/ Experience MS Office ...

Hi, This 420r has panicked twice in a few days. First time it was CPU0, this time it's CPU2. I am not sure if the error messages below mean (ultimately) anything other than replacing CPUs. If i need to replace the CPUs, is it advisable to replace both, or one of them? Appreciate you ...

I have been asked to build a second E280R from the ufsdump tapes fromthe first. One internal disk 76Gb the original was 36GB. I cannot gertit to boot properly. See below1. boot cdrom -s2. format disk with partitions /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s0(root), S1(swap).3. swap -a /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s14. ufsrestore -rf ...

Hi,I have a sunfire 280R with Solaris 8 and VxVM 3.5 (modinfo showed VxVM3.5s); the boot disks are mirrored; all filesystems are ufsI applied the latest patches for VxVM and vxfs (that's all that I haveinstalled) and rebooted; after reboot it hangs when doing " VxVMstarting in boot ...

When I loggin as the only user I have setup besides root I cannot run anycommands, I get the following error:$ sususu:^CF\376\255\274z\362\240\275\364TTb\361\204^XPw\334^Ah\207yC\263:\314^P\251\301: j: : not foundnot foundsu: syntax error at line 2: `a^O' unexpected I think there is a problem ...

Hi,I found this old thread and I was wondering if a solution was found, as wehave the same problem accessing NFS files on a net app (which is runninglinux).On the older machines it works fine, but on the new V250 it hangs. All arerunning solaris 9.Any suggestions anyone?DavidGalen Johnson ...

We have Solaris 9 installed on server. Due to security reason, we disable FTP and TELNET. Server onlly support SSH.We plan to create a account which can ONLY login and transfer data use scp or winscp on PC site (similiar to FTP function).Any one know how to set it up on ...

I am running Veritas Volume Manager 3.0.4. I went into the GUIand selected a volume and under actions I selected resize volume and increased it by 5 gigs. However, the file system itself did not grow. Anyone know the command to grow the file system as well?growfs, tunefs, mkfs?ThanksDave ...

Thanks to all the replies.I tried growfs but that did not work for me.vxresize apparently is the right command/usr/lib/vxvm/bin/vxresize data1 30gBut I got an error when trying thisERROR: Problem running mkfs command for volume data1, in diskgroup del8So I'm going to backup the data and ...

Thank you for several person give me a hint, but it don't work well:1. create user account use /bin/false, then put /bin/false on /etc/shells. -- Winscp can NOT login.2. create account use /usr/bin/ksh and user profile .profile have export PATH=/usr/rbin. Link ls and scp to /usr/rbin. -- ...

Hi Gurus,I've been working on an issue with cron for a particular user and have run outof options: I checked if the files perms are ok for the/var/spool/cron/crontabs/user, the user is root and group is the users primarygroup. I did a HUP on the cron daemon.I've a user for whom when I run the ...

Have a problem with Sun's Directory Server 5.2 relating to cron and LDAP.Users in LDAP can't run cronjobs unless they exist in/etc/passwd, even then they can't access directories unless the "group"entry exists in /etc/group.I've run some tests, from LDAP no /etc entries, and ...

Hello,I am having a problem with my newly installed SRSS on JDS. After I seteverything up users can login but the number pad and Num Lock do not respond.The numpad only behaves with the scrolling keys and never the numbers.However, if I log into the server directly (non SunRay) the number pad ...

My hardware vendor just quoted me for 73GB drives instead of 146GB for9970 (with 8GB cache).I would like to get extra storage but don't want get hit hard onperformance.Has anyone run any benchmark and compared whether 146GB will reduce theperformance by any means?I would appreciate any ...