FWD: New processes get killed

2628 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:29:00
Hi, guys,I am posting the responses I've got 'til the moment for the followingquestion.Em Seg, 2005-01-31 `s 10:44 -0200, Feng Chin Sian escreveu:> Hello SysAdmins>> Does anyone have seen anything like this?>> user> mtamaint> Killed> ...

LynxOS

128 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:29:00
Guys, sorry for the offtopic post.<br>Is there a command equivalent to uptime that I can use on LynxOS ?<p>Thanks,<p>-George<br>

Solaris 9 /etc/shadow file, $ character as first entry.

1171 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:29:00
This is related to the question I posted on Saturday.(su returns a segmentation fault when trying to su overto certain user accounts).I've noticed that there is a point of commonality amongthe impacted user accounts:For all of the impacted user accounts, their entries in/etc/shadow all have a ...

Solaris truncates CD file names - a way around this?

135 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:29:00
Is there a way to get around the way Solaris truncates file names from a<br>cdrom? Seems all versions of solaris do this. Thanks.<br>

SUMMARY: simple regex question

3566 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:29:00
I asked:> I have a quick regexp question.>> I want to match, case does not matter, a string> foo: bar> where foo starts the line, there can be one or more whitespace characters> between the : and the bar, and there can be zero or more whitespace> characters between the bar ...

Solaris 9 /etc/shadow file, $ character as first entry.

660 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:29:00
Thanks for the replies so far.The consesus is that the $ in an /etc/shadow passwordentry indicates that a newer encryption scheme is beingused to encrypt /etc/shadow entries (such as MD5).Does anyone know how to force Solaris 9 to encryptONLY using the standard UNIX encryption ...

ROUTING WEIRDNESS!!!

3284 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:29:00
HiHere is the latest weirdness;I have a server that routes all outgoing traffic through its GE networkdevice. It will never push it out the correct HME devices no mater what Ido to the configuration or routing tables even adding static routes. ANYhelp would be appreciated.The example below ...

Could not find hotplugged core system board

609 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:29:00
Greetings managers,We had a motherboard fail in our E4500.Sun's agent came, replaced it, system came up...for about an hour.Now, we're getting this message about every 10 seconds: Jan 31 16:42:15 etest unix: WARNING: Could not find hotplugged coresystem boardand as it was coming down to ...

SUMMARY: Attaching a D1000 to a U2

2268 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:29:00
Thank you all for your help. We laughed, we cried, we had a grand time.The overwhelming response mentioned boot -r. I had though this odd, since my experience in adding new drives had been one of two things..#1. Power down machine.#2. Add new drives.#3. When machine comes up, do reboot -r ...

SUMMARY: Solaris 9 /etc/shadow file, MD5 problem.

1683 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:29:00
Hi All,Thank you, thank you to all who replied, since a numberof the suggestions led me in the right direction.The consensus was that the $ indicated that the passwordwas encrypted using a newer encryption algorithm (most likelyMD5).Although interestingly, the problematic /etc/shadow ...

LD_LIBRARY_PATH Issue

1122 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:29:00
Hi Guys,I have a application running on my system that I am having some problems with. If I telnet to my server and run the application then I get the following library errors:Fatal Error: Cannot Successfully map soname 'libpdb.so' under any of the filenames ...

SunRay Questions

1618 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:29:00
Hi, I recently installed a SunRay system (Dual 1.2GHZ SunFire 280Rwith Solaris 9.0 and SRSS 3.0 and 15 SunRays). These are currentlyonly used for experimentation and evaluation of some development /compiler tools. After reading the archives I have some questions andam in need of some pointers, ...

Solaris Questions

1171 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:29:00
I have a few questions about the Solaris side of my SunRay setup.When I first configured Solaris 9.0 and SRSS 3.0 I found a very largenumber of open TCP and UDP ports on the SunFire. I have since disabledmany unneeded daemons but I still have a few more ports that I wish Icould close. Ideally I ...

AntiVirus software

752 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:29:00
Hello,I'm sorry to have to ask this question here, but after not being able tosufficiently convince our managers that "Viruses on UNIX" are not a realthreat (aside from scanning data coming through an FTP Server or sendmail),I've been asked to get the "Solaris ...

Summary Boot Problem

208 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:29:00
Whilst resizing opt I overlapped usr.<br>This created the problem.<br> <br>Thanks to Tim Evans.<p> <br>---------------------------------<br> ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! <br>

I am unable to import diskgroup as shared on vcsqs

1664 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:29:00
Hi all,System H/w Configuration : Sparc 10, Sol 8 with Generic_117000-03 / Dual HBAs/ Quad Ethernet Card (Same configuration of 2 Systems)S/w information : Veritas Cluster Software Quick start 2.0 / Vxvm 3.1.1/ Vxfs3.4.*) Installed Solaris, and updated the patch level,*) Installed Vxvm / Vxfs ...

Sun Blade serie + N1 Grid, users experience

767 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:29:00
Hi,We're envisaging the usage of several Sun Fire Blade 100s mounted in the Sun Fire B1600 system chassis.I'm wondering about the real capacities of such servers, especially when used with this Grid stuff. What can we expect from these clustered single cpu computers. Ok, maybe load balancing ...

ld.so.1 false inking errors

2624 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:29:00
Hi AllI have installed the net-snmp distribution successfully on a SunOS 5.8Generic_117000-01 sun4u sparc SUNW,UltraAX-i2 box. Unfortunately, when Irun snmptrapd I get the following error...> /usr/sbin/snmptrapdld.so.1: /usr/sbin/snmptrapd: fatal: relocation error:file ...

SUMMARY: AntiVirus software

3174 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:29:00
Hello,regarding AntiVirus software under Solaris/UNIX here's what the list told me.Of the 12 answers I got basically everybody touched on two main points.BTW: Thank you! This was exactly what we already tried to tell the managers. 1) UNIX viruses (practically) don't exist. 2) The only ...

More: Finding which user su'd

975 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:29:00
I think I was not clear in my last post. I haven't got any reply so Iwant to try it again. My original post was:================================================================We have several admins having access to a privileged perl script(accessible only by root), and I'd like to record ...

E6500 Assistance

1904 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:29:00
All, we have a E6500 running Solaris 8. Were getting a errorafter we installed 4 more cpu boards yesterday. I should have 16 400Mhz8MB Cache cpu's but im still showing 8. Here are the errors. Any idea's?/var/adm/messages fhc: [ID 744982 kern.notice] NOTICE: failed cpu board in slot 8 fhc: ...

SUMMARY: New processes get killed

4215 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:29:00
Dear SysAdmins,First of all, thanks for all people that has taken some of theirprecious time for helping me:LD lexicondevil at gmail dot comDrew Skinner dskinner at blueprint dot orgJason Santos jason dot santos at megaslow dot netfrancisco frisco at blackant dot netJohn ...

how to read email address from a file and send mail?

195 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:29:00
Hi all,<p>Is there any way to read an email address from a file and send an<br>email to that address in C language. any hint or code regarding this<br>will be very helpful.<p>Thanks,<p>Ambika<br>

reboot loses EMC disks

638 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:29:00
For some reason, one of my old E10K domains running Solaris 2.6 (I know, ifit were up to me, 2.6 would be gone!) doesn't want to see the EMC disksI've given it while booting. I have to invoke drvconfig, disks,devlinks before it sees them so I know the zoning and configs are correct.It's ...

Very Weird SCSI Id Problem

5649 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:29:00
okiesHardware:1 x Sun 420R2 x A1000 2 x Diff SCSI cardsSenario:All working fine with 420R, 1x A1000 and 1x Diff SCSIWe need to add another A1000 as it was saturating the SCSI BUSSo 8 months ago we added another Diff SCSI card and A1000 and boot -rThe new card appeared as 3. c69t5d0 ...

Sun Managers Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

113970 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:29:00
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 ...

UPDATE: ld.so.1 false inking errors

24325 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:29:00
Thanks to all that responded. I'll (hopefully) follow up with a SUMMARYwhen I have it fixed. I am still looking at this issue. After a responsefrom the net-snmp mail group, I have re-installed into /usr/local afterinstalling binutils from sunfreeware.com.I am still seeing the error...> ...

Solaris 8, WU-FTPD and pam_winbind

825 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:29:00
Hello,i have some troubles when running wu-ftpd under Solaris 8 withauthenticationby winbind (pam_winbind). No domain-user can be authenticated by wu-ftpd,error-message in syslog is:Jan 30 15:41:07 sunserv ftpd[2990]: [ID 401707 daemon.error] open_module:/usr/lib/security/pam_winbind.so.1 ...

New Users with automount

312 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:29:00
All, I am trying to create new user accounts on a system that usesauto_home as the place for the home directory. I am looking for a way toautomate the editing of the auto-home and creating the users homedirectory. (The systems are not using NIS or NIS+)Michael Segale Unix Sys ...

nis+ users

1221 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:29:00
HiI've deleted a user on the nisplus replica machine,when i try to add theuser again the system gives an error "user already on"but i cant see thatperson on the passwd file or on the shadow file.Any suggestions on how toadd the user?--Fahmeeda DarsotAbsa Group-ITMidrange ...

upgrade to VxVM 4.0 : existing disks are re-discovered, but as type=auto instead of type=sliced

1870 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:29:00
Hi,while checking out the upgrade procedure of VxVM from versions pre-4.0towards version 4.0, I encountered the following annoying new defaultbehaviour of VxVM 4.0 :1) assume we start from an existing installation with VxVM 3.5, withboth simple partitions of the boot disks configured in VxVM ...

Obtaining Solaris OE Binaries

627 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:29:00
I looked in the archives for this but couldn't find anything recent.I'm trying to download the Solaris 9 x86 system. I'm getting HORRIBLE throughput to the download site from Sun. (feels like a 9600 baud modem link!)Is anyone aware of any alternate mirrors or sites where the binaries can be ...

Summary: Obtaining Solaris OE Binaries

1242 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:29:00
Everyone (and their Mother) is downloading Solaris 10 at the moment, and it's just a matter of server popularity at the moment.So if everyone could please temporarily pause their downloads and let me finish, I'd appreciate it. :-)Oh well, I tried.Guess I'll just be patient.AngeloAngelo ...

No utmpx entry. You must exec login from the lowest level shell.

430 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:29:00
Hi Sun ManagersI am getting the following message on my E250 running Solaris 9No utmpx entry. You must exec login from the lowest level shell.I note that during bootup I get a message thus :[date , time ] [ hostname ] ufs: NOTICE: realloccq /: file system fullEven though as far as I can tell ...

Broken interface

1222 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:29:00
Hi all,First of all the OS is Solaris 9 x86 9/04 with the latest recommendedpatches (relatively new build).I am getting the following error on the internal interface of my firewall:interface elxl1 to 192.168.200.254 broken: in=0 ierr=2 out=0 oerr=0Can't find the error in the archives or on ...

SAN Question

888 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:29:00
Hi all,we are testing a solaris machine connected to a HP EVA5000. We decided touse HP HBAs and because of this we have to use HP securepath software. Upto the point we are adding the second SAN switch everything is working fine(virtual disks, slices, filesystems). After enabling the second ...

Subsystem root:Login Incorrect error. /usr/lib/security/pam_authtok_get.so.1 open failed

1222 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:29:00
Hello Guru's With lot of effort I was atlast able tocreate the chroot jail. I followed the sun doc id77517. Now when I login I get these errors for everyattempt of login. Subsystem root: /jail/user1Login incorrectLogin incorrectLogin incorrectLogin incorrectLogin incorrectWhen I ...

LDAP useradd/userdel scripts solutions

402 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:29:00
I just implemented Sun one directory server. We have about 1500 useraccounts we will be storing. I have went thru all the hoops of importing inthe old NIS data etc...I need to script a way to add new users and deleteold ones. Looks like the only solutions out there are perl based whichrequire ...

Console serial ports

620 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:29:00
Hi gurus. I'm using a 220 to be a console for another 220. Both are running Solaris 8 with 2 GB RAM. Server A is the one I want to get the console on, so I connect the DB25 to port A. On the machine hosting the console, server B, I connect to port B. I run tip hardwire and get the ...

cannot mount cdrom!

712 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:29:00
I'm having a strange problem with the DVD-ROM drive in a 280R. It hadbeen working well for installing Solaris and the Sun Ray ServerSoftware, but a week later when I tried using it to install StarOffice the CD would not automount. I figured it might have somethingto do with some of the daemons ...

A1000 Parity Error on E10K

5579 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:29:00
Hi list,We have a A1000 connected to a E10K domain. We sucessfully jumpstartedthe domain with Solaris 8 2/04. But when the system reboots, some kindof "Parity Error" gets spit out. Here is the boot message:========================================================================Boot ...

Directory Server and Samba

448 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:29:00
Anyone out there successfully get Samba 3.x working with Sun's Directory Server LDAP?Any kind of step-by-step or cookbook would be great.Basically, how do you get Samba's schema LDIF into Sun Directory Server.Thanks-- John MalickStar Systems Engineering140 Roosevelt Ave.York, PA. 17404john at ...

LDAP and bind issues

1084 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:29:00
Using Sol 8, and SunOne Directory Services. We have misplaced and thusforgotten the bind password for the Directory Manager. Anyone have away of retrieving it, or resetting it?Thanks,-Greg Moellermoellerg at genesishealth.com NOTICE: This communication is intended only for the use of the ...

Recommended swap size

1039 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:29:00
Hello All; With higher end Sun Fire systems increasingly able to take more memory, doesthe old rule of thumb for Solaris swap size still hold true?The rule of thumb used to specify that the swap size should be 2 x RAM Size. I have a 15K domain which has a single board with 32 Gbyte RAM. Does ...

sshd is offline and enabled in solaris 10 relase

501 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:29:00
ok...I can read so i ran the command.svcadm enable svc:/network/ssh:defaultsvcs -l /network/sshshows it enabled but offline.This was a simple install cd 1 - 4 + languages cd.PS: It asked for the Document CD? I could not find the document cd for download ?So ok I now feel humbled and stupid. I ...

Rootkit attack?

1968 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:29:00
Hello, managers,At a remote site with an old solaris, we had a problem being unable to connect through telnet to an old Solaris box (connection, welcome message, but immediate cutoff before being able to enter login) and the user at the other end had strange behaviour when trying to connect ...

change the decimal separator

948 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:29:00
Hello Guru'sCan someone provide me the easiest way to change the LC_NUMERIC (decimalseperator) in solaris. I know it has to do with changing the locale, but Iwas wondering if there is a way for setting it up in user enviroment orglobally . I want to change from comma to period or vice ...

Recursive setfacl

1012 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:29:00
HiI have to allow various groups access to a large directory structure on aSun V880 (Sol 8). I have used the setfacl command for top level ok but thiscommand doesnt have a recursive option. Has anyone a suggestion for a wayto do this? The directory structure is 15 levels with a couple of ...

re-post: upgrade to VxVM 4.0 : existing disks are re-discovered, but as type=auto instead of typ

2893 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:29:00
Since I have not got a single reply yet for this question (apart fromthe obvious "out-of-office"), I dare to re-post it ...-----Original Message-----From: codeprof-bounces at codeprof.com[mailto:codeprof-bounces at codeprof.com] On Behalf Ofrob.de.langhe at belgacom.beSent: 02 ...

Summary:Jumpstart Flash problem

2361 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:29:00
Unfortunately I have received no replies to this question. Still a good listthough.-Padraig-----Original Message-----From: codeprof-bounces at codeprof.com[mailto:codeprof-bounces at codeprof.com]On Behalf Of Lennon, PadraigSent: 20 January 2005 16:17To: Sunmanagers (E-mail)Subject: Jumpstart ...