Hi,in the "sar -d" output, the DiskSuite driver instances "md[0-9]+" arementioned, (like "md3") but how can I relate this back to the physicaldevices/volumes underneath ?The "md" driver is not included in "/etc/path_to_inst", and ...

Hello gurus, I want to configure mailx on solaris 8.0 to send mails. So plz let me so myscripts can send mail outside users. Thanx Rajeev________________________________________________ Hyderabad, India Tel: 91-40-23236411/416 Fax: 91-40-23236408 www.infobraintech.com[demime 1.01b removed ...

Hi all, Firstly, thank you to Casper Dik, Santhan Perampalam, Richard Winfield, NeilQuiogue and David Harrington for your prompt replies. The general consensusconfirms what I originally thought, that it should be just plug and play andthat the machine should simply have recognised the new RAM. ...

I have a need to add about 200 accounts to a local system.I've been given the initial passwords, and I'm not looking to require changing them at login (they're actually not shell accounts, mail only, so the concept of logging in will not "apply" to these people).The system is ...

Hello all,<p>Thanks to everyone who replied confirming my suspicion that 3 CPUs is<br>a valid config. We've just never deployed an odd number before, and I<br>wanted to be sure other had.<p>Thanks,<p>Steve<br>

Mutex contention is still sort of new to me, but it seems that it's aproblem on one of our servers when it's at its busiest which is most ofthe time. We have periods in which %sys is higher than %usr and smtx(mutex stalls) is over 500 per second. So with the problem diagnosed, Iam not sure ...

Anyone know what happended to the Solaris perl based patch check utilitythat Sun had.We had an automated process, that fetched the info and shipped to ouradmins weekly, and now it is broken.I see that Sun have a new process, but it looks cumbersome to set up,and requires a different set up for ...

Thanx to all who responded. The program was patchdiag, and Sun had movedthe links.Problem solved.Patchdiag? http://www.sun.com/download/products.xml?id=3fb95a37Here is the reference file:ftp://patches.sun.com/patchroot/reports/patchdiag.xrefRegardsPaul ClaytonGlobal Unix Co-ordinator / Network ...

Hi,I have a rather mixed environment with Solaris 8, 9 and 10. I can use NIS (with a linux NIS server) to log in to the 9 and 10 machines, but not to the Solaris 8 machines.They have the latest patch cluster from Sun installed and the NIS settings seems ok. I can see my NIS server with ypwhich ...

hello,<p>Do you perhaps know how to reset/clear interfaces counters for "netstat -i" <br>without having to reboot the system?<p>best regards,<p>Gabriel<br>

Hi again,I still do not have enough documentations or recommendations about moving applications anddata from solaris 7 to solaris 8 on sun 450 machine. We have backup tapes using ufsdump. Thanks very much for few reponses. I really appreciate all of your help.ThanksTony Patelpateltony at ...

Hi all,I have a user accessing a Solaris 2.6 system remotely via Exceed, and is getting the error X connection to :0.0 broken. (Explicit kill or server shutdown). Thinking it was a possible corruption in the .dt/ directory for the user, I moved this and when the user would log in, it would ...

Hello all,I have now resolved this bizarre issue. To fix it I did the following:-Booted the sun box into single user mode from the solaris cdMounted up /etcTouch /etc/vx/.uuid_sem_lockChmod a+rx /etc/vx.uuid_sem_lockRebooted the boxThe machine came up ok and I was able to remove the ...

To avoid any confusion (I got some replies in that sense):what I do NOT need is the definition of my metadevices (like "d0","d121" or so) from the well-known "metastat" command, but what I needis the correspondence of a "md" driver instance like ...

After I upgraded Solaris from 2.6 to 8, modinfo<br>doesn't show the sg driver. How would I fix it?<p>Thanks.<p> <br>__________________________________ <br>Do you Yahoo!? <br>The all-new My Yahoo! - What will yours do?<br><A HREF=" http://my.yahoo.com/default.htm"> http://my.yahoo.com</A> <br>

Special thanks to all who replied.Joe Reid (btw, I couldn't reply to you because your from address isn't valid)Darren DunhamPaul KetelaarJeff GrahamMost said that I could do this with sed/awk/perl. (I knew that) but what I was really looking for was webmin.It has the ability to import a ...

Environment: Solaris 8 / Generic_117350-13The problem is that after the system has been running a fewweeks syslog stops working. When I truss "logger" for exampleit get's an error when trying to do an open on /dev/conslog:open("/dev/conslog", O_WRONLY) Err#5 EIOI've ...

Ok here is my problem :I need to delete pdf report files generated by an application on a folder ona regulay basis. I need to keep the files of the last 7 days.The files to delete are own by the weblogic user, group other :-rw-r--r-- 1 weblogic other 8647 Feb 8 16:00 ...

Hi I am attempting to install Sunscreen 3.2 REV=45 on Solaris 9 9/04 onSun-Fire-V440 machine. The Sunscreen was meant to be a local, commandline administered, host based firewall. I have installed the SUNWeuluf SUNWeulux SUNWeu8os SUNWeu8oxSUNWsfwauSUNWsfwr SUNWsfwu SUNWsfwf SUNWsfwm packages. ...

Hi all,A merry question relating to patching & packages, which is the source of some joy here for me. Any insight/comments or experience with this problem .. would be appreciated.Context:-Solaris 8 release 7/01 on an e450 4x400mhz 2gigs ram-Oracle 8i installed & running as ...

is anyone using sun netconnect to monitor their sun servers?i have about15 sun servers.My coworker think we should use netconnect because he thinks it will callsun if their is a problem so they can fix it asap.I think its only to replace your own monitoring software (we use bigbrother) and ...

After receiving a lot of response it seems like it is not possible to useSUID with shell scripts on Solaris (even with /bin/ksh). Here is the reasonwhy : http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/faq/part4/section-7.htmlI know that was a security issue, but as I was not using a SUID with root,that was ...

I run several sybase version 12.5 databases on sun 480s and 490's onsolaris 8 and solaris 9.I am connected to a 2gb fiber SAN with 4gb cache in front of the SAN.We currently run sybase on raw volumes.I am trying to convince my coworkers to switch the sybase to run on vxfsfiles instead of ...

I'm working on a pet project to get an alternate video card working on my Sun and have a question about the add_drv command. During post install add_drv is call with some number of aliases to add (and attach) the driver to. Is there a way to add another alias or do I need to remove driver ...

Joe Reid wrote:> I'm working on a pet project to get an alternate video card working on > my Sun and have a question about the add_drv command. During post > install add_drv is call with some number of aliases to add (and attach) > the driver to. Is there a way to add another ...

All, Automounter stopped automounting the directory /jupiter/sybase under<br>/home/sybase<p>It says no directory when you try to loggin as sybase<p>Michael Segale Unix Sys Admin<br>IBM Global Services<br>(201) 767-4438<br>Pager (800) 759-8888 pin 1030605<br>

Archive-name: codeprof-faqSun-Managers' Frequently Asked Questions$Id: faq,v 4.47 2005/02/10 15:39:54 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 ...

Hi,Is there any difference in performance between having a single NFS linkbetween two machines at a high point in a directory structure, or severalNFS links between the machines lower down the directory structure?For example, a directory called users contains two sub directories joe andfred. ...

OK, this seems an undocumented one for which no proof was found that theminor-numbers of the "md" driver instances correspond seemingly with thenumbers assigned to the meta-device names :meta-device "d123" seems to initiate an instance of the "md" driver withthe ...

Hello,I have various Sun Systems and I am looking for terminal solution.I want to reach their console from remote (internet or vtun). I canconnect machine with ssh. I want to connect machine even if they are inboot prompt. May you indicate me any recommendations, links, programs orsolutions ? ...

Sun Managers,Is there a clever way to find out what package has installed a binary (i.e.rwho) or to what package a patch applies to, so that I can choose whether toapply the patch or remove the package?Thanks in advanceLorisEsat Telecommunications Limited is a wholly owned subsidiary of BT ...

I'm running a Sun Fire v880 with a Gigabit Fibre Optic and10/100Mbps copper ethernet interface. The Fibre Optic(ge0)is set as the primary interface while the fastethernet(eri0) set as the secondary. I want to use the fastethernet only but everytime the server reboots the eri0interface goes ...

Hi!grep rwho /var/sadm/install/contents// Kenneth-----Ursprungligt meddelande-----Fren: codeprof-bounces at codeprof.com[mailto:codeprof-bounces at codeprof.com] Fvr Loris SerenaSkickat: den 17 februari 2005 15:47Till: 'codeprof at codeprof.com'Dmne: How to identify what Solaris package a ...

Folks, Thanks everybody, too many to mention1. /usr/sbin/pkgchk -l -p /usr/bin/rwho2. grep rwho /var/sadm/install/contentsNow, what about PATCHES? (i.e. before applying a patch, how do I found out to what package it will beapplied to?)CheersLoris--Loris Serena | Senior Systems Engineer | Esat ...

I have 2 new Sun boxes (SunFire 440 & SunFire 240) installed with latestSolaris 9 + cluster.Both servers interface are set to 100 mbps full duplex.When I am transfering data between the servers with sftp (SunSSH builtinwith Solaris 9) I am transfering at 300 kb/sec.When I am transfering ...

cheers to all that replied!<br>I can't believe that I forgot to set /etc/hostname.eri0<br>

Hello everybody,<p> I am pretty new to this mailing list.But i have got a few<br>questions regarding the mailing list.<br> Will i be able to see the replys of the questions raised in this<br>forum.I have not yet seen a single reply in the mailing list.<p>Warm Regards,<br>Aju Luke Francis<br>

I have a Solaris 9 server that prints jobs and sends them to an Extendnetprint server. The extendnet print server is attached via serial cable to aWinNT workstation. The workstation is then attached to the Lexmark laserprinter itself. Good stuff. Basically what happens is when I create the ...

Hello Everybody, Thank you for all your response....But i feel that if the replyalso was mailed to the lists it will be very good..as we can knowother peoples opinion on a particular problem...Any way its good to bea member of this mailing list...Warm Regards,Aju Luke ...

Hi,We have recently installed JES. All components i.e. messenger, identity manager etc.. all seem to be working.My question is with Sun ONE Messenger, I have easily setup users in Identity server and mailboxes seem to be fine but I can't seem to work out how or where to setup distribution ...

Hi Gurus,One of our Sun servers (SunFire 6800 domain, Solaris 8, 16gb RAM) isshowing 95% Swap space utilization in glance and top. Memory is 54%utilized. The output from swap commands is as below:1. swap -lswapfile dev swaplo blocks free/dev/md/dsk/d20 85,20 16 16388320 ...

Hi gurus. I need help. I have two boxes, a Solaris 8 master, and I'm trying to setup a YP slave on a Solaris 9 box on a different subnet. When I run ypinit -s master on the remote slave, I get these errors: ypwhich: Can't find the master of user_attr. Reason: no such map in server's ...

Enough, enough! ;-)Of course (DOH!), just unzip the patch and see what directories areinside...Thanks everybody for your prompt response, much appreciated.Loris-----Original Message-----From: Loris Serena Sent: 17 February 2005 15:26To: 'codeprof at codeprof.com'Subject: SUMMARY/CONTINUE: How ...

How do I re-start the network time protocol daemon on solaris 10(xntpd).Its not in the form of an init script in /etc/init.d or the rc directories?My guess is you have to use the svcadm command.Thanks.Joe AstrologoUnix Systems EngineerFactset Research SystemsVoice: 203-810-1562Fax: ...

Has anyone every tried to use the RJ45 Serial Mgmt connector on a Sun Fire 240<br>to connect to a Lightwave Console Server 3200?<p>I can't seem to find the right cable to do it.<p>Any help would be appreciated.<p>Thanks.<p>Mitch Lewars<br>

This is what I have:Fibre=gigabitswift Ethernet When I ftp between 2 gigabit fibre boxes, I get 0.5 MB per sec.When I ftp between 1 gigabit fibre box and 1 gigabit copper box I get 11MB per sec.So when the fibre boxes talk to each other they talk at 0.5 MB per via FTP.Have you experienced this ...

Where is the best place to sell some old sun enterprise gear?<p>-dave<br>

The following entry in the /etc/default/login file has been uncommented:<br>CONSOLE=/dev/console<p>However, I can still log in as root using ssh. This is on a 280R running<br>Solaris 8. Any ideas why this could be? <p>Thanks in advance for your time. <p>Wayne <br>

Answer: Change the entry in the sshd_config file. Stop/start sshd.Thanks so much to all who answered!Wayne-----Original Message-----From: Todd, Wayne Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2005 5:02 PMTo: 'codeprof at codeprof.com'Subject: log in as root using sshThe following entry in the ...

Hello all, dutifully following the instructions included in my new V440, Icreated a user account/passwd in the RSC. Now, I realize that I can't boot the machine w/o someone signing onto theRSC.Any way to nuke out the RSC user account, and allow the server to boot frompoweroff?EdSorry about ...