SUMMARY: kick off shell script with Email

3591 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:34:00
Thanks to all....The list is endless...to name a Few...Crist ClarkFranciscoEric ScissonAlex KruchkoffBill R WillamsBochnic Williams JLovely David POwens Blaine C - EastmanBroun BevanMichael DeSimoneAlan CrosbyPankaj AgarwalIan ClementsSpecial thanks to Francisco and Crist Clark for providing me ...

Root rights to a shell script?

736 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:34:00
Guys,I'm writing a shell script to monitor theserver performance and hardware status informations.The normal users need to use this script without rootaccess.Some commands need root rights to run them and Ialready tried to set the SUID bit on the scriptin order to run raidutil, ndd, ...

SUMMARY: SDS / SVM mirroring with different disc geometries

3628 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:34:00
First of all sorry for the late summary. Thanks to following persons: Dan Lorenzini <lorenzd_at_gcm.com> John Christian <john.christian_at_TheCReGroup.com> Chuck <steeler_dude99_at_yahoo.com> Michael Horton <Michael.Horton_at_acntv.com> Gary Chambers ...

v20z lcd stuck with "OS Booting"

381 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:34:00
I have a v20z with Solaris 9 installed. It has a minor annoyance of the front panel lcd being stuck with "OS Booting" even when the system is up. Google nor archives did not reveal anything. Is there a way to get rid of this?-- Mika Tuupola ...

Install solaris 10 + Nis pb

941 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:34:00
Hello gurus,I want to install solaris 10.I have a NIS server which disk is full, so i usea boot server, and jumpstart.My sysidcfg looks like that :Jump# cat /jumpstart/sysidcfgsystem_locale=en_UStimezone=METtimeserver=193.xxx.xxx.xxxnetwork_interface=PRIMARY {netmask=255.255.255.224 ...

Kstat memory statistics

1246 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:34:00
Hi!I would like to rewrite the Munin "memory" plugin for Solaris.Munin is an RRDtool-based monitoring system. The current plugin uses top(!) to gather some statistics: 4096M real, 3209M free, 343M swap in use,22G swap free. It's a shell script.I would like to rewrite it as a Perl ...

Storedge 3510 - FAILING disk (not failed)

2638 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:34:00
Hi,We have a 3510 providing SAN to several hosts. One host recently reported in messages and VxVm a wite error against a cetain block located in a plex. We have created another lun and plex and the host is happy now but when we try to use the old lun we get the same write errors. We suspect bad ...

T3+

594 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:34:00
Question,I have aquired a system with T3+ arrays.I do not have the login and pw to save the firmware and configs for thearrays.I do however know how to read the pw from the eprom. The problem is, is thatset passwd command does not return a pw for me to read, so I assumed it wasblank but it is ...

How do I find this file

293 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:34:00
Hi Gurus,<p>I can not find this file /usr/lib/libp/libc.so.2<br>This file size is grewing every day. Right now size is 227864329.<br>What Can I do for this file.<p>I will appricate any help.<p>Thanks,<br>Tony Patel<br><A HREF="/execute/ask/?codeinfoid=34848">pateltony at comcast.net</A> <br>

PAM in NIS environment

216 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:34:00
All,<br> <br>We have solaris 6 and 8 environments in NIS. Can some body please share information on setting up PAM in NIS environment.<br> <br>Thanks<br>-Sarah<br> Yahoo! Mail - You care about security. So do we.<br>

JES / Sun ONE Messenger Distributuion Lists Summary

1832 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:34:00
Thanks to Rich Bishop and especially Mark Shaw on this.Basically what you have to do was create the group via Identity Server or the Admin console, then in the Admin Console open the group via the "generic editor" and add the objectclasse ...

Solaris 9, Soft Partitions and Mirroring

166 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:34:00
Is there a reason why I shouldn't create soft partitions on top of <br>mirrored partitions? Has anyone done this before and if so, any pros/cons?<p>Thanks, Clif<br>

motd for ftp

150 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:34:00
All,<br> Is there a way to display a security message (motd like message) when<br>an FTP session is started.<p>Michael Segale Unix Sys Admin<br>

[SUMMARY] Sunfire v880 reboot

4851 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:34:00
For the benefit of others who might run into the same problem, Hereare the responses to my post regarding: Sunfire v880 reboot(My original post from Mon, Feb 14, 2005 is included at the end.)I should have mentioned in my original post that this system has beenrunning the same levels of software ...

SunScreen 3.2 Queries

1488 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:34:00
I am awash in documentation for SunScreen that all wants to address muchmore complicated situations than I have. What I have is a multi-homedhost which I want to protect. This host is NOT a router. I want to putsevere ingress and egress filters on one of its interfaces. I want norestrictions on ...

Solaris user configuration

1140 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:34:00
We are responding to an RFP and need to answer some questions, some ofwhich I don't even know where to look. Any assistance would be greatlyappreciated.Here are some examples of information I need to gather.....OS must log login failures? How/where is that done? I know lastlog ...

Problem booting clone system

2287 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:34:00
I have to clone a present production server running Sol8 Sun Ultra1hardware to a Sun 220R hardware.I keep getting the following boot errors.So far I have:o ufsdumped and restored from the production system /, /usr & /var via a third system onto the target system disko set the boot PROM ...

Red state exception, Error enable reg

1249 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:34:00
I have a problem with one V240 host. It went to endless loop with thefollowing information:CPU 0000.0000.0000.0001 AFSR 0020.0000.1800.00ed AFAR0000.0003.0003.ff80RED State ExceptionError enable reg: 0000.0000.0000.0000ECCR: 0000.0000.00f0.4c00CPU 0000.0000.0000.0001 AFSR 0020.0000.1800.00ed ...

pidentd 3.0.18 on Solaris 10 with DES encryption

5864 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:34:00
Hello, I am trying to compile pidentd 3.0.18 on Solaris GA with DESencryption and need some help:cc -fast -xarch=v9 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I/usr/sfw/include -DHAVE_IPV6=0 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L -D__EXTENSIONS__ -DPATH_SYSCONFDIR=\"/etc\" -I. -I./src -c pdes.c"pdes.c", line ...

SUMMARY Red state exception, Error enable reg

2622 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:34:00
Thanks for fast replies from Steven Hill who suggested me to reseat the ramand CPU and to read archives, and to Neil Quiogue who suggested to replaceCPU by Sun.And many thanks to Sun's tech support who replied earlier, and already knewthat they need to replace CPU.Anatoliy----- Original ...

pidentd 3.0.18 on Solaris 10 with DES encryption

1179 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:34:00
> *** Peter W. Osel <pwo at Infineon.COM>> *** [2005-02-18 16:21:49]:> Hello, I am trying to compile pidentd 3.0.18 on Solaris GA with DES> encryption and need some help:forgot to mention that i had to change one include file to get pidentdto compile at all due ot duplicate, ...

X.25 on SunFire 240 !

583 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:34:00
Hello Guys !I am trying to configure X.25 software on Sun Fire 240 Server. What is haveconcluded is that /dev/zsh device is required for the X.25 software to beable to work. This device is not available on solaris 8 on SF 240. I haveX.25 running on old ultra 1 where /dev/zsh exists. What is ...

maxphys, vxio and sd.conf

1271 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:34:00
Hello Gurus; I have a F15K Domain running Solaris 9 117171-10. (Actually I have severalsuch domains.. :-)) It is connected to a EMC DMX via EMC OEM Brocade switches. It has Emulex LP9002 HBAs. I understand that the stripe width of the DMX is around 8 Mbytes. Thus I set maxphys=8388608 in ...

SUMMARY: pidentd 3.0.18 on Solaris 10 with DES encryption

6553 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:34:00
How to compile pidentd 3.0.18 on Solaris GA with DES encryption supportandHow to send unencrypted identd infor to localhosts, and encrypted identd informationt o remote systems using tcp_wrappersdonwload pidentd 3.0.18ftp://ftp.lysator.liu.se/pub/ident/servers/apply patch to ...

Summary: Solairis 8 AutoMount Maps & Disk Quotas

1960 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:34:00
Dear Gurus, Thanks to Casper Dik & Darren Dunham, I can finally useautomounter maps with quotas. My Original Question is given after the summary.Summary:The automounter is a construct to ease client mounting. Quotas aremaintained on the server, not the client. So the automounter ...

Invitation

973 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:34:00
Tander Tander has invited you to join hi5. By joining hi5, you will be connected to Tander and all of Tander's friends. hi5 is the place where friends meet. You can use hi5 for the following purposes:* Find old friends* Meet new people* Browse photosJoin Tander, meet Tander's friends, and ...

SUMMARY: v20z lcd stuck with "OS Booting"

1863 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:34:00
Thanks to: Anton Kaifel <anton.kaifel_at_zsw-bw.de> ** THE SOLUTION ** Anton pointed me to SunSolve document 77435 "Sun Fire[TM] V20z Server: The LCD Panel Stays on Operating System Booting" (SunSolve account ...

How to determine what app/program is using a spcific TCP or UDP p ort.

1021 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:34:00
Hello Folks, Is there a way with the native Solaris 9 commands (i.e. NOT lsof) todetermine what application/program is using a specific TCP or UDP port(s).TIALorisEsat Telecommunications Limited is a wholly owned subsidiary of BT Group plc Registered in Ireland, Registration No. 141524 Grand ...

SUMMARY: How to determine what app/program is using a spcific TCP or UDP p ort.

2992 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:34:00
Thanks to Casper Dik, Vince Merrell, Neil Quiogue and David Florespfiles is the way to go.Now if you want to know what port a process is using, just go withpfiles <PID> | grep port.If what you want (as I did) is to find out what process is using a specificport (i.e. 8003),all I could come ...

Blade 1500 OBP Patch; Three Beeps and Out

870 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:34:00
I've just applied the latest Open Boot Prom patch #116698-03 to my Blade 1500. The patch apparently succeeeded, according to the onscreen messages. At theend of the process, the system beeped three times and powered itself down.The same thing happens when I turn the power back on. After ...

fsck unable to repair volumes

1838 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:34:00
I'm running Veritas Volume Manager on my Sun Fire v880 and I'm unable tomount several file systems managed by it. fsck is unable to help me out.iostat -En indicates some trouble with one of my disks.Summary will be posted, many thanks in advance.bash-2.05# fsck -y ...

Splitting a file into 10.

265 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:34:00
Hi there,<br> Simple question, probably a simple answer with the head<br>command. Does anyone know how to split up a 100 line file, split up the<br>first 10 lines then send that to a file, then the 2nd 10 lines and send that<br>to a file and so on.<p>Alistair.<br>

Display warning message -- /etc/issue

982 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:34:00
I've searched Sunsolve and the archives, but haven't been able to find ananswer to my problem, though I've found similar problems in the archives.Running Solaris 9 and using the default CDE login, I would like to display the/etc/issue file in a "window" just below the dtlogin ...

How can I find my solris 7 system hacked or compromised

205 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:34:00
Hi Gurus,<br>How can I find my solaris 7 system hacked or compromised?<br>I will appricate any help.<br>Thanks,<br>Tony Patel <br><A HREF="/execute/ask/?codeinfoid=34873">pateltony at comcast.net</A> <br>

Summary: SFTP has no entry in utmpx

360 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:34:00
Thanks for fast response from Crist Clark.Here is his answer:--------------Only interactive SSH sessions that are allocated a tty and login shellwill be seen in utmp. Doing, $ ssh server commandWill not. Since an scp is essentially the same as doing a 'ssh servercommand', nothing will end up ...

reg ld.so.1 corrupt in mirrored disk

2299 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:34:00
Dear all,i am facing a problem where in the ld.so.1 is corruptin my mirrored HDD. The HDD is mirrored and so thenormal operation of copying the ld.so.1 from the cdromis not working..I did fsck:#fsck -y /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0It returns:** /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0** Last mount on !** phase 1 -check blocks ...

Memory for Netra X1 400 MHz?

776 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:34:00
I have an original 400 MHz Netra X1 with 512 MB RAM installed from 4sticks of 128 MB each.I would like to upgrade to the maximum. From what I understand, theoriginal 400 MHz model can only access 1 GB or less and/or it can onlyuse sticks that are 256 MB or less. So I guess I will buy 4 sicks ...

/usr/sbin/in.rexecd: getpeername: Socket operation on non-socket

501 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:34:00
Dear All , whenever am trying to run /usr/sbin/in.rexecd service on Solaris 2.6 ,it is giveing an error that /usr/sbin/in.rexecd: getpeername: Socketoperation on non-socket . can anybody help me out on this .Regards ...

trape 3e error

607 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:34:00
Hi Guys, I have an Ultra 5 SPARC machine which I have installed solaris 8 operating system. It was Up and running for more than 6 weeks. I have installed an aantivirus application on it. It also was working properly. But now I don't how it happend, it is in 'ok' saying trape 3e. When I ...

xdm start fails

1002 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:34:00
Hello,In a new V240 I installed Solaris 10. After staring xdm, I checked /usr/openwin/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-errors, and it contains the following errors:xdm error (pid 617): error 125 binding socket address 177/dev/fb: No such file or directory/dev/fb: No such file or directoryGraphics Adapter device ...

xdm start fails

1002 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:34:00
Hello,In a new V240 I installed Solaris 10. After staring xdm, I checked /usr/openwin/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-errors, and it contains the following errors:xdm error (pid 617): error 125 binding socket address 177/dev/fb: No such file or directory/dev/fb: No such file or directoryGraphics Adapter device ...

Reg Mirroring

929 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:34:00
Dear All, I am using a sun solaris 7 server with the HDDmirrored using disk suite.Suddenly due to some reason ld.so.1 got corrupted andso had to1. commented out the line rootdev:/pseudo/md at 0:0,0,blk in /etc/system.2. update the /etc/vfstab and change the entry for/dev/md/dsk/d0 back to ...

Install solaris 10 NIS pb

1300 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:34:00
Hello gurus,I've got some problems in the installation process with solaris 10.The first thing that i modified is the add_install_client script. The nameof every computer at my office begins with a capital letter, as Lidl forexemple. In the NIS map, there are some upper and lower first ...

UPDATE 2: Solaris doesn't recognise RAM upgrade.

7787 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:34:00
Hi Gurus, I haven't had the chance to get back to this problem until yesterday - aquick summary of the problem is that, after adding 4 x 1GB DIMMs to a SunFire 280R, the server is only seeing 1GB (i.e. 4 x 256MB DIMMs). On the recommendation of the company who supplied the memory, I ...

Storage spreadsheets

451 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:34:00
Hello Gurus,I need to create 2 spreadsheets for one SAN 6320, with information likepools,volume groups, pool size, volume names, volume sizes etc etc..does anyone has any template for that puprose that I can use please? or fromwhere I can get one ?Thank you in advance.... Angelos ...

ldapclient command missing

504 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:34:00
hey all,I'm running a v880 and several Blade2500's with Solaris 909/04 running. I haveSun One Directory 5.2 installed and running on the serverbutwhen I have to initialise the clients I found that I don'thave the ldapclient command. The man page is there but notthe command. I removed NIS and ...

SUMMARY: Setting up YP slave on remote subnet

954 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:34:00
Hi gurus. I got a number of responses. First let me say thanks to the following people: Daniel BirdDavid FosterRaymond JacksonCarl MarinoDarryl Baker Daniel and Darryl really went out of their way to ask me a lot of questions about what I've tried, with what results, checking config files ...

Sendmail very slow

2128 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:34:00
Hello SunManagersI am experiencing slowness on our Sendmail server.We are using Mozilla Thunderbird on Windows 2000desktop. E-mail clear th desktop quickly enough , butare slow reaching the inbox on the Sendamil server( /var/mail/[username] ) - for instance I have just sentmyself a test ...

SUMMARY: sybase database on files instead of raw volumes.

1985 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:34:00
SUMMARY:Thanks to all the people who responded. I got about 20 responses. Mostpeople said raw was the old method and files is the modern way to go. Ialso called sybase and they said with a modern SAN (EMC, etc..) you wontsee much of a speed difference with raw vs files.One person cautioned that ...

Login as certain user, but run program as root

266 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:34:00
On Solaris 9, can I login as a regular user and run my program as ROOT?<br>setuid does not seem to work.<br> <br>thanks.<br>Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around <br><A HREF=" http://mail.yahoo.com/default.htm"> http://mail.yahoo.com</A> <br>