Many people responded to this. Half asked if I would summarize as theyare in the same situation and half responded with solutions that theyhave come to. Most recommended that it simply relies on theapplications that you are running on the box and several responded that4 gigs should be ample ...

Managers,I have a sun v120 with mirrored disks that after being rebooted did notcome up. I believe that one disk had died without notice and since thiswas the boot disk it was only noticed then. The issue I'm having is thatthe disk is detectable but I am unable to format it. I have ...

Hi,I have 2 hard disks (73GB and 36GB) striped into about 104GB and mountedas a single filesystem for non-system data storage. Now the 36GB disk isdead, and I would like to know if I can still recover any data that ison the 73GB disk.There are data backups over network, but it is time consuming ...

Related the previous message:The failed disk info is "offline" in dmesg (but the disk is connectedand powered on):Mar 2 19:21:20 fmri0 scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING:/pci at 1f,4000/scsi at 3,1/sd at 3,0 (sd18):Mar 2 19:21:20 fmri0 offlineIn format, ealier today I had: ...

Hi gurus.I'm running solaris 8 and 9 on sun 480's and 490's with 16gb and 32gb ram.I'm running oracle and sybase on these.I currently have a 8gb swap on the root disk.All my servers are connected to fast SAN's that are typically raid5 across7 or 13 disks with 2gb cache on the SAN.Should I ...

I have a number of Sun Ultra 5 and Ultra 10 workstations with failing nvrambatteries. They exhibit the infamous MAC address of ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ffproblem.After reading the nvram FAQ at http://www.squirrel.com/squirrel/sun-nvram-hostid.faq.html , I ordered newnvram chips from digikey (ST ...

I am getting some critical errors messages on my sun server ( 280R) solaris9 runing sendmail and named servicessomething like picld[78]: [ID 478985 daemon.error] ERROR runningpsvc_hotplug_notifier_policy_0 on DISK1 (524112) picld[78]: [ID 478985 daemon.error] ERROR ...

Hi,<br> <br>I'd like to find out what are the pros & cons between the free Logical Volume Manger and the Veritas filesystems.<br> <br>Any comments will be greatly appreciated ?<br> <br>Cheers<p>---------------------------------<br>Find local movie times and trailers on Yahoo! Movies.<br>

Hello,I cannot get nss_ldap or ldapclient (Solaris 10 client, native commands) towork right when the LDAP server uses TLS and a CA-signed server certificate(works fine if I use a self-signed server cert). Has anyone encounteredthis problem and/or know how to fix it? The error I get when using ...

Hi, I have StorEdge L280 with 8 slots. I manually loaded one of the tapes in.When I dumped , ufsdump 0uvf /dev/rmt/1m /var, it got a error message which did not dump: Need to restart YES/NOand when I look at the /var/adm/messages, I found an error : SCSI transport failed: reason ...

Thanks to the many who replied and helped. I finally managedto narrow down the problem and got a solution from the SunSupport forum. Turns out that I hadn't got proxyagent set upproperly so the client was not binding to the serverproperly.I just ran idsconfig again and reconfigured the values ...

Hi Can any body tell me how to Speed up the accessing time of NFS resource.Is there any way?Its taking very long time to read/write operation on the remote resourcemounted locally.Thanks in advance.--------------------------------------------------Warm RegardsKodanda Pani G Sr.Engineer - Server ...

Hi Can any body tell me how to Speed up the accessing time of NFS resource.The Server OS and Client OS is Solaris 9.And the Server is Ultra 5 machine (Configured long back) and Clients areUltra 10 and Sun Blade machines.Is there any way?Its taking very long time to read/write operation on the ...

Hi - have just moved one of our Sun E220R's between data centres and nowit won't boot?Spec. is:Sun E220R256mb RAM2 x scsi disks1 x 360mhz cpuSolaris 9Server powered down ok, moved to new location + switched on.All I got was "Data access error".So switched server off, took lid off ...

dear all,I am having problems printing on solaris 10-bash-2.05b# /etc/rc2.d/S80lp startsvcprop: Pattern 'svc:/application/print/server:default' doesn't match any entitiessvcadm: Pattern 'svc:/application/print/server:default' doesn't match any instancesWhen I try use the Solaris Print ...

Hello all,<br>is there a possibility to determine the time a <A HREF="/execute/ask/?codeinfoid=35015">process at Solaris8</A> was<br>started?<br>ps -ef prints the day, but not the exact time. Have checked the ps<br>manpage without a positiv result.<p>Ideas?<p>tia,<br>Aleks<br>

Hi,I've a running solaris 9 + DS 5.2 configuration to authentificate users(with ldapclient). Everithing is working well but I've problems when a usertries to change its password. If the password is stored let's say in SSHA, when the user changes itspassword the encryption scheme is no more ...

There are at least two solutions.One solution is to read the ps manpage more carefully:--snip% ps -eo pid,etime,args...% man ps...etime In the POSIX locale, the elapsed time since the pro- cess was started, in the form: [[dd-]hh:]mm:ss where dd is the ...

I received many emails saying that the drive was most likely dead.It was also suggested that I run iostat -En (thanks Jim!), which gavethe following results:iostat -Enc1t0d0 Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 10 Transport Errors: 0Vendor: SEAGATE Product: ST336607LSUN36G Revision: 0307 ...

Update on my E220R problem. Have got some diagnostics output from theserver which can be seen below. A suggestion came through to maybe try &do a boot cdrom from the ok prompt. But still no joy. It just stops atthe Initializing memory stage.Again any help would be appreciated.Hardware Power ...

Hello,I am having a Sun Fire 890R with SUN PCI Dual ChannelHBA card(Qlogic), Can any one help me with getting thecommand to find the WWN Number of each Port of thecard.Thanks in Adv,RegardsSunny.Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ...

I setup a solaris 9 machine to be my log host serverby adding the auth.info entry to the syslog.conf fileto point to a local file system on that machine.For the clients I have an entry in their syslog.confauth.info @loghostBut it's not logging to my loghost server it's logging toeach client ...

Hello,I am about to replace a 480 R system running Solaris 8with SUN 890R with Solaris 9. I have done theapplication testing, and it is working I would like toknow what is the best method to replace the systems inSAN Environment. 480R system is now connected to Qlogic Switchs with 1GF-Cal Card ...

I ended up changing the entry in each clients /etc/syslog.confto auth.info @hostnameinstead ofauth.info @loghostThe loghost entry wasn't resolving to my loghost server, insteadthings were logging to the local client.In my /etc/nsswitch.conf file I havenisplus listed first so I would have ...

SunMgrs,[I originally posted this in July, and a Pre-Summary shortly thereafter. Ijust realized I never sent a proper summary.]Short answer - We ended up going with QLogic 2310F cards, and using VxDMPfor the multipathing, using VXVM/VXFS/VCS 4.0 on Solaris 9.To elaborate...In regards to ...

We are looking at connecting 3 v880s running solaris 8 into our FAStT 900.have any of you out there done anything like this?what do I need to be aware of?we are looking at the following Qlogic HBAsQlogic QLA2300F, Qlogic QLA234X or QLA236Xdoes anyone have any recommendations about these ...

Unless I over looked it somewhere I can't seem to find the "how to" configureapache2 for SSL on Solaris. I was able to config/compile/install it w/ the--enable-ssl option on so I know it's "there", I'm just not sure what to donext. Looking in the conf/ssl.conf file it ...

Sunmanagers,I'm looking for suggestions on a centralized documentation management systemthat would be shared by a team of 5 sysadmins and a few PHB's. There are somesimilar threads in the archives, but they're a few years old. I'm interestedin the latest trends used by list members and ...

One of our production Solaris 9 systems (280R, 2x UltraSPARC-III,2GB main mem) hard hung today. After power cycling the hung system,I recovered the following from /var/adm/messages.This is some type of CPU error, and it worries me a bit.Has anyone ever seen this type of CPU error before?Note ...

Hi folks,I got a situation here, running two node solaris 9 Sun Cluster 3.1, I put /u01,/u02 and /u03 fs in shared storage underHAStoragePlus control. But when I#umount /u02 SunCluster does not detect this and failover to another node.I have enabled resource monitoring. How to make SunCluster ...

Hi all,A strange problem has developed on one of our servers, a Sun Fire V100.The dmfe1 interface is connected to our backups network, and around thetime that a network backup kicks off (via Veritas NetBackup), _lots_ ofthe following messages are logged to syslog :Mar 4 04:04:00 ...

Hi Gurus,Today I saw the following error once. I am worried is there any problem inthe hard disk.Following are the error messages. -----------------------------------------------scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING: /sbus at 7,0/fcaw at 0,0/sd at 1,2 (sd63): Mar 4 12:24:59 sunserver SCSI ...

Dear Gurus, Kindly guide me in the following task.1. I want to configure Boot Server on Sun Machine.2. Config and Install Server should be Netapp Filer.3. Boot Server with Quad Ethernet so that I can jumpstart from 4different networks. Please pass me if you have any info like this.Best ...

Hi,One switch give me the below error. Please suggest.ld.so.1: expr: fatal: relocation error: file expr: symbol nbra: referenced symbol not foundThe system is coming up. Please wait.ld.so.1: /usr/bin/expr: fatal: relocation error: file /usr/bin/expr: symbol nbra: referenced symbol not ...

I had a Fire 240 with a broken CD/DVD drive and needed to install Solaris ASAP.Maybe some one will find this usefull-- Antsnio Vasconcelos/(Administrador de Sistemas)ALL2IT-Infocomunicagues, SATorre de Monsanto, 6: PisoMiraflores, AlgisPORTUGALTelf.: + 351 21 412 39 50Fax.: + 351 21 410 51 94/ ...

Hi all,I have an urgent problem here, and would appreciate any help... I have aMySQL server running on an E450 with 1.5Gb RAM, and mirrored disks viaDiskSuite. MySQL is 4.0.22. Solaris is 9 04/04, latest patch clusterapplied.The iowait on this system is sky-high (50-60%), and when I use truss ...

MANY thanks to all those who replied ; including (no particular order):Tom Crummey Peter Ondruska Rich Teer Martin.WheatleyTristan Ball Michael Horton Octave OregonThe general consensus has been very consistent, and very positive. Many reports suggest that observed performance is ...

I will confess, this posting is both a question and an answer, all at once. I made this observation earlier today while testing an inexpensive PCI IDE Raid Controller card, intended for mirroring a windows box - and I gave this procedure a go "just for a lark", using a drive pulled ...

This one is driving me nuts. I am connecting to my Solaris 8 server using Reflection X version 12. If Ilogin as my user ID and set DISPLAY=<ip address of PC>;export DISPLAY andthen run /usr/openwin/bin/xclock everything is fine. If I then login asroot instead of my userID and do the ...

Further to my original mail, a couple of people have helped me trackthis down a little further (thanks to Jennine Townsend and KjellGrindalen). I have determined that the read syscalls are failing onnetwork sockets. Taking the output from truss, I can see that a typicalfile descriptor is :1019: ...

Hi admins, I need to install the last Recommended_8 cluster patch, but,how is you knowledge, the installation of cluster patch take a long time.My doubt is, i need to shutdown applications, DataBase, and more toinstall the patch? I mean, it's high very recommended to shutdownapps? I can't to ...

Getting the following eror on Solaris 8....<p># crontab -e<br>XView error: Cannot open connection to window server: :0 (Server package)<br>The crontab file was not changed.<br>

I have a need to put two Dell servers & a rack-mounted Dell KVM in mystandard Sun rack. The problem is that the Dell rack kits are ~4-5inches too short. Does anyone have a workaround? I can put in a work order for a sheetmetal part to made on site if need be, so if anyone has a design, ...

Thanks toVincent.Vallee, Clive McAdam, Hallen, Mark , Paveza, Gary, Chris Ruhnke,mike.salehi, Coy Hile, simonb, Bischof, Ralph, Harrington, David B, BerndSchemmer, John Christian.I know that this is some thinks basics for admins, but, i haven thisdoubt, after many maintenence windows with long ...

Sunmanagers,Thank you for all of the expert opinions! All of the suggestions look likeexcellent applications. All of them could probably be adapted to our needswith varying degrees of effort. My focus is on finding something that providesmost of what we need with the least amount of ...

A few people had solaris 10 working and and noted the rack kits do not work with old sun racks, which is what we have at work.Thanks to everyone and sorry for the delay.Here are two more emails:Hi.Here we've bought a v20z in december. The box is running under sol10-b72since few months without ...

Sirs,<p>Has anyone configured a Quad Ethernet (X9273A - Intel PRO/1000MT PCI/PCI-X)<br>on a v20z with WINDOWS 2000 ? We tried a driver downloaded from INTEL's site<br>that didn4t work (PRO2KXP.EXE). OK, we know that SUN only mention LINUX<br>compatibility, but .. you know...<p>Thanks,<p>Alex<br>

The problem ended up being that the CA certificate did not have the CA flagset, which one of my co-workers discovered. The SSL connections workedfine once that was remedied with a correct CA certificate. We suspect thatwithout the CA flag set the SSL verification process mistook it for ...

I have a V440 where I will be running a local database for our testing.I have created 3 stripes across the 4 internal disks.I usedmetainit d30 1 4 c1t0d0s3 c1t1d0s0 c1t2d0s3 c1t3d0s3metainit d40 1 4 c1t0d0s3 c1t1d0s0 c1t2d0s3 c1t3d0s3metainit d50 1 4 c1t0d0s3 c1t1d0s0 c1t2d0s3 c1t3d0s3Then I ...

I run Solaris 8. When running a Korn Shell script, "nohup xxx.ksh<br>&" and then logoff of my session the script exits.<br>Does anyone know why Korn shell scripts would not work properly with nohup?<br>