Hi Gurus,I have a strange issue on Solaris 8.I am trying to delete certain folders inside home directory it doesn'tallow me to delete the same. I am able to some folders in the samedirectory but not all. Even as a root I can't delete those certainfolders. I don't have /home automounted.I ...

Hi,we have an urgent problem that I can't get resolved:a V440 on a new network segment needs to be Jumpstarted with Solaris-9,it gets (using TFTP) correctly the very initial boot image from aboot-server (RARP, BOOTP) on the same segment, does some BOOTP requeststo that same boot-server which ...

Hi all,I'm going to install a couple of servers using Jumpstart, but I've runinto a problem so I'm kinda in panic.This is the net boot:Executing last command: boot net - install Boot device: /pci at 1f,0/pci at 1,1/network at c,1 File and args: - installTimeout waiting for ARP/RARP ...

Hi,I have a problem with two AMD64 machines of which one is a two week old Sun Fire V20z. Both are running Solaris 10 03/05.>From time to time they both hangs an can't allocate pty's. If I then reboot it the time is reset to Jan 1 1970 and I get an error whie it is starting up that the ...

Update since I got a few replies that relate to the mini-Solaris (whichhas then already been loaded via NFS from the Jumpstart server) thatstarts up, but then sets an incorrect netmask and thus fails to proceedgetting the rest of the Jumpstart information.My problem is one step before that : ...

Hello all:<br>What is the max file size supported by Solaris 8 ( 64 bit )<br>-George<br>

Some more debugging outputs :the client ("ecarsoa3"/45.217.2.110):Rebooting with command: boot/pci at 1c,600000/network at 2:speed=100,duplex=full -v - install Boot device:/pci at 1c,600000/network at 2:speed=100,duplex=full File and args: -v -install/pci at 1c,600000/network at 2: ...

THANKS TO:Michael Imrick, Rob McCauley, Pascal Grostabussiat, Graeme Burke,Iain Miller, the hatter, Bernd Schemmer, Anthony D'Atri, Michael Horton,Shane Gainer, Thomas Payerle, Lee Wood, Alan Pae, JV,Adam Tomkinson, Eugene SchmidtSUMMARY:The most elegant solution came from Michael Imrick who ...

I need advice for Sun's patch management. I am trying to switch tousing newer tools to analyse my systems, download *signed* patchesand install them, all of which happens automated through scripts (sono GUI).I have recently played with a set of commands I like: smpatch analyze > ...

I have an A1000 attached to an E420R , running Solaris 7 and RaidManager 6.2.2Confusion has arisen in the config. of the above , so that now 'healthck -a' reportsthe following :chelus{root}45: healthck -aHealth Check Summary Informationwww: Failed Modulehealthck succeeded!Despite ...

Hi all,I managed to solve the problem just in time. Thanks Rob for posting"boot-image from..." :)This is very weird! can someone explain why this happens?Output for working Solaris 10 boot:Executing last command: boot net -v Boot device: /pci at 1f,0/pci at 1,1/network at c,1 ...

Hi folks,<p>Would like to check how to accomplish below scenario<br>RG1 running on node1, RG2 running on node2.<br>Before failover RG1 to node2, RG2 need to be OFFLINE in node2 first. I could not find any pre-offline script attribute in RG.<p>Thanks<br>

Update since I got a few replies that relate to the mini-Solaris (whichhas then already been loaded via NFS from the Jumpstart server) thatstarts up, but then sets an incorrect netmask and thus fails to proceedgetting the rest of the Jumpstart information.My problem is one step before that : ...

After much futzing, I figured something out. Creating the user usingthe Sun One console works. However, to have a home directory on aspecific server, that home directory has to be created and the user hasto be given rights to the folder based on their UID number. Aftercreation of the user ...

Hey folks,I'm running a Sun Fire v880 with Solaris 9 and Sun OneDirectory Server5.2. LDAP is used to manage user accounts. Ijust added four blade 2500's tomy network and configured LDAP correctly. Now LDAP seems to be creating alot of connections. I cannotremember if this is normal or not. ...

Is there a way to upgrade my server from Solaris 10 build 68 to the current03/05 version? I cannot connect this server to the internet. I cannot findany web pages that say how to do it or if it can be done. There is no upgradeoption when I put the disks in. It only allows me to reinstall. ...

hi friendsi have an NFS and NIS server... NFS clients are getting permissiondenied when doing a directory listing (ls) or changing directory (CD)to an automounted nfs filesystem...I've checked the permission of the shared directory and the NFSpermission and all looks good.. Am i missing ...

---------- Forwarded message ----------From: g at ry <loverboi at gmail.com>Date: Apr 6, 2005 12:13 PMSubject: NFS/Automount permission denied problemTo: codeprof at codeprof.comhi friendsi have an NFS and NIS server... NFS clients are getting permissiondenied when doing a directory ...

Hi All,I'm running Solaris 8 on an old E250 (dual CPU with 4GB RAM) that works asa fileserver and mailserver for the lab.I want to upgrade the OS before implementing a webmail solution and I waswondering if it's better to upgrade to Solaris 9 or Solaris 10.Which one should I choose and ...

Howdy,I got a LOT of responses to this one, my sincerest thanks to all whoresponded and to those who considered the problem as well.Basically, I was given what I was told was a DIFF SCSI card whichturns out to be a "Dual Single-Ended Ultra/Wide SCSI (PCI)" card.What I needed a ...

I'm trying to use a finish script to install some packages via jumpstart(Solaris 9).I have the following in my finish script:#!/bin/shBASE=/aMNT=${BASE}/mntADMIN_FILE=${BASE}/tmp/admin# Mount remote filesystem containing packages and patchesecho "Mounting /jumpstart/Solaris9_config to ...

hi friendsheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelp !!!i have an NFS and NIS server... NFS clients are getting permissiondenied when doing a directory listing (ls) or changing directory (CD)to an automounted nfs filesystem...I've checked the permission of the shared directory and the NFSpermission and all looks ...

I only got one response, from Eric Lewandowski (thanks!), who confirms thathe tried a similar setup at a previous site and found the sun-shipped SNMPsoftware unable to cope with any special characters at the start of thecommunity strings. He suggested switching to net-snmp, which would be nice ...

This one has Sun support stumped. Maybe one of you folks have come acrossthis.I have a V880 upon which I have done a new install of Solaris 8 end user,and then customized the heck out of it. The mods I make to customize theserver are the same mods as I have done on dozens of other servers, so ...

All, I have 20 disks (completely full E450) That are managed by VeritasVolume Manager. The disk I have to replace is c3t1d0s2. I want to find outa way to make the disks led flash or go out or something to identify that Iam pulling out the correct disk. I have controllers c0, c2, c3, c4, ...

Greetings,Looks like has bundled a version of ssh w/ solaris 10. With this version I cannot login to the server as a non-root user. I get the following error in messages:Apr 6 16:57:27 xxx sshd[736]: [ID 800047 auth.error] error: grantpt: Permission deniedApr 6 16:57:27 xxx sshd[736]: [ID ...

Hello allI am having some trouble finding the documentation I need. I have a system running Solaris 9 with a mirrored boot disk I am trying to re-deploy as a syslog server. In order to do so I need a larger /var partition than what I currently have.As of now I am using a 9 gig drive partitioned ...

Hey Guys,I am trying to find out all the perl modules that have been installed onmy newly jumpstarted v240 system. I am not sure if there is a easy way todo this with perl. Any suggestions would be appreciated.Thanks.uname -aSunOS dev.chamkila.org 5.9 Generic_117171-15 sun4u sparc ...

Hi,Original message, under answer.Thank you toMatthew Gillard, Kelly Ormsby, Alex Stade, Pablo Jejcic and Doug Hubbard forresponding.I commented out the following entries from /etc/inetd.confnetbios-ssn stream tcp nowait /usr/local/samba/bin/smbd smbdnetbios-ns dgram udp wait ...

My Sunfire (SunOs sesame 5.8 Generic_108528-27 sun4u sparc SUNW, Sun-Fire-280R) has for the last year been operating without problems. This week(Tuesday) the computer "sesame" 'hung'. We could not rlogin to the machine and the terminal attached to sesame was also unresponsive.I ...

Since OpenBoot 4.0, it is no longer possible to change the hosted of a Sun system by manipulating the NVRAM.I have written a utility that allows you to dynamically change the hostid in the kernel - without needing to reboot.It also allows you to change the platform name (as reported by ...

hi all this is karan i am using ultra-10system running on solaris7 platform. i have installed two ide harddisk. my one harddisk is 20 gb and operating system running on this harddisk. now i have installed second harddisk. it is show in format command. my second ide harddisk is 40 gb. but it ...

After checking John Birtley's README for hostid.tar.gz, I noticed that it required a license (you must "contact sales at buildmonkey.com for a valid licence."). I decided not to execute it but rather to post my own program with the same functionnality:get : ...

Thanks to Adam, Jacint & everyone those who replied.Lot of people replied that there are some areas where sun sucks over Linux.Last reply i got from Jacint, was interesting and found working.One may use pkgmap file in package to see what files it will install. for 2nd its not possible ...

Hi,<p>We are not able to login on two sun blades(chassis) even thru console.<br>When we reset the blade led is not changing from user0 to user1.<br>Please suggest.<p>Thanks & Regards<br>Panakj Verma.<br>

Hi - hoping someone can help me with a problem I've been asked to lookat.Platform:SunFire V8808GB RAM12 X 36GB internal disksSolaris 5.8 108528-22Server as far as I can tell has been running fine, was rebooted thismorning and now will not boot. But just continually loops with thefollowing ...

Only two responses but GOOD enough, thanks Mazhar Khan who pointed me to use "RGOffload" resource type to accomplish my missiondescribedThanks Ramesh Edupalli who refer me to Sun Document ID : 78315 for resource group dependencies workaround for SunCluster 3.0Yes, I am using ...

Running Solaris 8 with latest recommended patches from 1 month ago.Also running Veritas VM 3.5 and Veritas FileSystem 3.5.Vmstat's "b" column, for kernel threads blocked for resources keeps, keeps climbing.Below is just one line of many:r b w swap free re mf pi ...

I forgot to mention that I'm running kernel patch 108528-29 on these servers.I have found that 108528-28 apparently does indeed cause this problem when running Veritas VxFS.The solution, at the time, seemed to have been to backout of -28 to at least 108528-27. Again, notice that we are at rev ...

Does anyone know how to get Solaris to transfer a file larger that 32meg<br>from a sun box running tftpd besides using some another vender's tftpd? <br>Thanks.<p>--<br>Let he who be he, be he.<br>

Dear All,I have the following quite urgent query (I have to startcopying large amount of data immediatelly) ...I've got large SCSI array - some 3TBytes.First I logged to the array and created 2 LUNs - 1.5TB each (i.e. > 1TB ) and tried to label them with format. The partitions looked ...

Hello Managers .We are in the process or designing the Arquitecture of a Sun Cluster 3.Xrunning solaris 9 to run Informix XPS, but we have one doubt .In order to the storage to be shared and accessed simoultaneosly byinformix in both nodes , which software product should we use ?Cluster Veritas ...

I am trying to figure out how Solaris determines the controller ID for a particular SCSI controller. I am not having much luck.I have two 220R lab machines which I jumpstarted with Solaris 9 U7, both hosts are identical with respect to hardware as well as OS install. However, on one of the ...

I am looking for a similar mailing list to this codeprof but for a<br>Cisco PIX mailing list.. Can someone point some out?<p>Thank you in advanced.<br>

Thanks to everybody who replied so promptly, especially Darren Dunham who nailed it.Solaris builds and maintains a directory called '/dev/cfg' which contains the controller assignments. This happens whenever a new controller is seen. Device numbers are assigned on an incremental basis.It ...

Thanks a lot for your responses....Despite the valuable suggestions from Gurus this mystery was notresolvedAt last I took the backup of /home and formatted it. Now things are OK.I assume it was a corrupted file system that might have caused thismystery.ThanksB-----Original Message-----From: ...

I made three changes to the pkgadd. I added the -n for non-interactive,changed -d ${MNT} package to -d ${MNT}/package, and added all to the end ofthe line.I had done the -d change originally, so I think the problem was either the-n or the all. Either way, it now works. I'm getting an ...

Hello:I have a Sun One Directory Server V5.2 running on a Solaris 9 system. While comparing to a V4 iPlanet setting, the iPlanet version has a dsgw directory. But I can not locate such directory on V5.2. I have Directory Server and Admin Server installed. Is dsgw a Proxy Server function? Should ...

Hello Felow Sun Managers!I'm a bit baffled. I'm seeing the following during a routine and successful jumpstart installation:Beginning Flash archive processingPredeployment processing/usr/bin/uudecode: ISO8859-1 to 646 conversion: Invalid argument16 blocks/usr/bin/uudecode: ISO8859-1 to 646 ...

Hello experts,I am sure most sys admins have at some point compared SVM with VxVM for thepro's and cons's of both of them.Is there a concise comparison document somewhere?Has solaris 9 SVM comparable to vxvm ?Anyone who can share experience of how easy or difficult are both products on ...