Hi Everybody,<p> Is there a way to match up the output of the prtdiag command with the<br>physical hardware in the back on an Sunfire 6800 or for that matter any<br>machine? I will summarize.<p>Thanks in advance,<br>Tino<br>

I'm on a Solaris 9 box where sendmail is not running.I'm trying to send mail out as user oracle but get this errorand the message never arrives do I need to be running sendmail daemons to send mail out as non root user for this to work?#/oracle % which mail/bin/mail#:/oracle % /bin/mail ...

Looks like I just needed to unmount the filesystems before doing the metaclear -f. If it's the / /var file systems then change them back to their c#t#d# designations in /etc/vfstab and reboot first then do the metaclear.And, it's not necessary to do a newfs on the partitions on the 2nd. ...

Hello,We have 3 Solaris 9 servers, on all of which smpatch/pprosvc says weneed to apply patch 120445-01. However, trying to apply the patch fails: patchadd 120445-01 Checking installed patches... One or more patch packages included in 120445-01 are not installed on this system.The ...

I have a critical server that I need to add an IP to. There is someconcern that simply doing the ifconfig on the live server might not doit and might break existing stuff that is running.This server is an E250 with Solaris 9 running a complex sendmail setup,a web site with php, mysql, ssl, and ...

I asked:> I have a question about Sun SSH vs OpenSSH. When vulnerabilities are> discovered and an alert is sent by CERT, IW, FSISAC, SAGE, etc, it indicates> the vendor and version of software that is vulnerable. Whenever the alert> has to do with ssh, it indicates several ...

Dear managers,I am trying to install Solaris on a E3500 server using myjumpstart server (in different subnet). I have setup the boot server in thesame subnet and added this client info on the boot server. But while givingcommand "boot net" is asking for kernel file name. I dont have ...

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----Hash: SHA1Question:"""Hi, Sun Managers.I just bought two X2100 machines with no keyboard. This model uses a USBkeyboard. I thought I had such keyboard in the office, but I failed, andnow I must buy one.My question is simple: Can I use a ...

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----Hash: SHA1I bought the optional IPMI module for the Sun Fire X2100, but I havesome problems:* With the IPMI module installed, the server comes to life when theelectricity is plugged, even if the server was "shutdowned", ignoringthe BIOS configuration ...

Hi,<p>I will be out of the office until the 13th of February.<br>For unix support please contact <A HREF="/execute/ask/?codeinfoid=39370">solaris_support at rssd.esa.int</A><p>Thank You,<p>Olive Buggy<br>

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Hi! We recently bought our first SunFire X2100 server with dual coreprocessor. It really rocks, but there is one big set back. Every time,when it boots, just after Ram Checking and searching for hard disks itthrows following error message:#############**** WARNING: non-matching MP processor ...

Hi any EBS (Enterprise backup Software) expertsI have installed a right to use licence from Sun which is supposed toallow us to use the extra 20 slots in our existing L180 librarythe Networker configuration is is still limited to 1-30 slotsDoes the Networker software need to be reconfigured ...

Hi all,We are runnin our application on two Sun V240 server where we use JGroups over multicasting to enable message delivery between server nodes. Occasionally we see follwing entries in our logs:[2006-02-08 17:07:27,856] [TimeScheduler.Thread] [WARN ] [g.jgroups.protocols.STABLE] [] picked ...

We're seeing a bizarre problem, and I'm hoping someone may know something about it.About 6 months ago, we purchased about 150 V210 servers, configured pretty much identically. Each has dual CPU and 4-8GB memory, two hard drives. All Sun parts. We also purchased quad Gigaswift cards for each ...

I only got one reply, but it completely answered my question.Thank you Michael.Answer below:you won't be able to attach the StorEdge L9 to the X4100, because the L9requires an addin HVD SCSI controller which is *only* available as a PCIcard. The X4100 has only PCI-X slots.Please review the ...

I have a group of NFS clients (Solaris 8) that have been talking to myLinux NFS server with no problems for many months. One of the Solaris 8systems (an UltraSparc 60) was unused, so I wiped it clean, and installedSolaris 9 (09/05 media)+recommended patch cluster. Once I added the 20or so ...

I'm working on a standard for using SVM in our environment. Most of it has been straightforward, except for figuring out a way to decide on whether more than the default size for replicas should be used. All I have been able to get from the Sun docs is that 4mb is suitable for "most ...

We are planning to 'ghost' root disk across a few x2100 machines, for thereasons of being too lazy (and a bit clueless) to setup a jumpstartserver, lack of time, and a relatively small # of servers (10).Here's the plan, let me know if you think it'll work1) setup x2100 as we need it2) run ...

Hi all,I have a directory (/var/ldap/restore) that won't delete. I do rm -rf/var/ldap/restore (as root), it spits back "rm: Unable to removedirectory restore: File exists". Yet the directory is empty. What am Imissing?BTW, I need to be able to delete this directory for the ...

I posted this same thing to comp.sys.sun.admin, so if some of you see it twice sorry... and I hope I've given enough info:> Hi... I've get a v40z that I'd rather not have a monitor connected to (because of space issues). I've also got an console server (an SGI box) with a little 16-port ...

Hi Gurus...I'm using ldap and I need to add a user.Using myldap it's necessary to give new correlativeuid number and a valid gid number..Now, my question is:Is there a way to find out the last UID number asigned?Thanks in advance...-- (+--------------------------------+) | Omar Chiyean | | ...

Hi Gurus..This is the answer:Graham Wood reply was:getent passwd | cut -f 2 -d ':' | sort -nOnly i have to change field number, 3 instead 2.So it become:getent passwd | cut -f 3 -d ':' | sort -nAnd thas was all.Also Rodrick Brown reply this:ldaplist -l passwd|perl -e 'while (<>) { ...

Dear Sun Managers,I downloaded the latest 8_Recommended.zip for Solaris 8 to patch my server.My server info before patching: SunOS orchid 5.8 Generic_117350-29 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-60After patching, the kernel revision doesn't change.Anybody that has applied that patch, please let me know ...

I'd like to understand any differences between "init 0" and "halt' fromsingle user mode.We had an instance where we changed a procedure to use "init 0" instead ofsync sync halt, and I think it failed to properly close a file.-- U.S. Encouraged by Vietnam Vote - ...

I thought I knew the answer to this, but I'm second-guessing myself.Any comments welcome, and I'm happy to summarize:With nsswitch.conf looking at files for both group and passwd, is itpossible to create a group with member GIDs as opposed to UIDs? A groupof groups, so to speak.Finally, if ...

Hi,We have an E10000, and we need to detect when a panic dump is in progress ina domain, when wecan't access to the domain and we can't acces to the ssp.We have Solaris 8 installed in the domain and we have ssp software version3.4.How we can do that?Thanks in advance.Roberto ...

Hi all, I have a system (6800 domain with oracle databases+tomcat servers) with 20G physical memory and 30G swap, in the last days i can see that the space used memory is:~8Gb free physical memory and ~0-1'5Gb free swap, i want that the system no swapping while have physical memory, how i ...

Hi Gurus,We recently purchased JetStor SATA array (4 TB). I configured the array and created 3.2 TB RAID set/Volume set (RAID 6 + Spare) and attached sun Fire V210 running Solaris 8. After RAID was setup i tried to do format from Solaris 8 and was able to see the device. when i seleted the ...

I have an e4500 Running Solaris 9 with a graphic console. When I power on the system the console goes to the OK prompt and when I boot the console flickers and goes dark. Although I can't see the console I can login from ssh and do not see any error in /var/adm/messages. I beleive it is not ...

Hello,Does anyone have the release notes for SunOne Iplanet Webserver version6.0 service pack 10 ?The url via sun download pages leads nowhere http://docs.sun.com/db/doc/819-4464AlsoDoes anyone know how to tell the service pack my iplanet is running ? -a banner on shoes versionHTTP/1.1 200 ...

Hi AllI have a V240 just installed a graphics card (PGX64) - but the machinekeeps wanting to boot from Consol and wont boot from the graphics card.Any one have any suggestions as where I am going wrong or what I have todo?All the bestColin SymingtonRecurve Technologies LimitedPurlieus Barn, ...

Do any of you guys or girls remember to command for checking whatpackage a file belongs to?:)Leiv Jarle LarsenConsultant______________________________Ementor Norge AS, Skvadronvn. 2, 4050 SOLAMobil +47 930 33 062leiv.jarle.larsen at ...

Thanks to Brett Lymn, Alfredo De Luca, Steve Butterfield and bgl for<br>very quck replies<p>pkgchk -p -l <full-path-to-file><p> Or<p>grep filename /var/sadm/install/contents<p>:<i>)<br></I><Leiv><br>

We have a Sun Fire X4200 x64 Server, A65-NFB1-1N-1G-AL8, that does nothave an internal dvd/cd player. I'd like to purchase an add-on thatis bootable. We have tried some usb externals, but they fail duringthe install process. Is there an external that we can purchase thatwill work for ...

Has anyone removed veritas VxVM from a running Solaris 8 server? Iinterherited one and need to remove it. I have some instructions I got offa website. The area that is concerning me is that it says to restore/etc/vfstab to it's pre-installation state. However, when I look at aformat > ...

Dear managers,I am having a SF20K with 24 CPUs in one domain (US-III+ andUS-IV processors). It has Solaris 9 OS and VxVM 4.1 and Oracle running on it.The problem is that all the time CPU usage is exceeding 95%-100%. Only onweekends/night time, the usage comes down to 60-70%.A call is already ...

That was interesting. Thanks to all who wrote back. I first triedfscking the partition, and it turned out that there was a weird linkthing going. When I ran fsck, it reported "ldap is an extraneous HardLink to Directory /ldap/restore," which is what I needed to delete. Ihad done ...

All,<p>Can you run Sun Cluster software 3.1 on both sparc and x86 architecture. Yes<br>I know the software will run independently on each platform. However, can you<br>run different architecture in the same cluster?<p>Jason<br>

Thanks to Webpro, Darren Dunham, Jason LeDuc, Nathan Bardsley, AndrewHall, Jerry Kemp, Aaron Lineberger, Tom Crummey, Brooke King, IainMiller, Jason Gove, Christopher Wianecki, Suresh Rajagopalan, Steven C.Liu, Ric Anderson, Yiannis Kanellopoulos, Simon Yuan, and Karl Vogel.Consensus was ...

hello.I see 119254-14 on a host I jumpstarted from Update 1 (solaris 10 01/06) but I noticed on sunsolve I only see that patch at rev 10.I am confused.Thanks.--Keywords: patchadd patchrm error memory pspool fail global zone rlogin telnetSummary: SunOS 5.10: Install and Patch Utilities ...

> From: "Leiv Jarle Larsen" <leiv.jarle.larsen at ementor.no>> To: <codeprof at codeprof.com>> > Thanks to Brett Lymn, Alfredo De Luca, Steve Butterfield and bgl for> very quck replies> > pkgchk -p -l <full-path-to-file>> > Or> > ...

On our email/webserver I'm constantly getting the following messages(below) on /var/adm/messages.This is causing daemons to quit and the server to pretty much halt.I've rebooted several times, checked cables, (on 4 18gb disk backplaneand 8 18 gb backplane), but messages continue. I get ...

good morning gurus !!!<p>i am doing an ldapsearch on OU=GROUPS for userids that belong to admin.. I<br>am usign the command<p># ldapsearch -h <host> -p <port> -b "ou=GROUPS" "cn=admin" and it does<br>not work...<p>am i doing it worng ?<p>thanks much !!!!<br>

I've just moved to Solaris 10 on my desktop to evaluate it before moving our main systems to it. Before I get down to understanding all the new concepts I have one niggle.To use ssh-agent I have a linedtstart_session[0]="/usr/bin/ssh-agent $DT_BINPATH/dtsession"in my .dtprofile. ...

We've been forced to move from one datacenter to another, due todatacenter's closure. (for those curious, Intel/Savvis in DC area)The datacenter we are moving to is actually nearby, within 10 miles or so.We have used this opportunity to refresh some of our equipment, so abouthalf the ...

Hi,I have a weird situation on Sun Fire V210, the clock in stuck in 2 / 3seconds loop. If you set the time to 13:00:00 then goes to 13:00:01then 13:00:02 then back to 13:00:00 ad infinitum.This situation happened after recent update from Solaris 8 to Solaris 9.Solaris 9 recommended patches ...

Dear Gurus, Any body got the SUN Service Maintenance Procedure Guide.. I need to do the maintenance service to my servers Thank you -- No virus found in this outgoing message.Checked by AVG Free Edition.Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 267.15.7/259 - Release Date: ...

I'm looking to setup a boot device from an HBA...... System Info Solaris 9 Veritas 4.0 JNI146x cards I was looking to mirror using Veritas, then break the mirror and boot from the HBA disk. Anyone got any ideas?Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam ...

Hello:To implement TLS on sendmail on a Solaris 9 host, I installed the following packages:Sendmail 8.13.5 source, gcc, Berkley DB, libiconv, OpenSSL, and SASL.While generating certificate, I did not use the CA.sh scripts which comes with OpenSSL. Instead, I issued openssl command to generate ...