Solaris 10E15K's (1 domain)Wasn't there a "known" limit on the size of swap in Solaris and it starts tonegativily effect performance?Not sure of the size of the boot disks, probably 72GB or 144GB...So we definitely have root, var, and swap on it's own slice........Thanks for any ...

Dear managers,I have upgraded OS of my 6800 box from Solaris 8 to Solaris 9using liveupgrade method. But the problem is that, on Solaris 9 OS, I am notable to see my all hdd's which are visible on Solaris 8 (originalenvironment). I am not sure whether it is because of some storage driver ...

ON older versions of Solaris there used t be a toll Initial System CrashDump Analysis (iscda.sh). It appears that this tool has been deprecated onnewer versions of Solaris.So, let me pose a more generic question. "How can i analyze Solaris 10crash dumps?"Thanks for any pointers.-- ...

Hello everybody,I'm trying to install a jumpstart server (solaris 8 or 9 on a sparc) to hostDebian/RedHat/SuSE images (maybe also windowze) for sparc and x86 clients.I've been reading the documentation from Sun, but I couldn't see any info onsetting up such a system (everything seems to be ...

Hi Managers:Is there a way to find which files in a givendirectory that are 6 months old?I need to identify those files and directoriesand report the total disk space usage & so that I canarchive them to tape.Is the "find" command the only thing available?ie (find . -name -print ...

Hello All,<p>Does anyone know how to creat a unix account/user that only has FTP access?<p>Thanks<br>Sashah<br>

Hi Managers,Just wondering if any of you had an problems running SunVTS for x86?I installed the x86 version, didn't see any errors.I started the application and it comes up just fine, using vtstty and sunvts.I try to start a test but all I get is this(G3-b-TEST)Testing completed: 0 pass(es), ...

Sorry about wasting bandwidthOnly the vts frame work was installed.Well at least you guys know that if you don't get anything in yourSystem Map, you don't have all the vts components installed.It works now.Stupid me, I am still very new at this.-----Original Message-----From: codeprof-bounces ...

Team:Can someone point out some good reads for Solaris 8 or9 with veritas file systems? I am from hp-ux worldtrying to manage some sun servers. Please Advise.ThanksJoeTired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ...

Many thanks to all who replied. This story has a happy ending.In a situation where an array loses power, and the server does not, eachdisk that the system attempts to read will fail. In a miror situation, itis possible, then, to have multiple read fails. For each failure that isnot fatal ...

On Solaris 10, I am issuing the mount command to mount the directory from NetApp filer and I am getting the message "permission denied".If I mount from a solaris 9 and under version it mounts.I am not sure if any of the file in solaris 10 needs to be edited before mounting. I ...

Hello everyone, We're planning on configuring a huge E25K domain running Solaris 8 (02/04). The domain will have 8 System Boards, each with 4 1350Mhz US-IV processors. This will configure the domain at 8*4*2 = 64 cores. Since Solaris 8 does not have MPO (s8 is a requirement for this app), we ...

Good day,Although not definitive, it seems the CPU/memory board might becausing the trouble. I had/have no chance to replace the board now.I have replaced the failed DIMMs, leaving group B1 empty, and no errorsso far.Thanks to Joe Fletcher and Sandwich Maker:Joe Fletcher wrote:Sounds like what ...

Hi Sun Gurus, When i rebooted last time a v440 hardware with Solaris 8 ..server came up and went for panic. And in analysis the panic string was sync initiated. Panic String --------------0x100558e0: sync initiatedWhat might have caused the crash ...?Best ...

I have a system which crashed and upon reboot / requires fsck. At theend of this message is a transcript of that session. Also, df -hprovides the following (-h used here for readability):# issuing df -hdrsmpapp02# df -hFilesystem size used avail capacity Mounted ...

Hi list,I have the following problem with SNMP on a solaris 10 x64 machine:$ snmpbulkwalk -v 2c -c public -O q svr1 HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageDescr HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageDescr.1 /HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageDescr.2 /devicesHOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageDescr.3 ...

I recently installed a V240 w/ Solaris 9. After patching and configuring the box, I noticed that I am unable to login at the console with any account. Syslog reports an invalid login attempt. I am able to ssh to the box. I checked /etc/default/login, CONSOLE=/dev/console. I have backed out all ...

Has anyone ever had a problem with the Solaris 10 1/06 CD Image for disk2 that is available on the Sunsolve site? When I uncompress it it'sonly 211 MB, even though the zip file is over 600 MB. Then when I useit to install Solaris it errors out saying that there are a lot ofmissing ...

The problem was with PKZIP on my PC, and not with the zip file. Icopied the zip file to a Solaris system and unzipped there, and all iswell.Thanks!> _____________________________________________> From: Cohen, Laurence> Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 9:31 AM> To: codeprof at ...

We have a small web/file server which is running out of data diskspace (it will soon need to store more than the mirrored 120 GB IDEdiscs I fitted can hold). The machine is performing admirably and Idon't want to change it unnecessarily. It is running the latestSolaris 10. I have been ...

Hi Gurus,We have a Kerberose Master Server runing Solaris 8. It has attached SAN which writes kerberose log files. The SAN file system is under Veritas and is VXFS with largefiles support. The problem is when kerbseors log file reaches 2GB it stops writing the log file. I checked with mkfs to ...

Hi,I received several suggestions to try FSCKing the drives. I hadalready tried that to no avail. Since this is occuring on the firstboot of the system after several clean OS installations, it seemslikely that it's a larger problem.After my initial posting, I dug out some older Solaris 10 ...

Short answer, yest it disapeared in some earlier version, and has beenreplaced by smc (Sun Managment Console). which at first glance seems a lotnicer, and does a good bit more.-- U.S. Encouraged by Vietnam Vote - Officials Cite 83% Turnout Despite Vietcong Terror - New York Times ...

On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 09:19:05PM -0500, stan wrote:> I'm trying to find a copy of iscda.sh that's new enough to run on Solaris> 10. > > I tried to register at sunslove to get it from there, but it looks like> you have to have a service contract to register there.> > ...

On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 02:20:05PM -0500, stan wrote:> I'm exploring the brave new world of (to me) SCSI card support under> Soalris X86. I've got a couple of questions.> > One of the cards that I need to use (to support the old tape drive I'm> replacing) is an Adaptec 29160 ...

On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 09:37:18AM -0500, stan wrote:> I've got an Ultra 40 I'm setting up. I added an Adaptec LVD SCSI card in> one of the PCI slots, and pluged a DLT80 drive at SCSI address into it.> > This drive and card pair were working fine in Linux. But I don't seem> to ...

On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 08:27:53AM -0500, stan wrote:> I'm trying to get ntp set up on Soalris 10.> > I set up /etc/inet/ntp/client like this:> > server tick.usno.navy.mil> server tock.usno.navy.mil> > and ran svcadm enable svc:/network/ntp:default> > But I got ...

All,I keep getting following errors in the /var/adm/messages file:SCSI: [ID 243001 kern.warning] WARNING: /swsp at 0,7/ssd at 0,4 (ssd32) :SCSI transport failed: reason 'aborted': retrying commandDoes any one know what to troubleshoot and how to fix this error?Also if you some one who show a ...

Thanks to Jerry for this excelent summary.From: Jerry K <sun at oryx.cc>Hello Stan,I am sorry I missed your original question, but I have ntp running on Solaris 10 , both release 03/05 and 01/06, and I have a different procedure that works for me.1. cd to /etc/inet2. create and edit ...

Dear managers, I got the solution of my problem related to external disksnot visible after OS upgrade (liveupgrade method). I asked:On Mon, 27Feb 2006 Sun Admin wrote :>Dear managers,>>I have upgraded OS of my 6800box from Solaris 8 to Solaris 9 using liveupgrade method. But the ...

Hi -For the Sun V490 and other servers, the nominal rangeof voltage is 200 to 240 VAC.APC makes a number of higher voltage UPS that are"international" versions of what they sell for theUS market. Has anyone had any experiences usingsuch UPSs? In particular, has anyone used the APC ...

My company is roling out Sun's LDAP solution and we're running into a bit of a delima. There is one camp that doesn't want LDAP configured and in use on Solaris 10 global zones because they don't want to give the "keys to the kingdom" away. Another camp wants every single ...

Hi guys, I have a netra box with Solaris 8 running on it. From a Windowsmachine i am trying to get the X-terminal using X-Manager, but only a greydisplay appears without the login prompt.The dt daemon is running. I stopped and started the dtlogin daemon(/etc/rc2.d/S99dtlogin ...

Admins, initial problem when trying to install ssm module.output from shell script with set -x.+ exec ./nco_m_ssmagent.bin -f /opt/netcool/ssm/configld.so.1: ./nco_m_ssmagent.bin: fatal: libCstd.so.1: open failed: No such fileor directoryKilledI have searched the system for this file but to no ...

hello,This is not summary in fact but auto response message.Just nobody answered - possibly nobody is interested in zfs on the list :-/The answer for my question is the following (after few hours of diggingin different SUN docs):zfs is not released yet officially. So it is not presentin Solaris ...

Hi Managers, I have a E250 that's cosole output directed to RSC port. It's prompting for RSC admin password which I don't have . Any suggestions how to hack into it. Thanks in advance Sriman ---------------------------------Yahoo! Messenger NEW - crystal clear PC to PC calling ...

All,<p>I will be out of the office on Wednesday, March 1st, with a sick daughter.<p>If it is an emergency, I can be reached on my cell at<br>561-350-7364...otherwise, please contact Todd Marine at 954-379-5516, or the<br>MIS hotline at 954-379-5499...<p>Thanks So Much,....Jason<br>

In summary multiple things were tried.1. dd the problem slice to an alternate disk and boot fromthat disk. This did not work as dd replicated the problem to the seconddisk.2. use 'volcopy' to copy the problem slice to the seconddisk. This had the same result as dd ...

Greetings:I decided to perform a clean install of Solaris 9 on my trusty Sunblade100. All went well, but my display is not quite back to the way it wasbefore. The machine has an Elite3D-lite card, and I was able to resetthe resolution with the fbconfig command, but I can't figure out how ...

We installed a new Gigabit nic. The install went well but the Cisco 6500does not even show a link. I took the same fiber and plugged it into anetgear gigabit switch and it works fine. I also tried switching the tx/rcvconnections on the fiber. It seems to be an incompatibility between Sun and ...

On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 03:38:47PM -0500, stan wrote:> On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 08:27:53AM -0500, stan wrote:> > I'm trying to get ntp set up on Soalris 10.> > > > I set up /etc/inet/ntp/client like this:> > > > server tick.usno.navy.mil> > server ...

Hello all,<p>What I would like to do is list out yesterdays entries in the messages file<br>and email them. I have the email part down but I can't figure out how to list<br>out the events.<br>I am running Solaris 9 and 10 on various hardware types.<p>TIA,<br>Jason<br>

All,In summary everybody suggested to replace the failing disk and couple ofsuggestions to run:Iostat -En (and check for any errors)Reseat all scsi connections and reboot the box again..I ran iostat and got couple of errors (transportation error) on theparticular disk (and also several other ...

Hi all,I've set up rsh between servers before in Solaris 8 with no problem.Although I don't want to open it in Solaris 10, some developers need todo some transgression testing so I had to turn the services on. With theservices on I now get a password prompt even though I have the .rhostsand ...

Ive been doing some research on SMF on Solaris 10 on Big Admins site at http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/content/selfheal/smf-quickstart.htmland the link at the bottom of the page for "SMF System Administration Guide"points to http://docs.sun.com/db/doc/817-1985/6mhm8o5n6?a=view but for ...

Hello everyone, I was wondering how can I identify disksWhen I do iostat I get diskssd0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 76.6 0 0 0 0 00sd63 1.7 1.7 37.5 33.4 0.0 0.0 10.3 0 0 1 0 01 sd64 2.1 1.7 37.9 33.5 0.0 0.0 8.6 0 ...

Hi all,now that solaris 10 has a working smb client, is it possible to set up aSMB mount in the vfstab?Could somebody explain where you put the login account/password etc...ThanksDanThe information contained within this e-mail and any files attached to thise-mail is private and in addition may ...

SUMMARY:I gave in and called Sun and we figured out that the CIC hardeningdocument for Solaris 10 (which I followed) takes the following line outof pam.conf:rlogin auth sufficient pam_rhosts_auth.so.1Added this back and now it works without being prompted for a password.Thanks to ...

Just a final update with the resolution to the problem.It was a hardware issue. The 73Gb drives that arrived with the systemwere not Sun disks. They were Seagate Part # ST373307FC which is thesame drive Sun ships with the Blade 1000. However, Sun slightlymodifies the firmware and the stock ...

Hello Gurus,I am looking for commands to add users in NIS+ environment. I amtrying to avoid GUI. Could you please tell me the procedure to add auser in NIS+ using command line. Thx in advanceThanks and RegardsArunachalam Jayaraman ( Arun )System Operations Lead SpecialistSquare-D RISC ...