UPDATE: disk speed issues

2993 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:58:00
I got one response from BOB: The CX300 has write cache. The internaldisks do not. What you are seing is expected. Nothing is wrong. TheCX300 writes faster than the internal disks. i did some more experimenting. (each script is moving a big file fromoriginatingdisk at destinationdisk.sh)as ...

answerbook errors.

400 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:58:00
I have had the same problem. Did you get an answer and if so could youpass it on to me?Michael IttermanInformation ManagementXEROX Corporation XOG/SEBU/MCD111 Xerox ParkWebster, NY 14580Phone: 265-7862E-mail: Mike.Itterman at xerox.com <mailto:Mike.Itterman at ...

Word file

147 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:58:00
hello,<br>i send the file.<br>bye<p>[demime 1.01b removed an attachment of type application/x-msdownload which had a name of Word_Document.hqx]<br>

Netra 20 OBP version that supports WANboot

702 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:58:00
Managers,Is there an OpenBoot prom version for a Netra 20 platform that supportsWANboot?After scouring the patches available on the sunsolve site, the newest versionI found was 4.16.4, which does not have the required "network-boot-arguments"environment variable. I know that you can ...

error using idsconfig

716 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:58:00
Hello Managers.I try to configure directory server on solaris 10 and put the command,/usr/lib/ldap/idsconfigand always get error like this.root at cyclops: /#/usr/lib/ldap/idsconfigIt is strongly recommended that you BACKUP the directory serverbefore running idsconfig.Hit Ctrl-C at any time ...

SUMMARY: pinning a process to a cpu

1195 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:58:00
Thanks to:Martin PresslaberKalyan ManchikantiVladimir TerzievErek AdamsfranciscoWebpro - joeScott LawsomChris SmithAtul Goreand Hutin Bertrand(so far)The answer to my question - how to pin a process to a cpu was best answered with pbind - give it a pid (already started) on the commandline and a ...

e250 larger disks than in the official handbookinfo

1057 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:58:00
Hi, We have an e250 in which according to the official handook...: ( http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_private/Systems/E250/spec.html ) --------------------------------------------------------Internal Mass StorageDisks Up to six 18-GB 3.5 x 1.6 in., 36-GB 3.5 x 1.0 in., 10000 rpm,hot-pluggable ...

Solaris 10, jumpstart, Unable to copy a temporary file to it's final location

3409 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:58:00
Hi,anyone who has seen this before !? I am puzzled. I Did not find anything on that issue in the archive nor on the web. To be correct I found one reference on the web to the exact same problem and that was on Sun Forums, but the guy who posted the problem May 2005 never got an answer :-( The ...

"Kerberos mechanism library initialization error: No profile file open" console messag

1348 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:58:00
Folks, After installing the following three patches on a Solaris 9 SPARC server, 112908-24 krb5, gss Patch (required by the following two)114356-07 /usr/bin/ssh Patch113273-11 /usr/lib/ssh/sshd Patchwhen I log in via ssh, the following message appears on the console:"Kerberos mechanism ...

Sendmail installation error.

635 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:58:00
Hi,I am trying to install sendmail in solaris 8, E3500.At the time of ./Build -c command it gives the given below error:ld: fatal: library -lphclient: not foundld: fatal: library -lssl: not foundld: fatal: library -lcrypto: not foundld: fatal: File processing errors. No output written to ...

Shell script help

955 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:58:00
Hi, I wrote a shell script to check for a file in a directory. In case the file is found it has to process the if statement. if the file is not found else has to be processed.I wrote as below. Kindly help whats the mistake and how should i proceed. 1MONTHLY=`ls *PARTIAL_M*` 2 if [ ...

Finding out what user owns a certain port

981 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:58:00
I looked for this in the archives and on sunsolve, but I may have usedthe wrong keywords in my search.Is there a way to tell the uid of the process that controls a certainport?In other words, when I do a "netstat -an | grep "*.80 " to verify that awebserver is running, is there a ...

SUMMARY: Finding out what user owns a certain port

1290 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:58:00
I asked:> I looked for this in the archives and on sunsolve, but I may have used> the wrong keywords in my search.>> Is there a way to tell the uid of the process that controls a certain> port?>> In other words, when I do a "netstat -an | grep "*.80 " to ...

could not start doc viewer

658 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:58:00
I get the following errors when attempting to connect to the serverusing exceed. This only occurs with one user login. If I login as root,all is fine. Could not start doc viewer? Could not initialize canvas? could not create DPS context? is adobe display postscript ...

Check disk size

163 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:58:00
Hi ALL,<p>This is not a Solaris doubt, but anyone knows how to get a disk size from <br>HDS TagmaStore from CLI? And about a HDS discussion list?<p>TIA,<p>Fred<br>

Sun Blade 100 woes

442 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:58:00
I have a Sun Blade 100, runnig solaris 9..I applied the 9_recommended, but after that I rebootedthe machined and it panics and core dumps, and keepsgoing through the routine..Is there a patch I need to get to fix this issue?..Any suugestions are greatly appreciated.ThanksTired of spam? Yahoo! ...

SUMMARY: T1000 storage

1741 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:59:00
After receive a couple of reply, here is the summary:The Sun Fire T1000 is intented to be very lost cost server to be use as acluster node. That explain the non-redundant power supply and hard disk.Same thing for no optical media drive to save cost, you will have toJumpstart the system.It is ...

key mappings

372 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:59:00
All, I am trying to map my F5 key to perform a left control and right bracket at the same time. If I map the key using: xmodmap -e "keycode 69 = Control_L bracketright" and run the xmodmap -pk it looks fine but the control left or bracketright is executed one at a time and not ...

SUMMARY: Login issue with Solaris 8

757 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:59:00
Thanks to all who responded. So many responses. Thanks Guys.The issue was quota.workaround was to: - remove quota from /etc/profile /etc/.loginThanks again Gurus.shahbMy original post was:I have a login issue with recently setup Solaris 8 box. The isssue iswhen i telnet to that box with root it ...

E4900 console login

473 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:59:00
Hi Gurus,I am in a process to jumpstart E4900. When i console to the box it gives me "Please login:" prompt. I tried admin and root user to get OK prompt or lom promt but unable to do so. Does anyone with which user you login to E4900 console? Its new box. Also does it require to ...

C compiler cannot create executables

857 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:59:00
Hi,I am trying to install GNU tar on my Solaris 9 server.when i run the configure i am getting the followingerror. Please can someone advise what i am missing?. Iinsalled GCC also.# ./configure checking for a BSD-compatible install...config/install-sh -cchecking whether build environment is ...

parsing engine_A.log

526 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:59:00
The log file for the Veritas Cluster for UNIX is engine_A.log. As anindividual in operations I am often asked to tell mgt - what happened.Does anyone have any scripts or anything they've used to parse the logfile to determine what happened?-- Joe Reidjreid at vnet.netTactical Solaris Systems ...

V490 console login

462 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:59:00
Hi Gurus,There was a typo in last email. It should be Sun Fire V490.I am in a process to jumpstart V490. When i console to the box it givesme "Please login:" prompt. I tried admin and root user to get OK promptor lom promt but unable to do so. Does anyone with which user you loginto ...

Installing DBI

574 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:59:00
Hello ManagersI am trying to install DBI on my Solaris 10 box.[root@]/usr/local/bin/DBI >makecc -c -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -xarch=v8 -D_TS_ERRNO-xO3 -xspace -xildoff -DVERSION=\"1.50\" -DXS_VERSION=\"1.50\" ...

Netra T1 105 won't power off

2302 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:59:00
Fellow managers:It's been a while since I was asking a qeustion rather than answering, buthere goes.My employer recently purchased 6 used Netra T1 105's for some light-dutyinfrastructure work (DNS specifically), and one of them is acting a little...wonky?Basically, this one crazy machine ...

SUMMARY: Netra 20 OBP version that supports WANboot

3362 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:59:00
Thanks to Dave and Colin for the responses.The answer: No. There is not an OBP version for a Netra 20 platform thatsupports wanboot "at this time", nor is there any work-around that does notrequire a boot from external media. See below.Andersson, Enoch (Titan) @ TITAN wrote:> ...

SUMMARY: Solaris 10, jumpstart, Unable to copy a temporary file to it's final location

4115 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:59:00
Thanks to Casper Dik and Bernd Schemmer for their time an replies. Dik actually found the problem asking us to check if we were not accidentily running a Solaris 10 miniroot installing a Solaris 9 software tree. This was indeed the case because of a typo in the bootparams file that we ...

Solaris KSTATS descriptions

1066 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:59:00
Does anyone have a reference to a description of the the various kernel statistics that are available through the kstat interface?There are some obvious one (Eg unix:0:system_misc:avensun_1min). The network ones are also fairly obvious,but what about the rest, such as ...

Daylight saving time cron job?

330 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:59:00
We have SUN server which run Solaris 8 O.S. and we have several cron job run daily on 2:30 A.M.Does Solaris will run correctly on 2:30 A.M. cron job?Based on what I know LINUX system cron job will NOT run on "missing hour" and will run twice on "duplicate hour". How about ...

login issue with solaris 8

1450 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:59:00
Hi All, I am facing a serious issue with SunFire V440 machinerunning on solaris 8.As a root user I can login through telnet or ssh. When I try to login asa normal user it is showing following error, after giving the password.login: checkPassword:Hi,Server is going to maintainence ...

Installing DBI

1906 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:59:00
Thanks for all your replies.Peter McLartyAlan paeRafael AngaritaChuck LinMatthew HanniganAnthony D'AtriSteve SandauJohn LeadehamMark KingSnars.maillistRichard SkeltonJim SeymourBrad_Morrison andVidyanathan.Most of you managers have pointed the correct one. Accordingly I havemarked ...

the file

136 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:59:00
hi<br>i send the details<br>bye<p>[demime 1.01b removed an attachment of type application/x-msdownload which had a name of eBook.Uu]<br>

Does a JNI FCE-6460-N work with a 3511 SATA array?

516 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:59:00
Any experiences, positive or negative, connecting a 3511 SATA array to a Sun 240 via a JNI FCE-6460-N HBA?---------------------------------Jim VandeVegtVandeVegt @t yahoo.com, Jim.VandeVegt @t PhysiciansMutual.com Eliminate the IRS and put the fair consumption tax in place. Visit ...

SVM - Uninitializing an unattached metadevice?

1061 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:59:00
Hi all,I'm using Solaris Volume Manager (3.0,REV=2005.01.09.23.05) underSolaris 10 to set up a mirrored root disk on a V100x with two 72g drivesas per InfoDoc 28196.I've realized - too late - that my second drive (c0t2d0) doesn't matchthe main drive (c0t0d0) with respect to its partitions. ...

printing screen shots

302 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:59:00
I have a Solaris 9 box and would like to take some screen shots and print them to my printer. I noticed there is a button on my Sun keyboard that says "print screen" but it doesn't seem to be doing anything.Does anyone know how to do this?Thank You.Dave ...

SUMMARY: V490 console login

930 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:59:00
Thanks toAndy YotherGary LangKing RavNadigThe resolution was to:Connect to the serial port (located near the on board nic's) not the RSC card.Thanks Gurus.My original post was:>> >>>There was a typo in last email. It should be Sun>>Fire V490.>>I am in a process to ...

SUMMARY: Check disk size

1081 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:59:00
Hi All, Thanks to those that replied to my problem, specialy Reggie Beavers, Shyam Hazari and Pascal Grostabussiat. I am waiting for HDS Support to see if there is a tool for Solaris like xpinfo to dig out information from TagmaStore. Meanwhile, I made the script below, using prtvtoc - tested ...

JASS - Solaris 10 and ssh

175 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:59:00
After running JASS I can't seem to ssh from one specific host with CRT. I<br>can ssh from other hosts without problems..........<p>Any ideas as to what to check?<p>Thanks<br>

source routing

77 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:59:00
Is it possible to setup source routing from a Sun box? Thanks in adavnce,<br>

SUMMARY: Non-X keyboard mapping

1811 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:59:00
Thanks go to Robert A. Fisher for his reply - the only one. Basically Iwanted the non-X equivalent of the xev/xmodmap commands. As he suggestedloadkeys/dumpkeys will do the trick. I have created a short script whichsets the keys correctly on our KVM. Can't get the UK pound sign to beset ...

SUMMARY: printing screen shots

524 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:59:00
Several people said to try'xv' on www.sunfreeware.comBut I ended up using the snapshop application that comes with Sun/CDE.Right click and go to applications and the screenshot.Below is my original questionI have a Solaris 9 box and would like to take some screen shots andprint them to my ...

Hardware Disk Mirroring

402 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:59:00
Hello,I was wondering about the pro's and con's of Software vs Hardware RAID onroot disks. For example the T2000's and v440's come their own onboard RAIDcontroller. What is the prefered "best practice" when setting up boot disks,Hardware or Software mirrors? I also noticed that ...

SUMMARY: JASS - Solaris 10 and ssh

513 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:59:00
JASS configures ssh to use tcp wrappers...... You will need to edit yourhosts.allow file and change LOCAL to ALL for sshd.On 3/29/06, Paul Hunter <diggerthelab at gmail.com> wrote:>> After running JASS I can't seem to ssh from one specific host with CRT. I> can ssh from other ...

SUMMARY: Sun Fire V210 no longer displaying on XVR-100

1736 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:59:00
Dear all,First off can I thank everyone that responded, more specifically Iain andAaron.My issue was resolved by running the command 'eepromoutput-device=screen:r1024x768x75' as rootI ran the command from user land and waited for the nightly reboot,hey presto all works fine the next ...

Script doubt

1632 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:59:00
Hi All, I have a doubt in shell script. In my script i m searching for 2 files in a particular directory where the script will reside.The script should check for two keywords PARTIAL, FULL. If the file exists it should start the workWith some help i had done a part, but still facing ...

Solaris 10 - JASS - Jumpstart Server

334 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:59:00
I ran JASS on our Jumpstart (JET) server running Solaris 10.... Kind of newto Solaris 10... lolGetting the following errors:nfs mount: 192.168.10.20: : RPC: Program not registerednfs mount: retrying: /tmp/mntpt.3385Any suggestions as to what was disabled...... JET was working fine prior ...

SSA errors.

1497 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:59:00
Hi All, I have a Sun Enterprise 3000 server with SSA 110 Array. with #ssaadm disp c1 i get the following report SPARCstorage Array 110 Configuration (ssaadm version: 1.15 96/03/17)Controller path:/devices/sbus at 2,0/SUNW,soc at d,10000/SUNW,pln at b0000000,8a1a62:ctlr ...

Solaris 10 and disable the quorum

68 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:59:00
Does set md:mirrored_root_flag=1 still work with Solaris 10 SVM?<br>

SUMMARY:WHO GETS ROOT

1522 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:59:00
First off.Thank you for all of your replies, comments, suggestions andhumor, both public and private. It has been helpful, insightful and is muchappreciated. Now for the summery: My original query with a "boiled down synopsis" of your answers: 1-Who has root access in your shop? Root ...

Disk quota command quota -v

1178 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:59:00
Hi All,I have disk quotas setup on my v210 for the following file sytems whereaccounts will go./export/homea/export/homec/export/homef/export/homei/export/homem/export/homep/export/homes/export/homet/homezWhen I do a quota -v command on the /export quota accounts I getDisk quotas for ctest (uid ...