IDE cdrom drive not being seen on a Sun v240

230 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:59:00
I've swapped a v490 slimline cdrom into a v240 that came without a cdrom to<br>perform an install. It appears to be getting power - the LED flashes, and<br>the CD sounds like it's spinning up, but probe-ide shows no devices.<br>

FCX-6562-L is this HBA card supported on solaris 10.

2218 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:59:00
Hi All, Is this "FCX-6562-L SAN Jnic" HBA card supported on solaris 10,if so where can I get the drivers. The system on which it is V1280. Alsowe are able to see the san devices with out drivers on solaris 10 v1280,but we need to have same device name on bothe the systems with ...

SUMMARY: login issue with solaris 8

2213 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:59:00
Thanks All, The issue with /etc/nologin file, I just removedthis it is working fine.David-----Original Message-----From: codeprof-bounces at codeprof.com[mailto:codeprof-bounces at codeprof.com] On Behalf Of Baby David[IS]Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 9:07 PMTo: codeprof at ...

solaris 8 vlan connectivity woes

567 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:59:00
Hello to all. I've got a few Solaris 84s (sparc, 108528-13) on sunfire v120 -machines. Occasionally they lose all network connectivity to certain workstations, that are on another vlan. Ping just returns -host unreachables- from the HP switch that connects these. Weird thing is these blackouts ...

Missing accounting crontab entries for user adm in Solaris 10 Update 1?

844 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:59:00
Gurus;May I ask why the following lines are missing from Solaris 10 Update 1 user adm's crontab?0 * * * * /usr/lib/acct/ckpacct30 2 * * * /usr/lib/acct/runacct 2> /var/adm/acct/nite/fd2log30 7 1 * * /usr/lib/acct/monacctI also rather curious why acct is still legacy script and not a full ...

Summary: SVM - Uninitializing an unattached metadevice?

2476 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:59:00
Hi all,Many thanks to Steve Sandau, Abhilash Mana, Alex Stade, Chad Truhn, Ravi? and Andrew Hay for educating me on the "metaclear" command. As Alexwrote:> You do need to clear d20 before making a new partition that will> presumably become d20 later;>> metaclear ...

Jumpstar Solaris 10

196 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:59:00
I need to prepare a Jumpstart Server with Solaris 10.<p>I dont have the DVD, therefore I have to download the OS images.<p>Does anyone has a procedure to create that Jumpstart Server?<p>Thanks<br>

SMF and legacy scripts

815 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:59:00
Hello,I have a legacy SMF script issue I'm hoping to get some assistance with. As I understand it any script in /etc/rc*.d thats executable will be executed by the corresponding /sbin/rc* script. These scripts start each file in that directory with /lib/svc/bin/lsvcrun.My legacy script ...

Sudo broken pipe?

264 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:59:00
All,<p>I just installed sudo using pkgadd -d sudo-pkgname . I got the sudo package<br>from the sunfreeware.com site. However now when I run /opt/sfw/bin/sudo<br>/sbin/init 6 I get broken pipe as my output error message. What am I<br>missing?<p>Thanks,<br>JP<br>

Solaris 10 does nsswitch.conf "hosts files dns" work?

4419 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:59:00
I hope you can help me:System is a Sunblade 250 running Solaris 10 wit han IP of 10.192.1.3 Ihave another machine called mars IP 10.192.168.1.100. I can't get thebox to ping mars from the entry in /etc/hosts. It always goes to dns.Have a look at these tests / files :hosts:127.0.0.1 ...

Flashing Power Indicator on Sun Monitor

1409 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:59:00
I've got a Sun monitor here that doesn't seem to work. This is a rathercommon (around here anyway) GDM-5010PD model. It is one of the dualinput monitors. Neither seems to work. When I power the monitor up,the light over the power switch in the center comes on green, but aftera few seconds ...

SUMMARY: Flashing Power Indicator on Sun Monitor

1434 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:59:00
Thank you to Charles Rawls who must know some magical SunSolve judo fu.He sent a copy of the user's manual he claims to have found in somehidden crevice of SunSolve. I can't find anything there.The verdict: It appears my monitor is ill. I am supposed to count theseconds between flashes and ...

Sun Managers Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

96072 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:59:00
Archive-name: codeprof-faq$Id: faq.html,v 1.23 2005/12/29 17:10:43 jdd Exp $ SunManagers Frequently Asked Questions This is collection of common questions posted to the codeprof mailing list twice a month. It is intended to benefit Sun System Managers and reduce traffic to the list by ...

Sun Local Patch server with Solaris 10?

1517 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:59:00
Hi there,I went to a lot of effort and setup a special "admin" server withthe Sun Control Station packages.We are using DMM, Netconnect, CST and all that very effectivelyto manage a lot of systems.Also, I used the Local Patch Server product and spent quite a bit oftime getting that ...

multipath + volume manager + show disks

1104 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:59:00
Hi,How i can see all the disk with multipath+volume manager?:vxdmpadm listctlr allCTLR-NAME ENCLR-TYPE STATE ENCLR-NAME=====================================================c1 Disk ENABLED Diskc6 IBM_SHARK ENABLED IBM_SHARK1c7 ...

ldap naming service

809 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:59:00
Based on a post from a while back, I see that the overwhelming majorityof you recommend ldap for naming services/user mgt. when # of servers &users warrant it.We do not own JES license or use much sun s/w...I see openLDAP comeshighly recommended but was wondering what support options are ...

SUMMARY: SMF and legacy scripts

2337 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:59:00
Greetings,Many thanks to francisco, Bernd Schemmer, Luc I. Suryo, and Darren Dunham.My issue was caused by the fact that by default we disable inetd on all our servers. I had disabled inetd with "svcadm disable svc:/network/inetd:default", and since inetd is a dependency of he ...

backup takes 45hours

895 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:59:00
hello all,i restored a database on friday afternoon. it took about 2 hours (45gb database which means about 20gb/hour thruput).I then started the backup late friday and it ran into sunday. thruputabout 1gb/hr.I am using solaris 9 (9/04) with EMC/DELL SAN cx300 for the database andcommvault ...

SUMMARY: backup taking 45 hours

1117 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:59:00
thanks toDavid Cecchino [dcecchino at gmail.com]francisco [frisco at blackant.net]William Enestvedt [William.Enestvedt at jwu.edu]they all mentioned about half vs full duplex.i changed:#!/usr/bin/sh# /etc/rc2.d/S68interface-settings -> ...

L9 on E3500 Solaris 8

831 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:59:00
I'm trying to get an L9 on an E3500 running Solaris.The thing is, it just doesn't "see" the L9 as a tapedevice at all. I've done all recommended patches,installed mtx, have the sgen drivers installed.. butit just doesn't see it..At the OK prompt probe-scsi-all just indicates/sbus ...

?? ? ?[demime 1.01b removed an attachment of type application/x-msdownload which had a name

131 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:59:00
????? ??? ?<br>???<p>[demime 1.01b removed an attachment of type application/x-msdownload which had a name of Word_Document.uu]<br>

Help on solaris 9

1292 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:59:00
HelloIs there a command to find what are the ports assigned for a particularprocess .I run ps command and all the process are shown, anywayTo find what ports are assigned for the processes. Do we need to do someprocess accounting or any other thing to be activated.ThanksVIJAY ...

SUMMARY: ldap naming service

2286 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:59:00
Thanks everyone for the quick responses:JES is a free software now ...Here are some useful links http://web.singnet.com.sg/~garyttt/ http://docs.sun.com/source/819-4879/index.html http://www.thebergerbits.com/unix.shtml http://jnester.lunarpages.com/howtos/solaris/solarisLDAPAuth.htmlThere is no ...

NFS client failing

4145 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:59:00
I asked this on the solarisx86 list without success, so I was wondering if anyone here can help. Apologies for the rather long and rambling post, I'm trying to include as much information as possible.Has anybody seen anything like this, or clues on how to solve it. Wehad a machine room power ...

netstat -in showing Collisions and Errors in output packets.

506 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:59:00
Hi, i am having Collisions and Errors in output packets on one of our Sunboxes. as a result of this some nfs clients are getting slow response. cananyone help me with a remedy. Thanks in Advance. i will summerize.# netstat -inName Mtu Net/Dest Address Ipkts Ierrs Opkts Oerrs ...

Sun T2000 Docs

636 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:59:00
Please can someone point me in the right direction for finding infomration on the bus architecture of Sun T2000's (online manuals?). I need to determine whether the PCIe and PCI-X slots share a single bus... amongst other ...

IPFilter Email List?

1222 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 6:00:00
I'm attempting the migration from SunScreen to IPFilter on Solaris10. My question for the group is has anyone managed to get on the email distribution for IPFilter?Their webpage at http://cheops.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html claims you can do the typical majordomo subscribe routine to ...

mounting completely a CD on solaris 10 x86

301 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 6:00:00
Hello,I would like known how to mount all slices off a CD/DVD on Solaris 10 x86?Because when I mount a CD, only one is mounted and I need all slices.Thanks,Felipe-----------------------------------------------------------Sign up and get your 30GB webmail at www.30gigs.com ...

e6500 and qla4010c problems

7779 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 6:00:00
All:Hardware: Sun E6500 OBP: 3.2.30 3.3v 33/66mhz pci riser board part #: 5014128 Qlogic qla4010c (pci gigabyte network cardProblem: We installed the pci io board with the above riser board and thesystem completed post without a problem. Once the pci network card wasinstalled the ...

BOOTING FAILED

335 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 6:00:00
Hi all,Iam using solaris 2.9 server with a internal boot disk and external diskarrays for data storage , For some reason my system is not getting boot ,I decided to change the external disk array to another identical system,This is the scenario ,lets suggest me to do the same .Thanks and ...

ftp not running in solaris 8

520 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 6:00:00
dear allPl. help me. I'm facing the problem in enabling the ftp service inmy system. it is running solaris 8. problem is that It says connectionrefused when I try to ftp. even on same machine when I try to ftp itself itsays connection refused. that means ftp service is not running on my ...

se3510

1801 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 6:00:00
Can anyone tell me if there's any other way to set the ip address of a 3510without having to first connect via the com port?The docs say the default is that it's DHCP enabled - so if I plug it in to ournetwork, how do I then find the device name?should it have come with a db9 to db25 adapter? ...

UDBL Syndrome and tmp file system full

3114 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 6:00:00
Hi guys,I have an Ultra1 with 512MB RAM acting as tacacs+ server. Here is theuname output:# uname -aSunOS ul 5.8 Generic_117350-02 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-1For some time now the machine will occassionally complain about /tmpbeing full and after one or two days it will deny any process ...

SUMMARY: se3510

1665 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 6:00:00
ok,General consensus...Plug the 3510 into the network, look at DHCP server logs and spot the grab fora new ip address. telnet in on this address and configure the static iprequired.Lovely.Thanks to all who contributed.GarethCymraeg:-Mae'r neges hon yn gyfrinachol.Os nad chi yw'r derbynnydd y ...

ftp not running in solaris 8

6227 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 6:00:00
thankx to you all.I've solved the problem. it was a very small problem. Acharacter was there in the inetd.conf file at line where ftp entry is located.Thanks & regardsvikasOn Wed, 05 Apr 2006 Mangat,Vicky wrote :>That's good,this explains that you need to look into inetd.conf and send ...

Add disk to SAN?

467 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 6:00:00
Greetings,(Things have been working for a while, so I have been quiet :-)Our Sun/Hitachi SAN admin allocated new disk for us,and we are hoping to see it without a reboot.Does anyone know if this is possible?Archives & Google don't seem to know....We ran devfsadm and it did not ...