Many thanks to Eric Voisard and Sam Nelson for sharing their expertise.Eric providedinsight to another variable tcp_time_wait_interval, that it can have anaffect on connections. Sam , very graciously provided a script that heuses to tune and sanitize the tcp stackBelow is the original ...

Archive-name: codeprof-faqSunManagers Frequently Asked Questions$Id: faq,v 4.50 2005/02/18 17:14:01 jdd Exp $This is collection of common questions posted to the codeprof mailinglist twice a month. It is intended to benefit Sun System Managers andreduce traffic to the list by providing quick ...

HiI have a problem in which i want users to have only ftp access and not other terminal services(Telnet,rlogin etc).One way is providing null shell in /etc/passwd but this will allow user to login though user will not able to do anything .I know i can restrict users not to have ftp access using ...

Hi,First of all thanks to Clark Frazier for providing me the solution for restricting user to ftp access only.We have to create a script#! /bin/shecho "This account is currently not available."exit 1and then assign this as default shell to user login. Thanks once again to Clark ...

Hi Sun manager's!While learning Sun Solaris, i struck up at the following.1. How do you check all files in a pkg with out installing a pkg. e.g i have spooled a package SUNWcsr to /abc then how to check what are the files in SUNWcsr ? aka in linux you can do "rpm -qpl ...

I'm having trouble properly jumpstarting a V890 using flash archives.We have flash archives of V240s and V210, but this is our first V890. The flash archives from the older machines are Solaris 8 07/03, patched. They have /usr/platform/SUNW,Sun-Fire-V890, which tells me that they should ...

Thinking I was elsewhere I did:-mv * /backup-dirBut, of course, I was in /mv and almost everything else gives the depressing cannot find /usr/lib/ld.so.1I changed LD_LIBRARY_PATH but it doesn't help.Any ideas anyone? Solaris 8 and NO cdrom drive...NickOne OS to fool them all, one browser to ...

Greeting,Hurrying to setup jumpstart server for our sparc machines due tooriginal sparc jumpstart server is end of lease.My new machine is Sun Jave Workstation W1100Z#uname -aSunOS Julie 5.9 Generic_117172-12 i86pc i386 i86pcAfter I put the solaris 9 cd into the cd drive, and ...

Greetings folks,I'm wondering if any of you might glance at your bookshelves and pass along the title/author for thier most valuable resource. I am looking to upgrade my collection, and don't want to purchase the "dummies", or repackaged sol8/9 versions. I am really looking for the ...

Thanks for the sage advice from those in the know.I did a foolish mv * /backupdir in the root directory and removed all the rootfiles and directories. I could not do backupdir/bin/mv because it could not findthe libraries. I had a machine (V240) without a CD drive.Many nice people told me to ...

Thanks to Coy Hile and Jeffrey Donovan.I tried an installboot, but that didn't help. Jeffrey hit it, though: I could do an update install.After the flash install on the V890, I did a boot net and did an update install of 02/04 off my jumpstart image. That did it!Thanks!-Adam-----Original ...

Managers,<p>We may be purchasing a emc or netapp FC storage and fabirc.<p>I'm leaning towards a SUN FC HBA because future driver support would be <br>included in S10 out of the box.<p>Or should i go with what the storage/san/fabirc vendor suggests?<p>Thanks,<br>Karl<br>

Hello everyone,One team member removed a big log file without killingthe process, causing disk space un-released fromprocess.We are running solaris 9 with volume manager 4.0. Isthere anyway I can find that particular processwithout rebooting the whole system?thanks very much!zhuHere is the df ...

Hi all, I have recovered a Sun DLT 4700 and am trying to put it to good use. I downloaded DLT_xTalk-4.0.3_solaris_pkg.tar.gz from Quantum's web site, but can't get it to work at all. This is on Solaris SPARC 2.8 as noted by Quantum. The instructions say: unpack and run pkgadd -d . - this ...

Hello, I recently inherited at 420R running on Solaris 7. Many mountpoints ar elisted twice for some odd reason either using mount -vor df -k, which shouldn't have theoritically happenned. Any cluesare much appreciated.df -k yieldsFilesystem kbytes used avail capacity ...

I have an ultra2 which keeps rebooting, every time my user tried to make a screen dump. The machine is running Solaris 2.6. Here is the relevant h/w info:Apr 4 12:56:22 doppler unix: cpu0: SUNW,UltraSPARC (upaid 0 impl 0x10 ver 0x40 clock 200 MHz)Apr 4 12:56:22 doppler unix: cpu1: ...

I got many responses recommending lsof or fuser. I am sorry not to clarify my sitution in originalmail.I don't know who/when the file was deleted and don'tknow the filename either. Just because of the weirdspace difference, I suspect some log files have beenremoved with processes up and ...

Hi;Didn't receive too much to help here.Ryan suggested this site: http://www.lka.ch/projects/solcdburn/solcdburn.htmland commented about UDF vs. ISO format.Someone else pointed out a Blueprint doc, but didn't mention it.I'm going to look a little deeper and toss together a web page once I ...

Question:Any ideas on how to generate the service password for the system controller?Answers: NoneBasically Sun can generate the password using an internal application https://sfservicepass.sfbay/mode-policy.htmlWhy do you need the password?To re-enable components which are incorrectly Auto ...

The problem was related to our ldap config (openldap libs) in/etc/nsswitch.conf. Removing it solve the problem.It seems like sendmail don't like openldap libs =)-----Original Message-----From: Bousquet Francois [mailto:Francois.Bousquet at cgi.com]Sent: January 13, 2005 3:48 PMTo: Mailing ...

Hello,I got many responses. Lots of people recommend usinglsof/pfiles, which failed in our environment. Onepossible reason is we are using vxfs filesystem andlsof doesn't recognize it.+++oracle 5200 oracle cwd unknown file system type (vxfs),v_op: 0x783cdb90oracle 5200 ...

Greetings, Had a question regarding the setup of network security fordifferent cards. I have a Sun Blade 100 running Solaris 9 with up-to-date patches and an extra network card (Sunswift PCI adapter), and itis used to run aninstrument. I just jumpstarted it yesterday and got all the ...

1) Thanks to all who replied. I appreciate the effort.2) I forgot about the list FAQ, and inappropriately posted here, instead ofa more on-topic group, or list. My sincerest apologies. I'll summarize onlybecause I said I would, maybe it could be added to the FAQ (or relevantsource) and ...

I have a 220R with 1 CPU that is 360MHz. When I boot the system I get this.---------------------Sun Enterprise 220R (UltraSPARC-II 360MHz), No Keyboard---------------------I also have 2 450MHz CPU's I pulled out of 2 other 220R's. It would be greatif I can run with these 2 instead of the ...

Hi,I'm receiving the following errors in /var/adm/messagesinetd[16689]: [ID 455825 daemon.error] getpwnam: /usr/local/samba/bin/nmbd: Nosuch userinetd[272]: [ID 858011 daemon.warning] nmbd: HangupI have google'd, but the only responses were in Japanese.Anyone received these messages before ...

Hi all,<p> <p>I just installed Solaris 2.7 by CD on a Ultra5 Sun Sparc.<p>It appears that I have only sh, and I would like to install tcsh or bash.<p> <p>Does anyone have an idea what I could do?<p> <p>Thanks,<p> <p>Eric<br>

Thank to:AnthonyRichardRonnyRahulSivaKellyGaniAnd others for the help.Eric-----Original Message-----From: Chaturvedi, Rahul (GE Healthcare, non-ge)[mailto:Rahul.Chaturvedi at med.ge.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2005 8:57 AMTo: Eric WalgSubject: RE: tcsh for Solaris 2.7u need to change ur login ...

Hello, I m facing problem with one of server's HDD. When I m booting server itsgiving error like this /dev/rdsk/c0t2d0s0 : cannot read blk:71633312 And asking to run manual fsck on this partion. When I m running fsck on this partion fsck -y /dev/rdsk/c0t2d0s0 then again its coming up with ...

Hi all.( i have google'd for this)I've been trying to get a V100 sunfire to start up as far as the OKprompt, but whilst connected to the LOM (lights out management) portit's just stuck at the lom.So far, i've tried "poweron, poweroff" physically powering off/on thesystem and help ...

We have SUN L9 tape library which connect to SUN E280 server. Recently the tape have problem happen. When I put cartridge into magazine, it will automatic load first tape. If I press button and try to unload tape, the light will blinking but still not unload.By the way I can use "mt -f ...

Hi,I am trying to configure jumpart using dhcp. After completing allrequired steps to configure dhcp service and jumpstart service, i bootclient machine on the network which gives the following WARNINGmessage and the system hangs. Any suggestions on this will be greatlyappreciated.Rebooting ...

Migrating an EMC Clariion, previous hba's appeared as c4 and c5becuase of 3 extra SBUS cards on the system boards. New system runningSolaris 8 only has D240 as the Fiber hba's are coming up as c1 andc2. Is there any kludge available to bump up the controller numberfrom c1 to c4, possibly by ...

I have been requested to install the German locale on one of my servers(SAP). I installed the German packages from the language CD, but it appearsthat it didn't install the locale. They want de_DE.ISO8859-1 . When Iinstall via jumpstart and tell it locale de in the config file, I get ...

Thanks to all of those who replied, Mike Imrick, Iain Miller, MikeDemarco, Doug Bell, Pablo Jejcic, Adam Tonkinson and Ryan Krenzischek,more specifically Mike Imrick and Doug Bell pointed me towards thissunsolve document after I got the "Console not shared" message fromall ...

Thanks to:Sergey TsyganenkoAdam TomkinsonAngelos KanellopoulosThey all pointed me to the ...

Apologies , fat finger does it again. Here are Eric and Sam's repliesEric's:We had to tweak around with the keepalive here.Typically, short keepalive values are good for web servers in example (lots of short and unreliable connections). Obvisouly long keepalive are good for long term ...

I only received one response from Christopher McNabbChris suggested to use lsof to see whether there arecheckpassword session already run in the system.I did not find any strayed checkpassword process inthe system though.I have also run truss and truss does not seem to showany error message ...

Hello I have a V240 on my bench that I cant get to recognize a second drive, wehave stuck 3 different 72Gbs into every slot on the machine, and we get thesame results, (boot log below) can anyone shed some light for me? okok bootBoot device: disk:a File and args:SunOS Release 5.8 Version ...

After sending out the summary.I continue research further and I have found my ownproblem.The problem was from the configuration file.After commenting out the path to the dictoinaries, thecheckpassword program will load the dictionaries onlyonce instead of twice.I was using checkpassword -XD6 to ...

All:I see the foll lines in the /var/adm/messages file. What does it mean ?****************Apr 5 14:06:16 sunv60x1 scsi: [ID 365881 kern.info]<DEFAULT cyl 24611 alt 2 hd 27 sec 107>Apr 5 14:06:16 sunv60x1 scsi: [ID365881 kern.info] <DEFAULT cyl 24619 alt 2 hd 27 sec 107>Apr 5 ...

Thanks to all who replied.I think everyone pretty much had the same answer which helped me solvethe problem.I just needed to set the jumper on the mother board for the 450MHzCPU's. http://sunsolve.sun.com/data/806/806-1055/pdf/806-1055-12.pdfI now have a 220R running 2x450.Thanks ...

I am having a hard time getting a valid sysidcfg file for use withSolaris 10 installs. The file is found, but I still am asked to inputthe information manually. My sysidcfg (with localized data masked) isbelow, but I'd be just as happy with someone's working file for aJumpstart w/o ...

My internal DNS server has mysteriously stopped resolving reverse DNSrequests while I was on vacation (that'll teach me). I've rebuilt thedb files, via a customized hosts_to_network script, several times withno effective change. Here's the kicker: the DNS server is multi-homedand reverse ...

I recently picked up a used E250 system for a pretty good price for my personal training lab at home. The down side was that the system did not include a faceplate. I didn't think that it would really bother me at the time, but now I would really like to have the from of the E250 ...

I am curious to know if anyone is running Sun Java System Web Server(aka SunONE Web Server aka iPlanet Web Server) or Directory Server onSolaris 10. If so, what version of the software?I am interested in migrating a couple of Web/LDAP servers to Solaris10 to take advantage of zones and ...

Many thanks to Richard Sullivan for pointing me in the right direction.I manually incremented the serial number to a much higher value ondb.10.162.131 and while editing the file found a typo in one of theentries. I double-checked the BIND logging and indeed, the db file wasnot being loading. ...

I'm looking to jumpstart a Sun V20z server with Solaris 10 x86.<p>How would I go about doing this?<p>Joe Astrologo<p>Unix Systems Engineer<p>Factset Research Systems<p>Voice: 203-810-1562<p>Fax: 203-810-3178<br>

My colleague just installed Solaris 9 on ~20 hosts (440's and 240's) andforgot to label them before taking holiday.What's a quick way to verify thatthe terminal session I'm logged into corresponds to a specific machine in arack? I'd like to invoke something that flashes the lights, sounds ...

Howdy,Sorry to bother you with this baby question but I have an a1000which has two diff scsi connections on the back and I have a twochannel (low profile connectors) diff scsi (single ended) card inthe system. I was told that just any uw scsi cable would work butI'm not seeing the drives with ...

Hi Joe,Check out:Configuring JumpStart Servers to Provision Sun x86-64 Systems http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0205/819-1692.pdfandSolaris 10 Installation Guide: Custom JumpStart and Advanced Installations http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-5506Maybe it will help you./Magnus-----Ursprungligt ...