Hi Gurus,I have L1000 Tape Library installed on Solaris 8. I was using Legato 5to take the backup and everything was fine. Recently we moved to BakBonebackup software. Since we installed this software nothing is going rightwith it. We are getting intermittent failures on scheduled backups.When ...

Dear All, Hi All, Good morning / evening. I'm new to solaris and I'm trying to installsolaris 10 on intel pc but always failed.I tried googling but to no avail so I decided to ask question to this list=) which also I found using google. Can someone enlighten me on my problem I'm booting ...

Well thanks to all that replied there were many!!A lot of replies going down the line of booting into single user modeand editing /etc/system & /etc/vfstab to remove the "md" parts and getit to boot from the underlying physical disks. This also failed with adifferent ...

Hi Managers I have a Solaris 8 server that is behaving quite odd. I have set up anRBAC role to allow an operator to perform some admin tasks. As I understandit, an RBAC role should only allow a user to su to it, it should not allowanyone to login to the server directly as the RBAC role. ...

Hi - well now I have a server, an O/S installed, DiskSuite installed &the recommended patch cluster installed I'm left with a small problemwhich I'm sure can be done.I have the O/S & Apps on c1t0d0.The pre-crash server had mirrored root disks of c1t0d0 & c1t1d0. And theremaining ...

Hi Managers Thanks to everyone for the response, especially Casper and Adam.Casper wrote:"You need to check /etc/pam.conf.For login, e.g., you must have:login account requisite /usr/lib/security/$ISA/pam_roles.so.1 as one of the lines. This is true for all account management ...

Dear managers,thanks a lot for your very helpful responses:Daniel Nuno <daniel.nuno at gmail.com>Adam Tomkinson <adam.tomkinson at britannia.co.uk>"Thomas M. Payerle" <payerle at physics.umd.edu>"Dell, Mary" <mdell at mesirowfinancial.com>"Tom ...

Omitted by me, but pointed out by Vincent Cojot, it is also necessary to re-create /dev/dsk/cN* and /dev/rdsk/cN* at the same time as /dev/cfg/cN are re-created, lest Solaris will happily consult /dev/dsk/cN* and /dev/rdsk/cN* for hints on how to re-create /dev/cfg/cN.-Alex From ...

I had installed the Jumpstart boot server from theSolaris 9 CD's (setup_install_server -b)some timeback.Now at a later date how can I find out the version andrelease of the Solaris CD's that I had used to installthe boot server? (e.g. Solaris 9 04/03)thanks and regards,VishalTired of spam? ...

Easy really ... not enough sleep or something?Disksuite details backed up in /etc/lvm/md.tab.So just use metainit to create 1st half of the mirrors & test. Whenhappy create the 2nd half of the mirror and attach to 1st half.Some metadevices were greater than 128 which threw me for a while. ...

Hi gurus,I need to disable direct root login on my solaris 8,9, and 10 sparcservers.I will do this by enabling CONSOLE in /etc/default/login and by disablingroot login in sshd.conf.It works fine, but now I realize I can no longer use rsync via ssh withpublic key auth as root for replication of ...

How can I configured Solaris for send me the copies of the root<br>system emails?<br>

Fellow managers,We have some StorEdge 3510 that we manage both by the way of IP addresses andserial connections. In both connexion types, we use the RAID firmware,revision 3.25. Accessind and using it is flawless and everything worksperfectly.But, as soon as we want to "logout" of ...

Hey all,Thanks to those who replied. I got a few conflictingreports on this. "The best solution, unless you are using xfn for something,is toremove the xfn line from /etc/auto_master, and stop/startautofs." - Rachel Polanskis "This is normal. It occurs on Linux also. Anytime ...

Hello Admins,In Solaris 9, is there any way to lock an account after 3 failed login attempts?I used # vi /etc/default/loginRETRIES=3but this only stops a repeated telnet/login process after 3 failed attempts.The account is not locked and the telnet/login process can be repeated for everwithout ...

keeping serial console open on Sun Blade 100 even with keyboard & mouse attached----I'm configuring a Sun Blade 100 to be a minor server. Took me a while to discover that the serial console is deactivated if the system is booted with a keyboard and mouse attached. It then re-routes all ...

One reply - from Casper Dik# eeprom output-device=ttya# eeprom input-device=ttyaBased on his information and a bit more searching, I found that this stuff is documented in the Open Boot Command Reference Manual --docs.sun.com product categories solaris on sun hardware solaris 9 on ...

Hi all, I am having an Ultra 10 Machine with OBP version 3.29Solaris 7 is installed with 20 GB HDDNow i have fixed two another HDD of 40 GB but It's showing only 5.77 Gb in Format .on another Ultra 10 having the solaris 8 is showing the HDD to it's full capacity i.e. 40 GBI Don't ...

sorry for this late summary, not in my lab during last weekthanks to everybody answering my question:Eric LewandowskialexeiRyan KrenzischeckDavid FosterMichael SchulteMatthew StierBill Williamsfirst, i apologize because my question contains mistake:if /etc/default/login contains correct PATH, ...

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>Hello,>> I have standart SNMP agents running : mibiisa, snmpdx.> I get zero values for all the sunHostPerf group ; that seemsincorrect.> Other groups look just OK>> 1: rsUserProcessTime.0 (counter) 0> 2: rsNiceModeTime.0 (counter) 0> .../...> 17: rsIfOutErrors.0 ...

The routing seems to be ok:booted from CD into single-user mode, which effectively configured both"ce0" and "ce1" interfaces with same IP address 45.217.2.110 (netmask255.0.0.0), of which only "ce1" was set UP : on "ce0" the messageappearedifconfig: ...

Hi,One of our server (E3500) rebooted today. This is the first time this has happened in our environment.Below is the /var/adm/messages:========================my own domain name (iss01) -- using short nameApr 11 09:57:39 iss01 /usr/dt/bin/ttsession[16962]: [ID 862433 daemon.error] child (6931) ...

Managers,Many thanks to the ones who replied to my question. Unfortunately, it dosen'tseem to have a "quit" option to the StorEdge 3510 firmware. I should havemention that this wasn't a "unable to quit a tip session" problem, since I'vegot many answers suggesting me to ...

Hi there<p>I've managed to install Solaris 10 for Intel on to a Dell PC, does anyone<br>know how to get, or at least try and get the pcmcia network card working.<br>It's a Fast Ethernet 3com one.<p>Alistair.<br>

Folks, Does anybody know where I can find/download these packages for Solaris 9x86?I couldn't find them either on the software CDs nor on sun site.If they are "strictly SPARC", what would you use as an alternative to them?Thanks in advanceLorisBT Communications Ireland Limited is a ...

Hello All!<p> How one can connect the CDE GUI login at sun solaris via linux Redhat FC3?<p>Pls help<p>Thanks<br>Yash<br>

I am trying to figure out how and where Solaris logs ( if at all ) what<br>users log in via ftp. This is a Solaris 9 host. <br> <br> Jeremy S. Loukinas <br>

I am searching for a Solaris command that will list all the disks (like the<br>format command) with which I can run with a non-root user.<p>Anyone have an idea ?<br>

Hi Gurus,<br> <br>We have an e420r with 4 cpus. But only cpu3 is always running all the<br>processes maxing out to 100% but none of the other 3 cpus are utilised. Any<br>idea why..?<br> <br>Thanks,<br>Saravanan.<br>

Thanks for the quick answer :<p>iostat -En<p>I am searching for a Solaris command that will list all the disks (like the<br>format command) with which I can run with a non-root user.<p>Anyone have an idea ?<br>

Hi,I'm looking at purchasing a couple of these drive arrays to provide NFS/AFS/Samba service to about 200-300 desktop and workstation boxes. I'm just wondering if I could get some feedback from some of the other codeprof out there as to what kind of performance, and reliability they've seen ...

Looks like the problem has been resolved. Why this situation exists I don't know.Two V480's same OS and presumably the same patch releases. Vmstat is whacked on one but not the other.patchadd -p reveals that the patch levels are the same on both machines. uname -a though reveals that ...

Dear Sunmanagers,<p>I am configuring a system that will run an application that uses SQL server<br>(same system)<br>Should I mirror the drive first and then install my app/sql or install my<br>app/sql then mirror?<p>Thank you for your time<p>Al<br>

Hello Guys, sorry for the offtopic post. I have the following errors whilecompiling apache 1.3.33. I installed gcc and libconv. What is the problemhere.**************# make===> srcmake[1]: Entering directory`/opt/home/gmonappa/software/apache_1.3.33'make[2]: Entering ...

Hi everybody,I have a Solaris 9 server running about 3 instances of Oracle 9databases. I would like to get a process listing with the oracleprocesses only showing the amount of memory they are using that is notpart of the shared memory segments for the oracle instance. Has anyoneseen any tools ...

Hi,Does anyone know of a version of SSH that has options to turn on loggingof file transfers when scp or sftp is used to transfer the files. I amlooking for the logs to have a reasonable amount of detail ie date/time,source IP, user logged in as, file name transferred, size of file ...

Hi All,I have inherited a JET server. Solaris 8, Sun Ultra 10.I need to change the IP so it sits on a different network segment.Currently I can jumpstart clients no problem with the current templates.When I change the ip, defaultrouter and subnets, make a new template,change all the relevant ...

Hi everyoneWe recently rescued a Netra t 1125 which had beenremoved from our data centre and was heading for theskip. It's now being used for testing and practicinginstalls etc. Unfortunately I've been having problemsactually doing anything with it yet, and was hopingsomeone on the list could ...

I have an Ultra 5 with a pgx32 PCI graphics card attached to a known-good keyboard/mouse and a known-good monitor and running Solaris 10 downloaded about 3 weeks ago. I have no serial access to it and no suitable devices to set up serial access. It runs nicely, but after something like a day's ...

Hello all,I am trying to do opposite but it fails with error:#dd if=ipublic1-archive-2005Apr05-1821.flar of=/dev/rmt/0# flar info /dev/rmt/0ERROR: Could not read cookie from /dev/rmt/0. Are you using a largeenough block size?I was trying different block size but it failed as well:#dd ...

Hello gurus,<p>Some body can help me by providing me some links of PDFs or some<br>commands to identify the position of each disk into the Arrays?<p>Best Regards<br>

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----Hash: SHA1Hi!I'm trying to mount a CD / DVD disk in my new Solaris 10 system (SPARC)and I can't, because the unit refuses the medium, ejecting the disk ,,,I think that's for I'm disabling some services throught svcadm:offline Mar_31 ...

Hi Gurus,I have a strange issue. I have Sun E-3500 with 2X9GB internal FiberChannel Disks running Solaris 8 at co-location. But the problem is Ican't see the second disk instead in format I see the root disk twice.The WWN of root disk is w21000020370e84aa whereas WWN of second disk(which is ...

OS: Solaris 10HW: Ultra 60I am using the Java Desktop System and the default terminal is the Gnometerminal. I like this because of the multiple tabs in one window andother features. But, it is an incredibly slow window. E.g. if I do an'ls -lAR' while I'm in the /etc directory on my local ...

I need to purchase some printers that my Solaris machinescan print to but also that our windows and Mac OSX machinescan print to.At one time Sun and Lexmark had a relationship which guaranteedthat Lexmark printers would work with Solaris. Is this stillthe case? I like the lexprt/markvision ...

Gurus...,Can I not appear boot messages?My server is not appear boot messages and down messages. When power-on, not appearboot messages, then appear login prompt. Disable and enable appear boot messages?Any Idea!!Thanks & Regards,SangIn Park ...

Hi managers,I use sa1 to collect system usage, sys user's crontab is:0 * * * 0-6 /usr/lib/sa/sa120,40 8-21 * * 1-5 /usr/lib/sa/sa15 22 * * 1-5 /usr/lib/sa/sa2 -s 8:00 -e 21:01 -i 1200 -AWhen I reboot my machine, data collection stops until I remove /var/adm/sa/sa## and re-create it by su sys ...

Hi, I have a hardened Solaris box.I was told by a remote colleague that I can'tdo "sudo -s" because I have not includedmy id into sudo. How do I do that?Can I just edit /etc/sudoers ? The following is a screen dump login as: myuseridmyuserid at 10.196.16.15's password:$$ sudo ...

Dear admins,I'm currently installing Solaris 10 on a V210 server.This server will be our NIS master server.Which software group do you recommend, knowing that this machine willmainly be used as NIS server:Entire Plus OEM, Entire* (default), Developer , End User , Core , ReducedNetworking ...