Greetings, thanks for the responses to my previous email regarding some "mysterious" processes hogging a couple of CPUs on a v880.mpstatCPU minf mjf xcal intr ithr csw icsw migr smtx srw syscl usr sys wt idl 0 0 0 1 12 10 10 0 0 0 0 17 0 ...

Hi,I'm having a problem with raw sockets for IP in IP encapsulation (protocol 4) on Solaris 5.8. When I create more than one raw IP sockets that bind to the same IP address to listen for the IPinIP protocol, only the first socket receives all the packets.I've tried this for other protocols ...

All, I need to upgrade a SUN E250 to a SUN E450 running Disk Suite toget the added support of 2 more cpu's. My question is, can this be downby pulling and inserting hard drives? With Veritas its simple and havedone it many times but Disk Suite puts me into a pickle? The E250 has 6hard ...

hi friends<p>i am going to setup a solaris 9 secure ftp server using the built-in<br>ssh/sftp on solaris 9... just like to get a high level things to do or<br>documents on hwo to set it up would be great...<p>thanks much !!!<br>gary<br>

Hi FriendsThanks so much to all who replied regarding the problem I am havingwith E4500 with Solaris 2.5.1.. Everything is OK now... Below is thesummary********************************************************************************************The problem that you are facing in installing ...

All, I need to upgrade a SUN E250 to a SUN E450 running Disk Suite toget the added support of 2 more cpu's. My question is, can this be downby pulling and inserting hard drives? With Veritas its simple and havedone it many times but Disk Suite puts me into a pickle? The E250 has 6hard ...

Hello all.I have an E3000 server running Solaris 7 with an A1000 attached.My plan is to do a full install of Solaris 9. I will then installthe latest version of Raid Manager.My question is after doing this, will the server then see my A1000as it was configured prior to this and will I just be ...

Hi, thanks to Joe, Ryan & one other person, the mostcomprehensive one is from Joe which I've inserted below: Thanks ------------------------------------------------------------------------start with pkginfo. Once you have the name of thepackage, you can use pkginfo with the -l switch do ...

Hi, Probably a basic question : a)will patchadd/installpatch checks if existing packages is present before it install the patch, eg: check if TIFF package is present in the system before it applies the patch for TIFF (such as patch 114219-11 for Solaris 9)? What about installpatch? ...

Hello,Running sendmail on solaris 9:If I have an alias:MAILER-DAEMON: postmastermailq output displays mail that came from this alias as:j3TLfINY001525 2601 Fri Apr 29 23:41 MAILER-DAEMONIs there a way to get this to appear as its real address? iej3TLfINY001525 2601 Fri Apr 29 ...

Hello, I need some advice on how to proceed with this. I have an LDAP server that has a 9gb disk that almost full and I have to keep deleting files to make space. I want to change it to a bigger disk. Is there a way to copy over everything (OS + LDAP files, etc) to a bigger hard drive without ...

Needed to add because of questions from users.System - Ultra-10OS - Solaris 8Partition - 1 file system (7gb) swap(1.5gb)Thanks for all who have taken the time to respond.Hello, I need some advice on how to proceed with this. I have an LDAP serverthat has a 9gb disk that almost full and I have ...

Hi Would anyone have any documentation, FYI , gottcha to do an upgrade of solaris 7 to Solaris 9 on a E450 box. I also have Veritas Volume Manager 3.5 running on the system.ThanksJack-- Jaskaran SinghSystems Analyst******************************Fairleigh Dickinson University1000 River ...

There are a number of responses basically doing the following or to use prtvtoc output as input to fmthard.Have all disks listed in a file /tmp/1.for i in `cat /tmp/1`>do>format $i << EOM>la>y>qui>EOM>doneFor the second part - i can similarly use keystrokes as input ...

Thanks again to all who responded.. Too many to name. I chose webpro's answer because it mirrored the way I was hoping to go on this. There are also other answers I will add as well.Webpro suggested: A quick way would be to use dd to copy the old drive to the new drive and then add the boot ...

Hello I get these error while system boots up. Can someone please explainme what it is ? this is on Solaris 8 and platform Sunfire V8801) device ssd2failed to powerup2) cannot find ssc050_get_port_bitI am not sure if thiserror came up before. Yeah I just installed host adapter Qlogic QLA2342 ...

Thanks for all the replies.I still don't understand why Veritas wiped out a partition that existedprior to encapsulation.First suggestion was to use vxunroot, that was actually attempted prior tomanual removal, however vxunroot was demanding that I remove the swappartition.Second suggestion ...

Thanks to Casper, Jonathan, Reggie, Ed, Bernd & possiblyothers that I may have missed. This list has helped a lot. My questions are preceded by > & replies are precededby - below. >a)will patchadd/installpatch checks if existing packages> is present before it install the ...

Howdy all,We have various macos-x clients automounting their home directoriesover NFS from Solaris. The problem with this approach is that manyfiles on MacOS-X require 'resource' and 'data' forks to be open(),read(), and write() to.Question: Is it possible to export a HFS+ filesystem via ...

Hi Managers,<p>I want to test the seqntial/random read/write performce of the <br>filesystems ,<p>Any one of you have any idea two to do this, i am not looking for tools <br>but the logic or simple script to do that.<p>-- <br>Sincerely,<br>Raghu<br>SDE Team<br>

Hi all,I have a Solaris 8 machine running on Sparc paltform.When ever I open the GUI I get the below error Error: Couldnt find per display information though my display is set. I found a patch for the samein 5.6 but unable to get it for 8. Can any one pleasehelp me on ...

Hello All,Firstly apologies for straying off topic, as gently reminded by Crist Clark:-)I think I'd got my knickers in a twist. Of course mail aliases are forlocal delivery. When I saw the line beginning with 'MAILER-DAEMON' ofcourse I understood that that meant it was a message generated ...

Hi Gurus,I have weird file system on Solaris 8 in 1 domain of SunFire 15K :In file system /abcust/oravl01 has 2 GB, but in df -k |grep "/abcust/oravl01" has 7 GB !!I can't find the "GHOST File" = 5 GB, please advise how to check the "GHOST File" ?During 6 hour ...

Hi there, I had a Solaris 2.6 box and I want to find out what thetotal memory I have free when its running at the moment. I've found the onlyway of doing this is the RMC MemTool, but because this is a productionmachine I can't install any other packages. Is there a way of showning the total ...

Several people pointed me at problems with high numbers of interruptsmeaning it was liable to be a 'hardware problem'.lockstat -kgIW -D 20 -s 40 sleep 5pointed me at interrupts being generated by several things, all of whichprefixed "se_".Also of use is the 'prstat' command, in ...

<br>My system rebooted and now I am not able to mount /var. I ran fsck many<br>times and still i cannot mount /var. Unless this /var is mounted my system<br>does not bootup.<p>Please advise and any help is appreciated.<p>Thanks,<br>

Hello,/var is filling up. df reports 15-G used while du reports 62-Megabytes used.I'm familiar with this type of discrepancy and I've typically taken the easyroute and rebooted. I don't have that luxury this time.lsof for /var reports the usual suspects syslogd, cron, and sendmail. ...

I am surprised that I did not get even a single response. However rebooting the swithes, which connect to T3, solved the problem. Veritas suggested to turn off auto-negotiate on both the master and client. J.jason kappy <jasonkappy at yahoo.com> wrote:Hi Gurus'Sorry, if this is off topic ...

I am in the middle of configuring Storedge Array with v880. I haveinstalled the Qlogic QLA2342 HBA on to v880 in PCI slot 8. I have installedthe latest pathches and Qlogic driver( from Qlogic).I have configurd thearray with 2 partitionsBut in v880 I cannt see the array.Though the cfgadm-al says ...

Darren nailed it first:> # lsof +D /var>> That command is probably useless because it's explicitly> looking for files in the /var directory. If they were> still in the directory, they'd appear in 'du'. You need> files that aren't in the directory.>> Try '+aL1 ...

I've installed Sun Directory Server 5.2 patch 3 on a Solaris 9 box. I'vealso configured the directory server via idsconfig (file contents below) andthen attempted to run the ldapaddent command (ldapaddent -a simple -D"cn=..." -w PWD /etc/passwd passwd). It reports "Container ...

Hello Gurus,If this question is too simple, I am sorry in advance.The question: Can Solaris 9 patches be installed on aproduction system (a Oracle server) without taking itto single user mode?It is not a good practice, but I'd like to make 95%sure if it is feasible.Thank you! Will write ...

Bought an ultra10 creator off ebay w/o a hd - but not getting an video signal to either a viewsonic A75f 17 inch crt or a sonycpd-220vs 17 crt. I have an ultra 5 with which both crt's work fine. Bought a serial null modem cable from radio shack for db25 to db9 hitchup of the ultra 10 serial ...

Hi Gurus,I tried to upgrade VCS from version 2.0 to 4.1 on Solaris 8. It didn'tdo upgrade and complained about insufficient Space in /var file system.I have currently 195 MB available in /var.As per the VCS manual it requires 550 MB in /opt which I have but itchecks for /var and fails.I have ...

I always was under the impression (and the sh man page says so) that if thefirst argument to sh is -sh then your .profile get sourced.But I just noticed that the following does not any moreexec /bin/sh "-sh"so what has ...

I need to do the following on solaris:- convert a couple of decimal numbers into binaryformat- be able to do a logical "AND" on the two binarynumbers from the previous step.- convert the result in step 2 back into decimal.I anyone aware of a wayto do this? Preferably, is there a way ...

Hi list,I have post install script to install Solaris 9 patches in Jumpstart, is there any way Recommended patches can be made part of the image?. It will save lot of installation time if it is possible.Please share your views.Thanks in advance. ---------------------------------Yahoo! Mail ...

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Hi Managers, I had built a new box, brought it veritas. I amable to man ls as root , but when i login as user i amnot able to do. I am getting this error.$ man lsReformatting page. Please Wait...nroff: cannot createtemp file. doneThanks,Srini Yahoo! MailStay connected, organized, and ...

May 5 09:46:34 aclm-ultra60 pcipsy: [ID 865758 kern.warning] WARNING: Higurus,I have observed the following messages from /var/adm/message on SB2000.The system is keep on hunging.It works fine for some time.Suddenly gethungging.Please give me the solution by the following error ...

Hi,thanks to all who replied.Special thanks to Stefan Varga , who point me to qemu: >>it run under solaris very well. >>see: http://www.solariscentral.org/article.php/20040907100827529The home page of qemu is http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/index.htmlThat's exactly what I'm ...

Hi We have Cisco IDS 4235 & one book (Cisco Security Professional'sGuide to Securite Intrusion Detection) says it's running Solaris for Intel & gave the password recovery as follows : *************************** start of book extract ************************** In order to carry out ...

Hi, I've managed to download some other DCA images& follow the instructions at the following url & gota working floppy : http://www.sun.drydog.com/faq/4.html#4.11 Now, I'm left with getting the large Sol 9 x86 CD(dont want DVD as I dont think the IDS box hasDVD drive). BTW, which CD is ...

Hi, If anybody can mail me (to goldsun8 at yahoo.com.sg) theDCA (in self-extracting), will appreciate it. My Cisco IDSis version 4 & I suspect it's running Solaris 8 for x86. Also, we could not locate our Solaris for Intel CD as well- so if anyone can point to me a website/url to ...

Hi, Thanks to Casper's quick response : The DCA floppy alone is not sufficient; but a Solaris 8(1of2) or S9 (1of2) or S10 (1ofmany) CD should suffice forsingle user boot and mounting the root deviceAt least I know it's not the Installation CD that we needhere for password recovery. Thanks,G ...

Although not really a Solaris queestion, I know everyone here is veryhelpful & knowledgeable, and this will be an easy one.I want to forward all external email, ie someone at somewhere.com to our MSExchange SMTP server. I can telnet to port 25 and run through a quick EHLO;RCPT TO, etc ...

Hi allI've a quick query regarding a filesystem issue I'm seeing.The (UFS) filesystem is very fragmented; fsck -n returns the following:60823 files, 749275 used, 268916 free (268916 frags, 0 blocks, 26.4%fragmentation)The disks are mirrored, so I plan to do the following:0: boot from cd1: ...

I'm wanting to clone or replicate "server1" to "server2".I have a few things in place, using scp & rsync...but it's not really doingthe job I need it to do...Ideally, I'd like to patch or upgrade server#1 includingOracle updatesOS patchesModules or 3rd party program ...

Hi,running Solaris 10 x86 (complete install without Java Enterprise system) on my Thinkpad I get the following errormessage if executing for example dtpower:bash-3.00# dtpower Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: com/sun/dt/dtpower/Dtpower ...

Dear Managers,<br>Who can suggest some usable way to backup the entire OS installation on<br>hard drive to CDs, so it may be restored later, freeware, or commercial<br>one?<br>