SUMMARY:Finding system shutdown information

1391 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:38:00
I got few response for this problem, finally we figured out somebodypressed power key.Here are response1.prtdiag -v ? Enterprise-class systems would report hardware problems(including AC Powser Failure) here; being follow-ons, I'd expect SunFireto do that, too.2.Try checking the console logs ...

lom command Netra 240 does not work ?

1580 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:38:00
Hi ,I have Netra-T1 command lom has work :-----------------------------------root at prod-media01# uname -aSunOS prod-media01 5.8 Generic_108528-14 sun4u sparc SUNW,UltraAX-i2root at prod-media01# lom -tSystem Temperature Sensors: 1 Enclosure 33 degC : warning 67 degC : shutdown 72 ...

about miniroot

401 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:38:00
hi,guys,another questionis the miniroot a mini solaris system?can i use redhat to put a solaris miniroot to local harddisk(etc "dd if=miniroot of=/dev/hda",and start from harddisk a solaris system?thanks_________________________________________________________________Cb7QOBTX MSN ...

GUI functionality with Solaris

906 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:38:00
Dear All,The custom application that was designed works on the GUI feature of theSolaris OS.One of the servers is disabled with the X-windows.Please advise as what other feature as be used to enable GUI functionalityto use the application.I will summarize.Thanks,ManiThis e-Mail may contain ...

SCSI bus reset

1733 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:38:00
I have a SUNBlade 100 with two Ultra-SCSI cards. The backups to the tapedrive (Exabyte 8505) on my system have been failing for the last couple ofdays. I had thought the tape drive was perhaps defective because it is old,and since I have an extra tape drive, I tried this morning to replace ...

unequal sized slices to store SDS metadb & can metadb reside on a newfs'ed/mounted slice?

1768 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:38:00
Hi,Below is my current Solaris 8 OS disk partition(actually I've repartitioned slice 7 which holds the empty /home directory to give up 25 cylinders to slice 3)Looks like I have to use slice 3 & slice 7 tostore the metadb as other slices already havedata while slice 7 contains the empty ...

in.routed - mystery route added

2470 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:38:00
hello all,It seems I have a 'mystery route' added to my Solaris 8 routing table and I'm not quite sure how it got there.It's not in any startup script, so I'm thinking pehaps that in.routed has added it.The scenario is as follows, I do not have a /etc/defaultrouter defined as my default ...

Summary: quick way to mirror a pair of disks using SDS

2054 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:38:00
Thanks to 3 persons below whom I've learntsomething in my new quest with Solstice Disksuite:Vincent Valee :If you have FC disks, you will have to rebuild thedevices for the OBP.Tom Grassia :After you've done this, do a metastat. Do you see amirror set up, with two submirrors? The ...

vold holds raw device

855 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:38:00
Hello,In a Sun V240 I have installed Solaris 10.Before starting Sybase 12.5 install, I have created two raw devices c0t0d0s3 & c0t0d0s4.Then I did:chown sybase:staff /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s3chown sybase:staff /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s4Sybase install errors off while creating master device:kernel Checked ...

Sybase cannot access raw device

1245 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:38:00
Hello,Following my pursuit of installing Sybase 12.5 in a Sun V240 running Solaris 10, I stopped vold by issuing /etc/init.d/volmgt stop, and restarted the Sybase install. It stopped further on while trying to access the raw device:basis_dsizecheck: attempt to open device '/dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s3' ...

Patch a flar archive

338 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:38:00
After flar archive creation of solaris 9 operating system we had apply a patch needed for an application. Does anyone know if is possibile patch the flar archive up or I need to recreate it ? :-/Thanks a lot...MC[demime 1.01b removed an attachment of type text/x-vcard which had a name of ...

Partition > 2TB Solaris 9

2681 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:38:00
Hello Sunmanagers,what is infact the largest size for a phyiscal disk. At the moment i'm notable to Label LUN's greater than 2TB. OS is Solaris 9. Machine for testing is at the moment a Ultra 30. Allrelevant patches according to patch 114129-02 are incorporated. If i run format -e i will get ...

SUMMARY: 280R panics after init 0

2423 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:38:00
[I forgot to put SUMMARY in the subject]Managers,I replaced the CPUs and memory modules, same thing happened. I alsotried to remove the PGX64 card. Same thing. panic.I tried init 0 with Solaris 8 on the same 280R (had an spare disk with Solaris 8). Did not result in panic.... I also tried init ...

Solaris 10 GA XscreenSaver Display Modes.

545 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:38:00
I just downloaded and installed Solaris 10GA on two Ultra 10 machines. Onemachine I did a live upgrade and the other I did a fresh install. Themachine that I did a live upgrade on allows me to select different modes onthe Display Modes tab but the fresh install does not. The XscreenSaver ...

build time options to set the runtime library path

1046 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:38:00
I am having problems trying to find the right build time options to set the runtime library path; I want to include non-default system library paths.For example when I try to run snmpwalk I receive the following error:ld.so.1: snmpwalk: fatal: libcrypto.so.0.9.7: open failed: No such file or ...

build time options to set the runtime library path -- resolution

1661 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:38:00
This problem can be resolved by setting the LDFLAGS env variable or passing --with-ldflags="-L/usr/local/ssl/lib -R/usr/local/ssl/lib" to configure.Thanks to all who responded.Stuart WeaverUnix Systems AdministratorElement K500 Canal View Blvd.Rochester, NY 14620I am having problems ...

Urgent: warning: cannot open /etc/hosts.allow: Too many open files

3141 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:38:00
Dear adminsI4m having a terrible problem.Recently, I was installed a openldap software in a Sun Solaris 9 box. Initialtests are ok, but now, when I was migrated my users to this system, frequentlythe ldap daemon stops to work. In the logs, I was saw this message:warning: cannot open ...

Solaris 10 and 3Com 3CCFE574BE

216 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:38:00
Anyone used a 3Com 3CCFE574BE NIC (a kind of old one) on Solaris 10? Any<br>clues<br>on how to config for this beast. (Yes I am looking to get something<br>supported,<br>but the wheels of progress are slow.)<p>JC<br>

sun T3 disk replacement

1335 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:38:00
Hello,I have two Sun T3 w/ 9 36Gig hardware raid arrays neither of which is on sun hardware support. I would like to make just one of them usable as a repository for backups (i.e. semi-important data, but not worth the price of support). I have 8 of the 9 T3 disks setup as a RAID5 volume and ...

ADD: Urgent: warning: cannot open /etc/hosts.allow: Too many open files

7008 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:38:00
Hi, YannThanks for the fastly response. :-)The problem is that if I only stop/start the daemon, the file descriptors ofthe system are used. Then, I was write a script to restart the daemon andautomatically change the plimit value:PID=`cat /usr/local/var/run/slapd.pid` restart) echo ...

I-node limit Solaris 9

50 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:38:00
What is the inode limit on Solaris 9?<p>Thanks<br>

patchrm 108528-29 problem

542 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:38:00
Just wondering. I'm running Solaris 5.8 and I've encountered thisproblem on an Ultra-250 and a Sun Fire 280R.When I do: patchrm 108528-29 It removes the patch, and then it deletes the /var/sadm/patch/.patchDBfile.Not sure why this is happening. It never happens to anyone else here atwork ...

named 9.2.1 external resolution problem on 2nd slave (Solaris 9)

3610 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:38:00
Hi all,I have added a third dns server to the mix. All are Solaris 9 runningbind 9.2.1. The master and existing slave are working great. Theyresolve internally as well as external domain names just fine.The 2nd slave was pretty much cloned from the existing slave as far asOS and bind. I ...

3310 SCSI Disk Array

628 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:38:00
Hi Gurus,I am in a big mess right now.I hope someone bails me out.I connected a Sun Netra 20 Server to a Sun 3310 Disk Array in a SingleBus configuration. I installed a SCSI card in the server and installedall the qus drivers.I could see the Disk array earlier. But i needed to change the ...

rsync help

518 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:38:00
Greetings,I have rsync running on one of my servers,(called in inetd.conf) and amtrying to allow only certain hosts to obtain files on this server. Itseems the host allow option should work, but so far, I've beenunsuccessful. Currently, I am using the following syntax in my configfile:host ...

Even properly configured, seeing intermittent "MX list for foo.com. points back to mx4.mail

2131 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:38:00
Greetings,I am trying to debug a mysterious problem. We run several mailservers, of which in total we probably handle upwards of 1 millionmessages a day. Our mail hosts are set to relay mail to theirultimate destination. In order to do that, sendmail is configured assuch:1. ...

SunBlade 1000 diag problems - rephrase

3087 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:38:00
I wrote last week that I have a SunBlade 1000 that I put into high diagnostics by setting diag-switch? to true and diag-level to max. Now that I've set those nvram variables the machine powers on and fails POST. According to sunsolve this is the procedure to reset the nvram parameters to ...

Updating my address book

385 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:38:00
Hi Can you please enter your contact details in my address book. Click on the link below: http://www.bebo.com/fr1/10232728a484122677b143804762c637865424d20 After we are connected, in the future, any changes you make in your contact details will be sent to me. Thanks for your help. ...

IMPORTANT: Read this before posting to Sun-Managers

6236 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:38:00
Archive-name: codeprof-before-postingLast Updated: $Id: before.posting,v 1.19 2002/11/21 15:07:17 jdd Exp $NOTE: This message is posted periodically to codeprof on behalf of all members of the Sunmanager's mailing list. Please read it carefully before posting. This document can be retrieved ...

rootvol is resync every boot time

147 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:38:00
Hi Guru,<p>Any idea, my rootvol is resync'ed very boot time with solaris 9 Generic 117171-12, root disk is mirror using VxVM 3.5 MP3<p>THanks,<br>

about the structure of x86 install cd

265 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:39:00
i can't find docs about x86 cd.<br>has it five sun slice on it,just like the cd for sparc?<p>_________________________________________________________________<br>Cb7QOBTX MSN Explorer: <A HREF=" http://explorer.msn.com/lccn"> http://explorer.msn.com/lccn</A> <br>

SUMMARY: patch policy

3410 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:39:00
My question was how to avoid serios accidents on a production system while patching it? How should I apply recommended patches not to risk the usability of my system? What is your patch routine?Mike Salehi writes:===================We do not apply the latest patch as it becomes available then ...

SAFARI speed.

236 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:39:00
Dear Gurus,<p> What is SAFARI speed on sparc processors ? when I give .speed<br>command at ok prompt, it displays 4 acitive CPU's and last line is<br>SAFARI speed : 150 MHZ.<p>Any pointers will be helpful.<p>Best REgards,<br>Josh.<br>

Bad file number

1454 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:39:00
Hi Gurus, Although the initial cause of my problem isn't directlyrelated to Solaris, I think altering a system configuration might help it.We currently have a customer who is running are software on differentmachines which communicate with each other through CORBA. Yesterday corbacompletely ...

How to delete one of IP address from network route

1871 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:39:00
Dear All,I've got a case using solaris9, which is I wanna try to delete one of IPaddress from network route, fyi network config can figure out as follow:root# netstat -rnRouting Table: IPv4 Destination Gateway Flags Ref Use Interface-------------------- ...

what does the Link count mean for directories

919 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:39:00
Hi All,I have a question for you.When I create the new directory, the link count become 2 (ls -ld/directory_name).I think it is 2 due to . and .. directories. If it is, why the link countpoints these direcotry?When I create the new subdirectories under this directory, the link countincrements ...

how to cancel a pending shutdown command?

2264 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:39:00
hello all,this morning a terrible thing happened ;)i had given a "shutdown immediate" command to an oracle instancevia svrmgrl.since no reply came, i decided to type that command in again.before hitting enter, svrmgrl had returned to the unix shelland the "shutdown ...

not able to login as ordinary user

427 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:39:00
Dear All,I have ss-20 box which is running Solaris 2.6 it was working fine tillyesterday. Suddenly none of the user are not able to login except root. butif i changed UID 0 for ordinary user it's finethe error message is as followsafter typing password, it says "No directory! connection ...

Problems setting up StorEdge 3310 on V240

1932 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:39:00
Dear all,I have been struggling with this problem for some days andhave just about exhausted all possibilities so I'm askingfor help now.The Problem:============We have a new SUN V240 & a SUN StorEdge 3310 SCSI array. Thelatter is NOT the JBOD variant but has only one controllerand 5x73GB ...

[Q] SUN E280 CPU upgrade questions?

607 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:39:00
We have SUN E280 server for 4 years. The CPU speed is 750 Mhz. I know E280 is our of SUN production line. Due to the budget issue we can NOT buy brand new server, we plan to upgrade CPU to higher speed. Based on what I knew, E280 support up to 2 X 1.2 GHZ. My question are:1. Will my E280 ...

RSC firmware for a Sun E250

414 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:39:00
I have a recalcitrant RSC on an E250 with Sol 9.Can someone tell me what the firmware should be for this card. Icurrently have Version 1.14.Are these card the same as used on the Sunfire 280 and 480RegardsPaul ClaytonGlobal Unix Manager / Network AdministratorIntec BillingCape TownSouth ...

Mounting USB device on SunBlade1500

1410 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:39:00
Does anyone know the correct procedure for mounting a USB deviceon specifically on a SunBlade 1500? I need to (a) mount itand (b) as a non-root user.I am running Solaris 9 4/04 with the latest vold patch.I have already spoken to Sun tech support for a number ofweeks and they were unable to ...

SUMMARY: UFSRESTORE

629 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:39:00
Hello all,Here's the short answer.I'm a moron.The long answer.I was forgetting to rewind the tape after screwing up the ufsrestore commands. Therefore I was at EoT. Once I smacked myself in the head, and got calmed down by Tom Crummey (who does not live up to his name), I got things under ...

Summary -> Re: NAS Box

6584 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:39:00
Thanks a lot for Kevin Shaw, Michael Horton, RIch Bishop..Very very specialthanks to Tim Chipman, Darryl Baker for helping me to understand what exactlyhas to be done..Finally we are going for a NAS box and most probably it will be a QNAP basedsolution. For details please see their website ...

UPDATE Re: SUMMARY: Apache2 w/ SSL

4278 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:39:00
Just one minor quick addition. If you follow the instructions below you'llhave to enter the pass phrase whenever you start the server. If you want itto come up automatically when the machine boots that can obviously be a bitproblematic ;) Here's the work around from the apache.org ...

SUMMARY: Problems setting up StorEdge 3310 on V240

3985 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:39:00
Problem has been solved. Thanks especially to Will Enestvedtwho responded almost immediately with an answer that pointedme in the right direction.My original question;>>Dear all,>>I have been struggling with this problem for some days and>have just about exhausted all ...

Encrypting Backups

817 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:39:00
I've been asked to look into the possibility of encrypting our backups and was hoping someone here had done this before.The goal is encrypt the stuff that goes on our tapes well enough that we don't have to worry about losing one. I understand all the drawbacks involved in encrypting backups, ...

forcing ownership inside a directory

247 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:39:00
Is there anyway that I can force the ownership of the files created in a<br>directory to be the same as owner of the directory. the files created inside<br>the directory are by users who have group write priveleges for the directory.<br>thanks<br>

SUMMARY: Apache Redirect on Solaris 8

1814 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:39:00
Thanks a lot to Dale Ghent, Frank Van Liedekerke and VEGH Karoly.Special thanks to Dale...The solution is: RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.test1\.com$ RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.test2.com$1 [R=permanent]Worked for me after I figured out it silly mistake I made was putforward slash ...

SUMMARY: Urgent: warning: cannot open /etc/hosts.allow: Too many open files

7676 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 4:39:00
Dear adminsThank you very much for all! With the unvaluable help of many people (specialthanks to Antonia Gomez, Darren Dunham, Bernd Schemmer and Yann Geneste), Icould solve my problem.The original question:>Recently, I was installed a openldap software in a Sun Solaris 9 box.>Initial ...