All,I am restoring tons of data via Veritas and I am getting "TimeOut" errormessages. Veritas says it is because of a network timeout so myquestion is does anyone know or have any good ideas on how to check tosee if the client is actually getting flooded from the restore. It is ...

Hi,I am looking to change the password for single or multiple user's remotelyon Solaris 8/9 servers using ssh.For e.g: Login on server "A" and change password for user "test" onserver "B" $ ssh B passwd test I think passwd --stdin works well in Linux and ...

Sorry for the long delay for the summary.The reason I was asking the question was to help evaluate a V890 against aFujitsu PP650. The question of which would be most suitable for a highactivity backup server boiled down to which had the best PCI bus data rates.I was unable to find any ...

I was hoping someone here with SUN experience could point me in theright direction. Someone I work with sent me this email (below) alongwith the original email they sent to SUN. (Names have been deleted toprotect the innocent :)Thanks,Joel-----Original Message-----Joel,This email below explains ...

Hello All, Iam trying to setup qla2100 on sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-60preferably running Solaris 9. Per Qlogic's website the productdoesn't have drivers for Solaris 9. Per a newsgroups post, someonedid install Solaris 8 drivers and removed Sun's ifp to make it work.The reason Iam trying to ...

Hi Admins,<p>I need to know which the model of my HBA, but i don't know how to do it.<p>Any idea?<p>REgards,<p>Pablo Salazar<br>

All:We have a problem with people logging in as themselves, su'ing to root and then not logging out. This is a security risk and I need to fix it. We use ssh only to move between systems. I've gone over the man pages for ssh_config and sshd_config until I'm blue in the face and I cannot ...

Hi,I am trying to bind nfs clients to the nfs server froma specific port on the client. Is this possible?. Ihave found the syntax for Linux but not for Solaris:-(Thanks RichardSend instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com ...

hi,everybodywhen i install solaris 9 on ide disk,and fdisk the "/" slice to 4000mb,i encounter a problem that "'/' slice can't exceed 1023 cylinders hba"does it mean that i can't have a "/" slice larger than 500mb?i'm really confused...thanks for your ...

Hello codeprof, Many thanks to joe_fletcher,Eric Lewandowski and Harrington David B (Contractor). They have offered 3 decisions.Edit the /etc/syslog.conf to add at the bottom:Local7.info /var/adm/tcpdlog*.notice;daemon.debug /var/adm/messages and installing another ftp ...

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 ...

Hi All,I have a recollection that its better to use find | xargs than find-exec {} \; on account of find hitting a recursion limit. Iirc xargsruns a command multiple times to exhaust all arguments in stdin, sodoesn't his this problem.Can someone confirm/deny this recollection, and maybe ...

I didn't see this appear, so forwarding it with a different subject;apologies if you get this twice - if so please let me know, and I'llinvestigate why I didn't see my own summary appear....Thanks.Steve.---------- Forwarded message ----------From: Steve Nelson <sanelson at ...

Hello codeprof,<p>Is it possible to log any login failures from Dtlogin? I am using Solaris 8.<p> <p>-- <br>Best regards,<br> nick mailto:<A HREF="/execute/ask/?codeinfoid=35263">nick at mmk.ru</A><br>

Thanks very much for the quick responses - herewith a summary of what I learned:The problem is not one of recursion limit, but one of (in)efficiency.It is much more efficient to use find | xargs than find -exec {} \;"find ... -exec command {} \;" runs the command once for each name.If ...

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----Hash: SHA1I am looking for Solaris Container Manager 1.1. Is it contained inside the Sun Management Center? Currently I am downloading SMC.Both Management Center and Container Manager do not seem to be contained in the Developer Enterprise Edition; can this be ...

Hi, <p> Is there a simple command or command to show how many connections<br>/session are connected on port 80 say, and also the total number of sessions<br>to all ports?<p>Alistair.<br>

Many people like to use their own favorite shell. How can I setup theproper login parameters when users switch from shell to shell.ie.I login with shchange to bash and getbash-2.03#If I add export PS1="`hostname`#" to .profile and login with sh, I getan error. How can I have ...

UNIX gurus, What is the difference between the differnet IO actions per process: NetworkI/O, Disk I/O & Stream I/O.Note that the case is a SAN archiecture, meaning that the server storage is anexternal storage.Cheers,Negm***********************************************The content of this ...

We are running solaris 8 with native ldap.Yesterday, our primary DNS server went down and came back up. The outage lasted 10 minutes and it was unplanedSince that time rsh's from one server to another come up with "permisssion denied". Prior to the dns outage, rsh's were working ...

I have 3 HP StorageWorks ULTRIUM 460 (LTO2) tape drives connected in a V880Sun Fire server running Solaris 8.Each tape drive has a SG-XPCI2SCSI-LM320 controller card.The problem is that the performance is very bad!!The tape drives are writing at 37GB/h (10MB/s) in compress mode.The ...

Thanks, to all responses,Jon Hudson helped to me yesterday whit few commands but you commandodon't display model card.My server is a Sun FIre 480R, and have two cards of Fiber on PCI Slots 0and PCI Slot 2, the command prtdiag show this,========================= IO Cards ...

Hi,I've got SUN Cluster 3.0 & VxVM 3.2 running on two 880 servers .I need to know if Veritas Foundation 3.5 works with SUN cluster 3.0 as Iwant to upgrade VxVM from 3.2 to 3.5 and vxfs from 3.4 to 3.5 ...Does any of you have this combination (Cluster 3.0 & VxVM 3.5) running?I've got ...

Thanks to all persons who replied specially Casper Dick who given me belowcommand$ ssh -t B passwd test, which help me to go further in expect & Chad Johnsonwho gave me the example expect script.I tried the autoexpect command and then twick the generated file as below toresolve the ...

Hi gurus,got a problem here with a E420:When I power up the system, it begins running its POST-tests, and then ithangs.The last thing I see is the banner, and the "cycling dash" of the memoryinitialization. After memory initialization is complete, the line disappears(as usual), and ...

Russell hit it on the head.The reverse DNS pointer records disappeared after the outage/reboot. I should have expected that from a windows DNS server.I put the entries back and things are now humming along.ThanksKarl<Russell.J.LeBar@> wrote on 03/17/2005 12:53:17 PM:> It's possible ...

So far the concensus has been that there does not exist a TMOUT equivilant for bourne shell.Suggestions so far have been:1) use a different shell This is doable but the problem is that users will still have the ability to shift to other shells. So it doesn't cure the problem2) use sudo ...

Hi All,I seem to be having a problem. I have configured IPMP per the blueprint dated November 2002 on a V120 running Solaris 9.The interfaces come up failed on boot. I can un-fail the interface then see the network. Any idea why I am seeing this behavior?...For obvious reasons, I have masked ...

Hi,I currently have both a Solaris 9 server running version 5.1 of thedirectory server, and a Solaris 10 server running version 5.2 of thedirectory server. My solaris clients, both 9 and 10, have been setup viaa profile. The servers have been setup using the idsconfig utility. I amusing a ...

All, I have some Solaris 8 servers and one solaris 2.6.I am supposed to change /etc/default/passwd to have MAXWEEKS=8Will this effect existing accounts which previously didn't expire, or willit just effect new accounts.Is there any difference between what happens with Solaris 8 and ...

Original post:> I have a need to put two Dell servers & a rack-mounted Dell KVM in my> standard Sun rack. The problem is that the Dell rack kits are ~4-5> inches too short.>> Does anyone have a workaround? I can put in a work order for a sheet> metal part to made on site ...

Thanks to all who replied: Michael Imrick (Provided documentation found after summary) Jon Hudson Darren Dunham Paul Sagneri Gary Chambers Dirk Hamilton[..much cut..] (scroll down for the whole doc)Summary: Your default gateway must accept ICMP echo/echo-reply.IPMP only use the ...

Hello managers,I am in the process of building a SunFire E2900 with 3510FC RAID forexternal storage, connected via 2GB Host Adapter (SG-XPCI2FC-QF2).Solaris itself is installed on the two internal HDD which the E2900 has; the RAID's are intended for database partitions.Each 3510 provides a ...

Hi all,I have a server that has been running backups of local disks to a tapedrive on a remote system. These backups have been running for a verylong time, but for the last 4 days 1 particular filesystem always failswhen trying to backup to the tape.The backup script has about 20 different ...

I have a SUNBlade 100, Solaris 8 operating system, two Ultra-SCSI cards. Ihave been having a lot of problems with my backups to tape in the last month.I tried installing replacement tape units (all are Exabyte 8505XL - one anewer model with a wide SCSI connector). The backups worked okay on ...

hiI'm wondering if theres a way or a replacement for thehistory file that would log times of commands ? Maybea shell other than korn or bash ? Solaris 8 or 9.ElaineSend instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com ...

Folks,<p>Can any one point me to any document which confirms that Sun Cluster 3.1<br>is supported on Solaris 10.<p>I have looked in detail on docs.sun.com and various other sun forums,<br>but couldn't get definite answer.<p>Thanks in advance,<p>Vivek<br>

Hi All, I guess my superblock is corrupted . can anyone know how to corect this# fsck -y** /dev/rdsk/c0t1d0s0** Currently Mounted on /** Phase 1 - Check Blocks and Sizes** Phase 2 - Check Pathnames** Phase 3 - Check Connectivity** Phase 4 - Check Reference Counts** Phase 5 - Check Cyl ...

<original posting below>Hi gurus,thanks to all who responded! Most of you suspected a memory problem (as we),but some suggested a problem with the internal disks. Hm, I tried bootingthe system from cd-rom, but also without success - so, I think theriser-board is defect.Don' have one ...

Gurus,I just finished installing the latest patch cluster from March 16 on mysun box (Sparc 10 - Solaris 8) and during reboot it started going into aloop displaying the following message:/usr/lib/snmp/smpd.dx: session_open () failed for a pdu received fromlocalhost.32798I've searched the ...

Sorry!The correct specifications for these tape drives are 210GB/h (60MB/s) incompress mode. ----- Original Message ----- From: Edson Luiz Avanzi To: codeprof at codeprof.com Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2005 12:03 PM Subject: Tape Drives Performance I have 3 HP StorageWorks ULTRIUM 460 ...

What is a door file under Solaris 8 ?# ls -l "/etc/.ldap_cache_door"Dr--r--r-- 1 root other 0 Mar 2 09:59 /etc/.ldap_cache_door# file "/etc/.ldap_cache_door"/etc/.ldap_cache_door: door#May this have anything to do with caching of the ldap client ?Have any ...

First off thanks to the following for even taking the time to respond.It is truly appreciated:Edward Farrar (hey buddy it was good to hear from you after such a longtime)Adam MazzaSam NelsonAnd of course to the multiple "out of office"..... what can I say butthat it was an absolute ...

Hi,I have installed Solstice CMIP 9.0 software package on my ultra-5 Sunworkstation. I have Solaris 8 installed on my machine with therecommended patches for Solaris 8.I want to configure the SSEL (Session selector) & TSEL (TransportSelector) values to values different than the default ...

Hi,thanks toRandy Romeroand"NO UCE"for their replies."NO UCE " points me in the right direction:Our Nameserver was NOT doing reverse name resolution for the IP address 0.0.0.0(seeANyway, this got me thinking: (Sorry, currently only in cache) I t-h-i-n-kthis ...

Thanks to all who responded:JVJoe FletcherSal SerafinoThere were two things going: the replicas were failing; the server wasrefusing to boot because it had lost half its state replicas. I was sofocused on figuring on why it was losing the replica's I didn't stop tothink about the effect of ...

I had two question and I summarized both below:At 08:34 AM 3/15/2005, Paul LaMadeleine wrote:>Greetings,>> I would like to know if there is a specific list just for solaris > x86 and if so, what is it's subscription address. There are two solaris x86 mailing lists ...

Hello:I have a JNI FCI-1063 on a Sun E450. HBA connects to a Brocade 3800. An EMC Clariion CX600 is part of the fabric.Download and installed fca-pci.org on the E450. Packages installed are IS8e8546a EZ Fibre, JNIfcaPCI (v2.6.13), and JNIsnia (v2.0.b). Make changes on two files: on ...

Thanks to those who responded. No one had any suggestions on useing the NIC.Most suggested getting one that is supported. Guess I'll have to beg the manfor a newer one.Original question:> Anyone used a 3Com 3CCFE574BE NIC (a kind of old one) on Solaris 10?> Any clues on how to config for ...

Hello,I am getting the following error when running a Java application fromdirectory that is mounted using Veritas. The application runs fine asroot, but as a non root user i get the following error.Error occurred during initialization of VMjava.lang.Error: Properties init: Could not determine ...