Getting some errors while backing back to an NFS mount....ufsdump 0f /mnt/test.dump /dev/md/rdsk/d30 DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Thu Jan 05 16:27:50 2006 DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch DUMP: Dumping /dev/md/rdsk/d30 (sfnode8:/var) to /mnt/test.dump. DUMP: Mapping (Pass I) ...

Thanks for the suggestions by everyone.....Solution: On the NFS server I had to give root more access to the NFS shareroot=node_name...........before> ls -al /mnt> total 10> drwxr-xrwx 2 root other 4096 Jan 5 17:11 .> drwxr-xr-x 26 root root 1024 Jan 5 ...

Thanks for the replies, they were appreciated. However, one thing that Ididn't manage to get across was that the server(s) would "hang" with thiserror message on console and you couldn't continue past that point--EvenNodeB.It seems that it's a known but rather obscure bug with ...

I am looking for some suggestions on what others are using for boot diskbackups and recovery strategies on multiple 15K's.I would prefer not to use any tape devives on the SC's and as of now, wedon't have any externally attached tape drives to the domains.I am currently doing a ufsdump to an ...

Hi gurus,I have ONE host where the passwd command is prompting root for a passwordbefore it allows you to set a password.On all other hosts, I can su - to root and issue the passwd command to resetpasswords without being prompted for any passwords. The passwd manpage confirmsthis it the correct ...

All,Problem: The root /.profile $PS1 and $PS2 prompts showing for all telnetconnections from all usersPossible cause: Following wrong method when restarting inetd (seemsunbelievable)I would be grateful for any help possible with the following as it is holdingup a project -I promise to post any ...

Guru's,I have a very large ldif (text file) that I would like to split up intomultiple files, approximately 5-10 smaller ones. It doesn't matter whereI start chopping up the original file, what tool would best work forthis, I'm not too familiar with sed, but I think this might serve ...

Thanks for all the responses, split is obviously me best option and itworked great.PaulGuru's,I have a very large ldif (text file) that I would like to split up intomultiple files, approximately 5-10 smaller ones. It doesn't matter whereI start chopping up the original file, what tool would ...

Hello Sir,Today Ive got ticket for New installation / Up gradation on development box, the details are as follows. Existing environment: Sun E450 with 6 internal drives each 36GB. Solaris 2.6 with oracle 7. First drive is having OS and 2nd and 3rd drives are having data /u01 and /u02 ...

Hello Managers,Thanks for your kind help and now I've got complete idea about remote / console access. Special thanks for following managers. Abhishek Chaudhary Kiem Nguyen John Kennedy brad.heck Any of you have any idea about world famous CONSOLE ACCESS S/W (or) H/W vendors please let ...

Hi,My system is running sunos-5.8 on x86. I am using Sun Type 5C keyboard. Butthe special keys are not working. I am using xfree86-4.5.0 for my xwindow'ssystem.I have gone through the sun_KbdEv.c file, and updated the symbol map tablein "map[256]" array to include the special keys. ...

hi all i just configured SSH on my solaris server and permitted root login but now i can't login. hitting the caps lock key shows the keyboard is working fine but i cannot type in anything into the system. i get the following prompt server console login: where i cannot login ...

Dear Sun Managers,how can I recover /var/spool/lp on a Solaris 10 machine, without new installation of the whole machine?I have no more /var/spool/lp , dunno how it happend, but now I look for a possibility to create it again.I tried to copy it from a Solaris 9 machine, but print services ...

I have downloaded and installed Studio 11 software however the compileris building code in 32 bit mode even though the server is in 64bit.I have found the following flag that seems to work, but is thereanywhere i.e. a common file that we can put this into so that we cansimply run the cc command ...

Hi AdminsI am trying to record the commands run by root user, as this login has to begiven at time to many different people, to run different utilities, My plan is to run the tail -f on .sh_history and store in another file. ButI need to put date as well in the o/p file, basic idea is to record ...

SUMMARY: Why is passwd prompting root for password?THANKS TO:Casper Dik, Christopher Barnard, Bill Williams, Wil Deny, Varad Rajan GilGilliland, Andrew Hall, Ric Anderson, John Kennedy, Christiaan MeihslThis problem was caused by settings in the /etc/pam.conf file. All of the otherhosts I ...

Hi guys!!I have a problem here.Been trying to bring up a sun fire 4900 server.The server complained of too many lines in the vfstab entry.I checked the entry in the vfstab as shown below and found out that thefile has been corrupted. In a bid to over-write the current file withthe backup copy, ...

Hello,many thanks for your replies.I give it up now with the Sun printing tools.I installed all print related packages new, but /var/spool/lp vanishes after some prints. And I'm also not able to install the patch 120467-02 who shouldsolve that issue, I always get an error that the patch cannot ...

I'm using SunOne Directory Server 5.2 on Solaris 9.Client is Solaris 9.Trying to get a posixgroup setup but can't see the group with ldaplist.ldapclient# ldaplist -l groupldaplist: Object not foundI have a basic question of the right way to create this group with id 777.When I create a new ...

Sun Gurus,<p>I did an OS upgrade from Solaris 8 to 9 on two Sunfire V440's and it took<br>around 9 hours to complete. Where as an upgrade of V240 took around 3<br>hours. I was kinda stumped. Any idea why it took so long for a V440 ?<p>TIA<p>I will summarize<p>-Shyam<br>

Has anybody been able to configure a RHEL 3 or 4 machine as a client of a SunOne 5.2 Directory Server?I've got most of it working but I can't ssh or telnet into the RHEL machine.The symptom is I can't log into the Red Hat client as the ldap user (user80) using ssh it asks me for the password ...

'lo all,<p>Is there a reason why you don't see replies to the answers on the list? <br>I only see people thanking people for their help. Am I not getting <br>something here or is it a reply off-list list?<p>Cheers doods,<p>Tam.<br>

Dear Managers, I am using sed to update password file. When work with encrypted passwords you will find special chars such as /. If I do it manually I can escape it with \, but in side script and using variables how could I escape it?. For example: sed ...

Guys,We have a StorEdge 3510 fully populated with 72gigdrives.They're configured in RAID5 with an extra hot-sparedrives.My problem is that all of the drive status leds areflashing constantly except the hot-spare one.I already configured some 3510s before but I only sawthese leds flashing when ...

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We are running hardware raid on our v40z.<p>How do we identify if the disk has failed besides physically looking at<br>the server?<p>(the system is running redhat 4)<p>Thanks<br>

Can anyone answer this question please<p>In Volume Manager 4.0 is there any difference between a Concatenated<br>Mirror and a Mirror that is Concatenated, as Volume Manger is reporting<br>the new and old volumes differently.<p>Disks are internal on an E450<p>tia<br>

Thanks for the value inputs, I ended up using it this way:sed "s#`echo <variable_has_the string>`#new_value#g" old_file >new_fileThanks Sriman Kumaran <sriman_kumaran at yahoo.co.uk> wrote: Dear Managers,I am using sed to update password file. When work with ...

All,Thanks to all who replied:Basically most of them told to use "sudo" instead of tail -f .sh_historySecond option given was to use d=`date`tail .sh_history | sed "s/^/$d" >> anotherfileortail -f .sh_history | sed "s/^/`date `/" > output_fileThird option ...

Hello Gurus!I have Sun-Fire 480R running with Solaris 9 patched with last recommendedpatch set.I found the following:Jan 5 12:00:44 host scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING:/pci at 9,600000/SUNW,qlc at 2/fp at 0,0/ssd at w2100000c50e2696d,0 (ssd0):Jan 5 12:00:44 host Error for Command: ...

Hello Gurus!I have Sun-Fire 480R running with Solaris 9 patched with last recommendedpatch set.I found the following:Jan 5 12:00:44 host scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING:/pci at 9,600000/SUNW,qlc at 2/fp at 0,0/ssd at w2100000c50e2696d,0 (ssd0):Jan 5 12:00:44 host Error for Command: ...

Hello,many thanks for all hints. With original SUN software (new install of SUNWpsr, recommended patch 120467-02 failed to intall) I was not ableto fix it, /var/spool/lp always vanished after some time.Finally I used CUPS print system http://www.cups.org/ and installed it like described here ...

Hi gurus, I have a Solaris 7 server, where I need to install java latestversion. I have downloaded the latest version from sun site andinstalled.But when I try to access java it was giving following error. This javaversion I required for tomcat ...

Thanks to the following for their responses Michael Sullivan Chawla Girish-QGC002 Brewer, Dwight R. CONTRACTOR the funny thing is when i tried again (after trying and trying and trying) to connect using the hyperterminal i could log on , for no reason at all no error ...

hello managers does anyone have any idea why the toolbox may not load when you start the Solaris Management Console? i used the management console to create two users who belong to the staff and root groups respectively and none of them was given primary administrative roles. i then ...

HiMy question is whether SunDirectory Server 5.2 is freeto download for Redhat AS4 or not.I have checked Sun download page but it seems that itis just supported for Redhat AS2 .I wonder if it hasnot been updated , so if any one has any informationabout this issue I would be very greatful to ...

I have read through the Sun Trunking Documentation and installation, etc seems straight through on the server side... The question is what about on the switch side? What needs to be configured on the Cisco switch side? Our network people want to know if this relates to etherchannels or if there ...

Hi all,I have a jumpstart server on my x86 PC, which runs Solaris 10 final withJumpstart Enterprise Toolkit (JET).I'm trying to install Solaris 9/04 on a new SF V240, (UltraSPARC-IIIi 1500MHz CPU), but the net boot dies with an 'Illegal Instruction':Sun Fire V240, No KeyboardCopyright ...

I need to change a group of user account names that exist in my NIS+, isthere a command that will allow me to do this without having to edit allthe relevant NIS+ tables? Or do I have to edit both passwd.org_dir andauto_home.org_dir using nistbladm. Are there any issues I need to beaware ...

Hi to all,I have been testing various new features on Solaris 10 for an up and comingproject.I have a problem in creating zones.I use a jumpstart server to install the OS and have added the patch installin the jumpstart profile. The issue is, after the jumpstart, and henceafter the latest ...

Hello Managers I have a file like this in my home dir. -rw-r--r-- 1 ******* sysadmin 16374081 Jan 10 09:04 net-snmp-5.0.1-SunOS_5.8.tar.tar. Pl give me the magic commands to extract the package. Some one has suggested me to rename the file as tar.gz and then use gunzip and tar ...

As most of you suggested, I checked the file using 'file' command. root@********# file net-snmp-5.0.1-SunOS_5.8.tar.tarfile: couldn't find any magic files!Note: forwarded message attached. Thanks ---------------------------------Find your next car at Yahoo! Canada ...

Hi Everyone,I'm working on forming an OpenSolaris Community just for SystemsAdministrators. This is an important opportunity for sysadminseverywhere to shape OpenSolaris and Solaris from a managementperspective. The discussion is taking place on the opensolaris-discussmailing list. You can ...

I got it working by running authconfig on the Linux client and selectingLDAP for the authentication. It was set to MD5.Dave.Below is my original questionHas anybody been able to configure a RHEL 3 or 4 machine as a client ofa SunOne 5.2 Directory Server?I've got most of it working but I can't ...

Hi Folks,I have a requirement to scp files from SunOS 5.9 to RHEL 2.1 machine. I havethis working without prompt when going to the SUN machine but I can't get itworking the other way without having to provide the password. I've followedthe many setup docs on this subject but to no avail. ...

Dear Managers,is it safe to disconnect a Sun USB keyboard/mouse from a running system (SunFire V240/250)? I remember that the Solaris OS on old Sun Ultra systemsstopped working while the keyboard was unplugged (the OS continued to run whenthe keyboard was ...

Hello Managers, My company purchased 2 new Sun Fire V210 servers and I've to configure these systems and I've to install Solaris 9 OS. But I've connected these systems to linux box through console cable. Please let me know the commands to configure/enable ports, ipaddress for these ...

Hi guys,After several nice replies from people telling me about the list I am grateful (and to those who weren't so nice).Anyway, I do now understand the way of the list fully now. At the time of writing my previous e-mail I had only been signed up for a day or 2 and was very curious as to ...

I'm trying to set up remote printing from Solaris 8 to a printerconnected to a PC running Fedora Core 4.I've tried about everything that I could find but alas, to date there isno joy in Mudville.Now it may be that I don't have printing set up properly on the Linuxbox. I can print locally, ...

Dear managers,we are considering to purchase one of the Galaxy servers but wonder whether we should stick to the SPARC based entry level systems we are used to since until now we haven't managed to setup a boot mirror on a Ultra 20 and we expect the same problems with any other AMD based ...