OS - Solaris 10Mounted file systems: / /varI want to create a flash archive so I used:#flar create -n test1 -c test1.flarI checked the archive with:#flar info -l test1.flarI seem to be missing files/directories.........Am I missing the -R flag as I wasn't quite sure if the -R will ...

I got 2 responses, both of which had occurred to me, one was to ensurethat both Linux and Solaris were communicating using the same ports, theother was to install CUPS.Having messed with ports with limited success in the past I opted forthe more involved CUPS option which worked just fine, wish ...

Hi friends, My hardware configuration including: - SunFire V490 - 3310 - Sol_9 ) - VxVM 4 + Full CVM feature licensed - SC3.1 + Agent CD I have some problems with log follow, I think maybe having something wrong in VxVM configuration. Pls help me how? ...

Hi everyone,Here is what we did and it's working fine for us (we still in the test phase):1. Create NIS slaves for your Master (in Datacenter #1 and #2 ) andlet all your clients point to the slaves (nothing point to the master)2. Make the NIS Master subnet stretched between the two data ...

Hi GurusI am running vanilla Solaris 9 and had a strange situation where a userpc changed IP addresses and thereafter a forward DNS lookup to thatdesktop returned the correct IP address, but the reverse lookup shownunder a traceroute command below returned the wrong PC name. There is nostatic ...

Dear managers,thanks a lot for the many responses. On Solaris 10 dns of course is aservice. It's started and checked with the following commands providedthat /etc/named.conf exists and the referenced zone files are correctlysetup (/var/named). svcadm enable dns/server svcs -l dns/server tail ...

The solution was the obvious /etc/rc2.d/S76nscd which needed to berestarted. I was having a blond Monday.Thankx to Drew Skinner, Eugene Schmidt and Michael SchneiderRegardsBrandon HaberfeldInvestec Bank Limitedbrandonh at investec.co.za-----Original Message-----From: Brandon HaberfeldSent: 16 ...

HI guys,<p>I need to find out how to use the flarcreate commands. Does anybody use <br>it? Can I use it when I have the disks in Veritas format <br>(/dev/vx/rdsk/tetsdg/vol01)<p>Thanks<br>

Hi Group, all of a sudden my backupserver deceided to go fishy. I am running IBM'sTivoli Storage Manager. After an reboot of our Spectralogic 64K Tape LibraryTSM did not recognize the library. So we restartet the tsmsoftware also.Since then the tsm startup nearly always ends up with the ...

Hi list,<p>did you know if it is possible to send a logger from system_a but related<br>to system_b to a syslogd daemon ?<p>The aim is that the hostname of system_a doesn't appears into the logfile.<p>Regards,<br>-- <br>Aurelien Grosshans<br>

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Hi gurus,Installed hp jetdirect software and able to take test prints withhpjetadmin software.Then I configured print queue on solaris 10 like the following:1. lpadmin -p queue_name -v /dev/null2. lpadmin -p queue_name -i /usr/lib/lp/model/netstandard3. lpadmin -p queue_name ...

Hi Everyone,<p> <p>Does anyone knows about any software which can generate detailed system<br>documentation from the Sun Explorer o/ps?<p> <p>Thanks in advance,<p> <p>Regards<br>

HI all I have one sun SPRAC with SOLARIS 7 and X86 with solaris , one switch with public IP I want to connetc internet in those machines, and how to configure FTP , DNS Thanks in advance ---------------------------------Yahoo! Photos Ring in the New Year with Photo Calendars. Add ...

hi gurus<p>i am trying to delete a replication agreement and cannot do it.. also i am<br>tying to modify some user entries using ldapmodify and all i am gettig is<br>DSA unwilling to perform<p>i am using netscape directory server 4.2<p>need help badly....<p>thanks<br>gary<br>

Unfortunately, management went for SunBlade2500 since they would be 100%supported by Sun so I can not test the solutions proposed onSunBlade1500. However, it does not seem the problem is Solaris 8 IDEdriver issue. One person reported no issues with 200Gb disks underSolaris 8/Ultra10 and ...

Dear managers,I am upgrading Solaris OS from 8 to 9 on one of my server thatis having VxVM and Oracle. I have done boot environment upgrade and now aboutto switch over the environment to test the new Solaris 9 environment. Iwanted to know if I need to follow certain steps to make VxVM and ...

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Hi All,I am trying to run /opt/VRTSvxfs/sbin/vxtunefs under a role but it keepstelling me i'm not a super-user, Below is the output of profiles -loperator.when running a truss it looks like getuid is getting the roles uid and notwhat i have specified in the ext_attr file.I know its possible to ...

Dear manager,I urgently need to burn a DVD, I have a DBVD burner in a Sun Blade 150 with Solaris 10 and I have downloaded and installed cdrtools. Burning CDs seems to work, but this tool obviously does not DVDs. I found ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/ProDVD, downloaded the latest ...

Dear managers,I got a few responses from guys that told me they had the same problem and finally burned the DVD on a Windows machine. Urgh! :-( This is not necessary. I just reread the Solaris download page and got a reference to a preinstalled tool cdrw. cdrw -i /burn/file.isodid the trick for ...

Hi all,I am about to embark on my first SAN project, and just need to confirm afew things before I submit a request for budget. The plan is to get astack of T1000 1u servers, serving web content in a load-balancedconfiguration. Because they only have a single SATA internal drive andno CD-ROM, ...

Hi,I have loaded a Sun blade 1500 flash image onto a Ultra 60. Needless to saythe graphics did not work, with the computer complaining the graphic carddriver could not be found. I subsequently loaded the correct driver (expert 3d) and there are no moreerrors about the driver. However, when X ...

Dear managers,After installing a bunch of libraries from sunfreeware.com, I did the following to buil dthe gcc sources. cd /opt/temp gunzip gcc-3.3.2-sol10-intel-local.gz pkgadd -d gcc-3.3.2-sol10-intel-local cd /usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/i386-pc-solaris2.10/3.3.2/install-tools/ pico ...

Dear managers,the libraries were not installed and the crle was not in place when I first tried to build gcc. I did a make clean but that obviously was not sufficient. I had to do "rm -rf objdir" and then start the build process from the very beginning. Then it worked.Thanks a ...

I have a Solaris 7 box which is running quotas. I discovered that quotasweren't working and that the quotas file was not present at the root ofthe filesystem affected. I touched a new quotas file and restarted quotabut it doesn't seem to work. Is there a particular sequence I shouldfollow in ...

Dear managers,one part of setting up a boot mirror with disksuite is to go to the ok promt and do something like ok printenv ok nvalias bootdisk /pci at 1c,600000/scsi at 2/disk ok nvalias mirrdisk /pci at 1c,600000/scsi at 2,1/disk ok setenv boot-device disk0 disk1 net ok bootHowever as I ...

The problem was with the permissions of /sbin. Find the quote fromCasper.Dik at Sun.COM who has provided this solution.Quote <<<<<>root at ctlorabkp01:/# ls -ld / /sbin /sbin/sh>drwxr-xr-x 55 root root 2048 Jan 13 15:18 />dr--r--r-- 2 root sys ...

Dear managers,> one part of setting up a boot mirror with disksuite is to go to the ok> promt and do something like>> ok printenv> ok nvalias bootdisk /pci at 1c,600000/scsi at 2/disk> ok nvalias mirrdisk /pci at 1c,600000/scsi at 2,1/disk> ok setenv boot-device disk0 ...

Can anybody recommend a port knocking daemon for Solaris?Ideally it should operate a scriptable interface that can be used to update/etc/hosts.allow rather than iptables or ipfilter.I've been looking around but the only ones even vaguely close to what I wantare so full of linux'isms that ...

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Hiya,I have 2 v240s and 2 3120 JBODs, and Sun Cluster 3.1.I defintely want a multi-initiator set up. But is there any advantagein doing a split bus instead of single bus, considering I only havetwo disks in each array.Secondly, which is the best way to mirror it - horizontally orvertically. ...

Hi all I am facing one problem of LOM . I had set the password on 2 SUN Fire v120 servers and now when I try to access the server server thru Hyperteminal only showing LOMlite , asking for login name and password. Servers are not booting and I have to solve this , Pls help me how ...

I got one response which is to reboot the host. I googled around and foundthe answer on Sunmanagers archive.format-->select disk--->type--->autoconfigure (option 0). This resets thegeometry of the disk. The meta head was reclaimed from an old host causingit to see the old disk ...

Hello Managers,I would like to know if anybody has a shell script orperl script that reports the diskspace usage ona server. I have a file system I would like to knowhow much disk usage is on the top level directorywhich contains about 5 directories.I know a "du -sk *" will take care ...

Dear managers,I have upgraded one of my server from Solaris 8 to Solaris 9using LiveUpdate. This server is having veritas volume manager with two diskgroups (rootdg and misc) configured for the server. All hdds are local disksonly. The version of veritas volume manager is 3.5. The new boot ...

All,<br> I need a script to create user IDs preferably one that asks<br>questions, like GID, Gecos, password.<p>Michael Segale<br>

Hello Managers,I would like to know if anybody has a shell script orperl script that reports the disk space usage ofeach user on the /local/home/userX on a server. (ie.how many MB each user uses). No diskquota used. I know a "du -sk *" will probably take care of this,but I was ...

Hi Guys,I am upgrading workstation from 8 to solaris 9, current / filesystem is 1.2 gb and when I am trying to upgrade to 9 it needs 1.7gb, can I use auto_fs option while upgrading to repartition the drive or any other way around, I don't want to loose/crupt root filesystem, thanks in ...

Gurus, Is it possible to share jumpstart server's /export/install to certain hosts only, like using its domain name only but yet, jumpstarting client will still work. We would like not to share the filesystem to everyone. Thanks, Sunsa ---------------------------------Yahoo! Photos ...

Hi allOn solaris 8 I have a busy mail server logging messages to /var/log/maillog.I need to rotate the files daily. Ive been searching the web for the bestlog rotation utilities. Ive just tried one of them but discovered thatabout 10 seconds of logs when missing as the log file was ...

Hi Gurus,I have setup a Jumpstart Server to use Flash Archive Soalris 9. In my old Jumpstart i used to use add_install_client from /jumpstart/OS/Solaris_9_09-05/Solaris_9/Tools to add client. Now with Flash Archive (archive_location nfs ...

Hi Gurus,Thanks to Darren Dunham for his Quick Response.The answer is:"You always run add_install_client on the boot server for the jumpstart.The flash should work, but I would recommend always using a jumpstartclient image more recent than the flash image. In other words, I wouldwant a ...

Team:<p>Could someone point to some good docs/suggestions for<br>capacity planning on solaris environment.<p>Thanks<p>Joe.<br>Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around <br><A HREF=" http://mail.yahoo.com/default.htm"> http://mail.yahoo.com</A> <br>

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Hi floks,<p>is there any possibility to tune <br>the behavior of unix-domain-sockets<br>like tcp / udp + ndd ? <p>cheers <br>disastermaster<br>

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Hi all,I'm having a lot of problem encapsulating the boot disk on a Solaris environment with VxVM 4.1 installed. My partition table is like that:slice 0 -> /slice 1 -> swapslice 6 -> /varslice 7 -> /appAfter vxinstall completed and vxconfigd deamons started succesfully (after ...

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