I only recv'd one reply to this question (beyond the typical autoresponder barrage that one gets)Big thanks to:Nathan Bardsley from LeadFusion Answer: Use the command line version! I didn't know this but smpatchis really a wrapper around the 'pprovsvc' command. So just use that.On ...

Hi All, MY TFTP server daemon in my solaris 8 always stops afetr 5 min .what could eb the reasonRegardsA.Richard_________________________________________________________________Send money to India ...

Got a couple of replies.The errors I got in /var/adm/messages (paste them into google) are apparently generic scsi timeout messages that could occur for any one of a large number of reasons from disk drives to tape drives to termination.In my case, I had done everything quite carefully, the ...

I was wondering what file uname reads? I am getting the wrong platform.<p>Thanks Mike<br>

Hi all, I am having some problems configuring a Sunfire V440 connected to 3 T3+ arrays via a Fiber switch. The SF V440 is running Solaris9 09/04. Each T3+ array has 9x36GB drives configured as RAID 5 + hot spare. vol1 is the sliced into 3 partitions. The T3+ array that I am working on , has one ...

I had to change the prom and disks from an Ultra 60 to E220 andgetting the following info. Can this be corrected?#truss uname -aexecve("/usr/bin/uname", 0xFFBEF72C, 0xFFBEF738) argc = 2open("/dev/zero", O_RDONLY) = 3mmap(0x00000000, 8192, ...

Folks, We are migrating some of the applications from SCO to Solaris. We havepassword and shadow info even that needs to be moved. I have tested picking the passwords from SCO shadow and inserting in Solarisshadow file and got it working. But replacing passwd,/shadow does not help. If anyone ...

Hi allIs it possible to capture the PID of a command at the time of execution andwrite it to a log file?I need to capture the PID at the time of execution, as several instances ofthe command will be run at the same time, i need to make sure that the correctprocess is killed when required.an ...

I have 7 V440's that were setup identically loaded identically andpatched identically (all were done from a central server with scripts),now when i try to log in via ssh to my personal account i get refused on1 system.While logged into the console on that box and try to su -rolsen it errors ...

Just to bring back old memories for some people...We have an A3500 with 2 full trays, each split as 2.One disk went bad on Friday.My colleague pulled the bad disk,put in the replacement (happens to have a different Seagate part #),then all six disks in that = tray started having a problem.the ...

Dear managers,we have a production machine Sun Fire 240 with two mirrored 73 GByte SCSI-disks. The mirror was fine for a year. Now I get the following:bash-2.05# metastatd3: Mirror Submirror 0: d13 State: Okay Submirror 1: d23 State: Needs maintenance Pass: 1 Read ...

One of our user un-gracefully shutdown a box and now when it tries<br>booting up, it gets this error message and won't boot but goes to the<br>OK prompt<p>can't open /etc/path_to_inst<br>OK<p>Any help with this error is appreciated. Thank you in advance.<br>

Our standard community strings start with a special character. It's been okso far on every other platform we've used... But on Sol 8 (on an e15k domainfwiw) trying to enter the read/write-trap-community string in snmpdx.aclgenerates Mar 29 13:31:56 solaris /usr/lib/snmp/snmpdx: [ID 702911 ...

Hey Guys,I am trying to figure out how to list all the perl modules that areinstalled on my system. I was able to do this a while ago but I am unableto find the perl command that helped me achieve this. Any ideas how toget this list?SunOS manak.gene.com 5.9 Generic_117171-15 sun4u sparc ...

I need advice regarding a server I would like to configure in my spare time. The system runs Solaris 9 and is currently only used for one light task. As it has plenty of storage, memory, and is backed up on a regular basis, I would like to use it to host email and web content for my group and ...

hi...we are having problems with our backups for a while now....our oracle database is around 20tb.....we are using netbackup 5.1....we are using multuplexing to improve of speed of backup.....even though our restoration time is crazy....we are planning to implement ndmp as well to improve ...

Hi,I upgraded my Ultra 5 workstation from Solaris 7 to Solaris 8The problem I am geting is the following X-Server can not be started on display 0.Any suggestions ?Thanks,KondaveetiTired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ...

Hi Gurus, I am having a V240 server running with Solaris 9 with latest patchesinstalled....Also the OBP level 4.11.4...the problem i am facing is that whilebooting it hangs after the message "Hardware watchdog enabled" after this nomessage comes on the screen.....I tried booting the ...

Hi,<br>I upgraded my Ultra 5 workstation from Solaris 7 to Solaris8<br>When i try to zoom some pictures<br>The problem I am geting is the following <br>X-Server can not be started on display 0.<p>Any suggestions ?<p>Thanks,<br>Kondaveeti<br> Make Yahoo! your home page <br>

Hi,<p>Is there anyway i can find the client user name which has connected the<br>server.<p>Thanks<br>Suresh<br>

Hi I'm having having a problem setting up a NIS+ to ldap gateway. I have followed the instuctions found in http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0903/817-3594.pdfie1) ran idsconfig against a Sun One 5.2 directory server.2) setup /etc/default/rpc.nisd and have seen the authenticated connections ...

Just installed an 6500 and did a watch-net-all:Two significant issues: the middle LED (yellow) on the front panel isflashing continuously and the "Looking for Ethernet packets" stage ranvery slowly and I stopped it after several minutes with only 4 dotshaving appeared (previously it ...

Hi gurus,I have a jumpstart server connected to several subnets, using themotherboard interface hme0, and a quad.hme0 is the primary interface, qfe0 and qfe1 are the other active (andtested) interfaces.Jumpstart works fine if the client connects to it via hme0 (primaryinterface).Jumpstart does ...

hi Gurus this is karan. i have one problem regarding network interface. i am not able to get the interface in # ifconfig -a. i am getting only loopback interface. at booting time i am getting on error message ifconfig :plumb:fxp0:Bad File number i am using sun Blade Ultrasparc-IIi-Engine. ...

Hi All,I am running Sol 5.7. Suddenly at round 8:50 AM themachine was rebooted automticallly with the errorbelow. CAn anyone let me know what is this issue. ISit a HW problem if so which HW is faulty.Mar 30 08:49:47 GC unix: WARNING: [AFT1] UncorrectableMemory Error on CPU2 Data access at TL=0, ...

Hi all,I have the following problem running 'netstat' on my Solaris 8 (Netra T1):bash-2.03$ netstat -aip open: Permission deniedcan't open mib stream: Bad file numberbash-2.03$I have similar error when I run other commands as well.I looked around for possible solutions, but the most I was ...

Hi - hoping someone can shed some light on a problem encountered thismorning, the platform is:2 x E4500's / 4 CPU's / 4GB RAM2 x A5200 photon's / 22 x 18GB disksEach server has a fibre connection to the photons. Servers are runningSolaris 2.6, Sun Cluster 2.2 and the disks are under Veritas ...

Thanks to: Alfredo De Luca + Simonb + even more thanks to Alfredo DeLuca!!Well it looks like this was some strange failure fencing where the"failed" node could not see any of the disks mastered by the runningnode. But I have never seen this before?In a nutshell.A "scadmin ...

Is there a way to determine the speed of the CPU from the command line?<p>---------------------------------------------------------<br>Gary Paveza, Jr.<br>Senior Systems Administrator -CSA<br>(302) 252-4831 - phone<br>

>From the speed of the replies I think I'm just about the only one who didn'tknow this :) Psrinfo -vThanks to:mark_round at ipcmedia.comAaron Gross [Aaron.Gross at openfirst.com]Sam Impastato [Samuel.Impastato at Sun.COM]John Christian [john.christian at TheCReGroup.com]I'm sure I'll get ...

Hi all,Problem solved, thanks to inputs from Coy, Iain, Angelos and Carl. Thankyou all for the great help !Summary of the solution:Jumpstart client "src1" was declared on 10.4.19 in /etc/hosts with 10.4.19.51 src1And sysidcfg ...

Sorry forgot the basics. They are running Solaris 9 with patches from 24Mar.Rick.-----Original Message-----From: codeprof-bounces at codeprof.com[mailto:codeprof-bounces at codeprof.com] On Behalf Of Olsen, Richard(Cont, ARL/CISD)Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 2:56 PMTo: codeprof at ...

hi gurus,So let's pretend we have a package installed but nobody has the original mediaor copy of the package file. Is there any way to remove an installed packagefrom Solaris 9 but, instead of it just disappearing, end up with the originalpackage file I could use to re-install if ...

Hello Sunmanagers,I am tring to set ulimit -c unlimited as a normalsolaris user, It does not trow any error but ulimit -agives the size of the core as zero. The same works forroot, please let me know how to give the permissionsto the user to set ulimit -c, on solaris 8. Do i needto modify the ...

Hi all,<p>A couple quick things:<p>1. A v240 will be able to have a D1000 connect to it, correct? After all, <br>it's all SCSI, so I shouldn't see anything weird even with the D1000 being <br>so ridiculously old.<p>2. Stop laughing. At least I'm getting off the U2's this year.<p>--Tom<br>

Thank you, Dale Poulter, for both answering my question and letting me know I'm not alone in my D1000-ness. I'm banking on Dale not being a sociopath and that he is running a few systems with the same configuration as we speak.No thanks to Mike Carter for continuing to ...

Dear codeprof:I have a couple of questions re: redhat enterpriselinux:Which Redhat enterprise Linux supports the Sun'sV40z (x64) platform?What is the latest version and latest update (patch)?is it version 3 update 4?How robust is it as compared to the Solaris x86version?can a jumpstart server ...

I'm evidently missing something. I have a jumpstart server setup and canperform a network installation from it. However, it boots off the jumpstartserver and then goes into an interactive installation - instead of using theprofile provided in the rules files. I've done the check (the ...

To All Helpers:I have searched the net and found a lot of relatinginfo on the strong password implementation for Solaris9 and 10.I just wonder what is the most common practice forimplementing strong password policy on Solaris 8platform.Any how-to or URLs are welcomed.Thanks in ...

Hi Gurus,I downloaded apache-2.0.53 and openssl-0.9.7f source from apache/opensslsite and compiled on Solaris 8 and it went through without any errors.It works fine without ssl butwhen I start apache with ssl it gives me following error:# ./apachectl startsslSyntax error on line 251 of ...

Hi all,I am able to see the right details of the 134GB driver in SANSurfer CLI. How Ido fix sd.conf , so that format displays the right values?. or How do I matchthe output of the Sansurfer CLI to the right disk in the output of the formatcommand ?Thanks for your helpVinayFormat O/P:AVAILABLE ...

Thanks to all those that replied.The answer is:$! returns pid of last background process$$ returns current process pid.The "gotcha" i had was that my script executes more scripts to run the httpd.I couldn't capture the pid of commands in sub-scripts.I found that by obtaining the pid ...

All: I am a newbie to scripts. I need help on the following requirement. situation---we have around 800 printers.This leads to a situation where some of the print jobs are more than 7 days old. requirement--need to write a script , which captures all the print jobs older than 7 days and send a ...

We have a very strange issue with a V880 anyone seen this?This pretty much all we see in the logs.. this happenned twice (in 2days), and I don't think we've given it enough time to sort itself out..tried to go to OK prompt, and resume, which I don't think it was a smartthing to do (it ...

sorry, i didn't post all the info the first time..We have a very strange issue with a V880 anyone seen this?This pretty much all we see in the logs.. this happenned twice (in 2days), and I don't think we've given it enough time to sort itself out..tried to go to OK prompt, and resume, which ...

THANKS TO:Bernd SchemmerRichard ButlerDeb SantomauroGavin BrennanMatthew StierStan PietkiewiczBruce KirklandNO UCESUMMARY:As usual, this list rocks! Can you dump an installed package into a completepackage file? No. But it could be possible to collect most of the raw piecesnecessary to ...

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Interestingly enough the problem turned out to be with out timeserver. Ihad timeserver=<IP address> in the configuration. Early in the morning,there was very little traffic and the router which is our timeserver wasable to respond very quickly. Evidently jumpstart is very sensitive ...