can an ultra5 handle an internal drive greater than 137GB?

177 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:51:00
Sorry to trouble the Sun gurus out there, but there is a big sale that <br>ends today where I can buy a 200GB internal IDE drive for $30 US after <br>rebates.<p>TIA,<p>Steve<br>

CORRECTION: Should sendmail be running to send mail out?

5712 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:51:00
OS user does not receive the mail, the contents of files in /var/spool/clientmqueue show an attempt to deliver to ROOT with LOCALHOST as relay:dunland# more qfk1KBE673028456V6T1140434046K1140434046N1P30232MDeferred: Connection refused by [127.0.0.1]Fbs$_root at localhost${daemon_flags}c ...

SUMMARY: can an ultra5 handle an internal drive greater than 137GB?

865 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:51:00
Thanks to Ric Anderson for the answer. Short answer - NO. The U5 (and U10) uses ATA4, which is 28-bit addressing. That corresponds to a hard limit of 137GB.The good news is that I don't have to find a way to 'splain this purchase to the boss (i.e., wife).SteveSteven C. Liu wrote:>Sorry to ...

fmdump output

18241 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:51:00
Hello,could anybody gimme some clue what's the meaning of the 50% is in frontof the error messages ?TIA, Dirk.>fmdump -v -u db2ec775-42d2-498c-a8c4-829abad07b28TIME UUID SUNW-MSG-IDFeb 10 15:51:20.3687 db2ec775-42d2-498c-a8c4-829abad07b28 SUN4-8000-ER 50% fault.io.fire.asic ...

Update: 802.1q vlan tagging

1741 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:51:00
Hi all,Sorry that I haven't sent an update to this yet, but I am yet to get it working and I had some more pressing projects that I had to deal with first.So here is a more details update and I have done more troubleshooting.First of all, I have followed the advice of some list members to ...

Shell for/foreach pass incorrect varibles to next line (using awk/sed/sort//find)

1591 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:51:00
Dear all,Although not strictly an emergency and probably not Sun specific I would appreciate it if you could indulge for a few mins as I've been racking my brains on this one for most of last week, and I had also meant to have had this done by last week. (I want to use it to move IMAP mail ...

SUMMARY : Shell for/foreach pass incorrect varibles to next line (using awk/sed/sort//find)

2669 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:51:00
Thanks to those who replied and especially thanks to Ken McKinlay who told me to change the input field separator:Et voila:#!/bin/basholdIFS=$IFSIFS=""for mbox in `cat .mailboxlist`; do echo $mbox find "/export/home1/fbloggs/$mbox" |cpio ...

V1280 boot hang

6569 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:51:00
Hardware: V1280, two system boards, 24GB RAM, 3 attached3510FC arrays, 2nd node of a two node SC3.1 clusterSoftware: Solaris 9, Volume manager mirrored boot volumeOur V1280 cluster was powered down yesterday for a plannedpower outage. The second node of the cluster hangsat boot time. I've ...

Memory group (A0) failed on V880 CPU/mem board

1075 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:51:00
Good day,A fully-equipped V880 (8 x CPU @ 1.2GHz, 4 boards, 64GB RAM),spontaneously and irregularly restarted a couple of times.Logs from two days ago showed soft memory error on Slot D, J8101.After the restarts, it showed errors in this bank no more, but reportedall banks in the required group ...

Cannot configure X on my Thinkpad with Solaris 10

1541 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:51:00
Hi all,I need to run a couple of Solaris X applications on my Thinkpad A31p laptop,so I installed Solaris 10 (relatively) successfully. I still have one problemoutstanding with my video card and X, for which I need some help.The video card is ATI mobility Firegl 7800. During the installation of ...

Sun T2000 and Solaris10

691 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:51:00
Greetings from Mexico City...I have a new Sun T2000, I install Solaris 10 and configure 4 zones. like the T2000 have 4 network interfacees I used the ipge0 for the ip address of the box and the other three (ipge1, ipge2, ipge3) for the ip's for the zones. I tried to change the ip address of ...

Couldn't connect to PRNGD socket Connection refused

481 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:51:00
Hi,I have installed the following packages:openssh-4.0p1-sol8-sparc-localopenssl-0.9.7g-sol8-sparc-localprngd-0.9.25-sol8-sparc-localzlib-1.2.2-sol8-sparc-localWhen I try to connect to a machine via ssh as the user oracle,I get the error:Couldn't connect to PRNGD socket ...

iSCSI: Any experiences?

687 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:51:00
Hi @ll,we're planning to build a SAN to consolidate our storage systems.Unfortunately, FCAL is a little bit too expensive, so we're searching for analternate solution, for example iSCSI.We would like to connect several systems, including SUN E420, V20z, andGalaxies.But, before we start, I'd ...

SMPatch

712 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:51:00
Hi Gurus-So, I run "smpatch" with the 'analyze,' 'download,' 'update,' and 'add' commands to get a list of what needs to be added. Consistently, smpatch does not add a particular patch when explicitly listed via '-x idlist=<file>' but it does work via '-i ...

starting server with bge1 plumb up and no IP address

684 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:51:00
We just purchased a Sun Fire v210, which has 4 bge interfaces. I wouldlike to start the system with bge1 up, but without an IPv4 addressconfigured on it. In other words, I'd like the system to boot andbasically just do "ifconfig bge1 plumb up". Is there any way toconfigure Solaris 10 ...

jumpstart nfs issue

1029 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:51:00
I'm trying to jumpstart a netra X1 w/ solaris 10. My jumpstart server isrunning linux (FC4). I'm getting part of the way there but it errors outshortly after the network interfaces are configured. The spinning bar keepsspinning but tcpdump reveals that nothing's really happening. When I ...

Solaris 10 install

297 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:51:00
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Solaris 10 install

99318 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:51:00
Hi gurus,I have installed the SOLARIS 10 3/05 on a V210, all the selected packages was installed successfully (see attached file install_log.txt) the problem is that when i reboot I doesn't have the CDE environments I am always logged on /dev/console and when i try to log from a telnet ...

SUMMARY: Kerberos V setup on Solaris 9

2242 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:51:00
Many Thanks to Edward Farrar for his suggetion and excellent support.The solution is:I had to create principal and keytab file for Master and install kerberised version of telnet and ftp.the link sent by Edward is great. http://www.ornl.gov/~jar/HowToKerb.html#ConfigureThanks once again ...

Hot swap HDs in an Ultra 2?

210 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:51:00
I was wondering if anyone (besides me) has attempted to hot swap a hard <br>drive into<br>a Ultra 2 . I know the HDs will do it, just haven't heard if the <br>controller on the Ultra 2<br>will survive.....<br>

SPARCserver 1000 help

238 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:51:00
hi gurus<p>i am havign problems getting the seraio console to work on the SPARCserver<br>1000... can see messages display but cannot type any character nor getting<br>the login prompt on the console...<p>need help badly....<p>thanks !<br>

SUMMARY: starting server with bge1 plumb up and no IP address

711 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:51:00
Many people responded and told me to just "echo 0.0.0.0> /etc/hostname.bge1", which seemed to plumb and bring the interface up.Darren Dunham of Taos was very helpful in general and also advised meto printf "netmask +\n\n" > /etc/hostname.bge1in order to plumb the ...

solaris 8 with veritas VM

386 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:51:00
Team:I am taking up a project in an environment which issolaris 8 with veritas volume manager. Could someonepoint some good docs/tips where to start from? I knowHP's LVM well. would that help? Best RegardsJoe Crawford.Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around ...

sendmail - Unable to send mail to external emails

1722 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:51:00
I have sendmail running on solaris 9. I am able to use sendmail to send mailto my internal email but I could not send mail to my.yahoo.com or comcast.net. I check with network admin guy and he says there is no firewall restrictionon my server I could do anything with it. Is there any ...

high average service time

519 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:51:00
I have 2 25K's hooked up to a 9970 through 4 brocades. They have beenrunning good for almost a year and suddenly from last on month we arenoticing a very high average service, up to 1000ms. This does affect ouroverall performace.I did open a ticket with Sun but didn't get any resolution as ...

DVD device problem

2885 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:51:00
Hi managers,I don't use my DVD drive very often, but the last time I did it worked likeit should on my Ultra60.But now, when I put in solaris 9 CD1 into the DVD player now, nothinghappens.The device is not dead: the yellow lamp blinks once or twice, and I can hearsome spinning around ...

Summary: V1280 boot hang

8106 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:51:00
I disconnected the two SCSI cables from a Dual LVD HBAand was able to boot without any hangs. SunServicereplaced the HBA and the server is back up.Tom Jones----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Jones" <tjones at statesman.com>To: "Sun Managers List" <codeprof at ...

SAM-FS and SAM-QFS

407 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:51:00
I am about to do some testing with SAM-FS/QFS 4.4 but have somequestions....1) SAM-FS is the file archive portion2) QFS is the shared portion3) SAM-QFS occurs when you purchase a license for both correct?If I download the iso for SAM-QFS and install the packages, this willinclude the FS parts ...

D1000 power failure with Disksuite: how to restore to running state?

1540 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:51:00
I have an Ultra 30 connected to a D1000 with 2 controllers (D1000 is splitin 2, 6 disks to a controller). All the disks are configured as one Raid 5metadevice.I experienced what appears to be a power glitch: enough to power down theD1000, but not powering down the server.This is my guess what ...

SUMMARY: Restricting IP access control in sshd Solaris 9

1479 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:51:00
Thanks to following people for their reply.sorry if ihave missed anyone .Brewer, Dwight R. CONTRACTORMaciej HarasimczukPaul DaviesYiannis KanellopoulosI dont need to compile sshd just have to create/etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny files and itsworks fine. JH> john hanson wrote:> > ...

SUMMARY: flarcreate on global zone on Sol 10 with zones?

1237 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:51:00
Only got a few replies that didn't point me in any way I wanted to go. This is the solution I found:Create the archive excluding what every you normally exclude, but alsoexclude your zones directory. After the archive is created, tarball thezone directory. The archive, along with the ...

Solaris and /dev/rmt/0...

1192 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:51:00
Hello Sunmanagers,I have a question about something I thought I understood. The rmt directory contains links to the tape instances in the devices directory. The listing for instance 0 has numorous links. These links are and not limited to: 0, 0n, 0l, 0ln, 0m, 0mn, etc. Each of the letters mean ...

SUMMARY: iSCSI: Any experiences?

2400 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:51:00
<Original posting below>Hi,not so very much responses, and it seems that iSCSI is not very common atthe moment, :-).Thanks for quick replies goes to:Brad_Morrison at capgroup.comKarl.Rossing at Federated.CA andMagnusson Johan [Johan.Magnusson at fujitsu-siemens.com]Most of you suggested ...

PC netlink 2.0 start up error

880 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:51:00
Hello,I have a solaris 8 server that had PC Netlink 2.0 running on it until ahardware failure caused a system lockup. Now I cannot get the PC Netlinkserver to start if I do an elfread -d system i get the following ...

Which Solaris do you recommend to a DNS server

286 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:51:00
Dear Managers,<p>I have a spare Ultra 5 machine which I would like to use as a DNS<br>server because it has 4 NIC's. So I can provide DNS on different<br>subnets<p>What Solaris version do you recommend in this scenario ?<p>Thank your for your suggestion<p>Will summarize,<br>Laszlo<br>

SOLUTION: Changing uname on Solaris10

1183 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:51:00
Hi!Thanks for the mails. We finally managed to get a Solaris 9 server asInstallation server.Overall I got the answer, that it is no good idea to utilize a hack forsomething as important as a backup software. (Nothing new, though)and that the installation script just checks the uname, so one ...

SUMMARY: Which Solaris do you recommend to a DNS server

774 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:51:00
Dear Managers,Thank you for all who helped with their ideas.The answer is: Definitely the latest Solaris 10 because :- There is no reason using older versions- that way you could use zoning to allow you segregate the 4 differentnetworks- Solaris10 (03/05 or 01/06) work OK on Ultra5 Thanx again, ...

SUMMARY: Clock stuck in 3 seconds loop

1120 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:51:00
The problem is with faulty system board.Thank you to all who reply.pb-----Original Message-----From: codeprof-bounces at codeprof.com[mailto:codeprof-bounces at codeprof.com] On Behalf Of Pawel BranskiSent: Tuesday, February 14, 2006 1:35 PMTo: codeprof at codeprof.comSubject: Clock stuck in 3 ...

480R system not getting any output

452 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:51:00
Hi Sungurus,I have a SUN 480 R server with Solaris 8 running onit, after the command reset-all the system is notbooting up. But the FT0/FT1 lights (amber) glow andnot getting the console using the VGA card. What arethe other options to check ? Need help ..Thanks and regardsSunny.Tired of spam? ...

Sunfire 480 R FT0 and FT1 (issue)....

398 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:51:00
Hi ALL,Not able to get the console on sun fire v480 while system is coming upFT0 and FT1 is is in (ambar Led state) ..Can any one help me getting this problem resolved.Fan Tray 0 (FT 0) This amber LED lights whenever a fault is detected intheCPU fans.Fan Tray 1 (FT 1) This amber LED lights ...

Solaris 10 Update 1 (01/06) on PrimePower 250 (new 4U version)

611 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:51:00
Hello.We just bought a PP250 and when we jumpstart the install fails b/c Update 1 cant see the internal disks. We run format and see nothing. Take the host to the OK prompt / OBP and probe-scsi-all we can see the internal disks. This is incredibly frustrating.I've been told with all this ...

whowatch binary for Solaris 10/X86

238 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:51:00
I'm having problems getting whowatch to compile on Soalris 10 X86. Anyone<br>know whee I could grab a binary?<p>-- <br>U.S. Encouraged by Vietnam Vote - Officials Cite 83% Turnout Despite Vietcong Terror <br>- New York Times 9/3/1967<br>

Laptop for Solaris 10

461 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:51:00
Hello all. Has anyone run Solaris 10 - 01/06 on a Dell Inspiron 9300, with a 2.0 GHz, 2MB Cache, 667 MHz FSB , 17 inch monitor @ 1920x1200? And dual boot with XP.... Any other suggestions for a reliable laptop with a decent sized screen? I was also looking at the Sony Vaio....but they do not ...

cannot mount /proc

704 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:51:00
HiI was wondering if I could get a little help on this. A client of ours' Solaris 2.5.1 Box (Ultra1) no longer comes up. Instead it complains about "Overlapping swap files are not allowed" followed by "Could not mount /proc"any ideas?Thanks-- **Shayne Vigar**Sun ...

Unable to import the disk group, Solaris 9.

384 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:51:00
Hi All, We have solaris 9 with VxVm and VxFs. We reinstalled the os, VxVm andVxfs. After that I am not able to import the disk group from SAN. Able tosee local boot disk under veritas. Veritas is not able to see the sandisks and its group. I had depoted the group befor reinstallation of os.ablr ...

SUMMARY 2: Should sendmail be running to send mail out?

3892 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:51:00
The solution was to remove /etc/mail/submit.cf. When this file does not exist (awk at carolina.rr.com), and a mail is delivered to a local user, sendmail binary is invoked (truss) and /etc/mail/sendmail.cf (configured with its corresponding relay) and /.forward are read, and the mail is ...

f77 with Sun Studio 11

1093 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:51:00
We recently upgraded from Sun Forte 6 (Update 2) to&#13;&#10;SunStudio 11 compiler collection. Now whenever we&#13;&#10;try tocompile using f77 (Fortran) we get this:&#13;&#10;&#13;&#10;f77hello.f&#13;&#10;NOTICE: Invoking /opt/SUNWspro/bin/f90 ...

f77 with Sun Studio 11

794 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:51:00
[ Sorry about the previous garbled message ]We recently upgraded from Sun Forte 6 (Update 2) toSun Studio 11 compiler collection. Now whenever wetry to compile using f77 (Fortran) we get this:f77 hello.fNOTICE: Invoking /opt/SUNWspro/bin/f90 -f77 -ftrap=%none hello.fhello.f: MAIN hello:ld: ...

SUMMARY: f77 with Sun Studio 11

909 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:52:00
Original Question (Summarized):Sun Studio 11's Fortran compiler needs the libmtsk.so library.Question was how to install that for older Solaris 8 and 9versions.Reply from Ric Anderson has the answer:> For Sparc Solaris 9 (built from the 09/05 CD) that library is in> SUNWlibms and ...

SUNWdcm package

200 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:52:00
Hi,<br>I have downloaded the latest release of SOLARIS 10, and there is no <br>trace of the SUNWdcm package in order to have the GUI work.<p>Any Idea where can I found it;<p>Best regards,<br>Kamal<br>