Thanks to everyone for thier response. To name a few:Casper DikBrad MorrisonDale GhentRob WindsorJimAdam LevinGary PavezaThe problem is the Kerberos Application which doesn't support large file. To do so it has to be recompiled. The better solutions sugested by gurus is to rotate log file ...

I am having difficulty finding information regarding the connection and configuration of a fibre channel connected TransTec (StorCase) 3600F JBOD array with 14 disks.There is a utility called InfoMon but this appears to be more concerned with fans and temperatures.How do I find out the WWN ...

Hi Again, I should have more specific about my email. Server doesn't boot and can't get to the ok prompt. I thank the admins who spent lot of time on sending me the procedure for setting up rsc through OS. Also I have tried removing the RSC card w/o any sucess. ThanksNote: forwarded ...

I have a amber "wrench" on the front panel of this system. The system seems to be running fine.Any ideas how I can get the amber light to turn off?./scadm loghistoryFeb 21 23:11:07 : 00070002: "Indicator SYS.ACT is now ON"Feb 21 23:08:12 : 0004000b: "Host System has ...

Thank you to so many people who responded, it is just amazing how manyanswers I got.After working all night long my mind was not working straight so obviously Idid not remember iostat with -n option and without witch does give drivesboth way. But I had tests fro last night so running iostat ...

Greetings, I had a hardware portability question about the Sun blade series. Our Solaris 9 Sun Blade 150 is simply overwhelmed by the applications that we run, and we'd like to upgrade (cheaply). I have seen a few relatively inexpensive 1000s and 2000s that we could purchase, but ...

All Thanks for the response for the new laptop info, original email was --- snip --- Has anyone run Solaris 10 - 01/06 on a Dell Inspiron 9300? And dual boot with XP....Any other suggestions for a reliable laptop with a decent sized screen? --- end snip --- Thanks to Richard Skelton, Hicheal ...

I finally got this solved. I only got three replies,from:Layton Marvin J NNSY (LaytonMJ at nnsy.navy.mil)Truhn, Chad M CTR N83-BRANCH (chad.truhn.ctr at navy.mil)andDarren Dunham (ddunham at taos.com).The best answer that helped me track it down (camefrom Chad):I have run into this before, and ...

Hello folks,I would like to thank Aaron Lineberger, Victor Harrison and others for pointing me to the right direction. When I had initially sent this mail, I had failed to specify exactly which HBA card I was using. Well, the card I had was a Qlogic 2100F/66 HBA San Card.Qlogic QLA2100F which ...

Archive-name: codeprof-faq$Id: faq.html,v 1.23 2005/12/29 17:10:43 jdd Exp $ SunManagers Frequently Asked Questions This is collection of common questions posted to the codeprof mailing list twice a month. It is intended to benefit Sun System Managers and reduce traffic to the list by ...

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Hi Sun Managers...I've ordered 4 new Sunfire V240s that come with 4 HDDs. In my collectionof 2 disk sunfires I currently have, I've mirrored the two disks usingSolstice Disk Suite (Solaris 8).Now I have 4 disk machines, I don't have any statistical information onwhether to run RAID1 or RAID5 ...

Hello everyone,Here's the summary for this thread:I got a few e-mails but they either misunderstood the problem ("It's supported so it should work") or they tought Solaris 9, ia64 or IBM's P5 were an option (remember when I said "s8 is a requirement for this app")?Here's ...

Hi Gurus, i will have to clone my boot (having the /, /var, /usr,/export/home and /opt filesystems) disk on E450 on Solaris 9. i am wonderingwill the following steps work:-1) prvtoc /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s2 | fmthard -s - /dev/rdsk/c0t1d0s22) use newfs to create the filesystems on the ...

System info:SunOS rattler 5.9 Generic_118558-03 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-480RSSH-2.4.0My users sometime log in to my server via ssh from home throughfirewall Port 22. I have IP entries in my server's /etc/hosts.allowfile. My users have been doing this a few years successfully usingComcast ...

Hi, Overwhelmed by all that response. this is one thriving and buzzingcommunity. Many thanks for all those responses. Special thanks to Richard W.Rominger for sharing that excellent script to clone boot disk. i am sharingit with all with his permission.My Original Q was:-Hi Gurus, ...

Hi,We want our application running on solaris 32/64 bit to report correctmemory allocated by malloc at different stages of execution. By default the/proc/<PID>/status gives only the heap memory only which does not sufficeour requirement.The objective is to report memory malloced at ...

I am running iostat -xtcen 10 1000000And I am getting something like this as an output. What bothers me a lot arethe last two lines, can someone let me know what this might mean? What arethose errors? How can I get rid of them? Did I configure somethingincorrectly? I am running veritas on that ...

Greetings from Mexico City...Does anybody knows where I can find specific information about how to setup printers into Solaris environment? and How can I do backups and restore (using tar and it's diferent options) into solaris environment? I tried sun website and old Solaris 7 User guide but ...

Good afternoon everyone, I am trying to setup a jumpstart install/boot system to distribute apreconfigured flash archive, the installserver is a fresh install, and hasnever been used to install a client. I am curently recieving the following messages on the install-Client whenbooting with ...

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Solaris 9 NIS+ need to change the UID for a bunch of users. From past experience I've had to change the UID on the NIS+ server then walk the directory tree on all of my Solaris systems and find the locations of all of the users files and do a chown. Is there an easier way? Will also need to ...

Hi Gurus,I have setup a Jumpstart Server running on Solaris 9. The main requirment of Jumpstart was to ahve NFS jumpstart where NFS mount was coming from NetApp filer so that it an be mounted on any system and can be made jumpstart server on the fly. The other advantage is the NFS mount is ...

We have a potential issue with the number of LUNs available on Solaris9with Emulex 9002 HBAs using shared storage from EMC DMX for clustering.We're trying to map LUNs to 2 servers and were hoping to have one serverstart with LUNs 1-255 and the 2nd 301-555. Is that possible or is themax lun ...

Hi Sun Mgr -This seems like a very simple problem but I can not find a solution forthis. After reading several man pages, trying google and different optionsI finally decide to ask.I have few files that start with - as file name. I want to rename them but Ican not find a simple solution. File ...

My sincere apology to those who suggested that I should not post a unixrelated question to Solaris Sun Manager list.Special thanks to *Richard Lacroix, Scott Fendley, Simon Burr, Lineberger,Aaron., Bill R. Williams, Thomas M. Payerle, Alexandre Wanderley *Followingsolutions were provided.My ...

Hi All.I have few Netra T1 and Sunfire V120 Sun OS systems, does anyone knows howto setup a console connection from SunE450 to Netra servers using LOM porta/b? I have been searching for answers in docs.sun.com but no luck. Anyhelp will be kindly appreciated.thanksImranAustralia Post is ...

Hi Gurus,I have Vxvm installed on Solaris 9 attached SAN. Its a concatenated volume. The problem is vxdisk list shows a different disks than actual Solaris sees with format command.e.g.format4. c4t0d1 <HP-HSV210-5031 cyl 1278 alt 2 hd 128 sec 128> /pci at 1d,700000/QLGC,qla at ...

Hi All, In Solaris 10,created a user with with ksh as the user shell.Created aSymbolic link to one directory.With the parent shell get into the directory and give pwd command.Itgives one out put.Started a child shell(ksh) and give the pwd commandthis time I am getting a different ...

Dear managers, I've got problem on Solaris 10. When user try to lock screenit simply hangs. System is configured to work with LDAP.Almost everything works fine, except screen locking under CDE.I found then CDE lock screen using dtaction LockDisplay.If i use xlock it work ok. When i type ...

Hi all, In a shell script i want to check a file which contains a word "PARTIAL".how can i check this. for egif [ -f $outfile ]then echo "Output file [$outfile] already exists"The abv script would check exact file by name outfile, but i need to check for a word PARTIAL ...

Olaf Hopp wrote:> Dear Collegues,> > is anybody running the new Opteron Workstations Ultra20 in an open> classroom ? You can lock down the access to the BIOS via a BIOS password.> But when the system boots it still allows you to press <F8>-Key and > select a boot device ...

Hello, I'm looking for a way to mount a Novell file server from a Solaris box.We're currently using "ncpmount" on a Linux box but want to replace theLinux server with a Solaris server. Are there any tools to connect toNovell NetWare from Solaris? I've tried compiling ncpfs from ...

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Sorry I'm not an expert on any of this and we have no documentation:-)so I may be missing very simple stuff...We have an E3500 running solaris 8, just patched to latest recommendedcluster patch, with 2 JNI (sadly) 146x HBAs connecting them to aStoragetek (a.k.a LSI) d178 san via 2 Brocade 3800 ...

Morning:I have download Solaris 10 SPARC iso files (total of 4 isos). Try to build a jumpstart server from those iso files. I first create devices for those 4 isos (# loftadm -a) and mount them; while executing /iso_mnt_point/Solaris_10/Tools/setup_install_server, it returns with error ...

thanks for all the emailNobody suggested this but we copied fjulsa and fjulsa.conf in with the sun modules and now we can jumpstartTools/Boot/platform/sun4us/kernel/drv/sparcv9/fjulsaTools/Boot/platform/sun4us/kernel/drv/fjulsa.conf5.10 Generic_118822-25 sun4us sparc FJSV,GPUZC-M!This seems ...

Thanks for the replies looks like you have to byte the bullet on this one!Run any of these commands to walk a dir tree and change UID.find / -user <user id> -exec chown -h username {} \;find / -user <old UID> -exec chown <new UID> {} \;Below is my original questionSolaris 9 ...

Hello:Thanks for many great responses. I like to post the one from Bernd:Yes, but you must split the ISO images to mount the slices . You can use http://home.arcor.de/bnsmb/public/htdocs/split_cdrom_isoimage.htmlto split the ISO images.Be aware that this only works on SPARC machinesOriginal ...

I just built a v440 with solaris 10. My question is that usually i change thefollowing rc scripts in rc2.d to be disabled for security reasons ..it seemsmost all of theses services are still run from the rc script way rather thanSMF ..is there a way in solaris 10 to disable these services with ...

Can someone point to some good doc or send me a link<br>for some pure solaris interview questions/answers<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>

Hello folks, I have V440 connected to two 3320 arrays and I am not gettinggood performance results from my system. I am running Veritas to do stripepro across controllers and all that stuff. I have difficult time with ourOracle DBA's to get the clear picture of what for example ...

Folks - I'm working with several V480 servers (Solaris 9, 9/04) using several directattached Sun T3+ arrays with good luck, and good performance. We let themirroring take place in the array, and use mpxio for multipathing. No SMV orVeritas in use presently. In its present configuration, the ...

Hi<p> <p>How can I know what model and driver of HBA I have in my Sun Server, I<br>don't remember if is a SUN or Emulex ..<p> <p>Regards, <br>

Anybody knows how to send to file the logs of the 3510 arrays?<br>I want to evaluate this logs and create a shell script to monitor in daily<br>basis.<p>Does anybody can help me any pointer?<p>Regards!<br>Lucero<br>

This was answered very quickly by Casper Dik and dersmythe who both said thatI need two patches. 106327-23 and 106300-24I would like to point out that one of these does have a dependancy which makesfor three patches in all. Also if you go higher than the revision number thanthose specified you ...

Please can any one tell me if it is possible to lay my hands on a<br>set of docs and media for solaris 2.6 (In the UK if possible) but any<br>where else if not.<p>Regards<p>Cliver029<br>

Well I originally posted this back in November of last year. I haven'tposted a summary because until now I haven't been able to get it to work.Mostly because I have to wait for maintenance windows and network resourceavailability to get it to work.I even opened a call with Sun and they ...

what am I doing wrong?I thought that I can just go to /etc/passwd file and I can changeroot:x:0:0:Super-User:/:/sbin/shtoroot:x:0:0:Super-User:/root:/sbin/shand everything should be fine right?well it works for most of the time but there is some werid thing about it. For example I did notice ...