Hi Guru's,I was not able to bring the resource group to offline.. Since some of resources are in stopping state and hung there. I was not able to either bring the resource to offline nor the resource group.=============================================Output of ...

Hi,I wanted to install SUSE Enterprise Linux on SUN Ultra 3 Mobile Laptop.Can any one clarify whether SUSE linux is compatible with Ultra Sparc IIIi and can we install on the above Laptop.Also please help me getting the Compatible Linux on US IIIi (Sparc Machines).Thanks and ...

Hi,<p>i am getting Network Security Deviation Error.. could anyone help me<br>regarding this issue.<p>thanks in advance.<p>Many Thanks,<p>Rahman<br>

Hi,I try to grow a root metadevice online.As I had contiguous space after root partition on the disk, I did the following :1. Detach and clear one submirror (metadetach/metaclear)2. Grow the partition under the detached/cleared submirror (format)3. Recreate and attach the bigger submirror ...

Hi all,I am getting metadevice error.. could anyone help me to solve this issue asone device is in Last Erred and the other in Resyncing State.Description:d30: Mirror Submirror 0: d31 State: Needs maintenance Submirror 1: d32 State: Needs maintenance Pass: 1 Read option: ...

We have 3 different 3510's with a few expansion tray's connected to a switchthat makes our SAN. I have a question about host ID's.1) Do the hoost ID's have to be unique for all 3 of the 3510's? I assumeyes? (these are dual controller units) The documentation is a not 100% clearon this..... ...

Hi Gurus, i have a sendmail related problem on one of my Sun boxes. ihave used the below mentioned command to send a .csv file# uuencode agtmgt_20060305Sheet2.csv agtmgt_20060305Sheet2.csv | mailsarkarp at saic.combut it returns with an error as:- ----- Transcript of session ...

Dear Experts,I am trying to configure HP jet direct in solaris 8, i did following steps.1. spooler administration2. Add printer to local spooler3. enter the network printer name ( using the name hp800ps , its listed in/etc/hosts as well )4.Select printer model from the existing Printer list ...

I've got a v20z with no operating system, on which I want to install Solaris9(and another that still has the factory install on which I want to reinstallSolaris 10).Our SOP would be to hook the machine up to the serial console server, putin the CD or DVD, and do the install remotely.I have ...

Gurus;It has been my impression for some time now that any scripts written to be CRONned has to be sh shell scripts, like so;#!/bin/shIf the script is based on a shell other than sh, e.g. C shell or Korn shell, then the appropriate CRON entry should be* * * * * /usr/bin/ksh <Korn shell ...

First of all I will apologise to those who believe this mail is misplaced in aSun admin group - but it may be related.I am trying to get sendmail to call a Perl script. To do this I have ...1. modified /etc/aliases with: testUser: "|/usr/local/bin/mailHandler"2. run newaliases3. run ...

Dear Bill R. Williams and Mr. Aaron Lineberger;Thank you both for your swift replies.I am fully aware of the Best Practice for shell scripts whereby the first line contains the she-bang shell definition e..g#!<shell>However, I had a very nasty experience last time whereby a KORN shell ...

Hi Gurus,I am trying to setup tftp and syslog server on Solaris 8.For tftp server i did following:1) uncomment the line tftp dgram udp6 wait root /usr/sbin/in.tftpd in.tftpd -s /tftpboot2) created /tftpboot3) kill -HUP inetdIt still doesn't start tftp daemon. So i stopped ...

Many Thanks to Darren Dunham, Paramasivam Meenakshisundaram, Matthew Stier and Ric Anderson...The basic thing for tftp to work is:the file which we are trying to upload/downlaod must already exist in the correct location,and must be world writeable. We need to touch the file for tftp to work.My ...

Dear gurus,I have a basic question about Solaris 10 DVD media downloadedinstallation. I have downloaded all the 5 image files available on Sun.com forinstallation of Solaris 10. Then, I transferred these files on unix machineand gave the following command:cat file1 file2 file3 file4 file5 > ...

Hi Vicky,i tried to run this command but it is resyncing ( c0t2d0s5 ) and then againit comes to resyncing state again and another in Last Erred State.Thanks,RahmanOn 3/6/06, Earley, Dennis P <dearley at telcordia.com> wrote:>> Folks,>> Would you please be kind enough to copy ...

Hi All,<p>How do I restore to a different location the contents of a<br> cpio file created with absolute pathnames ?<p>Thanks in advance for your help.<br>Regards<br>M Keita<br>

Thanks to Aaon, Petri, Mohammed, Rob, Darren, Jose.Some suggested using growfs but the problem was on the metadevice mirror first (growfs comes after this).Some suggested clearing/recreating the metadevice, but it was not an option because it can't be done online (unmountable filesystem).Petri ...

Hello ManagersWe have two DELL PowerEdge 2650 servers and planning one of them to beour backup server.The OS would be Solaris 9 or 10. Pl recommend me some good documents tocheck hardwareaspects of Intel servers to have Solaris on them. Is it a good idea tohave an Intel server as a back upthan ...

Well I'm at my wits-end trying to get this to work. Is anyonesuccessfully running poprelayd on a Solaris 10 system? I'm using thebuilt-in sendmail, qpopper v4.0.8 & poprelayd 1.5. The poprelayd processruns fine but it never updates the popip.db map. When I run truss itlooks to be ...

Dear managers,Yesterday, I asked about the multiple problems whileinstalling solaris10 from DVD downloaded media. I asked:> I have a basicquestion about Solaris 10 DVD media downloaded> installation. I havedownloaded all the 5 image files available on Sun.com for> installation ...

hi gurus, I want to know how to access the net in solaris sparc machine , What are the steps i have to do for the same. Also let me know how to enable telnet, ftp, dns. Thanks in AdvanceTired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ...

Hi,I'm trying to get CDE to run under VNC for solaris 8.I've installed Sunfreeware binary of VNC.as per instructions: http://www.softpanorama.org/Xwindows/VNC/vnc_on_solaris.shtmlI've edited the /.vnc/xstartup script to call dtwm instead of the usualtwm, but every time i start vncserver, i ...

Installed my 1st Solaris 10 host on a v20z and added to an EMC SAN. The<br>device names shows up as following.<p>c2t50060485C5ED9D53d0<br>c2t50060485C5ED9D53d1<br>etc..<p>These device names are weird. Any idea how to fix it ?<p>I will summarize<p>Thanx<p>-Shyam<br>

Hi All,I apologize for my first message (see below) which was may be concise.I 'd like to give herein some details.I'm working on a Sun Enterprise E250 server with the Solaris 2.6 runing on.In the pass, we used to backup and restore with the cpio commandeusing the following directory: ...

Dear Managers,<p>I need to apply a special patch 109809-02 and the readme file says<br>system requires a reboot to clear the cached time zone data. Does it<br>necessary other than restarting cron syslog daemons (time is not<br>changed).<p>Any inputs?<p>Thanks<br>Santha<br>

Greetings, Thanks for all the responses on moving from a SB150 to a SB2000. My original question was:Can you swap a hard drive from a Sun Blade 150 (SPARC IIi) and put it into a Sun Blade 2000 (SPARC III)?The answer is NO. The SB150 uses IDE disks, and the 2000 uses FC-AL disks, so ...

Dear everyone, I set-up a RHE box to use YP. The NIS+ server is Solaris 9 running in compatibility mode.On the RHE box I can ypcat at passwd.byname (as root), and get back unencrtyped passwords.When I try and su to a user, as root, I get: /su: incorrect password/. Nor can the user log in ...

Original Question :Installed my 1st Solaris 10 host on a v20z and added to an EMC SAN. Thedevice names shows up as following.c2t50060485C5ED9D53d0c2t50060485C5ED9D53d1etc..These device names are weird. Any idea how to fix it ?Thanx to Christopher McNabb,Mohammed Tanvir,Koef, Aaron ...

Hi Having problem while running the make command after creating the Makefile.PL file after for the DBD::mysql-3.0002 module Errors comes gcc: language arch=v8 not recognized gcc: dbdimp.c: linker input file unused because linking not done gcc: language arch=v8 not recognized gcc: mysql.c: ...

Well my problem wasn't Solaris-specific at all. Sorry for taking up thebandwidth. My problem was with the poprelayd PERL script. Seems thescanaddr() subroutine needs to be tweaked for the log file format. I didthat and everything is working as advertised. If anyone needs thescanaddr() mod ...

Hello ,We are running Solaris 10 that is running OpenLDAP. What we want to do is runOpenLDAP from SMF (rather that rc scripts) How would I go about this ?We have noticed that everyonce in awhile LDAP will look likes it running butit really isnt responding to requests. Is it possible to have SMF ...

Hi Gurus:I am having difficulty with display. We have an X-application. The font is not displayed correctly in the pull-down box.The client workstation is Sun Blade. But if I use exceed as client it works fine.How do I find which is the font being used or is needed.I did xset -q and got this ...

Hello,We have a RADIUS server that runs on Solaris 9. There are times when we are receiving a very large number of requests, and it can take a while to catch up and process them. If we take too long to process them and send a reply, the recipient might look at the reply and discard it because ...

I'd like to do all of the image management for Sun and Linux systems from<br>my jumpstart server, and I seem to be googling past any examples or<br>possibilities. Has anyone been able to make this work?<br>

Hi All, Would you please comment on various softwares you've used todocument your best practices and configurations, notes, etc. on themany disparate computers you manage? Need something that'll run onSolaris, preferably open source. The scope of the software may beunix focused but ...

Hi,I am having a Sun Enterprise 450, solaris "5.8 Generic_117350-02". Ihave got the below error 4-5 times.WARNING: se_hdlc: clone device must be attached before use!Sun document says this error occurs cause - "An operation was attemptedthrough a control path before that path had ...

Hello, gurus,I was wondering whether using ksh or bash for the default root shellwould have any known harmful consequences, or if it was a perfectlyusable option.For the normal users, we use csh, ksh, or bash without any problem.CheersRami-- ...

Hello, gurus,Thank you to all who replied.The global consensus seems to be that /sbin/sh is still staticallylinked in Solaris 10, though some people suggested the contrary.Which means that there would still be trouble if we had to boot insingle user mode or had to boot from CD for system ...

I said that on Solaris 10, /sbin/sh was still statically linked.I'm wondering:On a Solaris 9 machine:# ldd /sbin/shldd: /sbin/sh: file is not a dynamic executable or shared object# ldd /usr/bin/bash libcurses.so.1 => /usr/lib/libcurses.so.1 libsocket.so.1 => ...

Dear Sun Guru's Have any of you had any issues making multicast work through a duel layer firewall? More specifically running Reuters on Solaris 9 through the internal firewall.I can run an NT box on the same dmz and on the internal network w/ multicast and it works, drop a sun box in ...

I've had 3 problems with the x4200 so farI compared the 'firmware' on the ILOM, it seems up to date.1) Console over Java refuses to work over NAT. In the office it worksfine, from outside (e.g. home) the java tries to get 'updates' from themachine, but tries to connect to a local IP ...

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Hi All<p>I am stuck on site and am trying to get a FC100/P working with 2.6<p>2.6 does nt have the drivers included (ifp), so I guess they must have come on<br>a CD. Can anyone either send them or provide an FTP site for me to get them in<br>a hurry?<p>Thanks<p>Peter<br>

All,So our move has happenned between Feb 23rd and Feb 24th. It didn't go thatsmoothly. It was supposed to start at 12am and be finished by 8am. We werepartially up by 2pm, fully operational by 4pm, and still had somebackend/local network issues to work out that lasted for another day(after we ...

Hi --We are using Qlogic cards ( Sun's Leadville Driver x6767a ) and have 2 new devices that havebeen added to our EMC frame. Sunfire 480Solaris8 -- 117350-23We cannot "pull" these devices in. devfsadm -c diskis not working.We have just introduced these cards in our env.Thank ...

Hi Managers,<p>How can I correct system time on solaris 9 machine. The time is 8 minutes fast when I use date command.<br> <br>I will appricate any help.<p>Thanks,<br>Tony Patel<br><A HREF="/execute/ask/?codeinfoid=39708">pateltony at comcast.net</A> <br>

Dear managers,I am planning to upgrade OS from Solaris 8 to Solaris 9 onedomain of a Sun Fire 15K machine. I wanted to know the following things:1.Do I need to make any changes on system controller level to make the OS atdomain work fine after upgrade? (I remember, in E10K, SSP needs some ...

I set up ftp server running on solaris 9. The users are able to transfer<br>files with a normal ftp program but when they use sftp for secure ftp they<br>could not login to the ftp server. Why and how to fix the issue? Thanks in<br>advance, David.<br>

I had a number of replies to my question, unfortunately most of themwere about using USB or else told me that it was impossible.I have found a company making a SAS controller (Serial Attached SCSI)card that also allows SATA (Serial-ATA) drives to be used and hasSolaris SPARC drivers: LSI ...