euro sign under solaris 8

482 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:56:00
Hello gurus,Any Idea how can I type the euro sign on a solaris 8 terminal(not on consolebut via ssh).I currently have the en_us.UTF-8 and ISO8859 and bunch of other localesinstalled. Any clue?Thank you Angelos KanellopoulosUnix system administratorUPC Broadband Holding Services BVTupolevlaan ...

panic - memory problem? x86

3002 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:56:00
Solaris 10 1/06Gigabyte GA-K8N51GMF-9 (listed in HCL)AMD64 3400+512MB memoryACPI shut off in eeprom.About every 16 hours I get a panic:Mar 16 08:29:10 speedy unix: [ID 470315 kern.warning] WARNING: MCE: Bank 4: error code 0xf0f, mserrcode = 0x7Mar 16 08:29:10 speedy unix: [ID 836849 ...

FLAR V210 -> V120

796 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:56:00
I understand that there should not be a problem using a flar created ona V210 to build a V120 (SUNW,UltraAX-i2). But I want to make sure. Hasanyone successfully done this? Any problems to watch out for? TIA.+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+| ...

SUMMARY: How to reinstall SUNWpr on Solaris 10 x86

3484 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:56:00
Thanks a mill to Darren Dunham, Koef, Darren Brechman-Toussaint andJV. Basically: 1. boot in "Solaris failsafe" mode (the HDD gets mounted under /a ) 2. mount the Solaris 10 1of4 CD # mount -F hsfs /dev/dsk/c1t0d0p0 /cdrom 3. make sure /var, /usr and /opt of the HDD are ...

Question on ps under Solaris.

360 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:56:00
Hello Solaris users,I wonder some one help me to understand ps command on Solaris.What I am interresting is: why /usr/ucb/ps command is having out put differnet than/usr/bin/psI CAN'T run /usr/bin/ps axuwwwwbut I can under /usr/ucb/psOr /usr/ucb/ps -ef does not work, but/usr/bin/ps -ef does ...

Rezone the WWN Path

516 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:56:00
Managers:Please advise me how to rezone the path to the newdisk after the disks have been added. The Storageadmin is going to add a New disk and would providethat WWN's for the NEW FA's and the LUN range. After ireceive this how should i update the sd.conf andlpfc.conf file? Can someone ...

SUMMARY: Question on ps under Solaris.

1531 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:56:00
I ask: " Hello Solaris users, I wonder some one help me to understand ps command on Solaris. What I am interresting is: why /usr/ucb/ps command is having out put differnet than /usr/bin/ps I CAN'T run /usr/bin/ps axuwwww but I can under /usr/ucb/ps Or /usr/ucb/ps -ef does not ...

Two different kernel jumbo patch branches in Solaris 10?

1050 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:56:00
Does anyone know why there are two Kernel Jumbo patch branches forSolaris 10 - there is 118822 branch and there is 118833 branch. InSolaris 8 and 9 there were multiple branches, but they were sequential.There appear to be no dependencies between these two branches. The onlydifference I have ...

SUMMARY: FLAR V210 -> V120

892 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:56:00
I asked:> I understand that there should not be a problem using a flar created on> a V210 to build a V120 (SUNW,UltraAX-i2). But I want to make sure. Has> anyone successfully done this? Any problems to watch out for? TIA.The answer:It works fine. Just do ...

Followup: Two different kernel jumbo patch branches in Solaris 10?

1292 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:56:00
Important item I forgot to add: these are both sparc. Neither is anx86/i86/whatever patch.> Does anyone know why there are two Kernel Jumbo patch branches for> Solaris 10 - there is 118822 branch and there is 118833 branch. In> Solaris 8 and 9 there were multiple branches, but they ...

Emulex Fiber Cards Multipathing

558 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:56:00
Hi Guru's,I am facing problem in enabling multipathing on sun server which is runningsolaris 9. We have sunfire 280 R running solaris 9 and two emulex fibercards are attached to this server and these cards are attached to Hitachistorage and we got coupel of disks assigned to this server and we ...

the file

136 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:56:00
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Memory issue

537 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:56:00
Managers:I am being assigned a solaris server (which i was toldconsumes 99% memory). what are the checks i should dobefore advising to buy new memory?I am new to solaris..but generally thought the foll.would be OK..please advise1. check vmstat (PO col)2. topAny way to find top memory consuming ...

SUMMARY; How Do I Configure my Sun for Seagate DAT Tape Drive

2103 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:56:00
Thanks to Bob Smart,It works just fine as Bob said. Sometimes we forget the simple fixes.It has been more than a few years but I never had to do anything otherthan make sure the SCSI device number was 4 or 5 to get any SCSI 4mm or8mm tape drive to work with SunOS 4.x (Solaris 1.x) I may have ...

Creating a Partition Across Multiple 3510's

414 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:56:00
I currently have one 3510 and an attached disk tray connected to anE450....... I have a few RAID 5 Logical drives created on both the 3510 andthe JBOD tray. Can I create a partition (let's say 2GB) that spans the 3510and the JBOB tray. So this partition will include space from the 3510 andthe ...

xntpd[4383]: [ID 898919 daemon.error]

738 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:56:00
Hi guys,I am getting following error.Can any one give solutions for this ?Mar 17 10:01:31 blr-varun-vob last message repeated 27 timesMar 17 10:02:31blr-varun-vob xntpd[4383]: [ID 898919 daemon.error] server returns apermission denied errorMar 17 10:07:31 blr-varun-vob last message repeated ...

Sun Managers Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

96072 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:56:00
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 ...

How Do I : Jumping through hoops

1278 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:56:00
Hi people,Does anyone have a list of protocols (or indeed a pointer to a document) thatneed to be opened up to allow a sun (sparc) client within a DMZ to be jumpedfrom a non-dmz boot and install server.So far I havearp/arptftpnfstimeStuart SaxonDatacenter Standards & Engineering ...

Word file

147 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:56:00
hello,<br>i send the file.<br>bye<p>[demime 1.01b removed an attachment of type application/x-msdownload which had a name of Word_Document.hqx]<br>

Problems Sun 3511 FC

1076 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:56:00
Hi all,We have a problem getting our 3511 SATA to work. We installed a Sun V480with Solaris 9 and the FC card in the 66 MHz PCI bus. After booting the v480, Solaris does recognize the card:PCI 8 A 1 66 66 2,0 ok SUNW,qlc-pci1077,2300.1077.106.1+sccli doesn't find anything ...

TCP random port choice for outgoing connnections

69 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:56:00
Hi,<p>can anybody tell me how to tune solaris that way? <br>Chris<br>

Non-X keyboard mapping

1108 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:56:00
Hello,We have a SunFire 280 and a V440, both running Solaris 9, connected to aKVM switch. The model is RKP117-801e, not sure who made it but it isabout 2 years old now. I gather the later ones are actuallySun-compatible. Until earlier this week I never bothered to sort out akeyboard mapping for ...

rsm6.22.1 unable to see A3500FC - any suggestions?

938 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:56:00
Hi AllPretty frustrated here trying to setup an A3500FC.I have tried on two separate systems with both 2.6 and 9 Solaris.I have loaded the O/S (either 2.6 5/98 or Sol 9)Added patches from patch matrix.My Fibre card (FC100/P) works fine with A5000 and the A3500FC has an ID of 5 when viewed from ...

setting ndd commands in Solaris 10

669 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:56:00
Hello,we have solaris 10 & 9 running openLdap which we have discovered that due tothe amount of authentication traffic we have we are running out of allowedconnections to the boxes. I want to increase the amount of tcp connectionsallowed by doing .ndd -set /dev/tcp tcp_conn_req_max_q ...

RSC password on v890....

433 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:56:00
Hi,I have a brand new server sun fire v890, i connected aterminal to the console port and it asks me for loginname and password..Is there any standard password forthis? I tried login as admin and password as admin,but no luck..Please adviceThanksMohammed TanvirTired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has ...

ERROR with new user.....

550 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:56:00
Hi When I create a new user on some solaris 9 systems,I'm having a problem with setting passwords. I'llcreate the password for the user, but it always comesback with an incorrect password when the user tries tolog in or when I try to do an su to that user. I havetried several times and ...

Solaris 10 tcp wrappers with syslog

614 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:56:00
Hi,Does anyone know the entry to syslog.conf to capture tcp wrapperinformation into a log file with the bundled version in Solaris 10? Weused to use a shareware version and added the following to syslog.confbecause it was compiled that way:local2.notice /var/opt/tcpw/logs/tcpd.logThis ...

Reg:- Veritas Volume Manager Materials

163 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:56:00
Hi all ,<p>I Want to Learn Veritas Volume Manager , Can you suggest the good books and<br>send the documents if you have.<p>Thanks and Regards<br>Dhamodharan.s<br>

Community support sites for solaris other then sun-managers

106 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:56:00
Hi all ,<p>Is there any Community support sites for solaris other then codeprof?<p>Thanks in Advance<br>

Enable Telnet

229 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:56:00
Hi Folks,<p>I have assigned IP,Subnet mask , Name server address , also given gateway<br>address in /etc/defaultgateway,<p>Even though i cann't able to open URL's in netscap, cann't able to open<br>Telnet session.<p>Thanks<br>

disabling log message aggregation by syslogd on Solaris 9

2007 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:56:00
By default syslogd is configured to not print duplicate messages. Itsbehavior is to print a statement such as "last message repeated X times"when a new (different event) comes in.========= /var/adm/messages ===========...Mar 17 14:26:03 sqcdev su: [ID 810491 auth.crit] 'su root' ...

passwd problems

366 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:56:00
All, I have a Solaris 9 box running NIS. When I enter the command passwd <username> the prompt hangs for about 2 minutes and finally returns and accepts the new password. After the re-enter passwd section, I will eventually see the message about passwd successfully changed but then will ...

Adding a new service to SMF

5002 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:56:00
Hello,On Sol 10 Im trying to add a new service script to SMF.. from what iunderstand First i need to create the method script in /lib/svc/method then iguess i need to create the xml file for this in /var/svc/manifest/site (making sure to make a dependant of milestone-multi-user-server then ...

SUMMARY: setting ndd commands in Solaris 10

2401 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:56:00
i wanted to thank Dragos Stoichitescu for the following reply:For Solaris 9 I would add the commands (with full path for ndd) in/etc/rcS.d/S30network.sh; the alternative is to create another scriptthat runs in runlevel 3 with only those commands.For Solaris 10 I would add the commands (with ...

UPDATE: passwd problems

633 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:56:00
I do get a permission denied after the "passwd changed " statement. I have ran pwconv and checked permissions on /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow. I have tried taking the nis out of nsswitch.conf for the passwd word line and still no luck. Original question: I have a Solaris 9 box running ...

Solaris 10 tcp wrappers with syslog SUMMARY

1704 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:56:00
This organization is great! Got an answer in about 15 minutes.Thanks to:Richard ButlerChris BarnardCasper DikErek AdamsChris and Richard had the easiest solution:You can do it with the tcpwrapper extensions - that is you put lineslike below into hosts.allow:ALL: 10.0. : severity local2.notice: ...

Sun 5.2 data sync

373 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:56:00
HI Gurus,We are having Sun Direcotry Server 5.2 in our porduction and QA enviornment. I have a requirment to sync data from specific users and Group from Production to QA env but not the entire data.Can anyone help me how to do this or a document which describes procedure how to sync specific ...

NIS question

415 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:56:00
Just a quick question. Is it possible to have 2 NIS servers or can you only bind to one? Basically I have a primary NIS server in California and a secondary in Chicago. Can I make the California a primary and Chicago a secondary?-- Gary D LopezUnix Systems AdministratorCatapult ...

SUMMARY: How Do I : Jumping through hoops

3181 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:56:00
Interesting responsessome people have said No No No and Nowhilst others confirmed the list of protocols.It transpires however that the request to my team was not properly defined.The request is for a boot server within the DMZ talking to my install server.I am more happy about that.Thanks for ...

SUMMARY: memory and swap

1585 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:56:00
Hi Gurus.First, thanks go to the following:Anthony D'AtriAtul GoreMatthew StierCasper DikCrist ClarkFranciscoDarren DunhamSeveral said basically this, to take a look at thesecommands:# swap -s# swap -lThe most complete answer I got was this, from Crist:Swapping out idle processes even when RAM ...

maxphys and sd_max_xfer_size

1251 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:56:00
Hello all;I have always wondered why Sun's default value for maxphys is only 128Kbyte.In these days of EMC and other fibre related storages, it seemingly does not make sense.This above is especially so when sd_max_xfer_size is set to 1 Mbyte by default.Shouldn't the above values all be equal ...

Hello

142 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:56:00
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probe-scsi-all get error: PCI bus fault

243 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:56:00
HI<p>When I execute in OBP : probe-scsi-all<p>i receive message:<p>ERROR: LSI1030 MPT Firmware, Fault code: 8112: PCI bus fault<br>ERROR: LSI1030: Could not set initiator ID.<p>What it means? And... what can I do to my server discover HBA?<br>

SUMMARY - NIS question

1590 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:56:00
Everyone thanks for your response. I wrote the question in haste and did not get the answers I needed because the question was written incorrectly. Thanks to Darren Dunham for being kind enough to exchange e-mails with me to answer what I *really* needed to know..Here is what I wrote originally ...

AHA-2940UWPRO(on PCI) Ultra5

351 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:56:00
Hi all,Is the AHA-2940UW PRO card (on PCI) compatible with SUN Ultra5 (solaris 8)?TIA_____________________________________________________________Obtenez aussi votre adresse electronique gratuite deQuebecemail.com http://www.quebecemail.com, un service gratuit et ...

show firmware of nic

415 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:56:00
hi mates,is there a command or way to see which firmware my network card(s) has?i could imaging that i would see it in the OBP (show-nets; cd/... at ../...; .properties) but is there a way to see it in solaris?Solaris9 (09/05) on a V440 with GigaSwift Ethernet MMF (X4151A) adapters(using ce ...

SUN QFE-Card in Sol. 10/x86 on V20z?

811 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:57:00
Hi all,I need some more interfaces on a V20z running with Solaris 10 1/06. I havesome ol' QFE-cards lying around, and thought it would be a good choice forthe problem to use one of them.Hm... Unfortunately, it's not recognized, so I searched the web to get theappr. driver. I figured out that ...

RAID 1+0 trouble on A5200

1381 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:57:00
Hi everybody, I have been trying to stripe 6 pairs of mirrored RAID 1 disks on a A5200. To split I/O I have: splitted loop and two FC controllers Mirrors d110 d210 d410 d510 d610 are Front 1 mirrored by Rear 1 etc .. When I try : ...

difference between a SB1000 and a SB2000, using a command?

412 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:57:00
who can I see the difference between a SB1000 and a SB2000, using acommand?Uname -a gives me the same output, prtdiag -v does the same. Does anyonehave any ideas?Leiv Jarle LarsenKonsulent______________________________Ementor Norge AS, Skvadronvn. 2, 4050 SOLAMobil +47 930 33 ...

JNI Cards

391 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 5:57:00
We use JNI 6460 at our shop, since JNI is no longer making cards, I was wondering what everyone else uses. I'm really looking for a card that I don't have to manually populate sd.conf with every lun under the sun with. ---------------------------------Brings words and photos together ...