Hi Guys,I am facing problem with ARP in Solaris 9.0. This is a strange problemin the sense that it occurs intermittently and only whilecommunicating to network printers. Even through the arp entry existsin the arp cache, the system is unable to get replies from theprinter. However the moment i ...

Hello all, Im currently researching how to perform a minimal install for Solaris. (9 or 10)My goal is to perform an install to 1 given slice with that would fit on cd and allow enough room for my NetBackup Client to fit as well. This cd would be used to boot from with a client already ...

Hi.. Im trying to install Sun Cluster 3.1 (two nodes, point to point) on2 Netra 440 each one with Sun Quad adapter... The first node installedok, but the second node can not see the other adapters (ce1 and ce2) fornetwork interconnect, I received the error:Adding adapter "ce1" to the ...

> All,>> Here is my current dilemma. I built a new SCSI disk running solaris 7 on myUltra 10 workstation at my desk. However when I take this disk down to myworkstation downstairs it does not boot. It will see the disk and show thedisk info. I get the twirling pipe. Then I get the ...

Hello Managers,I have a problem when connecting to the server in solaris 2.6environment.When connecting using Exceed I get the following errors.2) Could not start doc viewer? Could not initialize canvas? could not create DPS context? is adobe display postscript ...

Thanks to all who replied (original Q and list below), even withoutwaiting for all the fine details.Some assumed correctly - this is an existing installation of Solaris 8systemsusing Sun-Branded Controllers...we have configured sd.conf etccorrectly.We have 135 disks online (270 paths), and ...

I'm about to go thru a DR exercise. Happens every 6 months. Past &current procedures use jumpstart & flars to rebuild the req'd systemsthen use our backup s/w to backup required app binaries & data.I've heard that there are other solutions & tools available designed forDR ...

It appears to me that Solaris 9 and 10 'dtmail' does not support SSLIMAP, it only tries port 143 and I don't see any configuration optionto enable the use of IMAP over SSL.Is this really the case? Say it aint so!Dave Foster ...

Thanks to William M. Fennell who confirmed that 'dtmail' does notsupport SSL, even under Solaris 10. I would have to call this a"bug".Dave Foster> It appears to me that Solaris 9 and 10 'dtmail' does not support SSL> IMAP, it only tries port 143 and I don't see any ...

Hi all,I am loading Sun Explorer on a Solaris 10 server with Sun Cluster and itreferences an Explorer package SUNWexplj. When I download 4.3.1 or 5.3Explorer it only includes SUNWexpl and SUNWexplu. I cant find thispackage download on sun.com, google or any info on codeprofsummaries.Anybody ...

Oh well,I expected to get at least one reply to this, but I must be theonly person in the whole world using this suite of products in this way....rachelOn Mon, 3 Apr 2006 grove at zeta.org.au wrote:> Hi there,> I went to a lot of effort and setup a special "admin" server ...

Hi, Ran into a few showstoppers on this one. Theoretically, Ithink this would have worked if the disk had actually been compatiblewith the 420R's scsi bus and if Joerg Schilling's raw scsi driverswere available on Solaris 10. Sadly, the disk was SCA and schilly scgonly supports up to ...

Hello,<p>How to find out what kind of storage is attached to a solaris host?<br>Example, I want to find out the storage attached is EVA or EMC<p>Thanks<br>Ram<br>

Thanks to all who responded. The majority of them suggested either using"echo | format" and find out the vendor information for each disk, or"iostat -En" and look for the vendor information.I was using "pkginfo | egrep "EMC|HP" to find that information and ...

Hi,Does anyone know if the serial number for an A1000 is stored in the array and if so how to interrogate it to find out?Thanks,Paul-----------------------------------Distributor Systems InternationalDDI: +44(0)1322 407891FAX: +44(0)1322 ...

First of all I'd to thank all the people who jumped in and shared theirthoughts.Summarizing:1) What is a "UDBL Syndrome 0x1c"?For the time being this not very critical as long as it isn't occuningtoo often.Francisco clarified that the recommendation for changing the stick is 3or ...

Hello List,I have a Sun 1280 with a Sun Branded Qlogic dual port card. I have bothports connected to different SAN fabrics and have storage from a Hitachi9585 presented to both paths.I have enabled mpxio globally in scsi_vhci.conf and added the followingto support the ...

Hello ,Im working on a procedure for doing "bare metal restore" of our Solaris boxes.I want to do this via a bootable CD that has Veritas Netbackup client on it .I found this article and followed it to the letter. I was able to make abootable CD with the Solaris 10 install CDs ..but ...

Hi all,Just curious how admins are dealing with the newer sun servers that comewith 73 or 146gb drives. For instance, are you using the entire drivefor root and maybe a var partition (is that too big for root?) or justusing a portion for root/var and then creating ...

I have been astounded at the power of the cryptic Unix commands pairedwith pipe or redirection but ther is one i'm missing.In my group we frequently have to search through log files of hundredsof megabytes and the grep command usually will do.But sometimes we have to find all the lines between ...

I've just upgrade my UltraSparc-II from solaris2.5.1 to 2.6, I installed thepatch-cluster and everything was good, until I couldn't print remotely to apc (windows 98) running chameleon (LPD). I remove all printers and beganfrom the begining, but I could not print. My question is:How can I ...

Thanks to you all.I've solved the problem. it was a very small problem. Aspecialcharacter was there in the inetd.conf file at line where ftp entry islocated. So after removing that it is working.Thanks & regardsvikas OnWed, 05 Apr 2006 Stevens,Kenneth wrote :>Vikas,>>What user ID ...

> I got a lot of answers. I had a job to do so I triggered on and tried> the first one which almost evolved the "unproved" by Stephen.Grund> (but step by step).> I think they're really worth sharing for those of us who aren't yet> "fluent" in Unix.> Like ...

Hi,What I'm trying to do is:- create jumpstart upgrade (from solaris 8_2_02 to 8_2_04)- the server is currently installed with solaris 8_2_02, with DiskSuite 4.2.2My jumpstart upgrade works if the existing server does not have DiskSuite installed.If the existing server has DiskSuite installed, ...

I have an E450 that is giving me some problems finding disks. It's a 2X400MHz, 1GB RAM, Gigaswift UTP card, and 20x73GB IBM HDDs running Solaris 8. It was originally built with 2xX6602A (the DPT HW RAID controllers), however recently one of them has started flaking out. Due to a change in ...

On a new Solaris 10 install that will be used for Sun Cluster 3.1.........1) Do I just create and mount /globaldevices in the normal fashion (SVMmirrored on slice 3), mount it as /dev/md/dsk/d30 in the vfstab file.2) Will scinstall automatically modify the filesystem as/global/.devices/xxxxxxx ...

Hello,I'm investigating a weird problem and hopefully you've an idea or glue orwhatever helps.It's Solaris 9 on SPARC Platform. It's an environment which provides justone single application to the enduser. They use telnet or ssh to accesthe platform. The application is started within the ...

Archive-name: codeprof-before-postingLast Updated: $Id: before.posting,v 1.21 2005/12/28 21:05:10 jdd Exp $NOTE: This message is posted periodically to codeprof on behalf of all members of the Sunmanager's mailing list. Please read it carefully before posting. This document can be retrieved ...

Hi all, On Solaris 8 I'd like to authenticate my users against openldap running on alinux box. I have read around a little, and found out, that the patch 108993 shouldfix some problems in ldapclient. I was about to install this patch, I read about it that some previousreleases caused some ...

Dear managers,I have set up my first Solaris container as shown below, installed SGD in this zone and fired up the web browser to access the installed applications. I successfully run a very lightweight application. However, starting another one - that works great in the global zone - gives ...

I have a mirrored partition I need to resize (Solaris 9, SolsticeDiskSuite). I happen to have another partition with excess capacityso here's my plan. I'm looking to see if anyone can poke any holes inthe plan.1) Break both mirrors2) Resize the two partitions on one of the underlying disks3) ...

I bought a 2nd user L25 off ebay the other day. Have checked the drives areSun original and not 3rd Party. I can confirm they are Sun original !Power on and it goes through all the "post" ok and all insides move a whiraround but in the picture for each drive it says "waiting for ...

Hi Its my first time that i have facing real challenge asa System Administrator (I am NOT a big Administrator),but i have many confussions. could some one help meplease?My development department need to replace all IPs withnew IPs without any downtime. So can it possible Ifyes please give the ...

Hello managers,we got lost while experimenting with Solaris Zones and SGD. Weinstalled SGD in both the global zone and the single non-global zone.We can access both zones and run applications but have some questionsleft that we haven't found an answer for yet. We are observing one or more ...

Hello,I am starting to configure logadm on Solaris 9 to rotate logs for an application at my company. From reading the man page on logadm under the -a (post-command) and -b (pre-command) options, it states that these are run only once when rotating multiple logs with one logadm command. Could ...

Hi there Solaris gurus. I hope this is not too much off-topic.I need sendmail to relay all non-local mail to another mail server (Running as a SMTP relay / gateway)I have added "mailhost" to the /etc/hosts file and update the DS entry in /etc/mail/sendmail.cf to read ...

Good morning everyone, Durring the setup of a Solaris 10 x86 Jumpstart server I recieved an errorwhen adding a SPARC client stating there is no miniroot for this arch type.The system does not have a SPARC miniroot in the /Solaris_10/Tools/Bootdirectory (only a .x86 image is present). My ...

Hi all - sorry for the delay in posting. To summarise, the solution to this problem came about after lots of head-scratching by both Sun Support and myself.The solution was to swap out the system board and ALOM card for new models, and now it "just works". Whether it was a system ...

Hi guys I need to make an upgrade of sendamail in solaris 8 and 9<p>Which is the latest version for each OS version? and where I can get them.<p>Thanks<br>

Hi Gurus, Is there any way to change netmask without bringing down the interface? This what I did lastnight in mid of crises and later realized about netmask . ifconfig ce0 plumb ifconfig ce0 x.x.x.x up As of now system communicates within the local network but not ...

HiWe recently applied patches to Solaris 9 o/s. The showrev -p commandshows the patches as applied, but after reboot, "uname -a" still reportsthe old patch level.Could someone please point me how to fix this? (why they are differentin the first ...

Hello all,System: SunOS sunbox 5.8 Generic_108528-13 sun4u sparcSUNW,UltraAX-i2I am sending logs from probably 100 or so differentmachines, andparsing them with a regexp based tool, the machine is runningat a loadof about 0.2.Sometimes, similar but not identical lines from aremote Solaris9 ...

Many thanks to Ryan Krenzischek, Kris Briscoe, and John Stoffel for their quick responses. Running the command 'devfsadm' to recreate the /dev and /devices entries seemed to have fixed the problem. I was originally using 'drvconfig' to no avail. It did not fix the problem on the onboard ...

Hi,IB4ve just installed an Intel PRO/10GbE SR Server adapter on a Sun Fire V480server (running Netbackup) to replacea gigabit interface.To my surprise, the performance has been very poor -- while the gigabitinterface had peaks of 960 Mbps,the 10GbE card has never passed the 600 Mbps limit ...

Hi;When jumpstarting various Solaris boxes ( 7 / 8 / 9 / 10) the O/Soccasionally ejects the CD. As the systems are remote it's a real pain.Is there a way to prevent the O/S installation (various versions of Solaris,seven's almost gone) to *never* auto-eject the CD ?Is there any possible way ...

Hi<p>Can you tell me the procedure to burm the cd of Sun Solaris 9 . i have<br>downloaded from the net . but if i burn as iso image it does not works]<p>it s windows base SUN OS<p>pls help me<p>cheers<p>Amar<br>

Trying to see if we can upgrade current servers to solaris10 - First try is on a E6500 with A3000 hardware controlling d1000's is this no longer supported - Sorry for asking this question here but Sun has restricted access to sunsolve for $120/$240/$360 per year per unit. I am waiting for ...

Good Morning,I have a V480 Server with an attached 3310 Array. Solaris 8 is installed andon the RAID we have Firmware Version 325W and SCCLI Version 2.0. I noticedin both the /var/adm/message log and also in the events log on the RAID thatwe are frequently getting the following errors:Apr 4 ...

hello all,# settermsetterm: can't open config file"/usr/share/lib/setterm/en_US.ISO8859-1/conf.file"#i am getting this error since this morning...i have been trying to set some term env variables ... any ideas?thanks,abhimanyuAbhimanyu PandeyInformation TechnologiesWorcester State ...

Hello,My V880 12GB RAM, 6x900MHz UltraIII Sparc server Solaris 9 (patched on January 2006) today made panic and rebooted itself. Here are messages:Console:WARNING: pcisch2 (pci at 9,700000): PCI fault log start:PCI iommu errorpcisch2: Error 1 on IOMMU TLB entry 4: Context=0 not Writable ...