Jumpstart profile for Oracle App/DB

707 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 6:09:00
All,Quick Question,Background: I use the Solaris Security Toolkit and Jumpstart to configureall of my hosts in our environment.Problem/Question: I'm going to be configuring some new servers that willhouse an Oralce Database (10g), and another server for an Oracle ApplicationServer (10g). I ...

what is cl2.5 cl 2.0 cl3.0

764 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 6:09:00
i have some mixed samsung ddr memory for sun microsystems V440 and V210/V240, but they are without any labels on them. I would like someone to show me how to find out whether a particular memory stick is a cl2.0 or 2.5 or even 3.0. Here's what i tried, banner doesnt show me ...

V880 Panics during Veritas VM 4.1 install

1564 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 6:09:00
Hi, I'm having a peculiar problem. I have a SUN Fire V880 (firmwareOBP=4.17.1) with solaris 8 build 02/04 installed with kernel patch-level108528-29 installed on it. I'm trying to install veritas volume manager 4.1 & to prep thesystem I'm trying to install the pre-requisite patches ...

about solaris 2.6!

217 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 6:09:00
Is Solaris 2.6 without any support? or without security updates?<br>is it dead?<p>I have several servers running solaris 2.6... Shoul I upgrade al leat<br>solaris 2.8?<p>thanks for your time;<br>regards;<br>Israel<br>

Courier IMAP libdb-4.2.so missing

948 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 6:09:00
Hi all,I installed Courier IMAP onto a Sol 9 box. The distribution was from the CSW/Blastwave project since it was easy to do a pkg-get. Its meant to be a replacement for our old mbox based imapd.However, it doesn't run the imap deamon/ couriertcp. It will run authdaemond without a hitch but ...

2nd SUMMARY: Configure sendmail in Solaris 9 to not use DNS resolution for the email addresses

2496 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 6:09:00
After my Summary I got additional answers fromHichem BoukottayaAndrew KyleSteve SandauMike BrodbeltandLupe ChristophWith these information I was able to change the sendmail configuration so that it works now without compiling our own sendmail.I finally used the following solution:2. Modify ...

SUMMARY: Courier IMAP libdb-4.2.so missing

1560 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 6:09:00
Thanks to everybody for the lightning fast replies.* The libdb-4.2.so is part of Sleepycat's Berkley db, which can be installed via CSW (pkg-get -a|grep db). *Courier IMAP still doesn't work, but this is beyond the scope of this initial question.Regards, S.LOEWENTHAL Simon wrote:> Hi ...

Keyboard L-keys not working

571 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 6:09:00
Solaris 10GnomeI was showing a friend around UNIX/Solaris, and temporarily changedthe Evolution Composer preferences character set to Hebrew, thenback to ISO0-8859-1. Unfortunately, my keyboard's L-keys gotdisabled. Even a cold reboot hasn't restored the functionalityof my Open & Front ...

V880 Panics after Veritas VM 4.1 install

26908 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 6:09:00
Hello Again, Thanks for many for suggesting various things in the morning.But I still have this problem. These are the steps I followed today1. Install Solaris 8 02/04 with kernel 108528-29 level on a SUN fireV880 (OBP=4.17.1). Please note that I have also tried installing thelatest 8 ...

Sun Managers Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

96072 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 6:09:00
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 ...

Thanks to all sun-managers

497 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 6:09:00
I would like to thank all those who spared their time to help others,especial when it comes to me. There were hard times, but withcodeprof friends, the life (work) was manageable. I will be moving todeal with HP unix. I am completely new on HP boxes. If someone outthere could shade light on ...

Rsync Library Fatal error in Solaris 10

938 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 6:09:00
Hi all, we run a rsync script which is giving errors as below: - the rsynchad failed.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ld.so.1: rsync: fatal: libiconv.so.2: open failed: No such ...

LDAP error unable to set User/Group base DN

370 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 6:09:00
Experts,I am facing problem in ldap authentication and gets this error message whenI try to run ldap server, and users on the workstations are unable to login:Warning task_eval_init () unable to set User/Group base DNI am using solairs 8 on V880 server.Quick responses in this regard will be ...

Printing with SGD

1127 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 6:09:00
Dear managers,I have a unix application server (Solaris 10 x86 on a Ultra 20) with SGD installed and would like to print from GGV running on this machine and being displayed on a Windows client to a printer that is connected to the windows machine. The Windows machine has a "Xerox Phaser ...

Netra pci slot use

1478 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 6:09:00
People im trying to work out if a Netra T1 i have has its pci slot spareso i can put a Gig Ethernet card in it.The unit is remote located so i cant just eyeball it.>From prtdiag i see the following :-System Configuration: Sun Microsystems sun4u Netra T1 200(UltraSPARC-IIe 500MHz)System ...

Permission denied - setfacl - must give permissions all the way down?

5104 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 6:09:00
Good day,I am trying to give read access to one particular user to thefiles inside a folder. I am using default access lists to do so. Here is whatI have:I am in folder /disk1/oradata/DMC4_AUDITI use the command:setfacl ...

Summary: Jumpstart profile for Oracle App/DB

1245 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 6:09:00
All,I got one response from this from Ian McNish, and I'd like to thank him forthat. Gave me lots of great ideas. I won't include his jumpstart profileunless someone specifically would like to see it, but much thanks!--Jeff---------- Forwarded message ----------From: Jeff Claunch ...

SUMMARY Permission denied - setfacl - must give permissions all the way down?

7797 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 6:09:00
Thanks to Charles Morris who confirmed the user must be able to browse all thesubfolders in order to reach the final subfolder.I will keep my defaultaccess lists to give the user access and will put him in the group osdba thathas access to all files below this final subfolder.David ...

Summary2: Profile Attahced: Jumpstart profile for Oracle App/DB

10593 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 6:09:00
Wow, so many people wanted to see the profile I decided to attach. Theprofile is attached to this thread for those who want to see it.--JeffJeff Claunch wrote:> All,>> Quick Question,>> Background: I use the Solaris Security Toolkit and Jumpstart to configure> all of my ...

ldap - how to change userPassword value

1383 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 6:09:00
>From man passwd, I see you can do apasswd -r ldap <username>but when I try to do that I get permission deniedI was hoping there was a way to pass in cn=Directory ManagerBut I don't see it.I also went to the IDS (sun directory server) console & tried to do itthru there, but I have ...

Sunos 4 name resolution problems

1757 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 6:09:00
Hey everyone, We have an ancient sparc station 2 running sunOS 4.13. It uses NIS for nameresolution. The master is a machine running nis+ in compatibility mode. Ihad to move both of these machines over to a new subnet and havesuccessfully brought up the nisplus machine. I made sure to uncomment ...

Solaris 10 global zone sun cluster installation

297 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 6:09:00
Hi folks,<p>How to install Sun Cluster 3.1 U4 into Solaris 10 which contains 3 local-zone ?<p>I had tried to install using #./installer -nodisplay failed.<p>Anybody successful install SunCluster into Global zone ?<br>Should I stop all the local-zone prior to suncluster installation ?<p>Thanks<br>

FW: V880 Panics during Veritas VM 4.1 install

5130 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 6:09:00
Here is the panic as seen on the console for the V880 as well as a V480after installing the required Veritas VM 4.1 patches for solaris 8.-Shiva-----Original Message-----From: Shiva NagarajSent: June 1, 2006 12:02 PMTo: 'Koef'Subject: RE: V880 Panics during Veritas VM 4.1 installOops..here it ...

Disk dupe

386 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 6:09:00
Can you dupe a Sun Blade 2000 disk onto a Sun Blade 2500?--Slainte,DavidCheckout the, sometimes updated, McWilliams family website @ http://davidmcw.tripod.comGet a safer, faster, better web browser ...

discrepency between Solaris 9 9/02 and Solaris 9 9/05 when upgrading V1280 from 900MHz to 1.5GHz

436 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 6:09:00
Hi, I am upgrading a V1280 from 900MHz CPU's to 1.5GHz CPU's. Sunsolvestates that the minimum OS requirement is Solaris 9 9/05. I think myV1280 is running Solaris 9 9/02 (how do I determine the OS release?). DoI have to re-install or upgrade the OS with Solaris 9 9/05? Or does thelatest ...

V880 panic

1921 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 6:09:00
Hi Guys, Looks like SUNWsan package that I was using might be theculprit. Today I installed the newer ver of SUNWsan (million thanks forthose who provided me). And what I noticed is that the system came upwithout a hitch after SUNWsan & the required patch installation whichwas the point ...

inetd - sgi_fam/rpc/tcp: unknown service

405 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 6:09:00
Hi,I have installed FAM via CSW because the CSW Courier_Imap was compiled with fam support.Fam won't star on two different machines (solaris 8 and 9). The service in inet is unrecognised.inetd[284]: sgi_fam/rpc/tcp: unknown serviceSince it has happened on two different machines I suppose ...

SUMMARY: Sunos 4 name resolution problems

2655 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 6:09:00
> -----Original Message-----> From: codeprof-bounces at codeprof.com [mailto:codeprof-> bounces at codeprof.com] On Behalf Of Ray Pengelly> Sent: Friday, June 02, 2006 11:41 AM> To: codeprof at codeprof.com> Subject: Sunos 4 name resolution problems> > Hey everyone,> ...

Jun 1 17:24:41 isdpkg FCP: Report Lun Has Changed target=614213

3056 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 6:09:00
Hi Gurus,What do the following messages mean?Jun 1 17:24:41 isdpkg FCP: Report Lun Has Changed target=614213Jun 1 17:24:42 isdpkg scsi: [ID 243001 kern.info]/pci at 1e,600000/fibre-channel@3/fp at 0,0 (fcp1):Jun 1 17:24:42 isdpkg FCP: Report Lun Has Changed target=624213Jun 1 17:25:41 ...

V880 Panics after Veritas VM 4.1 install

1894 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 6:09:00
Hi Everybody, I successfully installed veritas 4.1 on solaris 8 for the Sunfire V880 (kernel 108528-29, I know its old but is more than minimumrequirement for VM 4.1 on sol8) So, the culprit was the older ver of SUNWsan package. SpecialThanks to Steve Harris & Dave foster & thanks ...

Tape backUP on sun fire v240

373 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 6:09:00
List, I decided to migrate to solaris 8 for the moment all my solaris2.6 servers, but my old servers has a 5.0GB 4mm DDS1/DC Tape Drive(part number=370-2088) and I don't know if I can connect to the newsun fire V240 using its SCSI interface (One Ultra160SCSI multimode(SE/LVD)...what do you ...

SUMMARY: EMC Powerpath v. Sun MPXIO for reliable duel attached fibre SAN?

9899 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 6:09:00
Sorry for the long delay in posting the summary.I've included all the replies below.I asked...If you ask EMC about reliable dual attached SAN and HBA fail-over they willinsist that the only way to do it is to use Powerpath and possibly VeritasVolume Manager. Yet within Solaris you can, as far ...

jumpstart .flar in a 480R restore, dont boot.

2057 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 6:09:00
I'm doing a restore to a sun fire 480 from other 480. The jumpstart .flarimage install OK, but after i can't boot, the error is:The / file system (/dev/rdsk/c0t1d0s0) is being checked.Can't stat /dev/rdsk/c0t1d0s0/dev/rdsk/c0t1d0s0: CAN'T CHECK FILE SYSTEM./dev/rdsk/c0t1d0s0: UNEXPECTED ...

/etc/resolv.conf in solaris 8

106 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 6:09:00
How can I change the DNS resolvers in solaris 8? /etc/resolv.conf? like<br>linux?<p>regards;<br>Israel<br>

Configuring apropos and whatis

328 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 6:09:00
List, I want to use apropos and whatis in my solaris 8... I am getting thiserror:#apropos mail/usr/share/man/windex: No such file or directorylater I ran:#//usr/bin/catman -w to create this filebut I don't get any info from apropos :-(#apropos dns#any ideas?-- Regards;Israel ...

some concepts!

1098 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 6:09:00
List, I've worked in unix/linux for some time.. but I'm really new insolaris... I have some questions I want to debate with you.. You don't haveto answer me if you want, I just need some links to start understanding thecore of solaris, these are my questions:1. I see for example, ...

Solaris (Intermediate) Interview questions

275 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 6:09:00
Hello manaers<br> Pl try to send me some good links for an interview for a system admn positon. The client is a bank.<br> <br> Thanks<br> <br> Rob<p> <br>---------------------------------<br>Now you can have a huge leap forward in email: get the new Yahoo! Mail. <br>

Sun trunking

4028 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 6:09:00
Hi,I have an urgent problem trying to implement Sun trunking for maximum incomming bandwidth into the server, and hopefully someone here can assist. (It is urgent now because my project timeline is being threatened by this problem)The problem is with performance. In short, the setup is as ...

Kernel is taking 97 % cpu

1670 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 6:10:00
Dear ALL why the kernel is taking too much cpu ?load averages: 5.78, 5.74, 5.98 11:56:0102 processes: 94 sleeping, 7 running, 1 on cpuCPU states: 0.0% idle, 3.6% user, 96.3% kernel, 0.1% iowait, 0.0% swapMemory: 4096M real, 1769M free, 2221M swap in use, 13Gswap free ...

What is UUCP

380 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 6:10:00
Hi Dear, Can you define what is exactly UUCP is , and where and how it uses in real life setup. When it is necessary to define in send mail conf file. Regard Arun Arun Kr. Pal9871252452 (Mob.)Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ...

SUMMARY: ldap - how to change userPassword value

2393 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 6:10:00
Thanks to all who responded...To change a user's password via CLI:/usr/bin/ldapmodify -h HOST -D "cn=directory manager" -w PASSWORDdn: uid=USER,ou=People,dc=DOMAIN,dc=COMchangetype: modifyreplace: userPassworduserPassword: newpasswordconsole/GUI several agreed is not best utility out ...

Add SAN disk without Reboot on non-Sun branded controllers

1825 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 6:10:00
I've used these steps in the past:devfsadm -Ccfgadm -al (to get a list of controllers)cfgadm -c configure c2::500610003412EAB23141cfgadm -c configure c4::500610003412EAB23142and on occasion, forget why, had to do a luxadm -e forcelip <port>However, I'm on a project now where ...

License Key database is corrupt.

1316 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 6:10:00
Hi all,This machine is running Solaris 2.5.1 on an E4500. I am in the process of restoring it to another E4500 as I need to upgrade the disk capacity and I can not afford for this system to be down for the two or three days it would take for me to do it on the current machine. Everything is ...

Resource trye creation in cluster

162 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 6:10:00
Hi *, Can any body tell me how to create a resource type<br>"SUNW.logicalHostname" in a suncluster setup. please give steps or<br>example. regards<br>

Apache Issue

371 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 6:10:00
Has anyone every had trouble getting rotatelogs to work under Apache2.0.55 on a Solaris 8 system? The binary are running when I do a ps -ef|grep rotate, but the logs aren't being rotated. Any help would begreatly appreciated. I tried sending an email to the Apache users list,but nobody has ...

Cleaning up /var/sadm

488 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 6:10:00
Hello everyone, I am uncertain of the answer to this and maybe someone here might know.Is there any problems that would be created if anything from/var/sadm/pkg directory is deleted. I know these are mostly log files, but if they were deleted, does itcause any problems to the system?I.e. ...

Cleaning up /var/sadm

491 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 6:10:00
Hello everyone, I am uncertain of the answer to this and maybe someone here might know. Is there any problems that would be created if anything from /var/sadm/pkg directory is deleted. I know these are mostly log files, but if they were deleted, does it cause any problems to the system?I.e. ...

Does anyone know how to automate NBU 5.1 client install

3478 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 6:10:00
All,I am using Jumpstart with JET, aparently the JET NBU module is no longerbeing developed by Sun as the guy who wrote it only wrote it for 4.1installs and has left Sun about a year ago.Does anyone know how to script the install of NBU (netbackup) 5.1.The manual install is to cd to ...

VXVM error while root encapsulation

2315 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 6:10:00
Hi Guys, Today I was trying to encapsulate the root disk under vxvm(72gb)which had 5 partitions (/, /usr, /opt, /var & /home) with only slice 3not being used. So, when I tried encapsulating it failed with thefollowing errorVXVM ERROR V-5-2-338<vxvm vxslicer error V-5-1-754 not enough ...

Info

5902 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 6:10:00
Hello List,I came across this is in the message log:Jun 5 11:27:25 backbase SUNW,UltraSPARC-III+: [ID 934035 kern.info]NOTICE: [AFT0] Corrected system bus (CE) Event detected by CPU2 at TL=0,errID 0x00112472.93bbef64Jun 5 11:27:25 backbase AFSR 0x00000002<CE>.00000007 ...