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 ...

Dear All, My company is in the process of purchasing a high end server for abusiness critical application. My manager request a technical reportcomparing the high end servers of vendors. My question: - What might be a "fair" points/features of comparison ? I might seeprocessor ...

I am trying to create a zone (hard zone - VPF) that is composed of 2different blades. I would like the fibre attached into these 2 differentblades to see each other and anythinf else plugged into the switch. I get anerror message saying that I can't do this type of zone because it crosses ...

Sorry, SUMMARY too late..,Thanks all reply. Yes, I can configure IPMP with mix devices. hme, qfe,ce, ge, and so on.# Original AnswerHi, Gurus.,I'll try to configure IPMP with ce1(copper) and ge0(fc). The documentsof SUN are not seeing about interfaces. But, Sun recommended IPMP use asame type, ...

I'm trying to use the ipmitool program to configure the management interfaceof a X2100 from Solaris 10SunOS martin 5.10 Generic_Patch_118844-30 i86pc i386 i86pcie# ./ipmitool -I bmc chassis statusCould not open bmc device: No such file or directoryError sending Chassis Status commandI've seen ...

Hi,Anybody on the list had the same experience:On a test servers, I created a ZFS pool of 4.5TB.The pool contains 6 disks (c[23]t1d[012]) from 2 external SCSI boxes:VAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS: 0. c1t0d0 <DEFAULT cyl 8918 alt 2 hd 255 sec 63> /pci at 4,0/pci1028,121 at 8,1/sd ...

Hello,Im working on a solaris 10 box using Solstice Disk Suite. I am creating zoneson this new box but first im creating a 4gig soft partition on a disk to putthe zone on. My question is ...Is it possible to create a soft partition thencreate a raid 1 mirror of it to another disk ?--Brent ...

Hi ALL,Last Friday I asked a query which is attached below.I've got many out of office responses (Are you watchingMUNDIAL - Football Championship in Germany ?) and fewvery helpfull advices. I followed the one by stoyan.genovand also Hicheal Morton gave nice ruleset to follow.THanks to all.Here ...

Denny,Thanks again for the links below. This turned out to be the way to go.I was able to successfully install the Solaris package on my server.Thanks also to everyone else who responded. And for those who asked, Idid try to install several versions, including 4.3p2 and got the sameerror. I ...

Hi,Just a quickie I hope. Can you change a Solaris machine's Time Zonewithout having to reboot?Cheers.Regards,Richard PickfordInternal Communications EngineerEWA Bespoke CommunicationsDirect Line: +44 (0)1245 454 419Mobile: +44 (0)7917 172659Main Switchboard: +44 (0)1245 492 828Fax: +44 ...

We have our NIS setup on Solaris. There is an issue with one particularuser account that can't login from 2 solaris machines. But from rest ofall machines user can login.I have checked out with yp utilities on problematic machines, it clearlyshows all the entries for the user in passwd ...

We have Solaris 8 on SUN Ultra server. I found if I use "vi" edit /var/spool/cron/crontab/root. It will NOT work. For example put "##" before statement , it still run that cron job.If I use "crontab -e" . it will work.ON Redhat LINUX, both way will work.Can ...

First I wanted to thank all of you for your replies. I wanted to thank JamesRay for his detailed explanation that I used. James said:> You have to create the mirror first and then overlay the soft > partition onto it.> > So if d1 and d2 are your sub-mirrors you create d0 as your ...

Is it possible to use a luxadm command to verify what the HBA will see. For<br>example, I have zonned a switch and would like to see if the specific HBA<br>attached will only see those specific zonned devices?<p>Thanks<br>

Thanks to so many answer.SUN cron daemon will NOT re-read /avar/spool/cron files withour use "crontab -e".Redhat linux will re-read /var/spool/corn every minutes. That is reason why LINUX work on both way.DOC from LINUX man parge:Additionally, cron checks each minute to see if its ...

All Gurus:I am running into an issue on my SunFire V120 running Solaris 8 (07/03) withkernel 117350-35 where I am getting the subject error message when I attemptto start a binary. The binary is a tcp/ip capturing tool that is used by myorganization. It attempts to bind itself to the NIC in ...

I created 87GB filesystem system on Solaris 9. About 60% of filesystem was full. Now plug the array to Solaris 7 box and df -k justreports 5% (4GB) used and almost all space as available. du shows thecorrect size. Any idea what's going wrong here?> df -kFilesystem kbytes used ...

Hi Guru's:I just recieved a T2000 and noticed that the syslogd is using about 10 of cpu. Here is extract from prstat.# prstat -a PID USERNAME SIZE RSS STATE PRI NICE TIME CPU PROCESS/NLWP 307 root 15M 13M cpu30 0 0 135:23:34 9.4% ...

All:I was able to figure it.The problem was that the /etc/inet/ipnodes file had the hostname 'loghost' as an alias for the system.Since the syslogd is configured to send all log messages to loghost, the system was trying to send messages to itself instead of the real loghost.It was in a loop ...

One particular server running 5.8 v440 is generatingso many alarms that i would like to check the server.Please can some one tell me what to look into?I am planning this1. patch level(uname -a), showrev -p2. syslog, dmesg(may not help at all)3. vmstatPlease let me know what else i can ...

Problem:> We have a couple of SunPCi cards running XP SP2, MS Office 2003, and> other apps, as well as a number of regular PCs running the same OS> and apps. After the latest batch of Microsoft updates, MS Office> under the SunPCi cards won't start. It gives the following ...

I googled and poked about docs.sun.com, but could not find an answer to this:<p>Is it possible, and where might I find details on how to set up ftp with<br>sdshell (SecureID) on Solaris 8, 9 and 10?<p>Thanks.<br>

Hi all,<br>do you where I can find (if they exists) some FREE samples for the<br>certification<br>in the subject?<p>cheers<br>

Looks like absolutely no one knows what I am talking about!The only thing I know is that the errors are sourced from elf.hrachel-- Rachel Polanskis Kingswood, Greater Western Sydney, Australiagrove at zeta.org.au http://www.zeta.org.au/~grove/grove.html "They who would give up an ...

Hi Guru's,I have a Solaris 10 E6900 frame with 3 domains. I need to set quota on"/export/home" file system, can some one help me with this.Regards,AnshulThis message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged,proprietary, or otherwise private information. If you ...

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Guys,We have some V490 servers with the integrated RSCcard.The network port is configured to enable logins to thebox via telnet but since it's an unsecure connectionthe management is not happy.Is there any way to configure the port to acceptconnections through ssh?Thanks in ...

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Hi gurus,I have a buinch of machines around the globe, and I need to get reports ofcpu usage and log-in time per each of the user on each of the machine. ThenI have two options, format the date for an spreadsheet, or show them somwhowon the internal web.Now, is there any FREE (like in I don't ...

Hi,<br>If I remember correctly, Solaris update 2 should be available with ZFS (official support) in June? Is it delayed? Who has information?<p>Regards,<br>Xavier<br>--<br>There is nothing like 127.0.0.1<br>

Hi Vani, Might be the proble is overloading, if not then do one thing that create the new account and check it if it works thane delete the user account and create it as same and check it. ArunArun Kr. Pal9871252452 (Mob.) Next-gen email? Have it all with the all-new Yahoo! Mail ...

We installed a Openssh & removed suns ssh on solaris 10. We are currently<br>running a rc script in /etc/init.d to start & stop sshd. However Id like to to<br>add the new sshd to SMF. <p>How do i add a new service like sshd for example to SMF ?<p>--<br>Brent <br>

I've got a web server running Solaris 10; we are using the Sun SSHdaemon. I have users uploading files and a default umask of 022 isbeing applied.I have set the umask for the system as 002, this works for everythingexcept for sftp.I need to set the default umask for sftp. Anyone know if this ...

Hello Managers I work in a Unix admin team from 14 months and trying to improve my scripting skills. As a matter of fact my role does not include automating the tasks. But I tried by my own to do some scripting and working on that. No doubt there are various resources available on the net ...

Experts,Would you please help the field to confirm the following issues:Our customer just purchased one Sun SE6920(with 2x2 SE6020 configured,14x146G Drives in total) and one Sun SE6130 JBOD(14x300G drives) as the expansionstorage,now the SE6130 JBOD has been attached to SE6920 (connected to ...

Hello all,I have 6 Sun boxes with the Legato Networker client ver 7.22 installed. 2 are V240s, and 4 are V440s, and they are all running identical Sol 8installs. The Legato client was installed with identical options onall. The 6 systems are tied togother via NIS running on the 1st V240 -and ...

Hello all, I believe I have things in order now.... I actually managed to figureit out on my own with a small hint from Stuart Saxon:Check your /etc/resolv.conf check your /etc/nswwitch.conf Also try Getent hosts backup_server The resolv.conf and nsswitch.conf files were good.... but the ...

Hi Gurus', I am trying to tar up oracle database server installation and untar on a different server to the same locaiton. I am not able to make exclude list work. Could some one help me? I installed gnutar(patterns in the file like */u01/*) and it also does not help. Here are the ...

Hi,<p> I need to do a serial cable for T3.<br> How can I do this ? Anyone has the Electrical project ?<p> Thanks,<p> Silvio<br>

Im trying to add a new service (lets use suns mysql for an example) I havebeen following the howto from http://mediacast.sun.com/share/bobn/SMF-migrate.pdf and http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/bobn?entry=manifests_for_apache1_and_mysqlI installed suns mysql onto the new Solaris 10 box started ...

Hi,Any help with an Oracle DB in Cluster? The resource-group switched but now it can't be restarted:Media error encountered, but Auto_end_bkp is disabled.I read this:Description:The HA-Oracle start method identified that one or more datafiles is in need of recovery. The Auto_end_bkp extension ...

Got a few feedbacks...First I read this on the Sun flash RSS:"Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SUNW) today announced a revolutionary new file system that delivers ground-breaking capabilities by automating common administrative tasks, protecting data from corruption, and providing virtually ...

Hi Managers,I am trying to hook up an external disk via USB to a SunBlade 100running Solaris 10. The disk is meant to be carried and attached toother systems (like Linux and Windows), so I don't really want to puta Solaris label on it, but rather a plain FDISK label, which would berecognized ...

I've got to come up with a script to check fro users that haven't<br>login in for over 28 days. I've made a start but got to the date<br>handling stage and have just thought that rather than reinvent the<br>wheel I'd check whether and had one pre. made that I could cadge...<p>TIA<p>Jeff<br>

Koef suggested that upgrading the BIOS might help - but would Sun ship abroken service processor in a computer which is intended to be monitoredwith N1 management services via the IPMP interface ?(that was a retorical question :-)The only other suggestion was the syntax for querying an already ...

Does anyone know the differences between the Solaris 9 & Solaris 10 NetworkAdministrator Certifications?--Slainte,DavidCheckout the, sometimes updated, McWilliams family website @ http://davidmcw.tripod.comGet a safer, faster, better web browser ...

Hello all,> First I read this on the Sun flash RSS:>> "Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SUNW) today announced a revolutionary > new file system that delivers ground-breaking capabilities by > automating common administrative tasks, protecting data from > corruption, and ...

Hi Guru's,I'm facing a wierd problem in Solaris 10 E6900 machine , if I login withuserid "bscsix" I'm unable to do;/bscspd> mkdir -p /bscspd/brbscsix01 http://123mkdir: "/bscspd/brbscsix01 http://123": Permission denied/bscspd> iduid=600(bscsix) gid=600(bscs)but if I ...

My original post should have said sftp with sdshell, sorry.It was suggested I abandon sdshell and use PAM.Would this be the best answer for sftp as well?Comments?> Is it possible, and where might I find details on how to set up ftp with> sdshell (SecureID) on Solaris 8, 9 and ...

Dear knowledgeable ones,After having a little hunt for the alternative to metatool I found theSMC. (/usr/sbin/smc). I prefer the shell, but sometimes I need a goodvisual overview of what I'm doing with discs.However, the SMC won't let me log in as root, or any other user but rootis the only ...