If you are interested email me.<p> <p>Cheers,<p>Rich Sullivan<p>www.rsunix.com <<A HREF=" http://www.rsunix.com/default.htm"> http://www.rsunix.com/</A>> <br>

Dear Sun Managers,I was wondering if anyone can tell me a good way to determine if an 'installboot' was run on a supposed boot disk. The situation is that we use Veritas to mirror the "rootdisk" to the "rootmirror". When we replace a failed disk, we can usually do it ...

Hi All,I have a strange problem with USB tape device.If I disconnect/reconnect the device or power off/on then this device is notrecognized by the system though before this the device was working properly# mt status/dev/rmt/0n: No such file or directory#If I remove usb drivers and manually ...

Hi all.Can I use a Qlogic QLA2462 in a Sun v490 with Solaris 9?I can not get any driver to attach but the device does show up in prtdiag========================= IO Cards ========================= Bus Max IO Port Bus Freq Bus Dev,Type ID Side Slot MHz Freq Func State Name ...

Hello,I have mounted a /dumpfiles, and /etc/vfstab shows:# cat /etc/vfstab#device device mount FS fsck mount mount#to mount to fsck point type pass at boot options##/dev/dsk/c1d0s2 /dev/rdsk/c1d0s2 /usr ufs 1 ...

Hi,WeB4ve been told that to run a specific driver, we have to have a releaseequal or higherthan Solaris 09/04.My /etc/release reads that IB4m running Solaris 04/02. What is the best wayto update the release?Do I have to re-install Solaris from a CD using the update option? Or simplyapplying the ...

Many thanks to all who responded.All agreed that the backup slice (slice 2) could be safely recreatedwithout harming data on the other partitionsSpecial thanks to Crist Clark who summed up the issues I raised asfollows:> My question is: Can I safely use the format utility to re-create ...

The other day, i did a restore for a .flar image, the host was a Enterprise4500 with sol8, i broke the mirror, and restore the image in disk offline ofthe mirror, but when i boot, the controllers of the disk was different thatthe original so, where i had the c4 controller, now i have the ...

Hi Guys,<p>Does anybody know how to install NTP ins Solaris 10, because changed<br>completaly.<br>In the /etc/init.d there is no xntpd script.<p>Thanks<br>

Thank you all who answered my question (see below).The right way to update a release is installing using the update option; patchesare not enough.A colleague mentioned live upgrade mode, which minimizes down time: http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-5768/6ml70g5rj?l=en&a=viewThank you ...

Hello,I have a Lexmark X215 printer, with a connector USB and Parallel. That is connected on a print server in USB port.How can I configure Solaris 10 to print througt the print server?If anybody have any idea, please help ...

I'm having trouble with what should be a trivial setup.On a Solaris 8 machine, I have 3 NIC's bge0, hme0, and hme1. hme0 has anaddress like 151.128.x.x with a netmask of ff000000. bge0 has an addresslike ZZZ.85.c.d with a netmask of 255.255.255.128. hme1 has an address likeZZZ.85.e.f with a ...

I'm encountering a failure with rcp using the ~username syntax for the ta=rget of the copy. The failure is on a new host recently setup, so I'm thi=nking it may be a config issue. I have a number of Solaris 9 servers, r=easonably current on patches. I'm under a time crunch on resolving ...

Hi Gurus,I never worked on Live Up gradation of Solaris OS. We are running Solaris 8Release 2/02 on SUN E 450 server which is using Veritas Volume Management.The root disk is under Veritas control and we created some Logical Volumeson the Luns which we are assigned from Hitachi Storage. And we ...

And the answer, for anyone that might be worried, was that an old, dead machine which used to do the same job had been mistakenly restarted after a power failure, and had come up far enough to configure its network interfaces.To be honest I had thought that some other machine might be ...

Hello,I have an E450 which is running solaris8 and has Veritas Volume Manager4.0 installed. This particular server is connected up to our CX300 SAN,I have allocated 4 luns on the SAN and have presented these to theserver. After a reconfigure reboot on the server I can now see the 4luns from the ...

Hello,I am looking for a solution to put 2 IP adresses of 2 different subnet onthe same physical interface :etc/hostname.ce0192.168.0.1 netmask + broadcast + upaddif 10.0.0.1 netmask + broadcast + upIs this going to work ?If yes can I do something like :*/etc/hostname.ce0**192.178.1.119 netmask ...

Hi Gurus, I am having a V440 and it is stuck at SC>prompt...the problem is that iam not having the password...is there any way of resetting the password fromhere as it is not proceeding to the OS level...or is there any defaultpassword for it....Awaiting ur replies.Regds,MannanThe ...

Hello, in fact on the network side there are no troubles I have done similarthings during migration (IP is layer 3 VLAN is layer 2) ;-)But what I am looking for is a clue on secondary IP support on sun systems.example :A is in sub SAB is in sub SAA and B access to C in sub SAA B C are in VLAN ...

Hi Managers, I have a single node cluster (for now) based on Sun Cluster 3.1 8/05 on a x86/x64 machine. Each time i reboot the node i see the following messages (a part from the others) on the consolse: The /global/.devices/node at 1 file system (s6) is being checked. WARNING - Unable to ...

Hello all and thanks for responding ;-)I didn't explain everything :This configuration will be for migration purpose, both subnet will be in thesame VLAN and my router will have a secondary IP.So in fact what I need to know is if it is possible on sun to declare a"secondary IP" that ...

Thank you to the many who responded. I have a path to a solution.=0D=0A=0D=0AIt seems that even though I had put on 9_Recommended on the failing host,= that the /bin/ksh was OLD compared to others. I think that if I address=s my patching problem, that a current ksh will allow the tilde to ...

Thanks for all who helps me...To resolv the problem I did that:On a pc I installed the Print Services for Unix, and I created a printer client of LPD Server.#lpadmin -p lex -sip_server!name_printer_on_winwhere: ip_server -> name in host table name_printer_on_win -> name of shared ...

I am running the setup_install_server command,And I get : ./setup_install_server /jumpstart/OS/Solaris10/ERROR: Install boot image /cdrom/Solaris_10/Tools/Boot does not exist Check that boot image exists, or use [-t] to specify a valid boot image elsewhere.When I do a ls -l of the ...

Hi,<p> I have a problem when I try to install SUNWsymon 3.6 on Solaris 10.<br> The installation is aborted on package SUNWesdb.<br> Anybody have already installed this version?<p> Thanks<p> Silvio<br>

Hello managers,have anyone of you had luck to manage Linux with bootparamd, rarpd and atftpd to work as an boot/install server for Solaris 9 and Solaris 10?Please contact me off-list, as I seem to be quite stuck on this, spent last afternoon without any success :-)Thanks in advance, have a nice ...

hello ,i am trying to connect to my solaris 9 box with WRQ reflections(terminal emulator) with XDMCP with SHELL set to ksh and its notworking, if i set SHELL to tcsh it works fine...any work arounds? orwhy this happens even?thanks,abhimanyu.Abhimanyu PandeyInformation TechnologiesWorcester ...

Thanks to everyone for their quick response...Darren DunhamfranciscoricHarrington DavidChristopher McNabbJohn BenjaminsGary LangShyam HazariRyanRLeaon2Sorry if i missed anyone..Thanks again to all...Summary:There is a similar post and FAQ available tahnks to Bejamin for pointing that ...

Hi again,and sorry for the late summary - was a little bit busy in the last days, soI didn't find the time to write it.The problem is solved, and special thanks go to Tatsumi Hironori[clownpopy at hotmail.com] who wrote the right solution very quick:The problem is that SC3.1U4 changes ...

Can i upgrade release 2/02 to >=2/04 with only install the patchcluster?, or<br>i have upgrade the version of sol8 with installation cd?<br>

Hello gurusGive me some info on this . I have several Windows machines and I wantto use aSolaris machine should act as a mail relay server to forward SMTPemails from these machines to main mail server of the organizationAny basic steps in detail as to how to achieve thisVIJAY ...

Hi Good people-I have a script(export.sh) to export tables in my oracle 9i database onsolaris 9.Script works fine if run from command-line, but if scheduled in crontab, Iget errors below:----Error log----EXP-00056: ORACLE error 7217 encounteredORA-07217: sltln: environment variable cannot be ...

Hi Managers,I want to check the logs of the sun cluster services. I want to know whenexactly the resource groups failed to the other nodes of the cluster. Whereexactly i can find this information, Is there any dedicated log file for suncluster?I will post the summary. Thanks in advanceThanks ...

Has anyone seen these errors before in /var/adm/messages on a Solaris 10(v480) , Veritas Cluster 4.1 / VXFS/VM 4.1 and Oracle Rac 10Gvcsmm: [ID 743917 kern.notice] VCS RAC ERROR V-10-1-15013 vcsmm_ioctl:driver not configuredIt seems when I go to register the CRS services these errors ...

Hi everyone, I did a reboot and heres what I got after my solaris 8 got rebooted: mount: mnttab is not this fstype. mount: /var/run already mounted configuring IPv4 interfaces: rtls0 rtls1 rtls2. Hostname: cspgate WARNING: /proc could not be mounted The / file system (/dev/rdsk/c0d0s0) is being ...

Hi All,Connect to a zone console in sol10 withzlogin -Cdid the work,now when i exit i keep just getting the console login for that zone...Now i can get back to the global zone by starting a new ssh session - but i'dlike to know if there is a way to exit the console back into the shell i ...

Gurus,I have an E450 running Solaris 7. I have tried to install and APC SmartUPSand the associated power management software on this server, however whenthe UPS is connected via the supplied serial cable the server refuses toboot. Disconnecting the cable allows the server to boot, and I can see ...

Hi All,I see the following disksuite soft partiton error, any suggestion how to fix it.d62: Soft Partition Device: d6 State: Okay Size: 184549376 blocks (88 GB) Extent Start Block Block count 0 16777218 184549376d6: Concat/Stripe Size: ...

I am trying to send a break signal to a RSC installed on a V440. I am<br>typing ~# and getting the following message. Any help would be<br>appreciated.<p>~#<p>The following connections are open:<p> #0 client-session (t4 r0 i0/0 o0/0 fd 4/5 cfd -1)<br>

The correct keystrokes are following to get back to RSC#.Thanks to Stuart.Saxon at centrica.co.ukRajeev JainOperations Manager, Production SupportInter-Plan Program TechnologiesBlueCross BlueShield Associationrajeev.jain at bcbsa.com(312) 297 6438 (W)(312) 282 5931 (M)This message and ...

Managers,Two of my four v240 servers DVD drives will not read a cdrom that i haveburned.I put the cdrom into the DVD drive and the light flashes a couple oftimes, then the drive just ejects the cd.I have tried different burn speeds and different burners and get the sameresults.I don't think ...

hello all,i have a v440 with solaris 10 3/05i applied the latest cluster of Recommended patches. Then i reboot, but solaris seems broken because i got this messages on console:Boot device: /pci at 1f,700000/scsi at 2/disk at 1,0:a File and args: -s-SunOS Release 5.10 Version Generic_118833-03 ...

Hello Sun Managers, I have a SunFire x2100 running Solaris 10 with two equal-sized disk drives. One disk is the live disk and the other one is supposed to be used for redundancy. I have dd copied succesfully the contents of Disk A on Disk B and installgrubed a bootblock on Disk B. When ...

Hi everyone, I have 3 E250s which have been running for, well, a long time. Is therea standardised procedure to carry out physical maintenance on these machines? Should I just take them out of the rack and give them a good cleaning? ShouldI call service personel for this job perhaps?Besides the ...

Ok It worked...What I did was mount c0t6d0s0 and c0t6d0s1 in /cdrom and/cdrom1The thing is.....Is possible that never asked me the others 3 CDs?I have this tree:/jumpstart/OS/Solaris10/Solaris_10 # ls -latotal 26drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 512 Dec 7 10:50 .drwxrwxrwx 3 root ...

Hello,I'm running Solaris 8 on an Ultra 2. Currently, we have mirrored root drives that are about 1.6G for the root partition.Now I know this may be hard to believe, but we're rapidly running low on disk space on that partition. Therefore, I copied the root fs over to a 9G attached drive, ...

Hi all-Thanks to all who pointed out the need to source the environmental variablesettings, esp. Thomas, Gil, Steve, Gore, Morrison, Eric, Bill, Julian andPeter.I sourced the .profile in the export.sh script and all is fine. -----$cat export.sh-----#!/bin/kshTIMESTAMP=`date +%d%m%Y`export ...

Consensus is that the problem is caused by getty and the UPS software bothrunning on the same serial port. Solution is to either redefine the consoleor use a splitter cable on the E450, which has a combined serial port asopposed to two separate A/B connections.Thanks to:-John StoffelThomas M. ...

The general consensus says that old systems should not be left powered down for a long time, as old disks and other equipement may fail due to thermalchanges. So, maintenance should be limited to removing the dust, and even thatshould be done with caution. My personal experience is that the ...

Hello All,I wanted a simple script to search for a key word in a file and print some number of lines after it. The following example works on the command line but not in the script shown below. The error is "syntax error near line 1".I know this can be done easily in Perl. However, ...