Hi Langston,I already go through your question and summary on codeprof site. I understand your question but not very clear with your summary. In my understanding your question is how a perticuler user like joe only change his effective user id (using su command). In your system already sudo is ...

Hi,<p>GNU date has a switch '--date'. It's usefull to format past or future date.<p>Ex:<br># date --date yesterday +"%Y-%m-%d"<br>2006-05-03<p>Does the same exists on Solaris?<p>Xavier<br>--<br>The computer revolution is over. The computers won.<br>

Hi everybody,looking at the mailing list's archive it seems like I am not the first one to experience this behavior, but I haven't found any solution yet:When booting, I get aINIT: Cannot create /var/adm/utmpxINIT: failed write of utmpx entry:" "INIT: SINGLE USER MODEType control-d ...

Hi,Ive setup a sun ldap directory server and configured my clients (solatis 9)with ldap_client. Everything is working very well but Ive noticed that whenI log into a box using a ldap account the system dont take care of case inthe login. I can entre login or Login or lOgin or whatever Is ...

Hi, i have a Solaris box "SunOS gas1 5.5.1 Generic_103640-28 sun4d sparcSUNW,SPARCserver-1000". it is the NFS client for the NFS server(catensnw005) which happens to be a Netware server.catensnw005:/nfs/UNIX/spatrans 35015680 30910720 4104960 89% /novell2root on LIVE gas1 # ...

Hello,I am upgrading the hardware of our file server and I am moving the filesystemsfrom locally attached disk to filesystems on a SAN. What is the best way tomove the quotas? Could I just copy all of the data and the quotas file to thenew disk and be done with it? (I'm running Solaris ...

Hello folks,I just installed solaris 10 in sunfire 890. I changed the root loginshell to ksh from sh and rebooted. I get error saying that shell is notfound at the login prompt after I enter the password. Where am Ifoobarring?Thanks,p.s. any resolution to this issue is also ...

DANA HUDES:While sh is in /bin, ksh is not./usr/bin/kshis the path you needCrews, Richie [Richie.Crews at turner.com]:You need to create a file called /etc/shells, the best way to do it(assuming ksh is in /bin) is "ls -1 /bin/*sh > /etc/shells"I think this will solve the ...

I tried to compile whowtach on a Soalris 10 X86 box today without much<br>success.<p>Anyone know where I can downlaod a binary?<p>-- <br>U.S. Encouraged by Vietnam Vote - Officials Cite 83% Turnout Despite Vietcong Terror <br>- New York Times 9/3/1967<br>

Hi... I have a two nodes cluster.... Im trying to configure the agentsfor Oracle HA. My problem is that our provider installed Oracle on thenodes and defined two global file systems, in /global/01 put the oracle application andin /global/02 put the oracle databases... so, I have to ...

Hi,I have a Sun V120 that is up and running with Solaris 9, but I am tryingto get into the Open Boot Prompt through the serial port.Unfortunately, when I tried to get in through serial port A (LOM) thebox is stuck at an LOM login prompt. No one has any idea what the LOMpassword is, and has ...

Sunfreeware has this for SPARC, but does not seem to have it for X86.<br>Anyone know a place I cna get it?<p>-- <br>U.S. Encouraged by Vietnam Vote - Officials Cite 83% Turnout Despite Vietcong Terror <br>- New York Times 9/3/1967<br>

I have a Sun One Directory Server 5.2 on one box and I'm using it toauthenticate users to login into their system account on another Solaris10 system. I configured pam_LDAP and that works, but I want to tweakthe pam module to work how I want things setup..I only want the users to authenticate ...

Is there anyone in the Richardson Texas area who can go to a clientssite and fix a Sun E450?Scott SpencerRecurrent Technologies Inc.3431 De la Cruz Blvd.Santa Clara,CA 95054Toll Free: 800-727-1419Phone: 408-727-1122Fax: 408-727-8002scott at recurrent.comwww.recurrent.com ...

Has anyone successfully set one of these up ?<p>When I try it errors out:<p>ERROR:copy of install boot image failed.<p>I would welcome suggestions...<p>Peter Weiss <br>

Hi. I don't know if this is the right newsgroup to be asking this question because it involves both Sun & Windows, but here it goes: I'm trying to rsh from a Sun Solaris 8 machine to a Windows 2000 SP3 machine (on the same network). I did add the machine & user_name to the ...

I'm running Solaris 9 (sparc) 9/05. If I have metadb state database<br>replicas on active partitions (both submirrors and RAID5 slices) how<br>do I safely go about creating new state database replicas and then<br>deleting the ones from the active partitions?<br>

This really is a last resort but im having a multipathingproblem with a new 4500 and t3 installation we have which is trying tomimic one of the environments we have elsewhere.Setup = 2 * E4500's in a cluster environment with sun cluster 3.0 2 hba's QLC in each node (x6757a fibre sbus)2 ...

Hi ,Have rsc installed on a v480can do most rsc operations via either rmeote gui or commndline session,however console will not workRSC version 2.2.3 (obesbif1)Please login: rscPlease Enter password:rsc>rsc>rsc> consolei get nothing backi enter ...

Loads of replys in under 2 minutes suggestinput-device=rsc-consoleoutput-device=rsc-consolewhich did the trick. ( maybe only on V480R's however )Thanks to all !........................................Hi ,Have rsc installed on a v480can do most rsc operations via either rmeote gui or commndline ...

Hi all,SunOS hostname 5.10 Generic_Patch i86pc i386 i86pcI have a problem with the e1000g NIC on a Sun Fire X4100 : I cannot workout for the life of me how to show what duplex the card is running in.I've tried the advice at http://www.codeprof.com/pipermail/summaries/2005-February/006136.html, ...

All,I having trouble getting cde to read my home session when logging in. If Icustomize my environment, save it as my home session and through style managerset the startup to "Return to Home Session", cde still returns to the currentsession settings. However, if I remove the ...

One thing mike i have noticed which is different on the live systems andour system here is a luxadm inquiry and an inquiry under format dontshow any info._Real running systems :-_root@<host-live># formatSearching for disks...doneAVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS: 0. c0t10d0 <SUN18G cyl ...

Okay the consensus so far is that it is okay to remove them but to besafe a new replica or set of replicas could be placed on newpartitions.My followup question is. Are there any steps needed to deal withbreaking mirrors either before or after metadb replicas have beenremoved? About a month ...

Hi Jim,Thankx a lot for your reply.. I got a very good explanation from Brad Morrison, given below..Yes. Root can still su, because su is different from sudo:su is part of Solaris (and any UNIX system)sudo is an open-source program that is usually used to let users run su, but it can also be ...

We have two similar Solaris 8 systems.Fred(production) SUN E450 Pebbles(test) SUN ES5000Both are running the Lawson financials application and oracle.Pebbles was cloned using netbackup from Fred in 2003. The latest attempt to patch pebbles failed because of an error with theSUNWcarx and ...

Does anyone know of an encrypted file system available for Solaris 8 -10? I have found some references to older items (such as cryptfs forsol 2.6) but nothing recent.We would like to have certain tools available on our machines forforensic purposes (such as in our DMZ) but do not want these ...

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Hi,I have a very unusual problem concerning KDE function keys.If I turn off the "apply colours to non-kde applications" in the colourspanel, some function keys mapped to the keypad in xterm stop working, butonly after the user has logged out and back in again.I am sure there must be ...

Thanks to Darren for this explanation. I was indeed trying tomount/copy from the slice itself. I should have broken the mirror butcopied from the detached metadevice instead of the underlying slice.> What specifically were you trying to mount? The concat/stripe> metadevice or the slice ...

I've got a V880 running Solaris 8 with 12 disks in it.Unfortunately, somewhere along the way it has forgotten about c1t1d0. Thedisk itself is spinning and has a green light.I can't reboot right now and I need to re-discover the disk.I've tried cfgadm -al. It reportsAp_Id Type ...

Hi you can go to /usr/platform/`uname -i`/sbin/scadm userpassword <username> and reset the password to know what is the username /usr/platform/`uname -i`/scadm suershow Regard Rajendra --------------------------------- Yahoo! India Answers: Share what you know. Learn ...

Thanks to David Foster, Musa Williams, Ken Rossman who all said pretty muchthe same thing:>> Try 'iostat -En' and see if the disk is listed.> Not there. The rest of them are.>> devfsadm -C>> devfsadm -c disk> Nothin'. It's dead, Jim. Right?>>If ...

Hi allDoes anyone know if this is possibleI have an active directory server and a Lotus Domino Server both accesable via ldap.Can I set up a third ldap server to provide authentication for users not only in itself but to "proxy" requests to the other two. From my reading I think it ...

Hi all,<br> does anybody know please, if Solaris 10 supports AMD64 Cool 'N Quiet<br>feature? I mean power saving features on AMD64.<p>Thanks<p>Phoenix<br>

Hello collegues,My Ultra 30 web server started this week to panic with the following message in /var/adm/message:May 6 15:09:58 global pcipsy: [ID 819770 kern.warning] WARNING: pci: Thermal warning detected!May 6 15:09:58 global unix: [ID 836849 kern.notice]May 6 15:09:58 global ...

Hello All.I can't get ipnat to work even with the most minimal ipfilter rule set:pass in allpass out alland ipnat.conf looks like:map iprb0 192.168.0.0/24 -> 0/32 portmap tcp/udp 10000:65000map iprb0 192.168.0.0/24 -> 0/32where iprb0 is the external NIC.ip_forwarding is enabled, ...

Hi Sun Gurus,I recently got a SunFire V490 for some benchmarking purposes. It has 4dual core CPUs each running at 1500 Mhz. I want to disable two of theCPUs for some experiments. However i am not allowed to open the boxand remove the CPUs. So my question is:Is it possible to disable the two ...

Hi.I have a strange problem in a small Sun farm.I have a SunBlade 100 with Solaris 8 and a E6500 with Solaris 8 too.They are connected directly to Internet. :(I can access those computers fine from the local network. But Ican't access them outside the network. IP settings are ...

Hi all,Sorry for a lame question, how to identify which one is the Parent name of SUN 1GB quardcard as show below?bash-2.05# grep ce /etc/path_to_inst"/pci at 8,700000/pci at 2/pci at 0/network at 0" 0 "ce""/pci at 8,700000/pci at 2/pci at 0/network at 1" 1 ...

Hi,we have too sun machines (serva, servb) and I would like to have thesame patch level on vervb as on serva.Hier are the levels:serva> uname -aSunOS serva 5.10 Generic sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V440servb> uname -aSunOS servb 5.10 Generic_118822-25 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V440servb ...

As anyone ever seen or know what may be causing a blank vendor andproduct id to be shown when i do a format - inquiry or a luxadm inquiryon a lun presented from a T3plus array?Im running solaris 8 on an e4500 attached through 2 qlogic fibre hba'ssbus. (x6757a) through a sanbox8 switch to a t3 ...

Thanks for all who replied - Eric Voisard, Ken Rossman, and MarkWiederspahn. I quoted the responses below.My original question was:We have two SunFire 280R servers, but in one, the CPU temperature is like> 142 F and 125 F, and in another, CPU temperature is 131F and 131F.> I wonder why ...

I'm trying to test two 2340 cards in a V480 Running Solaris 5.9 I also installed the SUNWsan software. The two cards will not login to the San fabric? Anyone have any idea how to touble shoot this? Thanks, Craig ---------------------------------Yahoo! Mail goes ...

Hi Managers, I have a question regarding nice , if there is onlyone job running and it is taking 1 hour to complete,if we decrease the nice value from default 20 to 10 ,will job completes less then 1hour or will it be thesame.Thanks,SriniTired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam ...

Greetings,Using the Solaris 10 service management facility, I would like to setup sendmail services with a customized sendmail.cf and possibly settingoptions on startup. For instance, I would have: svc:/network/smtp:sendmail_custom svc:/network/smtp:sendmail_custom_testwhere both would use, ...

I want to thank Francisco, Andrew, Musa, Kwanghoon and Mathew for their prompt response.Most replies stated that a prtdiag -v should show me some internal temperature readings. Running this command on my Ultra-30, unfortunately didn't show any information about temperatures what so ever. Maybe ...

Hello Sunmanagers,could you please help me with some information.As you know, the 'netstat -in' command gives stats on the system interface.What I'de like to know is how long is this information retained?or is the 'netstat -in' information always fresh everytime it's executed.If this ...

Hi SunmangersI am looking for a way to time restrict sudo access, for example limit auser's access to sudo for 24 hours.I have read the sudo and sudoers manual from http://www.sudo.ws/ and couldnot find anything.I could alternatively remove his access manually however I am looking for ...

The Solaris 9 host is not handling home directories as expected. We arerunning local /etc/passwd, and /etc/auto_home.If I run cd ~joebrown the error ~joebrown: does not exist. If I run cd/home/joebrown, it works properly. It does not work in Bourne shell butdoes in Korn shell and bash. ...