jumpstart DHCP for SPARC boxes

1904 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 6:56:00
HiI have posted to the list before with a similar question asking whether Ishould use ISC's or Sun's bundled DHCP server, but unfortunately my hand hasbeen forced and we are only allowed to use the SUN built in DHCP server, ohwell ....my question is this..Whilst I have successfully set up PXE ...

DR with solaris10 on SF6900

504 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 6:56:00
HiDoes someone use DR with solaris 10 on SF6900 ? I think i have a problembut SUN said all is ok *$#On a domaine with 2 SB (each one has 4 CPU IV+ and 16GoRAM), when i tryto disconnect the SB where is the kernel (Copy Rename Operation), thedomain freez during ~10mn. The domain only run OS (no ...

rstop Files

76 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 6:56:00
Does anyone know of a program I can use to examine rstop files?<p>Thanks<br>

no more inodes for ufs filesystem

730 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 6:56:00
I have a ufs filesystem that has run out of inodes but is only using 30% ofits disk capacity. >From what I can find the only way to fix this is to dump to tape andrecreate the filesystem with a higher density of inodes. Anyone have a different method/suggestion that reduces downtime? TIA, ...

Summary: Jumpstarting across multiple networks.

1863 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 6:56:00
I asked yesterday morning about jumpstart with this:|Hi managers.|I have a v240 that amongst other things is configured as a jumpstart |server. It can serve out installs, upgrades and .flars for solaris 9 and |10 sparc and soon I'll be serving out solaris 10 x64 stuff too. What it |can't do ...

Solaris 10 sendmail issues - client

5276 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 6:57:00
I have a sendmail problem on a Solaris client that I'm hoping you experts can help me with. I've been banging my head on this for several days. The client is running Solaris 10 6/06. I will show the submit.mc and hostname.mc that were used to build the submit.cf and sendmail.cf files ...

ssh_config forced-commands-only option

622 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 6:57:00
People i know about the PermitRootLogin forced-commands-only option andhow it doesnt allow shell and only runs the command if in theauthorized_keys file for destination has command="somecommand" beforethe key.However if the key on destination doesn't have the command= optionpreceding ...

Solaris 8 multiple logins

961 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 6:57:00
This problem has me wondering if the Twilight Zone really exists...After installing the latest 8_Recommended patch cluster (taking care ofDST and other things) on a SunFire V480 running OpenWindows (I know, Iknow...), all systems are fine...with ONE problem...on only 1 system wecan open up ...

Veritas help!!

831 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 6:57:00
All, I have a failed disk in veritas. It is seeing the original disk twiceso I cannot do anything with it. It looks good from the system level.Please see screen shot: Any help is appreciated!Jonathan JacksonSystem Administration ManagerMarshall-Bankfirst605-988-3157---Confidential ...

Veritas Help - revised with the output from vxprint -hft

5326 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 6:57:00
Disk group: rootdgDG NAME NCONFIG NLOG MINORS GROUP-IDDM NAME DEVICE TYPE PRIVLEN PUBLEN STATERV NAME RLINK_CNT KSTATE STATE PRIMARY DATAVOLS SRLRL NAME RVG KSTATE STATE REM_HOST REM_DGREM_RLNKV NAME RVG ...

D240 : Split Bus

2786 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 6:57:00
I have a SunFire4800 Solaris 9 rev.0 that is booted by a D240 and have a2x3510 storage.Info:Release: 5.9Kernel architecture: sun4uKernel version: SunOS 5.9 Generic 118558-11OS: Solaris 9 rev.0Problem:The D240 is in a split bus configuration with a daisy chain devices.In one of the bus there are ...

Recovering fdisk partitions

1062 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 6:57:00
I had a disk array that was 1TB in size suddenly go offline and now it showsup as a strange size and has lost its partition table.The disk had 100% Solaris Fdisk partition.It was 121373 cylindersIt used to be formatted with slice 6 as being the total 1TB size.It is now showing up as 27266 ...

Sun Managers Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

96236 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 6:57:00
Archive-name: codeprof-faq$Id: faq.html,v 1.28 2006/11/23 21:51:41 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 ...

Info - Clock jumps back to 1912 on a Solaris 9

332 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 6:57:00
Hell codeprof.On a v440 running solaris 9 I had the following problem - the date wasset to 1912 , thus nobody could log on remotely. I suspect this hassomething to do with DST time change but i did not find somethingrelevant on this. Do you have some insight on why this is happening ? Thank you ...

iowait

3128 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 6:57:00
Hello all Gurus out there,I'm running Sol8 on a Fujitsu-Siemens PW450. I'm seeing some heavy(70-85%) iowait and I don't know what the CPUs are waiting for.CPU ID %usr %avg %sys %avg %wio %avg %idle %avgMadpE avg 0 0 6.93 28.96 6.93 9.02 74.26 51.70 ...

v120

516 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 6:57:00
Hi, I rebooted a v120 and it will not boot up. If I connect a monitor I get nothing. If I connect to the serial port, I get a lom prompt but am unable to get to the console. poweron seems to power the machine on, but only gets me back to the lom prompt. How can I get past the lom ...

Our new v1280

2540 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 6:57:00
We recently finished installation of solaris 10 on a new server.We have sliced the two resident disks with the same partitions.Used ufsdump -> ufsrestore to copy an image to the spare diskUsed install boot to push the boot block to the spare disk.When booting from "rootmirror" we ...

remove insult from sudo

414 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 6:57:00
Do anyone know how to remove the insulting messagesfrom sudo? please advise.ThanksJoe ____________________________________________________________________________________It's here! Your new message! Get new email alerts with the free Yahoo! ...

Replacement for MS Exchange?

1186 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 6:57:00
Does anyone have suggestions for a product or set of products ($$$$ isok as long as it does the job) that would run on Solaris and provide thefunctionality of MS Exchange to Windows clients running Outlook? That wecan put up a calendaring server is of no help if Outlook won't talk toit and get ...

clarifyication of replacement for MS Exchange

538 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 6:57:00
1) We mostly don't run x86 Solaris. We have SPARC machines. Lots ofthem and that's because they scale up. There is no interest in anyx86/x64 solutions. Must run on Solaris SPARC.2) I'm not real clear on the exact number of users but its in thevicinity of 17,000. That maybe is only ...

Upgrading BIND version to 9.3.4

224 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 6:57:00
Hi Managers,<p>I am new to BIND. I got a request to upgrade BIND current version on solaris<br>9 to newer one bind 9.3.4. I would really appreciate anybodys help<br>regarding this concern.<p>Thanks and Regards<br>Venkat<br>

interim summary for Exchange replacement

1236 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 6:57:00
Keep those suggestions rolling in!So far,- Communigate from http://www.stalker.com< http://www.stalker.com/> looks interesting. You have to dig around tofind that they tout a live migration from your Exchange server its onpage 2 ...

SUMMARY: iowait

1913 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 6:57:00
Hello,Well, I found the process that was causing the iowait but I couldn't find thetype of iowait it caused. We had plenty of disk I/O available, there wasn'tthat much paging going on etc.Anyway, with psio ( http://www.brendangregg.com) I could find the process thatwas using the most I/O in ...

Summary: Remove insult from sudo.

531 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 6:57:00
Thanks to many a people on the list. I recompiled andit fixed the problem. Again Thanks to so many whoreplied (around 25)who took their time to reply.Thanks AgainBest RegardsJoe ____________________________________________________________________________________Expecting? Get great news right ...

NIS wrapper for LDAP

218 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 6:57:00
Is there a way to serve up NIS from my LDAP directory. I need it for EMC<br>Clariion and Celerra NAS devices. I have seen PADL,<br>And theres not a willingness to purchase a software solution.<p>Plz assist<p>--Jon<br>

ufsdump not working after DST Patch installation

775 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 6:57:00
Hello Managers,After DST patch installation on one of the ultra60 box ufsdump is keepfailing, However TAR is working fine.Ufsdump is not omitting any errors, it simple gives no response afterhours together and i can see hardly activities runing in the DAT drive.Would appricate if someone have ...

DiskSuite 4.2.1 question

2600 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 6:57:00
Greetings,I have an Sun--Fire 280R (Solaris 8), which runs some Oracledatabases.-----------------------------------------------------------------------SunOS sf280r 5.8 Generic_117350-24 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-280R/u01/oradata is mounted on a metadevice d7 which is a mirrored pairof two RAID5 ...

SAMFS Performance issue

426 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 6:57:00
Hi All, I have got two samfs filesystems in soalris 10. When we copy files from onesamfs filesystem to the other samfs filesystem, its very slow and takes alot of time, even some commands like ps -ef also hangs for sometime whencopying is going on. Dis anyone come across this problem before? ...

removing inetadm entries in solaris 10 ?

2394 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 6:57:00
Hi thereDoes anybody know how I can remove an entry from the listing that`inetadm` produces ? ie......disabled disabled svc:/network/finger:defaultdisabled disabled svc:/network/login:eklogindisabled disabled svc:/network/login:klogindisabled disabled ...

logadm and messages file

518 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 6:57:00
I have the following entry in the logadm.conf file/var/adm/messages -C 4 -P 'Wed Mar 14 07:10:00 2007' -a 'kill -HUP `cat/var/run/syslog.pid`'So it saves 4 log files and the last time it was run was 'Wed Mar 1407:10:00 2007' .I want to rotate this log every 7 days (basically on Sunday) ...

Strange while loop issue

3986 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 6:57:00
People some of you have helped me with this script before, but imfinding some strange thing happening.Here is a config file :-# cat config## comment lines# Config file for blah blah# machine:functiontest1:openviewhosta:openviewhostb:openviewtest2:openview#test3:openview#test4:openviewI want the ...

Sun Storage Array 6120 volume delete question

407 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 6:57:00
Hello,I've been tasked with decommissioning the Sun Storage Array 6120 and want to make sure that there is no data left on the drives.If I remove a volume is the data getting erased?I only have access to the web admin GUI - no CLI.Thanks in advance for your help.BTW. I've been digging through ...

SUMMARY: strange while loop problem

575 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 6:57:00
Thanks to John C Julian ( or julian john ) who reminded me i needed the-n option to ssh otherwise it replaces the current process with itself.I used to have this option so under this portion of the script testingit worked, but i then removed it due to the -n option NOT working whenusing rsync.I ...

Sun Storage Array 6120 volume delete question - RESOLVED

1221 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 6:57:00
Thanks again for a quick response.An the answer was...- take volume pools offline- initialize them (effectively it will erase the data)CheersOskar-------- Original Message --------Subject: Sun Storage Array 6120 volume delete questionDate: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 10:34:53 -0800From: Oskar ...

passwdutil.so: couldn't create client to YP master

638 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 6:57:00
Hello Sun Gurus,We just upgraded our NIS server to Solaris 9 and wehave the yppasswdd getting killed by itself. The Errorin the messages file is "passwd[12212]: [ID 100979 user.error] passwdutil.so:couldn't create client to YP master"Can you pls help?TIA.Sunny. ...

passwdutil.so: couldn't create client to YP master

630 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 6:57:00
Hello Sun Gurus,We just upgraded our NIS server to Solaris 9 and wehave the yppasswdd getting killed by itself. The Errorin the messages file is "passwd[12212]: [ID 100979 user.error] passwdutil.so:couldn't create client to YP master"Can you pls help?TIA.Sunny. ...

Help on Solaris containers Setup

1450 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 6:57:00
Hi i am stuck on the setup of solaris containers.I am pretty familiar with the configurations of solaris containers/Zones but what is confusing me is the foolowing and i am requsting for some help. -----I have two sun v440 each with 4 HD----> 36 GB each. Each v400 has 8 GB of RAM ...

i need student guide certification solaris 10

329 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 6:57:00
Hi all, I need student guide ofcertification Solaris 10 thanks ---------------------------------LLama Gratis a cualquier PC del Mundo.Llamadas a fijos y msviles desde 1 cintimo por ...

tapes going over ethernet instead of FC

2553 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 6:57:00
Hello all Gurus out there,I have some odd behavior with my Sol8 server's backups; the data doesn'tgo through the FC adapter as it should.Everything seems to be fine with the server though. For example the rmtdevices show the FC paths to be ok:# luxadm display /dev/rmt/1mbnDEVICE PROPERTIES ...

SUMMARY: tapes going over ethernet instead of FC

3689 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 6:57:00
I think I found the problem; one binary is missing.The debug.log shows:03/21/07 11:25:52 BMA.981.0 ["lib/cmn/unix.c /main/dp55/12":1190] A.05.50b330execvp failed! (/opt/omni/lbin/devbra) errno=2Arg list: devbra -ma mdr-cadmium.lanetro.com 43928Errno=2 ...

HBAs have evaporated

868 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 6:57:00
Hi,Here's a bit of an odd one. Just built a new DL360 with Solaris10 x86 11/06.The machine has two Emulex LP10K adapters in it. I built the machine,installed the emulex drivers, everything is happy. We then swapped the DVD-ROMdrive used for the installation with a standard CD drive. Since then ...

df gives strange results /dev/dsk/c3t1d0s2 67G 16384E 73G 26395259395585% /logs

2350 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 6:57:00
Dear all,A filesystem on our SunOS 5.10 T2000 has started producing these resultsfrom df.In particular the filesystem shows:/dev/dsk/c3t1d0s2 67G 16384E 73G 26395259395585% /logsFilesystem size used avail capacity Mounted on/dev/dsk/c3t0d0s0 11G 6.1G 4.3G ...

e1000g transition / The file just loaded does not appear to be executable.

1655 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 6:57:00
Hello SunmanagersWe did install the ipge to e1000g transition patch (123334-04) recently to a T2000 with installed Solaris 10 06/06, 8 core. Since then, the box is no more able to boot from disk.The errormessage is at follows:[...]Probing I/O busesSun Fire T200, No KeyboardCopyright 2006 Sun ...

cannot login the correct root password in the multi-user mode

398 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 6:57:00
Hi All,I have a sun box. It is solaris 9. I am able to login the system via rootpassword in the single-user mode. However, I am not able to login to thesystem in the multi-user mode via the correct password. It is so weird. I havechanged the root password in the single-user mode. With the new ...

Solaris 10 zone raw device question

1406 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 6:57:00
Hello All,I was wondering if I can remove and add a raw device to a running zone without rebooting it.I'm mounting the VXFS devices into the zone through it's XML definition.<zone name="myzone" zonepath="/export/myzone-zone" autoboot="true"> <network ...

Can't get mozilla 1.7 to run on Solaris 10 due to missing libs...

1416 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 6:57:00
Hi All:Can't get mozilla 1.7 to run on Solaris 10 due to missing libs. I foundsome and installed some of them. What remains is below. Anyone know whichSVR4 Solaris packages from SunFreeware or elsewhere these libraries live inso I can download them. See below.Thanks.==================nvega at ...

Unable to find console

245 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 6:57:00
Hi gang.<p>I need help with a problem. I searched the archvies and couldn't<br>find anything. Here's the error:<p>unable to find <console> in "/etc/ttydefs"<br>For what it's worth, I don't have sunsolve access.<p>Thanks.<br>

Unable to find console

353 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 6:57:00
Forgot to include this info. This is a Solaris 8 machine that is fullypatched on a Sun 280R. I did see one thing in Google about Solaris 10. Ihave a couple of open sessions open that I get messages about I/O error if Itry run an ls -l. vi complains about it can't write to ...

Regarding Memory allocation for a process in Solaris 10

1095 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 6:57:00
Hi Folks,How can i modify/restrict the memory allocated to a process in Solaris10any help in this regard is much awaited..Thanks in advance..regards,Santhosh.OnkarWipro Technologies,Tower-9,Keonics Electronic City-4Bangalore.office:- 80-30291452 (Direct)mobile:9900112456The information ...

some questions about Sunfire x4100

1885 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 6:57:00
Hi, I have two questions about the Sunfire X41001) Does anybody know how to power on an x4100 from the SP/ILOM prompt? On thesparc boxes, from the sc> prompt I could issue a poweron or a reset-allcommand to save me physically going to the machine and pressing the button. Onthe x4100's I ...