Solaris 10 fssnap

1391 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:05:00
Hello, I'm having a problem with fssnap on Solaris 10:I'm well patched:(/backup) # uname -aSunOS mercury 5.10 Generic_125100-08 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-5_10Here's fssnap:(/backup) # type fssnapfssnap is /usr/sbin/fssnapDon't know why fssnap is linked to clri, wonder if this is part of the ...

Minimizing Operator Intervention Following Unplanned Power Interruption

1763 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:05:00
I need to prepare some sort of guidelines for $WORK's customers on thetopic "Minimizing Operator Intervention Following Unplanned PowerInterruption". This is for Solaris 8, 9, and/or 10 running on SunFireand/or Netra 120, 210, and 240 systems.I know the obvious steps, such as ...

/var

115 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:05:00
Dear gurus,<br>Can you share some info into how you guys manage /var, best practices, life<br>savers, etc etc<p>TIA

SunPCi discontinued?

967 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:05:00
We've got some Sun Blade 100s and 150s with SunPCi cards. We'relooking to upgrade them to current Sun Sparc desktops and buy somemore. Some nasty surprises: Sun seems to have abandoned the "pizzabox" form factor on the desktop, and more importantly, the latestSunPCi card, the ...

SUMMARY: (re)boot -r on Solaris 8 with Ibm SVC reshuffles vpaths

3005 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:05:00
Thanks to Vikash, who hits the button.The solution was to use persistent binding in the Qlogic config.Thanks.Klaas -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: Ruiter de, Klaas Verzonden: zondag 10 juni 2007 14:16 Aan: 'codeprof at codeprof.com' Onderwerp: (re)boot -r on Solaris 8 with Ibm SVC ...

Ypserv problem on slave server

1000 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:05:00
Hi, I'm facing unusual problem in NIS slave server.In one of my slave serve, I'm seeing multiple ypserv process running. Thiswill be for small period.ps -ef | grep ypserv root 27687 26806 0 14:40:49 ? 0:00 /usr/lib/netsvc/yp/ypserv -d root 27690 26806 0 14:40:50 ? 0:00 ...

BMC

467 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:05:00
Dear Sun managers,I installed BMC patrol central operator and patrol distribution server on mysun sparc v240 solaris 10 operating system, I installed it on remotedesktop. while I rebooted the system, the system is not coming up. Inconsole it is in ok prompt. I put boot command and is come up ...

SUMMARY (sort of) convert dpt raid to "normal" scsi

1103 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:05:00
I've had no hits on this so I guess it either can't be done or no one hasreally tried it.------ Original Message ------Received: Fri, 01 Jun 2007 09:14:12 AM EDTFrom: "JESSE CARROLL" <jesse-carroll at usa.net>To: <codeprof at codeprof.com>Subject: convert dpt raid to ...

SUMMARY: Solaris 10 Jumpstart can you disable Java and widowing system

2245 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:05:00
Many thanks for the responses on this.I wanted to be able to jumpstart a solaris 10 host without Java andthe windowing environment starting.1) To jumpstart w/out windowing use either "install nowin" or "install w" as in:boot net install - nowin2) The java solution is not as ...

bge duplex question

1030 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:05:00
All,I am having some confusion determining the duplex of bge interfaces.V240Solaris 8 HW 12/02 s28s_hw1wos_06a SPARCduplex settings disagree. running checkcable (version .98) shows :Interface Link Duplex Speed AutoNEGbge0 UP HALF 1000 ONnetstat -k shows duplex is ...

new solaris 10 install issues

1324 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:05:00
I have a new v245 and have some weird config issues:this machine has the ip firewall up and runningipfstat -io givespass out quick on lo0 allblock out on bge0 allpass out quick on bge0 proto icmp from any to any keep statepass out quick on bge0 proto tcp/udp from any to any keep stateblock in ...

target number in lpfc.conf

764 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:05:00
We have are running solaris 8 on a 450 with an Emulex 9002l hba card. Wehave configured the sd.conf and lpfc.conf. The sun OS is seeing the LUNSthat have been created. Our issue is that it shows up asc6t500a098185c60ec2d0s2. (where the long number is the WWPN of ourNetapp hba.How do we ...

Disk mirror

2927 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:05:00
Hi,I have a sun fire v440 and I have 4 disks and I am trying to mirror the root disk using raidctl and I got the warning message but my out put seems to be ok. Here I am posting the message I got. Can you please tell me whether it is ok or do I need to do any thing else? Jun 11 17:20:10 ...

using jumpstart & DHCP on an NGE interface

2626 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:05:00
Hi thereWe have just ordered in some SunFire x4100 M2 boxes and I am attempting tojumpstart them.. I notice that net0 and net1 are NGE interfaces and net2 andnet3 are the original e1000g interfaces.When trying to jumpstart these boxes off of nge0, it picks up its DHCP addresssuccessfully, reads ...

how to stop serial "doorstopping" on sunfire v240?

4337 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:05:00
Hi all,Hopefully a really simple question that someone can answer for me:I've setup serial access to a Sunfire v240 [via a linux (cyclades)console server connected to the serial/LOM port, setup exactly asfor various other Sun servers eg. e220r, Sunfire e280r, v440s,netras etc] and it works ...

SUMMARY: how to stop serial "doorstopping" [stair-stepping] on sunfire v240?

5400 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:05:00
Hello all,On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, I <dcw at doc.ic.ac.uk> wrote:> I've setup serial access to a Sunfire v240.. [but] once I boot Solaris 8> all the "output" messages start "doorstepping" ...>> SunOS Release 5.8 Version Generic_117000-05 64-bit> Copyright ...

target number in lpfc.conf

19081 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:05:00
Forgot to attach the files. Here they are.Jerry RiouxEnterprise Systems EngineerHelp Desk 1-888-746-6478www.incat.com-----Original Message-----From: codeprof-bounces at codeprof.com[mailto:codeprof-bounces at codeprof.com] On Behalf Of Jerry RiouxSent: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 2:29 PMTo: codeprof ...

target number in lpfc.conf

359 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:05:00
Jerry,I had that issue after patching my servers. The fix was to back out thepatch and you get the slice or enclosure name again. I can't find thename of the patch I backed out, though I'll keep looking and post anupdate when I do. The good news is that it didn't hurt anything, but itis a ...

iscsi

360 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:05:00
HelloIs there any limitation on attaching iscsi target disks to iscsi initiator ?for example 4 iscsi targets on one device which each of them is about 600 GIG,have been attached to one server ( which is initiator ).also have you heard any thing about RAID5 limitation, it seems we can notcreate ...

prefer an IP-Address

1080 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:05:00
Hello,we run user authentication against a radius server.IPMP is configured and the logical IP-Address form the IPMP group is allowedtocommunicate with the radius server.There are also other logical IP-Addresses configured on the interface.Solaris communicates one time with the logical IPMP ...

Disk Failure?

5112 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:05:00
Hi everyone,Yesterday I had a disk fail on a SunFire 280R Solaris 8.The questions first:Can the experts confirm my opinion that this is a hardware problem - disk failure?Have you any suggestions for recovering data from this drive (I do have backups, but I would still lose some important ...

Solaris 10 zone - user processes crashing randomly

2806 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:05:00
Hi guys,I am puzzled by that issue and I have never seen such things happening before. I hope you can point me to some new directions or any information sources on the net that might be relevant.I am in a Solaris 10 environment. Our applications have been installed in a dedicated zone. The ...

svc startd corrupt

488 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:05:00
After the patch cluster install the machine fails toboot up and throws this error and asks for Maintenencepassword. Any ideas how to get past this?ThanksBrian. ____________________________________________________________________________________Never miss an email again!Yahoo! Toolbar alerts you ...

Unable to force umount -f <file_system>

804 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:05:00
Hi,I'm unable to force umounting a file system for a maintenance even though there is no one is on it. I can't reboot a server as it's in a production. Does anyone know any other way to force an umount a file system on solaris 8?# uname -aSunOS c130a 5.8 Generic_108528-27 sun4u sparc ...

NIS and automount NFS problem

2372 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:05:00
HiI have been having some NIS troubles the past little while , I seem to have the authentication part working nowhow ever there are some issues with NFS now specifically:# mount -F nfs hooke:/range/users/r/rwm132 /mntnfs mount: hooke:/range/users/r/rwm132: Permission deniedwhich generate these ...

Services question

947 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:05:00
Hello everyone, I am using Solaris 8 on an Ultra 10 as an all in one services server for the company. It does NIS, DNS, NTP, SUNLink(sorta like SAMBA), and licenses. This machine actually has a script that pushes out the updated maps and DNS entries to other offices globally that are also using ...

Sun Cluster 3.2 and ZFS

500 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:05:00
Hello List,Has anyone configured SC 3.2 with ZFS? I have this wroking but now Iwant to share the zfs filesystems via NFS. Do I need to use theSUNW.nfs resource type of is it acceptable and supportable to use the"zfs set sharenfs=on mypool" method?I've been reading all the ...

NIS NFS follow up

2805 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:05:00
Hi All,like I mentioned in the last post I get:server-1# mount -F nfs hooke:/range/users/r/rwm132 /mntnfs mount: hooke:/range/users/r/rwm132: Permission deniedso the hooke host recently had a new IP added (hme0:1) called macpdo I need to add that name ...

Out of Office

158 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:05:00
I will be out of the office starting 16/06/2007 and will not return until<br>18/07/2007.<p>Will reply to your msg on my return.............Thanks and Regards

Sun Managers Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

96671 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:05:00
Archive-name: codeprof-faq$Id: faq.html,v 1.29 2007/05/25 20:41:16 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 ...

Veritas Volume Manager Storage mirroring

499 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:05:00
Hello,I have Sun Cluster (version 3.0) with Veritas Volume Manager. Storage is on EMC Clariion CX-40. I have a requirement of mirroring the data on a remote Clariion, and to use it if at all I need to start the services in a non-cluster mode, also for testing purposes. Can I use Mirrorview fro ...

Security Vulnerabilities in the Java Runtime Environment Image Parsing Code

778 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:05:00
I am trying to figure what versions of java are actually effected by"Security Vulnerabilities in the Java Runtime Environment Image Parsing Codemay Allow a Untrusted Applet to Elevate Privileges". http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102934-1My question is the ...

Crypto Accelerator + Solaris 10 + Sun One Web

95 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:05:00
hi,<p>Who has experience in installing up %subj%.<br>I need help, maybe in private...<p>--mpech

Swapping PSU in Sun Fire V40z brings down fiber links

562 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:05:00
This is my first post to this list, please be kind.I have a Sun Fire V40z, running RHEL4 AS Update 1 with kernel 2.6.9-34.ELsmp.The system is attached to an EMC CX500 disk array via dual Emulex LP9802Fibre Channel HBAs.The system has redundant PSU's, which are supposed to be ...

SUMMARY Disk failure?

7643 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:05:00
Hi,I asked:> Yesterday I had a disk fail on a SunFire 280R Solaris 8.> The questions first:> Can the experts confirm my opinion that this is a hardware problem - > disk failure?Thanks to all those who gave help. (Roger Kynaston, Grant Lowe, Michael Grice, Brad Morrison and Abhijit ...

Sun T2000 hangs on multi-user boot

1147 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:05:00
I have a Sun T2000 running Solaris 10 and Veritas Volume Manager 4.1 MP2.I just brought the system down to single user mode and installed the Sun Recommended Patch Cluster from May 23, 2007.Patches installed fine and then I rebooted the system only to have it hang on the boot up:Rebooting with ...

Changing controller numbers in /dev manually

752 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:05:00
Hello Gurus!I've been looking for an answer to this, but I can't seem to phrase thequestion properly. I need to change a controller instance in the /dev devicetree to another number manually:e.g. /dev/dsk/c2tXd0sX to /dev/dsk/c4tXd0sXI know about devfsadm -C to clean up entries, I can ...

NFS NIS issues continued

2777 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:05:00
Hi All,like I mentioned in the last post I get:server-1# mount -F nfs hooke:/range/users/r/rwm132 /mntnfs mount: hooke:/range/users/r/rwm132: Permission deniedso the hooke host recently had a new IP added (hme0:1) called macpdo I need to add that name ...

Solaris 9 PAM Authentication with Certificates

8580 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:05:00
Hi Sunmanagers !The situation-------------------To get access to our solaris-servers,only ssh (with authentication against aradius-server)is allowed.Now there is the wish to allow only a few special users not to be checked bytheradius-server,but by certificates.So that they don't need to enter ...

A1000 -> D1000?

346 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:05:00
Hello,I have an older system with an A1000 array which has just been dropped from support. Since the battery replacement (every 2 years or so) is expensive, I'm wondering if it makes sense to disable the hardware raid and use raidz on the array? Is there anything I need to do to make the ...

rpc issue.

22153 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:05:00
We have a solaris 10 box where rpcbind would not start(maintenence). I have attached the output from svcs -linetd and svcs -a (i have attached from 2 systems, thebad and the good one), My goal is to have the rpcbindstarted. not sure why it is in maintenence? Thanks inadvance,Best RegardsBrian. ...

XVR-100 DVI Output

578 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:05:00
Hi all,I have some SunBlade 2500s with XVR-100 cards in them. The machine is connected to an LCD flat panel via a DVI-I Dual Link cable. On occasion, the monitor switches to the analog input and the video appears with incorrect colors and some display abberations. I've found that I can ...

sudoer with wildcard on Cmnd_Alias

409 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:05:00
Morning:I try to grant sudo function to an account, newbie, to allow newbie to execute a script priv.sh. This priv.sh can be in different directories, such as /opt, /opt/sub1, /opt/sub1/sub2,... How do I define Cmnd_Alias to accomindate this?I did:Cmnd_Alias Priv_Sh /*/priv.shWith such ...

Pani has Tagged you! :)

233 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:05:00
[IMAGE]<br>Pani G, 34Ellsworth, IAPani G has added you as a friendIs Pani G your<br>friend? Please respond or Pani may think you said no :(<p>Click here to block all emails from Tagged, P.O. Box 193152 San<br>Francisco, CA 94119-3152

NFS file handle

1143 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:06:00
HII am getting following messages in one of Solaris 2.8 m/c.I need to find in which dir or which users is having this issue.Can some body give some clue about file handlesJun 20 13:11:17 cyclone nfs: [ID 626546 kern.notice] NFS write error onhost dragon: Stale NFS file handle.Jun 20 13:11:17 ...

default_stksize and Solaris 10

101 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:06:00
How does changing default_stksize change a systems performance?<p>ie. default_stksize=0x8000<p>Thanks

SSH Shell script help

851 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:06:00
Hi All,I m writing a shell script to automate the configuration of password lessssh logins between solaris serversfor a user id say xzy on either way (i.e) login without passwd from a->b andb->a like that.But my script does only the below things :#!/usr/bin/bashecho "To do passwdless ...

error writing ufs log

1393 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:06:00
Greetings,I inherited (via a contract) an old e450, and as usual (if I am permittedto say this without hurting any egos), there is absolutely no recorded(s)available about the history of this system.This system had three 36GB SEAGATE disks in slot 0, 1 and 2. After acompletely successful ...

Lawrence Y Koo/Seagate is out of the office.

281 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:06:00
I will be out of the office starting 06/20/2007 and will not return until<br>06/27/2007.<p>Any issues, please email to <A HREF="/execute/ask/?codeinfoid=43954">sga.notes at seagate.com.</A> I will respond to your<br>email when I'm back, if required. Thanks & Have A Nice Day!

Migration from a E4000 to a V490

246 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:06:00
Sun Managers,<p>I am looking to migrate from a E4000 running Solaris 9 8/03 to a V490.<p>I am thinking of using flash archives to a local DLT and then a flash<br>install from tape.<p>Can anyone see any flaws / gotcha's with this.<p>Stuart Saxon,