dhcpd Bus Error after 6/27 Solaris 9 Recommended Patch Install

715 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:06:00
There don't seem to be any dhcpd patches in the 6/27 9_Recommended patch set,but were getting "Bus Error" messages in starting in.dhcpd. Even in debugmode, this is all that's printed.System (Enterprise 4500) had been up for about three months, with nointervening patches. Anyone ...

SUMMARY : which command comes back with no match then result

2033 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:06:00
Thanks for feedback fromMichael Maciolek, Matthew Stier, Christopher L. Barnard, Paul Piraino,Darren Dunham, Jeff Woolsey, Brad Morrison, and Chris Buesgens/usr/bin/which is a 'csh' script.It sources your ~/.cshrc file, and there was piece that failed when runin a non-interactive mode.I ...

Server Sizing - Virtulization - LDoms

1039 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:06:00
Does anyone have any thoughts on how to create an m-value for use indeploying a virtulized environment. As an example, if we have a Sun V440with 4 CPU's and 12 Gbytes of memory running Solaris 8, how many of those(assuming 85% utilization) could be migrated to a T2000 running LDoms. Iknow that ...

samba-3.0.25 compile on Solaris 10 failing (b/c of LDAP component missing) ...

1245 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:06:00
Hi:Anyone know why this compile of Samba is failing (Solaris 10 06/06)...(its looking for, I imaging, and LDAP related library).==============================root# /var/tmp/samba-3.0.25b/source/.configure --with-ads --with-ldap[ ... snip ... ]checking for ldap_set_rebind_proc... yeschecking ...

Solaris 9 - PAM-Configuration for ssh with authorized_keys

3620 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:07:00
Hi Sunmanagers !---- SITUATIONTo get access to our solaris-servers generally only ssh against aRadius-Serveris allowed.SSH Version: Sun_SSH_1.0.1, protocol versions 1.5/2.0.OS: SunOS 5.9 Generic_118558-22 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V440A few users are allowed to use ssh with the (rsa) authorized ...

ndd and What Instance

123 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:07:00
How do you determind what instance to use with ndd...<p>For example, I have 2 onboard nic's and a quad card......<p>Thanks

SUMMARY ndd and What Instance

1759 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:07:00
Hi Paul,If you had say hme8 and you wanted to do something with that thenndd -set /dev/hme instance 8all subsequent ndd uses after that would refer to that instance.if you then had qfe4 on the same box then it would bendd -set /dev/qfe instance 4Or that's how I understand it to work ...

Can explorers be tweaked to NOT collect IP information

731 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:07:00
Our client is a ".gov.uk" client and so do not want any of their IPconfigs to leave their datacentre. I don't have access to a Sun serverand/or explorer.But I do remember that explorer has a defaults config file.In other words can you do# /opt/SUNWexplo/bin/explorer -w ...

svc.startd restarting after interruption

866 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:07:00
I have a peculiar problem on one of my Sunblade workstations that is loaded with Solaris 10 OS. I find the error "svc.startd restarting after interruption" filling up my logs (/var/adm/messages) and i have no clue to whats happening. This is causing my services such as ...

SUMMARY: dhcpd Bus Error after 6/27 Solaris 9 Recommended Patch Install

762 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:07:00
Thanks to:Ioan Nemes <inemes at iinet.net.au>Martin Paul <martin at par.univie.ac.at>Patch 112837-12 fixes this problem. This requires a support contract for access and I learned in the process of trying to get this one that Sun botched my contract renewal last March.--Tim Evans, ...

Summary : Can explorers be tweaked to NOT collect IP information

973 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:07:00
Thanks to Gordon Johnston [gordonj at newswall.org.uk]See document : http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-6614/6n8k8pjc6?a=view#maskor in simple terms* For sh and ksh, use explorer -w !ipaddr* For csh and bash, use explorer -w \!ipaddrRegardsStuart Saxon________________________________From: ...

SUMMARY - latest OPB version for Ultra Enterprise 450

874 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:07:00
Greetings,It seems that 106122-11 is the latest OPB for the Ultra Enterprise 450. OBP 3.30.0 2003/11/11 10:41 POST 6.1.0 2003/11/11 10:27As for the prtdiag reporting NO DISK in upper slots, let me quote fromRichard Butler's e-mail:"I was told (talking to a Sun tech) that the problem ...

metadb slice

386 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:07:00
I already have a system in production with 4 disks..... The boot drives aremirrored.......... However, there is a data slice that uses all of the otherdisk that I wanted mirrored.....Someone when it was jumpstarted forgot to leave any space on the otherdisk (not boot drives) for the metadb ...

SF12K Domain, conected with a Cisco switch and IBM SHARK em Hitachi Storage

415 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:07:00
Hi freinds!I have a SF 12K domain running with Solaris 8 (kernel patch 108528-29) and it was directly attached to a IBM SHARK (F15)Storage.We have made a test that takes 2 minutes to be concluded and now, after we have conected passing by a Cisco Switch,including a Hitachi Storage, the same ...

Single sign-on for UNIX boxes via Active Directory server

751 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:07:00
Hi,I have a bunch of UNIX boxes (Solaris 8/9/10, HP-UX 10.23/11i, andRedhat/Fedora/Debian Linux) and my company already has Active Directory inplace.To make my UNIX users just authenticate and be authorized with the ADserver, I'm looking for a solution without setting up another UNIX ...

SUMMARY: Solaris 9 Sparc iSCSI Initiator - Options ?

8130 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:07:00
Hi all,I had submitted this query in the "fairly recent" past and had gottenon answer back which I summarized to the list (basically - Cisco hasan EOL iScsi initiator for Solaris9 but not many other options exist)Since then I did some testing in a related vein which I have ...

Configure A3500FC for dual-path

1851 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:07:00
RAID wizards,I am redeploying a StorEdge A3500FC for a new project.Host server running Solariss 5.8 patched up to end of last year.>From RAID Manager (rm6) I performed a reset configuration to clear the old setup.For initial testing purposes I have set up 2 LUNs.I used rdacutil to make both ...

Failed to mkdir - Too many links

565 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:07:00
Team, any ideas why I cant mkdir? Am I at a limit of the OS? Is there apatch or a kernel mod to fix this? mkfs -F vxfs -o bsize=1024,version=6,inosize=256,logsize=65536,largefiles/dev/vx/dsk/rootdg/app 146800640:> pwd/apps/Ascential/DataStage/Projects/EPMDMO90:> ls | wc -l ...

(Sun branded) emulex vs (Sun branded) QLogic

1944 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:07:00
Dear all,I'm trying to gain some information/(dis)recommendations about emulexhba's.In a few weeks, we are about to migrate our JNI disk hba's to Qlogic2460. For our backups we are currently using JNI hba's because of LTO1drives (will be replaced by LTO3 very soon). One solution would be ...

Using serial ports on SunFire V1280

1417 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:07:00
Hi,We have had some V1280's delivered to replace some aging E4500's - atlast! We use one of the serial ports (b) on the 4500 for a feed to theserver. It would seem that other than the fact the port on the Sunfireis an RJ45 it is also referenced differently from the OS?I am used to using ...

solaris 8 passwd

431 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:07:00
Dear all,One one of the systems running solaris 8 the oracle account has a issue whentrying to set the passwd. Following is what i get when the passwd command isexecuted.:/opt/oracle> passwdEnter existing login password:System configuration error. Please contact your ...

IPMP and ICMP

99 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:07:00
Does ICMP have to be enabled/allowed at the switch level for IPMP to<br>function properly?<p>Thanks

setup ldap client on Solaris 10

3509 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:07:00
Hello,I'm trying to setup a Solaris 10 machine to authenticate against a SunOne Directory Server for the first time.Is it possible to just get only the user password from the ldap serverfor authentication, but get the home directory and shell informationfrom the local password file? If so, ...

solaris 8 passwd : truss output

18750 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:07:00
Dear all,I'm attaching the truss out put.Regards *** SUID: ruid/euid/suid = 1000 / 0 / 0 *** *** SGID: rgid/egid/sgid = 100 / 3 / 3 *** Stopped by signal #27, SIGTTOU, in ioctl() Continued with signal #25, SIGCONT [default]ioctl(4, TCSETAF, 0xFFBEB79C) = 0write(2, " E n t ...

OFFTOPIC:Veritas Largefiles issue

756 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:07:00
Hi Sungurus,We are having veritas volume manager installed onsolaris platform, we are facing problem in creating files above 2 GB. If we try mounting with -olargefiles we are getting an error " :vxfs mount:ERROR: mount option(s) incompatible with file ...

Summary"Solaris 8 password

373 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:07:00
Dear all,Thanks to :Matthew StierKynaston RogerJim BlevinsJim MussoKamal BushalSteve HowieBrad MorrisonMike SalehiNoelle M. VegaGaru JensonAs some of you suggested it was a issue with the pam.conf. Got it replacedand started working fine. It's hard to think how the file had an effect onone ...

Postfix issues on Solaris 9

2111 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:07:00
Hi all,I run Postfix 2.0.16 on Solaris 9.Until last weekend, everything has been running fine, but afterinstalling the latest Sun Alert Patch Cluster, it stopped deliveringmail.This wasn't a huge issue as it's only a satellite server, feeding cronand root messages to our main mail ...

SUMMARY: online discovering new luns Sun box with Ibm SVC

6010 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:07:00
To set persistent binding on the qlc driver we had to set in /etc/systemset fcp:ssfcp_enable_auto_configuration=1After this we were able to discover new luns/vpaths online (withoutdoing a reboot), by doing:devfsadm/etc/rcS.d/S65-vpath-configRebooting the system didn't reshuffle the vpaths.We ...

Solaris 10 software 5 cd

549 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:07:00
HiI have installed solaris 10 on my x86 system. Everything went on well butwhen i started the system for the first time after installation it asked for"SOLARIS 10 SOFTWARE 5 CD/DVD". I received the dvd from Sun Microsystemswhich had 3 DVDs but none worked. And then asked for a reboot. ...

E2900 LOM FW upgrade

1392 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:07:00
Hello All,> > I pulled down the latest patch for E2900 LOM FWupgrades,> 114527-07> > and when I ran the first upgrade command ( from the> OS> ) as such:> > > > lom -G sgrtos.flash> This program will replace LOM firmware with version> 5.11.3> Are you ...

Solaris 10 print server

1684 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:07:00
To AllI am trying to setup a print server on Solaris 10. I have my currentprint server on Solaris 9 using HP JetDirect. I have the serverinstalled with Solaris 10 and HP JetDirect but none of the other serverscan see the new print server. I can print from the print server to mynetwork printer ...

Emulaex card detection issues in v445

1045 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:07:00
We have a 445 with sun branded emulex FC card in it. The card wasinitially detected by the OS and visible. However, we could not reach thenetwork with the FC card. So, during the process of troubleshooting, weinstalled Emulex drivers and removed after being advised by SUN techs.Now, the OS can ...

IMPORTANT: Read this before posting to Sun-Managers

6414 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:07:00
Archive-name: codeprof-before-postingLast Updated: $Id: before.posting,v 1.21 2005/12/28 21:05:10 jdd Exp $NOTE: This message is posted periodically to codeprof on behalf of all members of the Sunmanager's mailing list. Please read it carefully before posting. This document can be retrieved ...

Lawrence Y Koo/Seagate is out of the office.

281 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:07:00
I will be out of the office starting 07/09/2007 and will not return until<br>07/12/2007.<p>Any issues, please email to <A HREF="/execute/ask/?codeinfoid=44039">sga.notes at seagate.com.</A> I will respond to your<br>email when I'm back, if required. Thanks & Have A Nice Day!

lmdd

1121 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:07:00
Good morning everyoneAnyone know where I can find the lmdd command for Solaris SPARC ?I'm interesting in doing some tuning for the SAN disks so if you alsohave any reference or document about this subject please share it withme.Thanks-------Ahmad F. AlTwaijiryIT / DC Unix AdministratorMobily ...

Anthony English/Australia/IBM is out of the office.

199 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:07:00
I will be out of the office starting 09/07/2007 and will not return until<br>23/07/2007.<p>I will respond to your message when I return. Any urgent matters please<br>direct them to Stewart Purvis.

Solaris 8 and DiskSuite Install Error - checkinstall

602 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:07:00
I am getting errors while trying to install DiskSuite 4.2 on a Solaris 8box..... It has worked on many others....Solstice DiskSuite Commands(sparc) 4.2.1,REV=1999.11.04.18.29Copyright 2000 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.## Executing checkinstall ...

zones in solaris 10

466 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:07:00
Greetings, I have a pretty bare solaris 10 6/06(some ZFS patches, but thatsit) , anyway originally when I created a zone it complained about havingtrouble on mount /etc/mnttab. Now it fails on install and it complainssyntax error at 'i', I am following their example and I see no ...

mirroring solaris 10

766 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:07:00
Hi all,I currently have a v245 that is currently running in this config:/dev/dsk/c1t0d0s0 is currently mounted on /. Please see umount(1M)./dev/dsk/c1t0d0s1 is currently used by swap. Please see swap(1M)./dev/dsk/c1t0d0s3 is currently mounted on /export/home. Please see ...

growfs multi-terabyte format

4390 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:07:00
Hello everyone,I have a metadevice with around 750 GB, I expand the metadevice by attachingmore space (now it's 1.2TB) to it, I run growfs :$ growfs -M /fnsw/MSAR /dev/md/rdsk/d800And I got :"File system was not set up with the multi-terabyte format.Its size cannot be increased to a ...

Zone CPU resource allocation with FSS

662 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:07:00
Hi,I have an x4100 with two non-global zones.I want a simple config to restrict the amout of CPU shares allocated to eachzone using FSS.>From what I have seen I do not need to use resource pools to do this, butcan just do this:- set the system default scheduler to FSS- configure ...

Missing Directory - Recovery

311 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:07:00
Does anyone know of a way to recover a directory without a backup? ;)So in theory if an rm was used to remove a directory this deletes thepointers and the data is still physically there..........So the pointers are gone.... Any way to recover these?? Easily that is,no forensic disk ...

Can't get Samba on Solaris 10 to auth against Sun-One LDAP ...

2007 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:07:00
Hi:On solaris 10 I configured samba (/usr/sfw/sbin/smbd Version 3.0.21b)with the smb.conf file below.Authentication is done by a Sun-One LDAP server, which replicatesActive Directory objects to it. The problem is that when I do a"Start --> Run --> \\sambaServer", I get a windows ...

Solaris 9 with Fiber channel PCI-X

1419 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:07:00
Hi folks,I'm a real newbie regarding Solaris. I know Unix, i'm excellent with AIX but using Sun I'm a lot lost ;) Currently one of my customer purchase 2X SG-XPCIFC-QL2 2Gb single port Fiber channel PCI-X Host bus adapter, RoHS-6 Compliant.The question is very easy ;) How I configure ...

Weird Time Problem on Sun 3800 running Solaris 8

1119 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:07:00
I have a Sun 3800- 2 processors running Solaris 8 running this kernelversion: SunOS 5.8 Generic 108528-23 Jun 2003. The system has beenrunning for years with the same patches and running the sameapplications, Oracle 9.2 and SeeBeyond 4.5.3. On July 5 it developed avery strange problem. At ...

Display Banner Warning for SSH

408 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:07:00
Hi,Is there a way to setup a display banner for ssh login on solaris 8, 9 & 10? I created /etc/default/sshd file & add a banner entry with msg in there, but when I ssh into a machine, I don't see a display msg. Any ideas/suggestion are appreciated.TIA,-Chris ...

need second db9 on a v240, usb to db9 option

408 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:07:00
All,I have a Sun V240 running Solaris 8. It has the built in db9 but we have a second device that we need to attach. I looked into pci card options but hit a dead end. Has anyone ever achieved two db9's off of a v240 ? What about usb to db9 serial converters ? Anyone ever used any on Sun ...

Solaris/sendmail Question

1060 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:07:00
All -I currently have an issue with one of our Sun V880 running Solaris 9.We are attempting to configure sendmail to use a mail relay buteverytime I send a message it attempts to use ESMTPfrom /var/log/syslogJul 10 09:15:33 aodb sendmail[249]: [ID 801593 mail.info]l6ADFXh1000249: ...

Backups - How do you do yours ?

2602 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:07:00
Hi allThis a question about backup solutions, I would be really interested tohear about the products you use and the experiences you've had withbacking up your data centersOur DC consists of around 1000 boxes. Rather crudely at the moment wecurrently have an LTO tape drive attached to every ...

Sunfire x4200 MPT SCSI firmware upgrade and 2 TB LUN limit

3120 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:07:00
I've been going round and round with Sun via a support ticket with this, without getting useful responses, so I thought I'd ask here as I haven't found answers on the web either.The system is an x4200 running Sol10u3 with an add-in SCSI HBA purchased from SUN with the system.# prtdiag ...