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 ...

BismillahirRehmanirRahimHi Admins,I am unable to connect to Serial Console using DB-25 connector at Sun FireV890 Servers.i tried both cross-over and straigth cables not its not giving me anyprompt.in past we had same problem and at that time the straigth cable worked.I believe the console port ...

Bizarrely enough it appears to be something to do with Legato Networker. Irestarted another machine today and got some error messages (not capturedunfortunately) indicating attempts to adjust disk labels. The source of theerrors was listed as one of the Networker daemons.Quite what's going on ...

e4500 is running fine now.Problem was in the diag switch.As the system is being burned in, i left it this way which borked the systemeven if i specified full bus path.I did reset the diag and boot devices are they were obsolete.Now am running with sol 10 u3 and latest recommended patches.Time ...

BismillahirRehmanirRahimHi Admins,May i know ? is it possible to use hot pluggable HardDrive fortransfering Data from one Server to another.Infact our Sys Admin went to leave, so i have to do all this.we have one SunFire V890 Server , i want to transfer around 10GB Datafrom this Server to ...

BismillahirRehmanirRahimHi Admins,i am facing a strange problem in one of our SunFire v215 Servers.the ping to the hostname of the Server and ping to the hostname of anyother server in /etc/hosts fail.but if you ping with IP_Adress it get success. i.e.hostname=mytest ; IP=10.54.23.1 , ...

Got responce from all of these gentle man and it finally worked. Anthony D'Atri, William D. Hathaway, Raymond Lee, Brad Morrison, Sean Franklin I have to add entry in /etc/shells. Just adding it to shells didn't work. Its strange but i need to find out the PID of inetd and send hup to it ...

Hello,I have the following setup in my mc file:OSTYPE(`solaris8')dnlMASQUERADE_DOMAIN(`hds1.mi.comcast.net')MASQUERADE_AS(`comcast.net')FEATURE(`masquerade_entire_domain')FEATURE(`masquerade_envelope')EXPOSED_USER(`root')define(`SMART_HOST', ...

Hi,First thanks all responser on the hot issue,special thanks to TonyMills,who drive me toward the right direction,and Peter Jakobi(sorry Ican't list all your name here).*****************Case Description*****************V490+Solaris 9,On a 79GBytes file system "/usr/local", where ...

Dears,I'm currently in the process of installing the Sun One Directory server(v6).When I'm trying to start the directory server, I'm missing the sasllibrary. However, it's installed.What is the difference between "libsasl.so" and "libsasl.so(SUNWprivate1.1)"? And where ...

Hi all,I have tried googling but nothing relevant shows up. Does anyone knowthe maximum number of users per group in NIS+?We are having trouble at when exceeding 238 users in a group. Usersnames are 8 characters long.Anyone know of any limits on this?Thanks=========================Scott ...

I rebuilt a Nis+ replica server recently and now my master server tellsme the server is Unavailable whenever I do a nisping. Similarly thereplica server tells me that it was updated a while ago. I thought I'dremove the replica server and try again but I am apprehensive of usingthe nisrmdir ...

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I am running into a disk problem which I have never seen this before. On my Solaris 8(or 9) system, one of my IBM-DDYS-T18350 18GB disk (cyl 14970 hd 6 sec 399) seen by system format utility as SUN18G disk (cyl 7506 hd 19 sec 248). It will be able to create file system using newfs, but failed ...

All,We have already installed and configured SUN Clusterfor MQ data services. We have successfully createdresources for Queue manager and Listener. Theseresources are able to fail over and fail backsuccessfully.We would like to know process ofegistering/configuring (resource) broker and ...

Hi,How do we clear those counters produced by iostat once it finds anyhard or soft errors on disks, tapes etc. Even after replacing thedisks with the new ones iostat stills reports the same counter valuesAny ideas please?-- Good Judgement comes from Experience and Experience comes from bad ...

I recently began seeing an issue with "su" on a Solaris 10 machine:-bash-3.00$ suSegmentation FaultWhen I try to run truss on su, I get this:-bash-3.00$ truss sutruss: cannot trace set-id or unreadable object file: /bin/suIn searching, I came up with a couple of posts where the poster ...

I am unable to find documented information on the impact that mixed processor speeds may have on system performance. Specifically, I would like to know whether faster CPU chips run at the speed of slower CPUs in a mixed environment. Does anyone have experience with mixed speed?<p>Whit

While looking at a possible performance issue on a T2000 I noticed that cpu27was experiencing a much higher rate of interrupts and interrupts on threadsthan the other 31 cores. (The mpstat output is below) I looked at a couple ofother T2000's and saw very similar behavior. I can't seem to ...

It used to be that one could forestall the Do you need to override the system's default NFS version 4 domain name (yes/no) ? [no] :prompt at first boot after jumpstarting a host by touching /a/ etc/.NFS4inst_state.domain in the finish script. I've found that lately (ie., ...

(original question below)To date I've received excellent suggestions from William Hathaway, RicAnderson and Mark Round. Mark was correct in that the interrupts where fromone of the NIC's. Ric had an excellent suggestion to use 'prstat -P <cpu>',which showed which processes where ...

Hi Gurus,This may sound stupid (flame me if you want), but I need an answer because Iam not quite clear from what I read from the manuals. I am wondering if Ican really make use of QFS in my environment. I have a 5 X64 serverswhich I want to make use of in a Grid system. However I have only ...

Hi,I need a clarification.We have Sunfire E2900 Servers. The CPU utilisation is consistently very high above 90% and sometimes even 100% very frequently ie during peak time. Will this phenomenon have any impact on the hardware. ie if this situation continues will it cause the server to ...

OS - Solaris 8.We have one particular server that keeps giving exhibiting this problem,on the reboot the fsck pass fails and upon manual initiation throws outa chunk of errors ultimately ending with Irreparable Cylinder GroupHeader Problem and the fsck fails.Having search on Google the only ...

Hello,We have a perl (v 5.8.4) script that gets executed when users send emailto an email alias on a Solaris 10 machine. This script uses Oraclemodules (dbd-oracle 1.19) to access an Oracle 10 database. We arehaving problems getting this script to work with the alias.The user who I'm ...

Hello Gurus, I've been tasked with setting up a jumpstart server to use flair archive for Sol 8 and Sol 10. We would have images for internal network and DMZ in each version - in all 4 versions (2 for sol 8 and 2 for sol 10). We use various SPARC hardware (Netra T1, V120, V240, V880, ...

We have a new V445 server running Solaris 10 6/2006 which we'vehad to reboot a number of times to debug an application issue.Can anyone tell me why this machine pauses for about 4 minutesbefore the OS even appears to start loading? A typical bootsequence looks like:[OPENBOOT BANNER]Rebooting ...

Hardware: Sparc - v210Software: Solaris 9I'm using kstat -n intrstat to get interrupt information, but Ican't seem to find a way to figure out which device is associatedwith each Level-XX as printed by kstat. Is there descriptionor script someone has run across to make this ...

Hi,I have been using Solaris for many years. Recently I thought I wouldgive Solaris 10 a go, so Sun have lent me a T1000 to play with. "Ishould have this up and running in an hour" I thought. Big mistake, Ifell at the first hurdle! Telnet, ssh rlogin or any other form of remoteadmin ...

Hi! I'm installing a Solaris 9 server by jumpstart. I have installed two CD of Software in the jumpstart server.The installation starts, and everything is right (configuration,partitioning, software, patches,..). ###########The begin script log 'begin.log'is located in /var/sadm/system/logs ...

We would like to have a monitor connected to our v1280 in the serverroom along with the lom connection.It has been since the installation that we used the serial port. Thiswas done with hyper term on a windows2k workstation.I have tried to reuse this connection but it no longer responds.Will ...

Hi GurusI have a disk that's having performance issues so I ran iostat and as you cansee below it shows extended periods where %w column (percentage of time thereare transactions waiting for the service) is at 100% yet very little is beingwritten to or read from the disks and %b column is ...

As a point of clarificatin, I am asking specifically about mixed processor speeds on Ultrasparc IV uniboards. I am told my Sun it "averages out" but can't get a clarification on what that means.-------------- Original message -------------- -------------- Original message ...

I cant reboot this machine which is in production and serving morethan million users. I think SUN should have released some patch whichdoesnt require the server to reboot.BTW Thanks everyone.On 8/7/07, Dave Markham <dave.markham at fjserv.net> wrote:> Reboot im afraid.>> ...

Many thanks who replied. Answers were a mixed bag of suggestions. In a nut shell, An image created with full+OEM software bundle will work on all hardware of the SAME ARCHITECTURE (sun4v, sun4v etc). Different images will be required for different architecture. Avoid using Flar if ...

Greetings,Scenario: We have a v880 with expansion FCAL backplane and additional FCALcontroller (qlc). We wish to mirror the original set of disks on theoriginal backplane to the new set of disks on the expansion backplane. I'm handy with SVM, but having MPxIO in the mix seems to add a ...

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BismillahirRehmannirRahimHi Admins,We have a web application interface [http based] , it can be configured topublish at any ports fore instance 8181.Our Client Browser are able to access this application at port 8181.But when i change our application to publish on port 80, our clients failedto ...

Hi fellows,I'd like to hear a second opinion on differences between dump root (/)filesystem with ufsdump versus dumping the whole diskwith ufsdump c0t0d0s2.My aim is to backup the OS with all modifications up to date for disasterrecovery.I'm aware that in single user mode with all filesystems ...

Anyone know if it's possible to get USB audio working with a Sun v210running Solaris 9 or Solaris 10? If so, any recommendedmanufacturer/model? I need to get a v210 to have keyboard, video,mouse, and sound, and it's only got one PCI slot. It's only got twoUSB slots, too, but at least I ...

I'd like to thank Eric Leblon and Casper.Dik for their input.I will do the regular dump in single user starting with s0 and allfilesystems below mounted.Casper mentioned that s2 will backup only the first filesystem.Currently I'm making a flar image of my OS, and later will do a ...

I owe a summary on this.Various comments:* Yes, SunPCi really is discontinued.* Use rdesktop or terminal services instead.* Don't run Sparc/Solaris on the desktop, use x86 Solaris/Linux/MacOS/Windows with win4sol, qemu, Parallels, or native Windows (respectively) instead for the Windows ...

Hi managers, we have a PP900 cluster, and one node is frequently rebooting. with following error. I know that there are very few PP professionals here, but still if someone has any idea please tell me . following are the logs from the machine adminstration. ...

Hi guys,I have never seen this message before. Toke a look over the google but returns poor feedbacks.The server is a node of veritas cluster with a EMC CX400 storage.Any thing to worry about?SunOS 5.8 Generic_117350-44 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-280Rmessages output:Aug 7 08:04:55 morubixaba ...

BismillahirRehmanirRahimHi All,Just wanted to update you all about the status of this problem.Alhumdolillaah, i able to transfer data using FC-AL Internal Disks inSunfire V890.I used luxadm command for hot plugging. it went OK but it throw followingerrors at Server Console on hot plugg insert ...

BismillahirRehmanirRahimHi All,Just wanted to update you all about the status of this problem.Alhumdolillaah, its working fine now.All i did is to add the /etc/inet/hosts files entries in /etc/inet/ipnodes.previously ipnodes file was as ...

BismillahirRehmanirRahimHi All,Just wanted to update you all about the status of this problem.Alhumdolillaah, i able to connect to the SunFire V890 Console using DB25Serial port.The problem was in the console cable, i was using cross-over cable bymistake and assuming its straight cable.So the ...

Hi All,Does anyone know the display GUI service port number on solaris 9 & 10? What I mean is:# uname -aSunOS webserv1 5.9 Generic_122300-07 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V215# echo $DISPLAY10.20.3.123:0.0# smcIt appears you are attempting to run the graphicalSolaris Management Console from a ...

hi!i am looking for a way to migrate a Tru64 print configuration(/etc/printcap) to Solaris 10 printers (/etc/printers.conf)....the costumer has about 180 printers configured (SAP), so i don't reallywant to do that by hand ;)to you know a tool or a script, that could do that job for me?thanks ...