SUMMARY: perl, oracle, sendmail and Solaris 10

2725 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:10:00
Thank you to all who sent responses. Vladimir Terziev pointed out anoracle bug 4516865 that implies a problem with permissions foreverything under ORACLE_HOME. A few other people suggested thatchanging the permissions on the ORACLE_HOME files to 755 shouldn't be aproblem.After discussing ...

sunray keyboard

649 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:10:00
Hi Gurus I have a slight issue with our SunRay terminals keyboardmappings. It appears that they've always had their " and @ keystransposed. The windows terminal server has correct regional/keyboardsettings, and when I log into the solaris server directly it also hascorrect ...

x2100 and x2200: display serial console and KVM (monitor) output

4409 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:10:00
Hi Managers,I was wondering if anyone had a setup for the x2100 or x2200 (in relating togrub and user interface output) that would send output to the serial port andprovide GRUB menu output to the KVM thus allowing someone who hooked up a KVMto boot a kernel that would display to KVM? I want ...

Tom Kelly is out of the office.

699 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:10:00
I will be out of the office starting 08/13/2007 and will not return until08/27/2007.I will respond to your message when I return.--"NOTICE: The information contained in this electronic mail transmission isintended by Convergys Corporation for the use of the named individual orentity to ...

List All Files in Directory Within a Given Range of Date

1052 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:10:00
Hi, Is there a way to list all of the files in a directory within a given range of date or just a specific date? For instance,# ls -ltr /tmp ................ -rw-rw-r-- 1 root sys 5080 Jun 25 14:10 ps_data drwx------ 2 root root 182 Jun 25 14:10 ...

Sun Fire T1000 fan control possible?

2075 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:10:00
Hello Everyone,We have recently acquired a Sun Fire T1000 'box.But I note the fans are exremely noisy, and there doesn't appear to be any way of controlling them.I have explored the options in the system cobnnsole managemant utility but all I can find is the current fan status - and no ...

Restoring a normal VTOC after zfs has been on the disk

2075 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:10:00
Hi all,I have a system that I need to reinstall and the disks in the machine were previously used with full disk zfs partitions. Now I need to restore a normal VTOC so the installer can install Solaris on the disk, however this seems to not be possible. A disk format didn't change anything, ...

SUMMARY: Restoring a normal VTOC after zfs has been on the disk

3147 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:10:00
Thanks to Richard S. who answered immediately and got me on track again:run:-format -ethen:-Format > label[0] SMI label[1] EFI labelSelect SMI ;-)On Tuesday 14 August 2007, Markus Mayer wrote:> Hi all,>> I have a system that I need to reinstall and the disks in the machine were> ...

RAID disks have same serial numbers

1724 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:10:00
Dear Managers,the following issue deals with the Sunstoredge 3310. I have followingraid configuration on my Sun Storedge:Ch Id Size Speed LD Status IDsRev------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 0 8 68.37GB 160MB ld0 ONLINE ...

Renaming device files cXtXdX and Veritas

1181 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:10:00
Hello,I think I know the answer to this, but not sure, I think I did this severalyears ago... I am working on a project to replace disks attached to a hostwith disks attached to another array.. .so, i'm going to get the newstorage(luns) connected, into veritas and mirror my volumes to the ...

mounting cdrom on cygwin

396 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:10:00
hiI'm sharing out my cdrom on my windows box via cgywinfor solaris 9 boxes to nfs mount. I can mount ( mount ip:/cygdrive/i /cd) and see it fine but it sees it incapitals and shortnames - eg.# lsCOMPANIO CONTENT_ DOCUMENT FR_SERVI REPCA RR_MOVED UPGRADE_I'm thinking i'm missing an ...

How to check if rsh is running on Solaris 10

272 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:10:00
How can I check and disable an rsh server on solaris 10?<p># svcs -p rsh<br>svcs: Pattern 'rsh' doesn't match any instances<br>STATE STIME FMRI<br># svcadm disable rsh<br>svcadm: Pattern 'rsh' doesn't match any instances<p>Thanks.<br>Dave Martini<br>LLNL

SUMMARY: How to check if rsh is running on Solaris 10

166 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:10:00
Looks like rsh server is part of shell so I ran this<p># svcadm disable svc:/network/shell:default<p>and it took care of it.<p>Thanks to everyone who replied.<p>Dave.

EV_AGENT message error

1458 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:10:00
Guys,Some answers referring to the link http://techpubs.sgi.com/library/tpl/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?coll=0650&db=relnotes&fname=/usr/relnotes/raidI opened a ticket at EMC and SUN to check the Clarion CX400 logs and the host messages.Both didn't report any issue.I will wait for another ...

SUMMARY: x2100 and x2200: display serial console and KVM (monitor)

10414 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:10:00
Thank you Darren.I added this line to my menu.lst file:-B console=keyboardadded it here in the file#---------- ADDED BY ME ----------title Keyboard Video Mouse: Solaris 10 6/06 s10x_u2wos_09a X86root (hd0,0,a)kernel /platform/i86pc/multiboot -B console=keyboardmodule ...

Netra 440 console "debug:" prompt

940 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:10:00
One of $WORK's customers had a Netra 440 that became unreachable overthe network. Upon accessing the console via the ALOM, they found itgiving them a "debug:" prompt. The only reference I can find to thisis in the Sun Managers ...

SUMMARY: V445 boot

3574 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:10:00
My original question is included below.Unfortunately, I have not found the answer to our V445's~ 4 minute boot pause. I should have noted that the systemPROM revisions are up-to-date (4.22.33 for both POST andOBP).Suggestions included: - ensuring that the system is doing minimal ...

SiI0680 uata LBA48 SPARC

353 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:10:00
Hello managers,I have a Silicon Image ATA controller, and sol10 SPARC.The ata disks (Samsung 250GB) is looking only 128GB with uata driver. Thisdirev isn't support 48 bits LBA?The controller is supporting the large disks, from windows looks like fine.What can i do?I forget using these disks ...

privileges and zones in Solaris 10

518 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:10:00
Greetings, In Solaris 10, I created some zones and even though I was logged in as root when I attempted to do some ifconfig and route command it gave me, insufficient privilege. So I recreated the zone with limitpriv=all then during verify it failed wit dtrace_kernel not ...

Urgent ! Connection Timeout - RST Packets send back by Sun Server

829 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:10:00
BismillahirRehmanirRahimHi Admin,We have a Server in our Private LAN, we assigned Pvt IP to it.Its required to connect to this Server from other Public IP Servers,so we did the NATING for this.The problem is that when we did connectivity Test we are unable toconnect to this Server from other ...

Convert zfs to ufs.

187 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:10:00
Hi All, Is there a way to convert zfs filesystem to ufs filesystem. We<br>need this to take backup since backup software fails on zfs. thanks in<br>advance. Server detailsE420RSolaris 10

solaris 10 x86 rebooting through installing vmware esx server 3.0

1317 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:10:00
Hi SunManagers,I am finding problem in Solaris 10.While installing solaris 10 x86 in dell machine through vmware esx server 3.0 its rebooting before completing installation.when ever 1st cd goes up 10 % installation its asking continue or pause to reboot system.Help me to shortout the ...

ICMP

59 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:10:00
Is it possible to determine what is sending ICMP requests??

Sun LDAP 5.2 automate Dir Mgr password change

688 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:10:00
Hello All,I need to find a way to automate the process of changing the root password on several Sun DS 5.2 servers. The requirements are to update a single file on a central server or run a single script from a central server that will change the DS root password. Please note this is not to ...

old one: generating a list of packages that you'd like removed from a cluster

1122 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:10:00
Hi all,While playing with my dis*ass*ster recovery I found out that I don't need abunch of packages on my e4500.Playing for a while I found out a recipe I'd like to share with you forgenerating a list of packages thatyou'd like removed from the installation.1. Go to the dir that contains the ...

Questions

412 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:10:00
Greetings from Mexico City...I have 3 questions and I really hope you can help me:Question 1: I backup several files using tar. How can I restore an specific file from that tar backup?Question 2: Is there posible using crontab when crontab -e doesn't work?Question 3: Is there a Procedure to ...

Solaris 10 T2000/Veritas4.1 encapsulation

3692 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:10:00
Dear All,I m doing encapusulation on a T2000 server with Veritas 4.1 and during thesecond reboot of the server, it goes tomaintenance mode(Single user mode).Below is the error message from console. Any solutionsHostname: ********WARNING: /pci at 7c0/pci at 0/pci at 1/pci at 0,2/SUNW,emlxs at ...

Sun Managers Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

96671 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:10:00
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 ...

Directory Server Replication Configuration from Command Line

930 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:10:00
As the subject says, I'd like to configure replication betweentwo Sun Java Directory Servers, version 5.2. All of the Sundocs tell you how to do it from the Sun Java Console, butthese systems don't have all of that set up. Anyone havecookbook instructions on how to get replication going ...

Finding network process name/pid

1474 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:10:00
Hello,The 'netstat -an' command will show me that processes are using certainnetwork ports. E.g. 'netstat -an | grep 53' will show me that a DNS nameserver is running: 127.0.0.1.53 Idle 192.168.177.1.53 Idle 192.168.177.1.53 *.* 0 0 49152 0 ...

Jumpstart Solaris 9

1937 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:10:00
Gurus We are trying to install a jumpstart version of Solaris 9 from theoriginal distro pack and also the downloaded .iso file.We are having an issue with the setup_install_server script as it triesto find the boot image at /cdrom/sol_9_904_sparc/Solaris_9/Tools/Boot.This is a link which ...

RAID disks have same serial numbers

1717 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:10:00
Dear Managers,the following issue deals with the Sunstoredge 3310. I have following raidconfiguration on my Sun Storedge:Ch Id Size Speed LD Status IDs Rev----------------------------------0 8 68.37GB 160MB ld0 ONLINE FUJITSU MAT3073N SUN72G0602 S/N 000515B03GYR0 9 68.37GB 160MB ld0 ONLINE ...

first attempt with zones and ZFS

515 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:10:00
I have 3 zones installed on 3 different ZFS file systems. The filesystem is not supposed to be read-only but whenever I try to modify thehttpd.conf is says it is read-only for root. root at blogs # zfs get rdonly zpool1/zones/media-zone NAME PROPERTY VALUE SOURCE ...

UNIX/SUN admin contract - Miami Florida

1266 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:10:00
Hi all,We're currently looking for someone to work a 1-2 month contract inMiami, Florida. The following bullet points provide the raw details ofthe job requirements. Please contact me if you are interested in theposition. Please include your pay requirement. Thank you.Regards,Eric ...

CDE crashing

2068 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:10:00
Hello, I am trying to figure out this problem. When I log into a SUN machine running Solaris 8 using CDE It looks as if it wants to log in, I get the white screen and then it goes back to the login page. I have tried users and root and no difference. I have deleted the .dt directory and ...

Solaris 10 Jumpstart Issue

12992 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:10:00
Hi Gurus,I have setup a Solaris 10 Jumpstart Server and was trying to jumpstartclient but it goes to the interactive mode. I checked sysidcfg and looksfine. Also did snoop on the client. It does give "no such file or directoryerror" not sure for what though.In the log below app5 is ...

first attempt with zones and ZFS

1601 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:10:00
And, yeah, the file should be, IMO, writeable but vi reports: "httpd.conf" [Read only] 462 lines, 16154 characters root at blogs # ls -l httpd.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 bin bin 16154 Jun 9 httpd.conf root at blogs # chmod +w httpd.conf chmod: WARNING: can't change ...

first attempt with zones and ZFS

2055 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:10:00
More clues:root at blogs # ls -v httpd.conf-rw-r--r-- 1 bin bin 16154 Jun 9 03:06 httpd.conf 0:user::rw- 1:group::r-- #effective:r-- 2:mask:r-- 3:other:r--root at blogs # chown root httpd.conf chown: httpd.conf: Read-only file systemOn Fri, ...

ZFS under a zone

640 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:10:00
Okay, based on the info you guys gave me - I backed off the ZFS OSinstall. I created a UFS partition for the zones. Now I need to mounta ZFS (zpool1/media) under /usr/local/appache2/htdocs and it won't letme.NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINTzpool1 329K 16.9T 40.1K ...

Sun Cluster Problem

1827 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:10:00
Dear Managers,I am trying to migrate the two node SUN cluster shared storage from oneEMC box to another EMC ( New DMX) box. I prefer to add new DMX disksto the existing shared storage disk group and do the veritas levelmirroring volume by volume. Once the mirroring is completed 100% I ...

fun with pools: how to create a compilation script that spreads itself on multiple cpu's

1453 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:10:00
Hi all!I've got an Oracle forms compilation on an e4500 with Solaris 10 u3, 14cpus8mb cache each that I'd like tospread on multiple processors, because the compilation binds to 1 CPU and400mhz is on always enough.I've read http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-1592 ...

SUMMARY: Sun Cluster Problem

5958 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:10:00
Hello Managers,Thanks very much for your rapid response. I got replay from Graeme andMartin. Thanks a lot. I appreciate your time and help. To summarize!!Problem Reported:I am trying to migrate the two node SUN cluster shared storage from oneEMC box to another EMC ( New DMX) box. I ...

static arp

114 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:10:00
Can someone tell me how I can add a static arp entry? This will be needed<br>when the server is rebooted.<p>Thanks

Solstice DiskSuite question

798 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:10:00
I have 5 disks in a RAID 0 (stripe/concat) configuration under SolsticeDiskSuite. One is going bad (1 hard error, soft errors clocking up 2 or 3a day) As you can see the system isn't mirrored, so if I'm not carefulI'll have to do a full restore of all the data, tedious.The system is under ...

FW: Sun Cluster - Only one of many services are starting properly

748 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:11:00
Hello there: Have about 4 Services under Sun Cluster services, these aremainly Java commands built by scdsbuilder. Only one of the those 4 isn'tworking i.e. scswtich -e -j <resource_name> command doesn't do anything forthat one particular command.... have looked at almost ...

Command Help

373 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:11:00
Dear Sunmanagers,I have a server kept in remote location where i dont have a system admin tocheck the cabling physically.Is there any command in Solaris to get the NIC's connected to the networkI m sure that the server is having qfe0-qfe3.Network cable is connected to one of this interface and ...

Jumpstart: syntax error and trying to load from /cdrom media, which disk to use for Solaris 8 im

3401 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:11:00
Dear Managers,I'm very close to getting my JS up and running.My image was created from the Solaris 8 Software HW 5/03 1of 2 disk.#pwd/cdrom/sol_8_hw503_sparc/s0/Solaris_8/Tools#./setup_install_server /mountpoint/d2(no errors generated)I'm not sure if I need to use that disk (above) or the ...

mdb kernel message buffer

3314 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:11:00
hi!do you know, who I can see the message buffer when debugging a core filewith mdb using solaris 10 ?I have core files from a solaris 9 box, trying the mdb on another solaris9 box, it works as usual:# mdb 0mdb: warning: dump is from SunOS 5.9 Generic_118558-27; dcmds and macrosmay not match ...

LoadRunner: rstatd client program UDP errors (but tcpdump looks ok) ...

1952 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:11:00
Hello: We have an admin who is running Mecury LoadRunner. One part of it generatesload to our Solaris 10 Web and Application servers (SPARC), and the othercollectsperformance statistics via the Solaris RPC "rstatd" interface. Now, randomly, and independent of the load placed on the ...

Incorrect diskspace availability shown on database server

992 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 7:11:00
HiI am seeing incorrect disk space usage on my database servers. Theoracle installation and binary directory is creating the issue here./dev/vx/dsk/oracle 22503424 20179202 2181510 91% /oracle...... du -sk on /oracle returns only 6G.That being said, I cannot find the process which is ...