We are struggling with getting native SSH/SSHd working with Kerberos tickets and if one is not valid or present to prompt for a password.I have a ticket open with Sun support, but it has been a week and not much progress has been made. We have several deadlines that won't be made unless we ...

Thanks to all for their help and suggetions especially Michael Maciolek, thomas Payerle and Darren Dunham.Solution: As Thomas pointed out the error message explains what to do. I also found the link after googling http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/802-4215/6i82c9l08?a=viewwhich explains the ...

i have run circles on this for the past 2 months and have not found my answer.so.. here is my question.how do i set a default password for newly created account.the rules.should be easily scriptable.can only use shells available in standard solaris distribution.perl one liners acceptable.(no ...

Hi All,I am working on Flash Archive and the archive is store in tapes. In some server a perticular tape is /dev/rmt/0 while on other it is /dev/rmt/1. So with flash_profile on jumpstart has an entry:archive_location local_tape /dev/rmt/0I need to configure jumpstart in such a way that if ...

Hello,I'm running Solaris 9 with a V120 and an Ultra 2 with Solaris 8. As of Monday the system is taking roughly fifty seconds for a login prompt to appear from the time when a connection is started. I have noticed that if I am on one of my two systems, I can log in remotely to the other ...

I have a dual processor SUN E220R running Solaris 8 with latest patches.The box has been running with no issues but this morning my Informixdatabase crashed hard. I brought the Informix database back online and itcrashed about 2 hours later. I also noticed that when I ran the uptimecommand I ...

Hi Gurus, iam getting the following message on my secondary DNS continuously. ' May 16 17:16:12 dns-second1 named[4657]: [ID 295310 daemon.info] sysquery: findns error (NXDOMAIN) on pe-dc-01.example.com?' Can any one please help to trace what is the root cause. here pe-dc-01 is ...

Archive-name: codeprof-faq$Id: faq.html,v 1.23 2005/12/29 17:10:43 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 ...

Looking for feedback and document references that review pros & cons ofOracle RAC vs Oracle on OS Cluster.Also, I recently saw info regarding the release of Sun Cluster AdvancedEdition for Oracle RAC software....the few paragraphs I read about thissound promising, but I'm not sure how ...

<original posting below>Hi agn,first of all, thanks to: Scott Lawson [Scott.Lawson at manukau.ac.nz],Luc I. Suryo [luc at suryo.com],Michael Petereit [Michael.Petereit at ruhrnet-online.de],Felix Schattschneider [felix.schattschneider at dw-world.de],Casper.Dik at Sun.COM andBob [wick at ...

Hi Gurus,In fact, before yesterday, everything was seemed to be okay when I run"scshutdown -y -g 0" command on my cluster. I mean it shutdowns thecluster as I expect. However, now, it gives the followingroot at tcdb1 # scshutdown -y -g 0scshutdown: Unmount of /global/.devices/node at ...

Hi,I have this remark from our security admins, concerned about thefollowing setup:A Solaris-10 server will run 2 zones, each should be in a separate VLANin DMZ segments.For sake of redundancy over the NICs, we have 4 NICs in this server :- 2 NICs connected on switch-ports of VLAN-1, and ...

Hi,I've a Solaris 10 x86 box (Generic_118844-20).The box has been configured with OpenLDAP instead of the standard LDAP client from SUN. Now that I would like to use the local sendmail instance but it crashes!By using truss, here are the last ...

Hi dearCheck the setting at which ur network card is running , it must be at 10 MBps , you need to change you settings to 100mbps , some times ur system don't run at 100MBPS full duplex so u will login slow.Make settings in etc/system for v120 so that it will run on 100mbps when it come up . I ...

Hello,<p>In a E250 running Solaris I have a newly created user that runs CDE, and <br>it does not start a Terminal window automatically.<p>How do I force CDE to start a Terminal window ?<p>Marek<br>

Hello List,<p>I have a system that may have incorrect perms applied to its VxVM<br>devices. Would one of you please send me "ls -l" output for the devices<br>that the sym links in /dev/vx point to.<p>Thanks in advance!<p>Vic Engle<br>

Thanks all:Richie CrewsChad TruhnBobCharles RawlsShadman SyedHughes CallumOriginal question:I have a 280R that has the root drives mirrored using Sun Volume Managerand I lost the /etc/system file. Can someone send me the boot lines thatare in /etc/system to boot SVM with root disks ...

All, I am interested in knowing how to using Procom Netforce800m SAN device with SCSI for my unix solaris boxes. *Note netforce 800 has been decommissioned by Procom I tried alots of things but I just cann seen to get it work. Anyone have any ideas let me know. Thanks in Advace ...

Hey,i'm having this weird problem with 3 different V210 servers,running Solaris 8 with latest patches and PROM 4.17.1i'm connecting to the machine through console (the serial mgt port),and whenever booting into single user mode using boot -s,when reaching the OS prompt, the keyboard just ...

All,I've done a lot of research on my problem using Sunsolve and my Sunbooks before asking this question, but I am totally perplexed.We moved several E4500's with D1000 and A1000 attached disk storagearray's over the weekend from once server room environment to another.These two servers get ...

Thanks to everyone who responded to my issue.The solution I used was to wait for the SUN tech to replace the faulty CPU.After the CPU was replaced the system booted up clean and my database issuescleared up.Here were some other suggestions:>If you cannot boot then your only option here is to ...

Here's the basic problem:> : sol10; egrep '^hosts' /etc/nsswitch.conf> hosts: files dns> > : sol10; ll /etc/hosts> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Mar 31 13:57 /etc/hosts -> ./inet/hosts> > : sol10; ll /etc/inet/hosts> -r--r--r-- 1 root sys ...

Hello Gurus,Some people wanted a better summary and I apologize to them for such acryptic response. I did get very detailed insights from folks below.I am including (verbatim) some of their emails:1. run mpstat, it will show you the CPU numbers for all processorsin your system. That number is ...

Hello all:I have a v880 that had the RSC port configured and it doesn't currently havean OS installed. I was getting ready to install the system and I cannotestablish a connection from the Serial A/B port because the RSC was setup. Ithas a password on it that we don't have and I'm needing ...

What would cause such a major jump in the initial VMstat numbers formemory/swap to the next interval at 2 seconds?Below are the numbers.procs memory page disk faultscpur b w swap free re mf pi po fr de sr s6 sd sd -- in sy cs ussy id0 0 3 2907776 ...

Hi All,Do you know of a way to restrict system daemons from grabbing certain TCPports in theregistered ports range (1024-49151) ? I am looking for a way to keep mountd or a similar daemon from grabbin portsthat I want to reserve for application use. Does Solaris provide a way to ...

I'm trying to find a password restriction tool for a Solaris 8 system<br>which will disallow use of a password that has been used in the previous<br>10 password changes. Any suggestions?<br>

Hi Gurus,We could not take backup to the L25 on sun box. In fact, during thedevice configuration wizard, everything seems to be okay. However, whenwe start any backup, the job hags. The following messages are the in themessages file. There is also I/O error in bptm log. We think there is ...

Password restriction tool was npasswd. Thanks to all who replied.-----Original Message-----From: Cohen, LaurenceSent: Wednesday, May 17, 2006 3:22 PMTo: 'codeprof at codeprof.com'Subject: Need a Password Restriction ToolI'm trying to find a password restriction tool for a Solaris 8 ...

Can you please point me to a newsgroup where I can post questions regarding Sun ONE webserver 6.x?<p>thanks and regards,<p>Vishal<p> <br>---------------------------------<br>Feel free to call! Free PC-to-PC calls. Low rates on PC-to-Phone. Get Yahoo! Messenger with Voice<br>

Hi folks.I need to get Solaris 10 01/06 set up for jumpstarting.We have the first Solaris 10 set up already, and it's working fine. Butseemingly doing the same thing with the 01/06 release is havingproblems.Specifically, when I try to jumpstart a box, I get the "searching forjumpstart ...

If you ask EMC about reliable dual attached SAN and HBA fail-over they willinsist that the only way to do it is to use Powerpath and possibly VeritasVolume Manager. Yet within Solaris you can, as far as I can understand fromthe documentation, get the same functionality using MPXIO and possibly ...

Hi gurus,we've got a system running Solaris 9, and reconfigured it to use the DElocale setting. So far, so good, it works on the console, and also in atelnet session, but not when we log into the system using ssh. We've checkedall configs, and also asked google - it seems that it's a common ...

Hi,Has anyone managed to get TightVNC to compile under Solaris 8?I'm trying to compile TightVNC v1.2.9 on solaris 8 2/04, using gccversion 3.3.2 and the linker in /usr/ccs/bin.I get linking errors when i issue the command, make World.Could some offer some advice to get around this thanks??Copy ...

Hi, I've a V490 with firmware version 4.15.0, two CPU/Memory Boards of1.35GHZ. After turn on and completed the Post, the following messagestart showing and start a looping: Enabling system bus....... DoneInitializing CPUs......... DoneInitializing boot memory..RAM-Copy CRC failure!Can't ...

Hello ManagersI am trying to start sshd on a Solaris x86 server and this is the error.Ld.so.1: sshd: fatal: libz.so.1: open failed. No such file or directory.The PATH has /usr/local/lib included. But when I type the same commandwith restart optionno error is returned and the same status ...

Hi Managers, our company is going to implement a system based on Oracle RAC 10gR2 and Solaris 10. According to Oracle's documentation, RAC systems on Solaris could be built either utilizing only Oracle clusterware or utilizing Oracle clusterware on top of Sun Cluster clusterware. I have to ...

Hi all,<br> I realise there are several ways to achieve this, but is there<br>any concensus on what's the best practice for making cc available in<br>all zones?<p>tia<br>jake<br>

Thanks to all. Almost every one has given me the same solution and itworked. It was with LD_LIBRARY-PATH.Graham WoodCrist ClarkWiest, DamianBill R.WilliamsRay MccaffiytMahmut SugmanliBrad MorrisonLineberger AaronJohn BenjaminsRao _____From: Srinivasa CherukuriSent: May 18, 2006 10:36 AMTo: ...

Has anyone used groundwork or groundwork professional? http://www.groundworkopensource.com/Or can anyone recommend something relatively cheap for a relatively smallMSP (few dozen racks, a couple of customers).We basically want centralized management of all servers, grouping them bycustomer, SNMP ...

Hi gurus, I would like to know the serial number of a Solaris (SUN) box without restarting it. The server is at a remote location and I can't access it physically. Any help will be deeply appreciated. Thanks, Raj --------------------------------- Why was V. Sehwag warned by the ...

Hi All: I am trying to configure tls/ssl between a solaris10 x86 native client and a sun one 5.2 directoryserver running on solaris 8 sparc. I am able to login with a ldap user using a non-sslconnection, however I am not able to start the ldapclient when the auth method is set to tls:simple. ...

Good afternoon Sunmanagers,I have a V480 with an attached 3310 Array. Solaris 8 is the OS and haveversion 413B on the Array Controllers. The problem is one of the controllersfailed which was verified by SSCONSOLE and Event Messages. The battery lightalso was not lit. Per procedure I replaced ...

Greetings from Mexico City.....I hope you can hlep me. I had a SunFire V490 with Solaris 9. I tried to integrate this server with th HPOV console monitoring. so I can see some alerts in the console. I configure the snmp.conf file, under /etc/snmp/conf directory. I install the patch 112972-17 ...

Has anyone been successful in downloading OpenGL 1.5?The general download page for OpenGL is at: http://www.sun.com/software/graphics/opengl/download.xmlbut if you select OpenGL 1.5 you go to a link which doesnot include OpenGL anywhere, from what I see.Dave Foster ...

Hi Gurus,We are having some performance issue on Solaris 9 running sendmail for which i am planning to capture vmstat and iostat statictics for 3-4 hrs. The problem is script is running fine it doesn't put timestamp like sar. Here is what i am doing:#! /bin/kshDATE=`date`while truedoecho ...

Here's an intermediate summary - hopefully another later when theproblem is resolved.1) Lots of people asked if I had NFS running on the server. Yes, I do.The same server serves up Solaris 10 03/2005 fine; it's when I try to doSolaris 10 01/2006 that I have trouble. Also, when my test ...

Hello managers,Simple problem, I need to set the speed and duplex on a V210 running Solaris10.After reading various pages on the Internet it seems that I needed torun the following commands as root:ndd -set /dev/bge0 adv_autoneg_cap 0ndd -set /dev/bge0 adv_100fdx_cap 1ndd -set /dev/bge0 ...

Hi AllI am facing problem in backup , when I am taking the Backup through Veritas Netbackup 5.0 , on Quantum Library M1500 with both drives one of the drive goes down by in netbackup after starting the backup with error "media write error" , and if I take the backup with single drive ...

Hi All, I want to upgrade our StorEdge 3310 array from 10,000 RPM 76GB SCSI disks to 10,000RPM 300GB. The price of buying disks directly from SUN is twice than if I buy the disks from ebay or some place, attach the caddy's pulled out of old disks and slap them back in. Is there any ...