Oracle problem on Solaris 2.6

1651 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:09:00
ORIGINAL QUESTION:Does anyone have experience with the following error:oracle error ORA 7279 - spcre:semget error, unable to get firstsemphore set; followed by SVR4: Error:28: No space left on device.We suspect that increasing our kernel semaphore limits might fix this,but I'd like some other ...

NIS+, passwd.org_dir, ls/chown

6344 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:09:00
Some accounts in passwd.org_dir were non-functional. I had forgotten toinclude the appropriate netgroup entries in /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow --e.g. a UID must appear in at least one of the netgroups listed in/etc/passwd and /etc/shadow; otherwise, utilities like "ls" and ...

Strange Exabyte 8505XL problems

3610 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:09:00
It turns out the main problem was self-inflicted! When I moved the tapedrive it switched from /dev/rmt/1* to /dev/rmt/0*. My home-grown dumpscript already had a /dev/rmt/0* entry so I just uncommented it, notrealizing it was /dev/rmt/0ln, hence the low read/write rates! It seems that the ...

which tape drive, please...

21312 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:09:00
Estimed MangersHere's the summary: I received 13 answers to my query. The overwhelming majority (9) were in favor of DLTs, only one respondent preferred Mammoth and mainly because of the Exabyte domination of the market and backward compatibility. The prize for the best ...

NFS Problem

5269 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:09:00
Hi all,My original question was:> Hello,> > we are using a SS20 as a nfs and nis+ server for ~140 users and> 12 nfs clients.> > Sometimes it occures that all clients hang with the message> > nfs server XXX not responding> > I can not find any network error or ...

Ultra-1 hanging after initializing the RAM....

8536 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:09:00
Hi,Most of the people suggested that the probelm is with the Memory, which is notin my case. I had tested the memory before posting the problem to the list, to bedouble sure I tested again and found the memory is OK. I have tried to see thePOST messages by connecting the ttyA to a working ...

Format command

1107 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:09:00
Hi,Thanks to:Reichert AlanWilkinson DanielLisa WallaceThe OS recognized the new disk only after I started the format utility,selected the type menu, and then selected Auto Configure.That was an easy one.Thanks for your help0Sam-----Original Message-----From: Sam Mabjish ...

useradd + chown on solaris 2.5.1

1283 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:09:00
BonjourThere is a CACHE for passwd, group, and hosts name resolution: man nscd,/etc/nscd.conf .For example, if I do "/etc/init.d/nscd stop" before my script, my scriptcan work without sleep. I've not tryed "pwconv".But the good solution for me is to use "useradd -m -d ...

mail_aliases.org_dir hiccups

6919 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:09:00
I noticed that entries in the NIS+ aliases table were vanishingintermittently. I wrote a script, attached below, which dumped thealiases table periodically and compared it to the master text file; I ranthe script form cron every ten minutes. On acouple of occasions, the script noticed ...

[summary] rdist a directory to a symlink on remote host

4126 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:09:00
After I post the question for sun-managers' list, I got replies from:Olivier Grange-Labat <grange-labat@lemonde.fr>Tim Pointing <Tim.Pointing@dciem.dnd.ca>Both pointed out to me that I should use "/usr/local/." insteadof "/usr/local" to let rdist resolve the ...

Iomega Jazz Drives and SunOS/Solaris

5786 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:09:00
Hello and thanks for the replies.The answer is that the Jaz and Zip drives can be used on a machinerunning SunOS/Solaris. Following are some references to articles inSunExpert and Unix Review which talke about using such drives with unix.There is also a format.dat entry gratiously sent by Mike ...

GUI Admin Tool

1055 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:09:00
Thanks to all who replied (too numerous to list)Apparently, admintool is the tool I was looking for.I didn't mean to come across as a UNIX newbie... I've been locked in toHPUX and AIXfor the last 5+ years. I have a good grasp of the command line commands forall thefunctionality of admintool. ...

NetBackup failing to schedule jobs

2949 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:09:00
Here's the summary to my problem, as found by Veritas support.Upon completion of a backup, NetBackup schedules an examination of imagesfor expiry. This takes a while, particularly if some of your NetBackupclients are offline at the time as was the case here.Solution is to touch file ...

solution to tar/nfs on sun/sgi

646 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:09:00
Thanks to everyone who submitted an answer ( 3 of you)!The original problem:When untarring a file on my sun, onto a disk remoted mounted from an SGI,the ownership of the untarred files was not the user but was the owner asdefined in the tar file. Since this wasn't even a user defined on the ...

RSH Command

7110 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:10:00
Sun Managers;My thanks to:Pravin Chavan <prchavan@pcsbom.patni.com>, Casper Dik <casper@holland.Sun.COM>, Jochen Bern <bern@TI.Uni-Trier.DE>, Ronald Loftin <reloftin@mailbox.syr.edu>, Peter Polasek <pete@cobra.brass.com>, Jason Marshall <jasonm@vsl.com>, ...

Syslog is empty

2412 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:10:00
Thanks for overwhelming response ! The consensus was to have at leastfollowing entry in "/etc/syslog.conf" file :daemon.info /var/log/syslogand soft-starting syslogd daemon. It worked fine the first time !Other entries to be considered are :*.info /var/log/syslog*.notice ...

/usr/bin/mailx hangs on solaris nfs clients

2360 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:10:00
Hi all,I received two responses.Bertrand Hutin suggested I look at the .mailrc's. I moved ~user/.mailrcelsewhere and even tried disabling the rc scripts in /etc/mail. No go.Mark Cain suggested it had something to do with the softlink. Iremounted the mail directory on /var/mail, and that ...

32bit or 64bit.

191 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:10:00
Hi,<p>solaris 2.6 uses 32 bit kernel. In solaris 2.7 you can use isainfo -kv<p>to find if it is 32 or 64 bit.<p>Thanks to all who replied. The list is too long. Thanks once again.<p>Giri.<p>

ImageMagick

1765 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:10:00
Hi everybody,Thanks to:Sanjaya Srivastava Joel LeeJeff BrodyRuss PoffenbergerSpecially to Sanjaya Srivastava who sent me the patch :)))My question:'m installing the ImageMagick package and got the following message: ?ostname% ./convertd.so.1: ./convert: fatal: libresolv.so.2: can't open ...

Compiling gcc-2.7.2.2 FAQ Dilemma

4476 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:10:00
Hello all,As those who replied "There is no way to do this, you have to use aworking compiler" ( I was hopeing despite the logic behind it, thatthere was a way ).>From Gnuchev Fedor who suggested:There is no way to compile gcc without C compiler. So the only way outisto pick up ...

NT4 causes running out of ptys?

4077 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:10:00
I received a few replies to this, of which it seemed either to come down tousing a Solaris patch or the way my colleague (Mary) was exiting Exceed. Ichecked with her about this and she assures me that she always exists Exceedand NT correctly (i.e. doesn't just turn off the machine or use the ...

NIS - Active Directory Integration

5276 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:10:00
As you might have imagined, this question did not have an easy answer. Thanks to the following people for offering their advice.At 06:45 PM 4/28/00 -0300, Marco Shaw said:>-- http://www.microsoft.com/WINDOWS2000/sfu/default.asp>--'UNIX' Kerberos cannot talk to 'Win2k' KerberosIndeed, ...

imagetool

3149 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:10:00
Hello sun-managers,SUMMARY of imagetool problem: The questions...-----------------------------1) program call to imagetool results in... > ld.so.1: imagetool: fatal: libxil.so.1: can't open file: errno=2> Killed When trying to run imagetool from the programs menu...> ld.so.1 ...

DiskSuite 4.2 Sol 2.6 x86 -- growfs doesn't work

1193 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:10:00
On Sun, May 07, 2000 at 07:10:04PM -0400,Tabor J . Wells <twells@shore.net> is thought to have said:> So the questions:> > 1) What did I do wrong?> > 2) What can I do to fix this, preferably without bringing down this> server?The answers:1) Nothing apparantly. ...