Loading Ultra w/o monitor

1909 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:17:00
Original Post:> Hi All,>> I just received an Ultra 60. Unfortunately, the morons at the> distributor sent the wrong monitor and there's no way I can make the two> work together. I need to get this thing setup as soon as possible so I> wanted to see if I could use my laptop ...

F/W ethernet card without the FAS chipset

2118 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:17:00
Thanks to all who responded.I should have mentioned beforehand that we were running Solaris 2.6 with the FAS patch applied. And I should have mentioned that I wanted an SBUS card.The winning card is the X1063A SBus F/W SWIS/S Adapter which uses a QLogic chip. Antares.com sells a similar (or ...

notes on replacing failing/failed disks under veritas in A5200 array

2016 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:17:00
hi,Though it would be helpful for the SA's ..Any feedback / comment is welcome ( reply on my email id )Thanks=====================================================================_________________________________________________________________________Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN ...

Anyone know how to do a USAF or other US Government buy of xv?

6122 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:17:00
Original question:>> My customer, a project of the US Air Force, needs to buy licenses for the >> Solaris version of xv. Since this is the US Government, they can't just do >> the normal shareware buy. They need an approved vendor from which to make the >> ...

Adding a second A5x00 array to UE4500

5015 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:17:00
Sorry for the delayed summary; my E4500 and 5200 array finallyarrived last week. Again, my current setup was a 4500 with 1 A5000.The 5000 has 4 GBICs. I have 2 HBAs, 1 in I/O board 1 and the otherin I/O board 5. The new equipment to be added was 2 new HBAs and a A5200. To begin, I ...

update: cgi-bin

3037 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:17:00
First of all let me thank the people who took the time to point out the problem with the cgi issue under Solaris/Apache. I appreciate the patience and the details provided by the people mentioned below. Again, I appreciate the help provided by all the people who take the time to answer Sun ...

Consistent clock drift

5532 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:17:00
Thanks to:"McIntire, John" <john_mcintire@ti.com>David Mitchell <davem@fdgroup.co.uk>"DAVID,Anthony" <Anthony.DAVID@dewrsb.gov.au>Roger Fujii <rmf@lookhere.com>Jochen Bern <bern@penthesilea.uni-trier.de>Kevin Sheehan {Consulting Poster Child} ...

Solaris 2.6 & Disksuite 4.0 Panic: Data fault

5953 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:17:00
Greetings Managers,Many thanks to the following experts for their input:Sydney Weinstein <syd@myxa.com>Scott McDermott <scottm@kcls.org>Glenn Satchell <Glenn.Satchell@uniq.com.au>Asim Zuberi <asim@psa.pencom.com>In a nutshell, this was a slight case of failing to RTFM ...

SSA question

4412 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:17:00
My original query :Hi managers !!H/W : Sun Ultra 170E, 256 Mb RAM, Token Ring, SSA Model 1010 w/ fiber channel      Solaris 2.5I need to add 2.1 Gb x 12 disks to an existing array of 2.1 Gb x 6 disksThe question I had is that would it be worthwhile to add a second ...

X11R6 Any precompiled release on cdrom or ftp site! (fwd)

1355 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:17:00
Thanks to Donald Burr here is the answer !!!!<dburr@colossus.dyn.ml.org> I believe Walnut Creek CD-ROM makes a CD-ROM called (oddly enough) "X11R6" (it may have "GNU" somewhere in the title as well, I don't recall) that contains precompiled ...

scripts for md5 fingerprint and baseline config compar i sons

10715 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:17:00
I have to say I've given up on this idea. A combination of lack of time andbeing convinced to install the academic version of Tripwire 1.3.1 until weget the new version purchased. Installing the tripwire 1.3.1 was NOT easy and I'm still working onconfiguring it, but I think it'll be better ...

sendmail help

775 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:17:00
I got several replies and almost all of them said totry and use mailertables. As it turns out we wereable to talk the exchange admin into allowing theaddresses with the host appended between the user anddomain so the problem was solved in that way. However, this situation will come up again so ...

problem: sendmail 8.6

1807 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:18:00
Dear Friends,My original question was:Dear Friends,Although my problem is not directly related to Sun/Solaris but I wouldappreciate if any of you have solution to my problem:We have SunSparc-10 with SUn OS 4.1.4 as our mail server and cateraround 600 odd users. We are using sendmail 8.6.x. I ...

search only system disks

840 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:18:00
I must be the only one who missed the line in find...     -local True if the file system type is not a remote                    file system type as ...

UNIX shell script coding standards

798 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:18:00
Original Question:> Can someone point me to where I can find established and accepted > shell script coding standards? My company practices CMM and as> such, needs to develop coding standards for writing UNIX script files.> Any help will certainly be appreciated!Received many ...

Problem with new tooltalk patch.

4976 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:18:00
Thanks to everyone who replied.The summary is that LOTS of people are having a problem with 105802-05(and with its x86 counterpart 105803-05). So it's clearly a bug with thispatch. At least three people have filed bug reports with Sun. One of them was assigned BugID 4171550.It seems that ...

[SUMMARY] Allowing ONLY su to a user account

4467 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:18:00
Thanks to Hendrik Visage, Cecil Whitaker, Rob Staab & David Evans.There were a couple of suggestions to use sudo and allow "su - bv".Change the login shell to something non-valid, but NOT /bin/false.Cecil also had this script:# Make sure that special ids (i.e., ids where passwords ...

Keyboard falled to powerup.

1100 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:18:00
Greetings people, I found out what caused those odd messages with the help of followingpeople:Danny O'MahonySahi ShachakAmparo BlancoMike AllmenThanks alot. As Danny pointed out the reason why those warning popped up, sat in mynot quite complete GUI surgery I was performing. As he ...

Cloning a disk!!

3451 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:18:00
Gurus!!!Incredible help!!incredible list!!Most people recommend to use the DD command!!of course, if my disk is of the same size!else...I need to partition my disk!command:dd if=/dev/rdsk/c0t3d0s2 of=/dev/rdsk/c0t1d0s2 bs=1008belse# newfs /dev/rdsk/c0t1d0s0# mount /dev/dsk/c0t1d0s0 /mnt# cd ...

Finding a host on the network using the MAC address

2317 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:18:00
!. Ping the broadcast address then use arp -a# ping 255.255.255.255# arp -a | grep "xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx"2. Use "snoop" to capture packets based on the MAC address...# snoop ether host xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx3. If you've got an intelligent network devices (switches), you ...

NIS domain name change

4240 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:18:00
Content-MD5: tFO8WMsgvmKkjIonG5ptzg==Precedence: bulkAccording to the replies I've received, my plan A should haveworked. Going thru it again I found out that the problemwas I symlink'ed the /var/yp/binding/domain directory on theslave server that came up but not on the test client machine.I ...

CDE fonts in openwin?

840 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:18:00
[Sorry for the repost. I neglected to change the Subject: line to denote a summary the first time 'round...]On Fri, Sep 04, 1998 at 02:54:28PM -0700, Scott McDermott wrote:> If I log into openwin with dtlogin, I've have over 1800 fonts. If I do a> command line login and run ...

automount, CLearCase, and dual-homed hosts

4418 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:18:00
Hello.----- The Original Message -----From: reynolds@acetsw.amat.com (John Reynolds x56352)Subject: automount, CLearCase, and dual-homed hostsHello again.This is a bit convoluted, so hang on...We have a fair number of test systems in our labs, SPARC5s runningSunOS 4.1.x. The primary Ethernet ...

[SUMMARY] Solaris 2.6 Oracle Port Binding problem

2214 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:18:00
Thanks to those who responded quickly and pointed me in the rightdirection..Tim Pointing <Tim.Pointing@dciem.dnd.ca>Arthur Darren Dunham <add@netcom.com>The problem was that one of the other administrators ran Titan( http://www.fish.com/titan) without informing me that he'd be ...

NIS server Solaris 2.5 and slave 2.7

3641 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:18:00
On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Lucio Chiappetti wrote:about upgrading a NIS slave server from 2.5.1 NISkit to 2.7> 1) is it correct there is no "yp" script on the 2.7 system ? Or was it> because the OS was installed as client, and later configured as > slave server ?> ...

Availability of fonts(OCR) for solaris 2.6

1744 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:18:00
No replies. i was able to get a sales person at adobe who told me these areno longer available, which i find real hard to believe. We have a desparateneed to locate these fonts for the state of NJ business demands--mailings,particularly. Will continue to search. Any late answers readily ...

sendmail question

12122 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:18:00
I am attaching the e-mail from Daniel Kluge <danielk@tibco.com>He is really helpful. The solution is: upgrade to sendmail 8.8.7, it seems solve all my problemsand I am still testing.Thanks for all you responsed.Thanks again ...

Performance, Tuning book recommendation?

1735 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:18:00
Opinions on books is like what shell is the best... But, the major concensus is that the Cockcroft book is the one to get. I ordered it and I must agree. It's everything the 1st edition is, and much more.What most people stated is that the F. Cervone book is a good basics w/ conceptual ...

setup DNS client

14031 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:18:00
Thank you for an overwhelming response to my question ... way too many names for me to list them out here :)Victor DinhORIGINAL :What is the quickest way to set up a DNS client machine. This must be an easy question for you guys but I can't seem to remember.I remember that under Solaris, you ...

Telnet/rlogin and X applications

5591 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:18:00
Thanks to the following for their helpful responses:Thomas Lester <tlester@spain.iakom.com>Charlie Mengler <charliem@anchorchips.com>Vince Merrell <vinnym@dial.pipex.com>Frank Smith <franks@austintx.net>Daniel Stringfield <dstringf@fccjmail.fccj.cc.fl.us>Sean ...

Booting sparc 2 and tweaking NVRAM

4504 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:18:00
Karl provided the answer.1. Set CD to target 32. boot boot /sbus/esp@0,800000/sd@0,0 -sr3. edit /etc/vfstab to reference target 34. change disk jumpers to target 35. power on and everything works as target 3Another suggestion was to setenv boot-devicehowever, the values that I could see are ...

where to find Perl

3669 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:18:00
Managers:Many thanks to:Gerald Combs <gerald@unicom.net>Benjamin Cline <benji@hnt.com>"Nicholas R LeRoy" <nleroy@norland.com>"Brian T. Wightman" <wightman@sol.acs.uwosh.edu>"Mikhail A. Sokolov" <mishania@demos.su>Mike Fletcher ...

Printing on HP8100 from E450 Solaris 8

4818 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:18:00
Hi,This is a partial summary insofar as the problem isn't fixed and while someof the solutionsoffered ought to work they don't seem to behave as expected. The bulk ofrespondents suggesteddownloading the Jetadmin software from HP which I've done though I note itdoesn't list Solaris 8 as a ...

Perl

558 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:18:00
I asked for a compiled version of perl for an Ultra 4000 and here are the responses: http://smc.vnet.net/solaris_2.5_nof.htmlftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/solaris http://smc.vnet.net/solaris_2.5.htmlsunsite.unc.eduAnd several offers to send the file to me.Thanks to:Karl E. VogelMike FrischRichard ...

Archive 4586NP 4mm auto-loader tape drive

3466 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:18:00
first off, when i was doing research on this drive i looked in thesun-managers archives and elsewhere and did not find a working st.confentry for this drive, so i thought i'd pass the one i constructedalong. It appears this drive's mechanism is a python 28849, so this st.confshould work for ...

Desktop settings in CDE

1121 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:18:00
Hi Sunners,Sorry, no summary because I didn't receiveany replies. Regards,Pravinprchavan@pcsbom.patni.comOriginal Question:Hi sun-managers,I am working on an Ultra1 with Solaris 2.5.1and CDE 1.0.2. My desktop settings are notsaved when I logout. I have tried "SETTING" thehome session ...

Cisco termserver as sun console server

3993 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:18:00
Answer: Cisco IOS version 11.0 is "broken" in this respect. version11.2 works. Stephen Tremain hit the nail on the head!Others suggested various alternatives such as lightwave, xylogics,annex.A common warning was that resetting the cisco can cause the suns to droptothe boot prompt. ...

Disk Suite Issue

1792 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:18:00
the problem was that i could not mirror a couple of dirs...basically two simple things ...... common sense...first of all...when doing the mirror the bigger slice has to go infirst......however i did parttion the files to be the same size down to thecylinder..so im not sure why solaris 2.5.1 ...

command to cycle to another tape in magazine (fwd)

985 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:18:00
Hi,Well thanks to everyone who replied/is repling. Its amazing, I gotseveral answers before I even recieved my own question over the list.Thought there was many the first was Tim Evans, thanks to all.ANSWER:Some autoloaders will load the next tape in the stack when you ejectthe current one with ...

Addendum: Summary: Booting sparc 2 and tweaking NVRAM

4081 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:18:00
After I posted advice on how to get an install image that wasgenerated for target 0 to work with target 3,I received several more suggestions about making the system boot from target 0.The advice is         setenv boot-device disk0I have not tried this, ...

modify solaris2.5 kernel parameter

1440 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:18:00
Thanks a lot to you who response so quickly.Special thanks to:fpardo@tisny.com (Frank Pardo)M.Toth-Abonyi@cc.u-szeged.hu (Toth-Abonyi Mihaly)Casper Dik <casper@holland.Sun.COM>"Ing. Carlos R. Guevara" <cguevara@zeus.velu.com>My original question is:   Can ...

32-bit and 64-bit under Solaris 2.7

8125 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:18:00
The list is great, I got exhaustive answers from Fletcher, Joe Daniel PolomboHendrik Visage and Casper Dik. I quote almost entirely Casper Dik's answer (>)to my question (>>), with some integrations from the other (no prefix)> >I wonder what implications it has if we migrate our ...

RAM for Sparc5,10,20 and Ultra are they compatible

1267 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:18:00
Hi all,Thanks for the answers from the follow system adm/managers (in chronological order),Edward C. Zimmermann SOMESHKumara Swamy-WIPRO-NALaw Hon Man Gruss, Dieter GobbersMichael GallowayMatthew StierRick ReinemanRich KulawiecJohn ReynoldsMark BergmanGlenn Satchellhere is the answer in ...

Sendmail error "relaying denied"

11614 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:18:00
> Original post:>> I just upgraded my mailhost to 8.9.1a on an Ultra5 (Solaris 2.6). I> built /etc/mail/sendmail.cf file using the following .mc file and made> no modifications to the resultant .cf:>> OSTYPE(solaris)> MAILER(smtp)> MAILER(local)> LOCAL_CONFIG> O ...

DDS-3 failure

3717 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:18:00
There is nothing a SUN technician with a new DDS-3 tape drive can'tcure.Thanks everyone for your response,RegardsGeorgeORIGINAL QUESTION------------------On an E250 we have a tape drive that was succesfully writting/readingDDS-3 tapes until Monday. After that, read and write errors have ...

List dedicated to DiskSuite

2016 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:18:00
Per Stefan Jon Silverman's suggestion, I'm sending this message againto Sun Managers with the prefix "SUMMARY" in the subject of the message.Thanks JonSincerely---Christian PinheiroSystem Administrator<pinheiro@veritel.com.br>------- Original Message -----------In the course ...

tarring from HP to SunOS

3025 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:18:00
Hi,Original posting :-> I'm trying to read back 2 tar files from DAT. The tape was written> under HP-UX 10. I'm reading it back under SunOS 4.1.2. I have no> problem reading the first file but I cannot get at the second file....Many thanks for all the quick responses. Most advised ...

ANNOUNCE: An alpha release of SARGE is available for download

562 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:18:00
Sarge collects the output from sar, the system activity reporter,and generates .gif-format graphs of selected data. An additionalscript wraps the graphs in HTML.Sarge and other admin goodies are available for download at http://www.vais.net/~efinchPlease bear in mind that this code should run ...

syslog: ioctl: I_SETSIG failed 22

1094 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:18:00
Sorry about the delay in summarizing:Original post:> I am getting the above message in /var/adm/messages from time to time.> Can anyone tell me what it means?> syslog: ioctl: I_SETSIG failed 22I received one reply (which I managed to loose while fighting someother fires here).The ...

local-MAC-address vs system-MAC-address

4967 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:18:00
Thanks to the following replied:bhaskar bhaskarDouglas LeeStuart, ReggieAndy LeeChristopher L. BarnardSeth RothenbergJoe ThykattilMark DrummondDarren DunhamJohnie StaffordResolution: ifconfig <interface> ether a:b:c:1:2:3James Zhao wrote:> Dear Managers,>> I need to install 2 NIC ...