Update Summary: Limiting connections to Unix hosts

8779 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:24:00
For ASP in apache take a look at http://www.nodeworks.com/asp/index.htmlThanks to: Hisham Al Saad [ahisham@batelco.com.bh]-----Original Message-----From: Austin, Annie [mailto:Austin.Annie@mtvne.com]Sent: 03 October 2000 12:54To: 'sun-managers@codeprof.ececs.uc.edu'Subject: Summary: Limiting ...

Solaris 7 man pages [2]

514 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:24:00
Sorry, my summary posting was early in the morning, and my brain wasn'tworking. What I did to fix the man pages was copy the windex fromanother machine where man pages were working. My problem was in:/usr/share/man/windex (This file did not have any current information)I copied the file from ...

Adding second disk to SS4

1518 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:24:00
--- Original query ---Can somebody tell me the Sun part number for the internal 80-pin SCAcable required to install a second SCA drive in an SS4?--- Summary ---SS4 does not support more than one internal hard drive.Thanks to:Jeff Wasilko <jeffw@smoe.org>Matthew Stier ...

how to increase inode

5126 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:24:00
Hello all,  Sorry for the late summary, I get most of my reply within 24 hours,but was very busy for the past week. you guys are great, and thanks alot.  The solution is backup all data (ufsdump to tape), run newfs with option -i, and then restore back all data. And all the ...

utmp and utmpx files

3085 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:24:00
Many thanks to those, who have helped me:Frank Sommer <fs@ncsc5.att.com>Normand Ranger <rangern@cirano.umontreal.ca> rauthenberg@HHI.DE (Stefan Rauthenberg)heggli@elsun.ee.htl-bw.ch (Heggli Beat)boenning@igd.fhg.de (Dirk Boenning)josh@quartz.pacacc.com (Josh ...

samba help kinda urgent

527 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:24:00
hi gurus, apologies for late summary , new job up to ears ..in work ..but as allways the groups came through quick as lightening .. the problem turned out to be a previous install of SUNLINK which it seems is a samba version from sun .. and it was interfering with the net bios somehow , ...

Process duration

3450 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:24:00
Thanks to all who replied real fast :Madanagopalan.SUBRAMANIAN@gemplus.comDennis_Martens@health.qld.gov.auvince.merrell@ssmb.combartlett@metro1.comThey all suggested to use the 'time' command in front of the command I wishto timeIn my example I may use :time nohup ./uploaddq dqsall ...

DiskSuite 4.1

2618 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:24:00
Thanks to:Mariel Feder <unix.support@central.meralco.com.ph>Manish Doshi <mdoshi@guanine.bchs.uh.edu>Glenn Satchell<Glenn.Satchell@uniq.com.au> Glenn gave the answer, not the one I was hoping for, but its still theanswer. He summed it up quite well and his response ...

Accounting on Solaris 2.7

2836 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:24:00
Hi!Only got 3 responses, but managed to find my own solution,which was very simple. I created a disk called /var/admmounted it in /etc/vfstab, copied the "old" /var/admstuff over with: cd /var/admtar cvfp - * | (cd new_var_adm; tar xvfp -)Then I rebooted and I was on the air.The main ...

[2]: booting a SPARC 430 (sun4) from CD

2321 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:24:00
Thanks to all who continued responding after my summary.Fortunately, the problem was solved internally -- one of my colleagues heresuggested insisting on the correct command:b sd(0,30,1) To our surprise, after about 10 times typing the same command (to which wegot several different results, ...

/proc

1224 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:24:00
Thanks to:brian@sprintMichael_Hill@csgsysmdail@fvvogelke@c17misphantom@wwaasim@colltechjasonm~vslvapour@digitaldistribdjohnson@nbserv1dorsey@ColquittThe answer is to use the -prune option in the find statemente.g.find / -type d -name '/proc' -prune -o -name 'TT_DB' -print -exec rm {} ...

Patch Save Files

2866 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:24:00
Dear All,Thanks to everyone for the replies to my question about a growing number of patch backout files in my /var partition.I received a number of answers, as follows:-1. Specify to addpatch not to keep backout files.   I didn't want to do this, as I want to keep the ability ...

compiling problem

3386 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:24:00
My original problem was that gcc would not compile, it gave an error message/usr/ucb/cc: language optional software package not installed(see below for exact error report)The answer is Solaris 2.5 does not come with a c compiler!!The solution is to get a binary of gcc from one of the many gnu ...

installing patch clusters

1991 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:24:00
Original Question-----------------  I have a SS10 which is running 2.5.1. It functions as an NFS server. Iplan to patch it with the Recommended/Security patch cluster as well asY2K patch cluster.  I did this on a similar machine in single user mode and it took all dayto ...

Off topic: Sun-Nets

2776 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:24:00
A number of people expressed interest in this so I decided to summarizeback to the list - sorry for the delay.Thanks to all of those who replied to my original question :> The Sun-managers Welcome message mentions the Sun-Nets mailing list :> > Sun-Nets: networking sun ...

2 Button Mouse

1240 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:24:00
Sorry for the late summary but I didn't really get any answers that workedfor me. However, I thank everybody for their efforts. (Too many tomention).Most people suggested pushing both buttons at once. This is something thatI was already aware of but didn't work with Solaris 2.x with CDE. ...

MBONE Multicasting

6167 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:24:00
First of all, my grateful thanks to Tim Henrion (Computer Sciences Corporationthenrion@csc.com). He was the only one who responded, and answered all myquestions incredibly patiently (in 3 separate emails). In my original post, I had lots of questions on how to set a connection tothe mbone (for ...

a new hard drive

2664 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:24:00
Hello,My question was : I need a new hard drive on my sun machine (ultra 60)I saw the price of the sun hard drive.I wonder if it is possible to install a drive with the same characteristicsfrom another company (like western digital, samsung...) or ONLY sun disk ?I had a lot of answers. I thank ...

SSH and passwd

4552 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:24:00
AdminsThanks for the swift response. As most of you told me, use expect. NowI've got to install this on a number of machines, so I tried to cheat, andit worked...1) Download the entire expect and tcl distributions from sunfreeware andinstall2) copy /usr/local/bin/expect out of the way ...

Solaris 2.6 Group Write Permissions

3064 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:24:00
     Thanks to all who responded. The couple of responses I received      indicated that the directories should not be group writable, but the      members of the group pose no real security threat. ...

Urgent! - Mangled inode entry

5453 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:24:00
Thanks to Andy McCammot and Mike Salehi. Andy drudged up a SUN FAQ thatbasically said if fsck doesn't work you're hosed. I was hosed.Luckily I didn't have to restore from tape, but I did need to newfs a 100gbvolume (not speedy). The oracle dba's export to a volume twice a week andI back ...

Restricting directory access in ftp?

10403 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:24:00
Hi all,Thank you for numerous helpful responses. My question was about the ways of setting-up ftp-daemon to restrictdirectory access for all incoming ftp-accounts (not only to theanonymous/ftp account: description how to restrict anonymous account arewell described in the man page for ftpd and ...

SunOs 5.4 Crashes ?

5160 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:24:00
Hello managers,The original question was :My Solaris 2.4 on Sparc 20 crashes with the following message:nf0 at sbus0: SBus slot 1 0x7ff0 SBus level 4 sparc ipl 7nf0 is /iommu@f,e0000000/sbus@f,e0001000/nf@1,7ff0dump on /dev/dsk/c0t3d0s1 size 262236Kpanic: free: freeing free frag, dev = ...

SZ-field in ps -elf and related next question

951 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:24:00
Dear managers,Thanks to:K.RaviOwens, Vincent JCasper DikThe word pages and clicks can be used interchangeable and its unit of measure is `pagesize` bytes.The total of all the SZ-fields does not necessarily reflect the amount of RAM in your systembecause not all processes are resident in memory ...

NISPLUS

6595 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:24:00
Thanx to Rasana AtreyaTom HinzeArthur J. ByrnesThomas CarterTom EricksonShawn KondelTheir help pointed me in the right direction.Rick RoteFrom: Rasana Atreya <rasana_atreya@hotmail.com> on 11/04/99 05:04 PMTo: Richard Rote/DISA/REGION_B@REGION_Bcc: Subject: Re: NISPLUSI bet the on the ...

Does Solstice Backup do Clients?

5092 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:24:00
I wrote:> Anyone know from experience if the version of Solstice Backup that comes bundled with the> Serverpack for Solaris 2.5.1 has the 10 client support (Server plus 9 client machines?)> I've heard that it may be a "Server only" copy but I need to know for sure.> > ...

suppress ypserv on Solaris 2.6

1984 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:24:00
Sun Managers,Many thanks to:Sun Managers,Many thanks to:Marco Greene <cmgreene@netcom.ca>Roy Culley <tgdcuro1@gd2.swissptt.ch>SALLEA@kben.co.ukMy original question:>I've a pool of Sun machines, including SunOS 4.1.3, Solaris 2.5, Solaris>2.5.1, Solaris 2.6.>An NIS server ...

2.5.1, 2.6 with processors > 400MHZ

2095 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:24:00
Lots of people responded very quickly. Thanks to everyone. The simpleanswer is that new copies of the older operating systems should comewith an "Operating Environment" CD. This CD is an installationbootstrap that runs the 2.7 kernel and allows you to install either2.5.1 or 2.6. ...

supported file systems

1882 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:24:00
Q: How can I learn supported filesystems in my machine?A: Look at directories and files at : /usr/lib/fs/ /kernel/fs     /usr/kernel/fs   Look at the man pages that : mount(8), fstab(5), Thanks to:Kevin Woods <kev@cnet.com>Asim Zuberi ...

helpdesk program

694 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:24:00
Thanks to those who replied:Frank SmithChuck DuersonMark A. BaldwinRick LantaigneThey all recommended gnats but the program that I have been using wasweb based and nicer looking.original posting:> Hi everyone,>>I am posting this question on this site because I don't have access ...

2 : A new hardd drive

2027 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:24:00
The internet adress for transtec is not correct.The correct one is : http://www.transtec.co.ukCorinne---------------------Corinne LentaInstitut de BiologieINSERM U4639, Quai Moncousu44035 Nantestel : 02 40 08 47 33email ...

single user without /var

5310 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:25:00
The solutions (paraphrased) were:1) Don't get into the situation in the first place --    The problem is that /var/adm doesn't exist because /var couldn't mount.    If a /var/adm is created in the / partition, then even if /var ...

Solaris and Network/Security Training Suggestions

2093 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:25:00
HiHere's the jest of it. I guess if I wasn't so lazy, I could have foundthis. 8--) Thanx for all the replies!<><sven><>__________________________________________________________DEAR IRS, Please cancel my subscription.> -----Original Message-----> From: J.R. Lee> ...

log files

1115 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:25:00
Q: What is the log files? Most important?A: Look them for controlling system security. You can safely deleteall of them. Thats for only security.Thanks to:Herbert Wengatz <hwe@uebemc.siemens.de>Gokhan.Erdem@gantek.com.tr (Gokhan ...

2: SunPCi Upgrade

9950 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:25:00
Original question:I have some "old" SunPCi cards with the 300Mhz processors. Is there anyway to upgrade the processor on this card?-----------------------------------------------------------------------I finally received a response from Wieland St黚inger that has all theinfo I need. ...

Secure & FP UNIX Webserver

637 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:25:00
Thanks To:Thomas LewisCharlie MenglerGraham LeggettRik SchneiderGustavo A. LozanoJochen BernFrancois LeclercDave FosterOriginal Question:> Anyone know of a commercial or free secure web server running under> Solaris 2.x that supports Front Page Extensions?Answers:One person Suggested ...

jetadmin and printer models

3768 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:25:00
Question was how do you tell the type model and manufacturer of aprinter using a UNIX command?!Answer by Pena was "hpnpadmin -i "Thanks to:"Powell, Matt" <MPowell@LIMITED.com>"Pena, Ed" <EdPena@MuellerIndustries.com>"Leichter, Seth" ...

denial of service attacks

2448 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:25:00
My original inquiry was:>>Up to a few patches before the latest set for 2.5.1, the following >>/usr/sbin/ndd -set /dev/tcp tcp_conn_req_max 1024>>in the file /etc/init.d/inetinit>>worked in preventing denial of service attacks. Now, ndd doesn't take the ...

ndd

770 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:25:00
Q: Is there any FAQ or info for using ndd?A: Sunsolve doc. num. 12618   W. Richard Stevens TCP/IP Illustrated book ( http://www.noao.edu/~rstevens/)Thanks to:Sorry, I deleted ...

Sendmail v8.9.1 on SunOS 4.1.3U1

7341 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:25:00
Thanks to:Claus Assmann <ca@informatik.uni-kiel.de>Rich Kulawiec <rsk@gsp.org>Craig Raskin <raskin@compusec.org>Karl Vogel <vogelke@c17mis.region2.wpafb.af.mil>Rich, Craig, & Karl gave me ideason troubleshooting, but the correct answer came from Ed Friedman, via ...

Users/Rlogin

231 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:25:00
Gurus,<p>Thanks for the help. The problem was somehow, someone killed the daemon automountd and it was not running at all. So as soon as I got that process running, everything was back to normal and everyone ca rlogin.<p>Prabhat<p>

more than 8 partitions per disk

2748 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:25:00
Hi All,Thanks to everyone for a speedy answer to my question. Almost everyonethat replied mentioned that I should get the Veritas volume manager softwarethat Sun resells with their RAID arrays. This software will allow meto partition the disk into as many partitions as I would like, and ...

Changing to 64 Bit kernel after OBP Upgrade

14011 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:25:00
Well, the general consensus was to edit/platform/<platform-name>/boot.confand changeALLOW_64BIT_KERNEL_ON_UltraSPARC_1_CPU=trueIt seems there was a security problem with 64-bit kernels running onCPU's <200I've decided to stay away from the 64-Bit kernel since this will be afirewall ...

(Non-) SunOS 4.1.3_U1vB and S24 frame buffer

2206 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:25:00
--- Original question:Quick question: Any patches needed for vanila 4.1.3_U1vBto support an S24 on a SPARCstation 5 (and/or a TCX on an SS4)?If so, which? This is a 70MHz box, and I am not that inclined to running Solaris 2.x on it :-)---Oh well, noone went for this one -- either noone knows ...

SUMARY: DHCP and Solaris 2.5

1398 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:25:00
Original Post:I am going to set up a Solaris 2.6 box to be a DHCP server for Solaris 2.5and up machines. I read the Answerbook2 and the Solaris 2.X faq (CasperDik's) on configuring a machine as a client. According to the faq, for aSolaris 2.5 machine you need to install two packages ...

Printing to a printer attached to a PC

2396 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:25:00
Thanks to all who responded.I have opted to try Bruce Zimmer's solution.Bruce suggested using an LPD Server called RPM available from( http://www.brooksnet.com).<Exert from Bruce's Solution><snip>....RPM (remote print manager) runs an LPD server on the PC. Theonly requirementwould ...

machine mode change

3930 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:25:00
Q: How can I change my machine's mode (standalone, server) ?A: Look up /var/sadm/install/logs/ or whereever, first.Make sure whatyou use.   sys-unconfig command will remove the current information aboutyour network and halt the machine. When you boot again, it will askabout ...

[Summary] Securing sshd with tcp wrappers

9550 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:25:00
Original question:>I have searched for information regarding this, but hope someone here may >have tried this before. I am using tcp wrappers to limit telnet and ftp >logins to a Solaris 7 machine. It works very well. I am also using ssh >(version 1) to improve security against ...

Linking a UE5000 to a SSA through 2 fibre channels

1322 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:25:00
I had the following question:> I have an Ultra Enterprise 5000 connected to a SPARCstorage Array 100 througha> single fibre-channel.> Lately a FC/OMmodule died so I lost the connection and had to replace this> module.> My question is: is it possible to connect the SSA through the ...

full-duplex fast ethernet switch/hub wanted.

2633 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:25:00
here are some success stories.---------------From: Christian.Masopust@tmn.sie.siemens.at (Christian Masopust)I'm using the 'Bay Networks LattisSwitch 28115' and it's great (100 Mbit, FullDuplex)RegardsChris--------------From: Law Hon Man <hmlaw@cs.cuhk.hk>We use BayNetworks 28115 with ...