detaching a mirror from a trans device -- safe?

3912 byte By CodeProf.com at 2008-2-13 9:30:00
Thanks to Michael Sullivan <mps@discomsys.com> and Darren Dunham<ddunham@taos.com>. Both agreed that unmounting the file system first isthe best way to go. Since that's possible, that's what I plan to do. Itwould probably be OK to sync and then detach, but I want to be 100% ...

eeprom-password lost

550 byte By CodeProf.com at 2008-1-13 23:57:00
Hi *,thx to all who answered.Here are the current solutions for getting rid of anunknown or forgotten eeprom-password:1. pressing <stop>-<n>2. if you have the root password to the box:   -login as root    -enter eeprom security-mode=none (to disable ...

using disk SEAGATE ST31940W

1398 byte By CodeProf.com at 2008-1-7 0:21:00
Hi suners,finaly I found out that the internal cabel in external box was bad.Thanks to all who responded.Jozefhera are the original question:Hi suners,did you manage to get work external disk SEAGATE ST31940W Medalist with Netra I 170E or Ultra 1/170E which has wide external SCSI conector.I ...

Supporting PCs and script issue

2286 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 12:00:00
1) Many thanks to the following Sun Managers for their replies:Jim HarmonCharlie MenglerJochen bernDerek MallardJoseph S.D. Yao2) My original 2 part question was as follows:We are (were) running a Sun camp with mixed PC and Sun workstations. Fileserving is provided on a Solaris 2.5.1 box, ...

Backing up through firewall with rsh and redirection

5589 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 12:00:00
Thanks for the replies.In brief, I was trying to backup a server that resides outsidethe firewall with my backup server that resides inside thefirewall. I was essentially running an 'rsh dump' from the serverto the client outside the firewall... then I would pipe thedump back (via stdout) to ...

Disksuite vs Veritas s/w on Sparc Storage Array

2966 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 12:00:00
Hi,   The first reply came within 2 minutes of my mail !!    I would like to thank all of you who replied and those   who gave their time for my question.   The answer:      Veritas software comes bundled ...

check_access: access denied AND admhostmod

5070 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 12:00:00
Dear Managers, unfortunately I didn't receive any replies to the question (originalmessage is below), so the summary is empty. The problem is stillunsolved. I would like to thank everybody who read and thought aboutit.VladimirOriginal message ...

PPP Leased Line Problem

2756 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 12:00:00
Hi everyone,This is a SUMMARY,(1) The original problem<I have been trying to set up a PPP connection over a leased line<for the past few days. For testing, I have 2 Sun workstations running<Solaris 2.5.1 with a modem pair in between set up in my office.<<Here are my 2 /etc/hosts ...

doing the impossible data recovery

34417 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 12:00:00
My question was:-------------------- Begin Original Post --------------------I've got a user who managed to blow away his entire home directory *and*the online backup copy he had of it. The tape backup doesn't have hiscritical files because of a permission problem. (My fault and his.)He's ...

100mbps full duplex

3761 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 12:00:00
hello again:sorry for the long delay.--------------here is what i had asked :We have a GEO-RIM/FE 100 MBPS switch from UB. We would like to connectan Ultra-2 ( on-board 100 MBPS ) to the switch in FULL-DUPLEX mode.Would like to know if any of U are having such a setup and thingsworking fine ? I ...

Looking for a reader-talker package

2128 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 12:00:00
About 2 weeks and several sleepless nights ago, I asked for help inlocating a "reader-talker" package for Solaris. (The sleepless nightswere not caused by this software).Suggestions came in from a dozen or so folks and were greatly appreciated.The most suitable idea for my ...

SunNet DM & SyMon's traptext

3058 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 12:00:00
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----Hash: SHA1December 26, 1997Hello world,We had been experimenting with the Solstice SyMon and the Domain Manager v2.3 rel.B to create a network operations center. We wanted to be able to remotely diagnose/monitor the remote and critical Sunservers using the ...

patch 103346-04

1684 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 12:00:00
Original question:Dear SMs,How do I go about intalling this patch?The README.103346-04 file states:...    2) Execute the binary './flash-update' in this directory.                a) It first ...

Problems with /home

1857 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 12:00:00
Original Message: >--------------------------------------------<I am having problems with my /home, I cannot create any dir under /homeand even useradd -m won't work. Whenever I tried to create a dir at /home,it gives me a message saying that mkdir: Failed to make directory ...

clearing connections

1780 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 12:00:00
Hi,   My original question asked about clearing connections left openon port 119 after killing news.   Most replies said that the only solution was to reboot (which is what was done...:(   A few people said I killed news incorrectly, causing the half ...

/etc/nsswitch.conf

247 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 12:00:00
Thanks to numerious people who replied to my quiestion about<p>/etc/nsswitch.conf.<p>Q. What is xfn?<p>A. man xfn(3N).<p>   A useful remark was made, that Sun introduced XFN, but then<p>stopped/slowed down in promoting it.<p>Igor<p>

High Temperature Shutdown

1199 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 12:00:00
My original question was:>We have been experiencing lots of power failures. The problem is ourair >conditioning system stops working if we have a momentary poweroutage. I have a >Sun 690 and a Sun 2000 both running Solaris 2.5 inthis computer room.>Question: will the systems ...

Kermit vs dialin

1016 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 12:00:00
Thanks again to sun-managers!I wrote> I now find that after I have used kermit to dial> out, dialin no longer works. It appears that> kermit is changing the modem settings and not> restoring them. When I run tip and issue the> modem command AT&F&D2Q2S0=1&C1&W, ...

Telnet to a Serial Port

3194 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 12:00:00
    Thanks to all that replied. All of the suggestions weregood ones, but the solution was relatively simple. First, there's noneed to mess with any eeprom settings, the defaults for "ttya-ignore-cd=true"do just fine. All that was required was to 1) wire the DB25 ...

SUMARRY:How do uninstall NIS

714 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 12:00:00
Well . . . What I ended up doing was:1) removing the /etc/defaultdomain file2) rm /var/yp/`domainname`3) cp /etc/nsswitch.files /etc/nsswitch.conf4) rebootedThanks to the many who responded!!!My orig question:I would like to know how to uninstall NIS. I'd really like a quickstep-by-step if ...

Problem changing passwds

1889 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 12:00:00
Thanks tocyril@corp.cirrus.comholzb@vkm.comcathy@mercury.stm.comasim@psa.pencom.comdengland@ivac.comthe problem was because rpc.yppasswdd not running.ThanksAshfaqMy original question was :> > Hi,> > Recently setup NIS with Solaris 2.5.1. > > NIS directory is not /etc. It is on ...

/etc/nologin

1640 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 12:00:00
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----As was pointed out (only minutes after I sent my query...), thefeature was reinstated in Solaris 2.5.1, and the relevant file iscalled /etc/nologin.Thanks to Jeff Wasilko <jeffw@smoe.org> for the quick response.CJW- ...

SUMARRY: floppy woes

1640 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 12:00:00
Figured it out. Thanks "Charlie Mengler <charliem@anchorchips.com>"!What I did was put ro instead of rw in the seventh field and it workedjust fine. Thanks!JasonMy orig. post:> Trying to mount floppy drive on sparc10 running Solaris 2.4 and not> having much success. ...

system crashes after upgrade

647 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 12:00:00
I don't have the time to figure out exactly what I did wrong during the upgrade. So I booted back up with my old kernel.Will try again ... next year !!! Thank you all.Happy New Year.Victor Dinh----------ORIGINAL MESSAGEHello managersI have just upgraded a station going from 4.1.3_u1 to ...

SEMI- Corrupt passwd/shadow files...

3106 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 12:00:00
Thanks to the following for their responses (hope I didn't forget anyone):"Robert T. Clift" <rclift@nswc.navy.mil>Russ Poffenberger <poffen@San-Jose.ate.slb.com>JOSEPH AAJ Chackompally <AAJ@necsin.nec.com.sg>Aleksandar Milivojevic <alex@srce.hr>James Kwong ...

hme problem on E450

3855 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 12:00:00
Hi managers -- got a couple of responses to my question. Much thanks to:  Scott F. Woods <sfw@adc.idt.com>  Jay Morgan <jmorgan@qualix.com>The consensus is that this is probably a driver problem leading to failureof the auto-negotiation. The fix is to turn off ...

anonymous ftp rights

1471 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 12:00:00
Once again the list responds within minutes. This is great.Thanks to Matthew Stier and Tim Carlson who both clarified the problem.The files must reside in ~ftp Youcannot follow symlinks out of ~ftp since ~ftp has been chroot'ed to andis in fact the root of your file system when you login ...

showrev

1090 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 12:00:00
> Hello,> > man pages on showrev on 2.6 say following:> > -s hostname Perform this operation on the specified host-> name. The -s operation completes correctly only> when hostname is running Solaris 2.5 or> later.> > But, look at the ...

Retaining static routes after a reboot

773 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 12:00:00
Thanks to all those who replied. Sorry for the delay in posting the summary. It's that time of the year again.The original question was > I am defining static routes in a sparc machine running Solaris 2.5.1> by using the route add command.> Everything works fine but when I reboot the ...

Graphical Memory Usage Tool

7738 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 12:00:00
First, I must apologize for the late summary...between training,holidays, and vacation, I simply ran out of time...but enough with thepleasantries...on to the good stuff:Here's the original question:<clip>>>Has anyone seen, or know about, a tool for Solaris 2.x that ...

utmp(x) and wtmp(x) history

10984 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 12:00:00
After reading the responses, I decided the best way to repair the wtmpxfile was to write a (simple)perl script to read in the records, cut outthe garbage(only 164 bytes of crap was screwing everything up), andclose the space back up(I should be a surgeon). This worked, and I alsofound out lots ...

SPARCstorage Array Model 100

4599 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 12:00:00
I would like to thank everyone for their timely answers to myquestion. Thanks to:Arvinder Paul <arvinder@ibd.investors.com>Jeff Wasilko <jeffw@smoe.org>rudy yu <ryu@legato.com>Martin Oksnevad <martin@stavanger.geoquest.slb.com>"Karl E. Vogel" ...

getpwnam() not working in chroot() shell in Solaris 2.6

717 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 12:00:00
Thanks to everyone who replied.The original question was:I'm working on creating a securied chroot() shell environment underSolaris 2.6. So far, I have all my /bin, /lib, /etc, /dev directories created,and I have minimal functionality of a shell. However, 'ls -l' and any otherprograms that ...

NFS: chmod and chgrp

4714 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 12:00:00
On Mon, 29 Dec 1997, DP2 David A. Wanamaker wrote:> > I have a partition from a network appliances server mounted on my > Solaris 2.5 box. The admin person for the network appliances server gave > me root access to the mounted partition. With the root access, I would ...

Help with 2.6 and multiple IP addresses

2635 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:59:00
Hello,        Sorry about the delay in response but I was trying to find the patch number before I posted the replies. Many thanks to Ade Faleti, Skye Poier, and Frank Cusack. Apparently this is a known bug in 2.6. My Sun rep has not giving any patch ...

automount

649 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:59:00
My stupid self . . .What I FORGOT to do is reboot! Damnit I hate when that happens. Ohwell, thanks guys but no thanks things *seem* to be working fine fornow. Once I rebooted I was able to cd to the mount point and do an lsand see the remote files. Now I only have to add a few users and . . ...

Configuration-data for DEC-TLZ06 with SunOs 4.1.x

2169 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:59:00
Thanks to the following for their reply:Glenn Satchell <glenn@uniq.com.au> and toGlenn Rickersey <glennr@wormald.com.au> who originally send this informationto Glenn Satchell about two years ago.Here is the solution which helped me to make the TLZ06 work withSunOs 4.1.3:1. Original ...

follow-up of backup the file system cross the network.

8209 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:59:00
Thanks to all who replied. I have received over 30 replies!Forgive me to not to list the names who replied. Here is my summary:1) Sean Ward <wards@snk077.ast.lmco.com> pointed:Subject: 10.1) My rdump is failing with a "Protocol botched" ...

SS5 panic

8253 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:59:00
--- Thanks to the following for responding to my question:Tim Carlson <tim@santafe.edu>Stephen Harris <sweh@mpn.com>Avi J. Levin <alevin@ltcm.com>Kevin.Sheehan@uniq.com.auJens Fischer <jefi@kat.ina.de>raju@hoho.ecologic.net---- Response summary ----The majority of ...

WARNING: kernel map: rmap overflow, lost

970 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:59:00
I didn't receive any solutions for the following (posted 12/16):----------------------------------------------------------------------Our database server sometimes emit a bunch of the following messages in /var/adm/messages:   WARNING: kernel map: rmap overflow, lost [xxx, yyy]I ...

How to let users print unix output on their PC printers?

2182 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:59:00
Many thanx to all who responded, namely:Boyko, SteveJason L. HarrellArtur ShnayderMark A. FaustStefan VossMatthew StierEugene KramerJoseph S D YaoCraig W. ShaverLiz MarlowMark 'Hex' HershbergerDavid Thorburn-GundlachDave TeoSorry about the delay. I had to exchange private mail to clarify afew ...

nfs_server: weak authentication

1499 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:59:00
SUMMARY:It seems that the client with the problem had changed hostnames to a newname then back to the old name while the server was still up (not mydoing). This seemed to be the authentication problem. I think it wasconfused. The solution was to reboot the server then the client.Thanx for ...

filemgr and all the *tool programs dump core

6282 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:59:00
Hi, all.Well, I have to say this list is really great.Many thanks to the following which have been the first to reply:"Brion Leary" <brion@dia.state.ma.us>djohnson@nbserv2.dseg.ti.com (Danny Johnson)Casper Dik <casper@holland.Sun.COM>"Bruce Rossiter" ...

sum: Exabyte tape errors

2181 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:59:00
original post:> error mesage: write error 24 feet into tape 1> > My Exabyte 8505 8mm tape drive gives me this error everytime I try to write> to a tape. I used a cleaner tape and tried new tapes but get the same error> when using tar or ufsdump.> > I have a quote of $700 ...

NIS+ in a heterogenous environment

4329 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:59:00
On my original questions about NIS+ implementation in a heterogenousenvirnment...My environment:> We currently have a mix of machines running SunOS 4.1.3, 4.1.4;> Solaris 2.5.1, 2.6; HP-UX 9.05, 9.07, 10.01, 10.20; ULTRIX 4.4> and OSF/1 v 1.3 and v 3.0 (Alphas)> > We are looking ...

rsh and backups

1163 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:59:00
Well I guess you can't have your cake and eat it too.Thanks to:rali@meitca.com & dean@osi.SYLVANIA.comand whoever else should respond.who suggested that I change my /etc/default/login thuslyCONSOLE=/dev/console -> #CONSOLE=/dev/console     On our development ...

FastEthernet MTU

5429 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:59:00
Many thanks to all who responded. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------Original question------------------------------------------------------------------------------On Mon, 16 Dec 1996, Eduardo E. Silva wrote:Hi,What is the MTU for FastEthernet (be0) on ...

How to limit the size of files in mail spool

6863 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:59:00
Dear Managers,Suggestions are as follows:1. Set quota on mail spool; (Nearly most responses suggested)2. Set cronb job to mail users when the mail spool file is too large;3. Set cronb job to move mail spool file to users'home when too large;4. Set cronb job to remove old mail;5. Post ...

High Availability

6822 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:59:00
Note: This is a long summary, but hopefully useful to others considering this type of problem.Recap of my question:>Is it feasable to configure a second server with the same hostname/IP>as the first as a backup for High Availability, and boot it up when>needed. I am exploring this ...

Top, etc. for Solaris

1640 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:59:00
Thanks to the (too numerous to name) folks who replied to this request!Everytime I try to summarize, I find another half dozen or so responses.I'll take a snapshot of it for this summary.Most folks are using version 3.4. Some mentioned proctool, which I agreeis a 'better' tool in some ...