Patch Update - OpenWindows will not start

2814 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:34:00
My original question:> Hi Sun Managers,> After installing the latest Solaris 2.5.1 jumbo patches from Sun,> OpenWindows will not start. OpenWindows will start via dtlogin> manager, but I receive the following errors when I try to start> OpenWindows after logging in through ...

setrlimit failure on login

2725 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:34:00
HI all,\well, I am sending the summary kind of early since I am losing use of my system for a while. Basically the consensus was to check whether there was a ulimit ot limit statemtn in the users' config files ("dot" files). There may be something in there that causes my ...

[SUMMARY] fatal problem with 2.6_Recommended 11/22

1616 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:34:00
I wrote:>After installing the Recommended patch set from 11/22 on my Ultra5, I can>now reliably freeze the machine as a user ("ssh -f hostname xterm" will do>it nearly every time). As the machine becomes unping'able, and the>keyboard/mouse are frozen (Stop-a doesn't ...

SS10 and Null Modem Cable Problem

3359 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:34:00
Sun-Managers,################ THANK YOUs###############Thank you all for the replys. I would like to thank the following (inno particular order):Mike Salehi, Craig Whytock, Scott Kulp, JCJ6, Nabeel Ahmed, SinhaDeepak, Dan Liebster, David Alford, David Evans, Douglas Lee, DarrenDunham, Barry ...

ld.so error under solaris 2.6

2183 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:34:00
hello!my question was: >i just upgraded to solaris 2.6 on my ss20. starting programs that were>compiled on solaris 2.5.1 often results in the following error message> >root@dwst20:>./mirror>ld.so.1: /usr/local/bin/perl: fatal: relocation error: file>/usr/local/bin/perl: ...

Pointers for stress testing tool.

1551 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:34:00
Many thanks for all those who responded.The Conclusion : Many people felt that Sun VTS is a suitable tools toStress test Solaris Boxes.No body came out with a tool for HP UNIX.Will again summarise if I receive any more responses regarding thestress testing tool for HP UX as well ...

Keyboard Mouse Not Reacting

1905 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:34:00
Hi Guru's!Thanks for responses to those who responded!ANSWER:The simple answer was that a power down and up wasnecessary to get the mouse to work again.Roy---------------------------------------------------Roy E.Ramberg Telefon : +47 22856639Systems Manager Telefax : +47 ...

Redundant disk servers

1796 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:34:00
I originally asked about a long term maintenance problem, on how to solvedependency on one disk server. This isn't a full summary since I haven'tinvestigated any of the solutions mentioned (as I originally said, it's along term stability problem), so I'll just mention potential solutions I ...

Y2K and SunOS 4.1.2 ?

2289 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:34:00
Sent this out on 10/2, guess it never made it the 1st time.Fellow Sunners,Rec'd four replies to my query (original is below).I award Casper Dik (casper@holland.sun.com) first prize; three draft pintsof Schafley Oktoberfest beer (but he has to visit St. Louis to collect!)His response: internal ...

VxVM volume backup script?

1184 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:34:00
Original Post:Subject: VxVM volume backup script?I wish to set up backups of some DB volumes, either byusing "snapshot" or disassociating a third mirror. The DB can only be shut down for a short period and acopy needs to be taken nightly.Does anyone have scripts to automate this ...

SS10 and Null Modem Cable Problem

4602 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:34:00
Sun-Managers,################ THANK YOUs###############Thank you all for the replys. I would like to thank the following (inno particular order):Mike Salehi, Craig Whytock, Scott Kulp, JCJ6, Nabeel Ahmed, SinhaDeepak, Dan Liebster, David Alford, David Evans, Douglas Lee, DarrenDunham, Barry ...

URGENT: IPX-Tunneling through Firewall?

417 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:34:00
-- [ From: Kai Schwermann * EMC.Ver #2.5.02 ] --Dear netters,has anyone got an idea how to push IPX-Packets through a Sun with Firewall-1-Software?We have a customer who has got a quattro-ehernet-card and a Sun. He needs toget a IPX-connection froma cisco on one ethernet-int. to their internal ...

SUMMMARY ftp

218 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:34:00
Thank you !<p>Deepak Sinra<p>Nicky Ayoub<p>Russ Poffenberger<p>Lee Trujillo<p>The answer is - put the file /etc/shells on the machine he istrying to ftp to.<p>and - out the full path name in.<p>Got it! Solved! <p>-b<p>

[Q] Change login info. on SOlaris 2.6?

739 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:34:00
Thank you for the answer.Majority their have two kind of suggesstion:   1. put information on /etc/issue   2. put information on /etc/default/telnetd. use "man telnetd" fordetail information.  I perfer second way.My Original post:> > I ...

Weird CDE issue

5995 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:34:00
Not really a summary since it isn't solved but wanted to tell what I did totry and fix it.First, I tried removing everything in /TT_DB (which is the only one I have)and restarting the Xserver. That didn't work so I tried rebooting. Stilldidn't work and nothing was recreated in /TT_DB. ...

/tmp and swap space co-relation question

4367 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:34:00
wow, received a *lot* of replies confirming my thoughts about this, andalso providing some more insight into /tmp and swap.in short, yes, files in /tmp eat up the available swap if you have /tmp mounted onswap, as defined in /etc/vfstabyou can also restrict the amount of space available for ...

Unimplemented FCode token before address fff720a0

4264 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:34:00
THANKS go to:Leonard, Roger [Roger.Leonard@marconi.com]Response:check out sunsolve.sun.com. there are a couple of these, some relating toloose SCSI termination.Kris, aka. Unixboy@aol.comResponse:are you using an nvramrc script? If so, try disabling the script andresetting......SOLUTION:After ...

for net gurus

1992 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:34:00
Hi Everyone,I am totally amazed at how fast I get answers from sun-managers. Q.:>I am trying to add security by turning off items in rpc and services. Also in>using "netstat -i", one can get a line like:>>*.28503 *.* 0 0 0 0 LISTEN>>This is not a ...

Are there list archives?

3532 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:34:00
I posted a question about finding the list archive.Received answers from: John Reynolds <reynolds@acetsw.amat.com> Benjamin Cline <benji@hnt.com> Cheryl L. Southard <cld@astro.caltech.edu> Matthew Stier ...

Failed write of utmpx entry " "

4154 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:34:00
I didn't found the exact cause but there must be a corruption or some charactors in a file. Finally I erase the 0th slice copied it from the mirrored one and it clicked. Thanks to Marco green for his instant reply. Thanks again to all of you - Rahul ---------------------- Forwarded by Rahul ...

Jetadmin software for Solaris

2529 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:34:00
The consensus is that the browser Netscape converts the file to readableformat as supposed to save it as a package. The work around is to shift andright click on link then do a "Save As". This will allow you to save as afile.Thank to all,Daniel------Original Message------From: Daniel ...

nslookup problem on SunOS

1289 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:34:00
Hi Sun managers,My original question:> > All our SunOS systems recently has nslookup problem with error 'core dump', and it> may be because (still checking) our root server in Europe is not delegating reverse> mapping. My question:> > 1) how can I find out the root server ...

Non Executable Stack

4547 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:34:00
Thanks go out to: Tim CarlsonKlaus SellerbergCraig MertensDuncan PhillipsDaniel MuinoAlex Shepard Tim EvansAllan West Charlie GiannettoBryan Blackburn Vilain, SamDavid FosterMike FisherRick Robino Unixboy@aol.comEdwards Philip M CDAVID,AnthonyBrad Young ...

Answerbook Viewing.

2731 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:34:00
Dear managers - My original post was about a problem with viewing Answerbook materials. Being new to the Solaris environment I soon realized that my question really had two sub-questions with different answers -So in summary -        1) The Answerbook ...

NIS Master (About the Makefile)

2342 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:34:00
Hi,  Here is my orig. question. ** In the Makefile of Solaris 2.6 (or 2.x) there is any para. in/var/yp/Makefile which can specify the location of the maps.What is your suggestion on where do an Admin. put the maps. IS IT A GOOD IDEA TO keep all the maps by default in /etc, so ...

Attempting to get serial console working after booting with keyb/monitor

4995 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:34:00
My original question:> > Here's the situation as it stands at the moment. I have 3 Sun Ultra 1's> in our server room, and the intention is to connect them to a Livingston> Portmaster 2e to act as a console server. The console server is not the> issue here, as I have already ...

libc: domestic or international?

1137 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:34:00
Hi All,My original post was:> > How does one tell if the libc on a particular SunOS 4.1.4 machine> is the domestic or international version?> Very quickly, a great answer came from Charles Seeger <seeger@cise.ufl.edu> :> Jeff, try looking for the _cbc_crypt function. ...

Kill a occupied port

2783 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:34:00
The consensus says to use the freeware utility "lsof". This utility find outwhat processes are holding the open-port. The usage is as follow: lsof -itcp:80Thanks for numerous help.Daniel------Original Message------From: Daniel Lee <daniel_lee@asia.com>To: ...

Whoos mounting a NFS Filesystem

2420 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:34:00
Hi sunners:Thanks a lot again to these kind sun-managers who dedicated some minutes to answer my question:- "C. Allen" <cda@cosmoslink.net>- Rasana Atreya <Rasana.Atreya@library.ucsf.edu> - David Willard <dwillard@scires.com>-"Nicholas R LeRoy" ...

Hex Dump SUMMARY

4640 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:34:00
-- \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ Sean Harvey OAO Corp harvey@nmc8.chinalake.navy.mil Ridgecrest CA (619)939-2199 a Million dollars a day!! Dammit Janet, I love you!! ...

Need help with 8705 DX tape drive

5741 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:34:00
Ok, thanks to all of you that replied. I got a few useful things to try,some of which are detailed below. Mostly, I got confirmation that about10G is on target for what I should be expecting here. I was alsorecommended to check out Exabyte's site for an st.conf entry, which I hadalready ...

How to enforce offical-host-name for rsh/rlogin?

3416 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:34:00
My thanks go to DavidThorburn-Gundlach<dtg@cae091.ed.ray.com> whichanswered my question. Problem resolved. Theoriginal question and the answer from David isforwarded as follows:attached mail follows:Kerr --Kerr Tung wrote:> > Hi all,Hi there!> > How do I make a host's ...

ovw segmentation fault; locale not supported by Xlib

1611 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:34:00
Summary:ovw segmentation fault; locale not supported by Xlib>Problem: locale not supported by Xlib>>I have a sparcstation running Solaris 2.4; when starting the program>ovw I get an error message and coredump; any ideas what may be wrong ?>>/usr/OV/bin/ovw -ro>Warning: ...

openwin fails

2368 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:34:00
I had four responses. A big thank you to Christian Masopust for taking outtime to help me. He asked "do you really have a dumb frame buffer or thebetter Raptor graphics-card?" I let him know that I did have the Raptorcard, and then he suggested that I install the drivers and the ...

parallel printer (nearly) won't work

3572 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:34:00
Hi again,this is my original question:> Hi,>> we have a QMS 420 Print System (PostScript printer) attached to the parallel> port of a Sparc 10 (Solaris 2.5.1, HW 11/97). Since a couple of days, the> printer behaves strange:>> i can easily do a>> cat file.ps > ...

mt: Innappropriate ioctl for device...Extra

1870 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:34:00
SPECIAL THANKS TO:Terry FranklynKevin ...From Joltin.comVal PopaLarry GarrettAs it was my /dev/rmt/0 was not a tape drive and the link had been broken.I dida rm /dev/rmt/* and then a boot -r and that fixed everything for me.Thanks again. SUMMARY: ORIGINAL QUESTION:This is the command I'm ...

(2) Disabling break detection...

2294 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:34:00
I've just received the following note from Kevin on my earlier posting.Forwarded message:> From: Kevin.Sheehan@uniq.com.au (Kevin Sheehan {Consulting Poster Child})> > > ==============> > From: David Sinn <DavidS@corbis.com>> > > > Make sure that the serial ...

low level directory information/editor

4437 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:34:00
Thanks to        Eugene Kramer <eugene@uniteq.com>        Kevin.Sheehan@uniq.com.au        Joel Lee ...

Solaris 2.6 Performance ( More)

4136 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:34:00
Hi all,After my summary some more answers came in from fellow Sun Managers.Attached is their explanations and worth to look at and read. I also found the culprit of all the traffic to the disks. Our Oracle DBAwas (and still is) busy downloading data from his Oracle Database onthe mainframe to ...

any limits to amount of SWAP space you can provide

2964 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:34:00
> In a 24 CPU, SPARC Solaris 8 E6500 system (with 7Gbytes of memory), are> there any disadvantages to adding large amounts of disk space as swap space> in order to increase the maximum size of /tmp? I would like to increase the> size of /tmp to around 40G but am concerned that ...

duplicate the system disk

2192 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:35:00
HI, there,Thanks again for the quick help and sorry for the late summary.The Origional Question:-------------------------------------------------------------------------Hello,We have 2 identical HDs here, one is for the system and user files. Theother one is currently unused. I would like ...

X11 on SunOS4.1.3

524 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:35:00
Hi, ManagersI want to compile X11R6.3 on my sparc10, SunOS4.1.3. When doing Xsun,I got the following error message:ld: Undefined symbol    _ChangeKeyboardDevice    _OpenInputDevice    _AddOtherInputDevices    _CloseInputDevice ...

Passwd for user 'root' has expired

1458 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:35:00
Question:   :!su -   Password:   Passwd for user 'root' has expired - use passwd(1) to update it    I changed the passwd on within a month, why should it expire?  And boot from CDROM and modify /etc/shadow is the only ...

[SUMMARY] pstat equiv on 2.6

1570 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:35:00
Thanks to:        Moti Levy [mlevy@lannet.com]        Casper Dik [casper@holland.sun.com]        Gallagher, Gerald (RTIS) [gerald.gallagher@reedtech.com]Summary:Casper puts ...

[Q] How to check Sun server 32 bits or 64 bits?

3292 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:35:00
Thank you for the answers. I summary the abswer I got: 1. dan@ns1% dmesg| grep 64SunOS Release 5.7 Version Generic 64-bit [UNIX(R) System V Release 4.0]dan@yoda% dmesg| grep 32SunOS Release 5.7 Version Generic 32-bit [UNIX(R) System V Release 4.0]2. if it is Solaris 2.6 then it must be 32 ...

After installed tcsh FTP not work ...

601 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:35:00
Thank you for so many people give me the answer. The solution is create afile "/etc/shells" and put /bin/tcsh entry in it. After I fixed "tcsh" problem, I got another problem. The users who have"tcsh" as default shell have no problem on remote "FTP", ...

unbuffer a output of a command, pty port on Solaris?

1837 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:35:00
Question:  In short, how to unbuffer a output of a command?  Explain:   Some unix commands which uses stdio library is fully buffered (versus line  buffered) when writing to a file which is a non-tty. This can be a problem  because when you ...

Two compilers on one server

2032 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:35:00
Thanks to: Doug Winter, Venkat Veeramneni, MARC NEWMAN & Richard Sullivan.It seems that there are a few people who use GCC & C with just changes to theLD_LIBRARY_PATH. I was more so asking about using Sun Workshop C versions 4.2 &5.0, although I didn't make it clear.Well I'll say ...

how to create a file system across two disk

8192 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:35:00
hithanks to ...

[SUMMARY] Netman & Etherman (Where are they now?)

1757 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 11:35:00
Gurus,Apparently the original developers of Netman and Etherman tookthe tools commercial. I searched for the website of the company offeringthe products, but couldn't find it. The source code is nowhere to befound on [as expected] the net, but binaries are available ...