I've the following file systems sliced on my server:c0t0d0s0 = /c0t0d0s5= /varc0t0d0s6= /usrc0t0d0s7= /optSince the /opt file system is a big partition, I want to do a full tar of all the file systems and save a copy of this tarred copy somewhere in "/opt". What is a more efficient way to do ...

I have question regarding the various files which contain references to a Solaris box's hostname. The machine is a V880, 2 processors, 4 GB RAM running Solaris 2.8 and a reasonably upto date patch level.I have been asked to change the references to the hostname of the machine to the hostname + ...

Any ideas on how to force 100 full duplex speed on sun fire V120 (which runs half duplex at the moment) with 'eri' interface cards. I understand it can be done with entries in /etc/system and/or using ndd. I've seen the relevant entry in ShellMe section, but would like a more detailed ...

when I type boot cdrom -s after inserting cdrom 1 of 2 in cdrom drive I get the following messagesBoot device:/pci@1f,0/ide@d/cdrom@1,0:f File & args: -sbad magic number in disc labelCan't open disc label packageCan't open boot deviceWhat does it imply?Thanks in advance-Sudatta ...

there is a command that you can use to leave a message, similar to a system warning message, to an ID that is logged in on the system.Can anyone help me out? Thanks in advance.

A very basic question-I believe target numbers correspond to a unique address switch setting that is selected for each disk.Now how many maximum target numbers can we assign to a particular disk?What does LUN mean?Is it the total no. of individual disks in a system and if so what is the maximum ...

Hello, I was wondering if there was a way to find out what "extended" applications there are in the packages taht pkginfo lists when typing it in. Is there someway to pull out the rest of the applications that run with the ones listed?

I just built the system (solaris 8) and for some reason my default shell became /sbin/sh. Is there a way to change it to /usr/ksh? any hints appreciatedthanksJoe

Hello,I have a jumpstart installation using LDAP. My sysidcfg is:system_locale=en_UStimezone=WETterminal=sun-cmdtimeserver=localhostsystem_locale=en_USname_service=LDAP {domain_name=iac.esprofile=sol9scprofile_server=161.72.64.74}root_password=12345678network_interface=PRIMARY ...

i am running solaris 2.8 on an intel box and i want to create long usernames. i know that traditionally they are capped at 8 characters long. admintool does not allow you to enter anything past this, but using useradd on the command lines, and it succeeds, although it does display UX: useradd: ...

I'm trying to authenticate users of Courier mail server againist Windows NT domain. I use PAM library (pam_winbind.so) to do it. When I try to log on mail I got the following message in maillogApr 28 11:24:29 netra1 pop3d: [ID 702911 mail.info] Connection, ip=[127.0.0.1]Apr 28 11:24:43 netra1 ...

I use NetBackup on two machines Solaris 8 with two interfaces and IP multipathing. Both hosts have 4 IP addresses, two for physical interfaces and two for logical interfaces. Other hosts can connect to such host on any of the two logical addresses. One of them "arc" is NB server and the other ...

Hi,We have an Ultra AX-MP with a hard disk on SCSI target 3 (disk3) which is mirrored to another hard disk on SCSI target 0 (disk0). The boot device, as it is configured in the OpenBoot is disk3. I had a situation where disk3 crashed. I tried to boot the system from disk0 using boot disk0 from ...

I have setup a multi-homed Sun Fire Server with two 10baseT interfaces. So I have two networks that is being serviced by the Solaris 8 box. I have turned off the routing capability to creating a file "/etc/notrouter".I wish to enter into the routing table a default gateway per interface. Is it ...

I am sending mail from one of the solaris box to my email ID. If I send a mail today say May 8th 2003 .. I am receiving the mail on the same day, but the mail I received has sent date as 10th May 2003. I have checked the date in the solaris box , it is today齭 date only.Any idea what could be ...

THE PASSWORD FILE HAS BEED EDITED TO CHANGE THE ROOT SHELL. from /bin/sh to /sbin/ksh in error.Now we cant get into root...... when su to root we get su: No shell.Any ideas? SunOS 5.8

Hello, I want to do an ufsdump to FS which is a little bit more big than the native tape unit (12G).The already size for the FS is 14G. aprox. so I would like to know whether there is a way to backup this FS with a tape DDS3 12/24 using ufsdump?Thank for your answers.

I recently acquired a previously owned Sun Ultra Enterprise 450. I purchased Solaris 9, and during installation had it reformat/repartition the disks, so to my knowledge, the system is clean. However, on boot, I get the message: "Fatal SCSI error at script address 258. Unexpected Disconnect." ( ...

Gracefully shutdown E250 running Solaris 8. CDROM drive appears to be spinning and server has not come back up. I am new to Solaris and the previous admin is no longer with the company. Inability to recgonize an attached cdrom drive was the reason for the shutdown and reboot. Help !!! Any ...

i would like to find out the mean time a person logs into a system.->last usename | awk 'BEGIN {s=0} {s+=$8 - $7}{print s}'where $8, $7 is in format HH:MMin the past , we would use difftime, which is a wonderful command.is there anyway i can replicate difftime or do a sum for ...

My IS Security told me that each Unix server should have only the root account with uid 0.However, a quick scan through my servers reveal that all have this "smtp" account that has uid 0 as well. Is this supposed to be normal? Can I just remove this account safely?Thanks. ...

Hi,I have a 280R server in my network but I can't telnet it through my pc. I can use the other 280R to telnet to this server, just can't use pc to connect it. I can use pc to connect to the rest of Sun server. Can you tell me where should I check?Thanks,

Hi, how do I enable a crashdump file to be generated everytime the OS crashes on a Solaris 2.6 box?Thanks.

My company has been asked to investigate a problem by one of our clients with Veritas Volume Manager 3.2.A SA noticed on a legacy system that a number of disks had errors against them in the output of 'vxdisk list'.However the disks given do not physically exist. No one can confirm this,but I ...

Can some one tell me why such command does not work ?tail -f log_files | grep abc | grep defThanks

am having issues getting the net-snmp 5.0.8 binary & or the .bin file to install properly onan Ultra 5 running sol 8. Is anyone wlse using this? Is it easier to use suns snmp? share your experience.

If I have a Sunserver addressed as 192.168.1.100/24, web server addressed as 192.168.1.200 and a router addressed as 192.168.1.50/24; how do I set up the routing on the sun server so that all traffic destined for the web server is routed to the local router first before it goes to the web ...

I'm facing a problem using cron utility as a user.As a user i'm not able to edit the user file under /var/spool/cron/crontabs/username using crontab -e after setting the editor to vi.As a root i'm able to do the same.There is no entry of the user name in the cron.deny file,and there is no ...

I have the following doubt.Can the Ethernet Interface be given Netmask as 255.255.255.0 with IP as 0.0.0.0 in Solaris 8.Thanks

I have a solaris box which is having cdrom,i want to restrict the usage of cdrom.As a root we can stop the volmgt deamon.But that box is having users having sudo root access.I want to lock the cdrom,and unlock it when ever i require.Help will be appreciated.

Hi,I have a need to list devices that connected and configured on a Solaris 5.5.1 and above system. I need device path, device driver and device file information for each device. I tried several commands and here is what I have found out:1) The command prtdiag does not work properly on our ...

Hello, everyone. I was wondering if someone could help me with the dd command. I'm trying to make a complete image backup of my hard drive. I'm running with Sol2.5.1. I'm just not sure how to do it. Thank you in advance for any help.

I got an Ultra 2 off of eBay and when I first started messing with it, it would fail to boot into an OS and drop back to the OK prompt. I started to install Solaris 9 and all went fine on the fist disk (install disk) but when it came time to change cd's I found out that the cdrom is screwed up ...

Hi,Would appreciate any help in counfiguring my Sun Blade for DSL access.My setup : I have a SohoWare router/firewall that is configured to talk to ISP (DSL modem) through PPPoE. I can connect with my PC workstation and laptop.I now need to access internet with my Sun Blade workstation as ...

How can I set up solaris 8 so that all console messages will be stored in a file in addition to being displayed on the console?In other words is there some way to cause /dev/sysmsg to print everthing it recieves to a file?Or using consadm is it possible to create a device which stores its input ...

i'm trying to run Patch Manager, but i'm getting the following problem when i try and run "pprosvc" with either the -l, -d, or -i options. Assessing patches needed for your system... ............................................................................... ...

I have a SunFire V120 with Solaris 8 installed. The server goes to ok prompt periodically. FS logging has been turned on. I have not seen any abnormal message in /var/adm/messages file yet.Any suggestions? Thanks!

I have two QFE cards in my server and two Cisco switches. Is it possible to create an aggregate of two ports on one of the cards to one switch with a failover pair one the other card connected to the other switch?

Well we are being forced to move just over 1Tbyte on two servers to different disk.So the question we would like answered:Is it better to perform a ufsdump or good ole cp to move the data when both sets of disks are connected to the system. We are looking for performance advice. We have not ...

HiI have a problem with the logger in solaris 8: I had a routine in solaris2.6 that uses loggerto record some events information (using a defined format to record the information), in this way:/usr/bin/logger -p local7.notice -t TAG$ADDITIONAL_TEXTand I get a text like this in the log file ...

Hello,we have this entry **********************************************daemon.debug/var/adm/ftp.log**********************************************in the syslog.conf, but this obviously send in ftp.log infos of all the daemons. Is it possible to test a particular daemon (i.d. ftpd) to separate ...

I have had problems to find the right forum for my question, but hope to get some help here.I need some kind of statistics of network customers habits in order to dimension my network. That is, I need information like how many email a employee send per day and how big an average email is. I ...

I want to use quota on my Solaris8(sparc) platform. But I found that the quota tool of solaris 8 does not support group. Who can tell me how can I set quota on group level?Thanks

I have a Sun-Fire-880 Server Running NIS and NFSI have a network comprised of Sun-Ultra 2, SUn Ultra-60's and Sun-Blade-1000's.All running Solaris 8, all patched to the latest recommended patch level.The Ultra-60's and Ultra-2's periodically report:"NFS getattr failed for server server: ...

Hello, not sure if I have asked this or not yet but I am hoping that I have not. Anyway, I have done an ls -lR and pulled out all the directories and then from there I have found all the bin and sbin directories and pulled the list of executables/programs that are installed or running on my ...

Hi All,Does anyone know if Perl 5.004_01 is compatible with Solaris 8?Thanks,bob2829

I have a Sys Admin who just installed a patch cluster on Solaris 2.7. The patch clusterreplaced the /etc/inetd.conf file with one that was entirely less secure than the one they were using (It turned all services on).It is contradictory to install a "security" patch cluster that makes the ...

I have a line and I want to split it into multiple lines using a regular expression and the substitute command in vi. How do I do this?Thanks,Jessica Blackburn

Hi,I've just inherited an E220R but no one remember the root password. Since I'm very new with Solaris, could anyone pls. advise how do I go about changing the root password. The server is running on Solaris8.Thank you.RegardsRosli AhmadSolaris Newbie ...

Hi,I have a problem with UPS at our company so times my UPS is suddenly going down bringing my SUN Server SUN FIRE 280R to shutdown improperly.can you advice what steps i have to follow when i power on my server againafter improper shutdown?should i run fsck ?in single user mode?Can you please ...