I've problem regarding of Sun Fire V880. This server I used as Sunray server. Last week this server hang (frequently happened) and I try to reboot but the problem is this server cannot be boot up easily. I try to turn off and turn on again many times and keep waiting about 30 minutes for ...

Ok. I have an Ultra 10 that randomly fails on boot. After working with the system for a few days, here is what I know.When the system is booting up without any intervention, the messages on the screen are:Initializing MemoryBoot device : disk Files and args :Sometimes it boots up, sometimes it ...

This is the weirdest thing...I have a Solaris system where there are some filesin a directory which cannot be listed by 'ls'. The filenames do not begin with a period, so they're not"hidden" files in the usual Unix sense. 'ls -l' won'tlist them, and they aren't found with "find". Yet ...

I have a question. I have users logging into our Ultra Enterprise 5000 from more than one workstation. Is there a way to limit their ability to log in to the E5000 to one session(at a time) only. We have a limited number of user licenses for our Database application.We have users logging other ...

Hello,I've a Solaris 8 system (2/02) with solstice Disk Suite running on it. I want journaling on it's filesystems to avoid filesystem crashes.I'm using solaris ufslogging feature on machines without disk management software, so I would like to use ufslogging on the machines with disk suite ...

Pleas can any one help me I have got this taskBasically I have got this guy at work who have been generating a load of configuration files, each time he modifies a file he save the old one and put a date stamp on it e.g. {device}.cfg.20030812 Now he needs me to create a script that will ...

Hello,I am new to SUDO and would like to know if there is a command line option to include the password. I am trying to run a series of commands, which need to be run as SUDO, but I am prompted for the password when ever the script starts. I can not change the sudoers file to have NOPASSWORD. I ...

Greetings all-What, if any, ramifications to rolling back the system date, perhaps 6 months or more for testingpurposes? There is no interaction with a RDBMS such as Oracle, but we are in a NIS/NFSenvironment. Thanks in advance for any/all input.

I apparently lost the ability to patch Solaris 8I am trying to install the J2SE_Solaris_8_Recommended patchcluster and ALL patches failed. So I downloaded the latest8_Recommended & get similar behavior.current patch level....SunOS wombat 5.8 Generic_108528-22 sun4u sparc SUNW,UltraAX-i2all ...

Hi we have accidentally created a very large file with the name "-C" without the quotes in the root directory. If I issue an ls it doesn't show up, if I issue an ls -ltr I see it.following is the response I receive when we try to delete it:# rm -Crm: illegal option -- Cusage: rm [-fiRr] file ...

Hi. Can someone kindly point out the main steps needed to be taken in adding an external scsi drive wothout having to reboot the system. Thank you.

Quick question: Is there a video card that will work in the V1280? I've looked at all the SUN video card and none of they support the 1280.Thanks,Bert

Hi,I have a filesystem on a server running Solaris 8 that is shared read-only via automount to our user community. I want to grant write-access to a subdirectory of the filesystem to a particular client user/system. Is this something I can do with ACLs? Is there another and/or better way?So, ...

Hi,As you all know that lot of works are attacking networks.Do we need to use some kind of Antivirus for Solaris Machines as well or not.It is genarally said that Unix servers are secure enough.Please advise.We are running SAP / ORACLE / SOLARIS 8Regards ...

I've a server (SF v880) configured with RAID 1 mirror using solstice disksuite 4.2.1 on solaris 8. The auto-boot is set to "true". When I reboot the server with "shutdown -i6 -g0 -y"), the server got stucked at the stage at the banner screen. I was unable to get to boot prompt using the ...

I'm having a problem patching... here is what i get on Solaris 2.6# patchadd -d ./106787-19Checking installed patches...One or more patch packages included in106787-19 are not installed on this system.Patchadd is terminating.#How do i find the pkgs associated with a patch?i know i can check ...

Hello!I have installed Solaris 9 on a server (gateway), that is to behave as a router for three subnets to external net. That is, there are four NICs configured on the system, each NIC for a specific subnet, and there is a fourth NIC, which links these subnets to an externel network. Now how to ...

We are trying to debug an application that uses upd messages to track network packet loss. In our program we can see that we are entering a function that uses the (sys/socket.h)sendto() function. We are entering this function 12 time every 5 seconds. We send a upd message to 12 different ...

Hello All! Thank U for your time reading this post.Could anyone give me advice what should I do with A1000.I have A1000 and Sun E450. I have tried connect this devices together with no luck.The problem is when SCSI cable is connected with A1000 and I turn it on yellow LED on the back panel is ...

I have a vt100 running an advanced messaging application with a process that is hoarding cpu resources intermittently. I am trying to monitor the problem using a script that checks the processes every hour, tests for a value and based on the value exceeding a certain percentage send an email.My ...

I have an existing shell script that has a READ command in it. It asks me for input interactively (Y or N) when I run the script and based upon my response, performs different branches of logic. It works well.I now have a requirement to have cron run this same shell script in the middle of the ...

Hello!I wanted to check that like in Linux, is there any command like iptables, or any other adjacent command, performing the same function as of implementing a security firewall....?

Hello,I currently have two Ultra5 systems with the onboard video (pgx24?). How do I change the resolution from the default to a 1024x768 in 24-bit mode. I'm currently running Solaris 8 and 9. Thanx in advance.Erick

I am reloading (Solaris 8) a SunFire V100 which will be strictly used as a DNS and WEBSERVER. Can I get by with just loading the coregroup? or do I need to load on of the other groups.EndUserDeveloperEntireGroupThanks in Advance-Tom

Hi,What do I have to add to my syslog.conf to log all password changes?I would even want to log when root changes passwords.I pretty sure that i have to change /etc/syslog.confThanks

I have purchased a Sparcstation 5 from a computer show, i have serial console up and i'm at the <OK> prompt, this sparc doesn't have a CD-Rom. normally it gives this info if i don't send a <Break>--SPARCstation 5, No KeyboardROM Rev. 2.29, 64 MB memory installed, Serial ...

When I turn on the system there are 3 lights on the processor and memory trays all 3 lights are on constantly without blinking .What could be the problem here? ThanksAbrahama.benguigui@verizon.net

Hello!I have a situation here. In our institute, we have a Lab having Sun SPARC stations, Ultras and ultras2.A password on their firmware(open boot prom) is set, which does not allow us to do anything. And the list of passwords have been somewhat lost.Is there any way that these passwords be ...

We're a software OEM so we try to keep ahead of our customers with the near latest Recommended patch clusters. Sun, though, releases new reports every two weeks, and some of their patches have been withdrawn due to bugs in the patches. Also, some patches introduce incompatibilities with some ...

Running SunRay version 2.0 on E4500 server with Solaris 9.Every time a SunRay smartcard is removed and re-inserted Solaris 9 locks the screen and requires user password entry to restart the session. This happens even if the card is removed and immediately re-inserted.How can we turn off Solaris ...

Hi, I am setting up an alerting system on a Sun Blade 1000 but I am having trouble setting up parameters for the ambient temp. to set up a warning and possibly a panic parameter approx 2 or 3 degrees below when the system will panic.The server is in the server room. Any help in what I should ...

Hi, sendmail tries to resolv for "every" mail the hostname of th remote Mail-Server. If the DNS Server is not availble I get of course the error message <Host unkown>. Now sendmail deletes the messages (does not send it to the queue). Question: How can I avoid this situation, and sendmail ...

I admit freely that I'm not a NIS guru, but I have a strange situation here and I'm not sure if it's a works as designed or if there's something I'm missingjust a few little things to make things clear from the getgo/etc/nsswitch.confsnipaliases:files nisroot@mymachine:/# ypcat -k aliases ...

Ok so it's really not a problem, but I want to know why...On some of our Solaris 8 boxes here, users can simply change their passwords without having to enter their current password first...example below:bash-2.03# passwd testuser1New Password: Re-enter new Password: passwd: password ...

How do i go about automatically logging out logins that have not had any activity for ... lets say an hour?

I have a server running solaris 7, lately I've been experiencing a problem with crontab, when I try to schedule a job, for instance a backup, maybe late at night, the job doesn't even start, I've checked evertything and I don't find an answer to this problem, and I really need to solve ...

I've got an encapsulated rootdisk partition that I'm not able to use UFS logging on:root@host: mount -o logging /extra/extra: I/O errorCould not enable logging for /extra on /dev/vx/dsk/extra.This occurs for all the slices on the disk that use ufs. It's strange because early in then install ...

I have to change tcp_time_wait_interval to 60000 Mill.Sec. by running 'ndd -set /dev/tcp 60000'.The new setting is accepted and valid until I have to reboot SUN Solaris.After reboot the value for tcp_time_wait_interval is changed back to the default value again, which is 240000 Mill.Sec.What ...

After I bring the Netra T1 to OK prompt, obp command "test-all" returns an error message " Rejecting alloc-mem". What kind of error is this ? How to fix this ? Thanks

I'm trying to partition a 36 GB disk on my SF V480 box. I have two options to handle the partitioning job here, the only requirement here is that I need to allocate as much space as possible to /opt.option 1:c1t0d0s0/ 2.5 GBc1t0d0s1swap2.5 GB (the on-board RAM size is ...

Hi Syspo,I have a doubt,I have a configured /etc/hosts for my hosts, i have a DNS, and too the /etc/nsswitch.conf is configured for read it.I have a /etc/resolv.conf configured for my DNS.So, why the nslookp command it's not working? The same case for my ping command?I have Solaris ...

how do i find out the following info for a Sparcstation-20 running sunos 5.6how much memory?total disk space?processor speed?processor type?serial number (w/o looking on the back of the machine)?

I have the following scenario in vfstab and wanna make sure it's correct:/dev/vx/dsk/swapvol - - swap - no -and there is no definition in the vfstab for swap such as:swap - /tmp tmpfs - yes -Would it be correct to only use the first line in vfstab?thx. ...

Hi,I am trying to nfs mount a drive b/w two solaris 2.6 machines, but it keeps mounting as owned by root, group root. How can I change this?Here is what I have configured so far:poseidon (has the drive physically in it)/etc/dfstab :share -F nfs -o rw=hephaistos -d "data1" /devo_data1hephaistos ...

I just bought an Ultra 10. He demonstrated it to me and it was running fine. When I came home and connected my PC Monitor to it, after power on, it does start. But there is no display. Monitor remains in power saving mode. If I turn it on by pressing power on button, it displays message "Power ...

Has anyone used filesync to copy or sync a file system from one server to a remote server in a disaster recovery site? I tested ftp from the source to the target and avg about 100KB/s. Let's say one wants to sync the following:source server:serverA:/dir1target server:serverB:/dir1How would you ...

Hi,If I have a script starting in /etc/rc3.d with a file name S99hello and S99bye which one gets executed first?That is if the number after the "S" is the same, will the next alphabet in the filename determine the order of execution?Also is it the same for the shutdown scripts which start with ...

We're using a Cobalt Raq 4 Server. We need to be able to relay emails for the following IP range212.72.173.0to212.72.173.255Is there any way we can do this by specifying something such as 212.72.173.***?Any help would be greatly appreciated.CheersWill O'hara ...

Hello,After an upgrade to OpenSSH I have a small problem. A user account can no longer be accessed using SSH as it is set locked, shadow entry is:username:*LK*:::::::To fix this problem we need to change the shadow entry to be "no password":username:*NP*:::::::This change has to be roled out to ...

I have the following information:PartTagFlagCylindersSize Blocks 0 unassignedwm0 - 10661.56GB(1067/0/0)3277824 1 unassignedwm1067 - 18001.08GB(734/0/0)2254848 2 backup wu0 - 3414450.02GB(34145/0/0)104893440 3 unassignedwm1801 - 1750223.00GB(15702/0/0)48236544 4 unassignedwm17503 - ...