I'm having some difficulty sending mail from my SUN V880. I get this message in the root's inbox:-- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors --morgan@telephonics.com......-- Transcript of session follows --550 5.1.2 morgan@telephonics.com... Host unknown (Name server: ...

I have a Sun Ultra 10 on which I tried installing Solaris 9.0. At first everything went well and the sytem came up in CDE. Then some one accidently shutdown the machine and now when it tries to boot it looks for a NIS server. It appears it logs on to our lab's NIS domain but after that it just ...

I'm running Sunscreen 3.2 (routing mode) on Solaris 9 (12/02) with only onepublic IP address (using hme0). I've got a local network192.168.1.0/27 (using znb0). I also have one DMZ192.168.1.224/27 (using znb1). Since Sunscreen doesn't supportport forwarding I've statically NAT'd the ...

Hi,I can not find the sar utility under my Solaris 8 installation.How can I re-install it?Thanks,Raymond

Is it okay if I copy /dev/null to a not_terminated /var/audit file? The file is 180 MB and I don't want to reboot. We do not use the audit information.ThanksSue

Hi,I'm having problems booting an Ultra 30 over the network.I have a blade100 with CDROM.On the blade I've added the line8:0:20:9b:e8:8d u30to /etc/ethers - where 8:0:... etc is the MAC address of the Ultra 30 & u30 is the hostnameI've added10.0.4.50 u30to /etc/hosts on the blade, where ...

Hey guysI'm trying to copy OS (no Jumpstart for old SUNOS :-) ) from system A to system B which is in a separate subnet than A. How can I clone OS disk of B using dd? CheersAnna

I wanted to ask this question via email but couldn't find an address - or a phonenumber... hence this use of the forum; hey, it's a messaging portal, right?Here's the question:I'm putting together a set of Solaris tech tips for anysystem.com - see http://www.winface.com/any/index.html for ...

I encountered this error message when I launched the nmap uitlity on one of my servers:# ./nmap 192.168.100.1ld.so.1: ./nmap: fatal: libstdc++.so.5: open failed: No such file or directoryWhat's wrong here?

I am sure this is a simple fix but I have been looking at it too long.. using Solaris 9 - we have an application that does an rlogin to the localhost and then logs in as another user to run a program and for some odd reason it has stopped working, tried doing the rlogin as root and all I get is ...

Hi,I'm having problems using a blade100 as a jumpstart server..I think I've set everything up correctly (/etc/ethers, /etc/hosts, etc etc :-)I've run add_install_client with the following parameters# ./add_install_client -c blade100:/export/jumpstart -p blade100:/export/jump_5.8 -s ...

Hi all, since we have installed the Recommended Patchcluster 23 on Solaris 2.8 no cronjob from an user with a locked password will be executed. Someone an idea?Greetings Willy

Hello. I'm using Solaris 2.8. We have two unix users, say user1 and user2, both with same uid, say 201, different homedir. Of course I see all files owned by user1, the first defined in /etc/passwd. I don't like this situation at all and would like to change it. So, as root I gived user2 a ...

HI!I have been asked to turn off or disable I guess IP routing by the Network Manager. I have not asked why this needs to be done; but, anybody know how to turn off/disable IP routing?I will appreciate a prompt response.Thank you,Juan...

Hello all.Since the mailadmin changed the mailserver, my V800 can no more send messages. They stay in the queue directory, waiting for ever. Where do I have to change the setting of the mailhost? sendmail is not running on my server, I just need to send messages, not receive. I added the ...

On all of my clients, /opt is mounted from the server. Lately, when I try to move files to any directory under /opt, I get MANY NFS errors. The errors I recieve are 145, 27, and 5. I've tried looking those up, but all that I seem to get from anywhere is RPC Timed Out. Any ideas would be very ...

A colleague was trying to make more room in /usr and inadvertently moved/usr/lib to another filesystem in preparation of creating a symbolic linkfrom /usr/lib ==> /otherfilesystem/lib.Now, of course the system won't boot - sits at the boot prompt.Is there a way out of this besides ...

Installed Entire Distribution of Solaris 9 on an AC200. Then installed apache-1.3.28//mod-ssl/mod-jk, tomcat 4.1.29 and commercial SSH.Removed packages for original apache (SUNWapchd, apchr and apchu), printer (SUNWlpmsg, mp, pcr, pcu, ppm, psr and scplp), samba (SUNWsmbac, smbar and smbau), ...

As part of the J2EE recommended cluster, I attempted installing patch 108528-26 to my Solaris 8 box (all of which was downloaded from sun.com):SunOS boedev 5.8 Generic_108528-14 sun4u sparc SUNW,UltraAX-MPIt failed and rolled back as part of the cluster with the following error log:Package not ...

"smpatch analyze/download" is telling me that I need patch 112517-04 (SunOS 5.8: Fujitsu CPU performance counters patch.) Since this is a stock Netra T1/105 (running 5.8, ) I know I don't need this patch. In fact, trying to install it (just to shut up smpatch) yields a "you don't have this" ...

Ultra-2 running Solaris 8 crashed after power outage and back-up battery died. When I try to reboot from the disk I get message: The file just loaded does not appear to be executable. Then it returns me to the "ok" prompt. I can boot from cdrom, but not sure what file to fix or replace. Any ...

Where can I find out if Sun Spectrum Bronze support is available for Solaris 2.5.1 on an Ultra 5 server?

Hi, I'm a newbie to solaris.I need to create a "logical" printer that prints to a text file in a particular directory. I do not know where and how to start. ANy advice?

Hi, my server displayed this errorSun Microsystems Inc.SunOS 5.8Generic PatchOctober 2001# Nov 20 09:03:39 al-khawarizmi unix: WARNING: [AFT0] 135 soft errors in less than 24:00 (hh:mm) detected from Memory Module Slot B: J2901Nov 20 09:03:39 al-khawarizmi unix: WARNING: [AFT0] 282 soft errors ...

I set the timezone to PST instead of EST by mistake, I know how to fix the /etc/TIMEZONE file, however, I can not reboot the server in 2 months. Besides 'set TZ=EST' in every window, is there a way to take system wide effect without reboot?Thanks

Is there a command to show what version of Solstice DiskSuite is running?

I want to connect a TFT5015 flat panel monitor to an Ultra10. Will I need a specific driver for this, and if so what?Regards,John H.

I am hoping you can help, We are doing FTP's over a DS3 but can only push traffic at 3.5MB/s. The network folks do not see anything wrong or QOS problems. I have the following settings: ndd -set /dev/ip ip_path_mtu_discovery 0 ndd -set /dev/tcp tcp_rexmit_interval_max 60000 ndd -set /dev/tcp ...

We have a SunSwift compaq PCI adaptr in a Sun 3800. We never get any errors when issuing the "netstat -i' command. But our Legato NETWORKER software gets the following error:save: RPC error: Remote system errorsave: Cannot open save session with servernameThe following is our current ...

What to do if I add some parameters to /etc/system. Mine is aproduction system which cannot be shut down.Sridhar Bachu

How fussy is Solaris about what gets written to the VTOC using fmthard ?If I use prtvtoc on a machine with a SUN4.2G drive I can create a text file containing the partition table.If I then juggle the figures to suit the geometry of a generic unlabelled SCSI drive, assuming that the slices are ...

I have a reoccuring issue where, as I am running the ./install_cluster script to install 8_recommended patch cluster, I get disconnected from the console port during the patch of the kernel to version -23. This has happened repeatedly on multiple systems.I have to manually reconnect to the ...

I have solaris 2.5, VM 2.1.1 using model 112 sparc storage arrays. I get the following message trying to remove a failed disk for replacement. volume 'master' will loose data. This volume should be mirrored but isn't. Attempts to redo the mirror tell me object master-01 was unexpectedly ...

Hi,I am running Apache Web Server on Solaris 7 with 1 Gb of RAM and 1.5 Gb of swap.Each night, a full backup is done of the file system with ArcServ.When the backup is done, my memory allocation get down to almost zero. I think it is because the OS is caching files.The problem is that this ...

I need to determine minimum hardware recommendations for a web server, given X concurrent users and Y average download size, what CPU and memory should I use?

I have just noticed thatt under my /etc/rc2.d/ directory, there were two startup scripts with the same priority number: S72inetsvc and S72autoinstallWhat will happen in a reboot? Which script will run? Or will both run as well?Thanks!

Hello, can someone direct me to a good place to find info on monitoring performance of server i/o disk cpu swap....also how can I check/increase swap size? I am sorry for the fundamental questions, I am just learning unix. Thank you in advance.

I have a silly question for the group...Has anyone ever been successful in using /usr/bin/script inside of a shell script, directing output to a file on a remote server, and being able to execute some command afterward whose execution is captured from within the script file output?If so, please ...

Hi everyone,I am running Sun OS Release 5.8. Is it necessary to boot or use ifconfig after modifications by executing the command "ndd -set /dev/hme adv_* "?" * " can be autoneg_cap etc..Thanks,Yooness

HiI have 12 bay multipack & I am running Solaris 8.I am trying to connect the multi pack to Sun Ultra 30. I am getting the following error. SCSI bus MESSAGE IN phase parity error. What does it mean?Also, at the ok prompt when I say probe-scsi-all I get Bus fault error & it is continous ...

Curious if anyone has seen this problem before.I'm using Sun SSHD on a system I just installed. On the client side, I'm using both Cygwin OpenSSH - current version - and the "free" SSH.com ssh client - current version.Connecting to this machine using the cygwin.com SSH client works just ...

Before I dive into the manuals for SunScreen (a daunting task if you're short of time), could someone with experience confirm a few assumptions that I'm making?Given a setup like this: 1. Single public-routeable IP address on one interface -- the public interface.2. Second interface connected ...

I am running a script that moves and crates a symlinka total size of 100GB files from one filesystem to another:-- begin of script --LOGFILE=$0.logSRCDIR=/be/prod/billing/geneva/file/gnvprd01/bill/gbiTRGDIR=/be/prod/billing/geneva3/file/gnvprd01/bill/gbiFILES=gbi.out###SIZETOT: the total size ...

Hello,Suppose you are running started some command or script (without nohup),but you realize that it does take a long time.How can you stop temporarily the execution of the command or script, so youcan pipe it to nohup and ... go home ?Thanks in advance,--YD ...

I'm trying to identify any and all log files to troubleshoot an X window manager problem. I am running Solaris 9 on a sparc machine that is headless. I am using Graphon's GO-Global UX to access CDE, OpenWindows and Gnome 2.0.I recently added Gnome as a window manager. After doing so, ...

Hi everyone,I'd like to install different versions of the solaris on this platform, using 2 hard drives.So :Computer is an UltraSparc 5, latest OpenBios (3.31), Sparc II 333 Mhz with 128 Mb RAM.I've got a 8 Gb drive, and a 80 Gb drive.On the 8 Gb, I'd like to install sun solaris 2.6 and ...

I'm running an environment that has 1 relay server for many UNIX systems. For various security and maintenance reasons, only the relay server has sendmail running. I have a problem where one user is continually sending emails to users that don't exist. What happens is that he sends email to ...

I always use the shutdown script on many other of my 280's running solaris 8. I have one box that just will not reboot using /usr/sbin/shutdown -y -i6 . I checked the the shutdown scripts against other alike servers that are working. A reboot works fine. I have been tasked to find out why. I ...

Hi all,was working with a client and realized that they are running solaris 2.6 (sparc)...someone has lost their CD set that came with the original server. Do you know where I can purchase a set of these CDs?Thanks

trying to set up a linux box for central logging. The cisco devices are able to log centrally but the hpux & solaris boxes are not sending their logs.on the central logger in /etc/syslog.conf i have the following:#local4.debugtab tab/var/log/hpuxlocal3.debug/var/log/solaris#& on the ...