Hi,What is the best way to determine how many CPU's and total disk space on a Sun box.CPU's - prtdiag command?Total Disk Space - df -k or format?Thanks, Mark

Ok.... I'm sure there is some really simple reason I can't figure this out.I have a Solaris 8 machine with 5 users, all users are members of the group staff. Whenever anyone creates a file on the system the default file permission gets set to 644. How do I change this default to be 774 so ...

Hi Folks,I'm trying to access devices from my ultra 5 via its serial port. I'm more used to working with Linux and its dev files. In Linux the serial ports usually take the form of /dev/ttyS0 etc. Does anyone know what device file is used for the serial port on the ultra 5?Thanks in advance. ...

Hello!I have a new quad card I just installed in my Ultra 1 with Solaris 8 and I'm a bit confused about some things that I found. Right now, I'm using the native ethernet port on the box to connect ot my network as hme0. When I did the reconfigure reboot, it found the card no problem and ...

I've got an Ultra 5 running Solaris 8 with the default cc installed but every time I try to compile software, it claims there is no valid cc or gcc install to use. I seem to remember reading somewhere that there is another package you need to get from Sun and install in order to compile. Does ...

Anyone knows why /bin/sh is prefered than any other shells for root, is it for security reasons? if so please elaborate.thx

How exactly does an Netra A1000 fit onto a network? Does it have it's own firmware/software ? Or is it just a device that is managed via Veritas?

I am filling in for our SysAdmin and am being asked about a vulnerabilty regarding wu-ftp.We are running Solaris 8and ideas how I determine if we are using wu-ftp and the current status of any patches or methods to correct this vulnerability?

Hi there..Im having difficulty in setting my second interface in my netraT1 105 running solaris 9. It has 1 network card with 2 interfaces. I set up the first interface hme0 and it works. I tried to set up the second interfaces, and when i tried to plumb it, it gives out error as ...

A few days ago I swapped system IP addresses - basically the production box became the production box once again and the test/development box once again became just that. This was done a few months ago (before I started) for database upgrades and now that I finished upgrading the old production ...

Hi, I have solaris 9 running on an enterprise 220R, along with sunscreen3.2, my problem is that Ive connected it directly to a Foundry switch and configured it so that the foundry is the default gateway, I cannot ping or anything to the foundry....Its got me completely going crazy please anyone ...

I am looking for a product / method of keystroke logging of telnet sessions on Solaris 8 server ?

I have oracle installed on a 280R sparc with solaris 5.8. When our oracle instance crashed it created a core dump file. According to oracle, I need to use an OS specific tool to convert this file to something readable. It looks like the crash analysis tool will do what I need. However, I have ...

I am experiencing probs with ip forwarding, I have a 220R, Ive added ip forwarding into the rc2.d file and rebooted the system, it shows up as persistantly forwarding (what I want), I have 3 active interfaces each on different networks. I can ping from a test box on one of the networks to all ...

I have a compromised machine from which I recovered data. The only way to get it to boot was to do it from CD, and the only CD I had available was a solaris 7 CD set. I booted from that, mounted the messed up drive slices, tarred up the important data, then ftp'd it over a direct network ...

Hi, I have an ultra5 that needs more hd space, would anyone know if the Ultra5 will accept an 80Gb IDE hard-disk? I know that even older PCs have problems with large hard-disks so I'm not sure if the ultra5 will take it or not. Any ideas?Thanks

Does anyone know why my sun blade will not boot unless I have the USB keyboard attached? If so how can I resolve this? I have three of them and as far as I know they are all configured the same but one will not boot without the keyboard attached. If I attache the keyboard and boot then remove ...

Sorry, but I am very new to Solaris and UNIX in general. My question is how do I grant a specific user permission to use specific ports like 80 and 443? I am trying to fiddle a bit with Apache's Tomcat 5.0.24 and would love some input on this. I have created a user "tomcat" to do the job of ...

I have a machine running on Solaris 2.5 that is having trouble ftping files in and out. The ftp session seems to start okay, but then it just hangs. Eventually I receive an error "netout: broken pipe". The directory I'm ftping to has enough space to handle the file, which is approximately ...

Hello,I'm trying to temporarily add a 2nd disk to an ultra5 system to create a backup image using dd. I want to copy the existing disk using dd to a 2nd disk to have a spare image of the system.I crack open the case and unplug the CDROM from the power and data cables and plug them into my 2nd ...

I am trying to build a E 420R to operate as a database server, typically I minicom in to the server, do the os install and that is it. Well, I am not able to console in to this server, it does not respond to anything. it just powers on then sits there, never gives me any error codes, nothing. ...

Is there a command that will bring a window to the front and make it the active window? I don't want to use the mouse to do it. Instead I wan to wuse a script to autimatically choose windows. Thanks for any help?mnj

I'm running solaris 8 on a UltraSparc server.My server is not running nfs server or client, I noticed the automountd is running at the background, can I stop this daemon or disable the run level scripts to prevent it from starting up, what will be impact in my situation? Thanks. ...

Hi everyone,I齰e tried to configure the tftp on my solaris 8 running in a PC. I齰e deleted de comment (#) in the /etc/inetd.conf as follow:tftpdgramudp6waitroot/usr/sbin/in.tftpdin.tftpd -s /tftpbootI齰e created the directory and I齰e change the permisions to access to it. As follow: drwxrwxrwx2 ...

Hi all,first time i post here, so i'm not sure if this is the right forum.I'm running a 32bit single thread proces on a soalris 8 machine, and i need to trace the proces.My goal is to obtain something like:cpu time, disk IO, Waith IO, and real time of the process.I try with time and sar, but ...

We just replaced our failed controller card on an A1000 after installing the new controller card the system is now unable to recognize the old luns. I understand that this is due to the controller number changing c1t8 -> c6t8. I have attempted to change how the system recognizes the array ...

Hi I have a box acting as a firewall, I had to reboot it and since then I am receiving a lot of input packet errors, and only on one interface. I would assume if it was a cable problem that the Input and output errors would be similar, so I ruled that out, there is only input errors, which grow ...

Hi,I am a new network admin.Looking for a solution to a DHCP issue:We have clients come onsite with laptops etc. and need access to the internet for presenatations and other web based apps. We do not want them to have any kind of really access to the file servers or network resources except ...

We use the automounter to NFS mount two servers. When trying to access the mount point for a server that is not currently switched into our network, the automounter takes 90 seconds to time-out. On our HP systems in only takes 10 seconds. We are using the following entry in /etc/auto.direct ...

How do I disable a cpu while in prom monitor?

I'm pretty new to the Solaris admin gig, so please bear with me...I am running into errors related to file descriptors. The logs are showing messages stating that there are "too many open file" to do whatever process the system is trying to do. I understand how to change the file limits by ...

Would like to know, Is there any option in VI to restrict the user from opening new file or Write to different file or escape to shell. Ideally the user should be able to edit only the file that is given in the command line option and not to do anything else. Has anyone implemented such a ...

I have a SunFire V100. The Disk is starting to flake out so I've added a second drive. I've partitioned that new drive and did ufssave and ufsrestore of all the partitions from the flaky drive to the new drive. (following instructions about saving and restoring / and /usr) I now wish to boot ...

I'm getting this error when doing a devfsadm on a sol 8 machineld.so.1: devfsadm: fatal: relocation error: file devfsadm: symbol di_devlink_open: referenced symbol not foundSame thing happend is i try adding the disks using drvconfig then disksAny idea why this is happening? ...

root@# vxdisk listDEVICETYPEDISK GROUPSTATUSc1t0d0s2slicedc1t0d0rootdg onlinec1t1d0s2slicedc1t1d0rootdgonlinec2t15d0s2slicedc2t15d0symdg04onlinefailingc2t15d1s2slicedc2t15d1symdg04onlinec2t15d2s2slicedc2t15d2symdg04onlinefailingc2t15d3s2slicedc2t15d3symdg04onlinev880 attached to emc clarion ...

I setup a trunk on my 480, and I am getting every few seconds an error message in the adm/messages:"Jun 16 09:33:39 myhost1 ip: [ID 903730 kern.warning] WARNING: IP: Hardware address '00:03:ba:69:0b:a3' trying to be our address 010.100.010.095!"anyone has any clue?thx ...

I am trying to set up a couple of users with the ability to ftp to/from one of my servers and bypass SecurID for ftp only. (uname -a output: SunOS rrnms 5.6 Generic_105181-23 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-2) I get a login prompt when I ftp to the server, but it keeps stating that my login is ...

How do I list files that are over a year old with the time stamp (HH:MM:SS) on solaris 8ls -ltr overwrites the hours and minutes with the yearThanks

I've 15" TFT flat panel from Daytek. When i connect my ultra 5 system to TFT panel i don't see any display but if connect my TFT to my regualr PC it works fine. Please adise me at esidat@mobility.com

I have a workstation that is based on the AXI motherboard.Where can I find a list supported PCI boards that are supported by Solaris-9 SPARC?I am most interested in PCI IDE controllers, PCI IDE RAID controllers, and PCI video controllers.Thanks

i am using patchpro v2.2 on sunos 5.9. i have not made any changes to the system and all of a sudden patchpro has stopped functioning properly. here is what happens now:32.24Jun04.DING!./var/sadm# pprosvc -dAssessing patches needed for your ...

Just taking a little sanity poll here as I've been chatting with one of my DBAs regarding Oracle 10G and the new Oracle web server setup. It seems that Oracle has a slight issue with non-fqdn name in the first position of the /etc/hosts entry for the hostnamei.e.Oracle doesn't like this - ...

I want to create an account and not allow that account to telnet into the server but allow someone to be able to su to that account. For example, if I creted an oracle account. I don't want anyone to be able to telnet into the server as oracle but do want to allow the dba's the ability to su ...

I have files with 81 fields, separated by ^~I can't get any Solaris awk to recognize the fields, usingFS = /\^~/or FS = "^~"or FS = "\^~".The first works in gawk on my PC.I can't split the records using split and "^~" or "\^~" either.Can anyone help me out?Thanks,Gerry ...

Hi all,I have a problem when i grep for a particular field among all fhe files in the directory.if i do an ls -l field *i can find it.however at the moment the number of files in the directory are close to 28000 and it returns anksh: /usr/bin/grep: arg list too longAssuming i just want to grep ...

Hi,How is an IP address mapped to a specific interface on a Sun box? In other words how do we tell it what interface to use? Does this involve a startup script?Thanks, Mark

We are running a process that processes 20% fewer transactions every hour it runs. For example:hour 1 - 60,000hour 2 - 48,000hour 3 - 38,400etcAs a workaround, we are bouncing the process every two hours.We immediately suspected a memory leak. We tested the process very throughly under Great ...

Hi folks!I need to create a script that is able to check connections to certain ports on over a thousand clients which are connected to a backupserver through a firewall.I'm used to run telnet client <port number>ctrl + 5telnet> quitHowever, I just can't figure out how I'm supposed ...

Hi,Why is it that you can only configure 1 IP address to 1 interface? Why does it work that way?Also, why can't you configure an IP address of 1.2.3.4, which is a valid IP address (for example) on a Sun box and it not do you any good?It will hose up the box right, but I need to know ...

Hi,I have been asked why won't an IP address of 1.2.3.4 work on a Sun box ? It will hose up the box I have been told.Any ideas?Please advise.Mark