Some team members attempted to remove a rack mounted E420r, and in the process have managed to get the server stuck halfway out.It is now in a state where we are unable to move the box in or out of the rack ,it is simply stuck around the halfway point of coming out and will not move an inch in ...

this may be cheesy and lame, but everyone is doing my head in to get it sorted.i have a number of machines that have to have the same hostname, but each sits in a different domain. but yet the monitors of these machines sit side-by-side, which makes logging in an interesting puzzle to the ...

Hi,I am trying to ssh to a Sun box called willem - (10.70.0.20) and I get this error message back:patrick /export/home/mwright>ssh 10.70.0.20Secure connection to 10.70.0.20 on port 9934 refused.So I need to change the port configuration on willem or patrick from port 22 to 9934 correct?How ...

I was testing some RJ45-DB25 adapters I was making and hooked up a laptop using hyperterminal to the console on a Sunfire 280r console. When I plugged it in, I started getting constant garbage (no biggie, I think, I must have the hyperterminal settings wrong). I think something was wrong in the ...

I was having trouble getting a server to boot due to the vfstab file being corrupted. It was telling me I could use the boot -b option. I have never seen this option before nor can I find an explanation for it in the man pages or on the web. Can someone explain what the -b option is please. ...

I'm having problems when I su to root on my Solaris 8 system. I can login as a regular user but when I su to root I get "sorry". My root password has not expired. The root password is 45 days old (the password is set for 90 days). The only way I can fix this problem is shutdown the system and ...

Hi All,1.The max file size in solaris is 2gb , any ideas on how can we increase this. Suppose i want the max file size to be 20gb in my machine.2. How do i find out the current NFS version.regds,Suraj

I know, I know, this is a silly question. I just downloaded Solaris 10 and I cannot find where to setup my networking. I am trying to get online, but I don't have a clue where to start. I will buy a book soon but for now I just want to get online.Thanks

Hi,I need to find how and where a Sun box is confgured to receive email alerts from the Sun box to Groupwise email.Where can I find out what port would be involved to connect from the Sun box via Groupwise.Please advise.Thanks.

Hi I am trying to find a similar tool to HP's make _recovery, that can be used for solaris 8.This is a recovery boot tape, to use in the event of root disk failure.Any ideasThanks in advance

Hi, all,I need advice on live upgrade.I have two internal disks, one has current boot environment, and the other one I intended to create a copy of the boot environment.same size and configuration.I also have three mount points that have filessystems that resides on storeage disk.When I tried ...

Hi sr ..Id like to know if there is some kind of ACL (access control list)in order to connect through ftp to sunsolve.sun.com ..cause I got this answer :Connected to sunsolve.sun.com.Connection closed by remote host.thanks !!Javier

I have an E450 running solaris 2.6 and Oracle 8.1.6. I am planning to upgrade the Solaris to 9 or possibly 10, and the Oracle to 10g. I have never done upgrade of either product before. What is the best way to upgrade both products on the same server (I would like to keep the database intact if ...

I am new to solaris. I have an ultra 5 running solaris 8. I would like to find out how to configure this box to share my internet connection running of my windows xp workstation. My box is using the standard Microsoft ip address of 192.168.0.1 class c subnet I have configured my unix box to see ...

I am using Volume Manager for the first time! I have set up a raid 1, 3 way mirror but am not sure that I did everything correctly. The mirror appears to be working in that I can take a submirror offline, mount it read only on a mount pount and read it, then umount it, put it back online and ...

Just a simple question.Does changing tcp_mss_def_ipv4 require a reboot to become effective?In fact do changes to any /dev/tcp parameters require a reboot to become effective?Thanks in advance.

Hello,As anyone found a why to connect an SunFire 480R to a APC smartups 1500. The UPS has a 9 pin serial and a usb port but the SunFire 480 only has a Rj45 serial connector. Any ideas?Or does Sun offer any product that will shutdown the server in case of a power failure.

Hello,I would appreciate your help on the following scenario.I need to install multiple copies of a large package on a machine which are identical except for minor configuration files. Each of these packages depend upon one copy of a different package.The run time structure would be, for ...

Hi,Solaris 7.Is there a way to find out how much shared memory is beingused?ThanksPete

HelloI'm sending a trap using /usr/sbin/snmp_trapsend:# /usr/sbin/snmp_trapsend -h host -e ${EMB_OID} -a "${OID} STRING (${TRAP_STR})"My problem is that when it sends the trap, it concatenate .0.1 to the original OID, so my trap console doesn't recorgnize the OID. How can i avoid this ...

Hi everyone,I am working as a Unix system administrator in a bank. We have a mixed environment of about 60 servers, both Windows (HP Intel x86) and Solaris (Sun SPARC).I have, in the last 4 years, worked with Solaris and I far as I can tell, it is a pretty good product very standard and robust. ...

After the FTP directory reorganization, I can no longer find patchdiag.xref. It previously resided at: ftp://sunsolve.sun.com/pub/patches and this is where the sunsolve site still claims it to be but there isn't even a pub directory anymore.I've searched the forums and found nothing.Does ...

When people refer to machines as two by two or four by four what do they mean? Sorry about the stupid question.ThanksAnna

Is there any way to execute the ifconfig command function from a non - super user login.ifconfig eri0:1 up

Is anyone aware of a log that records the history of processes that have been executing on a server? We want to be able to see when processes start and stop to get an idea of their run times.We are running Solaris 8 on Sparc boxes.Thanks

Which directory do Sun Cluster activity logs normally reside?Thanks

Hiwhy i have to careate a same name file,before i transfer a file to tftp server?

I have two little problems:1) I need to configure the default disk for booting the system. 2) where is to be written the IPs of the different network interfaces in order that at boot the NICs are configured correctly?I could not find these informations in the documentation, would someone be so ...

I have a Compact PCI system, with a Netra CP1500 440 MHz CPU card and a XCP-TRN I/O Transition card. The OS is Solaris 2.6, patched to the required level to work with this card. I can not get the second erhernet port (hme1) to come up. Using 'ifconfig -a plumb' does not yield anything. Can ...

I am trying to open a xterm window, rsh or rlogin to a machine run a command(like "uptime") and have the information diplay in the window. rhs and rlogin seem to time out the window after the command is complete. Is there a way to get the window to stay open? Is there a command like the IRIX ...

Hi,I have a created 3 partitions using the unix format command on a Sun Storedge 3310, which is configured with RAID5 and it's attached to a Sun 280R server. However, I'm unable to create a newfs on each one of these partitions. Each partition is bigger than 20GB. To create the ufs I'm using ...

I am HP-UX administrator.I am eager to learn Solaris also.Which are the best books/documents available , so that I compare my HP-UX with Solaris .Like , In HP boot process ISL , which is related in Solaris , Bootblk or ufsboot ?ThanksAbhijeet

Is there any way to permanently set the maximum number of file descriptors in a process. Like a setting which would be global for every process.The fns setrlimit or plimit only set for a single process.

Hi I want to change the ownership of a block filethe file is located under /dev/vx/dsk/dbdgthe file is currently owned by root and i want to change any idea once i changed manually it is changing back after rebootregardsSalman

Anyone know if it is best to use hard links or soft links for rc scripts (in start/stop) from the /etc/init.d? I used to use soft links with other platforms (hpux), but I found recommendations for hard links - I never used them in the past because soft links seem easier to track then hard. Any ...

Hi all, here goes my first post...we have an E3500 with 4x400MHz UltraSparcII CPUs and 6GB RAM. Solaris 9 is installed on 2x18GB@10,000RPM internal drives (mirrored).The other 6x18GB internal drives are striped for IO performance, data protection is not an issue. This is where we store data as ...

Hi ,Can anyone let me know how to implement Sudo in Solaris 8. what package needs to be installed and what do we do to give privileges to simple users.What is the diff between sudo.global and the sudo.local files ?.Thanks in Advance to all of you.

Hi,We want to add an IDE Hard Disk to Ultra 10 with Solaris 2.8.We have already tried with a 120 Gb Hard Disk (Seagete ST3120022a) but the system detects it as 20Gb.Anybody knows which is the problem?Is there a hard disk size limit for Ultra 10?Thaks in advance. ...

Hi,Testing setuid and not getting what I would expect, the euid doesn't appear to be getting set?chmod was used with 4755>ls -l-rwsr-xr-x1 rootstaff 19 Jan 12 12:37 test.filedrwx2 rootstaff512 Jan 12 11:34 xxx>cat test.fileidwho am ils xxx>./test.fileuid=10254(mevans) ...

the code posted grabs the parent id of the process not the process itself. The problem is with the way ps -ef returns the list of pids.I tried to write this but it doesn't always work:ps -ef | grep -i "$lookfor" | grep -v grep | cut -d' ' -f5,6,7 | cut -c1-5Is there a robust way of doing ...

We must start auditing.BSM is running on the test machine. Lots of great data is being produced !! How do we get the output of praudit into a readable format? Are there tools available that can let thesecurity administrators request or submit their own report requests? ...

Hi,On our Solaris boxes there is usually a USER environment variable, but on a couple of machines for certain users this does not get set. Does anyone know how this gets set-up, its not in /etc/profile?Also I found that some time the logname command does not work when running a shell in a ...

Version Information-Apache 2.0.52Tomcat 5.5openSSL 9.7eI've successfully been able to install all three components with thefollowing attributes:I've successfully connected Tomcat to Apache via the mod_proxy moduleinstead of using the JK2 connector (it was a lot easier ;)I've also ...

Hi allI've a directory called histlog on my root directory. the content are as shown below:etsup@hmr-ret03 /histlog>ls -lrt ./..: Permission deniedtotal 964drwx2 rootroot8192 Sep 25 13:19 lost+found/ drwxr-xr-x5 rootroot 512 Oct 7 10:03 ./ drwxr-x6 rootefx 512 Jan 8 10:50 LBN/ drwxrwx2 ...

When CD is inserted Solaris 10 analyzed it and after that instantly ejects. But when volmgt is stopped (/etc/init.d/volmgt stop) its doesn't happend and I can successfuly mount and read this CD.Whats wrong?Sincerely yours, TafKoS.

Hi,The tape drive on one of my Ultra 10 workstations (let's call it PC 1) is faulty. I need to restore a backup from another Ultra 10 workstation (lets call it PC 2) urgently.I had to relax the security settings on PC2 to enable a restore from the tape drive in PC 1. This is a one time ...

What configuration parameters are required to swap all hard drives from a Sun Fire V120 running Solaris V9 and Veritas Cluster Server to a new Sun Fire V240?

What happened to Configuration and Service Tracker? I have a need for a service like this, but none of the links on sun.com to download this product work. Did it get replaced/integrated into another product?

Hi, we installed Tomcat Servlet container/web-server on a networked machine. It worked fine when we accessed it from that machine, but when I typed the address into another terminal (with the port number - 8090) I got the error report - page cannot be displayed - Error 10061 Connection refused. ...

Hello.Is there any way one can set the umask for a specific ftp user? I've tried setting in /etc/default/ftpd. But, I believe this is a system-wide setting. How can one set it so the files put/dropped by a particular user are set to 660 ?thanks in advance