Dear All Gurus,I m facing problem in one of the Sun site. I am having 2 Sun E250 Servers and 2 Sun StorEdge d1000. while booting one of the server it is giving following on console terminal. Please help me in this problem.Sep 9 21:19:54 exports unix: PCI-device: scsi@1,1, glm #5Sep 9 21:19:54 ...

Dear All Gurus,I m facing problem in one of the Sun site. I am having 2 Sun E250 Servers and 2 Sun StorEdge d1000. while booting one of the server it is giving following on console terminal. Please help me in this problem.Sep 9 21:19:54 exports unix: PCI-device: scsi@1,1, glm #5Sep 9 21:19:54 ...

NOTICE: /var: unexpected free inode 4516,run fsck(1M) -o f .Can anyone please help

Hi,After reboot the local zone, I can't telnet into it any more... Couldn't find any problem with it and do not know how to make it work. All I can do is zlogin into local zone from global. Can someone help me please? Thanks a bunch!HS

The latest FLEXlm software recommends changing the "tcp:tcp_time_wait_interval" setting from 60000 to 2400. I can do this from the command line:ndd -set /dev/tcp tcp_time_wait_interval 2400However, I tried adding the following line to the "/etc/system" file, but after rebooting, the setting ...

ndd -get $interface link_status used to show link status of an interface. but it is no longer available in solaris 10. anyone know the alternative?

I changed a root password, tested it, but for the life of me, no matter what i type, it ain't playing.I mus have typed it three time, twice to change via passwd, and once to test via telnet.Anyway, how do i get it back/reset it?

Hello,One of our developers discovered a problem that for simplicity we call "latency". We have several 5.10 clients that we see the exact same symptoms on when NFS mounting our Celerra. The NAS is running a Linux variant "2.4.9-34.5406.EMC", but before you all jump on the "it's EMC's ...

Guys, I have installed a new jumpstart server on Sun utlra20 workstation. I found that I cannot eject cdrom. After running setup_install_server, it automatically mount CDROM onto the /tftp directory. I am not sure if I got a wrong procedure or it should like that. Is there any idea on how to ...

Hello,I have a SPARCstation 20 running SunOS release 5.7 and I messed up the S30rootuser.sh and now the system would not start. It gave a prompt "Type ctrl-d to proceed with normal startup (or give root password for system ad\\maintenance):". If I pressed "ctrl-d", it ask for "ENTER RUN LEVEL ...

Hi,is this the right forum for JASS discussions? If so, how can I give feedback to the developers?Thanks,Kevin

I'm practicing my troubleshooting skills, specifically, pinpointing which disks/files are getting accessed at any one point in time.We have an oracle database; if I tell the database to gather statistics it can flex the system as a whole. Anway, I wanted to see if I could pinpoint disk ...

Hi dear members! I have recently installed apache manually into /opt/apache now i am trying to create smf services for it to start it automatically on reboot. Here is my http.xml file<?xml version="1.0"?><!DOCTYPE service_bundle SYSTEM ...

Hi,Just upgraded to 5.10 6/06then tried to "zpool create"hangsformatselect any diskselecting c0t0d0s0[disk formatted]then it just sits there.a truss on the process shows sleeps/2:door_return(0x00000000, 0, 0x00000000, 0) (sleeping...)/4:pollsys(0xFEAFBF98, 1, 0x00000000, 0x00000000) ...

We will be porting an existing Solaris 10 (serial) device driver to Trusted Solaris in the next few months. Can you point us to documentation that specifies what criteria is used for saying a driver is trusted ?For instance, are there changes to the DDI/DDK required to support trusted drivers, ...

I got a problem recently. We have a V240 server with Solaris 8. Our colleague reported sometime they cannot ping/telnet the server with FDNS. But it does work using nslookup. I checked /etc/resolve.conf file and "files dns" are there. When launch telnet command, it is found that it was ...

Hi,I would like to know if it's mandatory that users accounts stored on the NIS master must have a shell assigned in order to be able to access to the application components. The users need to access to applications not to the operating system.Best Regards,Bernardo

Hey guys,I am stuck here. I try to give cpustat and and it asks me to give more options like Usage:cpustat [-c events] [-nhD] [interval [count]]-c events specify processor events to be monitored-nsuppress titles-tinclude %tick register-Denable debug mode-hprint extended usage informationUse ...

Hi Guys,Any one can help please?I just install and configure a new sun SParc with Solaris10. As soon as I connect the sun on the network it crash the network. Anyone has a idea to solve this issue by a configuration way?Tks

Hi All,We have a sunfire t2000, and apparently after every week or so, the ipge0 network interface goes down and we have to restart the machineagain. I have looked at the logs and the out put of the dmesg command,but they do not tell much. I got the following output from the dmesg ...

HiI want to configure NTP in my solaris machine ( Solaris 9 9/05 s9s_u8wos_05 SPARC)if possible give me some links,books or steps to configure itThanks in Advance

I have a SunFire V440 with an XVR-100 graphics card and LCD monitor. What I'd like is to use ttya or ttyb as the system console (i.e. get all console messages here, either on a terminal or ideally, logged to another machine) but still be able to use the graphics monitor for X apps etc.Is this ...

How can I list all the open ports on a Solaris x86 Nevada machine? I can use nmap to scan a Solaris 10 machine, but it appears that Nevada blocks out such scan requests.I would like a listing that looks something like this:PORTSTATE SERVICE21/tcpopen ftp22/tcpopen ssh23/tcpopen telnet25/tcpopen ...

I have this error that keeps popping up, does anyone know which ndd setting /variable could be causing this ?Sep 19 13:04:43 my.machine.com ip: [ID 766727 kern.warning] WARNING: The <if>:ip*_forwarding ndd variables are obsolete and may be removed in a future release of Solaris. Use ...

I have a T2000 demo from Sun that I want to get online with link aggregation. I'm currently using ipge - how do I convert that to e1000g?

Is there a way to find out what NIC cards and type of cards installed on the system while system is running.. I can do prtdiag and prtconf and see that there are NIC installed on the system, but on some v210 it does not tell me if it's bge/ce/hme etc..I am looking for following info;* How many ...

Help! I wanted to change the shell for root logins. I copied /etc/passwd to /etc/passwd.orig and vi'd the passwd file and changed the shell and home directories for root. I saved the file, logged out of the server and now I can't get back in. I remotely manage this server. Is there anyway to ...

Hi,I want to install solaris 10 on a Sun Fire V40z, which is a amd server.Should I use the solaris 10 x86 CD's that I have got, or is there a separate installable for amd (amd64 / x86_64).Please suggest,Thanks & Regards

Hi thereI have been recieving these messages reguarly from one of our boxes and wanted to know if this meant the disk was on its way out or something? I think what i really want know is what does this message actually tell you other than there has been a kern.warning on this particular disk ...

Hi All,I have a sun fire 280R with solaris 8 and open ssh 4.3p1-1. When I try to connect to a trusted system I get the following error message: 14 # ssh bbmakssh: connect to host bbmak port 22: Network is unreachableWhen I try it a second time imediate after the first one it connects with no ...

Hi,I have a sunfire 280R server, i just upgraded from solaris 9 to 10, installed cool stack and got apache up and running, then i created a FTP account so that the webadmin can use it to update the website.The problem now is that when connecting to FTP using internet explorer i authenticate and ...

I am using Solaris 8, I found the /proc is becoming large, it is almost 40GB, one of the diectory is about 20GB, it is oracle server process ID, root@db1/#du -ks /proc384020240/procroot@db1/#cd /procroot@db1/proc#du -ks 185632040106318563root@db1/proc#how can I do at such condition, will it ...

prstat command is really useful and I am getting the output as expected.But I would like to add 'timestamp" for each record.How do I do that ? Can any body please help me with this ?Thanks.

I have a question regarding network installation in Sun Fire V440. During first installation I configured it wrongly, I want to start it from the begining. Please let me know that how can I start it from scratch without disturbing anything else. Regards,Kashan

Hi1 . I want to verify the unwanted running process? is there any other command other than ps -ef ?2. Can anybody tell me the difference for kill & pkill?3. Suppose if i'm kill a process using kill command whether that particular process can be restarted or not ?4. Suppose if i'm kill a ...

...and is it straight-forward?We have 4 Sun Blade workstations (running Solaris 10) that are rarely used, so we were wondering about putting them into a cluster to give us a something for processing large jobs.Has anyone done this sort of thing before? And is it quite simple to do?Is any ...

Hi there, I have upgraded my explorer (SUNWexplo) on a solaris 10 Sparc box from version 3.4 to the latest version (5.5) . However im a little concerned, whenever I run the new explorer either manually or scheduled, I get a syslog event as follows1 in 0:08:31: Sep 22 17:00:15 fmy.machine.com ...

Hi there, I came in this morning to the following errrorSep 23 00:04:53 my.machine.com unix: [ID 752700 kern.warning] WARNING: [AFT0] Sticky Softerror encountered on Memory Module J0202Does anybody the next step i should go to to investigate this issue?any help on this would be greatly ...

Hi,It is understood that the contents of /tmp directory will be deleted at reboot.Is there any way to configure such that /tmp contents wont be deleted at reboot?ORCan I make another directory, say temp as the default temporary directory?Please have your valuable ...

On a Solaris 9 machine which is NFS-mounting filesystems on a Linux server, we have /var/adm/messages errors such as: /var/adm/messages:Sep 25 13:10:56 ls0005 nfs: [ID 626546 kern.notice] NFS write error on host netapp: Stale NFS file handle. /var/adm/messages:Sep 25 13:10:56 ls0005 nfs: [ID ...

How can I determine the maximum supported LUN size for various versions of Solaris? I am interested in Solaris 8 and up.Thanks

Hello Guys,Have anyone done installation of solaris 10 on IBM's x3650 machine. If so please tell me if they have faced any problems, what you have done to overcome it? Thanks in advance..Regards,Satish

Hi guys,If I create a Flar out of the Entire+OEM distribution installed on a sun4u machine (Netra V210), will I be able to install it on a T1000/2000 machine? (sun4v) using a custom jumpstart+flar DVD?

.I'm trying to find a way to add a persistent FACL to /etc/shadow.Unfortunately, when anyone uses the passwd command the file doesn't get updated - it gets _replaced_, gaining a new inode with new (default) permissions.I tried creating /etc/stmp with the appropriate FACL, and it does get ...

Hi1. How would you truncate a log file that is growing too large if you don't havespace to compress it or to move it somewhere else? How would you do it?2. If you have forgotten the root password for a server, how do you get back in?Thanks in Advance

What if we used NFS to mount /etc/hosts. (We'll ignore DNS etc.).Is there a cyclical dependency?Why is this a bad idea?I've been thinking about this for awhile and can mostly see that it makes it easier to hijack naming since only do it once, but that doesn't seem like much of a reason since ...

hello all,i have a jumpstart server (ultra10, solaris 8) that works very well to install clients on the same network, 192.168.10.0.Now, i have to install machines on other network 192.168.20.0So, on jumpstart server, i added a new virtual interface and i have:mary2-root% ifconfig -ahme0: ...

Our root password was changed. Can I use installation CD to get into OS? How should I attempt to break into system?

I have a new V490 delivered to us with Solaris 10 (supposingly installed). does anyone know the Default login & password for the RSC shell that Sun sets at the factory....? thanks !!!

Dear all,Uptime and /var/adm/messages shows same day count.Is it normal routine or something bad?If it is normal then how to stop this message from /var/adm/message ?ftpuser@sdp17a>uptime 11:08am up 127 day(s), 20:35, 1 user, load average: 0.42, 0.38, 0.39ftpuser@sdp17a>cat ...