I am new to Solaris Volume Manager and need some assistance. I suspect that the mirroring was no setup correctly on a server I am concerned with. Here is some output:metadb -iflagsfirst blkblock counta m p luo16 8192/dev/dsk/c1t0d0s7ap ...

I have 2 servers I will call "server A" and "server B". Server A has an application account user on it that rsyncs it's scripts and configuration files to Server B. Server B is acting as a failover server for Server A.We recently renamed Server B to Server A and Server A to Server B to test ...

Hi,I am searching for a tool to install packages to remote machines. Maybe someone has some info's for me.I磛e only found the rpkgadd-ksh-script which seems to work, but I磎 looking for a more powerfull tool.The problem with the rpkgadd-ksh-script is, that i磎 not able to update openssh or ...

How can I resolve this issue: ps -ef |grep inetroot2241 0Apr 27 ?4:13 /usr/sbin/inetd -sroot5321 0Apr 27 ?3:51 /usr/lib/inet/xntpdroot 29547224 0Sep 12 ?0:00 /usr/sbin/inetd -sroot 17417224 0Aug 09 ?0:00 /usr/sbin/inetd -sroot 29522224 0Sep 13 ?0:00 /usr/sbin/inetd -sroot 20425224 0Aug 17 ?0:00 ...

My solaris box (sunfire v240) no longer boots properly. It seemed to have crashed for some reason overnight and now it won't fully boot.When it powers up it gets as far as displaying:Rebooting with command: bootBoot device disk0:aFile and args:\on the monitor I hooked up to it. The keyboard is ...

Hi All,I have the strangest thing going on - I get the following error when I try to start Sendmail[edge7 /etc/mail]$ hostnameedge7[edge7 /etc/mail]$ tail -10 syslog.0tail: cannot open input[edge7 /etc/mail]$ tail -10 /var/log/syslog.0Feb 22 14:38:09 edge6 sendmail[233]: [ID 702911 mail.crit] ...

I'm looking to use a old L1000 tape library on solaris10, what are my options for backup software? ....EBS/legato networker is big$, and mtx needs a front end of whatever sorts(scripts anyone?)Mike Spenard

Hi,I have been asked to update a solaris9 server to bring it to the same level/state as that of another solaris9 server.This is "uname -a" from the solaris9 server I have to upgrade.# uname -aSunOS bngddsol2 5.9 Generic_112233-12 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-480RThis is the "uname -a" from the ...

Hi1. what is luxadm software ?I have heard that luxadm is administration program for storage 2. how to install this software ? 3. Is there any links to study about this s/w?Thanks in Advance

The server is solaris 10, with the java 1.4, and the Sun One directory server 5.2 was installed from a compressed fileSystem Administration ServerSystem Administration ConsoleSun Java(TM) System Server ConsoleAll were installed, but there's no connection to the Administration Console on port ...

I have this weird problem wherein a user on a remote host runs a commandon my server, and my daemon tries to authenticate the user through pam using pam_krb5. The command runs for a while, and then the daemon crashes.The authentication works fine when I use, say, pam_unix_auth, but if I specify ...

I am installing Solaris 10 6/06 on a V240 machine. I setup the partitions with format before I ran the install. When I did I got this error with either of the 2 disks I tried, "Error ocured with the device in use checking: Permission denied." This was after I had booted to single user mode off ...

Hi, I am having trouble creating RAID 1+0 on 4 disks using metainit, etc. As I understand I should create 2 mirrored pairs of disks and stripe them. Is this possible? An you tell me what the commands are?Much appreciated,Kevin McNamee

Scenario: Two Sun Ultra 60s. Connecting to SmartStack via both hme0 and ge0. Ring is set up correctly, and I get yellow lights (i.e., thr red light foes out on the back of the card), but am unable to plumb either ge0 on either machine.ifconfig ge0 on both machines reports "no such device", and ...

I am in need of help. I have sunfire v210 running solaris 10 Preinstalled. I want to login to this box remotely and have somthing like remote desktop in Windows. i get display not found error message. I have complete network connectivity

I am in need of help. I have sunfire v210 running solaris 10 Preinstalled. I want to login to this box remotely and have somthing like remote desktop in Windows. i get display not found error message. I have complete network connectivity

I upgraded my Sun W2100z workstation to Solaris 10 6/06 from 1/06 in early July. I remember that the updater asked me if I wanted to enable IPv6 support, and I thought I said "yes", but I'm not certain.We're ready to begin testing IPv6 in our environment. I'm reading through the Sun Solaris ...

Hi, All:There is an issue bugs me for a long time: the ipsecinit.conf conruptted occutionally during Solaris reboot, then the maunal IPsec SAs are no longer validated, can anybody have ideas on how it happened?Thanks in advance!

I get "/sbin/dhcpinfo: connect: connection refused" during my bootupI donot use dhcp as the system is attached to another sun server that needs static ip addresses.This message that I get was not present until I installed the Solaris 8 Recommended patches. I had first used Solaris 8 0202. Then ...

Hi all,I want to set up a mail service on a sun fire v880 server running solaris 10.this will be my first time doing so on a unix platform, and iam confused whether to choose sendmail or postfix, i need something reliable, secure and easy to administer.Please help me to choose if you are ...

What files and/or directories can I remove in /var/sadm or for that matter in /var?When I first loaded this E250 5 years ago, I was younger and dummerLast night I was installing the latest Solaris 8 Recommended patchesand the systen gave me an error message that I did not have enough space. Not ...

I am new to Solaris Volume Manager and need some help. I have a raid 1 and both submirrors have state "Needs maintenance", how can I repair the mirror? I have invoked "metasync", but it does not work.Thank you

Hi Folks,I have built a custom bootable CD ROM based on the Solaris 9 installation disk.When I boot my Sun Fire v490 from this I have problems with the network.Part of the boot process calls a script which in turn makes the following callifconfig ce0 10.4.20.20 netmask 255.255.0.0 upHowever ...

I need to show the network guy that Solaris ntp is sending igmp packets. How do I setup snoop to capture igmp packets?Thanks,Glen

Hi, i m having one production and one its DR (machine is Sun Fire E6900). Now on the production machine today i checked the entries in the /etc/hosts file...totally blank, not even a single character inside it. Now i cann't restore it from the legato networker it says permissions denied. We ...

helloi'm trying to configure a firewall for a server (solaris 10 X86)but i 'm not able to make my webbrowser working fine... the ipf.conf file is like this#on ouvre le port de netscapepass in quick on nge0 proto tcp/udp from any to 192.168.0.100/24 port = 8080 keep statepass out quick on nge0 ...

Hi all,I'm having a problem with a backup robot, that is not mounting drives. Someone, a long time ago, told me exists a command that do a reconfiguration of the robot, and with that i don't need to reboot the server. Anyone knows this command and can tell how it works to me? Thanks in ...

Hi All,I'm in the middle of setting up a workstation (Blade-100) connected to two Sun Ray 2 terminals for some analytical work (I know it isn't exactly the fastest system going, but it is all we have available until the new stuff comes in...). Due to the confidentiality and security ...

Hi All,I've been trying to perform a backup of my system server for another system. My initial problem was that the other system's server is a Sun V440 while mine is a Sun V480, thus, the disk has a different SCSI connector than mine. I discovered that one of my workstations (Netra 1405) has ...

s 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 ...

Can you change the size of an existing slice? I need to change partition 5 from 4.00GB to 8.00GB. Partition 6 is not in the vfstab file.Disk 0: Partition 6, Filesystem: /u02partition> printCurrent partition table (original):Total disk cylinders available: 24620 + 2 (reserved ...

We are moving from the Emulex lpfc driver to the emlxs driver. Looking to set persistent binding when using the emlxs but not finding a lot of info. The lpfc.conf has lots of comments and examples but the emlxs.conf is pretty bare... thanks,john

Dear All,I intend to install ghostview package to all the damin machines. The package is downloaded from sun free sofatware site and need to be isntalled with command: pkgadd. 'pkgadd' command installs software to /usr/local or /opt. How can it be installed into a shared common directory so ...

new install of v210 with 5.10 and I am trying to connect from winxp using exceed/rexec and get an error "unable to connect to host using the specified start emthode" . Exceed support indicated that I need to set up REXEC on the server side. I am a new admin so please provide as many details as ...

We use nis here at our company and we have a direct mount for the /tftpboot filesystem in our auto_direct map.We have a couple of systems that we would like to have ignore this automount point and have them use thier own. Is there a way to put a list of excluded systems on an entry in the ...

Hello,How to boot Sunblade 100 using external DVD RW. I can see the drive within OS as c4t0d0 and /cdrom/cdrom1. How do I boot from it from OK prompt? any ideas. My external case has both USB and firewire. Also How to do a probe on USB and Firewire ports from OK prompt.Any ideas ...

We have a couple of T3 (T3B) SAN Disk Arrays we just inherited. One needed a battery replaced. We need to: .bat -n .id write busageSo, we need the sun technician password. Please help.T3Bp2:/:<66>sunPassword:Invalid ...

I would like to find all links that point 'ZZZ' redirected to 'ZZZ1'IeAll links pointing to /dirA/ZZZ/filex etc point to /dirA/ZZZ1/filex etcWhich command can I use to do this? Cheers

Hi Folks,Apologies in advance for the length of this post.For the purposes of disaster recovery I have built a custom CD based on the Solaris 9 installation disk with our third party backup / restore software included on it.After the rcS script has setup networking it runs a bash shell so that ...

I would like to set up the ge interface on two v880's to be a dedicated gigabit link between them. However, I am having problems getting the link up. Here are the steps I have taken (on both servers):1. connected ge interfaces with 50/125 fiber cable2. vi /etc/hostname.ge03. vi /etc/hosts4. ...

Hi -Topic 81418 http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-9-81418-1states:"Patch clusters can be downloaded from the anonymous FTP server or retrieved from the publicly available patches page."However, I don't see where to download the clusters from on the ftp server. The old ...

Hi all,I have a sun fire v880 machine running solaris 10, i need to set an email server using postfix+mysql.I already installed myql and its working fine. but when trying to build postfix with mysql i get a compliation error, here's wts going on: bash-3.00# make makefiles 'CCARGS=-DHAS_MYSQL ...

Hi, we have a big problem at our site. The folks that handle the smtp gateway set it up so that it rejects email from an unknown domain.i.e. root@hostname.domain. The gateway does not recognize hostname.domain. If I could configure sendmail on our unix servers to send only user@domain, then the ...

Issue:When I create a flash archive (flarcreate) for our customer's Sun Blade 150 system, if I include the SunPCi III disk drive image files, these two files will fail out. The flar will be created and useable - except for the SunPCi image files are left out.H/W I'm using:Sun Blade 150 with ...

hi,I'm running solaris 10 (Generic_118833_17) on a Sun Fire V240. I was able to connect using putty to this server via ssh. When I tried this morning I received "server unexpectedly terminal the connection" message from my machine.I tried to do "svcadm restart ssh" on the server console but to ...

hello,I have major problem with the known syslogd overflow that is supposed to be fixed with patch # 110945-08 http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/advsearch.do?collection=PATCH&type=collectio ns&max=50&language=en&queryKey5=110945&toDocument=yesI have just finished patch-up this ...

Dear All,I got the error message - fatal: libSM.so.6: version 'SUNW_1.1' not found while running application software. May I know what I should do to solve this?Any help is much appreciated.vlsi.

I've faced the problem during SUN web server 6.2 installation on SUSE SLES 9. When I start setup error message is shown:/tmp/sunwebinstall/./.setup: error while loading shared libraries: libtermcap.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directorytermcap is installed ok.# rpm -qa ...

Hi,We have a Netra t1 105. It goes down sporadically every 1 to 3 days (typically). I haven抰 seen this happen during use, it抯 usually upon coming in the morning that it抯 found to be down (i.e. at BIOS 搊k?prompt). I disabled power management using 揳utopm disable?plus I used 搉oshutdown?in the ...

Is there any command to view the memory used bythe process and kernels ?We are on the Solaris 8 and 9.Thanks.From,PT.