Hi Guys,I am wondering if TSol-8 will install and run ok on the Sun Fire V440 Server?Any ideas?

Hi Guys,Anyone knows if TSol-8 would run ok the Sun Fire V40z server?ThanksbigAl

Help!After installing this sw stack:Solaris8Disksuite 4.2 and simple mirrored filesystemsSolstice x.25 9.1HP NNMSolstice x.400 9.0and after registering the licenses the system crashes at boot.Any idea about solution?Thanks in advance anywayn.c. ...

I am using solstice X.25 9.2 on Solaris 8 machine. I would like to start and stop a link from an application (C++ code). Is this possible? I know that link can be started and stopped using x25tool. But I would like to have control over the link from my application.

Does Solaris use IPsec or SSL? if yes, how are they configured, ie. which software are used etc.thanksKruso

<div align="left">Hi there,I have a network problem. I have a http client (java on a Solaris 9 box) that send a http request to a IIS 6.0 server (win 2003). Here is the exchange (captured with ethereal):<pre>|Time| 10.1.1.27 | 212.31.123.205||0.000| TCP||35437 > http ...

Hi all,I am working with my vendor on measuring the Gi interface, a TCP/IP output from our GSM standard GPRS (SGSN/GGSN) network element. Any helpful advice from anyone is appreciated! We have smart people working with us, but we are at the end of our tether...Detailed description of problem ...

Hello,I'm receiveng the following message wen doing a loopback test, I didn't find any help in internet.bash-2.05# pad 0.0003bab159c07eBreak-in sequence is '^Pa'Connecting...Call Cleared - Out Of Order (0900)bash-2.05#Server v440, OS Solaris 5.9, I have installed the pach 116231-02. Any ...

Hi people,How can i use the space of the multiple unused HDDs thati have on the server?Example:I install oracle and the bootable HDD does not have enough spacefor the installation. How can i place the oracle in another HDD?there is any path to switch thru the installation or any other methodto ...

I need to put a fortnightly job into roots cron and are using the following syntax./usr/bin/expr `/usr/bin/date +%W` % 2 >/dev/null || /opt/SonicSoftware/SonicMQ/bin/ss.shand /usr/bin/expr `/usr/bin/date +%W` % 2 >/dev/null && /opt/SonicSoftware/SonicMQ/bin/ss1.sh || truewhen I ...

Hi, I have a Sun ultra-1 sparc with Solaris 2.5.1(very old, I know but it works). We are installing a new application on it and we have found that we have a very big restriction, that's the number of telnet clients that accepts the server. It doesn't accept more than 34 connections and we ...

Just installed a new IDE boot disk to replace original failed disk.New disk should be about 18G, but only 8G are visible. I knowthere is a 8G barrier problem under DOS, but this is Solaris onSun hardware. Any ideas as to what is going on?Thanks in advance.-Surprised Adminoutput from uname -a ...

I would like to make a partition read-only mountable on a IBM Microdrive (CMD646 controller).I run the format command, then partition and use the attributes "rm" for the partition 0.Still I can copy a file to the partition. What am I doing wrong?The system is a Solaris 8 machine. ...

Anyone knows if isainfo is installed on 2.6 or how do I find out if my 2.6 patched is running 32bit or 64.thx.

I have three Ultra60 with one Solaris 7 and two Solaris 8 installed. Users who login to these workstations are autologout by system around 2 hours idle. Is there any method to disable the autologout except "set logoutout=0" or "unset logout"? Is there any adjustment to do on kernel or shell ...

Hi,I am looking at a set of vmstat data and iostat data collectedover a period of a month on a 2cpu + 2 gb server runningiplanet web server. My questions are:1. The 4th column of vmstat is swap. To be honest I neverreally was able to correlate what I understand in school about swap and what I ...

Hello all,i modified a user's home dir thru the solaris management console and i get theunexpected error:CIM_ERR_FAILEDto change the user's home dir is a minus or no problem?plz if you can explain,thanks

I am looking for a technical explanation to give to the client as to why I want to install the latest cluster of patches...to me it is obvious, but to a non-tech and developer...what do I say?Thanks,Dudley

Hi,I found an old unused sun sparc station 10 in the office and plan to make use of it.I do however have a few concerns which I can't seem to find definitive answers to and I need some assistance before I proceed and request a hardware spend on this box.Can the SS10 take internal SCSI HDD's ...

How do we get back into the system?! The /etc/shadow file has been deleted!

i want ot stop a particular ip address from accessing the telnet services

HOw to disable the router capability of a SOlaris machine?I do not want RIP to send data out.

When I enter a command on my SunBlade 100 (Solaris 8, 512 meg RAM) after a period of inactivity (about 20 minutes), there is a delay of about 7 seconds while it spins up either the disk drive or the CDROM drive. This is very irritating. Is there a configuration setting that can eliminate this ...

Hi, Something very strange with my Netra1125, The problem is that after i input the username and pasword in CDE GUI, i have to wait a vveerryy long time ( about hours)to see the desktop, while i telnet the system everything is ok, My OS is Solaris7, and i have patched the latest recommend OS ...

I have some remote Sun servers which I need to get their Serial numbers, can I get those serial numbers remotely, any command(s)? or saved somewhere if I log on remotely to those systems.Thx.

I'm getting pressure from the security folks to have all files in a user's home directory permission 750 or less.It appears that on CDE startup the ${HOME}/.dt/startlog gets created with permission 544 - it's the permission for "other" that is the problem. Changing it only solves the problem ...

Hi,Late last night one of my Solaris 8 boxes (Sparc Ultra-250) decided to reboot itself. On checking the logs this seems to have been the result of a kernel panic after a 'WP event on CPU0'. The actual error messages in the log were:[ID 721250 kern.warning] WARNING: [AFT1] WP event on CPU0, ...

Hello,we've missed VAR file system contents after a powershut failure. This is a customer server on Solaris 7 with NO system backups available. Any clue?... (will it be necessary to re-install the operating system, I hope not).thanks

Hi All,We are using solaris 8 on SUN Enterprise 250. I would like to know, How do i find the name of the SCSI bus ?thanks a lot,Best Regards,ShravanaKumar.

Hai all, I am new for Sun World. Is any DNS GUI available in solaris 8?Sarav

I'm getting the following on a Solaris 7 box when I try to start inetd:ld.so.1: inetd: fatal: libnsl.so.1: version `SUNW_1.7' not found (required by file inetd)KilledThe lib is in /usr/lib, what do I need to do to fix this?

Having problems with fsck.fsck -F ufs -o b=13648416 /dev/vx/rdsk/d130dg01/u4devAlternate super block location: 13648416.** /dev/vx/rdsk/d130dg01/u4devBAD SUPER BLOCK: MAGIC NUMBER WRONGUSE AN ALTERNATE SUPER-BLOCK TO SUPPLY NEEDED INFORMATION;eg. fsck [-F ufs] -o b=# [special ...]where # is the ...

Dear Friends,This is the message which i am getting on Sun Enterprise 3500 Server since i added two new 36Gb Hard disk in the server . Any comments will be appreciated . Dec 29 10:14:21 AlEssa socal: [ID 403145 kern.info] ID[SUNWssa.socal.link.5010]socal0: port 1: Fibre Channel is OFFLINEDec 29 ...

Hi,I was wondering whether it is possible to set an alias to a string in the OBP (and not some device path).For eg:Would it be possible for me to alias something like this:jumpstart "net - install"Such that I can run "boot jumpstart" from the ok prompt to run the "net - install" ...

Hello SysAdmins. Can anyone tell me how to know the number of open connections or requests (or users) from remote sites to the Http server. I am using the Apache web server on Solaris 8. I can see the open ESTABLISHED status of the 80 port number, default for http from the netstat program. Can ...

Are there recommendations on how often to reboot a Solaris box.I have seen machines up for 200+ that begin to develop stability issues and upon reboot they are fine.Any advice?

I want to install a full 2.6 cluster patch. I have read the read me etc, how doI ensure that the ./install cluster script is in place?

HiLet me know How to check file system I/O block size on Solaris 2.8 please?Thx-Blace

Hi can any one please help I am trying to launch an exceed session to connect to a sun fire box running Solaris 2.8 and it comes up with a Fatal error: manager unwilling

This server is an E220R. When rebooting via init 6, the server shuts down all the processes, syncs the file system, outputs "Resetting...", and then I lose the video signal (as expected). However, the system never reboots. I have checked the boot prom and the auto-boot? setting is set to true. ...

I am trying to edit the crontab settings in the solaris server using telnet session. I use 'crontab -e' to edit the file. If I use the crontab-e, I get some numbers like 909, so I can't edit the file. Whats the solution available to circumvent this. Please help.With regards,Amin ...

Dear All,I am new to Solaris System Admin field. Presently, I am working on SUNOS 5.6 . I would like to send an email from this a/c to my net id. Please tell me how to do this?RegardsGaurav

Hi all;In my E250 server there is a directory under /var/Lost+found which is a inode number .Looks like #188993.When i cd into #188993 and do a 'ls -l' it shows me the / (root) file system contents.Now do i need to move the inode back ?or can i just remove it from under /var/lost+found?the df ...

I have a disk with free space that I want to use. I need to add it to slice 5 which is currently undefined. The other slices have active mounted file systems. Once I set up the size for slice 5, I need to label the disk.Can I do a disk label with the active file systems mounted?Thanks... ...

Greetings, I've searched for quite sometime on this issue, and don't think I'm any closer to finding my answer (or, it's been staring me right in the face and I just haven't realized it yet). I have a SUN Ultra1 (for learning purposes) running Solaris 2.8 (no patches yet, fresh install), ...

Hello friends,When I use "ls -l" command, it only list date of file with hour and minutes. Is there option that I can see by seconds?Thanks

HiI'm sure this is something stupid, but I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong. This is occuring on a Solaris 8 SPARC system:sunnw: ls -l /mnttotal 6dr-xr-xr-x1 rootroot1 Jan 13 13:37 dakota11-1adr-xr-xr-x1 rootroot1 Jan 13 13:37 dakota11-1bdr-xr-xr-x1 rootroot1 Jan 13 13:37 ...

My SUN Fire 280 R display this error while booting the system, Jan 8 11:54:50 smpbtu DVMA read transactionJan 8 11:54:50 smpbtu pcisch : syndrome bits 1d4Jan 8 11: 54:50 smpbtu pcisch : WARNING : correctable error from pci0 (safari id 8)duringJan 8 11:54:50 smpbtu DVMA read transactionJan 8 ...

Is there a command available under Solaris 8 that perfoms similar to the LICENSE command under VMS? I'm trying to determine what licensed software is loaded on one of our V880 systems.Thanks,Jim

Hi, the only reason why I wish to change the root default shell is to implement a timeout inactivity timer for idle sessions. This I would implement by assigning TMOUT for bash and ksh users and autologout for tcsh users. Since most engineers in our company use root I would like to implement a ...