I've installed UPS (APC) on SUN Fire 280 R. I switch off the power to do a testing to ensure that UPS can take over if blackout happen someday. After a while the server is starting to power off.CDE is gone and white screen appeared. But at the white screen display a message umount : /home busy ...

Hello,i've to change the ip-adress and mask of an network-interface. The problem is, I cannot change the ip-number in different files (hosts) because, I can open the file only to read (with vi), not to write.I'm a beginner of Solaris, sorry.If I change the ip-adress and mask with ifconfig, ...

I just posted this on the kernel forum too by accident, meant to post it here. I have a Sparc workstation running Solaris 8. It's probably not up to date with patches and patch clusters. I moved it to a new hosting facility, and it is currently connected to a Dell PowerConnect, 16 port, ...

Our Sun "hibernates" quite often we use our sun primairly for HPOV.When it "hybernates" We do not receive alarms and traps from our Global Network.I need to stop HPOVWhen I do so i get the following response."The system is in an paused state. 'ovstop' will still proceed.I believe this "paused ...

I've installed Sun Ray server software 1.3 and UPS (APC) software on solaris 8 at SUN Fire V880 server. My problem is why the server become unstable. Hang about 3 or 4 times a week and need to reboot. Do I need to install update patches for sun ray server software or it's because ...

i have a sun blade 100 and would like to re-install solaris 8.when i boot off cdrom , it gives the following error :"boot cannot open kernel/sparcv9/unix"i have reset the boot-file to default , " " , but still does not work.please helpthanks in advance ...

we are using hp web jetadmin 5.0 for our printer farm. i went to upgrade to 7.0 but the product is not available for solaris. HPs answer to a replacement for solaris is that there are plugins available, but no mention of what they are, or where to get them. Is sun offering a comparable product, ...

How can I find the storage sizes of the installed physical disks in Solaris 8 on an Ultra-60? Please pardon the rudimentary question.A glance at the 'df' man page gives me the impression that it's not the right tool, being that it reports filesystem usage on slices. 'prtdiag' doesn't ...

I have a Sun V480 running 8 patched to 18 connected to a E420R patched to 22 running solaris 7.This E420 is connected by fibre to a LSI Disk array.The V480 is NFS'ed to the E420. When a do a large file copy within the moujnt directory for the disk array on the V480 , at the end of the copy, ...

I am getting this in /var/adm/messages:Jan 6 10:21:00 prod ufs: [ID 879645 kern.warning] WARNING: /: unexpected free inode 377371, run fsck(1M)Jan 16 09:51:20 prod ufs: [ID 879645 kern.warning] WARNING: /: unexpected free inode 377371, run fsck(1M)Jan 16 11:44:24 prod ufs: [ID 879645 ...

Hello SysAdmins. I am facing with two problems:1) When I run 'sysdef' program it works well for first half part in which it displays all the drivers and their instances, but it fails an gives "Segmentation Fault" error and termintes the program. The last 5 lines that it displays always is as ...

HiI have a Sun Fire 280R system that displays the message:"There is a TBD problem with ps2"at the 'ok' prompt. What is a 'TBD problem' and what is a'ps2'?Also, I'm unable to get Solaris 8 4/01 release to install, because the installation aborts with a message that displays, then is ...

HiI just installed Solaris 8 from an old (August 2000?) distribution. When the installation completed, I noticed that none of the man pages were available. What is the command I should run to create man pages on this system?I've searched the Solaris 8 Administator's Guides but this isn't ...

Hi all,I am trying to read some log files that are very long per line. Is there way I can not wrap lines in VI so I can see line by line much more clear? Thanks.

My Enterprise 450 running Solaris 8 is extremely slow transferring files in (ftp, scp) but normal speed when transfering out. The machine has a normal load and network traffic is light. What could cause a one-way slowdown?JG

Hi, AllI want to use a SunPCi IIpro card with SunFire V120 (or netra 120) server. But there is no such system in the compatibility list in SunPCi documentation. But SunFire V120 is a next generation of Netra DC200, which is included in that list. Documentation says, that SunPCi IIpro is a ...

I run my Suns with a SAN. I just expanded a LUN and now want to use the bigger LUN. The problem is, that the virtual disk is bigger now, but Solaris doesn't recordnize it.devfsadm, disks or drvconfig doesn't work. Is it possible, that Solaris reads out the new disk-size and puts the new label ...

Have Ultra60 with Solaris 9 and SunPCI card with 400Mhz cpu and 192Mb memory and SunPCI Version 1.3 with the 110762 patch. Works great on Windows NT4, except for an occasional freeze of the entire Ultra60, but I really want to use Windows 2000. I have setup both W2K and NT. Windows 2000 seems ...

HiI'm having an error occur during a Solaris installation. The screen clears right after the error occurs, and I can't see what the error is. Is there a way to run a Solaris installation, and pause or step through it, one command at a time?Thankstl

Hi, Got an old applications trying to use ports 800 and 801 in Solaris. However these are restricted/reserved for root usage. Are there any configuration work arounds for either un-reserving the ports or to re-route this apps traffic thru a normal usage port?Any advice?- L. ...

Hi,I tried to execute init 6 on my server. I got no response so I tried to use "shutdown". I used the following command: shutdown -y -g30 -i6 "The system is being rebooted". After five minutes the systeme has still not rebooted. However when a user (other than root) trys to login, the following ...

I had Solaris 8 working on the E450 system for some time. When I log on, the CDE comes up with the front panel and I am able to bring up new terminal windows with the right button of the mouse.Now, after logging on to the system, I see the quick flash of the CDE background and then it goes to a ...

I have this problem, everytime I connect to my Solaris 8 server and am idle like few minutes, my connection gets dropped, is there any params I should be going after to increase to eliminate the disconnection (connection made thru telnet)thx.

I like to know, How can I create a restriceted user account for our ftp client?I want users have only read access to their home directory and nothing else.I have used /usr/lib/rsh shell and copied ls and less commands into their $Home/bin directory and setup the PATH variable in their ...

Does anyone know if the Enterprise 450 supports 73GB 80pin hard drives? I know that sun doesn't offer them with this system, but has anyone tried it?Thanks,Ryan

I don't know if anyone has heard of this before or not, maybe I'm dumb or something. At work we were trying to share out a directory to the network from a stand-alone server. The server does not run NIS or NIS+, so when we tried to use the (share -F nfs -o ro=allmachines etc.) it didn't ...

hello.in my workplace every day a version of out product is compiled (and exefiles and libs created) , i would like to be able to know throw time forevery compiled product to which version it belongs.is there any utility on unix that can stamp my exe files (and libs) in a waythat i could ...

I am new to Sun and will like to get advise on how to go about on learning the OS capabilities and hardware configuration..... I want to purchase an entry level computer, with the OS, normally on a wintel platform you can buy an small laptop, workstation and/or server for less than 1,500.... Is ...

Dear All,I am writing a shell script in which I would like to rum some commnads as another user. Is it possible to switch user's login inside the shell? let me elaborate my question-I logged in as user AAAnow I want to be user BBBI am aware of su -c command but I don't know how to specify a ...

Greetings,Here's an interesting one for you:We have a configuration that utilizes a load balancer to balance across a couple of V880's (Solaris 8 10/01). Occasionally, we need to make an http request from "inside" the balancer to the load-balancing IP address. It seems that when the balancer ...

Our client is currently using some banking application which is running on Solaris 2.6 (SunOS 5.6)They would like to upgrade this banking application to a higher level which is certified on Solaris 2.8 (8). The client would like to keep to environments on the same machine. 1. We would like to ...

i am running solaris 9 , and would like to change the name of the server.is there a command to do this , if not which files should i edit to change the hostname.thanks in advance

How can I log an alter in syslog when the system temperature hits a certain threshold and how can I change that threshold? Thank for any help. e4500.

I've got a problem with an Ultra Sparc 5 system which has solaris 2.6 installed. This machine was rebooted yesterday and never came back up. When it is turned on the power supply comes on but the screen remains blank. All that I can see is that the on button blinks green. The last time this ...

Hello. Is there a way for a third party application running on Solaris 8, which programmatically creates several types of log files, to lock these flat ASCII files? The purpose is to avoid the case where a user might mistakenly delete the current day's log file. The application currently ...

There is a file which has space in between .I dont knwo how that space came in between the file .-rw-rw-rw-1 jmc101bsp57611 Jan 14 08:04 log.bshell (jmc101@MANNYHow to delete this fileThanks

Hello,I齰e read about IP multipathing and it says to use each cards MAC address instead of the default one MAC for all the NICs. So I have a question: What happens with the ARP of machines accessing a host with this IP multipathing enabled when a NIC goes down?I mean, a machine on the same ...

I recently re-installed XP on my workstation, and since then, I can no longer get from solaris9 to my XP machine with sbmsh. This is probably the wrong place to ask the question, but I can't find the answer anywhere else. Nothing was changed on the solaris/samba server side, and I've setup my ...

I don't know if this topic belongs in here...but here goes.I am attempting to install the openssl-0.9.6h onto my Sun Fire Server running Solaris 8. I am attempting to configure and build the openssl library.I run through the configuration okay.But when I use the "make" command, I get this ...

I am trying to configure the networking interfaces on a SunFire V100 (/etc/hostname.?), but I don't know the name of the interface. Can somebody help me with this one?

E4500 - SunOS 2.6Networking group contacted me to see what was running on system between 11:22-11:30 pm.Something big is running on system almost every night during this time. Network Monitoring Center loose connectivity to the network during this timeframe. How can I find out what is running ...

I want to copy files from one server to another server . Which would be the best solution.The file is 12Gb compressed ufsdump format.We have 10MBps LAN.The source server is Sun Fire V880 Server with FCAL Hard disks adn the destination server is Sun Enterprise 450 Server with SCSI Hard disks.1) ...

While Installin Solaris 8 Release 2/02 I bump into a problem . When It asks "System Part of a Subnet?" and I answer "No" and it goes on , the system hangs up and does not go any further .But If I choose "YES" once and enter a subnet mask as like 255.255.255.0 and choose to change the settings ...

Hi,We have a problem on a Sun 220R mahcine, when we telnet to it or rlogin ot it, and after giving the username and password, it does not login, when we supply a wrong id/password it says incorrect login.We restarted the inetd, but did not fix it, I think its a problem in after authintication, ...

Hey Folks,I wrote a Perl script to sanitize and sort the /etc/passwd file.I uncovered a nuance/feature/bug when logging into Solaris.The Perl scripts sorts the /etc/passwd file by GUI then by UID:smtp:x:0:0:Mail Daemon User:/:root:x:0:1:Super-User:/:/sbin/shBUT, when I 'su - root' I end up in ...

I use Solaris 8. If some applications (for example, telnet) on machine A attempt to connect to the the machine B, which is powered off, or removed from the network, the telnet on machine A will just hang for a long time (many minutes). Eventually, some exeptions will occur. But I believe there ...

How can I remove sendmail from my Solaris 8 Intel system.Thank you

How do I disable the power save feature from a sun enterprise 250 system.The system is always on. I have tried the dtpower option, and set it to disable but the monitor still goes off.

HiI have a problem with a file system that I want to unmount;when I try the umount command, it replies "file system busy",and fuser -c shows no process using/accessing the FS.I cannot restart (reboot) the machine where the FS is attached to,so what other options can I try?thanks in ...

Anyone has a T3 disk array and used other than CLI to configure, can you use Raid Manager 6.x?Thx.