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DST changes in 2007 and Patches

502 byte By Christian_Tremblay at 2007-11-26 11:43:03
Hi!Sun has issued patches for the daylight savings time changes in 2007.Do these patches change anything but the tzdata2006$ file like libc libthread or anything else ?In other words, it's an easy task to download the latest tzdata file from a public server, install the zoneinfo sources and ...

find command error

251 byte By paulhulley at 2007-11-26 11:49:54
When I run the find command as root in root I get the following error:find: cannot open /: I/O errorI think this may be related to a previous post and I may have an unhealthy server. I've run fsck in single user mode to no avail.

Maximo Server

219 byte By juma20120 at 2007-11-26 11:57:26
As you Know Maximo use java.exe to run application but we have face some problems with server. the server CPU usage get 99% and the maximo applciation get slow .please i have solution for that problem send to me.

crontab cant call .sh

450 byte By mfmb at 2007-11-26 12:01:10
hi all,i wrote a .sh script to start a service and it works fine during normal manual execution. Then it just wont work when i placed it into crontab. 0 15 * * * /data/PeopleSoft/E811/system/bin32/end_run_app.shi tested this cron with 'touch' and it managed to return the desire result.The ...

WARNING: se_hdlc: clone device must be attached before use

111 byte By steven_yya at 2007-11-26 13:30:55
WARNING: se_hdlc: clone device must be attached before usewhat cause above messages in system log

Using fssnap on Solaris 9 for backup

1050 byte By DougTecha at 2007-11-26 14:08:17
I have been using fssnap to backup the whole server for 2 years. Recently, I got some problem with it.My servers are using Solaris 9, which using fssnap to create a partition image on a separate partition. Then, the image will be picked up by tape drive.Recently, we got problems with these ...

solstice disksuite

292 byte By vijaysysa at 2007-11-26 14:11:41
Hi Friends,I started a new work of managing database and backup servers which are running in solaris. Please tell me, through which command i will know like what type of raid is configured in solaris 8 machines using disksuite software......thanks & regardsVJ.

daylight savings time patch

91 byte By jimeeyea at 2007-11-26 14:16:33
how do I make sure all of my solaris 8-9-10 systems are ready for march time change?

ERROR: unable to open mount table /etc/mnttab -Solaris 8 help!

2800 byte By hughesm1a at 2007-11-26 16:08:13
We still have a few servers on Solaris 8. I was testing adding the Time Zone patches for Solaris 8: 109809-04 and 108993-63 on some test systems. Patch 109809-04 installed fine, but 108993-63 says it was missing packages. I was told that all the packages listed under the 108993-63 patch ...

Solaris 10 - strange behaviour

15062 byte By Piff-Paffcioa at 2007-11-26 16:13:45
HiI've upgraded Solaris 9 to Solaris 10. All of the sudden the server hangs 1-4 times a day with the following messages:(I've greped for restarts and the strange messages)egrep -i 'SunOS|Resource temporarily unavailable' *14:Jan 12 20:06:02 invldnunetbkupv1 genunix: [ID 540533 kern.notice] ...

help on EBS software for firewalled scenario

590 byte By Shotoartista at 2007-11-26 16:18:35
Hi, We have the configuration of a three-tier application on sun v890 servers and each tier sits behind a firewall. i.e. database and application have a firewall in between, web server to application has a firewall and so on. while configuring backups for the databases we need to know the exact ...

patch 118855-36

206 byte By Minix007a at 2007-11-26 16:46:08
Is anybody having a problem installing the sign version of patch 118855-36. I have the latest certificates. I getting a error saying that the package has been alter. sorry if this in the wrong forum.

Tomcat process High CPU

416 byte By charles_chachia at 2007-11-26 17:21:53
Hi,I'm running tomcat on Solaris 10 and (assumingly) because of higher traffic on our website, the tomcat process is taking all the CPU. How can i figure out what's causing the high CPU within my tomcat process, is there any way to extract this info, like perhaps narrowing down which ...

showrev -p segmenation fault

195 byte By CCheethama at 2007-11-26 17:40:26
After recent patch updates via Update Manager, showrev -p results in a segmentation fault. As a result (presumed), cannot run Update Manager or smpatch. Any ideas on how to recover?

Solaris unexpected shutdown

566 byte By lexora at 2007-11-26 18:01:37
Hello!Hope to get any good recommendations that can help me find the reason of unexpected shutdown to standby mode of a web server on Solaris 10 on X4100 Opteron hardware.The following analysis was performed. - User login and commands history checked. - /var/adm/messages* checked - ...

Patch update and reboot

327 byte By vimal_georgea at 2007-11-26 18:40:51
Hi All,We are going to update patches in our SUN server and i got the list from SUN Solution center. I have to install around 72 patches. So I am planning to create some scripts for this .can anybody help me in this? is there is any option to suppress reboot in patch ...

patch 120335-04

1839 byte By rsoellnera at 2007-11-26 18:43:04
Having some trouble installing this patch. Have not found anything that helps. Here is what I am getting:Utility used to install the update failed with exit code 5.Checking installed patches...Executing prepatch script...Verifying sufficient filesystem capacity (dry run method)...Patch ...

srsproxy problem

2776 byte By halehamelia at 2007-11-26 19:21:12
HI We installed SRSproxy on all our solaris 8 servers and getting the following error on /var/adm/messages *****************eb 18 17:57:11 hcpspcapsil1 SRS Proxy[4821]: [ID 388765 daemon.error] Could not send message from queue: ...

Possible bug in DST patches

1084 byte By fcbsecia at 2007-11-26 19:27:22
I am running Trusted Solaris 8 12/02 x86I have installed patches 125235-01 and 125237-01. It appears the spring forward time change works however the fall back time change does not seem to be losing an hour. I performed the following steps to test the time changes.Spring forward time change:1. ...

Can one install packages (pkgadd) while booted from cd?

209 byte By gcomptona at 2007-11-26 19:36:33
Our system ( Sunfire 280R Solaris 8) crashed during a reboot for a cluster installation. Currently the system will only boot from CD. Can the pkgadd command be run with the system booted from CD?

How to find Bootable Hard disks from OBP

188 byte By vimal_georgea at 2007-11-26 21:08:15
Hi all,please tell me how to find bootable hard disk from OBP.Like in HP-UX from PDC we can find hard disk havng ISL by ISL>sea islRegardsVimal George

Patching Solaris 9.0

284 byte By patcor4814a at 2007-11-26 21:18:23
I am looking for something like a service pack for solaris 9.0, I am some what new to solaris having been working with HP UX mostly, I just would like to find some to collect and install in one process all patches required for my 9.0 systems? Any help would be very appreciated

How to setup startup script in Solaris 10

312 byte By QuaNonga at 2007-11-26 21:23:46
Could anyone point me out how to setup a startup script at run level 3 or 2 in solaris 10 ?Any previous solaris such as 9, 8, I just write a script and put in /etc/init.d/, then link it to run level 3 or 2. But in solaris 10 is different now.I could not find any in the ...

State database replicas with no slices available

405 byte By tacacs73a at 2007-11-26 22:27:20
HiI want to mirror a boot disk on Solaris 9 Sparc. All slices have file systems on them. Do I need to reformat the disk to make slices available or is there another way? I read some where about reclaiming space from swap but I'm not sure how this creates another slice unless they meant to take ...

Maintenance - v440 HDD replacement problem

892 byte By p010202a at 2007-11-26 23:03:16
Hi all expert out there,I had a HDD failure on v440, and the customer want to replace the HDD online without shutdown the server, I use the Solaris command below to unconfigure the disk :-"#cfgadm -c unconfigure c3::dsk/c3t1d0" The command executed with no error and then I also use the command ...

Maintenance - Cannot get any patches to install on Solaris 10 Sun blade 100

2041 byte By sunsysadm2003@yahoo.coma at 2007-11-26 23:24:31
I have tried downloading the latest Solaris 10 patch cluster and I believe it only installed just a very few patches. I am trying to get all the latest patches installing on my Solaris 10 Sun Blade 100 including all the DST patches. I am seeing differences in what is reported in the showrev and ...

Live Upgrade - "merged" keyword gone?

1051 byte By ceri_daviesa at 2007-11-26 23:51:31
I'm trying to get an alternative boot environment created on Solaris 10,11/06, and am having problems with the "merged" keyword.I want to create a new BE on c0t0d0s5, and merge / and /usr onto it.Here's what I think will do that:# lucreate -n be2 -c be1 -m /:/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s5:ufs -m ...

Sun Explorer 5.7 Hangs while running

1184 byte By hughesm1a at 2007-11-27 0:38:13
I'm trying to upgrade SUNWexplo on all our servers. I've upgraded some of them including on Solaris 9 and 10, and they seem to work OK, but one server hangs (for hours if I let it.) This server has Solaris 10, but no zones are created. What I did was:sudo pkgrm SUNWexplo SUNWexplu (versions ...

Solaris startup script information

243 byte By leongyca at 2007-11-27 0:46:47
Hi,I was asked to disable some startup scripts in Solaris 8 by our security personnel. Before I proceed, I would like to know what the scripts for. Where can I find the information of the startup scripts?Thanks in advance.

recover root password

264 byte By simi2ka at 2007-11-27 1:30:16
need help Trying to halt the initial bootup using STOP +A and the trying ok boot cdrom -s " FATAL: system is not bootable, boot command is disabled."How can i solve this ...using Solaris installation CD Thanks,simer

Editing /etc/shadow file

273 byte By simi2ka at 2007-11-27 1:47:35
To recover root I booted the system in single user mode from CD ROM and the edited the /etc/shadow file ...but instead of recovering root all the users are also not able to login to the box Anybody have any idea whats going wrong here ''-Simer

lp not allowing more than 40 printers installed using hppi

653 byte By Fast_Winga at 2007-11-27 1:49:08
This is a new Solaris 10 install, my first. I installed hppi (Version E.10.34) and 40 printers, when I got to number 41, it seemed to install ok, but lp does not recognize it. I deleted a printer that had installed ok, then retried the one that had failed. lp accepted it. Then tried to ...

need help on setting ulimit -c unlimited

981 byte By Randip_Malakara at 2007-11-27 3:04:20
Hello,I need help in setting ulimit -c (for coredump size to unlimited). For this I have in /etc/profile the following...........case "$0" in-ksh | -sh )ulimit -c unlimitedulimit -H -c unlimited;;-csh | -tcsh )unlimit coredumpsize;;esac--But when I login and check with 'ulimit -a' its showing ...

simple question about backups

664 byte By r0k3ta at 2007-11-27 3:58:46
Hi there, I just took over a really old netra box that is still in use. I have these intructions that tell me to log on and do the following$at 2300>sh backupfile<CONTROL> DThe file called backupfile is just a shell script. It looks like thistar cvbf 96 /dev/rmt/0 /export /usr2 /bin ...

log files

467 byte By soulmana at 2007-11-27 4:24:46
Hi thereThis is totaly newbi question, so when you stop laughing find some time and answer.I am interested in log filesWhere can I find them.Primary, I have problem with one cluster which has Solaris 8 on it, and has to be shutdown for UPS maintenance.Since it has been known for having problems ...

srsxfer hanging after NetConnect Installation

734 byte By Anthony_Maslowskia at 2007-11-27 4:28:56
Installing the NetConnect 3.2.4 on a t1000 with Solaris 10uname -a "SunOS sunlight 5.10 Generic_125100-04 sun4v sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-T1000"I look to check that the srs services are running, and all there appears to be is a hung srsxfer that never completes.root@sunlight # ps -ef | grep srsroot ...

Sun ultra 5 disk0 down but need to bring it up

752 byte By jhayi22a at 2007-11-27 4:52:08
Hi Folks,IDE Disk0 ( seagate ST320420A) on Sun ultra 5 is downed.Error Message1) Bios level ; boot disk0; short disk read; The file just loaded does not appear to be executable2) When boot cdrom -sw# fsck /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0 Warning: uncorrectable data error: block 1a00980disk not responding to ...

xsession

367 byte By Mrjasa at 2007-11-27 4:53:32
hi all,after i made a backup for the system, I couldn't login to multiuser mode.means that the welcome login windows not appear so no user name can access no passwd,only single user mode work.i find that system run well, and when i Take its environment from other PC, I found that it work 100% ...

How to find a patch for a desired library?

786 byte By unitysuna at 2007-11-27 5:01:13
Hello,finding a certain library for Solaris applications seems to me not straightforward.For example: ldd emacslibtiff.so.3 => (file not found)libjpeg.so.62 => (file not found)libpng.so.3 => (file not found)The problem is that i dont see the conection of these libraries to their patch ...

How to replace system disk with a larger disk?

1097 byte By planetjeffa at 2007-11-27 5:09:48
Hello - I have an UltraAX-i2 running Solaris 9. My customer currently has two disks in a mirrored setup using SVM, configured as follows:slice 0 - 11MB - state database replicasslice 1 - 1GB - swapslice 6 - 32GB - mounting / and all subdirs, no other physical mountsThey want to replace these ...

Users are not able to login

402 byte By su_nila at 2007-11-27 5:11:45
HI,I m able to login as root and it is working fine but if i login through a normal user ,it is logging and after sometime (few seconds) displays the desktop screen and comes back to the login screen.I have created a new user and tried to login the same probelm exist.Please help me out to solve ...

IO error

3735 byte By Nilesh.Chavdaa at 2007-11-27 5:20:30
Hi, I am having SFV 240 and LTO3 tape device. I got IO error while taking backup on tape using tar command./var/adm/messages shown as below:May 24 10:03:57 aelr3dev scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING: /pci@1c,600000/scsi@2,1 (glm1):May 24 10:03:57 aelr3devTarget 3 reducing sync. transfer ...

Login on Console and VGA

591 byte By BjoernHHa at 2007-11-27 5:22:57
Hello,I have a X4100 where I'm required to be able to login via ttya console AND on the VGA attached to the VGA-connection of the Server.At the moment this is only alternating possible, depending on how I set the value in the eeprom. (->eeprom console-ttya or ->eeprom console-text)Can ...

Recovering /var/ and /usr using disk suite

1196 byte By ezra.taylora at 2007-11-27 5:26:21
Hello all:How do I recover /var/ and /usr using disk suite. A snippet of metastat is below. Do I just issue a metareplace or metarecover?Thanks for your help.Ezrad30: MirrorSubmirror 0: d31State: Okay Pass: 1Read option: roundrobin (default)Write option: parallel (default)Size: 20480121 blocks ...

how to check the free space on tape drive

85 byte By Hdamisa at 2007-11-27 5:40:16
hello,how to know the free space and used on tape drive .thanks,

I am not getting OK Prompt on Netra 20

224 byte By vaibhav.patela at 2007-11-27 6:01:35
Hi Gurus,I am havign Netra 20 with dual processor 4 gb of ram.I am getting LOM Prompt in that but i m unable to go to OK PromptCan anybody tell me how to go to OK PromptThanksVaibhav

getting a fatal relocation error while using a sudo command.

355 byte By lupus.pilosusa at 2007-11-27 6:26:12
I am getting the following error while trying to execute a sudo command:ld.so.1: sudo: fatal: relocation error: file /usr/local/bin/sudo: symbol closefrom: referenced symbol not foundthe sudo version I use is: 1.6.8p9the SUNWcsu package that contains the ld.so.1 library is version: ...

mount CD-Rom

227 byte By Mrjasa at 2007-11-27 7:07:39
sun solaris 5.5.1 don't know why, but i cant find the CD-rom drive, i check under /dev/rmt , but no thing there. how can i check that SCSI of CD rom drive, if i found it how can mount it to used it.

luupgrade -t does not understand patches with a .jar extension?

1517 byte By t1mka at 2007-11-27 7:13:37
Hello, The man pages for luupgrade reads like the below should work, but the command errors out. Does luupgade work with .jar patches? Command and ERROR is below. Along with list of patches I am trying to install.epicbuild:/u1> luupgrade -t -n vx-rootdg02 -s /u1/SunPatches 'cat ...

user passwd

293 byte By thbaiga at 2007-11-27 8:06:40
Hello,I am using solaris 10 and when i create new user I have to pass password that must start with number e.g 12solaris , it is not accepting solaris12 as password as displaying password must be alphanumeric.how can I cure this problemMessage was edited by: thbaig