We've been asked from our client to copy/backup some dbf (database) files from one filesystem to another one. The total size of files to be copied is about 1.4TB !!!What do you think is the best and/or quickest method to perform this (ufsdump, cpio, tar, dd) ?data: we use solaris 8Thank you in ...

We've experienced interesting behavior ftp to solaris 8 systems.FTP transfers (using /usr/bin/ftp) to all of our solaris boxes (Ultra 60 to v880) from ftp.ncbi.nih.gov yield a maximum throughput (download) speed of ~500kbps.To ANY OTHER system running windows (dos ftp client) or Mac OSX ...

Hello guys,I have a file in solaris 8 with following permissions:-rw-rw-r--1 admwebeeuen_cw49660 Mar 21 2001 /iwmnt/default/file1.htmlMy user id is 'manug'. When I test the writability of this file (using test -w or access(2)), it says no. But when I try to remove this file (using rm), it ...

Hi,We are having performance problems on our server due to the number of users running multiple sessions. Is there anyway that we can restrict them to opening just one or two sessions only?

Hi all,Any ideas how to find out child processes of a particular process , understand what their state is and kill them.Thanks in advance.suraj

Hi there, I want to have Solaris 8 recognize the whole password even if the passowrd is more than 8 characters long. Currently while typing the password only the first 8 characters are relevant, and you can type anything after the initial 8 characters and it will be accepted.Any assitance would ...

We have about 100 Sun Solaris 9 SPARC machines which need to authenticate a potential 30,000 unique accounts (typ. 1000+ per semester) based on information created, stored, and updated on a Windows Active Directory Domain. While two-way would be nice, one-way 'from' the AD is acceptable when ...

Hi,I need to write a script on reporting the load average on a system. Can you give me some pointers or help with it?I need to check during 1 working day between 9am and 4pm, 100 times the load average and report it to a file for review, and then exits on the last check at 4pm.Please advise ...

Need to set up a file system buffer cache of 100 GIG or more. I'm looking for any avaliable stats of such large FSB feasiblity on any large SUN system (E10000, etc) and most important, performance of such FSB. I need to access a large dB (120 GIG) in real time, i.e. elliminate disk I/O ...

Hello,I want to give an external consultant a root session to install patches, maintain scripts etc.Has anyone an idea how I can log his session in a way that he is not able to modify the log file while working as root?I thought about sudo running a shell, using script or tee ... but root can ...

Hi,Can you tell me when and how system calls on a Sun box can be a problem. I know you can look at the syscl column in the mpstat command to see how many system calls per second are on the system. What is a high rate of calls that can be a problem?Thanks, Mark

I have successfully installed bind 9.2.3 but now have major dramas getting the named daemon to startI have a named.conf file and have scoured the internet for how-to's ...further doco, etc but still having probs....I am running it on Solaris 9any help would be appreciated ...

We have a Solaris 2.6 machine that will not come to the login screen. We receive a message that says "cannot open system file /etc/system" and then a panic message that says "read_binding_file /etc/name_to_major" and then some other stuff. We had someone performing a tar to the root of the file ...

Hi,I have a 280R that has 6G of mem. the machine is very slow . I did ran:vmstat 2 10 and procs -> b column gives me always 234184 value. I ran:sar -u 2 10 and column %wio gives me almost always 100%. sar -a 2 10 on namei/s gives lots of values much higher than the other two columns (100x ...

I have an E250 with RSC v0.28 that has been configured. I have been unsuccessful in my attempts to gain access to the ok prompt or to reset the RSC to default values (if you can). I would like to remove/disable RSC to gain system access to verify the health of the system as I fear it may not be ...

Hi, I made a really dumb mistake today. I was trying to tar /dev/rdsk and /dev/disk links withtar cvf ./dev/rdsk/c2t1* ./dev/dsk/c2t1*Yep, you guessed it, since I mistakenly didn't offer a tar file name for argument "f", I overwrote the partition at /dev/rdsk/c2t1d0s0 with a tar file, albeit a ...

Hi, the following concerns Solaris 8 on a Sun Blade 1000. Somewhere, somehow, "pkginfo" files for three (critical?) packages--SUNWcarx, SUNWcsr and SUNWcsu--are now apparently missing. I'm talking about /var/sadm/pkg/<package_name>/pkginfo. The significance of this is that, apparently ...

When I boot my Solaris 8 system running on SunBlade 100 I get several error messages and the system won't boot.A summary of the messages is shown belowThe system just stops on the word done as show below.Can you please explain the cause of these messages and what I might do to fix it. The ...

Recently I've been trying to do some benchmarking of an application on Solaris 9. To make tests go faster I've been using multiple identical machines simultaneously. They are three Sun Blade 2500's and, are more or less stock installs of Solaris 9. However, the performance I get out the ...

I'm having a strange problem with using GUI applications with Exceed.I have to set the display to my IP address to get GUIs to work. If I set the display to my computer name, it won't work (which is the default when I log in). This used to work just fine for months, but just a couple of weeks ...

Say you were ftp'ing a flat file onto a remote server, if you were to run a grep command on the remote file whilst it was still incoming (i.e incomplete) - is there any chance of corruption?. Additionally the file is about 65Mb so its pretty sizeable and takes some time to transfer ...

I am getting this message from one of my solaris 8 server.hostname: ***=== "find /" PROCESSES APPEAR TO BE HANGING ===***Just wondering what it is and how can I fix it?ThanksAsif Mirza

Hi1. I am working on a Server and want to shutdown any particular user system, whose connected with my server is that possible? if yes how can?2. How to give the some important rights to perticular user? (like to use some command ex-mkdir,shutdown,ls etc). and what is the command for that?Thank ...

Hi GurusWe have sun 4800, few days back we had a planned outage till then the server cpu was 98% idle. after the outage and reboot it has drastically fallen down to 80% idle cpu then after two days it gone below to 70% and today to 50% of cpu idle time.out put of sar 5 5SunOS bsid04 5.8 ...

Hello,I have an Ultra 2 running SunOS 5.5.1 at work that I need to backup some data off of to tape. I was planning on doing it via the tar utility but I'm not sure how I need to reference the tape device from the command line. I don't have any other options and have to work with the server ...

I'm a student administrating my CompSci department's servers. I just inherited my responsibilities as well as an authentication infrastructure using NIS. I made changes to the securenets file and needed to restart the services. After running ypstop and then ypstart I noticed that only ypbind ...

Hi, trying to keep the story short, I got to the point where I decided the best action was to 'newfs' the system partition of one Solaris 8, Sun Blade 1000 and restore it with the system partition of another. Having done this and upon reboot, the boot disk was found but it couldn't then find ...

OK - I messed up. I was trying to get my root / su login to work as ksh instead of sh. If I type ksh or put it into a profile, then I had a double exit command to get out. So - I copied the passwd file, forgot to change the rights to it and modified it to run ksh as all the other logins. I ...

All, I need some advice.I've written a script to be run on a client terminal by the user 'root'. One function of this script is to transfer data from the client to the server. This is achieved by temporarily mounting an NFS filesystem for the duration of the script. My problem is that root ...

Hi Anyone know how to check the system's SCSI disk serial number without using volume manager commnad?

I'm trying to install Directory Server 5.2 in Solaris 9 on a E250 two-processor system with 512M of memory. When I attempt a 'Typical Installation' I get the following errors. I've installed the required patches in the "Installation and Tuning Guide". Can anyone help me or steer me in the ...

All,I want to run a script using different colours in the terminal window. Basically I just need this window to stand out from all other terminal windows.I've written the script (Ksh).I've worked out how to set the xterm up the way that I want it:# xterm -bg black -fg yellow -T "Pre-Deploy" ...

Hi:This is my first post.It's been years since I've suported Sun boxes, now I need a quick refresh! We recently had a system disk failure on a Solaris 7 system and the recovery process was pretty messy. It used ufsrestore but it was cumbersome and we had some problems along the way.Is there a ...

Hi all,I am getting regular error messages in my /var/adm/messages file which says rsh - bad port connection.How can we debug/avoid this.Thanks in advance.Suraj

Does anybody know: given a file, how to find all the files that have symbolic links to this real file?

I just replaced a crashed disk in a large volume ( 150 GB). I started a File System Check through Volume Manager and it has taken over 18 hours at this point. Is this a normal time frame, How long can this take, Is there any way to get a status of what fsck is doing in the background. The only ...

If a user does not have root password to troubleshoot, what commands can be used to troubleshoot any application or system related troubleshooting at OS level for any bottleneck/installation issues/system crashes? Thanks in advanceMohammed

Hi all,I am writing a custom backup utility for print servers I support running Solaris 8 on Sparc boxes. They have attached 4mm tape drives. To minimize downtime I back up the system to disk using ufsdump then after bringing it back up, copy the dump files to tape. Here is the problem...The ...

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I am trying to run the customizations for the Sunblade 2500 via Patchpro. Patch pro continually fails with the following messages in the /var/adm/messages file: Sep 14 07:38:37 rapper-1 root: [ID 702911 user.crit] Tue Sep 14 07:38:37 MDT 2004(CRITICAL) => ...

Hicould any one tell me what is solaris smart software and what its use and how?Thank youTanvir

how can I get a list of all the processes with their signals sent to a given process during a period of time

Hi guruscan anybody please tell me how to analyze the output of truss command.I appreciate your effortsRegardsRaghavendra

A new disk is just installed in my solaris 8 box. It works fine.However, if I tried to ftp (in.ftpd), cd to all directories and run pwd under this new disk, it gives me 550 error msg. There is no problem for those in my old disk at all.ftp> pwd550 .I believe I've granted enough permissions ...

Sunsolve says A5000 supports 36GB drives.is anybody using those on A5000?Are there any issues?

We recently switched from a Data-General unix box to a Sun e12K (yaaaaaa). The following is my uname outputSunOS xxxxxxxx 5.8 Generic_117000-03 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-15000Now the question. On the Data General machine, you could set a parameter that would allow the user to login in either ...

Hi,because I can't seem to find it, can someone please tell me, what type of interface is on the V440 servers.I want to jumpstart the ones we just got, but I can't seem to find a document that expliciltly tells me they are of type "X". (where X is bge, qfe, .....)I am guessing ge something, ...

We have several production machines running Solaris 8 and 9 on SPARC platforms. The machines were built without support for IPv6. Is there any convenient way to add IPv6 support to these machines without reinstalling the OS? If so, how can it be done? Perhaps an OS upgrade would do the trick? ...

Is there any way to disable an account after "x" failed login attempts for "y" seconds in Solaris 8.0 and Solaris 2.6? If so, how?

I have a user who'd like a scroll mouse on his Ultra-80, Solaris 9. Is this supported? Does Sun make a scroll mouse? I did a google and got no answer.Thanks,Roger S.PS - Is this another DVD/USB/firewire issue?They're supported, but Sun doesn't have any drivers/software. ...