I am trying to mount directories from other servers onto one that has a tape drive for backup purposes.Machine A has the tape driveMachine B is something on the network I want things backed up fromMachine B has the following in /etc/dfs/dfstabshare -F nfs -o ro=machinea.bigredwire.com -d "root ...

Hi all, I am taking backup of root file system using ufsdump.I issued the following commands for backup1)shutdown -g30 -y went to single user mode.2)# ufsdump0ucf/dev/rmt/0/The backup of root file system stated to 8GB DAT.my total root file system was estimated as around 0.8GBMy backup started ...

Hello,I have a Netra T1 running SunOS 5.8 and would like to change the IP, netmask, and gateway. I tried to do the sys-unconfig but it ends in error: System Identification Error An error occurred while trying to set the IP address [IP address here] on the network interface. I am guessing that ...

I'm trying to configure my solaris 8 workstation as a DHCP client so that it can obtain its IP info from my office's DHCP server, how should I go about configure the DHCP client on my workstation?cmk168

I encountered this error when I launch the ethereal utility:./etherealld.so.1: ./ethereal: fatal: libgtk-1.2.so.0: open failed: No such file or directoryKilledWhat's wrong here! Your kind advice is appreciated!

Hi there..I have a server that is being is being hammered by another machine from within our company. I know what the machine name is but can't find the owner and I was wondering is there anyway to kill the connection without taking down my server.Any help would be greatly appreciated.Greg ...

OK, how do you fully remove a hotplug disk from a Solaris 8 serverso that the SCSI device not responding errors do not continue toshow up on the console.....without rebooting the server too!

All, I require assistance with a small shell script that I am working on. Basically this script will execute a command on a remote system - simple enough in theory. The catch is that the remote machine is going to ask me for a password to finalise the execution of the command and what I need to ...

I am running Solaris 8 on an E450. Slots 0 & 1 are occupied and mirrored using SDS.Slots 2 & 3 are empty. Slots 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 are occupied and are configured as internal RAID 5. These 6 disk are using a special backplane configured for internal RAID.When I enter the prtdiag -v ...

Hi All,I am successfully creating flash images of our Solaris 8 7/03 V480 system. There are noerrors on the bootup of the system I am creating the images from.However, when I restore the flash image to an alternative system, I am constantlygetting "couldn't set locale correctly" error messages ...

Anyone know how to delete an open socket connection. I have an app that will no restart cus the port is in use. How do I find the port number and how do I free up this port? Any insight would be appreciated. I believe it uses 42340.ThanksJI

After initiating the "ftp" command I want to upload a file to another machine using "put" command. I want to do this using full pathname of the file, without setting local directory "lcd' command, since my files to be uploaded have different paths at different times. When I tried to do this I ...

Hi all,Currently, I am experiencing a NIS problem. When I try to start /usr/lib/netsvc/yp/ypstart, the system warns that there is no such file or directory. I have tried to boot -s and done some maintenance such a rm /etc/defaultdomain and then move to level 3 to re-create /etc/defaultdomain ...

IM having real problems with the PATH file on a SUN 220R running Solaris 9, when i log in as root all I have available is the .dtprofile, Ive read all over the place that you need to edit the .profile, but i cant find it.I have the root user using sh, and another user using the bash, neither of ...

I was told that I should not use awk scripts in my code because it may not work in future releases of Unix.Does anybody know if that is true, or does Sun support awk?Thank You

Users on SunOs5.8 sometimes start geting "Xlib: Maximum number of clients reached" error on starting any xterm or X application after the machine has been up for a while (few months, sometimes much sooner) even if actual number of clients currently are not many. Killing a few of the already few ...

When debugging a TCP server I get following lsof output( original values replaced by my_program, my_host, 11.22.33.44 ).........my_program 14514 wap 7u IPv4 0x300019d7200 0t0 TCP *:8080(LISTEN).....my_program 14514 wap 49u IPv4 0x30005d966e0 0t156 TCP my_host:8080->11.22.33.44:4915 ...

Hi,I have new box just added to the network and the box has to have active 2 different IP addresses, a 10.x.x.x address and a 192.x.x.x address, and only 1 interface called ce3.The /etc/hosts file has the 10.x address coded in the first line with hostname S5100 as loghost, and the second line ...

Hi,I have a project to exercise Disaster Recovery. I have a V880 sun server with Solaris 8 and Veritas 3.2 on it. I want to backup the system data + application data and restore it on another V880 server at an off-site location. Does any one know the techical steps involved ? Thanks in advance. ...

How do I add deimals in a csh script?When my script encounters this@ usercpu = ( 1 + 5.1 )it returns this error@: Badly formed numberIs there another way to handle this?

All,Request advice on how to modify a systems default gateway setting.I've used 'sys-unconfig' to modify the systems IP address and subnet mask but it doesn't cater for changing the systems default gateway.At the moment I'm using the command "route add net default <IP Address>" but ...

Hello!what command or script would I use so that when a user logs in, it will display the last time that user logged in to the system. Only thing I can get close is 'finger -l root' but that only does for when root logs in and adding it to /etc/profile will only show the last time 'root' ...

Dear Sir: We are using sun solaris sparc machines running on solaris 8. We would like to implement the RBAC concepts.Aim:To setup a role to change user passwords called passwdmgr and restrict the users on which the role can act upon.status: I was able to successfully set up the asswdmgr role ...

The Dell Poweredge 2650 is listed as supported on the Solaris 8/X86 2/02 HCL along with its PERC raid controller. I've downloaded the RAID and ethernet driver diskettes mentioned, but the RAID driver does not appear to attach to the controller. I did try adjusting the PCI IDs in the driver ...

hello everyone,i'm just new to solaris..i successfully installed solaris 10 in my PC.from what i know there's a feature in solaris that let's you drive the system thru a windows likeenvironment.how do i activate that feature?thanks.

Anyone know the best place to get a binary distribution of apache http server (no makes/builds from source code). Hoping it can just be untarred. Is there a place were you can download Sun-blessed distributions? I don't have the option of loading off of OS cdrom.Mike

hi guys,Does anyone know whether if a DNS server can be a DHCP client as well?Thank for the help in advance. :)- -Good Dayszehanz.

hi,today i've experienced an automatic reboot on my E220r running Solaris 8. The OS is pretty much up to date with the last patches installed 5 weeks ago. uname -a saysSunOS server 5.8 Generic_117350-23 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-60prtdiag -v saysSystem Configuration: Sun Microsystems sun4u (2 X ...

I made the unfortunate mistake of moving /* to /orig/ (it's a long story...)Anyway, as you can imagine, I found myself in a heap of trouble. I was able to boot into single user mode w/ a cd, and I moved all the files back.The problem is that some directories still consider /orig as their ...

hi!i have one question to the nameresolving:what meens in the /etc/hosts an Entry:<IP-Adr> hostname.the Questions is the Dot after the hostname?and what mens the "domain" Entry in /etc/resolv.conf

I need to dynamically grow a filesystem that is a metadevice. Never played around with growfs which seems the way to do this. This is the setupFilesystem to grow# df -k /oraarch2Filesystemkbytesusedavail capacity Mounted on/dev/md/dsk/d59295373 3277364 592505636%/oraarch2# metastat -p|grep d5d5 ...

Hi,It may seem a newbie question, yet please do help me, I have no idea how to figure it out......My manager want me to upgrade the NICs on both V240 and V440 servers from ce to bge. I am not sure whether the current ce NICs support bge standard or not. Can someone highlight me on this?Can I ...

I'm getting the following error in /var/adm/messages constantly. I cannot find any obvious problems with the server or disks. Jun 15 10:59:44 crcimg1 EventProvider[1248]: [ID 903722 daemon.warning] disklist_scsi: ioctl(USCSICMD) - Bad addressJun 15 10:59:44 crcimg1 EventProvider[1248]: [ID ...

Hi,I have Solaris 9 running on Sun 220R. When I log on to the box, it takes sometime to reutrn the prompt after I enter my username/password.Any idea/advise why it takes almost a minute or more to return the prompt after passing on the right credentials.Thanks and regards, ...

this is config.logPATH: /usr/sbinPATH: /usr/binPATH: /usr/dt/binPATH: /usr/openwin/binPATH: /binPATH: /usr/ucbPATH: /usr/local/sbinPATH: /usr/local/binPATH: /usr/ccs/binPATH: /usr/ucb/ccPATH: /us## -- #### Core tests. #### -- ##configure:1288: checking for a BSD-compatible ...

Folks, I am doing a Diskset using SVM.One of the requirement to create disk set is that disks need to be of same name on both the hosts.I have attached the SAN to two v20z running solaris 10 x86. Host1#format 0. c1t0d0 <DEFAULT cyl 49776 alt 2 hd 4 sec 720> ...

Hello,I have got a V240 Server with a large ufs Filesystem (500 GByte, about 1000000 Files). This is a ufs Filesystem mounted with the logging option. The Server has got a panic. Because of that the filesystem was corrupt, the ufs log was not usable. I had to check the filesystem three times ...

Thanks in advance.How can I identify a boot device after the system is up and running? Such as /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0. Any command, system conf file? What is the most reliable way doing this? Thanks again

Hello I am new to Solaris/Unix system landscape. I have a Sun enterprise 450 with 18GB hard drive. It has Solaris 9 on it and no other software at this time. I am planning on adding 2 more hard drives 18gb and 36gb to accommodate Oracle DB. Recently I went through the Solaris Intermediate Sys ...

Sysops,I've posted this in the Solaris 9 forum as well with no replies yet. I've been searching around for documentation with no luck :( . Anyway, has anyone successfully configured their sunray server to display a dtchooser screen at the start (so that users can log into other servers which ...

AllWhen I install the system it was installed as Non networkedNow I would like to make it Networked.Please let me know how can I make it without reinstalling it.FromPranav

As a part of Oracle 10g install it requires some packages to be installed:SUNWilofSUNWilcsSUNWil5csWhat are the possible implications for these packages installation and where to get them?

I am using a Sunfire V210 with a XVR-100 Graphics card.The XVR-100 is configured as the default console.I would also like to use the Serial MGT port on the Sunfire. Is there a way to do this?

We just upgraded our network by putting the new Cisco switches from 10mbps to 100 mbps.I recalled all my sun servers' NIC card has to be set for AUTO 100 full duplex.I see two parameters adv_100dpx_cap and 100dpx_cap.Which one is for auto full duplex ?How can I set them up ?I tried to disable ...

I am not new to ssh and trying this out for the first time on a Solaris 5.9 Generic_118558-09 OS. The ssh packages now comes preinstalled from SUN. I followed the BigAdmin document and other documents on OpenSSH for configuration of private and public keys..., and I can swear ... I follwed word ...

Can LDAP be setup on Solaris 8 and 9 to force specific Unix user to athenticate through LDAP and let the remaining use local password file. I am not talking root but non-root accounts as well.

hi,I want to know how many directories and sub-directories can be created in solaris 8.Are there any restrictions in solaris..?And i want to know the Inode limit?thankssanjeev

Key phrases:Unable to find an authentication methodPermission denied, please try again.It appears that the version of command-line "ssh" on Solaris 9 (12/03) will not connect to the version of "sshd" on Solaris 10 (03/05). This is just a posting to report the findings, not propose a solution. ...

I just installed Solaris 10 x86, which I'm migrating to from a Red Hat 9 server. I want to support the following applications:Apache (1 or 2, undecided)Tomcat (5.x)PHP (as an Apache module, v. 4 or 5)MySQLPostgreSQLThe issues seem to be:+ Sun pkgs are integrated, but rarely updated, and ...

Question: We are trying to install Oracle 9i with the silent option using the serial port interface in multi user mode. The system has a video graphics card installed. Is it possible the send the X-windows displays generated by oracle to the X-Server installed on the system?