Can an Ultra 2 machine use a SUN X1195A 450 mhz cpu? Thanks

I need to determine whether the latest patch cluster for Solaris 8 has been installed on several workstations. Is there a simple way to tell which patch cluster has been installed? I know showrev -p will give me all the patches installed but I really need to be able to see if the patch-cluster ...

I wonder if anyone have any info on if there is any pam module equavilant to Linux's pam_wheel.so that allows only users with group wheel to su

I have a Sol 10 server I need to configure to allow access to port 7771. I have set up the port in /etc/services and I have tried to decipher the arcanities of System Management Facility. After researching, I don't think I really have to use the SMF. Regardless, whenever I try to start the ...

HI,My solaris is running:SunOS pdc2 5.8 Generic_117350-16 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-FireI am trying to mount a shares nfs mount on machine pdc1 from machine pdc2. As root:My entry in pdc1's /etc/dfs/dfstab:share -F nfs -o rw=pdc2 /wmfI have started nfs server thru "nfs.server start" command. ...

Hi,I just need some help regarding sense key error, we got the error below from our sun server. Not sure if this really need disk replacement. Any help is greatly appreciated.Aug 8 13:46:01 scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING: /pci@9,600000/SUNW,qlc@2/fp@0,0/ssd@w21000011c66140a4,0 ...

Hi,I need grep the .exe processes runing more than a day:Ex: to see the processes( *.exe) runing I run ps -ef |fgrep .exe |grep -v fgrepuser1 12240 12218 0 06:01:54 ?0:01 PROG001.exeuser1 11296 11277 0Mar 17 ?0:00 PROG002.exeFirst one kicked off today and second one kicked off some time ago. ...

HiI have few directories and and each directory I have few sub directories and files. And again in each sub directory I have files and sub directories again. I need to write a script that should check the files in current directory and backup the files found in that directory (i.e renaming them ...

Designing a high volume voice over IP recorder. I need to keep recording file transfers from interfering with RTP (causing delay/jitter). Recording files can be very large. RTP load fills more than half of 100M Ethernet. Any suggestions on how to do this?

Hi Folks,1) If I backup my entire system and include /etc/lvm/mddb.cf and/or /etc/lvm/md.cfand/or /etc/lvm/md.tab in the backup.Then change the Volume manager configuration....Then for some reason the system gets corrupted so I have to restore everything from backup....How does Volume manager ...

Hi,I have a box that will not boot on its own. It appears that the issue is two corrupted files : libc.so.1 and ld.so.1.During the boot process, I get a lot of Failure 137 messages and error 137 messages, messages about symbols not being referenced, and messages about problems with libc.so.1 ...

I have a /u01 file system that is mounted on a StorEdge 3510 disk array.If I login as user oracle which is a member of the dba and oinstall groups I get a permissions error:-nmsngp07:HSCRE >cd /u01nmsngp07:HSCRE >ls -al./..: Permission deniedtotal 20drwxr-xr-x4 oracledba 512 Feb 21 2005 ...

Hi, I have recently purchases a StorEdge 3511. I have it configured, can see all my drives and bits, make raids, LD's, file systems etc. BUT now I need a file system. The current system this unit is to replace consists of 2 machines each with there own UFS filesystem. Once data on machine1 is ...

HiI have a SunBlade 2000 (2 x UltraSparc iii @ 1 Ghz, 2 GB ram) running as a NFS fileserver. The small file preformance of filesystems mounted over nfs is quite bad, for example doing a chmod on 1000 empty files gives:Local (on the nfs server)real0m0.052suser0m0.017ssys0m0.037sClient (linux 2.6 ...

I've just inherited a v210 for my project with 2 36gb hot-swappable drives and solaris 5.8 installed.I have 2 spare drives for the machine as well and need to mirror the contents of the current drives for use on different projects(non-negotiable). I think the current drives are setup as raid 0 ...

Hi All,I am trying to set up jumpstart provisioning of sparc servers (V240s) on a lan which uses a microsoft (server 2003) DHCP server for dhcp services.I have installed the install server on an initial manually setup V240 ,firstly as per the documentation at ...

I can login as root, but when I try to login as user 'uadmin', I immediately get a 'killed' response.I cannot 'su uadmin' or 'su - uadmin' either. Any help is appreciated.mike d.

have posted in other forums but still get no answerI installed a fesh install of sol 10, no gui.I can not mount the cdrom.iostat -Enc0t0d0Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0Vendor: SAMSUNG Product: CD-ROM SC-148CRevision: B103 Serial No:Size: 0.00GB <0 bytes>Media Error: 0 ...

I have just installed solaris 10 x86.I am forcing myself to use this, but I am starting to have second thoughts.First, I did a core custom install. No CDE or GNOME. Want a headless server, what do I need a gui for!?smpatch update ran fine the first time, now I am getting an error:Failure: ...

Hi allI am having one doubt in changing passwords.Normal users can change their own password using "passwd" command..As a result the normal user's password is updated in /etc/shadow file,eventhough the permissin for this file is r__ . I think this might be due to the set UID setting for the ...

I have a 2nd interface card in my server which needs to be set up thus:ce1: flags=1000843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4> mtu 1500 index 3inet 10.248.3.73 netmask fffffff8 broadcast 10.248.3.79ether 0:3:ba:4d:dc:8cNo problem with the relevant ifconfig commands.However, after reboot ...

Please Help, I'm a very green sysadmin here.I'm also not positive that this is the right forum . . . I'm running solaris 10 on the sun w2100z workstation.I was installing firefox and thunderbird as root, using pkg-get, and I was intermittently asked if it was ok to install various packages ...

I'm trying to put a Security Disclaimer Banner (i.e. This computer is for authorize use ..) in the login screen for Solaris 10 and I can't seem to figure out how to do it.For Solaris 8 and 9, the /etc/dt/config/C/Xresource file can be edited to add this but this doesn't seem to work ...

Hi all,I am having doubt in NIS environment.In NIS, map is created for /etc/passwd file./etc/shadow file is in the ASCII file format. While any NIS users has logged in, the username and password is checked. At that time how the checking is done,because one is in the format of ASCII and another ...

During power up I can see both hard drive lights come on, and the DVD drive blink as it gets accessed. Then a few seconds later, both hard lights go out.I don't get an OK prompt. I've tried a solaris install disk in the DVD drive too. Any ideas?

Hi, my solaris 9 box seems to have rpcbind listening on udp 32771 in addition to the standar 111. This does not seem to be normal to me. Can someone shed some light into this? Is this by design or a bug.bash-2.05# lsof -i:32771COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAMErpcbind 112 root ...

I am looking to attach an external hard drive to our Sunfire V210 server running Solaris 9.Ideally I would like to attach something like a Maxtor 250-300GB USB external drive.Can anyone tell me if this is compatable and can be set up with the server spec above. If not any suggestions as to what ...

Looking to add an internal CD-ROM drive to our Sunfire v210 server into the drive bay provided. I think you can get a DVD Rom but is there a compatable CD-ROM that will work with this server?

Hi ,Question :Can i move my domain eeprom.image from one e10k to another 10k .After i move my domain (SYSTEM bOARD)? If Yes ...How to i do it ?Pls advice

we are using Solaris 8, I have 2 JNI card connections, using SDD software, to an IBM Shark SAN. We tried to do the multipathing stuff on these two HBAs, but no success. Here are the procedures:/opt/IBMdpo/bin/cfgvpath/opt/IBMdpo/bin/vpathmkdevreboot -- -rAny suggestion is welcomed ...

Hello,i've read and googled a lot concerning this topic. But i am not sure if any of the documents really makes sense. So maybe someone here can give me a few hints:I got some SPARC-Servers (V440,V240,V120 running Sol 9) which i want to monitor to get a trend of system utilization.There are a ...

Does anyone know where this tool went?I cannot seem to find it anymore.Thanks,Lyle

Hi All,2 questions:1 is there a way in sysidcfg to specify acceptance of the time the system has? (seems to be the only option I havent got nailed yet)2. what is the best terminal type to specfiy for a connection via serial to a Windows PC running Hyperterm, ansi works but is dull, PC console ...

I've got the installation done and booted just fine on a Dell Inspiron 5100 notebook. The problem is that it can't discover the network. After digging through tons of documentation on Google it looks like I have all the appropriate /etc files configured properly..../etc/hosts ...

Greeting everyone,We have a need to prevent a user from deleting files or contents in a directory while still giving him/her write access to the directory. As far as I know, if a user is given write privilege than he will also have a privilege to delete.Is there a way to make a user unable to ...

I have a V440 that will not automatically power back up after power loss. I have to push the power button. The key switch is in the veritical position. Is there something in ALOM to correct this. Also, can you get to the sc> while booted up? and back again?Any help is appreciated.mike d. ...

Hi, I have recently built a V480 connected to a 3310 SCSI Array. It was built in our lab, no problems. All patches applied, the partitions etc all seen under format. I then installed it into its rack. It now cannot be seen when I have booted the server, even at OBP. The cabling has been checked ...

hi all,recently i deleted all files(about 30000 small ones) in a directory, but while i used `ls -l` to verify this directory, the "size" of the directory remained very large. does this value mean anything other than "size"?thanks for your response

Hi,I am very new to Sun solaris and have a very simple question which I hope some1 can advice.I have 3 NICs on my Sun Solaris server.During installation of Sun OS, I was prompted to choose 1 NIC which I entered the ip address.However, when I did a "ifconfig -a", I noticed that the other 2 NICs ...

My boot hdd failed and i ran "fsck -F UFS -o b=32768 -y /dev/rdsk/c1t0d0s0" this command to recover it .... now it has cleaned the hdd partition and i think all of the data is kept in lost+found folder. can someone pls help me out in finding out a way to recover a huge data from that ...

Hi there. Im using bash as my shell and here's my problem..<title>"...some string...."</title>im parsing an html file and i'd like to extract the string in between the <title> tags,so that $1 = <title>, $2 = "...some string....", and $3 = </title>.im thinking of ...

I am getting errors from my server when running dmesg:rmclomv: [ID 211032 kern.error] PSU @ PS0 has FAULTEDThe server led is also orange, but everything is still working fine.The lights out manager (ALOM) shows:Power Supplies: Supply Status Underspeed Overtemp Overvolt Undervolt Overcurrent PS0 ...

I want one of my processes (analyse_data.sh) to run only on first Monday of every month.... Rather than using a two step approach - Launching a script & then testing for the day, I want to do it in a single entry for cronAny suggestions?

Hi Guys, When i start my Sun 4500 enterprise M/C i see a error message which reads like this,Auto Negotiation TimeoutCheck Cable or Contact System AdministratorLink DownNetwork Link Setup failedPlease Check Cable and try againSetting up Network Link and SpeedUsing onboard ...

Dear sysops,We got 25 second hand Sunray 100 's early 2004 (as well as purchased 10 new in August 2004). Over time, in fact disturbingly often this month, we have nearly 15 of the former showing failed hardware symptoms (persistent amber light). And two of the *new* batches with the same ...

HiIs there a way to prevent new sessions from being started on a Sun Ray Server (3.1) without killing existing sessions? The server is in a failover group.The only thing I could find in the documentation was "utadm -f", but the docs seem to be contradicting themselves. The Admin guide says ...

hi,i installed firefox 1.07 on my solaris 9 sparc system. and now when i run firefox i get lot of error message. i dont understand what they mean. looks like mayb some lib files are missing. if so how do i go abot getting them.the message are:d.so.1: firefox-bin: fatal: libm.so.2: open failed: ...

I have an application that doesn't start when the zone is rebooted. I have a start script in the zone's /etc/init.d directory. The script will start the app if I enter the command manually.What are some of the thing s I should be looking for?

Hi Folks,Whatt's the best way of determining which entries in /dev/dsk, i.e /dev/dsk/cXtXdXsX refer to my CD ROM?I'd like to be able to write a script that identifies the CDROM then uses dd to copy the contents to a suitable place on my hard driveAny suggestions?RegardsKevin ...

SunFire V240 has 4 disk slots. Each machine comes with 2ea 73G drives. Is it possible to replace those drive with 4ea 146GB disks?We are buying our first SF240 :-) For Solaris 9/Oracle 9iTksJohnHo