One of my customers has heard a rumor that all new Sun hardware will not be backward compatible with older versions of Solaris (i.e. <Solaris 10)any truth to this?thx!>

I was under the impression that the /etc/group file only shows ids that belong to a group, as in:staff::10:www,testwhen the id's are added as secondary groups. On some of my systems I see that the id's are shown when it is their primary group. Others only show when added to secondary groups ...

hi,got a performance issue on 280R running solaris8 with S1 attached - and it seems to be disk issue :-(sar constantly shows %wio as 30-60, disks become busy up to 100% sometimes, and i only get speed of 1meg/s when doing file copy from disk to disk.are there any ways to diagnose this ...

I would like to find out what is considered "safe operating" temperatures for components in my V880 servers. I have read all the documentation on critical temperatures and at what temperature the component will be shut down, but I cannot find anything that indicates at what temperature I should ...

Hello,I have a SunFire 280R running Solaris 8.The application running on the system will be upgraded soon, and required that I update Java.I believe I've missed some steps, as the SMC (Solaris Management Console) will not run now.I've read the SMC FAQ, but may have missed something. Any help ...

What is the command that will let me see which driver is binding to a particular card? I have looked at prtdiag and prtconf and neither command seems to show the driver that is binding to the card.

Need a solution for monitoring the comproom temp, more specifically one that can be tied into either my V880's or 280R's, the windoz servers belong to another dept :D. I normally monitor the system via VPN so I have consoles open both at work and home. Does anybody make a temp sensor that ...

HiI have a X4200 that I have installed Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 AS Update 6 on.The problem I am having is running Gnome through console redirection. When I log in to gnome, the mouse is lagging somthing awful, it takes several seconds from that you move the mouse until the cursor ...

HI we are facing the following problem while attempting to compile apache 5.0.52 on a solaris 10 SPARC config. We are getting the following error # less config.nice#! /bin/sh## Created by configureLDFLAGS="-L /apps/cci/lib"; export LDFLAGS"./configure" \"--with-mpm=worker" ...

Hello,These are the traces of my problem:Can't load '/cm4/tools/GNU/src/perl/lib/perl5/site_perl/sun4-solaris/auto/XML/LibXML/LibXM L.so' for module XML::LibXML: ld.so.1: /vobs/dsl/source02/ConfigDataTools/xslt: fatal: relocation error: file ...

Hi,Just have some issue detecting 2nd LUN on Solaris. We were able to detect the first LUN but the next LUN can not be detected even with reconfigure boot for a couple of times. Tried removing and presenting the LUN using other LUN # with no success.Anyone that has encounter this error ...

Hi,Couldn't find any topic about this in the Handbook, or search, so this question is unique.:-)I finally have got an Ultra 60, but 'll have to replace the DVD drive.Seen from the front, the left side panel is opened quite easily.But the DVD drive is fixed with some screws on the other side ...

Hi,I am unable to telnet, ftp or ssh into my machine.I can login via console.Anyone can advice me which file or where can this be tweaked?RegardsSolomon

With sar I can get an overview about the cpu-load divided in system mode, user mode and wait on i/o.While I have a performace problem on Solaris systems, top or sdtprocess would show those processes, which are using cpu. There is no distinction between user-mode and system-mode.How can the ...

Hi,I am just wondering, at present i have an AMS200 Hitachi SAN, i can send a specific LUN to my V480 Solaris Box running 2.9, the problem is i am trying to get my head around how i will expand this lun if i need to. I was talking to the Hitachi bod and he said that what i would need to do ...

I have a box runnign 5.8 on an Ultra-4. Here is my problem:When I log in as a regular user, I cannot su -If I enter su - and then enter the root password when prompted, the system hangs and connection is lost. I've never ran into a problem like this. How can I go about trouble shooting it? ...

Hi Folks,just compiled up sudo 1.6.8p12 with pam support. Everything seems fine, but when I sudo to root and use my kerberos password, the permissions on my /tmp/krb5_uid file gets changed from being owned by myself to root eg:user@ss1:~> ls -l /tmp/krb5cc_100-rw-1 useruser 1300 Feb 24 14:44 ...

We are getting the following output when running SAR11:30:0140600011:35:007219011:35:0001000011:40:004119511:40:0020800011:45:014219411:45:0120800011:50:0016318011:50:0020800011:55:005119311:55:0001000012:00:016119212:00:0164360012:05:0010218712:05:00208000Average31096bwadmin@ews2$Why would ...

I'm trying to setup a NIS+ master, but after I run nisserver on my Ultra60, running Solaris 8, telnet, ftp, and other protocols stop working. Does anyone have an idea why this would happen? Thank you in advance for any help.

How can I do this? I plan to take a ufsdump copy (to an x server on the network) How can I boot the machine again using this image? Is there a boot -net XXX command I can use? Thanks

Hello. I am a newbie admin. I need to migrate about 20+ users from an existing solaris box to another. I am wondering if I can just copy the user's in question /etc/passwd entries on one machine to the other?Will their password remain the same? What about their home directories how do I ...

Please let me know the equivalent.Thanks

Your Machine A crashes and would not come up again. Assuming you have a copy of the OS (ufsdump) of Machine A on Machine B. How can I restore Machine A with the ufsdump image on Machine B? Is this possible? If so, I need step by instructions please.Cheers

Ok here is the situation. I am not a formal Solaris admin by any means but I need to get this machine's root password working. This is a production machine and I will be taking downtime tomorrow to fix it.Here are the specs/issues:-Sun v880-Solaris 8-root password expired-STOP-A has been ...

Hello, I have a StorEdge T3 that's currently connecting to E3500 using Fibre Channel. I wonder if it's possible that I can connect this T3 storage to a Dell server (poweredge 2650). Supposedly, I can just buy a fibra optic card for the dell, and hook it up with the T3. Is it feasible? Thanks! ...

Apache has a $DOCUMENT_ROOT variable set for cgi programs.Sun One Webserver doesn't seem to set that.Is it possible to set that variable winthin SUNONE webserver?

Hello all,i have a tar file in machine A and i want to ftp/scp the file to machine B as the extracted copy.Example: aaa.tar in machine A shuld get copied to machine B as just aaa(means the untar'd content)is it possible, if yes how?

How do I reconfigure SVM metadevices after SRDF migration on EMC SAN without losing data?

Hi,I have a query on IP Multipathing implemented in Solaris. If i have a session which is up on a Solaris node which has multipathing configured. If one of the NICs fail in the multipathing group, will the session get terminated due to the failure of one of the NICs in the group or will the ...

When I create a new user on some solaris 9 systems, I'm having a problem with setting passwords. I'll create the password for the user, but it always comes back with an incorrect password when the user tries to log in or when I try to do an su to that user. I have tried several times and ...

can i add ide hard drive to sun ultra enterprise server?most documentation says only abot svsi drives... currently i have 4 scsi drives totalling about 120 gb. i bot a 300 gb ide drive. can i add this to the server ... what r the commands and procedure to add drive and mount and partition ...

When I set up a crontab job to run a COBOL program I get sent mail with the error message "Security Failure", in Solaris 7. The way I schedule the job is, call my .profile to set up the PATH, set up an environment variablethat is required by MicroFocus COBOL, then run the program, as shown ...

I have configured a new printer on machine x. I can ping the printer and also see the jobs in the queue. But the jobs are not going through just queueing up. Also, when I type lpq -Pprinter, it says unknown printer but shows up the queue. Any ideas what's going on? Cheers

This is my first time to see directory/file permissions in the form ofdrwx+ 3 owner group 512 Jan 15 2004 rational_lm7.0fThe + sign at the end of permission field is something that I don'r understand? What is the meaning of + in permissions?How it got set to + ?ThanskMS ...

Hello,I have what appears to be a hardware issue, and before I spend a ton of money trying to get it repaired, I was hoping that someone might have some insight (I suspect the system board):This is the screen that I get (notice there is no ok> prompt)<console screen>Trying ...

If I want to install patches only using Jumpstart, how would I do that?

Hello.I currently have a Solaris 9 host connected via fibre to a Crossroads 10000 Fibre to SCSI bridge. The Crossroads storage router has a 4 channel SCSI module, to which 4 SDLT tape drives are connected (each on their own bus). The problem is this:When the Solaris host is connected to the ...

Hello,I am trying to save some FS on tape using snapshots and I get an error :tar: ./devices/pseudo/sysmsg@0\:sysmsg: Cannot savedir: No such device or addressafter more than 20 minutes and #75000 files copied.The process used :1) fssnap the FS2) mount de the snapshot pseudo device3) tar from ...

I抦 running into this error when trying to install SSH# /usr/ccs/bin/makeechoif test ! -z ""; then \/bin/perl ./fixprogs ssh_prng_cmds ; \fi(cd openbsd-compat && /usr/ccs/bin/make)gcc -o ssh ssh.o readconf.o clientloop.o sshtty.o sshconnect.o sshconnect1.o sshconnect2.o -L. ...

OK, so here's my dilemma... Sun has an overwhelmingly large base of Identity Management software that is freely available ( http://www.sun.com/software/index.jsp?cat=Identity%20Management&tab=3). What I need to do is rather simple. I have two backend servers and about 15 clients. I need a ...

Hi,I am experience some display problem with my solaris 8 machine.I can see words truncated on screen and when it goes into screensaver mode, I can still see the truncated lines of words on the screen.How do i get rid of this?CheersSolomon

Hi,I always experience this problem when booting up my server. It hangs at ok prompt and I have to hard reboot it again.If I quickly enter boot -s at the ok prompt, the server continues to boot. If I delay, it will hang at ok prompt.Anyone have any idea how to solve ...

We have 2 unit V880 server with maximum configuration of 32 G RAM and 8 CPU (Sparc9 processor running 1200MHz) and another 8 Sun Blade machines. All of the user data are located on both hardisk of this V880 machines. For this two machine I have assigned two group of users to run their work. One ...

Hi Folks,I'm trying to create a bootable Solaris CD ROMI've copied slice 1 from the Solaris 9 installation disk using dd> dd if=/dev/dsk/c0t6d0s1 of=/export/home/kevin_cd/CD/solX.s1 bs=512I've created a loopback filesystem> lofiadm -a /export/home/kevin_cd/CD/solX.s1 /dev/lofi/1But if ...

Can anyone provide a means to enumerate the file locks held by an nfs server for its clients?Or, on a client, list the locks that the client holds against the nfs servers it uses?We are having nfs locking problems, and while I suspect that clear_locks on the server will fix my problem, I would ...

I recently bought a refurbished Sun Ultra 5 from ebay. Now, theUltra 5 puts out a default screen resolution that none of my monitorscan handle so I'm attempting to get to the boot prompt with the useof a serial cable.My laptop is running OpenBSD and as far as I know, the Ultra 5 hasno OS ...

Hello,How to zip and unzip a directory and its subdirectories excluding a list of subdirectories using tar command. Can someone give me an example?

I see SUNWexplo installed under /opt on my machine. What command should I run to collect data?

Folks,Does anyone have a set of steps handy for identifying/confirming/fixing disk issues on Sun hardware after they appear in the syslog. I am new to sun - come from hp environment and use commands such as:ioscan -fnC disk disk usually shows up no_hw or not at alldd - try to send data to ...

Appreciate if any expert able to help me out. I have been checking all ssh sites and forums but still not able to solve this problem.I have setup a cronjob in server A to run scp command through user 1 and it's working fine. Authentication method used was RSA and without passphrase.However ...