System slow down after large file transfer

678 byte By johnster at 2007-11-25 23:18:40
I have a Sun V480 running 8 patched to 18 connected to a E420R patched to 22 running solaris 7.This E420 is connected by fibre to a LSI Disk array.The V480 is NFS'ed to the E420. When a do a large file copy within the moujnt directory for the disk array on the V480 , at the end of the copy, ...

free inodes

497 byte By danzak1 at 2007-11-25 23:18:41
I am getting this in /var/adm/messages:Jan 6 10:21:00 prod ufs: [ID 879645 kern.warning] WARNING: /: unexpected free inode 377371, run fsck(1M)Jan 16 09:51:20 prod ufs: [ID 879645 kern.warning] WARNING: /: unexpected free inode 377371, run fsck(1M)Jan 16 11:44:24 prod ufs: [ID 879645 ...

Segmentation Fault?

1029 byte By amitsontakey at 2007-11-25 23:18:43
Hello SysAdmins. I am facing with two problems:1) When I run 'sysdef' program it works well for first half part in which it displays all the drivers and their instances, but it fails an gives "Segmentation Fault" error and termintes the program. The last 5 lines that it displays always is as ...

"There is a TBD problem with ps2"

514 byte By tlemons at 2007-11-25 23:18:44
HiI have a Sun Fire 280R system that displays the message:"There is a TBD problem with ps2"at the 'ok' prompt. What is a 'TBD problem' and what is a'ps2'?Also, I'm unable to get Solaris 8 4/01 release to install, because the installation aborts with a message that displays, then is ...

How to build man pages

350 byte By tlemons at 2007-11-25 23:18:45
HiI just installed Solaris 8 from an old (August 2000?) distribution. When the installation completed, I noticed that none of the man pages were available. What is the command I should run to create man pages on this system?I've searched the Solaris 8 Administator's Guides but this isn't ...

how to not wrap lines in VI?

189 byte By digitsnake at 2007-11-25 23:18:46
Hi all,I am trying to read some log files that are very long per line. Is there way I can not wrap lines in VI so I can see line by line much more clear? Thanks.

Slow inbound file transfers

245 byte By jw_grover at 2007-11-25 23:18:47
My Enterprise 450 running Solaris 8 is extremely slow transferring files in (ftp, scp) but normal speed when transfering out. The machine has a normal load and network traffic is light. What could cause a one-way slowdown?JG

SunFire V120 and SunPCi

501 byte By aiivanov at 2007-11-25 23:18:48
Hi, AllI want to use a SunPCi IIpro card with SunFire V120 (or netra 120) server. But there is no such system in the compatibility list in SunPCi documentation. But SunFire V120 is a next generation of Netra DC200, which is included in that list. Documentation says, that SunPCi IIpro is a ...

Online LUN Expand

714 byte By dzee at 2007-11-25 23:18:49
I run my Suns with a SAN. I just expanded a LUN and now want to use the bigger LUN. The problem is, that the virtual disk is bigger now, but Solaris doesn't recordnize it.devfsadm, disks or drvconfig doesn't work. Is it possible, that Solaris reads out the new disk-size and puts the new label ...

SunPCI 1.3 and W2K Professional

947 byte By asmoore01 at 2007-11-25 23:18:50
Have Ultra60 with Solaris 9 and SunPCI card with 400Mhz cpu and 192Mb memory and SunPCI Version 1.3 with the 110762 patch. Works great on Windows NT4, except for an occasional freeze of the entire Ultra60, but I really want to use Windows 2000. I have setup both W2K and NT. Windows 2000 seems ...

Pause/step through installation

285 byte By tlemons at 2007-11-25 23:18:51
HiI'm having an error occur during a Solaris installation. The screen clears right after the error occurs, and I can't see what the error is. Is there a way to run a Solaris installation, and pause or step through it, one command at a time?Thankstl

Solaris Port Restrictions : Configuration workarounds?

309 byte By retr0man at 2007-11-25 23:18:52
Hi, Got an old applications trying to use ports 800 and 801 in Solaris. However these are restricted/reserved for root usage. Are there any configuration work arounds for either un-reserving the ports or to re-route this apps traffic thru a normal usage port?Any advice?- L. ...

NO LOGINS!

644 byte By earld at 2007-11-25 23:18:53
Hi,I tried to execute init 6 on my server. I got no response so I tried to use "shutdown". I used the following command: shutdown -y -g30 -i6 "The system is being rebooted". After five minutes the systeme has still not rebooted. However when a user (other than root) trys to login, the following ...

CDE problem, panes but no title bar

1263 byte By henryg1059 at 2007-11-25 23:18:56
I had Solaris 8 working on the E450 system for some time. When I log on, the CDE comes up with the front panel and I am able to bring up new terminal windows with the right button of the mouse.Now, after logging on to the system, I see the quick flash of the CDE background and then it goes to a ...

Connection lost

263 byte By danzak1 at 2007-11-25 23:18:57
I have this problem, everytime I connect to my Solaris 8 server and am idle like few minutes, my connection gets dropped, is there any params I should be going after to increase to eliminate the disconnection (connection made thru telnet)thx.

rsh and ftp

535 byte By hataian at 2007-11-25 23:18:58
I like to know, How can I create a restriceted user account for our ftp client?I want users have only read access to their home directory and nothing else.I have used /usr/lib/rsh shell and copied ls and less commands into their $Home/bin directory and setup the PATH variable in their ...

E450 hard drive support

189 byte By Paladinrjb at 2007-11-25 23:18:59
Does anyone know if the Enterprise 450 supports 73GB 80pin hard drives? I know that sun doesn't offer them with this system, but has anyone tried it?Thanks,Ryan

HELP!!!

1296 byte By paulsonb at 2007-11-25 23:19:00
I don't know if anyone has heard of this before or not, maybe I'm dumb or something. At work we were trying to share out a directory to the network from a stand-alone server. The server does not run NIS or NIS+, so when we tried to use the (share -F nfs -o ro=allmachines etc.) it didn't ...

versioning utility on solaris

409 byte By banana123 at 2007-11-25 23:19:01
hello.in my workplace every day a version of out product is compiled (and exefiles and libs created) , i would like to be able to know throw time forevery compiled product to which version it belongs.is there any utility on unix that can stamp my exe files (and libs) in a waythat i could ...

NEW to Sun Solaris - HOW to learn it, advise

373 byte By corona_manuel at 2007-11-25 23:19:02
I am new to Sun and will like to get advise on how to go about on learning the OS capabilities and hardware configuration..... I want to purchase an entry level computer, with the OS, normally on a wintel platform you can buy an small laptop, workstation and/or server for less than 1,500.... Is ...

login from script

434 byte By gauravsharan at 2007-11-25 23:19:03
Dear All,I am writing a shell script in which I would like to rum some commnads as another user. Is it possible to switch user's login inside the shell? let me elaborate my question-I logged in as user AAAnow I want to be user BBBI am aware of su -c command but I don't know how to specify a ...

Networking - How can I ensure a packet leaves the interface?

1593 byte By BradenW at 2007-11-25 23:19:04
Greetings,Here's an interesting one for you:We have a configuration that utilizes a load balancer to balance across a couple of V880's (Solaris 8 10/01). Occasionally, we need to make an http request from "inside" the balancer to the load-balancing IP address. It seems that when the balancer ...

Two OSes on one Sun server

847 byte By niichavo at 2007-11-25 23:19:05
Our client is currently using some banking application which is running on Solaris 2.6 (SunOS 5.6)They would like to upgrade this banking application to a higher level which is certified on Solaris 2.8 (8). The client would like to keep to environments on the same machine. 1. We would like to ...

change of hostname

206 byte By clicht1 at 2007-11-25 23:19:06
i am running solaris 9 , and would like to change the name of the server.is there a command to do this , if not which files should i edit to change the hostname.thanks in advance

System Termperature

163 byte By msklie at 2007-11-25 23:19:07
How can I log an alter in syslog when the system temperature hits a certain threshold and how can I change that threshold? Thank for any help. e4500.

Boot Problem

425 byte By olugbuyi at 2007-11-25 23:19:08
I've got a problem with an Ultra Sparc 5 system which has solaris 2.6 installed. This machine was rebooted yesterday and never came back up. When it is turned on the power supply comes on but the screen remains blank. All that I can see is that the on button blinks green. The last time this ...

Log file locking on Solaris 8

887 byte By Pierce3 at 2007-11-25 23:19:09
Hello. Is there a way for a third party application running on Solaris 8, which programmatically creates several types of log files, to lock these flat ASCII files? The purpose is to avoid the case where a user might mistakenly delete the current day's log file. The application currently ...

unable to delete a file

225 byte By mdsadiq99 at 2007-11-25 23:19:10
There is a file which has space in between .I dont knwo how that space came in between the file .-rw-rw-rw-1 jmc101bsp57611 Jan 14 08:04 log.bshell (jmc101@MANNYHow to delete this fileThanks

IP Multipathing question

685 byte By jmiturbe at 2007-11-25 23:19:11
Hello,I齰e read about IP multipathing and it says to use each cards MAC address instead of the default one MAC for all the NICs. So I have a question: What happens with the ARP of machines accessing a host with this IP multipathing enabled when a NIC goes down?I mean, a machine on the same ...

smbsh from solaris 9 to XP

1405 byte By Disarray at 2007-11-25 23:19:12
I recently re-installed XP on my workstation, and since then, I can no longer get from solaris9 to my XP machine with sbmsh. This is probably the wrong place to ask the question, but I can't find the answer anywhere else. Nothing was changed on the solaris/samba server side, and I've setup my ...

/usr/ucb/cc: language optional software package not installed

615 byte By jamesi12345 at 2007-11-25 23:19:13
I don't know if this topic belongs in here...but here goes.I am attempting to install the openssl-0.9.6h onto my Sun Fire Server running Solaris 8. I am attempting to configure and build the openssl library.I run through the configuration okay.But when I use the "make" command, I get this ...

SunFire V100 NIC name

182 byte By csoroge at 2007-11-25 23:19:14
I am trying to configure the networking interfaces on a SunFire V100 (/etc/hostname.?), but I don't know the name of the interface. Can somebody help me with this one?

Process(s) that are tying up network at 23:00 each night.

571 byte By cooperil at 2007-11-25 23:19:15
E4500 - SunOS 2.6Networking group contacted me to see what was running on system between 11:22-11:30 pm.Something big is running on system almost every night during this time. Network Monitoring Center loose connectivity to the network during this timeframe. How can I find out what is running ...

Which is the best method for file transfer(Urgent!!!!!!!)

446 byte By mdsadiq99 at 2007-11-25 23:19:17
I want to copy files from one server to another server . Which would be the best solution.The file is 12Gb compressed ufsdump format.We have 10MBps LAN.The source server is Sun Fire V880 Server with FCAL Hard disks adn the destination server is Sun Enterprise 450 Server with SCSI Hard disks.1) ...

Subnet Mask Problem

528 byte By reza_hosseiny at 2007-11-25 23:19:18
While Installin Solaris 8 Release 2/02 I bump into a problem . When It asks "System Part of a Subnet?" and I answer "No" and it goes on , the system hangs up and does not go any further .But If I choose "YES" once and enter a subnet mask as like 255.255.255.0 and choose to change the settings ...

Not able to login (telnet/rlogin)

363 byte By java-ersan at 2007-11-25 23:19:19
Hi,We have a problem on a Sun 220R mahcine, when we telnet to it or rlogin ot it, and after giving the username and password, it does not login, when we supply a wrong id/password it says incorrect login.We restarted the inetd, but did not fix it, I think its a problem in after authintication, ...

Login sequence through /etc/passwd

1005 byte By KraftT at 2007-11-25 23:19:20
Hey Folks,I wrote a Perl script to sanitize and sort the /etc/passwd file.I uncovered a nuance/feature/bug when logging into Solaris.The Perl scripts sorts the /etc/passwd file by GUI then by UID:smtp:x:0:0:Mail Daemon User:/:root:x:0:1:Super-User:/:/sbin/shBUT, when I 'su - root' I end up in ...

Timeout when the machine is down

642 byte By Unixer at 2007-11-25 23:19:21
I use Solaris 8. If some applications (for example, telnet) on machine A attempt to connect to the the machine B, which is powered off, or removed from the network, the telnet on machine A will just hang for a long time (many minutes). Eventually, some exeptions will occur. But I believe there ...

removing sendmail

87 byte By Gchumy at 2007-11-25 23:19:24
How can I remove sendmail from my Solaris 8 Intel system.Thank you

Power Saving

205 byte By nean at 2007-11-25 23:19:25
How do I disable the power save feature from a sun enterprise 250 system.The system is always on. I have tried the dtpower option, and set it to disable but the monitor still goes off.

umount failed - fuser doesnt list people

360 byte By agonzalezg at 2007-11-25 23:19:26
HiI have a problem with a file system that I want to unmount;when I try the umount command, it replies "file system busy",and fuser -c shows no process using/accessing the FS.I cannot restart (reboot) the machine where the FS is attached to,so what other options can I try?thanks in ...

T3 Disk Array

119 byte By danzak1 at 2007-11-25 23:19:27
Anyone has a T3 disk array and used other than CLI to configure, can you use Raid Manager 6.x?Thx.

running as non-root

152 byte By Gchumy at 2007-11-25 23:19:28
I need to configure a package to run as a non-root on my Intel Solaris machine.Please can anyone help.Thank you.Chumy

Solstice DiskSuite reconfiguration ?

623 byte By dm_tikhomirov at 2007-11-25 23:19:29
Hello everybody,Can you help please with Solstice DiskSuite reconfigurationNow I have metadevice d0 as :more md.cf# metadevice configuration file# do not hand editd0 1 6 c0t1d0s0 c0t2d0s0 c0t4d0s0 c0t5d0s0 c0t8d0s0 c0t9d0s0 -i 32bFor example, I want to change scsi id of disk c0t1d0s0 for ...

Starting java applcation during boot

1409 byte By Lynggaard at 2007-11-25 23:19:30
HiIm trying to start a java application during boot. but it keeps failing on me. I did the followingin /etc/init.d/ i placed the "vip" start/stop script.#!/sbin/shecho "****** Running vip start/stop script $1" >> /export/home/admin/rebootlogsu - vip -c "/opt/gauss/vip8/startStopScript.sh ...

Metadb on a SAN

842 byte By axassl at 2007-11-25 23:19:31
Using Solaris 8, I have 2 JNI card connections, using SDD software, to an IBM Shark SAN.Currently, I'm using Solstice Disksuite with metadbs on the internal disks.The SAN is working fine.I have set up an extra metadb replica pair in a slice on the far end of one of the virtual disks ...

no acceptable cc founf in $PATH (solaris 8)

621 byte By erickc at 2007-11-25 23:19:32
I've just inherited looking after a small network that utilises samba(vers1.8). When I run ./configure, the process halts at the last line.loading cache ./config.cachechecking for gcc nochecking for ccnoconfigure: error: no acceptable cc found in $PATHAccording to some of the info I gathered, ...

Process memory

100 byte By danzak1 at 2007-11-25 23:19:33
How do you find out how much memory a process or a PID is using? any tools?Thx.

ssh

296 byte By dehalgren at 2007-11-25 23:19:34
I have installed the packages from Solaris 9 for ssh on Solaris 8.I get the following message "Couldn't stat random seed file /users permission denied when I remove the prng_seed file which is created in the .ssh directory in my home directory, ssh will run.Any ideas

df: cannot statvfs /home/projects: No such file or directory

1236 byte By rbc2 at 2007-11-25 23:19:35
Hi,I think my system ...#uname -aSunOS bob 5.8 Generic_108528-09 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Blade-100... is messed up.Here's is the output I am getting from df ...# df -kFilesystemkbytesusedavail capacity Mounted on/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s06191949 4544922 158510875%//proc 0000%/procfd 0000%/dev/fdmnttab ...