Hi,i've setup on Solaris 10 authentication against an Openldap server. Authentication via password is working on ssh, telnet and rlogin. But when i use ssh with publickey authentication it won't work for any LDAP-user. with local user (like root) publickey authentication works.The same ...

Hi Folks,After hunting around to find that you can't get the serial number that is written on the chasis with a command, I got a tip about storing it in EEPROM. I am going to store the serial # in the OEM-BANNER attribute. Is there any functional harm in doing so or anything I should know ...

Hi, I need help in configuring a printer to solaris machine.Can anyone please help?Thanks,Vignesh

hihow to restrict all remote connections (ftp, sftp, ssh, telnet, ...)from any host except my host.

Is there any command to get the maximum no. of semaphores and shared memories availablein Solaris10 as present in Solaris 9 (sysdef) ?

All,I need to change a machine name from A203 to A204. Everything stays the same except for the hostname. What is the best way to do this?Thanks!

I have Tomcat installed on a Solaris 10 machine. I do not use it or Apache on this server as I use Sun ONE Web Server.I would like to remove the Tomcat package.Before I remove it, I would like to know if Tomcat is used by any OS service or anything else that I may not know ...

How do I configure persistent binding when using the leadville driver in Solaris 10. The HBA is a Qlogic single port 2340.thanks,Eric

I'm looking for some list of important commands, I'm using the sun on my iPNX switch, and sometimes I need to see what happens Down level, right now I'm looking for the debugging command, there is a command that start debug mode in sun and drops all debug results in a file, after the debug ...

How to delete my own Posts from forum permantly. Please tell me how to do. please help me..its urgent.!!!

hello, I'm relatively new to unix and have just installed solaris 10 on a server. However, after installing some additional packages and configuring the system I realized the root drive partition is too small (i need to double it). Is there a tool to repartition the drive without having to ...

Hi all,I've recently had an issue with NFS replicas. The filesystem mounted on a client had incorrect permissions set on a directory, yet another client using a different replica had the correct permissions set.I had to track down the incorrect replica and correct the permissions, and I ...

I have a Sun V240 server. When my laptop connects it using the console cable it does not respond to any of the keyboard entry. I tried the reboot. I can see all the messages from rebooting. However when type in "root" nothing shows on the screen. I noticed the message "Sun Fire V240 no ...

Hi,I'm a total newbie to Solaris, but have moved to a job where (amongst other things) i have a few Blade workstations to look after.Thing is, half of them have a hostname related to the room they're in - and the other half just show 'unknown' on the login screen. I want to have them all ...

Hi There,Have an issue with 2 x Solaris 10 (Sparc) external DNS servers that we put in. The servers are very quick to resolve local zone files and any cached queries. When i'm requesting a new internet DNS record that is not in the cache, it can take 5-6 seconds for the query to come ...

Hi,I have sun enterprise server which uses an lineox box as its mail server and for also storing backups. the mail is linked from the lineox box to sun server and theres a mount on the sun server linking the box for partition,I want to get rid of lineox OS and install solaris 10. But i want to ...

Anyone have/know of a tool that can load the encripted password from a system's /etc/passwd to another system? We are moving to a different platform - some of the id's have been around a while and we don't want to reset the passwords for all of them. I am only talking about a subset of the ...

I have reverted back to solaris 9 after testing out the new 06/06 version of solaris 10. A number of disks have zfs pool vtoc information, i want to clear this and have tried over writing with dd as well as fmthard to replace vtoc. but neither work!other than running a format on the disk (which ...

Hi,I am using the following to get the VTOC from sol-10-u2-ga-sparc-dvd.iso:# dd if=sol-10-u2-ga-sparc-dvd.iso of=dvd.vtoc bs=512 count=1# od -D -x -j 452 -N 8 < dvd.vtoc0000000 0000012224 0000327680 0000 2fc0 0005 0000But when I try to do the same on an x86 machine I run into problems:# dd ...

I have only ever worked with veritas before,so my knowledge of SVM is minimal.I have a V240 server which is primarily a replacement backup server for the backup server, which will house a heavy read write database application.This server has 4 internal harddisks (146 GB), I would like the raid ...

We have a server that uses a KVM switch. It has a pc style keyboard. What are the key sequence to halt the system? On a sun keyboard you do a stop a..Thanks in advance.

Hi All,Recently i was monitoring Sunfire v240 i came to know that my harddisk has some hard error 15530 could any one tell me what could be the causesAswell it shows the Device Not Ready:155530.Here is the output .c0t1d0 Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 15530 Transport Errors: 14Size: 18.11GB ...

Hi all,I have a V240 running solaris 2.9 that keeps rebooting almost every hour. When it comes up I do not see any error messages for hardware or software. I do not even see any messages in /var/adm/messages. I enebale diag-level to max and run reset-all at the OK> prompt and all the ...

When I run ndd -get /dev/eri link_mode, I get a zero, meaning half-duplex. I want to leave half-duplex available in case of problems, but want the nic card to run at full duplex. Can this be done?Any help is greatly appreciated.Mike

Dear Group, for the mirroring of our partitions, we use Solstice DiskSuite. I am not sure about the version, but the only paper documentation I find in the office is about 4.2 . Our systems are SPARC with Solaris 8. In order to install a new software on the /usr/ partition, I wanted to make ...

We haven't configured the sendmail and this sun server(5.9) not used as mail server or gateway. /var/log/syslog showed following:Jul 26 08:51:41 sun_server1 sendmail[1342]: [ID 801593 mail.info] k6O3nVlR002113: to=postmaster, delay=1+13:26:45, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=2463569, ...

Hi people,Please can someone explain me how to interpret the output of vmstat?!?Im asked to do a graphic report on % of CPU usage, physical memory usage as well as swap out of vmstat output. CPU usage is simple since i just have to take the rows of 'us' column, but for the physical memory and ...

Hello,I am a newbie to Solaris 10 and sorry if this question sounds a bit thick. I am trying to set up a new Solaris 10 SPARC server to host some applications. I am using the 6/06 release and I would like to deploy Solaris with all of the available patches to avoid any problems. I cannot ...

I am running Solaris 8 and have been having print problems. I noticed multiple lpsched processes are being spawned. Does an lpsched get created for every print request? I thought there should be only one lpsched. I read something about removing /var/spool/lp/SCHEDLOCK and fifos. What are they ...

Booting from Software 1 CD how long to install on a SunFire V100.... I booted mine and it took about 30 mins to boot from the CD. After going through all the config stuff and starting the install its now been running 16 hours and is only 40% through the initial install. This doesnt seem right ...

I am running Solaris 8 on a Ultra Enterprise 450. I found some error messages in the messages file that I don't understand.Does anyone have any idea what this means?Jul 30 12:27:08 chicagokent SUNW,UltraSPARC-II: [ID 695070 kern.info] NOTICE: [AFT2] errID 0x0005eb01.e43b04e5 CBI event on ...

Hi All,I am having problems with Solaris Resource Management (SRM). I have configured SRM on a Sun Fire V240 & Sun Fire V890 servers. Initially I started testing on V240. Sun Fire V240 has 2 CPU's and it's running Solaris 9 09/05. Below is the configuration I am using:/etc/project ...

Has anyone ever see this picld error message after trying to start picld manually? I just had to install the picl packages, fru packages, along with some masf packages to get SNMP working. This worked without any problems on all of our Solaris 8 Netra 440s except this one. It is affecting ...

I get the following error on the jumpstart client panic - boot: Could not mount filesystem1. From snoop ethers <client> on bootserverit seems it's trying to resolve jumpstart IP and getting no reply2. I made sure the root file system is shared3. ethers and hosts files are correctWhat ...

We have a number of t1000's running solaris 10 in our development lab and we have a situation where we have at time a need to boot multiple configurations on the same machine.What we would like to do is to have multiple filesystems or partitions on the hard drive and then from the boot monitor ...

Hello all,I need some help. I'm trying to import an old 8mm Exabyte tape, once written on SINIX V5.43 with ufsdump. My Solaris 8 system's tape drive is ready and working. tcopy recognises tape and records but ufsrestore fails with:Media read error: not enough spaceChanging different block ...

I get the following error when trying to install Fcode on a Solaris 8 machine. HBA is working fine and firmware is up to date.Error: Mailbox Command Failed (FFFF0000) Mailbox Command = 1C, Status = F1Any idea what's causing this error?

Attempting to jumpstart a Sparc/CPU 54 card with 512mb of memory and has no hard drive. Is there a way to create a image and load this into memory while utilizing jumpstart? Thanks,John

Hi,What this phrase c0t0d0s0 signifies inside, /dev/dsk directory. I have seen many such entries inside /dev/dsk. Also format command lists out such entries which contain the above phrase. All entires inside /dev/dsk starts with either c0 or c3 or c5 ? What these char set stands for ? This is ...

Hi AllI just tried to change my 'root' crontab but I got the following result;bash-2.03# crontab -e1341and then nothing. I can exit with Ctrl + D.Any suggestion what might be the reason I cannot edit it ?Thnx a lotLuCaUpdate: Its on a Solaris 8 sparc systemMessage was edited by: ...

Whenever I shutdown my system, several files systems remain busy. Here is the console log:# shutdown -g0 -i0 -yShutdown started.Wed Aug 23 11:02:07 EDT 2006Changing to init state 0 - please waitBroadcast Message from root (console) on tepp6sct01 Wed Aug 23 11:02:07...THE SYSTEM tepp6sct01 IS ...

How do I find out if NiS slave is syncing with NIS master properly? ThanksAnna

I'm looking into options to minimize support costs on some servers which are no longer "mission critical" in our data center.If I contract with a third party for hardware support, does SUN offer software only contracts?If I contract with a third party for both hardware and software support, ...

I am running cediag in a cronjob and get the following out put:/opt/SUNWcest/bin/cediag -L >/dev/null # SUNWcestproduced the following output:suicide@cediag: Please use fmadm(1M) on Solaris 10 (or higher).suicide@cediag: exiting ...I don't know what I need to do with fmadm. Any ideas?#fmadm ...

Hi All ,What is the use FIFO file in the directory /etc/cron.d.Thanks in advance.Regards,Rajesh Kannan R.

Hello,I am getting following error but machine works fine.00070002: "VOLTAGE_SENSOR @ MB.V_+1V5 has exceeded low warning threshold."I tried to google it but most of them are related to Mother Board battery.

On all my Solaris 10 boxes, after a clean reboot, all submirrors "need maintenance". A metasync immediately clears the problem. Is this a bug or a feature? d0: MirrorSubmirror 0: d10State: Needs maintenance Submirror 1: d20State: Needs maintenance Pass: 1Read option: roundrobin (default)Write ...

I've caused an odd situation to occur on my Ultra 10 WS running Solaris 9 and CDE. I was installing a java-based program from the CDROM and the system apparently hung. I tried ^C out but no response. I opened another window and attempted to kill -9, which also went into lala land. So I opened ...

Hello,Is Solaris DHCP server suitable for use by an ISP? We have more than ten thousand of clients and growing.We used ISC DHCP on Linux in the past with standard text files backend, but because of difficult and inaccurate methods of automating the configuration changes (scripted text ...

Hello All,I am new to solaris admin world. on one of our production SunFire V880, I observed the following error:Sep 3 06:31:46 mnissrv SUNW,UltraSPARC-III+: [ID 436881 kern.info] NOTICE: [AFT0] UCC Event detected by CPU0 in Privileged mode at TL=0, errID 0x0017ce7a.326cc388Sep 3 06:31:46 ...