Hi I have V800 and run solaris 9. I have downloaded these 2 files:9_Recommended.zip and 9_SunAlert_Patch_Cluster.zip1. is there any order to run these patches2. If the patch already exists, and re-run this, will it be any harm3. is installing the patch as easy as just to run install_cluster4. ...

Hi all,One of the developers on the machine (sparc, solaris 9) used crle command to set the library path to /usr/local/lib. This broke all the functionality and it became unresponsive after which it was turned off and then on, now its failing to even boot.The error it shows is: failed to load ...

Hi to all,I have a Sun Enterprise 6500 running with solaris 8 and Veritas Volume Manager 3.2 with boot disk incapsulated. After a DIMM failure the system done a panic and boot again perfectly. All this happen on friday, I received the part on monday but in the week-end the system panic again ...

Hi,I've been trying to get a Solaris 10 x86 diskless client setup going but am having lots of problems with missing packages (in spite of attempting to install the "ARCH=all" packages). So I decided to scrub the whole thing and start over, but when I try to simply list the diskless client via ...

Hi!We have an application that is running in Solaris 8 US-English version. We currently use rmail to send email notification messages from the application to users. We need to be able to send email in international language (both in subject and body). I have two questions regarding this.1. Is ...

hi, we have not patch our 2 node Sun Cluster for 1year, and if we wanted to install the latest security/solaris patch cluster on the 2 boxes, can we follow the steps below1) Install the patch cluster on the passive node (svr1) and do a reboot.Fail over the primary node (svr2) and patch svr2 and ...

Hi,We have a StorEdge_L8 jukebox attached to a Solaris9 server (with EBS 7.1 software), but recently it has stopped working.Firstly, on the last backup i ran i've just noticed that some of the Volumes show some entries as "suspect aborted" - what does this mean? Is there something wrong with ...

Hello..I'm new to the Sun Solaris OS (we are using 5.8). It would appear our host_agent requires openssl, and it would appear that this isn't part of the OS in 5.8. I found a freeware version of openssl, and it requires a Ansi standard C compiler.When I attempt to issue a 'cc' command it ...

HelloI need to add 10 users to 500+ servers, is there a way that I can script this to alter /etc/passwd /etc/shadow. So I am looking for some advice on automation of password setting and expiring password. That way I can for loop a server list and ssh to each one and run this script? Or any ...

Dear All Gurus,I m facing problem in one of the Sun site. I am having 2 Sun E250 Servers and 2 Sun StorEdge d1000. while booting one of the server it is giving following on console terminal. Please help me in this problem.Sep 9 21:19:54 exports unix: PCI-device: scsi@1,1, glm #5Sep 9 21:19:54 ...

NOTICE: /var: unexpected free inode 4516,run fsck(1M) -o f .Can anyone please help

The latest FLEXlm software recommends changing the "tcp:tcp_time_wait_interval" setting from 60000 to 2400. I can do this from the command line:ndd -set /dev/tcp tcp_time_wait_interval 2400However, I tried adding the following line to the "/etc/system" file, but after rebooting, the setting ...

I changed a root password, tested it, but for the life of me, no matter what i type, it ain't playing.I mus have typed it three time, twice to change via passwd, and once to test via telnet.Anyway, how do i get it back/reset it?

I'm practicing my troubleshooting skills, specifically, pinpointing which disks/files are getting accessed at any one point in time.We have an oracle database; if I tell the database to gather statistics it can flex the system as a whole. Anway, I wanted to see if I could pinpoint disk ...

Hi,Just upgraded to 5.10 6/06then tried to "zpool create"hangsformatselect any diskselecting c0t0d0s0[disk formatted]then it just sits there.a truss on the process shows sleeps/2:door_return(0x00000000, 0, 0x00000000, 0) (sleeping...)/4:pollsys(0xFEAFBF98, 1, 0x00000000, 0x00000000) ...

I have a SunFire V440 with an XVR-100 graphics card and LCD monitor. What I'd like is to use ttya or ttyb as the system console (i.e. get all console messages here, either on a terminal or ideally, logged to another machine) but still be able to use the graphics monitor for X apps etc.Is this ...

I have this error that keeps popping up, does anyone know which ndd setting /variable could be causing this ?Sep 19 13:04:43 my.machine.com ip: [ID 766727 kern.warning] WARNING: The <if>:ip*_forwarding ndd variables are obsolete and may be removed in a future release of Solaris. Use ...

Help! I wanted to change the shell for root logins. I copied /etc/passwd to /etc/passwd.orig and vi'd the passwd file and changed the shell and home directories for root. I saved the file, logged out of the server and now I can't get back in. I remotely manage this server. Is there anyway to ...

Hi thereI have been recieving these messages reguarly from one of our boxes and wanted to know if this meant the disk was on its way out or something? I think what i really want know is what does this message actually tell you other than there has been a kern.warning on this particular disk ...

Hi All,I have a sun fire 280R with solaris 8 and open ssh 4.3p1-1. When I try to connect to a trusted system I get the following error message: 14 # ssh bbmakssh: connect to host bbmak port 22: Network is unreachableWhen I try it a second time imediate after the first one it connects with no ...

...and is it straight-forward?We have 4 Sun Blade workstations (running Solaris 10) that are rarely used, so we were wondering about putting them into a cluster to give us a something for processing large jobs.Has anyone done this sort of thing before? And is it quite simple to do?Is any ...

Hi there, I have upgraded my explorer (SUNWexplo) on a solaris 10 Sparc box from version 3.4 to the latest version (5.5) . However im a little concerned, whenever I run the new explorer either manually or scheduled, I get a syslog event as follows1 in 0:08:31: Sep 22 17:00:15 fmy.machine.com ...

Hi there, I came in this morning to the following errrorSep 23 00:04:53 my.machine.com unix: [ID 752700 kern.warning] WARNING: [AFT0] Sticky Softerror encountered on Memory Module J0202Does anybody the next step i should go to to investigate this issue?any help on this would be greatly ...

How can I determine the maximum supported LUN size for various versions of Solaris? I am interested in Solaris 8 and up.Thanks

.I'm trying to find a way to add a persistent FACL to /etc/shadow.Unfortunately, when anyone uses the passwd command the file doesn't get updated - it gets _replaced_, gaining a new inode with new (default) permissions.I tried creating /etc/stmp with the appropriate FACL, and it does get ...

Hi,I am searching for a tool to install packages to remote machines. Maybe someone has some info's for me.I磛e only found the rpkgadd-ksh-script which seems to work, but I磎 looking for a more powerfull tool.The problem with the rpkgadd-ksh-script is, that i磎 not able to update openssh or ...

How can I resolve this issue: ps -ef |grep inetroot2241 0Apr 27 ?4:13 /usr/sbin/inetd -sroot5321 0Apr 27 ?3:51 /usr/lib/inet/xntpdroot 29547224 0Sep 12 ?0:00 /usr/sbin/inetd -sroot 17417224 0Aug 09 ?0:00 /usr/sbin/inetd -sroot 29522224 0Sep 13 ?0:00 /usr/sbin/inetd -sroot 20425224 0Aug 17 ?0:00 ...

My solaris box (sunfire v240) no longer boots properly. It seemed to have crashed for some reason overnight and now it won't fully boot.When it powers up it gets as far as displaying:Rebooting with command: bootBoot device disk0:aFile and args:\on the monitor I hooked up to it. The keyboard is ...

I'm looking to use a old L1000 tape library on solaris10, what are my options for backup software? ....EBS/legato networker is big$, and mtx needs a front end of whatever sorts(scripts anyone?)Mike Spenard

I have this weird problem wherein a user on a remote host runs a commandon my server, and my daemon tries to authenticate the user through pam using pam_krb5. The command runs for a while, and then the daemon crashes.The authentication works fine when I use, say, pam_unix_auth, but if I specify ...

I am installing Solaris 10 6/06 on a V240 machine. I setup the partitions with format before I ran the install. When I did I got this error with either of the 2 disks I tried, "Error ocured with the device in use checking: Permission denied." This was after I had booted to single user mode off ...

Hi, I am having trouble creating RAID 1+0 on 4 disks using metainit, etc. As I understand I should create 2 mirrored pairs of disks and stripe them. Is this possible? An you tell me what the commands are?Much appreciated,Kevin McNamee

I am in need of help. I have sunfire v210 running solaris 10 Preinstalled. I want to login to this box remotely and have somthing like remote desktop in Windows. i get display not found error message. I have complete network connectivity

I get "/sbin/dhcpinfo: connect: connection refused" during my bootupI donot use dhcp as the system is attached to another sun server that needs static ip addresses.This message that I get was not present until I installed the Solaris 8 Recommended patches. I had first used Solaris 8 0202. Then ...

What files and/or directories can I remove in /var/sadm or for that matter in /var?When I first loaded this E250 5 years ago, I was younger and dummerLast night I was installing the latest Solaris 8 Recommended patchesand the systen gave me an error message that I did not have enough space. Not ...

We are moving from the Emulex lpfc driver to the emlxs driver. Looking to set persistent binding when using the emlxs but not finding a lot of info. The lpfc.conf has lots of comments and examples but the emlxs.conf is pretty bare... thanks,john

Hello,How to boot Sunblade 100 using external DVD RW. I can see the drive within OS as c4t0d0 and /cdrom/cdrom1. How do I boot from it from OK prompt? any ideas. My external case has both USB and firewire. Also How to do a probe on USB and Firewire ports from OK prompt.Any ideas ...

We have a couple of T3 (T3B) SAN Disk Arrays we just inherited. One needed a battery replaced. We need to: .bat -n .id write busageSo, we need the sun technician password. Please help.T3Bp2:/:<66>sunPassword:Invalid ...

I would like to find all links that point 'ZZZ' redirected to 'ZZZ1'IeAll links pointing to /dirA/ZZZ/filex etc point to /dirA/ZZZ1/filex etcWhich command can I use to do this? Cheers

Hi,We have a Netra t1 105. It goes down sporadically every 1 to 3 days (typically). I haven抰 seen this happen during use, it抯 usually upon coming in the morning that it抯 found to be down (i.e. at BIOS 搊k?prompt). I disabled power management using 揳utopm disable?plus I used 搉oshutdown?in the ...

Does anybody know the technical details of how the solaris command "filesync" actually syncs up files between Solaris systems? More specifically, does the command copy entire files or just the changed bits? For example if it detects that the 100Meg file called "access.log" on System A is newer ...

Hi thereI have two boxes with the following patch levels (uname -a)5.10 Generic_118844-285.10 Generic_118855-15Could somebody tell me what the dates are that are associated with these Solaris 10 relaeases ? and if I apply the current 10_Recommended what it will take this number to ?any help ...

Hello,I've searched high and low for an answer to this.I want to direct the console to a terminal, so I am greeted with a login prompt when I SSH into the ILOM and do: cd /SP/consolestartAt the moment, when I start the console nothing happens. I would like it to display a login prompt as if I ...

G'day Support,From my customer, who is running Solaris 8 (kjp117350-28) :===Hi,Could you please help me with the following question. One of the metrics that we use when estimating whether or not we have enough CPU resources available is the run queue. We often use the following rule of thumb. ...

Does anybody know the command i issue to find out the manufacturer of the RAM modules in my machine ....ie KINGSTON etc ....i know there is one because I saw sombody use it the other daycheers

I have instructions to download a file as followsftp://servverx/file.sharWhen I run the exact commad above from unix machine. I get an error. What am I doing wrong? CheersAnna

Hello,I'm in the process of setting up a new qa/dev environment. I brought back one of our old prod boxes to use for qa/dev. It is currently running Solaris 2.6. When I boot the workstation it stops after the line that says: Setting default IPv4 interface for multicastThis is the last line ...

Hi all,got the follwing LVM-Config:- -root@global@ffsv4133...: metastat -s TEST-ds -iTEST-ds/d201: Soft PartitionDevice: TEST-ds/d200State: OkaySize: 1572864 blocks (768 MB)Extent Start Block Block count 0321572864TEST-ds/d200: Concat/StripeSize: 2068480 blocks (1010 MB)Stripe 0:DeviceStart ...

Is there a utility or command I can run in Solaris 9 to find out if the cpus on a machine are single or dual core?

i recently upgraded a Sun ULTRA 60 from Solaris 8 to Solaris 9.now my daily suspend operation does not work anymore. every evening i do a backup and once that is finished i do a "/usr/openwin/bin/sys-suspend -nxd xxx". under Solaris 8 it worked just fine but now i get the following error:Oct 21 ...