I want to look at raw data on an optical disk but this only gives a 4k dump:dd if=/dev/sip/t0d0n1sa count=1 bs=4k of=/tmp/xxHow can I dump more than the 4k? I've tried many dd options but none seem to work.thanksmd

Hello, I am new at this so please be patient and tolerant if I ask dump questions. Thank you I want to understand the naming convention used by Sun for there solaris OS's. People use the name solaris 8 or Solaris 9 etc. How does this relate to the command line uname -X For Example bash-2.05$ ...

I have some systems that when the time changed in the states for daylight savings, it also changed here, why? There is no daylight savings in singapore, it is on the equater, the days are always 12 hours and the nights are always 12hours............This is my /etc/default/init ...

Hi,I've encountered something odd, I recently created a simple profile that looks like:install_typeinitial_installsystem_typestandalonepartitioningexplicitcluster SUNWCmreqfilesys rootdisk.s0 15360/filesys rootdisk.s1 4096swapfilesys rootdisk.s3 15360/varAs you can see I'm declaring the ...

Does anybody know how this is done?

I added a qfe card, enabled it, etc and now I'm getting the following in Solstice backup. I guess Solstice doesn't like qfe4 and hme0(nwcard) having the same hostid? Any Solstice experts out there?Nov 2 18:01:01 nwcard root: [ID 702911 daemon.notice] * nwcard:/ save: SYSTEM error: copy ...

Hello,Does anyone know the frequency of Solaris 8 Recommended Patch Cluster releases? As of this posting, it appears the most recent available is 10/9/06. Do you know when the next one will be. Also, when was the last one prior to 10/9/06. I can't seem to find this information in Patch ...

Hello all,During install, I noticed several ethernet port, qfe0-7, thatwere "skipped" for lack of an interface cable.They are physically there, and now I need to configure/use them.How do I do that?I have no cable to insert into the connector yet....that is not the ...

Hi there , I have a 4 disk SunFire X4100 (x86) and my customer has specified that they want their disks to be in a mirrored configuration ....my understanding was that DiskSuite (or whatever its called now) didnt support x86, is this the case and if so, does anybody know of any options ...

Hi,thanks for taking the time to review my question. I create a flar on a system with quad NIC card. When I restore the server with the same flar with a jumpstart server, it does not restore all the networking, like /etc/hostname.bge0, /etc/hostname.bge1, ... I have to use finish script to ...

Hi I have a Sunfire X4100 box with a 4 disk Chassis (although I only have 2 disks in it). I have been asked to add two more disks into the chassis so that I can mirror the original two using SVM .....Ive read through a couple of SVM docs but am finding it a little confusing, and if any of you ...

How do I use ufsdump to clone a larger scsi disk from a smaller scsi disk? Here is what I need to accomplish.I have an E250 that my OS disk is 9GB and I want to install a 147GB disk (can't get 9GB disks easily).At the moment I have 3 disks (1x9GB and 2x18GB) in the 6 slot raid system. I am ...

Hello,HELP..TRULY..I blew away the default loaded label_encodingsfile and there are several candidates in the /etc/security/tsol dir.Does anyone know what is the default loaded file?HELP!!

How do I to query the HBAs under Solaris10 x86 (AMD processor) based servers to find out about the firmware levels of the HBAs? Qlogic QLE 2462 4GB

I am trying to get our users to use ssh/scp instead of ftp due to security. Can I state that the current ftp sends id/password in cleartext - and that is a security issue - or has that been remedied in current versions of solaris? (we are on 8.1.6). Are there other issues with ftp? Thanks

I have a DBA complaining about slow Oracle import performance, claiming it takes him 4 hrs on an 8-CPU E4500 and only 45 min on a 4-CPU E420R. Solaris 8 OS.Oracle import seems to be single threaded and on the slow system spends 50% os the time in system mode on one CPU and 50% in user mode on ...

Dear Experts ,Kindly explain about Mile Stone in Solaris 10.Thanks in advance.Regards,R. Rajesh Kannan.

Two solaris sun boxes; V490, V890.I have connectivity established to both local (ten dot) and external networks.I have on the 890 a single-headed nic; on the 490 I have an open connection port on the integrated nic.I want to connect the two with a direct cable (cross over). The two boxes are at ...

can anyone tell me what official patch IDR 117987-01 was rolled into?

I'm sorry if this question has already been asked, but I had no luck searching for it.Is there a 'remember me' option for the automatic login on these forums? Call me blind, but I haven't seen it.Thanks in advance.EDIT: Sorry, wrong section...

HI thereI n our Data centre we havea mixture of SPARCS running from v100 and ultra10's to v800 and v1250 boxes we also have a large amount of x86 X2100 and X4100 boxesI am looking to purchase an external DVD-ROM drive that we can plug into the back of any of the boxes if we need to (I accept I ...

Hi therethe Sunfire X4100 has a great tool that you can get to from BIOS called the configuration utility which allows you to set up Disk mirroring (RAID 1) before the OS sees it, which is great and it works a treat, however, we have a large datacentre across multiuple sites and I need to find ...

Hi All,I have a SUN V440 server with four internal disks and SE 3510 is connected with it.I have installed Solaris OS 5.9 09/04 on it, configured Solaris Volume Manager (SVM) for internal as well as for SE 3510 external disks. Than we installed sun cluster 3.1 on it. After that i installed ...

Iam running postfix+mysql+courier imap+courier maildrop+spamassasain+squirrel mail on a sunfire v880 server with solaris 10.The problem is that any person can telnet to port 25 in my server and use ESMTP to spoof a message, so i want to prevent users from relaying mail using my server (by ...

Before I begin describing my issue, I just want to thank you for taking the time to view this e-mail. I was wondering if you could take a look at the situation that I am facing. I am almost dealing with production environment and, any suggestion would be greatly appreciated. Here is what I ...

Good day,I'm primarily a Linux admin but I have 10 or so Sparc Sol10 boxes I need to install some software on. I use blastwave and sunfreeware to install packages whenever possible, but when I need to compile from source (CPAN etc) my compiles always bust with 'make' I've installed gmake ...

HiI've been reading and playing and reading and playing and still can't crack this puppy.Basically, I would like for the contents of a users session to be logged to a file (and screen so they can see what they are doing).I started with 'script' but got stuck when trying to exit the ...

Hello,I need to configure the serial port for X2100 machine for sending/receiving SMS using a GSM modem. I tried all options under smc, but none of them allows me to activate the modem. Thanks in advance.

Hi thereI am running solaris 10 on an SunFire x4100 ...(x86 box) Could anybody tell me if there is a way I can check the firmware revision without taking the box down to do it ...eeprom doesnt give me the info I requireCheers

Hello,I need to add a user and group in SOL 8, but under script control.I was told that I could do this via the smc somehow, buit the smconly appears to run in interactive mode nad this is non-interactive...-tx

helloHow to crypt a file or a directory and add a password ?

Hi,Does anyone know what is the key sequence to reset the Internal Terminal Emulator (ITE) for SunOS or Sun Solaris. I know for HPUX it is Ctrl+Shift+Break. I have tried searching the web, but could not find anything related. My system details (output of "uname -a") SunOS ...... 5.8 ...

Happy Holiday everyone.Question (naturally): I'll try to be clear, yet detailed enough!Does stmsboot or mpathadm (for Solaris 10 U3) play nice with ZFS for goodfailover/HA solution.I'm currently using Sol. 10 6/06 (u2) with some zpools and stmsboot -e,but my devices don't seem to change when ...

Please excuse cross posting, not sure which forum this topic should be filed under...Okay, coming from an HP environment where if we zoned and masked new disks to a host we did this to see them...ioscan -fninsf -eBingo, can see and talk to new disks, and use them, all online, no reboot ...

Is there a way to change root's project? It is currently set to default #id -puid=0(root) gid=0(root) projid=3(default)and I want it to be user.root.I have tried modifying /etc/user_attr and adding project=user.root to root's entry but does not work.Any suggestions wouold be ...

Hello, How can I tell what package is missing for 64bit libraries? Files that are missing are:/usr/lib/sparcv9/libCrun*/usr/lib/sparcv9/libCstd*Latest patch for these files is: 108435-22How would I go about finding what this package is, and where could this magical package be downloaded ...

Hello,the following expression will print me everything between mark1 and mark 2:cat /tmp/file | nawk '{/mark1/,/mark2/ { print $0 }'How can I make it that it will print everything EXCEPT these two marks?Thank youWolfgang

I have Solaris 10 x86, have enabled the SAMBA, I need to take backup of that shared folder on Windows, When I used the NTBACKUP it gives error that the mapped drive is not responding.Where am I wrong?Please helpregardsMehul

Each night, sometime between 23:00 and 03:00 CST, our new MX server gets CRUSHED by botnet attacks from Poland. We've tried the both the sendmail shipped with Solaris 10 (sparc) and compiling our own. We've tried setting the confMAX_DAEMON_CHILDREN to anything from 500 to 200. We've tried ...

HiI am working on a DR plan, and have been given the following scenario.The server and all local disks have been destroyed.All that remains is the SAN (offsite replica)Assuming we can rebuild the host in identical hardware, and connect to the SAN, can we recover the volumes on the SAN.(The ...

HiI have a setup of solaris 9 ,I have installed squirrelmail-1.4.8 with pluggin change_passwd-3.0.1 along with compatibility......Now if user try to chage password he is unable to....It's giving an error...."you forget the uername"RegardsRP

Hello,I'm trying to get a KVM switch running with my blade 100, and I'm having little luck. I have belkin switch that does usb and I'm using a dell keyboard and logitech mouse. The system works when I boot it up, however when I switch off of it, it crashes, syncs the disk, and reboots. I ...

HiThe following is reported after booting a Solaris 10 machine (V240).The result is that I cannot login remotely to this machine.As a clue, this has happened after I changed the NIS server this machine is talking to, but I did the old fashioned way, that is, I did not use SMC. To find out was ...

helloI have a problem with a crout file, that made grow my /tmp FS.I deleted the file, but the FS is still on 98%.What to do?Thanks a lot

HI there,Looking at previous discussions I think a lot of people are getting confused the same as me in regards to file descriptor limits.What I want to know is what is soft and hard limits, and what is the difference between the rlim setting in /etc/system and a setting that applies to a shell ...

Hello everyone,I am building Nagios 2.6 on Solaris 8 and for the most part, have it compiled, installed and running. However, for any pages that generate a picture (statusmap.cgi, histogram.cgi, etc.) error out with a library error - here's the apache error log:- ld.so.1: statusmap.cgi: fatal: ...

When I run the smc web access to port 898 version 2.1 under OS 9 I receive the message in the browser: A web version of the Solaris Management Console is not available at this time.To run the Solaris Management Console client, at a terminal window for this host, type: /usr/sadm/bin/smcI've ...

Hi,We are running business critical applications on our sun servers (who doesn't ;)...and would like to do something about the daylight savings time rule change that will come into effect this year. We are in the pacific standard time zone. Sun has released a set of patches to deal with this ...

-I would like to create a script to add a normal Oracle user to a system with root priviledge. -This means the Oracle user will have a group ID 0 because he has root priviledge. -The password belongs to that Oracle user will be valid for three days only. -After that, it will be expired to ...

I recently used live upgrade to go from Solaris 9 to 10 on my Sun V210. Doing so immediately caused more CPU and Memory usage by my java processes. These are aprox 12 custom made java programs that are running on a development server, and so should see very little utilization except during ...