Morning all,Sadly my skills lie with HP-UX. I've been on the rosetta webiste but its not helped me a great deal to see equivalent commands. We havea sun server posting scsi errors as below:-stlsweb:/var/adm]tail -20 messagesJan 9 10:13:16 stlsweb scsi: [ID 107833 kern.notice]ASC: 0x29 ...

I can't find any documentation for lost password reset for the StorEdge systems. Does anyone know how to reset the password for them? Thanks!-tom

I have an openLDAP server which I am trying to secure using an iptables firewall. I have allowed incoming tcp and udp packets to 389 and 686 (I think) and Linux clients can authenticate with the firewall enabled. My solaris clients (using the Solaris LDAP client) can not authenticate with the ...

Got this message in /var/adm/messages on a V480 running Sol 8.I ran a recursive find on this inode and got:/devices/pci@8,700000/..: I/O errorWithin this directory I noticed there is no .. dir. server1:/devices/pci@8,700000 >> ls -lia./..: I/O errortotal 8512562 drwxr-xr-x5 rootsys 512 ...

I hope this is quick and easy to answer. We updated our servers last year when Indiana began observing DST. Now, the date's changing. How can I verify what date our servers have for DST? IE do they know the dates changing for DST this year or do I need to install a patch?

I have Solaris 9 9/04 installed.root@ultrasoul #quota -v ultrasoul Disk quotas for ultrasoul (uid 201): Filesystem usage quota limit timeleft files quota limit timeleft /var/mail 0 56320 56320 1 8 10 /usr0 2148 307200 307200 28 0 0 root@ultrasoul #du -hs /var/mail/ultrasoul 50M ...

# edquota ultrasoul/etc/mnttab: no UFS filesystems with quotas file1) I tried to add the "rq" mount option to the /etc/vfstab file. but problem persistent.rw, quota is the same situation.2) I use quotaon -av, problem persistent and without any command output.I wonder what meaning of the error, ...

Hi, I'm trying to get SpamAssassin installed (via CPAN) but I'm getting a strange error. Google didn't provide any help. This is a machine which was installed as Solaris 10 01/06, but has since been upgraded (via dvd) to 06/06 and finally 11/06. # uname -aSunOS zone4 5.10 Generic_118855-33 ...

I'm continously recieving the following error message when trying to access my user accounts:CIM_ERR_FAILED: ld.so.1: /usr/java/bin/../bin/../jre/bin/../bin/i386/native_threads/java: fatal: libjvm.so: open failed: No such file or directory/usr/sadm/lib/smc/bin/smc[18]: 24549 KilledThe file ...

Good day,I'm a NIS newbie (catching the train better late than never, I guess) and have configured my X4100 with RedHat EL4 as my NIS server. I don't have any slaves yet, but I've configured a Solaris 10 box as a cllient. I essentially only want to share passwd, group, alias and auto_home ...

Seems like kernel settings for things like shmmax are no longer supported as in the past by changes to the /etc/system file. I have seen a few messages about the ability to make the process pretty much the same by "setting in the system file and setting up a global zone". Anyone know the actual ...

Hello everyone. I had stuck between chosing Soralis 10 and 8. I have SunFire280R and StorEDGE A1000. So when Im installing Solaris 8 and RAID Manager 6.22 all works, but I can't find SSH and Samba packages for it. I used them from Solaris 10. But resolving dependencies I screwed it up... When ...

How do you make a non-IT savvy management see the importance of security, when you are the only one Sr System Engineer and the proprietary software's consultants believe:* running ssh instead of telnet = "it may be good but people depends on it so leave it that way"* defining ACLs to restrict ...

Question : Should I install the patches on all servers ?I have 4 servers , 2 in U.S ( A:10.10.10.1 , B:10.10.10.2 ),2 in HongKong ( C:192.168.1.1 D:192.168.1.2 )A and C are NTP servers, B is a client of A, D is a client of C.After I install patches on A and C , What about B and D ...

The patches state that these should be installed in single user mode and a reboot must be done immediately after install. This is on all patches. I'm having trouble getting down time to do the single user mode and reboot on most of the servers I support. Is this really needed for the 2 DST ...

Hi,I'm wondering how one can restrict ldap users to certain hosts? For example user A have access to host X and Y and user B have access to Y and Z. Can this be configured within the ldap or is it done at host level?Regards,/Reyg

i have install windows vista (business dvd version) on my pc, and can i still install my JCreator LE 4.0 on my pc? even JDK?

I have a T200 (Sun OS 10) with 2 disks, and I need to mirror the boot disk. Both disks are on the same controller. How do I change the controller on the 2nd disk?Thanks for any info.

I've taken over about 20 Solaris servers most of which are running Solaris 9. I'm trying to setup printing on one of them but when I run the command: lpadmin -p comproomlj5 -v /dev/null -m netstandard -o dest=xxx.xxx.69.250:9100 \> -o protocol=tcp -T PS -I postscript Can't find the user ...

All of a sudden some of our hosts are randomly dropping about 1 out of every 5 to 10 connection attempts via SSH. We are running Solaris 8, way down rev in kernel patches (Feb 2005 I'm embarassed to say), OpenSSH 4.2p1 using the Sunfreeware.com package.What happens is shortly after forking off ...

Hello,I am a recent college graduate and one of the tasks given to me was to install and maintain mysql on our development server. Not knowing much of anything about the filesystem setup of our development machine, I followed the directions for installing mysql which said to install it into the ...

A few patch questions:Is there a way to tell with the showrev/patchadd displays if a patch is specificaly a kernel patch? Is there a numbering scheme cheat sheet anywhere that gives some meaning to the patch numbering? This is for solaris 10Does a kernel patch upgrade always show up in the rev ...

I have set-up ALOM on several of our V210 with no problem. However on one V240 I am having problems. ALOM seems to work OK except that I cannot get the Solaris login prompt. If I try either console or console -f command I juetst get the message to use #. to return SC but no login prompt for ...

I would like to add a new user to a system using script, including building thehome directory of the user, copying its default config data, etc.For a standard Unix/Linux system, not Mac OS X.There is something wrong with the script below. When I run it, it gives some errors. I am not good in ...

I haven't been able to find any information on the Sun website about this for Solaris 8. I understand that at one time there was a 'lite' version that was available at no charge?I just want to enable iptables-like behavior for Solaris, not run a router or firewall, so I can run a suite of ...

how to start with developing our own intaller like admintool in solaris ?

Hi,Newbie. What would cause a switch to a different to take so long. It looks like its taking 15 seconds are so just to switch to csh or tcsh from sh. Haven't tried to look at other shells..... Once the shell is switched to, commands run just like normal.

Is it possible to go into single user mode without having to enter a password ? I mean can the password be provided in the command ?either the init , shutdown or reboot commands?

I'm trying to update Solaris 8 servers that have stopped validating signed patches ( http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102639-1). I downloaded and tried to install patch 124270-01, but I got this error:Checking installed patches...One or more patch packages included ...

Hi!regarding the microstate accounting -m and showing it per thread basis -Lwhat does this mean for my specific process rwipqs ?Does this process (PID 14779) have 48 threads?What does it mean for the many java processes?Or are these the number of threads on the right side?eg. second line ...

Hi experts,I have a A5200 that I am new to and need to install and configure. I have a server with Sol. 5.9 installed. I connected the Server to the A5200 via a fiber cable and am able to see all the disks on the SAN. Do I need to install the SUNWsan packages?If so which package(s)? I have ...

Since I'm rebooting servers like mad to prepare for the DST changes, I have been screwed a couple of times by hosts that would not reboot because the bootblocks were corrupted ("the file just loaded does not appear to be executable"). I did not install these hosts, someone else did, who knows ...

Solaris 8How can I turn on a higher debug level in /etc/syslog.conf so I get more info on errors and problems in /var/adm/messages/Tony

Hi friends i want to configure sendmail in solaris 10,if any body have actual configuration details please send me, thank you.

All Solaris hosts seem to be set up by default to route only 127.0.0.1 and not the rest of the 127.0.0.0/8 address space to loopback.RFC-1700 clearly states that all of 127 is to kept inside the host.It's easy to work around, "add route 127.0.0.0 127.0.0.1" or similar.My router administrators ...

Hi to All, I'm trying to find a command to see de expiration date of a a user account.In Linux I have the command chage -l user, and i can see the password expiration date and the account expiration date, any command in solaris to see it?Thanks to all!

I have "inherited" some Sunfire V210 and Netra 105 servers without much documentation. 2 of them (a V210 and a Netra 105) do not reboot after I have applied the DST patches. I got the connection to ALOM going, but do not know the password for the admin or any other user. Is there a way to reset ...

guys i have an issue with sendmail, which is working fine but i have an old mail that seems to be logging in syslog and delaying for 5 days at a time. the queue's seem to be empty and there is no dead letter in /var/tmp but the syslog contains a lot of errors about this.has anyone got any ...

Hi All;Q1. How can I reinstall all fonts from net ?Q2. How can I update all fonts from the net ? Note : I do Not have Solaris 9 sparc CDs.Thanks++;Message was edited by: ybanafa

on a sun fire 240 with 4 drivers (68 GB) running solaris 9. i am able to create slices (using format cmd) of 50/40/.. sizes. After i run newfs ( create file system) and mount, the effective space after mounting is only 30 GB ( from df -k command).please let me know if we have any restrictions? ...

I am getting an error trying to run Adobereader 7.0.9 on Sun Solaris. This is a newly installed program. The error I received was:"ld.so.1: /opt/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/Reader/sparcsolaris/bin/acroread: fatal: libgdk_pixbuf_xlib-2.0.so.0: open failed: No such file or directory"I googled it and came up ...

Hi All,We have a NFS share "/exprot/home/test1" accessed by users.But, we also want to share the parent directory "/export/home" but it gives an error "sub-directory alreadty shared". As we require both the shares seperately, is there anyway to share both.Thanks in ...

I have a Solaris 8 system acting as a NIS slave. My /etc/nsswitch.conf file specifiespasswd: files nisand in general users can login successfully. However, I have a few users who use X-terminals booted off the Solaris box and these people are unable to login unless they have entries in the ...

Folks,I need an opinion on what you use to redirect data sources and create space for users: loopback filesystems or symbolic links. I am new to loopback filsystems (lofs) - are there any drawbacks to using them? I have always used symlinks for redirects and to move data off of filesystems due ...

Recently this Sun server is getting weird with NFS mounting.It (A) couldn't mount one server (B), but A can mount another server (C). And server D can mount well on server B.A just can't mount a certain server B, no matter what I did. It was running fine, and all the sudden, it stop working.A ...

I have a Solaris 9 (122300-02) server using openldap 2.2.5. It's in a group of 5 servers and is the only one experiencing the problem. Simply put, sometimes you can connect, sometimes you can't. Also, doing an ls -l on user files returns usernames sometimes, uid's other times. Sudo is also ...

hihow to make quota on solaris 10?Thanks

Hi,I have a sunfire v120 which I have setup to have one nic using 192.168.51.5 and the the other to be 192.168.151.5. The first nic is on a 100Mb switch and the other is connected to a 1Gb switch.They are currently running atInterfaceSpeedDuplex--eri0100 Mbit/shalferi1100 Mbit/sfullI have ...

Folk'es,I'm running CDE on Solaris 9 on an Ultra 60. My applications now have the problem of allocating the correct colours.How/where can I change the colour depth so that they work again?It worked fine while i was running Solaris 8 on the ...

Hello All,Can anybody recommend some good, fairly current Solaris administration books (besides SunDocs)?Two that I'm considering are Solaris OE Boot Camp and Solaris Solutions for System Administrators. Any comments on these would be appreciated.Lastly, it seems there is a lack of variety for ...