I replaced the PCI fan on an Ultra 60 (450MHz), 512MB mem, 2 internal SCSI disks, CDROM, SunPCI 400 MHz card, and now it won't boot. I get the following error:Rebooting with command: bootBoot device: disk1 File and args:SunOS Release 5.8 Version Generic_108528-19 64-bitCopyright 1983-2001 Sun ...

I'm trying to attach a D1000 Disk array to an Ultra 60. I have a PCI SCSI card instslled and the cable going from PortA on the card to "SCSI A" port, and the terminator on the 2nd port of A.The Ultra 60 (no matter what I do) won't recognize the fact that there is a SCSI controller (other than ...

using the performance meter there is no activity on the swap, it is flatlined. I'm generaly between 25 to 50 % on cpu, over 50% on paging and usualy over 50 % on disk, but the swap in flatlined all of the time. any ideas, to increase use of the swap. I have used sar and the perfomance meter ...

System is not booting and giving the following error messages at ok promot....ok boot cdrom -sBoot device: /sbus/espdma@e,8400000/esp@e,8800000/sd@6,0:f File and args: -sSunOS Release 5.6 Version Generic [UNIX(R) System V Release 4.0]Copyright (c) 1983-1997, Sun Microsystems, Inc.Fatal ResetSC ...

What and where is a good source for setting up an LDAP server for solaris. Never done one before.

I want to create a backup operator a/c for my backup server to use to connect to my solaris 8 box to do a full backup. Which group should I create this user in in order for the a/c to have enough rights to backup everything under "/" file system? (using "root" is definitely not a good idea!!) ...

I have a SUN Ultra 1 workstation. It has a onboard ethernet and I saw the ethernet connector. When I issue the command: ifconfig -a. I only found lo0. there is no hme0. Is there anybody know how to config the ethernet on Ultra 1? Should I see hme0 for ethernet device? Thanks.

When iostat reports data on 'metadevices' (on my machine, iostat labels them md1, ..., md5), is it reporting on activity on the disk controllers or on file systems? I presume it's controllers.Second, is it possible to get stats on file system latencies? Thanks

I hope someone will be able to help me. I need a script that will help me get the Total Disk space Allocated, Total Used and Total Free for both internal and external disks (taking into consideration raw volumes & swap). I am not at all good when it comes to shell scritpting & will ...

I am able to ping to a machine but not able to telnet or rlogin into it.It is a sun-solaris machine which was working and all of sudden this is happening.Any suggestions to resolve this

How can one restrict an ftp user to a particular directory in Solari 2.6 and Solaris 2.8 without using 3rd-party software. Also, this is not for an anonymous ftp user.thanks.

I am using F-secure ssh client s/w to get access to a Sun-Solaris machine. I have the username login id and passwd of user who hassecure access to the sun-solaris machine Solaris version being 2.6.The authentication method I am using is passwd , but eveytime I try it it does not accept the ...

there is no frame buffer or no console connextions from term a or b, the worst, no keyboard attached. after i power it up, the running led will blink but its ip address cannot be pingable. after power down and a sun's keyboard is attached and power up again, everything is normal. but the ...

I have a Netgear router. Configured it with XP & NT. Could not do on Solaris. I run Solaris 8. Here is the documentation "If you are installing the router with a Unix-based computer, see your system documentation to set up TCP/IP networking to obtain IP addresses automatically using DHCP". ...

Does anyone know of a way to filter syslog messages generated by hardware (i.e. device drivers) from messages generated by software (i.e. anything other than device drivers)?Thanks,BJR

Hi, I have a question on how to add a special announcement for each login session before the login prompt.The default setting is: login: password: I want to add more words on top it:Announcements: ...................................................... ...

I have a file system full message, which is pretty obvious why, df -kFilesystem - kbytes used - avail - capacity - Mounted on/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0-103588 - 95669-0 -100%-//dev/dsk/c0t0d0s6-527457 - 366602 - 108110 - 78%-/usr/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s7 -3323412 - 894874 - 2395304 - 28% - ...

I have a Sun Ultra 10 running Solaris 8. Until recently it worked fine. I shut it down to attach it to a new UPS. Now it will not boot properly. The message says "ifconfig cannot find /usr/lib/ld.so.1" It will complete the boot sequence and I can log onto the console in command line mode, but I ...

Hello everyone,I am currently running Solaris 8 on a Enterprise 220R and have attempted to use the -A option with roleadd and received the following message:Segmentation Fault - core dumpedHowever, when I use -P with a profile with roleadd, the role is added without a problem.The syntax of the ...

Hi folks,I tried to change env variable DISPLAY in a shell script. But after the script finished and exited, the value changed back. How to retain the value pls.?Thanks,henry

I am still having a boot problem with my Ultra 10 running Solaris 8. The computer was running normally until I performed a shutdown. Now it boots, but does not allow any networking or remote access. Also, I cannot login to a normal graphical session. The error message that shows when it boots ...

I have a couple Ultra 60s running 5.6, when I connect an external SCSI tape drive, they do not recognize it on reboot . Any ideas on how to debug this?- George Swenson

I have a Sun-Blade 100 sun sparc server and I as root tried to create a user say user1 whose password is set to no-pass and another user say user2 whose password is set 'locked'.But if I try to login as user1 or as user2 I am prompted for a password which I feel shouldn't happen.Any comments ...

When attempting to run a script the following error comes up:access control disabled, clients can connect from any hostxhost: must be on local machine to enable or disable access control.What is cause of this error and how can I remedy this?

Hi .I am only a student and this question is a part of my assignment.So all solaris gurus please help me out.1.Is there a way to find out what all daemons are enabled/running in my system?Actually I wanted to use the 'rusers -l 'command to find out who all are logged in on remote hosts but ...

Folks,I got two, T-1405 Servers and a single d130 storage device.Can someone tell me ,how I can share the d130 between the two T1405.The D130 got a scsci-in and scsi-out.

Hi,How would I setup a directory that would automatically set the permissions of files that are placed in that directory to rw for user, group, and others. At this time all the files that are being put into the directory are defaulting to rw for owner and r only for group and other.Thanks,Larry ...

I would like to be able to monitor the number of open files, as it relates to the rlim_fd_cur and rlim_fd_max kernel parameters. I have an application that is not stable for long periods of time, and the vendor has stated that the number of available file descriptors should be set to unlimited. ...

hello,Is there a command or a file that will allow me to get serial number on my Sun workstations? I am doing some inventory and need to get serial numbers off of remote servers. JP

When do we plumb an interface and what is meant by that?-sudatta

I'm performing a bunch of ufsdumps from servers that do not have a tape drive to one that does. No big deal. The only thing that I'm curious is how secure this is.Since remote ufsdumps use the "shell" service, I need to keep that active at least for the duration of the backup. I also need to ...

HiI have a problem.I think I have accidently done something wrong with the VTOC on the disk.I have heard of a command fmthard to relevel a disk but do not know how to go about as my system is not booting up saying something like checksum error in reading disk level.any idea will be highly ...

hello everyone,I have a more generic question.When does a ROOT actually gets mounted during the boot process.regards,magi

How can I specify a default domain for my server, say "xyz.net", can I just put this entry into a file call "/etc/defaultdomain"?

HiI have a problem on Sun Systems with specific Host Bus Adaptors and our storage systems.On an Ultra 80, with FCE 6460 JNI Fibre Channel Card with 5.2.1 Firmware for that card (Latest known Firmware from the JNI site). Also we have tried a Qlogic Fibre Card (either 2200 or 2300).The problem is ...

Installed latest patch cluster on Solaris 9 SunBlade100 running postfix for mail. (Previous cluster install was start of April). Now get error: "?Connection failed to mail.domain.removed,143: Connection refused" when I try to connect by IMAP or POP from remote machine. (PINE works from local ...

I guess I am being dumb here....I can no longer su to root from a telnet session. I needed to stop my Ultra 60 from dropping to the boot prom whenever I switched my PC off (it was used as a tty). I edited /etc/default/kbd to stop dropping out and rebooted without the tty and it seemed to work. ...

HiI need to learn a lot more about Solaris' file systems. I'm looking for engineering white paper or Blueprint-level information, but I'm not finding it. Specfically, I want to know how to detect and treat fragmentation in the file system. I need to explain why I can read one file much ...

I need to quiry multiple Sun boxes and retrieve number of cpu's total storage, availble storage, os version, serial number, etc. Basicly I need a way to get as much resource in as possible

Hi!I got a webbserver (naboo) who NFS mounts its /opt/www from a other server (amidala). some times i got this in amidalas messeges log:Apr 24 15:38:43 amidala mountd[25608]: [ID 367356 daemon.error] svc_tli_create: could not bind to requested address: No ErrorApr 24 15:38:43 amidala ...

strangest thing happened, i was going around, installing 112438-01 (the /dev/random thing), and on one machine, the driver wouldn't attach. strange, so i look, and the patch didn't install the files into /kernel/drv (but DID install into /kernel/drv/sparcv9 conveniently)anyhoo, long story ...

Hi..Somebody can tell me, if is posible associate the IP address and the PID process?....I mean, I have some process in my server, I can check it with prstat command and the column PID show the number of that process. Can I associate or find that process number with the IP address that is ...

I've the following file systems sliced on my server:c0t0d0s0 = /c0t0d0s5= /varc0t0d0s6= /usrc0t0d0s7= /optSince the /opt file system is a big partition, I want to do a full tar of all the file systems and save a copy of this tarred copy somewhere in "/opt". What is a more efficient way to do ...

I have question regarding the various files which contain references to a Solaris box's hostname. The machine is a V880, 2 processors, 4 GB RAM running Solaris 2.8 and a reasonably upto date patch level.I have been asked to change the references to the hostname of the machine to the hostname + ...

Any ideas on how to force 100 full duplex speed on sun fire V120 (which runs half duplex at the moment) with 'eri' interface cards. I understand it can be done with entries in /etc/system and/or using ndd. I've seen the relevant entry in ShellMe section, but would like a more detailed ...

when I type boot cdrom -s after inserting cdrom 1 of 2 in cdrom drive I get the following messagesBoot device:/pci@1f,0/ide@d/cdrom@1,0:f File & args: -sbad magic number in disc labelCan't open disc label packageCan't open boot deviceWhat does it imply?Thanks in advance-Sudatta ...

there is a command that you can use to leave a message, similar to a system warning message, to an ID that is logged in on the system.Can anyone help me out? Thanks in advance.

A very basic question-I believe target numbers correspond to a unique address switch setting that is selected for each disk.Now how many maximum target numbers can we assign to a particular disk?What does LUN mean?Is it the total no. of individual disks in a system and if so what is the maximum ...

Hello, I was wondering if there was a way to find out what "extended" applications there are in the packages taht pkginfo lists when typing it in. Is there someway to pull out the rest of the applications that run with the ones listed?

I just built the system (solaris 8) and for some reason my default shell became /sbin/sh. Is there a way to change it to /usr/ksh? any hints appreciatedthanksJoe