I am trying to change the title of an already open dtterm session. With an Xterm session I do the following:echo -n "\003]0;SomeTitle\007"and it works fine. When I try the same with a dtterm session it does not work. Any Suggestion?

I'm trying to set up Solaris 9 to run Oracle on raw partitions. I have my design nailed down and I have built all the raw partitions I need as soft partitions on top of RAID 1 volumes. All this is built using Solaris Volume Manager (SVM). However, all the partitions are still owned by root. ...

hi, i was just wondering if there will be any problems if you 2 NIS servers acting as master for the same domain on a lan connected via a hub?

How to know the OS Block Size on Solaris 8? Is there a single OS command to get the OS Block Size?

Hello ,The following error is return to me when I try to make a "su - login" on my Solaris :su: syntax error at line 1 : `(' unexpectedI never try to modify internal package.. I don't have now the competence for that :-( (but i will come).If someone have an idea.thxjeanremi ...

Hi friends,All my servers are remotely placed and i use them through xp and 2000,Through telnet.All are sun fire systems.Can a nybody guide me how to get my server console to local.I had tried with exceed, sharp client,attachmate etc. but all in vainI think some thing has to be done from server ...

We have an old Tatung box that is not upgradeable to the latest Solaris levels. It is rrunning as a redundant license server (1 of three) with a fair number of licenses and we need to replace it with another server (Ultra 30). Is it possible to change the MAC address of the ethernet card on the ...

Hi guys. Lately I'm experiencing some problems on my server performance running Solaris 7. A process that before took about 24 hours in finishing, now it's spending more than 48 hours. This process performs maintenance in a Unify database. I was checking the CPU% assigned to this process and ...

What does a load average of 453 (12 days) tell me on an e5500 with 10 CPUs? I know what load average means technically, but what does it mean for this specific server.

Hi, we are running a Ultra 60 Box under Solaris 2.6. Today we installed the actual Recommended Patch-Cluster (download: today). After the Reboot there are a lot of error Messages: /sbin/rcS: /dev/null: cannot createre-configure hostname... thousand times!A ctrl-c stops these error messages, but ...

Hello,We use Oracle9i Enterprise Edition Release 9.2.0.4.0 - 64bit Production on Solaris 8 2/02 s28s_u7wos_08a Generic_112953-02 on a SunFire 15k.To achieve better performance, we want to lock Oracle memory in OS RAM.This is normaly done using LOCK_SGA=true in the init.ora.This parameter is ...

Hi,We want to add an IDE Hard Disk to Ultra 10 with Solaris 2.6.We have already tried with a 120 Gb Hard Disk (Seagete ST3120022a) but the system detects it as 8Gb.Anybody knows which is the problem?Is there a hard disk size limit for Ultra 10?Thaks in advance.Emilio J. ...

I'm attempting to install and configure Sun One Directory Server 5.2 on Solaris 8 but I'm having problems with idsconfig.Basically following the route layed out in http://forum.sun.com/thread.jsp?forum=152&thread=13466.Installed Sun One Directory Server 5.2 from compressed archive.Have ...

Hi, slightly off-topic in terms of solaris, but I am trying to get a feel for what other companies have in terms of staffing their IT departments.Basically, we went from one admin per 22 users / 5 servers to one admin per 32 users / 12 servers.I have tried searching for any rough guide to an ...

I am new to Oracle, and I was told that I will need to download some patches to work with Oracle 8i on Solaris 9. I unfortunately do not know which patches I will need to install, nor how to install them. Any help with this would be appreciated.Thanks

When I boot my Ultra-30, running Solaris 8, I get to the Desktop Log-in screenSince I always use the "Command Line Login" option how do I bypass this stage?As I'm not interested in the GUI stuff, which X-Windows files can I remove to save space on my hard drive?RegardsKevin ...

I need to implement failover functionality between two interface cards on Sun/Sol machine.The idea how to do so is explained in the following paper:IP Network Multipathing (Updated)By Mark Garner - Enterprise EngineeringSun BluePrints? OnLine - August 2001It is written for Sol 8, have anyone ...

Hi,We have a 220R server, and need to add an ext SCSI drive.Is there any size limit on a single drive?We're considering a 36GB or 73GB UW device.Thanks,Mitch

i'm trying to jumpstart a sunfire system from an external USB dvd drive so i was just wondering if there is an equivalent "probe-scsi-all" command for USB? Or is usb devices not supported at the OK prompt?

hello,I have a Sun Blade 100 w/ Ultra SparcIIe and I am not able to boot or reach single user mode. As soon as it POST finishes it returns me the following error:INIT: /etc/inittab truncated or corruptedINIT: Cannot create /var/adm/utmpx failed write of utmpx entryINIT: failed write of utmpx ...

What is the latest version of DiskSuite for Solaris 8? All I can find is version 4.2.1. My customer keeps talking about Sun LVM for Solaris 9. What/where is it? Is it different from Disksuite 4.2.1?!?!thx,-chrischris.demke@acsacs.com

Hello, I am new to this area so please excuse me if my quesion appears to be too lame. I need to set upa lan and i need some help in this regard. I have about 20 sunblade-150 clients. I also have a server. The task is to make the server and clients talk to each other. I know a switch is ...

Hi, I have Solaris 8 on a domain within my E10K, with HP EVA 5000 SAN attached storage. I presented a 5GB lun and can see this from both my eva console and solaris when I run the 'format' command. I use Secure Path and Storage Works. Problem is I'm also picking up 2 other disks in the ...

Hi,I need to centralize my logs to one host. I could set up syslogdto use a single host by enabling a remote host as the LOGHOSTbut I also need to ensure that all networkk traffic is encrypted.Before I go writting sheel scrupt that scp'sor sftp's log files all over the placeI was wondering if ...

Hi any idea on how to increase the no of semaphores without rebooting a solaris server.thanx in advance,suraj

Hi,I need to monitor network traffic on a specific port number (Apache using mod_gzip).What option do I have to do so ?Thanks for your help,Nicolas

I'm getting read errors on my root partition. Is there something I can do to remove the bad blocks from use by the file system? I suspect I need to figure out how to move everything to a different partition and then make it the root. Is this the right thing to do?

I have an Ultra 5 with the default, from Sun, 4gig IDE drive.I replaced the 4gig drive with aWestern Digital 40gig EIDE drive. OpenBoot 3.11 reports it as a 40gig drive using "probe-ide".When loading Solaris 7, however, Solaris 7 only sees 5gig of the 40gig capacity. I've searchedSun's ...

I have a route that's being added to by table, and I'm not sure how to get rid of it. It comes back after each reboot. I've looked in /etc/networks and there's nothing there. If it were to be in the /etc/rc2.d directory, what directory would it be under, or is there somewhere else I have to ...

Hi:I have one filesystem that is used a lot to store logs for I-Planet services. It is built using Veritas Volume manager on a V880 with solaris 8 OS. I have a problem when I issue the command df -k it report the following:/dev/vx/dsk/grbd/logs4194304 3833406 33899392%/logsbut when I get du -ks ...

Hi GurusHow do I get the %Sys comsumption at the process level ?What would be the Sun equivalent of the HP command pstat_getproc ?Thank you

I have sun ultra 10 and ultra 2 machines , though the power management is disabled. My monitor goes off when i move the mouse or press any key I wont get display, but when i move the mouse i get a tiny dot displayed on the screen .I have to hard boot my machines . Please help me !.Khan ...

Hello friends:We have a little problem with Solaris Management Center after changing out hostname in Solaris9/Sparc.After change de hostname using sys-unconfig, we had to go to Console -> Preferences -> Home Toolbox location and change the hostname of our host. After doing this S.M.C. ...

Hi,does SUN support the HOST RESOURCES MIB and /or the ENTITY MIB according to the RFC's ?If not,is there a third party Agent, which does support these MIBs ?thxKlaus Kloeserklaus@kloeser.com

Located sym links that had the source deleted using:find / -type l -follow -printproduces a list of links that could not be followedfind: cannot follow symbolic link [name of link]: no such file or directoryhowever:find / -type l -follow -exec rm -f {} \; does not remove the link that was ...

Hi ,I have been looking around for sometime on how to login as a different user using a script. Now before you start saying anything, .. I dont want to run this script as root.so the script should expect a password and run a set of commands. I remember vaguely, something of tht I saw on the net ...

Hi ,The slock/s of sar -p always seem to be zero.Under what conditions will this metric be populated?Does the non-zero value of slock/s imply some memory constraints of the system.Thanks in advance.

Hi,I should like to know how much CPU utilization is taking place by each operating system process. What is the command to find the CPU utilization by each OS process? Please let me know if there is any such command.

greetings,prelude: a facilities management person entered our data center and killed power to a PDU. Most of my Sun servers, that lacked redundant power supplies, crashed. On reboot, the /etc/mnttab file on these servers contained two bogus NFS entries. (The two NFS mounts on each of these ...

I have a V100 running 2.8. After a hard power outage (some cable guy pulled the plug), the machine is in a coma. It appears to power up, and I can ping the machine, but I cannot telnet to the machine, and worse, it no longer responds to the terminal console on the serial port.What can I do to ...

Hello Gurus,I really need to know the diffrence between the load average as display by uptime (1 min / 5 min / 15 min ; i.e. load average: 11.53, 13.06, 15.23) and the [Procs] r ] column of vmstat :procsmemorypagedisk faultscpur b wswap free re mf pi po fr de sr s0 s1 s2 s3insycs us sy id ...

When trying to login to one of our Solaris servers (5.8) it takes about 10 minutes to login. Also when trying to su to another account this also takes a good 5 minutes to work. I have checked the /var/adm/messages file and we are getting the following error message flagging every 20 ...

hi,i got a sparcstation20mp for a view bucks. it works fine but i expierienced a few problems with it.first: it displays in 8bit color depth and it won齮 work to change. sxconfig and c14config didn齮 work. neither fbconfig. as i use fbconfig -list both fb齭 will be shown (the build-in sx and the ...

Hello friends:I can see this message what boots my Ultra10/Solaris 9:WARNING: skip: Keystore not loadedWhat does it means?How could it be solved?A lot of thank's.

When you issue the prstat -T command, it lists processes and tasks separately. What does the tasks represent and what are they? What is the difference between processes and tasks?Thanks, Mark

Why does the /usr/ucb directory under Solaris exist? What is the purpose and the point of this directory?Thanks, Mark

What is init's parent? I looked at the init man page and I thought it was telinit but this is not correct according to my colleauge.How does telinit start?Thanks, Mark

I just got a used e450 for my home lab and noticed that only 2 of the 4 scsi drives are being recognized. I have tried from the boot prompt a probe-scsi-all and it shows 2 of the 4. Also when logged into the box, I went ahead and issued the format command still only sees 2 of the drives. I know ...

Whats the difference between init 6 and reboot?Thanks, Mark

I have a slight problem with the init-command.To avoid an unintended shutdown by init 5 or 6 on a machine where the administrator or an other authorised user is remotely logged in; does it make sense to replace the /sbin/init by a scriptwhich interactive asks the user to continue with the ...