I'm trying to replace a 20G Ultra ATA hard drive with a 120G IDE hard drive, on an Ultra 10. It installs okay, but I only get use of 8G out of the 120G, and it only works woth solaris 8. Is the Ultra 10 just not cable of such large capacity drives.

Anybody know if Solaris PPP can be made to use RADIUS for authentication instead of the /etc/ppp/chap-sectrets file?

Hi, the only reason why I wish to change the root default shell is to implement a timeout inactivity timer for idle sessions. This I would implement by assigning TMOUT for bash and ksh users and autologout for tcsh users. Since most engineers in our company use root I would like to implement a ...

I'm getting pressure from the security folks to have all files in a user's home directory permission 750 or less.It appears that on CDE startup the ${HOME}/.dt/startlog gets created with permission 544 - it's the permission for "other" that is the problem. Changing it only solves the problem ...

I need to put a fortnightly job into roots cron and are using the following syntax./usr/bin/expr `/usr/bin/date +%W` % 2 >/dev/null || /opt/SonicSoftware/SonicMQ/bin/ss.shand /usr/bin/expr `/usr/bin/date +%W` % 2 >/dev/null && /opt/SonicSoftware/SonicMQ/bin/ss1.sh || truewhen I ...

hi,Can someone tell me what are the desupport datesfor the following compilers1) CC: 4.22) C++: 2.8.13) Sun Link Editors a) 5.9-1.376b) 5.8-1.286c) 5.9-1.376d) 5.10-1.477

Does anybody know how this is done?

Hi, how do I enable a crashdump file to be generated everytime the OS crashes on a Solaris 2.6 box?Thanks.

i checked my messages log on a domain of a sf15k and y receive this messages very frequently.Apr 24 10:41:06 ndwbdes pcisch: [ID 100033 kern.info] Apr 24 11:00:52 ndwbdes pcisch: [ID 781074 kern.warning] WARNING: pcisch1: spurious interrupt from ino 0x0Apr 24 11:00:52 ndwbdes pcisch: [ID 548919 ...

We're trying to convert our Oracle platform from SPARC boxes to the Sun AMD boxes. The current showstopper is the inability to locate the Oracle Agent for Solaris x86. Oracle runs fine. The basic Legato client works fine. Just can't find the Oracle Agent for x86.Legato/EMC won't respond to ...

I use BSM to track login/out activity on all servers. I have developed scripts which parse the output of the audit files to notify of X number of failed logins. After installing Solaris 10 and setting up my scripts, I noticed no failed login reports were being generated. After taking a look at ...

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

Hi,I am a newbie with send mail and wanted to findout why I got an error from another relay n2.mydomain.com which is the mail relay to the internet/isp.Your message was rejected by [X.X.225.135] for the following reason:Too many Received: headersThe original mail was rejected and below is the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Greetings,I'm still struggling with getting a diskless client working under Solaris 10 x86 (FCS). It's become evident that the diskless client's pkg tools can't see anything except what's present in its own /var/sadm/pkg area. Since it can't see any of the /usr packages that were ...

We have an application which is accesses via 3 app servers. Each app server is running it's own JVM. -I am relatively new to this so I apologize if I omit key info- Recently we've been experiencing times where the JVM is pumping out Full GC one after the other, which seriously slows down the ...

Hi AllI just tried to change my 'root' crontab but I got the following result;bash-2.03# crontab -e1341and then nothing. I can exit with Ctrl + D.Any suggestion what might be the reason I cannot edit it ?Thnx a lotLuCaUpdate: Its on a Solaris 8 sparc systemMessage was edited by: ...

Hi Folks,After hunting around to find that you can't get the serial number that is written on the chasis with a command, I got a tip about storing it in EEPROM. I am going to store the serial # in the OEM-BANNER attribute. Is there any functional harm in doing so or anything I should know ...

Upon initial login after a jumpstart, a screen is displayed asking which desktop you want to be the default , CDE or GNOME. My question is, what file contains this information once a selection is made.Dale Whittemore

Try to set up a second serial communication path for V240 using an Edgeport/1 usb-to-serial adapter. Have done all the homework needed. Have to use Solaris 8 on the new V240. The Edgeport device should be supported by Solaris 8 and I installed the latest USB patch 109896-30. This device has TI ...

Hello, I have a solaris 8 server that had PC Netlink 2.0 running on it until a hardware failure caused a system lockup. Now I cannot get the PC Netlink server to start if I do an elfread -d system i get the following error.- -DATE: 02/22/06EVENT ID: 6013TIME: 09:16:48AM SOURCE: SERVER USER: N/A ...

In an attempt to clean up printers.conf file, I'm trying to find out which printers users are printing to. I've got the following entry in syslog.conf (I've HUP'ed syslogd after adding)lpr.infoifdef(`LOGHOST', /var/log/printlog, @loghost)I sent a print job to check if it logs anything in ...

Hi, I have recently built a V480 connected to a 3310 SCSI Array. It was built in our lab, no problems. All patches applied, the partitions etc all seen under format. I then installed it into its rack. It now cannot be seen when I have booted the server, even at OBP. The cabling has been checked ...

Hi,I just need some help regarding sense key error, we got the error below from our sun server. Not sure if this really need disk replacement. Any help is greatly appreciated.Aug 8 13:46:01 scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING: /pci@9,600000/SUNW,qlc@2/fp@0,0/ssd@w21000011c66140a4,0 ...

I am running Solaris 8 on an E450. Slots 0 & 1 are occupied and mirrored using SDS.Slots 2 & 3 are empty. Slots 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 are occupied and are configured as internal RAID 5. These 6 disk are using a special backplane configured for internal RAID.When I enter the prtdiag -v ...

Hi,Our Solaris 8 box is running out of space on the root filesystem and we can't find which file is taking up space. Please help.In couple of hours we lose about 200 mbytes on root FS. We've use find -mtime -1, find ".*" to find the problem file, but no luck.Anyone know other ways or method ...

Hi,I am looking for CD-RW hardware and a softwre to work in a SUN/Solaris environment to make CD's of data.If you have knowledge of such configuration, please share.thanks

Hi,I read this today: http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-2701/6mibjiopq?a=viewSeems to be very useful, I verified some of my servers to check if the OBP support this. On 5 servers, none have the network-boot-arguments variable. Servers was v120, v210, 880, E250 and E450. Tried most recent OBP ...

Hi allI've a directory called histlog on my root directory. the content are as shown below:etsup@hmr-ret03 /histlog>ls -lrt ./..: Permission deniedtotal 964drwx2 rootroot8192 Sep 25 13:19 lost+found/ drwxr-xr-x5 rootroot 512 Oct 7 10:03 ./ drwxr-x6 rootefx 512 Jan 8 10:50 LBN/ drwxrwx2 ...

I know, I know, this is a silly question. I just downloaded Solaris 10 and I cannot find where to setup my networking. I am trying to get online, but I don't have a clue where to start. I will buy a book soon but for now I just want to get online.Thanks

I've gotten 3 Solaris 8 boxes (OGL 1.2.2 and 1.3) that have stopped remote displaying Catia V4 from an IBM workstation. The remote display still works from another Sun workstation. I see no error messages, and can't find anything that has been changed.

Hi,because I can't seem to find it, can someone please tell me, what type of interface is on the V440 servers.I want to jumpstart the ones we just got, but I can't seem to find a document that expliciltly tells me they are of type "X". (where X is bge, qfe, .....)I am guessing ge something, ...

I'm pretty new to the Solaris admin gig, so please bear with me...I am running into errors related to file descriptors. The logs are showing messages stating that there are "too many open file" to do whatever process the system is trying to do. I understand how to change the file limits by ...

I am experiencing probs with ip forwarding, I have a 220R, Ive added ip forwarding into the rc2.d file and rebooted the system, it shows up as persistantly forwarding (what I want), I have 3 active interfaces each on different networks. I can ping from a test box on one of the networks to all ...

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 ...

I have been having problems with my mail server. it is taking a long time to send out messages and sometimes out when users try to download email using their email clients. I have noticed lots of these errors in /var/adm/messages:Feb 14 06:53:01 mail sendmail[23539]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR: putoutmsg ...

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, 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 ...

In a shell script I need to know what is the IP for a sun ray client, in order to assign differents profile to their Netscape BrowserI have a script that look like:# cat /opt/CAMNS7/NS7Start #!/bin/sh# Script to start Netscape in CAM mode/opt/SUNWns/netscape -CreateProfile $USER NSPREFDIR=`ls ...

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?

Where can I get the DiskSuite package? It is not on my CDs for Solaris 8.Thank you.

Hello all.Since the mailadmin changed the mailserver, my V800 can no more send messages. They stay in the queue directory, waiting for ever. Where do I have to change the setting of the mailhost? sendmail is not running on my server, I just need to send messages, not receive. I added the ...

I have to change tcp_time_wait_interval to 60000 Mill.Sec. by running 'ndd -set /dev/tcp 60000'.The new setting is accepted and valid until I have to reboot SUN Solaris.After reboot the value for tcp_time_wait_interval is changed back to the default value again, which is 240000 Mill.Sec.What ...

Hello,I currently have two Ultra5 systems with the onboard video (pgx24?). How do I change the resolution from the default to a 1024x768 in 24-bit mode. I'm currently running Solaris 8 and 9. Thanx in advance.Erick

I have an existing shell script that has a READ command in it. It asks me for input interactively (Y or N) when I run the script and based upon my response, performs different branches of logic. It works well.I now have a requirement to have cron run this same shell script in the middle of the ...

Hello!I have installed Solaris 9 on a server (gateway), that is to behave as a router for three subnets to external net. That is, there are four NICs configured on the system, each NIC for a specific subnet, and there is a fourth NIC, which links these subnets to an externel network. Now how to ...

i am running solaris 2.8 on an intel box and i want to create long usernames. i know that traditionally they are capped at 8 characters long. admintool does not allow you to enter anything past this, but using useradd on the command lines, and it succeeds, although it does display UX: useradd: ...

Working on a system that seems to have some performance problems that might be generated by VT. A small piece of software to spawn a shell and create two pipes to the same shell, used to be able to connect to terminals and log out users).Problem being that I can not find any info out of the box ...

I am using Solaris8 OS on my Ultra Enterprise2 system. It ran pretty well until last couple days.When I restart the system, and login by Common Desktop Environment, it pop up following error console:Action Required:The DT messaging system could not be startedTo correct the problem, the console ...