Solaris 2.3 utmp logging problem

3534 byte By CodeProf.com at 2008-2-13 9:30:00
 It seems many other Solaris 2 users have encountered this problem. Sun is awareof the problem - apparently there are 2 patches for the problem - 101533 &101615. The trouble is Sun haven't yet released these patches!The solution (!) that several respondants mentioned, and the one I am ...

Getting Cross Over Wires

838 byte By CodeProf.com at 2008-1-13 23:57:00
Thanks to Chuck Foley (cfoley@arsenic.cray.com) for hisspeedy assistance with direct TPE machine connection. Ratherthan a crossover cable (which simply reverses the pinout orderon the jack), all that's needed is to cross connect pins 1 and 3and pins 2 and 6 for the direct connection.I was ...

Printing from MS-Windows(pcnfs) to JetDirect

3215 byte By CodeProf.com at 2008-1-7 0:21:00
Well after much struggle, I inadvertantly fixed this and got it working.This is my system:        SparcStations running SunOS4.1.3        PCs running DOS/Windows and ...

RSH Command

7110 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:10:00
Sun Managers;My thanks to:Pravin Chavan <prchavan@pcsbom.patni.com>, Casper Dik <casper@holland.Sun.COM>, Jochen Bern <bern@TI.Uni-Trier.DE>, Ronald Loftin <reloftin@mailbox.syr.edu>, Peter Polasek <pete@cobra.brass.com>, Jason Marshall <jasonm@vsl.com>, ...

Syslog is empty

2412 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:10:00
Thanks for overwhelming response ! The consensus was to have at leastfollowing entry in "/etc/syslog.conf" file :daemon.info /var/log/syslogand soft-starting syslogd daemon. It worked fine the first time !Other entries to be considered are :*.info /var/log/syslog*.notice ...

/usr/bin/mailx hangs on solaris nfs clients

2360 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:10:00
Hi all,I received two responses.Bertrand Hutin suggested I look at the .mailrc's. I moved ~user/.mailrcelsewhere and even tried disabling the rc scripts in /etc/mail. No go.Mark Cain suggested it had something to do with the softlink. Iremounted the mail directory on /var/mail, and that ...

32bit or 64bit.

191 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:10:00
Hi,<p>solaris 2.6 uses 32 bit kernel. In solaris 2.7 you can use isainfo -kv<p>to find if it is 32 or 64 bit.<p>Thanks to all who replied. The list is too long. Thanks once again.<p>Giri.<p>

ImageMagick

1765 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:10:00
Hi everybody,Thanks to:Sanjaya Srivastava Joel LeeJeff BrodyRuss PoffenbergerSpecially to Sanjaya Srivastava who sent me the patch :)))My question:'m installing the ImageMagick package and got the following message: ?ostname% ./convertd.so.1: ./convert: fatal: libresolv.so.2: can't open ...

Compiling gcc-2.7.2.2 FAQ Dilemma

4476 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:10:00
Hello all,As those who replied "There is no way to do this, you have to use aworking compiler" ( I was hopeing despite the logic behind it, thatthere was a way ).>From Gnuchev Fedor who suggested:There is no way to compile gcc without C compiler. So the only way outisto pick up ...

NT4 causes running out of ptys?

4077 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:10:00
I received a few replies to this, of which it seemed either to come down tousing a Solaris patch or the way my colleague (Mary) was exiting Exceed. Ichecked with her about this and she assures me that she always exists Exceedand NT correctly (i.e. doesn't just turn off the machine or use the ...

NIS - Active Directory Integration

5276 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:10:00
As you might have imagined, this question did not have an easy answer. Thanks to the following people for offering their advice.At 06:45 PM 4/28/00 -0300, Marco Shaw said:>-- http://www.microsoft.com/WINDOWS2000/sfu/default.asp>--'UNIX' Kerberos cannot talk to 'Win2k' KerberosIndeed, ...

imagetool

3149 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:10:00
Hello sun-managers,SUMMARY of imagetool problem: The questions...-----------------------------1) program call to imagetool results in... > ld.so.1: imagetool: fatal: libxil.so.1: can't open file: errno=2> Killed When trying to run imagetool from the programs menu...> ld.so.1 ...

DiskSuite 4.2 Sol 2.6 x86 -- growfs doesn't work

1193 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:10:00
On Sun, May 07, 2000 at 07:10:04PM -0400,Tabor J . Wells <twells@shore.net> is thought to have said:> So the questions:> > 1) What did I do wrong?> > 2) What can I do to fix this, preferably without bringing down this> server?The answers:1) Nothing apparantly. ...

2 : restricted vi for use with op/sudo

5621 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:09:00
I've received more info over the last few days, it is at the end.I wrote: > Fellow admins,> I have a question about using editors with the sudo/op> programs. I am looking for a vi based editor to give to users with> restricted functionality. In particular, I want to be able ...

Patch install problems

4895 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:09:00
Thanks to:Matt SantimoreRuss PoffenbergerDavid H. BrierleyIn order to install these patches, what was required was the following:I backed out the install of 105568-14. I needed to use patchrm as thebackoutpatch script returnedan error saying that the patch wasn't applied. Once I was able to ...

(addendum to) strange NFS rejections on per-user basis

2696 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:09:00
The man page for pcnfsd says in black and white: 'By default, pcnfsd will only allow authentication or print requests for users with uids in the range 101 to 60002'. And also that you can fiddle this by putting a line in /etc/pcnfsd.conf of the ...

#2 System in boot mode when console power off

1349 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:09:00
Some more responses after my first summary of my original question:>this morning I noticed that my server was in boot prom mode, after>my VT100 console had stopped working, just as if I had sent a BREAK.>Is there some way to configure the serial connection to>prevent this ?From: ...

(UPDATED) 107078-03 on Solaris 7 (Xsun permission problem)

3784 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:09:00
I sent the SUMMARY below, but made a small mistake (thanksCasper), the GID (root:root) of the /usr/openwin/bin/Xsun is actually:-rwxr-sr-x 1 root root 949520 Feb 19 21:24 /usr/openwin/bin/XsunI apologize for this inconvenience.--antonio---------- Forwarded message ----------Date: Thu, ...

popper help

2467 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:09:00
Hi there,My original question was :->> Hi there,>> Please help, Anyone Can tell me :->> 1. Where can find the popper / pop information for Solaris 2.5 in> SunSparc 20 ?>> 2. What is the best version of popper for Solaris 2.5 ?>> 3. Where can i get the binary ...

Solaris 8 printing problem

2774 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:09:00
Sadly, for the first time, I received no answers from the Sun list. I can only assume that this is a fairly new issue.After tracking the problem a little more, see original problem below, I notice that the /var/saf/tcp/log file on the print server was reporting the following:05/15/00 17:32:29; ...

Problems with jetadmin still exists

747 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:09:00
Hello.Here is the summary but it isn't veryfied. I have added the full qualifiedhostnames and the nicknames in /etc/hosts.equiv in the hope that from nowon the print jobs could be canceld. On the solaris host it does.Here the original question:> Here the story so far.> I've a small ...

/var/mail in a different partition

1695 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:09:00
Someone from Sun suggesteg that I use a symbolic link instead of justmounting the partition with the real name.Here is the original question:> Hi fellow sysadmin,> > I thought it would be a good idea to place /var/mail in a partition by > itself so I can control better the space of ...

solaris print filter

3152 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:09:00
>Anyone have any experience setting up a print filter on Solaris 2.6>for a remote printer? Can this in fact be done or must the printer>be local in order to associate a filter with it?>>I created a script which does nothing more than cat some postscript>code then cat - the ...

Need command-line image file conversion tool

997 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:09:00
==============Original post:We are looking to be able to do batch conversions of X Window dump(xwd) and/or Postscript format files to GIF format, for automaticposting to a web page. Note the 'batch' requirement, so a command-line tool is what's needed.=======Answer:4 tools were suggested: ...

I/O Board 1 use on Enterprise server

8178 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:09:00
>>Sun says not to install externals on the builtin F/W SCSI port on the>I/O board in slot in becasue it controls the scsi devices (cd, tape) in>the system cabinet. If you only have a CD and tape in the cabinet,>there are other scsi targets left. Why can't other externals be ...

read a 8mm tape

1100 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:09:00
The acturally solution is relate to format of the tape drive.I can easily read the tape, 'tar xvf /dev/rmt/0', by a 8500XL tape drive.I was tried and failed on both 8200 and 8500 tape drives.Thanks for many repiles, and most of them suggested to use 'tcopy /dev/rmt/0'to find out the block ...

going from sun4c to sun4m (Episode 2)

4904 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:09:00
For those of you who may have tuned in late...Our story so far...Our hero requested information from the list on the best/easiest way toswap a boot disk from a sun4c into a sun4m machine.In episode 1: Although many respondents reported that it was possible todo this by installing the sun4m kvm ...

II: Quick CDE Question

2101 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:09:00
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----Credit where credit is due. The person who gave me the patch numberand the right answer was         Sanjaya Srivastava <Sanjaya.Srivastava@Eng.Sun.COM>Of course, I find it vaguely unsettling that somebody at Sun ...

Backup Software

3132 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:09:00
Hello again!Thanks to those who responded to my query - I really appreciate yourwillingness tohelp a fellow Sun sys-admin, and BTW, this is a great thread! Becausemy budgetfor a backup software is limited, the overwhelming response was to go with"Amanda"which is a a public domain ...

KSH

876 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:09:00
Thanks to the followingAlan ReichertDavid EvansAdrian HallMichael RichardsDaniel Wilkinsonhere are the related links these Wonderful people have ...

Formating Barracuda under Solaris 2.5.1

6158 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:09:00
My original question:> I'm trying to format a 2.1Gb Seagate Barracuda (ST32171N) under Solaris> 2.5.1 without any luck. The workstation is a Sparc10 with a Ross 125> cpu, a SBus SFE FWSCSI card and 2 ST32171N (attached to mother board> SCSI). I was able to install Solaris 2.5.1 ...

System Disk

1978 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:09:00
Hi Everyone here is my previous query:Thanks to all that replied...... I really appreciated it...> > Hi Everyone,> > I just installed SunOS 4.1.4. However, my old OS was SunOS 4.1.2. > However there were alot of applications and programs in my old SunOS 4.1.2.> So I decided ...

changed files from installation

2623 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:09:00
Hi,Thanks for the response.Here is the original message:-----Original Message-----From: Geoff Lamb - EEA/TOS [SMTP:eeagsl@epa.ericsson.se]Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 1997 9:42 PMTo: sun-managers@ra.mcs.anl.govSubject: changed files from installationHi,I am going to be upgrading a sparc 20 with a ...

Setting qfe to 100 full duplex

4356 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:09:00
We are now running 100 full duplex on qfe0. Many thanks to:Robert Hill [Robert_Hill@cch.com]Mark Neill [Mark_Neill@csx.com]Michael Miller [Michael.Miller@oyster.co.uk]German, Vinnie [VGerman@nomurany.com]Larry.Philen@enron.comBruce Wilkins [BruceW@ugo.com]Santimore, Matthew ...

Severe over-temperature condition

2094 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:09:00
Well this is a strange and wacky world we live in, for sure. I postedto sun-managers, and got 1) answers from all over and 2) a fan fromsomeone one floor up in the same building!! I new this list was fast,but ...Anyway, I did get some good answers, and some not so good. ABout half ofthe ...

(Final): Metaframe on Ultra 10

2471 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:09:00
Original Posting:We recently installed a Metaframe server to give Sun workstation usersaccess to the Windows applications. It is working great except for twomachines: both Ultra 10s running Solaris 2.6. Below is the error thatoccurs when I try to start a Windows session via Metaframe.X Error ...

sendmail configuration error

1462 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:09:00
Sun-managers,I know I posted a summary my solution to my problem, but it was incorrect. This is the true solution. Originally, I had errors that said "configuration errors" in a bounced mail message. I was correctly told to put the hosts that I wanted my machine to recieve mail for ...

Jumpstart using Solaris 8

2470 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:09:00
Thank's goes to:Michael Miller <Michael.Miller@oyster.co.uk>> > using sysidcfg, you need:> > security_policy=NONE (for kerberos)> network_interface=elxl0{netmask=255.255.255.0 protocol_ipv6=yes}> > good luck!and also to:Kevin Colagio ...

Sun's Services Certified Solaris Administrator

4429 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:09:00
Thanks to all who responded!Mark HargraveCheckout: http://www.sun.com/sunservice/suned/catalog/csa.htmlfor more information from Sun Microsystems.Original Question:-----------------Has anyone taken the Certification exams to become aCertified Solaris Administrator.How difficult was ...

Panic cpu0 writeback data parity error

5046 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:09:00
     To All Sun Managers:          I still have not been able to determine the cause of CPU(0) panic      error on Ultra-2 with 200 MHz ...

Remotely power down Computers

6126 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:09:00
Original question:Like most facilities we have a few planned power outages per year whicheffect all computer systems in the building. Since we have over 100 unixsystems(Sunos/Solaris) dispersed throughout the building, Is there a wayto rsh to all systems and invoke the eeprom to power down the ...

[SUMMARY] Recovering file ownership/permissions after recursive chown/chmod

14444 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:09:00
Problem:  User did "chown -R novice-user root"...can I recover file attributes  without having to re-install OS?  Note: I should have mentioned that there were *no* backups available.Answer: Yes!   1) Boot single-user from cdrom: ok boot cdrom ...

custom jumpstart question

2174 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:09:00
Thanks to all who provided advice. By running format and re-labeling thedisk with the old partition info, I was able to recover my data.Thanks to : Matthew Santimore                David ...

High Availavility Products

5333 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:09:00
First of all thaks to:david@bae.uga.eduDenveSC@europe.sortek.comKWhite@talisman-energy.comRav@otk.otk.intec.rushankar.kanabiran@ac.comreineman1@raiders.llnl.govjason.axley@attws.comSROTHENB@montefiore.orgsai@pagemart.comColin_Melville@mastercard.comfor your prompt ...

UFS hard links and CD-ROM images (Rock Ridge)

3721 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:09:00
Thanks toGlenn.Satchell@uniq.com.aucasper@holland.Sun.COM (Casper Dik)mrs@cadem.mc.xerox.com (Mike Salehi)for their responses.As Glenn pointed out, the hsfs(7FS) man page clearly states that:  "This filesystem also contains support for the Rock Ridge  Extensions. ...

Presentation on Suns

9613 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:09:00
Hi,Sorry about the delay in summarizing but none of the solutions the many peopleoffered were acceptable to the end user. The original problem was to use an LCD projector to display a sparc 5 output for a demo. The projection system we have is made for a pc with an HD15 video connector. We ...

Are Web Pages Up

2088 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:09:00
Hi!The response was great! What I wound up doing was usingwget to test the ability to connect to the page. This doesn't reallydo the https stuff that would be great, but it works well enough tolet me know whether or not the page is up. I wrote a litte shellscript using this and set up a cron ...

remote printing (vt100-style) through Xterm or other terminal interface

4527 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:09:00
Well, it took LOTS longer than I ever would have thought, but here is asummary I have owed the list for a long time. I hadn't sent anything beforebecause I didn't have the solution; I hope this still helps some of you.My original query:>System: Sparc Classic, 16MB RAM, SUNOS 4.1.3_U1, ...

Wierd Directory Entry

1702 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:09:00
Thanks alot for the quick responses. All of the responses are includedbelow. My solution was of the Microsoft variety: After a reboot, the sizeof the xfn directory was 512 bytes and the find perused the directorycleanly. Thanks for all of your help!Jesse WhyteSanjaya Srivastava:You should ...

DiskSuite 4.1 - Discovering drives and slices...

19566 byte By CodeProf.com at 2007-12-25 10:09:00
Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 12:44:46 +1000 (EST)From: Rachel Polanskis <r.polanskis@nepean.uws.edu.au>To: pete@crrel.usace.army.milSubject: Re: DiskSuite 4.1 - Discovering drives and slices...On Mon, 15 May 2000, Pete Schmitt wrote:> When starting metatool I get the following error:> ...