From G.Bakalarski at icm.edu.pl  Wed Mar  1 05:53:05 2006
From: G.Bakalarski at icm.edu.pl (Grzegorz Bakalarski)
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 11:53:05 +0100
Subject: SUMMARY: zfs -where is it?
In-Reply-To: <2048.213.238.67.192.1141078721.squirrel@webmail.icm.edu.pl>
References: <2048.213.238.67.192.1141078721.squirrel@webmail.icm.edu.pl>
Message-ID: <20060301105305.GC2317@delta.icm.edu.pl>

hello,

This is not summary in fact but auto response message.
Just nobody answered - possibly nobody is interested in zfs on the list :-/
The answer for my question is the following (after few hours of digging
in different SUN docs):

zfs is not released yet officially. So it is not present
in Solaris 10 1/06 release/update. The date of official
release of zfs under solaris 10 is not known yet (SUN's people:
please correct me if I am wrong).

zfs IS available in a beta version of Solaris which has 
at least 3 different names: i.e. Solaris 11, Solaris Nevada or
Solaris Express (I did not have time to learn about differences),
at least in current version of it (as of  Feb 2006) - version b31a.
Anyway one has to follow Solaris Express links in order to
download CDs with this version (files named sol-nv-b31a-sparc*.zip).

Searching for zfs on SUN's web sites is messed: mostly you get
outdated documentation of what is going to be done in a future
(as of e.g. 2004) and it also shows that the project is delayed
for at least 1 year ...

Kind regards,

Gb


On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 11:18:41PM +0100, grzesb at icm.edu.pl wrote:
> Dear All
> 
> I've got a server for very short period and I'd like
> to test Solaris 10 - especially iscsi and zfs. I installed
> Sol10 1/06. I can find iscsi tools but can't find any
> zfs binaries? What am I missing? Where is the package
> containing zfs? Why is it not installed "by default"???
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> Gb
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From CJohnson4 at tiaa-cref.org  Wed Mar  1 07:13:33 2006
From: CJohnson4 at tiaa-cref.org (Johnson, Chad)
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 07:13:33 -0500
Subject: Solaris 9 Bad Superblock and fsck -o b=<altername #> does not
	work SUMMARY
Message-ID: <50BFA7C0BA27F345BE28A21B7BE7D33401AE99A3@CHAPDMSXMB04.ad.tiaa-cref.org>

In summary multiple things were tried.



1.              dd the problem slice to an alternate disk and boot from
that disk.  This did not work as dd replicated the problem to the second
disk.

2.              use 'volcopy' to copy the problem slice to the second
disk.  This had the same result as dd and replicated the problem to the
second disk.

3.              Use tar "cd / ; tar cvf - . | (cd /mnt ; tar xvf -)" to
copy all the data to the second disk followed by a chroot to that
environment then execute 'devfsadm -C' to recreate device entries
followed by 'installboot'.  This did not work for reasons unknown, I did
not take the time to investigate but it appears that the tar command did
not copy certain files for some reason (the problem was NOT with
character devices it was regular files).

4.              Success.  Used cpio "cd / ; find . -mount | cpio -ocdmuv
| (cd /tmp/mnt2;cpio -icuvd)" where the second disk's slice 0 was
mounted to /tmp/mnt2.  Following the cpio I executed "installboot
/usr/platform/`uname -i`/lib/fs/ufs/bootblk /dev/rdsk/c1t1d0s0".
Unmounted /tmp/mnt2 followed by an "fsck -y /dev/rdsk/c1t1d0s0". Booted
to the alternate disk without problem.





==============  Begin Original Post ===============



I have a system which crashed and upon reboot / requires fsck.  At the
end of this message is a transcript of that session.  Also, df -h
provides the following (-h used here for readability):



# issuing df -h

drsmpapp02# df -h

Filesystem             size   used  avail capacity  Mounted on

/dev/dsk/c1t0d0s0       59G 16384E   7.0T 30068789918983% /

/proc                    0K     0K     0K     0%    /proc

mnttab                   0K     0K     0K     0%    /etc/mnttab

swap                    35G    16K    35G     1%    /tmp

/dev/dsk/c1t0d0s3       39G   601M    38G     2%    /app



Interestingly enough 'fstyp -v /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s0' returns the following
(look at the nbfree line).  The first output of 'fstyp -v
/dev/dsk/<blah>' is from the problem system, the second from an
alternate 'good' system of identical configuration.





drsmpapp02# fstyp -v /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s0 | more

ufs

magic   11954   format  dynamic time    Tue Feb 28 07:39:36 2006

sblkno  16      cblkno  24      iblkno  32      dblkno  784

sbsize  3072    cgsize  8192    cgoffset 424    cgmask  0xffffffe0

ncg     1237    size    62918208        blocks  61968156

bsize   8192    shift   13      mask    0xffffe000

fsize   1024    shift   10      mask    0xfffffc00

frag    8       shift   3       fsbtodb 1

minfree 1%      maxbpg  2048    optim   time

maxcontig 128   rotdelay 0ms    rps     167

csaddr  784     cssize  20480   shift   9       mask    0xfffffe00

ntrak   24      nsect   848     spc     20352   ncyl    6183

cpg     5       bpg     6360    fpg     50880   ipg     6016

nindir  2048    inopb   64      nspf    2

nbfree  920576992       ndir    -1064004991     nifree  1643964794
nffree 157424300

cgrotor 1083    fmod    0       ronly   0       logbno  203488

version 0

fs_reclaim is not set

file system state is valid, fsclean is -3

blocks available in each rotational position

cylinder number 0:



drsmpapp01# fstyp -v /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s0 | more

ufs

magic   11954   format  dynamic time    Tue Feb 28 07:54:34 2006

sblkno  16      cblkno  24      iblkno  32      dblkno  784

sbsize  3072    cgsize  8192    cgoffset 424    cgmask  0xffffffe0

ncg     1237    size    62918208        blocks  61968156

bsize   8192    shift   13      mask    0xffffe000

fsize   1024    shift   10      mask    0xfffffc00

frag    8       shift   3       fsbtodb 1

minfree 1%      maxbpg  2048    optim   time

maxcontig 128   rotdelay 0ms    rps     167

csaddr  784     cssize  20480   shift   9       mask    0xfffffe00

ntrak   24      nsect   848     spc     20352   ncyl    6183

cpg     5       bpg     6360    fpg     50880   ipg     6016

nindir  2048    inopb   64      nspf    2

nbfree  7232630 ndir    8988    nifree  7355672 nffree  83706

cgrotor 174     fmod    0       ronly   0       logbno  1648

version 0

fs_reclaim FS_RECLAIM

file system state is valid, fsclean is -3

blocks available in each rotational position

cylinder number 0:





# Issuing initial fsck

drsmpapp02# fsck /dev/rdsk/c1t0d0s0

** /dev/rdsk/c1t0d0s0

BAD SUPER BLOCK: NUMBER OF DIRECTORIES OUT OF RANGE

USE AN ALTERNATE SUPER-BLOCK TO SUPPLY NEEDED INFORMATION;

eg. fsck [-F ufs] -o b=# [special ...]

where # is the alternate super block. SEE fsck_ufs(1M).





# locating alternate superblocks

drsmpapp02# newfs -N /dev/rdsk/c1t0d0s0

/dev/rdsk/c1t0d0s0:     125836416 sectors in 6183 cylinders of 24
tracks, 848 sectors

        61443.6MB in 1237 cyl groups (5 c/g, 49.69MB/g, 6016 i/g)

super-block backups (for fsck -F ufs -o b=#) at:

 32, 102640, 205248, 307856, 410464, 513072, 615680, 718288, 820896,
923504,

Initializing cylinder groups:

........................

super-block backups for last 10 cylinder groups at:

 124868880, 124971488, 125074096, 125176704, 125279312, 125381920,
125484528,

 125587136, 125689744, 125792352,





# Attempting fsck with alternate superblock. NOTE: The same result is
achieved regardless of the alternate superblock supplied.

drsmpapp02# fsck -F ufs -o b=32 /dev/rdsk/c1t0d0s0

Alternate super block location: 32.

** /dev/rdsk/c1t0d0s0

BAD SUPER BLOCK: NUMBER OF DIRECTORIES OUT OF RANGE

USE AN ALTERNATE SUPER-BLOCK TO SUPPLY NEEDED INFORMATION;

eg. fsck [-F ufs] -o b=# [special ...]

where # is the alternate super block. SEE fsck_ufs(1M).

drsmpapp02#



Does anyone have a solution for this problem short of re-installing the
system (no root backups of course, not my system).



====================================

Chad Johnson

Extension 24565

Direct Dial 704.988.4565





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From kusoneko at gmail.com  Wed Mar  1 13:18:28 2006
From: kusoneko at gmail.com (Aaron Taylor)
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 10:18:28 -0800
Subject: Summary(updated): Problems with root filesystem writes
Message-ID: <f7e438520603011018o34b5e361tbd8a3e4be55af879@mail.gmail.com>

Just a final update with the resolution to the problem.

It was a hardware issue. The 73Gb drives that arrived with the system
were not Sun disks. They were Seagate Part # ST373307FC which is the
same drive Sun ships with the Blade 1000. However, Sun slightly
modifies the firmware and the stock Seagate unit won't always work.

That was the cause of all the disk errors. Switching to a 9Gb Sun hard
drive(X6709A) made all the problems disappear.

Thanks,
   -Aaron Taylor

Original Question:

> Hi All,
>
> I've got a problem with a new Sun Blade 1000 machine I setup. It's
> Solaris 10 update 1(1/06). Nobody, including root, can write to the
> root filesystem. Other slices are fine. People can write to /usr,
> /home, etc, etc, etc just fine.
>
> / is mounted read-write as shown in the "mount" command with /usr for
> comparison:
>
> / on /pci at 8,600000/SUNW,qlc at 4/fp at 0,0/disk at w21000004cfe6917c,0:a
> read/write/setuid/devices/dev=1d80008 on Wed Dec 31 16:00:00 1969
> /usr on /dev/dsk/c1t1d0s3
>
read/write/setuid/devices/intr/largefiles/logging/xattr/onerror=panic/dev=1d8
000b
> on Sun Feb 26 14:43:17 2006
>
> However, comparing it to /usr, you can see several differences. First,
> it's the actual hardware path that is mounted instead of the link in
> /dev which then normally points to the hardware path in /devices.
> Second, it shows the mount date as the beginning of the UNIX clock. I
> would think that even if the clock was starting when the system first
> got AC power, it would at least be 15-20 seconds of runtime until it
> got around to mounting disks. You can also see logging is not enabled
> on /. I was under that belief that UFS logging was enabled by default
> on all UFS filesystems in Solaris 10.
>
> The appropriate entries out of /etc/vfstab:
>
> /dev/dsk/c1t1d0s0       /dev/rdsk/c1t1d0s0      /       ufs     1
>  no      -
> /dev/dsk/c1t1d0s3       /dev/rdsk/c1t1d0s3      /usr    ufs     1
>  no      -
>
> I tried reinstalling the OS and the same behaviour is occuring on both
installs.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas what is causing this?
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From shah.bhavesh at gene.com  Wed Mar  1 14:43:01 2006
From: shah.bhavesh at gene.com (Bhavesh Shah)
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2006 11:43:01 -0800
Subject: SUMMARY: Solaris 8 - 2GB log issue
In-Reply-To: <44048FB2.6090908@gene.com>
References: <44048FB2.6090908@gene.com>
Message-ID: <4405F945.9000001@gene.com>

Thanks to everyone for thier response. To name a few:
Casper Dik
Brad Morrison
Dale Ghent
Rob Windsor
Jim
Adam Levin
Gary Paveza

The problem is the Kerberos Application which doesn't support large 
file. To do so it has to be recompiled. The better solutions sugested by 
gurus is to rotate log file frequently.

My original post was:

>Hi Gurus,
>We have a Kerberose Master Server runing Solaris 8. It has attached SAN 
>which writes kerberose log files. The SAN file system is under Veritas 
>and is VXFS with largefiles support. The problem is when kerbseors log 
>file reaches 2GB it stops writing the log file. I checked with mkfs to 
>create a file 3GB on the SAN vxfs file ssytem and was able to create it. 
>I am not getting why the log file stops at 2 GB when vxfs does have 
>largefile support and was able to create a file more then 2 GB on the 
>same file ssytem.
>Need help ot resolve this.
>I will summrize.
>Best Regards
>shahb
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From Christopher.Wianecki at sothebys.com  Wed Mar  1 16:28:28 2006
From: Christopher.Wianecki at sothebys.com (Wianecki, Christopher)
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 16:28:28 -0500
Subject: SUMMARY: Identifying disks
Message-ID: <EBF26419E0DAFA4A88062C0C4D8CE8A60F07446A@nycexch1.na.sothebys.com>

Thank you to so many people who responded, it is just amazing how many
answers I got.
After working all night long my mind was not working straight so obviously I
did not remember iostat with -n option and without witch does give drives
both way. But I had tests fro last night so running iostat with option -n
did not help much so another suggestion was to ls -l /dev/sd0* which would
give sym links to disks. Also iostat -E and iostat -En do help since they
give you drive serial numbers and then you can either write a little script
or just take a look and find disks you are looking for...

Once again thanks to many people who did reply so quickly...

Chris


-----Original Message-----
From: sunmanagers-bounces at sunmanagers.org
[mailto:sunmanagers-bounces at sunmanagers.org] On Behalf Of Wianecki,
Christopher
Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2006 12:12 PM
To: 'sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org'
Subject: Identifying disks


Hello everyone, I was wondering how can I identify disks

When I do iostat I get disks
sd0          0.0    0.0    0.0    0.0  0.0  0.0   76.6   0   0   0   0   0
0
sd63         1.7    1.7   37.5   33.4  0.0  0.0   10.3   0   0   1   0   0
1 
sd64         2.1    1.7   37.9   33.5  0.0  0.0    8.6   0   0   1   0   0
1 
sd91         0.0    0.0    0.0    0.0  0.0  0.0  121.9   0   0   0   0   0
0 
sd92         0.0    0.0    0.0    0.0  0.0  0.0   92.0   0   0   0   0   0
0 

How can I identify which disk is which?
Since all of them I can see as:
       0. c1t0d0 <SUN72G cyl 14087 alt 2 hd 24 sec 424>
          /pci at 1f,700000/scsi at 2/sd at 0,0
       1. c1t1d0 <SUN72G cyl 14087 alt 2 hd 24 sec 424>
          /pci at 1f,700000/scsi at 2/sd at 1,0

Etc, so I do have paths and everything else but I need somehow connect them
together and I do not remember how to do that.

Thank you so very much.

Chris


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From snaprs.maillist at optusnet.com.au  Wed Mar  1 19:18:08 2006
From: snaprs.maillist at optusnet.com.au (snaprs.maillist at optusnet.com.au)
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2006 11:18:08 +1100
Subject: SUMMARY: Laptop for Solaris 10
Message-ID: <200603020018.k220I8Jf016451@mail20.syd.optusnet.com.au>

All
 
Thanks for the response for the new laptop info, original email was 
 
--- snip ---
 
Has anyone run Solaris 10 - 01/06 on a Dell Inspiron 9300? And dual boot with XP....
Any other suggestions for a reliable laptop with a decent sized screen?
 
--- end snip ---
 
Thanks to Richard Skelton, Hicheal Morton, Pat McAleavey, Paul Greidanus, Mohammad Rafeeq, Dan O'Callaghan, The Hatter, Hamidi for the info supplied
 
in summary
 
-- a new tool is available for x86: Installation Check tool. Verifies what drivers are going to work.
-- try with liveCD first  (see links below)
-- use the HCL on Sun website, and there is also a list on bolthole (see links below)
-- for multiple os', use VMWare   <http://www.vmware.com/>
http://www.vmware.com/
-- for 64 bit performance, use AMD, eg Acer Ferrari 4005 (popular with Solaris dev team)
-- it works on a Dell Inspiron 2200 with the help of some free drivers
-- maybe wait for Intel-Apple stuff
-- there are a few sparc notebooks
 
It looks like I need to do a heap more analysis of the hardware features of each computer now (can it run dual external monitors, docking stations, screen size); and decide if I would like the 64bit option or not. Also need to review the tadpole and similar....
 
And the last option is do I run Solaris, with XP running in VMWare, or do I run XP, with Solaris in VMWare, or do I run dual boot????? [please excuse me while I sit in the corner and scream!  :-)]
 
Links
 
http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/hcts/install_check.html - Installation Check Tool http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/data/sol/systems/views/all_laptops_reported_
to_work.mfg.page1.html  - hcl
http://www.naturetech.com.tw/ - Naturetech in Taiwan http://www.nextcomputing.com/powerblade.htm - Another NatureTech http://www.tadpolecomputer.com/html/ - Tadpole http://www.bolthole.com/solaris/x86-laptops.html#list  - list of hardware compatibility
http://belenix.sarovar.org/belenix_home.html    - live cd
http://www.schillix.org/    - open solaris based distribution
http://www.gnusolaris.org/gswiki/    - gnu open solaris
 

Full emails in no particular order
 
===================================================
 
Normally I used vmware simulation software so I can run more then 1
operating system
 
===================================================
 
I just ordered a Acer Ferrari 4005, which seems pretty popular with most of
the Solaris dev team, including Casper Dik..  the solaris HCL on the
bigadmin site is also a good resource.  (I don't have the ferrari yet, but,
I will be trying solaris on it when I get it)
 
Also, Sun has a sparc laptop these days with a 17" monitor.. but it's
viciously expensive.
 

===================================================
 
I have installed nv 22 on a Dell Inspiron 2200 and with the help of some
free drivers everything worked :-) Best to try one of the LiveCD first
 
===================================================
 
Not so useful for buying something now, but you might wish to email sun and
suggest they consider the intel-apple stuff for the HCL.  Given it's likely
to be similarly specced machines (in terms of chipsets for
features) in production for a long time, and across a range of laptop sizes,
and easily available across the world, it would seem a great candidate.
 
I've already done this (though the first ones are only shipping as of a
couple of days back - but then one of them is coming my way)
 
===================================================
 
there's a list of laptops built with solaris and install hints at:
 <http://www.bolthole.com/solaris/x86-laptops.html#list>
http://www.bolthole.com/solaris/x86-laptops.html#list
Insprion 9300 isn't listed though.
 

===================================================
 
hey try IBM ..Thinkpad ..Z60t . I have 20%off if you ar interested from IBM,
but it's 
14" WXGA TFT Display (1280 x 768)
 
===================================================
 
Really depends on what you're doing with it.. if you need 64-bit stuff, you
need the AMD for now.  I went with the ferrari because it's the same
architecture as the cluster I am running.
 
===================================================
 
Just a thought....have you looked at a Sparc notebook?
 
There is Tadpole:
 
 <http://www.tadpolecomputer.com/html/> http://www.tadpolecomputer.com/html/
 
and there is the NatureTech line:
 
 <http://www.nextcomputing.com/powerblade.htm>
http://www.nextcomputing.com/powerblade.htm
 
Both of these are true UltraSparc machines. I have used both...in fact I
have five (5) of the Naturetech units that we use for teaching. These are
excellent machines. I'm not sure what the prices are like anymore but last I
checked they were pretty competitive with a good x86 laptop.
 
===================================================
 
Naturetech is a company out of Taiwan:
 
 <http://www.naturetech.com.tw/> http://www.naturetech.com.tw/
 
I'm sure if you contact them directly they can put you in touch with a
vendor in Oz. That's what I had to do. They put me in touch with NextCom, a
distributor here in the US. They make a good product. My units spend alot of
time out on the road and have held up well....almost three (3) years now.
 
Tadpole was the only game in town for a long time and their prices reflected
the situation. Back in 1998 we bought 5 Tadpole laptops...each unit went for
US $15,000....ahhh...the Go-Go 90s when money was no object! Those laptops
were extremely rugged...I think a bullet would have bounced off the case.
With the competition from Naturetech Tadpole's prices dropped dramatically.
 
===================================================
 
sun hcl has a listing of laptop that work with solaris 10 x86.
 
if you check the page for each laptop, it shows who verified the solaris 10
x86 load.  sun verifies some, the manufacturer others, and end users still
others.
 
from those that sun verified, I choose the dell inspirion 6000.  (it was the
cheapest on the sun verified list.)
 
the on my dell 6000 is 15.4" and will drive an external monitor/lcd.
 
===================================================
 
See the latest bigadmin newsletter for a link to :-
 
 Solaris Operating System for x86 Installation Check Tool 
 
 <http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/newsletter/>
http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/newsletter/
 
[Note: I have now subscribed to the newsletter!!!]
 
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From glowe at sbcglobal.net  Wed Mar  1 19:34:42 2006
From: glowe at sbcglobal.net (Grant Lowe)
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 16:34:42 -0800 (PST)
Subject: SUMMARY: devalias path
In-Reply-To: <20060224010338.94919.qmail@web81802.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <20060302003442.48595.qmail@web81812.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

I finally got this solved.  I only got three replies,
from:
Layton Marvin J NNSY (LaytonMJ at nnsy.navy.mil)
Truhn, Chad M CTR N83-BRANCH (chad.truhn.ctr at navy.mil)
and
Darren Dunham (ddunham at taos.com).

The best answer that helped me track it down (came
from Chad):

I have run into this before, and I wish I could give
you a good way to 
find out what it is but I really don't know.  What I
do, and normally 
works, is type in your path along with sd@ and then
your SCSI ID then 
,(comma)0.  

Example

/pci at 1d,700000/scsi at 4@1/sd at 3,0

You had the sd at 3 on there earlier and if the DVD-ROM
is at SCSI ID 3 
then you had it right but just missing the ,0 .  You
can find out what 
you need to have by your probe-scsi-all command.  It
will show you a 
number beside the device and that is the number you
will use after the @ 
sign.   You said you tried other combinations so I
don't know if you 
tried this or not.

What worked was appending disk at 3,0:f to the end of the
devalias path, so using his example, you would have
this:

/pci at 1d,700000/scsi at 4@1/sd at 3,0/disk at 3,0:f

Thanks for the help!



I have a Blade 2500 I want to install Solaris 10 on.
 
I don't think the blade is giving me the entire path
to a device.  What I have is an external DVD-ROM
drive
that is connected to the onboard SCSI bus.  I can
see
the device with a probe-scsi-all, but probe-scsi-all
only returns /pci at 1d,700000/scsi at 4@1 which I think
is
an imcomplete path.  I've tried
/pci at 1d,700000/scsi at 4,1/sd at 3 and that doesn't work.
I've tried other combinations as well.
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From ramkumar.vaidyanathan at cingular.com  Wed Mar  1 10:24:09 2006
From: ramkumar.vaidyanathan at cingular.com (Vaidyanathan, Ramkumar)
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 09:24:09 -0600 
Subject: SUMMARY: SCSI transport failed
Message-ID: <BFB9517D8C453A418FF01D1B9774F86E1F809665@S75202E004048.sbms.sbc.com>

All,

In summary everybody suggested to replace the failing disk and couple of
suggestions to run:

Iostat -En (and check for any errors)
Reseat all scsi connections and reboot the box again..

I ran iostat and got couple of errors (transportation error) on the
particular disk (and also several other disks) and need to investigate the
ouput further.

Option 2 (reboot) is not possible, as I am in 24x7 production.

Thanks to Andrew Hall, Michael Segale, Debbie Tropiano, and Coy Hile.

One think nobody answered is: is there any link to all the SCSI errors? (or
any other documents?)

Thanks
Ram

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From: sunmanagers-bounces at sunmanagers.org
[mailto:sunmanagers-bounces at sunmanagers.org] On Behalf Of Vaidyanathan,
Ramkumar
Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 3:36 PM
To: 'sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org'
Subject: SCSI transport failed

All,

I keep getting following errors in the /var/adm/messages file:

SCSI: [ID 243001 kern.warning] WARNING: /swsp at 0,7/ssd at 0,4 (ssd32) :
SCSI transport failed: reason 'aborted': retrying command

Does any one know what to troubleshoot and how to fix this error?
Also if you some one who show a pointer to all the SCSI transport errors
(and fixes) that will be great!

I will summarize my results...

Thanks
Ram
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From jmd at att.com  Wed Mar  1 12:53:21 2006
From: jmd at att.com (Donovan, Jeffrey (Jeff), WCS)
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 12:53:21 -0500
Subject: SUMMARY: Solaris 10 rsh problem
In-Reply-To: <B818B6C295E96945A53860628078F4DB01CA7DCF@ACCLUST01EVS1.ugd.att.com>
Message-ID: <B818B6C295E96945A53860628078F4DB01CA7DD3@ACCLUST01EVS1.ugd.att.com>

SUMMARY:



I gave in and called Sun and we figured out  that the CIC hardening
document for Solaris 10 (which I followed) takes the following line out
of pam.conf:



rlogin  auth sufficient         pam_rhosts_auth.so.1



Added this back and now it works without being prompted for a password.



Thanks to those who offered other solutions.



________________________________

From: Donovan, Jeffrey (Jeff), WCS
Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2006 10:52 AM
To: 'sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org'
Subject: Solaris 10 rsh problem



Hi all,



I've set up rsh between servers before in Solaris 8 with no problem.
Although I don't want to open it in Solaris 10, some developers need to
do some transgression testing so I had to turn the services on. With the
services on I now get a password prompt even though I have the .rhosts
and /etc/hosts.equiv files configured with a + allowing anyone to
connect, this also didn't work with the hostname/username in them. I
changed permissions so that they are owned by root and 600. Am I missing
something, is something new in Solaris 10? Am I missing another service
that should be on? This is what I turned on:



svcadm enable svc:/network/login:rlogin

svcadm enable svc:/network/shell:default

svcadm enable svc:/network/login:rlogin





Stupid problems like this waste a lot of my time.



Thanks for the assistance.



Jeff Donovan

The new at&t
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From Bruno.S.Delbono at Mail.AC  Wed Mar  1 20:38:54 2006
From: Bruno.S.Delbono at Mail.AC (Bruno S. Delbono)
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2006 17:38:54 -0800
Subject: SUMMARY: Sun Qlogic HBA + Compaq/HP SAN Switch Issues
In-Reply-To: <43FE96BC.2040402@Mail.AC>
References: <43FE96BC.2040402@Mail.AC>
Message-ID: <44064CAE.3070802@Mail.AC>

Hello folks,

I would like to thank Aaron Lineberger, Victor Harrison and others for 
pointing me to the right direction. When I had initially sent this mail, 
I had failed to specify exactly which HBA card I was using. Well, the 
card I had was a Qlogic 2100F/66 HBA San Card.

Qlogic QLA2100F which doesn't support Fabric Mode...which
is why this wasn't working. After a "very" exhaustive research, I've 
found that the T3 array always talks loop mode (which a switch can 
handle properly), but more importantly it's the HBA card which needs to 
talk Fabric Mode (or connect on the F_Port in order for proper switch 
Fabric zoning to work). However, the Qlogic 2100F Card in the Netra T1 
cannot do Fabric Mode...only Loop mode which is why this is not working.

However, the Qlogic 2100F Card in the Netra T1 cannot do Fabric 
Mode...only Loop mode which is why this is not working.  After the 
switch firmware upgrade, I now can enable Quick Loop which should allow 
me to connect these two devices. But, sadly, I need a license key for 
Quick Loop. As this product is End-Of-Life...there is no key  ;-) . The 
only keys installed on the switch are for Fabric mode

So, the Solution (I chose #1, #2 is an alternative):

1) Replace the HBA card with one that does do Fabric mode via SAN...In 
my case a Qlogic 2200F PCI Card. Once I put this in...everything started 
working. The card cost me an extra $40 on ebay and it works like a charm..

dmesg:

....
Feb 25 13:37:42 san qla2200: [ID 857577 kern.notice] QLogic qla2200 
Fibre Channel Driver v4.13.01 Instance: 0 Firmware v2.2.6
Feb 25 13:37:50 san qla2200: [ID 169035 kern.info] qla2200(0): Fibre 
Channel Loop is Down (8013)
Feb 25 13:37:51 san qla2200: [ID 567540 kern.info] qla2200(0): Fibre 
Channel Loop is Up (8014)
Feb 25 13:37:51 san qla2200: [ID 364886 kern.info] 
qla2200-hba0-adapter-node-name="200000e08b0567b8";
Feb 25 13:37:51 san qla2200: [ID 358785 kern.info] 
qla2200-hba0-adapter-port-name="210000e08b0567b8";
Feb 25 13:37:51 san qla2200: [ID 332924 kern.info] 
qla2200-hba0-adapter-port-id="010100";
Feb 25 13:37:51 san qla2200: [ID 823690 kern.info] 
qla2200-hba0-SCSI-target-id-1-fibre-channel-node-name="50020f20000043d4";
Feb 25 13:37:51 san qla2200: [ID 817589 kern.info] 
qla2200-hba0-SCSI-target-id-1-fibre-channel-port-name="50020f23000043d4";
Feb 25 13:37:51 san qla2200: [ID 699766 kern.info] 
qla2200-hba0-SCSI-target-id-1-port-id="0100e8";
Feb 25 13:37:51 san qla2200: [ID 418604 kern.info] 
qla2200-hba0-SCSI-target-id-1-lun-0-enable;
Feb 25 13:37:51 san pci_pci: [ID 370704 kern.info] PCI-device: scsi at f, 
qla22000
Feb 25 13:37:51 san genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] qla22000 is 
/pci at 1f,0/pci at 1/pci at 1/scsi at f
....

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Host Name                    : san
OS Type                      : SunOS:sun4u
OS Version                   : 5.9
FO API Version               : 1.4.9.0 qlfoapi.a
SDM API Version              :  3.07
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
0 - QLA/QCP/QSB22xx OS: 0 WWPN: 21-00-00-E0-8B-05-67-B8 SN: D74887 FW: 
2.2.6 IP
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Total QLogic HBA(s) : 1


==== HBA General Information =====================

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Host Name                    : san
HBA Number                   : 0
OS Instance                  : 0
HBA Model                    : QLA/QCP/QSB 22xx
HBA Node Name                : 20-00-00-E0-8B-05-67-B8
HBA Port Name                : 21-00-00-E0-8B-05-67-B8
HBA Port ID                  : 01-01-00
Serial Number                : D74887
Driver Version               : 4.13.01
FCode Version                : 0.0
Firmware Version             : 2.2.6 IP
Device Target Count          : 1
Actual Connection Mode       : Point to Point
Actual Data Rate             : 1 Gbps
PortType (Topology)          : FPort
HBA Status                   : Online

==== HBA NVRAM Settings Information ==============

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
QLogic HBA 0 - QLA/QCP/QSB22xx OS: 0 WWPN: 21-00-00-E0-8B-05-67-B8
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Connection Options           : 2 - Loop Preferred, Otherwise Point-to-Point
Frame Size                   : 1024
Hard Loop ID                 : 0
Loop Reset Delay (seconds)   : 5
Enable Hard Loop ID          : Disabled
Enable FC Tape Support       : Enabled
Execution Throttle           : 16
Enable Extended Error Logging: Disabled
Login Retry Count            : 8
Enable LIP Reset             : Disabled
Port Down Retry Count        : 8
Enable LIP Full Login        : Enabled
Link Down Timeout (seconds)  : 60
Enable Target Reset          : Disabled
LUNs Per Target              : 8
Link Down Error              : Enabled
Fast Error Reporting         : Disabled

==== Attached Devices/LUNs Information ===========

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
QLogic HBA 0 - QLA/QCP/QSB22xx OS: 0 WWPN: 21-00-00-E0-8B-05-67-B8
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Path                         : 0
Target                       : 1
Device ID                    : 0x01
Port ID                      : 01-00-E8
Product Vendor               : SUN
Product ID                   : T300
Product Revision             : 0118
Node Name                    : 50-02-0F-20-00-00-43-D4
Port Name                    : 50-02-0F-23-00-00-43-D4
Product Type                 : Disk
Number of LUN(s)             : 1
Status                       : Online
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Product Vendor               : SUN
Product ID                   : T300
Product Revision             : 0118
LUN                          : 0
Size                         : 303.50 GB
WWULN                        : 
60-02-0F-20-00-00-43-D4-43-FD-DE-9C-00-0A-AE-1B


==== Target Persistent Binding Information =======

No target persistent data found on HBA 0.

==== Selective LUNs Information ==================


==== Boot Device Information =====================

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
QLogic HBA 0 - QLA/QCP/QSB22xx OS: 0 WWPN: 21-00-00-E0-8B-05-67-B8
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Primary Boot Device Information:
--------------------------------------
Selectable Boot: Disabled
--------------------------------------
Device Node Name         Device Port Name         Device ID  LUN ID
-----------------------  -----------------------  ---------  ------
00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00  00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00          0       0

==== Driver Settings Information =================

-----------------------------------------------------------------
QLogic HBA 0 - QLA/QCP/QSB22xx OS: 0 WWPN: 21-00-00-E0-8B-05-67-B8
-----------------------------------------------------------------
-----------------------------------
Driver Settings - Group: Persistent
-----------------------------------
Present targets that are persistently bound plus any new target(s)   : 
Enable
Present targets that are persistently bound Only                     : 
Disable
--------------------------------
Driver Settings - Group: Binding
--------------------------------
Bind by World Wide Port Name: Enable
Bind by Port ID             : Disable

                 Press <Enter> to continue:

root bdelbono # format
Searching for disks...done


AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:
        0. c0t0d0 <SUN18G cyl 7506 alt 2 hd 19 sec 248>
           /pci at 1f,0/pci at 1,1/scsi at 2/sd at 0,0
        1. c0t1d0 <SUN18G cyl 7506 alt 2 hd 19 sec 248>
           /pci at 1f,0/pci at 1,1/scsi at 2/sd at 1,0
        2. c4t1d0 <SUN-T300-0118 cyl 34530 alt 2 hd 144 sec 128> T3-Blue
           /pci at 1f,0/pci at 1/pci at 1/scsi at f/sd at 1,0
Specify disk (enter its number): ^D
root bdelbono # cfgadm -al
Ap_Id          Type         Receptacle   Occupant     Condition
c0             scsi-bus     connected    configured   unknown
c0::dsk/c0t0d0 disk         connected    configured   unknown
c0::dsk/c0t1d0 disk         connected    configured   unknown
c1             scsi-bus     connected    configured   unknown
c1::dsk/c1t2d0 CD-ROM       connected    configured   unknown

root bdelbono # prtdiag -v
System Configuration:  Sun Microsystems  sun4u Netra t1 (UltraSPARC-IIi 
360MHz)
System clock frequency: 90 MHz
Memory size: 320 Megabytes
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

========================= CPUs =========================

                     Run   Ecache   CPU    CPU
Brd  CPU   Module   MHz     MB    Impl.   Mask
---  ---  -------  -----  ------  ------  ----
  0     0     0      360     1.0   12       9.1


========================= IO Cards =========================

      Bus#  Freq
Brd  Type  MHz   Slot  Name                              Model
---  ----  ----  ----  -------------------------------- 
----------------------
  0   PCI-1  33     1   ebus 

  0   PCI-1  33     1   network-SUNW,hme 

  0   PCI-1  33     2   scsi-glm                          Symbios,53C875 

  0   PCI-1  33     3   network-SUNW,hme 

  0   PCI-2  33     1   pci-pci1011,22 



No failures found in System
===========================

========================= HW Revisions =========================

ASIC Revisions:
---------------
Cheerio: ebus Rev 1

System PROM revisions:
----------------------
   OBP 3.10.27 2000/06/22 16:45   POST 1.17.0 2000/03/06 12:18

root bdelbono # uname -a
SunOS san 5.9 Generic_118558-22 sun4u sparc SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIi-cEngine

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Switch Information Report for san
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

List of Switches
Switch ID   Worldwide Name           Enet IP Addr    FC IP Addr      Name
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
   1: fffc01 10:00:00:60:69:30:1a:b9  10.10.33.199    0.0.0.0        >"san"

Ethernet IP Address: 10.10.33.199
Ethernet Subnetmask: 255.255.255.0
Fibre Channel IP Address: none
Fibre Channel Subnetmask: none
Gateway Address: 10.10.33.1

Kernel:     5.4
Fabric OS:  v2.6.2c
Made on:    Wed Jan 26 15:08:33 PST 2005
Flash:      Wed Jan 26 15:09:13 PST 2005
BootProm:   Wed Sep 22 13:48:55 PDT 1999

List of Inter-Switch Links
Local Domain ID: 1

Local Port     Domain     Remote Port     State
-------------------------------------------------------


List of Ports
switchName:	san
switchType:	4.1
switchState:	Online
switchMode:	Native
switchRole:	Principal
switchDomain:	1
switchId:	fffc01
switchWwn:	10:00:00:60:69:30:1a:b9
switchBeacon:	ON
Zoning:      	ON (sancfg)
port  0: sw  Online        L-Port  1 private, 2 phantom
port  1: sw  Online        F-Port  21:00:00:e0:8b:05:67:b8
port  2: sw  No_Light
port  3: sw  No_Light
port  4: sw  No_Light
port  5: sw  No_Light
port  6: sw  No_Light
port  7: --  No_Module

Name Server
{
   0100e8 010100
2 Nx_Ports in the Fabric }

{
  Type Pid    COS     PortName                NodeName 
TTL(sec)
  NL   0100e8;      3;50:02:0f:23:00:00:43:d4;50:02:0f:20:00:00:43:d4; na
     FC4s: FCP [SUN     T300            0118]
     Fabric Port Name: 20:00:00:60:69:30:1a:b9
  N    010100;      3;21:00:00:e0:8b:05:67:b8;20:00:00:e0:8b:05:67:b8; na
     FC4s: FCP
     Fabric Port Name: 20:01:00:60:69:30:1a:b9

The Local Name Server has 2 entries }

Zoning Information
Defined configuration:
  cfg:	sancfg	zone
  zone:	zone	alias
  alias:	alias	50:02:0f:23:00:00:43:d4; 21:00:00:e0:8b:05:67:b8

Effective configuration:
  cfg:	sancfg	
  zone:	zone		Protocol:ALL
		50:02:0f:23:00:00:43:d4
		21:00:00:e0:8b:05:67:b8


GBIC Serial ID Information
port  0: sw
port  1: sw
port  2: sw
port  3: sw
port  4: sw
port  5: sw
port  6: sw
port  7: --

---------------------------------------------------------------------------

2) A second solution is to use a FC-AL Hub instead of a switch. This 
should get around the problem as it would do L_port rather than a Fabric 
  port/mode.

Thanks again everyone.

Warm Regards,

--
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Open-Systems Group
http://www.open-systems.org/users/bruno/

Bruno S. Delbono wrote:
> Hi Gurus,
> 
> I need some help and promise that I'll summarize. I recently acquired 
> two used Storedge T3 (9 x 36 GB FC-AL), a Netra T1 with a QLogic (ifp0) 
> SAN HBA card and a Compaq/HP 1 GB/s 8-EL Switch [*]. I am running 
> Solaris 9 on the server and have installed SAN 4.4.8 for Solaris 9.
> 
> I've created a raid 0 volume on the T3 and if I connect the T3 directly 
> to the Netra's SAN HBA card...I can see my new volume/disk. So...this 
> works (using FC-AL loop).
> 
> BUT, if I connect the T3 and the netra to the Fiber Switch, Solaris 
> cannot see the disk. Here's what I get in /var/adm/messages (tons of 
> these).
> 
> Feb 23 18:32:46 san scsi: [ID 243001 kern.info] 
> /pci at 1f,0/pci at 1/pci at 1/SUNW,ifp at f (ifp0):
> Feb 23 18:32:46 san     Loop reconfigure in progress
> Feb 23 18:32:46 san scsi: [ID 243001 kern.warning] WARNING: 
> /pci at 1f,0/pci at 1/pci at 1/SUNW,ifp at f (ifp0):
> Feb 23 18:32:46 san     mbox cmd failed for alpa: 0xef, rval: 0x4006
> Feb 23 18:32:46 san scsi: [ID 243001 kern.info] 
> /pci at 1f,0/pci at 1/pci at 1/SUNW,ifp at f (ifp0):
> Feb 23 18:32:46 san     Unable to allocate target structure for switch 
> setting 0
> Feb 23 18:32:46 san     reason: Unable to get port database
> 
> Here's the uname -a:
> 
> SunOS san 5.9 Generic_117171-07 sun4u sparc SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIi-cEngine
> 
> The switch can see both the Netra's SAN card "and" the T3. I've created 
> the a zone with both their WWN's but for some reason I keep getting 
> these errors and am unable to see the disk.
> 
> PS - This is a Fabric Switch. Do I need cfgadm -al to configure it (if I 
> can around this problem)? Or do I need luxadm insert?
> 
> I've spent a lot of time going over reports on sunsolve, hp.com's 
> support but I have come up with zilch. I don't understand why this works 
> directly but fails to work. Here's a screenshot in case it helps.
> 
> http://www.open-systems.org/users/bruno/SANerror.JPG
> 
> I would sincerely appreciate any help. Better yet, IOU a beer if you can 
> help me figure this out.
> 
> [*] - 
> http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Home.jsp?&lang=en&cc=us&prodTypeId=12169&prodSeriesId=311232&lang=en&cc=us
> 
> Thanks again
> 
> Warm Regards,
> 
> --
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> Open-Systems Group
> http://www.open-systems.org/users/bruno/
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From vsc05.contact at cojot.name  Thu Mar  2 06:04:18 2006
From: vsc05.contact at cojot.name (vsc05.contact at cojot.name)
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 12:04:18 +0100 (CET)
Subject: SUMMARY: Solaris 8 02/04 on a huge (48+ cores) E25K domain.
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0602280934550.21742@thorbardin.lasthome.solace.krynn>
References: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0602280934550.21742@thorbardin.lasthome.solace.krynn>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0603021111310.25998@thorbardin.lasthome.solace.krynn>

Hello everyone,

Here's the summary for this thread:

I got a few e-mails but they either misunderstood the problem ("It's 
supported so it should work") or they tought Solaris 9, ia64 or IBM's P5 
were an option (remember when I said "s8 is a requirement for this app")?

Here's what I have gathered:

- SUN states that they will not 'recommend' Solaris 8 on more than 24 
cores (that's 3 US-IV system boards, people). What 'recommends' mean is 
left as an exercise for the reader.

- We have an application that uses 38 1200Mhz US-IV cores under Solaris 8 
on an E25K but we know it slows to a crawl if we enable the last two 
(disabled) cpu's (reaching 40 cores). Even SUN experts have been 
ineffective at tuning the domain to solve the performance problems (might 
be caused by the application too)..

- If your requirement is Solaris 8 -and- over 600,000+ Tpm-C, then your 
only solution is the Fujitsu PrimePower 1500/2500 servers. I asked 
Fujitsu-Siemens and they explicitly stated that they support Solaris 8 in 
a single domain of up to 128 * 2+ Ghz SPARC64V cpus. They even have 
benchmarks to prove 64 cores under Solaris 8 isn't a problem for them 
(http://www.tpc.org/tpcc/results/tpcc_result_detail.asp?id=103103101). I 
was also shown some more recent numbers where a single 64cpu Solaris 8 
domain reached over 850,000 Tpc-c on a PrimePower 2500 or over 1,300,000 
in a 128 cpu configuration.

Regards,

Vincent

On Tue, 28 Feb 2006, vsc05.contact at cojot.name wrote:

>
> Hello everyone,
>
> 	We're planning on configuring a huge E25K domain running Solaris 8 
> (02/04). The domain will have 8 System Boards, each with 4 1350Mhz US-IV 
> processors. This will configure the domain at 8*4*2 = 64 cores.
>
> 	Since Solaris 8 does not have MPO (s8 is a requirement for this app), 
> we know that performance will be inferior to that of s9/s10 on the same 
> hardware.
>
> 	What we'd like to know is this: Will it work/function at all? Will it 
> provide adequate performance (we're looking for over 600,000 tpm-C). We heard 
> rumours about 'Solaris 8 cannot handle more than 40 cores on E25k' but not a 
> single document/fact was shown.
>
> 	I'd like to hear from anyone's experiences, good or bad (performance 
> wise), running Solaris 8 on a large E25K domain (48+ cores).
>
> Thanks for reading,
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From safdarm at gmail.com  Thu Mar  2 17:39:21 2006
From: safdarm at gmail.com (Safdar Mirza)
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 16:39:21 -0600
Subject: SUMMARY: Remove or rename a file
Message-ID: <a7fac9410603021439l52dc5350o152b2b6fd18f0e15@mail.gmail.com>

My sincere apology to those who suggested that I should not post a unix
related question to Solaris Sun Manager list.

Special thanks to *Richard Lacroix, Scott Fendley, Simon Burr, Lineberger,
Aaron., Bill R. Williams, Thomas M. Payerle, Alexandre Wanderley  *Following
solutions were provided.



My original question.



Hi Sun Mgr -

This seems like a very simple problem but I can not find a solution for
this.  After reading several man pages, trying google and different options
I finally decide to ask.



I have few files that start with - as file name. I want to rename them but I
can not find a simple solution.  File are listed as follows:



-work.file01

-work.file02

-work.file03



cp or mv or even ls does not work as all commands assume that - is a flag
and not a file name.  I have tried double quote "", single quote  ''. or
even backslash \ before the - character but none of them work. Any
other ideas?   Thanks.

:) Safdar

http://www.safdar.com





And answer to my question:



ls - -work*
mv - -work.file01 work.file01

rm - -work.file01

mv ./-work.file01 work.file01

rm -- -work.file01

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From prabir.kr.sarkar at gmail.com  Thu Mar  2 09:36:30 2006
From: prabir.kr.sarkar at gmail.com (prabir sarkar)
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 20:06:30 +0530
Subject: SUMMARY:- CLONING A BOOT DISK ON E450.
Message-ID: <8d78aa2e0603020636j1e45528cn16f5152e53f41996@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,
   Overwhelmed by all that response. this is one thriving and buzzing
community. Many thanks for all those responses. Special thanks to Richard W.
Rominger for sharing that excellent script to clone boot disk. i am sharing
it with all with his permission.

My Original Q was:-

Hi Gurus,
             i will have to clone my boot (having the /, /var, /usr,
/export/home and /opt filesystems) disk on E450 on Solaris 9. i am wondering
will the following steps work:-

1) prvtoc /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s2 | fmthard -s - /dev/rdsk/c0t1d0s2
2) use newfs to create the filesystems on the c0t1d0
3) ufsdump 0uf /dev/rdsk/c0t1d0s2 /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s2
4) use install boot to create the bootblocks.

please help me with this. Thanks in Advance. i will summarize.

thanks
Prabir.


the Solution:-

1) prvtoc /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s2 | fmthard -s - /dev/rdsk/c0t1d0s2
2) use newfs to create the filesystems on c0t1d0.
3) use installboot to install bootblocks on the new disk (c0t1d0).
3) create a temporary mount point, say, /clone,
4) mount the new slice (say c0t1d0s0) at /clone.
5) use*   * ufsdump 0f - / | (cd /clone; ufsrestore rf -)
6) unmount /clone.
7) repeat  steps  4, 5, 6  for the  rest of the slices of the new disk.
8)  modify the /etc/vfstab  in the new disk to use its slices.


Thanks

Prabir**
#!/bin/sh
# Original Script written by Constantin Ionescu
# Modified by Carlo Cosolo
# Modified by Peter Baer Galvin
# Modified by John West
# Modified by Rick Rominger
# Use and distribute freely

# Define variables for use in the script
# ! Important, these must be set correctly !

# The root disk to duplicate (leave off slice numbers and path)
SRC=c0t0d0

# The empty disk to duplicate it to (leave off slice numbers and path)
DEST=c3t0d0

# The directory to mount destination partitions on while duplicating
MOUNTDIR=/dup_0

# The file name of this script, to rename it on the destination to avoid execution
SCRIPT=/opt/local/etc/rootcopy

# The slices that should be copied
SLICES="s0 s3 s4 s5 s6 s7"

echo ====================================
echo Disk Copy script started `date`
echo

# Make sure the mount point for duplicate partitions exists
if [ ! -d $MOUNTDIR ]; then
  mkdir $MOUNTDIR
  chmod 700 $MOUNTDIR
fi

# Partition the duplicate disk, make filesystems, make it bootable
prtvtoc /dev/rdsk/${SRC}s2 > /tmp/vtoc
fmthard -s /tmp/vtoc /dev/rdsk/${DEST}s2
installboot /usr/platform/`uname -i`/lib/fs/ufs/bootblk /dev/rdsk/${DEST}s0

# Modify the following loop to handle any special cases
for fs in $SLICES
do
  newfs /dev/dsk/${DEST}${fs} < /dev/null; mount /dev/dsk/${DEST}${fs} ${MOUNTDIR};
  ufsdump 0f - /dev/dsk/${SRC}${fs}|(cd ${MOUNTDIR}; ufsrestore rf -);
  if [ $fs = "s0" ]; then
    sed 's/${SRC}/${DEST}/g' /etc/vfstab > ${MOUNTDIR}/etc/vfstab;
    mv ${MOUNTDIR}/${SCRIPT} ${MOUNTDIR}/${SCRIPT}.DONTRUN;
  fi
  umount ${MOUNTDIR}
done

echo
echo Disk Copy script ended `date`
echo ====================================
echo
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From Olaf.Hopp at atis.uka.de  Fri Mar  3 07:26:55 2006
From: Olaf.Hopp at atis.uka.de (Olaf Hopp)
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2006 13:26:55 +0100
Subject: SUMMARY: Sun ULTRA 20 and BIOS password security hole
Message-ID: <4408360F.4060507@atis.uka.de>

Olaf Hopp wrote:
> Dear Collegues,
> 
> is anybody running the new Opteron Workstations Ultra20 in an open
> classroom ? You can lock down the access to the BIOS via a BIOS password.
> But when the system boots it still allows you to press <F8>-Key and 
> select a boot device - and (that's the problem) it allows you
> to boot from that device WITHOUT entering the BIOS password.
> This is even true when you disable booting from CD/DVD within 
> the BIOS.
> So pressing F8 lets you always boot from any device without password.
> And this makes it impossilble for me to put them into an open classroom,
> where any student can reach control over the maschine with a stupid
> KNOPPIX-CD.
> 
> Did I overlooked something in the BIOS ?
> I can't believe that SUN delivers a maschine with such a security hole.
> 
> Hardware:      SUN Ultra20
> BIOS-Version:  2.1.7           (seems to be the latest one)

Sorry, not a lot of responses:

Somebody (from SUN) mentioned to disable CD-booting within the
BIOS. But this does not help: my BIOS says boot from network only.
But when pressing the F8 key you can pick any boot device :-(

Somebody mentioned not to worry about it and to "educate" those
students. Well I wish I had his students. Since those are
students in computer science the know how to hack and to hide it
from me. If there is a hole, they will find it.

And there was a "me too":
the W1100z seems to have the same bug, sorry feature.


Hello SUN - wake up! The good old OBP-OK-Prompt on SPARC asks
for a password when I type "boot cdrom" at the OK prompt.

Thanks,
Olaf



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From mrb at bmyster.com  Fri Mar  3 11:22:19 2006
From: mrb at bmyster.com (Brent)
Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2006 11:22:19 -0500
Subject: SUMMARY: SMF Administrative guide
In-Reply-To: <44062E10.9070505@sun.com>
References: <20060301162857.M4941@bmyster.com>
  <44062E10.9070505@sun.com>
Message-ID: <20060303162104.M75763@bmyster.com>

David and a few other people pointed me at

http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-1985/6mhm8o5rh?a=view

thank you

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---------- Original Message -----------
From: Dave Miner <Dave.Miner at Sun.COM>
To: Brent <mrb at bmyster.com>
Sent: Wed, 01 Mar 2006 18:28:16 -0500
Subject: Re: SMF Administrative guide

> Brent wrote:
> > Ive been doing some research on SMF on Solaris 10 on Big Admins site at 
> > 
> > http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/content/selfheal/smf-quickstart.html
> > 
> > and the link at the bottom of the page for "SMF System Administration Guide"
> > points to http://docs.sun.com/db/doc/817-1985/6mhm8o5n6?a=view  but for some
> > reason ive been getting this error when trying to access that page
> > 
> > "Not Found
> > The requested object does not exist on this server. The link you followed is
> > either outdated, inaccurate, or the server has been instructed not to let you
> > have it. Please inform the site administrator of the referring page."
> > 
> > Where can i find this document if its not on Suns site ?? 
> >
> 
> Unfortunately, links on docs.sun.com are not necessarily stable, so 
> BigAdmin is broken based on that.  The current link is:
> 
> http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-1985/6mhm8o5rh?a=view
> 
> But generally, if you go to docs.sun.com, pick Solaris 10, then pick 
> the System Administrator Collection, and search for what you're 
> looking for 
> (SMF, in this case), you'll get to what you need pretty quickly.
> 
> Dave
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From rivet at unknown.nu  Fri Mar  3 13:55:13 2006
From: rivet at unknown.nu (Eric Seale)
Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2006 12:55:13 -0600 (CST)
Subject: SUMMARY: Solaris 10 Update 1 (01/06) on PrimePower 
In-Reply-To: <4DDE67D1C2FAD64186B1300DE9BE838F013C5A66@wwmessm10>
References: <4DDE67D1C2FAD64186B1300DE9BE838F013C5A66@wwmessm10>
Message-ID: <20060303123524.V9452@jinx.unknown.nu>

thanks for all the email

Nobody suggested this but we copied fjulsa and fjulsa.conf in with the sun modules and now we can jumpstart

Tools/Boot/platform/sun4us/kernel/drv/sparcv9/fjulsa
Tools/Boot/platform/sun4us/kernel/drv/fjulsa.conf

5.10 Generic_118822-25 sun4us sparc FJSV,GPUZC-M

!This seems like a jumpstart bug!

btw - We love FJ boxes!
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From warren.liang at cox.net  Fri Mar  3 14:47:25 2006
From: warren.liang at cox.net (Warren Liang)
Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2006 14:47:25 -0500
Subject: SUMMARY:Create Solaris 10 SPARC jumpstart server from isos
Message-ID: <20060303195141.XWZU6244.fed1rmmtao11.cox.net@[172.18.180.8]>

Hello:

Thanks for many great responses. I like to post the one from Bernd:

Yes, but you must split the ISO images to mount the slices . You can use
http://home.arcor.de/bnsmb/public/htdocs/split_cdrom_isoimage.html
to split the ISO images.
Be aware that this only works on SPARC machines

Original posting:
I have download Solaris 10 SPARC iso files (total of 4 isos). Try to build a jumpstart server from those iso files. I first create devices for those 4 isos (# loftadm -a) and mount them; while executing /iso_mnt_point/Solaris_10/Tools/setup_install_server, it returns with error complaining:
/iso_mnt_point/Solaris_10/Tools/Boot does not exist.

Have a great weekend.

Warren
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From unix at sys-admin.biz  Sat Mar  4 06:32:07 2006
From: unix at sys-admin.biz (Alan)
Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2006 11:32:07 -0000
Subject: Summary Solaris 2.7 ibCstd.so.1: open failed: No such file or
	directory
Message-ID: <009601c63f7f$453b79c0$6300a8c0@amd64>

 This was answered very quickly by Casper Dik and dersmythe who both said that
I need two patches.
 106327-23 and 106300-24
I would like to point out that one of these does have a dependancy which makes
for three patches in all. Also if you go higher than the revision number than
those specified you will be required to reboot the system.

I still dont know why, despite several search engines and time on SunSolve I
was unable to find this for my self.

Also, thanks to Damien W. and Peter K for their useful advice.


 And finally no thanks to Jason.Shatzkamer at cexp.com
donaldphilpott at motorola.com Dietmar.Swoboda at HVBInfo.com for their out of
office replies.

Alan.
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From martini at mrpeabody.llnl.gov  Fri Mar  3 14:00:40 2006
From: martini at mrpeabody.llnl.gov (Dave Martini)
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2006 11:00:40 -0800
Subject: SUMMARY: Changing a users UID
Message-ID: <44089258.8080803@mrpeabody.llnl.gov>

Thanks for the replies looks like you have to byte the bullet on this one!

Run any of these commands to walk a dir tree and change UID.

find / -user <user id> -exec chown -h username {} \;
find / -user <old UID> -exec chown <new UID> {} \;


Below is my original question

Solaris 9 NIS+ need to change the UID for a bunch of users.
  From past experience I've had to change the UID on the NIS+ server then
walk the directory tree on all of my Solaris systems and find the
locations of all of the users files and do a chown. Is there an easier
way? Will also need to change a users username and in the past have had
to do that same as the UID which is a pain.

Thank You.

Dave Martini
LLNL
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From mweg at sympatico.ca  Sat Mar  4 11:39:40 2006
From: mweg at sympatico.ca (Marco Greene (ML))
Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2006 11:39:40 -0500
Subject: SUMMARY: 802.1q VLAN tagging (LATE SUMMARY)
Message-ID: <BAYC1-PASMTP05D0B87845759B52E3D977A9EB0@CEZ.ICE>

Well I originally posted this back in November of last year.  I haven't
posted a summary because until now I haven't been able to get it to work.
Mostly because I have to wait for maintenance windows and network resource
availability to get it to work.

I even opened a call with Sun and they concurred that I had it configured
properly.  

I was a few patch levels back so I tried adding them and it didn't work.

The problem turned out to be that one of the 5 switches didn't know about
the other two VLANs.  As soon as we added the other two vlans two the CISCO
switch using the vlan data command, everything started to work.

The original problem was that on Solaris 8 (E420R) using a CE gigabite MMF
card 802.1q wasn't working properly.

Thanks for all of the suggestions as they helped to narrow down possible
causes of this issue.

Regards,
Marco
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From steven.sim at faplccc.net  Mon Mar  6 11:47:22 2006
From: steven.sim at faplccc.net (Steven Sim)
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 00:47:22 +0800
Subject: cron shell scripts Summary
In-Reply-To: <20060306163016.GA13734@brwms.etsu.edu>
References: <440C5B09.90106@faplccc.net>
	<20060306163016.GA13734@brwms.etsu.edu>
Message-ID: <440C679A.3090607@faplccc.net>

Dear Bill R. Williams and Mr. Aaron Lineberger;

Thank you both for your swift replies.

I am fully aware of the Best Practice for shell scripts whereby the 
first line contains the she-bang shell definition e..g

#!<shell>

However, I had a very nasty experience last time whereby a KORN shell 
script I wrote (with the proper #!/usr/bin/ksh in the very first line) 
worked very well on the command line but completely failed in CRON.

However, when I added the /usr/bin/ksh <korn shell script> to the cron 
entry, it worked just fine.

This lead me to the incorrect conclusion that the CRON daemon simply 
does the equivalent of

sh <shell script>

which does NOT interpret the first she-bang (#!<shell>) line for 
executing shell scripts.

Mr. Bill R. Williams correctly pointed out that PERL scripts runs just 
fine and that alone should have told me that my conclusion was incorrect.

Ah well......it was a dum conclusion and I am sorry to have wasted your 
time!

Thanks once again for both of your replies!

Warmest Regards
Steven Sim

Bill R. Williams wrote:

>Hi Steven Sim,
>
>  
>
>>Am I mistaken??
>>    
>>
>Well... just a bit somewhere along the line. :-)
>
>Remember: cron can run a binary.  Or a perl script.
>Or pretty much whatever command you can enter when 'sh' is your shell;
>including some other shell.
>
>If you start your script with the standard '#!/PATH/SHELL' -- such as
>'#!/usr/bin/ksh' -- the script should be run with ksh.
>I have perl scripts in my (Solaris9) crontabs and they run under the
>indicated '#!/usr/bin/perl' interpreter.
>
>The things I have observed (first hand and/or from discussion lists)
>which seem to be the "gotchas" in a cron job are:
>
>*  The script or program runs fine on the command line, but when used
>   as a cron job it fails.  Usually a "can't find ..." type error.
>   The environment under cron is not the same as what the user has in
>   interactive mode especially the PATH.  (Note: 'at' is not the same
>   as cron because 'at' will snarf up the current environment when it
>   is invoked and feed it to the at-ed job.  Except for STDIN, STDOUT,
>   STDERR from/to the TTY it's almost the same as interactive.  Sorta.)
>
>*  A script is created without the "#!..." which uses ksh or bash
>   constructs because the user has whichever one as their shell.  They
>   schedule it into cron which will use its default interpreter: sh
>   Those ksh or bash enhancements will fail under plain ol' Bourne sh.
>
>
>Having said all that which you probably already knew...
>I see nothing wrong with specifying the interpreter (sh, bash, ksh)
>with its script.  Of course my eyes ain't what they used to be. :-)
>  
>




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From shah.bhavesh at gene.com  Mon Mar  6 14:29:08 2006
From: shah.bhavesh at gene.com (Bhavesh Shah)
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2006 11:29:08 -0800
Subject: SUMMARY: tftp and syslog server on Solaris 8
In-Reply-To: <440C7AF7.5030009@gene.com>
References: <440C7AF7.5030009@gene.com>
Message-ID: <440C8D84.1060403@gene.com>

Many Thanks to Darren Dunham, Paramasivam Meenakshisundaram, Matthew 
Stier and Ric Anderson...

The basic thing for tftp to work is:

the file which we are trying to upload/downlaod must already exist in the correct location,
and must be world writeable. We need to touch the file for tftp to work.


My original question was:

>Hi Gurus,
>I am trying to setup tftp and syslog server on Solaris 8.
>
>For tftp server i did following:
>
>1) uncomment the line tftp    dgram   udp6    wait    root    
>/usr/sbin/in.tftpd      in.tftpd -s /tftpboot
>2) created /tftpboot
>3) kill -HUP inetd
>
>It still doesn't start tftp daemon. So i stopped and started nfs.server 
>but no luck. When i try to transfer file to this tftp server i get an error
>"Error code 2: Access violation"
>Any idea why this happnes?
>
>For syslog server. I just need to install syslog-ng or i can setup 
>without syslog-ng software?
>Any working configuration file for syslog-ng will be of great help.
>Best regards
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From sebastien.daubigne at atosorigin.com  Tue Mar  7 04:31:45 2006
From: sebastien.daubigne at atosorigin.com (Sebastien DAUBIGNE)
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 10:31:45 +0100
Subject: SUMMARY : Updating a mirror metadevice size
In-Reply-To: <440C19A1.1090703@atosorigin.com>
References: <440C19A1.1090703@atosorigin.com>
Message-ID: <440D5301.1010001@atosorigin.com>

Thanks to Aaon, Petri, Mohammed, Rob, Darren, Jose.

Some suggested using growfs but the problem was on the metadevice mirror 
first (growfs comes after this).
Some suggested clearing/recreating the metadevice, but it was not an 
option because it can't be done online (unmountable filesystem).
Petri suggested to read nfodoc# 77190: "Grow Mirrored root under 
Disksuite 4.x or Solaris Volume Manager"  (but I have no Sun support 
contract to get acces to it).

Finally Rob and Darren provided the magic command :  "metattach d30".
This will tell SDS/SVM to just "reevaluate" its size according to 
underlying submirrors, and yes it worked, the mirror size has been updated.
Running "Metaroot" is not necessary.

Now for growing root filesystem online using growfs, Rob strongly 
recommended NOT to do it, because it CAN (although it not necessary 
WILL) hang the system .
I suppose it is due to the filesystem locking involved in the growing 
operation : maybe locking the root filesystem can prevent some critical 
system component to work.
As stated in growfs manpage : " The following conditions prevent  you  
from  expanding  file systems:  [...] When the file system is root (/), 
/usr, or swap. "

Well, best solution is to do it offline : This makes me think boot disk 
management and LVM integration is probably the biggest Solaris weakness 
(compared to AIX for instance that has early-boot and restore LVM native 
support).




Sebastien DAUBIGNE a icrit :
> Hi,
>
> I try to grow a root metadevice online.
> As I had contiguous space after root partition on the disk, I did the 
> following :
>
> 1. Detach and clear one submirror (metadetach/metaclear)
> 2. Grow the partition under the detached/cleared submirror (format)
> 3. Recreate and attach the bigger submirror (metainit/metattach)
> 4. Detach and clear the other submirror (metadetach/metaclear)
> 5. Grow the partition under the detached/cleared submirror (format)
> 6. Recreate and attach the submirror (metainit/metattach)
>
> Now I've planned to  :
>
> 7. Grow the root filesystem (growfs)
> 8. Update boot information (metaroot)
>
> Unfortunately, SDS did not update the mirror size : It kept the original 
> size although both subimmrors are bigger. So I'm unable to grow the root 
> filesystem.
> I though that the mirror size would be updated according to the smallest 
> submirror (in this case, both are identical and have a bigger size)
>
> Is there any way to update the mirror size online or should I consider 
> to reboot  ?
>
> Here is metastat output  (d30 is the root metadevice) :
>
> d30: Mirror
>     Submirror 0: d10
>       State: Okay
>     Submirror 1: d20
>       State: Okay
>     Pass: 1
>     Read option: roundrobin (default)
>     Write option: parallel (default)
>     Size: 2981448 blocks
>
> d10: Submirror of d30
>     State: Okay
>     Size: 10487070 blocks
>     Stripe 0:
>         Device              Start Block  Dbase State        Hot Spare
>         c1t0d0s0                   0     No    Okay
>
>
> d20: Submirror of d30
>     State: Okay
>     Size: 10487070 blocks
>     Stripe 0:
>         Device              Start Block  Dbase State        Hot Spare
>         c1t1d0s0                   0     No    Okay
>
>
> Thanks for help.
>
>   


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From sun_admin17 at rediffmail.com  Tue Mar  7 11:22:01 2006
From: sun_admin17 at rediffmail.com (Sun Admin)
Date: 7 Mar 2006 16:22:01 -0000
Subject: SUMMARY: Multiple problems while installing Solaris 10 (DVD
	downloaded)
Message-ID: <20060307162201.7615.qmail@webmail53.rediffmail.com>

Dear managers,

Yesterday, I asked about the multiple problems while
installing solaris10 from DVD downloaded media. I asked:

> I have a basic
question about Solaris 10 DVD media downloaded
> installation. I have
downloaded all the 5 image files available on Sun.com for
> installation of
Solaris 10. Then, I transferred these files on unix machine
> and gave the
following command:
>
> cat file1 file2 file3 file4 file5 > file.iso
> (This is
exactly what is given on Sun site). After doing file3, it gave error
> TOO BIG
file. I suppose that it may be because of file system large file
>
limilatation. Then I tried on windows box and given following command:
>
>
copy
> /b file1 + file2 + file3 + file4 + file5 > file.iso
>
> Now I
transferred this
> .iso file to the unix machine and tried to mount the iso
file using below
> command:
>
> #lofiadm -a
/jumpstart/install/solaris10_Media/file.iso /dev/lofi/5
> This time it gave
following error message:
>
> lofiadm: size of
>
/jumpstart/install/solaris10_Media/file.iso is not a multiple of 512
>
> Here
is
> the list of files. I am referring file1, file2... for the following
files:
> 02/23/2006  03:51p         619,723,079
sol-10-u1-ga-sparc-dvd-iso-a.zip
> 02/23/2006  04:05p         620,083,066
sol-10-u1-ga-sparc-dvd-iso-b.zip
> 02/23/2006  04:25p         620,826,829
sol-10-u1-ga-sparc-dvd-iso-c.zip
> 02/23/2006  04:26p         620,042,999
sol-10-u1-ga-sparc-dvd-iso-d.zip
> 02/23/2006  04:47p         617,880,088
sol-10-u1-ga-sparc-dvd-iso-e.zip
> 03/06/2006  11:05a       3,098,556,061
file.iso
>
> Not sure what wrong I am
> doing. Can anyone help me please?
Here is the solution for that:

1. I created a separate file system of 15 GB
with LARGE FILE support, which was not there in my previous file system.
2.
Then I transferred all the five .zip files downloaded from sun site and
unzipped those in that file system.
3. After unzipping, all files became .iso
files. 
4. Now, I did the following
cat file1 file2 file3 file4 file5 >
solaris10.iso
Here file1, file2... will be the names of original files.
This
iso file can be mounted as a filesystem with lofiadm command as follows:
#
lofiadm -a /jumpstart1/solaris10.iso   /dev/lofi/8
# mkdir
/jumpstart1/solaris10_Media
# mount -F hsfs -o ro /dev/lofi/8
/jumpstart1/solaris10_Media
# cd /jumpstart1/solaris10_Media

In this
directory/mount point, I am now able to see all the contents of a standard
solaris CD/DVD :-).

Special thanks to Andrew Watkins, Marcel Knol, Brad
Morrison, Bernd Schmmer, Darren Dauham, Paveza Gary, Mathew Stier and Scott
Lawson for helping/pointing me to the right direction.

Thanks to all those
who spent time on reading / sending replies to solve this problem :-)

Best
regards,
Sun Admin.
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From cas40 at bu.edu  Tue Mar  7 17:16:10 2006
From: cas40 at bu.edu (Christopher Singleton)
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 17:16:10 -0500
Subject: SUMMARY:  Moving from SB 150 to SB 2000/Hardware issue
Message-ID: <440E062A.7090305@bu.edu>

Greetings,


          Thanks for all the responses on moving from a SB150 to a 
SB2000.  My original question was:

Can you swap a hard drive from a Sun Blade 150 (SPARC IIi) and put it 
into a Sun Blade 2000 (SPARC III)?


The answer is NO.  The SB150 uses IDE disks, and the 2000 uses FC-AL 
disks, so they are incompatible.  I did get a few suggestions on the 
best way to migrate, though:

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------


However, the is an easy was to migrate.

Ensure you have SUNWsan packages installed.
Patch the SB150 to the hilt.

Create a FLAR of you SB150 to a disk that is separate from the actual 
system (NFS mounted are on another system) Ensure you get at least the OS.

Now setup the new SB1000/SB2000 by booting from CD/DVD
When the systen asks from whay you wish to load, state FLAR

 From here on, spec the partitioning etc.

Now start load

Have coffee/tea/soda

1 1 hr later, check & test - you should be done.

That's it.

Proceed to next system to migrate.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------


And another suggestion about jumpstarting:

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------


There are significant differences between the two systems and it's likely that there will be too much missing from your UltraIIbased install to suport the UltraIII.
 
How about building a jumpstart server on your 150 to load the new stuff?


-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

I'll be trying the FLAR so we'll see how that goes.  Thanks to Joe Fletcher, Scott Spencer, Matthew Stier, Casper Dik, Ian McGinley, David Markowitz and dersmythe at fastmail.fm.  Cheers,


						Chris
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From shazari at gmail.com  Tue Mar  7 22:58:03 2006
From: shazari at gmail.com (Shyam Hazari)
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 22:58:03 -0500
Subject: [summary] - EMC disks in Solaris 10 (X86)
Message-ID: <272b4fbb0603071958j7fd3083brc742e128d4e04ed5@mail.gmail.com>

Original Question :

Installed my 1st Solaris 10 host on a v20z and added to an EMC SAN. The
device names shows up as following.

c2t50060485C5ED9D53d0
c2t50060485C5ED9D53d1
etc..

These device names are weird. Any idea how to fix it ?

Thanx to Christopher McNabb,Mohammed Tanvir,Koef, Aaron Lineberger,Rainer
Heilke and Bob. I am including Bob's response which explains the reasons for
the weird device names.

*Bob <**wick at airmail.net* <wick at airmail.net>*> wrote:
Welcome to Ledville.  That's how the disks are named using the drivers from
Sun.  If you have Emulex cards you could rip out Ledville and load the LPFC
driver.  That would give you the names you are looking for.  I've gotten
used to these names by now.*

Thank you all

-Shyam
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From wick at airmail.net  Wed Mar  8 10:54:19 2006
From: wick at airmail.net (Bob)
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2006 09:54:19 -0600
Subject: SUMMARY - poprelayd on Solaris 10/X86
In-Reply-To: <20060307152956.M32752@airmail.net>
References: <20060307152956.M32752@airmail.net>
Message-ID: <20060308155037.M75929@airmail.net>

Well my problem wasn't Solaris-specific at all.  Sorry for taking up the
bandwidth.  My problem was with the poprelayd PERL script.  Seems the
scanaddr() subroutine needs to be tweaked for the log file format.  I did
that and everything is working as advertised.  If anyone needs the
scanaddr() mod for qpopper 4.0 let me know.

---------- Forwarded Message -----------
From: "Bob" <wick at airmail.net>
To: sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org
Sent: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 09:37:40 -0600
Subject: poprelayd on Solaris 10/X86

Well I'm at my wits-end trying to get this to work.  Is anyone
successfully running poprelayd on a Solaris 10 system?  I'm using the
built-in sendmail, qpopper v4.0.8 & poprelayd 1.5.  The poprelayd process
runs fine but it never updates the popip.db map.  When I run truss it
looks to be opening the log file and the map but never writes to it.
Even when I issue the poprelayd with the -a and add an IP manually it
never updates the map.  Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.
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From rami.aubourg at ifrance.Com  Thu Mar  9 08:36:35 2006
From: rami.aubourg at ifrance.Com (Rami Aubourg-kaires)
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 14:36:35 +0100
Subject: SUMMARY: Using other than Bourne shell for root on Solaris 10
In-Reply-To: <440FF748.7070701@ifrance.Com>
References: <440FF748.7070701@ifrance.Com>
Message-ID: <44102F63.1010906@ifrance.Com>

Hello, gurus,

Thank you to all who replied.

The global consensus seems to be that /sbin/sh is still statically
linked in Solaris 10, though some people suggested the contrary.
Which means that there would still be trouble if we had to boot in
single user mode or had to boot from CD for system recovery and/or /usr
was not accessible.

So, the safest way is to just type "ksh" or "bash" at the interactive
shell, or export SHELL and do an "exec ksh" or an "exec bash" in the
.profile of root.

John Julian suggested to check for the runlevel in the .profile, which
seems the safest solution for me.

RunLevel=`/bin/who -r | awk '{print $3}'`
if [ $RunLevel -eq 3 ] && [ -x /bin/ksh ]
then
  if [ ! "$DT" ]
  then
    SHELL=/bin/ksh
    export SHELL
    exec /bin/ksh
  else
    SHELL=/bin/ksh
    export SHELL
  fi
fi

Rami
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From rami.aubourg at ifrance.Com  Thu Mar  9 08:46:22 2006
From: rami.aubourg at ifrance.Com (Rami Aubourg-kaires)
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 14:46:22 +0100
Subject: Follow-up to SUMMARY: Using other than Bourne shell for root on
	Solaris 10
In-Reply-To: <440FF748.7070701@ifrance.Com>
References: <440FF748.7070701@ifrance.Com>
Message-ID: <441031AE.2000601@ifrance.Com>

I said that on Solaris 10, /sbin/sh was still statically linked.

I'm wondering:

On a Solaris 9 machine:
# ldd /sbin/sh
ldd: /sbin/sh: file is not a dynamic executable or shared object
# ldd /usr/bin/bash
        libcurses.so.1 =>        /usr/lib/libcurses.so.1
        libsocket.so.1 =>        /usr/lib/libsocket.so.1
        libnsl.so.1 =>   /usr/lib/libnsl.so.1
        libdl.so.1 =>    /usr/lib/libdl.so.1
        libc.so.1 =>     /usr/lib/libc.so.1
        libmp.so.2 =>    /usr/lib/libmp.so.2
        /usr/platform/SUNW,Sun-Fire-V210/lib/libc_psr.so.1

I just got my hands on a Solaris 10 machine:

# ldd /sbin/sh
        libgen.so.1 =>   /lib/libgen.so.1
        libsecdb.so.1 =>         /lib/libsecdb.so.1
        libc.so.1 =>     /lib/libc.so.1
        libnsl.so.1 =>   /lib/libnsl.so.1
        libcmd.so.1 =>   /lib/libcmd.so.1
        libmp.so.2 =>    /lib/libmp.so.2
        libmd5.so.1 =>   /lib/libmd5.so.1
        libscf.so.1 =>   /lib/libscf.so.1
        libdoor.so.1 =>  /lib/libdoor.so.1
        libuutil.so.1 =>         /lib/libuutil.so.1
        libm.so.2 =>     /lib/libm.so.2
# ldd /usr/bin/bash
        libcurses.so.1 =>        /lib/libcurses.so.1
        libsocket.so.1 =>        /lib/libsocket.so.1
        libnsl.so.1 =>   /lib/libnsl.so.1
        libdl.so.1 =>    /lib/libdl.so.1
        libc.so.1 =>     /lib/libc.so.1
        libmp.so.2 =>    /lib/libmp.so.2
        libmd5.so.1 =>   /lib/libmd5.so.1
        libscf.so.1 =>   /lib/libscf.so.1
        libdoor.so.1 =>  /lib/libdoor.so.1
        libuutil.so.1 =>         /lib/libuutil.so.1
        libm.so.2 =>     /lib/libm.so.2


So, it seems that /sbin/sh is now dynamically linked.

Though the safest would still be to put the shell into .profile, I guess.
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From netcomrade at bookexchange.net  Thu Mar  9 14:48:40 2006
From: netcomrade at bookexchange.net (NetComrade)
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 14:48:40 -0500 (EST)
Subject: SUMMARY: moving racks of equipment from datacenter A to datacenter B
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0603091239410.7095-100000@karlson.dmitriev.net>

All,

So our move has happenned between Feb 23rd and Feb 24th. It didn't go that
smoothly. It was supposed to start at 12am and be finished by 8am. We were
partially up by 2pm, fully operational by 4pm, and still had some
backend/local network issues to work out that lasted for another day
(after we got some sleep)

The plan was to start backups at midnight of databases, the rest was
easily recoverable from other sources. While backups were occurring some
of the equipment was to be shutdown and packed and 'vanned'. At
about 1:30 the rest of the equipment was to be packed. At 4:30 in the
morning we were supposed to be at the other datacenter to start brining
things up in a certain order, so that all services would be up.

At 5am we were already running about an hour late, which wasn't really
that big of a deal, until the loading dock slammed my finger, split it
wide open and crushed a bone. We called for backup (another guy, there
were 4 of us packing servers) and I went to the hospital. At 8am I was
getting out of cab and arriving at the new datacenter. The 'core' (main
web site) boxes were coming up as per plan.. the database server was not
nearly being brought up yet.

For the person recommending a van instead of a truck: you kinda caused me
an injury and caused us an extra 30-60 mins of moving equipment. We
could've just rolled in wood pellets into the truck. To be fair, we didn't
know wood pelets were available, nor did I inspect the loading dock
enough.

Other things that went wrong, and delays they caused:

The datacenter contract was only ready at the end of Dec (mine/vendor
fault), mgt added another 2.5 weeks of 'chewing' over it. This caused
precious time, and hasn't allowed us to bring more of the new boxes
'online' and into production mode prior to the move, which added about 3
hours for moving 'extra' boxes, which included the e450, whose bolts we
had to drill out of the rack to get it out.

The injury caused about 1-1.5hr delay

Our Managed Hosting partner in DC did not properly pre-cable all racks,
which caused us a major headache with the network setup of a few dell
boxes that were plugged into the network early (8am) but weren't fully
operational until 4pm. This also added at least 1-2hrs for cabling.

Damn dell and/or redhat. The boxes from OS looked like they had 2 network
cards plumbed, while in reality only 1 (eth0) was plugged in, and either
dell or redhat was doing some kind of weird redirection in the background.
This took us a while to figure out, and was caused by poor pre-networking
of the racks, as well as an oversight on the network diagrams/poor
documentation. The solution was to unplug the second network card. This
caused a good 8hr delay on these boxes, and intereferred with setting up
the rest.

The equipment lease was also signed late, only Jan 30th, this has also
delayed things up significantly (we had to rush things, and didn't have
enough time to test and/or configure additional equipment).

The amount of time it would take to disassemble and re-assemble EMC was
underestimated.

Last problem was the datacenter that took over a month if giving us a feed
into the racks, and in the end didn't give us an appropriate one (100M
instead of gigE). This gave us network and IPs only a day prior to the
move, which as you can imagine limited our testing and gave us a lot to do
in the last day, which limited my ability to check (e.g. wiring) that
everything was in place.

Unfortunately the move could not have been postponed, since our datacenter
was going out of business and gave us a firm 'get-out' date.

Only one thing broke during the move: a disk in the e450, which was a
mirror of the root disk, and which consequently took us a while to bring
up (it would refuse to boot until we removed the disk).

Due to all circumstances, I think the move went OK. There were a few
under-deliverances and oversights by all stakeholders including myself
which if didn't happen, could've kept the move within or very close to
deadlines.

-Andrey

  


Tips for 'pre-move' activities from various Sun Managers:

>From Stuart:

TIP before you shutdown anything take a full ufsdump to a third server.
Plus, if you need to re-IP your servers quickest way is to run
sys-unconfig before shutdown.

Also healthcheck the servers beforehand i.e. disks corrected memory errors
[even run explorers and send them off to sun].

Get sun to have spares on-site just in case

form a team just for this move based on the following skills

networks
cable management
power management
space planning
unix admin's
storage guru's


>From Stuart:
You may also want to consider pre-building the network and san.


>From David:

Almost any commercial moving firm (Mayflower, Allied Van, Kloke, etc.)
has a section that specializes in moving electronics equipment.

I'd check the yellow pages, contact at least three and get bids, along
with their sales pitch on how they would do it.

Northrop Grumman does a lot of IT service work, which probably includes
moving support.

from ian:

I would be staying away from the rags/blankets/boxes idea as much as
possible. If you are fortunate enough to own the racks that these items
are located in, and
the racks are portable (eg Sun Rack 900, or Sun StorEdge Expansion
Cabinet) then I would leave the systems racked.

Make sure you follow a reasonable process of bringing the servers down,
let them climatise to the 'switched off environement' (eg 15 minutes when
the OS off - ok
prompt - but fans running, then turn off and let sit for a further 30
minutes to 1 hour), then the common thing is to wrap the servers in the
rack in plastic wrap
to avoid rain damage. Transporting the systems in the racks is the best
option.

Once you are at the new site, you should leave the systems in place for 12
- 24 hours before power up. Let them climatise to the new environment,
which will
involve graduate temperature and humidity climatisation. Once this period
is over you would then be safe to run these up in full diag mode, log the
output for
errors, and then bring up the OS into Single User mode - sanity check
everything, and then bring it all the way up.

I have done this many times, and the only failures i've had were 2 disks
in two seperate E450's.

I guess it depends on the age of the disk array, but you shouldn't have
too much of a problem - make sure you have a full backup of every system
(or two) and
depending on how paranoid you are, transport these seperately to the
moving servers.

>From Lajber:

Our supplier sent cx700 with a standar 7.5t truck. In first two month, we
changed one storage proc, and four disk.

The heavy-duty truck suspension is tuned to spring under sever-ton load.
If the equipment less than this, there no real spring -> lot of
acceleration hit the sensitive parts. And they not designed like a laptop
hdd.

I suggest you to use a van or a pickup with some cover better
suited for this.

Or put everithing in paper boxes with lot of acceleration-absorbing thing
(foam, etc).

(my original Ms.C. is mech. engineer, specialized on  vehicles :)



There were a couple of 'professional movers' recommendations:

http://www.maintech.com
http://www.sun.com/service/sunmoves/
www.officemovers.com


Some advice on 'sun' (link above)
If money is no object, "Sun Moves" (Sun itself) will do the move, and
the nifty thing is, you get 2-4 hours parts delivery onsite onsite if
they break anything!



Original post:
We've been forced to move from one datacenter to another, due to
datacenter's closure. (for those curious, Intel/Savvis in DC area)

The datacenter we are moving to is actually nearby, within 10 miles or so.

We have used this opportunity to refresh some of our equipment, so about
half the equipment is going to stay behind. Still, some (rather
heavy) servers are going to come with us. They include 1xe450, a pair of
e250's, 3 or 4 e420's, 3 v40z'a, D1000 and an EMC CX500.

Right now the plan is to get some uhaul truck, lots of
rags/blankets/boxes, and just hope for the best. My main worry is the disk
array.

Can anyone recommend anything (including some specialized movers that'd do
it at night). We are in the DC Dulles airport area.

Thanks,
Andrey
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From Nick at Pettefar.com  Thu Mar  9 19:09:19 2006
From: Nick at Pettefar.com (Nick Pettefar)
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 00:09:19 +0000
Subject: SUMMARY: SATA on Ultra-10 - info found so far...
Message-ID: <d66f46780603091609j18340e89j@mail.gmail.com>

I had a number of replies to my question, unfortunately most of them
were about using USB or else told me that it was impossible.

I have found a company making a SAS controller (Serial Attached SCSI)
card that also allows SATA (Serial-ATA) drives to be used and has
Solaris SPARC drivers: LSI Logic.
They say: "The SAS3442X, PCI-X, 8-port 3Gb/s Serial Attached SCSI
(SAS) HBA has 4 internal and 4 external ports and can be connected
directly to 8 SAS and/or SATA hard disk drives. Each port delivers up
to 300 MB/s bandwidth (600 MB/s full duplex) for a combined throughput
of as much as 2.4 GB/s (4.8 GB/s full duplex)"

Best price I could find on the net was $300 unfortunately, but this
still makes the complete solution much cheaper than SCSI and is much
faster than USB.  2 x 250GB SATA drives is about $300, making the
whole project about #600.  Cheapest big SCSI drive I could find is a
refurbished Maxtor 300GB for $495 + postage from
discountechnology.com.

There is another company making SATA solutions for SPARC Solaris
machines: Sun!  Their new Ultra-45 workstation uses two 250GB SATA
drives.  Also the Sun Fire T1000.  I guess they know how to make it
work - I wonder who's controllers they use.  Anybody?

I'm still not sure about setting up a mirror using SATA drives.  One
person said it wouldn't work and yet I see various references to this
on the 'net.  Anybody?

Nick

On 28/02/06, Nick Pettefar <Nick at pettefar.com> wrote:
> We have a small web/file server which is running out of data disk
> space (it will soon need to store more than the mirrored 120 GB IDE
> discs I fitted can hold).  The machine is performing admirably and I
> don't want to change it unnecessarily.  It is running the latest
> Solaris 10.  I have been putting off this upgrade but now it is
> becoming critical!
>
> Is it possible to fit a SATA PCI controller card and use SVM to make a
> mirror of two 250 GB SATA drives?  This would keep us going for a
> couple more years at least.  Have any of you any experience of such a
> set-up?
>
> Regards,
>
> Nick
> --
> Nick at Pettefar.com   DoD 1069   MAG 73516   ZZR11  R90s  VFR750
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From michael_warnock at vanguard.com  Fri Mar 10 09:50:00 2006
From: michael_warnock at vanguard.com (michael_warnock at vanguard.com)
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 09:50:00 -0500
Subject: SUMMARY: Dynamic disk allocation
In-Reply-To: <OF10C9A0D6.628B6F17-ON8525712C.006B0E3F-8525712C.006E2C84@LocalDomain>
Message-ID: <OF1B492A83.34A6D529-ON8525712D.005124AA-8525712D.00517BC6@vanguard.com>

Thank you to all who responded. 
I did not have a chance to "try" all recommendations. 

Here was the solution.  This was supplied by Richard Rimbach.  Thank you 
Richard!

Here's a quick note I have on Leadville Stack
 
That Leadville stack note. No sd.conf or lpfc.conf to worry about..
1. Zone HBAs-SPs
2. Add Host to Storage Group
3. Run devfsadm -v  (may not be necessary)
4. Run cfgadm -al    will list the Controller numbers being used, looks 
like:
                   c1:
                   c2: 5006061100345f   unconfigured unknown
                   c3: 500606A100345f   unconfigured unknown
                   c4:
5. Run cfgadm -c configure c2 c3  will scan and configure devices on the 
contollers
6. Run powercf -q; powermt config; powermt display....Done Deal..

Michael Warnock
UTS/x38031
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From marquis at roble.com  Fri Mar 10 14:47:55 2006
From: marquis at roble.com (Roger Marquis)
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 11:47:55 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Subject: SUMMARY: Using other than Bourne shell for root on Solaris 10
In-Reply-To: <mailman.6193.1142018345.13656.summaries@sunmanagers.org>
References: <mailman.6193.1142018345.13656.summaries@sunmanagers.org>
Message-ID: <20060310113955.K34969@roble.com>

Rami Aubourg-kaires wrote:
> So, the safest way is to just type "ksh" or "bash" at the interactive
> shell, or export SHELL and do an "exec ksh" or an "exec bash" in the
> .profile of root.

That's one way, though not necessarily the best way.  If it encourages
partitioning /usr then it is a case of two wrongs...  Whether statically
linked or not does not really matter as you can still boot another shell,
after deleting /bin/sh.  The Solaris root shell FAQ was written long ago
to address these issues and many others:

  http://www.roble.com/docs/sol_root_shell.html

-- 
Roger Marquis
Roble Systems Consulting
http://www.roble.com/


From glowe at sbcglobal.net  Fri Mar 10 15:04:49 2006
From: glowe at sbcglobal.net (Grant Lowe)
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 12:04:49 -0800 (PST)
Subject: SUMMARY: passwd file
Message-ID: <20060310200449.26116.qmail@web81802.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Lots of people responded.  Too many to thank personally.  Many people suggested checking the startup scripts, running pwconv, and other things.  The answer came from adh at an.bradford.ma.us  He said:
   
  sync the disk to force a write?
   
  I did that it worked.  The system is up and running.  Thanks again everybody!
   
  Original message:
  I have a 220R running Solaris 8 that is behaving really weird.
Basically when it comes up normally, it says "missing or bad passwd
entry for <root>'.  So I boot from cdrom into single-user mode. I
have to run fsck. Mount the volume.  There is no passwd file.  So I
copy one from a near identical machine and edit the file to make sure
it matches the shadow file.  Fine.  fsck the other volumes.  fsck
finishes. I do it a few more times for paranoia's sake, especially /.
It comes back clean.  So I reboot.  The cycle repeats.  I can't log
in as root since there is no root user.  Any ideas on what to do,
short of rebuilding the box?  Any help is greatly appreciated!
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From tjhoo at hotmail.com  Sat Mar 11 07:24:40 2006
From: tjhoo at hotmail.com (T.J. Hoo)
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 20:24:40 +0800
Subject: SUMMARY: Submirror needs maintenance
In-Reply-To: <BAY22-F14FDB35E9125AE98BE2C4DB9E20@phx.gbl>
Message-ID: <BAY22-F12A2F991A12AF660E21505B9E20@phx.gbl>

Detach and attach the submirror.

Example:

metadetach -s sogds -f sogds/d160 sogds/d162
metattach -s sogds sogds/d160 sogds/d162

>From: "T.J. Hoo" <tjhoo at hotmail.com>
>To: sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org
>Subject: Submirror needs maintenance
>Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 17:28:10 +0800
>
>Hi!
>
>I have a Sun Cluster 3.1 configured for Solaris 9 (12/03).
>The cluster has a Sun StorEdge 3510 array diskset.
>
>The metastat shows that there is a submirror needs maintenance:
>
>sogds/d160: Mirror
>    Submirror 0: sogds/d161
>      State: Okay
>    Submirror 1: sogds/d162
>      State: Needs maintenance
>    Pass: 1
>    Read option: roundrobin (default)
>    Write option: parallel (default)
>    Size: 209694720 blocks (99 GB)
>
>sogds/d161: Submirror of sogds/d160
>    State: Okay
>    Size: 209694720 blocks (99 GB)
>    Stripe 0:
>        Device   Start Block  Dbase        State Reloc Hot Spare
>        d6s0            0     No            Okay   No
>
>
>sogds/d162: Submirror of sogds/d160
>    State: Needs maintenance
>    Invoke: metareplace sogds/d160 d7s0 <new device>
>    Size: 209694720 blocks (99 GB)
>    Stripe 0:
>        Device   Start Block  Dbase        State Reloc Hot Spare
>        d7s0            0     No     Maintenance   No
>
>
>It said that I should invoke the command metareplace to replace it with a
>new <new device>.
>But how do I know what are the devices available?
>
>I also tried to enable the slice by entering the following command,
>
># metareplace -s sogds -e sogds/d160 d7s0
>metareplace: emanode-a: d7s0: No such file or directory
>
>Do you what could be the problem?
>
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From dinisco at gmail.com  Mon Mar 13 15:18:30 2006
From: dinisco at gmail.com (jeff dinisco)
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 15:18:30 -0500
Subject: Summary: jumpstart nfs issue
Message-ID: <ae5d22500603131218m257c3fffgcca97e311b43fdc4@mail.gmail.com>

Thanks for all the replies.  Figured it out w/ the help of some responses,
the archives, google, and some trial and error.

My goal was to jumpstart a solaris 10 client using a FC4 (linux) server.  I
followed these instructions...

http://www.docbert.org/Solaris/Jumpstart/linux.html

what's not in the instructions...

You have to create separate boot and install dirs.  Linux nfs doesn't allow
mounting beneath an already mounted dir.  So /etc/bootparams ends up looking
like this...
client_name root=server_name:/jump/sol10_0106_boot
install=jumper:/jump/sol10_0106 boottype=:in

and /etc/exports like this...
/jump/sol10_0106 *(ro,no_root_squash)
/jump/sol10_0106_boot *(ro,no_root_squash)

I couldn't get inetboot taken from solaris 10 to tftp boot so I grabbed a
solaris 9 one and it worked.

I also ran into some nfsv4 issues on the linux server.  The solution was to
set NFS_CLIENT_VERSMAX=3 in /jump/sol10_0106_boot/etc/default/nfs (my boot
dir).  That seemed to do the trick.
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From mrb at bmyster.com  Mon Mar 13 16:55:22 2006
From: mrb at bmyster.com (Brent)
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 16:55:22 -0500
Subject: SUMMARY: Solaris 9 as a router
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.4.64.0603131101260.15032@marrakesh>
References: <20060313175207.M1497@bmyster.com>
	<Pine.SOL.4.64.0603131101260.15032@marrakesh>
Message-ID: <20060313215333.M8196@bmyster.com>

I recieved the following from Rich Teer:

Put the IP address or hostname of each interface in a separate
/etc/honstname.<interface> file, make sure you don't have a filke
called /etc/notrouter, and start the interfaces using ifconfig (or
reboot if you prefer).

-- 
Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member

President,
Rite Online Inc. 

--
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From: Rich Teer <rich.teer at rite-group.com>
To: Brent <mrb at bmyster.com>
Sent: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 11:03:09 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Re: Solaris 9 as a router

> On Mon, 13 Mar 2006, Brent wrote:
> 
> > I know by default Solaris 9 (if you have to NICs) will do routing. However I
> > have never done this on a Solaris box befor and I was wondering are there any
> > DOCS or howtos on makeing a Solaris 9 box a router?
> 
> Put the IP address or hostname of each interface in a separate
> /etc/honstname.<interface> file, make sure you don't have a filke
> called /etc/notrouter, and start the interfaces using ifconfig (or
> reboot if you prefer).
> 
> -- 
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> 
> President,
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> 
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From carolyn at cs.usna.edu  Mon Mar 13 14:22:22 2006
From: carolyn at cs.usna.edu (Carolyn Mayr {ITSD/CS})
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 14:22:22 -0500 (EST)
Subject: SUMMARY: Re: DAT 72 tape drive (hits end of tape) -- REVISITING
Message-ID: <200603131922.k2DJMMjG014822@rattler.cs.usna.edu>

Thanks to the following sunmanagers for their help:

adh at an.bradford.ma.us (Sandwich Maker)
andrew.crichton at accenture.com
Bill R. Williams" <brw at etsu.edu

Bill Williams had the solution which required adding the "b" option for
blocking factor 512.  I tried using the following command and it completed
a full dump of 41.48GB without hitting the end of tape!  Thank you Bill.
Bill had quite a detailed summary which I will place here because it
contains such useful information.  

				Carolyn Mayr
				
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------------- Begin Forwarded Message -------------
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 13:40:54 -0500
From: "Bill R. Williams" <brw at etsu.edu>
To: Carolyn Mayr {ITSD/CS} <carolyn at cs.usna.edu>
Subject: Re: DAT 72 tape drive (hits end of tape) -- REVISITING

On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 11:45:16AM -0500, Carolyn Mayr {ITSD/CS} wrote:
> Thank you.  I am trying the bigger block size:
> 
> /usr/sbin/ufsdump 0ubf 512 /dev/rmt/1cn /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s0
> 
> Since I am specifying a block size argument in ufsdump,  do I have
> to specify it when I do a ufsrestore as in:
> 
> ufsrestore -ifb 512 /dev/rmt/1cn 

Yes, but remember the the ufs-dump/restore utilities are a bit
different the the others in that:
1. Their options (ifb) do not start with the dash(-)!
2. The options are specified all together and then the option values
   are specified *in the order* of the options!
Which means that the correct form is:
  ufsrestore ibf 512 /dev/rmt/1cn 
where 
   i: interactive (is that what you really mean?)
      i takes no value, so there's no matching argument
   b: means blocking factor will be specified
   f: means read from the specified file/device
and the values for those options requiring a value (b,f) come next
IN ORDER:
   512 -- for the 'b'
   /dev/rmt/1cn -- for the 'f'

Most commonly you would see either  e[x]tract, [r]ecursive restore, or
[t]able of contents.  You could list the files on your tape with:
  ufsrestore tbf 512 /dev/rmt/1cn 

BTW: the reason you have to specify the blocksize on ufsrestore or
whatever else you read the tape with is mainly so that the utility can
know how much memory to allocate for buffer!

Biggie Tip:  ALWAYS know the blocking factor of your backup tapes!
Once you establish what you want to use as your standard: 
*  Be consistant - stick with the same blocksize for all your tape
   I/O.  Easier to remember!
*  Indicate in your tape logs, docs, etc. what blocksize is used.
*  Indicate on the physical tape labels the utility which created the
   tape and, of course the blocksize.
Yes, you can figure out what the blocksize is as we have seen using
the 'dd' utility.  BUT, if it's a backup tape and your only system
which can read the tape is the one being recovered the guessing game
can get real tedious really quickly.


> I appreciate your help.  I will let you know what happens with
> the ufsdump results.
> 				Carolyn Mayr

You're welcome!
-- 
 ---------------------------------------------
 Bill R. Williams               <brw at etsu.edu>
 ------------------------ ETSU Library Systems


> ------------- Begin Forwarded Message -------------
> Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 11:23:43 -0500
> From: "Bill R. Williams" <brw at etsu.edu>
> To: Carolyn Mayr {ITSD/CS} <carolyn at cs.usna.edu>
> Subject: Re: DAT 72 tape drive (hits end of tape) -- REVISITING
> 
> Lemme see what we have here...
> 
> On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 09:49:20AM -0500, Carolyn Mayr {ITSD/CS} wrote:
> > I ran:
> > dd if=/dev/rmt/1mn of=/tmp/tape.block count=1 bs=512k
> > 
> > and the file created is:
> > 
> > -rw-r--r--   1 root     other      32768 Mar 13 09:43 tape.block
> 
> This tells me that you are (by default) writing 32KB tape blocks.
> 
> According to my "man ufsdump", the [b]locksize is specified as the
> number of 512-byte blocks -- two of them make 1K.
> Looking at the results of your 'dd' above, the default blocksize being
> written to your tape is 32768 which is 32KB which is 64*512.  So your
> original command:
> > /usr/sbin/ufsdump 0uf /dev/rmt/1cn /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s0
> is equivalent to:
>   /usr/sbin/ufsdump 0ubf 64 /dev/rmt/1cn /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s0
> because you are actually (by default) writing 32KB blocks which is 64*512.
> 
> > So should I used this ufsdump line based on the above or should I
> > change the 256?  I'm not sure how to do the math:
> 
> The above shows what you are currently writing.  What you want to do
> is write great-big-ol blocks to see if you can fit your data on the
> tape.  If it were me I would go ahead and try the 128KB blocks
> (256*512) as in, YES try this:
> > # /usr/sbin/ufsdump 0ubf 256 /dev/rmt/1cn /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s0
> 
> If you want to experiment you can go ahead and try to write an even
> BIGGER block -- say a 256KB which is 512*512 which is like this:
>   # /usr/sbin/ufsdump 0ubf 512 /dev/rmt/1cn /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s0
> 
> BTW: If I remember the '1cn' indicates drive=1 compress no-rewind.
> (My drive has a different set of device specifiers.)
> BE SURE to rewind before you do any of the ufsdump, dd, cpio, etc.
> things!  :-)
> 
> Anyway, experiment and see how it goes.  
> * The argument associated with the ufsdump [b]locksize is always twice
>   the size of the number of KB your want to write.
> * The whole point is to write fewer blocks onto the tape; each tape
>   block has the InterRecordGap which is wasted space.
> 
> After you write your tape, rewind and use the 'dd' to be sure that you
> are getting the blocksize you specified.
> 
>  ---------------------------------------------
>  Bill R. Williams               <brw at etsu.edu>
>  ------------------------ ETSU Library Systems
> 
>
> > ------------- Begin Forwarded Message -------------
> > Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 09:36:44 -0500
> > From: "Bill R. Williams" <brw at etsu.edu>
> > To: Carolyn Mayr {ITSD/CS} <carolyn at cs.usna.edu>
> > Subject: Re: DAT 72 tape drive (hits end of tape) -- REVISITING
> > 
> > Hi Carolyn,
> > 
> > Something which *may* be useful and is "old school" to the very
> > beginning of tape drives in which the tapes were made of stone ...
> > 
> > No, seriously.  Here is my personal (opinion) rule for using tape
> > devices:  
> > 	Always write the biggest block the device will allow!
> > Sub-rule:
> > 	Always set your tape device so that the software can control
> > 	the blocksize.  (Usually indicated by the device having BLKSIZE 0.)
> > 
> > It makes a tremendous difference!  The reason is that every block is a
> > "physical" entity on the tape, and the default blocking factor for
> > 'ufsdump'is 10K.  There is an Inter Record Gap (IRG) which consumes
> > some physical tape length between the blocks; therefore, the more
> > blocks you write the more IRGs you have and the more linear tape you
> > use.  Or to put it simply:
> > 	100 blocks at 100K takes up much less tape than 1000 blocks of
> > 	10K.  MUCH LESS.
> > 
> > I get the impression that most newer tape devices can handle blocks of
> > at least 64K, probably 128K, possibly 256K, maybe even more.  Any of
> > those is preferred over the default 10K.
> > If we pretend that your tape drive will handle 64K blocks I would
> > suggest you use this:
> > 	 /usr/sbin/ufsdump 0ubf 128 /dev/rmt/1cn /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s0
> > where the [b]locking factor of 128 (* 512) == 64K.
> > Actually, I recommend that you go ahead and try for 128K blocks:
> > 	 /usr/sbin/ufsdump 0ubf 256 /dev/rmt/1cn /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s0
> > I expect that your tape drive will let you know immediatly if it can't
> > handle that size block.  If it can: WHoopeeee!
> > 
> > IMPORTANT Safety Tip:
> > 	Be SURE that you lable and/or log the blocksize used to write
> > 	your tapes!  You will need to specify it when reading the tape
> > 	so the utility will know how big a buffer to allocate for a
> > 	tape read.
> > 
> > HINT:
> > 	You can find out the blocksize of a tape by copying the first
> > 	block to a disk and looking at its size.  Like this:
> > 		dd if=YOURTAPEDEVICE of=/tmp/tape.block count=1 bs=512k
> > 		dd if=/dev/rmt/1cn of=/tmp/tape.block count=1 bs=512k
> > 	
> > 	The 'bs=' is specified so that 'dd' will know how much buffer
> > 	to allocate , and the 'bs=512' presumes that the block will
> > 	not be bigger than 512K -- if you discover that your tape will
> > 	write a bigger block, then just use that. 
> > 
> > 	Anyway, after the 'dd' the /tmp/tape.block will be the size of
> > 	the (current) physical tape block.
> > 
> > I suspect that using a big blocksize will solve your problem.
> > (I'd be interested to know if it does.)
> > 
> > Of course there is a finite limit.  No matter how big the blocksize or
> > how much the tape drive compresses, you can only get so much data on
> > there. :-)
> >  ---------------------------------------------
> >  Bill R. Williams               <brw at etsu.edu>
> >  ------------------------ ETSU Library Systems
> > 

ORIGINAL MESSAGE:

> > On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 07:12:49AM -0500, Carolyn Mayr {ITSD/CS} wrote:
> > > Hello everyone,
> > > 
> > > I have a SunFire V480 (Solaris 9) with a Sun StorEdge DAT 72 tape drive.
> > > I am using DAT-72 (36GB/72GB) tapes.
> > > 
> > > My dump parameters are "1cn" based on a previous sunmanagers
> > > inquiry.  Here's my dump parameters:
> > > 
> > > /usr/sbin/ufsdump 0uf /dev/rmt/1cn /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s0
> > > 
> > > But now it is hitting the end of tape around 41GB.  Is there anything
> > > I can do to compress it to fit more data on the tape?  I've been 
> > > searching archives and man pages and can't find anything.  Thank you
> > > and I will summarize.
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From doug at trackmaster.com  Mon Mar 13 20:00:44 2006
From: doug at trackmaster.com (Doug Hubbard)
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 17:00:44 -0800
Subject: Help with a T3 disk array SUMMARY
In-Reply-To: <1142296123.5575.86.camel@brolly>
References: <44160BD4.8000106@trackmaster.com>
	<1142296123.5575.86.camel@brolly>
Message-ID: <441615BC.9060607@trackmaster.com>

I love this list.
Thanks a million to Duval Warren for the following (which fixed the 
issue right away).
I thought I had already reset the batteries, but obviously all of the 
steps below are important.

Duval Warren wrote:
> Hey Doug,
> Try this:
> 1# id read u1pcu[1|2]
>
> 2# .bat -n u1pcu[1|2] 
>  This will zero out  the 'Battery Warranty Date' 
> field and set the 'Battery Install Week' based on the T3 date setting.
> It also will zero out the 'Battery Internal Flag'
> if it was set to 1, indicating low battery.
>
> 3# .id write busage u(x)pcu(y) 0 "
>  This will calculate the'Battery Warranty Date' and 'Battery Life Used'
>  This can be verified by typing "id read u(x)pcu(y)".
>
> Good luck,
> Duval
> If the unit is running 3.x firmware then go to this link instead
> http://sunsolve.central.sun.com/cgi/retrieve.pl?doc=intinfodoc%2F75344&zone_32=T3%203.x%20battery 
>
> On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 18:18, Doug Hubbard wrote:
>   
>> Hello group,
>> I have an issue with a T3 disk array.
>> The array came in with old batteries and my vendor then shipped me 
>> replacement power supplies with new batteries in them. The Power 
>> supplies have been replaced and now refresh -s shows:
>>
>> No battery refreshing Task is currently running.
>>
>>                         PCU1 PCU2
>> -----------------------------------------------------------------
>> U1 Normal SHELF LIFE EXPIRED
>> U2 Normal SHELF LIFE EXPIRED
>>
>> I have tried resetting the Battery warranty date on both units (both 
>> were replaced) but that did not help.
>> .id read u1pcu1 and .id read u1pcu2 give me the following
>>
>> output from
>> .id read u1pcu1
>> Revision             : 0000
>> Mar 13 13:52:43 ISR1[1]: N: u1d7 sid 43712 stype 2024 disk error 3
>> Manufacture Week     : 00182001
>> Battery Install Week : 00502003
>> Battery Life Used    :   0 days, 2 hours
>> Battery Life Span    : 730 days, 12 hours
>> Serial Number        : 049875
>> Battery Warranty Date: 20060313105900
>> Battery Internal Flag: 0x00000000
>> Vendor ID            : TECTROL-CAN
>> Model ID             : 300-1454-04(50)
>>
>> and from
>> .id read u1pcu2
>> Revision             : 0000
>> Manufacture Week     : 00292001
>> Battery Install Week : 00502003
>> Battery Life Used    :   0 days, 2 hours
>> Battery Life Span    : 730 days, 12 hours
>> Serial Number        : 063068
>> Battery Warranty Date: 20060313105909
>> Battery Internal Flag: 0x00000000
>> Vendor ID            : TECTROL-CAN
>> Model ID             : 300-1454-04(50)
>>
>> Firmware is at 2.01.06 (unit is a T3B).
>>
>> I have tried google to no avail and could really use some help to get 
>> this fixed.
>> Tia, and I will summarize.
>>
>> -- 
>>
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From vlady at gbservices.biz  Tue Mar 14 11:00:48 2006
From: vlady at gbservices.biz (Vladimir Terziev)
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 18:00:48 +0200
Subject: SUMMARY: Unable to install kernel patch 118844-30
In-Reply-To: <20060314152724.b46f8f19.vlady@gbservices.biz>
References: <20060314152724.b46f8f19.vlady@gbservices.biz>
Message-ID: <20060314180048.87f7c8e9.vlady@gbservices.biz>

	The problem with patch installation is in the prepatch script supplied with the 118844-30 patch. I found the solution here http://forum.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=28707&tstart=0 .

	Replacement of "boot-device" with "bootpath" in the prepatch script does the trick and patch applyes without any other problems.

	It seems the prepatch script needs to be fixed by Sun, because the problem exists since 118844-28 patch.

	Best Regards

		Vladimir



On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 15:27:24 +0200
Vladimir Terziev <vlady at gbservices.biz> wrote:

> 	Hi, Managers
> 
> 	I'm trying to update a Solaris 10 x86 01/06 (Generic_118844-26) system. I stuck with a problem applying kernel patch 118844-30. Below is the result from 'patchadd` execution:
> 
> 
> # patchadd /var/tmp/patches/118844-30 
> Validating patches...
> 
> Loading patches installed on the system...
> 
> Done!
> 
> Loading patches requested to install.
> 
> Done!
> 
> Checking patches that you specified for installation.
> 
> Done!
> 
> 
> Approved patches will be installed in this order:
> 
> 118844-30 
> 
> Executing prePatch script...
> 
> Once this KU patch is installed and you have rebooted your system,
> you will not be able to patchrm this patch safely.  Once the NEWBOOT
> support is installed, removing it may cause your system to not
> be bootable.
> Do you wish to continue this installation {yes or no} [yes]? 
> (by default, installation will continue in 60 seconds)
> 
> Checking installed patches...
> Executing prepatch script...
> 
> ERROR: One of the following may need to be corrected prior to installing this patch.
> ERROR:
> ERROR: The boot device may be different from the root device on xyz.tld.com.
> ERROR: If you have booted from a floppy disk, eject the disk and reboot xyz.tld.com prior
> ERROR: to installing this patch.
> 
> ERROR: You may have forgotten to reboot node0.gbs.gbdom.com AFTER installing 117435-02.
> ERROR: This configuration requires that 117435-02 be installed first and the
> ERROR: system must then be rebooted prior to installing this patch.
> 
> The prepatch script exited with return code 1.
> 
> Patchadd is terminating.
> 
> 
> 	The system is booted from the hard drive, patch 117435-02 is installed on the system, also i have rebooted the system several times.
> 
> 	I googled about the problem but wasn't able to find nothing relevant.
> 	I will be very thankful if someone manage to point me to a solution of this problem.
> 
> 	Thanks in advance!
> 
> 		Vladimir
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From loris.serena at bt.com  Thu Mar 16 12:59:52 2006
From: loris.serena at bt.com (Loris Serena)
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 17:59:52 -0000
Subject: SUMMARY: How to reinstall SUNWpr on Solaris 10 x86
Message-ID: <90735D183F490247AC911C2C7E86E7E7052BDB6F@exchange2.dublin.esat.ie>

	Thanks a mill to Darren Dunham, Koef, Darren Brechman-Toussaint and
JV.

	Basically:

	1. boot in "Solaris failsafe" mode
	   (the HDD gets mounted under /a )

	2. mount the Solaris 10 1of4 CD
	   # mount  -F hsfs /dev/dsk/c1t0d0p0 /cdrom

	3. make sure /var, /usr and /opt of the HDD are properly mounted
	   (in my case I had to manually add /var )
	   # mount /dev/dsk/c0d0s3 /a/var

	4. locate the missing package on the CD, copy it to /tmp and install
it onto the HDD
	   # pkgadd -d . -R /a SUNWpr

	This worked for me, but I had to do the exact same to re-install
SUNWtls too...


	Great great list!


	Loris




>  -----Original Message-----
> From: 	Loris Serena  
> Sent:	15 March 2006 22:17
> To:	'sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org'
> Subject:	How to reinstall SUNWpr on Solaris 10 x86
> 
> Guys, 
> 
> In a (very unlucky) attempt to minimize a Solaris 10 x86 install, I've
> removed the SUNWpr package (Netscape Portable Runtime Interface), and now
> when I try to login (either via ssh or at the console) I get the following
> error:
> 
> login: myusername
> login: open_module: /usr/lib/security/pam_authtok_get.so.1 failed:
> ld.so.1: login: fatal: libnspr4.so: open failed: No such file or
> directory.
> 
> Basically, by removing SUNWpr I've also removed libnspr4.so from my system
> (how bad?)
> 
> Now, booting "Solaris failsafe" from the grub menu, I've put the Solaris
> 10 disc 1 of 4 (which contains SUNWpr) in the CD drive,
> 
> # iostat -En       returns c1t0d0 as my cdrom 
> 
> but when I try to mount it with
> 
> # mount -F hsfs /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s2 /cdrom
> 
> it returns 
> 
> NOTICE: hs_findhsvol:bread: error=(5)
> mount: I/O error
> mount: cannot mount /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s2
> 
> So, I'm a bit stuck now ;-(
> 
> Any idea about how to get that CD mounted to reinstall the SUNWpr package
> which contains libnspr4.so ?
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> Loris
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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From teladmin at comcast.net  Thu Mar 16 15:02:12 2006
From: teladmin at comcast.net (teladmin at comcast.net)
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 20:02:12 +0000
Subject: SUMMARY: Question on ps under Solaris.
Message-ID: <031620062002.2824.4419C444000B913800000B0822007623020207030B0E040A9B@comcast.net>

I ask:
 
" Hello Solaris users,
 
 I wonder some one help me to understand ps command on Solaris.
 
 What I am interresting is: 
 
 why /usr/ucb/ps command is having out put differnet than
 
 /usr/bin/ps
 
 I CAN'T run /usr/bin/ps axuwwww
 
 but I can under /usr/ucb/ps
 
 Or /usr/ucb/ps -ef does not work, but
 
 /usr/bin/ps -ef does work.
 
 Thank you for your help.
 
 Tel. "

Your responds (consencous):

"/usr/ucb/ps" is came from BSD unix and

"/usr/bin/ps" is came from AT&T SVR4 which is for Sun.

So it is two different versions of ps. That why I see differences.

Well great list and Thank you. These users:

alexs <alexsxela at gmail.com>
Darren Dunham <ddunham at taos.com> 
Adam Levin <levins at westnet.com>
Pascal Grostabussiat <pascal at azoria.com>
Eric Sisson <ems at mdacc.tmc.edu>
Jerry Stachowski <jerry at syswiz.com> 
"Catlin, Brian" <bcatlin at uslec.com>
"Bonfieti Junior, Angelo" <angelo.bonfietijunior at eds.com> 

Again, I got it now.

Tel-
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From cbar44 at tsg.cbot.com  Thu Mar 16 14:51:45 2006
From: cbar44 at tsg.cbot.com (Christopher L. Barnard)
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 13:51:45 -0600 (CST)
Subject: SUMMARY: FLAR V210 -> V120
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0603161112000.752@shalmaneser.tsg.cbot.com>
References: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0603161112000.752@shalmaneser.tsg.cbot.com>
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0603161351250.752@shalmaneser.tsg.cbot.com>

I asked:

> I understand that there should not be a problem using a flar created on
> a V210 to build a V120 (SUNW,UltraAX-i2).  But I want to make sure.  Has
> anyone successfully done this? Any problems to watch out for?  TIA.

The answer:

It works fine.  Just do it.

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From papmark at gmail.com  Thu Mar 16 19:31:32 2006
From: papmark at gmail.com (Mark Nelson)
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 03:31:32 +0300
Subject: SUMMARY; How Do I Configure my Sun for Seagate DAT Tape Drive
Message-ID: <004101c6495a$6f0a2d20$21647fa9@mark4cqxihsl3a>

Thanks to Bob Smart,

It works just fine as Bob said. Sometimes we forget the simple fixes.

It has been more than a few years but I never had to do anything other
than make sure the SCSI device number was 4 or 5 to get any SCSI 4mm or
8mm tape drive to work with SunOS 4.x (Solaris 1.x) I may have forgotten
something but did you try just hooking it up and using it?  I used at
least DEC & HP branded 4mm (maybe a Data General 4mm also), as well as
8mm from various sources.  Most of the drives actually came from a
couple actual manufacturers.  This was back in the days of DDS1 and DDS2
4mm standards.

Bob Smart (bob.smart at lmco.com)

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Subject: How Do I Configure my Sun for Seagate DAT Tape Drive


How do I configure my sun to use Seagate (Connor) CTD8000R-S 4mm DAT
tape drive? The installation manual doesn't give any of the necessary
information for modifying the st_conf.c and streg.h files. I have a
Sparc4 server running Solaris 1.1.1b. The drives are connected via an
Adataco external scsi rack. I tried to contact the Seagate web site, and
customer service, but they no longer support this tape drive. The
business was sold to Maxtor, but there is no information on the Maxtor
web site for this drive. I need to get this tape drive working as soon
as possible as the orignal EXB-4200 tape drive failed. Please help!
Send email and I will summarize to the list. Thanks

Mark Nelson
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From harald.husemann at materna.de  Mon Mar 20 13:21:06 2006
From: harald.husemann at materna.de (Harald Husemann)
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 19:21:06 +0100
Subject: Follow-up-SUMMARY: SUN QFE-Card in Sol. 10/x86 on V20z?]
Message-ID: <1142878866.25889.18.camel@yellow.materna-com.de>

Hi agn,

and thanks to Darren Dunham for correcting a little mistake I made in my
last post (Darren's mail is attached below):

Of course, the qfe-cards are still supported on SPARC-based systems (I
have one running fine in a E420 with Solaris 10). But, SUN has decided
not to support them on x86-based systems.
Btw.: The quad gigaswift is working just fine under Solaris 10 x86, the
appr. driver is part of the OS. I have two systems with QGE-cards
running here as a SUN cluster.

Thanks agn to the list,

Harald
 
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> From: Darren Dunham <ddunham at taos.com>
> To: Harald.Husemann at materna.de
> Subject: Re: SUMMARY: SUN QFE-Card in Sol. 10/x86 on V20z?
> Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 10:02:16 -0800
> 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > and thanks to Jason Grove [jgrove at wvu.edu] for his response, the only one I
> > received so far.
> > It seems that SUN has discontinued the support for the qfe-card since it has
> > reached EOL, it's not supported in Sol 10 x86.
> 
> Those are two separate statements that don't really have anything do do
> with each other.
> 
> "EOL" is when sun discontinues the product.  That does not mean that
> they've discontinued support.  The QFE drivers are still available for
> Solaris 10/SPARC.
> 
> However it's not supported on x86 and apparently never has been.  That's
> unreleated to the EOL announcement.
> 
> Casper Dik has posted about porting this driver in the past, but the qfe
> driver is not yet part of the OpenSolaris code, so it can't be released
> yet.  I don't know if the situation has changed since his post last
> year.
> 
> http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=1921
> 
> > Hm, I think I will have to buy some Gigaswifts...
> 
> I don't immediately see any quads on the community NIC driver page.
> 
> http://homepage2.nifty.com/mrym3/taiyodo/eng/
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From peter at ashlyn.co.uk  Wed Mar 22 11:49:04 2006
From: peter at ashlyn.co.uk (Peter Stokes)
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 16:49:04 +0000
Subject: SUMMARY -  rsm6.22.1 unable to see A3500FC - any suggestions?]
Message-ID: <44218000.3060504@ashlyn.co.uk>

Hi All

Well, this is not a definitive guide, but it may well help someone else 
in future.

First, below is an excellent missive from Scott Mickey who as well as 
some good references, gives a history of the A3500 and A1000, which are 
of the same family. I found the A1000 reset to work just fine with a 
single drive which had not been near to an A1000 and put in slot 0, then 
powerup. This creates a single LUN which RSM sees straight away.

The A3500FC was somewhat more difficult to sort out and to be honest I 
am not 100% sure what solved my problem.

The most crucial part is to get it working with a HVD SCSI interface 
first as though it is a 3500 and ignore the FC channel altogether. When 
you can see a disk LUN with probe scsi, then go for the fibre and it 
should work fine.

So with the system atatched via SCSI, probe-scsi-all starts to show what 
LUNs you have. You need to have a deafult LUN 0 which is defined as a 
disk. I managed to achieve this by putting disks which had been 
initialised on a A1000 into the 3500/D1000 chassis and it picked up some 
disk info. This then allowed me to add other disks and eventually get to 
a setup that I wanted.

The real solution is to use the serial port, but this is only for Sun 
engineers, so not really an option for us.

Sorry for the waffle, but it was a bit of a painful affair with no clear 
route to getting RSM to see it. After that it was plain sailing.

Hope this helps

Peter


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Subject: 	Re: rsm6.22.1 unable to see A3500FC - any suggestions?
Date: 	Fri, 17 Mar 2006 11:28:59 -0700
From: 	Scott Mickey <mickey at denver.net>
To: 	Peter Stokes <peter at ashlyn.co.uk>



Peter Stokes, 
Here is an old Sun infodoc that someone put online: 
http://www.3113.com/dave/sun/a1000-reset.txt
The A1000 and A3500 have similar controllers and the last 
part of this doc covers A3000/A3500/A3500FC reset. 
The key is having a serial cable.  The unit's serial port 
is a DB15 connector (unlike standard serial ports that are 
DB9 or DB25).  I have not found the pin-out for this serial 
cable online and have not had time to sit down and figure out 
the pin-out myself by trial-and-error.  If you figure out a 
working pin-out for this cable, please post it in your 
summary.  The SunManagers archive has info on how to reset 
an A1000 using a serial cable.  The A3500FC should be similar. 
The D1000/A1000/A3000/A3500/A3500FC came from a NEC plant in 
Wichita, Kansas as far as I can tell.  The history goes like 
this:  NCR Wichita plant -> sold to AT&T -> sold to Hyundai 
and renamed Symbios Logic -> sold to LSI Logic and renamed 
LSI Logic Storage Systems.  The result is that data for these 
units is spread out over several companies, not just at Sun. 
The plant in Kansas reportedly "now designs and manufactures 
RAID products - chips, boards, and subsystems up to multiple 
terabytes in size".  The Sun A3500 = NCR 6285 = Symbios 3621, 
or the 6285-3621 controller.  There is a little info at NEC: 
www.ncr.com/support/support_drivers_patches.asp?Class=pc_library_raid
This is older software (1996-2001) and I'm not sure what is 
specific to the A3500FC, so use caution.  However, there may 
be useful software tools here not available from Sun. 
Also: 
http://www.info.ncr.com/Teradata/eTeradata-BrowseBy.cfm?page=Hardware%20Platform
On this page, click the "Hardware - RAID" link and then 
click on: 
"NCR Deskside Modular Arrays Product and Site Preparation Guide" 
This will download document 5605-124A.pdf 
This is a very interesting doc, as it shows deskside D1000's 
and A3000/A3500 controllers + other configurations and 
components never offered by Sun.  Look for the NCR 6285 
controller in this doc.  -It explains why the fan between 
the two A3500FC power supplies has no guard to prevent 
little screws and other debris from falling into the works. 
The 6285 (A3x00) was designed to be mounted on edge, not 
horizontally, as Sun did by rackmounting it.  With the 
controller set on edge, debris would not normally fall into 
the fan.  However with it horizontal, you have to be careful 
not to accidentally drop something into the fan and choke the 
unit.  Good luck resetting your A3500FC.  Once you have it 
responding, there are some useful docs here: 
http://www.filibeto.org/sun/lib/hardware/storedge/
- Scott Mickey 
 
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: rsm6.22.1 unable to see A3500FC - any suggestions?
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 15:08:04 +0000
From: Peter Stokes <peter at ashlyn.co.uk>
To: sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org

Hi All

Pretty frustrated here trying to setup an A3500FC.

I have tried on two separate systems with both 2.6 and 9 Solaris.

I have loaded the O/S (either 2.6 5/98 or Sol 9)

Added patches from patch matrix.

My Fibre card (FC100/P) works fine with A5000 and the A3500FC has an ID 
of 5 when viewed from a PC which has a Qlogic card in it.

When I load RSM 6.22.1 it loads ok, except it reports it cannot find any 
arrays.

eg

drvconfig: driver failed to attach: ssd
drvconfig: driver failed to attach: rdriver
drvconfig: driver failed to attach: rdriver
RDAC daemons initiated
WARNING: set_drivers: No arrays were found that are controlled by either 
the sd
or the ssd driver

Can someone please put me out of my misery as to where to go from here 
as I have been trying to get this sorted for a while!!

Also how can I verify if the FC100 can see the array controller or not?

Thanks

Peter
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From marcos.martinez at alternae.com  Thu Mar 23 04:28:23 2006
From: marcos.martinez at alternae.com (Marcos Martinez Garcia)
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 10:28:23 +0100 (CET)
Subject: SUMMARY: OECD February 2000
Message-ID: <59025.20.133.1.2.1143106103.squirrel@www.alternae.com>

Thank you to all of you who have replied my questions.

> So I need to install a working copy of Solaris 2.5.1 HW 11/97 in an
> ultra 60 box that we have in our laboratory. But when I'm tryng to boot
> that box I can't. After a few research in the net I have found I need
> the Operating Environment Installation CD February 2000 (OECD), which is
> SUN Part No. 704-7076-10.

Finally the best work arround if you don't have that CD is to build a
Jumpstart server, patch that jumpstart server to the last recommended
patches bundle. Install the new boxes from that jumpstart server and in
the post install script reinstall all recommended patches.


Thanks for your help. Today I'll try to setuo the box.


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From erek at theadamsfamily.net  Thu Mar 23 13:15:40 2006
From: erek at theadamsfamily.net (Erek Adams)
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 13:15:40 -0500 (EST)
Subject: SUMMARY: xhost + and PDFs and Java, Oh My!
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSO.4.53.0603230945040.4435@it.theadamsfamily.net>
References: <Pine.BSO.4.53.0603230945040.4435@it.theadamsfamily.net>
Message-ID: <Pine.BSO.4.53.0603231241390.4435@it.theadamsfamily.net>

It seems that there are three options:

  1)  use Java 1.4 with the -Djava.awt.headless=true flags
  2)  Xvfb (default with Solaris 9+)
  3)  VNC

For running with the -Djava.awt.headless=true option, there are a couple
of caveats.  From a Java related page [0]:

	Headless operation doesn't allow use of GUI classes such as Java
Foundation Classes (Swing), but does allow the use of graphics rendering
APIs such as Java2D, Java3D, or JAI.

That same page has a very good breakdown of the problem and different
ways around it.  Also, I was pointed to these two pages [1], [2] that both
have some good info on them.

My solution looks to be running Xvfb or VNC.  I'll have to test them each
in the lab to see what works better for us.

Thanks to:

Xvfb:
  Mark Round
  Jacob Ritorto
  Damian Wiest
  Jonathan Burelbach
  Bernd Schemmer
  Matthew Stier
  Jason Grove
  jv711

Java:
  Mark Round
  Peter Ondruska

VNC:
  Hutin Bertrand
  Bernd Schemmer
  Matthew Stier
  Eric Sisson

My original question:

On Thu, 23 Mar 2006, Erek Adams wrote:

> Problem:
>
>   A Java based web app on 'Box B' has a Java app that generates PDFs.
> However for this to work, 'Box B' must set it's DISPLAY to 'Box A'.  That
> means that we need a head on a box in the colo, and must have someone
> login to it and "xhost BoxB".
>
> Wish:
>
>   Remove 'Box A' since that's all it does, and free up a LOT of needed
> rack space.
>
>   Any pointers, clues, links, or sympathy cards are very much appreciated.
>
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[0]	http://developers.sun.com/solaris/articles/solaris_graphics.html
[1]	http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/content/submitted/virtual_buffer.html
[2]	http://www.itworld.com/AppDev/1461/UIR000330xvfb/A
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From mrb at bmyster.com  Fri Mar 17 15:19:13 2006
From: mrb at bmyster.com (Brent)
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 15:19:13 -0500
Subject: SUMMARY: setting ndd commands in Solaris 10
In-Reply-To: <20060317150201.M21820@bmyster.com>
References: <20060317150201.M21820@bmyster.com>
Message-ID: <20060317201647.M76368@bmyster.com>

i wanted to thank Dragos Stoichitescu for the following reply:


For Solaris 9 I would add the commands (with full path for ndd) in
/etc/rcS.d/S30network.sh; the alternative is to create another script
that runs in runlevel 3 with only those commands.

For Solaris 10 I would add the commands (with full path for ndd) in
/lib/svc/method/net-init; the alternative is to create a service (a
script in /lib/svc/method) then create the xml for it in
/var/svc/manifest/site (make it dependent on multi-user-server
milestone) , then import the xml into the repository  
#svccfg -v import /var/svc/manifest/site/name-of-the-xml-file.xml
Then enable it
#svcadm -e /site/name-of-the-xml-file.xml

regards

Dragos Stoichitescu
Unix System Administrator
Vodafone - Romania

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---------- Original Message -----------
From: "Brent" <mrb at bmyster.com>
To: sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org
Sent: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 10:09:22 -0500
Subject: setting ndd commands in Solaris 10

> Hello,
> we have solaris 10 & 9 running openLdap which we have discovered 
> that due to the amount of authentication traffic we have we are 
> running out of allowed connections to the boxes. I want to increase 
> the amount of tcp connections allowed by doing .
> 
> ndd -set /dev/tcp tcp_conn_req_max_q 1024
> ndd -set /dev/tcp tcp_conn_req_max_q0 1024
> ndd -set /dev/tcp tcp_time_wait_interval 30000
> 
> I was thinking of putting these commands in the /etc/init.d/inetinit 
>  file as there already is ndd stuff being done from there. Where 
> typically do commands of this nature are run from on boot ?
> 
> all help is appreciated
> 
> thank you
> 
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From jmd at att.com  Fri Mar 17 16:43:29 2006
From: jmd at att.com (Donovan, Jeffrey (Jeff), WCS)
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 16:43:29 -0500
Subject: Solaris 10 tcp wrappers with syslog SUMMARY
In-Reply-To: <B818B6C295E96945A53860628078F4DB01CA7E8E@ACCLUST01EVS1.ugd.att.com>
Message-ID: <B818B6C295E96945A53860628078F4DB01CA7E90@ACCLUST01EVS1.ugd.att.com>

This organization is great! Got an answer in about 15 minutes.



Thanks to:



Richard Butler

Chris Barnard

Casper Dik

Erek Adams



Chris and Richard had the easiest solution:



You can do it with the tcpwrapper extensions - that is you put lines
like below into hosts.allow:



ALL: 10.0. : severity local2.notice: ALLOW

ALL: ALL: severity local2.warning: DENY



and set syslog.conf for where to log local2





or along the same lines:



In your hosts.allow and/or hosts.deny files, you add a third entry that
is the syslog level.



[ onboard2qa-n!/root ] >> more /etc/hosts.deny

ALL: ALL: severity LOCAL3.notice



Then in your syslog.conf file you do

local3.info                     /var/log/tcpd.log



HUP syslog.



voila.  tcp entries are logged in /var/log/tcpd.log



Thanks to all who responded.





Jeff Donovan

Infrastructure Design





________________________________

From: Donovan, Jeffrey (Jeff), WCS
Sent: Friday, March 17, 2006 12:33 PM
To: 'sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org'
Subject: Solaris 10 tcp wrappers with syslog



Hi,



Does anyone know the entry to syslog.conf to capture tcp wrapper
information into a log file with the bundled version in Solaris 10?  We
used to use a shareware version and added the following to syslog.conf
because it was compiled that way:



local2.notice   /var/opt/tcpw/logs/tcpd.log



This doesn't work for the Solaris 10 version. SSH is configurable in the
sshd_config file but I can't any info for tcp wrappers.



Any help would be appreciated.


Thanks









Jeff Donovan

Infrastructure Design

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From Stuart.Saxon at centrica.co.uk  Fri Mar 17 23:30:22 2006
From: Stuart.Saxon at centrica.co.uk (Saxon, Stuart)
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 04:30:22 -0000
Subject: SUMMARY: How Do I : Jumping through hoops
Message-ID: <81E664EED9FF9545B08A9EC751E8BC234869D4@WC000005A.uk.centricaplc.com>

Interesting responses

some people have said No No No and No
whilst others confirmed the list of protocols.

It transpires however that the request to my team was not properly defined.
The request is for a boot server within the DMZ talking to my install server.
I am more happy about that.

Thanks for the quick responses and suggestions

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Sent: 17 March 2006 06:03
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Subject: How Do I : Jumping through hoops


Hi people,

Does anyone have a list of protocols (or indeed a pointer to a document) that
need to be opened up to allow a sun (sparc) client within a DMZ to be jumped
from a non-dmz boot and install server.

So far I have

arp/arp
tftp
nfs
time

Stuart Saxon
Datacenter Standards  & Engineering Team
Centrica
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From glowe at sbcglobal.net  Sat Mar 18 17:33:08 2006
From: glowe at sbcglobal.net (Grant Lowe)
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 14:33:08 -0800 (PST)
Subject: SUMMARY: memory and swap
Message-ID: <20060318223308.59412.qmail@web81809.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Hi Gurus.

First, thanks go to the following:

Anthony D'Atri
Atul Gore
Matthew Stier
Casper Dik
Crist Clark
Francisco
Darren Dunham

Several said basically this, to take a look at these
commands:

# swap -s
# swap -l

The most complete answer I got was this, from Crist:

Swapping out idle processes even when RAM is not full
or low is a Good Thing. Swapping out takes time and
resources. You want RAM free in case there is a sudden
demand.

For example, your system seems to be using about 15.7
GB total. Say it was all in RAM leaving a mere 300 MB
free. Suddenly a new or existing process needs another
2 GB of RAM. You need to suddenly swap out
a bunch of stuff. Think how long it takes to write 2
GB to a HDD. That would kill performance. Instead,
when processes are idle, they get swapped out whether
you are short on RAM or not so you never run into
this problem. If the data doesn't need to be in RAM
(isn't currently being used), why have it there?

There are of course situations where this heuristic is
non-ideal, but for almost all cases, swapping out idle
memory whether low on RAM or not improves the overall
performance of the system.

-------------------------

Lastly, the original question:

I've got a java app that sometimes run at 99% usr.  I
see that from vmstat, top, and sar.  When java runs,
it uses about 2 or 3 gigs of RAM, but about 10 gigs of
swap.  How can I get to use more RAM and less swap? 
This is a V440 with 16GB RAM, running Solaris 9. 
Thanks.
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From gary at catapult.com  Sun Mar 19 20:14:19 2006
From: gary at catapult.com (Gary Lopez)
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2006 17:14:19 -0800
Subject: SUMMARY - NIS question
Message-ID: <441E01EB.7010308@catapult.com>

Everyone thanks for your response. I wrote the question in haste and did 
not get the answers I needed because the question was written 
incorrectly. Thanks to Darren Dunham for being kind enough to exchange 
e-mails with me to answer what I *really* needed to know..

Here is what I wrote originally ..
> Just a quick question. Is it possible to have 2 NIS servers or can you 
> only bind to one? Basically I have a primary NIS server in California 
> and a secondary in Chicago. Can I make the California a primary and 
> Chicago a secondary?

Here is what I revised to Darren with his responses..
> I wrote the question in haste and realize only in my mind did it make sense.
>> I basically have 2 NIS servers and want to know can I bind to both (i.e. 
>> one as a primary or one as a slave) or will NIS only allow me to bind to 
>> only one?

So a client only "binds" to one at a time, but you can specify several
and it will pick one.  If it becomes unavailable it will try the others.

> Sorta like failover, if one NIS server is unavailable will it go look at 
>> another?

Yep.

When you set up the client with 'ypinit -c', you can specify one or more
servers.  It will bind to one, but will try the others if that fails.



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From Harald.Husemann at materna.de  Mon Mar 20 12:09:20 2006
From: Harald.Husemann at materna.de (Harald.Husemann at materna.de)
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 18:09:20 +0100
Subject: SUMMARY: SUN QFE-Card in Sol. 10/x86 on V20z?
Message-ID: <F031D36CF5CCAC459F3EC1E03876504009BD892E@rohrpostix.materna-com.de>

<original posting below>

Hi all,

and thanks to Jason Grove [jgrove at wvu.edu] for his response, the only one I
received so far.
It seems that SUN has discontinued the support for the qfe-card since it has
reached EOL, it's not supported in Sol 10 x86.
Hm, I think I will have to buy some Gigaswifts...

Have a nice hackin',

Harald

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Hi all,

I need some more interfaces on a V20z running with Solaris 10 1/06. I have
some ol' QFE-cards lying around, and thought it would be a good choice for
the problem to use one of them.
Hm... Unfortunately, it's not recognized, so I searched the web to get the
appr. driver. I figured out that I need a package called SUNWqfed, but it
seems this package is not available for Sol. 10/x86?! I can't find it on the
jumpstart, and at SUN's download center, I've only found packages for the
new GigaSwift cards.
Or, will the GigaSwift driver support the old QFE-card also? Would be nice
to get it working, I don't need Ggabit, so it does not make sense to buy new
cards...

Anyone did this before? Any suggestions where to get driver?

Thanks, will summarize,

Harald
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From CJohnson4 at tiaa-cref.org  Mon Mar 20 14:22:32 2006
From: CJohnson4 at tiaa-cref.org (Johnson, Chad)
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 14:22:32 -0500
Subject: SUMMARY:  Solaris inetd not honoring the "-t" flag
Message-ID: <50BFA7C0BA27F345BE28A21B7BE7D33401DC6E32@CHAPDMSXMB04.ad.tiaa-cref.org>

Ok, so some more searching and I found this
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-25-72911-1 which
states:

As of Solaris[TM] 9, using the "-t" flag with the inetd daemon is
superseded by the /etc/default/inetd file.

And then goes on to say:

For further information, refer to the Solaris[TM] 9 inetd man page.

And of course the man page says that -t works.  Ahh, the joy of out of
date / inaccurate documentation.







On solaris 9 9/05 (most recent 9_Recommended installed) inetd does not
seem to honor the -t flag.  I have modified /etc/init.d/inetsvc and
added the '-t' flag to the startup line for inetd, also I have verified
the correct logging settings necessary (daemon.notice) is set correctly
to log to /var/adm/messages in /etc/syslog.conf.

No inetd connection attempts are logged.  Thinking perhaps the -t flag
was in some way linked to the "ENABLE_CONNECTION_LOGGING" setting in
/etc/default/inetd I set the value in /etc/default/inetd to "YES".  This
did work, connection attempts were logged (following a restart of inetd)
to /var/adm/messages.  This led me to think that the flag in
/etc/default/inetd had to be "YES" for the -t flag to even work so I now
removed the "-t" flag from the inetd startup and rebooted.  The system
still logged connection attempts (as it should per the man page) because
of the setting in /etc/default/inetd.

This shows the system seems to completely ignore the "-t" flag to inetd
in Solaris 9.

Has anyone else had success using -t with inetd in Solaris 9?  The main
reason I ask is we have a large mix of 8 & 9 systems and I would like to
limit the checks / controls to a single item where possible.  It would
be nice to have this control state that "inetd must run with the -t
flag" instead of having to document separate controls for 8 & 9.

TIA,

Chad Johnson









inetd(1M) From
http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-3937/6mjgeafpj?a=view#indexterm-199
:

The /etc/default/inetd file contains the following default parameter
settings. See FILES
<http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-3937/6mjgeafpj?a=view#inetd-1m-fil
e> .

ENABLE_CONNECTION_LOGGING

Specifies whether incoming TCP connections are traced. The value
ENABLE_CONNECTION_LOGGING=YES is equivalent to the -t command-line
option. The default value for ENABLE_CONNECTION_LOGGING is NO.

.....

-t

Instructs inetd to trace the incoming connections for all of its TCP
services. It does this by logging the client's IP address and TCP port
number, along with the name of the service, using the syslog(3C)
<http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-3939/6mjgg7haf?a=view>  facility.
"Wait" wait-status services cannot be traced. When tracing is enabled,
inetd uses the syslog facility code daemon and notice priority level.
This logging is separate from the logging done by the TCP wrappers
facility. See FILES
<http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-3937/6mjgeafpj?a=view#inetd-1m-fil
e> .

.....



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From robert.clift.ctr at navy.mil  Mon Mar 20 14:41:07 2006
From: robert.clift.ctr at navy.mil (Clift, Robert T CTR K55-Branch)
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 13:41:07 -0600
Subject: SUMMARY: Passwd problems
Message-ID: <EF55D4DBD8632E4D975DA3D296622B5E02647AFF@NAEAMILLEX02VA.nadsusea.nads.navy.mil>

I was troubleshooting this for another admin when the problem occured. I have since found out that they have installed SFU 3.5 from Microsoft which is a product that verifies the unix passwd with a policy on a windows box. The new password didn't meet the criteria so a permission denied was returned. Thanks for the input from multiple folks.
 
Original question:
 
Update:
 
I do get a permission denied after the "passwd changed " statement. I have ran pwconv and checked permissions on /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow. I have tried taking the nis out of nsswitch.conf for the passwd word line and still no luck.

Original question:

I have a Solaris 9 box running NIS. When I enter the command passwd <username> the prompt hangs for about 2 minutes and finally returns and accepts the new password. After the re-enter passwd section, I will eventually see the message about passwd successfully changed but then will be asked to please try again. I have stop and restarted NIS.
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From leiv.jarle.larsen at ementor.no  Tue Mar 21 02:12:56 2006
From: leiv.jarle.larsen at ementor.no (Leiv Jarle Larsen)
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 08:12:56 +0100
Subject: SUMMARY: difference between a SB1000 and a SB2000, using a command?
Message-ID: <F0F7426CC380574795D4DB15551337C404DF19@100NOOSLMSG004.common.alpharoot.net>

Thanks to Rene Occelli adn Caspar Dik.

In short, it is not possible to see the difference from a SB2000 and a
SB1000 using a command.

:)
<Leiv>



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Subject: difference between a SB1000 and a SB2000, using a command?

who can I see the difference between a SB1000 and a SB2000, using a
command?

Uname -a gives me the same output, prtdiag -v does the same. Does anyone
have any ideas?

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From presslaber at ips.at  Tue Mar 21 11:12:54 2006
From: presslaber at ips.at (=?ISO-8859-15?Q?Martin_Pre=DFlaber?=)
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 17:12:54 +0100
Subject: SUMMARY: show firmware of nic
Message-ID: <44202606.4060802@ips.at>

thanks for your answeres:

first, it is possible to see it in the OBP like i wrote in my first mail.

2nd:
to see it in a running system, you could use:
# prtpicl -v -c network | grep version
--snip--
	:version	 Sun PCI Gigaswift 1000Base-X FCode 2.12 04/04/22
--snip--
# 

thanks to

or 3rd:
# prtconf -pv | grep version
--snip--
            version: 'Sun PCI Gigaswift 1000Base-X FCode 2.12 04/04/22'
--snip--

thanks to Cesare and Pascal for the quick answere

regards
-martin/pressy



--question--
hi mates,
is there a command or way to see which firmware my network card(s) has?
i could imaging that i would see it in the OBP (show-nets; cd
/... at ../...; .properties) but is there a way to see it in solaris?

Solaris9 (09/05) on a V440 with GigaSwift Ethernet MMF (X4151A) adapters
(using ce drivers)

thanks in advance,
best regards

-PRESSY

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From ahoesch at smartsoft.de  Tue Mar 21 15:05:45 2006
From: ahoesch at smartsoft.de (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Andreas_H=F6schler?=)
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 21:05:45 +0100
Subject: Summary: Backup recommendation
In-Reply-To: <33582.128.196.176.138.1142965646.squirrel@webmail.opus1.com>
Message-ID: <153AE07F-B916-11DA-A825-003065CCA582@smartsoft.de>

Dear managers,

thanks a lot for the many responses. Richard recommmended to give the

	Sun StorEdge DAT 72 Tape Drive

a try. It was also recommended to check out www.amenda.org and possibly 
sync to a SATA-array.

I will evaluate both approaches!

Thanks  a lot!

Regards,

   Andreas
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From loris.serena at bt.com  Wed Mar 22 12:36:27 2006
From: loris.serena at bt.com (Loris Serena)
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 17:36:27 -0000
Subject: SUMMARY: Solaris 10 x86 not booting after pkgrm-ing
	FiberChannel  packages. 
Message-ID: <90735D183F490247AC911C2C7E86E7E7079D35B6@exchange2.dublin.esat.ie>

Thanks a mill to Casper Dik who hit the nail on the head.

(see his mail below)

Cheers

Loris




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From: Casper.Dik at Sun.COM [mailto:Casper.Dik at Sun.COM] 
Sent: 22 March 2006 17:25
To: Loris Serena
Subject: Re: Solaris 10 x86 not booting after pkgrm-ing FiberChannel packa
ges. 



>Thanks a mill for your reply.
>Basically, I was just trying to remove unneeded packages to minimize 
>the installation.
>
>Ok, I performed the steps you suggested, and here is what I got:
>
><the part before this scrolled up on the console, can't get it back>
>
>WARNING: mod_load: cannot load module 'pcplusmp'
>WARNING: pcplusmp: unable to resolve dependency, module 'misc/acpica' 
>not found
>/platform/i86pc/kernel/drv/isa: undefined symbol 'acpi_isa_device_enum'
>WARNING: mod_load: cannot load module 'isa'
>WARNING: isa: unable to resolve dependency, module 'misc/acpica' not 
>found
>
>Panic[cpu0]/thread=fec1da20: No valid PSM modules found


Somehow, the acpica module was removed; perhaps you removed too much?

Boot failsafe; and cp the /kernel/misc/acpica module to
/a/kernel/misc/acpica

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From mweg at sympatico.ca  Thu Mar 23 14:58:00 2006
From: mweg at sympatico.ca (Marco Greene (ML))
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 14:58:00 -0500
Subject: SUMMARY: SUNWvxvm 2.5 on Solaris 2.6
Message-ID: <BAYC1-PASMTP0672BAE6357E7E5ADA2782A9DE0@CEZ.ICE>

Thanks, Darren.


Marco. 

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From: Darren Dunham [mailto:ddunham at taos.com] 
Sent: March 23, 2006 2:50 PM
To: "Marco Greene (ML)"
Subject: Re: SUNWvxvm 2.5 on Solaris 2.6

> 
> Hi all,
>  
> A quick question, I currently have an E3000 running Solaris 2.6.  I am 
> going to move it to a E4500 but something just occurred to me.  
> Currently vxvm is licensed because of the SPARC Storage Array 
> connected to the E3000...but my E4500 has an A5000.  Does having an 
> A5000 automatically license vxvm or did I overlook something.

Yes.  The A5000 series (PHOTON) also does auto licensing.

> If so, I guess I could go with SDS, but I would have to figure out a 
> way to obtain a copy that will work with Solaris 2.6.  Does SDS handle 
> the multiple paths to the A5000?

No.  SDS doesn't do that itself.  Multipathing is handled by the sun fiber
card drivers itself and MPxIO at a layer under SDS.  

If needed, SDS was present only on the "server media kit" which came with a
server license of 2.6.  The "desktop" or "workstation" kit which came with
the desktop license does not have SDS.



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From Ryan.Anderson at baesystems.com  Thu Mar 23 16:50:54 2006
From: Ryan.Anderson at baesystems.com (Ryan Anderson)
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 15:50:54 -0600
Subject: [SUMMARY] Solaris 10 DHCP jumpstart issue
Message-ID: <s422c3ec.091@smtp.udlp.com>

I have a Solaris 8 jumpstart server successfully providing DHCP jumpstart for
Solaris 10 (sparc) clients now using the open source ISC DHCP server (not
Sun's). The problem wasn't my dhcpd.conf file. My problem was fixed with two
things:

1) I used the Solaris 10 CDs (not DVD) to do ./setup_install_server &
./add_to_install_server scripts. Look, I could be off here, but I swear it
made a difference.... Doing this directly from the Solaris 10 ISO files was
made possible with this sweet solution:
http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/content/submitted/cd_free_install.html

2) After doing the Solaris 10 CD load, I was still being asked for the default
router, but the rest of the variables in my sysidcfg file were being read in
(root password, NIS domain, etc). This was very good progress. I fixed it by
adding the default_router=NONE to the network_interface line in the sysidcfg.
Here's what my sysidcfg looks like now:

system_locale=C
security_policy=NONE
network_interface=primary {protocol_ipv6=no default_route=NONE
netmask=255.255.255.0}
name_service=NIS {domain_name=foo name_server=foo01(10.1.2.3)}
terminal=vt100
timezone=US/Central
timeserver=localhost
root_password=k3auc7Qf9m6A

Now its chugs away. An unrelated annoyance I fixed was the NFS4 question
Solaris 10 asks on the first bootup. Add these lines to a finish script, and
the question will go away (and assumes you accept the NFS4 default):

B=/a
# Fix the damn NFS4 question Solaris 10 insists on upon its first boot
touch ${B}/etc/.NFS4inst_state.domain
chmod 644 ${B}/etc/.NFS4inst_state.domain
chown root:root ${B}/etc/.NFS4inst_state.domain

Also, for the sake of posterity, here's my dhcpd.conf which shows one way to
provide support for Solaris 8 & 10 DHCP jumpstart clients from one jumpstart
server. I regenerate it with a script every time I add a client, or change it
from Solaris 8 to 10:

# Option definitions common to all supported networks...
ddns-update-style ad-hoc;
option domain-name "mpls.foobar.com";
option domain-name-servers 10.11.3.3, 10.11.3.4;
option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;

default-lease-time 600;
max-lease-time 7200;

# Jumpstart Support
option space SUNW;
option SUNW.root-mount-options code 1 = text;
option SUNW.root-server-ip-address code 2 = ip-address;
option SUNW.root-server-hostname code 3 = text;
option SUNW.root-path-name code 4 = text;
option SUNW.swap-server-ip-address code 5 = ip-address;
option SUNW.swap-file-path code 6 = text;
option SUNW.boot-file-path code 7 = text;
option SUNW.posix-timezone-string code 8 = text;
option SUNW.boot-read-size code 9 = unsigned integer 16;
option SUNW.install-server-ip-address code 10 = ip-address;
option SUNW.install-server-hostname code 11 = text;
option SUNW.install-path code 12 = text;
option SUNW.sysid-config-file-server code 13 = text;
option SUNW.JumpStart-server code 14 = text;
option SUNW.terminal-name code 15 = text;

# Declare all UNIX subnets with only basic information
subnet 10.11.4.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
        option broadcast-address 10.1.4.255;
        option routers 10.11.4.1;
}

subnet 10.11.60.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
        option broadcast-address 10.11.60.255;
        option routers 10.11.60.1;
}

subnet 10.11.61.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
        option broadcast-address 10.11.61.255;
        option routers 10.1.61.1;
}

# Solaris 8 hosts go here
group {
        filename "inetboot.SUN4U.Solaris_8-1";
        next-server 10.11.60.21;
        use-host-decl-names on;
        vendor-option-space SUNW;
        option SUNW.JumpStart-server "jumper:/export/JS/sol8/configs";
        option SUNW.install-server-hostname "jumper";
        option SUNW.install-server-ip-address 10.11.60.21;
        option SUNW.install-path "/export/JS/sol8/current";
        option SUNW.root-server-hostname "jumper";
        option SUNW.root-server-ip-address 10.11.60.21;
        option SUNW.root-path-name
"/export/JS/sol8/current/Solaris_8/Tools/Boot";

 host sunbkp02 { hardware ethernet 00:03:ba:e1:77:df; fixed-address
10.11.60.87; option SUNW.sysid-config-file-server =
"jumper:/export/JS/sol8/configs/workstation/asd"; }
 host sun155 { hardware ethernet 00:03:ba:09:8c:b5; fixed-address 10.11.60.48;
option SUNW.sysid-config-file-server =
"jumper:/export/JS/sol8/configs/workstation/foo"; }
}

# Solaris 10 hosts go here
group {
        filename "inetboot.SUN4U.Solaris_10-1";
        next-server 10.11.60.21;
        use-host-decl-names on;
        vendor-option-space SUNW;
        option SUNW.JumpStart-server "jumper:/export/JS/sol10/configs";
        option SUNW.install-server-hostname "jumper";
        option SUNW.install-server-ip-address 10.11.60.21;
        option SUNW.install-path "/export/JS/sol10/01_06";
        option SUNW.root-server-hostname "jumper";
        option SUNW.root-server-ip-address 10.11.60.21;
        option SUNW.root-path-name
"/export/JS/sol10/01_06/Solaris_10/Tools/Boot";
 host sun217 { hardware ethernet 00:03:ba:09:13:ec; fixed-address 10.11.60.20;
option SUNW.sysid-config-file-server =
"jumper:/export/JS/sol10/configs/workstation/asd"; }
 host web012b { hardware ethernet 00:03:ba:dd:d5:df; fixed-address
10.11.60.22; option SUNW.sysid-config-file-server =
"jumper:/export/JS/sol10/configs/server/asd"; }
}




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>>> "Noelle Milton Vega" <nmvega at ComputingArchitects.Com> 2/24/2006 10:17:27
PM >>>

Do a snoop and see what comes up, particularly
which files are referenced by nfs calls.
Also compare the dhcpd.conf attached with yours.
It might help.

Regards,
Noelle

-----Original Message-----
From: sunmanagers-bounces at sunmanagers.org
[mailto:sunmanagers-bounces at sunmanagers.org] On Behalf Of Ryan Anderson
Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 12:06 PM
To: sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org
Subject: Solaris 10 DHCP jumpstart issue

I have a Solaris 8 (sparc) Jumpstart server, and I'm trying to jumpstart
Solaris 10 sparc clients from it using the ISC DHCPD server. I do DHCP
jumpstart with Solaris 8 clients successfully from the same server using the
same parameter names but with different values, so I'm miffed why its not
working. I'm using dhcpd version 3.0.3.

After doing 'boot net:dhcp - install' on the client configured for Solaris
10, it successfully boots off the inetboot image on my jumpstart server, but
then it goes into the interactive menu. Its passing on at least the filename
and next-server parameters. No matter how I change around the dhcpd.conf
file, it won't recognize what put in for the directory with the sysidcfg
file (SUNW.sysid-config-file-server in dhcpd.conf), and may not be getting
any of the SUNW parameters.

What I get on the console after doing 'boot net:dhcp - install':
Beginning system identification...
Searching for configuration file(s)...
Using sysid configuration file /sysidcfg Search complete.

Here's the relevant part of my dhcpd.conf file:
subnet 10.31.10.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
    option broadcast-address 10.31.10.255;
    option routers 10.31.10.1;
    filename "inetboot.SUN4U.Solaris_10-1";
    next-server 10.31.60.21;
    use-host-decl-names on;
    vendor-option-space SUNW;
    option SUNW.JumpStart-server "jumper:/export/JS/sol10/configs";
    option SUNW.install-server-hostname "jumper";
    option SUNW.install-server-ip-address 10.31.60.21;
    option SUNW.install-path "/export/JS/sol10/01_06";
    option SUNW.root-server-hostname "jumper";
    option SUNW.root-server-ip-address 10.31.60.21;
    option SUNW.root-path-name
"/export/JS/sol10/01_06/Solaris_10/Tools/Boot";
    option SUNW.sysid-config-file-server =
"jumper:/export/JS/sol10/configs/workstation";
host sol10client01 { hardware ethernet 00:03:ba:09:13:ec; fixed-address
10.31.10.20; } }



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From rami.aubourg at ifrance.com  Fri Mar 24 03:51:04 2006
From: rami.aubourg at ifrance.com (Rami Aubourg-Kaires)
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 09:51:04 +0100
Subject: SUMMARY: Sunfire V210 PSU failures
In-Reply-To: <442267A5.1080206@ifrance.com>
References: <442267A5.1080206@ifrance.com>
Message-ID: <4423B2F8.1010800@ifrance.com>

Hello, and thanks to all who replied.

I received eight replies to this, and seven of them reported the same 
problem on several V210's (no V240's). One person who had 5 V210's has 
had no problems whatsoever.
One person said there was a FIN coming out on this problem.

No one has had any problems with the replacement units.
It seems that there was a bad batch on these PSU's.

So, if you have a lot of older V210's, it could be a good idea to have a 
relpacement PSU handy if you have a doubt on your server room's air 
conditioning.
It took almost a week for Sun to replace this part because they were out 
of supply in Europe, which made me a bit nervous, as it was the first 
time it has taken them more than 24 h to react. They took the time to 
inform me in real time of the availability, though.

The PSU worked fine all that time without the fan, but my server room 
has good air conditioning.

Cheers

> We've had two fan failures within a week on the power supplies of two 
> identical Sunfire V210's.
> Nothing dramatic, since the PSU works fine for quite a while without the 
> fan, given the amount of fans (and noise!) you have in this server.
> 
> However, Googling for the same problem popped up quite a lot of similar 
> problems with Sunfire V210's.
> 
> I was wondering whether other users had had the the same type of 
> problems with V210's or V240's, and whether it could be recurrent even 
> after the power supply replacement.
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From mweg at sympatico.ca  Sat Mar 25 09:35:15 2006
From: mweg at sympatico.ca (Marco Greene (ML))
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 09:35:15 -0500
Subject: SUMMARY: Seperating syslog messages from different hosts
In-Reply-To: <20060325153551.4819df65.vlady@gbservices.biz>
Message-ID: <BAYC1-PASMTP015D087857AA02A1133CCBA9DC0@CEZ.ICE>

Thanks...and the overwhelming response is to use syslog-ng.



> Hi *,
>  
> I have a FreeBSD machine that I am hopeing to upgrade to Solaris 10.
> Basically, it is just a syslog server.  However, on the FreeBSD 
> machine, I can tell messages from specific hosts to go into specific 
> files.  I can't seem to figure out how to do that with Solaris 10.
>  
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Marco
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From kassiem at mathstat.dal.ca  Mon Mar 27 15:02:45 2006
From: kassiem at mathstat.dal.ca (Kassiem Jacobs)
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 16:02:45 -0400 (AST)
Subject: SUMMARY: Connect two V890 directly via 1Gbit FC
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.1060327160204.9499A-100000@chase>

Hello,

Thanks to 

Marcos Martinez Garcia <marcos.martinez at alternae.com>
Claude Charest <charest at canr.hydro.qc.ca>
"Lineberger, Aaron" <alineberger at ncdoc.navy.mil>
Hutin Bertrand <Bertrand.Hutin at fr.Fujitsu.com>

One can connect two V890s via 1Gbit FC cable. The FC cable has to be a "SC
to SC" cable and it has to be crossed. The price for such a third party
cable (2m long) is approx. CAD $70. 

Thanks and greetings

Kassiem


original question:

We have two identical V890s each with a 1Gbit FC port (onboard). I would
like to connect these two machines directly via the FC ports. Can that be
done, and if yes, do a need a 'straight' FC cable or would I need a
'crossed' FC cable? Would you know which type of cable I would need? I
have the choice from the following:
X9722A LC to SC FC Optical Cable, 2m
X9732A LC to LC FC Optical Cable, 2m
X973A SC to SC FC Optical Cable, 2m


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From ahoesch at smartsoft.de  Sat Mar 25 06:01:38 2006
From: ahoesch at smartsoft.de (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Andreas_H=F6schler?=)
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 12:01:38 +0100
Subject: Summary: No space left on device
In-Reply-To: <20060325094027.78785.qmail@web50010.mail.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <BBE4B19E-BBEE-11DA-9A8B-000393CA0072@smartsoft.de>

Dear managers,

thanks to

Marcel Knol <marcel at iunxi.nl>
"John Leadeham" <jl at lammtarra.fslife.co.uk>
John Kennedy <ennoil at yahoo.com>
Nathan Dietsch <njd at ndietsch.com>
David <daspez at gmail.com>
"Mordechai T. Abzug" <morty at frakir.org>

I was informed that the disk is not freed before the processes that 
have created the files have terminated, even if I removed the files 
with rm before. I don't think that was an issue here. I removed a lot 
of files that were created months ago by rsync (most likely no running 
process), but it still did not update the df output.

I then used "du -sk /*  | sort -nr | more" (thanks to John Kennedy) to 
efficiently find large files, found one, removed it and now I am at 81% 
diskusage in /. I still don't know why removing the other files did not 
do the trick, but I am at least away from devcon 3 again.

Thanks a lot!

Regards,

  Andreas



Original question:

I got an emergency call today (malfunction of an applicatioin). I
logged into the Solaris 9 machine and got

2006-03-25 09:32:07.000 make_services[587] Failed to create lock
directory '/home/ahoesch/GNUstep/Defaults/.GNUstepDefaults.lck' - No
space left on device

I checked df and realized that the disk is full.

bash-2.05# df -k
Filesystem            kbytes    used   avail capacity  Mounted on
/dev/md/dsk/d0       56430398 56076236       0   100%    /
/proc                      0       0       0     0%    /proc
mnttab                     0       0       0     0%    /etc/mnttab
fd                         0       0       0     0%    /dev/fd
/dev/md/dsk/d3       5046030  824427 4171143    17%    /var
swap                 7602736     176 7602560     1%    /var/run
swap                 7608808    6248 7602560     1%    /tmp
/vol/dev/dsk/c0t0d0/991-2000k
                        117184  117184       0   100%    /cdrom/991-2000k

Well, I removed a bunch of files with "rm -rf" and expected that I
would see some free disk space in "df -k" then, but that's notthe case.
It remains at capacity 0. What am I doind wrong and what's the best
approach to find the cause for the immense disk consumption?
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From sanelson at gmail.com  Sat Mar 25 17:54:14 2006
From: sanelson at gmail.com (Steve Nelson)
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 22:54:14 +0000
Subject: SUMMARY - Suprious Disk Definitions
Message-ID: <b6131fdc0603251454g4843ca3ana10102566c98ece6@mail.gmail.com>

Thanks chaps,

I should have used the -C option (Clean Up) in devfsadm.

I could also have removed the entried from /dev/[r]dsk manually.

S.
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From presslaber at ips.at  Mon Mar 27 03:58:44 2006
From: presslaber at ips.at (=?ISO-8859-15?Q?Martin_Pre=DFlaber?=)
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 10:58:44 +0200
Subject: SUMMARY:VxVM disk grow [UPDATE]
Message-ID: <4427A944.7040502@ips.at>

hi,

got the helpfull tip from reborg on an unix forum [www.unix.com]

thanks for all answeres, unfortunately noone got the right hint here :-)
but here comes the SUMMARY:

vxdisk [-f] [-g diskgroup] resize {accessname|medianame} [length=value]

that option only comes with the Storage Foundation license from Veritas
for dynamic LUNs
i've tried it in a test environment, it also seems to work live, but
veritas recommendation is to do it offline.

root at scnode2 # vxdisksetup -i c3t54d0
root at scnode2 # vxdg init testdg testhd=c3t54d0
root at scnode2 # vxassist -g testdg maxsize
Maximum volume size: 5681152 (2774Mb)
root at scnode2 # vxassist -g testdg make testvol 2774m layout=nostripe
root at scnode2 #
root at scnode2 # mkfs -F vxfs /dev/vx/rdsk/testdg/testvol
version 6 layout
5681152 sectors, 2840576 blocks of size 1024, log size 16384 blocks
largefiles supported
root at scnode2 #
root at scnode2 #
root at scnode2 # mount -F vxfs /dev/vx/dsk/testdg/testvol /mnt
root at scnode2 # while true; do mkfile 1024m /mnt/testfile && rm
/mnt/testfile ; done &
4247
root at scnode2 #
#### now i increased the lun and configured the new size in solaris: ####
root at scnode2 # vxassist -g testdg maxgrow testvol
VxVM vxassist ERROR V-5-1-1178 Volume testvol cannot be extend within the
given constraints
#### nothing... now reborg's hint ####
root at scnode2 # vxdisk -g testdg resize testhd
VxVM vxdisk ERROR V-5-1-8643 Device testhd: resize failed: Cannot remove
last disk in disk group
#### seems he want to reinitialize, out of group and back in.... ####
#### there cannot be a group without a disk... ####
#### temporaly i've added a second disk ###
root at scnode2 # vxdg -g testdg adddisk testhd2=c3t53d0
root at scnode2 # vxdisk -g testdg resize testhd
root at scnode2 # pgrep mkfile
6832
root at scnode2 #
root at scnode2 # vxdg -g testdg rmdisk testhd2
root at scnode2 # vxassist -g testdg maxgrow testvol
Volume testvol can be extended by 65441792 to: 71122944 (34728Mb)
root at scnode2 # vxresize -g testdg testvol 34728m
root at scnode2 # df -h /mnt
Filesystem             size   used  avail capacity  Mounted on
/dev/vx/dsk/testdg/testvol
34G   844M    31G     3%    /mnt
root at scnode2 # pgrep mkfile
7240
root at scnode2 # ls -lh /mnt
total 554016
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root          96 Mar 27 10:29 lost+found
-rw-------   1 root     other       1.0G Mar 27 10:30 testfile
root at scnode2 # vxdisk -g testdg list
DEVICE       TYPE            DISK         GROUP        STATUS
c3t54d0s2    auto:cdsdisk    testhd       testdg       online
root at scnode2 #

thanks for your help and all answeres

best regards
martin / PRESSY
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From cbar44 at tsg.cbot.com  Tue Mar 28 12:30:03 2006
From: cbar44 at tsg.cbot.com (Christopher L. Barnard)
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 11:30:03 -0600 (CST)
Subject: SUMMARY: Finding out what user owns a certain port
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0603281054320.18087@shalmaneser.tsg.cbot.com>
References: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0603281054320.18087@shalmaneser.tsg.cbot.com>
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0603281129360.18087@shalmaneser.tsg.cbot.com>

I asked:

> I looked for this in the archives and on sunsolve, but I may have used
> the wrong keywords in my search.
>
> Is there a way to tell the uid of the process that controls a certain
> port?
>
> In other words, when I do a "netstat -an | grep "*.80 " to verify that a
> webserver is running, is there a way to tell the uid of the process
> responding to port 80?
>
> TIA, and I will summarize.

The answer:

its the -i flag to lsof.  I read through the man page several times but
managed to miss it.  Thanks to all who responded so fast.

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From jreid at vnet.net  Tue Mar 28 01:58:45 2006
From: jreid at vnet.net (Joe Reid)
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 00:58:45 -0600
Subject: SUMMARY: pinning a process to a cpu
Message-ID: <4428DEA5.7060509@vnet.net>

Thanks to:
Martin Presslaber
Kalyan Manchikanti
Vladimir Terziev
Erek Adams
francisco
Webpro - joe
Scott Lawsom
Chris Smith
Atul Gore
and Hutin Bertrand
(so far)

The answer to my question - how to pin a process to a cpu was best 
answered with pbind - give it a pid (already started) on the commandline 
and a cpuid (from mpstat) and it will bind any of your own processes to 
a given cpu - root not needed.

I got another set of answer regarding cpu sets; if I had a really big 
machine and wanted to setup an encoding farm that's probably how I'd do 
it, but pbind solved my problem.

Thanks again to the sunmanagers.

----original query-----
On 3/25/06, Joe Reid <jreid at vnet.net> wrote:

 >
 > Is there a way to pin a process to a single cpu on a multi cpu machine?
 > Will it make a difference while running flac or ogg-enc on my dual 900
 > SB1K?

-- 
Joe Reid
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From francois.bousquet at gmail.com  Tue Mar 28 13:43:10 2006
From: francois.bousquet at gmail.com (Francois Bousquet)
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 13:43:10 -0500
Subject: SUMMARY: T1000 storage
Message-ID: <d7b4d8ae0603281043h1a5a313bj191dfbd3886663fe@mail.gmail.com>

After receive a couple of reply, here is the summary:

The Sun Fire T1000 is intented to be very lost cost server to be use as a
cluster node.  That explain the non-redundant power supply and hard disk.
Same thing for no optical media drive to save cost, you will have to
Jumpstart the system.

It is possible to add a HBA and to boot on SAN.  Got no news about iSCSI
although.

Because I am looking for a standalone server, I will have to look for the
T2000.

Conclusion : Sun fire T1000 = lost cost cluster node server

On 3/23/06, Francois Bousquet <francois.bousquet at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> We are looking to purchase a Sun Fire T1000 to replace a couple of our old
> test servers, but when I review the server's specifications I notice that
> only 1 hard disk was present in the server.  In addition, there was no
> CD/DVD drive for easy installation.
>
> http://www.sun.com/servers/coolthreads/t1000/specifications.jsp
>
> What is the purpose of having a server with only 1 hard disk, if it is
> failing the whole server is down?
> Is it possible to boot on SAN with iSCSI from one of the 4 gigabit
> ethernet interface?
>
> I know I should probably go for a T2000, but the T1000 was cheaper but I
> would expect it to have at least 2 hard drives to do mirror with them.
>
> What are the best practice for T1000 usage?
>
> - Francois
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From shah.bhavesh at gene.com  Tue Mar 28 15:37:54 2006
From: shah.bhavesh at gene.com (Bhavesh Shah)
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 12:37:54 -0800
Subject: SUMMARY: Login issue with Solaris 8
In-Reply-To: <200603250904.k2P94cDk002430@vaticaan.Holland.Sun.COM>
References: <44247215.60103@gene.com>
	<200603250904.k2P94cDk002430@vaticaan.Holland.Sun.COM>
Message-ID: <44299EA2.90901@gene.com>

Thanks to all who responded. So many responses. Thanks Guys.
The issue was quota.

workaround was to:
	- remove quota from /etc/profile /etc/.login

Thanks again Gurus.
shahb

My original post was:

I have a login issue with recently setup Solaris 8 box. The isssue is
when i telnet to that box with root it works fine but if telnet using a
different user it hangs for more than minute bfore logs user in. The
interesting thing is whenits in hung state and if i do ctrl-c i do
login. This happens to all users except root. None of the users have
.profile set. I checked the DNS for reverse lookup but that too looks
ok. As root can login without problem DNS cannot be the issue anyhow.
Please help to resolve the issue.
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From enoch.andersson at L-3com.com  Tue Mar 28 20:01:57 2006
From: enoch.andersson at L-3com.com (Andersson, Enoch  (Titan) @ TITAN)
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 17:01:57 -0800
Subject: SUMMARY: Netra 20 OBP version that supports WANboot
Message-ID: <E924EF5BB35EF549ACEF88291973B678273E27@mimvex2.mi.ad.local>

Thanks to Dave and Colin for the responses.

The answer: No.  There is not an OBP version for a Netra 20 platform that
supports wanboot "at this time", nor is there any work-around that does not
require a boot from external media.  See below.

Andersson, Enoch (Titan) @ TITAN wrote:
> Managers,
>
> Is there an OpenBoot prom version for a Netra 20 platform that
> supports WANboot?
>

No, there is not at this time.

> After scouring the patches available on the sunsolve site, the newest
> version I found was 4.16.4, which does not have the required
"network-boot-arguments"
> environment variable.  I know that you can boot from a Solaris 10 CD
> on a platform with an older OBP version, but the whole idea of wanboot
> is a diskless install, right?  If there is not an OBP available for
> Netra 20's that supports wanboot, maybe there is some other
> work-around that would not require a cdrom -- a forth program or something
that could be saved in nvram?
>

No, there is no other way to do it.

Dave

Enoch,

I can't help with the Netra 20 firmware option. It looks like you have the
latest.

On SunSolve -
Document ID:	79120
Title:	Wanboot server setup cookbook

Suggests the following:

4. Test your WanBoot Jumpstart

If your client OBP already include support for WanBoot, you only need to
configure the network-boot-arguments variable.
If it doesn't, you need to put a "Solaris 9 12/03 1 of 2"
(minimum)
in the cdrom drive and type the following:


ok boot cdrom  -o prompt -F wanboot - install

boot> host-ip=<ip_address_of_the_client_system>
boot> subnet-mask=<netmask_for_the_subnet>
boot> router-ip=<subnet_default_router>
boot> hostname=<hostname_of_the_client_system>
boot> bootserver=http://10.16.10.99/cgi-bin/wanboot-cgi
boot> go

Regards,

- Colin

> Managers,
>
> Is there an OpenBoot prom version for a Netra 20 platform that
> supports WANboot?
>
> After scouring the patches available on the sunsolve site, the newest
> version I found was 4.16.4, which does not have the required
> "network-boot-arguments" environment variable.  I know that you can
> boot from a Solaris 10 CD on a platform with an older OBP version, but
> the whole idea of wanboot is a diskless install, right?  If there is
> not an OBP available for Netra 20's that supports wanboot, maybe there
> is some other work-around that would not require a cdrom -- a forth
> program or something that could be saved in nvram?
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated,
>
> Enoch
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From pascal at azoria.com  Wed Mar 29 04:35:52 2006
From: pascal at azoria.com (Pascal Grostabussiat)
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 11:35:52 +0200
Subject: SUMMARY: Solaris 10, jumpstart, Unable to copy a temporary file
	to it's final location
In-Reply-To: <200603281324.k2SDOpDk028974@vaticaan.Holland.Sun.COM>
References: <4428FAA0.9080305@azoria.com>
	<200603281312.k2SDCgDk027941@vaticaan.Holland.Sun.COM>
	<44293885.2090703@azoria.com>
	<200603281324.k2SDOpDk028974@vaticaan.Holland.Sun.COM>
Message-ID: <442A54F8.1020001@azoria.com>

Thanks to Casper Dik and Bernd Schemmer for their time an replies. Dik 
actually found the problem asking us to check if we were not accidentily 
running a Solaris 10 miniroot installing a Solaris 9 software tree. This 
was indeed the case because of a typo in the bootparams file that we 
copied/edited but hand but forgot to turn a 9 into a 10 and ended up 
with that weird behaviour. Be had double-checked that bootparams already 
twice but never saw that typo. The third time was the good one. Thanks 
Dik. Once the type was corrected the jumpstart worked all the way 
successfully.

The original question is pasted below.

Again, thanks!
/Pascal

The original question was:
--------------------------

Hi,

anyone who has seen this before !? I am puzzled. I Did not find anything 
on that issue in the archive nor on the web. To be correct I found one 
reference on the web to the exact same problem and that was on Sun 
Forums, but the guy who posted the problem May 2005 never got an answer 
:-( The link to his post is:

http://forum.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=24578&tstart=75

Any help appreciated. We have been running jumpstart for all our servers 
for several years with Solaris 7, 8, 9 and this is the first time we try 
for Solaris 10. The problem seems to be that the "profile" directory 
does not exist, therefore can attributes not be set for the file in that 
directory. The output from my jumpstart is as follows, see the warning 
and the error at the end.

ebooting with command: boot net - install
Boot device: /pci at 780/pci at 0/pci at 1/network at 0  File and args: - install
100 Mbps full duplex  Link up
Requesting Internet Address ...
etc...
SunOS Release 5.10 Version Generic_118822-25 64-bit
etc...
Checking rules.ok file...
Executing SolStart preinstall phase...

Processing default locales

Processing profile
       - Selecting cluster (SUNWCXall)
       - Selecting locale (en_US.ISO8859-1)
       - Selecting locale (en_US)
       - Selecting all disks
       - Configuring boot device
       - Configuring / (c1t0d0s0)
       - Configuring swap (c1t0d0s1)
       - Configuring /var (c1t0d0s3)
       - Configuring /opt (c1t0d0s5)
       - Configuring /usr (c1t0d0s6)
       - Configuring /bogus (c1t0d0s7)
       - Configuring /opt/mnt (c1t0d0s4)
       - Deselecting unmodified disk (c1t1d0)
       - Deselecting unmodified disk (c1t2d0)
       - Deselecting unmodified disk (c1t3d0)

Verifying disk configuration

Verifying space allocation
       - Total software size:  1446.54 Mbytes

Preparing system for Solaris install

Configuring disk (c1t0d0)
       - Creating Solaris disk label (VTOC)

Creating and checking UFS file systems
       - Creating / (c1t0d0s0)
       - Creating /var (c1t0d0s3)
       - Creating /opt/mnt (c1t0d0s4)
       - Creating /opt (c1t0d0s5)
       - Creating /usr (c1t0d0s6)
       - Creating /bogus (c1t0d0s7)

Beginning Solaris software installation

Starting software installation
       SUNWctlu.........................done.  1446.42 Mbytes
etc...
       SUNWjhdev........................done.    1.00 Mbytes remaining.

Completed software installation

Solaris 9 software installation succeeded

Customizing system files
       - Mount points table (/etc/vfstab)
       - Network host addresses (/etc/hosts)
       - Network host addresses (/etc/hosts)
WARNING: Could not set file attributes 
(/a/var/svc/profile/name_service.xml)

ERROR: Unable to copy a temporary file to it's final location

ERROR: System installation failed
Solaris installation program exited.
# uname -a
SunOS server1 5.10 Generic_118822-25 sun4v sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-T200
#
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From shah.bhavesh at gene.com  Wed Mar 29 12:13:36 2006
From: shah.bhavesh at gene.com (Bhavesh Shah)
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 09:13:36 -0800
Subject: SUMMARY: V490 console login
In-Reply-To: <20060329093431.88568.qmail@web32006.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
References: <20060329093431.88568.qmail@web32006.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <442AC040.6050400@gene.com>

Thanks to
Andy Yother
Gary Lang
King Rav
Nadig

The resolution was to:

Connect to the serial port (located near the on board nic's) not the RSC 
card.

Thanks Gurus.

My original post was:

>
>  
>
>>There was a typo in last email. It should be Sun
>>Fire V490.
>>I am in a process to jumpstart V490. When i console
>>to the box it gives
>>me "Please login:" prompt. I tried admin and root
>>user to get OK prompt
>>or lom promt but unable to do so. Does anyone with
>>which user you login
>>to V490 console? Its new box.
>>I tried Sun doc but couldn't find the
>>required answer.
>>Any help is greatly appreciated.
>>Regards
>>shahb
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From frederico.caldeira at embraer.com.br  Wed Mar 29 12:57:36 2006
From: frederico.caldeira at embraer.com.br (frederico.caldeira at embraer.com.br)
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 14:57:36 -0300
Subject: SUMMARY: Check disk size
Message-ID: <OF78D7AF42.099AAB08-ON83257140.006257E3-83257140.0062A8A5@embraer.com.br>

Hi All, 

Thanks to those that replied to my problem, specialy Reggie Beavers, Shyam 
Hazari and Pascal Grostabussiat. 

I am waiting for HDS Support to see if there is a tool for Solaris like 
xpinfo to dig out information from TagmaStore. 

Meanwhile, I made the script below, using prtvtoc - tested on E20K running 
Solaris 9:

        CTLR=$(cfgadm -la | grep fc-fabric|awk '{print $1}') 
        for DISK in `ls /dev/rdsk/${CTLR}*s2` 
        do 
          echo $DISK  | tr -d "\n" 
          prtvtoc $DISK | sed -n '/Partition/{n;p;}' | awk '{print " -", 
$5/1024/1024"Gb"}' 
        done 

The output should be: 

        /dev/rdsk/c2t50060E8004295120d0s2 - 0.0732422Gb 
        /dev/rdsk/c2t50060E8004295120d10s2 - 144.163Gb 
        /dev/rdsk/c2t50060E8004295120d11s2 - 144.163Gb 
        /dev/rdsk/c2t50060E8004295120d12s2 - 144.163Gb 
        /dev/rdsk/c2t50060E8004295120d13s2 - 36.0278Gb 
        ... 

Best Regards,

Frederico B. Caldeira
Unix Administrator
Embraer - SJK
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From john.horne at plymouth.ac.uk  Wed Mar 29 16:42:47 2006
From: john.horne at plymouth.ac.uk (John Horne)
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 22:42:47 +0100
Subject: SUMMARY: Non-X keyboard mapping
In-Reply-To: <1142606689.20636.28.camel@jhorne.csd.plymouth.ac.uk>
References: <1142606689.20636.28.camel@jhorne.csd.plymouth.ac.uk>
Message-ID: <1143668567.31331.10.camel@ash>

Thanks go to Robert A. Fisher for his reply - the only one. Basically I
wanted the non-X equivalent of the xev/xmodmap commands. As he suggested
loadkeys/dumpkeys will do the trick. I have created a short script which
sets the keys correctly on our KVM. Can't get the UK pound sign to be
set though! :-)


Thanks,

John.


On Fri, 2006-03-17 at 14:44 +0000, John Horne wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> We have a SunFire 280 and a V440, both running Solaris 9, connected to a
> KVM switch. The model is RKP117-801e, not sure who made it but it is
> about 2 years old now. I gather the later ones are actually
> Sun-compatible. Until earlier this week I never bothered to sort out a
> keyboard mapping for it so that it will work according to the keys on
> the keyboard - e.g. the double-quote was displayed as an @ sign and
> vice-versa, etc.
> 
> I have now sorted out the mapping whilst logged in using CDE and running
> the xev/xmodmap commands. However, once I go to the command-line (from
> the login screen) or boot in to single-user mode. The current mappings
> don't work - they expect X to be running.
> 
> Does anyone know how I can configure keyboard mappings to work from
> single-user mode/the command-line?
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> John.
> 
-- 
---------------------------------------------------------------
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E-mail: John.Horne at plymouth.ac.uk       Fax: +44 (0)1752 233839
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From martini at mrpeabody.llnl.gov  Wed Mar 29 18:31:50 2006
From: martini at mrpeabody.llnl.gov (Dave Martini)
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 15:31:50 -0800
Subject: SUMMARY: printing screen shots
Message-ID: <442B18E6.20405@mrpeabody.llnl.gov>

Several people said to try

'xv' on www.sunfreeware.com

But I ended up using the snapshop application that comes with Sun/CDE.
Right click and go to applications and the screenshot.

Below is my original question

I have a Solaris 9 box and would like to take some screen shots and
print them to my printer. I noticed there is a button on my Sun keyboard
that says "print screen" but it doesn't seem to be doing anything.

Does anyone know how to do this?

Thank You.
Dave Martini
LLNL
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From diggerthelab at gmail.com  Wed Mar 29 23:15:35 2006
From: diggerthelab at gmail.com (Paul Hunter)
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 23:15:35 -0500
Subject: SUMMARY: JASS - Solaris 10 and ssh
Message-ID: <37ed01ff0603292015r6a898630v6eff00d57a38cf76@mail.gmail.com>

JASS configures ssh to use tcp wrappers...... You will need to edit your
hosts.allow file and change LOCAL to ALL for sshd.

On 3/29/06, Paul Hunter <diggerthelab at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  After running JASS I can't seem to ssh from one specific host with CRT. I
> can ssh from other hosts without problems..........
>
> Any ideas as to what to check?
>
> Thanks
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From willay at gmail.com  Thu Mar 30 01:07:11 2006
From: willay at gmail.com (William)
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 07:07:11 +0100
Subject: SUMMARY: Sun Fire V210 no longer displaying on XVR-100
Message-ID: <a24358fb0603292207h282e70bq31cbca59ef396300@mail.gmail.com>

Dear all,

First off can I thank everyone that responded, more specifically Iain and
Aaron.

My issue was resolved by running the command 'eeprom
output-device=screen:r1024x768x75' as root

I ran the command from user land and waited for the nightly reboot,
hey presto all works fine the next morning.

Before my output-device was only set to 'screen'.

Thank you again.

Cheers,

William

On 24/03/06, William <willay at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> I have a batch of 6 V210's with the XVR-100 product installed, during
> the o/s installation I had the display working by setting the
> output-device variable and rebooting. Everything seemed fine until we
> had these racked up and in production, we are trying to use a new KVM
> system on the boxes but they are not responding on VGA at all.
>
> We have tried having the KVM installed correctly while the machines
> reboot but we are still getting a blank screen.
>
> When we plug in a standalone monitor and Sun KB (taking the KVM out of
> the equation) we get a white screen on the monitor and nothing else.
>
> Using prtdiag I can confirm it shows the graphics card as :
>
> 'SUNW,XVR-100 (Display)  SUNW,375-3181 okay /pci at 1d,700000/SUNW,XVR-100 at 1'
>
> Thank you for your time.
>
> Regards,
>
> Will
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From Ac6699 at wayne.edu  Thu Mar 30 15:00:25 2006
From: Ac6699 at wayne.edu (Mr. Johnson)
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:00:25 -0500
Subject: SUMMARY:WHO GETS ROOT
Message-ID: <200603302000.CJY14317@wayne.edu>

First off.Thank you for all of your replies, comments, suggestions and
humor, both public and private. It has been helpful, insightful and is much
appreciated. Now for the summery:

 

My original query with a "boiled down synopsis" of your answers:

 

1-Who has root access in your shop?

 

Root access should be controlled and restricted the admins responsible for
the operation of the server. However, many of you pointed out that this
policy may have to be flexible and adjusted to the situation depending to
the competency and professionalism of those who would have access.

 

.           In the end.. depending on the those that you must share the
access with some type of SLA and professional agreement/understanding must
be reach and abided by all who would have root access.

 

2- How is privilege access handled in your shop?

 

Sudo was the utility most used to deliver the correct access. However, many
of you in private messages did not even offer this option and required
duties that require root to be done by the sysadmins.No exceptions.


3-What risk do I run by having root out side of a controlled group?

 

I have two quotes that I believe will convey the general and most prevalent
thought from you on this subject:

 

            1-"Once you give out root, consider the system hosed."

      2-"Complete and utter annihilation of your functional network."

 

  Again Thank You all for the advice suggestions.
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From baby.david at celstream.com  Fri Mar 31 00:12:10 2006
From: baby.david at celstream.com (Baby David[IS])
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 10:42:10 +0530
Subject: SUMMARY: login issue with solaris 8
Message-ID: <CCEE49B9CE065146BA4FE34B2748A53292D935@CEL-BANGT-M01.celstream-in.com>

Thanks All,
                    The issue with /etc/nologin file, I just removed
this it is working fine.

David

-----Original Message-----
From: sunmanagers-bounces at sunmanagers.org
[mailto:sunmanagers-bounces at sunmanagers.org] On Behalf Of Baby David[IS]
Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 9:07 PM
To: sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org
Subject: login issue with solaris 8

Hi All,

            I am facing a serious issue with SunFire V440 machine
running on solaris 8.



As a root user I can login through telnet or ssh. When I try to login as
a normal user it is showing following error, after giving the password.



login: check

Password:

Hi,



Server is going to maintainence mode.

We'll let you know once the server is up.



Regards,

Administrator.

Connection closed by foreign host.



Note: some user know the root password of this system, I understood some
script is running.



Pls. help me to solve this issue. I will summarize the result.



Regards,

David



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From Rob.Hutten at nrc-cnrc.gc.ca  Fri Mar 31 09:49:21 2006
From: Rob.Hutten at nrc-cnrc.gc.ca (Hutten, Rob)
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 09:49:21 -0500
Subject: Summary: SVM - Uninitializing an unattached metadevice?
Message-ID: <F3E636F6A26F6C45883BD71EFC382061C2C1E4@nrccenexb4.nrc.ca>

Hi all,

Many thanks to Steve Sandau, Abhilash Mana, Alex Stade, Chad Truhn, Ravi
? and Andrew Hay for educating me on the "metaclear" command.  As Alex
wrote:

> You do need to clear d20 before making a new partition that will
> presumably become d20 later;
>
> metaclear d20
>
> But no, it shouldn't be attached to d0. You could always check first
> with the metastat(1M) command;
>
> metastat d0

Cheers,
-Rob

Rob Hutten
Research Informatics Team
NRC Institute for Marine Biosciences
1411 Oxford St., Halifax NS
902.426.6773
Rob.Hutten at nrc-cnrc.gc.ca
-----Original Message-----
From: sunmanagers-bounces at sunmanagers.org
[mailto:sunmanagers-bounces at sunmanagers.org] On Behalf Of Hutten, Rob
Sent: March 29, 2006 12:35 PM
To: sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org
Subject: SVM - Uninitializing an unattached metadevice?

Hi all,

I'm using Solaris Volume Manager (3.0,REV=2005.01.09.23.05) under
Solaris 10 to set up a mirrored root disk on a V100x with two 72g drives
as per InfoDoc 28196.

I've realized - too late - that my second drive (c0t2d0) doesn't match
the main drive (c0t0d0) with respect to its partitions.  When I try to
attach the second drive's metadevice (d20) to the mirror (d0), I get:

  #/ metattach d0 d20
  metattach: ahiranew: d20: submirror too small to attach

I know I need to repartition c0t2d0; my question is: do I need to
somehow "uninitialize" d20 before repartitioning, or am I in the clear
where it's not actually attached to d0, on which the root filesystem is
mounted?  I can't find anything relevant in the man pages or sunsolve
site.

I'll summarize any responses here - thanks.
-Rob

Rob Hutten
Research Informatics Team
NRC Institute for Marine Biosciences
1411 Oxford St., Halifax NS
902.426.6773
Rob.Hutten at nrc-cnrc.gc.ca
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From crist.clark at globalstar.com  Fri Mar 31 20:40:55 2006
From: crist.clark at globalstar.com (Crist Clark)
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 17:40:55 -0800
Subject: SUMMARY: Flashing Power Indicator on Sun Monitor
In-Reply-To: <442DC5E2.5050802@globalstar.com>
References: <442DC5E2.5050802@globalstar.com>
Message-ID: <442DDA27.3040605@globalstar.com>

Thank you to Charles Rawls who must know some magical SunSolve judo fu.
He sent a copy of the user's manual he claims to have found in some
hidden crevice of SunSolve. I can't find anything there.

The verdict: It appears my monitor is ill. I am supposed to count the
seconds between flashes and call my authorized Sun dealer to inform
them of the monitor's condition.

I'm thinking boat anchor.

Crist Clark wrote:
> I've got a Sun monitor here that doesn't seem to work. This is a rather
> common (around here anyway) GDM-5010PD model. It is one of the dual
> input monitors. Neither seems to work. When I power the monitor up,
> the light over the power switch in the center comes on green, but after
> a few seconds begins to flash amber. Usually, that light goes solid
> amber if there is no signal or the monitor goes to sleep. I get the
> flashing amber whether using the Sun jack or the VGA. The systems it
> doesn't work with work fine on other monitors.
> 
> So, is my monitor busted or something simple to fix? I can't seem to
> Google documentation on these monitors, just a sea of resellers.
-- 
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Globalstar Communications                                (408) 933-4387
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