From eva.szabadkai at gmail.com Fri Jun 1 03:30:27 2007 From: eva.szabadkai at gmail.com (Eva Szabadkai) Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2007 09:30:27 +0200 Subject: SUMMARY:IP filtering Message-ID: <546025db0706010030x2555cbabh26915c6332b952e4@mail.gmail.com> Thanks very much to Adrian Cole Moti Levy Gary Hyman John Hallman Brian Dunbar Most of them suggested me to use ipfilter or SunScreen, I have chosen ipfilter and this solved my problem perfectly. http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/features/articles/ipfilter.html http://www.cites.uiuc.edu/wsg/talks/ipfilter/index.html Original message: Hi Gurus, I have 2 box, A and B running Solaris9, on the same switch and I'd like to prevent any incoming IP packets from A to B host. I want to avoid using router or any extra hw, is there any solution in solaris9? The above switch is not standalone, it is connected to our network with other computers. A and B should IP communicate with other computers on the network. Brgds,Eva _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers From Jonathan.Birchall at Xchanging.com Fri Jun 1 03:05:10 2007 From: Jonathan.Birchall at Xchanging.com (Jonathan Birchall) Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2007 08:05:10 +0100 Subject: Summary :Re: ref root passwd problem Message-ID: <4031373E16D64B4F9676FF9FAA2DD735018C2FF4@EXCHANGE02.ad.xglobal.com> Thanks for all the replies, however the suggestion - boot from CDROM was not an option as this is a production machine and we would have done this if possible. The solution to getting over the initial problem was to modify vi with suid on a machine with an nfs mount and copy this to nfs mounted file system, bad practice I know to have this writable by root but that's what the client needed. We could then edit the shadow file and get access. However, the question as to why the prompt came back immediately, rather than the pause is puzzling, as is why the restoring of a known good shadow file didn't allow login, I suspect password aging but maybe someone could expand on this. Regards Jonathan _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers From mike.salehi at inbox.com Fri Jun 1 15:33:17 2007 From: mike.salehi at inbox.com (Mike Salehi) Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2007 11:33:17 -0800 Subject: summary : console logger Message-ID: <257C88AE0B2.000004CAmike.salehi@inbox.com> There were 2 kinds of answers 1- Many of the terminal servers do it and its the right place, some messages come from eeprom and the terminal server should do it. 2- www.conserver.com seems like a good solution, but may be too much of a solution for my need. I was looking for a solution like "xterm -C" uses, small program to open the console device and log to a file. "Out beyond ideas of wrong doing and right doing, there is a field; I'll meet you there."-- Rumi _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers From mohr at emns.com Mon Jun 4 18:21:58 2007 From: mohr at emns.com (Wilson Mohr) Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2007 17:21:58 -0500 Subject: Summary: Re: Service light is on....nobody's home. In-Reply-To: <4AE659A2271399438527DEE888E5440C034F0308@HEMV2CUKER.he.local> References: <46644DAB.4000706@emns.com> <4AE659A2271399438527DEE888E5440C034F0308@HEMV2CUKER.he.local> Message-ID: <46649086.3000604@emns.com> And the Winner is...!! Thnx Joe! On 6/4/2007 4:16 PM, joe fletcher wrote: > Usually a mismatch between OBP and SC firmware. > > Cheers > > > > ________________________________ > > From: sunmanagers-bounces at sunmanagers.org on behalf of Wilson Mohr > Sent: Mon 04/06/2007 18:36 > To: sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org > Subject: Service light is on....nobody's home. > > > > I have a couple of different boxes (all 1U however) that have the front > panel > service light on, but prtdiag -v shows nothing out of the norm (other than > it shows the light is on!) > > Any ideas of where to delve deeper to find out why this is doing this > and/or > how to reset this? thnx!! > _______________________________________________ > sunmanagers mailing list > sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org > http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers From gary.paveza at AIG.COM Wed Jun 6 15:13:29 2007 From: gary.paveza at AIG.COM (Paveza, Gary) Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 14:13:29 -0500 Subject: SUMMARY veritas mailing list Message-ID: <011075EF5ED23844A1CAA16F7DE7F7D70BA93BFB@xwilmbx10.aigm.com> http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-ha http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-vx http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-app -----Original Message----- From: Paveza, Gary Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 02:45 PM Eastern Standard Time To: 'sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org' Subject: veritas mailing list Does anyone know of a veritas mailing list? In particular Veritas clustering? _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers From Matthew.Stier at us.fujitsu.com Thu Jun 7 09:58:08 2007 From: Matthew.Stier at us.fujitsu.com (Matthew Stier) Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2007 09:58:08 -0400 Subject: SUMMARY: Requesting recommendations for open source webmail software Message-ID: <46680EF0.2020808@us.fujitsu.com> Nearly every response pointed me to SquirrelMail. I did get a few responses suggesting RoundCube, Horde IMP, and OpenWebMail. > Due to network access changes, I need to add a webmail interfaces to > our email server. Any suggestions? > > The only requirements so far, are IMAP access to e-mail, and LDAP > address to the corporate directory server. _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers [demime 1.01b removed an attachment of type text/x-vcard which had a name of Matthew.Stier.vcf] _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers From asaenz at Found-Tech.com Thu Jun 7 15:49:46 2007 From: asaenz at Found-Tech.com (Al Saenz) Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 15:49:46 -0400 Subject: SUMMARY: Sun Fire x2100 dvd device path, How to mount dvd Message-ID: Thank you all esp. Ryan and Stuart Remember I don't have volmgt installed or I could have just typed (assuming it wasn't running): /etc/init.d/volmgt start Oops still use to working with cdrom perhaps touch dvdrom would be a better choice. My exact steps: #touch cdrom # iostat -En c0t0d0 Soft Errors: 4 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0 Vendor: TEAC Product: DV-28E-N Revision: P.6A Serial No: Size: 3.03GB <3025141760 bytes> Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0 Illegal Request: 4 Predictive Failure Analysis: 0 # # mount -F hsfs -o ro /dev/dsk/c0t0d0p0 /cdrom # cd /cdrom # ls Copyright boot JDS-THIRDPARTYLICENSEREADME installer Solaris_10 I forgot about looking in path_to_inst file, will do next time. -----Responses------ From: Ryan Try 'iostat -En'. From: Stuart # grep -i cdrom|dvd /etc/path_to_inst -----Original Message----- From: sunmanagers-bounces at sunmanagers.org [mailto:sunmanagers-bounces at sunmanagers.org] On Behalf Of Al Saenz Sent: 07 June 2007 20:13 To: sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org Subject: Sun Fire x2100 dvd device path Dear Managers, I searched hi and low for this and to be honest I couldn't find much about device paths period. How can I determine what my dvd-rom device path is? I need to mount it and I don't have volume manager installed on the system. Why the heck doesn't sun make this kind of stuff easily available??? This is what I used for my Supermicro x86 system mount -F hsfs -o ro /dev/dsk/c1t0d0p0 /cdrom I know that c1t0d0p0 is just a link to the /devices/* . Thanks Al _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers From a.altwaijiry at mobily.com.sa Mon Jun 11 08:42:48 2007 From: a.altwaijiry at mobily.com.sa (Ahmed F. Al Twaijiry) Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 15:42:48 +0300 Subject: SUMMARY: Copy many small files Message-ID: <9EACD47023BFF64AB59E9089DB18AC1F07AFCFA2@RUH-001-MX-001.prod.mobily.lan> I received many solutions and answers from everyone, So THANK YOU . Now I will give you some of the nice solutions that I receive and I will tell you how we decree the time from ~12 hours to ~6 hours :) Steve reply to me with: Have you tried using rsync? Rsync is good if we want to copy the same files, because it will check if the file same it will not copy it. But for us it's will incress the time, since it will check for every file and then will copy it (because we always copy different files) Casper reply to me with: There are two possible causes of slow copies: inefficiencies in the "scp" protocol and the expense of creating so many files on Windows. > yes, this is why we use rsh now ( see my solution below) Aaron reply to me with: taring and copying a single tar file should be MUCH faster than trying to do this with 140000 files... > creating the tar will take long time also untaring it will take time. Mehran reply to me with: Use Samba. to share the directory with the PC, then its a local copy on the PC. Have lots of memory on the PC. > this is good if we have the two machine near to each other, but it's far way. Matthew reply to me with: Can you transfer via "sneakernet", that is copy the files to an external device (SCSI, Firewire, USB2) and them move them physically? > we tried this, there is no much improvement, but we discover that there is a heavy IO work in the server so we decide to do it in other way (see below) I also got many solutions from other people, I really want to thank them all (and sorry if I didn't write your name, I just select the names randomly) Now the solution we did to cut the time from 12 hours to 6 hours is this; The problem (again :) is that we have many files generated every month in Unix server and we must copy it as soon as we can to another Windows server in different area , the problem is that the files around 400k files and very small the total size is 150GB So what we did is this: 1. We notice there is a lot of IO in the server so we bought a small server and we create a metaset between these two server, so when the user want to generate the files we switch the filesystem to the first server, and when he want to transfer it we switch the file system to the new server and he start the copy from the new server With this method the time went from 12 hours to 9 hours. 2. Instead of using ssh to copy we installed cygwin in the windows server and we start using rcp to do the copy with multi sessions (around 12 rcp process doing the copy in the same time.) And this way we got it done in 6 hours :) There is another test we want to do by taring the file on the fly and untar it when we receive it, I will tell you about it when we do it. Again, THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR HELP ;-) ------- Ahmad F. 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The use of EEC(Mobily) e-mail service is limited for EEC(Mobily) business use only. _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers From k.ruiter at nl.aswatson.com Tue Jun 12 04:23:28 2007 From: k.ruiter at nl.aswatson.com (Ruiter de, Klaas) Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 10:23:28 +0200 Subject: SUMMARY: (re)boot -r on Solaris 8 with Ibm SVC reshuffles vpaths In-Reply-To: <994E69B4B627F54FA6877613C9A89560049B09D9@rw-mail2.cenet.ict> Message-ID: <994E69B4B627F54FA6877613C9A89560049B09FD@rw-mail2.cenet.ict> Thanks to Vikash, who hits the button. The solution was to use persistent binding in the Qlogic config. Thanks. Klaas -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: Ruiter de, Klaas Verzonden: zondag 10 juni 2007 14:16 Aan: 'sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org' Onderwerp: (re)boot -r on Solaris 8 with Ibm SVC reshuffles vpaths Hi, Hope someone can help me. We have a Fujitsu Primepower 850, with Solaris 8 and Solaris Volume Manager and Qlogic 2300 hba's. The server is connected to a Ibm SVC 4.1 and the Ibm sdd driver is installed. When we map a vdisk to the server we have to reboot the server to get the new lun. According to the Ibm documentation we have to do a boot -r. After a reboot -r the existing vpaths are reshuffeled, which causes that Disksuite doesn't recognise the filesystems anymore. For example, before the reboot vpath1=20Gb and vpath2=700Gb. After the boot -r, vpath1 = now vpath2 and vpath2=vpath1. To discover the new lun a normal boot (without -r) is fine. Without mapping a new vdisk a boot -r is also fine, it doesn't reshuffle the vpaths. Anyone an idea? Many thanks in advance. Klaas CONFIDENTIALITY NOTE: This e-mail is only intended For the person(s) to whom it is addressed and may contain confidential information. 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Wij danken u voor uw medewerking. _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers From jesse-carroll at usa.net Tue Jun 12 10:11:04 2007 From: jesse-carroll at usa.net (JESSE CARROLL) Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 10:11:04 -0400 Subject: SUMMARY (sort of) convert dpt raid to "normal" scsi Message-ID: <502LFLoke9156S08.1181657464@cmsweb08.cms.usa.net> I've had no hits on this so I guess it either can't be done or no one has really tried it. ------ Original Message ------ Received: Fri, 01 Jun 2007 09:14:12 AM EDT From: "JESSE CARROLL" To: Subject: convert dpt raid to "normal" scsi Situation: Sun 450 with 2 SRC/P DPT controllers (375-0078) to 2 expansion backplanes running Solaris 9. Everything works fine, but I want to upgrade to Solaris 10 (its a play box). Solaris 10 DOES NOT support the DPT controllers. Questions: Is there a way to convert the disks to "normal" scsi? I have at least 1 dual scsi adapter (375-3191) (and I think I can find at least 1 more). The controller to back plane ribbon cables look to be the same, so can I just change out the controllers and use the same cables? Or as an long shot, does anyone have access to the driver code so that we could try to compile it against Solaris 10? JC _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers From leakypuppy at gmail.com Tue Jun 12 10:23:45 2007 From: leakypuppy at gmail.com (James Rippas) Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 10:23:45 -0400 Subject: SUMMARY: Solaris 10 Jumpstart can you disable Java and widowing system Message-ID: <76d570f0706120723y2ebfee3cteae5c3b94900bc5@mail.gmail.com> Many thanks for the responses on this. I wanted to be able to jumpstart a solaris 10 host without Java and the windowing environment starting. 1) To jumpstart w/out windowing use either "install nowin" or "install w" as in: boot net install - nowin 2) The java solution is not as pretty but I was able to disable java from starting during jumpstart by editing the following file: 10-1106/Solaris_10/Tools/Boot/sbin/install-setup The bits that startup java are found below, I was able to comment out this section of code and disable java from loading: ## # Install java into /tmp/root if java not already installed and # we have enough virtual memory #if [ ! -x /usr/bin/java -a $PHYSMEM -ge $MIN_JAVA_INSTALL_PHYSMEM ] ; then # install_debug scripts "Have enough physical memory to install java: ${PHYSMEM}" # if [ -d /cdrom/Solaris_*/Product ] ; then # echo "Setting up Java. Please wait..." # install_debug scripts "Applying Java to miniroot..." # create_admin /tmp/admin.$$ # OUTFILE=`install_debug_file scripts` # /usr/sbin/pkgadd -n -R /tmp/root -d /cdrom/Solaris_*/Product \ # -a /tmp/admin.$$ SUNWj5rt >> ${OUTFILE:=/dev/null} 2>&1 # else # install_debug scripts "Didn't find /cdrom/Solaris_*/Product" # fi #else # install_debug scripts "Don't have enough physical memory to install java: ${PHYSMEM}" #fi ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: James Rippas Date: Jun 8, 2007 8:38 AM Subject: Solaris 10 Jumpstart can you disable Java and widowing system To: sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org I'm jumpstarting Solaris 10 hosts using DHCP. These are headless servers, no keyboard only a console attached. During jumpstart I notice the following messages on the console: Setting up Java. Please wait... Extracting windowing system. Please wait... Is it possible to disable Java and the windowing system for character-based installs? There is no _problem_, I'm just looking to save time during the install Thanks, _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers From dcw at doc.ic.ac.uk Thu Jun 14 14:39:42 2007 From: dcw at doc.ic.ac.uk (Duncan C White) Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 19:39:42 +0100 (BST) Subject: SUMMARY: how to stop serial "doorstopping" [stair-stepping] on sunfire v240? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hello all, On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, I wrote: > I've setup serial access to a Sunfire v240.. [but] once I boot Solaris 8 > all the "output" messages start "doorstepping" ... > > SunOS Release 5.8 Version Generic_117000-05 64-bit > Copyright 1983-2003 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved. > Hardware watchdog enabled > configuring IPv4 interfaces: bge0. > Hostname: pipit.doc.ic.ac.uk Many thanks to all who responded: Adam Kirby John O'Reilly Mike's List Crist Clark Edward Scown First off, my apologies for switching my brain off while posting this. Several people pointed out very politely that I meant "stair-stepping" not "door-st[oe]pping".. Sigh. I'm sure that's what I typed all along, isn't it?:-) Adam and John both correctly pointed out that Sunsolve document 40646 discussed the "stair-step" phenonemon during booting, this is caused by corrupted "serial" entries in /etc/path_to_inst. I'm not quite sure why the entries were corrupted - given that the server was freshly jumpstarted, the automated install had only just created /etc/path_to_inst! - but this was undeniably the cause. The sunsolve document suggests two remedies: 1. get solaris to rebuild /etc/path_to_inst by moving it sideways and rebooting with "boot -a" or "boot -ar". 2. hand editing the /etc/path_to_inst file, fixing the broken entries. I tried (1), ran into some further problems with it failing to look up the /dev and /devices entries for the root disk and not regenerating /etc/path_to_inst, backed out, and then successfully tried (2), fixing the problem completely. In particular, the initial "serial" entries (grep serial /etc/path_to_inst) were: "/pci at 1f,0/isa at 7/serial at 0,3f8" 0 "su" "/pci at 1f,0/isa at 7/serial at 0,2e8" 3 "su" "/pci at 1f,0/pci at 1,1/isa at 7/serial at 0,3f8" 1 "su" "/pci at 1f,0/pci at 1,1/isa at 7/serial at 0,2e8" 2 "su" "/pci at 1e,600000/isa at 7/serial at 0,3f8" 4 "su" "/pci at 1e,600000/isa at 7/serial at 0,2e8" 5 "su" and I replaced them with: "/pci at 1f,0/isa at 7/serial at 0,3f8" 0 "su" "/pci at 1e,600000/isa at 7/serial at 0,3f8" 1 "su" "/pci at 1e,600000/isa at 7/serial at 0,2e8" 2 "su" [i.e. kept the first, lost the 2nd-4th, and edited the "4","5" column to read "1","2" respectively..] and rebooted, all traces of stair-stepping are now gone, and tcsh doesn't even whine about "no job control" either:-) So, once more sun-managers rides to the rescue! Thanks very much everyone! [Perhaps if I'd managed to type "stair-stepping" into google/sunsolve I might have got somewhere without asking the list:-)] cheers, duncan --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Duncan C. White, Unix Systems Programmer, Dept of Computing, Imperial College, London, SW7 2BZ, UK. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ALL THE REAVERS IN THE 'VERSE: GRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR! - Serenity in 2000 words or less, Ron Swartzendruber --------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers From rbutler at ibc.cnr.it Mon Jun 18 13:06:22 2007 From: rbutler at ibc.cnr.it (Richard Butler) Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 19:06:22 +0200 Subject: SUMMARY Disk failure? Message-ID: <4676BB8E.9010903@ibc.cnr.it> Hi, I asked: > Yesterday I had a disk fail on a SunFire 280R Solaris 8. > The questions first: > Can the experts confirm my opinion that this is a hardware problem - > disk failure? Thanks to all those who gave help. (Roger Kynaston, Grant Lowe, Michael Grice, Brad Morrison and Abhijit Das). The consensus was that this was indeed a hardware disk failure - not the controller as this would have affected the other drive. This was confirmed using iostat which showed multiple hard errors and also by smartd which was unable to register the disk: Device: /dev/rdsk/c1t1d0s0, failed Test Unit Ready [err=-5], but did register the good one. smartd is part of the smartmontools package from SourceForge and, if I had had it installed, it might have given me advance warning of the failure. I also asked: > Have you any suggestions for recovering data from this drive (I do > have backups, but I would still lose some important data)? Suggestions were that I might be able to revive it temporarily by slapping it and/or putting it in the fridge for a couple of hours. Short of this forget it or the expensive data retrieval services. I can confirm that both methods have worked for me with PC disks in the past. Warning - don't try the fridge trick in a humid atmosphere or condensation can cause worse problems (if possible!). I tried both methods, but no luck. I have ordered a new drive and will recover what I can from backups. In addition I will probably install smartd on this and other servers. Thanks again Richard Butler Details of the original question: > > Symptoms: > This machine had two 72G disks (not mirrored) and during reboot after > installing the latest recommended patches I get the warning: > ... > Jun 14 12:06:30 ed pcisch: [ID 370704 kern.info] PCI-device: > SUNW,qlc at 4, qlc0 > Jun 14 12:06:30 ed genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] qlc0 is > /pci at 8,600000/SUNW,qlc at 4 > Jun 14 12:06:30 ed genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] fp0 is > /pci at 8,600000/SUNW,qlc at 4/fp at 0,0 > Jun 14 12:06:31 ed genunix: [ID 405830 kern.warning] WARNING: Device > ssd0 failed to power up. > Jun 14 12:06:32 ed genunix: [ID 749148 kern.warning] WARNING: Please > see your system administrator or reboot. > Jun 14 12:06:32 ed scsi: [ID 799468 kern.info] ssd0 at fp0: name > w21000004cf8e7591,0, bus address e8 > Jun 14 12:06:32 ed genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] ssd0 is > /pci at 8,600000/SUNW,qlc at 4/fp at 0,0/ssd at w21000004cf8e7591,0 > Jun 14 12:06:32 ed scsi: [ID 365881 kern.info] Vendor 'SEAGATE', > product 'ST373405FSUN72G', (unknown capacity) > Jun 14 12:06:32 ed genunix: [ID 408114 kern.info] > /pci at 8,600000/SUNW,qlc at 4/fp at 0,0/ssd at w21000004cf8e7591,0 (ssd0) online > Jun 14 12:06:32 ed scsi: [ID 799468 kern.info] ssd1 at fp0: name > w21000004cf8e7555,0, bus address ef > Jun 14 12:06:32 ed genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] ssd1 is > /pci at 8,600000/SUNW,qlc at 4/fp at 0,0/ssd at w21000004cf8e7555,0 > Jun 14 12:06:32 ed scsi: [ID 365881 kern.info] 2 hd 24 sec 424> > Jun 14 12:06:32 ed genunix: [ID 408114 kern.info] > /pci at 8,600000/SUNW,qlc at 4/fp at 0,0/ssd at w21000004cf8e7555,0 (ssd1) online > Jun 14 12:06:32 ed swapgeneric: [ID 308332 kern.info] root on > /pci at 8,600000/SUNW,qlc at 4/fp at 0,0/disk at w21000004cf8e7555,0:a fstype ufs > ... > And of course all the filesystems on this disk failed to fsck or > mount. > > Using format I can see the bad disk as c1t1d0 (although searching > for disks... seems to take longer than normal) > 0. c1t0d0 > /pci at 8,600000/SUNW,qlc at 4/fp at 0,0/ssd at w21000004cf8e7555,0 > 1. c1t1d0 > /pci at 8,600000/SUNW,qlc at 4/fp at 0,0/ssd at w21000004cf8e7591,0 > > If I go ahead and give the correct geometry I can then see the > partition table as I had it before the crash. > Part Tag Flag Cylinders Size Blocks > 0 root wm 0 - 412 2.00GB (413/0/0) > 4202688 > 1 swap wu 413 - 1237 4.00GB (825/0/0) > 8395200 > 2 backup wm 0 - 14086 68.35GB (14087/0/0) > 143349312 > 3 unassigned wm 1238 - 1240 14.91MB (3/0/0) > 30528 > 4 var wm 1241 - 2065 4.00GB (825/0/0) > 8395200 > 5 unassigned wm 2066 - 6187 20.00GB (4122/0/0) > 41945472 > 6 usr wm 6188 - 8248 10.00GB (2061/0/0) > 20972736 > 7 home wm 8249 - 14086 28.33GB (5838/0/0) > 59407488 > > I cannot however mount any partition: > mount /dev/dsk/c1t1d0s5 /mnt > mount: I/O error > mount: cannot mount /dev/dsk/c1t1d0s5 > _______________________________________________ > sunmanagers mailing list > sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org > http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers From Brandt.Alenier at L-3com.com Thu Jun 21 11:19:51 2007 From: Brandt.Alenier at L-3com.com (Alenier, Brandt @ ILEX) Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 11:19:51 -0400 Subject: ufsdump problem Message-ID: I am having a problem with ufsdump. It isn't waiting for me to change the tape when it hits the end-of-tape. I am running this command ${UFSDUMPHOME}/ufsdump ${1}fu /dev/rmt/2 ${VOBFILESYSTEM} And this is from the log file: DUMP: 89.45% done, finished in 2:12 DUMP: End-of-tape detected DUMP: Tape rewinding DUMP: Mounting volume #2 on sec_cc:/dev/rmt/2 DUMP: 89.84% done, finished in 2:07 DUMP: Change Volumes: Mount volume `#2' on `sec_cc:/dev/rmt/2' DUMP: NEEDS ATTENTION: Is the new volume (#2) mounted on `sec_cc:/dev/rmt/2' and ready to go?: ("yes" or "no") DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted. Does anybody know how to fix this problem? Thanks, Brandt DISCLAIMER: E-mail Confidentiality/Proprietary Notice: The information contained in this transmission is confidential/proprietary and may be subject to protection under the law. The message is intended for the sole use of the individual or entity to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, you are notified that any use, distribution or copying of the message is strictly prohibited. If you received this transmission in error, please contact the sender immediately by replying to this e-mail and delete the material from any computer. Thank you. From Tony.Mills at vcint.com Thu Jun 21 09:39:22 2007 From: Tony.Mills at vcint.com (Tony Mills) Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 15:39:22 +0200 Subject: SUMMARY: 6140 firmware upgrade. Message-ID: This is my original post below, I solved it by running the gui under firefox instead of I.E. DOH!!! Regards Tony Hi managers, I have 2 new 6140 storage arrays, when I try to register them I cannot get any further than the initiating in analyze storage system firmware. The versions are Cam 5.1.3.2 Solaris 10 Generic_125100-09 Sunfire v890 Sun4u I can register them manually using sscs, however I cannot upgrade the firmware as in the administration screen of cam I get the same issue. Any help would be greatly appreciated. ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers From aggunia at comcast.net Sat Jun 23 13:29:52 2007 From: aggunia at comcast.net (aggunia at comcast.net) Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 17:29:52 +0000 Subject: SUMMARY: UTF-8 and Crystal Reports on Solaris 9 SPARC Message-ID: <062320071729.22997.467D588F000E5789000059D522070215530E07029A09090E@comcast.net> Many thanks to those who helped, including Ed Scown and Sal Serafino. Two issues were involved with my problem of Crystal Reports throwing the following error upon starting it: "Crystal Enterprise currently only supports UTF-8. Please change your locale to UTF-8 and try again. Thank you for choosing Crystal Decisions." 1) Not all the Solaris 9 UTF-8 packages are installed by default. The following URL explains this: http://developers.sun.com/dev/gadc/techtips/sol9_locale_pkgs/americas.html#en_US.UTF-8-full This URL will explain the packages: http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-5769/6ml71em29?a=view So, I checked the system to see what packages were missing, and installed the following: SUNWinttf SUNWeu8df SUNWeuluf SUNWeu8os SUNWeulux SUNWeu8ox SUNWeudba SUNWeudda SUNWeudhr SUNWeudis SUNWeudiv SUNWeudlg SUNWeudmg SUNWeuezt SUNWdthed (required due to dependency) SUNWdtab (required due to dependency) SUNWeudbd SUNWeudhs SUNWsregu (required due to dependency) SUNWeusru SUNWeuhed 2) I also needed to add the following to the top of Crystal's env.sh script: LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8 ; export LC_MONETARY LC_NUMERIC=en_US.UTF-8 ; export LC_NUMERIC LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8 ; export LC_MESSAGES LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8 ; export LC_COLLATE LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 ; export LC_CTYPE LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8 ; export LC_TIME After performing the above, Crystal Reports now starts. Thanks all, and sorry for the late summary. Anthony _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers From yatcilla at purdue.edu Mon Jun 25 11:01:46 2007 From: yatcilla at purdue.edu (Doug Yatcilla) Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 11:01:46 -0400 Subject: SUMMARY: Lost access to Solaris 10 11/06 after renaming /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2 Message-ID: <20070625150146.GD2442@purdue.edu> There were 11 replies (most of them on a Friday afternoon; thanks!) Even though, I had lost the ability to log in as root or any other user into the global zone, a few suggested renaming the file from a NFS client with root access to /usr/lib (but I was not sharing that filesystem) or getting root access via another program (such as modifing a script run by root's crontab.) But, the lack of libxml2.so seemed to have also shut down cron (even through "svcs cron" reported it was still online and neither /var/svc/log/system-cron:default.log nor /var/adm/messages had errors.) A few scolded me for renaming a system library and expecting things to keep working. I had no idea that libxml2.so was so vital for keeping the system going or that the system would fail so ungracefully (no errors or warning in log files.) But, it is of course a point well taken (I'll restrict troubleshooting software to a throw-away system in the future.) By the way, the application ran fine once I renamed the Solaris supplied /usr/lib/libxml2.so file. So, the next step is to figure out how to properly compile the application to use /opt/csw/lib/libxml2.so and stop touching /usrlib/libxml2.so, but that is another story. Most of the suggestions told me to reboot from Solaris CD/DVD media (but no built in CD/DVD in a Sun X4500; could have tried to plug an external CD/DVD drive with USB or a USB flash drive, I guess.) Since this is server runs the x86 edition of Solaris, it boots to the GRUB menu and gives the option of a booting to a "failsafe kernel", which I presume is the same thing as booting from the Solaris CD/DVD. I did not need to use the failsafe kernel, though, because I could just let the system boot up normally and I was able to log in without problems. Although some XML related services didn't start (system/fmd & system/pools; zones failed to start, etc.) I was able to rename the library, reboot, and everything was back to normal. I considered myself lucky. I opened a support case with Sun about this problem and got a surprising quick response. The party line was to reboot from the CD media. They would not speculate as to why a missing libxml2.so caused the problems or any other way to fix it. Even though I did not use the failsafe kernel, I dread having to use it. Since I use Solaris Volume Manager to mirror the root filesystem, the failsafe kernel complains that it cannot mount it on /a. So, what good is this for me? If I cannot mount the root filesystem directly, I would need to do all of this: 1. Know ahead of time which disks and slices contain each part of the mirror containing the root partition. 2. Choose one root filesystem slice and manually mount it on /a 3. Change /a/etc/vfstab so that the root filesystem is mounted from the slice mounted on /a instead of the metadevice 4. Do whatever maintenance I need to do on the root filesystem. 5. Reboot the system back to the normal kernel 6. If the original problem is fixed, then I need to set up the root filesystem mirror again (using metaroot, etc.) 7. Need to reboot again to get the root mirror back in place. What a runaround! Would be worth trying the procedure described in Sun document 75210 "Solaris[TM] Volume Manager Software and Solstice DiskSuite[TM] Software Mounting Metadevices" from May 2005 that describes how to mount metadevices after booting from a Solaris 9 CD. Thanks again to the generous folks who volunteered advice: Gaziz Nugmanov Mike Salehi "James W. Abendschan" Edward Scown Brad Morrison Ric Anderson Rainer.Heilke!AT!atcoitek*DOT*com Alan Pae Paul Richards "Cole, William" "Lineberger, Aaron" ----- Original Message ----- Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 14:51:38 -0400 To: sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org Subject: Lost access to Solaris 10 11/06 after renaming /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2 While troubleshooting an application software problem, I renamed the /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2 in the global zone on a Sun X4500 running Solaris 10 11/06. This act, done in desperation, turned out to have a bad side effect. The problem is that I cannot figure out how to rename it back: $ sudo mv libxml2.so.2-dist libxml2.so.2 ld.so.1: sudo: fatal: libxml2.so.2: open failed: No such file or directory ld.so.1: sudo: fatal: relocation error: file /usr/lib/libproject.so.1: symbol pool_get_binding: referenced symbol not found Killed $ su Password: ld.so.1: su: fatal: libxml2.so.2: open failed: No such file or directory ld.so.1: su: fatal: relocation error: file /usr/lib/libproject.so.1: symbol pool_get_binding: referenced symbol not found Killed I tried logging in from the system console and that failed for presumingly the same reason also. I speculate the problem to be that the /usr/lib/libproject.so has a (now unresolved) dependency on the libxml and libproject is needed to login. I could have avoided this by having a root shell open somewhere, but I did not do that. I cannot log into the system as any user (including root.) I am surprised to see that the Solaris zones running on the same system are not affected by this. That is, I can log into them without problems (even though /usr/lib is read-only mounted to the zones) Is there any hope of getting root access to the system without a reboot? Will the system even work if I reboot? I experimented on a Solaris 10 11/06 system running on a PC. I renamed the same libxml2.so.2 file and power cycled the system. It started back up again (a few XML related services failed to start) But, I was able to log in without problem as root and rename the library. I thought maybe the /sbin/su.static would let me log in without needing anyting in /usr/lib. But, the /sbin/su.static is not setuid-root! So, it does not work. On the test system, I made it setuid-root and I was able to log in as root even with the missing libxml2.so. But, I cannot do that on the production system since I cannot run any command as root! What is the point of the /sbin/su.static? Thanks for any advice. I will summarize any responses. Thanks, Doug _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers ----- End forwarded message ----- _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers From jgallant77 at yahoo.com Tue Jun 26 09:53:03 2007 From: jgallant77 at yahoo.com (Joshua Gallant) Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 06:53:03 -0700 (PDT) Subject: SUMMARY: SunSSH problem with expired passwords In-Reply-To: <641442.61630.qm@web63906.mail.re1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <207679.41792.qm@web63901.mail.re1.yahoo.com> Hello Everyone, Thanks to everyone who responded. With all the little pieces offered I seem to have put together the answers I was looking for. I guess older versions of SSH would allow a connection to the machine when a password was expired. The machine would then prompt for a new password or disconnect if a password change failed. With the new versions of SSH the system will not allow that connection with the expired password using password authentication. The correct way to go about this is to use keyboard-interactive authentication which works fine. The problem is the client software I use doesn't support that at this time. With the emulation the system uses there just aren't a lot of options. Thanks again! Josh --- Joshua Gallant wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I've tried searching for answers on google but have > come up empty so figured I would try the mailing > list > route next. Here's my dilemma: > > My company currently uses a terminal emulation > software called anzio to connect to a Solaris 9 4/03 > box via SSH. The server runs "SSH Version > Sun_SSH_1.0.1" for server software and things work > perfectly. > > We're in the process of configuring a new machine > running Solaris 10 11/06 with "Sun_SSH_1.1" running. > > The problem arises when a users password has > expired. > More specifically, if we use the "passwd -f" option > to > set a user to change their password during the next > login then their login is rejected. > > I've run the server in debug mode and used a > SecureCRT > session with trace options turned on and found that > when the password is expired the server switches to > keyboard-interactive mode. It seems that the client > software we use supports password mode but not > keyboard-interactive. > > Here are a few relevant settings from my sshd_config > file: > > # To disable tunneled clear text passwords, change > PasswordAuthentication to no. > PasswordAuthentication yes > > # Use PAM via keyboard interactive method for > authentication. > # Depending on the setup of pam.conf(4) this may > allow > tunneled clear text > # passwords even when PasswordAuthentication is set > to > no. This is dependent > # on what the individual modules request and is out > of > the control of sshd > # or the protocol. > PAMAuthenticationViaKBDInt yes > > It seems that the new version of SSH works > differently > than the old. Anyone else run into this problem? > Anyone have any ideas that might help me? > > Thanks in advance for any help you can offer. > > Josh > _______________________________________________ > sunmanagers mailing list > sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org > http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers From yatcilla at purdue.edu Thu Jun 28 11:03:21 2007 From: yatcilla at purdue.edu (Doug Yatcilla) Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 11:03:21 -0400 Subject: FOLLOWUP to SUMMARY: Lost access to Solaris 10 11/06 after renaming /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2 In-Reply-To: <20070625150146.GD2442@purdue.edu> References: <20070625150146.GD2442@purdue.edu> Message-ID: <20070628150321.GA30762@purdue.edu> For anybody who is interested, a clever sunmanagers.org reader described a way to solve this problem without a reboot (but I found out after I had already rebooted to fix the problem.) > Even though, I had lost the ability to log in as root or any > other user into the global zone, a few suggested renaming the file > from a NFS client with root access to /usr/lib (but I was not sharing > that filesystem) or getting root access via another program (such as > modifing a script run by root's crontab.) But, the lack of libxml2.so > seemed to have also shut down cron (even through "svcs cron" reported it > was still online and neither /var/svc/log/system-cron:default.log nor > /var/adm/messages had errors.) The broken server was already exporting several NFS filesystems (and "nosetuid" NFS option was NOT set). I logged into one of the NFS client systems as root and created either of these programs and chown root + chmod 4755 (to make them setuid-root on execution): In perl: #!/usr/bin/perl $> = 0; $< = 0; $ENV{PATH}="/usr/bin"; system("/bin/sh"); In C: main() { setuid(0); seteuid(0); system("/bin/sh"); } Now, back on the broken system/NFS server, I just needed to execute either program to get a root shell. I duplicated my original problem on a test system and was able to successfully gain root access. Amazing! This tip courtesy of to "James W. Abendschan" I hope I never need to do something like that again. Thanks also for a reminder to have a healthy respect for ways to workaround system security using NFS! Also, I had unkind words about system recovery: > Even though I did not use the failsafe kernel, I dread having to use > it. Since I use Solaris Volume Manager to mirror the root filesystem, > the failsafe kernel complains that it cannot mount it on /a. So, what > good is this for me? If I cannot mount the root filesystem directly, > I would need to do all of this: Hidden in the Solaris documentation is a clear description of how to mount a SVM mirrored filesystem on a Solaris 10 system: http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/816-4520/6manpieqm?a=viewo (warning: outrageously slow docs.sun.com site!) You still need to know ahead of time a disk slice containing at least one side of your root filesystem mirror (or use format to examine disks and take a guess.) But, using "update_drv" works better than the procedure I described earlier. It works for both x86 and SPARC versions of Solaris. If you are using x86 Solaris with GRUB boot menu and want to boot to single-user mode and forgot to restart your system with "reboot -- -s", then you can wait until the GRUB menu appears and edit the entry that boots the system. Press the "e" key to edit, then modify the "kernel" line to add a "-s" to it, then select it to be booted and it will boot to the single-user milestone. Thanks also to: Brad Morrison Dan Lorenzini _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers From vhope07 at gmail.com Thu Jun 28 21:03:44 2007 From: vhope07 at gmail.com (Virginia Hope) Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 11:03:44 +1000 Subject: Summary: Installing Java Desktop Message-ID: I attempted installing a bunch of packages but to no success. The desktop came up but (namely gnome-panel) was broken. The only way was a clean re-install. On 6/22/07, Virginia Hope wrote: > > Ok, i feel stupid asking this, but I couldn't find what I wanted from > Google or Bigadmin. I have a SunBlade 100 with Solaris 10 on and CDE > installed. I want to install the Java Desktop, but don't want to download > everything since Solaris 10 packages are available locally on NFS. Which > packages should I install? Do I need to install all the SUNWgnome* packages > or others? _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers From kbhusal at gmail.com Fri Jun 29 17:12:22 2007 From: kbhusal at gmail.com (Kamal Bhusal) Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 16:12:22 -0500 Subject: SUMMARY:NIS password change issue Message-ID: <6534b62b0706291412s24a5bb86v64cbfbbf9f9c3a7@mail.gmail.com> *NIS password issue has been resolved. The main problem was on is command itself. I checked the script yppasswd and the PATH to the passwd file was commented out. I simply pointed to the location of the NIS database and reload the yppasswd; after that it simply worked. ETCDIR=/var/PATH_TO_NIS_DATABASE not path to the NIS MAPS. My original question. Managers, I tried to change the password for a user but it failed. I believe someone might have faced similar kind of problem, When I tried to change a password as a normal user*, I got the following error [kamal at s00 ~]$ passwd Changing password for user kamal. passwd: Authentication token manipulation error [kamal at s00 ~]$ [kamal at s00 ~]$ yppasswd Changing NIS account information for kamal on s00. Please enter old password: Changing NIS password for kamal on s00. Please enter new password: Please retype new password: Error while changing the NIS password. The NIS password has not been changed on s00. [kamal at s00 ~]$ *As Admin* [root at s00 etc]# yppasswd kamal Changing NIS account information for kamal on s00. Please enter root password: Changing NIS password for kamal on s00. Please enter new password: Please retype new password: Error while changing the NIS password. The NIS password has not been changed on s00. -- Life is beautiful _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers