From alex.wilkinson at dsto.defence.gov.au  Tue May  1 04:53:44 2007
From: alex.wilkinson at dsto.defence.gov.au (Wilkinson, Alex)
Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 16:53:44 +0800
Subject: [SUMMARY] [dladm(1m)] Link Aggregation Question ...
In-Reply-To: <20070424050832.GA60586@obelix.dsto.defence.gov.au>
References: <20070424050832.GA60586@obelix.dsto.defence.gov.au>
Message-ID: <20070501085343.GL11044@obelix.dsto.defence.gov.au>

Generally speaking you do have to set up LACP
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LACP] on the switch ports.

So: 1. Set up LACP on your switch
    2. Set up Link Aggregation via dladm(1m) on Solaris.

See the following discussion:
[http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=20152]

Thanks to:

   Darren Dunham
   Johan Hartzenbe


Original Question:

    0n Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 01:08:32PM +0800, Wilkinson, Alex wrote: 

    >Hi all,
    >
    >I have link aggregation set up on a T2000 via 4 e1000g(7D) ports.
    >
    >   key: 1 (0x0001) policy: L4      address: 0:14:4f:2:7f:38 (auto)
    >      device       address                 speed           duplex  link state
    >      e1000g0      0:14:4f:2:7f:38   1000  Mbps    full    up      attached
    >      e1000g1      0:14:4f:2:7f:39   1000  Mbps    full    up      attached
    >      e1000g2      0:14:4f:2:7f:3a   1000  Mbps    full    up      attached
    >      e1000g3      0:14:4f:2:7f:3b   1000  Mbps    full    up      attached
    >
    >Question:
    >
    >Do I need to turn on EtherChannel (LACP or PAgP) on my Cisco switch also ?
    >Or will just having nick aggregation set up via dladm(1m) on Solaris be enough ?
    >
    > -aW


 -aW

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From mrbill at mrbill.net  Tue May  1 12:20:33 2007
From: mrbill at mrbill.net (Bill Bradford)
Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 11:20:33 -0500
Subject: SUMMARY:  DDS-3 drive configuration on Sol10
In-Reply-To: <20070501152839.GG588@mrbill.net>
References: <20070501152839.GG588@mrbill.net>
Message-ID: <20070501162033.GJ588@mrbill.net>

On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 10:28:39AM -0500, Bill Bradford wrote:
> Finally, I dug up these settings from an old shipped-with-solaris st.conf
> file circa 2003 (with product IDs changed to match the drive output):
> "ARCHIVE IBM-STD224000N!", "Seagate DAT", "ARCH_04106";
> ARCH_04106 = 1, 0x2C, 0, 0x09639, 4, 0x00, 0x8C, 0x8C, 0x8C, 3;
> Same result:
> root at bradford:/> mt -f /dev/rmt/0n status
> /dev/rmt/0n: no tape loaded or drive offline

The problem was that I was trying to use the wrong tape device.  
I'd been told that the tape was written to the "0mb" device on the origin
system.  Turns out I needed to use the "0lb" device to extract the data.

root at bradford:/> ls -al /dev/nrst*
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           8 Apr 30 15:58 /dev/nrst12 ->
rmt/0mbn
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           8 Apr 30 15:58 /dev/nrst20 ->
rmt/0hbn
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           8 Apr 30 15:58 /dev/nrst28 ->
rmt/0cbn
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           8 Apr 30 15:58 /dev/nrst4 ->
rmt/0lbn

Tried to use the 0mb device:

root at bradford:/tape> mt -f /dev/nrst12 status
/dev/nrst12: no tape loaded or drive offline

Tried the 0hb device for the heck of it:

root at bradford:/tape> mt -f /dev/nrst20 status
/dev/nrst20: no tape loaded or drive offline

but the 0lb device worked:

root at bradford:/tape> mt -f /dev/nrst4 status
Seagate DAT tape drive:
   sense key(0x5)= Illegal Request   residual= 0   retries= 0
   file no= 0   block no= 0

root at bradford:/tape> tar xvf /dev/nrst4
<files coming off the tape>

Bill

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From meystel at icompsol.com  Tue May  1 13:30:21 2007
From: meystel at icompsol.com (Michael A. Meystel)
Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 13:30:21 -0400
Subject: SUMMARY: How to configure Sun Ray clients with old firmware?
Message-ID: <20070501172447.M86934@icompsol.com>

Hello,

Many thanks to all who responded to my newbie Sun Ray config question!

-Mike

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

Original question (paraphrased):

How can I get older Sun Ray 1 and 150 clients to upgrade their firmware? What
is a dedicated interconnect and how do I set one up?

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

Respondents:
   - Tim Chipman ( tchipman (-at-) gmail.com )
   - Vikash Gupta ( vikashgupta (-at-) yahoo.com )
   - Richard Skelton ( Richard.Skelton (-at-) infineon.com )

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

Summary:

A dedicated interconnect is a network segment that is not connected
to anything other than the Sun Ray server and Sun Ray clients, and
has no routing other than to the Sun Ray server.

I did wind up uninstalling SRSS and reinstalling it -- until I did
that, no amount of invocation of utadm would get the dedicated
interconnect to work properly. After I reinstalled, all of my clients
were able to get the new firmware and things are working great now.

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

Tim Chipman ( tchipman (-at-) gmail.com )

- Dedicated interconnect means a private network structure

- In a configuration where the Sun Ray server has two NICs,
one NIC would need to be connected to a switch or hub that
has no route to the outside world and the only other devices
attached to this network segment are Sun Ray clients

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

Vikash Gupta ( vikashgupta (-at-) yahoo.com )

We can setup you existing Sunray Server to act as
Firmware server also.
Please note down your current version of the SunRay
DTU F/W using the (STOP+S) key on DTU.

Required:
1.     one dedicated n/w for the firmware server interface
on your U-80 (I am taking hme0)
2.     SunRay F/W to be downloaded and put in
/var/tmp/firmware.

Steps:

1.     utadm -a hme0 (See below for the detail output)
2. utfwadm -A -
f /var/tmp/firmware/opt/SUNWut/lib/firmware -a -n hme0
3.     Connect your SunRay DTU to this hme0 interface thru
a cross cable or some HUB and just power ON,
you will see the SunRay DTU connect to DCHP server
running on U-80 ,do a f/w upgrade and then reboot.

Configuration:

1.     utadm -a hme0
### Configuring /etc/nsswitch.conf
### Configuring Service information for Sun Ray
### configuring eth1 interface at subnet 192.168.128.0
 Selected values for interface "hme0"
   host address:       192.168.128.1
   net mask:           255.255.255.0
   net address:        192.168.128.0
   host name:          blrsraysyn01-hme0
   net name:           SunRay-hme0
   first unit address: 192.168.128.16
   last unit address:  192.168.128.240
   auth server:        192.168.128.1
   firmware server:    192.168.128.1
   router:             192.168.128.1
   alternate servers:
 Accept as is? ([Y]/N):  
### successfully setup
"/etc/opt/SUNWut/net/hostname.eth1" file
### successfully setup "/etc/hosts" file
### successfully setup "/etc/opt/SUNWut/net/netmasks"
file
### successfully setup "/etc/opt/SUNWut/net/networks"
file
### finished install of "eth1" interface
### Configuring firmware version for Sun Ray
       All the units served by "blrsraysyn01" on the
192.168.128.0
       network interface, running firmware other than
version
       "3.0_51,REV=2004.11.10.16.18" will be upgraded
at their next power-on.

### Configuring Sun Ray Logging Functions

DHCP is not currently running, should I start it?
([Y]/N):  Y


[root at blrsraysyn01 firmware]# utfwadm -A -f
/var/tmp/firmware/opt/SUNWut/lib/firmware -a -n eth1
       All the units served by "blrsraysyn01" on the
192.168.128.0
       network interface, running firmware other than
version
       "kent.best31.200503301406" will be upgraded at
their next power-on.

### reinitialized DHCP daemon

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

Richard Skelton ( Richard.Skelton (-at-) infineon.com )

Start over:
- remove SRSS
- read chapter 6 of the install guide
- get another switch, plug in the 150s and connect qfe0
of the server to this switch
- install SRSS
- reboot
- read chapter 7 of the install guide
- cd /opt/SUNWut/sbin
- ./utadm -a qfe0
- take all the defaults
- reboot
- turn on the Sun Ray 150s
- they should upgrade the firmware
- the reference guide describes the new icons
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From aharrison at gmail.com  Wed May  2 09:18:09 2007
From: aharrison at gmail.com (Andy Harrison)
Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 09:18:09 -0400
Subject: SUMMARY: New packet loss issue - x4100 tagged aggr interface
Message-ID: <a22ff2940705020618s5ac4f9edva20e56ed63276e33@mail.gmail.com>

On 4/27/07, Andy Harrison <aharrison at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm about to submit this as a Sun case, but I thought I'd post here as
> well to see if anyone else has experienced this problem.  Any ideas?
>
>
> ------------
>
>
> The server is an x4100 M2 running Solaris 10 11/06 x86.  Patches were
> current as of 4/9/2007, including a reconfig reboot at that time.
> Yesterday, the server was rebooted and afterwards the packet loss was
> noticed immediately.  Note that as part of troubleshooting this
> problem, I've brought the patches up to date as of yesterday,
> performed a reconfig reboot, as well as performing a cold boot (with
> power cables completely removed).


FYI, for anyone else with e1000g interfaces wanting to run aggregated
interfaces, the problem is with patch 125121-01 and related to bugid
6491179 'link aggregation with e1000g does not work unless snoop is
running' and is fixed by the forthcoming 125121-02 patch.


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From am.lists at gmail.com  Thu May  3 19:17:28 2007
From: am.lists at gmail.com (am.lists)
Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 19:17:28 -0400
Subject: SUMMARY:
Message-ID: <25a66d840705031617k2203911cq3fddb96f8699bd17@mail.gmail.com>

Special thanks to a bunch of people, you know who you are... most
provided the same general direction, but Michael Stier provided
step-by-step response. Turns out I was lost in 32-bit vs 64-bit
limitations, such as 2GB of swap being the max size available
-per-partition- and I need to change the drive setup a bit.

Thanks to everyone, you guys make this community work.

Angelo

>>
Solaris 2.6 (SunOS 5.6) is one of the major "transitory" releases,
between the 32 bit and 64 bit environments.

As to swap, I believe, but haven't confirmed, that swap partitions were
handled as 32bit signed integers, and thus limited to 2GB (4 million
block) in size.

Of course, multiple swap partitions/files could be created and SunOS 5
will balance across them.

Note: There is also an issue with older OBP not being able to 'savecore'
on systems where the primary swap partition is greater than 2GB.

Suggestion:
   Reboot to single user and run "swap -d /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s1".
   Run "format" and partition slice 1 to 1452 cylinders.
   Take the remaining 1452 cylinders and assign them to slice 4. (No,
slices (partitions) do not have to be consecutive on the drive.)
   Edit the /etc/vfstab file and copy the swap declaration line, and
create a swap declaration for slice 4.
   Run "/sbin/swapadd" to mount all swap space.
   Run "swap -l" to verify two swap slices, in the 4million block range.
   Exit single user, and continue normal operations.
<<



--- Original Post ----
I'm in a bit of a strange situation with a legacy box. It's running
2.6. The hardware is a 420R.

It has two 36G drives locally: c0t0d0 and c0t0d1.

The format of d0 looks like this:


Part      Tag    Flag     Cylinders         Size            Blocks
 0       root    wm       0 -  5807        8.00GB    (5808/0/0)  16779312
 1       swap    wu    5808 -  8711        4.00GB    (2904/0/0)   8389656
 2     backup    wu       0 - 24619       33.92GB    (24620/0/0) 71127180
 3        usr    wm    8712 - 24616       21.91GB    (15905/0/0) 45949545
 4 unassigned    wu       0                0         (0/0/0)            0
<snip>

Swap is thus c0t0d0s1, 4GB in size.

My relevant lines of /etc/vfstab shows:

/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s1       -       -       swap    -       no      -
swap    -       /tmp    tmpfs   -       yes     -

Running swap -l shows:
#swap -l

swapfile             dev  swaplo blocks   free
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s1   32,1      16 4194272 4194176

BUT  df -k shows swap as hardly any space available:

Filesystem            kbytes    used   avail capacity  Mounted on
/proc                      0       0       0     0%    /proc
fd                         0       0       0     0%    /dev/fd
swap                   15904     120   15784     1%    /tmp

AND I'm getting the "out of swap" error in my syslog:
unix: WARNING: /tmp: File system full, swap space limit exceeded

This is driving me nuts. I'll summarize any good answers to this. I
know 2.6 is old, and I've mostly managed 2.8 boxes, so I won't promise
that I've not overlooked something elementary.

-Angelo
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From lhecking at users.sourceforge.net  Sat May  5 07:03:42 2007
From: lhecking at users.sourceforge.net (Lars Hecking)
Date: Sat,  5 May 2007 12:03:42 +0100 (IST)
Subject: SUMMARY: Solaris 10 patch installation weirdness
In-Reply-To: <20070420100008.9071BC4B7@cork.irdesign.cypress.com>
References: <20070420100008.9071BC4B7@cork.irdesign.cypress.com>
Message-ID: <20070505110342.50F2FC4B7@cork.irdesign.cypress.com>

Lars Hecking writes:
>  I had to go and install patch 124208-01 as postfix stopped compiling.
> 
>  All this patch contains are header files. So, why on earth did this
>  creature of an updatemanager require a reboot ("patch will be installed
>  upon reboot")? This is mind boggling - I didn't expect Sun to go back
>  to before Windows 98.

 I received one response from Janis Klimowicz. Thanks!

| Instead of using updatemanager -- especially on machines that you don't 
| want to reboot, use smpatch instead:
| 
| # smpatch analyze
| # smpatch update -i <patch_number>
| 
| This will not avoid having to reboot for ALL patches, but will allow you to 
| install many patches without rebooting.
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From ruhnke at us.ibm.com  Mon May  7 09:47:20 2007
From: ruhnke at us.ibm.com (Chris Ruhnke)
Date: Mon, 7 May 2007 08:47:20 -0500
Subject: SUMMARY: Solaris 8 passwd locked out - permission denied
Message-ID: <OFD860709D.5BE9EB75-ON862572D4.004ABA65-862572D4.004BBFE7@us.ibm.com>

...and the pink bubble gum cigar goes to:  Ric Anderson <ric at Opus1.COM>

> What does /usr/sbin/pwck have to say? 

Indeed some other admin had fat-fingered an update to one of the 
"standard" accounts -- nobody4.
Internal security requires that ALL accounts have a flesh-and-blood owner. 
 When he added the ownership info, he deleted a ":" field-separator.
Silly me, presuming that all "standard" records were good format...!!!

But, you learn something new every day.  I was not aware of "pwck" on 
Solaris.

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From spiro.harvey at gmail.com  Fri May  4 15:13:13 2007
From: spiro.harvey at gmail.com (spiro harvey)
Date: Sat, 5 May 2007 07:13:13 +1200
Subject: SUMMARY: booting after recovery
Message-ID: <98f939870705041213n405f4035ob4e16e594e570d5a@mail.gmail.com>

Thanks for all the rapid responses.

The solution was in fact that I was missing updating the /etc/path_to_inst file.

This was done by booting the working system, mounting the recovered
filesystem into /mnt/root and then running 'devfsadm -r /mnt/root'

devfsadm has the ability to update device trees and path_to_inst in an
alternate root path using the -r option.

However, I did notice that by doing this, path_to_inst was updated on
the *current* root partition, so I had to copy that over afterwards.

Another point to note is that devfsadm will only update files that
don't currently exist, so I had to delete all the /dev/dsk and
/dev/rdsk entries before devfsadm ran.


On 04/05/07, spiro harvey wrote:
> Hi all...
>
> I've got an interesting problem trying to boot a hard disk using a recovered OS.
>
> I'm building a test network, so the hardware I'm building on isn't the
> same as the original hardware.
>
> The OS is Solaris 9.
>
> The source server is a 280R.
>
> The destination server is an E3000. I know. I know. But it's all I've
> got to work with.
>
> The problem I've got is that all the device paths are completely different.
>
> c0t0d0s0 has the root partition installed from CD
>
> c0t3d0s7 has the root partition recovered from tape.
>
> I couldn't overwrite the original root partition as it's not big
> enough, so I boot the server with 'boot disk3:h' which works fine
> until it gets to fsck the drive.
>
> Then I was told that fsck couldn't stat the device. After that I
> copied everything from the working root's /dev/dsk, /dev/rdsk and
> /devices (specifically SBUS dirs) into the recovered partition using
> cpio.
>
> However, this didn't fix the problem. It won't read the disk as
> c0t3d0s7. It tells me it can't stat the drive, and to run fsck
> manually. I am then dumped into a shell prompt. When I run fsck from
> here, I'm told it can't open the device (previously was told couldn't
> stat the device). So I think I've progressed, but it still won't boot
> properly.
>
> I tried doing a boot -r but the fsck problem showed before it
> reconfigured, hence the need to manually copy the devs with cpio.
>
> my basic steps in the recovery were:
>
> - restore root data onto spare partition using scanner|uasm (Networker)
> - edit vfstab to list new physical devices (original server was using
> metadevices)
> - edit /etc/system and comment out all the MDDB lines
> - rename hostname.ce0 to hostname.hme0 (different NICs)
> - install bootblock
> - cpio -p /dev/dsk /dev/rdsk and /devices to new partition
> - boot disk3:h (c0t3d0s7)
>
> I've got a bit of a tight deadline to build this test environment up,
> so any ideas greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks.
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From Juergen.Schultz at eads.com  Wed May  9 01:26:56 2007
From: Juergen.Schultz at eads.com (Schultz, Juergen)
Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 07:26:56 +0200 
Subject: SUMMARY: Management of servers and workstations running
	multiple  Solaris versions
Message-ID: <1C7FDE366847194F9963071930960C6602A0B8A4@GSX300A.mxchg.m.corp>

Dear all,

thanks for all the replies. I will try Webmin first, which was named with other tools:

TeamQuest
BladeLogic
HP Open View
Legato Networker or Veritas Netbackup
SWAT (SAMBA Web Interface)
SMC - Solaris Management Console


Best regards,
Juergen

> ______________________________________________ 
> From: 	Schultz, Juergen  
> Sent:	Tuesday, May 08, 2007 4:21 PM
> To:	'sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org'
> Subject:	Management of servers and workstations running multiple Solaris versions
> 
> Dear sunmanagers,
> 
> I am currently looking for a solaris software suite that allows me to manage different servers and workstations (20+) running different version of Solaris (Solaris 8 to 10). By "managing" I understand adminstrating 
> 
> + system monitoring and rebooting
> + setting configurations (nfs, > ...> )
> + backup systems
> + adding users/groups/NIS/etc on the servers
> + managing SAMBA services on the servers
> 
> 
> Is there any commercial toolset that allows me to handle all these tasks from a common (web) interface ? Any Windows based tools ?
> 
> 
> Best regards,
> Juergen
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From dave.markham at fjserv.net  Wed May  9 05:11:04 2007
From: dave.markham at fjserv.net (Dave Markham)
Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 10:11:04 +0100
Subject: SUMMARY: Problem rebuild 280R ufsdump
Message-ID: <46419028.3020402@fjserv.net>

Silly me for emailing without actually reading a few posts up with
someone who had a 280R issue after recovery.

I was poking around and noticed in /etc/path_to_inst the wwn's of the
original servers disks were referenced and not the ones from a
probe-scsi on my new server i was recovering to.

This may be a bit drastic but after booting from cdrom i moved
/etc/path_to_inst to a backup and then did a boot -a to rebuild it. This
has worked a charm. Im sure theres a cleaner way to do this though.
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From robert.clift.ctr at navy.mil  Wed May  9 10:17:30 2007
From: robert.clift.ctr at navy.mil (Clift, Tom CTR NSWCDL K55)
Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 09:17:30 -0500
Subject: SUMMARY: Solaris Management Console(SMC)
Message-ID: <CE0BC385554ADF4599B7C95BAC3D3EB804A4E16B@NAEAMILLEX02VA.nadsusea.nads.navy.mil>

The problem turned out to be a corrupt file. Once I moved the current PDS.ser
to a backup copy, SMC created a new file and seems to work fine.


Original message:

All, I am receiving an error from SMC when I try to add a user using a
predefined template. This has been working for over a year now. Below is the
error in the messages file:

Service com.sun.management.vipermpl.services.persistence.PersistenceService
cannot be loaded. com.sun.management.viper.CriticalStop.exception: Cannot
read/write persistence data file /var/sadm/smc/properties/PDS.ser

Permissions/ownership seems to be correct on this file.


I also get a Java error on the console like:

Exception in Thread "AWT-EventQueue-0"
java.lang.NullpointerException.............
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From tchipman at gmail.com  Tue May 15 08:07:28 2007
From: tchipman at gmail.com (Tim Chipman)
Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 09:07:28 -0300
Subject: SUMMARY: 6120 Disk Array-> Remove and Replace Disk, does not enable
Message-ID: <bea9280b0705150507i6763a1abu394d7af907710e85@mail.gmail.com>

Hi all, just a summary (a bit late but better than none for the
universe at large I believe)

Big thanks goes out to Alan -- a local person who helped me out.  Alas
I had no replies from the list.  I guess these 6120 units are not in
heavy use (at least by people who don't have support contracts on
them? :-)

Basic Scoop is 2-fold for my problem,

(1) as per Alan's suggestion, it seems there were bugs in early (ie,
the not-latest) firmware for the array which resulted in failure to
consistently pick up when a new drive was installed.  The fix for this
was to download the newest firmware (released in 2007) for all
components in the array (main controller, fibre controllers and the
drives themselves).  After applying these updates to the array it
still would not let me use the 3rd party (non-Sun FCAL Drive, lacking
sun firmware but otherwise physically identical drive) -- same part
from seagate as the failed drive - nor could I flash it up to the sun
firmware (no big surprise really I guess)

(2) I was able to source a pair of sun-part drives (good used working
pulls) on Ebay for a bargain price  (same seagate part as my failed
drive, but also with Sun firmware).  After popping one of these into
the array, I was able to update the firmware of the new drive to make
it consistent with all other drives in the array. Following this, I
was able to manually enable the drive and then a reconstruction began
immediately on the raid volume, taking a significant chunk of time
(overnight) to rebuild - but completing successfully.  (the rebuild
time reminds me .. this is basically a souped-up T3 disk array, ie,
not exactly cutting edge performance to put it mildly. Sigh.)

So.  I'm all finished with this madness for now, it seems.  The joys
of non-contract gear.

---Tim Chipman


===============
ORIGINAL QUESTION FOLLOWS BELOW (with console array text truncated
this time, which was pasted / present in my original posting)

Hi All,

Sorry to bother the list with trivial question, but the sun manuals
are absurdly opaque on this topic ("it happens automatically in the
default config, yay")

I've inherited management of a 4800 with a couple of direct-attached
6120 arrays (everything is out of support so I'm working with access
only to "free sunsolve", and no tech support from sun).  One of the
arrays has a disk that went bad - not a problem since we're running
raid 5.

I've got a cold-spare part which is the identical part as the failed
drive (Seagate st373307fc, 73gig FCAL disk - although my cold spare is
a generic seagate part, NOT a sun part)

First question, I suppose, is - do I have any reason to this this
should work with a non-sun part? or will firmware of the disk make it
incompatible from the get-go? (hopefully not?!)

Second question, assuming I have any right to be doing this with a
generic disk:

When I remove the bad disk, and install the replacement part, the new
disk spins up fine (power LED on the new disk lights up persistently)
and I can see from the command-line-admin-interface that the device is
detected.  However, it does not come online, nor does it rebuild the
raid.

A friendly kick in the right direction would be massively appreciated.
(i.e., what command syntax is expected to force the new disk to be
flagged as online and then permit rebuild of the raid volume?!)
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From harrydunn1999 at yahoo.com  Tue May 15 14:15:23 2007
From: harrydunn1999 at yahoo.com (Harry Dunn)
Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 11:15:23 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Summary pcix or pcie
In-Reply-To: <7892f2a50705081537m2863dcd7lb2a229cee3006244@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <476124.54333.qm@web57412.mail.re1.yahoo.com>

Apologies for my delay in summarizing.
Here is the best answer:

Thanks to Micah!

Micah DesJardins <micahdj at gmail.com> wrote: Harry,

It looks like PCI Express is orders of magnitude faster than PCI-X in
general.  You may want to double check the tech specs on the X4600
itself.  Here's a link to get you started, it has a good contrast of
PCI vx. PCI-X vx. PCI-E as well as some links to sources at the end.

http://darkness.codefu.org/wordpress/2005/08/19/201

Regards,

Micah DesJardins


       
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From martini1 at llnl.gov  Wed May 16 14:22:21 2007
From: martini1 at llnl.gov (Dave Martini 1)
Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 11:22:21 -0700
Subject: SUMMARY: /dev/random missing?
Message-ID: <464B4BDD.9050805@llnl.gov>

Everyone said to install patch 112438 which this system already has.
What I'm trying to do is configure openssh on this solaris 8 box and run 
the ssh-keygen command but when I do I get an error

PRNG is not seeded

Which has to do with /dev/random and or /dev/urandom being missing I 
suppose.

I'm not sure why I don't have /dev/random even though I have patch 
112438-03 installed.
Someone suggested installing prngd from sunfreeware.com would this allow 
the ssh-keygen command to work then?

Below is my original question

I have a solaris 8 machine that does not have /dev/random or /dev/urandom.
My other solaris 8 machines have it.
Can I copy it from one of my other solaris 8 machines or do I have to 
install a package or patch to get it?
Thanks.
Dave Martini
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From stan at temple.edu  Wed May 16 16:15:34 2007
From: stan at temple.edu (Stan Horwitz)
Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 16:15:34 -0400
Subject: Summary: Mounting a CD on Solaris 9
In-Reply-To: <61312CF0-435D-488B-B7ED-5C02742F89B6@versatile.com>
References: <802E4FB5-A0F7-4736-8537-646CA922491E@temple.edu>
	<61312CF0-435D-488B-B7ED-5C02742F89B6@versatile.com>
Message-ID: <0906C10B-0073-4709-A40A-37028824ADEF@temple.edu>

The command ...

mount -r ro -F hsfs /dev/dsk/c1t6d0s2 /cdrom

did the trick.

Thanks to everyone for your assistance.
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From stan at temple.edu  Wed May 16 17:11:33 2007
From: stan at temple.edu (Stan Horwitz)
Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 17:11:33 -0400
Subject: Summary: Problem setting up a VLAN on Solaris 9
In-Reply-To: <68001C27702E004BA5A80C0839AEA96C446302@NUTMEG.Ncdoc.navy.mil>
References: <8126ECD5-9E50-4F8D-B654-E060077D28BE@temple.edu>
	<68001C27702E004BA5A80C0839AEA96C446302@NUTMEG.Ncdoc.navy.mil>
Message-ID: <BE6CA257-555C-4E85-A98E-189824CA1FF6@temple.edu>

Thanks to everyone who offered me advise on this matter.

I was using the same method I use on my other Solaris box, but that  
uses zero as its device number, so I was off by three on the  
interface name because this other Solaris box has device number 3.

I also had to install patch 112233-12 in order to partake of tagged  
VLAN support on Solaris 9.

It seems to be working okay now.

Thanks for you help and to everyone else who offered help.
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From Alfredo.Cruz at cancercare.on.ca  Thu May 17 19:10:52 2007
From: Alfredo.Cruz at cancercare.on.ca (Cruz, Alfredo)
Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 19:10:52 -0400
Subject: RPC-BIND problem
Message-ID: <A1BC2DA3EBA2AA40B5E009D586674F0401A77EDC@EXSERVER1.cco.ccods.cancercare.on.ca>

Hi,

I'm fairly new to Solaris 10.  I ran into problems with one of my x4200
server where I cannot login to the server.  I get ssh login screen but
when I type in the password, it kicks me out.  I logged into the console
via ILOM and noticed that when I do an "su - acruz", it says no
directory even though it is there.  When I say "su  acruz" it says no
shell.  I looked closely at the dmesg and noticed that rpc-bind did not
load and probably was the main cause of why some of my services are not
loaded and unable to login remotely.  The rpc-bind is in maintenance
mode because of errors:

May 16 18:10:45 myserver svc.startd[7]: [ID 652011 daemon.warning]
svc:/system/webconsole:console: Method "/lib/svc/method/svc-webconsole
start" failed with exit status 95.
May 16 18:10:45 myserver svc.startd[7]: [ID 748625 daemon.error]
system/webconsole:console failed fatally: transitioned to maintenance
(see 'svcs -xv' for details)
May 16 19:15:41 myserver svc.startd[7]: [ID 652011 daemon.warning]
svc:/network/rpc/bind:default: Method "/lib/svc/method/rpc-bind start"
failed with exit status 1.
May 16 19:15:41 myserver svc.startd[7]: [ID 748625 daemon.error]
network/rpc/bind:default failed: transitioned to maintenance (see 'svcs
-xv' for details)
May 16 19:15:54 myserver svc.startd[7]: [ID 652011 daemon.warning]
svc:/network/rpc/bind:default: Method "/lib/svc/method/rpc-bind start"
failed with exit status 1.
May 16 19:15:54 myserver svc.startd[7]: [ID 748625 daemon.error]
network/rpc/bind:default failed: transitioned to maintenance (see 'svcs
-xv' for details)
May 16 20:54:08 myserver sshd[935]: [ID 234283 auth.error] libpkcs11:
/usr/lib/security/pkcs11_softtoken.so unexpected failure in ELF
signature verification. System may have been tampered with. See
cryptoadm(1M). Skipping this plug-in.
May 16 20:54:08 myserver sshd[935]: [ID 530472 auth.error] Kerberos
mechanism library initialization error: unknown error.
May 16 20:54:08 myserver sshd[935]: [ID 234283 auth.error] libpkcs11:
/usr/lib/security/pkcs11_softtoken.so unexpected failure in ELF
signature verification. System may have been tampered with. See
cryptoadm(1M). Skipping this plug-in.
May 16 20:54:08 myserver sshd[935]: [ID 530472 auth.error] Kerberos
mechanism library initialization error: unknown error.
May 16 20:54:08 myserver sshd[935]: [ID 234283 auth.error] libpkcs11:
/usr/lib/security/pkcs11_softtoken.so unexpected failure in ELF
signature verification. System may have been tampered with. See
cryptoadm(1M). Skipping this plug-in.
May 16 20:54:08 myserver sshd[935]: [ID 530472 auth.error] Kerberos
mechanism library initialization error: unknown error.
May 16 21:01:09 myserver sshd[964]: [ID 234283 auth.error] libpkcs11:
/usr/lib/security/pkcs11_softtoken.so unexpected failure in ELF
signature verification. System may have been tampered with. See
cryptoadm(1M). Skipping this plug-in.
May 16 21:01:09 myserver sshd[964]: [ID 530472 auth.error] Kerberos
mechanism library initialization error: unknown error.
May 16 21:01:09 myserver sshd[964]: [ID 234283 auth.error] libpkcs11:
/usr/lib/security/pkcs11_softtoken.so unexpected failure in ELF
signature verification. System may have been tampered with. See
cryptoadm(1M). Skipping this plug-in.
May 16 21:01:09 myserver sshd[964]: [ID 530472 auth.error] Kerberos
mechanism library initialization error: unknown error.
May 16 21:01:09 myserver sshd[964]: [ID 234283 auth.error] libpkcs11:
/usr/lib/security/pkcs11_softtoken.so unexpected failure in ELF
signature verification. System may have been tampered with. See
cryptoadm(1M). Skipping this plug-in.
May 16 21:01:09 myserver sshd[964]: [ID 530472 auth.error] Kerberos
mechanism library initialization error: unknown error.
May 16 22:32:31 myserver xntpd[360]: [ID 866926 daemon.notice] xntpd
exiting on signal 15
May 16 22:32:31 myserver syslogd: going down on signal 15
May 16 22:32:55 myserver genunix: [ID 672855 kern.notice] syncing file
systems...

This problem started when I try to move root's home directory from /root
to /.  I initially cause me problem after.  When I did an "su -" it say
says not user not permitted to do an su.  I decided to rebooted the
server but  got an error saying "/" differ from the boot archive.  I've
did the svcadm clear system/boot-archive which was successful but I'm
stuck with this rpc-bind problem.

I don't know if any of the sequence I did caused this problem but I
would appreciate it if any you can give me some suggestions.

Thanks,

Alfredo


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From mark_round at ipcmedia.com  Thu May 17 12:38:29 2007
From: mark_round at ipcmedia.com (mark_round at ipcmedia.com)
Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 17:38:29 +0100
Subject: SUMMARY: Veritas VxVM on X2100 giving "disk.repl: -1 bad
  number"
Message-ID: <5DEAFA3C900EC441A755A94B58D3668527BA45@LONMSGMB01.enterprise.corpad.timeinc.com>

I managed to fix this. If anyone has this problem again, the problem was
that /usr/lib/vxvm/voladm.d/bin/disk.repl uses /sbin/sh, but it seems to
use something that plain Bourne shell doesn't like. I changed the
shebang at the top to use /usr/bin/bash (presumably other shells would
work as well), and it started working! 


-Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: Round, Mark - CALM Technical <Mark_Round at ipcmedia.com> 
Sent: 09 May 2007 10:40
To: sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org
Subject: Veritas VxVM on X2100 giving "disk.repl: -1 bad number"


Hi all,

I have a problem with Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM). I'm using Storage
Foundation 4.1 on a sun X2100, 5.10 Generic_118855-33. It is connected
to a Compaq StorageWorks JBOD via Dual HBA, I can't remember the
manufacturer of the HBA but I assume it is Qlogic. I downloaded the
volume manager direct from Symantec, it's not a SUN-branded one. See
below for diagnostic output etc.

The problem arises when I try to replace a faulty disk. I was testing
the procedure (getting up to speed on 4.1, the last VxVM stuff I did was
on 3.x), so created a RAID 5 volume (although this problem happens on
any kind of volume) and simulated a disk failure by removing one of the
drives. I then used vxdiskadm and selected the drive to be removed for
replacement. So far, so good.

I then replaced it with a fresh disk, fdisk'ed it and ran vxdctl enable.
I then went back into vxdiskadm (option 5), and this is what I saw :

Replace a failed or removed disk 
Menu: VolumeManager/Disk/ReplaceDisk 
  Use this menu operation to specify a replacement disk for a disk 
  that you removed with the "Remove a disk for replacement" menu 
  operation, or that failed during use.  You will be prompted for 
  a disk name to replace and a disk device to use as a replacement. 
  You can choose an uninitialized disk, in which case the disk will 
  be initialized, or you can choose a disk that you have already 
  initialized using the Add or initialize a disk menu operation. 
Select a removed or failed disk [<disk>,list,q,?] list 
Disk group: datadg 
DM NAME         DEVICE       TYPE     PRIVLEN  PUBLEN   STATE 
dm datadg12     -            -        -        -        REMOVED 
 
Select a removed or failed disk [<disk>,list,q,?] datadg12 
/usr/lib/vxvm/voladm.d/bin/disk.repl: -1: bad number 


And then it bombs back to the main menu... I can't get past this error -
whatever I try, it just bombs out with the "disk.repl: -1: bad number"
error. Everything else I have tried seems fine, I just can't replace a
failed disk!

Has anyone any suggestions on what I may be doing wrong, or what the
issue may be ? I will of course summarize any responses or advice
received...

Many thanks in advance,

-Mark



$ modinfo | grep -i vx
 49 fffffffff3a1f000  299d8 207   1  vxdmp (VxVM 4.1_p3.1 + e430808 DMP
Dri)
 68 fffffffff3ae4000 1f8468 208   1  vxio (VxVM 4.1_p3.1 I/O driver)
 69 fffffffff3cbc000   1458 209   1  vxspec (VxVM 4.1_p3.1
control/status dr)
172 fffffffff40db5e8    be0 210   1  vxportal (VxFS
4.1_REV-4.1x86p2A8_sol por)
173 fffffffff420b000 1856f8  20   1  vxfs (VxFS 4.1_REV-4.1x86p2A8_sol
Sun)

 
vxprint below : 
# dg datadg       default      default  61000
1178116019.58.devhost-5.ipcmedia.com 
dm datadg01     c3t0d0s2     auto     2048     71069248 - 
dm datadg02     c3t1d0s2     auto     2048     71069248 - 
dm datadg03     c3t3d0s2     auto     2048     71069248 - 
dm datadg04     c3t4d0s2     auto     2048     71069248 - 
dm datadg05     c3t5d0s2     auto     2048     71069248 - 
dm datadg06     c3t8d0s2     auto     2048     71069248 - 
dm datadg07     c4t1d0s2     auto     2048     71069248 - 
dm datadg08     c4t2d0s2     auto     2048     71069248 - 
dm datadg09     c4t3d0s2     auto     2048     71069248 - 
dm datadg10     c4t4d0s2     auto     2048     71069248 - 
dm datadg11     c4t8d0s2     auto     2048     71069248 - 
dm datadg12     -            -        -        -        REMOVED 
v  data         -            DISABLED ACTIVE   142137344 RAID     -
raid5 
pl data-01      data         DISABLED ACTIVE   142137344 RAID     3/32
RW 
sd datadg01-01  data-01      datadg01 0        71068672 0/0       c3t0d0
ENA 
sd datadg02-01  data-01      datadg02 0        71068672 1/0       c3t1d0
ENA 
sd datadg12-01  data-01      datadg12 0        71068672 2/0       -
RMOV 
 
And, here's the vxdiskadm list output : 
DEVICE       DISK         GROUP        STATUS
c1t0d0       -            -            online invalid
c2t0d0       -            -            online invalid
c3t0d0       datadg01     datadg       online
c3t1d0       datadg02     datadg       online
c3t3d0       datadg03     datadg       online
c3t4d0       datadg04     datadg       online
c3t5d0       datadg05     datadg       online
c3t8d0       datadg06     datadg       online
c4t0d0       -            -            online invalid
c4t1d0       datadg07     datadg       online
c4t2d0       datadg08     datadg       online
c4t3d0       datadg09     datadg       online
c4t4d0       datadg10     datadg       online
c4t8d0       datadg11     datadg       online
 
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From Jonathan.Birchall at Xchanging.com  Mon May 21 03:54:40 2007
From: Jonathan.Birchall at Xchanging.com (Jonathan Birchall)
Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 08:54:40 +0100
Subject: SUMMARY: REF:multiple oracle instances with projects and svcadm
References: <4031373E16D64B4F9676FF9FAA2DD735017D1FA1@EXCHANGE02.ad.Xglobal.com>
	<2BD72F7C-734A-42E7-9D30-8ADDF823C56D@versatile.com>
Message-ID: <4031373E16D64B4F9676FF9FAA2DD735017D20C5@EXCHANGE02.ad.xglobal.com>

Thanks to William for the solution below.


Assuming you want all the DBAs to be able to stop/start all instances
In your SMF manifest, add a definition like this:

   <!-- to start/stop oracle -->
         <property_group name='general' type='framework'>
                 <propval name='action_authorization' type='astring'
                         value='solaris.smf.manage.oracle' />
                 <propval name='value_authorization' type='astring'
                         value='solaris.smf.manage.oracle' />
         </property_group>


Then add a line like:
solaris.smf.manage.oracle:::Manage Oracle Service States::

to /etc/security/auth_attr

and modify the appropriate accounts to have the
solaris.smf.manage.oracle authorization

usermod -A solaris.smf.manage.oracle  $user

when the user logs in again, they should have the ability to enable/
disable (permanently or temporarily)
the SMF services you modified.

If you wanted to have different DBAs able to modify different
instances, then make an authorization for each instance, like:
solaris.smf.manage.oracle.instance1
solaris.smf.manage.oracle.instance2

and assign those.

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Solutions Architect        aim:   wdhPO
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On May 18, 2007, at 3:46 AM, Jonathan Birchall wrote:

> Hello,
>
>
>
> I have built a sunfire v445 on which 3 seperate instances of oracle
> 10g
> are running. These are started by the SMF under different projects,
> however I have coming up against a mental block as to have the oracle
> user start these in thier respective projects using svcadm.
>
>
>
> I can configure the oracle users as a role and allow them service
> manager rights but this does not allow the granularity required as the
> oracle role then appears to be able to have full svcadm rights. I do
> trust my DBA's but not that much.
>
>
>
> Has anyone done this, or could point me in the direction of a good
> document which shows the project side of things. I have read the sun
> blue print on starting apache as a non root user but this doesn't seem
> to cover what I need, that or I dont quiet grasp the finer points.
>
>
>
> Regards
>
> Jonathan
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From martini1 at llnl.gov  Tue May 22 12:52:38 2007
From: martini1 at llnl.gov (Dave Martini 1)
Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 09:52:38 -0700
Subject: SUMMARY: How to add a user to a NIS+ group
Message-ID: <46531FD6.20107@llnl.gov>

No matter what syntax I gave the nistbladm command I couldn't add a user 
to a group.
A few people suggested to dump the contents of the group table to an 
ascii file then edit it and
dump it back. I have not tried it yet but this should work.

# /usr/lib/nis/nisaddent -d group > /tmp/group
# vi /tmp/group  <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Add the new user to the appropriate 
group and save the file.
# /usr/lib/nis/nisaddent -rvf /tmp/group group

Below is my original question

I'm trying to add a user to a nis+ user group. There are already 20 
users in this group. Is there an easy way to do it?

I tried typing  every
user who is already in the group in again.

nistbladm -e members=user1,user2,user3,user4,user5,user6 
'[name=hydrogeo]'group.org_dir

When I tried the above the line had to many characters and the terminal 
started beeping. I tried the command with a \ at the end of each line
for line continuation but it returns an error

can't parse column values: Missing or malformed attribute.

I can't use the solstice adminsuite gui because some of the usernames 
are more than 8 characters in length and I get an error to fix those entries
when I try to add another user.

Is there a way to add a users to a nis+ group using nistbladm or some 
other command and just specify the actual user I want to add to the 
group and not
everyone who is already in the group?

Thank You.
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From te at tsemba.org  Tue May 22 19:58:00 2007
From: te at tsemba.org (Tamer Embaby)
Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 02:58:00 +0300
Subject: SUMMARY: Sun Fire V210 automatic startup.
In-Reply-To: <46537A58.6090104@tsemba.org>
References: <46537A58.6090104@tsemba.org>
Message-ID: <46538388.5080105@tsemba.org>

All,

I found this nice URL:
https://equoria.net/index.php/Solaris_Operating_System

It's talking about setting this using:

1- OBP parameter auto-boot? to true (already there)
2- ALOM parameter sc_powerstatememory to true (default to 'false' and
    changed to true)

I'm gonna have to wait until next power outage to test that.

Many thanks for Sandy Gordon for exactly describing the above steps.
And also for:
Benzi Mizrahi
Steve Harris

For helping out.

Kind regards,
Tamer

Tamer Embaby wrote:
> Guys,
> 
> I have two Sun Fire V210 servers which are facing a problem whenever
> an electricity outage happens in the server room, I know this should
> not happen at all to such servers but I cannot help it right now to
> buy electricity generators and the UPS they are attached to doesn't
> hold for long time.
> 
> The problem is, when the electricity comes back again these two servers
> never startup automatically (as what happens with the rest of servers,
> which start up, boot the OS, and return to running state automatically),
> of course there is no key switch (like in V240), and the V210 servers
> stay turned off until someone switch them on again from the power button
> in the front panel. But I believe there could be some way to make them
> startup automatically, can anyone help me with that or shed some lights?
> 
> The servers are running Solaris 8, OBP version 4.16.2.
> 
> Appreciate your input.
> 
> Tamer
> 

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From george at yorku.ca  Wed May 23 13:08:53 2007
From: george at yorku.ca (George Kahler)
Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 13:08:53 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: SUMMARY: Sun V440 ALOM - hostname
Message-ID: <20070523.130853.87592179.george@yorku.ca>

Thanks to:
       "Lineberger, Aaron" <alineberger at ncdoc.navy.mil>
       "brian smith" <snowmang at gmail.com>
       Chris Ruhnke <ruhnke at us.ibm.com>
       grove at zeta.org.au
       "filo smith" <filo.maillists at gmail.com>
who suggested to upgrade ALOM to version 1.6.x and to make sure that
/etc/nodename has the correct entry in it.

Unfortunately after upgrading to ALOM 1.6.3, OBP 4.16.4 and installing Solaris 10
6/06 I still can not change the displayed name in the ALOM login, ie.

----------------------------------------------------------------------
sc> logout

Copyright 2007 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All rights reserved.
Use is subject to license terms.

Sun(tm) Advanced Lights Out Manager 1.6.3 (bkup4a.yorku.ca)
                                           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Please login: 
Serial line login timeout, returns to console stream.

Enter #. to return to ALOM.
----------------------------------------------------------------------

I will continue to fight with this and if successful I will post the
fix.

George


> No matter how many times I reboot Solaris8 or reset the ALOM
> SC, the hostname that ALOM displays in its banner/login is that of the
> previous system.
>
> Does anyone of you have an idea how this can be remedied ?
> According to all docs that I read, it suggest that the ALOM hostname is
> automatically configured when the system boots :-(
> BTW, access to the ALOM is only via the serial connection.
>
> Thanks.
> George
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From serafino at cshl.edu  Thu May 24 09:18:48 2007
From: serafino at cshl.edu (Sal Serafino)
Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 09:18:48 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: SUMMARY: smpatch on sol-10
Message-ID: <200705241318.l4ODImU02656@phage.cshl.edu>

I only got one response on this -- quickly I may add!  Aaron Lineberger 
suggested that I manually register my machine with sconadm.  It didn't work, and 
I received the same error about the security validator.  A little research 
showed that there were some problems with the patch manager in various Solaris 
releases.  In fact, I remember some trouble with smpatch/updatemanager on my x86 
laptop a few months ago, but the fix I used then (change the source URL to 
"https:" and exclude the trailing "/solaris") didn't work, either.

I downloaded and installed the latest cluster.  Word to the wise:  You must run 
/install_cluster, reboot, and rerun ./install_cluster a second time!  After 
that, it seems to be working just fine now (at least on one box!).

Thanks to all,
-Sal

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Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 12:47 PM
To: sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org
Subject: smpatch on sol-10

Hi All-

I recently installed Solaris-10 06/06 on two new T2000's.  Both are running
the Developer Cluster with slight modifications (add Freeware Shells, remove
Apache, remove WBEM, etc.)

After getting basic settings done, I ran updatemanager to install the latest
patch sets.  My first run installed 119254-27 and 121118-08 which are
updates to the smpatch suite.  I know there are more than two patches, so I
rechecked for updates.  There are 128 new patches, but I can't get them to
install on either machine in either GUI or CLI mode.

Errors on one machine:

Failure: Cannot connect to retrieve Database/current.zip: 
sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path validation failed: 
java.security.cert.CertPathValidatorException: signature check failed


The other machine runs 'smpatch analyze' without problems, but if I try to
do 'smpatch download' or 'smpatch update' I get this error:

        <patch#>: This patch could not be found

Two questions:  Why are the error messages so different?  Anybody know how
to fix this and get patches working again?

TIA,
-Sal
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From nmvega at computingarchitects.com  Thu May 24 09:36:15 2007
From: nmvega at computingarchitects.com (Noelle M. Vega)
Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 06:36:15 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: SUMMARY: SunCluster 3.2: LogicalHost resource not bringing back
	up aninterface ...
Message-ID: <385986.53656.qm@web36112.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Hi:

For the problem I explained, its actually not (as told to me by Sun). IPMP handles
underlying problems with SC logicalHost VIPs within an IPMP group (moving
them as necessary from one interface to another - normal IPMP behavior).

But IPMP does not concern itself with the VIP's themselves as it does
with link level loss and with reachability to well known IP's on the
local subnet (e.g. default router; multicast address; etc.).

So the behavior I experienced below, is not incorrect.

Btw... Thank you Andreas for pointing out that SC3.2 support starts at
the H/W 11/06 version of Solaris 10.

Regards,
Noel Milton

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


Hi:

Im running SunCluster 3.2 on Solaris 10 (06/06).

I have a one-node cluster up and running. The resource group I defined has,
as part of it, a LogicalHost defined as shown:

==================================================================
root# clrs show -g mq1-RG -p NetIfList,HostnameList mq1-lh-RES

=== Resources
===



Resource:                                       mq1-lh-RES

  --- Standard and extension
properties ---



  NetIfList:
ipmp_grp0 at 1

Class:                                         extension

Description:                                   List of IPMP groups on each
node
    Per-node:                                      False

Type:                                          stringarray
==================================================================


I can bring the resource group online and offline with each resource correspondingly
going on and offline as well, including the LogicalHost resource.

My questions is this...

With the resource group brought online, ce0:2 gets configured successfully (LogicalHost).
Fine. But when I, on purpose, do an "ifconfig ce0:2 down" or unplumb it, to hopefully
see the cluster bring it back up, an scstat shows the LogicalHost as online
even though ce0:2 remains down or unplumbed:

            Resource Name  Node Name                State          Status Message
            -------------  ---------                -----          --------------
  Resource: mq1-lh-RES         server22                 Online         Online - LogicalHostname online.

  Resource: mq1-hadisk-RES  server22                 Online         Online

  Resource: mq1-mq-RES       server22                 Online         Online - Service is online.


Anyone know why it doesn't bring it back up? I followed the docs to the letter.

TIA,
Noel Milton
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From sun.mail.list at oryx.cc  Thu May 24 12:44:53 2007
From: sun.mail.list at oryx.cc (Jerry Kemp)
Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 11:44:53 -0500
Subject: [SUMMARY] Solaris x86 cisco vpn client
Message-ID: <4655C105.8090603@oryx.cc>

Solaris x86 VPN client summary.

Thank you to the following for your comments and suggestions:

Michael Grice
Gary Chambers
Matthew Taylor
Glenn Prince
David Magda
Al Saenz

Vacations - It has been a while since I posted a question here, and 
amazingly, no one is on holiday.

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

Down to business - With one exception, everyone suggested VPNC.  No one 
has this working on Solaris that emailed me, but some indicated that 
they had it working on linux.

This is the URL for VPNc:

http://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~massar/vpnc/

The one exception was for the Connectra SSL VPN extender.  The Cisco VPN 
concentrator does not support SSL based VPN's, so I was not able to 
explore this option.

================================
Compiling VPNc

My VPNc test platform is an Ultra 20 M2 running Solaris 10u3.

I pulled down the VPNc 0.4.0 source code last evening, and ultimately 
got a good working compile.  Why there was not any rocket-surgery 
involved, it wasn't a task for the timid or beginner.  This application 
had roughly a dozen sub-dependencies I had to get compiled and installed 
prior to getting a good/working compile of VPNc.

The bulk of problems encountered with the sub-dependencies revolved 
around ld.  They needed the GNU ld.  And it wasn't enough to do a
./configure --with-gnu-ld=/usr/local/bin/ld .  I actually had to rename 
/usr/ccs/bin/ld to get a good compile.  If you have to do this also, be 
sure to restore /usr/ccs/bin/ld afterwards, you will need it!

The big exception to the sub-dependencies was the compiling/installing 
of the TUN/TAP kernel modules.  I was not able to get a good compile and 
install till I used /usr/ccs/bin/ld .  I was able to verify my TUN/TAP 
installation here with the following command:

# modinfo | egrep -i 'tun|tap'

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

VPNc installation/configuration/usage

After I had a good installation of all of the sub-dependencies for VPNc, 
I was finally able to begin working with VPNc itself.  The compile 
(make) was easy/quick/clean, but the "make install" operation really 
didn't do much of anything.

I manually copied the binaries and scripts to /usr/local/sbin , and 
configuration files were put in /etc/vpnc/ .

VPNc includes a script to convert your Cisco generated *.pcf file to a 
VPNc style configuration file.  This script did a pretty good job, but I 
needed to do some manual clean up.  Once complete, your configuration 
file should be named "default.conf" and moved to the /etc/vpnc/ 
subdirectory.

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

Success?

I ran out of time last night before I was fully complete, but before I 
needed to stop, but I was able to run VPNc, successfully log in, have 
VPNc display warning/disclaimer banners, and have the Cisco concentrator 
automatically set static routes to all of the internal networks.

I was not able to pass any traffic through the tunnel before I needed to 
stop, but I am certain that I am very close.  There are some scripting 
issues that I need to work through, but I feel that I will be successful 
using VPNc.

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

Additional details

This was suppose to be a short summary, but it is starting to look like 
a book.  If anyone needs additional details of what I did, please email 
me off line, and I will assist to the best of my abilities.

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

Original question

> Currently, Cisco does not provide a VPN client for Solaris x86, although 
> there is one for Solaris Sparc.
> 
> Does any one have a usable 3rd party functional VPN client that they use 
> to connect to a Cisco VPN concentrator.  It could be 3rd party 
> commercial, shareware, freeware, open source, etc?
> 
> A Yahoo search turns up many others asking the same question, but no 
> answers.
> 
> Thanks for any comments, I will post a summary.
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From s.zhou at larc.nasa.gov  Thu May 24 16:37:15 2007
From: s.zhou at larc.nasa.gov (s.zhou)
Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:37:15 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: summary: PRNG is not seeded
Message-ID: <iss.83181411.3d63.4655f79a.e557.35@sentinel.larc.nasa.gov>

Thanks for all who replied. Basically I need patch 112438 on some of
my Solaris 8 systems and some have alreay had this patch installed.

By the way, I have similar problems with some of my SGIs. Do you know 
is there any such SGI's managers mailing list around?

Thanks,


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Science Systems and Applications Inc.(SSAI) 
1 Enterprise Pkwy, Hampton, VA 23666
Tel: (757)827-4887  Fax: (757)825-9129
Email: s.zhou at larc.nasa.gov


>
>Have you seen this before?
>
>I have got openssh 4.6p1 from sunfreeware.com and installed. While test
>the newly installed sshd by /usr/local/sbin/sshd -v, I got:
>
>PRNG is not seeded.
>
>Do you know what is the quickest fix for that? Also I got same error 
>message on some IRIX machines as well.
>
>Thanks,
>
>--
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>Science Systems and Applications Inc.(SSAI) 
>1 Enterprise Pkwy, Hampton, VA 23666
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From anjum at qp.com.qa  Sun May 27 07:05:28 2007
From: anjum at qp.com.qa (Ayaz Anjum)
Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 14:05:28 +0300
Subject: Summary: issues with cluster 3.2
In-Reply-To: <OF71E4E984.23228804-ON432572E6.005A410F-432572E6.005A7239@LocalDomain>
Message-ID: <OF927F7B28.177E0167-ON432572E8.003C8AAA-432572E8.003CE9C2@qp.com.qa>

Thanks to Murat BALKAS, and "aams listastecnicas", for confirming my 
suspecion. The problem with with cluster interconnect being on the same 
vlan. I have used cross cable and the errors are gone. 

Regarding the second error which i hv posted

May 25 19:24:40 orarac01 Cluster.SMF.DR: Unable to open door descriptor 
/var/run
/rgmd_receptionist_door
May 25 19:24:40 orarac01 Cluster.SMF.DR:
May 25 19:24:40 orarac01  Error in scha_cluster_get

its a bug and can be ignored, see CR 6490541

thanks


Ayaz Anjum 




Ayaz Anjum/IT/QGPC 
05/25/2007 07:27 PM

To

cc

Subject
issues with cluster 3.2





HI ! 

I am evaluating sun cluster 3.2 and facing following wierd issues  ( 
solaris 10 11/06 ) 

1. While installing i have specified a non default private interconnect ip 
addresses ( 10.20.0.0) 
Cluster nodes boots up fine but then i get following messages 

first node - orarac01 
May 25 16:32:29 orarac01 ip: [ID 903730 kern.warning] WARNING: IP: 
Hardware address '00:00:00:00:00:01' trying to be our address 
010.020.004.001! 

second node =- orarac02 
May 25 17:12:28 orarac02 ip: [ID 903730 kern.warning] WARNING: IP: 
Hardware address '00:00:00:00:00:02' trying to be our address 
010.020.004.002! 


I am using ce3 and ce7 for cluster interconect and i see following on both 
nodes 

orarac01: 
ce3: flags=1008843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,PRIVATE,IPv4> mtu 1500 
index 5 
        inet 10.20.0.129 netmask ffffff80 broadcast 10.20.0.255 
        ether 0:3:ba:db:9d:a3 
ce7: flags=1008843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,PRIVATE,IPv4> mtu 1500 
index 4 
        inet 10.20.1.1 netmask ffffff80 broadcast 10.20.1.127 
        ether 0:3:ba:3:7b:2e 
clprivnet0: 
flags=1009843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,MULTI_BCAST,PRIVATE,IPv4> mtu 
1500 index 6 
        inet 10.20.4.1 netmask fffffe00 broadcast 10.20.5.255 
        ether 0:0:0:0:0:1 

orarac02: 
ce3: flags=1008843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,PRIVATE,IPv4> mtu 1500 
index 4 
        inet 10.20.0.130 netmask ffffff80 broadcast 10.20.0.255 
        ether 0:3:ba:db:6c:af 
ce7: flags=1008843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,PRIVATE,IPv4> mtu 1500 
index 3 
        inet 10.20.1.2 netmask ffffff80 broadcast 10.20.1.127 
        ether 0:3:ba:3:bb:52 
clprivnet0: 
flags=1009843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,MULTI_BCAST,PRIVATE,IPv4> mtu 
1500 index 5 
        inet 10.20.4.2 netmask fffffe00 broadcast 10.20.5.255 
        ether 0:0:0:0:0:2 

i dont see and address conflict in above ifconfig output, but from the 
messages the nodes are complaining about the other member. 

Using the new feature of cluster 3.2, i booted in non cluster mode, and 
did clsetup to change the private ip address to default range but it gave 
me errors 
"remote access attempt to one or more of the other nodes failed" and i am 
not able to change the ip address 

Other error which i am gettting on reboots

May 25 19:24:40 orarac01 Cluster.SMF.DR: Unable to open door descriptor 
/var/run
/rgmd_receptionist_door
May 25 19:24:40 orarac01 Cluster.SMF.DR:
May 25 19:24:40 orarac01  Error in scha_cluster_get

I hv just installed cluster one node at a time, and reset the install 
mode, no configurations done


any suggestions 

thanks 




Ayaz Anjum 
Ayaz Anjum 
Systems Engineer , ITT/E6
Information Technology Department 
Qatar Petroleum 
P.O. Box 47   Doha, Qatar 
Tel +974 4405280 Cell +974 5729770
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From paul.coray at unibas.ch  Tue May 29 03:57:57 2007
From: paul.coray at unibas.ch (Paul Coray)
Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 09:57:57 +0200
Subject: SUMMARY: Which minimal SW-Cluster for running GUI-Installers
	e.g. Oracle?
Message-ID: <465BDD05.4070605@unibas.ch>

Hi all,

Thanks to Anonymous Mark and Vladimir, who provided me classfiles for 
Solaris 9, I was able to figure out how to achieve what I want on 
Solaris 10. I get a wonderfully slim installation of ~500 MB, opposed to 
~4 GB with the SW-Clusters that throw JDS and CDE on my Disk :-) Saves 
me  quite some Diskspace and time, when it comes to Backups...

This is my original posting:

"I want our server to have the minimal required SW installed to run
graphical installers like Oracle, but no CDE, no GNOME/JDS. Would the
Core-Cluster SUNWCreq be sufficient?

Someone made a classfile for jumpstart with needed clusters and packages
and could share?"

First my new classfile for jumpstarting a new Solaris 10 server, 
followed by two Solaris 9 configs.

Thanks all
Paul

Solaris 10
*******************************************************
install_type    initial_install
system_type     standalone

partitioning    explicit
filesys mirror  c0t0d0s0 c0t1d0s0 free  /
filesys mirror  c0t0d0s1 c0t1d0s1 16000   swap
filesys mirror  c0t0d0s3 c0t1d0s3 8000  /var
filesys mirror  c0t0d0s5 c0t1d0s5 2000  /redo0
metadb          c0t0d0s4 count 4
metadb          c0t1d0s4 count 4

cluster         SUNWCreq
cluster         SUNWCssh add
package         SUNWless add
package         SUNWbash add
package         SUNWbindr add
package         SUNWbind add
package         SUNWadmc add
package         SUNWadmfr add
package         SUNWadmfw add
package         SUNWinst add
package         SUNWzip add
package         SUNWgcmn add
package         SUNWwgetr add
package         SUNWwgetu add
package         SUNWgzip add

# Commonly needed misc. packages (Mandatory)
#package SUNWadmc    add      # System administration core libraries
#package SUNWadmfw   add      # System & Network Administration Framework
package SUNWscpu    add      # Source Compatibility, (Usr)

package         SUNWscpr add

# Commonly needed library packages (Mandatory)
package SUNWbtool add   # CCS tools bundled with SunOS
#package SUNWzlib    add      # The Zip compression library
package SUNWtoo     add      # Programming Tools

# Manpages
package SUNWdoc add
package SUNWman add

# Allow for X tunneling over SSH
package                 SUNWxcu4        add
#package                 SUNWcpp         add
package SUNWxi18n add
package SUNWxim add
package SUNWxwcft add
package SUNWxwcsl add
package SUNWxwfa add
package SUNWxwfnt add
package SUNWxwfs add
package SUNWxwxft add
package SUNWxwhl add
package SUNWxwice add
package SUNWxwinc add
#package SUNWxwman add
#package SUNWxwmod add
package SUNWxwoft add
package SUNWxwopt add
package SUNWxwpft add
package SUNWxwplr add
package SUNWxwplt add
#package SUNWxwpmn add
package SUNWxwrtl add
package SUNWxwslb add
#package SUNWxwsrc add
package SUNWxwsrv add
package SUNWxwxst add
package SUNWctpls add
package SUNWdtbas add
package SUNWmfrun add
package SUNWicu add
package SUNWstsf add
package SUNWfreetype2 add
package SUNWfontconfig add
package SUNWfontconfig-root add
package SUNWj5rt add
*******************************************************


Solaris 9
*******************************************************
install_type    initial_install
geo             N_America
locale          C
cluster         SUNWCcore

partitioning explicit
# Primary Disk
filesys        c0t0d0s0 4000  /     logging
filesys        c0t0d0s1 1000  swap
filesys        c0t0d0s3 3000  /usr     logging
filesys        c0t0d0s5 5000  /export/home   logging
filesys        c0t0d0s6 6000  /a01     logging

# Shell
package                 SUNWzsh         add

# NTP
package                 SUNWntpr        add
package                 SUNWntpu        add

# Man Pages
package                 SUNWdoc         add
package                 SUNWman         add
package                 SUNWlibC        add

#
package                 SUNWter         add
package                 SUNWaccr        add
package                 SUNWaccu        add

# Compression Utilities
package                 SUNWgzip        add
package                 SUNWbzip        add
package                 SUNWbzipx       add
package                 SUNWzip         add

# Patch Management
package                 SUNWadmc        add
package                 SUNWadmfw       add

# Truss and other Tools
package                 SUNWtoo         add
package                 SUNWtoox        add

# Allow for X tunneling over SSH
package                 SUNWxcu4        add
package                 SUNWxwfnt       add
package                 SUNWxwice       add
package                 SUNWcpp         add
package                 SUNWzlib        add
package                 SUNWxwplt       add
package                 SUNWxwplx       add
package                 SUNWxwrtl       add
package                 SUNWxwrtx       add
*******************************************************


Solaris 9 (alt)
*******************************************************
cluster         SUNWCreq
cluster         SUNWCssh
cluster         SUNWCfwcmp
cluster         SUNWCfwcmpx
cluster         SUNWCfwshl
cluster         SUNWCwget
cluster         SUNWCadm
cluster         SUNWCxwrte
cluster         SUNWCptoo
cluster         SUNWCstlx
cluster         SUNWCxwrtx
cluster         SUNWCscp
cluster         SUNWCacc
cluster         SUNWCptoo
package SUNWhea add
package SUNWless add
package SUNWdoc add
package SUNWsfman add
package SUNWsfinf add
package SUNWggrp add
package SUNWlibC add
package SUNWlibCf add
package SUNWlibCx add
package SUNWuiu8 add
package SUNWmfrun add
package SUNWctpls add
package SUNWman add
package SUNWntpu add
package SUNWmdb add
package SUNWmdbdm add
package SUNWmdbx add
package SUNWarc add
package SUNWarcx add
package SUNWxcu4t add
package SUNWbcp  add
package SUNWtoo add
package SUNWtoox add
package SUNWscpu add
package SUNWscpux add
package SUNWscpr add
package SUNWesxu add
package SUNWinst add
package SUNWgssc add
package SUNWfns add
package SUNWfnsx add
package SUNWgss add
package SUNWgssk add
package SUNWgssx add
package SUNWrsgk add
package SUNWrsgx add
package SUNWgssdh add
package SUNWgsskx add
package SUNWatfsr delete
package SUNWatfsu delete
package SUNWiiimr delete
package SUNWiiimu delete
package SUNWtleu delete
package SUNWtleux delete
package SUNWinleu delete
package SUNWinlex delete
*******************************************************


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From serafino at cshl.edu  Tue May 29 13:37:44 2007
From: serafino at cshl.edu (Sal Serafino)
Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 13:37:44 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: SUMMARY: smpatch on sol-10, part 2
Message-ID: <200705291737.l4THbiC15235@phage.cshl.edu>

I've had some correspondance with Chris Barnard, who has identified that there 
are hidden dependencies between the smpatch/updatemanager and several of the 
WBEM packages.  So, I did a re-re-reinstall on my second T2000 that included 
these.  The first T2000, which I can't reinstall just now, still gets stuck 
while trying to start up cacaoadm, so no patches for this box just yet.

After the initial OS install, I installed some additional software (Companion CD 
packages, Studio11, etc.) and then installed the 10_Recommended Cluster, making 
sure to run the install, reboot, and re-run the install.

After that, I was able to register my system through updatemanager, but I still 
get an error when trying to install patches.  I was then able to run smpatch, 
and I noticed that there were a number of patches to the Basic Registration, 
Install Software, Common Agent Container, and other packages that appear be 
required for the updatemanager GUI to run.  After running 'smpatch update' and 
rebooting, I did an 'rm -rf *' from /var/sadm/spool, and 'rm -rf .gconf* .gnome* 
java/ .softwareupdate/ .sunw/' from /.  Now, smpatch and updatemanager hoth 
run, and I am very happy this is no longer broken.

For additional reference, Martin Paul suggested that I use PCA.  I looked at it 
briefly, but decided that I don't want to maintain any of its hard-coded magic.  
Otherwise, it looks like a nice little package -- thanks, Martin!

General consensus is, Sun dropped the ball with the new patch software; most 
people who emailed me thought that clusters and the old PatchDiag script were 
much better.  I can't say I agree 100% since this is the first real problem I've 
had with it, but I will say that this particular experience left me sour.

Thanks to all for your comments and suggestions,
-Sal
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From Alfredo.Cruz at cancercare.on.ca  Wed May 30 13:33:24 2007
From: Alfredo.Cruz at cancercare.on.ca (Cruz, Alfredo)
Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 13:33:24 -0400
Subject: SUMMARY: Configuring second NIC card for local zone
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I think I found a solution:  just create a file called
/etc/hostname.e1000g1 in the global zone with nothing in it.

Thanks,

Alfredo

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From: Cruz, Alfredo
Sent: May 30, 2007 12:04 PM
To: 'sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org'
Subject: Configuring second NIC card for local zone


Hello,

I have two interface card on my global zone.  I need one configured with
an IP address (e1000g0) and the other plumb with no IP address
(e1000g1).  The reason for this is so that local zone boots up with two
interface cards: one with e-1000g0:1 and the other with e1000g1:1 both
with valid IP addresses.  Is it possible to setup the globalzone  to
bring up the e1000g1 plumb without IP addresses?  Do you have a better
solutions or better standard practice?

Thanks in advance.

Alfredo






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From ahoesch at smartsoft.de  Thu May 31 07:01:55 2007
From: ahoesch at smartsoft.de (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Andreas_H=F6schler?=)
Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 13:01:55 +0200
Subject: Summary: Accessing devices as non-root user
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Message-ID: <5841DDFB-0F66-11DC-85EE-003065CCA582@smartsoft.de>

Dear managers,

Thanks to all that responded!

>> we have an application (running on Solaris 10) that accesses sound and
>> serial devices. The application works when run as root, but is not
>> able to access (/dev/audio, /dev/term/0,...) when run as a normal 
>> user.
>>
>>           audioCtlDevice = open ("/dev/audioctl", O_RDWR);
>>           if (audioCtlDevice < 0) { NSLog(@"Error: open() returned %d;
>> errno %d", audioCtlDevice, errno); return 0; }
>>
>> 2007-05-22 11:57:15.084 AudioPlayTest[21626] Error: open() returned
>> -1; errno 2
>>
>> I suppose this is a general issue. What do we have to do to give
>> non-root users access to devices?
>
> It has been recommended to check http://blogs.sun.com/jg and also have 
> a look into update_drv.  I modified the entry in /etc/minor_perm from 
> "audio:* 0600 root sys" to
>
> 	audio:* 0666 root sys
>
> and ran "devfsadm -c audio". I also tried "update_drv" which just gave 
> me a list of options. "update_drv -v audio" gave me
>
> -bash-3.00# update_drv -v audio
> Failed to update audio.conf for driver.
>
> and I can still not access /dev/audio when the app is run as a normal 
> user (it works when run as root).
>
> 	/Build/AudioPlayTest/obj/AudioPlayTest
>
> 2007-05-31 10:29:08.177 AudioPlayTest[26025] Error: open() returned 
> -1; errno 13

Since I wasn't able to populate my changes to /etc/minor_perm via any 
update_drv or the like command I finally rebooted the machine. After 
that I could access /dev/audio as a non-root user. Not nice but it 
works!

Thanks,

   Andreas
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