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Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 17:21:32 -0400
Subject: SUMMARY: 3rd party Sun Maintenance providers
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From stepchung at gmail.com  Wed Oct  3 14:09:14 2007
From: stepchung at gmail.com (Stephanie C)
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 11:09:14 -0700
Subject: SUMMARY: Disable or deactivate user account command syntax
Message-ID: <6bdfa8ce0710031109w7802ea22y9e268d8e92d9ba19@mail.gmail.com>

Thank you all. Why didn't I think about the passwd command.

Stepahnie


On 10/3/07, Imtiaz Uddin, Mohammed (GE, Corporate, consultant) <
ImtiazUddin.Mohammed at ge.com> wrote:
>
> Stephanie,
>
>
> How bout trying passwd -l <Username> ---> This will lock the account
>
> And for unlocking the account, passwd -u <user-name>
>
>
> Regards
> Mo
>
> "Atleast I don't ask YENOM for this"
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: sunmanagers-bounces at sunmanagers.org
> [mailto:sunmanagers-bounces at sunmanagers.org] On Behalf Of Stephanie C
> Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2007 11:26 PM
> To: Sun Managers
> Subject: Disable or deactivate user account command syntax
>
> Before posting this, I have googled and looked at sun doc. But can find
> the command line syntax how to temporary disable (or deactivate) users
> account on solaris 10. I need to temporary deactivate a user account on
> both global and zones on solaris 10. I don't want to delete or change
> password or set expired. I just want to disable/deactivate this account
> and will re-activate/enable at a later time. I have to do this with the
> command line not GUI (at root prompt). Please let me know the command
> how to do this and how to re-activate again. Thanks for your help.
>
> Stephanie
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From michael.fdo at gmail.com  Tue Oct  2 08:53:15 2007
From: michael.fdo at gmail.com (Michael Fernando)
Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 08:53:15 -0400
Subject: SUMMARY: SunFire x2200 M2 and VMware
Message-ID: <21f7349b0710020553i79295cfex427f8c1f945da186@mail.gmail.com>

Original Question:

This is a VMware on Sun hardware question.  Hope it isn't OT.

I'm trying to install VMware ESX 3.0.2 on a SunFire x2200 M2.  This sun
doc http://docs.sun.com/source/819-6601-15/index.html#0_76573 says that
"The Sun Fire X2200 M2 now supports the VMWare ESX Server 3.0.2
operating system. The OS requires BIOS v3B17, which is available on the
Tool and Drivers CD v1.5. You can only install VMWare on systems with
the SAS option."

Now, SF x2200 comes with SATA drives.  So, what is this "SAS option"
here?  Has anyone been able to install ESX on an SF x2200 ?  Is there a
BIOS option to make the drives emulate SAS disks?  Yes, I have upgraded
the BIOS to version 3B17 but I still can't make the ESX 3.0.2 install CD
see any disks.

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

I received two replies.  Thanks go to:

  Sandor W. Sklar (at Sanford edu)
  John Malick     (at Star Systems Eng.)

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

Even though Sun Fire x2200 M2 comes with SATA drives (Sun.com's "Buy"
lists only SATA options) one can purchase SAS disks, a PCI card and
cables.  The full component list
http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_private/Systems/SunFireX2200_M2/components.html
shows PCI-E SAS HBAs (two options), SAS drives (146G, 300G) and SAS Hard
Disk Drive Cable Kit.  (Search for the word SAS in the above URL)

Many thanks to Sandor Sklar for pointing this out.

As for VMware, I have a service call open with VMware tech support to
find out exactly what configuration is supported.  I have not heard back
yet.
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From dreyerja at uni-paderborn.de  Thu Oct  4 06:24:59 2007
From: dreyerja at uni-paderborn.de (Jan Dreyer)
Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2007 12:24:59 +0200
Subject: SUMMARY: find/nfsfind failure ..Value too large for defined
	data type..
In-Reply-To: <47021110.6070500@uni-paderborn.de>
References: <47021110.6070500@uni-paderborn.de>
Message-ID: <4704BF7B.3080902@uni-paderborn.de>

Hi all,

ok, that was a simple one, but I was looking on the wrong numbers:
All answers pointed the same way: The date of these files has been far 
in the future and so time_t was overflowing [msc]time
I corrected these (touch won't do this, so I used Blastwave-rsync to 
copy them and then moved them to the old name) and all was right again. 
Now I only have to watch for the NFS-Client with a wrong configured date ...

Thanks Mats, Tony and Andy for your fast responses!

Greetings
Jan Dreyer

Jan Dreyer schrieb:
> Hi,
> running Solaris 10u3 I'm running into the following problem:
> -- snipp --
>  >/usr/bin/ls -l
> ./20070921_14310: Value too large for defined data type
> ./20070921_14309: Value too large for defined data type
> ./20070921_14125: Value too large for defined data type
> [...]
>  >/usr/bin/sparcv9/ls -l
> total 6716
> [...]
> -rw-rw-r--   1 user05   104       363828 Nov 29  2076 20070921_14125
> -rw-rw-r--   1 user05   104         6928 Nov 29  2076 20070921_14309
> -rw-rw-r--   1 user05   104       234089 Nov 29  2076 20070921_14310
> [...]
> -- snapp --
> 
> So far not a problem (though I do wonder, why a 32-bit application can't 
> show these files). But I can't find a 64-bit version of find, which is 
> used by nfsfind; nfsfind starts by cron weekly and bugs me with "Value 
> too large" messages ...
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Greetings
> Jan Dreyer
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From starcat524 at yahoo.com  Thu Oct  4 12:05:27 2007
From: starcat524 at yahoo.com (Sun Fire)
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 09:05:27 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: SUMMARY:  map EMC disks to file system
In-Reply-To: <272b4fbb0710040121w48bc3d25u699d86db12a2094d@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <183803.45665.qm@web62105.mail.re1.yahoo.com>

Thank you very much Shyam Hazari and Syminq for their
quick response and answer.

The solution is to use commands

/etc/powermt display dev=all
and
vxprint 

to map the file system.

> On 10/4/07, Sun Fire <starcat524 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have some disk performance issue and i have
> > identified that a few disks c4t41d17, c4t41d19 etc
> > were the caused from the sar and iostat data.
> However,
> > those disks are EMC disks and we have emc power
> > pathing and these disks are under veritas control.
> >
> > How can i do the EMC disk mapping? Also can
> someone
> > share with me how can I mapped these phyiscal
> disks
> > c4t41d17 etc to which file system they are mounted
> on?
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> > Tim
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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From vshar at allstate.com  Thu Oct  4 14:04:32 2007
From: vshar at allstate.com (Sharma, Vikas (TEK System))
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 13:04:32 -0500
Subject: SUMMARY: Perl module (Text::CSV_XS) installation failed... any 
	suggestions?
In-Reply-To: <F62F594A3B933549804697904E2AEA7B0153C71C@a0001-xpo0154-s.hodc.ad.allstate.com>
References: <F62F594A3B933549804697904E2AEA7B0153C71C@a0001-xpo0154-s.hodc.ad.allstate.com>
Message-ID: <F62F594A3B933549804697904E2AEA7B0153C763@a0001-xpo0154-s.hodc.ad.allstate.com>

Hi all,

Thanks to Lisa, Barry, Musa, Anthony, Darren and Chris for their
suggestions. Almost everyone pointed in same direction.... installation
of GCC :) and it worked.

Here is what I have done to make it work:

1) Installed GCC compiler
/PERL_MODULES/Text-CSV_XS-0.31->which gcc
/usr/sfw/bin/gcc

2) Made a soft link of gcc to /usr/ucb/cc

3) The following article is having very good stuff for the error I
received:
http://blogs.sun.com/fintanr/category/Perl

I followed :

/PERL_MODULES/Text-CSV_XS-0.31->ls -l /usr/perl5/5.8.4/bin/perlgcc
-r-xr-xr-x   1 root     bin          651 Jan 21  2005
/usr/perl5/5.8.4/bin/perlgcc

/PERL_MODULES/Text-CSV_XS-0.31->/usr/perl5/5.8.4/bin/perlgcc Makefile.PL
Writing Makefile for Text::CSV_XS


/PERL_MODULES/Text-CSV_XS-0.31->/usr/ccs/bin/make
gcc -c    -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_TS_ERRNO -O2
-fno-strict-aliasing    -DVERSION=\"0.31\"  -DXS_VERSION=\"0.31\" -fPIC
"-I             /usr/perl5/5.8.4/lib/sun4-solaris-64int/CORE"   CSV_XS.c
Running Mkbootstrap for Text::CSV_XS ()
chmod 644 CSV_XS.bs
rm -f blib/arch/auto/Text/CSV_XS/CSV_XS.so
LD_RUN_PATH="" gcc  -G CSV_XS.o  -o blib/arch/auto/Text/CSV_XS/CSV_XS.so
chmod 755 blib/arch/auto/Text/CSV_XS/CSV_XS.so
cp CSV_XS.bs blib/arch/auto/Text/CSV_XS/CSV_XS.bs
chmod 644 blib/arch/auto/Text/CSV_XS/CSV_XS.bs
Manifying blib/man3/Text::CSV_XS.3

/PERL_MODULES/Text-CSV_XS-0.31->/usr/ccs/bin/make test
PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/perl5/5.8.4/bin/perl "-MExtUtils::Command::MM"
"-e" "test_harness(0, 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t
t/00_pod..........skipped
        all skipped: Test::Pod 1.00 required for testing POD
t/01_pod..........skipped
        all skipped: Test::Pod::Covarage required for testing POD
Coverage
t/10_base.........ok
t/12_acc..........ok
t/15_flags........ok
t/20_file.........ok
t/21_lexicalio....ok
t/22_scalario.....ok
t/30_types........ok
t/40_misc.........ok
t/45_eol..........ok
t/50_utf8.........ok
t/55_combi........ok
t/60_samples......ok
t/65_allow........ok
t/70_rt...........ok
t/80_diag.........ok 1/6# Next line should be an error message
t/80_diag.........ok 2/6# CSV_XS ERROR: 2027 - EIQ - Quoted field not
terminated
t/80_diag.........ok
All tests successful, 2 tests skipped.
Files=17, Tests=10510,  9 wallclock secs ( 8.77 cusr +  0.47 csys =
9.24 CPU)


/PERL_MODULES/Text-CSV_XS-0.31->/usr/ccs/bin/make install
Installing
/usr/perl5/site_perl/5.8.4/sun4-solaris-64int/auto/Text/CSV_XS/CSV_XS.so
Installing
/usr/perl5/site_perl/5.8.4/sun4-solaris-64int/auto/Text/CSV_XS/CSV_XS.bs
Files found in blib/arch: installing files in blib/lib into architecture
dependent library tree
Installing /usr/perl5/site_perl/5.8.4/sun4-solaris-64int/Text/CSV_XS.pm
Installing /usr/perl5/5.8.4/man/man3/Text::CSV_XS.3
Writing
/usr/perl5/site_perl/5.8.4/sun4-solaris-64int/auto/Text/CSV_XS/.packlist
Appending installation info to
/usr/perl5/5.8.4/lib/sun4-solaris-64int/perllocal.pod


/PERL_MODULES/Text-CSV_XS-0.31->/usr/ccs/bin/make clean
rm -rf CSV_XS.c CSV_XS.c.gcov CSV_XS.gcda CSV_XS.gcno CSV_XS.xs.gcov
cover_db ./blib Makefile.aperl blib/arch/auto/Text/CSV_XS/extralibs.all
bli             b/arch/auto/Text/CSV_XS/extralibs.ld perlmain.c tmon.out
mon.out so_locations pm_to_blib *.o *.a perl.exe perl perl CSV_XS.bs
CSV_XS.bso CSV_XS.             def libCSV_XS.def CSV_XS.exp CSV_XS.x
core core.*perl.*.? *perl.core core.[0-9] core.[0-9][0-9]
core.[0-9][0-9][0-9] core.[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9] c
ore.[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]
mv Makefile Makefile.old > /dev/null 2>&1

This way I was able to install the perl module which was failing earlier
with CC error.

Thanks again for your time.

Vikas




-----Original Message-----
From: sunmanagers-bounces at sunmanagers.org
[mailto:sunmanagers-bounces at sunmanagers.org] On Behalf Of Sharma, Vikas
(TEK System)
Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2007 11:00 AM
To: sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org
Subject: Perl module (Text::CSV_XS) installation failed... any
suggestions?

Dear Sun & Perl gurus,

It is bit different track to ask any perl module installation question
here but since it is more of dependency on OS package question hence I
am daring to ask in this forum. :-)

I am trying to install Text-CSV_XS-0.31 (Text::CSV_XS) module on my
Solaris 10 server. Like any other module, I followed the same procedure
and ended up with OS package related error. Could anyone please have a
look at the error and let me know the possible cause of this error and
how to correctly install this module without any problem.

Needless to say that I am a newbie for perl but know and added modules
in past without any such problem. I already google'd for this error
without any luck.

Thanks for your time.
Vikas

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


/PERL_MODULES->ls -la
total 1064
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root         512 Oct  4 10:23 .
drwxr-xr-x   7 root     root        1024 Oct  4 10:23 ..
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root      484105 Oct  3 15:56
Spreadsheet-WriteExcel-2.18.tar.gz
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root       42884 Oct  4 09:22
Text-CSV_XS-0.31.tar.gz

/PERL_MODULES->gunzip Text-CSV_XS-0.31.tar.gz

/PERL_MODULES->tar xf Text-CSV_XS-0.31.tar

/PERL_MODULES->ls -la
total 1350
drwxr-xr-x   3 root     root         512 Oct  4 10:25 .
drwxr-xr-x   7 root     root        1024 Oct  4 10:23 ..
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root      484105 Oct  3 15:56
Spreadsheet-WriteExcel-2.18.tar.gz
drwxr-xr-x   4 dmasj    100          512 Jul 23 09:07 Text-CSV_XS-0.31
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root      174080 Oct  4 09:22
Text-CSV_XS-0.31.tar

/PERL_MODULES->cd Text-CSV_XS-0.31

/PERL_MODULES/Text-CSV_XS-0.31->ls -la
total 172
drwxr-xr-x   4 dmasj    100          512 Jul 23 09:07 .
drwxr-xr-x   3 root     root         512 Oct  4 10:25 ..
-rw-r--r--   1 dmasj    100        34718 Jun 21 06:29 CSV_XS.pm
-rw-r--r--   1 dmasj    100        24089 Jul 23 08:58 CSV_XS.xs
-rw-r--r--   1 dmasj    100         8471 Jul 23 09:01 ChangeLog
-rw-r--r--   1 dmasj    100         1092 Jul 23 09:07 MANIFEST
-rw-rw-rw-   1 dmasj    100          483 Jul 23 09:07 META.yml
-rw-r--r--   1 dmasj    100         1435 Jun  8 09:53 Makefile.PL
-rw-r--r--   1 dmasj    100         1209 Jun 17 10:22 README
drwxr-xr-x   2 dmasj    100          512 Jul 23 09:07 examples
-rw-r--r--   1 dmasj    100         7795 Jun 28  1999 ppport.h
drwxr-xr-x   2 dmasj    100          512 Jul 23 09:07 t

/PERL_MODULES/Text-CSV_XS-0.31->perl Makefile.PL
Checking if your kit is complete...
Looks good
Writing Makefile for Text::CSV_XS

/PERL_MODULES/Text-CSV_XS-0.31->/usr/ccs/bin/make
cp CSV_XS.pm blib/lib/Text/CSV_XS.pm
/usr/bin/perl /usr/perl5/5.8.4/lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp  -typemap
/usr/perl5/5.8.4/lib/ExtUtils/typemap  CSV_XS.xs > CSV_XS.xsc && mv
CSV_XS.xsc CSV_XS.c
cc -c    -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -xarch=v8
-D_TS_ERRNO -xO3 -xspace -xildoff    -DVERSION=\"0.31\"
-DXS_VERSION=\"0.31\" -KPIC
"-I/usr/perl5/5.8.4/lib/sun4-solaris-64int/CORE"   CSV_XS.c
/usr/ucb/cc:  language optional software package not installed
*** Error code 1
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `CSV_XS.o'

/PERL_MODULES/Text-CSV_XS-0.31->ls -la /usr/ucb/cc
-r-xr-xr-x   1 root     bin         3487 Jan 21  2005 /usr/ucb/cc

/PERL_MODULES/Text-CSV_XS-0.31->/usr/ccs/bin/make
cc -c    -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -xarch=v8
-D_TS_ERRNO -xO3 -xspace -xildoff    -DVERSION=\"0.31\"
-DXS_VERSION=\"0.31\" -KPIC
"-I/usr/perl5/5.8.4/lib/sun4-solaris-64int/CORE"   CSV_XS.c
/usr/ucb/cc:  language optional software package not installed
*** Error code 1
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `CSV_XS.o'

/PERL_MODULES/Text-CSV_XS-0.31->/usr/ccs/bin/make test
cc -c    -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -xarch=v8
-D_TS_ERRNO -xO3 -xspace -xildoff    -DVERSION=\"0.31\"
-DXS_VERSION=\"0.31\" -KPIC
"-I/usr/perl5/5.8.4/lib/sun4-solaris-64int/CORE"   CSV_XS.c
/usr/ucb/cc:  language optional software package not installed
*** Error code 1
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `CSV_XS.o'

/PERL_MODULES/Text-CSV_XS-0.31->/usr/ccs/bin/make install
cc -c    -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -xarch=v8
-D_TS_ERRNO -xO3 -xspace -xildoff    -DVERSION=\"0.31\"
-DXS_VERSION=\"0.31\" -KPIC
"-I/usr/perl5/5.8.4/lib/sun4-solaris-64int/CORE"   CSV_XS.c
/usr/ucb/cc:  language optional software package not installed
*** Error code 1
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `CSV_XS.o'

/PERL_MODULES/Text-CSV_XS-0.31->/usr/ccs/bin/make clean
rm -rf CSV_XS.c CSV_XS.c.gcov CSV_XS.gcda CSV_XS.gcno CSV_XS.xs.gcov
cover_db ./blib Makefile.aperl blib/arch/auto/Text/CSV_XS/extralibs.all
blib/arch/auto/Text/CSV_XS/extralibs.ld perlmain.c tmon.out mon.out
so_locations pm_to_blib *.o *.a perl.exe perl perl CSV_XS.bs CSV_XS.bso
CSV_XS.def libCSV_XS.def CSV_XS.exp CSV_XS.x core core.*perl.*.?
*perl.core core.[0-9] core.[0-9][0-9] core.[0-9][0-9][0-9]
core.[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9] core.[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]
mv Makefile Makefile.old > /dev/null 2>&1
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From cmcbas at sunguru.com  Fri Oct  5 01:20:25 2007
From: cmcbas at sunguru.com (Bhaskar G)
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 22:20:25 -0700
Subject: SUMMARY: How to kill all defunct process.
Message-ID: <20071004222025.636ED618@resin09.mta.everyone.net>

Hi All,

Reboot was the solution. As mentioned by:Markus Mayer
Brad Heck
Aladdin
and may others. Thanks

> Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 22:32:45 -0700
> From: cmcbas at sunguru.com
> To: sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org
> Subject: How to kill all defunct process.
>
> Hi *'s,
>
> How do we kill all the defunct on a sloaris10 system
>
> Server : 6800
> OS : Solaris 10
>
> regards
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From showie at uoguelph.ca  Fri Oct  5 09:18:08 2007
From: showie at uoguelph.ca (Steve Howie)
Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2007 09:18:08 -0400
Subject: problems with /etc/netmask on Solaris 8 system - SUMMARY
Message-ID: <47063990.8000902@uoguelph.ca>

Hi

Thanks to everyone who responded to my question regarding the 
/etc/netmasks file.

Most responses focussed on the fact that I had specified the base 
address of the physical subnet rather than the VLAN my machine is 
sitting on. So to this end, I'm going to test this change (the week 
after next unfortunately), and report back to the list on success/failure.

i.e. Change /etc/netmasks from

131.104.91.0  255.255.255.224

   -to-

131.104.91.96  225.255.255.224


Thanks to everyone

Scotty

---------- Original message ----------------------------


From: sunmanagers-bounces at sunmanagers.org
[mailto:sunmanagers-bounces at sunmanagers.org] On Behalf Of Steve Howie
Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2007 6:51 AM
To: sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org
Subject: Problems with /etc/netmasks on Solaris 8 system

Howdy

I'm having a problem with setting the correct values in /etc/netmasks on

a Solaris 8 system. We are moving it from a non-segmented subnet
(131.104.96.0) to an IP address (131.104.91.102) in a VLAN on the
131.104.91.0 subnet with a subnet mask of 255.255.255.224.


Old netmasks file

131.104.96.0	255.255.255.0


New netmasks file

131.104.91.0	255.255.255.224


The subnet mask is correct for the VLAN.

When I reboot the system after moving the ethernet cable to the new
subnet, I find the following settings for the interface using ifconfig:

IP address:	131.104.91.102   (correct)

Netmask:	255.255.0.0	(not correct, should be 255.255.255.224)

Broadcast:	131.104.255.255	(not correct, should be 131.104.91.127)


I manually corrected the problem by issuing the following command for
the interface eri0 after the system was rebooted

	ifconfig eri0 netmask + broadcast +

This works, but I need these values set correctly when the system boots
up.

Any ideas?  Is my syntax incorrect in the new /etc/netmasks file?

Thanks - will summarise to the list.

Scotty
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From yatcilla at purdue.edu  Fri Oct  5 10:30:23 2007
From: yatcilla at purdue.edu (Doug Yatcilla)
Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 10:30:23 -0400
Subject: SUMMARY: Gigabit ethernet on Sun V880
Message-ID: <20071005143023.GA27089@purdue.edu>

Hello,

There were nine helpful folks who sent quick replies.

First, Sun has a hardware compability list at
http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/

There is a section devoted to networking that currently has over 200
entries.  The advice was to make sure the device is certified to work
with Solaris.

Confusingly, Sun also seems to have another site with hardware
compability info:  http://www.sun.com/io_technologies/

A few described specific copper ethernet NICs they were using such as
Sun GigaSwift (qge and ce) interfaces.  Here is a link to one:
http://www.dmgi.net/Products/501-7415.html
There are lots of third party vendors offering cards like that.

Two folks were using SysKonnect (SKGE 98XX series was mentioned once.)

Nobody who replied to me was using the built-in 1000Base-SX fiber
interface.  One reply said the fiber interface has support for jumbo
frames which might be missing from a copper-based NIC.  But, another
said the fiber NIC (gem interface) required excessive CPU in order to
drive it.

I thank everyone for their advice.  I plan on pursuing the plan laid
out by Steve Edberg who told me about his success in using an Intel
PRO/1000 MT Dual Port NIC in a V880 (Manufacturer Part# PWLA8492MT;
$162 from Provantage.com)  Solaris sees it as the e1000g interface.

The advantage of the e1000g is that it is supported by the GLDv3 aka
Project Nemo network driver framework.
Ref: http://opensolaris.org/os/project/nemo/
Ref: http://blogs.sun.com/sunay/entry/the_solaris_networking_the_magic

So, I could maybe use link aggregration (LACP) or IP multipathing
(IPMP) to use both GigE interfaces the Intel card provides.  I also
have some newer AMD64 based Sun servers that also have the e1000g
interface built in, so having the same interface in the V880 might
make life easier.  

Getting link aggregation to work properly is something I have not been
able to actually accomplish, though, and might be the subject of a
future Sunmanagers question!

In addition to Steve, thanks to Barry, Sandor, Scott, Francisco, Ric,
Joe, Will and Tim.

Regards,
Doug


Orginal message follows:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Managers,

I have an old Sun V880 running Solaris.  Up to this point, we have
been using the built-in fast ethernet/100Base-T copper ethernet
(which shows up as the eri0 interface with ifconfig.)

I recently discovered that the V800 also comes with a built-in
1000Base-SX fiber ethernet interface (I had mistakenly assumed it was
for connecting additional, external FC-AL disk drives.)

I don't know anything about 1000Base-SX and have only used CAT-5
cables for ethernet.

As far as I can tell, I would need to buy a GBIC SFP Transceiver
(about $150) and fiber cable ($50 for 10ft!) in order to connect that
port to our gigabit ethernet switch (a Linksys SRW-2048)

These days, it seems that copper gigabit ethernet is cheap and
everywhere.  As much as I doubt it, could I just get a commodity
PCI gigabit ethernet card ($20-$30 or so) and use it on the V880?

If not, I guess Sun sells more expensive copper gigabit cards.

My question is do you think it be cost effective to use copper or
fiber based gigabit ethernet in this case?

Does anybody use gigabit ethernet with V880s or Sun servers of that
vintage?  Any problems?

Thanks for your advice.

Doug
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From romeo.theriault at maine.edu  Fri Oct  5 12:34:14 2007
From: romeo.theriault at maine.edu (Romeo Theriault)
Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 12:34:14 -0400
Subject: Summary: Confused about Swap Usage
Message-ID: <46cd475b0710050934g57251478y250046b5ce5958e7@mail.gmail.com>

Thank you for everyone who helped me out on this. See original question
below.

But, I still haven't found a satisfying solution to the matter. We are still
slowly watching the swap getting eaten away to nothing while the system
claims to have 19 gigs of free memory.

Output from top: Memory: 64G real, 19G free, 49G swap in use, 1269M swap
free

I've come to the conclusion with the help of you all that the reason `swap
-s` tells me I have next to nothing for swap while `swap -l` tells me my
swap space is untouched is due to tmpfs, and oracle writing too much to the
/tmp directory.

I'm a bit leary (to say the least) to limit the size of the tmpfs filesystem
in vfstab because I'm not sure what Oracle will do when it runs out of tmp
space. So I'm looking into expanding the swap space as  a temporary solution
but am first trying to learn the intricacy's of Veritas Volume manager which
we use before I make any changes. There is always something ;)

A few people mentioned that I should check my Oracle settings and Solaris
Kernel parameters. I verified the settings we have against Oracle's and
Solaris's recommended values and found that we appear to be setup correctly.


One person mention that the shminfo_shmmax kernel paramter in /etc/system
should at least be the sum of sga_max_size of all the oracle instances on
the box but I found the below quotes in Oracle documentation that to me
speak to the contrary.

"A system global area (SGA) is a group of shared memory structures that
contain data
and control information for one Oracle database instance... Each instance
has its own
SGA."

Again, thank you to everyone that helped me out and I'll post back if I find
out any other useful info.

Romeo


Original question:
On 10/3/07, Romeo Theriault <romeotheriault at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello Managers, I am new {still}, to Solaris but now am having some
> trouble with swap usage and some Oracle databases. So I've started looking
> at how swap is used on the system and am now thoroughly confused. The
> problem I'm having is that some of our Oracle database processes are quiting
> processes saying there is not enough memory. We have a Sun Fire E20k. With
> what appears to be 65 gb of physical memory. (Does `prtconf | grep Memory`
> give you the physical memory in the system?)  But my problem comes when
> trying to figure out how much swap space we have and how much is being used.
> The below commands are what I'm using but I'm getting different readings
> from the different commands.
>
> # prtconf | grep Memory
> Memory size: 65536 Megabytes
>
> For example:
> # swap -l
> swapfile             dev  swaplo blocks   free
> /dev/md/dsk/d1      85,1      16 33560432 33560432
>
> is telling me that all of my swap space is free, but when I look at the
> partitions with `df -k`, see below, it is telling me that I have two
> seperate swap spaces {/var/run, tmp} and that they are pretty much free as
> well.
>
> # df -k
> Filesystem            kbytes    used   avail capacity  Mounted on
> /dev/md/dsk/d0       10327372 6060018 4164081    60%    /
> /proc                      0       0       0     0%    /proc
> mnttab                     0       0       0     0%    /etc/mnttab
> fd                         0       0       0     0%    /dev/fd
> /dev/md/dsk/d3       10327372 7895897 2328202    78%    /var
> swap                 9423312      48 9423264     1%    /var/run
> dmpfs                9423264       0 9423264     0%    /dev/vx/dmp
> dmpfs                9423264       0 9423264     0%    /dev/vx/rdmp
> swap                 9424448    1184 9423264     1%    /tmp
> /dev/md/dsk/d101     10327372 1645534 8578565    17%    /opt
> /dev/md/dsk/d100     20655529 13092035 7356939    65%    /home
> etc....
>
> # cat /etc/vfstab
>
> #device         device          mount           FS      fsck    mount
> mount
> #to mount       to fsck         point           type    pass    at boot
> options
> #
> fd      -       /dev/fd fd      -       no      -
> /proc   -       /proc   proc    -       no      -
> /dev/md/dsk/d1  -       -       swap    -       no      -
> /dev/md/dsk/d0  /dev/md/rdsk/d0 /       ufs     1       no      -
> /dev/md/dsk/d3  /dev/md/rdsk/d3 /var    ufs     1       no      -
> /dev/md/dsk/d100        /dev/md/rdsk/d100       /home   ufs     2
> yes     -
> /dev/md/dsk/d101        /dev/md/rdsk/d101       /opt    ufs     2
> yes     -
> swap    -       /tmp    tmpfs   -       yes     -
> etc.....
>
>
> So it looks like most of my swap is free, but when I do:
>
> # swap -s
> total: 29697888k bytes allocated + 14074496k reserved = 43772384k used,
> 9143616k available
>
> It's telling me I only have a little over 9 gigs of free swap space.
>
> What is going on? How can I tell how much physical swap space the machine
> has and why does it appear that from `df -k` and `swap -l` that most/all of
> my swap space is free while swap -s is telling me I only have 9 gigs left.
>
> Thank you very much for any insight into this matter.
>
> --
> Romeo Theriault
> System Administrator
>



-- 
Romeo Theriault
System Administrator
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From rmp.dmd1229 at gmail.com  Fri Oct  5 10:01:23 2007
From: rmp.dmd1229 at gmail.com (rmp dmd)
Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 10:01:23 -0400
Subject: SUMMARY: Adding Raid to Solaris System
Message-ID: <61d255bb0710050701l384219cfm2b6b5712d2c46a63@mail.gmail.com>

Thanks to John Hallman, Francisco Roque.

They provided me with links that are very helpful. Here are they;


http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/content/submitted/svm_mirroring.html

http://smallbusiness.itworld.com/4419/nlsunixdevicealias061005/page_1.ht
ml

 http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/816-4520

http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-5461


-----Original Message-----
> From: sunmanagers-bounces at sunmanagers.org
> [mailto:sunmanagers-bounces at sunmanagers.org] On Behalf Of rmp dmd
> Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2007 4:27 PM
> To: sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org
> Subject: Adding Raid to Solaris System
>
> Little help on implementing raid1 (mirrored disk) on Solaris 10.  Here's
> the lay-out of my current system.
>
>
> Current partition table (original):
>
> Total disk cylinders available: 14087 + 2 (reserved cylinders)
>
>
>
> Part      Tag    Flag     Cylinders         Size            Blocks
>
> 0       root    wm       0 -  1609        7.81GB    (1610/0/0)
> 16383360
>
> 1       swap    wu    1610 -  3219        7.81GB    (1610/0/0)
> 16383360
>
> 2     backup    wm       0 - 14086       68.35GB    (14087/0/0)
> 143349312
>
> 3       swap    wu    3220 -  4829        7.81GB    (1610/0/0)
> 16383360
>
> 4 unassigned    wm    4830 -  6439        7.81GB    (1610/0/0)
> 16383360
>
> 5        var    wm    6440 -  8049        7.81GB    (1610/0/0)
> 16383360
>
> 6 unassigned    wm    8050 - 14079       29.26GB    (6030/0/0)
> 61361280
>
> 7 unassigned    wm   14080 - 14086       34.78MB    (7/0/0)
> 71232
>
> A little how-to will be a great help!
>
>
> Thanks!
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From vshar at allstate.com  Mon Oct  8 10:28:21 2007
From: vshar at allstate.com (Sharma, Vikas (TEK System))
Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2007 09:28:21 -0500
Subject: [SUMMARY]  Perl module error (others may ignore this mail)
In-Reply-To: <F62F594A3B933549804697904E2AEA7B0153CA26@a0001-xpo0154-s.hodc.ad.allstate.com>
References: <F62F594A3B933549804697904E2AEA7B0153CA26@a0001-xpo0154-s.hodc.ad.allstate.com>
Message-ID: <F62F594A3B933549804697904E2AEA7B0153CAEB@a0001-xpo0154-s.hodc.ad.allstate.com>

Dear Perl gurus,

First of all thanks to Francisco, Ric, Barry and Bill for their accurate
solutions. And the solution was to have "freetype" package which is
available from SunFreeware.com site.

Upon installation of this package, I was further asked to install one
more supporting module "GDTextUtil-0.86" which is also necessary for
creating graphs.

In short, if anyone wants to create graphs using perl, he/she should
have at least following packages and perl modules in system before
anything else.

Name of packages (available from SunFreeware):
=========================================================
autoconf-2.60-sol10-sparc-local			SMCautoc
freetype-2.3.1-sol10-sparc-local			SMCftype
gd-2.0.33-sol10-sparc-local				SMCgd
libiconv-1.11-sol10-sparc-local			SMCliconv
libpng-1.2.21-sol10-sparc-local			SMClibpng
m4-1.4.7-sol10-sparc-local				SMCm4
perl-5.8.8-sol10-sparc-local				SMCperl
zlib-1.2.3-sol10-sparc-local				SMCzlib
=========================================================

Name of required perl modules (available from CPAN.org):
=========================================================
GD-2.35
GDTextUtil-0.86
=========================================================

Cheers,
Vikas





-----Original Message-----
From: sunmanagers-bounces at sunmanagers.org
[mailto:sunmanagers-bounces at sunmanagers.org] On Behalf Of Sharma, Vikas
(TEK System)
Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 4:44 PM
To: sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org
Subject: Perl module error (others may ignore this mail)

Dear Perl gurus,

The GD module looks like impossible for me to work with. First of all, I
had hard time to install (GD) this module. I had to install following
packages before this one:

#ls
autoconf-2.60-sol10-sparc-local
libiconv-1.11-sol10-sparc-local
m4-1.4.7-sol10-sparc-local
zlib-1.2.3-sol10-sparc-local
gd-2.0.33-sol10-sparc-local
libpng-1.2.21-sol10-sparc-local
perl-5.8.8-sol10-sparc-local

Then I installed the GD-2.35 and it looked to be installed successfully.
Now I tried to run a simple program and it ended up with some
compilation errors and some library files. The mentioned files are there
in system and I have no clue why I am getting these errors.

Please advise where to start the troubleshooting. I have done enough
google'ing on this error and clueless. :-)

Have a nice weekend!

Vikas



#
#cat graph1.pl
#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
# Change above line to point to your perl binary

use CGI ':standard';
use GD::Graph::lines;
use strict;

# Both the arrays should same number of entries.
my @data = (['Fall 01', 'Spr 01', 'Fall 02', 'Spr 02' ],
            [80, 90, 85, 75],
            [76, 55, 75, 95],
            [66, 58, 92, 83]);

my $mygraph = GD::Graph::lines->new(600, 300);
$mygraph->set(
    x_label     => 'Semester',
    y_label     => 'Marks',
    title       => 'Grade report for a student',
    # Draw datasets in 'solid', 'dashed' and 'dotted-dashed' lines
    line_types  => [1, 2, 4],
    # Set the thickness of line
    line_width  => 2,
    # Set colors for datasets
    dclrs       => ['blue', 'green', 'cyan'],
) or warn $mygraph->error;

$mygraph->set_legend_font(GD::gdMediumBoldFont);
$mygraph->set_legend('Exam 1', 'Exam 2', 'Exam 3');
my $myimage = $mygraph->plot(\@data) or die $mygraph->error;

print "Content-type: image/png\n\n";
print $myimage->png;


#
#./graph1.pl
Can't load
'/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/sun4-solaris/auto/GD/GD.so' for
module GD: ld.so.1: perl: fatal: libfreetype.so.6: open failed: No such
file or directory at
/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/sun4-solaris/DynaLoader.pm line 230.
 at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/GD/Graph/lines.pm line 18
Compilation failed in require at
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/GD/Graph/lines.pm line 18.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/GD/Graph/lines.pm line 18.
Compilation failed in require at ./graph1.pl line 5.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ./graph1.pl line 5.
#
#
#
#ls -l /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/sun4-solaris/auto/GD/GD.so
-r-xr-xr-x   1 root     root      133824 Oct  5 16:14
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/sun4-solaris/auto/GD/GD.so
#
#ls -l  /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/sun4-solaris/DynaLoader.pm
-r--r--r--   1 bin      bin        28125 May  8 03:03
/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/sun4-solaris/DynaLoader.pm
#
#ls -l /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/GD/Graph/lines.pm
-r--r--r--   1 root     root        4446 Dec 13  2005
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/GD/Graph/lines.pm
#
#

#env
_=/usr/bin/env
MANPATH=/usr/openwin/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/local/man:/usr/contrib/man:
/opt/perf/man:/usr/local/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/man:/usr/openwin/man:/o
pt/SUNWsamfs/man:/usr/openv/man:/opt/SUNWexplo/man
SSH_TTY=/dev/pts/3
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:u
sr/local/bin:/usr/sfw/bin:/usr/openwin/bin:/usr/ucb:/usr/sfw/bin:/usr/lo
cal/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/contrib/bin:/usr/openwin/bin:/usr/ucb:/usr/
openwin/bin:/usr/ucb:/usr/openv/netbackup/bin:/usr/openv/volmgr/bin:/usr
/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd:/opt/SUNWsamfs/bin:/opt/SUNWsamfs/sbin
LOGNAME=root
MAIL=/var/mail//root
PS1=#
USER=root
DISPLAY=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
SHELL=/usr/bin/ksh
HOME=/root
SSH_CONNECTION=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
SSH_CLIENT=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib:/usr/lib:/lib:/etc/lib:/usr/share/lib:/us
r/ccs/lib:/usr/openwin/lib:/usr/sadm/lib:/usr/xpg4/lib:/usr/X11/lib:/usr
/apache2/lib
TERM=xterm
PWD=/export/home/
TZ=US/Central
BROWSER=mozilla
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From pascal at azoria.com  Mon Oct  8 11:10:47 2007
From: pascal at azoria.com (Pascal Grostabussiat)
Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2007 17:10:47 +0200
Subject: SUMMARY: pkgadd: ERROR: PKG parameter is not defined
In-Reply-To: <4709E2ED.3050000@azoria.com>
References: <4709E2ED.3050000@azoria.com>
Message-ID: <470A4877.7090107@azoria.com>

Hi,

I am answering my own question since we got the problem solved. However, 
it is more of a work-around that a solution itself.

We download, again, the ISO file from Sun Download, reinstall the 
jumpstart from that ISO (that was apparently looking just the same as 
our first one !?), and things work smoothly now (jumpstart installation 
goes fine).

Regards,
/Pascal

Pascal Grostabussiat wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I am trying to jumpstart the latest Solaris 10 (update 4, 8/07). 
> Everything went fine when moving files from the media and setting up the 
> jumpstart, but when it starts installing I am getting the following 
> errors !?!?
>
> Any idea ?? Try to Google, but found only pages in Chinese or so :-(
>
> Many thanks in advance.
> Regards,
> /Pascal
>
>
> Configuring disk (c0t0d0)
>         - Creating Solaris disk label (VTOC)
>
> Creating and checking UFS file systems
>         - Creating / (c0t0d0s0)
>
> <...>
>
> Beginning Solaris software installation
> 603 blocks
>
> Installation of <SUNWocfd> was successful.
> pkgadd: ERROR: PKG parameter is not defined in <>
> pkgadd: ERROR: PKG parameter is not defined in <>
> pkgadd: ERROR: PKG parameter is not defined in <>
> pkgadd: ERROR: PKG parameter is not defined in <>
> pkgadd: ERROR: PKG parameter is not defined in <>
> pkgadd: ERROR: PKG parameter is not defined in <>
> pkgadd: ERROR: PKG parameter is not defined in <>
> pkgadd: ERROR: PKG parameter is not defined in <>
> pkgadd: ERROR: PKG parameter is not defined in <>
> pkgadd: ERROR: PKG parameter is not defined in <>
> pkgadd: ERROR: PKG parameter is not defined in <>
> pkgadd: ERROR: PKG parameter is not defined in <>
> pkgadd: ERROR: PKG parameter is not defined in <>
> pkgadd: ERROR: PKG parameter is not defined in <>
> cat: cannot open /a/etc/inet/inetd.conf
> can't create /tmp/inetd.conf.3399
> pkgadd: ERROR: postinstall script did not complete successfully
>
> Installation of <SUNWtftpr> failed.
> pkgadd: ERROR: PKG parameter is not defined in <>
> 17251 blocks
>
> Installation of <SUNWtls> was successful.
>
> Installation of <SUNWxwrtl> was successful.
> 480 blocks
>
> Installation of <SUNWxwice> was successful.
> 665 blocks
>
> Installation of <SUNWzlib> was successful.
> pkgadd: ERROR: PKG parameter is not defined in <>
> pkgadd: ERROR: PKG parameter is not defined in <>
> pkgadd: ERROR: PKG parameter is not defined in <>
> 22390 blocks
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From pascal at azoria.com  Mon Oct  8 11:32:08 2007
From: pascal at azoria.com (Pascal Grostabussiat)
Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2007 17:32:08 +0200
Subject: SUMMARY: Solaris 10 zone - user processes crashing randomly
In-Reply-To: <467258FA.2050504@azoria.com>
References: <467258FA.2050504@azoria.com>
Message-ID: <470A4D78.5070906@azoria.com>

Hi,

Many thanks to those who replied and tried to help.

We have been investigating that problem for a while and so far no real 
explanation has been found. From our own analysis we found a potential 
issue/bug with the libclntsh.so library from Oracle (10.2.0.2 and 
10.2.0.3 for the version we have been using) that our software uses, 
something with the sslsshandler in that lib. When talking to Oracle the 
only feedback we got was regarding a bug in Oracle 8 (check for bug 
2012268 on Oracle's side for more details). However, as mentioned 
earlier, we are running Oracle 10. We went back to Oracle 9 and the 
issue disappeared. When going back to Oracle 10, the issue came back. So 
we have now implemented the work-around suggested by Oracle (for Oracle 
8) and adapted it for Oracle 10 and got a much better stability ... !?

For the record:

Before starting the process which performs dlopen/dlclose of a module linked
with Oracle set the environment variable LD_PRELOAD to point to the 
libclntsh.
so file that is being used. For example:

setenv LD_PRELOAD $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/lib/libclntsh.so.8.0

This maps libclntsh permanently and avoids the core dump.  This variable 
must
only be set for programs that encounter the core dump.

__ <file:///metalink/plsql/showdoc?db=Bug&id=2012268> 
<file:///metalink/plsql/showdoc?db=Bug&id=2012268>Regards,
/Pascal

Pascal Grostabussiat wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I am puzzled by that issue and I have never seen such things happening 
> before. I hope you can point me to some new directions or any 
> information sources on the net that might be relevant.
>
> I am in a Solaris 10 environment. Our applications have been installed 
> in a dedicated zone. The applications are nothing new, we have been 
> running them in many different kind of environments including similar 
> environments (Solaris 10 zone) and no such issue has been seen before.
>
> User processes have been running for a month or two, and one day some of 
> them started crashing for no reason. After a few repeated crashes they 
> were stable again. Then a few hours later sometimes the day after other 
> or similar user processes crashed again. This has been going on for 
> about two/three weeks now. User processes are both C/C++ processes and 
> Java processes, and user processes crashing are or both kinds. Sometimes 
> on specific user process crashes, sometimes 2, 3 or 4 at the same time, 
> not simultaneously but coming up and down within the same chaotic period 
> of time (from 1 hour to 2-3 hours), before things get stable again for 
> several hours.
>
> We have inspected the logs of our applications and of course the 
> core-files but could not get any clue !? According to some core-files it 
> looks like some processes sometimes get a SIG ABORT signal (regular kill 
> (SIGTERM) signal are handled by the applications as normal shutdown), 
> while others seemed like being waiting in their normal course of action 
> just before they crashed (still according to some core-files). Our 
> developpers checked the core-files in detail but could not get any clue.
>
> I have checked the resource limitations on the platform and they are not 
> different from other environment where applications are stable. We have 
> been investigating core-files using pflags but could not get more clues 
> on that side. Remote DB and network have been investigating to but 
> nothing has been found there neither. I have asked people in the project 
> to report activities they were performing at crash-time but could not 
> get any pattern. I have discussed with local sysadmins to track any kind 
> of external activities (with respect to our zone) that might be 
> triggered now and then, but nothing.
>
> So my question is: is there someone that experienced such REALLY weird 
> events in their own environment ?
>
> Feel free to send ANY idea, or point to any tools or commands (cannot 
> really be root) that might help, because I am stuck and getting short of 
> ideas !? I have been working with Sun environments since SunOS 4, from 
> Sparc Classic ;-) to SF15K, and I have never seen this before !?!?
>
> MANY thanks in advance!
> Regards,
> /Pascal
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From Stuart.Saxon at uk.fujitsu.com  Mon Oct  8 13:44:58 2007
From: Stuart.Saxon at uk.fujitsu.com (Saxon Stuart)
Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2007 18:44:58 +0100
Subject: SUMMARY: SANbox2 command line tftp dump of config
In-Reply-To: <5704485D697D734481D387C66D37D1C7A041CE@EUROPEV006.europe.fs.fujitsu.com>
Message-ID: <5704485D697D734481D387C66D37D1C7A04216@EUROPEV006.europe.fs.fujitsu.com>

Managers,

Found this document, which seems to have the answer

http://download.qlogic.com/manual/61957/CLI_Guide_SB9000v66_59231-02A.pd
f

Backup the SANbox config do

SANbox #> config backup

To GET the config from the switch to your backup host do

#ftp <ip_address>
user:images
password: images
ftp>bin
ftp>get configdata
xxxxx bytes sent in xx secs.
ftp>quit

NB: Configuration backup files are deleted from the switch during a
power
Cycle or switch reset

Sorry for the post earlier but some clever 'googling' gave me the answer
I wanted.

Regards


Stuart Saxon

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Sent: 08 October 2007 16:33
To: Sun Managers
Subject: SANbox2 command line tftp dump of config

Managers,

Does anyone have the command line syntax on how to do a tftp dump of the
SANbox2's config.

i.e.

# tftpdump <config> <ip address of tftp server>

Thanks

Stuart Saxon,
Solutions Architect,
HM Revenue and Customs Business Unit,
Solutions Group,
Fujitsu.

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From anjum at qp.com.qa  Tue Oct  9 04:05:45 2007
From: anjum at qp.com.qa (Ayaz Anjum)
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 11:05:45 +0300
Subject: SUMMARY: migrating from lpfc to sfs on solaris 9
Message-ID: <OF813550A6.EF946DC5-ON4325736F.002BDBFA-4325736F.002C7459@qp.com.qa>

thanks to Torsten and aams for there feedback.

My question was

HI Guys

I was running a test environment in order to formulate a procedure to 
carry out ' migration of san disks from lpfc to sfs drivers on solaris 9'

I am using a LP 9802 hba

On a fresh installation of solaris 9 (09/04) i installed lpfc drivers and
then configured SAN disks. I then did a pkgrm on lpfc and added san 
foundation suite ( SFS drivers)

I am not able to see the hba now with luxadm -e port command

I could see two instances of emulex cards in /etc/path_to_inst
"/pci at 1e,600000/fibre-channel at 2" 0 "lpfc" 
"/pci at 1e,600000/fibre-channel at 3" 1 "lpfc"

I removed them and did a reconfiguration boot but still not luck.

I have installed emladm utility, but its not detecting the cards.

If i use emlxdrv >   set_emlxs_all 

i get following
ERROR: emlxs driver is not installed.

I have tried to look for emlxs and concluded its only available for
solaris 10.

The following is the procedure to be followed:

-upgrade the firmware on lpfc card to latest
- remove HBAnyware (may be installed) 
- remove lpfc drivers 
- add SFS packages and patches ( download from sun.com 
'SAN_4.4.13_install_it.tar' which has package and patches)

- install EMLXemlxu (emladm utility) and switch drivers ( this may be 
required , however i did not used it)

Note: in my particular case i was first not seeing the card thru luxadm -e 
port command. the reason for this was that i was missing SUNWemlx 
packages. 
Using the SFS from sun.com resolved this issue


thanks


Ayaz Anjum 
Systems Engineer , ITT/E6
Information Technology Department 
Qatar Petroleum 
P.O. Box 47   Doha, Qatar 
Tel +974 4405280 Cell +974 5862144
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From wim.alsemgeest at tntpost.nl  Tue Oct  9 05:54:28 2007
From: wim.alsemgeest at tntpost.nl (Alsemgeest, Wim (W.L.))
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 11:54:28 +0200
Subject: SUMMARY:  xntp  in zone
Message-ID: <D559DBF3C20BD1499B0F9EEC2B5C6D9601A4E2E2@prc559n51.directory.local>

Dear admins,

Non off the admins has givven a awnser to the question how to configure
a xntp server in a non global zone.

We did however found a way to solv this issue.

Create a full_root_zone
give the following provileges to the zone:
set limitpriv="default,sys_time,proc_priocntl"
reboot the zone
configure the ntp.conf as a ntp server
start xntp
Done


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From ahoesch at smartsoft.de  Wed Oct 10 12:38:20 2007
From: ahoesch at smartsoft.de (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Andreas_H=F6schler?=)
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 18:38:20 +0200
Subject: Summary: German keyboard at x86 machine
In-Reply-To: <9B91BB68-774C-11DC-B07F-000393CA0072@smartsoft.de>
Message-ID: <35A51058-774F-11DC-B07F-000393CA0072@smartsoft.de>

Dear managers,

> I have just installed Solaris 10 11/06 on a SF X2200. A german Sun Type
> 6 keyboard is attached directly to the server. I hoped Solaris would
> correctly identifiy the Sun keyboard as german, but it does not! :-(
> How can this be fixed?

       /usr/X11/bin/xorgcfg

did do the trick for me!

Thanks,

   Andreas
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From stan at temple.edu  Mon Oct 15 23:11:38 2007
From: stan at temple.edu (Stan Horwitz)
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 23:11:38 -0400
Subject: [SUMMARY]: Problem with RAID array
In-Reply-To: <43578B97-CDF2-4126-B03E-43467637039D@temple.edu>
References: <43578B97-CDF2-4126-B03E-43467637039D@temple.edu>
Message-ID: <1B90349D-7C4E-4A29-9AA1-416707CA0A54@temple.edu>

Thanks to Robert Legate, I learned about the rm6 RAID GUI tool. From  
there, I learned that I should never let repair technician talk me  
into replacing a 32GB drive with an 18GB drive in a RAID array; they  
all need to be the same size and geometry.
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From Glenn.Carver at atm.ch.cam.ac.uk  Tue Oct 16 05:35:51 2007
From: Glenn.Carver at atm.ch.cam.ac.uk (Glenn Carver)
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 09:35:51 +0000
Subject: SUMMARY: 280R server can't see SE3511 disk array with format
In-Reply-To: <p05111b05c31bfe43e16c@[10.0.1.3]> (from
	Glenn.Carver@atm.ch.cam.ac.uk on Sun Sep 23 12:57:13 2007)
References: <p05111b05c31bfe43e16c@[10.0.1.3]>
Message-ID: <1192527351l.2124l.5l@sheridan>

I had no replies from the list on this one.  With assistance from Sun we
eventually tracked down that the problem was in the use of the Emulex FC card
which is not supported on Solaris in a direct connection configuration. The
Emulex card is only supported for use in a SAN.  The solution was to purchase
the Qlogic HBA FC card.

  Regards,
             Glenn



On 2007.09.23 12:57, Glenn Carver wrote:
Dear all,

I've been struggling for a couple of days to try to get a SunFire
280R, Solaris 9, to work with a Sun StorEdge 3511 disk array. I'm out
of ideas and would appreciate some pointers.

The 280R has been updated with latest patches. I have downloaded and
installed the SAN 4.4 packages from
http://www.sun.com/storagetek/networking.jsp (bottom of page) and
installed the relevant patches as described in the documentation. I
should add that the SE3511 is directly attached via fibre.

A reboot -r followed by a probe-scsi-all shows me that the hardware
connection seems to be ok:

/pci at 8,700000/SUNW,emlxs at 3
Target none  ALPA a3  WWPN 226000c0ffb925f8
   LUN  0     Disk
.. output trimmed...
   LUN  1f     Disk
Target none  ALPA a5  WWPN 226000c0ffa925f8
   LUN  0     Disk     SUN     StorEdge 3511   413C
   LUN  1     Disk     SUN     StorEdge 3511   413C
   LUN  2     Disk     SUN     StorEdge 3511   413C

In particular the 280R can see the 3 LUNs I've set up on the host
channel on the 3511. So it all looks good so far.. except that
probe-scsi-all reports 'Target none'.

Problem is when the system boots, 'format' doesn't see the LUNs. So I
figured this points to an issue with the device drivers. However, if
I do: "luxadm fcode_download -p" the only device that shows up is:

   Found Path to 1 FC100/P, ISP2200, ISP23xx Devices
   Opening Device: /devices/pci at 8,600000/SUNW,qlc at 4/fp at 0,0:devctl
   Detected FCode Version:       ISP2200 FC-AL Host Adapter Driver:
1.12 01/01/16
   Complete

.. and this is attached to a A1000 disk array. The SUNW,emlxs device
that probe-scsi-all found the SE3511 on doesn't show up.  I don't
understand how probe-scsi can detect the SE3511 but the HBA it's
attached to doesn't show up for me to try updating firmware?

I've read through various manuals and searched the lists for clues
but I'm getting nowhere. If someone can suggest a way forward that
would be very helpful. I will of course summarise.

Thanks in advance,
                                   Glenn
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From richard.hirst at pipex.net  Tue Oct 16 06:15:52 2007
From: richard.hirst at pipex.net (Richard Hirst)
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 11:15:52 +0100
Subject: SUMMARY: iNode Modification time changing
Message-ID: <001801c80fdd$883876d0$6603000a@internal.gxn.net>

Thanks to everyone for the input, especially Ric Anderson who put the
information most succinctly:

 

"This is a nasty side effect of Backup Exec's Solaris client and possibly
other similar tools.  What BE does is read the file which changes its
st_atime, then BE does a utime() to put back the original st_atime, which in
turn changes st_ctime.

Since BE runs as a daemon, you don't see any footprints in logs indicating
anything "ran" when all the ctimes changed.

 

A full backup using backup exec will alter the ctime on every file depending
on directory lists in

   /etc/bkupexec/agent.cfg

Newer versions of BE have an option to not do the utime(), but that means
the access time of every file will change across a full backup."

 

Original Question:

We are running Solaris 9 on a number of servers. We run tripwire to monitor
changes and check the integrity of the systems. On some of the servers, at a
fairly regular interval, the inode modification time of (almost?) all files
is updated, making the output from tripwire pretty useless. An example of
the output is below:

 

/usr/sbin/psrset

      st_ctime: Sun Oct 14 07:48:55 2007      Thu Sep 27 08:04:19 2007

---> File: '/usr/sbin/psrset'

---> Update entry?  [YN(y)nh?]

 

bash-2.05# ls -lc /usr/sbin/psrset

-r-xr-xr-x   1 root     sys        12576 Oct 14 07:48 /usr/sbin/psrset

 

I've checked the md5 of some of these files against the Sun fingerprint
database, and they check out.

 

There was nobody logged in at the time of the changes, and nothing running
in cron (other than sar).

 

Any suggestions as to why this is happening would be much appreciated!
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From sudhi_4_u at yahoo.com  Thu Oct 18 03:26:41 2007
From: sudhi_4_u at yahoo.com (Sudhir)
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 00:26:41 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [SUMMARY]:  Configuring HP StorageWorks Dat 40 Tape Drive on
	Ultra 40 workstation.
Message-ID: <749385.85263.qm@web55001.mail.re4.yahoo.com>

Thanks for the prompt response:
Gurudatta, Joe Fletcher, Ric Anderson ,Fransico Roque & all sunmanagers.

I tried checking the SCSI termination on the Tape drive and it was fine as it was working on a SPARC Blade machine. Also the boot option on the SCSi controller was OFF. I also checked the SCSi bus id probing and found that it was giving this error in /var/log/messages file.
ct 17 15:43:16 I3361 genunix: [ID 408822 kern.info] NOTICE: mpt0: fault detecte d in device; service still available Oct 17 15:43:16 I3361 genunix: [ID 611667 kern.info] NOTICE: mpt0: Disconnected command timeout for Target 1 Oct 17 15:44:26 I3361 genunix: [ID 408822 kern.info] NOTICE: mpt0: fault detecte d in device; service still available Oct 17 15:44:26 I3361 genunix: [ID 611667 kern.info] NOTICE: mpt0: Disconnected command timeout for Target 2 Oct 17 15:45:36 I3361 genunix: [ID 408822 kern.info] NOTICE: mpt0: fault detecte d in device; service still available Oct 17 15:45:36 I3361 genunix: [ID 611667 kern.info] NOTICE: mpt0: Disconnected command timeout for Target 3 Oct 17 15:46:46 I3361 genunix: [ID 408822 kern.info] NOTICE: mpt0: fault detecte d in device; service still available Oct 17 15:46:46 I3361 genunix: [ID 611667 kern.info] NOTICE: mpt0: Disconnected command timeout for Target 4 Oct 17 15:47:57 I3361 genunix: [ID 408822 kern.info] NOTICE: mpt0: fault detecte
 d in device; service still available Oct 17 15:47:57 I3361 genunix: [ID 611667 kern.info] NOTICE: mpt0: Disconnected command timeout for Target 5 Oct 17 15:49:07 I3361 genunix: [ID 408822 kern.info] NOTICE: mpt0: fault detecte d in device; service still available Oct 17 15:49:07 I3361 genunix: [ID 611667 kern.info] NOTICE: mpt0: Disconnected command timeout for Target 6 Oct 17 15:50:17 I3361 genunix: [ID 408822 kern.info] NOTICE: mpt0: fault detecte d in device; service still available Oct 17 15:50:17 I3361 genunix: [ID 611667 kern.info] NOTICE: mpt0: Disconnected command timeout for Target 7 Oct 17 15:51:27 I3361 genunix: [ID 408822 kern.info] NOTICE: mpt0: fault detecte d in device; service still available Oct 17 15:51:27 I3361 genunix: [ID 611667 kern.info] NOTICE: mpt0: Disconnected command timeout for Target 8 Oct 17 15:52:38 I3361 genunix: [ID 408822 kern.info] NOTICE: mpt0: fault detecte d in device; service still available Oct 17 15:52:38 I3361 genunix: [ID 611667
 kern.info] NOTICE: mpt0: Disconnected command timeout for Target 9 Oct 17 15:53:48 I3361 genunix: [ID 408822 kern.info] NOTICE: mpt0: fault detecte d in device; service still available command timeout for Target 10 Oct 17 15:54:58 I3361 genunix: [ID 408822 kern.info] NOTICE: mpt0: fault detecte d in device; service still available Oct 17 15:54:58 I3361 genunix: [ID 611667 kern.info] NOTICE: mpt0: Disconnected command timeout for Target 11 Oct 17 15:56:09 I3361 genunix: [ID 408822 kern.info] NOTICE: mpt0: fault detecte d in device; service still available Oct 17 15:56:09 I3361 genunix: [ID 611667 kern.info] NOTICE: mpt0: Disconnected command timeout for Target 12 Oct 17 15:57:19 I3361 genunix: [ID 408822 kern.info] NOTICE: mpt0: fault detecte d in device; service still available Oct 17 15:57:19 I3361 genunix: [ID 611667 kern.info] NOTICE: mpt0: Disconnected command timeout for Target 13 Oct 17 15:58:29 I3361 genunix: [ID 408822 kern.info] NOTICE: mpt0: fault detecte d in
 device; service still available Oct 17 15:58:29 I3361 genunix: [ID 611667 kern.info] NOTICE: mpt0: Disconnected command timeout for Target 14 Oct 17 15:59:39 I3361 genunix: [ID 408822 kern.info] NOTICE: mpt0: fault detecte d in device; service still available Oct 17 15:59:39 I3361 genunix: [ID 611667 kern.info] NOTICE: mpt0: Disconnected command timeout for Target 15 Oct 17 16:00:50 I3361 genunix: [ID 408822 kern.info] NOTICE: mpt0: fault detecte d in device; service still available command 

Finally a desperate attempt of searching the web brought me to this link.
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102599-1

Updating the kernel finally solved my problem. The solution was simple it took me 2 days :).

Thanks again guys for all the help.

Sudhir

Sudhir <sudhi_4_u at yahoo.com> wrote: Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 02:06:27 -0700 (PDT)
From: Sudhir <sudhi_4_u at yahoo.com>
Subject: Configuring HP StorageWorks Dat 40 Tape Drive on Ultra 40 workstation.
To: sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org

 Hi All,

We had a request for connecting an HP DAT 40 Tape Drive to be connected to an Ultra 40 (x64) workstation. Since the workstation does not come with a standard SCSi card, we ordered a SCSI Ultra 320 Host Bus Adapter from SUN. The card is a LSI Logic card (LSI20320). On installation of the card and doing a reconfigure boot causes the system to hang. Even devfsadm command hangs for a long time.
I then have to shut the system, remove the card and power on the machine. It then boots up fine. 
I initially thought it could be a problem with the card, and hence tried another of the same card which resulted in the same behavior.

The Ultra 40(x64) workstation is loaded with Solaris 10 06/06 OS (118855-14 ).

Has any one faced such a problem or has any idea how to debug the problem then please help.

Thanks -
Sudhir
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From scottd at HanoverDirect.com  Thu Oct 18 08:22:46 2007
From: scottd at HanoverDirect.com (Deiter, Scott)
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 08:22:46 -0400
Subject: SUMMARY: Wget on solaris 10
In-Reply-To: <ABF001998D701B4BBA6C58B131C42DFD09404888@HDIMAIL.hanoverdirect.lcl>
References: <OF74AA299D.082D3578-ON83257377.0040C2A0-03257377.00420D1B@COPEL.COM>
	<ABF001998D701B4BBA6C58B131C42DFD09404888@HDIMAIL.hanoverdirect.lcl>
Message-ID: <ABF001998D701B4BBA6C58B131C42DFD09404895@HDIMAIL.hanoverdirect.lcl>

Thanks for all the responses.

The windup is that wget is native on solaris 9 and solaris10  We only
had to point our apps to the correct location.

Thanks to all that replied.








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Hanover Direct, Inc.
Hanover, PA
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From george.monappallil at rpfl.com  Thu Oct 18 13:53:59 2007
From: george.monappallil at rpfl.com (Monappallil, George)
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 13:53:59 -0400
Subject: Summary - Installing packages inside a zone
In-Reply-To: <49E041C0DCDEFE4BBCD70AEAEC2198F3050CF8@blaster.Platinum.root.rpfl.com>
References: <49E041C0DCDEFE4BBCD70AEAEC2198F3050CF8@blaster.Platinum.root.rpfl.com>
Message-ID: <50CEF36ACC0B0C4197EBCD31C1834148146CE8@blaster.Platinum.root.rpfl.com>

My non-global zone was a sparse root zone and hence I wasn't able to
install packages in the /usr directory.
Thanks to all who pointed me to this and also some links that were
certainly helpful.

However, I tried to install the package in the global zone hoping that
the non-global zone would inherit the files installed under /usr. But I
get almost similar errors. See below.

****************
# pkgadd -d ./zlib-1.2.3-sol10-sparc-local

The following packages are available:
  1  SMCzlib     zlib
                 (sparc) 1.2.3

Select package(s) you wish to process (or 'all' to process
all packages). (default: all) [?,??,q]:
## Verifying package <SMCzlib> dependencies in zone <zone-xxx>

Conflict checking issues for package <SMCzlib> on zones <zone-alpha,
zone-beta, zone-nagios>.

Do you want to continue with the installation of <SMCzlib> [y,n,?]

attribute change for /usr/local/bin <package> on SMCzlib <zone>

.
.
.

****************



________________________________

From: Monappallil, George
Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2007 10:43 AM
To: 'sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org'
Subject: Installing packages inside a zone


Guys:
I see the following errors when installing packages inside a zone after
logging into a zone and issuing the pkgadd command. For some reason the
pkgadd command is looking at the files installed int eh global zone and
complaining about package conflicts. Also it complains about not able to
create directory  under /usr/local.  Any ideas why

For example when installing the xpm package, I get the following error.
*************************
# pkgadd -d ./xpm-3.4k-sol10-sparc-local

The following packages are available:
  1  SMCxpm     xpm
                (sparc) 3.4k

Select package(s) you wish to process (or 'all' to process
all packages). (default: all) [?,??,q]:

Processing package instance <SMCxpm> from
</export/home/a140388/xpm-3.4k-sol10-sparc-local>

xpm(sparc) 3.4k
GROUPE BULL
Using </usr/local> as the package base directory.
## Processing package information.
## Processing system information.
## Verifying disk space requirements.
## Checking for conflicts with packages already installed.

The following files are already installed on the system and are being
used by another package:
  /usr/local/bin <attribute change only>
  /usr/local/doc <attribute change only>
  /usr/local/lib <attribute change only>
  /usr/local/man <attribute change only>
  /usr/local/man/man1 <attribute change only>

Do you want to install these conflicting files [y,n,?,q]
## Checking for setuid/setgid programs.

Installing xpm as <SMCxpm>

## Installing part 1 of 1.
pkgadd: ERROR: unable to create package object </usr/local/bin>.
    unable to fix attributes
/usr/local/bin <attribute change only>
/usr/local/bin/cxpm
pkgadd: ERROR: unable to open </usr/local/bin/cxpm> for writing: (30)
Read-only file system
/usr/local/bin/sxpm
pkgadd: ERROR: unable to open </usr/local/bin/sxpm> for writing: (30)
Read-only file system
pkgadd: ERROR: unable to create package object </usr/local/doc>.
    unable to fix attributes
/usr/local/doc <attribute change only>
pkgadd: ERROR: unable to create package object </usr/local/doc/xpm>.
    pathname does not exist
    unable to create directory
/usr/local/doc/xpm/CHANGES
pkgadd: ERROR: unable to create directory </usr/local/doc/xpm>: (30)
Read-only file system
pkgadd: ERROR: unable to open </usr/local/doc/xpm/CHANGES> for writing:
(30) Read-only file system
/usr/local/doc/xpm/COPYRIGHT
.
.
.
.
******************

-g


________________________________

From: Monappallil, George
Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2007 10:43 AM
To: 'sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org'
Subject: Installing packages inside a zone


Guys:
I see the following errors when installing packages inside a zone after
logging into a zone and issuing the pkgadd command. For some reason the
pkgadd command is looking at the files installed int eh global zone and
complaining about package conflicts. Also it complains about not able to
create directory  under /usr/local.  Any ideas why

For example when installing the xpm package, I get the following error.
*************************
# pkgadd -d ./xpm-3.4k-sol10-sparc-local

The following packages are available:
  1  SMCxpm     xpm
                (sparc) 3.4k

Select package(s) you wish to process (or 'all' to process
all packages). (default: all) [?,??,q]:

Processing package instance <SMCxpm> from
</export/home/a140388/xpm-3.4k-sol10-sparc-local>

xpm(sparc) 3.4k
GROUPE BULL
Using </usr/local> as the package base directory.
## Processing package information.
## Processing system information.
## Verifying disk space requirements.
## Checking for conflicts with packages already installed.

The following files are already installed on the system and are being
used by another package:
  /usr/local/bin <attribute change only>
  /usr/local/doc <attribute change only>
  /usr/local/lib <attribute change only>
  /usr/local/man <attribute change only>
  /usr/local/man/man1 <attribute change only>

Do you want to install these conflicting files [y,n,?,q]
## Checking for setuid/setgid programs.

Installing xpm as <SMCxpm>

## Installing part 1 of 1.
pkgadd: ERROR: unable to create package object </usr/local/bin>.
    unable to fix attributes
/usr/local/bin <attribute change only>
/usr/local/bin/cxpm
pkgadd: ERROR: unable to open </usr/local/bin/cxpm> for writing: (30)
Read-only file system
/usr/local/bin/sxpm
pkgadd: ERROR: unable to open </usr/local/bin/sxpm> for writing: (30)
Read-only file system
pkgadd: ERROR: unable to create package object </usr/local/doc>.
    unable to fix attributes
/usr/local/doc <attribute change only>
pkgadd: ERROR: unable to create package object </usr/local/doc/xpm>.
    pathname does not exist
    unable to create directory
/usr/local/doc/xpm/CHANGES
pkgadd: ERROR: unable to create directory </usr/local/doc/xpm>: (30)
Read-only file system
pkgadd: ERROR: unable to open </usr/local/doc/xpm/CHANGES> for writing:
(30) Read-only file system
/usr/local/doc/xpm/COPYRIGHT
.
.
.
.
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From warren.liang at cox.net  Wed Oct 17 19:54:53 2007
From: warren.liang at cox.net (Warren Liang)
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 16:54:53 -0700
Subject: SUMMARY: Adding static routes on Solaris 10
Message-ID: <20071017195453.331NP.18064.root@fed1wml09.mgt.cox.net>

Hello:
Thanks for so many great responses.
Solaris 10 introduces a new route argument "-p". "-p" makes the persistent change on routing table and saves it on /etc/inet/static_routes.

Warren
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From tchipman at gmail.com  Thu Oct 18 19:43:11 2007
From: tchipman at gmail.com (Tim Chipman)
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 20:43:11 -0300
Subject: SUMMARY: picld on v880 solaris9 machine-> ~weekly reboots ...
Message-ID: <bea9280b0710181643k640dc931u36d0a224095f6e72@mail.gmail.com>

Many thanks to Peter van Gemert, Francisco Roque and Joe Fletcher for
their comments. Suggestions included,

-could be straight hardware issue (faulty sensor, bad solder joint or suchlike)
-V880 is rather a "patch happy" machine, so make sure
platform-specific patches and OBP
 are up-to-date
-consider running a full OBP level system diagnostic to see if
anything  is flagged faulty there
-setup more (cronned) self-monitoring to capture regularly what
temp.status of system components are; observe if any correlation
when/if there are future "weird temp reboot" incidents. Possibly the
-50 is  a buffer overflow from a real overtemp condition?


In particular, I note that the machine hasn't had OBP patched since it
was deployed.
(OBP firmware on the system is date-stamped 2004, and the latest from
sun is 2007)

Just got downtime scheduled early today, flashed up the OBP and  so
far, so good.  I've also setup  crontabs to capture relevant snippets
from "prtdiag -v" at regular time intervals.

Given the sporatic nature of the crashing, I suspect I won't know much
for at least a week.  If things remain horrid or there are significant
updates, I will post a second (brief) summary later.

Many thanks for the suggestions; greatly appreciated.


Tim Chipman


REF: OBP Version Change:
(ie, during the update from old to new...)

Current System Flash PROM Revision:
-----------------------------------
OBP 4.13.0 2004/01/19 18:26

Available System Flash PROM Revision:
-------------------------------------
OBP 4.22.34 2007/07/23 13:01
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From george at yorku.ca  Mon Oct 22 09:28:43 2007
From: george at yorku.ca (George Kahler)
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 09:28:43 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: SUMMARY: Solaris10 poor man's zone cloning
In-Reply-To: <20070925.163111.50024333.george@yorku.ca>
References: <20070925.163111.50024333.george@yorku.ca>
Message-ID: <20071022.092843.132770987.george@yorku.ca>

Got responses from: Crist Clark, Jan Dreyer, Hassan.Ahmed and Markus
Mayer; thanks !
General consensus is that it should be OK as long as the two global
zones are identical wrt patches & installed software.

In my case it is, both global zones are SF T1000 at the same patch
level and the same software installed.

Markus Mayer has even kindly offered a Sun document describing the
process of moving containers at this url:
http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/howtoguides/moving_containers.jsp#0

Thanks again,
George


On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 16:31:11 -0400 (EDT), George Kahler <george at yorku.ca> wrote:
> I have tar'ed one of my sparse root non-global zone ,
> /zones/<some_zone_name> from one server to another server while making
> sure that I have updated all of the /etc/zones xml and index files.
> 
> This seems to work and saved me tons of time especially when I needed an
> identical non-global zone in a hurry.
> 
> The question I have is if anyone knows of any issues with doing this.
> 
> Thanks,
> George
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From oskar_pienkos at sfu.ca  Mon Oct 22 18:41:28 2007
From: oskar_pienkos at sfu.ca (Oskar Pienkos)
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 15:41:28 -0700
Subject: SUMMARY: bge interface configure jumbos
Message-ID: <471D2718.8090009@sfu.ca>

Opened the case with Sun and got the response:

"Just emailing for an update on this ticket. I have reviewed it and it 
looks like there are plans for support for jumbo frames on the bge 
interface on Solaris 10 update 4 but it looks like it has not yet been 
implemented. If you have any further questions please feel free to ask 
me, otherwise, please let me know how you would like to proceed with 
this case."

So I guess we'll have to wait for Update 5 :(

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

Hello Admins,

A bit of a silly question but I'm running out of patience with this thing.
Does anyone know how to configure the bge interface to talk jumbo MTU 
9000 size?

On my v240 running SunOS Release 5.10 Version Generic_118833-36 64-bit
I tried the /kernel/drv/bge.conf but still getting 1500 for MTU size.

# grep bge /etc/path_to_inst
"/pci at 1f,700000/network at 2" 0 "bge"
"/pci at 1f,700000/network at 2,1" 1 "bge"
"/pci at 1d,700000/network at 2" 2 "bge"
"/pci at 1d,700000/network at 2,1" 3 "bge"
# cat /kernel/drv/bge.conf
name=bge parent=/pci at 1d,700000 unit-address=2 default_mtu=9000;

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks a bunch!

Oskar
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From s.ganglia at gmail.com  Tue Oct 23 17:44:54 2007
From: s.ganglia at gmail.com (Sonam Ganglia)
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 14:44:54 -0700
Subject: SUMMARY: Lost all access to my server
Message-ID: <9e3b1870710231444i3101e2dcjdb88d62728b7af94@mail.gmail.com>

Ok. So I finally got this going, thanks for the many responses out of which
I think Glen Carver's and Casper Dick's solutions looked promising. Finally
it was Glen's solution that worked for me. Casper's solution  was a little
too cryptic to execute with my novice experience. Nevertheless in the
process of trying his solution, I learnt how to reset the server using the
ELOM CLI which was what finally made Glen's solution work for me.

Here's what Glen suggested:

Get to the Service processor Command and:

SP> cd /SP/AgentInfo
SP> set ConsoleMux=system
SP> start console

However for me, it did not work at first. I guess my console was already
jammed with output going to ttya. Then after I learnt how to reset the
server while tackling Casper's solution below, I decided to try the above
steps again. This time with a reset like below

SP> cd /SP/AgentInfo
SP> set ConsoleMux=system
SP> cd /SP/SystemInfo/CtrlInfo
SP> set PowerCtrl=reset (this will reboot the server but not the SP)
SP> cd /SP/AgentInfo
SP> start console

Once I got my host console back I could log in and the first thing I did was
to

# eeprom console=ttyb

Then I followed Sun's document about about getting a serial console over LAN
under:
http://docs.sun.com/source/819-6588-13/intro.html#0_62503

I followed this document to the word and now all is fine.

Once again, thanks for all your responses.
Cheers,
Sonam

On 10/22/07, Sonam Ganglia <s.ganglia at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I have a X2200 server in our data center. Usually I have enabled remote
> access on all my other servers. But this one was being newly set up so I
> just had to rely on TCP/IP ssh to remote login. Ok so today, after making
> a
> couple of changes, I found that the server boots up but ssh service does
> not
> turn on. It was something to do with SMF of Solaris 10 OS. But hell, I did
> not want to go to the cold data center to debug it so I decided to set up
> serial console acces. I hooked up the serial cable on the DB9 interface
> and
> connected it to the serial console server and was able get to the SP. But
> the console messages were not appearing on the serial port. So just like
> the
> other X4200s that I have I set about changing the grub/menu.lst file and
> without realising that X2200s use ttyb for serial unlike X4200 which uses
> ttya I foolishly typed:
>
> eeprom console=ttya
>
> To my utter horror I now find that I have no ssh, no serial console and no
>
> system consolee. Totally locked out. I only have access to the SP. Is
> there
> a way I can change/correct it through ELOM commands? Like how we do on
> PROM
> command of good old sparc?
>
> Thanks in advance for any insight
>
> Sonam
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From dave.markham at fjserv.net  Wed Oct 24 06:08:13 2007
From: dave.markham at fjserv.net (Dave Markham)
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 11:08:13 +0100
Subject: SUMMARY: Tftpd and TCPWRAPPERS
Message-ID: <471F198D.20707@fjserv.net>

Thanks to all who responded. I was assuming the same myself in that UDP
protocols cannot be wrappered using the Solaris9 TCPWRAPPERS.

The reason i was confused was i was reading a readme from sunfreeware,
after searching for the problem, which specifically said tftpd was
supported. I guess this is due to it being compiled with support and the
standard sol9 one wasn't.

Special thanks to Ric Anderson who has given me a tftpd daemon which has
access control.

Thanks
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From dave.markham at fjserv.net  Wed Oct 24 06:31:30 2007
From: dave.markham at fjserv.net (Dave Markham)
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 11:31:30 +0100
Subject: SUMMARY: Tftpd and TCPWRAPPERS (Ammend)
Message-ID: <471F1F02.1030801@fjserv.net>

Sorry i may have mislead some people by not mentioning the official
response from Casper Dik which is :-

"tcp wrappers cannot work on inetd launched udp based services.

For TCP, the wrappers work by interposing on the handoff between the
connect (handled by inetd) and starting the daemon; with UDP, the daemon
is tart for the first packet to arrive; if that packet is allowed the
daemon starts and all further calls will be allowed through.

Use a proper firewall instead."

The SunFreeware readme i mentioned ( located here
http://www.sunfreeware.com/README.tcpwrappers ) mentions tftpd as being
supported so i guess i dont know why if it cannot be possible.

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From george.monappallil at rpfl.com  Wed Oct 24 12:45:42 2007
From: george.monappallil at rpfl.com (Monappallil, George)
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 12:45:42 -0400
Subject: Summary: CPU utilization comparison.
In-Reply-To: <49E041C0DCDEFE4BBCD70AEAEC2198F3050D27@blaster.Platinum.root.rpfl.com>
References: <49E041C0DCDEFE4BBCD70AEAEC2198F3050D27@blaster.Platinum.root.rpfl.com>
Message-ID: <50CEF36ACC0B0C4197EBCD31C18341481471FA@blaster.Platinum.root.rpfl.com>

I found the problem, which was a resource pool configured with 1 cpu
assigned to the pool. Hence, the one cpu being idle all the time and
also hence the vmstat output was showing 25% idle time because one (of
the four cores) couldn't be used.

I disabled the pools and the output on the SF490 is similar to the E2900

Thanks to Richard Skelton and Vikas Sharma for prodding me in the right
direction.


-George


________________________________

From: Monappallil, George
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 9:58 AM
To: 'sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org'
Subject: CPU utilization comparison.


Guys:
I was using the below script to stress test the CPUs on an SF490 and
E2900.
The SF490 has 2 CPUs and the E2900 has 4CPUs. Both machine have 1.5MHz
UltraSparc IV CPUs.

On the SF490, I start off with 2 threads (because 2 physical cpus)

perl -e 'while (--$ARGV[0] and fork) {}; while () {}' 2
The behaviour is
*****
vmstat 1 10
 kthr      memory            page            disk          faults
cpu
 r b w   swap  free  re  mf pi po fr de sr m0 m1 m5 m1   in   sy   cs us
sy id
 0 0 0 12930032 3493952 30 6 181 2 1  0  0  5  0  0  4  697 1604 1080  1
1 99
 0 0 0 11784400 2091176 0 30 0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  521 1623  930 51
0 49
 0 0 0 11784400 2091176 0 2  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  488  823  867 50
0 49
 0 0 0 11784400 2091176 0 0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  466  365  885 50
0 50
 0 0 0 11784400 2091176 0 2  0  0  0  0  0  1  0  1  1  476 6591 1196 51
6 43
 0 0 0 11784400 2091176 0 0  0  0  0  0  0  5  0  1  5  501  524  905 50
0 49

I see roughly 50% utilization. Now when I increase the number of threads
to 4 (because these are dual core cpus) the behavour is below
******
vmstat 1 10
 kthr      memory            page            disk          faults
cpu
 r b w   swap  free  re  mf pi po fr de sr m0 m1 m5 m1   in   sy   cs us
sy id
 0 0 0 12930024 3493944 30 6 181 2 1  0  0  5  0  0  4  697 1604 1080  1
1 99
 1 0 0 11783656 2090904 0 30 0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  588  477  923 74
1 25
 1 0 0 11783656 2090904 0 0  0  0  0  0  0  1  0  0  1  589  396  910 75
0 25
 1 0 0 11783656 2090904 0 0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  572 1907  878 75
0 25
 1 0 0 11783656 2090904 0 0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  7  0  658  399  937 75
0 25
 1 0 0 11783656 2090904 0 0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  642 2120  916 74
1 25

I see 75% CPU utilization.
**************************

For the E2900, I start off with 4 thread and then increase it to 8
(again because it is a dual core)
With 4 threads:
**********
#vmstat 1 6
 kthr      memory            page            disk          faults
cpu
 r b w   swap  free  re  mf pi po fr de sr m0 m1 m5 m1   in   sy   cs us
sy id
 0 0 0 35573824 27958752 34 4 75 1 1  0  0  4  0  0  3  384 4503  355  1
1 99
 0 0 0 33317024 26119200 0 36 0 0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  352  781  197 50
0 50
 0 0 0 33316952 26119128 0 2 0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  342  643  148 50
0 50
 0 0 0 33316952 26119128 0 0 0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  357 2723  187 50
0 49
 0 0 0 33316952 26119128 0 0 0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  354  668  173 50
1 49
 0 0 0 33316952 26119128 0 0 0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  344  679  172 50
0 50

I see roughly 50% utilization
With 8 threads:
******
#vmstat 1 6
 kthr      memory            page            disk          faults
cpu
 r b w   swap  free  re  mf pi po fr de sr m0 m1 m5 m1   in   sy   cs us
sy id
 0 0 0 35573816 27958744 34 4 75 1 1  0  0  4  0  0  3  384 4503  355  1
1 99
 0 0 0 33315656 26118792 0 36 0 0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  448  753  174
100 0  0
 0 0 0 33315584 26118720 0 2 0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  469  691  189
100 0  0
 0 0 0 33315584 26118720 0 0 0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  461  153  184
100 0  0
 0 0 0 33315584 26118720 0 0 0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  445 1184  159
100 0  0
 0 0 0 33315584 26118720 0 0 0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  441  675  168
100 0  0

I see 100% CPU utilization. Why is that the E2900 has higher CPU usage
than the SF490.

Both servers are running Solaris 10 with the same patch level. Both
servers aren't running anyother processes and baseline cpu utilization
before these tests were roughly 100% idle time.

You help is appreciated.

-George
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From mchesler at chesent.com  Wed Oct 24 15:10:50 2007
From: mchesler at chesent.com (Matt Chesler)
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 15:10:50 -0400
Subject: SUMMARY: Question about mounting Solaris ISO Images
Message-ID: <efe05d640710241210g30acd25et8653138a9831741b@mail.gmail.com>

Thanks to all who responded.  I got several answers that were very
similar and all very helpful.  The end result is that it's not just as
simple as using lofiadm and mount.  Separate images must be pulled
from the ISO for each slice, which can be done using dd and then those
images can be mounted with lofiadm and dd.  See the following pages
for more information:

http://home.arcor.de/bnsmb/public/htdocs/split_cdrom_isoimage.html
http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/content/submitted/cd_free_install.html
http://www.bolthole.com/solaris/mount-cdrom.html

Thanks again for the help!

-Matt

On 10/24/07, Matt Chesler <mchesler at chesent.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am familiar with being able to mount ISO images using lofiadm and
> mount, but this question specifically relates to ISO images of the
> Solaris install DVD.  Solaris install media contains 6 slices.  The
> first slice is a hsfs filesystem and the remaining 5 are ufs.  When I
> use the lofiadm/mount solution, I can see the hsfs slice just fine.
> What I'd like to know is if there is a way to mount slice 1 (the first
> ufs partition) from an ISO file without first burning the image to DVD
> and putting it in a DVD drive on a solaris box.  I do know that when
> you put a Solaris install DVD into a windows machine, you are only
> able to see the hsfs partition (slice 0).  Any help is greatly
> appreciated.  Thanks.
>
> -Matt
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From stan at temple.edu  Wed Oct 24 16:36:34 2007
From: stan at temple.edu (Stan Horwitz)
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 16:36:34 -0400
Subject: SUMMARY: Problem with Sun ssh 1.1
In-Reply-To: <74DD2F46-1ABE-412F-A346-ABCBC842E3D8@temple.edu>
References: <74DD2F46-1ABE-412F-A346-ABCBC842E3D8@temple.edu>
Message-ID: <E14A5F7C-C8F7-425A-9AB0-40D4440E2529@temple.edu>

Thanks for everyone's suggestions. The only thing that worked was  
upgrading to OpenSsh 4.7p1 from the version that was pre-installed  
with Solaris 10.

--
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Temple University
Enterprise Systems Group
stan at temple.edu

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From asaenz at found-tech.com  Thu Oct 25 16:03:41 2007
From: asaenz at found-tech.com (Al Saenz: Foundation Technologies)
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 16:03:41 -0400
Subject: SUMMARY: How to verify which Solaris OS software group is
	installed (cluster)
In-Reply-To: <BDA5DA0680DBE34FB6062B419044F2AF91D62A@exch-srv.ftigrvsc.com>
References: <BDA5DA0680DBE34FB6062B419044F2AF91D62A@exch-srv.ftigrvsc.com>
Message-ID: <064301c81742$23972ed0$6ac58c70$@com>

Thank you very much to all who responded

---
# more CLUSTER
CLUSTER=SUNWCreq
# pwd
/var/sadm/system/admin
#
---

-----Original Message-----
From: sunmanagers-bounces at sunmanagers.org
[mailto:sunmanagers-bounces at sunmanagers.org] On Behalf Of Al Saenz:
Foundation Technologies
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 3:15 PM
To: sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org
Subject: How to verify which Solaris OS software group is installed
(cluster)

Hello,

Just wondering how to verify which software (cluster) group is installed on
a Solaris system?
I searched for this, no results.

Thanks
Al

i.e. SUNWCuser for example
How to verify that is installed from the shell?
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From Kim.DeSmaele at bpo.be  Fri Oct 26 08:07:24 2007
From: Kim.DeSmaele at bpo.be (De Smaele Kim)
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 14:07:24 +0200
Subject: SUMMARY: Veritas VXVM diskgroup upgrade
Message-ID: <5AAAD9EC342688439B90DCCAD7238F71A99638@BPO-EXCHANGE.srv.bpo.be>

Thanks to Mike Salehi for his quick response.

The answer is Yes.

Cheers,
Kim

>May veritas volumes be online and mounted while upgrading a diskgroup?
>Upgrade from dg version 60 to 120 (or vxvm 3.0 tot 4.1).
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From dave.markham at fjserv.net  Fri Oct 26 11:33:14 2007
From: dave.markham at fjserv.net (Dave Markham)
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 16:33:14 +0100
Subject: SUMMARY: VxVM VxFS EOSL
Message-ID: <472208BA.1020202@fjserv.net>

Thanks to all who responded. Jesus Olea gave me the URL

http://ftp.support.veritas.com/pub/support/products/Foundation_Suite/290016.pdf
<http://ftp.support.veritas.com/pub/support/products/Foundation_Suite/290016.pdf>

Dave
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From Wim.Pronk at EUR.ARMY.MIL  Tue Oct 30 09:02:55 2007
From: Wim.Pronk at EUR.ARMY.MIL (Pronk, Wim  Mr CIV IMCOM-Europe/IMEU-MWDL)
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:02:55 +0100
Subject: SUMMARY:  INODES 100%
In-Reply-To: <C0E2ECE94473114E9573E6046211536EDAF2BE@KTES2292APCS080.EUR.DS.ARMY.MIL>
References: <472208BA.1020202@fjserv.net>
	<C0E2ECE94473114E9573E6046211536EDAF2BE@KTES2292APCS080.EUR.DS.ARMY.MIL>
Message-ID: <C0E2ECE94473114E9573E6046211536EDAF2CC@KTES2292APCS080.EUR.DS.ARMY.MIL>

Thanks for all who replied. Original request below.

Special thanks to Richard Skelton and Markus Mayer, who pointed me in
the right direction.

Markus wrote: You could get an idea by looking at how many
files/directories/... are in /var - 'find /var > -mount | wc -l'  If
that comes to anything near the 614,000, then  somewhere there is a file
hog that you will have to hunt down.

I found tons of files in /var/spool/clientmqueque, an area that I did
not expect. These files were outgoing mails which were not send and DCS
error messages. Since sendmail is not running I have to find out what
programs are actually trying to send emails. One of them is tcpwrapper
and I will make changes accordingly.

Again: Thanks to this great list!!

Wim

-----Original Message-----
From: Pronk, Wim Mr CIV IMCOM-Europe/IMEU-MWDL
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 9:09 AM
To: sunmanagers
Subject: INODES 100%

Dear Sun Managers,

I have 2 servers (NETRA T1 200) running with Solaris 9, SunRay Software
3.0

The only purpose of these servers is to control 12 SunRays, which are
connecting to a Windows Terminal Server through CITRIX.

Servers have 16 GB HD in 3 slices: slice 0 5.8 G for /, slice 4 4.8 GB
for /var and slice 6 4.1 GB for /export/home/. No free space.

Both servers have been running for 2 years without problems. but all of
a sudden both servers have the same problem: ufs: NOTICE: /var: out of
inodes

Filesystem (df -h) in /var (slice 4): 1.9 G used 2.9 G free, 40% used

inodes (df -F ufs -o -i) in /var iused: 614592 ifree:0 %iused:100%

df shows only 1 file in slice 4

I have these kind of servers in other locations as well and do not have
any problems: /var filesystem shows 1.9 G used as above and %inodes:
between 12 - 18%. df shows 1065000 files though.

Has anyone any thoughts on how this could have happened and if there is
an easy fix for this?

Wim

Wim Pronk

IMCOM-Europe, MWD-L
European Regional Library Support Center DSN 370-7890 or 370-6019
wim.pronk at us.army.mil
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From romeotheriault at gmail.com  Wed Oct 31 10:15:29 2007
From: romeotheriault at gmail.com (Romeo Theriault)
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 11:15:29 -0400
Subject: SUMMARY: Patching with SVM mirroring boot drives
Message-ID: <46cd475b0710310815pf30eeccuc21cf77187fe1548@mail.gmail.com>

Thank you to the following people for replying to my question. (See original
question below.)

Santhosh Valarani
Mehran Salehi
Hike
Musa Williams
Kim DeSmaele

and especially Roberto Fratelli who provided me with the most detailed
explanation.

Original Question:

"I'm getting ready to patch some Solaris boxes with Recommended patch
clusters. The boot drives are using SVM in a mirror configuration. What I
would like to do is metadetach one of each of the mirrors submirrors out of
the configuration so if something goes wrong with the patching, I could boot
off of the detached submirrors and then resync the other disks back into a
configuration. Is this or something like this possible with SVM?"

The answers I received were a resounding "Yes, you can do it." But here are
the general instructions that Roberto Fratelli provided that I will be
working off of.

Here's an example :

/dev/md/dsk/d10  > / filesystem
/dev/md/dsk/d20  > /var filesystem
/dev/md/dsk/d50  > swap

The output of 'metastat -p' :

d50 -m d51 d52 1
d51 1 1 c1t0d0s1
d52 1 1 c1t1d0s1
d20 -m d21 d22 1
d21 1 1 c1t0d0s5
d22 1 1 c1t1d0s5
d10 -m d11 d12 1
d11 1 1 c1t0d0s0
d12 1 1 c1t1d0s0


use 'prtconf -vp | grep bootpath' to find out which
disk you booted off from. In my case, it was from
/dev/dsk/c1t0d0. So we will need to detach the
metadevices from c1t1d0.

- Detaching the mirrors :

# metadetach d10 d12
# metadetach d20 d22
# metadetach d50 d52

- Mounting the root filesystem from your mirror :

# mount /dev/dsk/c1t1d0s0 /mnt

- Edit /etc/vfstab entries to point to the disk
slices, not the svm metadevices ( let's say, instead
of /dev/md/dsk/d10 you put /dev/dsk/c1t1d0s0 ).

- Edit /etc/system and comment out ( using an asterisk
* ) the line starting with " rootdev:/pseudo/md "

- Put your system in OBP and boot from the mirror disk
( on this example, c1t1d0 )

- Check if your system booted fine. If yes, bring it
back to OBP and perform a normal boot ( from your
regular boot disk) and do the OS patching.

If you run in trouble with your recently patched OS,
you can boot from your mirror.

To continue off where Roberto left, if all goes well you can just metattach
the devices back into the mirror and let them resync or if all doesn't go
well you can boot off of the un-mirrored drives and recreate the SVM mirror
configuration so the "other" sync off of your good drives.

Thank you again,
-- 
Romeo Theriault
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