From foster at dim.ucsd.edu Tue Jul 3 17:33:30 2001 From: foster at dim.ucsd.edu (David Foster) Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 14:33:30 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Sun] CDE: Adding Workspace Menu Items / Disabling auto screen-lock Message-ID: <200107032133.OAA26958@dim.ucsd.edu> Ok. Every time I have to dig into CDE I get a massive headache. Can someone please tell me how I would: 1) Add a Workspace menu item with mutiple options, system-wide. I know how to add it for a single user, by modifying files in ~user/.dt, but I would like to make this the default setup that each user inherits. I've tried mucking with /etc/dt, but the changes don't seem to get sucked in when a new user is created. It would be nice to be able to just modify a file which defines the menu, similar to XDM, and not have to bother with "action files" etc.. 2) Make it so the automatic screen locking feature (after a period of inactivity) is Off by default, or disable this feature if possible. Dave << All opinions expressed are mine, not the University's >> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= David Foster National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research Programmer/Analyst University of California, San Diego dfoster at ucsd.edu Department of Neuroscience, Mail 0608 (858) 534-4583 http://ncmir.ucsd.edu/ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable." -- George Bernard Shaw From Luke Wed Jul 4 01:03:02 2001 From: Luke (Luke) Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2001 14:03:02 +0900 Subject: Solstice Disk Suite - removing initial state databases Message-ID: <008f01c10446$9a873aa0$f489b7c6@kearneyl> Hello All, I am currrently trying ( in vain ) to remove an initial state database I created to start the process of making a mirrored disk set. The details as follows:- SunOS XXXX 5.8 Generic sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-60 metadb flags first blk block count a m pc luo 16 1034 /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s6 a pc luo 1050 1034 /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s6 a pc luo 2084 1034 /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s6 Can anyone tell me how to remove these entries so that I can start from scratch and build the mirror ?? I used the metaclear command but that does not seem to have done much for me. All advice is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. Luke From peter at jrc.nl Wed Jul 4 08:16:39 2001 From: peter at jrc.nl (Peter Watkins) Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2001 14:16:39 +0200 (MET DST) Subject: Sun DHCP server Message-ID: <200107041218.f64CIpM18085@dylan.jrc.nl> We have been using the SUN supplied DHCP server under Solaris 7 for some years with considerable success. Now we are finding that we have to do some administration and the lack of good documentation, particularly anything recent, is noticable. I've searched the Internet and tried the Sun Managers archives - mostly broken or pre-1999! No luck, so I have to ask. We have assigned a complete class C subnet to our DHCP server and have seen the table slowly fill over the last year. Now all 254 addresses have entries and we need to consider whether to add a second class C subnet to cope. However many (40%) of the table entries have lease expiry dates of a month or more ago. Our lease times are 2 days and all entries have a 00 status field and so can (theoretically) be used again. I have some questions; 1) I assume that the 00 status field entries with expired lease times can/will be used again - not necessarily by the machine with the current Client-ID entry. Is this correct? 2) How does the server decide which address to allocate to a new client in this situation where the table is full but contains numbers of expired leases? 3) I would like to reset the entries with expired leases completely. Does anyone have a script to do this? (Otherwise I will write one myself). I do not really want to switch servers or change to ISC but would consider either if absolutely necessary. Naturally I'll summarize. Peter +----------------------------------------------------+ |Dr. Peter Watkins |email: watkins at jrc.nl | |Joint Research Centre |tel: +31-224-565120 | |Petten |fax: +31-224-561251 | |The Netherlands |http: www.jrc.nl | +----------------------------------------------------+ From devans at presscentre.net Thu Jul 5 08:49:37 2001 From: devans at presscentre.net (Darren Evans) Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2001 12:49:37 +0000 Subject: sub Message-ID: <20010705124937.A18722@unbreakable.presscentre.net> subscribe From Vipin.Sharma at Sun.COM Thu Jul 5 16:47:04 2001 From: Vipin.Sharma at Sun.COM (Vipin Sharma - EDS Datacenter Contractor) Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2001 16:47:04 -0400 (EDT) Subject: function in .cshrc Message-ID: <200107052043.QAA06008@matrix.East.Sun.COM> Hi Gurus I have a function in .profile but I want to define the same function in .cshrc, How it can be done? Here is the function ============================================== function _cd { if [ $TERM = "dtterm" ] then if 'cd' "$@" then print -n ^[]0\;" `uname -n` `whoami` in $PWD "^G # Cntrl-V Esc ^G is Cntrl-V Cntrl-G fi else 'cd' "$@" fi } ============================================== Thanx in advance. VS From Rob Mon Jul 9 16:35:45 2001 From: Rob (Rob) Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2001 21:35:45 +0100 Subject: Netra X1 won't boot ... Message-ID: <02ff01c108b7$96be8430$0120a8c0@garf.co.uk> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_02F4_01C108BF.1C8A0E70 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Managers, X1 with no bootable OS. Solaris 8 4/01 install image with LOM and dmfe = X1 patches installed on a Solaris 8 (Intel) boot server on same VLAN = (Cisco Catalyst 2924). I can't even get the X1 to read the tftp boot image (after "boot net"). = It complaoins that the link is not "up". 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Hi All
We are having = solaris 8 running over E-450 server, having RAID-5 configured with = DISKSUITE 4.2.. Raid-5 is having around 7 disks of,but whenever we = write to the device its very slow, it takes 3hrs for writing 500MB = file. Is there any patch to solve this. We very rarely write to this = device as we know its not good to have RAID-% configured for write = extensive devices. Please suggest if we can improve on this = .
Deep
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Here I am sending you the whole detail.
We have following environment:
1. Sun Soalri8
2. Oracle
Version 8.1.7
We have some batch programs
written in pro*C which are to be run on unix prompt.We were doing proting of the
pro*C code from HP-Unix to Sun Solaris which we have done sucessfully.Now the
code is compiling sucessfully withount any warning /error message.At the time of
running (under Sun environment) for some Pro*C programs its gives core dump.Then
we found that setting the folllowing variable sorts of the probelm of core
dump.
$ export
LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/0 at 0.so.1
And then run the
excecutable (For e.g, IC_RATEMASTER ).It runs sucessfully but it shows the
warning such as below:
ld.so.1:
oracle<oracle_sid>: warning: /usr/lib/0 at 0.so.1: open failed: illegal
insecure pathname
We could not find why and how this warning can be removed.Infact once this LD_PRELOAD value is set then whenever we try to run any command ( for e.g, sqlplus, w) its shows the same warning.
In another scenrio for same
enviromenent:
IF we set LD_PRELOAD=0 at 0.so.1 (Without pathname)
then the error is changed to :
$ w
ld.so.1: w: warning: 0 at 0.so.1: open failed: No such file in secure directories
Could you please give some solution regarding this issue as it is critical.
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Vipul Jain
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All,
Can someone please remind me what file = to modify to allow me to remotely login as root on Solaris.
I realise it's not good practice but I = have reason to require this.
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------_=_NextPart_001_01C10308.381FE2C0-- From sun at sun.twlight.net Mon Jul 2 11:16:21 2001 From: sun at sun.twlight.net (Jerry Kemp - Sun account) Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 10:16:21 -0500 Subject: [LONG SUMMARY] opionions on in-house unix based mail systems In-Reply-To: <200106282108.f5SL8fr09889@sun.twlight.net> Message-ID: <200107021516.f62FGP608678@sun.twlight.net> Hello Sun Managers, Here is my summary of replies into unix based mail servers. I had quite a few comments on both Lotus Notes and the I-Planet software, along with several "try and fix your exchange server" and a couple of mail servers my research before posting the question did not turn up. And, only one vacation message, so that appears to be getting better. I also want to thank the following people who sent their experiences to me as posted below, plus anyone I forgot: Eric Watson Suresh Rajagopalan Dave Brady Toby A. Rider Eric De Mund Clements, Ian Dan.Anderson Chris Cariffe Phil Brutsche Michael DeSimone David Meissner Edwin Groenescheij Kevin Colagio Ric Anderson Eric Shafto Arvinder_Dadhwal Hendrik Visage Clift Robert T CONT DLVA Bruce Cannon Jeff Kennedy Tim Chipman John Marrett Mika Tuupola Jernej Zajc Am Thursday, 28. June 2001 um 16:08 schrieb Jerry Kemp - Sun account: ++++++++++++++++++ ORIGINAL QUESTION ++++++++++++++++++ > Hello Sun managers, > > I am currently started working in a small IT consulting company > performing consulting > services performing unix and network based solutions. Currently, we > have a winblows/ > exchange mail system in-house. Management felt that experience with > this software was > important as many of our customers are using it. As I am sure everyone > on the list can > probably guess, micro$oft does not make the most robust mail system > and it is down as > much as it is up. > > Yesterday, my boss had had enough of the ms mail system and approached > me about upgrading > to a unix based in-house mail system. Immediately, thoughts of glee > filled my head > and the possibility of bringing another Sun box in house and loading up > the latest > copy of SENDMAIL and IMAP. > > Unfortunately, I quickly realized that this system will not only be > used by techies > but also sales people, management and secretaries who want/need fancy > formatting, fonts, > colors, calendars, address books, etc.... I can not present a solution > that will cause > these people to loose these features that they already have. > > So, to the point, I am curious what Unix server based email systems the > group is > using in house and if you would recommend it to someone else. I do > believe that > Lotus makes a version of Notes for Solaris and that Netscape has Suite > Spot, or > what ever it is being called now. But I don't have experience with > these, hence > this request for your experience. > > TIA for any positive emails, I will post a summary. > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ I think with Sendmail + IMAP + LDAP you can get most of the functionality. Global address lists would be available via LDAP. It is not the same as with exchange, but should suffice. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ I feel your pain. I came from a sendmail/IMAP environment, and am now stuck using Lotus Notes on my Sun. It is, without a doubt, the *worst* e-mail client I have ever used. The Microsoft Windows client might be better, but the Solaris one is a piece of junk. It will occassionally freeze your window manager. It will suck the color palette dry. It has *no* filtering capability (that I can find; I miss procmail!), and rigidly controls message composition. (Ex. The line with your name at the top is not editable or removable.) You don't have permission to create other folders. Keyboard control is nil. You must use the mouse for almost everything. It's atrocious. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ This is what I have done at 3 different places. Use an Exchange server for the calendaring, etc.. and make it forward smtp to The Sun box running Qmail, sendmail, postfix, or whatever MTA you like. The users can then pop or imap their mail off the Unix box. You can give them the option of storing their mail on the server. Then you can then write some scripts to email them when they have too much mail saved on the mail server. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Count me as a "me too"; I'd also like to know this. If you send out a summary email, I'd appreciate a copy. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Sounds like you have a bunch of people running windows clients already. Just convert them back to Internet Mail Service and have them use IMAP on their Windows clients. This way, they keep most of the features you want (except calendaring and the other crap but that's easily solved with Meeting Maker or Synchronize. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Notes is alright. I still protect/support mine with a little solaris/sendmail mx server though. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ i have installed and used netscape or i-planet stuff. i would recommend this. ease of use and install as well! +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Nor does it work worth a crap when it is up :) Seems like most of the mail system interaction problems I run across at work are caused by MS Exchange. I won't tell you the horror stories I've heard out of some universities what switched to Exchange... Yesterday, my boss had had enough of the ms mail system and approached me about upgrading to a unix based in-house mail system. Immediately, thoughts of glee filled my head and the possibility of bringing another Sun box in house and loading up the latest copy of SENDMAIL and IMAP. Sendmail? Exim (or Postfix) + Courier IMAP, baby :) Unfortunately, I quickly realized that this system will not only be used by techies but also sales people, management and secretaries who want/need fancy formatting, fonts, colors, calendars, address books, etc.... I can not present a solution that will cause these people to loose these features that they already have. The "fancy formatting" (fonts, colors, etc) generally is not a problem - that's just HTML email, and is well supported by at least the 4 or 5 Windows email clients I can name right off the top of my head (OE, Outlook, Netscape, Pegasus, Eudora). Sendmail (or whatever MTA you use) won't be able to tell whether the message has formatting or not, nor will it care. It's all just text; what the email client does with that text is what makes the difference. You might be able to replace the address book functionality with LDAP, but it won't work anything like what the others at your company are used to. There are a number of third-party schedule mechanisms. One of the things people like about Outlook+Exchange is it's ability to integrate all that functionality into one interface. So, to the point, I am curious what Unix server based email systems the group is using in house and if you would recommend it to someone else. I do believe that Lotus makes a version of Notes for Solaris and that Netscape has Suite Spot, or what ever it is being called now. But I don't have experience with these, hence this request for your experience. I would say Lotus Notes. HP's OpenMail *might* be an option, but I wouldn't want anyone else to subject themselves to that particular hell, and HP is dropping support for it anyways. I don't know anything about Suite Spot. What we use in house: Exim + UofW IMAP + OpenLDAP. We have no need to share schedules/calanders. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Intermail (now openwave mail) or post.off from (what was software.com ) and is now http://www.openwave.com/ look in products Communication Services and Additional products. Netscape stuff is OK as well. Non techies can still use Outlook and send and make appointments, just not see other's calendars. No out of the box Global address book either. The rest of that stuff is client based and they can still do. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ I love Unix and I use it for everything that I can, including my own mail, but it's too much to ask of people to give up an e-mail system that they're used to and perhaps comfortable with. It's pretty painful for regular users to switch from Exchange to Notes, or to a Unix-based system. Exchange can be stable enough for a small company despite the occasional reboots and the difficulty of doing restores. My advice is to put some resources into stabilizing your Exchange installation. Perhaps reinstall it on better hardware, upgrade to the latest version, etc. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ You might wanna download the iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 and the iPlanet Calendar Server 5.0 (evaluation versions available from http://www.iplanet.com/). I have installed iMS 5.0 for an ISP in Australia and it works quite well although we ran into some bugs, version 5.1 seems to have solved most of the bugs. In combination with iPlanet Delegated Administrator even MCSE's are able to create domains, e-mail users, mailing lists etc etc. About 6 months ago I played a bit with a beta version of iCS 5.0 it looked very good but haven't done a real install for a customer yet. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Simply put, let everyone use it as a pop or IMAP server....their client end will interpret everything as it should, and the Unix backend (with sendmail) won't care. Sendmail delivers to a Unix mailbox. Pop clients (and IMAP I think...no real experience there) can just look at the server's mailboxes and interpret what they see there. Sendmail doesn't care about content...only the clients do. Hope that helps, now go get a decent new Sun box with the latest version of Sendmail! +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Where I work we use UW's imap client with sendmail. Desktop users (mostly windows 2000) use Outlook and its address book or netscape and its address book. Calendering is done via a program called meeting maker (http://www.meetingmaker.com) which runs on a novell or windows server (I forget which, as its run by another group). This combo gives the PC folks a nice GUI interface, and (if they use netscape) palm pilot/visor conduits for address books. Meeting Maker also includes a Palm conduit. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ You can still use Outlook (bleah) as your mail client if you're not using an Exchange server. You'll lose some nice features, like the ability to retract messages before they've been read, group calendaring, etc. Outlook (Outlook 2000, anyway) is very comfortable using rtf to send richly-formatted email, and there should be no problems sending that through a standard smtp server. If you're willing to spend a reasonably small amount of money, I might suggest Communigate Pro. It's a dream to set up and manage, it provides a decent web-mail interface, handles pop and imap, along with their secure variants, and it's rock-solid. I understand that it scales well, too, but I never used it for more than like 500 accounts. If you want to go the hard way but you're not a masochist, consider qmail, which is simpler to set up than Sendmail, also free, reasonably well supported, and is written beautifully. Well, efficiently and securely, anyway. You'll have to add your own imap server, but there are how-to's for that. I did it with Cyrus and it didn't take me more than a day to integrate them, and most of that was reading FAQ's. qmail's got a couple of stupid gotchas, though, so do read all the readme's or you'll spend time banging your head unnecessarily. Or just install sendmail. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Okay, so why not Groupwise? Great product, full-featured, admittedly a bear to administer, but not nearly as bad as Exchange. You won't get what you want from a straightup smtp server, although I did move people happily from Exchange to a combination of Communigate Pro (see my previous email) and WebEvent, which is a nice shared web calendar. Doesn't do the really cool stuff like scheduling meetings, but it was for a school and they really needed more of a community calendar. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Lotus Notes do make it for solaris too. I have worked on Notes on NT, administering them and it has been great working on it. Here one of our client has Notes riding on AIX RS/6000 and it's working absolutely fine with no major problems. Administering Notes is a breeze compared to Exchange. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Let's start at the begining: Email: Setup Qmail/postfix/sendmail etc. as MTA (Your choice depends on logging features, speed and ease of config) Make use of imap/pop3 for the connection from server to client. The "Fancy formating and Word Documents" will only be a problem for the people reading/writing email on text based consoles (ie. Mutt ;^), but Netscape as well as Outlook (express also) supports the sending of MIME and HTML formatted email. Calendering: This is the "tough one". The issue here is that M$ did some thinking by integrating email & calendering, for this integration you'll have to start looking at Notes etc. However, NEtscape do have a Calendering solution available. Address book: Netscape do provide that (WIfe using it @home). SOmething that's "interesting" about M$'s exchange, is that the adress book is accessible via LDAP (using it @work to get ext numbers from exchange while on a Unix server :) That said, DO take a look at freshmeat.net, there are quite a few browser based options available that do have some integration of it all. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ check out StarOffice..... +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ An optimized solution for an enterprise, including enterprise calendaring, shareable calendars and mail/message folders and other conveniences that I have implemented has been a (Sun-based, but Linux will work) sendmail box in the DMZ with aliases for all the users, and the Exchange server on the LAN, or in the LAN Servers segment setup to use the sendmail box for internet mail. Putting an Exchange server, even behind a firewall, out on the internet is a tempting target. Also, you'll find that on the rare occasions your Exchange server hangs, the mail for your users will still be in the sendmail box, and will dump its queue to the Exchange server as soon as it comes back up. A proper implementation of Exchange is very, very reliable. The Williams Companies have an enterprise-wide deployment that has been working with no unscheduled downtime for years. The sendmail frontend is the secret. And a lot less painful than migrating users! +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ alas, it comes down to this: fully integrated "messaging solutions" that include email / calendar / task management with "groupware" capacity to boot are rather more limited in abundance than straightforward email (POP or IMAP) based solutions. Of course, stuff like "fonts, formatting, colours" are *purely* an issue of what E-mail client the person is using. A vanilla POP / SMTP mail server can be used by Eudora, Outlook, Outlook Express, Netscape Messenger (or whatever mail client you want, really) and send "HTML / RTF" email message content that is very "pretty" - with fancy fonts, in-line images / background images, etc etc.. The difficult bit comes along when users demand fully integrated calendar, messaging, task management. Currently, Microsoft has a big edge here since they were in the game quite early with their solution. And of course that all the other "groupware" solutions suck. :-) [or have had this problem in the past :-) ] Sun / Netscape do offer "SIMS", a more-or-less integrated messaging system (email, calendar groupware with some task management) but last time I checked it wasn't perfectly clear to me how well integrated things really were, or what variety of client software was available for this setup. Everything I've ever heard about Lotus Notes/Domino has *always* screamed "WARNING! RUN AWAY NOW! DO NOT LOOK BACK!" -- I've heard tales of horrible stability with the server-side software, let alone the horrible, bloated lotus notes client software. (Lotus notes is really an "Enterprise database management system" that allows fully paperless office type function - and which has the capacity of email, calendaring, groupware -- but it does SO many other things as well .. that if you don't need those extra functions .. be warned .. There are also options with Novell Groupwise, although I am told it has real scaling problems as well once you get over a certain user base size (ie, more than one "post office" system). As an aside: I *hate* to say it - but: what version of exchange are you using, running on what flavour of Windows? If you are not using Windows 2000 .. that is a huge upgrade waiting to happen. Although I think MS is evil in many ways, it cannot be denied that Win2K is a big step up from WinNT4 in many ways. Likewise, I believe that the newest version of Exchange is a major improvement over the NT4 era version of exchange.. so you may want to (have to?) consider this as an option if you are not already running the "newest and greatest" flavour of Exchange/Windows. Ultimately - it may come down to more of a "management decision" in terms of deciding between (high stability and therefore NOT MS ; however fewer groupware features - but good IMAP, SMTP) vs (Abundant groupware features and thus Microsoft). BTW: IMHO Postfix is a much better SMTP server than Sendmail (www.postfix.org) - however I won't try to start a holy war with such a topic here :-) Anyhow. I hope this little blathering rant is of some use. I'll be very interested to hear what you find out at the end of the day.. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Intrested in replacing exchange using a drop in replacement? Check out http://www.openmail.com. I understand HP is planning to kill this product after the next revision. Apparently due to pressure from microsoft. Supposed to be a very interesting product though... +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ I have had a bit same kind of situation as you do. Some people insisting on having Exchange because of its calendaring features etc. Since Exchange is not an option to anyone who is an admin I wouldnt install it. What I have ended up doing is runnind Sendmail as MTA, Cyrus as IMAP / POP3 server and Steltors (ex CST) Corporate Time Server as Calendaring server. I use Sendmail for two main reasons. I have best experience with it, and I dislike qmail. Postfix could be an option though. Main reason for choosing cyrus was speed. It also handles huge emails (our people are sending and receiving huge attachments via email) really well. You can build a sealed system with cyrus since mailboxes dont need to have corresponding unix accounts. Before I installed Cyrus I was warned it was going to be a complicated install. However I think it went together pretty easily. Cyrus can be found at: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/imapd/ Corporate Time is basically what makes this system pretty much the same as Exhcange to end user (only this time realiable). CTime provide the calendaring functions. It has native clients for Windows, MacOS and even Motif. It also has a webclient and it can be used via Outlook (you need to install Corporate Time Outlook Connector). To enduser this is just like using the exhange calendar. More bonuses is possibility of syncing your calendar data to Palm, Pocket PC, WIN CE and Psion handhelds. CTime accounts can be stored in internal database or fetched over network from LDAP server. The install was clean and worked straight out (which I was surprised since I have had some bad experiences with commercial software installs on unix). Check Steltors website for more info: http://www.steltor.com/ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Just a thought: a standard unix MTA like qmail/postfix, "rich" mail could be HTML mail that many graphical mailers understand and calendar app could be database driven groupware accessible through PHP from web browser. The first out of dozen solutions from the top of my head. From mkiernan at onet.pl Mon Jul 2 11:36:34 2001 From: mkiernan at onet.pl (Mike Kiernan) Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2001 17:36:34 +0200 Subject: E4500 & EMC HBA's Message-ID: <3B409502.A73817EC@onet.pl> We have an E4500 with 2x i/o boards currently. Each i/o board currently has a Sun FC-AL HBA (shows as Dual-SBus-SOC+ in prtdiag-v). We'd like to add some Clariion arrays (currently there are 5200's hanging off the existing hba's). This means adding 2 EMC HBA's (which are none-AL apparently), 1 to each of the two i/o boards, so we'll have: Board 1: Dual-Sbus-SOC+ && EMC HBAGL-SUNS Board 2: Dual-Sbus-SOC+ && EMC HBAGL-SUNS a) will this work/anyone have any experience? b) will this suck too much backplane and or i/o board bandwidth? [10 x 400MHz 8MB blackbirds, 10GB RAM] any good EMC links...??? :-) many thanks, Mike From cian at parthus.com Mon Jul 2 12:13:34 2001 From: cian at parthus.com (Cian O'Sullivan) Date: 2 Jul 2001 17:13:34 +0100 Subject: SUMMARY E4500 Crashing. Message-ID: <040901c10311$f1bff0e0$8ca878c0@cg721367a> Lads, Many thanks to those who responded. Seth Rothenberg Nick Hedley Mike Kiernan Shannon Ward and most important Joseph Herpers.(joeh at stsolutions.com) The original post is below. It involved some very awkward crashing with inconsistent memory errors. It was obvious from the original posting that there was a hardware issue. Some got confused and thought that the errors automatically where indicative of a memory error. This is a very dangerous approach, as an error in memory write can be caused from processing, bus transfer, io management etc. Once it gets to the ram if it is a bad instruction the ram will choke because it does not understand what it is to do. Joe pointed out a tool that can be used to detect the error meaning. The Software is called the ON-Line Detective for Sun, you can see info on it at www.sundetective.com. One of the resuls after searching for my particular error demonstrated that a failure from a DMA write request was from a defect in the Enterprise Server Board. Sun engineers confirmed this (after comming out for the second time), have replaced the board, and we are now off to the races. Many thanks for this list, and those who responded. Cian O'Sullivan -----Original Message----- From: sunmanagers-admin at sunmanagers.org [mailto:sunmanagers-admin at sunmanagers.org]On Behalf Of Cian O'Sullivan Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 9:54 AM To: sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org Subject: e4500 Crashing. Lads, I have an e4500 that is crashing without explanation. Brief outline The symptoms are that you boot it into extended diagnostics and it gives wildly differing simm errors every time, sometimes it boots to the os, sometimes (as now ) it doesn't even boot to the obp. If you boot it off a single cpu/mem board at a time, it comes up fine, as soon as you start adding boards in it goes wonky again. A quick poll of the board temps on the other adjacent e4500s show that the cpu/mem boards are within the operating env limits (just ... ie below 40 degrees) Sun engineers came in and have given all cpu/mem and i/o boards a full health check, run extended diagnostics and made some OS / operating environment recommendations which have now been implemented. The system has been stress tested overnight and appeared stable. However it crashed again. Here are some segments from the syslog. Any comments would be most apprecaited, as we are now at our wits end. Piece 1. Jun 27 02:49:26 dublin232 unix: CE Error queue wrapped Jun 27 02:49:26 dublin232 last message repeated 1 time Jun 27 02:49:29 dublin232 unix: Multiple Softerrors: Jun 27 02:49:29 dublin232 unix: Seen 4 Intermittent and 2 Corrected Softerrors Jun 27 02:49:29 dublin232 unix: from SIMM Board 2 J3200 Jun 27 02:49:30 dublin232 unix: Enabling verbose CE messages. Jun 27 02:49:30 dublin232 unix: Softerror: Intermittent ECC Memory Error SIMM Board 2 J3200 Jun 27 02:49:30 dublin232 unix: ECC Data Bit 45 was corrected Jun 27 02:49:30 dublin232 unix: CPU8 CE Error: AFSR 0x00000000 00100000, AFAR 0x00000000 638ed060, SIMM Board 2 J3200 Piece 2 Jun 27 02:49:30 dublin232 unix: Syndrome 0x2c, Size 3, Offset 0 UPA MID 8 Jun 27 02:50:01 dublin232 unix: CPU12 CE Error: AFSR 0x00000000 00100000, AFAR 0x00000001 92ab30a0, SIMM Board 4 J3200 Jun 27 02:50:01 dublin232 unix: Syndrome 0x2c, Size 3, Offset 0 UPA MID 12 Jun 27 02:50:01 dublin232 unix: Softerror: Intermittent ECC Memory Error SIMM Board 4 J3200 Jun 27 02:50:02 dublin232 unix: ECC Data Bit 45 was corrected From rfransix at yahoo.com Mon Jul 2 13:07:50 2001 From: rfransix at yahoo.com (rick francis) Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 10:07:50 -0700 (PDT) Subject: xterm connectivity blocked Message-ID: <20010702170750.80711.qmail@web14806.mail.yahoo.com> hi, some securifying has been done and now exceed xterm startup requests to a sol8 server fail. i'm hoping someone can see the error of my ways. thank you. rf __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ From larry at compwebtech.com Mon Jul 2 13:14:48 2001 From: larry at compwebtech.com (Larry Caragay) Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 10:14:48 -0700 Subject: Help on Mysql In-Reply-To: <20010702170113.7671711A2A@ohno.mrbill.net> Message-ID:-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Whorley [mailto:Mike.Whorley at coda.com]
Sent: 02 July 2001 15:46
To: 'sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org'
Subject: Remote root loginAll,
Can someone please remind me what file to modify to allow me to remotely login as root on Solaris.
I realise it's not good practice but I have reason to require this.
Regards,
Mike.__________________________________
Mike Whorley
Systems AdministratorCODA plc
Cardale Park, Beckwith Head Road
Harrogate, HG3 1RY, EnglandTel +44 (0)1423 509999
Direct +44 (0)1423 537934
Mob +44 (0)7775 720259
Fax +44 (0)1423 537862email mike.whorley at coda.com
web http://www.coda.com
__________________________________
I have a version of SPARCompiler C 4.0 = installed on an old Ultra 2. I'm in the process of migrating all apps = from this server to a new E450.
Does anyone know if SPROcc is = available on the software media CD's bundled with the Solaris 8 release = ? - I can't seem to find it. If not do I need to order another copy = from Sun or can I drag it from the web ?
In terms of licensing I presume I will = need to speak to Sun anyone to get a new migration license.
Regards,
Mike.
__________________________________
Mike =
Whorley
Systems Administrator
CODA =
plc
Cardale Park, =
Beckwith Head Road
Harrogate, HG3 1RY, =
England
Tel +44 (0)1423 509999
Direct +44 =
(0)1423 537934
Mob +44 (0)7775 =
720259
Fax +44 (0)1423 537862
email =
mike.whorley at coda.com
web http://www.coda.com
__________________________________
All,
My background is mainly AIX / HP-UX = where LVM (Logical Volume Manager) is bundled with the O/S.
Is this the case with Solaris ? I've = heard of disksuite but was unsure whether this was a separate = chargeable application or a freebie.
Is disksuite the only option available = to me ?
Regards,
Mike.
__________________________________
Mike =
Whorley
Systems Administrator
CODA =
plc
Cardale Park, =
Beckwith Head Road
Harrogate, HG3 1RY, =
England
Tel +44 (0)1423 509999
Direct +44 =
(0)1423 537934
Mob +44 (0)7775 =
720259
Fax +44 (0)1423 537862
email =
mike.whorley at coda.com
web http://www.coda.com
__________________________________
All,
I'm trying to get to grips with = Disksuite using metatool.
As I understand it there appears to be = no concept of 'volume groups' ie creating a large pool of physical disk = then creating several 'logical volumes' from that 'volume group' = pool.
It seems to me that you can drag as = many partitions into a 'concat / stripe' as you wish but that pool of = disk can only be used for one mount ie /data and not split into several = mounts ie /data /data1 /data2 etc.
What this means is spending more time = planning what size each concat / stripe should be and having to create = one per filesystem mount.
Can someone please confirm this is = correct.
It seems less flexible this way the = AIX's LVM.
Regards,
Mike.
__________________________________
Mike =
Whorley
Systems Administrator
CODA =
plc
Cardale Park, =
Beckwith Head Road
Harrogate, HG3 1RY, =
England
Tel +44 (0)1423 509999
Direct +44 =
(0)1423 537934
Mob +44 (0)7775 =
720259
Fax +44 (0)1423 537862
email =
mike.whorley at coda.com
web http://www.coda.com
__________________________________
Can anyone advice where I can get = Solstice Adminsuite (SUNWadm) from ? It doesn't appear to be either of = the Solaris 8 software CD's
Here are the adm components currently = installed :-
# pkginfo | grep adm
system =
SUNWadmap System administration =
applications
system =
SUNWadmc System administration core =
libraries
Does SUNWadmap replace SUNWadm = ?
I'm trying to use File System Manager = and Disk Manager from Metatool but get the following error :-
Selected Tool not available. Please = install the following package: Solstice AdminSuite = "SUNWadm"
Many thanks,
Mike.
__________________________________
Mike =
Whorley
Systems Administrator
CODA =
plc
Cardale Park, =
Beckwith Head Road
Harrogate, HG3 1RY, =
England
Tel +44 (0)1423 509999
Direct +44 =
(0)1423 537934
Mob +44 (0)7775 =
720259
Fax +44 (0)1423 537862
email =
mike.whorley at coda.com
web http://www.coda.com
__________________________________
Hi All
I have = Solaris 2.6 running over Ultra-10 machine. I have configured a modem = for dial-out. I use tip to connect to the modem and dial out. The = problem is that line gets disconnected very fast, and leaves the port = into hung state, resulting the tip session gets stuck. I am not able to = give any commands to the modem again.
The only option I have to close the = shell, but doing that also doesn't help. When again I try to connect to = the modem using tip, fails. Is there any way to fix it. Is there any = software like "Kermit" on Solaris for this kind of dial-out = activity.
Secondly I want once I am connected to = the dialed number I should be able to ping one of the machines in the = dialed network, which is also not happening. What all configuration I = have to do to make it happen.
Please respond, your suggestions would = be a great help.
Manish
------_=_NextPart_001_01C10517.0859BCD0-- From Deependra.Srivastava at ehpt.com Thu Jul 5 02:19:17 2001 From: Deependra.Srivastava at ehpt.com (Deependra Srivastava EHPT) Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2001 08:19:17 +0200 Subject: TIP Problem over SOlaris 2.6 Message-ID: <6B6C3C9FA532D311B6D4009027541B4501CD15F0@ndex1.ind.ehpt.com> This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C1051A.6B64A0D0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Hi All I have Solaris 2.6 running over Ultra-10 machine. I have configured a modem for dial-out. I use tip to connect to the modem and dial out. The problem is that line gets disconnected very fast, and leaves the port into hung state, resulting the tip session gets stuck. I am not able to give any commands to the modem again. The only option I have to close the shell, but doing that also doesn't help. When again I try to connect to the modem using tip, fails. Is there any way to fix it. Is there any software like "Kermit" on Solaris for this kind of dial-out activity. Secondly I want once I am connected to the dialed number I should be able to ping one of the machines in the dialed network, which is also not happening. What all configuration I have to do to make it happen. Please respond, your suggestions would be a great help. Manish ............................................. Deependra Srivastava Team Leader IS-IT Ph:+91 11 651 0101 extn.: 1999 Fax: +91 11 651 2653 Deependra.Srivastava at ehpt.com ------_=_NextPart_001_01C1051A.6B64A0D0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printableHi All
I have = Solaris 2.6 running over Ultra-10 machine. I have configured a modem = for dial-out. I use tip to connect to the modem and dial out. The = problem is that line gets disconnected very fast, and leaves the port = into hung state, resulting the tip session gets stuck. I am not able to = give any commands to the modem again.
The only option I have to close the = shell, but doing that also doesn't help. When again I try to connect to = the modem using tip, fails. Is there any way to fix it. Is there any = software like "Kermit" on Solaris for this kind of dial-out = activity.
Secondly I want once I am connected to = the dialed number I should be able to ping one of the machines in the = dialed network, which is also not happening. What all configuration I = have to do to make it happen.
Please respond, your suggestions would = be a great help.
Manish
.............................................
Deependra =
Srivastava
Team Leader
IS-IT
Ph:+91 11 651 0101 =
extn.: 1999
Fax: +91 11 651 =
2653
Deependra.Srivastava at ehpt.com
Hi folks.
Will Sun Gigabit Ethernet Adapter 2.0s work with Solaris 8?
Thanks.
--Les
------_=_NextPart_001_01C1058D.18E73DE0-- From rodney.simioni at citrix.com Thu Jul 5 16:06:39 2001 From: rodney.simioni at citrix.com (Rodney Simioni) Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2001 16:06:39 -0400 Subject: terminal through serial port a Message-ID:;Ingeniera de Produccin x-mozilla-cpt:;13824 fn:SegisFerrair Pons end:vcard --------------C54B0B710B602E7E0151BDB9-- From smrz44 at tsg.cbot.com Fri Jul 6 09:13:09 2001 From: smrz44 at tsg.cbot.com (Safdar Mirza) Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2001 08:13:09 -0500 (CDT) Subject: how to umount... Message-ID: <200107061313.IAA19213@ghalib.tsg.cbot.com> try following ... unshare /backup umount /backup :) > --__--__-- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2001 12:09:17 -0500 > From: Kyle Bresin
Hi folks. >
> >Will Sun Gigabit Ethernet Adapter 2.0s work with Solaris 8? >
> >Thanks. >
> >--Les >
> > > > ------_=_NextPart_001_01C1058D.18E73DE0-- > > --__--__-- > > Message: 15 > Reply-To:All,
I'm trying to get my Solaris boxes to = mail my internet mailbox 'mike.whorley at coda.com' to no = avail.
On other flavours of Unix I can mail = this address without issue.
Mail is working fine locally on the = Solaris servers but nothing is getting out to the net.
Can anyone give me some pointers as to = what I should be checking ?
Many thanks,
Mike.
__________________________________
Mike =
Whorley
Systems Administrator
CODA =
plc
Cardale Park, =
Beckwith Head Road
Harrogate, HG3 1RY, =
England
Tel +44 (0)1423 509999
Direct +44 =
(0)1423 537934
Mob +44 (0)7775 =
720259
Fax +44 (0)1423 537862
email =
mike.whorley at coda.com
web http://www.coda.com
__________________________________
Many thanks to all who replied (apart = from the idiot trying to be funny)
Most people we're in the right area = but scb1 was spot on :-
Usually, the first thing I do is to =
comment
out the smart relay entry in the /etc/mail/sendmail
file. That works most of the time.
Indeed it did !
Many thanks,
Mike.
__________________________________
Mike =
Whorley
Systems Administrator
CODA =
plc
Cardale Park, =
Beckwith Head Road
Harrogate, HG3 1RY, =
England
Tel +44 (0)1423 509999
Direct +44 =
(0)1423 537934
Mob +44 (0)7775 =
720259
Fax +44 (0)1423 537862
email =
mike.whorley at coda.com
web http://www.coda.com
__________________________________
Dear All,
My box E4500 has 2 CPU boards,
One of them has a temperature over 42 'C even its CPU has been disabled,
While the other one is enabled and its board temperature is 37 'C only.
Any idea why ?
How to check a status of the internal fan on the board ?
I will summarize.
Thank you.
Best Regards,
slamet
All,
For a database installation I need to = increase some kernel parameters by putting entries in /etc/system ie = :-
set = shmsys:shminfo_shmmax=3D268435456
On HP-UX i can use SAM to look at = current value of Kernel parameters, is there a GUI available on Solaris = for viewing / modifying kernel parameters ?
If not a command line command to show = current values would be adequate.
Regards,
Mike.
__________________________________
Mike =
Whorley
Systems Administrator
CODA =
plc
Cardale Park, =
Beckwith Head Road
Harrogate, HG3 1RY, =
England
Tel +44 (0)1423 509999
Direct +44 =
(0)1423 537934
Mob +44 (0)7775 =
720259
Fax +44 (0)1423 537862
email =
mike.whorley at coda.com
web http://www.coda.com
__________________________________