From ambarishmv at hotmail.com  Sat May  1 03:54:06 2004
From: ambarishmv at hotmail.com (ambarish mv)
Date: Sat, 01 May 2004 13:24:06 +0530
Subject: (no subject)
Message-ID: <BAY10-F11077s5929eG000007c5@hotmail.com>

Hello Guru

      in the solaris 6 server i want to allow perticular user from specified 
hosts to login by promting for password for the user . what is the procedure 
to do that . help me out.

With respectfull regards

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From fabrizio at golconda.homeunix.net  Sat May  1 06:19:46 2004
From: fabrizio at golconda.homeunix.net (rudeboy)
Date: Sat, 1 May 2004 12:19:46 +0200
Subject: SUMMARY: how to fix mtu on interface
Message-ID: <053601c42f65$d7105270$0249a8c0@diamond>

Thanks to Nicolas Dorfsman and Mike pointing me to /etc/init.d/network.
I solved putting ifconfing options into /etc/hostname.eri0.


From ambarishmv at hotmail.com  Sat May  1 06:56:52 2004
From: ambarishmv at hotmail.com (ambarish mv)
Date: Sat, 01 May 2004 16:26:52 +0530
Subject: restricting the user login
Message-ID: <BAY10-F80xnSYe4nhrK00000bf1@hotmail.com>

Hello Guru

     in the solaris 6 server i want to allow perticular user from specified 
hosts to login by promting for password for the user . what is the procedure 
to do that . help me out.

With respectfull regards

_________________________________________________________________
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http://go.msnserver.com/IN/47508.asp Only on baazee.com


From leviashcol at hotpop.com  Sat May  1 09:40:16 2004
From: leviashcol at hotpop.com (Levi Ashcol)
Date: Sat, 1 May 2004 15:40:16 +0200
Subject: Ufsrestore question
Message-ID: <!~!UENERkVCMDkAAQACAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABgAAAAAAAAAYlJh3YGCnk6HOmVQq9r9/MKAAAAQAAAAC4fGRjokIkSSCZK4B8yDTAEAAAAA@hotpop.com>

Gurus,
 I am using ufrestore to extract a certain file from a tape: 
   ufsretore -xf /dev/rmt/0cn /etc/hosts
 But the following question pops up: 

 Extract requested files
 You have not read any volumes yet.
 Unless you know which volume your file(s) are on you should start
 with the last volume and work towards the first.
 Specify next volume #: 


 Can we force ufsrestore not to ask this question ?

 Thanks

 IWS

 Levi


From jdd at cs.toronto.edu  Sun May  2 00:30:01 2004
From: jdd at cs.toronto.edu (John DiMarco)
Date: Sun, 2 May 2004 00:30:01 -0400
Subject: Sun Managers Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Message-ID: <04May2.003007edt.453135-2000@jane.cs.toronto.edu>

Archive-name: sunmanagers-faq

Sun-Managers' Frequently Asked Questions
$Id: faq,v 4.43 2004/03/18 18:31:31 jdd Exp $

This is collection of common questions posted to the sunmanagers mailing
list twice a month. It is intended to benefit Sun System Managers and
reduce traffic to the list by providing quick answers to common problems.

Keeping with the style of a similar FAQ for comp.windows.x, questions
marked with a '+' indicate questions new to this issue; those with
ignificant changes of content since the last issue are marked by '*'

The Information Files maintainer is John DiMarco <jdd at cs.toronto.edu>.  All
corrections, submissions and FAQ administration-related messages should go to
"sunmanagers-faq at sunmanagers.org".  Do not send questions, subscription or
unsubscription requests, or sunmanagers postings to this address; they will
be quietly ignored.

The List Server maintainer is Bill Bradford <mrbill at mrbill.net>. Any problems
with the mailing list server should be directed to Bill.

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                                Questions

1. The Sun-Manager's Mailing list
         1.1)    How do I read, join, post to, or remove myself from the
                  sunmanagers mailing list?
         1.2)    What is the Sun-Manager's Charter?  What are the rules? 
         1.3)    Are there any public archives for the sunmanagers list?
         1.4)    What should I keep in mind when posting to sunmanagers? 
         1.5) *  What other forums are there for Suns? 
         1.6)    Where are the answers to questions about old Suns/SunOS4?
         1.7)    What fields can I use to filter Sun Managers email?

2. Getting Help Over the Net
         2.1)    How do I find out what patches are available from Sun?
         2.2)    How do I get help upgrading to Solaris 2.x?
         2.3)    How do I access Sun's documentation over the net?
         2.4)    To which web sites can I go for help?

3. NIS, NIS+, DNS, and NFS
         3.1)    How do I use DNS for hostname resolution?
         3.2)    How do I change NIS+ credentials for the root master server?
         3.3)    When I compile something, errors occur saying _dlopen
                  and other _dl routines can't be found. Why? 

4. Window Systems
         4.1)    Why does my OpenWindows File Manager abort with a
                 "mknod: permission denied"? 

5. Disks, Tapes and SCSI
         5.1)    What is the format.dat entry for drive X?
         5.2)    Can I replace the internal drive in a desktop Sun with a 
                 higher capacity model?
         5.3)    Is it okay to disconnect or connect SCSI devices while 
                  powered on? 
         5.4)    How do I configure my sun to use Exabyte 4mm DAT tape drives?
         5.5)    Why is tagged queueing a problem on my third-party disk?
         5.6)    Why don't third-party CD-ROMS work on my sun?
         5.7)    What size and density parameters should I use for ufsdump 
                 with a high-capacity tape drive?
         5.8)    My floppy/cdrom device says "device busy".  What do I do? 
         5.9)    What software is available for CD-R/CD-RW?
         5.10)   Where is my disk space? The "du" and "df" commands disagree.
         5.11) * How do I use an EIDE/ATA disk larger than 8GB?

6. Resource Management and Performance Tuning
         6.1)    How do I tell what caused my machine to crash?
         6.2)    What can I do if my machine slows to a crawl or just hangs?
         6.3)    How do I find out how much physical memory a machine has? 
         6.4)    How do I find out what my machine's memory is being used for? 
                  How can I tell if I need more memory? 
         6.5)    Why do some files take up more disk space after being copied?
                  Why are the sizes reported by ls -l and du different?
         6.6)    How do I add more PTYs? 
             
7. Anonymous FTP Service
         7.1)    How do I set up anonymous ftp on my machine?
         7.2)    Where can I get a version of ftp that does logging?

8. Consoles, Keyboards and Key Remapping
         8.1)    How do I make the numeric keypad on a type 5 keyboard 
                  work with xterm?
         8.2)    How do I swap the CAPS LOCK and CONTROL keys on a type 
                  5 keyboard under Openwindows 3.x?
         8.3)    How do I use a Windows PC for a Sun serial console?

9. Sun models and OS Versions
         9.1)    Which Sun models run which version of SunOS? 
         9.2)    How can my program tell what model Sun it is running on? 
         9.3)    What MBUS CPU modules are available? How can I tell
                  what module(s) is/are in what model of SS10/SS20/SS600?
         9.4)    Which versions of SunOS/Solaris are Y2000 compliant?  Are
                  there patches for older versions of SunOS/Solaris?
         9.5)    What is the Y2000 compliance status of Sun hardware?
         9.6)    How do I find out a Sun's boot prom revision?
	 9.7)    Which hardware/software is capable of 64-bit? Which
	          is only 64-bit? How can I tell which is running?

10. Miscellaneous Software
Subject: 10.1)   My remote ufsdump is failing with a "Protocol botched" 
                 message. What do I do?
         10.2)   Where can I get a C compiler for Solaris 2.x?
         10.3)   How do I read Microsoft Word documents on my Sun?
	 10.4)   How do I restore to a different location the contents of a 
	 	 tarfile created with absolute pathnames?

11. Miscellaneous Hardware
         11.1)   How come my mouse occasionally doesn't work?
         11.2)   How can I turn my old sun into an X-Terminal?
         11.3)   How can I use a VGA monitor on my Sun?
         11.4)   Where can I find alternate pointing devices for my Sun?
         11.5)   What should I do about my Ultra-1's CPU cooling fan?

12. Networking
         12.1)   Why do both my net interfaces have the same ethernet address?
         12.2)   How can I know the hardware vendor from an ethernet address?
         12.3)   How do I set my hme interface to e.g. 100Mb full duplex?
         12.4)   How do I find out what process is using a particular port?
         12.5)   I have a lot of ports in WAIT states.  Why?

13. Electronic Mail
         13.1)   Where can I get a POP or IMAP server for my sun? 

14. Printing
         14.1)   Is there a third-party source for SPARCprinter consumables? 
         14.2)   How do I configure a non-postscript printer for postscript?

15. Misc System Administration 
         15.1)   I've forgotten the root password; how can I recover? 
         15.2)   How do I disable/remap STOP-A/L1-A?

                                Answers

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1. The Sun-Manager's Mailing list
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Subject: 1.1)     How do I read, join, post to, or remove myself from the
                  sunmanagers mailing list?

  Point your web browser to http://www.sunmanagers.org

  Persons without web access should send a mail message to 
  "sunmanagers-request at sunmanagers.org" containing the single word "help".

  Messages can be posted to the list by mailing them to the address
  "sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org".  Do not do this until you have read the
  charter/policy (question 1.2) and the "how to post" document at 
  http://www.sunmanagers.org.

  The policy and the "how to post" document is sent to the entire list twice
  a month. It is also sent out to every new subscriber and is available at
  http://www.sunmanagers.org. 

  The latest version of the FAQ (this file) is available at
  http://www.sunmanagers.org

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Subject: 1.2)     What is the Sun-Manager's Charter?  What are the rules? 

  1:  This list is NOT moderated!  Every message that is sent to the list
      will be passed on to every member of the list.

  2:  Requests to have addresses added or removed from the list should NOT
      be sent to the entire list.  Instead, addresses should be added
      or removed via the web page at http://www.sunmanagers.org
      Similarly, test messages of any sort should not be sent to the list.

  3:  This list is intended to be a quick-turnaround trouble shooting aid
      for those who administer and manage Sun systems.  Its primary purpose
      is to provide the Sun manager with a quick source of information for
      system management problems that are of a time-critical nature.

  4:  All responses are to be mailed back to the questioner and are NOT to be
      sent to the entire list.  Any response to a list message sent to the
      list, rather than to the person asking the question, will be deleted
      without notice.  The person who originally asked the question has the
      responsibility of summarizing the answers and sending the entire
      summary back to the list.  When a summary is sent back to the list,
      the word "SUMMARY" should be the first word of the "Subject" line.

  5:  Discussions on ANY topic are not allowed and will not be tolerated.
      If you want to discuss something, take it to the appropriate Sun
      newsgroup. 

  6:  If it is not specifically related to Sun system management, then it
      does NOT belong on this list.  Requests for vendor recommendations
      are tolerated, provided that the hardware in question is something that
      system managers normally purchase.

  7:  Commercial Advertising of any sort on the list is strictly prohibited.

  8:  Postings about employment, either employment sought or offered, are not
      permitted on this list.  Please use a more appropriate forum, e.g. one
      of the newsgroups in the misc.jobs USENET hierarchy.

  9:  Requests for software (free or otherwise) should be limited to
      software that is directly related to Sun SYSTEM MANAGEMENT ONLY.

  10: Read the appropriate manuals BEFORE posting, including the "Read
      This First" documents.  Oftentimes the manuals contain answers for
      common problems.

  11: When including a traceback from a system panic, make sure that it is
      a symbolic traceback.  Numeric tracebacks (the ones included as part
      of the panic message) are not helpful; don't bother sending them to
      the list.

  12: A posting to sunmanagers is not a general invitation to email the
      poster -- if you wish to send email to a sunmanagers poster, the email
      you send should be related to the posting, else it will be unsolicited
      email and may be treated like any other unsolicited email (e.g. spam).
      Sunmanagers is not to be used to collect email addresses of people who
      manage Sun systems.  Those who do this not only violate the list's
      policy, but risk seriously offending the very people they are
      attempting to reach.

  13: PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE...Think before you send a message!  Ask yourself
      "is this really appropriate?"  There are enough other newsgroups and
      mailing lists around to cover the marginal topics.  Perhaps there is
      another forum that is more appropriate?  Check the list of Sun specific
      newsgroups included in the FAQ.  Perhaps your message would be more
      appropriate there?  Remember that Sunmanagers is very public:  we have
      thousands of subscribers, all postings are archived for posterity on
      various archive sites, and these sites are in turn searchable via
      various web engines.  Submitting a posting is irreversible -- once
      it goes out, it cannot be taken back!

  Failure to adhere to these guidelines may result in severe chastisement by
  the list participants.  Not only will you succeed in looking like a careless
  fool, and in making Sun Systems Managers all over the world annoyed at your
  incompetence, you may end up damaging your professional reputation.

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Subject: 1.3)     Are there any public archives for the sunmanagers list?

  Sunmanagers' official archive is accessible at http://www.sunmanagers.org
  All postings are automatically archived.  It is our policy not to
  accommodate requests to modify the archives, so if you are uncomfortable
  with your submissions in their entirety being public, do not submit them.

  Also, various members also keep their own archives on their own
  initiative.  Some of these are public.  Here are some we know about:

  http://aa11.cjb.net/sun_managers/index.htm

  Hank Leininger <hlein at progressive-comp.com> maintains a searchable archive
  site of messages (both questions and summaries) in Florida.
  It can be accessed at: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=sun-managers 

  Dataman Benelux in the Netherlands hosts a "fuzzy" full-text index of 
  the Sun Managers mailing list at: http://www.dataman.nl/cgi-bin/sunmanagers

  Manfred Liebchen <liebchen at rrz.Uni-Koeln.DE> maintains an
  archive site in Germany.  It can be accessed at:
  http://www.uni-koeln.de/RRZK/Abt-Systeme/sun/infos/SUN-MANAGERS/sunman.html

  Older summaries (up to mid-1999) are available at 
  http://www.latech.edu/sunman.html

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Subject: 1.4)     What should I keep in mind when posting to sunmanagers?

  o VERY IMPORTANT! Before you post, read the sunmanager's list policy, 
    which is available at http://www.sunmanagers.org

  o Sun Managers is a huge unmoderated mailing list. Every message you send
    will be passed on to every member of the list.  This means you have access
    to a much larger audience when you need help, but it also means you can
    embarrass yourself in front of a huge number of people, most of them
    professionals in your field, including colleagues, peers, and possible
    future employers.  Further, your posting will be archived in various
    places, some public, some private -- we have no way of knowing all the
    archive locations.  Some of these archives, including the official one at
    http://www.sunmanagers.org, are web-searchable.  It is our policy not to
    accommodate requests to remove or modify postings as archived on
    http://www.sunmanagers.org. Once you submit your message, it will be
    irretrievably accessible to a large number of people.  There is no
    "taking it back".

  o Sun Managers is completely voluntary.  Nobody is required to help you. 
    We are all cooperating by sharing our knowledge.  Accept with grace
    whatever responses you get, and don't hound people if they are helpful or
    they won't be the next time.

  o Sun Managers is not the list to use when you run out of other places to
    post.  Job postings, PC questions, X questions all have their own lists
    and newsgroups.  Use only the appropriate list or newsgroup for such
    things, not Sun Managers.  Inappropriate postings will only make people
    annoyed at you.

  o The more information you give about a problem, the easier it is for
    others to help you.  This doesn't mean you should uuencode the kernel and
    post it, but you should include your OS version, your hardware, and all
    relevant symptoms of your problem. Unless the request is of a general
    nature, the output of "uname -a" is almost certainly helpful.

  o When making a summary, please summarize as much as possible all the
    answers you received, even the ones you didn't decide to follow: if
    you receive several different suggestions, and decided on one,
    remember that somebody else reading the summary may not find the
    suggestion you followed to be the best one in his or her situation,
    and may benefit from one of the suggestions you didn't choose.

  o Be generous. If you have the information requested (especially if it is
    obscure) then please respond.  You may be the person requesting help
    next time. 

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Subject: 1.5) *   What other forums are there for Suns? 

  Other forums that relate to Suns:
  
  USENET Newsgroups (accessible via "rn", "readnews", "nn", netscape, etc.):
  
  There is entire USENET heirarchy devoted to Sun equipment. Some of these groups
  include:
  
        comp.sys.sun.admin      Sun system administration
        comp.sys.sun.announce   Announcements pertaining to Sun equipment
        comp.sys.sun.apps       Applications that run on Suns
        comp.sys.sun.hardware   Sun hardware (and clones too, I think)
        comp.sys.sun.misc       Miscellaneous
        comp.sys.sun.wanted     Sun stuff to buy or sell
  
  Other newsgroups that may also be of interest:
  
        comp.unix.solaris       Solaris 2.x on all platforms
        alt.sys.sun             may not be available everywhere
        comp.sys.sun            newsgroup equivalent of sun-spots
        comp.sources.sun        Sun-specific sources (not very active)
  
  Mailing lists:

      Sun Flash (Sun Product Announcements/news releases)
        sunflash-request at sunvice.East.Sun.COM           add/remove requests

      SunHelp (Discussion/help/chat about Sun machines and Software)
	http://www.sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/sunhelp

      Rescue (Rescuing old Sun equipment from the dump)
	http://www.sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/rescue

      Sunergy (Sun Commercial Newsletter) 
        sunergy_information at Sun.COM                     add/remove requests

      Suns-at-home (Home use of Sun Workstations)
        Suns-at-Home-Request at net-kitchen.com            add/remove requests
        Suns-at-Home at net-kitchen.com                    submissions
        Suns-at-Home-Archives at net-kitchen.com           archive requests

      ssa-managers (Sun RAID software and hardware products)
        majordomo at eng.auburn.edu                        add/remove requests
        (e.g. send "subscribe ssa-managers" in message body)

      veritas-users (Veritas products)
        http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo

      CIAC notes (US. DOE Computer Incident Advisory Capability) 
        ciac-listproc at llnl.gov                          add/remove requests
        listmanager at cheetah.llnl.gov                    human list manager

      CERT Advisory mailing list (security notifications for Suns and others)
        cert-advisory-request at cert.org                  add/remove requests

      Solaris on Intel-based (x86) machines
	http://groups.yahoo.com/group/solarisx86/
	Old list archives at:
        http://www.egroups.com/list/solarisonintel/
  
      Auspex:  managers of Auspex NFS file servers
        auspex-request at princeton.edu                    add/remove requests
        auspex at princeton.edu                            submissions
  
      Solbourne: managers of Solbourne SPARC systems
        "info-solbourne" list
        majordomo at acsu.buffalo.edu                      add/remove requests
        info-solbourne at acsu.buffalo.edu                 submissions
        ftp://ftp.acsu.buffalo.edu/pub/misc/info-solbourne.tar.z archives

      disksuite-l: for users who use Sun's Solstice Disksuite software
        majordomo at lists.veritel.com.br                  add/remove requests
        sysadm at veritel.com.br                           list owner

      Linuxmanagers: for users of Linux, including Sun Linux.
	http://www.linuxmanagers.org

  NOTE:  if you wish to be added to one of the above mailing lists,
  send mail to the REQUEST address!  Do not send add requests to the
  main address!

  For Web pages, see the answer to question 2.4.
  
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Subject: 1.6)     Where are the answers to questions about old Suns/SunOS4?

  Those questions and answers used to be in this FAQ, but since they're no
  longer frequently asked, they've been moved to a different file, available
  at ftp://ftp.cs.toronto.edu/pub/jdd/sunmanagers/faq-old

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Subject: 1.7)     What fields can I use to filter Sun Managers email?

  The following headers will exist in any mail to the list:

  To: sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org
  List-Help: <mailto:sunmanagers-request at sunmanagers.org?subject=help>
  List-Post: <mailto:sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org>
  List-Subscribe: 
  <http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers>,
          <mailto:sunmanagers-request at sunmanagers.org?subject=subscribe>
  List-Id: The Sun Managers Mailing List <sunmanagers.sunmanagers.org>
  List-Unsubscribe: 
  <http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers>,
          
  <mailto:sunmanagers-request at sunmanagers.org?subject=unsubscribe>
  List-Archive: <http://www.sunmanagers.org/pipermail/sunmanagers/>

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2. Getting Help Over the Net
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Subject: 2.1)     How do I find out what patches are available from Sun?

  If you have a software service agreement with Sun, you can use Sun's
  "SunSolve ONLINE" service to obtain patches. Check your service
  agreement for details.

  Sun recommended patches can be obtained from sun via anonymous ftp to
  sunsolve1.sun.com. 

  Many anonymous ftp sites have partial collections of patches. The archie
  service can be consulted. 

  WARNING: if you ftp patches from an ftp site, you are trusting whomever
           put them there. To be absolutely safe, get your patches from a
           trusted source.

  Rik Harris <rik.harris at vifp.monash.edu.au> maintains a WAIS archive
  (sun-fixes.src) of most available patch READMEs. 

  The Sun User Group (SUG) CD ROM also has a collection of Sun patches.

  There is a special patch tape (U1) available from sun for Sun3's running
  SunOS 4.1.1 which fixes many of the bugs that were fixed for Sparcs in 
  later releases. Note that sun3's don't run anything later than 4.1.1.

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Subject: 2.2)     How do I get help upgrading to Solaris 2.x?

  Start by reading the Solaris FAQ, maintained and posted periodically to
  comp.unix.solaris by Casper Dik <casper at fwi.uva.nl>. It can be obtained
  by anonymous ftp to ftp.fwi.uva.nl, in /pub/solaris. An HTML version
  can be obtained at ftp://ftp.fwi.uva.nl/pub/solaris/solaris2.html.
  Then go to the Solaris Security FAQ, maintained by John Pancharian and
  hosted by IT World at http://www.itworld.com/Comp/2377/security-faq/

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Subject: 2.3)     How do I access Sun's documentation over the net?

  Sun has a web site devoted to documentation, at http://docs.sun.com

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Subject: 2.4)     To which web sites can I go for help?

  This is not a complete list, but:

  First, see the answer to question 2.2.

  Sun's documentation is available at http://docs.sun.com
  You can search the Sun newsgroups at http://www.dejanews.com
  Sun-Managers Archives are described in the answer to question 1.3 above.

  Some sites suggested by Jeffrey Meltzer <meltzer at villagenet.com> are:

        SolarisGuide    http://www.solarisguide.com
        ISP-Solaris     http://www.isp-solaris.com
        SunHelp         http://www.sunhelp.org
        SolarisCentral  http://www.solariscentral.org
        SunGuru         http://www.sunguru.com
        SunFreeware     http://www.sunfreeware.com

  Gil Young <gjy at hobbes.crc.comm> runs a Solaris Forum at Brainbuzz:

        http://networking.brainbuzz.com/boards/viewboardmessages.asp,b~S2B43

  Hisham Al Saad" <ahisham at batelco.com.bh> recommends a Solaris-Specific
  search engine at http://www.searchSolaris.com

  Eric De Mund <ead at ixian.com> suggests the BigAdmin site run by Sun,
  at http://www.sun.com/bigadmin, and Celete Stokeley's site at
  http://www.stokely.com/unix.sysadm.resources

  Alan Pae <paedalbu at yahoo.com> suggests Sun Country, at
  http://alanpae.tripod.com, which is mirrored at
  http://resources.solaris-x86.org

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3. NIS, NIS+, DNS, and NFS
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Subject: 3.1)     How do I use DNS for hostname resolution?

  In Solaris 2.x, this is easy: simply edit /etc/nsswitch.conf
  and put "dns" before (or instead of) nis or nisplus on the line that begins
  with "hosts:".  For example, to look up hostnames first in the host
  file and then in the DNS, use "hosts: files dns"

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Subject: 3.2)     How do I change NIS+ credentials for the root master server?

  If an NIS+ system is functioning correctly and only the root password
  and root private keys for the system need to be changed, follow
  these steps:

  1) Login as root for the system and change the root password in the 
     /etc/shadow file:

        {root}3% passwd
        passwd:  Changing password for root
        New password:
        Re-enter new password:
        {root}4%

  2) Change the system's private key in the cred table:

        {root}4% chkey -p
        Updating nisplus publickey database.
        Reencrypting key for 'unix.ramayan at bharat.i n'.
        Please enter the Secure-RPC password for root:  <enter old passwd>
        Please enter the login password for root:       <enter new passwd>
        {root}5%

  3) If running replica server(s) then wait until the changes to the credential
     object table has been propagated to its replicas. This could be up
     to 2 minutes.

  4) Change the system's /etc/.rootkey: 

        {root}5% keylogin -r
        Password:                               <enter new passwd>
        Wrote secret key into /etc/.rootkey
        {root}6%

  The procedure above will work for any system -- root server, 
  root replica, non-root servers, and all clients.  The steps above 
  change only the system's root password and private keys, not the
  public keys for the system.

  Thanks to Ronald W. Henderson <rwh at atmos.albany.edu>.

  However, if you want to change all the root credentials, including the
  public key, follow these steps:

  Use the passwd command on the root master server to change the root
  password. But DO NOT follow this with a chkey -p to update the credentials
  for the root master server, because this will disable the entire NIS+ 
  domain. The only way to recover from this is to rebuild the domain from 
  scratch!

  It is possible to change the credentials of the root master server, but
  it is not easy. The procedure follows:

  To change the keys for the root master server do as follows:
  
  1. use these commands in this order:
  
         nisupdkeys -CH master.server.name. groups_dir.domain.name.
         nisupdkeys -CH master.server.name. org_dir.domain.name.
         nisupdkeys -CH master.server.name. domain.name.
  
         (This CLEARS the public key for the HOST "master.server.name" in this
  directory.)
  
  2. Kill rpc.nisd and restart it at security level O then run this command:
  
         nistbladm -R cname=master.server.name. cred.org_dir.domain.name.
         nisaddcred des
  
         <This deletes the old credential and creates a new one.>
  
  3. Shutdown and restart any replicas of org_dir.domain.name. at run level O
  
         nisping org_dir.domain.name.
  
  <This propogates the new key pair to the replicas.>
  
         nisdupdkeys domain.name.
         nisupddkeys org_dir.domain.name.
         nisupdkeys groups_dir.domain.name.
  
         <This puts the new credential in the effected directory objects.>
  
  4. Kill and restart all rpc.nisd servers at level O to security level 2.
  
  Note that changing a server's key affects all directory objects containing
  the key.

  Thanks to Rogerio Rocha <rogerio at bvl.pt> and Sun INFODOC ID 2213 for this 
  information. 

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Subject: 3.3)     When I compile something, errors occur saying _dlopen
                  and other _dl routines can't be found. Why? 

  You are probably trying to compile something statically. You must either
  include stub routines for the _dl routines, or you must link the C library
  (or -ldl) dynamically.  The source code below provides do-nothing stubs
  for the routines in question.

        /* libdl stubs -- John DiMarco <jdd at cs.toronto.edu> */
        char *dgettext(domainname, msgid)
        char *domainname;
        char *msgid;
        { return(msgid); }
         
        void *dlopen(pathname, mode)
        char *pathname;
        int mode;
        { return((void *)NULL); }
         
        void *dlsym(handle, name)
        void *handle;
        char *name;
        { return((void *)NULL); }
         
        char *dlerror()
        { return(NULL); }

        int dlclose(handle)
        void *handle;
        { return(0); }


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4. Window Systems
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Subject: 4.1)    Why does my OpenWindows File Manager abort with a
                 "mknod: permission denied"? 

  Under Solaris 2.3, the first time filemgr is launched, it created a
  /tmp/.removable directory owned by the user who launched it.  If a
  different user later starts up filemgr, it will try to create
  /tmp/.removable, but that directory will already exist from the last time, 
  owned by the previous user, so the attempt will fail.  Fix by installing
  patch 101514-02.

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5. Disks, Tapes and SCSI
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Subject: 5.1)     What is the format.dat entry for drive X?

  The answer can vary according to what OS you are running, the
  architecture of your machine or the type of SCSI/SMD/IPI controller you
  are using.  Opinions also vary on how to format once you have all the
  information you need.  If you are buying a Sun supported drive, you will
  likely find an entry for it in "/etc/format.dat".  On third party
  drives, you should inquire with the vendor you bought it from.  If you
  are on your own, contact the manufacturer, or try to get hold of the
  manufacturer's OEM manual for your drive model.  You might be able to
  derive enough information from the manual to make up your own entry.

  Most drive manufacturers provide drive specifications from their web
  sites.  Try these:

        http://www.seagate.com  (Seagate, Connor, Imprimis, CDC)
        http://www.fujitsu.com/products/support.html    (Fujitsu)
        http://www.maxtor.com  (Maxtor, Quantum, Micropolis)
        http://www.samsungelectronics.com  (Samsung)
        http://www.storage.ibm.com (IBM)
        http://www.westerndigital.com (Western Digital)

  It is also possible to contact drive manufacturers by telephone.
  Some relevant numbers:

    Fujitsu USA     800-626-4686
                    408-432-1300
    Fujitsu FAXLINE 408-428-0456
    Fujitsu Canada  416-602-5454
                    800-263-7091
    Maxtor USA      800-2MA-XTOR
    Maxtor FAXBACK  303-678-2618 
    Seagate USA     800-468-3472
                    405-936-1200
    Seagate FAX     408-438-8137
    Seagate FAXBACK 408-438-2620

  A format.dat file containing entries submitted by various people is
  available for anonymous ftp at 
        ftp://ftp.cs.toronto.edu/pub/jdd/sunmanagers/format.dat
  It is currently maintained by John DiMarco (jdd at cs.toronto.edu). New
  entries are welcome; mail them to sunmanagers-format at sunmanagers.org

  Note: do not post a format.dat request to the list or to the
  comp.sys.sun.admin newsgroup unless you have exhausted all these avenues.

  For SCSI disks on modern suns, a format.dat entry can be auto-generated
  using John DiMarco's scsiinfo program, available at
  ftp://ftp.cs.toronto.edu/pub/jdd/scsiinfo/. It will query the disk directly,
  and generate an appropriate format.dat entry 

  Tips for rolling your own format.dat:

  - For SCSI disks, any combination of cylinders, heads, and sectors that
  does not add up to more than the rated formatted capacity of the drive
  will normally work. A grossly different geometry may result in some
  slight performance degradation, but it should still work. The SCSI protocol
  hides most of the drive details from the host, and hence the host need not 
  know much about the drive to format or use it.

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Subject: 5.2)     Can I replace the internal drive in a desktop Sun with a 
                  higher capacity model?
 
  Yes, so long as the drive does not pull more power and/or require more heat
  than the drive for which the machine was designed.  For a SPARCstation 1,
  1+, or 2, do not use a disk dissipating more than 10W.  For a later
  SPARCstation, do not use a disk dissipating more than 11W.  Most 5400rpm
  drives should be alright; 7200rpm drives or faster, particularly early
  7200rpm drives, are likely to be too hot.
 
  For systems which support two drives, if only one drive is installed, it
  should be possible to relax this constraint somewhat.

  For desktop suns with EIDE drives running Solaris 2.6 or earlier, the
  operating system supports only the first 8GB of an EIDE drive; see question
  5.11 for more details.

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Subject: 5.3)     Is it okay to disconnect or connect SCSI devices while
powered on?

  On older machines (without onboard SCSI controllers), it is never a good
  idea to do this. You risk blowing a fuse on the CPU board, or part of
  the SCSI hardware. On newer machines (sparcstations and later), many
  people have done this regularly without problems. Halt the machine
  (sync;L1-A), remove or add the device, then continue. However, it is
  possible to blow the SCSI termination power fuse on the motherboard. If
  your machine hangs immediately on powerup unless the SCSI bus is
  externally terminated, this fuse may need to be replaced.  Caveat Emptor.

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Subject: 5.4)     How do I configure my sun to use Exabyte 4mm DAT tape drives?

  Add the following to /kernel/drv/st.conf:

    tape-config-list = 
      "EXABYTE EXB-4200", "Exabyte 4mm EXB-4200", "EXBT-4200",
      "EXABYTE EXB-4200c", "Exabyte 4mm EXB-4200c", "EXBT-4200c"

    EXBT-4200 = 1,0x34,1024,0x0029,4,0x63,0,0,0,3; 
    EXBT-4200c = 1,0x34,1024,0x0029,4,0x63,0,0x13,0,3; 

  Exabyte also recommends that their 4mm tape drives have firmware revision 
  levels of at least the following when used on suns: 

  EXB-4200     No restriction, but revision 148 or higher is recommended
  EXB-4200c    Level 149 minimum (mode select for compression)

  Thanks to Dave Hightower <hightowr at afwc.af.mil>.

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Subject: 5.5)    Why is tagged queueing a problem on my third-party disk?

  Tagged Command Queueing (TCQ) is an optional part of the SCSI-2
  specification.  It permits a drive to accept multiple I/O requests for
  execution later.  These requests are "tagged" by a reusable id so that the
  drive and the OS can keep track of them.  The drive can reorder these
  requests to optimize seeks.  For more details, see the SCSI-2
  specifications.  A draft version is available at
  ftp://ftp.cs.toronto.edu/pub/jdd/scsi-doc/scsi2.10b.gz

  SunOS 4.x and earlier never uses tagged queueing.  However, Solaris 2.x
  will make use of tagged queuing if the drive claims to support it.
  Unfortunately, some drive manufacturers have found it hard to design their
  drives to do tagged queueing properly, and this particular area has been a
  common source of bugs in drive firmware.

  If it is not possible to turn off tagged queueing in the drive that is
  causing the problem, Solaris 2.x can be told not to use tagged queueing
  at all, by putting the following line in /etc/system:

        set scsi_options & ~0x80 

  The "scsi_options" kernel variable contains a number of bit flags which
  are defined in /usr/include/sys/scsi/conf/autoconf.h.  0x80 corresponds
  to tagged queueing.

  However, this turns off tagged queueing for the entire machine, not just
  the problematic drive.  Because tagged queueing can provide a significant
  performance enhancement for busy drives, this may not always be desirable.
  In Solaris 2.4 and later, it is possible to disable tagged queueing and set
  or clear other scsi options on a per-controller or per-drive basis.  The
  appropriate technique is described in the esp(7) and isp(7) man pages.

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Subject: 5.6)    Why don't third-party CD-ROMS work on my sun?

  When Sun first decided to add CD-ROM support, there were already a great
  number of systems in the field, all of which contained boot proms that
  expected to boot from disks with 512 byte sectors. Sun had to decide
  between replacing a whole lot of boot proms or finding a way to make a
  CDROM act like a disk with 512 byte sectors in order to support it as a
  boot device.  They chose the latter approach.

  Many third party CD-ROM drives use 1024 or 2048-byte sectors, which causes
  the SCSI driver to see a "data overrun".  When the driver asks for N
  "blocks" (which it thinks are 512 bytes each ) it gets more data back than
  it expected.

  Some CD-ROM drives can be told to use 512 byte sectors by setting a jumper,
  cutting a trace, or using a software command (mode select).  Details vary
  widely, but if you are seeing a data overrun on a third party CD-ROM, then
  it is most likely doing 1K or 2K transfers and will need some work to be a
  boot device for a Sun.

  Thanks to Kevin Sheehan <Kevin.Sheehan at uniq.com.au> 

  For more information about third-party CD-ROMS on Suns, consult the
  CD-ROM FAQ, maintained by Mike Frisch <mfrisch at saturn.tlug.org> and
  Martin Hargreaves <martin at datamodl.demon.co.uk>.  It can be found on the 
  World Wide Web at "http://saturn.tlug.org/suncdfaq".  A UK mirror is 
  available at "http://www.datamodl.demon.co.uk/suncd/". 

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Subject: 5.7)    What size and density parameters should I use for ufsdump 
                 with a high-capacity tape drive?

  The only purpose of the ufsdump size and density parameters is to let dump
  calculate the capacity of each tape and then decide for itself when it
  needs a new tape.  If the filesystem you are dumping is larger than the
  tape, you will need to use more than one tape.  But ufsdump can detect the
  end of media for all modern tape drives, and will automatically prompt for
  new tapes when needed, so as long as the size and density parameters
  indicate a tape as long as or longer than the one you're using, ufsdump
  will behave properly.

  Thanks to Niall O Broin <nobroin at esoc.esa.de>

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Subject: 5.8)    My floppy/cdrom device says "device busy".  What do I do? 

  The Volume Manager (vold) is probably holding the device open.  You can
  access a floppy through the volume manager by typing "volcheck" and looking
  in /floppy/*.  CD-ROMs don't require volcheck; just insert one and the
  volume manager should automatically notice, and mount it under /cdrom/*.
  Unmount by typing "eject floppy" or "eject cdrom", respectively.  The
  Volume Manager can be configured by editing /etc/vold.conf.

  If you need to access a floppy or CD-ROM special device, however, you may
  need to turn off the volume manager.  As root, type "/etc/init.d/volmgt
  stop".  To turn it back on, type "/etc/init.d/volmgt start".

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Subject: 5.9)    What software is available for CD-R/CD-RW?

   Commercial Software:

   GEAR by Elektoson 
        - http://www.elektroson.com/
   Young Minds 
        - http://www.ymi.com/
        - High-end integrated hardware/software solution
   Creative Digital Research 
        - http://www.cdr1.com/

   Joerg Schilling has developed an excellent cd recording package
   called cdrecord.  This package should meet most needs.  See
        http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone
                /employees/joerg.schilling/private/cdrecord.html
   for much more information, including supported hardware.  

   Andy McFadden has an excellent CD-Recordable FAQ at:
           http://www.cdrfaq.org

   Thanks to Mark Belanger <mjb at ltx.com>

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Subject: 5.10)   Where is my disk space? The "du" and "df" commands disagree.

   If a process is holding open a file, and that file is removed, the space
   belonging to the file is not freed until the process either exits or
   closes the file.  This space is counted by "df" but not by "du".  This
   often happens in /var/log or /var/adm when a long-running process (e.g.
   syslog) is holding open a file.  In the case of syslog, send it a HUP
   (e.g.  kill -HUP <syslog's process ID>).

   You can use LSOF (ftp://ftp.cerias.purdue.edu/pub/tools/unix/sysutils/lsof) 
   to find which processes are holding open a particular file.
 
   Thanks to Stefan Voss <s.voss at terradata.de> and 
        Michael R. Zika <zika at oconto.tamu.edu>

   Under Solaris 2.6 and later, files which have been unlinked can
   still be accessed through the /proc interface.  If a process is
   holding open such a file for writing, but it's inconvenient or
   impractical to kill the process or get it to close the file, you can
   free up the disk space by truncating (not removing) the file from
   under /proc; e.g.,

	# cd /proc/1234/fd
	# ls -l
	c---------   1 root      24,  12 Jan  1 11:33 0
	c---------   1 root      24,  12 Jan  1 11:33 1
	c---------   1 root      24,  12 Jan  1 11:33 2
	--w-------   1 root    314159265 Jan  1 11:37 3
	# : > 3
	# ls -l
	c---------   1 root      24,  12 Jan  1 11:33 0
	c---------   1 root      24,  12 Jan  1 11:33 1
	c---------   1 root      24,  12 Jan  1 11:33 2
	--w-------   1 root            0 Jan  1 11:38 3

   Thanks to Dan Astoorian <djast at cs.toronto.edu>

   Brian Poole <raj at cerias.purdue.edu> writes:

	   Another possible cause of df & du disagreeing is if the files are
	   being 'hidden' under a mount.  I ran into this recently where I
	   had a large number of files in /tmp (from adding patches in single
	   user mode) that were on the root partition.  Thus when I was
	   looking for them in multiuser mode, I couldn't find them because
	   of the tmpfs overlay. I exported the root partition via NFS and
	   upon mounting it found the hidden files and deleted them.

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Subject: 5.11) * How do I use an EIDE/ATA disk larger than 8GB?

  Versions of Solaris earlier than Solaris 7 don't support EIDE drives larger
  than 8GB -- if you try to use one, only the first 8GB will be accessible.

  Sun patch 110202 fixes this problem, and is available from SunSolve,
  thanks to Andrews Tarallo <andres at chasque.net>

  If you are using a larger EIDE drive in this way (with only the first 8GB
  accessible), are upgrading to Solaris 7 or later, and want to use the
  full disk, first, back up any data that's on it (this procedure will 
  effectively erase the disk), then zero the disk label: e.g. if your
  disk is c0t1d0, zero the disk label by:
     dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rdsk/c0t1d0s2 bs=1b count=16
  and reboot.  Solaris 7 or later will then recognize the full disk. 
  Thanks to Michael DeSimone <michael at desimone.net> for this suggestion.

  There are some third-party patches to Solaris 2.5.1 and 2.6 to add support
  for disks larger than 8GB, at ftp://ftp.tadpolecycle.com/pub/bigdisks/
  Thanks to Christian Iseli <chris at ludwig-alpha.unil.ch> for the pointer.


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6. Resource Management and Performance Tuning
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Subject: 6.1)    How do I tell what caused my machine to crash?

  The crash messages will usually be displayed on the console, and are
  usually logged to /var/adm/messages via syslog as well after a warm
  reboot.  In older versions of Solaris, the "dmesg" command may also
  show crash messages.  If your system repeatedly crashes with similar
  looking errors, try searching through the patch list on the Sun
  patch database for a description that matches your machine.

  In versions of Solaris 2 up to and including Solaris 2.6, uncomment
  the "savecore" line in the file /etc/init.d/sysetup to enable crash
  dumps.  As of Solaris 7 and later, crash dumps are enabled by
  default; see the manual page for dumpadm(1M) for information on how
  to customize system dump configuration.

  To report a crash dump, you need  a symbolic traceback for it to be
  useful to the person looking at it. Type the following:
	cd /var/crash/`hostname`
	echo '$c' | adb -k unix.0 vmcore.0

  The "crash" utility can be useful for analyzing crash dumps for
  Solaris up to and including Solaris 8.  "Crash" has been superseded
  by "mdb" (modular debugger) as of Solaris 8.

  Thanks to Dan Astoorian <djast at cs.toronto.edu>

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Subject: 6.2)    What can I do if my machine slows to a crawl or just hangs?

  Try running "ps" to look for large numbers of the duplicate programs or
  processes with a huge size field. Some system daemons occasionally can
  get into a state where they fork repeatedly and eventually swamp the
  system. Killing off the child processes doesn't do any good, so you have
  to find the "master" process. It will usually have the lowest pid.

  Another useful approach is to run vmstat to pin down what resource(s)
  your machine is running out of. You can tell vmstat to give ongoing
  reports by specifying a report interval as its first argument.

  The programs "top" and "sps" are good for finding processes that are
  loading your system. "Top" will give you the processes that are consuming
  the most cpu time. "Sps" is a better version of "ps" that runs much faster
  and displays processes in an intuitive manner. Top is available at
  ftp://ftp.groupsys.com/pub/top/.  Sps is available at
  ftp://ftp.csv.warwick.ac.uk/pub/solaris2/sps-sol2.tar.gz.

  Doug Hughes <Doug.Hughes at Eng.Auburn.EDU> has written a
  small, quick PS workalike called "qps", available from his web page at
  http://www.eng.auburn.edu/users/doug/second.html

  Sometimes you run out of memory and you won't be able to run enough
  commands to even find out what is wrong. You will get messages of the type
  "out of memory" or "no more processes". Note that "out of memory" refers to
  virtual memory, not physical memory.  On a Solaris system, virtual memory
  is generally equal to the sum of the swap space and the amount of physical
  memory (less a roughly constant amount for the kernel) on the machine. The
  command "swap -s" will tell you how much virtual memory is available.

  You can sync the disks to minimize filesystem corruption if you have to
  crash the system:

  Use the L1-A sequence to crash the system. If you are on an older system,
  type "g0" and you will get the message "panic: ... syncing file systems".
  When you see the word "done", hit L1-A again and reboot. On systems
  with the "new" prom, type "n" to get into the new command mode and type
  "sync".

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Subject: 6.3)    How do I find out how much physical memory a machine has? 

  Use /usr/sbin/prtconf if the machine is running Solaris.  If it's a
  sun4u running Solaris 8 or previous, /usr/platform/sun4u/sbin/prtdiag
  is very helpful.  It's /usr/sbin/prtdiag in Solaris 9 and later.

  On high-end machines, /usr/sbin/cfgadm -al can also provide memory
  information.

  The banner message on reboot (or type "banner" in the monitor on machines 
  with Openboot proms) will usually report the amount of physical memory.

  Alternatively, you can open up the case and count SIMMS and/or memory 
  boards.

  A perl script "memconf" is also available that identifies the sizes and
  locations of SIMM/DIMM memory modules installed in a Sun system. It
  also works on several SPARC clones and with Sun Explorer data. It is
  maintained by Tom Schmidt <tschmidt at micron.com>. Download memconf from
  http://www.4schmidts.com/unix.html

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Subject: 6.4)    How do I find out what my machine's memory is being used for? 
                 How can I tell if I need more memory? 

  To discover how much virtual memory (i.e. swap) is free, run "swap -s" or
  "vmstat".  If you're using tmpfs for /tmp, "df /tmp" will also work.

  Discovering how physical memory is being used can be more difficult,
  however.  Memory pages that are not being used by processes are used as a
  sort of extended cache, storing pages of memory-mapped files for possible
  later use. The kernel keeps only a small set of pages free for short-term
  use, and frees up more on demand. Hence the free memory reported by vmstat
  is not an accurate reflection, for example, of the amount of memory
  available for user processes.

  An easy way to determine whether or not your machine needs more memory
  is to run vmstat and examine the po (page out) column and the sr (scan
  rate) column. If these columns consistently show large numbers, this
  suggests that your machine does not have enough memory to support its
  current workload, and frequently needs to write pages belonging to
  active processes to disk in order to free up enough memory to run the
  current job.

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Subject: 6.5)    Why do some files take up more disk space after being copied?
                 Why are the sizes reported by ls -l and du different?

  Some files -- core files being one common example -- contain "holes", areas
  which were seeked over without being written.  These files are called
  "sparse".  When read back, these areas appear to contain zeros; however
  they do not occupy disk space.  The "length" of such a file (as reported by
  "ls -l") will exceed its "size" (as reported by "ls -s" and reflected in
  the results of du or df).

  cp, cpio, and tar do not detect holes; they read and copy the zeros, 
  and the resulting files will contain all-zero blocks (which occupy 
  space) where the input files contained holes (which do not).

  dump will detect holes in the dumped files, and restore will reproduce 
  them.

  Thanks to Perry Hutchison <perryh at pluto.rain.com>

  GNU tar has an "-S" option which preserves holes, and Joerg Schilling's
  "star" has "-sparse" and "-force_hole" options which can be used to
  preserve and re-insert holes, respectively.  star is available for download
  at ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix/star

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Subject: 6.6)    How do I add more PTYs? 

  For Solaris 7 and earlier, add a line in /etc/system that says 
	set pt_cnt = <num> 
  where <num> is the number of PTYs you want.  Halt the system, and do 
  a "boot -r".

  Solaris 2.x supports more than 3000 ptys.  The default is 48.  Solaris 8
  and later create new PTY's as they are needed.

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7. Anonymous FTP Service
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Subject: 7.1)    How do I set up anonymous ftp on my machine?

  For Solaris 2.x, see the ftpd(1m) man page, and follow its instructions.
  You will also need to set up nsswitch.conf in etc.  However, you should
  consider using a different ftpd.

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Subject: 7.2)    Where can I get a version of ftp that does logging?

  These are many versions that have enhanced logging or can be modified
  to enable logging:

  http://www.wu-ftpd.org
  Solaris "pkg" versions of proftpd and wuftpd are available at:
     http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/packages/solaris/sparc/

  ftp://ftp.adelaide.edu.au/pub/4.3/ftpd-sirius.tar.Z

  The stock Sun ftpd will log some information if you add the "-l" 
  flag in /etc/inetd.conf:

       ftp stream tcp nowait root /usr/etc/in.ftpd in.ftpd -l

  Warning: it will log passwords of ordinary users. 

  Also enable syslogd by adding:

       daemon.info      /var/adm/syslog

  to "/etc/syslog.conf".

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8. Consoles, Keyboards and Key Remapping
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Subject: 8.1)    How do I make the numeric keypad on a type 5 keyboard 
                 work with xterm?

  You need to patch the /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/XTerm and
  $OPENWINHOME/lib/app-defaults/XTerm files as described in sun patch
  100713-01 or later.

  Thanks to Margarita Suarez <marg at manila.cc.columbia.edu>

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Subject: 8.2)    How do I swap the CAPS LOCK and CONTROL keys on a 
                 type 5 keyboard under Openwindows 3.x?

  There are two ways to do it, one with xmodmap (for X11 only), and the 
  other using keytables. 

  Margarita Suarez <marg at manila.cc.columbia.edu> suggests editing
  $OPENWINHOME/etc/keytables/US5.kt. There are two places where keys 119
  (CapsLock) and 76 (Control) should be swapped: the MODMAP section and the
  KEYSYMMAP section. The latter is most important, because that's where the
  "Pseudo-Lock" function (which controls the locking behaviour of the key) is
  defined.

  Doug Hughes <Doug.Hughes at Eng.Auburn.EDU> suggests using xmodmap with
  the following:

        remove Lock = Caps_Lock
        remove Control = Control_L
        keysym Control_L = Caps_Lock
        keysym Caps_Lock = Control_L
        add Lock = Caps_Lock
        add Control = Control_L

  In X11, you can change your keyboard layout as you please using the
  xkeycaps application, which allows you to edit and remap your keyboard 
  on the fly, as well as save configurations to be sourced by xmodmap.  

  xkeycaps is available from http://www.jwz.org/xkeycaps/
  and in the contrib section of your friendly X11 source archive.

  Thanks to Dan Pritts <danno at ans.net> for the info on xkeycaps.

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Subject: 8.3)    How do I use a Windows PC for a Sun serial console?

  Wire up a serial cable from the Sun's serial cable to one of the PC serial
  ports.  PC serial ports are usually (but not always) DB9 (9-pin), while Sun
  serial console ports are usually (but not always) 25-pin (DB25).  You
  generally need to connect them through a "null modem adapter".
  For more information on serial ports, see Celeste Stokeley's
  UNIX serial port resources page, at 
	  http://www.stokely.com/unix.serial.port.resources/

  The next problem is that the version of Hyperterminal which comes with some
  versions of Windows cannot generate a BREAK signal.  You can obtain a new
  version of Hyperterminal from 
	http://www.hilgraeve.com/htpe/index.html
  There are many free alternative terminal programs.  Special mention should
  be made of TeraTerm:
	  http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA002416/teraterm.html
  which is also available (as TTSSH) with SSH support, at:
	  http://www.zip.com.au/~roca/ttssh.html

  Thanks to Harvey Wamboldt <harvey at iotek.ns.ca> 

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9. Sun models and OS Versions
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Subject: 9.1)    Which Sun models run which versions of SunOS?

  SunOS 5.x = Solaris 2.x
  Sun dropped the "2." when Solaris (2.)7 came out.  
  	i.e. Solaris 7 = "Solaris 2.7" = SunOS 5.7,
  	Solaris 8 = "Solaris 2.8" = SunOS 5.8 and so on.

  Sun2: SunOS 4.0.3 or earlier.
  Sun386i: SunOS 4.0, 4.0.1, 4.0.2 only.
  Sun3: SunOS 4.1.1 or earlier.
  4/100, 4/200 series: SunOS 3.2, SunOS 4.0 through 5.4
  4/300 series: SunOS 4.0.3 through 5.4
  4/400 series: SunOS 4.1PSR_A through 5.4
  600 models 120, 140: SunOS 4.1.2 through 5.5.1
  600 model 41, 51: SunOS 4.1.3 through 5.5.1
  SPARCstation 1, 1+, SLC, IPC: SunOS 4.0.3 through 5.7
  SPARCstation 2, ELC, IPX: SunOS 4.1.1 through 5.7
  SPARCstation 4: SunOS 4.1.4 or later.
  SPARCstation 5: SunOS 4.1.3_U1B or later.
  SPARCstation 10 models 20, 30, 40, 41, 51, 61, 71: SunOS 4.1.3 or later.
  SPARCstation 20 models 50, 51, 61, 71: SunOS 4.1.3_U1B or later.
  SPARCstation 20 model HS11, HS21, 151: SunOS 4.1.4 or later.
  SPARCclassic, SPARCstation LX: SunOS 4.1.3C or later.
  SPARCstation Voyager: Solaris 2.3 edition II or later.
  Ultra 1 model 140, 170: Solaris 2.5 or later.
  Ultra 1 model 140E, 170E, 200E:  Solaris 2.5.1 or later.
  Ultra 2: Solaris 2.5.1 or later.
  Ultra 5,10,30,60,250,450: Solaris 2.5.1HW1297 or Solaris 2.6HW0398 or later.
  Ultra Enterprise: Solaris 2.5.1 or later.
  SunBlade 100, SunBlade 1000, SunFire 280R: Solaris 8HW1000 or later.
  SunFire 3800, 4800, 4810, 6800: Solaris 8HW0401 or later.

  The SX framebuffer on the SS10 and 20 is only supported under Solaris 2.x.

  SunOS 4.1.3 and later versions of SunOS 4.x have been reported to run on
  multiprocessor SuperSPARC configurations of the SS10, SS20, and 600, but
  this configuration is not supported by Sun. Anyone who tries this is on
  their own.  The (unofficial) word from inside Sun about whether or not it
  actually works is as follows:

        Little testing of the SuperSPARC MP configurations under 4.1.3
        have been done by Sun.  What little was done showed that under
        heavy loads the system was prone to crash (What it really did was
        hang, so badly that even an L1-A would not work).
        ...
        We suspect, but do not know, that as the SuperSPARC chips get
        faster that the problems will manifest themselves more quickly.

  Caveat Emptor.

  However, multiprocessor HyperSPARC systems are supported by Ross under both 
  SunOS 4.1.4 and Solaris 2.x.

  SunOS 5.0 runs only on SS1,1+,2,SLC,IPC,ELC,IPX.

  While SunOS 5.x does run on the 4/100 and 4/200 systems, the FPU (if
  present) is disabled, and floating point is emulated in software.  The
  latest version of SunOS 5.x (Solaris 2.x) that runs on the 4/100, 4/200,
  4/300, and 4/400 systems is 5.4 (Solaris 2.4).

  SunOS 5.3 (aka Solaris 2.3) is said to run on the SS5, but without support
  for the audio device. Solaris 2.3 Edition II, Solaris 2.3 Hardware 5/94,
  and later versions include audio support.

  Not all peripherals supported under SunOS 4.x are supported under SunOS
  5.x and vice versa. Check with Sun or the peripheral manufacturer.

  Explanatory note:

  In general, Solaris = SunOS + Open Windows.

  Solaris 1.0 = SunOS 4.1.1 + Open Windows 2.0
  Solaris 1.0.1 = SunOS 4.1.2 + Open Windows 2.0
  Solaris 1.1 = SunOS 4.1.3 + Open Windows 3.0
  Solaris 1.1C = SunOS 4.1.3C + Open Windows 3.0 (Classic/LX only)
  Solaris 1.1.1 = SunOS 4.1.3_U1 + Open Windows 3.0_U1
  Solaris 1.1.1revB = SunOS 4.1.3_U1revB + Open Windows 3.0_U1revB
  Solaris 1.1.2 = SunOS 4.1.4 + Open Windows 3.0_414
  Solaris 2.0 = SunOS 5.0 + Open Windows 3.0.1
  Solaris 2.1 = SunOS 5.1 + Open Windows 3.1
  Solaris 2.2 = SunOS 5.2 + Open Windows 3.2
  Solaris 2.3 = SunOS 5.3 + Open Windows 3.3
  Solaris 2.4 = SunOS 5.4 + Open Windows 3.4
  Solaris 2.5 = SunOS 5.5 + Open Windows 3.5
  Solaris 2.5.1 = SunOS 5.5.1 + Open Windows 3.5.1
  Solaris 2.6 = SunOS 5.6 + Open Windows 3.6
  Solaris 7 = SunOS 5.7 + Open Windows 3.6.1
  Solaris 8 = SunOS 5.8 + Open Windows 3.6.2

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Subject: 9.2)    How can my program tell what model Sun it is running on?

  On older suns, the model type is encoded in the hostid. For 
  suns with the "Openboot" prom (All sparcstations and the 600 series),
  /usr/sbin/prtconf will reveal the model type.

  "Suntype", written by John DiMarco (jdd at cs.toronto.edu) is a shell 
  script which does the appropriate thing on all suns. It is available 
  for anonymous ftp at ftp://ftp.cs.toronto.edu/pub/jdd/suntype

  Alternatively, grab Michael Cooper's <mcooper at magnicomp.com> "sysinfo"
  program, which provides all sorts of information about a given system,
  including the machine type. sysinfo is available on the web at
  http://www.magnicomp.com/, although it is now a commercial product that is
  free only for educational and non-profit organizations.

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Subject: 9.3)    What MBUS CPU modules are available? How can I tell
                 what module(s) is/are in what model of SS10/SS20/SS600?

  Three sun models, the SS10, SS20 and the SparcServer 600 series, support 
  Sun's MBUS.  All these machines have two MBUS slots.  Both modules must be 
  of the same type.  

  SuperSPARC/w cache modules of different speeds are said to work, as are
  three-processor systems (by combining a single and a dual module of the
  same type), but such configurations are not supported by Sun.

  Modules without external cache are not separately clocked, and run at the 
  clock rate of the MBUS.  Modules with external cache are separately clocked,
  and must run at a clock rate higher than that of the MBUS.  

  The SS20 has a switchable 40/50MHz MBUS, the SS600 has a 40MHz mbus, and
  the SS10 has a switchable 33/36/40MHz MBUS.  Ross sells an SS20 derivitive
  called the Hyperstation 30, which has a 66Mhz MBUS.

  Warning: different module revisions may or may not work in different
  systems.  Check the Sun part number.  Further, newer modules may require
  that the machine have a sufficiently recent PROM revision to work.

  Module     #CPUS  Processor  Clck  Ex.Cache Comments
  -------    ------ ---------- ----  -------- -------------------------------
  SM100        2    RT605/CY605 40      64k   Rev 8 required for SunOS 5.x
  SM20         1    SuperSPARC  33       -    SS10 only
  SM21         1    SuperSPARC  33      1M    Not sold by Sun
  SM30         1    SuperSPARC  36       -    SS10 only
  SM40         1    SuperSPARC  40       -    SS10 or SS600 only
  SM41         1    SuperSPARC  40.3    1M    SS10 or SS600 only
  SM50         1    SuperSPARC  50       -    SS20 only
  SM51         1    SuperSPARC  50      1M
  SM51-2       1    SuperSPARC  50      2M    SC2000 only
  SM52         2    SuperSPARC  45      1M    Announced, never sold.
  SM512(?)     2    SuperSPARC  50      1M    Dbl-width: 1 SBUS + 1 MBUS slot
  SM61         1    SuperSPARC  60      1M 
  SM61-2       1    SuperSPARC  60      2M    SC2000 only
  SM71         1    SuperSPARC2 75      1M      
  SM81         1    SuperSPARC2 85      1M    SS1000 only
  SM81-2       1    SuperSPARC2 85      2M    SC2000 only
  RTS55        1    HyperSPARC  55     256k   Non-Sun, SS10 or SS600 only
  RTD55        2    HyperSPARC  55     256k   Non-Sun, SS10 or SS600 only
  RTS66        1    HyperSPARC  66     256k   Non-Sun
  RTD66        2    HyperSPARC  66     256k   Non-Sun
  RTS72        1    HyperSPARC  72     256k   Non-Sun
  RTD72        2    HyperSPARC  72     256k   Non-Sun
  RTS90        1    HyperSPARC  90     256k   Non-Sun
  RTD90        1    HyperSPARC  90     256k   Non-Sun
  RTS100       1    HyperSPARC  100    256k   Non-Sun
  RTD110       1    HyperSPARC  110    256k   Non-Sun
  RTS110/1024  1    HyperSPARC  110     1M    Non-Sun
  RTD110/1024  2    HyperSPARC  110     1M    Non-Sun
  RTS125       1    HyperSPARC  125    256k   Non-Sun
  RTD125       2    HyperSPARC  125    256k   Non-Sun
  RTS125/512   1    HyperSPARC  125    512k   Non-Sun
  RTD125/512   2    HyperSPARC  125    512k   Non-Sun
  RTS125/1024  1    HyperSPARC  125     1M    Non-Sun
  RTD125/1024  2    HyperSPARC  125     1M    Non-Sun
  RTS133/512   1    HyperSPARC  133    512k   Non-Sun
  RTD133/512   2    HyperSPARC  133    512k   Non-Sun
  RTS142/1024  1    HyperSPARC  142     1M    Non-Sun
  RTD142/1024  2    HyperSPARC  142     1M    Non-Sun
  RTS150/512   1    HyperSPARC  150    512k   
  RTS166/512   1    HyperSPARC  166    512k   Non-Sun
  RTS180/512   1    HyperSPARC  180    512k   Non-Sun
  RTS200/512   1    HyperSPARC  200    512k   Non-Sun
  RTD200/512   2    HyperSPARC  200    512k   Non-Sun
  SMHS11       1    HyperSPARC  100    256k   SS20 only
  SMHS12       2    HyperSPARC  100    256k   Double-width: SS20 only
  SMHS21       1    HyperSPARC  125    256k   SS20 only
  SM151        1    HyperSPARC  150    512k   SS20 only

  Key to SS600/SS10/SS20 model numbers:

  RT605 (40Mhz SS2-class Ross) systems:  
        Model "1n0", n=number of CPUs (2 or 4)
        Examples: 120, 140
  SuperSPARC systems:
        Uniprocessor:   
        Model "sc", s=clock speed, c=MBs of external cache
        Examples: 20, 30, 40, 41, 50, 51, 61, 71
        Multiprocessor: 
        Model "scn", s=clock speed, c=MBs of external cache (0 or 1), 
                n=number of CPUs
        Examples: 402, 412, 502, 512, 612, 712
        Speeds: 2=33Mhz, 3=36MHz, 4=40MHz, 5=50MHz, 6=60Mhz, 7=75Mhz, 8=85Mhz
  HyperSPARC systems:
        Model "HSsn", s=clock speed, n=number of CPUs
        Speeds: 1=100Mhz, 2=125Mhz
        Examples: HS11, HS12, HS14, HS21, HS22
        Exception: SparcStation 151 is 1x150Mhz HyperSPARC, 152 is 2x150Mhz

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Subject: 9.4)    Which versions of SunOS/Solaris are Y2000 compliant?  Are
                  there patches for older versions of SunOS/Solaris?

  Sun's Y2000 efforts are documented on their web page, at
          http://www.sun.com/y2000

  Solaris 2.6 with the recommended patch cluster is Y2000 compliant (no
  separate Y2000 patch kit is required).  Solaris 2.3 through 2.5.1, SunOS
  4.1.3U1B, and SunOS 4.1.4 are all Y2000 compliant after the appropriate
  Y2000 patch kit is installed.  The Y2000 patch kit for Solaris 2.5.1 is
  available for anonymous ftp download from
          ftp://sunsolve1.sun.com/pub/patches/2.5.1_y2000.tar.Z and
          ftp://sunsolve1.sun.com/pub/patches/2.5.1_x86_y2000.tar.Z.
  Y2000 patch kits for Solaris 2.3, 2.4, and 2.5, and for SunOS 4.1.3U1B and
  4.1.4 are available to support contract customers only, from
          http://sunsolve.sun.com/sunsolve

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Subject: 9.5)    What is the Y2000 compliance status of Sun hardware?

  Sun's Y2000 efforts are documented on their web page, at
          http://www.sun.com/y2000

  For all Sun hardware that runs a Y2000-compliant version of SunOS/Solaris,
  the following also need PROM upgrades and/or special patches to be Y2000
  compliant:

        SPARCserver 1000, 1000E, SPARCcenter 2000, 2000E:  
                - requires Prom revision 2.31 or later
        All Ultra Enterprise X000 machines:
                - patch ID 103346-08 or later required for systems with
                Prom revision 3.2.9 or earlier.
        Enterprise Tape Library 4/1000,1800,3500, StorEdge L1800,L1000,L3500:
                - Requires LibMON 2.0, available September 1998.
        Newsprint Printers:
                - requires Newsprint 2.5b and patch 101941-03 or later.

  Sun does not test older hardware for Y2000 compliance if it does not run
  one of the versions of Solaris/SunOS listed in question 9.4.

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Subject: 9.6)    How do I find out a Sun's boot prom revision?

  Type "banner" at the prom, or type "/usr/sbin/prtconf -V" (Solaris 2.5.1
  or later) to determine the prom revision of a particular machine.
  
  Alternatively, grab Michael Cooper's <mcooper at magnicomp.com> "sysinfo"
  program, which provides all sorts of information about a given system,
  including the prom revision. sysinfo is available on the web at
  http://www.magnicomp.com, although it is now a commercial product that is
  free only for educational and non-profit organizations.

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Subject: 9.7)    Which hardware/software is capable of 64-bit? Which
	          is only 64-bit? How can I tell which is running?

  Only UltraSPARC hardware (and Fujitsu SPARC64) can run in 64-bit mode.  All
  UltraSPARC hardware is capable of it, but UltraSPARC-I (up to 200MHz)
  suffers from a bug where, in 64-bit mode, a certain code sequence can cause
  the processor to stall, and thus UltraSPARC-I machines run in 32-bit mode
  by default.  To allow a 64-bit kernel on such a machine, edit/create
  /platform/<platform-name>/boot.conf and add the line:
	ALLOW_64BIT_KERNEL_ON_UltraSPARC_1_CPU=true

  Solaris 2.6 and earlier are 32-bit only.  Solaris 7 and later support
  both 32-bit and 64-bit modes.  

  Only some UltraSPARC-I, UltraSPARC-II, and UltraSPARC-IIi (e.g. Ultra 5/10)
  systems support both 64-bit and 32-bit operation.  UltraSPARC-IIe (e.g.
  Sunblade 100) and ULtraSPARC-III (e.g. Sunblade 1000) are 64-bit mode
  only.

  "isainfo -kv" or "isainfo -b" will indicate whether a system is running in
  32-bit or 64-bit mode.

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10. Miscellaneous Software
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Subject: 10.1)   My remote ufsdump is failing with a "Protocol botched"
message. What do I do?

  The problem produces output like the following:

       DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Wed Jan  6 08:50:01 1993
       DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch
       DUMP: Dumping /dev/rsd0a (/) to /dev/nrst8 on host foo
       DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files]
       DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories]
       DUMP: estimated 8232 blocks (4.02MB) on 0.00 tape(s).
       DUMP: Protocol to remote tape server botched (in rmtgets).
      rdump: Lost connection to remote host.
       DUMP: Bad return code from dump: 1

  This occurs when something in .cshrc on the remote machine prints something
  to stdout or stderr (eg. stty, echo). The remote ufsdump command doesn't
  expect this, and chokes. Other commands which use the rsh protocol (eg.
  rdist, rtar) may also be affected.

  The way to get around this is to add the following line near the
  beginning of .cshrc, before any command that might send something
  to stdout or stderr:

  if ( ! $?prompt ) exit

  This causes .cshrc to exit when prompt isn't set, which distinguishes
  between remote commands (eg. rdump, rsh) where these variables are not
  set, and interactive sessions (eg. rlogin) where they are.

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Subject: 10.2)   Where can I get a C compiler for Solaris 2.x?

  Sun's Forte compilers can be bought at http://www.sun.com/forte/buy.html
  
  Various third-party commercial SPARC compilers are also available, including:
	http://www.ghs.com
	http://www.apogee.com
	http://www.windriver.com
	http://www.pgroup.com
	http://www.intel.com (Solaris x86 only)

  The GCC compiler and related tools are available on the Solaris
  Software Companion CD, which is part of the media kit for the Solaris 8
  distribution.  The contents of this CD are also available for free
  download at http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/freeware
  Thanks to Eric Boutilier <Eric.Boutilier at Sun.COM>

  GCC binaries (for SPARC and, in some cases, i386) can be retrieved
  from the following sites and many others:

  o  http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/freeware
  o  ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/packages/solaris/sparc/
  o  http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html
  o  http://sunfreeware.com

  More information on this topic is available at 
	http://inscoe.org/load.cgi?compilesun
  Thanks to Kevin Inscoe <kevin at inscoe.org>

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Subject: 10.3)   How do I read Microsoft Word documents on my Sun?

  You can obtain some of the raw content of the document by using the
  "strings" command.  Note that Word documents (and documents produced by
  other Microsoft Office programs, like Excel) can sometimes contain hidden
  information that is not normally accessible from Word, but is visible using
  "strings" (this can be a good reason not to distribute documents in MS
  Office formats).

  It is possible to run some versions of Microsoft Word on your Sun, using
  WABI, SoftWindows, WinCenter, WinDD, SunPC, or some other Windows
  integration product.

  You can use a word-processor that can import the various MS Word formats.
  For example, Word Perfect from Corel Corporation is capable of reading and
  saving in various MS Word formats.  Word Perfect is available for several
  versions of UNIX, including SPARC/Solaris 2.x.  Sun's StarOffice Personal
  Edition is freely available for various operating systems, including 
  Solaris/SPARC, from http://www.sun.com/staroffice

  From a PC/Mac, you can print postscript output to a file, and view the
  postscript on the Sun using docviewer or ghostscript/ghostview.

  Rachel Polanskis <grove at zeta.org.au> suggests word2x by Duncan
  Simpson <dps at io.stargate.co.uk>, which translates a Word 6.x document into
  text or LaTeX.  She ported it to Solaris; it's available at
  ftp://ftp.zeta.org.au/home/grove/stuff/word2x-sol.2.5.1.tar.gz

  Sun produces the PC File Viewer software, which is free to Solaris 2.6
  SPARC customers.  It allows MS Word files and other common PC application
  files (e.g. Word Perfect) to be viewed on the Solaris desktop.  It's at:
  http://www.sun.com/desktop/products/software/pcviewer.html

  Thomas Anders <anders at hmi.de> points out that LAOLA (a Perl4 package that
  can read Word6 and Word7 format is available on the web at
  http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~schwartz/pmh/. Other suitable packages include
  wvWare, which is available at http:/www.wvWare.com, and "wordview", which
  is available at http://www.fe.msk.ru/~vitus/catdoc/.

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Subject: 10.4)   How do I restore to a different location the contents of a 
	 	 tarfile created with absolute pathnames?

  Tarfiles should not normally be created with absolute pathnames, only
  with relative pathnames.  Do not type "tar c /path/name" to create a tar
  archive, type "(cd /path; tar c name)" instead.  

  Note: if you do "(cd /path/name; tar c .)", you will indeed avoid absolute
  pathnames, but beware that the tarfile created may silently overwrite the
  permissions of the current directory when unpacked.  That's OK if you
  unpack it via:
	"mkdir name; cd name; tar xf /my/tarfile.tar
  That's not OK if you unpack it via:
	"cd /tmp; tar xf /my/tarfile.tar" -- you will change the permissions
  of /tmp.

  If you do have an archive created with absolute pathnames, you can unpack
  it in a different location by using GNU's version of tar, which will strip
  off the leading /.

  Alternatively, you can use pax to strip off the leading /, as follows:

	 pax -r -s '/^\///' <abspath.tar

  Or you can use chroot and a statically linked version of tar, as follows: 

	cp /usr/sbin/static/tar /tmp/restore
        # cd /tmp/restore
        # cat abspath.tar | chroot /tmp/restore /tar xf -

  Thanks to Fabrice Guerini <fabrice at bluemartini.com> and Stephen Kives
  <Stephen_Kives at cable.comcast.com>

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11. Miscellaneous Hardware
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Subject: 11.1)   How come my mouse occasionally doesn't work?

  If it is a mechanical mouse, it may need cleaning.   Open up the bottom
  panel by rotating it, and remove the mouse ball.  Clean the mouse ball.
  With a Q-tip, clean off any grime on the rotors inside the mouse. 
 
  However, if it is an optical mouse, read on:

  Eugene Kramer <eugene at uniteq.com> points out that type 3 and type 4 optical
  mouse pads only work in one orientation (long side in the width); if the
  pad has been rotated, the mouse will only move in one axis, and will appear
  to be broken.  It may not be; just rotate the pad 90 degrees.

  Alternatively, you may have an old mouse.  martin at gea.hsr.it (Martin Achilli)
  writes:

          Sun optical mice P/N 370-1170-01 have two LEDs on the underside.
          One is a normal red LED, the other is an infrared LED.  Old mice
          (4+ years) can have trouble tracking horizontal motion.  Cleaning
          the mouse pad with a solvent may improve things slightly but not
          completely.  I have replaced the red LED on the mouse PCB for eight
          of my twelve optical mice and the problem has gone.  All you need
          to do is purchase a red LED of the type than focus the beam, NOT
          the unfocused type that are normally found as indicator lights on
          equipment.  Open the mouse and remove the PCB by unplugging the
          small black connector.  Be careful with the two small spherical
          lenses which can fall out and easily be lost.  Mark the PCB and one
          of the LED's leads to note the orientation, then desolder the LED
          marked L1.  Pull out the leads from above and pull the LED out of
          the black plastic mounting.  Be careful since the mounting is only
          glued to the PCB.  Check for polarity before inserting the new LED,
          I noticed that for all the LEDs that I installed, the longer lead
          must go into the PCB hole close to the letters L1.  First fold the
          LED leads like the ones of the one you are replacing, and then
          insert it into the mounting, solder the leads and close the mouse.
          After this, horizontal motion should be much smoother.  Disclaimer:
          I will not take any responsibility for any failure or damage
          arising from the above procedure

  Thanks to Martin Achilli <martin at gea.hsr.it>.

  Finally, the wire inside the mouse cable may be suffering from fatigue,
  usually where the cable is attached to the mouse.  If you turn the mouse
  over, and wiggle the cable where it is attached to the mouse, and if you
  see the visibly lit LED flickering while you do this, this is your problem.

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Subject: 11.2)   How can I turn my old sun into an X-Terminal?

  You can simply replace the ttymon entry for the console in
  /etc/inittab with a command that starts up an X server. 

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Subject: 11.3)   How can I use a VGA monitor on my Sun?

  A simple adapter will connect a Sun to a VGA multi-sync monitor, providing 
  the monitor (like most better monitors these days) will accept composite 
  sync and operate in 1152x900 66 Hz (or whatever output your sun produces) 
  mode.  (Check the manufacturer's data sheets, usually on the Web.)

  Adapters are available from:

  Ultraspec Cables, Inc., Lakewood, NJ, USA
  (voice) (NA) 1-800-622-2537 (int'l) 1-908-901-0200
  (fax)   (NA) 1-800-222-5337 (int'l) 1-908-901-0240
  (e-mail) sales at ultraspec.com
  The Sun -> VGA adapter is part number 1395

  Nudata (908-842-1161, fax 908-905-5708) part number DA1152

  Thanks to Randolph Fritz <randolph at teleport.com> for the above.

  Bert N. Shure <bert at virtual.com> points out that Integrix sells a VGA SBUS
  framebuffer, the HD15, which permits ordinary VGA monitors to be used on
  Suns.  Integrix also sells various SVGA framebuffers.  For more
  information, consult http://www.integrix.com

  This and many other interesting facts about Sun Framebuffers are answered
  in the Framebuffer FAQ, at one of:
         http://www.uark.edu/sunfaq/FrameBuffer.html
         http://bul.eecs.umich.edu/~crowej/sunfaq/FrameBuffer.html

  A related FAQ by the same person is the Colormap FAQ at one of:
         http://www.uark.edu/sunfaq/ColormapFAQ.html
         http://bul.eecs.umich.edu/~crowej/sunfaq/ColormapFAQ.html

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Subject: 11.4)   Where can I find alternate pointing devices for my Sun?

  Bert N. Sure <bert at virtual.com> claims that Mousetrak makes an excellent
  line of pointing devices. The url is "http://www.mousetrak.com". 
  SunExpress ("http://sunexpress.usec.sun.com") and Qualix 
  ("http://www.qualix.com") distribute them.  Bert uses the top-of-the-line
  "Evolution" trackball, which has six user-definable buttons and a large
  ball which is manufactured by a billiard ball company in Belgium.

  For 3-D input, SunExpress ("http://sunexpress.usec.sun.com") sells the
  SpaceBall 3003, in addition to the standard Sun "SunDials" product.

  Dan Pritts <danno at ans.net> indicates that one can buy a box from sun called
  the sun interface converter for $75 that allows you to use a ps/2-style
  keyboard or pointing device, or both, and still use your sun keyboard or
  mouse.  In particular, the sun interface converter supports the Microsoft
  "natural keyboard".

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Subject: 11.5)   What should I do about my Ultra-1's CPU cooling fan?

  The small five or seven-blade fan that sits on the Ultra-1 CPU heat sink
  fails over time.  Only the Ultra-1 is affected.  This known problem is
  fixed by Field Change Order FCO #A0089-1, which replaces the CPU cooling
  fan with a better one.  Call Sun (in the US, 800-872-4786, and in Canada,
  800-722-4786) with the Ultra-1's serial number and Sun will ship a fan
  free.  If you have more than one Ultra-1, ask for several fans.

  The CPU cooling fan part number is 540-2761.  Note that some Sun Spares
  Reference Guides indicate that it is the fan for the front of the cabinet,
  which is incorrect.

  Replacement Technique:

  1.  Move Power Supply.  
        (a) loosen 2 screws near power connection
        (b) slide power supply forward and lift out of way.
  2   Loosen 4 screws around fan and slide fan out into space that was
      occupied by power supply.  Be sure to open the connector latch.  If you
      pull too hard, the socket comes off the motherboard too.

  Thanks to Greg Polanski <greg_polanski at adc.com>

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12. Networking
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Subject: 12.1)   Why do both my net interfaces have the same ethernet address?

  The Ethernet version 2.0 specification (November 1982) states:

          The physical address of each station is set by network
          management to a unique value associated with the station,
          and distinct from the address of any other station on any
          Ethernet.  The setting of the station's physical address
          by network management allows multiple multiple data link 
          controllers connected to a single station to respond to 
          the same physical address.

  This doesn't normally constitute a problem because each interface will
  typically be on a different subnet. If, for some reason, different 
  ethernet addresses are required on different interfaces (for example, to
  attach two interfaces to the same subnet), a new one may be assigned 
  using the ifconfig command.  Alternatively, for all modern Sun hardware,
  you can set the "local-mac-address?" eeprom variable to "true", which will
  cause each NIC to use a unique MAC address.  This is needed for many
  failover and trunking configurations.

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Subject: 12.2)   How can I know the hardware vendor from an ethernet address?

  The first three octets of a six-octet ethernet address typically uniquely 
  identifies the hardware vendor of the particular network interface card.
  This is called the "Organizationally Unique Identifier" (OUI).  OUI
  information, including the most recent list of public OUIs can be found at
  "http://standards.ieee.org/db/oui/index.html" 

  Note that it is possible that an unidentified OUI could be used, since
  vendors are not required to make their OUIs public, and many network
  interfaces, including Suns, can be configured to use a custom ethernet
  address, so there is no guarantee that the OUI will correctly identify
  the vendor.  

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Subject: 12.3)   How do I set my hme interface to e.g. 100Mb full duplex?

  This applies only to Solaris 2.5 or later; hme interfaces are not supported
  under SunOS 4.x or earlier versions of Solaris.

  Sun's 10/100 network interface on the Ultra systems and on the SunSWIFT
  network cards are capable of negotiating with a network switch; if this
  is working, and if the other end is capable of 100Mb full duplex (FD) 
  operation, the hme card will automatically set itself properly.  However,
  this may not necessarily work with some networking gear.  

  If the two ends have different ideas about what mode the link is, you
  may see "late collision" messages, dropped packets, or complete failure.

  To force a particular mode, e.g. 100Mb FD, you can use ndd as follows:

        # turn off autonegotiation
        ndd -set /dev/hme adv_autoneg_cap  0
        # turn on 100Mb full-duplex capability
        ndd -set /dev/hme adv_100fdx_cap   1
        # turn off 100Mb half-duplex capability
        ndd -set /dev/hme adv_100hdx_cap   0
        # turn off 10Mb full-duplex capability
        ndd -set /dev/hme adv_10fdx_cap    0
        # turn off 10Mb half-duplex capability
        ndd -set /dev/hme adv_10hdx_cap    0

  You may have to force the other end (e.g. switch) to use the same mode.
  Consult the manual for your switch.  NB: Fast ethernet hubs are always
  100Mb half-duplex, and ethernet hubs are always 10Mb half-duplex.

  If you have more than one hme card in your system, before issuing the
  above ndd commands, you need to first select the specific hme card you
  want to set.  For example, to select hme2, type:
        ndd -set /dev/hme instance 2
  Subsequent ndd commands to /dev/hme will only apply to hme2.

  If you want to force all the hme cards on your system to a specific 
  mode at machine boot, you can set hme driver variables in /etc/system.
  For example, to force all hme cards on the system to use 100Mbit FD,
  put the following in /etc/system:

        set hme:hme_adv_autoneg_cap=0
        set hme:hme_adv_100fdx_cap=1
        set hme:hme_adv_100hdx_cap=0
        set hme:hme_adv_10hdx_cap=0
        set hme:hme_adv_10fdx_cap=0

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Subject: 12.4)   How do I find out what process is using a particular port?

  Ports are held open in the same way as files are, by file handles within
  the process.  In most states, a port will also have a handle into another
  process on the other side of that connection.  If you need to find out 
  which process is holding open a particular port, run lsof
  (ftp://ftp.cerias.purdue.edu/pub/tools/unix/sysutils/lsof) and grep for the 
  port number.

  Thanks to Stuart Whitby <swhitby at legato.com>

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Subject: 12.5)   I have a lot of ports in WAIT states.  Why?

  The state of sockets can be seen with the "netstat -a" command.  When
  a process attempts to close an ESTABLISHED connection, the transition
  will show a number of WAIT states, depending on which stage of the
  shutdown the port is at.

  When the initial FIN is sent from side a) of the connection, side a)
  will change to FIN_WAIT_1, side b) will change to CLOSE_WAIT, and 
  acknowledge the FIN packet.  The acknowledgement causes side a) to
  change to FIN_WAIT_2.  A socket will rarely be in FIN_WAIT_1 for 
  more than a couple of seconds unless there is a problem with 
  communications.  In this state, data may still be sent from side b)
  to side a), but not vice versa.  When side b) receives a close from
  the associated application, or the FIN_WAIT_2_FLUSH_INTERVAL is 
  reached without data being sent, it will send a FIN and change to 
  LAST_ACK.  Side a) moves to TIME_WAIT upon receiving this FIN and 
  acknowledges the packet, causing any references to this connection on 
  side b) to disappear.  The socket in TIME_WAIT will remain for twice 
  the maximum segment lifetime (normally a total of four minutes) before 
  dropping, in case dropped data packets are resent and misinterpreted
  by a new application on this port.

  Thanks to Stuart Whitby <swhitby at legato.com>

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13. Electronic Mail
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Subject: 13.1)   Where can I get a POP or IMAP server for my sun? 

  The PINE email package comes with both a POP and an IMAP server. PINE
  can be found at ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/pine/.  An old, unmaintained 
  Berkeley popd can be found at ftp://ftp.cc.berkeley.edu/pub/pop 
  (not recommended), and Casper Dik's enhanced version for Solaris is found 
  at ftp://ftp.fwi.uva.nl/pub/solaris/.  A POP server can also be found as part
  of the Eudora ftp repository, at ftp://ftp.qualcomm.com/quest/unix/servers/
  Finally, the CMU Cyrus IMAP server can be used. It can be found at
  ftp://ftp.andrew.cmu.edu/pub/cyrus-mail.

  If a commercial package is desired, Sun's new SIMS (Solstice Internet Mail 
  Server) supports POP3 and IMAP4. See http://www.sun.com

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14. Printing
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Subject: 14.1)   Is there a third-party source for SPARCprinter consumables? 

  Yes, there is. The SPARCprinter is OEM'ed by Xerox, and uses the same 
  consumables as the Xerox 4030 laserprinter. The appropriate part 
  numbers are:

        Toner-cartridge:        365-1124-01     Sun
                                6R281           Xerox

        Drum-cartridge:         365-1125-01     Sun
                                13R32           Xerox

        Fuser Lubricant/oil:    370-1371-01     Sun
                                94E95090        Xerox

        Fuser wick:             811-1687        Sun (Sun Express)

  These parts are available from various resellers.

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Subject: 14.2)   How do I configure a non-postscript printer for postscript?

   Use the Printer Compatibility Database at http://www.linuxprinting.org
   (http://www.linuxprinting.org/database.html) to find out if a ghostscript
   driver is available for your non-PS printer.  Then you can use ghostscript
   to translate postscript to something the printer can understand. There are
   various "any2ps" scripts and packages around (apsfilter, cups, foomatic,
   magicfilter).  

   Apsfilter in particular is one of the most flexible filters available: the
   most recent version can be found at http://www.apsfilter.org.  For Solaris
   2.x or later, you will need to add a BSD-style printing package such as
   LPRng (http://www.lprng/org): the system-V-style "lp" printing package
   that comes with Solaris will not easily work with apsfilter.  Thanks to
   Andreas Klemm <andreas at apsfilter.org> for this information.

   A much older version of APSfilter was posted to comp.sources.misc as part
   of volume 42, and is available from a comp.sources.misc archive site (eg.
   ftp://ftp.uu.net/usenet/comp.sources.misc/volume42/apsfilter).  If you are
   using Solaris, follow Alexander V. Panasyuk's instructions in
   http://cfauvcs5.harvard.edu/SetGSprinter4Solaris.html

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15. Misc System Administration
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Subject: 15.1)   I've forgotten the root password; how can I recover? 

  You need to have access to the machine's console. 

  1. Note the root partition (e.g. /dev/sd0a or /dev/dsk/c0t3d0s0) 
  2. Hit STOP-A or L1-A (or, on an ASCII terminal or emulator, send a
     <BREAK>) to halt the operating system, if it's running.
  3. Boot single-user from CD-ROM (boot cdrom -s) or network 
     install/jumpstart server (boot net -s)  (NB: if it asks you for a prom
     password, see below.)
  4. Mount the root partition (e.g. /dev/dsk/c0t3d0s0) on "/a".  "/a" is
     an empty mount point that exists at this stage of the installation
     procedure. (mount /dev/dsk/c0t3d0s0 /a)
  5. Set your terminal type so you can use a full-screen editor, e.g. vi.
     (you can skip this step if you know how to use "ex" or "vi" from open
     mode).  If you're on a sun console, type "TERM=sun; export TERM"; if
     you're using an ascii terminal (or terminal emulator on a PC) for your
     console, set TERM to the terminal type (e.g. TERM=vt100; export TERM).
  6. Edit the passwd file (/a/etc/passwd for SunOS 4.x, /a/etc/passwd.adjunct
     for SunOS 4.x with shadow passwords/C2 security), /a/etc/shadow for
     Solaris 2.x and remove the encrypted password entry for root
  7. cd to /; Type "umount /a"
  8. reboot as normal in single-user mode ("boot -s").  The root account will
     not have a password.  Give it a new one using the passwd command.

  Thanks to Stefan Voss <s.voss at terradata.de>

  PROM passwords:

  Naturally, you may not want anyone with physical access to the machine to
  be able to do the above to erase the root password.  Suns have a security
  password mechanism in the PROM which can be set (this is turned off by
  default).  The man page for the eeprom command describes this feature.

  If security-mode is set to "command", the machine only be booted without
  the prom password from the default device (i.e. booting from CD-ROM or
  install server will require the prom password).  Changing the root password
  in this case requires moving the default device (e.g. the boot disk) to a
  different SCSI target (or equivalent), and replacing it with a similarly
  bootable device for which the root password is known.  If security-mode is
  set to full, the machine cannot be booted without the prom password, even
  from the default device; defeating this requires replacing the NVRAM on the
  motherboard.  "Full" security has its drawbacks -- if, during normal
  operations,  the machine is power-cycled (e.g. by a power outage) or halted
  (e.g. by STOP-A), it cannot reboot without the intervention of someone
  who knows the prom password.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Subject: 15.2)   How do I disable/remap STOP-A/L1-A?

  First, be sure you want to do this.  If the problem is that users are
  halting and rebooting the machine, note that disabling STOP-A will merely
  prompt them to powercycle the machine (or remove and re-insert the keyboard
  plug) instead.  This is actually worse.

  But if you're sure you want to do this, compile and run this little program.

    /* Enable or disable abort sequence.  John DiMarco <jdd at cs.toronto.edu> */
     
    #include <stdio.h>
    #include <sys/types.h>
    #include <sys/ioctl.h>
    #include <sys/fcntl.h>
    #ifdef FILENAME_MAX
    #include <sys/kbd.h>
    #include <sys/kbio.h>
    #else /* !FILENAME_MAX */
    #include <sundev/kbd.h>
    #include <sundev/kbio.h>
    #endif /* !FILENAME_MAX */
     
    #define ERR -1
    #define DISABLE 0
    #define ENABLE 1
    #define KEYBOARD "/dev/kbd"
    
    main(argc,argv)
    int argc;
    char *argv[];
    {
            static struct kiockey k;
            int fd, mode=ERR;
     
            if(2==argc){
                    switch(*(argv[1])){
                    case 'e':
                            mode=ENABLE;
                            break;
                    case 'd':
                            mode=DISABLE;
                            break;
                    }
            }
            if(ERR==mode){
                     printf("Usage: %s [enable|disable]\n", argv[0]); exit(1);
            }
            if(0>(fd=open(KEYBOARD, O_RDWR))){ perror(KEYBOARD); exit(1); }
     
            k.kio_tablemask = KIOCABORT1;
            k.kio_station=mode;
            (void)ioctl(fd, KIOCSETKEY, &k); 
            printf("Abort sequence is now %s.\n", mode?"enabled":"disabled");
    }

  Stefan Voss <s.voss at terradata.de> points out that in Solaris 2.6 or later,
  you can type "kbd -a enable|disable" or put "KEYBOARD_ABORT=enable|disable" 
  in /etc/default/kbd. 

  As of Solaris 2.6 with patch 105924-10 installed, Solaris 7 with
  patch 107589-02 installed, or Solaris 8, you can also set the abort
  sequence to the Alternate Break character sequence
  ("<Return> ~ <CTRL-B>", with at least half a second between
  characters, and at most 5 seconds for the whole string) with the
  command "kbd -a alternate", or by putting "KEYBOARD_ABORT=alternate"
  into /etc/default/kbd.

  Alternatively, you can disable all break signals by putting the line:

    set abort_enable=0

  into /etc/system, and rebooting.

  Thanks to Dan Astoorian <djast at cs.toronto.edu>


From mnashish at hotmail.com  Sun May  2 08:58:36 2004
From: mnashish at hotmail.com (ashish madhavan)
Date: Sun, 02 May 2004 12:58:36 +0000
Subject: e3500 not booting through mirror
Message-ID: <BAY12-F22OkHxi9Mtzi000023ec@hotmail.com>

hi,
i am having an e3500 with 8 internal hardisks...two fiber loops on LA & UA,2 
system boards in slot 3 & 7, one graphics solt 1, one I/O board slot 5..... 
running sun os 5.5.1...

the fiber cables  for the internal hdds are in slots LA & UA on the 
Interface bord & connect to an I/O board & Graphics Board.

Now the graphics board in slot 1 has gone faulty as indicated by system Post 
result ... hence my system used to hang intermittanly.... but now the system 
is refusing to boot up & shows only 4 disks on "probe-fcal-all".

the internal harddisks are mirrored (Solstice Disksuite) to each other (i.e. 
controller 0 with controller 2).so i tried to boot from the alternate 
mirror_boot disk ....now the system starts to boot & then abruptly comes to 
single user mode.

# who -r

shows the system is in run level 5....

I am not getting it since the system is mirrored i thought it shld boot up 
with the mirrors... & shld it come to level 5 ?

# metastat

it shows only root disk mirror neeeding maintainance and rest of the mirrors 
are in "ok" state  inspite of having  subdisks in mirror on the disks which 
are not showing in

ok probe-fcal-all
# format

now i am thinking of breaking the mirrors & booting up the sytem... would 
the E3500 require any special steps for making it boot through "disk 4" on 
controller 2 ... or how can i make my system to boot upto multi-user mode 
since one of the submirrors of all mirrors are on disks which show up.

any help is appreciated

regards
ashish n

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From john.b.holland at verizon.com  Sun May  2 16:31:11 2004
From: john.b.holland at verizon.com (john.b.holland at verizon.com)
Date: Sun, 2 May 2004 16:31:11 -0400
Subject: smpatch problems
Message-ID: <OF2A24CC79.90372FD6-ON85256E88.00707872-85256E88.0070B72B@core.verizon.com>

I'm trying to use patchpro and smpatch on Solaris 9. I installed it and
downloaded a large number of patches using the SMC;
then I installed them with a list-based install in single user mode and
rebooted with boot -r. The system seems OK -- except
now smpatch will not work.

When I try to do any smpatch commands, it seems to run for a bit (based on
top and iostat) and then lock up. I tried reinstalling
the ppro22 packages but that hasn't made any difference.

Any suggestions of how to try and solve this problem would be appreciated.

Thanks,

John Holland


From sun1sol at yahoo.com  Sun May  2 22:45:23 2004
From: sun1sol at yahoo.com (ert weerr)
Date: Sun, 2 May 2004 19:45:23 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: L25 tape library and Solaris 8?
Message-ID: <20040503024523.36495.qmail@web90102.mail.scd.yahoo.com>

Hi guruz,

I attached a new L25 tape library to a V240 w. 
Solaris 8.
However I can see the unit after probe-scsi-all, I
can't find that under the operating system:

ok probe-scsi-all
/pci at 1c,600000/scsi at 2,1

/pci at 1c,600000/scsi at 2
Target 0
  Unit 0   Disk     FUJITSU MAP3367N SUN36G 0401
Target 1
  Unit 0   Disk     SEAGATE ST336607LSUN36G 0307

/pci at 1e,600000/pci at 3/scsi at 5

/pci at 1e,600000/pci at 3/scsi at 4
Target 0
  Unit 0   Removable Medium changer    ATL     1500   
        3.07
Target 1
  Unit 0   Removable Tape     QUANTUM SDLT320        
2E2E
Target 2
  Unit 0   Removable Tape     QUANTUM SDLT320        
2E2E


# ls -l /dev/rmt
#
# cfgadm
Ap_Id                          Type         Receptacle
  Occupant     Condition
c0                             scsi-bus     connected 
  configured   unknown
c1                             scsi-bus     connected 
  configured   unknown
c2                             scsi-bus     connected 
  unconfigured unknown

I already issued the devfsadm;tapes, devfsadm -Cc
tapes, reboot -- -r, touch /reconfigure,
etc. commands, but nothing changed...

Could you help me please to configure that library
under Solaris?

Thanks in advance!

John


	
		
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From zoo11 at hst.co.kr  Sun May  2 23:01:28 2004
From: zoo11 at hst.co.kr (Joohyun Cha)
Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 12:01:28 +0900
Subject: NFS client problem
Message-ID: <20040503030128.GA3097@mail.hst.co.kr>

Hi. Gurus.

There is NFS server with VCS active/standby configuration and it has
exported  directory to clients.
When NFS server goes down or goes into failover phase, requests to
that server of nfs client get no response about 20sec. and says 
"no response" or errors.
I want to decrease this to 3-5sec. so that my application can recognize 
that there's something wrong rapidly. I've been work with various mount_nfs
options (proto,retry,timeo,retrans etc) but no lucks.

Please give me some advice.
Thanks in advance.
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j*=j;j=j%2?j:7;j*=j%8?1:0;}printf("%c1\n",49);}
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From paul.greidanus at ualberta.ca  Mon May  3 00:51:07 2004
From: paul.greidanus at ualberta.ca (Paul Greidanus)
Date: Sun, 02 May 2004 22:51:07 -0600
Subject: L100 and V240 Server
Message-ID: <7D322B90-9CBD-11D8-8B8F-000A959E0FEA@ualberta.ca>

I was wondering if anyone out there is using a L100 tape drive with 4 
LTO tape drives?  I've been told that the 240 dosn't have the CPU to 
handle the 4 15-30MBps streams, and I was wondering what the rest of 
the people in the trenches have found in the real world?

Or, has anyone tried it on a V60x?

Thanks


From john.morrison at adm.vxu.se  Mon May  3 05:19:11 2004
From: john.morrison at adm.vxu.se (John Morrison)
Date: Mon, 03 May 2004 11:19:11 +0200
Subject: SAN FastT700 and JNI HBA
Message-ID: <40960E8F.8060806@adm.vxu.se>

Hi Oh, Great ones!

E420R with Solaris 9 installed with SFS 4.4 and 2 single Solaris JNI 
PCI-X SG-XPCI1FC-JF2 Model:FCX-6562-L HBA's
!!Please see attatched diagram.!!

This is the way I have it set up and the problem is, I cant get both 
paths to work together. The optimal path with the disk on the fastT700 
works fine, but the degraded path I have problems reading it.


cfgadm -al
c4                             fc-fabric    connected    unconfigured 
unknown
c4::200400a0b80fe6c2           disk         connected    unconfigured 
unknown
c5                             fc-fabric    connected    configured   
unknown
c5::200500a0b80fe6c2           disk         connected    unconfigured   
unknown

cfgadm -c configure c5::200500a0b80fe6c2

May  2 23:41:27 zeus scsi: [ID 799468 kern.info] ssd2 at scsi_vhci0: 
name g600a0b80000fe6c10000000a4062baa0, bus address 
g600a0b80000fe6c10000000a4062baa0
May  2 23:41:27 zeus genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] ssd2 is 
/scsi_vhci/ssd at g600a0b80000fe6c10000000a4062baa0
May  2 23:41:27 zeus mpxio: [ID 669396 kern.info] 
/scsi_vhci/ssd at g600a0b80000fe6c10000000a4062baa0 (ssd2) multipath 
status: degraded, path /pci at 1f,2000/SUNW,jfca at 1/fp at 0,0 (fp1) to target 
address: 200500a0b80fe6c2,0 is online. Load balancing: round-robin
May  2 23:41:27 zeus genunix: [ID 408114 kern.info] 
/scsi_vhci/ssd at g600a0b80000fe6c10000000a4062baa0 (ssd2) online

cfgadm -c configure c4::200400a0b80fe6c2

May  3 10:48:50 zeus mpxio: [ID 669396 kern.info] 
/scsi_vhci/ssd at g600a0b80000fe6c10000000a4062baa0 (ssd2) multipath 
status: optimal, path /pci at 1f,4000/SUNW,jfca at 2/fp at 0,0 (fp0) to target 
address: 200400a0b80fe6c2,0 is online. Load balancing: round-robin


format
Searching for disks...
Mode sense page(3) reports nsect value as 64, adjusting it to 64
done

c6t600A0B80000FE6C10000000A4062BAA0d0: configured with capacity of 820.12GB


AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:
       0. c0t0d0 <SUN36G cyl 24620 alt 2 hd 27 sec 107>
          /pci at 1f,4000/scsi at 3/sd at 0,0
       1. c0t1d0 <SUN36G cyl 24620 alt 2 hd 27 sec 107>
          /pci at 1f,4000/scsi at 3/sd at 1,0
       2. c6t600A0B80000FE6C10000000A4062BAA0d0 <IBM-1742-0520 cyl 52488 
alt 2 hd 512 sec 64>
          /scsi_vhci/ssd at g600a0b80000fe6c10000000a4062baa0
Specify disk (enter its number): 2
selecting c6t600A0B80000FE6C10000000A4062BAA0d0
[disk formatted]
Disk not labeled.  Label it now? yes
Warning: error writing VTOC.
Illegal request during read
ASC: 0x94   ASCQ: 0x1
Warning: error reading backup label.
Illegal request during read
ASC: 0x94   ASCQ: 0x1
Warning: error reading backup label.
Warning: some backup labels incorrect
Write label failed

But without the other configured:

root at zeus: cfgadm -c unconfigure c4::200400a0b80fe6c2
root at zeus: format
Searching for disks...done


AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:
       0. c0t0d0 <SUN36G cyl 24620 alt 2 hd 27 sec 107>
          /pci at 1f,4000/scsi at 3/sd at 0,0
       1. c0t1d0 <SUN36G cyl 24620 alt 2 hd 27 sec 107>
          /pci at 1f,4000/scsi at 3/sd at 1,0
       2. c6t600A0B80000FE6C10000000A4062BAA0d0 <IBM-1742-0520 cyl 52488 
alt 2 hd 512 sec 64>
          /scsi_vhci/ssd at g600a0b80000fe6c10000000a4062baa0
Specify disk (enter its number): 2
selecting c6t600A0B80000FE6C10000000A4062BAA0d0
[disk formatted]

No problems!

But If I turn load balacing off and configure the degrade path first 
then the optimal path last, it works also! BUT the failover wont work, 
as the drgraded path cant be read.


I can mount-read-write it when it is hasnt got the other degraded path 
disk configured or when load balacing is off and both disks are 
configured, in a certain order. But off course pulling out the optimal 
path fibre cable whilst copying to san, I/O error..............

The disk on the FastT700 is owned by one controller at a time, thus 
given the optimal path! But why on eath cant it read it on the non-owned 
controller path?.....


root at zeus: more scsi_vhci.conf
#
# Copyright (c) 2001 by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
# All rights reserved.
#
#pragma ident   "@(#)scsi_vhci.conf     1.3     01/08/22 SMI"
#
name="scsi_vhci" class="root";
#
# mpxio global enable/disable switch: setting mpxio-disable="no" will 
activate
# I/O multipathing; setting mpxio-disable="yes" disables this feature (do
# not remove this property).
#
mpxio-disable="no";
#
# Load balancing global configuration: setting load-balance="none" will 
cause
# all I/O to a given device (which supports multipath I/O) to occur via one
# path.  Setting load-balance="round-robin" will cause each path to the 
device
# to be used in turn.
#
load-balance="round-robin";
#
# Force load driver to support hotplug activity (do not remove this 
property).
#
ddi-forceattach=1;
# Automatic failback configuration
# possible values are auto-failback="enable" or auto-failback="disable"
#
# This functionality requires patch 113039-02 (or higher).
#
auto-failback="enable";
#
# For enabling MPxIO support for 3rd party symmetric device need an
# entry similar to following in this file. Just replace the "SUN     SENA"
# part with the Vendor ID/Product ID for the device, exactly as reported by
# Inquiry cmd.
#
# This functionality requires patch 113039-02 (or higher).
#
device-type-scsi-options-list =
"IBM     1742            ", "symmetric-option";
symmetric-option = 0x1000000;







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From scantos at technodiva.com  Mon May  3 07:11:38 2004
From: scantos at technodiva.com (Sbastien Cantos)
Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 13:11:38 +0200
Subject: SNDR + Volume down
Message-ID: <20040503111133.813791E54F@sunportal.sunmanagers.org>

Hello,

I've got a strange error in my SNDR data replication process. It says that
the volume is Down. What I can see is that there's activity on the backup
server's disk. Furthermore, I can read and write on the master server's
disk.
But When I look at iostat -xn output I don't see any activity on the
master's disk even if I do a mkfile 100M blah on this partition.

Seems that the volume is working well, but that /dev/kstat doesn't return
good information.

Anyone could help ?

PS: I'm using solaris on E450 boxes.

Regards,
--
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Responsable riseau et systhmes
Neopost DIVA


From stanb at panix.com  Mon May  3 09:15:41 2004
From: stanb at panix.com (stan)
Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 09:15:41 -0400
Subject: Mail help on Solaris 8
Message-ID: <20040503131541.GA4178@teddy.fas.com>

We had a vendor upgarde some systems from Solaris 2.5 to Solaris 8 last
week.

Now mail does not work from teh new machines. The machines are
(deliberatly) nt in our DNS, so mai from them has always been a bit
starnge. mail from them goes to a dedicalted mail machine, and it's in the
hosts file like this:

170.85.109.23   pmail.xxxx.com pmail mailhost

I'm seeing errors like this in /var/log/syslog:

May  1 04:13:01 AW0550 sendmail[23504]: [ID 801593 mail.crit] NOQUEUE: SYSERR(ro ot): /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 77: fileclass: cannot open '/etc/mail/local-hos t-names': Group writable directory
May  1 04:13:01 AW0550 sendmail[23504]: [ID 801593 mail.crit] NOQUEUE: SYSERR(ro ot): /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 492: fileclass: cannot open '/etc/mail/trusted- users': Group writable directory

So, I'm geussing that /etc/mail has the wrong permissions. It's

drwxr-xr-x   2 root     mail         512 May  6  2002 /etc/mail

So, what should it be?

Or is htis not the problem at all?

-- 
"They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve
neither liberty nor safety."
						-- Benjamin Franklin


From paul.clayton at intec.co.za  Mon May  3 09:10:17 2004
From: paul.clayton at intec.co.za (Paul Clayton)
Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 15:10:17 +0200
Subject: Environment variables
Message-ID: <9290BC9741D67F43BDAAC84144FF870D018403E0@intecserver007.intec.co.za>

Gurus,

Since updating the latest jumbo patches, I have got a weird environment
issue.
We are getting some odd oracle variables, that are finding there way in at
what appears to be boot time.

The variable concerned is ORA_NLS33

We see this variable when logging in, and when I checked using truss, I
found the environment variable in inetd as well, so it is exported from some
where. I have check /etc/profile, /etc/issue, /etc/motd, /.profile, etc,
etc.

Any ideas

Regards

Unix like TeePee no windows, no gates, Apache inside.
 Paul Clayton
Global Unix Co-ordinator
Intec Telecom Systems
Ph +27 (0) 21 4309000
Fax +27 (0) 21 4309025
Mobile +27(0) 832853403


From tkevans at tkevans.com  Mon May  3 09:58:41 2004
From: tkevans at tkevans.com (Tim Evans)
Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 09:58:41 -0400
Subject: Free to a Good (Non-Profit) Home
Message-ID: <20040503135841.M74178@tkevans.com>

I have an OEM-assembled "Ultra 5-alike" available for donation to a non-profit
organization.  This system is based on the Sun Microelectronics Ultra AXi
system board. See:

http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/nep/hardware/boards/axi/index.html

This is a genuine Sun system board, the equivalent of an Ultra 5, with the
added bonus of on-board dual-channel Ultra-SCSI support; no steenking IDE
drives here.  System has internal 2GB SCSI disk, CD-ROM, 192MB RAM, six
32-bit/33-MHz PCI slots, and Sun PGX video, in a tower configuration.

You pay shipping from Baltimore, MD USA.  I will need documentation of your
non-profit status.
--
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From solaris_30 at indiatimes.com  Mon May  3 10:05:00 2004
From: solaris_30 at indiatimes.com (solaris_30)
Date: Mon, 03 May 2004 19:35:00 +0530
Subject: V880 Error
Message-ID: <200405031330.TAA20072@WS0005.indiatimes.com>

 Hi 

I have sun V880 Server with Solaris 8 .
i am getting below errors , can any one tell me why these errors are comming in system log.

[ID 596940 kern.warning] WARNING: [AFT0] 36298 so
ft errors in less than 24:00 (hh:mm) detected from Memory Module Slot B: J3200


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From jmatthews at t-graphic.com  Mon May  3 11:54:55 2004
From: jmatthews at t-graphic.com (Jack Matthews)
Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 09:54:55 -0600
Subject: Installing extra memoory on E450
Message-ID: <00ff01c43126$faf190b0$1000a8c0@tgraphic.com>

I am installing an additional 512MB of ram into an E450 SUN server to add to
the 512MB currently installed. My swap space is 512MB. Do I have to increase
the size of swap to 1GB? This would mean a rebuild of the slices
(re-install) And I just cry to think about the time and work to do that. Any
suggestions?

Thanks to all,

Jack


From jmatthews at t-graphic.com  Mon May  3 11:58:24 2004
From: jmatthews at t-graphic.com (Jack Matthews)
Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 09:58:24 -0600
Subject: Cold swap of disks do not fire up.
Message-ID: <010001c43127$779ab650$1000a8c0@tgraphic.com>

I have installed three new 9.0GB Hard drives into an E450 SUN Server. These
are extra disks and not the boot disks.
However, after doing even a boot -r they are not able to be formatted. each
time I try to format them console reports they are missing lables or are not
ready. any ideas on this one?


Thanks,

Jack


From jmatthews at t-graphic.com  Mon May  3 14:40:30 2004
From: jmatthews at t-graphic.com (Jack Matthews)
Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 12:40:30 -0600
Subject: UPDATE: Cold swap of disks do not fire up.
In-Reply-To: <010001c43127$779ab650$1000a8c0@tgraphic.com>
Message-ID: <000901c4313e$1c9ed080$1000a8c0@tgraphic.com>

I have the following additional information.
They are sun seagate ST39204LC. One says it did not power up at boot up one
says it has a corrupt lable and the last one gives no indication of issues
until you run format then lots of bad label messages.
When I go to format and partition and label I get the following feedback
from console;


-----Original Message-----
From: sunmanagers-bounces at sunmanagers.org
[mailto:sunmanagers-bounces at sunmanagers.org]On Behalf Of Jack Matthews
Sent: Monday, May 03, 2004 9:58 AM
To: sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org
Subject: Cold swap of disks do not fire up.


I have installed three new 9.0GB Hard drives into an E450 SUN Server. These
are extra disks and not the boot disks.
However, after doing even a boot -r they are not able to be formatted. each
time I try to format them console reports they are missing lables or are not
ready. any ideas on this one?


Thanks,

Jack
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May  3 11:59:06 bohr scsi: WARNING: /pci at 1f,4000/scsi at 3/sd at 2,0 (sd2):
May  3
11:59:06 bohr    Error for Command: load/start/stop         Error Level:
Retryable
May  3 11:59:06 bohr scsi:      Requested Block: 0
Error Block: 0
May  3 11:59:06 bohr scsi:      Vendor: SEAGATE
Serial Number:             
May  3 11:59:06 bohr scsi:      Sense Key: Not
Ready
May  3 11:59:06 bohr scsi:      ASC: 0x4 (LUN not ready), ASCQ: 0x0,
FRU: 0x2
May  3 11:59:11 bohr scsi: WARNING: /pci at 1f,4000/scsi at 3/sd at 2,0 (sd2):
May  3 11:59:11 bohr    Error for Command: load/start/stop         Error
Level: Retryable
May  3 11:59:11 bohr scsi:      Requested Block: 0
Error Block: 0
May  3 11:59:11 bohr scsi:      Vendor: SEAGATE
Serial Number:             
May  3 11:59:11 bohr scsi:      Sense Key: Not
Ready
May  3 11:59:11 bohr scsi:      ASC: 0x4 (LUN not ready), ASCQ: 0x0,
FRU: 0x2
May  3 11:59:16 bohr scsi: WARNING: /pci at 1f,4000/scsi at 3/sd at 2,0 (sd2):
May  3 11:59:16 bohr    Error for Command: load/start/stop         Error
Level: Retryable
May  3 11:59:16 bohr scsi:      Requested Block: 0
Error Block: 0
May  3 11:59:16 bohr scsi:      Vendor: SEAGATE
Serial Number:             
May  3 11:59:16 bohr scsi:      Sense Key: Not
Ready
May  3 11:59:16 bohr scsi:      ASC: 0x4 (LUN not ready), ASCQ: 0x0,
FRU: 0x2
May  3 11:59:21 bohr scsi: WARNING: /pci at 1f,4000/scsi at 3/sd at 2,0 (sd2):
May  3 11:59:21 bohr    Error for Command: load/start/stop         Error
Level: Retryable
May  3 11:59:21 bohr scsi:      Requested Block: 0
Error Block: 0
May  3 11:59:21 bohr scsi:      Vendor: SEAGATE
Serial Number:             
May  3 11:59:21 bohr scsi:      Sense Key: Not
Ready
May  3 11:59:21 bohr scsi:      ASC: 0x4 (LUN not ready), ASCQ: 0x0,
FRU: 0x2
May  3 11:59:26 bohr scsi: WARNING: /pci at 1f,4000/scsi at 3/sd at 2,0 (sd2):
May  3 11:59:26 bohr    Error for Command: load/start/stop         Error
Level: Retryable
May  3 11:59:26 bohr scsi:      Requested Block: 0
Error Block: 0
May  3 11:59:26 bohr scsi:      Vendor: SEAGATE
Serial Number:             
May  3 11:59:26 bohr scsi:      Sense Key: Not
Ready
May  3 11:59:26 bohr scsi:      ASC: 0x4 (LUN not ready), ASCQ: 0x0,
FRU: 0x2
May  3 11:59:31 bohr scsi: WARNING: /pci at 1f,4000/scsi at 3/sd at 2,0 (sd2):
May  3 11:59:31 bohr    Error for Command: load/start/stop         Error
Level: Retryable
May  3 11:59:31 bohr scsi:      Requested Block: 0
Error Block: 0
May  3 11:59:31 bohr scsi:      Vendor: SEAGATE
Serial Number:             
May  3 11:59:31 bohr scsi:      Sense Key: Not
Ready
May  3 11:59:31 bohr scsi:      ASC: 0x4 (LUN not ready), ASCQ: 0x0,
FRU: 0x2
May  3 11:59:34 bohr scsi: WARNING: /pci at 1f,4000/scsi at 3/sd at 2,0 (sd2):
May  3 11:59:34 bohr    offline
May  3 11:59:36 bohr scsi: WARNING:
/pci at 1f,4000/scsi at 3/sd at 2,0 (sd2):
May  3 11:59:36 bohr    Error for Command:
load/start/stop         Error Level: Retryable
May  3 11:59:36 bohr scsi:
Requested Block: 0                         Error Block: 0
May  3 11:59:36 bohr
scsi:      Vendor: SEAGATE                            Serial Number:
May  3 11:59:36 bohr scsi:      Sense Key: Not Ready
May  3 11:59:36 bohr
scsi:      ASC: 0x4 (LUN not ready), ASCQ: 0x0, FRU: 0x2
May  3 11:59:41 bohr
scsi: WARNING: /pci at 1f,4000/scsi at 3/sd at 2,0 (sd2):
May  3 11:59:41 bohr    Error
for Command: load/start/stop         Error Level: Retryable
May  3 11:59:41
bohr scsi:      Requested Block: 0                         Error Block: 0
May
3 11:59:41 bohr scsi:      Vendor: SEAGATE                            Serial
Number:             
May  3 11:59:41 bohr scsi:      Sense Key: Not Ready
May
3 11:59:41 bohr scsi:      ASC: 0x4 (LUN not ready), ASCQ: 0x0, FRU: 0x2
May
3 11:59:44 bohr scsi: WARNING: /pci at 1f,4000/scsi at 3/sd at 3,0 (sd3):
May  3
11:59:44 bohr    corrupt label - label checksum failed


From CliftRT at NSWC.NAVY.MIL  Mon May  3 14:40:27 2004
From: CliftRT at NSWC.NAVY.MIL (Clift Robert T CONT DLVA)
Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 14:40:27 -0400 
Subject: Please ignore
Message-ID: <BDD35658B859D51187AB00508BB8203005D2C374@nswcdlvaex12.nswc.navy.mil>

Testing sunmanagers mail.

Tom Clift
FTI/K55
540-653-8023


From shahul.hameed at uktransco.com  Mon May  3 14:47:51 2004
From: shahul.hameed at uktransco.com (shahul.hameed at uktransco.com)
Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 19:47:51 +0100
Subject: System memory monitoring tool
Message-ID: <OF3DA4E802.147A2796-ON80256E89.006710A4@uktransco.com>

Hi Guys,

Could someone tell me which is the best tool monitor system memory usage in
Sun Solaris. I want to monitor continuously for a day, not once. Please
throw some light on it.

Thanks and Regards

Shahul Hameed


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From feng.qiu at bms.com  Mon May  3 15:20:43 2004
From: feng.qiu at bms.com (Feng Qiu)
Date: Mon, 03 May 2004 15:20:43 -0400
Subject: cp files by date
References: <A9A399F09DFBD41197510002A50918601209ABBC@estcp.tcp.com.ar>
Message-ID: <40969B8B.F051A7E@bms.com>

Hi, all,
Is there a way to cp the files by their time stamp (date)?
Thanks.
Feng


From solaris_30 at indiatimes.com  Mon May  3 15:14:50 2004
From: solaris_30 at indiatimes.com (solaris_30)
Date: Tue, 04 May 2004 00:44:50 +0530
Subject: backup fail
Message-ID: <200405031840.AAA31666@WS0005.indiatimes.com>

 Hi 

I am getting this error when take backup manually/cronjob .

DUMP: NEEDS ATTENTION: Cannot open `alpha:/dev/rmt/0n'.  Do you want to retry the open?: ("yes" or "no")



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From pawel.branski at foreseeresults.com  Mon May  3 16:38:29 2004
From: pawel.branski at foreseeresults.com (Pawel Branski)
Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 16:38:29 -0400
Subject: SEToolkit 3.3.1 with the bge interface
Message-ID: <048CCF2084B1A24B9366E16D6AF177BEEABB85@MAIL.foreseeresults.com>

Hi,

I am working on adding the bge (I have a couple of V210) interface to
SEToolKit 3.3.1 to collect the system stats.  I have looked at the FAQ,
setup all as explained, still no luck.  If you have done it and is
working, It would be great to get the pointer on how to?

Regards, Pawel


From tkevans at tkevans.com  Mon May  3 20:41:22 2004
From: tkevans at tkevans.com (Tim Evans)
Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 20:41:22 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: SUMMARY: Solaris Data Backup Utility 5.5.x Media?
Message-ID: <200405040041.i440fM3u005199@osprey.tkevans.com>

I wrote:

>Anyone have this CD-ROM available for loan or download? I need to transfer my
>license to a new system, and cannot find mine.

Thanks to Gerard Henry <ghenry at cmi.univ-mrs.fr> for making a copy of the CD
contents available for downloading. Sun wanted a blood-signed affadavit to
transfer my license, but finally came through.

I lost some e-mail over the weekend while working on my new system, so for
anyone else who may have offered help here, thanks as well.
--
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From chaplina at canisius.edu  Mon May  3 20:58:47 2004
From: chaplina at canisius.edu (Andrew Chaplin)
Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 20:58:47 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Sunfreeware OpenSSH 3.8p1 hostbased auth problem Solaris 9
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.56.0405032044260.11460@gort.canisius.edu>

Client and server are running generic Solaris 9 patched to a recent
9_Recommended.

Both have OpenSSH 3.8p1.  Sun's version of ssh has been completely removed
(including /etc/ssh).  I've also explicitly disabled OpenSSH protocol 1.

Config files and keys are set properly to allow for hostbased auth.

Problem: hostbased authentication only works when the client has ssh suid root.

One of the OpenSSH devs suggested that for Solaris it could be hardcoded
that in order to connect to a server a privileged source port must be
used.  There is a configuration file option for the ssh client which
determines whether a privileged source port is used, but by default this
is turned off.  I've tested connecting with the option not in the config
file and also with it explicitly set in the config file.

My first question: is anybody running Solaris 9 and OpenSSH with hostbased
authentication?  If not Solaris 9 then perhaps 2.6-8?

I'll summarize responses and include debug output if it's necessary to
pinpoint the problem/solution.

Thanks!

--------------------------------------------------------------------
Andrew Chaplin, System Administrator II
Information Technology Services, Canisius College, Buffalo, NY
mailto: chaplina at canisius.edu


From sun at oryx.cc  Tue May  4 00:07:06 2004
From: sun at oryx.cc (Jerry K)
Date: Mon, 03 May 2004 23:07:06 -0500
Subject: SunRay 1 boot problems /26D and /var/dt/Xerrors problem
Message-ID: <409716EA.9000909@oryx.cc>

I have picked up a SunRay 1 to play with in my at home lab.  I feel that 
I am very close to getting it up and going, but I am stuck with an OSD 
26D error from the SunRay.  The full OSD square gives me the MAC 
address, the DCHP IP address as assigned by the SunRay server, 100F for 
a 100 Mb full duplex connection and at the bottom, the ip address of the 
  SunRay server.  The 26D is in the bottom right corner.

I have also found this in the /var/dt/Xerrors file:

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

/dev/sunray: No such file or directory
Graphics Adapter device /dev/sunray is of unknown type

Fatal server error:
InitOutput: Error loading module for /dev/sunray

Mon May  3 22:45:49 2004
error (pid 471): Server for display :2 terminated unexpectedly 1

Mon May  3 22:45:50 2004
error (pid 471): Server for display :2 can't be started.

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

I do not have a /dev/sunray file/directory, and I am unsure how to 
create it, or what install process should have created it.

I have also found (2) recent messages in the archives, which provided 
some insight, but got me no further along.  One concerns a new patch 
(114880-04) for srss 2.0 and another titled "Summary: Getting Sun Ray to 
work" which I will post below.

I have spent a lot of time searching at docs.sun.com and doing 
yahoo/google searches, and have found the documentation for SunRay's to 
be some what sparse.

Thanks for any pointers or help.  I will summarize.

Jerry K

======================================================
Summary: Getting Sun Ray to work archive posting
======================================================


Dear managers,

special thanks to

Jarett Stevens
Lebar, Rusell
Loukins, Jeremy
Tim, Chipman

I finally got the Sun Ray to work with th followin approach

     cd /opt/SUNWut/sbin
     ./utadm -D 192.168.1.0
     ./utadm -r
     ./utadm -A 192.168.1.0
     ./utadm -c
     ./utrestart
     pntadm -P 192.168.1.0

Using

     ./utadm -a eri0

was not a good idea as it turned out. After getting the Sun Ray working 
one can set the resolution with

     ./utsettings
     ./utxconfig -r 1024x768 -s off

Works great. Unfortunately the setting of the resolution does not 
survive a system reboot. But I can live with that for a while...

Regards,

   Andreas


From PhippsAC at telkom.co.za  Tue May  4 02:54:40 2004
From: PhippsAC at telkom.co.za (Adrian Phipps (AC))
Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 08:54:40 +0200
Subject: File system taking the mickey
Message-ID: <EAA78BFC56F71A4799E5574333D179A1601B9B@tygrra01-xs02.telkom.co.za>

Hi all,

I have a strange one, my /var file system is showing 100% full but
when I look at the output of du -k, there are no directorys taking up
all that space. Any ideas?

hostname(/)# df -k /var
Filesystem            kbytes    used   avail capacity  Mounted on
/dev/vx/dsk/var      4131866 4056268   34280   100%    /var

hostname(/var)# du -k | sort -nr | pg
315393  .
310340  ./sadm


regards


Adrian Phipps
90 Durban Road
IT Building
Bellville
Work 021-949 4642
Cell 082 787 7321
Fax 021-945 4740

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From fergus at twig.demon.co.uk  Tue May  4 03:13:38 2004
From: fergus at twig.demon.co.uk (Fergus McMenemie)
Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 08:13:38 +0100
Subject: Help, Solaris 5.8 power management is too confusing.
In-Reply-To: <001801c43138$ddc7e090$1001a8c0@awc.mod.uk>
References: <001801c43138$ddc7e090$1001a8c0@awc.mod.uk>
Message-ID: <p04330100bcbc68cc9c6b@[192.168.0.14]>

Hello

I have an /etc/power.conf set as follows

>statefile //.CPR
>autoshutdown 30 18:00 09:00 shutdown
>device-depenency-property removable-media /dev/fb
>autopm disable

However my sun ultra 1 running SunOS 5.8 continually shuts down during the
day if left unattended for 30min. For my money this whole utility is one of
suns worst documented and the GUI is little better. There is no way the
average admin can get the best from this facility, forcing them to disable
power management completely and wasting energy.

Can anybody point out what I am doing wrong? I would like the systems to
fall a sleep after 30min of inactivity between 6pm in the evening and 9am
the next morning.

Also, if a workstation is being used as an Xterminal is there any setting I
can configure so that the system wont fall asleep as I am working on it?

-- 

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Techmore Limited,               Phone:(UK) 07721 376021
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Boothby Graffoe, Lincoln,
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From PhippsAC at telkom.co.za  Tue May  4 03:27:32 2004
From: PhippsAC at telkom.co.za (Adrian Phipps (AC))
Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 09:27:32 +0200
Subject: SUMMARY: File system taking the mickey
Message-ID: <EAA78BFC56F71A4799E5574333D179A1601BA4@tygrra01-xs02.telkom.co.za>

Hi all,

The general consensus was that the quickest way to resolve this will
be to reboot the server, as I do have this option I think that a
reboot will be the next step. Thanks to all that replied with their
comments.

Thanks


Adrian Phipps
90 Durban Road
IT Building
Bellville
Work 021-949 4642
Cell 082 787 7321
Fax 021-945 4740

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>  -----Original Message-----
> From: 	Adrian Phipps (AC)
> Sent:	Tuesday, May 04, 2004 8:55 AM
> To:	'sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org'
> Subject:	File system taking the mickey
>
> Hi all,
>
> I have a strange one, my /var file system is showing 100% full but
> when I look at the output of du -k, there are no directorys taking
> up all that space. Any ideas?
>
> hostname(/)# df -k /var
> Filesystem            kbytes    used   avail capacity  Mounted on
> /dev/vx/dsk/var      4131866 4056268   34280   100%    /var
>
> hostname(/var)# du -k | sort -nr | pg
> 315393  .
> 310340  ./sadm
>
>
> regards
>
>
> Adrian Phipps
> 90 Durban Road
> IT Building
> Bellville
> Work 021-949 4642
> Cell 082 787 7321
> Fax 021-945 4740
>
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From nth5709 at hcm.vnn.vn  Tue May  4 03:49:58 2004
From: nth5709 at hcm.vnn.vn (NGUYEN TRUNG HIEU)
Date: Tue, 04 May 2004 14:49:58 +0700
Subject: UPS Management Software
Message-ID: <40974B26.6020803@hcm.vnn.vn>

About installation [GENEREX UPS Software UPSMAN V4 / RCCMD CD-ROM 
Release 4.17] on Solaris 2.6

Documents printed in Unix.Solution software that it can support SUN 
SOLARIS 2 SPARC CPU, SunOS 5.1, 5.6, 5.7 and 5.8 also,
but I can't see any option for SunOS 5.6 in installation states.

I tried install with other options (with Sol-2.5, Sol-2.7, and Sol-2.8 
available),
I 've just received
[The process UPSMAN does not start. "Error 4605: Connection timeout 
failure"] on the console.

I installed Win.Solution software on windows2k servers, it worked well 
on the same link controlled cable and rs-232 interface configuration. 
So, following the faq which explain the error code, i think my software 
maybe not work right.

My UPS model is Digys 15KVA 3/1
config port: /dev/ttya:9600,n,8,1

Any suggestions?

Thanks to all,
Hido!


From slautier at amadeus.net  Tue May  4 04:39:54 2004
From: slautier at amadeus.net (Sabrina Lautier)
Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 10:39:54 +0200
Subject: SUMMARY: How to restrict NIS users access to some servers
Message-ID: <OF202BA590.E45A1D0B-ONC1256E8A.00239AD7@amadeus.net>

All,

Thanks again to all of you who responded.

The solution is the netgroup.

For those interested, you will find below John Timon's explanation which
was very useful (the man page for this didn't help me enough).
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Essentially a netgroup is an ordered triplet.

(hostname, username, domain)

you create a netgroup map in your NIS maps directory structured like this

group1 (server1,curly,) (server1,larry,) (server1,moe,)

build this map

then on server1 make sure that the nsswitch.conf file has compat set for
passwd.  this allows you to add NIS specific information to the bottom of
the /etc/passwd file.

then add + at group1::::::  to the bottom of the /etc/passwd file.

run pwconv to build a new /etc/shadow file.

now curly, larry, and moe should be allowed to log into server1.

another option to provide selective logins on a given server is to put them
each in the passwd file.

set passwd to compat in /etc/nsswitch.conf and add each user to the
/etc/passwd file like this

say, bill and ted are users in nis that you want to allow access to
server2.

on server2 edit the /etc/nsswitch.conf file setting passwd to compat.  then
add these two lines to the bottom of /etc/passwd

+bill::::::
+ted::::::

run pwconv and both bill and ted should be allowed to log into server2.

I would strongly endorse the purchase of the O'reilly NFS and NIS book.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Regards,

Sabrina Lautier
Amadeus SAS
DEV-IIS-OAU-SYS
+33 (0)4 97 23 09 56
slautier at amadeus.net
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From:  Sabrina Lautier <slautier at amadeus.net>@sunmanagers.org  on
       23/04/2004 10:31 ZE2

Sent by:    sunmanagers-bounces at sunmanagers.org


                                                                          
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Dear admins,

We set up a Sol9 NIS server which works fine and we're looking for a way to
restrict users to some NIS client machines.

For example:
There are 3 unix servers: server1, server2, server3
User users1 can connect to NIS client machine server1 but not to the 2
other ones
User users1 can connect to NIS client machines server1 and server2 but not
to server3
User users2 can connect to all NIS client machines

Is this possible to do that and if yes how would you do it ?

I would like as much as possible to keep the configuration centralized (ie,
not to modify NIS client machines config files).

Thanks a lot for your help.

Regards,

Sabrina Lautier
Amadeus SAS
DEV-IIS-OAU-SYS
+33 (0)4 97 23 09 56
slautier at amadeus.net
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From ml at kcore.org  Tue May  4 05:29:30 2004
From: ml at kcore.org (Jan De Luyck)
Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 11:29:30 +0200
Subject: No logging in /var/adm/messages on Solaris 8 sparc
Message-ID: <200405041129.31248.ml@kcore.org>

Hello all,

I've been looking at this for a while, but I can't figure out what's wrong: I 
get no messages whatsoever in /var/adm/messages, even though there are plenty 
of things pointing to that file in /etc/syslog.conf. Syslog is running, the 
files exist, but aren't filled.

Any pointers?

Thanks.

Jan
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<Knghtbrd> you got ripped off  ;>
<SlayR> i know ;)


From j.garofalo at xpedite.com  Tue May  4 09:28:43 2004
From: j.garofalo at xpedite.com (Jamie Garofalo)
Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 09:28:43 -0400
Subject: SUMMARY: Subversion server help
In-Reply-To: <20040430135121.GA26584@srv79.server4me.com>
Message-ID: <200405041327.i44DRYZ24596@mailserver1.xpedite.com>

I would like to extend my thanks to Chris Pinnock who helped with this
issue. 

Thanks,
Jamie

Do a "make distclean" to remove any cruft or untar the sources again.

./configure --with-berkeley-db=/usr/local

or
./configure --with-berkeley-db=/usr/local/include:/usr/local/lib


./configure --with-berkeley-db 

will search in some standard places.

Also, you make need the runtime library path setup correctly so that the
libraries are found at runtime. this can be done in several ways, but
probably the easiest is to use the crle command.

e.g. crle -u -l /usr/local/lib  (IIRC)


From Fisher at cc.admin.unt.edu  Tue May  4 10:54:34 2004
From: Fisher at cc.admin.unt.edu (Nancy Fisher)
Date: Tue, 04 May 2004 09:54:34 -0500
Subject: directo IO
Message-ID: <s097687c.068@gwia.unt.edu>

I am running solaris 8 latest release with Oracle 9i (32bit) and Veritas
volume manager running on a 6800.  The 6800 has 24g mem.  I want to improve IO
performance without using raw file IO.   We are trying to test direct io and
compare performance with and without direct io.  My questions are:
1.  It is true that asychronous io is automatically turned on in Solaris 8?
2.  Is there a way to turn it off and why would we need to?  Oracle documents
seem to imply that asynchronous io and directio can be used together.
3.  I have added in the vfstab the options of forcdirectio, logging on the
oracle database mountpoints in question.  If the Oracle option of using direct
io is not set in it's init.ora, will the directio still be inforced at the
Solaris level anyway?
4.  What system write call will I look for if running a truss on the pid
writing to the direct io mount point?
5.  If we use direct io,  will the fact that we are only on 32bit oracle be a
problem on a 24g mem machine.

Any information will help.


From trevor.mclachlan at richemont.com  Tue May  4 11:07:31 2004
From: trevor.mclachlan at richemont.com (trevor.mclachlan at richemont.com)
Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 16:07:31 +0100
Subject: /proc filling up
Message-ID: <OFE1F41E4F.13058976-ON80256E8A.0052AA1B@richemont.com>

I just noticed on one of my serversthat / had just filled up to 100% ...
With further investigation, /proc is taking up a lot of space ..... Can
anyone tell me what /proc does, and why I might be getting lots of dumps to
there today ?

This is the listing in /proc - (notice towards the end lots of entries for
todays date) .......

[root at richemont4]> cd /proc
[root at richemont4]> ls -al
total 810
dr-xr-xr-x 157 root     root      254912 May  4 16:05 .
drwxr-xr-x  25 root     root        1024 Feb 23 10:07 ..
dr-x--x--x   5 root     root         736 Jan 22 16:14 0
dr-x--x--x   5 root     root         736 Jan 22 16:14 1
dr-x--x--x   5 nobody   nobody       736 Apr 17 15:29 10191
dr-x--x--x   5 op_prev  panerai      736 Apr  9 12:18 10342
dr-x--x--x   5 nobody   nobody       736 Apr 21 11:25 10482
dr-x--x--x   5 nobody   nobody       736 May  3 03:06 10719
dr-x--x--x   5 nobody   nobody       736 Apr 25 09:30 10828
dr-x--x--x   5 op_live  panerai      736 Apr  9 16:42 11067
dr-x--x--x   5 nobody   nobody       736 Apr 14 04:03 11274
dr-x--x--x   5 nobody   nobody       736 Apr 14 04:05 11277
dr-x--x--x   5 nobody   nobody       736 Apr 25 11:22 11322
dr-x--x--x   5 nobody   nobody       736 Apr 21 13:30 11358
dr-x--x--x   5 nobody   nobody       736 Apr 21 13:30 11360
dr-x--x--x   5 nobody   nobody       736 Apr 17 20:49 11953
dr-x--x--x   5 nobody   nobody       736 May  3 09:21 11970
dr-x--x--x   5 nobody   nobody       736 Apr 25 14:21 11983
dr-x--x--x   5 nobody   nobody       736 May  3 09:37 12050
dr-x--x--x   5 nobody   nobody       736 Apr 17 22:25 12462
dr-x--x--x   5 nobody   nobody       736 Apr 17 22:25 12463
dr-x--x--x   5 nobody   nobody       736 Apr 17 22:30 12503
dr-x--x--x   5 root     root         736 Jan 22 16:14 132
dr-x--x--x   5 nobody   nobody       736 Apr 14 12:26 13788
dr-x--x--x   5 nobody   nobody       736 Apr 14 12:34 13811
dr-x--x--x   5 nobody   nobody       736 Apr 18 08:31 13860
dr-x--x--x   5 nobody   nobody       736 May  3 13:13 13885
dr-x--x--x   5 nobody   nobody       736 Apr 29 12:58 13900
dr-x--x--x   5 nobody   nobody       736 Apr 18 10:38 14248
dr-x--x--x   5 nobody   nobody       736 Apr 14 13:48 14470
dr-x--x--x   5 root     root         736 Feb 18 14:33 14492
dr-x--x--x   5 nobody   nobody       736 Apr 25 22:06 14608
dr-x--x--x   5 root     root         736 Jan 22 16:14 149
dr-x--x--x   5 nobody   nobody       736 Apr 21 20:21 15147
dr-x--x--x   5 root     other        736 Feb  5 09:08 15359
dr-x--x--x   5 nobody   nobody       736 May  3 16:26 15600
dr-x--x--x   5 nobody   nobody       736 Apr 16 13:24 1561
dr-x--x--x   5 nobody   nobody       736 Apr 26 03:34 16005
dr-x--x--x   5 nobody   nobody       736 Apr 26 03:34 16006
dr-x--x--x   5 sys      sys          736 Feb  5 11:25 16208
dr-x--x--x   5 sys      sys          736 Feb  5 11:34 16224
dr-x--x--x   5 sys      sys          736 Feb  5 11:34 16225
dr-x--x--x   5 sys      sys          736 Feb  5 11:34 16226
dr-x--x--x   5 sys      sys          736 Feb  5 11:34 16227
dr-x--x--x   5 nobody   nobody       736 Apr 21 23:57 16354
dr-x--x--x   5 root     other        736 Feb  5 12:07 16387
dr-x--x--x   5 nobody   nobody       736 Apr 18 19:11 16592
dr-x--x--x   5 nobody   nobody       736 Apr 22 01:47 16704
dr-x--x--x   5 sys      sys          736 Feb  5 12:32 16739
dr-x--x--x   5 nobody   nobody       736 Apr 22 03:47 17088
dr-x--x--x   5 root     other        736 Jan 23 16:04 17352
dr-x--x--x   5 root     other        736 Jan 23 16:04 17359
dr-x--x--x   5 root     other        736 Jan 23 16:05 17425
dr-x--x--x   5 root     other        736 Jan 23 16:05 17426
dr-x--x--x   5 root     other        736 Jan 23 16:05 17427
dr-x--x--x   5 root     other        736 Jan 23 16:05 17428
dr-x--x--x   5 root     other        736 Jan 23 16:05 17433
dr-x--x--x   5 root     other        736 Jan 23 16:05 17435
dr-x--x--x   5 root     root         736 Jan 22 16:14 182
dr-x--x--x   5 root     root         736 Feb  5 16:53 18571
dr-x--x--x   5 root     root         736 Jan 22 16:14 188
dr-x--x--x   5 nobody   nobody       736 Apr 15 00:35 18898
dr-x--x--x   5 daemon   daemon       736 Jan 22 16:14 189
dr-x--x--x   5 nobody   nobody       736 Apr 16 14:12 1894
dr-x--x--x   5 nobody   nobody       736 Apr 15 00:40 18957
dr-x--x--x   5 nobody   nobody       736 Apr 23 21:39 1896
dr-x--x--x   5 nobody   nobody       736 Apr 16 14:12 1902
dr-x--x--x   5 nobody   nobody       736 Apr 19 05:04 19104
dr-x--x--x   5 nobody   nobody       736 Apr 19 05:04 19106
dr-x--x--x   5 root     root         736 Jan 22 16:14 192
dr-x--x--x   5 nobody   nobody       736 Apr 19 06:37 19458
dr-x--x--x   5 nobody   nobody       736 Apr 23 21:41 1946
dr-x--x--x   5 nobody   nobody       736 Apr 26 14:59 19506
dr-x--x--x   5 root     root         736 Jan 22 16:14 2
dr-x--x--x   5 root     root         736 Jan 22 16:14 200
dr-x--x--x   5 nobody   nobody       736 Apr 15 04:49 20092
dr-x--x--x   5 nobody   nobody       736 Apr 15 06:58 20435
dr-x--x--x   5 root     root         736 Jan 22 16:14 208
dr-x--x--x   5 nobody   nobody       736 Apr 26 19:11 21749
dr-x--x--x   5 nobody   nobody       736 Apr 26 19:11 21750
dr-x--x--x   5 nobody   nobody       736 Apr 15 10:45 22160
dr-x--x--x   5 nobody   nobody       736 Apr 22 17:29 22260
dr-x--x--x   5 nobody   nobody       736 Apr 22 17:29 22261
dr-x--x--x   5 nobody   nobody       736 Apr 22 17:48 22422
dr-x--x--x   5 nobody   nobody       736 Apr 22 17:48 22425
dr-x--x--x   5 root     other        736 Mar 17 14:55 22858
dr-x--x--x   5 nobody   nobody       736 Apr 27 00:03 23239
dr-x--x--x   5 nobody   nobody       736 Apr 13 01:38 2332
dr-x--x--x   5 nobody   nobody       736 Apr 15 14:00 23465
dr-x--x--x   5 nobody   nobody       736 Apr 13 01:40 2351
dr-x--x--x   5 root     root         736 Jan 22 16:14 241
dr-x--x--x   5 nobody   nobody       736 Apr 15 16:43 24911
dr-x--x--x   5 root     root         736 Jan 22 16:14 251
dr-x--x--x   5 nobody   nobody       736 Apr 27 06:44 25100
dr-x--x--x   5 nobody   nobody       736 Apr 23 03:05 25127
dr-x--x--x   5 nobody   nobody       736 Apr 27 06:50 25133
dr-x--x--x   5 nobody   nobody       736 Apr 23 03:10 25138
dr-x--x--x   5 nobody   nobody       736 Apr 27 07:04 25177
dr-x--x--x   5 root     root         736 Jan 22 16:14 253
dr-x--x--x   5 nobody   nobody       736 Apr 19 18:59 25869
dr-x--x--x   5 root     root         736 Jan 22 16:14 261
dr-x--x--x   5 nobody   nobody       736 Apr 15 19:57 26177
dr-x--x--x   5 nobody   nobody       736 Apr 24 00:16 2630
dr-x--x--x   5 nobody   nobody       736 Apr 24 00:17 2631
dr-x--x--x   5 nobody   nobody       736 May  4 15:21 2645
dr-x--x--x   5 nobody   nobody       736 Apr 23 09:58 26690
dr-x--x--x   5 nobody   nobody       736 Apr 15 21:45 26805
dr-x--x--x   5 nobody   nobody       736 May  4 14:34 26929
dr-x--x--x   5 nobody   nobody       736 May  4 14:35 26993
dr-x--x--x   5 nobody   nobody       736 Apr 12 11:51 28202
dr-x--x--x   5 nobody   nobody       736 Apr 12 13:48 28699
dr-x--x--x   5 root     root         736 Jan 22 16:14 287
dr-x--x--x   5 nobody   nobody       736 Apr 12 16:12 29475
dr-x--x--x   5 exim     other        736 Feb 16 17:51 29542
dr-x--x--x   5 root     root         736 Jan 22 16:14 3
dr-x--x--x   5 root     root         736 Jan 22 16:14 325
dr-x--x--x   5 root     root         736 Jan 22 16:15 331
dr-x--x--x   5 root     root         736 Jan 22 16:15 332
dr-x--x--x   5 root     root         736 Jan 22 16:15 338
dr-x--x--x   5 root     root         736 Jan 22 16:15 341
dr-x--x--x   5 nobody   nobody       736 May  4 15:35 4233
dr-x--x--x   5 nobody   nobody       736 May  4 15:38 4621
dr-x--x--x   5 nobody   nobody       736 Apr 16 20:41 5105
dr-x--x--x   5 root     root         736 Jan 22 16:14 53
dr-x--x--x   5 root     root         736 Jan 22 16:14 55
dr-x--x--x   5 nobody   nobody       736 May  2 08:30 5644
dr-x--x--x   5 nobody   nobody       736 Apr 16 22:54 6004
dr-x--x--x   5 root     root         736 Jan 22 16:14 64
dr-x--x--x   5 root     root         736 May  4 15:52 6400
dr-x--x--x   5 trevor   staff        736 May  4 15:53 6410
dr-x--x--x   5 trevor   staff        736 May  4 15:53 6412
dr-x--x--x   5 nobody   nobody       736 May  4 15:53 6417
dr-x--x--x   5 root     other        736 May  4 15:53 6424
dr-x--x--x   5 root     other        736 May  4 15:55 6707
dr-x--x--x   5 nobody   nobody       736 May  2 14:19 7107
dr-x--x--x   5 root     other        736 May  4 15:59 7293
dr-x--x--x   5 root     other        736 May  4 15:59 7294
dr-x--x--x   5 nobody   nobody       736 May  4 16:03 7332
dr-x--x--x   5 nobody   nobody       736 May  4 16:03 7333
dr-x--x--x   5 nobody   nobody       736 May  4 16:03 7334
dr-x--x--x   5 nobody   nobody       736 May  4 16:04 7341
dr-x--x--x   5 nobody   nobody       736 May  4 16:04 7342
dr-x--x--x   5 nobody   nobody       736 May  4 16:04 7343
dr-x--x--x   5 nobody   nobody       736 May  4 16:04 7344
dr-x--x--x   5 nobody   nobody       736 May  4 16:04 7345
dr-x--x--x   5 nobody   nobody       736 May  4 16:04 7346
dr-x--x--x   5 nobody   nobody       736 May  4 16:04 7347
dr-x--x--x   5 nobody   nobody       736 May  4 16:04 7348
dr-x--x--x   5 nobody   nobody       736 May  4 16:04 7349
dr-x--x--x   5 nobody   nobody       736 May  4 16:04 7350
dr-x--x--x   5 nobody   nobody       736 May  4 16:04 7351
dr-x--x--x   5 nobody   nobody       736 May  4 16:04 7352
dr-x--x--x   5 nobody   nobody       736 May  4 16:04 7358
dr-x--x--x   5 root     other        736 May  4 16:05 7367
dr-x--x--x   5 nobody   nobody       736 Apr 17 07:00 7737
dr-x--x--x   5 nobody   nobody       736 May  2 16:52 8226
dr-x--x--x   5 nobody   nobody       736 May  1 14:09 895

Some are owned by root and some are owned by nobody ... Can someone tell me
what these are ?

Thanks in advance
Trev


From egold at fsa.com  Tue May  4 11:28:31 2004
From: egold at fsa.com (egold at fsa.com)
Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 11:28:31 -0400
Subject: qlogic hba's and SUN SAN 4.4?
Message-ID: <OFF9C6A4C4.F1F20427-ON85256E8A.005495F3-85256E8A.0055021F@fsa.com>

Im running qlogic QLA2340 hbas to connect to SAN disks (a sun 6320) on
solaris 8 02/2004 on a V480.

Do I also need SUN SAN 4.4?

What exactly does SUN SAN do for me?

should i also use sun mpxio in /kernel/drv/scsi_vhci.conf?

any other hba config info would be appreciated.

thanx alot in advance!
Ev


From adrian.popirlan at apec.asso.fr  Tue May  4 11:46:33 2004
From: adrian.popirlan at apec.asso.fr (Adrian POPIRLAN)
Date: Tue, 04 May 2004 17:46:33 +0200
Subject: SUMMARY: Tape Libraries Evaluation
Message-ID: <048c01c431ee$dc9ed230$9005a8c0@apec.fr>

Hello sunmanagers,

A big Thank You to all that answered to the question about the tape
libraries evaluation:

Matt Clausen
Simon Phillips
Ed Alexander
Richard Bond
David Foster
Karyn Wiliams.

#######################################################
The original question:
#######################################################
We are looking to renew the tape library.
We had a L1000 from Sun with DLT7000 .
We are looking now for a mid-range tape library:

 StorageTek L180
ADIC Scalar 1000
Overland Neo 8000

I would like to hear from you about your field hands-on experience and
stories with those libraries or other libraries that you would recommend.
######################################################



And the original answers:

###################
I dont see the Quantum M-series libraries in here.... They're a good
solid library which can grow with your needs. Start off with say an
M-1800 which is 40 slots and up to 4 drives and then you can grow as
needed by adding additional M1500s or M1800s or M2500s plus the proper
stacklink module to expand your library while maintaining your
investment. You can add additional levels without drives as well. We
have a bunch of the Quantum M1500s (7 of them) but only 3 of them have
drives in it.. and if needed we can expand the library up by a few more
levels.

Depending on what you're looking for, these support SDLT or LTO so they
are quite flexible. The only thing you can't do is mix and match... So
it's all SDLT or all LTO.
###################################################

we looked at the Storagetek , Qualstar and ADIC and finally went for the
ADIC Scalar 1000 with AIT3. We've had it about 1 year now and the only fault
was a failure in the web interface module, not important as it's only the
same as the console of the machine. A new one was shipped the same day.
Other than that, it's worked perfectly. The main point for us was the ease
of expansion. We're looking at e additional cabinets and 6 more tape drives
ofer the next year or so. the cabs just bolt onto the main cab and the tape
drives slot in and plug in. Using AIT3, 250 Gb (nominal compressed) means
250Tb (realistically, just under 200Tb) which is a lot of storage! The
recover speed is excellent due to the electronic wizardry of the AIT3
technology.

Can thoroughly recommend.

##################################################
We're using an Overland Neo 4100 with 4 SDLT-320 drives.  We've been
extremely happy with the library and Overland tech support.  Also
important for us is that the Neo is expandable; we can add a second unit
and share the tape drives with the current unit.  HTH.

##################################################
Look at the  Spectralogic T-120 -  SAIT or LTO or --
 We are buying the T950  but considered 2  t-120's insetead.

##################################################
We have used a Qualstar 4080 (80 slots, 2 drives) with
AIT-2 and then AIT-3 tape drives for 3 years, zero
problems and no complaints, it just works.

I'd definitely go with AIT tape technology (see attached
white paper from www.spectralogic.com) over DLT.

The Qualstar is generally cheaper than other brands.
I know that Overland makes very good and reliable
products, we used an old 9-track tape drive that is
now almost 20 years old and still works great!
#################################################
We have had an ADIC Faststor DLT7000 7 bay robot and now have an ADIC
Scalar 24 (LTO2). Never a problem with the hardware. Use with Veritas
Netbackup.
##################################################



I hope that these will help.


From Paul.Porcelli at aggreko.co.uk  Tue May  4 11:48:55 2004
From: Paul.Porcelli at aggreko.co.uk (Paul Porcelli)
Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 16:48:55 +0100
Subject: Adding a modem to a V440
Message-ID: <942FB92EA2501340AE9E896A65481C8301CF3AD6@GLA1MS01.aggrekonet.biz>

Hi folks,
I have just removed a working Multitech MultiModem ZDX
from an E3000 running Solaris 6
and plugged it into the 9 pin serial port on a new V440
running Solaris 8

I used admintool to configure the Modem on /dev/ttya as
for dial out only.
i.e.
# pmadm -l
PMTAG          PMTYPE         SVCTAG         FLGS ID       <PMSPECIFIC>
zsmon          ttymon         ttya           u    root     /dev/term/a - -
/usr/bin/login - 9600 ldterm,ttcompat login:  - - n  #Modem - Dial-Out Only

I have added the following entry to /etc/remote
hardwire2:\
        :dv=/dev/cua/a:br#9600:el=^C^S^Q^U^D:ie=%$:oe=^D:

If I now try to tip to the modem i get the following error:
# tip hardwire2
all ports busy

Any ideas what is happening and how to fix it ?

Many Thanks.
Paul

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From arbalister at arbalister.com  Tue May  4 12:04:50 2004
From: arbalister at arbalister.com (Arbalister)
Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 12:04:50 -0400
Subject: booting from cdrom to restore ld.so.1
Message-ID: <005a01c431f1$93fb5d20$23366bcf@MANAGER>

I pulled a bonehead move - I found an indication that ld.so.1 might have been
having problems, and I was in the midst of replacing it with a good copy. I
mv'd it to ld.so.1.keep rather then copying it...and of course now I can't do
a thing.

I have the solaris 8 installation cd's and I can boot from them, but I only
have a wyse 50 terminal as console. I can't seem to break out of the
interactive installer to mount the file system and recopy ld.so.1

Any suggestions?


From jmatthews at t-graphic.com  Mon May  3 14:57:13 2004
From: jmatthews at t-graphic.com (Jack Matthews)
Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 12:57:13 -0600
Subject: UPDATE: Cold swap of disks do not fire up.
In-Reply-To: <000901c4313e$1c9ed080$1000a8c0@tgraphic.com>
Message-ID: <000f01c43140$72c5cc50$1000a8c0@tgraphic.com>

Attachment did not go through last time here it is in the email.

Sun Microsystems Inc.   SunOS 5.8       Generic February 2000
You have mail.
# May  3 11:59:06 bohr scsi: WARNING: /pci at 1f,4000/scsi at 3/sd at 2,0 (sd2):
May  3 11:59:06 bohr    Error for Command: load/start/stop         Error
Level: Retryable
May  3 11:59:06 bohr scsi:      Requested Block: 0
Error Block: 0
May  3 11:59:06 bohr scsi:      Vendor: SEAGATE
Serial Number:
May  3 11:59:06 bohr scsi:      Sense Key: Not Ready
May  3 11:59:06 bohr scsi:      ASC: 0x4 (LUN not ready), ASCQ: 0x0, FRU:
0x2
May  3 11:59:11 bohr scsi: WARNING: /pci at 1f,4000/scsi at 3/sd at 2,0 (sd2):
May  3 11:59:11 bohr    Error for Command: load/start/stop         Error
Level: Retryable
May  3 11:59:11 bohr scsi:      Requested Block: 0
Error Block: 0
May  3 11:59:11 bohr scsi:      Vendor: SEAGATE
Serial Number:
May  3 11:59:11 bohr scsi:      Sense Key: Not Ready
May  3 11:59:11 bohr scsi:      ASC: 0x4 (LUN not ready), ASCQ: 0x0, FRU:
0x2
May  3 11:59:16 bohr scsi: WARNING: /pci at 1f,4000/scsi at 3/sd at 2,0 (sd2):
May  3 11:59:16 bohr    Error for Command: load/start/stop         Error
Level: Retryable
May  3 11:59:16 bohr scsi:      Requested Block: 0
Error Block: 0
May  3 11:59:16 bohr scsi:      Vendor: SEAGATE
Serial Number:
May  3 11:59:16 bohr scsi:      Sense Key: Not Ready
May  3 11:59:16 bohr scsi:      ASC: 0x4 (LUN not ready), ASCQ: 0x0, FRU:
0x2
May  3 11:59:21 bohr scsi: WARNING: /pci at 1f,4000/scsi at 3/sd at 2,0 (sd2):
May  3 11:59:21 bohr    Error for Command: load/start/stop         Error
Level: Retryable
May  3 11:59:21 bohr scsi:      Requested Block: 0
Error Block: 0
May  3 11:59:21 bohr scsi:      Vendor: SEAGATE
Serial Number:
May  3 11:59:21 bohr scsi:      Sense Key: Not Ready
May  3 11:59:21 bohr scsi:      ASC: 0x4 (LUN not ready), ASCQ: 0x0, FRU:
0x2
May  3 11:59:26 bohr scsi: WARNING: /pci at 1f,4000/scsi at 3/sd at 2,0 (sd2):
May  3 11:59:26 bohr    Error for Command: load/start/stop         Error
Level: Retryable
May  3 11:59:26 bohr scsi:      Requested Block: 0
Error Block: 0
May  3 11:59:26 bohr scsi:      Vendor: SEAGATE
Serial Number:
May  3 11:59:26 bohr scsi:      Sense Key: Not Ready
May  3 11:59:26 bohr scsi:      ASC: 0x4 (LUN not ready), ASCQ: 0x0, FRU:
0x2
May  3 11:59:31 bohr scsi: WARNING: /pci at 1f,4000/scsi at 3/sd at 2,0 (sd2):
May  3 11:59:31 bohr    Error for Command: load/start/stop         Error
Level: Retryable
May  3 11:59:31 bohr scsi:      Requested Block: 0
Error Block: 0
May  3 11:59:31 bohr scsi:      Vendor: SEAGATE
Serial Number:
May  3 11:59:31 bohr scsi:      Sense Key: Not Ready
May  3 11:59:31 bohr scsi:      ASC: 0x4 (LUN not ready), ASCQ: 0x0, FRU:
0x2
May  3 11:59:34 bohr scsi: WARNING: /pci at 1f,4000/scsi at 3/sd at 2,0 (sd2):
May  3 11:59:34 bohr    offline
May  3 11:59:36 bohr scsi: WARNING: /pci at 1f,4000/scsi at 3/sd at 2,0 (sd2):
May  3 11:59:36 bohr    Error for Command: load/start/stop         Error
Level: Retryable
May  3 11:59:36 bohr scsi:      Requested Block: 0
Error Block: 0
May  3 11:59:36 bohr scsi:      Vendor: SEAGATE
Serial Number:
May  3 11:59:36 bohr scsi:      Sense Key: Not Ready
May  3 11:59:36 bohr scsi:      ASC: 0x4 (LUN not ready), ASCQ: 0x0, FRU:
0x2
May  3 11:59:41 bohr scsi: WARNING: /pci at 1f,4000/scsi at 3/sd at 2,0 (sd2):
May  3 11:59:41 bohr    Error for Command: load/start/stop         Error
Level: Retryable
May  3 11:59:41 bohr scsi:      Requested Block: 0
Error Block: 0
May  3 11:59:41 bohr scsi:      Vendor: SEAGATE
Serial Number:
May  3 11:59:41 bohr scsi:      Sense Key: Not Ready
May  3 11:59:41 bohr scsi:      ASC: 0x4 (LUN not ready), ASCQ: 0x0, FRU:
0x2
May  3 11:59:44 bohr scsi: WARNING: /pci at 1f,4000/scsi at 3/sd at 3,0 (sd3):
May  3 11:59:44 bohr    corrupt label - label checksum failed


-----Original Message-----
From: sunmanagers-bounces at sunmanagers.org
[mailto:sunmanagers-bounces at sunmanagers.org]On Behalf Of Jack Matthews
Sent: Monday, May 03, 2004 12:41 PM
To: jmatthews at t-graphic.com; sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org
Subject: UPDATE: Cold swap of disks do not fire up.


I have the following additional information.
They are sun seagate ST39204LC. One says it did not power up at boot up one
says it has a corrupt lable and the last one gives no indication of issues
until you run format then lots of bad label messages.
When I go to format and partition and label I get the following feedback
from console;


-----Original Message-----
From: sunmanagers-bounces at sunmanagers.org
[mailto:sunmanagers-bounces at sunmanagers.org]On Behalf Of Jack Matthews
Sent: Monday, May 03, 2004 9:58 AM
To: sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org
Subject: Cold swap of disks do not fire up.


I have installed three new 9.0GB Hard drives into an E450 SUN Server. These
are extra disks and not the boot disks.
However, after doing even a boot -r they are not able to be formatted. each
time I try to format them console reports they are missing lables or are not
ready. any ideas on this one?


Thanks,

Jack
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#
May  3 11:59:06 bohr scsi: WARNING: /pci at 1f,4000/scsi at 3/sd at 2,0 (sd2):
May  3
11:59:06 bohr    Error for Command: load/start/stop         Error Level:
Retryable
May  3 11:59:06 bohr scsi:      Requested Block: 0
Error Block: 0
May  3 11:59:06 bohr scsi:      Vendor: SEAGATE
Serial Number:
May  3 11:59:06 bohr scsi:      Sense Key: Not
Ready
May  3 11:59:06 bohr scsi:      ASC: 0x4 (LUN not ready), ASCQ: 0x0,
FRU: 0x2
May  3 11:59:11 bohr scsi: WARNING: /pci at 1f,4000/scsi at 3/sd at 2,0 (sd2):
May  3 11:59:11 bohr    Error for Command: load/start/stop         Error
Level: Retryable
May  3 11:59:11 bohr scsi:      Requested Block: 0
Error Block: 0
May  3 11:59:11 bohr scsi:      Vendor: SEAGATE
Serial Number:
May  3 11:59:11 bohr scsi:      Sense Key: Not
Ready
May  3 11:59:11 bohr scsi:      ASC: 0x4 (LUN not ready), ASCQ: 0x0,
FRU: 0x2
May  3 11:59:16 bohr scsi: WARNING: /pci at 1f,4000/scsi at 3/sd at 2,0 (sd2):
May  3 11:59:16 bohr    Error for Command: load/start/stop         Error
Level: Retryable
May  3 11:59:16 bohr scsi:      Requested Block: 0
Error Block: 0
May  3 11:59:16 bohr scsi:      Vendor: SEAGATE
Serial Number:
May  3 11:59:16 bohr scsi:      Sense Key: Not
Ready
May  3 11:59:16 bohr scsi:      ASC: 0x4 (LUN not ready), ASCQ: 0x0,
FRU: 0x2
May  3 11:59:21 bohr scsi: WARNING: /pci at 1f,4000/scsi at 3/sd at 2,0 (sd2):
May  3 11:59:21 bohr    Error for Command: load/start/stop         Error
Level: Retryable
May  3 11:59:21 bohr scsi:      Requested Block: 0
Error Block: 0
May  3 11:59:21 bohr scsi:      Vendor: SEAGATE
Serial Number:
May  3 11:59:21 bohr scsi:      Sense Key: Not
Ready
May  3 11:59:21 bohr scsi:      ASC: 0x4 (LUN not ready), ASCQ: 0x0,
FRU: 0x2
May  3 11:59:26 bohr scsi: WARNING: /pci at 1f,4000/scsi at 3/sd at 2,0 (sd2):
May  3 11:59:26 bohr    Error for Command: load/start/stop         Error
Level: Retryable
May  3 11:59:26 bohr scsi:      Requested Block: 0
Error Block: 0
May  3 11:59:26 bohr scsi:      Vendor: SEAGATE
Serial Number:
May  3 11:59:26 bohr scsi:      Sense Key: Not
Ready
May  3 11:59:26 bohr scsi:      ASC: 0x4 (LUN not ready), ASCQ: 0x0,
FRU: 0x2
May  3 11:59:31 bohr scsi: WARNING: /pci at 1f,4000/scsi at 3/sd at 2,0 (sd2):
May  3 11:59:31 bohr    Error for Command: load/start/stop         Error
Level: Retryable
May  3 11:59:31 bohr scsi:      Requested Block: 0
Error Block: 0
May  3 11:59:31 bohr scsi:      Vendor: SEAGATE
Serial Number:
May  3 11:59:31 bohr scsi:      Sense Key: Not
Ready
May  3 11:59:31 bohr scsi:      ASC: 0x4 (LUN not ready), ASCQ: 0x0,
FRU: 0x2
May  3 11:59:34 bohr scsi: WARNING: /pci at 1f,4000/scsi at 3/sd at 2,0 (sd2):
May  3 11:59:34 bohr    offline
May  3 11:59:36 bohr scsi: WARNING:
/pci at 1f,4000/scsi at 3/sd at 2,0 (sd2):
May  3 11:59:36 bohr    Error for Command:
load/start/stop         Error Level: Retryable
May  3 11:59:36 bohr scsi:
Requested Block: 0                         Error Block: 0
May  3 11:59:36 bohr
scsi:      Vendor: SEAGATE                            Serial Number:
May  3 11:59:36 bohr scsi:      Sense Key: Not Ready
May  3 11:59:36 bohr
scsi:      ASC: 0x4 (LUN not ready), ASCQ: 0x0, FRU: 0x2
May  3 11:59:41 bohr
scsi: WARNING: /pci at 1f,4000/scsi at 3/sd at 2,0 (sd2):
May  3 11:59:41 bohr    Error
for Command: load/start/stop         Error Level: Retryable
May  3 11:59:41
bohr scsi:      Requested Block: 0                         Error Block: 0
May
3 11:59:41 bohr scsi:      Vendor: SEAGATE                            Serial
Number:
May  3 11:59:41 bohr scsi:      Sense Key: Not Ready
May
3 11:59:41 bohr scsi:      ASC: 0x4 (LUN not ready), ASCQ: 0x0, FRU: 0x2
May
3 11:59:44 bohr scsi: WARNING: /pci at 1f,4000/scsi at 3/sd at 3,0 (sd3):
May  3
11:59:44 bohr    corrupt label - label checksum failed
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From chaplina at canisius.edu  Tue May  4 14:04:22 2004
From: chaplina at canisius.edu (Andrew Chaplin)
Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 14:04:22 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: CLARIFICATION: Sunfreeware OpenSSH 3.8p1 hostbased auth problem
 Solaris 9
Message-ID: <49388.138.92.9.19.1083693862.squirrel@gort.canisius.edu>

According to the OpenSSH documentation, the ssh client program does not
need to be suid root to use hostbased auth.  There is another program
called ssh-keysign which *is* suid root and is used by the ssh client to
read the private keys.

Henceforth, that is why I classify hostbased auth only working when the
ssh client is suid root as a problem.

I'll also add that the paths to the necessary programs and libraries are
in their respective environment variables (PATH,LD_LIBRARY_PATH).

Original message below.

> Client and server are running generic Solaris 9 patched to a recent
> 9_Recommended.
>
> Both have OpenSSH 3.8p1.  Sun's version of ssh has been completely removed
> (including /etc/ssh).  I've also explicitly disabled OpenSSH protocol 1.
>
> Config files and keys are set properly to allow for hostbased auth.
>
> Problem: hostbased authentication only works when the client has ssh
suid root.
>
> One of the OpenSSH devs suggested that for Solaris it could be hardcoded
> that in order to connect to a server a privileged source port must be
> used.  There is a configuration file option for the ssh client which
> determines whether a privileged source port is used, but by default this
> is turned off.  I've tested connecting with the option not in the config
> file and also with it explicitly set in the config file.
>
> My first question: is anybody running Solaris 9 and OpenSSH with hostbased
> authentication?  If not Solaris 9 then perhaps 2.6-8?
>
> I'll summarize responses and include debug output if it's necessary to
> pinpoint the problem/solution.


-- 
Andrew Chaplin, System Admin II
Canisius College - Information Technology Services
2001 Main St.
Buffalo, NY 14208


From sunmanagers at ghostspace.com  Tue May  4 15:40:06 2004
From: sunmanagers at ghostspace.com (Chris Denneen)
Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 15:40:06 -0400
Subject: OT: Bind help
Message-ID: <E1BL5lw-0007xb-2w@ghost.ghostspace.com>

I can't get this to work:

 

 

zone "52.168.192.in-addr.arpa" {

        type forward;

        forward only;

        forwarders {

                192.168.52.124;

        };

};

 

I want my Bind server to resolve all PTR for 168.192.in-addr.arpa except
this one zone which I want to forward to another BIND server (for another
group to maintain).

 

Does this work?

Currently its just not resolving.

 

Thanks

 

Chris


From krisb at tti-telecom.com  Tue May  4 16:32:11 2004
From: krisb at tti-telecom.com (Kris Briscoe)
Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 16:32:11 -0400 
Subject: Gig-E and SBUS E4500
Message-ID: <C6DB72199591D34E8E12CA834DAFCD7E9E67A3@us-mail.tti-telecom.com>

Group,

            Recently we've began implementing a gigabyte network for our
ClearCase environment.   We are seeing something very odd and I'm wondering
if anyone out there has experienced this or at least has worked with Gig-E
on E4500's and E6500's.   We also have 280's connected to this switch.  The
280's are connected via copper on pci cards.   For reasons unknown to me,
the cards connected to the fiber just lose connection for no reason and then
we cannot bring them back up.   Usually we have to disable and reenable the
ports.    Has anyone else experienced this?   I'm leaning towards believing
this is related to bad gbic's as I've just put in a brand new fiber blade
and the problems persist.

 

Thoughts?
kris-

 

 

 

E4500 

SBUS I/O

Board  0:   OBP   3.2.30 2002/10/25 14:03   POST  3.9.30 2002/10/25 14:04

Board  1:   FCODE 1.8.30 2002/10/25 14:02   iPOST 3.4.30 2002/10/25 14:03

 

Board with Gig-E Card:

 3   SBus   25            2  network                       SUNW,sbus-gem


 3   SBus   25            3  SUNW,hme


 3   SBus   25            3  SUNW,fas/sd (block)


 3   SBus   25           13  SUNW,socal/sf (scsi-3)        501-3060

 

Driver Info:

# pkginfo -l SUNWged

   PKGINST:  SUNWged

      NAME:  Sun Gigabit Ethernet Adapter Driver

  CATEGORY:  system

      ARCH:  sparc

   VERSION:  3.0,REV=5.8.1999.11.16

   BASEDIR:  /

    VENDOR:  Sun Microsystems, Inc.

      DESC:  Sun Gigabit Ethernet Adapter Driver

    PSTAMP:  rubens20031204161319

  INSTDATE:  Mar 09 2004 01:01

   HOTLINE:  Please contact your local service provider

    STATUS:  completely installed

     FILES:        5 installed pathnames

                   3 shared pathnames

                   3 directories

                   2 executables

                 632 blocks used (approx)

 

OS: 

Solaris 8 

Kernel 108528-29

Gig-E patch 111883-24

 

 

CISCO INFO:

WS-C4006 Software, Version NmpSW: 8.3(1)GLX

Copyright (c) 1995-2004 by Cisco Systems, Inc.

NMP S/W compiled on Feb  6 2004, 15:21:27

GSP S/W compiled on Feb 06 2004, 14:29:19

 

System Bootstrap Version: 5.4(1)

 

Hardware Version: 3.0  Model: WS-C4006  Serial #: FOX04453213

 

Mod Port Model              Serial #              Versions

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

1   2    WS-X4013           JAB050105GS          Hw : 3.0

                                                 Gsp: 8.3(1.0)

                                                 Nmp: 8.3(1)GLX

3   48   WS-X4548-GB-RJ45   JAE07490466          Hw : 1.0

6   18   WS-X4418-GB        JAE063808BK          Hw : 1.1

 

       DRAM                    FLASH                   NVRAM

Module Total   Used    Free    Total   Used    Free    Total Used  Free

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

1       65536K  39615K  25921K  16384K   5571K  10813K  480K   83K  397K

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kristopher Briscoe

UNIX Systems Engineer

CQM / ClearCase

 

TTI Telecom

Atlanta, Ga

Mobile 404.353.3223

Office 770.206.4749

MSN krisbriscoe at hotmail.com

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From rjyoung at nortelnetworks.com  Tue May  4 17:03:23 2004
From: rjyoung at nortelnetworks.com (Richard Young)
Date: Tue, 04 May 2004 17:03:23 -0400
Subject: Console port connection to modem problems
Message-ID: <4098051B.7000902@americasm01.nt.com>

Hi all,

I posted this last week, but I think it got lost in the other questions 
so I will try again since I am still having problems connecting a modem 
to the console port.

I have a Netra 240 and am trying to set up a modem connection to it.

In the documentation it says to login to the ALOM and set the if_modem 
to true.

Then it say to connect the modem to the port.

I had an RJ-45 to DB-25 special connector made as per the documentation 
to do this.

A have performed this, however, the DTR, CTS, and AA lights do not 
illuminate as they are suppose to.

I have also attempted to connect to the modem via another dumb terminal 
and modem setup, however, the console port  will not answer (I guess 
since it really never got set up).

I am using a Microcom DeskPorte 28.8P V.34 modem

Thanks in advance for and advice.

Richard Young


From PHackett at talisman-energy.com  Tue May  4 17:49:02 2004
From: PHackett at talisman-energy.com (Hackett, Peter)
Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 15:49:02 -0600 
Subject: SRM (or something like it)
Message-ID: <A2B36187380A3B49B87D0429E64525E001491EA1@CALEXCH1>

Good Day.

I'm trynig to gain information on how folks control resources on oracle
database servers. Basically, can I control how much resources a particular
database instance can consume? Can I guarantee that DATABASE1 will alway
have a minimum of 75% of the CPU and memory resources over the other 3 or 4
Oracle instances running.  How is this achieved, through the OS or does
Oracle have a mechanism to control this? Is there a best practice regarding
this.

Thanks,

Peter


From jmd at att.com  Tue May  4 18:03:37 2004
From: jmd at att.com (Donovan, Jeffrey (Jeff), ALABS)
Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 17:03:37 -0500
Subject: Wierd ls question
Message-ID: <8DB31A1BD4866D408ED65E6DD8FA7BAC019D7627@OCCLUST04EVS1.ugd.att.com>

Hi all,

Just updated to patch 117000-03 from 108528-18 and someone pointed out
that a simple ls was sorting differently now, upper case letters are now
being displayed first. However when I look at the binary the /bin/ls
file hasn't changed. This is consistent though with servers that were
upgraded and those that weren't.

This is how a simple ls is displaying after the patch:

$ls
MocarsTicketFactory.properties  identitydb.properties.def
MocarsTicketRequest.properties  ipam.properties
PasswordKeeper.properties       lib
bin                             log.properties
bulkadd                         logs
cbawa.properties                monitorthread.properties
cbawakeys                       nipa.properties
cbawakeys-def                   nipadynamic.properties
cert                            nipaug.properties
cert-def                        properties
cert.default                    pstore
classes                         rc
conf                            servlets
diruser.properties              share.properties
ejb                             temp
env                             webapps
filewatcher.properties          work
identitydb.properties

This is how its displayed before the patch:

$ ls
aracs                           log.properties
bin                             logs
bootclasses                     MocarsTicketFactory.properties
bootlib                         MocarsTicketRequest.properties
bulkadd                         monitorthread.properties
cbawa.properties                myserver
cbawakeys                       nipa.properties
cert                            nipadynamic.properties
cert.default                    nipaug.properties
cgi-bin                         PasswordKeeper.properties
classes                         properties
conf                            pstore
diruser.properties              public_html
dp                              q
ejb                             rc
env                             rwcable.properties.03d
filewatcher.properties          rwcable.properties.bressan
identitydb.properties           servletimages
identitydb.properties.orig      servlets
IORs                            share.properties
ipam.properties                 sqlnet.log
IPDEPOT                         system
jspWorkingDir                   webapps
junk                            weblogic.policy
lib                             weblogic.properties



Anybody have any clue?
*  Jeff Donovan
*  AT&T Labs Infrastructure
*  (732)420-5656
*  (888)858-7243 pin 127881


From jhorwitz75 at yahoo.com  Tue May  4 18:35:56 2004
From: jhorwitz75 at yahoo.com (Jeff Horwitz)
Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 15:35:56 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: SUMMARY: how to clear a stale soft partition
Message-ID: <20040504223556.19860.qmail@web12508.mail.yahoo.com>

Well, I ended up solving this one myself.  I was able to remove the soft
partitions by bringing the SDS patch level up to 108693-24.

-jeff

--- Jeff Horwitz <jhorwitz75 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hello managers,
> 
> This one's been bugging me for a while.  I have a V480 running Solaris 8 and
> DiskSuite 4.2.1 that used to be attached to an FC StorEdge A5200.  This
> machine
> was moved to another location where we had no use for the A5200.  However,
> before moving the server I did not clear any of the A5200 metadevices (soft
> partitions from a RAID 0+1 pool), and DiskSuite thinks they still exist.
> 
> I had trouble clearing the devices in runlevel 3, so i rebooted into single
> user mode after telling the mirrors not to sync using metaparam -p 0.  Now I
> am
> able to break the RAID 0+1 mirror (d100), but when try to clear any of the
> soft
> partitions (e.g. d50), it tries to access the underlying disk device and
> fails
> miserably:
> 
> # metaclear -f d50
> WARNING: md: d101: cannot load driver ssd
> WARNING: md: d101: cannot load driver ssd
> WARNING: md: d101: cannot load driver ssd
> WARNING: md: d101: cannot load driver ssd
> WARNING: md: d101: cannot load driver ssd
> WARNING: md: d101: cannot load driver ssd
> WARNING: md: d101: cannot load driver ssd
> WARNING: md d100: open error on /dev/dsk/c3t0d0s3
> [more errors]
> metaclear: no error
> 
> So my question is: short of blowing away and recreating the metadb, has
> anyone
> been able to clear metadevices whose physical devices have been removed?  And
> are these soft partitions particularly stubborn b/c of the extent headers
> that
> are on the devices themselves?
> 
> Thanks,
> -jeff
> 
> P.S.  metastat output is below.
> 
> d10: Mirror
>     Submirror 0: d11
>       State: Needs maintenance
>     Submirror 1: d12
>       State: Needs maintenance
>     Pass: 1
>     Read option: roundrobin (default)
>     Write option: parallel (default)
>     Size: 1027216 blocks
> 
> d11: Submirror of d10
>     State: Needs maintenance
>     Invoke: metasync d10
>     Size: 1027216 blocks
>     Stripe 0:
>         Device              Start Block  Dbase State        Hot Spare
>         c0t0d0s0                   0     No    Okay
> 
> 
> d12: Submirror of d10
>     State: Needs maintenance
>     Invoke: metasync d10
>     Size: 1027216 blocks
>     Stripe 0:
>         Device              Start Block  Dbase State        Hot Spare
>         c0t1d0s0                   0     No    Okay
> 
> 
> d20: Concat/Stripe
>     Size: 17245920 blocks
>     Stripe 0: (interlace: 248 blocks)
>         Device              Start Block  Dbase
>         c0t0d0s7                4712     Yes
>         c0t1d0s7                4712     Yes
> 
> d30: Soft Partition
>     Component: d100
>     State: Okay
>     Size: 125829120 blocks
>         Extent              Start Block              Block count
>              0                     2890                104857600
>              1                249563982                 20971520
> 
> d40: Soft Partition
>     Component: d100
>     State: Okay
>     Size: 125829120 blocks
>         Extent              Start Block              Block count
>              0                104860491                104857600
>              1                228592461                 20971520
> 
> d50: Soft Partition
>     Component: d100
>     State: Okay
>     Size: 18874368 blocks
>         Extent              Start Block              Block count
>              0                209718092                 18874368
> 
> d100: Mirror
>     Submirror 0: d101
>       State: Okay
>     Pass: 0
>     Read option: roundrobin (default)
>     Write option: parallel (default)
>     Size: 426745746 blocks
> 
> d101: Submirror of d100
>     State: Okay
>     Hot spare pool: hsp001
>     Size: 426745746 blocks
>     Stripe 0: (interlace: 107 blocks)
>         Device              Start Block  Dbase State        Hot Spare
>         c3t0d0s3                   0     No    Okay
>         c3t1d0s3                2889     No    Okay
>         c3t2d0s3                2889     No    Okay
>         c3t3d0s3                2889     No    Okay
>         c3t4d0s3                2889     No    Okay
>         c3t5d0s3                2889     No    Okay
> 
> 
> hsp001: 1 hot spare
>         c3t6d0s3                Available       71127180 blocks
> 
> hsp002: 1 hot spare
>         c4t22d0s3               Available       71127180 blocks
> 
> 
> 
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From jmd at att.com  Tue May  4 18:36:22 2004
From: jmd at att.com (Donovan, Jeffrey (Jeff), ALABS)
Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 17:36:22 -0500
Subject: Wierd ls question SUMMARY
Message-ID: <8DB31A1BD4866D408ED65E6DD8FA7BAC019D7628@OCCLUST04EVS1.ugd.att.com>

Thanks for the quick response to:

Rainer Heilke
Eugene Schmidt
Kris Briscoe


Rainer and Eugene were right on the money.
This had nothing to do with the patch upgrade, just coincidence and probably
has been this way except no one paid attention until after the upgrade.

Problem was my locale settings are different on my systems. Some have LOCALE
settings in /etc/default/init ie;

LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1
LC_NUMERIC=en_US.ISO8859-1
LC_TIME=en_US.ISO8859-1
LC_COLLATE=en_US.ISO8859-1
LC_MONETARY=en_US.ISO8859-1


Others have no LOCALE variable setting which defaults to:

LC_CTYPE="C"
LC_NUMERIC="C"
LC_TIME="C"
LC_COLLATE="C"
LC_MONETARY="C"
LC_MESSAGES="C"


This changes the way the ls command displays a listing. Learn something new
everyday.

Thanks again.

*  Jeff Donovan
*  AT&T Labs Infrastructure
*  (732)420-5656
*  (888)858-7243 pin 127881


-----Original Message-----
From: Heilke, Rainer [mailto:Rainer.Heilke at atcoitek.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 6:12 PM
To: Donovan, Jeffrey (Jeff), ALABS
Subject: RE: Wierd ls question

Are you sure that's the only change that happened? The symptoms sound
like a change in the locale from English (us_en, or something like that)
to C (which is typically the default Locale). Try explicitly setting
your locale.

IHTH

Rainer Heilke

> -----Original Message-----
> From: sunmanagers-bounces at sunmanagers.org
> [mailto:sunmanagers-bounces at sunmanagers.org] On Behalf Of
> Donovan, Jeffrey (Jeff), ALABS
> Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 4:04 PM
> To: sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org
> Subject: Wierd ls question
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> Just updated to patch 117000-03 from 108528-18 and someone pointed out
> that a simple ls was sorting differently now, upper case
> letters are now
> being displayed first. However when I look at the binary the /bin/ls
> file hasn't changed. This is consistent though with servers that were
> upgraded and those that weren't.
>
> This is how a simple ls is displaying after the patch:
>
> $ls
> MocarsTicketFactory.properties  identitydb.properties.def
> MocarsTicketRequest.properties  ipam.properties
> PasswordKeeper.properties       lib
> bin                             log.properties
> bulkadd                         logs
> cbawa.properties                monitorthread.properties
> cbawakeys                       nipa.properties
> cbawakeys-def                   nipadynamic.properties
> cert                            nipaug.properties
> cert-def                        properties
> cert.default                    pstore
> classes                         rc
> conf                            servlets
> diruser.properties              share.properties
> ejb                             temp
> env                             webapps
> filewatcher.properties          work
> identitydb.properties
>
> This is how its displayed before the patch:
>
> $ ls
> aracs                           log.properties
> bin                             logs
> bootclasses                     MocarsTicketFactory.properties
> bootlib                         MocarsTicketRequest.properties
> bulkadd                         monitorthread.properties
> cbawa.properties                myserver
> cbawakeys                       nipa.properties
> cert                            nipadynamic.properties
> cert.default                    nipaug.properties
> cgi-bin                         PasswordKeeper.properties
> classes                         properties
> conf                            pstore
> diruser.properties              public_html
> dp                              q
> ejb                             rc
> env                             rwcable.properties.03d
> filewatcher.properties          rwcable.properties.bressan
> identitydb.properties           servletimages
> identitydb.properties.orig      servlets
> IORs                            share.properties
> ipam.properties                 sqlnet.log
> IPDEPOT                         system
> jspWorkingDir                   webapps
> junk                            weblogic.policy
> lib                             weblogic.properties
>
>
>
> Anybody have any clue?
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From gjohnson at trantor.org  Tue May  4 19:43:51 2004
From: gjohnson at trantor.org (Galen Johnson)
Date: Tue, 04 May 2004 19:43:51 -0400
Subject: limiting concurrent logins
Message-ID: <40982AB7.60808@trantor.org>

Hey,

Would anyone happen to know how to limit the number of concurrent logins 
under Solaris 9?  I know with 8 or less you could get the Resource 
manager and run limadm.  However, according to Sun's website the RM has 
been bundled into 9.  I can't find what to edit or run to set the 
concurrent login limit under 9.  Can someone shed some light on this?  I 
shall continue to Google...

=G=


From jbossert at affidian.com  Tue May  4 19:58:55 2004
From: jbossert at affidian.com (John Bossert)
Date: Tue, 04 May 2004 16:58:55 -0700
Subject: Moving boot disks across platforms - howto?
Message-ID: <40982E3F.4090808@affidian.com>

I have a stable of Netra T1/105's that, when I've needed to provision, 
I've configured a pair of disks (using Solaris Disksuite, too) on a 
separate T1/105 sandbox and then moved the disks to the target chassis.

I've also used this approach to pre-configure spare boot/system drives 
such that if I lost a drive (or machine) I could essentially provision a 
new one in minutes and (if appropriate) resync the mirrors.

This has worked fine so long as I'm dealing with T1/105's, but I tried 
to use this same method to provision a v240 and (not surprisingly) ran 
into all kinds of problems ranging from different device targets in 
/etc/vfstab to different ethernet drivers (hme vs bge.)

If you were trying to move disks to/from different machines (let's 
assume the platforms are the same - SPARC in this case,) what steps 
would you take to avoid this kind of problem?

-john


From gwilson at connect.com.au  Tue May  4 20:41:54 2004
From: gwilson at connect.com.au (Greg Wilson)
Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 10:41:54 +1000
Subject: Sun Java Desktop Demo ?
Message-ID: <20040505004154.GE17442@connect.com.au>

anyone know if you can get a demo of the
Sun Java Desktop

I had a look around the sun site and it seems you have to pay
for it. 

I want to try out some performace tests etc 


-- 
Greg Wilson	Senior System Administrator	gwilson at connect.com.au


From carlos_sevillano at ureach.com  Tue May  4 23:13:19 2004
From: carlos_sevillano at ureach.com (Carlos Sevillano)
Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 23:13:19 -0400
Subject: red     Incoming connections refused: port scanner (Satan?) attack
Message-ID: <200405050313.XAA31206@www20.ureach.com>

Solaris 8
RICHPse
TCP Stack Retrans errors.

The system is a back-end for an Internet Application/Portal:
Weblogic (15 intances/apps)
Java JDK
Webservers (with hooks to DMZ and external Internet clients)
Communication to Internal Network Oracke and MQ systems.
One NIC card (100/Full-Duplex no packet errors).


I have a system that shows TCP stack re-trans bytes and
retransmissions rates of 0.11%.  

What can I tune or change to try and lower these?  
Are they a real concern?  
Do I have a security problem?  


On netstat -in, netstat -k I don't see any network problems. 
SUN and snoops did not reveal any problems on the machine.  The
network folks and sniffers took in too much data and no one can
makes heads or tails of it.   However, one tool shows TCP stack
problems.  The RICHPse shows these errors:

red Incoming connections refused: port scanner (Satan?) attack

CP segment retransmission rate       : 0.11 % (on machines
without this problem this metric is .04% or less)

TCP measures                      Rate/s
Input bytes                     174813.59
Output bytes                    174480.24
Input segments                    369.28
Output segments                   401.50

Retrans bytes                    7031.16
Retrans percent                     4.03
Duplicate bytes                     0.00
Duplicate percent                   0.00

Active Opens  (connects)            2.48
Attempt Fails                       0.00

Passive Opens (accepts)             9.91
RSTs generated                      4.96
Listen Drops                        0.00
Listen Drops (from Q0)              0.00
Half Open Drops                     0.00

TCP RULE THRESHOLDS

TCP_ACTIVE         default= 2.0KB/s getenv= 2.0KB/s ignore if no
output activity
TCP_RETRANS_WARN   default=15.0%   getenv=15.0%   moderate
retransmissions
TCP_RETRANS_PROBLEM default=25.0%   getenv=25.0%   excessive
retransmissions
TCP_LISTEN_WARN    default=0.00/s  getenv=0.00/s  look out for
listen drops
TCP_LISTEN_PROBLEM default=0.50/s  getenv=0.50/s  excessive
listen drops
TCP_HALFOPEN_PROBLEM default=2.00/s  getenv=2.00/s  excessive
dubious SYNs
TCP_RST_WARN       default=0.50/s  getenv=0.50/s  moderate RSTs
generated
TCP_RST_PROBLEM    default=2.00/s  getenv=2.00/s  excessive RSTs
generated
TCP_ATTEMPT_FAILS  default=2.00/s  getenv=2.00/s  excessive
connect failures
TCP_DUP_WARN       default=15.0%   getenv=15.0%   moderate dups
(remote retran)
TCP_DUP_PROBLEM    default=25.0%   getenv=25.0%   excessive dups
(remote retran)


This is typical of this machine.  Users have intermittent
time-out isuess and I want to know if the values above can have
something to do with it?!


Because it warns of possible port scanners we ran Santa against
the machine and got these warnings (snoop scans on these ports
showed no activity 73, 586, 1299, 1024, and 906):

system1.corp.com|73:TCP|a|||||offers 73:TCP
system1.corp.com|backdoor|a|ht|ANY at system1.corp.com|ANY at system1.corp.com|distributed
denial of service|Possible mstream handler detected

system1.corp.com|586/TCP|a|g||||586/TCP
system1.corp.com|backdoor|a|ht|ANY at system1.corp.com|ANY at system1.corp.com|distributed
denial of service|Possible stacheldraht handler detected

system1.corp.com|1299/TCP|a|g||||1299/TCP
system1.corp.com|backdoor|a|zcio|ANY at system1.corp.com|ANY at system1.corp.com|Vulnerability
Exploits|Possible backdoor: ingreslock

system1.corp.com|1025/TCP|a|g||||1025/TCP
system1.corp.com|backdoor|a|ht|ANY at system1.corp.com|ANY at system1.corp.com|distributed
denial of service|Possible trinoo master detected

system1.corp.com|906:TCP|a|||||offers 906:TCP
system1.corp.com|backdoor|a|ht|ANY at system1.corp.com|ANY at system1.corp.com|distributed
denial of service|Possible shaft handler detected

Any thoughs or help is/are appreciated.

Carlos

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From carlos_sevillano at ureach.com  Tue May  4 23:36:25 2004
From: carlos_sevillano at ureach.com (Carlos Sevillano)
Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 23:36:25 -0400
Subject: How to force all traffic on a segment to one NIC card?
Message-ID: <200405050336.XAA09784@www20.ureach.com>

Solaris 8
E4500
hme0, hme1, qfe0/1/2/3

I want to configure the machine so that all traffic on hme0 
comes in and goes out of hme0.  Also, all traffic for the other
cards comes in and goes-out the same card only.  I want to
completely bind application traffic to a dedicated NIC.  Most
things to hme0, MQ to hme1, oracle connections to qfe0, weblogic
to qfe1, web-servers to qfe2 etc.  

I tried all kinds of things.. procdure from SUN System Admin III
book, mack address to uniq on OK prompt, touch /etc/notrouter
and other configurations.  Try mutihoming, ip_forwarding
etc....:

# not applicable... but we tried a lot of things.
# ndd -set /dev/ip ip_forwarding 0
 
Turning off IP forwarding prevents packets from being forwarded
from one network to another through this system.

Turn on IP strict destination multihoming by typing the
following command:

# we though this would do it... but it did not
# ndd -set /dev/ip ip_strict_dst_multihoming 0

#
#ifconfig hme1 private


They don't seem to work!  When snooping, it is clear that the
NIC cards are sending traffic out through hme0.  Regardless of
how I configure the cards, as long as they are on the same
segment, the traffic just from cards to card or goes out the
primary card (hme0).

How can I bind the traffic in and out of the same NIC?  The only
way I have is to put the extra cards on different segments and
creating a static route for each card to each separate segment. 
I want that on the same segment ei:

169.164.164.160  hme0
169.164.164.161  hme1
169.164.164.162  qfe0
etc

I want all traffic bound to 161 (hme1)in and out of hme1 not
jumping back to 160 (hme0).  How do I do that?

I call SUN and they did not know how to do it... has anyone done
it and knows the steps needed?

Carlos

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From venu.gowru at patni.com  Wed May  5 13:08:33 2004
From: venu.gowru at patni.com (VENU)
Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 22:38:33 +0530
Subject: Ftp login -  home directory problem.
Message-ID: <003601c432c3$99c45950$2063d103@pcp33112>

Hello gurus,

I have a problem.I have a normal userid and i have created a directory in
the /home/xyz/x111 file system where i have kept some files which i need
others also to access as normal users.I need a virtual link to that
particular directory.I need to ftp files from the above mentioned directory
from any machine.I login in ftp as the  user-id x111.But i cannot move into
home directory there after.if i type pwd it shows that i am in " / " instead
of the home directory.

Please sugesst me.
very urgent

Thanks & Regards,
Venu.


From karoly.vegh at uta.at  Wed May  5 03:39:32 2004
From: karoly.vegh at uta.at (VEGH Karoly)
Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 09:39:32 +0200
Subject: ssh scripting
Message-ID: <20040505073932.GC11065@marvin>

I'm having a prob with scripting over ssh.
If I try to start a script over ssh on another machine, 
it hangs after finishing the script, and without a ctrl+c it doesn't
return:

oracle:tisdwh04.utalan.at $ ssh tisdwh03 ' echo " ###### Trying to start DB on tisdwh03"
>  /home/oracle/startdb.sh
> echo RETVAL=$?
> '
 ###### Trying to start DB on tisdwh03

LSNRCTL for Solaris: Version 9.0.1.4.0 - Production on 30-APR-2004 16:32:10

[...]

With the Partitioning option
JServer Release 9.0.1.4.0 - Production
RETVAL=0

				<--- and here it stands

^CKilled by signal 2. 		<--- here I pushed ctrl-c
oracle:tisdwh04.utalan.at $ 


locally started the script (on tisdwh03) (/home/oracle/startdb.sh) 
returns alright.

but over ssh somehow he comes to hang, not the script, since the 
'echo RETVAL=$?' will be executed as well, but somehow he cannot terminate
the session...

any ideas?

everything else can started over ssh just fine, 
like 'cat /home/oracle/startdb.sh':

oracle:tisdwh04.utalan.at $ ssh tisdwh03 ' cat /home/oracle/startdb.sh
> echo RETVAL=$?
> '
. /home/oracle/ias902i.env
export ORACLE_SID=iasdb
lsnrctl start
sqlplus /nolog <<EOF
connect / as sysdba
startup
EOF
RETVAL=0
oracle:tisdwh04.utalan.at $ 


I am using OpenSSH:

oracle:tisdwh04.utalan.at $ ssh -v tisdwh03
OpenSSH_3.1p1, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0, OpenSSL 0x0090603f
debug1: Reading configuration data /usr/local/etc/ssh_config
debug1: Rhosts Authentication disabled, originating port will not be trusted.
debug1: restore_uid
debug1: ssh_connect: getuid 101 geteuid 101 anon 1
debug1: Connecting to tisdwh03 [172.21.26.21] port 22.
debug1: temporarily_use_uid: 101/15 (e=101)
debug1: restore_uid
debug1: temporarily_use_uid: 101/15 (e=101)
debug1: restore_uid
debug1: Connection established.
debug1: identity file /home/oracle/.ssh/identity type -1
debug1: identity file /home/oracle/.ssh/id_rsa type 1
debug1: identity file /home/oracle/.ssh/id_dsa type -1
debug1: Remote protocol version 2.0, remote software version OpenSSH_3.1p1


it doesnt even work so:

ssh tisdwh03 ' echo "Trying to start DB on tisdwh03" ; cd /home/oracle/; ./startdb.sh ; echo RETVAL=$?; kill -KILL $$'



any help is appreciated, and I will definitely summarize.


charlie

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 We don't believe this to be a coincidence." 
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From OngCK at AP.NEC.COM.SG  Wed May  5 06:11:49 2004
From: OngCK at AP.NEC.COM.SG (OngCK at AP.NEC.COM.SG)
Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 18:11:49 +0800
Subject: Mirroring Question
Message-ID: <OFB7988F26.66DBADA4-ON48256E8B.0037BA85@nec.com.sg>

Hi gurus,

I have a SunBlade 150 with only 1 harddisk and applications running. I am
thinking of adding 1 more harddisk and
mirror to the Primary Harddisk.

How can i Mirror both disk without distroying the current harddisk data?
Can the State Replica be stored in existing slice, e.g. /opt or /home1.

Any suggestions are appreciated, pls send to my email.

Thanks
Chee Kiong
NEC Solutions Asia Pacific


From Warchol at harthosp.org  Wed May  5 07:22:28 2004
From: Warchol at harthosp.org (Dave Warchol)
Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 07:22:28 -0400
Subject: Solaris 8:  Unmounting a Filesystem Whose Associated Device Has
 Failed
Message-ID: <s0989639.057@gwmail.harthosp.org>

Hello Managers:
         SunBlade 1000 with SCSI attached disk enclosure, each drive
being a separate UFS filesystem that is shared out (NFS).  One of the
devices has failed.  I have been able to unmount the filesystem from
each host that mounts it over NFS, however, on the host where the
filesystem/device physically resides, I cannot unmount it.  "unmount -f"
or "unmount " hangs.  I will summarize.

Thanks
Dave


From kami at analog.com  Wed May  5 07:29:14 2004
From: kami at analog.com (Kami)
Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 14:29:14 +0300
Subject: My mail problem
Message-ID: <4098D00A.70302@analog.com>

Hi  ,

    In the last few weeks I have a serious problem with my emails .
    I seem to be losing  part of my emails that stored in 
/var/mail/username file .
    my mail tool is netscape 7.0 and this configured as POP
    face to our unix mail server  .
    I noticed that there is another process in addition to my pop process
( during configuration of netscape mail tool , by default every 10 minutes )
     that wakes up and download my emails from /var/mail/username .
    this is the  cause to the lost of many of my emails and peoples ask 
me about these emails every day .
    I tried to identify the problem but with no success  .
    Also I changed the interval checking for new emails in my Netscape 
to 1 minute
     and still I lose  emails .
    This problem has damaged my work day , so i would appreciate it if you
    can check this for me ASAP , and let me know if you can help me .

Thanks


From dominik_kowalczyk at poczta.fm  Wed May  5 07:37:10 2004
From: dominik_kowalczyk at poczta.fm (dominik_kowalczyk at poczta.fm)
Date: 05 May 2004 13:37:10 +0200
Subject: rdist 6.1.5 problem
Message-ID: <20040505113710.687F830E579@front.interia.pl>

hello all,

I've downloaded rdist 6.1.5 to distribute files using ssh (this rdist has -P
switch to choose trasport medium);
when I've tested using localhost everything is OK,
when I've tried to use server-name (for local server) or another server I got
the following message:
<server-name>: LOCAL ERROR: Unexpected input from server: "".
<server-name>: updating of <server-name> finished
...

anybody have idea what can it be?

PS I prefer using rdist instead of rsync, because I've got big distfile and a
lot of scripts that use rdist (too much effort to migrate from rdist to
rsync);


I promise to make summary;
thanks in advance,
DK


From Warchol at harthosp.org  Wed May  5 07:40:34 2004
From: Warchol at harthosp.org (Dave Warchol)
Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 07:40:34 -0400
Subject: UPDATE:  Solaris 8:  Unmounting a Filesystem Whose Associated
 Device Has Failed
Message-ID: <s0989a77.084@gwmail.harthosp.org>

As suggested, I've unshared it and still cannot umount it (with or
without -f option), I keep getting messages in /var/adm/messages about
the disk being offline/invalid geometry/not responding to selection.

Hello Managers:
         SunBlade 1000 with SCSI attached disk enclosure, each drive
being a separate UFS filesystem that is shared out (NFS).  One of the
devices has failed.  I have been able to unmount the filesystem from
each host that mounts it over NFS, however, on the host where the
filesystem/device physically resides, I cannot unmount it.  "umount -f"
or "umount " hangs.  I will summarize.

Thanks
Dave


From barry.deevey at enmo.co.uk  Wed May  5 07:48:29 2004
From: barry.deevey at enmo.co.uk (Barry Deevey)
Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 12:48:29 +0100
Subject: MEM_malloc: No memory big enough avaliable
Message-ID: <PJEHKJBCFOFLGBCPONEMMEHLDLAA.barry.deevey@enmo.co.uk>

Hi all,

I have a Netra T1 that which will not boot to the OK prompt.  When it is
powered on, it immediately displays the following message:

**********************************************
MEM_malloc: No memory big enough avaliable [size=00000050]

**********************************************
PSTATE=0000000000000015  TBA=000001fff0000000    DCU
Control=0000000000000000
AFSR=0000000000000000    AFAR=ffffffff81018338   PIL=000000000000000f
I-SFSR=0000000000000000  D-SFSR=000000000076003d D-SFAR=000000ffffffe2bf
TL=0001         TT=0034  TPC=000001fff000b46c    TNPC=000001fff000b470
**********************************************

This message then continually scrolls with only the D-SFAR value changing.

I've replaced the memory, but it did not make any difference. (the memory
that I took out worked fine on another T1) I also tried changing the
bootmode at the LOM to reset_nvram and diag, but nothing I did made any
difference, literally, as soon as the power button was depressed the above
message was displayed.

Unfortunately this box does not have any hardware support on it.... any
suggestions as to what might be wrong or anything I could try??

Thanks,

Barry.


From Mitchell.Lewars at penske.com  Wed May  5 07:54:26 2004
From: Mitchell.Lewars at penske.com (Lewars, Mitchell (EM, PTL))
Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 07:54:26 -0400 
Subject: SNMP Errors in /var/adm/messages
Message-ID: <EE899649DF5EC94FAFDD0960F5C7F7F4010E4F86@excmsg04ptlge.penske.com>

We patched to the latest April Sun Cluster Patch on 2 Solaris 8 servers that
have not been patched for 3 years.

One box is operating without issue, the other is throwing SNMP errors
constantly to /var/adm/messages.

May  5 06:47:58 penskec1 /usr/lib/snmp/snmpdx: [ID 702911 daemon.error]
session_open() failed for a pdu received from localhost.39460
May  5 06:47:58 penskec1 /usr/lib/snmp/snmpdx: [ID 702911 daemon.error]
session_open() failed for a pdu received from localhost.39460
May  5 06:47:58 penskec1 /usr/lib/snmp/snmpdx: [ID 702911 daemon.error]
community_check();bad community from localhost
May  5 06:47:58 penskec1 /usr/lib/snmp/snmpdx: [ID 702911 daemon.error]
session_open() failed for a pdu received from localhost.39460
May  5 06:47:58 penskec1 /usr/lib/snmp/snmpdx: [ID 702911 daemon.error]
community_check();bad community from localhost
May  5 06:47:58 penskec1 /usr/lib/snmp/snmpdx: [ID 702911 daemon.error]
session_open() failed for a pdu received from localhost.39460

I have not been able to determine what has happened, if anyone can give me
any ideas I will be glad to post a summary.

Thanks.

Mitchell Lewars
Penske Truck Leasing Co.
PH: 610-796-4198
mitchell.lewars at penske.com 


From Warchol at harthosp.org  Wed May  5 09:34:20 2004
From: Warchol at harthosp.org (Dave Warchol)
Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 09:34:20 -0400
Subject: SUMMARY:  Solaris 8:  Unmounting a Filesystem Whose Associated
 Device Has Failed
Message-ID: <s098b520.098@gwmail.harthosp.org>

Thanks to Terry Moore, Galen Johnson and Mr. Rene Occelli:

First as folks pointed out, it is "umount", not "unmount" (it was
early).
- unshare the filesystem
- remove the entry from /etc/vfstab
- manually unmount as much as possible, and,
- reboot

Thanks
Dave 

====Original Post====
Hello Managers:
         SunBlade 1000 with SCSI attached disk enclosure, each drive
being a separate UFS filesystem that is shared out (NFS).  One of the
devices has failed.  I have been able to unmount the filesystem from
each host that mounts it over NFS, however, on the host where the
filesystem/device physically resides, I cannot unmount it.  "umount -f"
or "umount " hangs.  I will summarize.

Thanks
Dave


From gjohnson at trantor.org  Wed May  5 09:41:11 2004
From: gjohnson at trantor.org (Galen Johnson)
Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 09:41:11 -0400
Subject: limiting concurrent logins (repost)
Message-ID: <4098EEF7.5060301@trantor.org>

Hey,

Figured it might be good to repost this when everyone is actually  wake...

Would anyone happen to know how to limit the number of concurrent logins
under Solaris 9?  I know with 8 or less you could get the Resource
Manager and run limadm.  However, according to Sun's website the RM has
been bundled into 9.  I can't find what to edit or run to set the
concurrent login limit under 9 (ie, no limadm).  Can someone shed some 
light on this?  I shall continue to Google...

=G=
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From zzassgl at zoe.mcc.ac.uk  Wed May  5 09:55:22 2004
From: zzassgl at zoe.mcc.ac.uk (Geoff Lane)
Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 14:55:22 +0100
Subject: SUMMARY: 3510 / JNI / V480 / Sol9
In-Reply-To: <20040429105613.GA7685@zoe.mcc.ac.uk>
References: <20040429105613.GA7685@zoe.mcc.ac.uk>
Message-ID: <20040505135522.GA24381@zoe.mcc.ac.uk>

After some investigation and swapping of components, Sun have decided that
there may be a problem with the controller hardware and are sending an
engineer to conduct some tests.


Thanks, 



On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 11:56:13AM +0100, Geoff Lane wrote:
> I'm having problems with a 3510 RAID box connected by fibre to a V480 server
> running Solaris 9 (with current recommended patches) via a JNI card.  The
> 3510 and it's disks have the current recommended firmware, the management
> software is all at the current recommended release and patch level.  (The
> s/w levels are all as recommended by Info Doc ID75203.)
> 
> About once a day the following message appears and the RAID filesystems on
> the 3510 are corrupted...
> 
>  SUNWscsdMonitor[2173]: [ID 921123 daemon.error]
> 	[SUNWscsd 0x01060801:0x00000000 Critical] <rctrl3040> Unable to inquire Raid
> 	Controller. Chassis FRU Item: 370-5535-02 Serial No: 07BB9D HW Revision: 02
> 	Description: SE3510 FC Chassis/backplane Vendor JEDEC ID: 0x0301 Date: Thu
> 	Jan  8 13:41:16 2004   {Unique ID#: 07bb9d}
> 
> Sometimes communication is re-established automatically. In this particular
> case I forced it by unplugging/plugging the fibre.
> 
>  jfca: [ID 275905 kern.info] jfca0: Link Down
>  jfca: [ID 551951 kern.info] jfca0: Auto-Configured as Private Loop port
>  jfca: [ID 118468 kern.info] jfca0: Link Up: 2Gig Loop  SUNWscsdMonitor[2173]: [ID 298698 daemon.error]
> 	[SUNWscsd 0x03060803:0x00000000 Informational] <rctrl3040> Communication is
> 	reestablished with controller. {Unique ID#: 07bb9d}
> 
> Everything checks out on the 3510 and it's disks. Everything I can look at
> via sccli looks OK.  The JNI card only generates the normal boot time
> messages
> 
>  jfca: [ID 549544 kern.info] jfca0: Hba: SUNW,jfca  Model: FCX-6562-L
>  jfca: [ID 874998 kern.info] jfca0: FCode: Version 1.0 [F16]
>  jfca: [ID 843335 kern.info] jfca0: IRQ: 1  Channel: 0
>  jfca: [ID 601529 kern.info] jfca0: SubVend: 1242  Sub: 656c  Rev: b200  Vend: 1242  Dev: 1560
>  jfca: [ID 500909 kern.info] jfca0: WWNN: 1000000173012DB4  WWPN: 2000000173012DB4
>  jfca: [ID 204285 kern.info] jfca0: Auto-negotiating link speed
>  jfca: [ID 550636 kern.info] jfca0: Topology configuration is set to Auto-Negotiate
>  jfca: [ID 861892 kern.notice] jfca0: SunFC JNI FCA v20040307-1.24
>  jfca: [ID 333312 kern.notice] jfca0: Copyright(c) 1995-2003 JNI Corp, All Rights Reserved.
>  jfca: [ID 551951 kern.info] jfca0: Auto-Configured as Private Loop port
>  pcisch: [ID 370704 kern.info] PCI-device: SUNW,jfca at 1, jfca0
>  genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] jfca0 is /pci at 8,600000/SUNW,jfca at 1
>  genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] fp1 is /pci at 8,600000/SUNW,jfca at 1/fp at 0,0
>  jfca: [ID 275905 kern.info] jfca0: Link Down
>  jfca: [ID 551951 kern.info] jfca0: Auto-Configured as Private Loop port
>  jfca: [ID 118468 kern.info] jfca0: Link Up: 2Gig Loop
> 
> 
> This is our first 3510/JNI configuration so I'm now stumped.
> 
> Is there a way to check out the JNI card operation short of replacing it?
> 
> Could there be a problem with the Fibre cable itself?
> 
> Thanks, summary will follow,
> 
> -- 
> | Geoff. Lane | Manchester Computing | Manchester | M13 9PL | England |
> 
> "Bother", said Pooh, as he failed the dope test.
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From ianjames at bankofny.com  Wed May  5 10:36:04 2004
From: ianjames at bankofny.com (ianjames at bankofny.com)
Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 15:36:04 +0100
Subject: V480R with 2 x JNI FCX-6562
Message-ID: <OFCC6269D7.A42795A4-ON80256E8B.004AF122-80256E8B.004FD692@bankofny.com>

We have 3 Sun V480R systems each with 2 single channel JNI FCX-6562 (not
the -L version) fibre channel cards.
They are connected to 4 brocade 3800 switches through to two XP1024.
When test-all is run from the OpenBoot, the cards appear to fail self
test and stay marked afterwards.

How do I "unmark" them, or fix the reason they are failing - do I need
card firmware: 1.0b14?
The test fails with or without the commands  " dev
/pci at 8,600000/SUNW,jfca at 1"  followed by  "false is init-link?"
During the normal boot from the internal disks the system reports:
      WARNING: status 'fail' for '/pci at 8,700000/SUNW,jfca at 5'
      WARNING: status 'fail' for '/pci at 8,600000/SUNW,jfca at 1'
and the cards are no longer reported under "prtdiag"


{2} ok test-all
Testing /pci at 9,600000/SUNW,qlc at 2
................................
Testing /pci at 8,600000/SUNW,jfca at 1
/pci at 8,600000/SUNW,jfca at 1 selftest failed, return code = -1
Testing /pci at 8,700000/ide at 6
Testing /pci at 8,700000/SUNW,jfca at 5
/pci at 8,700000/SUNW,jfca at 5 selftest failed, return code = -1

{2} ok setenv use-nvramrc? false
use-nvramrc? =        false
{2} ok setenv diag-level min
diag-level =          min
{2} ok reset-all
Resetting ...

Sun Fire 480R, No Keyboard
Copyright 1998-2003 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All rights reserved.
OpenBoot 4.10.8, 8192 MB memory installed, Serial #56429189.
Ethernet address 0:3:ba:5d:a:85, Host ID: 835d0a85.

ERROR: OpenBoot Diagnostics failed
WARNING: Device /pci at 8,600000/SUNW,jfca at 1 being marked with 'status' ==
fail
WARNING: Device /pci at 8,700000/SUNW,jfca at 5 being marked with 'status' ==
fail
{2} ok dev /pci at 8,600000/SUNW,jfca at 1
{2} ok false is init-link?
{2} ok test /pci at 8,600000/SUNW,jfca at 1
Testing /pci at 8,600000/SUNW,jfca at 1
/pci at 8,600000/SUNW,jfca at 1 selftest failed, return code = -1
{2} ok

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

Ian James
UNIX Support
The Bank Of New York
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7964 5387
Email: IanJames at bankofny.com
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From arbalister at arbalister.com  Tue May  4 13:23:07 2004
From: arbalister at arbalister.com (Arbalister)
Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 13:23:07 -0400
Subject: booting from cdrom to restore ld.so.1
References: <005a01c431f1$93fb5d20$23366bcf@MANAGER>
Message-ID: <00b701c431fc$81836c90$23366bcf@MANAGER>

Okay - just to reply to myself:

Thanks to all that replied, I'm back up and running.

I didn't know about /usr/sbin/static/mv - so  those that pointed me at it,
thanks!  I did have one problem, there, though - for some reason the file
system came up unwritable.  But, boot cdrom -s (thanks to those that pointed
it out) got me out of the auto-installer on the cd, then I fsck'd
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s3 (/usr) and mkdir /tmp/mnt, mount /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s3
/tmp/mnt, moved the silly file back, rebooted and life was good. :-P

Thanks all.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Arbalister" <arbalister at arbalister.com>
To: <sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 12:04 PM
Subject: booting from cdrom to restore ld.so.1


> I pulled a bonehead move - I found an indication that ld.so.1 might have
been
> having problems, and I was in the midst of replacing it with a good copy.
I
> mv'd it to ld.so.1.keep rather then copying it...and of course now I can't
do
> a thing.
>
> I have the solaris 8 installation cd's and I can boot from them, but I
only
> have a wyse 50 terminal as console. I can't seem to break out of the
> interactive installer to mount the file system and recopy ld.so.1
>
> Any suggestions?
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From krisb at tti-telecom.com  Wed May  5 11:05:57 2004
From: krisb at tti-telecom.com (Kris Briscoe)
Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 11:05:57 -0400 
Subject: c shell question
Message-ID: <C6DB72199591D34E8E12CA834DAFCD7E9E67B4@us-mail.tti-telecom.com>

Group,

            I've researched this one with no success.  I want to invoke c
shell and force it to look at a particular .cshrc file.   For ksh this is
easy, I simply set a variable called $ENV and the ksh picks up on that.  For
C shell I've not been able to find the equivalent.  Any ideas?

 

Kris-

 

Kristopher Briscoe

UNIX Systems Engineer

CQM / ClearCase

 

TTI Telecom

Atlanta, Ga

Mobile 404.353.3223

Office 770.206.4749

MSN krisbriscoe at hotmail.com

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From Warchol at harthosp.org  Wed May  5 11:12:44 2004
From: Warchol at harthosp.org (Dave Warchol)
Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 11:12:44 -0400
Subject: SUMMARY(Updated):  Solaris 8:  Unmounting a Filesystem Whose
 Associated Device Has Failed
Message-ID: <s098cc35.053@gwmail.harthosp.org>

Thanks to Terry Moore, Galen Johnson and Mr. Rene Occelli:

First as folks pointed out, it is "umount", not "unmount" (it was
early).
- unshare the filesystem
- try using fuser or lsof to see if a local process is using that
device?
- remove the entry from /etc/vfstab
- manually unmount as much as possible, and,
- reboot

Thanks
Dave 

====Original Post====
Hello Managers:
         SunBlade 1000 with SCSI attached disk enclosure, each drive
being a separate UFS filesystem that is shared out (NFS).  One of the
devices has failed.  I have been able to unmount the filesystem from
each host that mounts it over NFS, however, on the host where the
filesystem/device physically resides, I cannot unmount it.  "umount -f"
or "umount " hangs.  I will summarize.

Thanks
Dave


From krisb at tti-telecom.com  Wed May  5 11:16:44 2004
From: krisb at tti-telecom.com (Kris Briscoe)
Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 11:16:44 -0400 
Subject: UPDATE:  c shell question
Message-ID: <C6DB72199591D34E8E12CA834DAFCD7E9E67B5@us-mail.tti-telecom.com>

Just to clarify....what I am needing to do is invoke a c-shell from within a
program and have that shell source a particular cshrc file.  This needs to
be automated.... My program kicks off a csh session for a user, but I don't
want the user to have to source this file.  It's needs to be done
automagically.....

Kris-

-----Original Message-----
From: Harrington, David B. (Contractor) (DSCR)
[mailto:David.Harrington at dla.mil] 
Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2004 11:14 AM
To: 'Kris Briscoe'
Subject: RE: c shell question

Kris;

In csh, run the command source or exec, and specify the (.cshrc) file you
want it to read.

-----Original Message-----
From: sunmanagers-bounces at sunmanagers.org
[mailto:sunmanagers-bounces at sunmanagers.org] On Behalf Of Kris Briscoe
Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2004 11:06
To: 'sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org'
Subject: c shell question


Group,

            I've researched this one with no success.  I want to invoke c
shell and force it to look at a particular .cshrc file.   For ksh this is
easy, I simply set a variable called $ENV and the ksh picks up on that.  For
C shell I've not been able to find the equivalent.  Any ideas?

 

Kris-

 

Kristopher Briscoe

UNIX Systems Engineer

CQM / ClearCase

 

TTI Telecom

Atlanta, Ga

Mobile 404.353.3223

Office 770.206.4749

MSN krisbriscoe at hotmail.com

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From DTeklu at amlaw.com  Wed May  5 12:50:54 2004
From: DTeklu at amlaw.com (Daniel Teklu)
Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 12:50:54 -0400 
Subject: Restricted user ftp problem
Message-ID: <32D8978BB1EB8740A2B69B76AF4F12BB44F617@alm-mail-1.nyc.amlaw.corp>

Hi all,

I created a resticted user using /usr/bin/rksh. He can do everything he
wants just in his home directory.

However, he is unable to open an ftp session to the server. what could be
the problem? He can login and goes straight to his home directory and also
other users are still able to ftp to the server.

what am I missing here?

Thanks
-Daniel


From dpk at egr.msu.edu  Wed May  5 13:01:40 2004
From: dpk at egr.msu.edu (dpk)
Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 13:01:40 -0400
Subject: directory server
Message-ID: <40991DF4.8010800@egr.msu.edu>

We are looking to replace NIS+ with LDAP or LDAP+Kerberos.  When 
comparing looking for Sun Java|ONE Directory Server and OpenLDAP, I'm 
only finding "Sun is proprietary, but extremely fast" and "OpenLDAP is 
open source, but slow and resource intenstive".

Anyone have real-world installs and comparisons to share?   For 
instance, will performance be that much of a consideration for ~ 6000 
user and 1000 group entries?  What about ease of migration between 
releases? Administration quirks?

Thanks in advance for your input.

Dennis


From jElser at ck8.uscourts.gov  Wed May  5 14:31:03 2004
From: jElser at ck8.uscourts.gov (John Elser)
Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 13:31:03 -0500
Subject: OFF TOPIC - Inel Solaris 8 and Acroread
Message-ID: <032e01c432cf$1f42d830$61617f9c@JELSER>

Sorry for the off topic, but I can't find any other group of people that may
be able to help.

I've got clients that ftp pdf files to my anonymous ftp site.  My Intel
Solaris 8 shell script processes these pdf files and converts them to
postscript which in turns sends the job to a postscript printer.

The problem is that sometimes my clients will use a software package like
JawsPDF Creator to create their pdf files.  I can convert these files to
postscript without errors, but for some reason I can't print them.   Sometimes
one page will print, sometimes no pages will print.  It doesn't seem to be
consistent.

Could the problem be with my lp model file?  Maybe some code in my model file
is tripping up the print job.

I'm using acroread 4, because as for as I know acroread 5 isn't available for
x86 Solaris.

Can anyone point me in the right direction to solve this problem?

Many thanks, and sorry for the off topic post.

John


From stanb at panix.com  Wed May  5 14:49:26 2004
From: stanb at panix.com (stan)
Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 14:49:26 -0400
Subject: NIC setup question
Message-ID: <20040505184926.GB26130@teddy.fas.com>

We just put some new machines in service. They are:

SunOS AW0001 5.8 Generic_108528-13 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Blade-100

The networking seems very slow, and I'm suspicious that it's a mismatch
between the hub and the nIC's in these machines. The interface in question
is hme0. How cna I find out the speed.duplex state these are in?

-- 
"They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve
neither liberty nor safety."
						-- Benjamin Franklin


From cyberfreek at wiznet.ca  Wed May  5 16:49:15 2004
From: cyberfreek at wiznet.ca (Cyber Freek)
Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 16:49:15 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: issues with vfstab
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0405051643090.10297@cyberfreek.is-a-geek.org>

Hello Sun Managers,

I had issue with one of my Netra T1. One of the guy in the team
incorrectly modified vfstab, after rebooting found that system had issues
to come up, knowing that can't boot the system with cdrom as there isn't
any cdrom. Also, trying booting the system in single user mode and
remounting system to read/write mode back to root partition but no luck.
Anyone else can think of a way to restore system  back to it's normal
stat???

Also note that system disks weren't mirrored...

Kind regards,
Friendly system Admin


From dlowenst at mail.sdsu.edu  Wed May  5 17:10:55 2004
From: dlowenst at mail.sdsu.edu (Dave Lowenstein)
Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 14:10:55 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: moving pci cards in a 420
In-Reply-To: <20040505031430.3C5921E683@sunportal.sunmanagers.org>
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0405051404480.6876-100000@mail.sdsu.edu>

i need to add an emulex hba to a 420 to attach it to a storage network.
For the quickest data xfer of the old data to the new i'd like to take the
hba that is in the 420 which is attached to a t3, and move it to a
different pci slot. The reason is that the old card is in the 64 bit pci
slot which is where i want my new 2 gb hba.

will i run in to any problems if i move a pci card from one slot to
another and then reboot and mount the t3's disks? Would I need to do a
boot -r to see the new card in the new slot?



Dave Lowenstein
Analyst/Programmer
Instructional Technology Services
San Diego State University
(619)594-0270
http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/dept/its


From jon.hudson at finisar.com  Wed May  5 18:19:25 2004
From: jon.hudson at finisar.com (Jon Hudson)
Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 15:19:25 -0700
Subject: A5200 and windows....
Message-ID: <6044ECEB90CDBB4AAC19E512FDB6A9464D7241@EXCHANGE.ads.finisar.com>

We have an A5200 that has been moved into a lab. The lab guys want to
use it on a windows box. The win2k box is asking for drivers, but we
can't find them anywhere.

Anyone here ever do this? Seems wrong to me win box on a sun array, but
that is what they need.

Any help would be appreciated.


From manish.oberai at wipro.com  Wed May  5 23:35:48 2004
From: manish.oberai at wipro.com (manish.oberai at wipro.com)
Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 09:05:48 +0530
Subject: Solaris Hardening Tool
Message-ID: <024A1A56D6648947BD23C2BCA17300B4941236@del-ggn-msg.wipro.com>

Hi All,

Please suggest me any good Solaris Security Hardening Tool, which provides a
good GUI and works well with Solaris 8.

Regards
Manish


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From apr_2000 at yahoo.com  Thu May  6 00:50:47 2004
From: apr_2000 at yahoo.com (ananth p rao)
Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 21:50:47 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: SUN v880 doesn't recognize LTO 2 drives after boot
Message-ID: <20040506045047.53190.qmail@web40102.mail.yahoo.com>

hello everybody,
I am having a problem with Sun V880 server.The System
has a Sun stor edge PCI dual ultra3 scsi controller on
which i have a LTO drive(200/400 gb) is connected
externally.The system recognizes the LTO drive as
Ultrium drive at OK prompt.But if i do a boot -r it
does not create the device files under /dev/rmt
directory.

   Even devfsadm -i st fails to configure the drive.I
have gone through the release notes on the WEB which
says that i need to load drivers SUNWqus,SUNWqusx and
SUNWqusux drivers which i have done.I have also
loaded recommended patches and also PATCH number
112697-04.Inspite of this the device fails to get
recognized.

The command devfsdam -i st throws the following error:
driver failed to attach st Any body has faced this
problem.Pls help


Thanks
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From manish.oberai at wipro.com  Thu May  6 00:54:32 2004
From: manish.oberai at wipro.com (manish.oberai at wipro.com)
Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 10:24:32 +0530
Subject: SUMMARY: Solaris Hardening Tool
Message-ID: <024A1A56D6648947BD23C2BCA17300B4941247@del-ggn-msg.wipro.com>

Hi All,

Thanks for responding, it helped me find tools and articles.

Regards
Manish Oberai

>  -----Original Message-----
> From: 	MANISH OBERAI (WT01 - TELECOM & INTER-NETWORKING SOLUTIONS)
> Sent:	Thursday, May 06, 2004 9:06 AM
> To:	'sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org'
> Subject:	Solaris Hardening Tool
>
> Hi All,
>
> Please suggest me any good Solaris Security Hardening Tool, which provides a
good GUI and works well with Solaris 8.
>
> Regards
> Manish


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From Mohankumar_Halappa at Satyam.com  Thu May  6 01:13:46 2004
From: Mohankumar_Halappa at Satyam.com (Mohankumar_Halappa at Satyam.com)
Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 10:43:46 +0530 
Subject: Sun solaris ver 5 ?
Message-ID: <84788F42D4FC4F4A82B1799E84A515D30169FA04@bir-in.satyam.com>

Hi all, 
My project is in urgent need of Sun Solaris Ver 5, local vendors are saying
this version product is obsolete and it is not available in the market.
Please let me know how to get sun Solaris ver 5.

Thanks,
Mohan
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From manish.oberai at wipro.com  Thu May  6 01:27:25 2004
From: manish.oberai at wipro.com (manish.oberai at wipro.com)
Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 10:57:25 +0530
Subject: SUMMARY: Solaris Hardening Tool
Message-ID: <024A1A56D6648947BD23C2BCA17300B4941250@del-ggn-msg.wipro.com>

Hi All,

Thanks once again fro sending me information about the following tools.

www.sun.com/blueprints for lots of good articles or search for jass
www.sun.com/bigadmin (BigAdmin is a good area).  Here's the list:

www.sun.com/bigadmin --search for jass
www.yassp.org
www.fish.com/titan/
http://coombs.anu.edu.au/ipfilter/ --IP

I am sorry for not including this info in my previous mail.

Special thanks to Mike's List, who pointed me to all the above mentioned.

Regards
Manish Oberai

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From: William D. Hathaway [mailto:wdh at perfectorder.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 10:56 AM
To: MANISH OBERAI (WT01 - TELECOM & INTER-NETWORKING SOLUTIONS)
Subject: Re: SUMMARY: Solaris Hardening Tool


When you are posting a summary, you are supposed to include
whatever information you learned.  If you just say "thanks"
it doesn't help anyone in the future who is looking for similar
information.


On Thu, 2004-05-06 at 00:54, manish.oberai at wipro.com wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Thanks for responding, it helped me find tools and articles.
>
> Regards
> Manish Oberai
>
> >  -----Original Message-----
> > From: 	MANISH OBERAI (WT01 - TELECOM & INTER-NETWORKING SOLUTIONS)
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> >
> > Regards
> > Manish
>
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From OngCK at AP.NEC.COM.SG  Thu May  6 03:20:59 2004
From: OngCK at AP.NEC.COM.SG (OngCK at AP.NEC.COM.SG)
Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 15:20:59 +0800
Subject: SUMMARY : Mirroring Question
Message-ID: <OFC64A1D8F.3DC3231A-ON48256E8C.00268D83@nec.com.sg>

Hi,

Received some good suggestions as how to perform mirroring without data
corruption.

The best way is to shrink the SWAP slice and create the new freed slice as
the State Database.
below is a good article on the steps by steps to create mirroring

http://unix.derkeiler.com/Newsgroups/comp.unix.solaris/2003-10/2976.html

Cheers
Chee Kiong

-----Original Message-----
From: OngCK at AP.NEC.COM.SG [mailto:OngCK at AP.NEC.COM.SG]
Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2004 6:12 AM
To: sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org
Subject: Mirroring Question

Hi gurus,

I have a SunBlade 150 with only 1 harddisk and applications running. I
am
thinking of adding 1 more harddisk and
mirror to the Primary Harddisk.

How can i Mirror both disk without distroying the current harddisk data?
Can the State Replica be stored in existing slice, e.g. /opt or /home1.

Any suggestions are appreciated, pls send to my email.

Thanks
Chee Kiong
NEC Solutions Asia Pacific
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From gandalf at tierramedia.org  Thu May  6 03:50:01 2004
From: gandalf at tierramedia.org (Gandalf el gris)
Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 09:50:01 +0200
Subject: Where to buy Spare Parts
Message-ID: <20040506075001.8441.qmail@orodruin.tierramedia.org>

Hi managers 

A few days ago somebody has gave me an old SparcStation 20, where can I buy 
a internal hardisk and memory to this box? or where can I buy the bracket to 
attack a SCA scsi disk to this box? 

A few months ago I have listen that there is a web who sell's spare parts 
for those mahines in the UK, anybody knows the URL? 

Than you all from Spain
       Marcos


From cynosure_7410 at yahoo.com  Thu May  6 04:05:53 2004
From: cynosure_7410 at yahoo.com (aditya iyer)
Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 01:05:53 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Problem with read / write
Message-ID: <20040506080553.34954.qmail@web14102.mail.yahoo.com>

Dear All,

My Solaris 7 system has 2 HDD mirrored. By mistake I
have the /usr slice as "ro". If i change the mnttab to
"rw' and reboot the system will it affect both the
/usr in the mirrored disk. Will it have any problems.
Please do let me know.

Thanks and Regards
Girish


	
		
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From kristianto.setiawan at sun.co.id  Thu May  6 05:38:09 2004
From: kristianto.setiawan at sun.co.id (kristianto.setiawan at sun.co.id)
Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 16:38:09 +0700
Subject: need 2 million inodes
Message-ID: <90f9691ef3.91ef390f96@sun.co.id>

Helo expert,

If anyone have information regarding maximum number of inode
or minimum block-size of inode, please inform me ...


Description:
------------

Due to its application requirement, i need
to have 2.000.000 (2 millions) inodes on its 200GB file system.

Because the file system has not been made yet, of course, 
I can execute the following command:

newfs -i <fs_size_in_bytes/number_of_inodes> /dev/dsk/...
.eq.
newfs -i 100 /dev/dsk/...

But, the number inside the bracket will become as small as 
200GB/2M = 100 Bytes. It will make the block size of inode
is far smaller than the normal one.

Quoted from newfs manual:
<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
-i nbpi

The number of bytes per inode. This specifies
the density of inodes in the file system. The
number is divided into the total size of the
file system to determine the fixed number of
inodes to create. It should reflect the expected
average size of files in the file system. If
fewer inodes are desired, a larger number should
be used; to create more inodes a smaller number
should be given. The default for nbpi is as fol-
lows:.

Disk size Density
-1GB 2048
-2GB 4096
-3GB 6144
3GB- 8192
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Question is, is it safe to have inode block size
as small as 100 bytes?

Rgds
KrisTianto


From unixdocs72 at yahoo.co.uk  Thu May  6 06:01:36 2004
From: unixdocs72 at yahoo.co.uk (=?iso-8859-1?q?Tis=20Unix?=)
Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 11:01:36 +0100 (BST)
Subject: System 100% busy ... Help
Message-ID: <20040506100136.48023.qmail@web25108.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>

Hi All,

The system has been VERY busy all morning, and I am not sure of the best plan of attack, so any suggestions would be appreciated.....Really not sure where to start looking ... New to this !!

E250, Solaris 8

Sar output -

08:00:00 %usr %sys %wio %idle

08:15:00       96      4        0          0

08:30:01        96     4        0          0

08:45:00        95     5        0          0

09:00:00        95     5        0          0

09:15:00        95     5        0          0

09:30:00        95    5         0          0

09:45:01        95    5         0          0

10:00:00        94    6         0          0

10:15:00        94    6         0          0

10:30:00        94    6         0          0

Average      95     5         0         0

last pid: 24659; load averages: 5.75, 5.78, 5.68 10:39:57

316 processes: 310 sleeping, 4 running, 2 on cpu

CPU states: % idle, % user, % kernel, % iowait, % swap

Memory: 2048M real, 137M free, 1622M swap in use, 1882M swap free

PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME CPU COMMAND

29602 nobody 3 10 0 36M 22M cpu/0 417:10 20.06% httpd

19395 nobody 3 32 0 39M 27M run 42:03 16.70% httpd

7739 nobody 3 21 0 36M 22M run 374:36 16.47% httpd

884 nobody 3 32 0 39M 24M run 650:51 16.39% httpd

8321 nobody 3 22 0 39M 24M run 364:44 15.91% httpd

413 mysql 35 58 0 18M 12M sleep 17.9H 1.01% mysqld

24659 root 1 30 0 2000K 1352K cpu/1 0:00 0.88% top

24651 nobody 4 60 0 20M 7680K sleep 0:00 0.81% httpd

29606 nobody 4 58 0 64M 54M sleep 3:05 0.56% httpd

29604 nobody 4 58 0 28M 18M sleep 2:23 0.54% httpd

25857 jlc_live 101 58 0 121M 88M sleep 33:08 0.51% java

24580 nobody 4 38 0 20M 9256K sleep 0:00 0.48% httpd

29607 nobody 4 58 0 51M 42M sleep 2:50 0.47% httpd

21440 nobody 3 58 0 21M 10M sleep 0:14 0.34% httpd

19049 nobody 4 58 0 22M 12M sleep 0:20 0.25% httpd

 

Can someone point me where to look here ... Can you use truss against a particular pid ?

 

Thanks in advance 

Tis


		
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From konazz at vodafone.com.mt  Thu May  6 06:29:28 2004
From: konazz at vodafone.com.mt (konazz at vodafone.com.mt)
Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 12:29:28 +0200
Subject: Help with Sun Ultra 10
Message-ID: <web-5111491@vodafone.com.mt>

Dear Sunmanagers,

Our suppliers installed a SUN Ultra 10 used as a firewall and there are two 9 Gb hard disks hard disks.

root at firewall #format
Searching for disks...done


AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:
        0. c0t0d0 <ST39120A cyl 17660 alt 2 hd 16 sec 63>
           /pci at 1f,0/pci at 1,1/ide at 3/dad at 0,0
        1. c0t1d0 <ST39120A cyl 17660 alt 2 hd 16 sec 63>
           /pci at 1f,0/pci at 1,1/ide at 3/dad at 1,0


Unfortunately they left one hard disk unused and the live hard disk {disk1) has no free partitin space. I want to utilize the other disk and mirror with Disksuite and instead of using swap for 
metadb I decided to follow this procedure.

a) Configure disk2 to have an extra partition for metadb
b) Backup disk1
c) Restore to disk2
d) Modify vfstab
e) Boot on disk2
f) Repartition disk1
g) Mirror using disksuite

The problem I have is that for ultra10 the drives have to be both Master on different IDE channels. My questions are :

1) How can I know from devices path since i cannot stop and physically open the case of the ultra10 whether the disks are master, slave on primary or secondary channel ?

The devices directory is listed below :

total 6
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     sys         1536 May  6 10:49 .
drwxr-xr-x   4 root     sys          512 Jan 29  2002 ..
brw-------   1 root     sys      156,  0 Jan 29  2002 atapicd at 2,0:a
crw-------   1 root     sys      156,  0 Jan 29  2002 atapicd at 2,0:a,raw
brw-------   1 root     sys      156,  1 Jan 29  2002 atapicd at 2,0:b
crw-------   1 root     sys      156,  1 Jan 29  2002 atapicd at 2,0:b,raw
brw-------   1 root     sys      156,  2 Jan 29  2002 atapicd at 2,0:c
crw-------   1 root     sys      156,  2 Jan 29  2002 atapicd at 2,0:c,raw
brw-------   1 root     sys      156,  3 Jan 29  2002 atapicd at 2,0:d
crw-------   1 root     sys      156,  3 Jan 29  2002 atapicd at 2,0:d,raw
brw-------   1 root     sys      156,  4 Jan 29  2002 atapicd at 2,0:e
crw-------   1 root     sys      156,  4 Jan 29  2002 atapicd at 2,0:e,raw
brw-------   1 root     sys      156,  5 Jan 29  2002 atapicd at 2,0:f
crw-------   1 root     sys      156,  5 Jan 29  2002 atapicd at 2,0:f,raw
brw-------   1 root     sys      156,  6 Jan 29  2002 atapicd at 2,0:g
crw-------   1 root     sys      156,  6 Jan 29  2002 atapicd at 2,0:g,raw
brw-------   1 root     sys      156,  7 Jan 29  2002 atapicd at 2,0:h
crw-------   1 root     sys      156,  7 Jan 29  2002 atapicd at 2,0:h,raw
brw-------   1 root     sys      155,  0 Jan 29  2002 dad at 0,0:a
crw-------   1 root     sys      155,  0 Jan 29  2002 dad at 0,0:a,raw
brw-------   1 root     sys      155,  1 Jan 29  2002 dad at 0,0:b
crw-------   1 root     sys      155,  1 Jan 29  2002 dad at 0,0:b,raw
brw-------   1 root     sys      155,  2 Jan 29  2002 dad at 0,0:c
crw-------   1 root     sys      155,  2 Jan 29  2002 dad at 0,0:c,raw
brw-------   1 root     sys      155,  3 Jan 29  2002 dad at 0,0:d
crw-------   1 root     sys      155,  3 Jan 29  2002 dad at 0,0:d,raw
brw-------   1 root     sys      155,  4 Jan 29  2002 dad at 0,0:e
crw-------   1 root     sys      155,  4 Jan 29  2002 dad at 0,0:e,raw
brw-------   1 root     sys      155,  5 Jan 29  2002 dad at 0,0:f
crw-------   1 root     sys      155,  5 Jan 29  2002 dad at 0,0:f,raw
brw-------   1 root     sys      155,  6 Jan 29  2002 dad at 0,0:g
crw-------   1 root     sys      155,  6 Jan 29  2002 dad at 0,0:g,raw
brw-------   1 root     sys      155,  7 Jan 29  2002 dad at 0,0:h
crw-------   1 root     sys      155,  7 Jan 29  2002 dad at 0,0:h,raw
brw-------   1 root     sys      155,  8 Jan 29  2002 dad at 1,0:a
crw-------   1 root     sys      155,  8 Jan 29  2002 dad at 1,0:a,raw
brw-------   1 root     sys      155,  9 Jan 29  2002 dad at 1,0:b
crw-------   1 root     sys      155,  9 Jan 29  2002 dad at 1,0:b,raw
brw-------   1 root     sys      155, 10 Jan 29  2002 dad at 1,0:c
crw-------   1 root     sys      155, 10 Jan 29  2002 dad at 1,0:c,raw
brw-------   1 root     sys      155, 11 Jan 29  2002 dad at 1,0:d
crw-------   1 root     sys      155, 11 Jan 29  2002 dad at 1,0:d,raw
brw-------   1 root     sys      155, 12 Jan 29  2002 dad at 1,0:e
crw-------   1 root     sys      155, 12 Jan 29  2002 dad at 1,0:e,raw
brw-------   1 root     sys      155, 13 Jan 29  2002 dad at 1,0:f
crw-------   1 root     sys      155, 13 Jan 29  2002 dad at 1,0:f,raw
brw-------   1 root     sys      155, 14 Jan 29  2002 dad at 1,0:g
crw-------   1 root     sys      155, 14 Jan 29  2002 dad at 1,0:g,raw
brw-------   1 root     sys      155, 15 Jan 29  2002 dad at 1,0:h
crw-------   1 root     sys      155, 15 Jan 29  2002 dad at 1,0:h,raw


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From Johnny.Koen at Investec.co.za  Thu May  6 06:47:19 2004
From: Johnny.Koen at Investec.co.za (Johnny Koen)
Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 12:47:19 +0200
Subject: Very High wio% on disks.
Message-ID: <D2D98C33B8B8474697434628E59DAAB52D5C4B@pvbjhbex1.pvb.corp.investec.com>

Hi All



We are currently experiencing heavy performance problems on our v880 "1
cpu board". I took a sar of the box and saw that there is a lot process
waiting block I/O.

[maverick]root:/var/adm/log> sar 5 100



SunOS maverick 5.8 Generic_108528-26 sun4u    05/06/04



12:25:16    %usr    %sys    %wio   %idle

12:25:21      24      13      20      42

12:25:26      23      12      28      37

12:25:31      22      12      34      33

12:25:36      23      11      27      39



I shutdown oracle and rebooted the box. But still after that there was
still a 2 to 3 %wio with nothing running on the box. This is solaris 8
with veritas file system running oracle.

If somebody has any ideas it would be greatly appreciated.



Regards

Johnny


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From dpk at egr.msu.edu  Thu May  6 08:38:38 2004
From: dpk at egr.msu.edu (dpk)
Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 08:38:38 -0400
Subject: SUMMARY: directory server
Message-ID: <409A31CE.1020400@egr.msu.edu>

Thanks to those that responded:

3 recommended the use of Sun's directory server for reasons such as 
product support, ease of management, and to avoid implementation 
problems. In addition, it was recommended that Sun's implementation of 
Kerberos (SEAM) be used in favor of MIT's, for the similar reasons.

1 recommended the use of OpenLDAP.  Migration from NIS to LDAP was 
painless and is much faster in comparison.  They supported Linux clients 
as well as Solaris, and using a Sun directory server for this setup 
appeared to be much more painful than the vice-versa.

I did fail to mention that we too will support Linux, which are 
currently using NIS+ as well, so I'll investigate it before deciding.

Thanks again,
Dennis


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: directory server
Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 13:01:40 -0400
From: dpk <dpk at egr.msu.edu>
To: sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org

We are looking to replace NIS+ with LDAP or LDAP+Kerberos.  When
comparing looking for Sun Java|ONE Directory Server and OpenLDAP, I'm
only finding "Sun is proprietary, but extremely fast" and "OpenLDAP is
open source, but slow and resource intensive".

Anyone have real-world installs and comparisons to share?   For
instance, will performance be that much of a consideration for ~ 6000
user and 1000 group entries?  What about ease of migration between
releases? Administration quirks?

Thanks in advance for your input.

Dennis


From dominik_kowalczyk at poczta.fm  Thu May  6 08:57:24 2004
From: dominik_kowalczyk at poczta.fm (dominik_kowalczyk at poczta.fm)
Date: 06 May 2004 14:57:24 +0200
Subject: SUMMARY: rdist 6.1.5 problem
Message-ID: <20040506125724.3679E1637F@front.interia.pl>

hi,

I managed to solve this problem:), however thanks to the clues you sent me -
THANKS!!!

the clue was, that rdist expect a "clear channel" for the protocol, in fact my
servers had 'banner'...
so when rdist has contacted the server, it sent to rdist the banner (the first
character was ' ' /space/), and everything is clear;

I've removed banner and rdist works fine:)


thanks again,
DK


____________________________________________________________________________
> hello all,
>
> I've downloaded rdist 6.1.5 to distribute files using ssh (this rdist has
> -P
> switch to choose trasport medium);
> when I've tested using localhost everything is OK,
> when I've tried to use server-name (for local server) or another server I
> got
> the following message:
> <server-name>: LOCAL ERROR: Unexpected input from server: "".
> <server-name>: updating of <server-name> finished
> ...
>
> anybody have idea what can it be?
>
> PS I prefer using rdist instead of rsync, because I've got big distfile
> and a
> lot of scripts that use rdist (too much effort to migrate from rdist to
> rsync);
>
>
> I promise to make summary;
> thanks in advance,
> DK
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From Mats.Oberg at tietoenator.com  Thu May  6 09:38:00 2004
From: Mats.Oberg at tietoenator.com (Mats.Oberg at tietoenator.com)
Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 15:38:00 +0200
Subject: bge 10mbps trouble
Message-ID: <FFD83F5BFE8FFB43BFD05446E63D90AC0218F45B@maserati.eu.tieto.com>

Hi,

I have a couple of sunblade1500's that doesn't work well when connected at
10mbps.

The problem is that at random intervals the machine cannot comunicate out of
it's subnet, but everything works within the subnet.

I can connect to it from my machine, but not from our central fileserver that
is on an other subnet, other machines on the same subnet have no problems
connecting to the fileserver.

The netmask is correct, the defaultroute is there, but not pingable(when the
problem occurs).
If I take the interface down and then up, everything works again, for a
while.

Anybody know what could be the problem?

---- Mats


From sadlowsk at mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de  Thu May  6 11:32:12 2004
From: sadlowsk at mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de (Bernhard Sadlowski)
Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 17:32:12 +0200
Subject: static port for mountd
Message-ID: <20040506153212.GH26505@mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de>

Hi all!

We want to mount a solaris NFS share on a Linux Server in a DMZ.

Using "rpcinfo" I see that the mountd hast different non-static ports on
the different Solaris machines "sun1" and "sun2":

# rpcinfo -p sun1 | grep -i mountd
    100005    1   udp  32787  mountd
    100005    2   udp  32787  mountd
    100005    3   udp  32787  mountd
    100005    1   tcp  32779  mountd
    100005    2   tcp  32779  mountd
    100005    3   tcp  32779  mountd

# rpcinfo -p sun2 | grep -i mountd
    100005    1   udp  32788  mountd
    100005    2   udp  32788  mountd
    100005    3   udp  32788  mountd
    100005    1   tcp  32819  mountd
    100005    2   tcp  32819  mountd
    100005    3   tcp  32819  mountd

If we use a Linux NFS server we can use a static port for "mountd", if
rpc.mountd ist startet with "-p port" (i.e. -p 32770). This option
doesn't seem to be available for the Solaris mountd. I didn't find any
solution by using google, but it is an urgent production problem for us.

What is necessary to get mountd from to to listen on a static port?

Thanks,
Bernhard


From gary at catapult.com  Thu May  6 12:27:14 2004
From: gary at catapult.com (Gary Lopez)
Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 09:27:14 -0700
Subject: Graphics card
Message-ID: <409A6762.3040900@catapult.com>

Hello all,
	I have a sunblade 2000 and 1500 that are running Solaris 8. I need to 
find out what kind of graphics card is in them. Is there a command to 
locate this ? Is it found at the OK> prompt ?
Thanks for taking the time to respond.
-- 
Gary Lopez
Unix Systems Administrator
Catapult Communications
160 S. Whisman Rd
Mountain View, CA 94041
Tel: (650) 314-1029
fax: (650) 960-1029


From gjohnson at trantor.org  Wed May  5 15:56:32 2004
From: gjohnson at trantor.org (Galen Johnson)
Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 15:56:32 -0400
Subject: limiting concurrent logins (repost)
In-Reply-To: <4098EEF7.5060301@trantor.org>
References: <4098EEF7.5060301@trantor.org>
Message-ID: <409946F0.9020202@trantor.org>

I should probably clarify what I'm after.  I'm not trying to limit the 
maximum number of users that can log onto a machine.  I'm trying to 
limit the maximum number of concurrent sessions a single user can 
have.   With the Resource Management kit this was accomplished via 
limadm but I can find no reference to that component of the resource 
manager that Sun bundled with Solaris 9...

=G=

Galen Johnson wrote:

> Hey,
>
> Figured it might be good to repost this when everyone is actually  
> wake...
>
> Would anyone happen to know how to limit the number of concurrent logins
> under Solaris 9?  I know with 8 or less you could get the Resource
> Manager and run limadm.  However, according to Sun's website the RM has
> been bundled into 9.  I can't find what to edit or run to set the
> concurrent login limit under 9 (ie, no limadm).  Can someone shed some 
> light on this?  I shall continue to Google...
>
> =G=
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From sadlowsk at mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de  Thu May  6 13:25:04 2004
From: sadlowsk at mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de (Bernhard Sadlowski)
Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 19:25:04 +0200
Subject: SUMMARY: static port for mountd
In-Reply-To: <20040506153212.GH26505@mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de>
References: <20040506153212.GH26505@mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de>
Message-ID: <20040506172504.GB27728@mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de>

Thanks go to Jonathan Voigt and Matt Clausen. They both pointed out that
this is not possible in Solaris yet. Matt said that Solaris 10 will be
able to do it though.

Jonathan Voigt writes:
You can't change mountd port for solaris - Only Linux.
Normally you don't do any RPC services through a FW...     
You'd have to open a range of ports on FW to mount from a Solaris box.
Only Linux gives you the option of specifying a port for mountd to use. 

Matt Clausen writes:
Upgrade to Solaris10 when it comes out. Sun is fixing this problem in     
that version of the OS, but no solution as far as I know exists at this 
moment (except maybe a non-Sun compiled version of nfsd/mountd but I     
haven't looked into that possibility)

The original mail:

> We want to mount a solaris NFS share on a Linux Server in a DMZ.
> 
> Using "rpcinfo" I see that the mountd hast different non-static ports on
> the different Solaris machines "sun1" and "sun2":
> 
> # rpcinfo -p sun1 | grep -i mountd
>     100005    1   udp  32787  mountd
>     100005    2   udp  32787  mountd
>     100005    3   udp  32787  mountd
>     100005    1   tcp  32779  mountd
>     100005    2   tcp  32779  mountd
>     100005    3   tcp  32779  mountd
> 
> # rpcinfo -p sun2 | grep -i mountd
>     100005    1   udp  32788  mountd
>     100005    2   udp  32788  mountd
>     100005    3   udp  32788  mountd
>     100005    1   tcp  32819  mountd
>     100005    2   tcp  32819  mountd
>     100005    3   tcp  32819  mountd
> 
> If we use a Linux NFS server we can use a static port for "mountd", if
> rpc.mountd ist startet with "-p port" (i.e. -p 32770). This option
> doesn't seem to be available for the Solaris mountd. I didn't find any
> solution by using google, but it is an urgent production problem for us.
> 
> What is necessary to get mountd from to to listen on a static port?

Bernhard


From CMD at ea.com  Thu May  6 14:24:06 2004
From: CMD at ea.com (Zappala, Chris)
Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 11:24:06 -0700
Subject: E420 crashes with no output to logs
Message-ID: <4EE2F983A19E9D4DAD0CDBC8C914ADD808AB0437@eahq-mb3.rws.ad.ea.com>

Hi,



I've got a strange problem with an E420.



Yesterday, this box which runs an oracle db, crashed twice within one
hour with absolutely no output to syslog, messages, /var/crash. Nothing.

It has a T3 attached to it, but I couldn't see any issues with that
either, nor any connection between the crash and the T3. I had staff in
the datacenter make sure that cables were seated correctly, power
supplies seated correctly, etc.



The cause remains a mystery, which is disconcerting. Googling doesn't
turn up a whole lot of relevant information.



Here is some info about the box:



System Configuration:  Sun Microsystems  sun4u Sun Enterprise 420R (4 X
UltraSPARC-II 450MHz)

System clock frequency: 113 MHz

Memory size: 4096 Megabytes

Kernel patchlevel: 5.8 Generic_108528-19

CPUs: 4x450MHz



Any ideas, leads, elsewhere to look would be appreciated.



Thanks,

-chris


From eseale at diesel.routed.net  Thu May  6 14:30:11 2004
From: eseale at diesel.routed.net (Herr Josef Virek)
Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 13:30:11 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Netra 1125 BTU/hr?
Message-ID: <Pine.BSO.4.44.0405061317280.22203-100000@diesel.>

Hello.

I've been looking around the Sun System Handbook but I cannot find
anything about the Netra 1125 exhaust. I'm guessing about 1200 BTU/hr
but I really do not want to guess.

ps - I believe the PrimePower 650 fully loaded is about 6019 BTU/hr. Can
anyone confirm?

Thanks.


From pascal at azoria.com  Thu May  6 16:32:47 2004
From: pascal at azoria.com (Pascal Grostabussiat)
Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 22:32:47 +0200
Subject: SF4800/D240/boot ... disk not found ??
Message-ID: <409AA0EF.20700@azoria.com>

Hi all,

I am having a weird problem with a 4800. Configuration is standard,
CPU run at 1.2GHz (III+), 2 I/O assemblies and a D240/HD2 connected to
the machine.

probe-scsi-all shows correct info (finds D240 with everything inside).

I am installing from a jumpstart server, things start correctly,
devices are being configured, network information is being setup,
keeps on going and then "disk not found" "check that your disks
are cabled etc...". Everything is connected and powered of course,
no failing element, LEDs are OK, installing Solaris 9, but Solaris
installation does seem to find any disks (as I said D240 has 2) to
install itself on !? !?

Any clue greatly appreciated !

Many thanks in advance.
/Pascal

PS: installing from CD/DVD gives me a "Boot Loaded Failed", which
seems to be another problem, probably the media but I will figure
that out. Anyway DVD-Rom is found. But booting from a jumpstart
server with another Solaris 9 distribution starts correctly, but
... "disk not found" !?!?

Again, clues greatly appreciated !


From martini at mrpeabody.llnl.gov  Thu May  6 17:34:09 2004
From: martini at mrpeabody.llnl.gov (Dave Martini 1)
Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 14:34:09 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Will NIS+ clients authenticate to an Apple Open Directory Server??
Message-ID: <200405062134.i46LY9a16773@raider.llnl.gov>

I have about 40 Solaris clients ranging from Solaris version
2.5.1 to Solaris 9 and have an NIS+ server that they authenticate to.

Is it possible for Solaris clients to authenticate their logins (username
and groups) to a Macintosh OS X server running Apple's Open Directory?
I'm looking for a single authentication server that will authenticate
both Mac OS X accounts and Solaris accounts. 

I would like the logins (usernames/passwords) that happen from my Solaris clients to authenticate to the Apple Open Directory Server but  still want to
maintain other directory information like netgroups and the auto_home table
to come from my NIS+ server? Is it possible for a Solaris client to have a 
reference to an Apple Open Directory Server for logins but still have the
reference to NIS+ sever (/var/nis/NIS_COLD_START) for other information? I realize that I must be at Solaris 8 or 9 to use LDAP is it the same requirement for Open Directory?

Thank You.
Dave Martini
LLNL


From gary at catapult.com  Thu May  6 20:46:16 2004
From: gary at catapult.com (Gary Lopez)
Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 17:46:16 -0700
Subject: SUMMARY - Graphics card
Message-ID: <409ADC58.8080202@catapult.com>

Thanks to all who replied.
I had several answers. But the one which gave me the info I really 
needed to know came from Marcelino Mata.

I used "/usr/platform/sun4u/sbin/prtdiag | grep display" to get the type 
of card.
Other useful commands were: "fbconfig -prconf", "m64config -prconf".

Thanks again everyone.

My original question -

Hello all,
	I have a sunblade 2000 and 1500 that are running Solaris 8. I need to
find out what kind of graphics card is in them. Is there a command to
locate this ? Is it found at the OK> prompt ?
Thanks for taking the time to respond.
-- 
Gary Lopez
Unix Systems Administrator
Catapult Communications
160 S. Whisman Rd
Mountain View, CA 94041
Tel: (650) 314-1029
fax: (650) 960-1029


From kristianto.setiawan at sun.co.id  Thu May  6 20:57:37 2004
From: kristianto.setiawan at sun.co.id (kristianto.setiawan at sun.co.id)
Date: Fri, 07 May 2004 07:57:37 +0700
Subject: SUMMARY : need 2 million inodes
Message-ID: <8617c87532.875328617c@sun.co.id>

Many thanks to :
- Dave Mitchell
- Grzegorz Bakalarski
- Michael Schulte
- Darren Dunham
- David Markowitz
- Sal Serafino
- Christ Clark

after i recheck again, the right count was :)

200000000000/2000000=100000bytes=100kbytes per inode 

Rgds
KrisT

----- Original Message -----
From: kristianto.setiawan at sun.co.id
Date: Thursday, May 6, 2004 4:38 pm
Subject: need 2 million inodes

> Helo expert,
> 
> If anyone have information regarding maximum number of inode
> or minimum block-size of inode, please inform me ...
> 
> 
> Description:
> ------------
> 
> Due to its application requirement, i need
> to have 2.000.000 (2 millions) inodes on its 200GB file system.
> 
> Because the file system has not been made yet, of course, 
> I can execute the following command:
> 
> newfs -i <fs_size_in_bytes/number_of_inodes> /dev/dsk/...
> .eq.
> newfs -i 100 /dev/dsk/...
> 
> But, the number inside the bracket will become as small as 
> 200GB/2M = 100 Bytes. It will make the block size of inode
> is far smaller than the normal one.
> 
> Quoted from newfs manual:
> <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
> -i nbpi
> 
> The number of bytes per inode. This specifies
> the density of inodes in the file system. The
> number is divided into the total size of the
> file system to determine the fixed number of
> inodes to create. It should reflect the expected
> average size of files in the file system. If
> fewer inodes are desired, a larger number should
> be used; to create more inodes a smaller number
> should be given. The default for nbpi is as fol-
> lows:.
> 
> Disk size Density
> -1GB 2048
> -2GB 4096
> -3GB 6144
> 3GB- 8192
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> 
> Question is, is it safe to have inode block size
> as small as 100 bytes?
> 
> Rgds
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From saravanababugh at ctd.hcltech.com  Fri May  7 02:31:16 2004
From: saravanababugh at ctd.hcltech.com (Saravana Babu GH - CTD ,Chennai)
Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 12:01:16 +0530 
Subject: what is 440 in SUN FIRE V440?
Message-ID: <68C9DA8F50019B4E8622C53811BEE1D6DB980D@kavithai.ctd.hcltech.com>

Hi Gurus
 
Could anybody tell what is 440 in SUN FIRE V440 ?
 
Thanx a lot.
 
Regards,
Saravana Babu.
 
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From Mats.Oberg at tietoenator.com  Fri May  7 03:32:44 2004
From: Mats.Oberg at tietoenator.com (Mats.Oberg at tietoenator.com)
Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 09:32:44 +0200
Subject: Update:  bge 10mbps trouble
Message-ID: <FFD83F5BFE8FFB43BFD05446E63D90AC0218F45C@maserati.eu.tieto.com>

Well, I still haven't found any solution to my problem, got a couple of
answeres that suggested setting the interface to 10-hdx with ndd which doesn't
help. ( I even tried full duplex, hard settings on both card and switchport )

The problem seems to be with routing, since there's no problems inside the
machines subnet.

It's probably neither cable nor switchport, since I've tried the machine
connected to two different switches with different cables.
There is also no problem running a ultra5 in the same port via the same cable
as the problem machine, which by the way is a SunBlade1500 running
Solaris8-hw7-03, recently patched.

The machine works for a while when just started(or if I down/up the
interface), there's no problems accessing for instance the internet. Then
after a random time routing seems to stop, I can't even ping the
defaultrouter(works from all other machines though). I can however
ping/connect to any machine in the same subnet.

The only errormessage is "nfs server ... not responding"

The default route is in the routing table, and it's macaddress is in the arp
table.... I'm really getting frustrated at this....

Anyone have an idea?


From kumar.guhan at janes.com  Fri May  7 04:13:58 2004
From: kumar.guhan at janes.com (Kumar Guhan)
Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 04:13:58 -0400
Subject: SUMMARY: solaris 9 upgrade tips
Message-ID: <A95E0F42D5967948AED51E66C3FB2AC2118257@ATL1VEXC002.balize.tco.tc>

Thanks to all who replied, the general consensus is its trouble free.
There are certain exceptions like if you have your root disk under the
control of vxvm (which is not in my case) then it can be a bit painful.
Some useful tips passed on by David Foster:

Upgrade Troubleshooting Tips

Before starting an upgrade, please check for these common problems.

I. BACKUP!

Do a level 0 dump of all filesystems before doing anything under this
document.

II. /etc/vfstab

- Comment out all NFS entries.
- Check for multiple swap entries. Comment out all except for one simple

  disk based swap partition.
- Comment out all data (or non-O.S.) partitions.
- Make sure root partition is on slice 0
- Having entire O.S. in slice 0 is OK.
- Make sure there are no /dev/md/ devices. If any exist, see DISKSUITE
section
below
- Make sure there are no /dev/vx/ devices. If any exist, see Volume
Manager
  section below

III. FSCK

- Make sure devices to fsck are 2 GB or smaller.
- Boot from cdrom and run fsck by hand to fix problems prior to upgrade.

IV. LINKS

- Watch out for links that use absolute paths. Upgrade will overwrite
links
  that it can't reference. This could cause the partition to run out of
  disk space.
- Remove packages that will make changes to automounted directories.
- If symbolic links exist from /var/sadm, either restore the files on
  the /var partition or do a full install.

V. /var

- Make sure /var is under root or a separate partition. /var should not
be
  a link.
- /var/sadm must not be a link or a separate partition.
   Must be directly under /var.
- If symbolic links exist from /var/sadm, either restore the files on
  the /var partition or do a full install.
- Run upgrade.chk to make sure /var/sadm/install/contents is not
corrupt.
- Make sure /var/sadm/softinfo/INST_RELEASE exists and the contents look
like;
  OS=Solaris
  VERSION=2.3
  REV=0


------------------------------------------------------------------------
------
DISKSUITE

DISKSUITE needs to be disabled on OS disks prior to the OS upgrade.

The actual upgrade procedures for DISKSUITE-systems are
found in different places depending on the version of DiskSuite.
You might want to check Appendix D of the Solstice Disksuite 3.0 through
4.1
Administration Guide.  For DiskSuite 4.2 and above, there is a seperate
installation and upgrade document.

Make certain that the new version of Solaris that you are upgrading to
can support the version of DiskSuite you are running, otherwise it
may be necessary for you to upgrade DiskSuite as well.

------------------------------------------------------------------------
------
VOLUME MANAGER

Volume Manager must be disabled on OS disks prior to upgrade of the OS.
Refer to the Volume Manager Installation Manual for complete procedures
for upgrading Solaris with Volume Manager.  Even if you are not
upgrading
Volume Manager, it is necessary to perform some upgrade functions with
Volume Manager - these steps are documented in the VxVM Installation
Guide.

Hope this helps.

Thanks,
Kumar sg

-----Original Message-----
From: Kumar Guhan
Sent: 29 April 2004 15:06
To: 'sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org'
Subject: solaris 9 upgrade tips

Hello Gurus,

We are in the process of upgrading a couple of our e450 servers from
solaris 7 to 9. These servers mainly run oracle 8i and some of them
iPlanet web servers, I was wondering whether you had any tips, caveats
to offer regarding these apps and in general upgrading to solaris 9
particularly any patches to watch out for! As sometimes the patches have
a reputation to get noticed!

Thanks in advance will summarise.

Regards,
Kumar sg

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From xian at niva.hu  Fri May  7 08:11:38 2004
From: xian at niva.hu (xian at niva.hu)
Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 14:11:38 +0200
Subject: SUMMARY: cron kidding me
Message-ID: <20040507121138.GA2130@ladaparts.hu>

Problem summary:

after I installed the Recommended patch cluster on my Sol9 box, cron wasn't
able to start any processes any more. (Patch Cluster Apr/13/04).

Solution summary:
I installed a new Recommended patch cluster (Apr/27/04), and the problem
disappeared.

--

This patch might caused the problem:
113476-11, which was changed to 113476-13.

Am I right?

Krisztian

--
PS: I was sent some private messages with advices how to solve this problem.
I tried to reply them, sending my reply to the list too. But my mail wasn't
accepted, saying:

Your message to sunmanagers awaits moderator approval

The reason it is being held:

    Message has a suspicious header

But the moderator neither refused nor approved my mail :-(


From BertusB at discovery.co.za  Fri May  7 08:12:11 2004
From: BertusB at discovery.co.za (Bertus Bekker)
Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 14:12:11 +0200 
Subject: Sunlink ISDN software
Message-ID: <60975534FF47714AB98CFD167CC8CCBE08DB6080@dhexchange0.discoveryhealth.co.za>

Does anyone perhaps know where a copy of this can still be obtained?

Thanks


From HickeyM at bsci.com  Fri May  7 09:20:12 2004
From: HickeyM at bsci.com (Hickey, Michael)
Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 09:20:12 -0400 
Subject: LDAP Question - Off topic
Message-ID: <4059B48767FA8143B26D88957A902F8702E77A1C@natpr8.bscexc1.bsci.com>

I apologize for off topic question.

Does Native Ldap and Sun One Dir Server have the ability to manage printers?
My research is turning up conflicting info.
Any sources would be greatly appreciated.

TIA
Mike


From ray at biomed.queensu.ca  Fri May  7 09:23:15 2004
From: ray at biomed.queensu.ca (Ray Pengelly)
Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 09:23:15 -0400
Subject: Ultra 5 NVRAM problems
Message-ID: <20040507132633.26E5B1E5E6@sunportal.sunmanagers.org>

Hi,

 

I have an Ultra 5 who's NVRAM won't keep variables. My guess is the lithium
battery is dead. Now I see that the battery and NVRAM is one unit. Is there
a way to replace just the battery? Is it true if you get a replacement that
you have to get it programmed with the serial number, machine id etc for it
to work properly? Anyone else experience this before?

 

TIA,

 

Ray

 

Ray Pengelly

Computing Support Technologist

Centre for Neuroscience Studies/

CIHR Group in Sensory-Motor Systems

Queen's University

613-533-6000 ext 74139


From Alistair.Mckeown at jacobsrimell.com  Fri May  7 09:29:44 2004
From: Alistair.Mckeown at jacobsrimell.com (Alistair McKeown)
Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 14:29:44 +0100 
Subject: Searching for large files.
Message-ID: <642FA4A7A15DD611B44C00B0D0789CF2010A9F3B@kingscross.internal.jacobsrimell.com>

Hi there,
 
		Really basic obvious thing to know, but can't seem to find a
nice command to do it. Anyone out there know how to list files over a
certain size in all directories. I.e searching through to find large files.
I can do it for large directories, du commmand.
		One of my disks is full but can't determine which file or
files it is.

regards,

Alistair Mckeown.


From Alistair.Mckeown at jacobsrimell.com  Fri May  7 09:44:25 2004
From: Alistair.Mckeown at jacobsrimell.com (Alistair McKeown)
Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 14:44:25 +0100 
Subject: Searching for large files.
Message-ID: <642FA4A7A15DD611B44C00B0D0789CF2010A9F3D@kingscross.internal.jacobsrimell.com>

Many thanks to you all :-

find . -size +5000 -exec ls -l {} \; | sort +4 -rn | head -300

seems to work amazingly

Many thanks!!


From ambarishmv at hotmail.com  Fri May  7 10:22:30 2004
From: ambarishmv at hotmail.com (ambarish mv)
Date: Fri, 07 May 2004 19:52:30 +0530
Subject: backup of OS and oracle database
Message-ID: <BAY10-F78XOxxpfrxUB00006b16@hotmail.com>

Hello guru

   we want to take the backup of the entire O.S and entire Oracle database 
using the tar command to the local system harddisk of capacity of 18Gb and 
the is it possible and what is the procedure to follow

With Respectfull Regards

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From scantos at technodiva.com  Fri May  7 10:44:15 2004
From: scantos at technodiva.com (Sbastien Cantos)
Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 16:44:15 +0200
Subject: Strange message
Message-ID: <20040507144410.905B11E585@sunportal.sunmanagers.org>

Hello,

I've this message sometimes in my /var/adm/messages:

unix: WARNING: interrupt level 0 not serviced

Could someone explain me, chat this message is for ?

PS: I'm using Solaris 7 on E250 and E450 boxex.

Regards,
--
Sibastien Cantos <scantos at technodiva.com>
Responsable riseau et systhmes
Neopost DIVA


From cyberfreek at wiznet.ca  Thu May  6 12:35:32 2004
From: cyberfreek at wiznet.ca (Cyber Freek)
Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 12:35:32 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: issues with vfstab
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0405051643090.10297@cyberfreek.is-a-geek.org>
References: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0405051643090.10297@cyberfreek.is-a-geek.org>
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0405061231530.13803@cyberfreek.is-a-geek.org>

Folks,

Many thanks to all who responded, we fix our issue by setting up a jump
start server and mounting file system on the network as a single user mode. We
brought the system back to it's normal stat.

Kind regards,
Friendly system admin


On Wed, 5 May 2004, Cyber Freek wrote:

> Hello Sun Managers,
>
> I had issue with one of my Netra T1. One of the guy in the team
> incorrectly modified vfstab, after rebooting found that system had issues
> to come up, knowing that can't boot the system with cdrom as there isn't
> any cdrom. Also, trying booting the system in single user mode and
> remounting system to read/write mode back to root partition but no luck.
> Anyone else can think of a way to restore system  back to it's normal
> stat???
>
> Also note that system disks weren't mirrored...
>
> Kind regards,
> Friendly system Admin


From pascal at azoria.com  Fri May  7 11:44:04 2004
From: pascal at azoria.com (Pascal Grostabussiat)
Date: Fri, 07 May 2004 17:44:04 +0200
Subject: SUMMARY: SF4800/D240/boot ... disk not found ??
Message-ID: <409BAEC4.5090308@azoria.com>

Many thanks to Darren Dunham, KR (rossman at columbia.edu), Annamaria
Heupke/Denic and Aleksander Pavic for their time and suggestions.
Special thank to Darren who got it right.

Keywords:
---------

"disk no found", D240, SF4800, X6758A, Solaris 9, jumpstart

Configuration:
--------------

SF4800, D240 (HD2, DVD1, TAPE1), 2 assemblies, and among others a
X6758A card (PCI Dual Ultra3 SCSI). Installing Solaris from a jumpstart
server (Solaris 9).

BTW, I found a page that might be worth noting http://www.x6758a.com/

Problem:
--------

Starting Solaris 9 installation (in this case via a jumpstart server)
and installation stops very early with a "disk not found" message.
Jumpstart finds a match among the rules but when it comes to start
installing ... "disk not found" and stop.

Checking with probe-scsi-all shows correct information about D240
with everything inside.

Another detail that I tought was due to something else but actually
was related was a "Boot Load Failed" when trying to boot from CD and
DVD.

Solution:
---------

Quoting Darren:

"If the OBP sees the disks but Solaris does not, it's possible that you
do not have any drivers for your scsi card in the Solaris image you are
booting.
Do a boot -v and see if any driver for the scsi card loads.  Are you
using one of the new sun cards that takes the SUNWqus driver?  You'd
probably have to pkgadd it to the jumpstart image if you are."

He was right. I checked the System Handbook on SunSolve and had a look
at the "Full Components List" for the SF4800:

http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/Systems/SunFire4800/components.html

In the middle of the page you can find the X6758A with a reference to
"(7)" telling you:

"The necessary drivers (SUNWqus, SUNWqusu, SUNWqusx, & SUNWqusux) and
patches for this product are not included in Solaris 8 or 9, but must be
downloaded. Please see infodoc 47841 for details."

with "infodoc 47841" linked to:

http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doc=finfodoc%2F47841&zone_110=47841

I actually did not spent time downloading the patch but connected the
D240 to another SCSI card in the assembly (X4422A) and could proceed
further with the my jumpstart installation.

Again, many thanks to those would replied!

/Pascal


From mikelist at sky.net  Fri May  7 11:54:42 2004
From: mikelist at sky.net (Mike's List)
Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 10:54:42 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: sshd in /etc/inetd.conf
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.1040507103810.2995C-100000@apollo.sky.net>

I want to test out sshd being call from /etc/inetd.conf instead of
having sshd daemon running.  The below is what I have in inetd.conf,
nmap shows the port is open, but I can't seem to connect.  Anything
else I need to check or modify?  I have stop/start inetsvc and ssh
port is in /etc/services.  Thanks in advance.

ssh    stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/local/bin/sshd	sshd -i

Regards,


- Mike

  Useful Solaris packages sites: alphabetical order, www. infront,
  / blastwave.org | openpkg.org | patriots.net | sunfreeware.com /


From mikelist at sky.net  Fri May  7 12:15:59 2004
From: mikelist at sky.net (Mike's List)
Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 11:15:59 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: SUMMARY: sshd in /etc/inetd.conf
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.1040507110930.2995G-100000@apollo.sky.net>

I figured this out on my own, it seems I need an absolute path for
sshd -i (instead of just "sshd -i") probably the particular path is
not set.

On other note, a couple of suggestions mentioned the overhead of
sshd being spawn for each request causing high overhead.  Since I'm
running IP Filter and limited ssh connection, this is not an issue.
Furthermore, with the availability of memory and high-end servers
I wouldn't think this is an issue?  (ie.putting sshd in inetd.conf)

Regards,


- Mike

  Useful Solaris packages sites: alphabetical order, www. infront,
  / blastwave.org | openpkg.org | patriots.net | sunfreeware.com /


---------- original message ----------

I want to test out sshd being call from /etc/inetd.conf instead of
having sshd daemon running.  The below is what I have in inetd.conf,
nmap shows the port is open, but I can't seem to connect.  Anything
else I need to check or modify?  I have stop/start inetsvc and ssh
port is in /etc/services.  Thanks in advance.

ssh    stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/local/bin/sshd	sshd -i

Regards,


- Mike


From rschneider at ssihubcity.com  Fri May  7 12:35:03 2004
From: rschneider at ssihubcity.com (Rachael Schneider)
Date: Fri, 07 May 2004 12:35:03 -0400
Subject: ANNOUNCEMENT: Sun/SSI  Identity Management Seminar
Message-ID: <409BBAB7.5030508@ssihubcity.com>

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From Daping.Xia at united.com  Fri May  7 12:58:28 2004
From: Daping.Xia at united.com (Daping.Xia at united.com)
Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 11:58:28 -0500
Subject: falsh installation fails
Message-ID: <H00032d526b05c0a.1083949105.awhq6377@MHS>

Trying to install Solaris through Flash archive, and got the following 
errors every time:

 

 

        ...

        ...

       Extracted 2323.33 MB (100% of 2323.33 MB archive)

       Extraction complete

 

Postdeployment processing

 

No local customization defined

 

Customizing system files

        - Mount points table (/etc/vfstab)

        - Network host addresses (/etc/hosts)

 

ERROR: Could not open file (/etc/hosts)

 

ERROR: Could not set up the remote host file (/etc/hosts)

 

ERROR: Flash installation failed

 

Could anyone shed some lights on this?

 

Thanks in advance for any help, will summarize.


From armando.salvatori at accenture.com  Fri May  7 15:13:10 2004
From: armando.salvatori at accenture.com (armando.salvatori at accenture.com)
Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 21:13:10 +0200
Subject: High %wio
Message-ID: <75A18B5DB322C946856D8CC6C180E9425F3E56@EMEXM1109.dir.svc.accenture.com>

Follow the output sar on my Fujitsu PP2500 (Solaris 5.8 + Veritas 3.5).

Even after a reboot i've on idle time 0 and a wio near 100%.

The disk activity is very low (external and internal).

Any idea?

Thanks,

Armando

21:03:04    %usr    %sys    %wio   %idle
21:03:05       0       3      97       0
21:03:06       0       1      99       0
21:03:07       0       1      99       0
21:03:08       1       2      97       0
21:03:09       0       3      97       0
21:03:10       0       1      99       0
21:03:11       1       3      96       0
21:03:12       3       6      91       0
21:03:13       1       1      98       0
21:03:14       0       4      96       0
21:03:15       0       1      99       0


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From ahoesch at smartsoft.de  Fri May  7 16:12:52 2004
From: ahoesch at smartsoft.de (Andreas Hoeschler)
Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 22:12:52 +0200
Subject: Setting PATH variable
Message-ID: <EBBF9D9C-A062-11D8-A239-000393CA0072@smartsoft.de>

Dear managers,

I have

	PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/ccs/bin:
	SUPATH=/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/ccs/bin

in my /etc/default/login on Solaris 9. When I log into the machine with 
telnet I have /usr/ccs/bin in $PATH. When I log in with ssh I don't 
have it. I don't understand why this should make any difference. On 
another machine with Solaris 8 installed I don't have this problem. On 
the other hand there might be differences in the configuration of the 
two machines. Any ideas where to look?

Thanks!

Regards,

   Andreas


From sunmanagers at ghostspace.com  Fri May  7 18:20:01 2004
From: sunmanagers at ghostspace.com (Chris Denneen)
Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 18:20:01 -0400
Subject: OT: Bind 9 seperate access lists
Message-ID: <E1BMDhJ-0007U4-0k@ghost.ghostspace.com>

All,

I am sure this is a pretty easy thing to do just don't know much about
setting up correct access lists in Bind 9.

Here is what I want to do.

How do I setup named.conf for bind 9 to handle access control of records and
zones that some are internal and some are external.

Ie.

I need external records (listed somewhere) to be resolvable to the outside
world.

Then I need another set of PTR and FORWARD zones to only be resolvable to
our internal network.


So therefore

Internal and External can resolve records on:
domain.com.include
ptr.public-network.include

Internal only can resolve:
internal.domain.com.include
10.1.10-in-addr.arpa

Etc.

Please help.

Thanks


From sunmanagers at ghostspace.com  Fri May  7 18:47:10 2004
From: sunmanagers at ghostspace.com (Chris Denneen)
Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 18:47:10 -0400
Subject: UPDATE: Bind 9 seperate access lists
In-Reply-To: <E1BMDhJ-0007U4-0k@ghost.ghostspace.com>
Message-ID: <E1BME7b-0007aW-Ps@ghost.ghostspace.com>

I found this online but I would like some clarification on a few things:

acl "corpnet" { 10.1/16; };
	
	view "internal" {
		match-clients { "corpnet"; };
		
		zone "foobar.org" {
			type master;
			file "internal/map.foobar.org";
		};
		
		zone "internal.foobar.org" {
			type master;
			file "internal/map.internal.foobar.org";
		};
	};
	
	view "external" {
		match-clients { any; };
		
		zone "foobar.org" {
			type master;
			file "external/map.foobar.org";
		};
		
		zone "internal.foobar.org" {
			type master;
			file "internal/map.internal.foobar.org";
			allow-query { "corpnet"; };
		};
	};

Now how is this efficient to have multiple views?
Can't I just create a view called "external", with match-client set to "any"
and the zones that I want to restrict to the outside world I put the
"allow-query" statement in?

I know I'm new to ACL rules for bind so please help me understand.
Just doesn't seem efficient if I need to create all zones in each view. (too
much human room for error)

Thanks

Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Denneen [mailto:sunmanagers at ghostspace.com] 
Sent: Friday, May 07, 2004 6:20 PM
To: sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org
Subject: OT: Bind 9 seperate access lists

All,

I am sure this is a pretty easy thing to do just don't know much about
setting up correct access lists in Bind 9.

Here is what I want to do.

How do I setup named.conf for bind 9 to handle access control of records and
zones that some are internal and some are external.

Ie.

I need external records (listed somewhere) to be resolvable to the outside
world.

Then I need another set of PTR and FORWARD zones to only be resolvable to
our internal network.


So therefore

Internal and External can resolve records on:
domain.com.include
ptr.public-network.include

Internal only can resolve:
internal.domain.com.include
10.1.10-in-addr.arpa

Etc.

Please help.

Thanks
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From johns at artesyncp.com  Fri May  7 19:57:02 2004
From: johns at artesyncp.com (Stewart, John)
Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 18:57:02 -0500 
Subject: Disparate performance in two E4500s running Oracle
Message-ID: <F9102D41F595D311ACA7009027DE2C840A178BD3@c3po.heurikon.com>

I've never posted to sunmanagers, but in my many searches through the net on
the issues we're facing, I have run across many posts from the Sun gurus
that haunt this list. I hope you can give us some guidance, and that I am
providing the information you need to do so. 


We have two E4500 systems, both running Solaris 2.6, and Oracle ERP 11.5.9
(with underlying DB of 8.1.7.4). The data in both systems in the same (borg
has multiple clones of the data from ds9). Some graphs of statistics I've
generated from a running vxstat, at 30 second intervals, are attached (with
descriptions below).

ds9 (our production system):
Veritas Volume Manager 2.6
10x400MHz CPUs
12 GB RAM
Two physical arrays:
A5000 with 14x9GB disks
A5200 with 6x18GB disks and 8x9GB disks
/u01 is a RAID5 with 10x9GB disks from the A5000 and 6x9GB disks from the
A5200
	- Stripe size of 128k
	- Only database files here, which should be more reading than
writing, but still unfavorable ratio for RAID5
/u02 is a RAID0+1 with a 2 disk stripe (mirrored) of 4x18GB disks
	- Has redo logs, archive logs, and application logs - all the heavy
write intensive stuff
/u03 is a RAID1 mirror of 2x9GB disks
	- Has a copy of the redo logs

borg (our test/dev system):
Veritas Volume Manager 3.2
6x400MHz CPUs
6 GB RAM
One physical array:
A5200 with 18x72GB disks
/u01 is a RAID5 with 17x72GB disks
	- Stripe size of 32k
	- All DB files, redo logs, archive logs, everything on the one
partition, for multiple instances of the applications and DB

What we're seeing is that ds9 handily outperforms borg (anecdotally, and by
various measurements), and we've yet to figure out the root cause. We
realize the biggest problem is using RAID5, but that doesn't explain why
there should be such a difference (given that they're both using RAID5). As
an example, we run a process (MRP) every night (when there is little load)
on each system. The most recent run took 159 minutes on ds9, but only 67
minutes on borg, which from the face of it should be slower.

Differences we know about:

- Volume Manager version - we do plan to upgrade ds9 next weekend from 2.6
to 3.2. However, should we really expect such a performance difference?

- Stripe size - From what we've determined, we should be looking at a much
larger stripe size (probably 1MB). Ds9 is using 128k, and borg is using 32k.
Oracle is doing I/O in 8k chunks, with up to 16 requests at once (for up to
128k in one request). To a high probability of a single I/O request being
split onto different physical disks, it seems a higher stripe width is
recommended. Our current thinking is a 1MB stripe if we were to build this
system from scratch today. This white paper argues that a 1MB stripe size is
generally the right choice:

http://otn.oracle.com/deploy/availability/pdf/oow2000_same.pdf

- Disk speed - While the 72GB disks (on borg) do have double or so the
throughput of the 9GB disks (on ds9), the number of I/O operations per
second is not very dissimilar between the disks, and this seems to be the
key criterion when determining how many spindles you should have in an array
to support a given workload. For example the 72GB has a 15.2ms full stroke
write access time, and the 9GB has a 13.2 full stroke write time. This means
the 72GB disk can do 65 operations per second, and the 9GB disk can do 75
operations per second (I think).

- We are splitting ds9's RAID5 across both the A5000 and the A5200. I've
been told it is "bad" to split a strip across physical arrays (mirroring is
supposedly okay), but I'm not sure why this would be the case, and if so,
how significant is it?

- There is a combination of disk sizes (both 18GB and 9GB) in ds9's A5200
array. Again, I've been told this is "bad", but have no hard data on how
significant this is.


We have been looking at a number of possible solutions. We do know that we
want to get rid of the RAID5 and go to RAID0+1 for the main filesystem on
ds9. However, even though we're sure that's what we want to do, we're
concerned that we've not truly identified the root cause of our problem. It
is looking like we're likely going to hire a consultant to come in for a
couple of days to do a root cause analysis of the problem. While I'm hopeful
that will produce useful information for us, I am also concerned that we'll
be spending (a lot of) money on that which would be more useful for us to
direct at a possible hardware solution.

Our possible plans, in order from least expensive to most:

1 - Buy some 72GB disks to put into the A5200 on ds9. Create a RAID0+1
filesystem to replace the RAID5. Depending on money spent, we'd either have
2 or 3 disks per stripe (compared to the 16 disks we now have in the RAID5).
While it is obvious RAID5 is killing us, should we not be concerned about
the much lower number of spindles in the stripe? According to this paper by
Millsap from Oracle (in 1996, though), the forumula he gives for calculating
the number of disks you want in a strip, for our activity level, is on the
order of 7:

http://tinyurl.com/26a5m 
http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:AIiDwxHxJHwJ:www.hotsos.com/downloads/v
isitor/00000022.pdf+%22Configuring+Oracle+Server+for+VLDB%22&hl=en

This brings up two issues. First, according to him, the 2-3 disk stripe will
be insufficient if we go to a small 72GB RAID0+1 configuration. Secondly,
based on his numbers, and the large number of disks we've got in our current
RAID5 array, what we've got now should not only be sufficient for our
activity levels, but moving to a 3 disk stripe, even with higher throughput
72GB disks, will be worse performance than our current 16 disk RAID5.

2 - Buy an A5200 with a bunch of 72GB disks (pretty cheap on ebay). We'd set
up a RAID0+1, with probably a 7 disk stripe, mirrored to another 7 disk
stripe.

3 - Go hardware RAID. To be even close to being competitive, we'd be looking
at much fewer spindles on the stripe (perhaps 3). I realize caching can do
wonders for us for writing (and, in fact, it seems a lot of people are doing
RAID5 with the hardware RAID boxes), but is it a panacea? It seems that a
large cache would be useful for bursty traffic, but the sustained throughput
is going to come down to the speed of the individual disks. With fewer
spindles, don't we come down to the same problem as option #1?

The stats:

ratio.png - A bezier approximation of our read to write ratio on the 3
filesystems on ds9. Of note is the hot backup which runs at noon and
midnight, which heavily skews the graph towards reading (and is the only
time that the ratio is anywhere near the recommended 80/20 ratio for RAID5).
The spike on /u02 right after the /u01 spike is the backup moving onto the
archive logs on /u02. You can see this backup effect also on the other
graphs.

times.png - A bezier approximation of the average read/write times on the 3
filesystems. The backups heavily affect this (both for read and write times
on the RAID5, but only read times for the other filesystems). You can see
the pretty awful write times on the RAID5.

activity-blocks-big-vol01.png - Shows both the bezier approximation, and the
actual data points for the number of blocks read and written on /u01. There
is no scale limit (which means the backups heavily skew the scale). Note
that reads are above Y=0, and the writes are below - I just did this to
easily see both reads and writes on one graph.

activity-blocks-big-vol01.png - The same graph with the Y scale artifically
limited to 50,000 blocks (per 30 second interval), so you can see the
day-to-day "background" activity (i.e. without the backups so heavily
skewing it).


We moved to archive log only backups for noon backups, in the hopes that
part of the perceived slowness of the system would be alleviated by that.
However, the reports thus far are that the performance was unaffected (even
if you can see a performance increase noted in the average read/write
times).

Anyway, there's pretty much all I know about the situation. We've got a good
idea at what we think is the best solution (#2 is favored), but I'm finding
it very hard to give a concrete recommendation to management without truly
understanding the root cause of the disparate performance we're seeing
between the boxes.

Any recommendations on possible causes, resources on the subject, or a solid
clue by four to the noggin, will be much appreciated.

Thank you

johnS

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From johns at artesyncp.com  Sat May  8 00:18:27 2004
From: johns at artesyncp.com (Stewart, John)
Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 23:18:27 -0500 
Subject: Disparate performance in two E4500s running Oracle - CORRECTION
Message-ID: <F9102D41F595D311ACA7009027DE2C840A178BD7@c3po.heurikon.com>

Please excuse me; I did have a very significant typo:

> What we're seeing is that ds9 handily outperforms borg 
> (anecdotally, and by various measurements)

What I mean to say is the opposite; it is borg (test/dev) that is
outperforming ds9 (production), which is unexpected as borg has much more
CPU and memory.

Also, links to the stats I mentioned:

http://johnstewart.com/ds9/ratio.png
http://johnstewart.com/ds9/times.png
http://johnstewart.com/ds9/activity-blocks-small-vol01.png
http://johnstewart.com/ds9/activity-blocks-big-vol01.png

My apologies for the double-post; thank you for your time (and the very
useful responses I have already received).

johnS


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From waelder at wf.net  Sun May  9 11:43:38 2004
From: waelder at wf.net (Steaphany Jean Waelder)
Date: Sun, 9 May 2004 10:43:38 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: How to correct a corruption in a users dtmail custom views
Message-ID: <20040509153727.394D468A32@mailrelay3.wf.net>

I have a user on Solaris 7 who upon starting dtmail and opening the view window 
gets an error saying that a logical expression for a custom view is no longer 
valid. The views which were defined after this one fail to load.

Where is the file which contains the user specific custom view configuration and 
can this corruption be manually edited ?

TIA

Steaphany Jean Waelder
email: waelder at wf.net      web: http://www.wf.net/~waelder/TSinfo.html
AIM: steaphany    ICQ: 45023099    MSN: waelder at wf.net    Yahoo: waest02

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From matty91 at bellsouth.net  Sun May  9 17:54:36 2004
From: matty91 at bellsouth.net (matty91 at bellsouth.net)
Date: Sun, 9 May 2004 17:54:36 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Solaris 8 TCP restransmission timers 
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0405091726320.3404@winnie.matty.com>
References: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0405091726320.3404@winnie.matty.com>
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0405091753520.3482@winnie.matty.com>

Hello,

I have been reviewing the network tuning documentation at

http://docs.sun.com/db/doc/806-4015/6jd4gh8fj?a=view

and  am trying to determine the optimal retransmission intervals
for one of our servers. This server supports direct access (ssh)
from clients dispersed throughout the world. I have noticed a high
number of retransmissions:

$ netstat -s | egrep '(tcpOutDataBytes|tcpRetransBytes)'
tcpOutDataBytes     =2626324938
tcpRetransBytes     =325216604

bash-2.03$ while :; do netstat -s | grep tcpRetransBytes; sleep 10; done
        tcpRetransSegs      =988433     tcpRetransBytes     =327511820
        tcpRetransSegs      =988532     tcpRetransBytes     =327548095
        tcpRetransSegs      =988588     tcpRetransBytes     =327557997
        tcpRetransSegs      =988621     tcpRetransBytes     =327566088
        tcpRetransSegs      =988659     tcpRetransBytes     =327575023
        tcpRetransSegs      =988694     tcpRetransBytes     =327583236
        tcpRetransSegs      =988748     tcpRetransBytes     =327598225
        tcpRetransSegs      =988852     tcpRetransBytes     =327621479

Based on this information, it seems that we are retransmitting roughly 2k
per second. Are there any tuning recommendations to deal with larger
propogation delays? It would seem that increasing the following may
fix the retransmission issue:

tcp_rexmit_interval_initial   (read and write)
tcp_rexmit_interval_max       (read and write)
tcp_rexmit_interval_min       (read and write)

but I am hesitant to change anything w/o conducting a little research
first. Does anyone have any suggestions or recommendations from past
experiences? Has anyone found an optimal formula to scale the rexmit
timers to deal with remote users? On a  separate note, is
there a server side equivalant to tcpAttemptFails? From reviewing some
documentation on the ORCA website, it looks like tcpAttemptFails is
incremented when outgoing connection failures occur. Is there an
easy way to coorelate these with snoop data or a "netstat -s" attribute?

I will SUMMARIZE my findings.

Thanks,
- Ryan


From jdd at cs.toronto.edu  Mon May 10 00:30:01 2004
From: jdd at cs.toronto.edu (John DiMarco)
Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 00:30:01 -0400
Subject: IMPORTANT: Read this before posting to Sun-Managers
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From Tufan.Sen at global-bilgi.com.tr  Mon May 10 02:01:27 2004
From: Tufan.Sen at global-bilgi.com.tr (Tufan Sen (TS))
Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 09:01:27 +0300
Subject: Solaris 9 Mount Problem at boot time
Message-ID: <8FBA0AD291EE77419E934F5DFAB6F8FD0113AC21@gbhalex01.global-bilgi.entp>

Hi all ,



I have a Solaris 9 Sun Fire 480 machine with data disks on an EMC SAN..



I'm having problems at boot time for mounting a disk which resides at
EMC SAN. To boot I have to disable the associated vfstab entry , boot ,
enable the entry then mount. Does anyone have any idea about this ??



Thanks for your helps...



STS


From Tufan.Sen at global-bilgi.com.tr  Mon May 10 04:14:40 2004
From: Tufan.Sen at global-bilgi.com.tr (Tufan Sen (TS))
Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 11:14:40 +0300
Subject: Connected command timeout for Target 5.0
Message-ID: <8FBA0AD291EE77419E934F5DFAB6F8FD0113ACF3@gbhalex01.global-bilgi.entp>

Hi all ,



I have a Solaris 6 (E250) box which  produces the logs below. The
machine responses very bad when this error happens. You feel it has
stoped working but after waiting it continues to work.

As far as I understand there is something wrong with the device at
Target 5 Lun 0.



May 10 09:18:43 infoserver unix: st5:   <Archive Python 4mm Helical
Scan>

May 10 09:18:43 infoserver unix: st5 at pci1000,f0:

May 10 09:18:43 infoserver unix:  target 5 lun 0

May 10 09:18:43 infoserver unix: st5 is /pci at 1f,4000/scsi at 3/st at 5,0



The log above means that tape device is at target 5 lun 0. Is this OK???

And anyone can help me to understand the logs below ??



Thanks for your helps....





May 10 09:31:12 infoserver unix: glm0:  Cmd (0x601f5460) dump for Target
5 Lun 0:

May 10 09:31:15 infoserver unix: glm0:          cdb=[ 0x12 0x0 0x0 0x0
0x30 0x0 ]

May 10 09:31:15 infoserver unix: glm0:  pkt_flags=0x808
pkt_statistics=0x60 pkt_state=0x7

May 10 09:31:15 infoserver unix: glm0:  pkt_scbp=0x0 cmd_flags=0x2860

May 10 09:31:15 infoserver unix: WARNING: /pci at 1f,4000/scsi at 3 (glm0):

May 10 09:31:15 infoserver unix:        Connected command timeout for
Target 5.0

May 10 09:31:15 infoserver unix: WARNING:
ID[SUNWpd.glm.cmd_timeout.6017]

May 10 09:31:15 infoserver unix: WARNING: /pci at 1f,4000/scsi at 3/sd at 0,0
(sd0):

May 10 09:31:15 infoserver unix:        SCSI transport failed: reason
'reset': retrying command

May 10 09:31:15 infoserver unix: WARNING: /pci at 1f,4000/scsi at 3/sd at 8,0
(sd7):

May 10 09:31:15 infoserver unix:        SCSI transport failed: reason
'reset': retrying command

May 10 09:31:15 infoserver unix: glm0:  Cmd (0x601f5460) dump for Target
5 Lun 0:

May 10 09:31:15 infoserver unix: glm0:          cdb=[ 0x12 0x0 0x0 0x0
0x30 0x0 ]

May 10 09:31:15 infoserver unix: glm0:  pkt_flags=0x808
pkt_statistics=0x60 pkt_state=0x7

May 10 09:31:15 infoserver unix: glm0:  pkt_scbp=0x0 cmd_flags=0x2860

May 10 09:31:15 infoserver unix: WARNING: /pci at 1f,4000/scsi at 3 (glm0):

May 10 09:31:15 infoserver unix:        Connected command timeout for
Target 5.0

May 10 09:31:15 infoserver unix: WARNING:
ID[SUNWpd.glm.cmd_timeout.6017]

May 10 09:32:18 infoserver unix: glm0:  Cmd (0x6162de28) dump for Target
5 Lun 0:

May 10 09:32:18 infoserver unix: glm0:          cdb=[ 0x12 0x0 0x0 0x0
0x30 0x0 ]

May 10 09:33:35 infoserver unix: glm0:  pkt_flags=0x808
pkt_statistics=0x60 pkt_state=0x7

May 10 09:33:35 infoserver unix: glm0:  pkt_scbp=0x0 cmd_flags=0x2860

May 10 09:33:35 infoserver unix: WARNING: /pci at 1f,4000/scsi at 3 (glm0):

May 10 09:33:35 infoserver unix:        Connected command timeout for
Target 5.0

May 10 09:33:35 infoserver unix: WARNING:
ID[SUNWpd.glm.cmd_timeout.6017]

May 10 09:33:35 infoserver unix: WARNING: /pci at 1f,4000/scsi at 3/sd at 0,0
(sd0):

May 10 09:33:35 infoserver unix:        SCSI transport failed: reason
'reset': retrying command

May 10 09:33:35 infoserver unix: WARNING: /pci at 1f,4000/scsi at 3/sd at 8,0
(sd7):

May 10 09:33:35 infoserver unix:        SCSI transport failed: reason
'reset': retrying command

May 10 09:33:35 infoserver unix: glm0:  Cmd (0x6162de28) dump for Target
5 Lun 0:

May 10 09:33:36 infoserver unix: glm0:          cdb=[ 0x12 0x0 0x0 0x0
0x30 0x0 ]

May 10 09:33:36 infoserver unix: glm0:  pkt_flags=0x808
pkt_statistics=0x60 pkt_state=0x7

May 10 09:33:36 infoserver unix: glm0:  pkt_scbp=0x0 cmd_flags=0x2860

May 10 09:33:36 infoserver unix: WARNING: /pci at 1f,4000/scsi at 3 (glm0):

May 10 09:33:36 infoserver unix:        Connected command timeout for
Target 5.0

May 10 09:33:36 infoserver unix: WARNING:
ID[SUNWpd.glm.cmd_timeout.6017]

May 10 09:34:40 infoserver unix: glm0:  Cmd (0x62096f98) dump for Target
5 Lun 0:

May 10 09:34:40 infoserver unix: glm0:          cdb=[ 0x12 0x0 0x0 0x0
0x30 0x0 ]

May 10 09:34:40 infoserver unix: glm0:  pkt_flags=0x808
pkt_statistics=0x60 pkt_state=0x7

May 10 09:34:40 infoserver unix: glm0:  pkt_scbp=0x0 cmd_flags=0x2860

May 10 09:34:40 infoserver unix: WARNING: /pci at 1f,4000/scsi at 3 (glm0):

May 10 09:34:40 infoserver unix:        Connected command timeout for
Target 5.0

May 10 09:34:40 infoserver unix: WARNING:
ID[SUNWpd.glm.cmd_timeout.6017]

May 10 09:34:40 infoserver unix: WARNING: /pci at 1f,4000/scsi at 3/sd at 0,0
(sd0):

May 10 09:34:40 infoserver unix:        SCSI transport failed: reason
'reset': retrying command

May 10 09:34:40 infoserver unix: WARNING: /pci at 1f,4000/scsi at 3/sd at 8,0
(sd7):

May 10 09:34:40 infoserver unix:        SCSI transport failed: reason
'reset': retrying command

May 10 09:34:40 infoserver unix: WARNING: /pci at 1f,4000/scsi at 3/sd at a,0
(sd9):

May 10 09:34:40 infoserver unix:        SCSI transport failed: reason
'reset': retrying command

May 10 09:35:51 infoserver unix: glm0:  Cmd (0x62096f98) dump for Target
5 Lun 0:

May 10 09:35:51 infoserver unix: glm0:          cdb=[ 0x12 0x0 0x0 0x0
0x30 0x0 ]

May 10 09:35:51 infoserver unix: glm0:  pkt_flags=0x808
pkt_statistics=0x60 pkt_state=0x7

May 10 09:35:51 infoserver unix: glm0:  pkt_scbp=0x0 cmd_flags=0x2860

May 10 09:35:51 infoserver unix: WARNING: /pci at 1f,4000/scsi at 3 (glm0):

May 10 09:35:51 infoserver unix:        Connected command timeout for
Target 5.0

May 10 09:35:51 infoserver unix: WARNING:
ID[SUNWpd.glm.cmd_timeout.6017]


From apr_2000 at yahoo.com  Mon May 10 04:56:03 2004
From: apr_2000 at yahoo.com (ananth p rao)
Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 01:56:03 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Tar i/o error
Message-ID: <20040510085603.40715.qmail@web40105.mail.yahoo.com>

hi,
  I have recently installed a SUN v880 server ,And i
have a sun storedge pci dual ultra 3 scsi card
installed.And a LTO 2 drive is connected to it.The
modinfo|grep qus lists that the scsi card driver is
installed.
     When i try to run tar -cvf /dev/rmt/0  /home
after copying 6 to 7 files and show an error
tar :i/o error
  The LTO drive is a new drive and i have cleaned the
drive with the cleaning tape,and i have used new set
of tapes still no luck.
  your valuable suggestions are appreciated.

regards
-ar


	
		
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From hchang at kgia.com  Mon May 10 04:58:19 2004
From: hchang at kgia.com (Henry Chang)
Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 16:58:19 +0800
Subject: How can add swap partition permanetly
Message-ID: <OFB596CDBD.B67C4878-ON48256E90.003117FD-48256E90.00316893@kgia.com>

Hi All,

Under Solaris8, I already have partition1 of disk0 as swap partition.  Now,
I want to add additioanl slice from disk1 as swap partition again so that
the swap is double.  What should I do so that even after reboot, I need not
to configure anymore.  Thanks.


Best Regards,
Henry


From michael at ulimit.org  Mon May 10 05:13:25 2004
From: michael at ulimit.org (Michael Pye)
Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 10:13:25 +0100
Subject: SunPCi3 boot from lan?
Message-ID: <20040510091325.GA99314@ulimit.org>

SunPCi 3 card with 3.2.1 software in a Sun Blade 2000.

The SunPCi card comes with an in-built ethernet card. In the bios for the 
SunPCi it appears to support :
First Boot Device [LAN]

Is this supported on the network card ? Would like to be able to perform 
windows installations over the network by getting the SunPCi to boot
remotely over the network. Presumably something like Intels PXE technology
has to be supported by the card.

Anyone doing this?

--
Michael Pye


From Mats.Oberg at tietoenator.com  Mon May 10 05:31:14 2004
From: Mats.Oberg at tietoenator.com (Mats.Oberg at tietoenator.com)
Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 11:31:14 +0200
Subject: SUMMARY: bge 10mbps trouble
Message-ID: <FFD83F5BFE8FFB43BFD05446E63D90AC0218F45D@maserati.eu.tieto.com>

Thanks goes to:
Kanellopoulos Angelos, Adrian Phipps, Mike's List, Pascal Grostabussia,
Melanie Humphrey, Nathan Dietsch, Hans Engren, Peter Stokes, Aleksander Pavic,
Vjay Larosa, David Harrington and Bill and Steve.

My original two posts are below.

The problem turned out to be a dual ip-adress, I had a lot of trouble tracking
this down as the machine with the offending ip was on a different vlan.
This ment that I could never ping the ip-adress from the "real" network, it
however managed to push it's mac-adress into the routers arp-table.

---- Mats

> Hi,
>
> I have a couple of sunblade1500's that doesn't work well when connected at
> 10mbps.
>
> The problem is that at random intervals the machine cannot comunicate out
of
> it's subnet, but everything works within the subnet.
>
> I can connect to it from my machine, but not from our central fileserver
that
> is on an other subnet, other machines on the same subnet have no problems
> connecting to the fileserver.
>
> The netmask is correct, the defaultroute is there, but not pingable(when
the
> problem occurs).
> If I take the interface down and then up, everything works again, for a
> while.
>
> Anybody know what could be the problem?

> Well, I still haven't found any solution to my problem, got a couple of
> answeres that suggested setting the interface to 10-hdx with ndd which
doesn't
> help. ( I even tried full duplex, hard settings on both card and switchport
)
>
> The problem seems to be with routing, since there's no problems inside the
> machines subnet.
>
> It's probably neither cable nor switchport, since I've tried the machine
> connected to two different switches with different cables.
> There is also no problem running a ultra5 in the same port via the same
cable
> as the problem machine, which by the way is a SunBlade1500 running
> Solaris8-hw7-03, recently patched.
>
> The machine works for a while when just started(or if I down/up the
> interface), there's no problems accessing for instance the internet. Then
> after a random time routing seems to stop, I can't even ping the
> defaultrouter(works from all other machines though). I can however
> ping/connect to any machine in the same subnet.
>
> The only errormessage is "nfs server ... not responding"
>
> The default route is in the routing table, and it's macaddress is in the
arp
> table.... I'm really getting frustrated at this....


From rjyoung at nortelnetworks.com  Mon May 10 08:43:42 2004
From: rjyoung at nortelnetworks.com (Richard Young)
Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 08:43:42 -0400
Subject: Summay: Console port connection to modem problems
References: <40895824.7060703@americasm01.nt.com>
Message-ID: <409F78FE.9070203@americasm01.nt.com>

Hi all,

Thanks to Mike and Tony Walsh for replying.

I found the answer finally!

I needed to set up the modem with the following commands:

AT&F0, AT\T7, AT&R2, AT&C1, ATE0 AT%K1, ATQ1, AT&W0 and AT&Y

and you need to build the DB25/RJ45 cable as per the sun documentation 
817-1960-10 and then use a NULL modem converter on the DB25 pinout to 
the modem before it will work.

Rich

Richard Young wrote:

> Thanks to Mike for pointing out that I should list the modem.
>
> I am using a Microcom DeskPorte 28.8P V.34 modem
>
> Rich
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> I have a Netra 240 and am trying to set up a modem connection to it.
>
> In the documentation it says to login to the ALOM and set the if_modem 
> to true.
>
> Then it say to connect the modem to the port.
>
> I had an RJ-45 to DB-25 special connector made as per the 
> documentation to do this.
>
> A have performed this, however, the DTR, CTS, and AA lights do not 
> illuminate as they are suppose to.
>
> I have also attempted to connect to the modem via another dumb 
> terminal and modem setup, however, the console port  will not answer 
> (I guess since it really never got set up).
>
> Thanks in advance for and advice.
>
> Richard Young


From paulus.tamba at rtmglobal.com  Mon May 10 08:53:01 2004
From: paulus.tamba at rtmglobal.com (Paulus Tamba)
Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 19:53:01 +0700
Subject: Error Message in Sun Enterprise 6500
Message-ID: <409F7B2D.4010300@rtmglobal.com>

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Dear Gurus,

We're having a Sun Enterprise 6500 running Solaris 7. Currently there
are several error messages as follows :

Apr 27 11:03:31 e6500 CMIS REMOTE ERROR: ((1 3 12 2 1009 3 2 3 316)
e6500-alm (2 9 3 2 7 3) -2094817439)
Apr 27 11:07:06 e6500 The instance of the specified managed object was
not recognized. (CMISE 1)
Apr 27 11:07:06 e6500 CMIS REMOTE ERROR: ((1 3 12 2 1009 3 2 3 316)
e6500-alm (2 9 3 2 7 3) -2094810592)[0] (error (m-error-msg))

any idea what are these error messages related to?

Thank you
- --
regards,

Paulus
Registered Linux User #352884
- ------------------------------------------
`I just can't afford those licenses' prices
So I switch to Linux`
- ------------------------------------------
http://paulustamba.blogspot.com

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From ray at biomed.queensu.ca  Mon May 10 09:34:21 2004
From: ray at biomed.queensu.ca (Ray Pengelly)
Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 09:34:21 -0400
Subject: SUMMARY: Ultra 5 NVRAM problems
Message-ID: <20040510133754.1480D1E5E1@sunportal.sunmanagers.org>

Thanks everyone for your help:

 

Almost every reply had the following link in it:

 

http://www.squirrel.com/squirrel/sun-nvram-hostid.faq.html

 

It has a lot of good information regarding replacement of the NVRAM and
fixing problems with hostid issues.

 

I got so many replies I'm not going to attempt to list them all. It's good
to know I'm not alone on this one.

 

Thanks again to all those who replied. 

 

Ray

 

Ray Pengelly

Computing Support Technologist

Centre for Neuroscience Studies/

CIHR Group in Sensory-Motor Systems

Queen's University


From DWilmot at tngus.com  Mon May 10 10:12:06 2004
From: DWilmot at tngus.com (Wilmot, Doug)
Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 10:12:06 -0400
Subject: Sending mail
Message-ID: <3045F9E1F320824EAE34DABDF40037BA5FA78E@tngus.tngus.com>

I need a command line email client for Solaris 2.6 (Sparc); the actual email
server will be an SMTP relay box that runs exchange 5.5. The reason we are
doing this is for Oracle alerts on a multi-tier platform. Does sendmail have
this capability? Does anyone else do this?

 

 

Thanks in advance

 

 

D


From Martin.Thorpe at DATAFORCE.co.uk  Mon May 10 10:33:57 2004
From: Martin.Thorpe at DATAFORCE.co.uk (Martin Thorpe)
Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 15:33:57 +0100
Subject: SUMMARY: SAN Implementation
Message-ID: <409F92D5.9010902@DATAFORCE.co.uk>

 Hi all

Sorry for the delay in writing this, but here is the summary of responses
regarding my SAN Implementation email, BIG thanks go to the following
people for excellent information and taking the time out to answer my
questions:

Adam Levin
Christopher Saul
Debbie Bingham
Gregory Shaw
Jon Hudson
Jeremy Loukinas
Charlotte M Ratliff

Thank you again to everyone who responded.

The general concensus was that Hitachi was the way to go, but we will
still take a look at what EMC, LSI/STK and SUN have to offer as other
options.

We are now in the process of meeting with HITACHI to see what they can
offer us, particularly I am interested in there THUNDER 9570V - I am
hoping that this is going to provide the performance/cost benefit that
has been recommended, it certainly looks more than capable kit.. We will
need to upgrade our switches (Brocade 2400 Silkworms 1GB) and core
fabrics to 2GB, I do understand that 4GB is out at the end of the year
though we will not be persuing that at this stage. I dont think that
there is any real need for us.

We want to change our backup strategy, allowing us to use BCV's to
perform offline backups and also potentially reporting, TimeFinder looks
very good for this if we went the EMC route, other vendors offer similar
products. Remote replication was important to us, rather than doing this
at Veritas Software level, most vendors support this (IPStor by
FalconStor was also mentioned which looks great) - so its just about
finding a configuration that fits in with what we want, this will also
allow us to go HW RAID 10 as opposed to SW RAID 1 and HW RAID 5 which is
crippling our write performance and bogging down our bandwidth.

It was mentioned that 66mhz HBA's in our SF3800's is going to limit us in
terms of hitting the new arrays hard enough, aswell as having only 5
hosts connected to it, though this is going to grow - it will give us
alot of breathing space to be adding more systems into the mix.

Replies to all questions/queries are included below, thanks to the list,
a very valuable resource.

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Gregory Shaw wrote:

fyi:  I work for StorageTek.  However, I'm in IT not sales or any other
customer facing group.

The current products by StorageTek will support what you want without
issue.  We've got LOTS of that type of connectivity.  The concerns
regarding multi-host attach to a single array:

1.  Make sure that you enable all call-home functionality.  All your data
is in one place; you sure don't want to have a problem that could have
been avoided.
2.  Use zoning.  The reason for zoning is this:  If your switch is one
big zone, and a single host has a problem (such as a continuous reboot or
bad FC card), everybody will see impact.  If you build zones that contain
only the server and the array (one zone for each server, with the array
existing in multiple zones), the servers will not impact each other.
3.  Use LUN masking inside the array.  This binds what the servers can
see to a particular set of LUNs.  That way, you don't have the 'browsing
admin' problem of an admin finding 'spare disk' then nuking something
important on another server.
4. If you can afford it, use multiple arrays and mirror between them. 
This is a business continuity issue rather than a real array issue.  I'm
not saying that anybody's arrays are unreliable, however, the probability
of two arrays having a problem is far lower than a single array.  It
always makes me nervous to have all of my eggs in a single basket.
5.  Make sure that you have enough spindles to spread out the i/o.  Don't
try to do too much with a small set of disk, as you'll find that the
spindles will saturate long before the controllers will saturate.

The arrays will talk to whatever switch you'd like to use.

Of course, YMMV.
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Anshul Mathur wrote:

Hi Martin,

We also implemented SAN in our environment couple of months back.We went
for HP (1024) as a centralized storage.We had initail issues with Sun
Enterprise servers 3500 and 4500 giving problem in recognizing the disks ,
we were using JNIC cards for connectivity. AT a different location we used
EMC which had absolutely no issues of such kind.

This was one issue we faced and wanted to bring to your notice just in case
but you can still go ahead and search for more plausable solutions.

Regards

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Eugene Schmidt wrote:

Hi

A bit of a curved ball, but well worth looking at:
What about NetApp.

The fact is that of all NAS type devices, NetApp is the ONLY ONE Meta will
recommend. Further, NFS, iSCSI etc are supported on them, As regards
replication, this is probably the easiest system to replicated.

The side that counts is that the cost is a fraction of what traditional SANs
cost, whereas you get all the SAN type functionality.

Veritas also have agents for them if required.

Also look at SPEC on the benchmarking side.

Best of luck (and happy research)

Regards

Eugene

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Christopher Saul wrote:
Hi Martin

The 6120s we sell are usually inside the 6320 SAN (they call it the 6020
when it's in the 6320 for some reason).  The market here tends to be
3510s or 6320s - it's rare to quote for just a 6120.

Glad you had a chance to look at IPStor.  Zero Impact Backup allows you
to back up the volumes that IPStor controls, via IPStor itself, so
there's no impact on the 'client' servers - the data's being processed
via the IPStor appliance.  It's  a neater way of doing 'server free'
backup - the other way I've configured that had to involve Veritas Volume
Manager and clever snapshotting, mirror breaking and various other
things.  Another advantage is that you only pay for the licence to backup
the IPstor server - take the example of 10 servers getting their storage
via IPStor - rather than pay for a backup agent for each server, you pay
for the agent for the IPstor server only.  It's not something I've had a
chance to play with yet, but it's a key IPStor feature.

Good luck with your investigations,

I was interested to see you have some 3800s - you must be the second
company I know of to have bought them!

Chris
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Adam Levin wrote:

Our guys are used to EMC, which has significantly more cache than 1GB.
According to STK, cache isn't important to their systems because of the
way they do things with their asics.  However, every disk theory I've
known makes cache extremely important for performance.  I'm skeptical that
1GB cache is anywhere near good enough, even with asic magic.

So, the cache issue is one issue.  The other issue was that they were
really pushing that FalconStor storage virtualization product, as if the
D280 couldn't stand alone, but that we would really need the FalconStor
stuff to get the most out of the product.  That made us leary of it,
especially since the hardware is just being resold by STK.  In other
words, STK was just reselling stuff that other companies designed and
developed.  All you're getting with STK as added value is their support, I
guess.  They're a great tape company, but I'm just not sure they know
anything about disks.

Sun isn't a storage company either.  Their high-end stuff is Hitachi now.
I don't know who makes their midrange, but it used to be LSI -- the same
folks who make the STK.

They sent us a comptetive bulletin between the D280 and the Hitachi 9580,
and it was full of mistakes about the 9580.  The Hitachi, even in STK's
own bulletin, beat the heck out of the D280 on sequential reads and
writes (can you say cache? -- 8GB vs. 2GB).  The random reads were very
close (Hitachi won on cache reads, and was almost the same on disk reads:
186k IOPS cache based reads, and 50k IOPS disk-based reads).

On the sequential, the Hitachi had twice as many MB/s as the D280.

I'm not a Hitachi dealer or salesman, but they've got some pretty
impressive products.

As for price, you're probably looking at around $200-$250k for 8TB raw.

  >   We did a few tests on it but its difficult to simulate major load in a  >   lab, iometer and another for random io - ioslam, didnt stress it  >   particularly much. They have offered a trial before buy option though  >   which is pretty good.

Honestly, you're dealing with enterprise-level disk stuff, so I think
anything you look at will be pretty solid.  I don't think you'd go wrong
with a D280, but there just don't seem to be too many people out there
with them, and STK isn't known as a big disk storage company, at least
compared to the big guys like Hitachi and EMC.

Personally, I'd stay far away from EMC.

  >   I'll be getting in contact with Hitachi and Sun when I get back,  >   specifically Hitachi, hearing very good things about them on this list -  >   the 9580 is the kind of area we will be looking at.

That's exactly what we were going to buy, and it was a pretty impressive
piece of gear.

  >   If you didnt mind, I'd like to email you when I get back in the office,  >   if you didnt mind answering some further questions?

I'm glad to help -- email away.

-Adam

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Christopher Saul wrote:

Hi Martin

Caveat - I work for Sun's Middle East distributor!  I would encourage
you, however, to check out Sun's offerings.  They are not bad and they
are well priced - particularly the 3510, which now scales up to 15TB..

On another note, I would take a look at a product called IPStor from
Falconstor.  It sits between the server and storage layer and lets you
perform a tonne of different useful things - easy virutalisation, support
for tonnes of platforms, disaster recovery, 'zero impact backup', etc,
etc, whilst allowing a lot of flexibility at the storage layer.  We've
started working with it for customers in our region and it meets a lot of
varied requirements.  Installation and management is also dead easy. 
Well worth a peak, if only out of professional interest.
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Jeremy Loukinas describing TIMEFINDER (EMC Software):

The way ours works is at 1:00 am Oracle goes into hot backup mode. The
Primary disks syncs to the BCV. The BCV is then mounted ( via veritas vg
import )up on the Netbackup server then written to tape. It's a really sharp
process. You can have 3 BCV's per primary data set. So we BCV one copy to
the backup server, one to dev and one to test. Then on Sunday the database
gets shutdown and a cold copy gets BCV'd and written to tape. The entire
process is scripted via scripts EMC provided to us. There are plenty of
options out there but I think EMC takes the cake. I hear the Hitachi units
are pretty sharp also. There is also the Magnitude which I think is a big
piece of crap. 

It's a little different then a snapshot. We put our db in hotbackup mode
m-s @ 1:00 am. Then we put it in cold mode on Sunday.

The hot is bcv'd to our netbackup server and written to tape. Then there
is a copy written to a dev server via bcv. So in total we have 3 bcv
copies.. you can have a max of 4. We use our 3rd for a backup for a
second database server.

TF actually monitors how far out of sync the blocks are. So it only syncs
what has changed.. that's the beauty. It takes about 1.5 hours to do a
nightly copy of the database. For a complete sync to disks which are 100%
different it takes us about 6 hours for a 400gb database. 

Let me know if I can explain or detail anything else.

J

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JV wrote:

Martin,

read the Brocade "Building SANs with brocade switches" book from
cover to cover if you have not already.

#1) get any vendor claim in writing and in your SOW. We got screwed
royally by IBM. Everything they say verbally over powerpoint
presentations is poppycock.

#2) don't mix windows and unix in the SAN, if you can help it.

#3) have your admins meditate on the supported OS/firmware/driver/HBA
matrix like Tibetian monks with their prayer books.

good luck
JV
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Jon Hudson wrote:

Welcome to the dark side ;-)
You are also going to want to look at HDS. Though I personally would not go through Sun unless you have to, it will often cost more.

With only 5 boxes ( I assume 2hbas per box) you are quite unlikely to really push anything you get. The newer mid-range and high end boxex (cx700 and DMX from EMC, 9580 and 9980 from HDS) are all so over engineered it would be quite hard for 5 hosts to really push it. Assuming you set up the luns properly. Your two main limitations will be the 66MHz bus speed on those 3800s and disk speed. Nomatter how fast they are, more than 180 iop/s out of each disk is really rare. More like 120-150 I would say.  Though I haven't tested the 15k FC drives.

One really important thing. When it comes to price, don't let anyone (especially EMC) quote you only 3yrs for support. This is how they get you. EMC includeds the first 3yrs, but the 4th is a killer. I just went through this last month. I was pitting EMCs cx700 against HDS 9580 for a MES system (which I just set up yesterday in Malaysia of all places). If you just projected out 3yrs, the EMC was about 20k cheaper. If you went out 5yrs, the HDS was 25k cheaper :) so be careful.

(side note I ended up getting box, a HDS 9580 for Malayisa and a EMC cx700 for Corp)

I would base you descision on a couple things, in this order.

1.) Relationship with vendor. you will be working with these guys for a while. Make sure you like them, they are technically sharp, and that they will support you after the PO is cut.
2.) Uptime & DR. This will determine if you go with midrange or high-end. NOT performance. There is a really good reason why EMC doesn't ever realease numbers compairing the cx line and the sym line. The mid range storage is REALLY fast. Is some cases faster than the high-end. The only reason to buy the high end is uptime and DR. This is becoming less and less true as mid range get more redudant. But if you want 5 9s and you plan to do hardware based replication you want the high end. If you can handled one or two scheduled downtimes a year, and plan to do software replication, the mid-range will be fine.
3.) Support and expansion costs. Most vendors based support costs on the LIST price of the storage, not the price they give you. So if they sell you a 1 million dollar array for 100k, you may get excited, till you see the support bill 2-3yrs later that will be about 100k per year. Also find out what it will cost to add disk, shelves, software and support. They will try to hide it everywhere they can.
4.) Performance. As I said, untill sun moves to 133MHz pci and you add a lot more than 5 hosts, you are going to have trouble really pushing anything hard.

To give you an idea. I have about 16 hosts (10 suns, v880s, 4500s, 6800) and 6 windows servers (mssql and exchange) on a 2Gb san using really nice silk 3900s (I love them).

This runs all email, finance, and manufacturing (oracle 11i) for a 2500 person international company. I have this all on a last generation EMC Sym 8530. It never even breaks a sweat. It's a 3yr old box, and it's way over powered for what I do. The only thing I have problems with is overloading the 1Gb FA boards on the Sym. After you push a 1Gb link beyond 75-80MB/s performance goes to hell (time to first date, read/write end completion times). But you won't have this problem with 2Gb links. 

and who even it is, don't let them make you set sd_throttle_max in /etc/system on your solaris boxes. It will throttle swap. The hbas can manage queue-depths just fine, you don't need to set it at the solaris kernel.

as a total side note, if you are really concerned about performance afterward and are willing to spend some money let me know. I can direct you to some tools to monitor really low level performance, but they aren't cheap.

Feel free to email me directly any questions you run into, I'd be happy to help out.

Oh, one last thing. No matter how cheap they get, they will aways go lower. To give a quick example. I pit EMC vs HDS on a first deal, EMC wouldn't go lower than about 120k down from about 350k. They lost the deal to HDS. When deal 2 came, I got EMC down to 69k =)

best of luck.

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Adam Levin wrote:

On Tue, 6 Apr 2004, Martin Thorpe wrote:  

  >   This is a little off topic, however my company are investing in a new  >   SAN and I am looking into the possibilities, so far I have looked at:  >   LSI (StorageTek), EMC and HP  >   What I would like to know is any tips for researching a solution from  >   people that have been through this, and also any pitfalls to avoid.

Wow, good for you!  There's a lot of neat stuff out there.

My company just finished a similar task, and I was the main contact person
for the vendors involved.  We contacted STK, Hitachi and EMC, just like
you.

Before I continue, I should say that we needed both SAN and NAS, and we
had no existing SAN infrastructure.  We ended up going with Network
Appliance, because of our mixed needs.

However, before we knew what the NetApp could do, we were ready to go with
a SAN/Veritas/Sun solution, and we had chosen Hitachi over the others.

Specifically, we were looking at the STK D280, the Hitachi Thunder 9580V,
and the EMC Clariion C600/DMX800.

  >   accurate. Whats the best way to measure this per application (if the  >   Application vendor cannot give you a rough idea) to give a rough idea as  >   to what we need minimum?

That's a really difficult question.  Sadly, we didn't figure out a good
way of testing this either.  You can test plenty of activity at the OS
level, but when it comes to how the applications actually deal with the
disk, it's very difficult to simulate.

Of course, the other issue is that it's not easy to get your hands on the
hardware to actually confirm what the vendor claims is the performance.

As for the hardware, what we found (the short version) is as follows:

STK:
As you know, their product is not their own.  They're re-badging the LSI
products.  For our NAS needs, they were strongly pushing a "storage
virtualization" product from yet another vendor, FalconStor.  It concerned
us that they needed to add all of this extraneous stuff to make their
products competitive.  Be prepared for them to push the FalconStor stuff
to replace the Veritas.  It might be good, it might not -- we had demos,
and it was slick, but I don't know how field-tested it is, and it relies
on a couple of linux servers as black boxes to do their magic.

It also bothered us that the cache was so small compared to the other
companies.  They claim amazing performance because of dedicated asics in
the controllers, but I'm not so sure.  We actually saw comparative numbers
from them, and not only were they incorrect about their competitors'
numbers, but Hitachi stacked up quite favorably to their D280.

Incidentally, if you're looking at the EMC DMX line or the Hitachi
Lightning 9900 stuff, the STK isn't even in the ballpark.

EMC:
I don't know if you've ever dealt with EMC.  The biggest problem is that
they'll lowball the hardware, charge a lot for the software, and *kill*you on the maintenance moving forward.  The Clariion stuff is old news --
there haven't been any significant advances in the technology; it's still
the same old Data General architecture, just with EMC's software in
front of it.  In fact, EMC is really more of a software company.  We got
demos of the software, and it was *really complicated*.  It's powerful,
but it's a very complex design, and it does require a Windows PC or three
to manage everything.

The DMX line has better performance, naturally, but the DMX800 is somewhat
crippled.  To get the true EMC performance, you really need the 1000, and
that gets to be a *lot* of money.

Hitachi:
Ultimately, we felt they had the best price/performance advantages with
their Thunder 9580 line.  The 9900 is even more impressive.  The sales
staff was very responsive, and the engineering support really seemed to
know what they were talking about.  They have some nice software control,
but it's still somewhat minimal compared to the other vendors.  Using
Veritas in addition should give you a lot of power and performance.

Hope this helps,
-Adam

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Charlotte M Ratliff wrote:

Hi!  I'm the storage architect for Mens Wearhouse, a retail business.  We
currently have a Hitachi 9980V. We did extensive research before
determining this to be the best.  We currently run multiple peoplesoft
w/oracle svrs, oracle svrs, informix, universe, and exchange servers.  I
feel we made an excellent choice.  I'd recommend checking out
gartner.com. I'd also recommend upgrading the brocades to the newer 2G
swithches with zoning.  I'm out of the office this week but if you'd like
to call and ask any questions that would be fine. One last thing DO NOT
get EMC I've ran SANs with EMC and they do not provide the level of
service you'd expect.  Also check what the maintenance cost of later
years will be.  If you do choose EMC buy it thru Dell, then you get Dells
support. 

Good luck!
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Jeremy Loukinas wrote:

More info on what I said. We use Timefinder to do Oracle database backups to
another server at night. Its all fiber connected using Veritas to import /
export the data groups between servers. Works out really well. For a 400gb
database it takes about 1.5 hours to complete. EMC has a complete set of
tools to monitor performance on the unit. 

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

Jeremy Loukinas wrote:

Since you need to support multiple types of hosts and I am sure you possible
want to use Timefinder I would suggest an EMC unit. 

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

Hike1272-sunhelp wrote:

don't buy emc!

if you must buy emc, purchase an emc san from dell.
  the service is much better
  the san and parts are cheaper

hp has the reputation of being complicated.

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ORIGINAL MESSAGE:
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--- Martin Thorpe

> Sun Managers> > This is a little off topic, however my company are investing in a new> > SAN and I am looking into the possibilities, so far I have looked at:> LSI (StorageTek), EMC and HP> > What I would like to know is any tips for researching a solution from> > people that have been through this, and also any pitfalls to avoid.> > We already have a SAN (I was not involved in the purchase of this), > however we are looking at purchasing a more powerful and scalable> system > that can provide us with the necessary building blocks for future > growth, big bandwidth, 24x7 always-on and flexibility in order to> house > multiple-operating systems as the business grows (any-to-any > connectivity), our data on the current SAN will be migrated to the> new, > we do not want to upgrade, so therefore I have to start from the> ground > up in my research.> > IOPs is a big figure in scaling a solution, however arriving at> somekind > of rough ballpark figure for this seems very difficult without > purchasing software, even with this, its not going to be perfectly > accurate. Whats the best way to measure this per application (if the > Application vendor cannot give you a rough idea) to give a rough idea> as > to what we need minimum?> > The new SAN will need to support 5 hosts in the early stages but this> > will develop as the company gains confidence in it:> > SUNFIRE 3800      Solaris 9 - RDBMS server (PICK).> SUNFIRE 3800      Solaris 9 - RDBMS server (PICK)> SUNFIRE V210      Mail System Server> IBM X345               SQL Cluster> IBM X345               SQL Cluster> > VxVM will be used to control volumes, this will enable us to > deport/import RDBMS volumes on two different servers from two> different > arrays, as true clustering is not supported by the RDBMS.> > We already have 2xBrocade 2400 silkworms, however these are end of > lifed, they are also 1GB per port, most new arrays are 2GB. We also> do > NOT use zoning on these Brocades, it is disabled, I have noticed many> > people talking about using this being critically important?> > Userbase is around 500 for the two SF3800's, 600 for the V210 and> less > than 100 per SQL Cluster, so not a very large userbase.> > Of course, I will summarise the replies back to the list.> > > Thanks> > Martin

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From debbie at icus.com  Mon May 10 10:43:52 2004
From: debbie at icus.com (Debbie Tropiano)
Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 09:43:52 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: 3rd party memory in a V880
Message-ID: <200405101443.i4AEhqoI096158@enterprise.icus.com>

Hello -

To save some $$ we're looking at using 3rd party memory in a SunFire V880.
I've never managed a system with 3rd party memory so was wondering if anyone
had any comments about this (other than sales folks, of course .. please
don't consider this a request for information).  I realize that the memory
wouldn't be covered by a Sun warranty or maintenance contract.

We're considering Kingston, so specifics about that would be helpful.

Thanks in advance for any information,
Debbie
-- 
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| Mommy to   Nathan b: 8/17/1995,   ^Sara^ b: 10/25/2000 d: 11/7/2000   &  |
| Leah b: 10/17/2001 a: 9/26/2002 "God shows His opposition to cancer and  |
| birth defects, not by eliminating them or making them happen only to bad |
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+ to ease the burden and to fill the emptiness."     -- Harold S. Kushner  +


From rjyoung at nortelnetworks.com  Mon May 10 12:44:27 2004
From: rjyoung at nortelnetworks.com (Richard Young)
Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 12:44:27 -0400
Subject: Summay: Console port connection to modem problems
References: <40895824.7060703@americasm01.nt.com>
Message-ID: <409FB16B.3020506@americasm01.nt.com>

  Hi all,

Thanks to Mike and Tony Walsh for replying.

I found the answer finally!

I needed to set up the modem with the following commands:

AT&F0, AT\T7, AT&R2, AT&C1, ATE0 AT%K1, ATQ1, AT&W0 and AT&Y

and you need to build the DB25/RJ45 cable as per the sun documentation 
817-1960-10 and then use a NULL modem converter on the DB25 pinout to 
the modem before it will work.

Rich

Richard Young wrote:

> Thanks to Mike for pointing out that I should list the modem.
>
> I am using a Microcom DeskPorte 28.8P V.34 modem
>
> Rich
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> I have a Netra 240 and am trying to set up a modem connection to it.
>
> In the documentation it says to login to the ALOM and set the if_modem 
> to true.
>
> Then it say to connect the modem to the port.
>
> I had an RJ-45 to DB-25 special connector made as per the 
> documentation to do this.
>
> A have performed this, however, the DTR, CTS, and AA lights do not 
> illuminate as they are suppose to.
>
> I have also attempted to connect to the modem via another dumb 
> terminal and modem setup, however, the console port  will not answer 
> (I guess since it really never got set up).
>
> Thanks in advance for and advice.
>
> Richard Young


From fletch at med.stanford.edu  Mon May 10 14:53:27 2004
From: fletch at med.stanford.edu (fletch at med.stanford.edu)
Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 11:53:27 -0700
Subject: 75 Recommended Solaris 9 patches for our Veritas 3.5 Oracle
 Cluster: All Safe? 
Message-ID: <00aa01c436c0$14835ab0$a71f41ab@medd7jtd7gds5n>

Hi Fellow Admins,
We have two SunFire 480's attached to A1000 running Veritas 3.5 acting
as our Oracle 9i DB Cluster.
 
Tonight we plan to apply the following 75 recommended Solaris 9 patches
to bring them both up to date:
 
112233-12  112808-06  112921-03  112960-12  113026-14  113240-06
113457-05  113575-05  114125-01  114388-03  114713-01  114971-02
116247-01 112540-21  112817-17  112922-02  112963-12  113068-04
113277-21 113476-13  113713-14  114127-03  114482-04  114721-04
115158-05 116308-01 112661-06  112834-03  112923-03  112964-07
113073-05  113278-06 113482-02  113718-02  114129-02  114495-01
114729-01  115172-01 116453-01 112764-07  112907-02  112925-03
112965-03  113077-11  113322-02 113492-04  113993-06  114332-11
114569-02  114861-01  115754-02 112785-34  112908-12  112926-05
112975-03  113096-03  113329-05 113573-04  114008-01  114361-01
114571-01  114864-02  116237-01 112807-08  112911-06  112951-08
112998-03  113226-05  113451-06 113574-03  114016-01  114363-02
114684-02  114875-01  116245-01
 
I have run this by a Veritas support engineer and he stock answer was
"we don't have any conflicts in general" with solaris patches - but
contact Sun.
 
I'd rather hear it from the user community if there are any potential
conflicts in this list?
 
We then plan to upgrade from 3.5 to 3.5MP2 with the following procedure:
 
4. Install Volume Manager, files system and VEA patches
 
Install VRTSvxvm patch 112392-06 on  node1
 
                        # patchadd  112392-06
 
Install VRTSvxfs 113207-10 (Solaris 9) on  node1
 
                        # patchadd   113207-10
Install VRTSob patch 113203-03 on  node1
 
 
                        # patchadd   113203-03
 
Install   VRTSobgui patch (if system is a VEA client) 113595-04 on
node1
 
 
                        # patchadd   113595-04
 
Install   VRTSvmpro patch 113596-03 on  node1
 
 
                        # patchadd   113596-03
 
 
 
 
 
Install VRTSfspro patch            113211-03 (Solaris 9)  on  node1
 
                        # patchadd   113211-03
 
5.  Reboot node1 and unfreeze the services on  node2 and move them over
to node1                
        
                    # haconf -makerw
        # hagrp -unfreeze <service_group> -persistent      
        # haconf -dump -makero
                    # hagrp grp_name  -switch -to  node1
 
6.  Move all services from node2 to node1 and FREEZE the service groups.
 
                    # hagrp grp_name  -switch -to  node1
                    # haconf -makerw
        # hagrp -freeze <service_group> -persistent          
                   # haconf -dump -makero
 
 
7.  Install Solaris Recommend cluster patches on node1
 
 
8. Reboot  node2
 
*services are still frozen on node1
 
9.  Install Volume Manager, files system and VEA patches
 
Install VRTSvxvm patch 112392-06 on  node2
 
                        # patchadd  112392-06
 
Install VRTSvxfs 113207-10 (Solaris 9) on  node2
 
                        # patchadd   113207-10
Install VRTSob patch 113203-03 on  node2
 
 
                        # patchadd   113203-03
 
Install   VRTSobgui patch (if system is a VEA client) 113595-04 on
node2
 
 
                        # patchadd   113595-04
 
Install   VRTSvmpro patch 113596-03 on  node2
 
 
                        # patchadd   113596-03
 
 
Install VRTSfspro patch            113211-03 (Solaris 9)  on  node2
 
                        # patchadd   113211-03
 
 
10.  Reboot node2 and unfreeze the services on  node1 and move services
that belong to node2 back over.       
        
                    # haconf -makerw
        # hagrp -unfreeze <service_group> -persistent      
        # haconf -dump -makero
                    # hagrp grp_name  -switch -to  node2
 
* If  the systems move service groups back and forth successfully the
VCS patch installation can now be started.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
************************   VCS MP2 update     **********************
 
1. Offline the ClusterService service group if it is running.  
   On any system type:
 
        # hagrp -offline ClusterService -sys <system>
 
2. Make the VCS configuration writable. On any system, type:
 
        # haconf -makerw
 
3. Freeze all service groups. On any system, type:
 
        # hagrp -freeze <service_group> -persistent
 
4. Save the configuration file (main.cf) with the groups frozen. 
   On any system, type:
 
        # haconf -dump -makero
 
5. Shut down VCS. On any system, type: 
 
        # hastop -all -force
 
6. Confirm VCS has shut down. On each system, type:
 
        # gabconfig -a
 
    Output resembles:
 
        GAB Port Memberships
        =======================================
        Port a gen 23dc0001 membership 01
 
    Note the output shows no membership for port h.
 
7. Determine if GAB is running on any disks. 
   On any system, type:
 
        # gabdiskhb -l
        # gabdiskx -l
 
   If gabdiskhb or gabdisk are running, the systems must be
   rebooted following patch installation.
 
8. Unconfigure GAB. On each system, type:
 
        # gabconfig -U
 
 
9. Unload GAB. On each system, perform the following steps:
 
    a. Identify the GAB kernel module. For example:
 
        # modinfo | grep gab
        149 50cc6000  2b451 112   1  gab (GAB device 3.5)
 
       In this example, the kernel number is 149. It appears at the far
       left of the output.
 
    b. Unload GAB using the module number:
 
        # modunload -i 149
 
       A message similar to the following is displayed on the console:
  
        Jun 14 15:41:11 vcstc1 gab: GAB:20022: GAB unavailable
 
    If GAB cannot be stopped or unloaded, the systems must be rebooted
    following patch installation.
 
10. Unconfigure LLT. On each system, perform the following steps:
 
    a. Type:
 
        # lltconfig -U
 
        The following message is displayed:
 
        lltconfig: this will attempt to stop and reset LLT.
        Confirm (y/n)?
 
    b. Type y on each system in response to the message.
 
11. Unload LLT. On each system, perform the following steps:
 
    a. Identify the LLT kernel module. For example:
 
        # modinfo | grep llt
 
        147 50ca4000 d6bc 110 1 llt (Low Latency Transport device 3.5)
 
    In this example, the kernel number is 147. It appears at the far
left
    of the output.
 
    b. Unload LLT using the module number:
 
        # modunload -i 147
 
    A message similar to the following is displayed on the console:
 
        Sept 14 15:41:11 vcstc1 llt: LLT Protocol unavailable
 
    If LLT cannot be stopped or unloaded, the systems must be rebooted
    following patch installation.
 
12. Change directory to the patch location.
 
13. Install the patch that corresponds to the version of the operating  
    system you are running:
    
       # patchadd  patch 113709-02.
 
 
14. After installation is complete, verify that the patch has been
installed. 
    On each system, type:   
    
        # showrev -p | grep <patch_id>
        
   The information displayed after successful installation resembles the

   following (Solaris 8 example):
   
            Patch: 113708-02  Obsoletes: 113702-01  Requires:
Incompatibles:  
            Packages: VRTSvcs, VRTSvcsag, VRTSvcsw    
            
15. If any of the following four cases occurred during installation,
reboot
    each system in the cluster to restart VCS:
 
        gabdiskhb is running
        gabdiskx is running
        GAB could not be stopped or unloaded
        LLT could not be stopped or unloaded
 
    If none of the previous four cases occurred, restart LLT, GAB, and
VCS. 
    On each system, type:
 
        # /etc/rc2.d/S70llt start
 
        # /etc/rc2.d/S92gab start
 
        # /etc/rc3.d/S99vcs start
 
16. After VCS has started on all systems, perform the following steps: 
 
    a. Verify all resources have been probed. On any system, type:
 
        # hastatus -summary
 
    b. Unfreeze all service groups. On any system, type:
 
        # haconf -makerw
 
        # hagrp -unfreeze <service_group> -persistent
 
        # haconf -dump -makero
 
    c. Online the ClusterService service group, if necessary.  
       On any system type:
 
        # hagrp -online ClusterService -sys <system>
--
 
TIA,
Will summarize
 
Fletcher Cocquyt
Senior Systems Administrator
fcocquyt at stanford.edu


From martini at mrpeabody.llnl.gov  Mon May 10 18:37:55 2004
From: martini at mrpeabody.llnl.gov (Dave Martini 1)
Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 15:37:55 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Is metatool still part of disksuite?
Message-ID: <200405102237.i4AMbtc19705@raider.llnl.gov>

I have solaris 9 installed and don't see metatool installed for
DiskSuite. Is the GUI still part of DiskSuite?

I do have these binaries in /usr/sbin

ls meta*
metaclear    metadevadm   metaoffline  metarecover  metaroot     metasync
metadb       metahs       metaonline   metarename   metaset      metattach
metadetach   metainit     metaparam    metareplace  metastat


Thanks.
Dave Martini 
LLNL


From martini at mrpeabody.llnl.gov  Mon May 10 19:05:58 2004
From: martini at mrpeabody.llnl.gov (Dave Martini 1)
Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 16:05:58 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: SUMMARY: Is metatool still part of disksuite?
Message-ID: <200405102305.i4AN5wp19740@raider.llnl.gov>

Looks like metatool does not exist anymore but an equivalent
GUI is integrated into SMC.

My origianal Question:


I have solaris 9 installed and don't see metatool installed for
DiskSuite. Is the GUI still part of DiskSuite?

I do have these binaries in /usr/sbin

ls meta*
metaclear    metadevadm   metaoffline  metarecover  metaroot     metasync
metadb       metahs       metaonline   metarename   metaset      metattach
metadetach   metainit     metaparam    metareplace  metastat


From martini at mrpeabody.llnl.gov  Mon May 10 19:16:47 2004
From: martini at mrpeabody.llnl.gov (Dave Martini 1)
Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 16:16:47 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: SUMMARY: Will NIS+ clients authenticate to an Apple Open
 Directory Server??
Message-ID: <200405102316.i4ANGlV19802@raider.llnl.gov>

My original question:
The answer is yes.
Open Directory is essentially Open LDAP rebranded from Apple.

Make sure you have the latest update for ldap client if you have
the latest patch cluster for Solaris 9 installed that should include it.

You can select which services you want to query either LDAP or
to NIS+ via the /etc/nsswitch.conf file.

My original question:

I have about 40 Solaris clients ranging from Solaris version
2.5.1 to Solaris 9 and have an NIS+ server that they authenticate to.

Is it possible for Solaris clients to authenticate their logins (username
and groups) to a Macintosh OS X server running Apple's Open Directory?
I'm looking for a single authentication server that will authenticate
both Mac OS X accounts and Solaris accounts. 

I would like the logins (usernames/passwords) that happen from my Solaris clients to authenticate to the Apple Open Directory Server but  still want to
maintain other directory information like netgroups and the auto_home table
to come from my NIS+ server? Is it possible for a Solaris client to have a 
reference to an Apple Open Directory Server for logins but still have the
reference to NIS+ sever (/var/nis/NIS_COLD_START) for other information? I realize that I must be at Solaris 8 or 9 to use LDAP is it the same requirement for Open Directory?

Thank You.
Dave Martini
LLNL


From brounb at adi-limited.com  Mon May 10 22:02:38 2004
From: brounb at adi-limited.com (Broun, Bevan)
Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 12:02:38 +1000
Subject: console unusable and break-doesnt-halt problem
Message-ID: <20040511020238.GB11709@adi-limited.com>

Hi All

I have a little problem with an E420R that Im accessing via a terminal
server (lightwave). OS is solaris 8 2/02, but I dont think that is
important.

1: somehow I manage to screw the console settings. Hitting ctrl-C seems to
give me a new prompt (like hitting a return) but I cant do anything else.

2: I was going to do a quick reboot to fix but when I send a break I get to
an "ok" prompt from which I can resume with "go" (amount other things). The
system was configured to halt on this signal, but someone has changed it I
cant see how to do a clean shutdown so I can reboot.

5 points if you can tell me how to get a working console without reboot, 2
points for getting the OS down with a sync of disks first.

thanks in advance

BB


From brounb at adi-limited.com  Mon May 10 22:50:56 2004
From: brounb at adi-limited.com (Broun, Bevan)
Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 12:50:56 +1000
Subject: SUMMARY: console unusable and break-doesnt-halt problem
In-Reply-To: <20040511020238.GB11709@adi-limited.com>
References: <20040511020238.GB11709@adi-limited.com>
Message-ID: <20040511025056.GC11709@adi-limited.com>

Thanks to Jim VandeVegt and others.

Paul suggested crtl-j (and crtl-q to fix andy crtl-s), which is what I
needed as my returns where just appearing as crtl-m on the command line. So
I did, in semi-darkness, after a few crtl-j, followed by:

/usr/bin/stty sane crtl-j
/usr/ucb/reset crtl-j

which got me something working (so I tried it a few more times), but it
seemed that the locale was funny.  Logging out and in didnt fix it so I did
a quick reboot. Console fixed - we will call that 4 points to Jim.

How to return the system such that a break from the console does a halt is
still open but not urgent - Ill send another summary if people answer this
one before I find it myself.

Thanks again

BB

on Tue, May 11, 2004 at 12:02:38PM +1000, Broun, Bevan <brounb at adi-limited.com> wrote:
> Hi All
> 
> I have a little problem with an E420R that Im accessing via a terminal
> server (lightwave). OS is solaris 8 2/02, but I dont think that is
> important.
> 
> 1: somehow I manage to screw the console settings. Hitting ctrl-C seems to
> give me a new prompt (like hitting a return) but I cant do anything else.
> 
> 2: I was going to do a quick reboot to fix but when I send a break I get to
> an "ok" prompt from which I can resume with "go" (amount other things). The
> system was configured to halt on this signal, but someone has changed it I
> cant see how to do a clean shutdown so I can reboot.
> 
> 5 points if you can tell me how to get a working console without reboot, 2
> points for getting the OS down with a sync of disks first.
> 
> thanks in advance
> 
> BB
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> sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org
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From sebastian.boeker at hsh-nordbank.com  Tue May 11 02:32:58 2004
From: sebastian.boeker at hsh-nordbank.com (sebastian.boeker at hsh-nordbank.com)
Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 08:32:58 +0200
Subject: unsubscribe  [Virus checked HSH Nordbank]
Message-ID: <20040511063212.486431E5A9@sunportal.sunmanagers.org>

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From konazz at vodafone.com.mt  Tue May 11 03:25:08 2004
From: konazz at vodafone.com.mt (konazz at vodafone.com.mt)
Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 09:25:08 +0200
Subject: Support question
Message-ID: <web-5117768@vodafone.com.mt>

Hi all,

Sorry for this question but i am really stuck. Some months ago we had a product under warranty that was faulty and we found a way through sun web site to open report. We have no support contract 
with Sun. How can we do it ? What is the url for such reuqest ?

Thanks in advance 
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From OcallD at cogent-dsn.com  Tue May 11 05:31:03 2004
From: OcallD at cogent-dsn.com (Dan O'Callaghan)
Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 10:31:03 +0100
Subject: console terminal settings
Message-ID: <A5E49A0595FB4A489ED566217349B1470361D6@zaphod1.cogent-dsn.local>

I'm using a standard cde terminal window set to ddterm to tip into a
console port.

What is the correct way to get things like "vi" screen output corrrcet.

I've tried exporting the console session to vt100, vt220, dtterm,
etc....
Which is the best to use for a floating cde terminal window?

Thanks.
Dan


From aiggno at s.vnn.vn  Tue May 11 07:34:24 2004
From: aiggno at s.vnn.vn (aiggno)
Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 18:34:24 +0700
Subject: Backing up the opening files with the tar command ?
Message-ID: <000b01c4374b$eb22d560$6e00000a@dam>

Hi managers,

I want to backup the data files but not sure what happen if I backing up the
opening files with the tar command. Please explain. Is there a free software
to do the backup ?

TIA,
Regards,
Aiggno


From kwachtler at midwave.com  Tue May 11 09:26:07 2004
From: kwachtler at midwave.com (Ken Wachtler)
Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 08:26:07 -0500
Subject: ce instance number change fails on V440
Message-ID: <1800F4B05485B34E8C62C4E2896EB638CD20B0@strive.midwave.com>

1) I want to renumber the "ce" instances by hand-editing the path_to_inst, but
Sun TS strongly disagrees. Has anyone edited path_to_inst by hand ? Has it
caused any problems ?

2) Sun's recommended procedure for rebuilding path_to_inst (rm path_to_inst,
boot -ar) fails on the V440 with:
 a) boot -ar
 b) VxVM starting in boot mode...
    vxvm:vxconfigd: ERROR: disk /dev/rdsk/c5t0d0s2 can't be
    claimed - ERROR: No such device or address
 c) The / file system (/dev/rdsk/c1t0d0s0) is being checked.
    Can't open /dev/rdsk/c1t0d0s0
 d) Enters single-user "ro" mode
Could be due to boot disk mirroring with V440 on-board Hardware Raid.
Recommend disabling the HW Raid (raidctl -d) before performing an "ask-me"
boot.

Thx,
Ken Wachtler
Midwave Corp


From harald.husemann at materna.de  Tue May 11 09:34:43 2004
From: harald.husemann at materna.de (Harald Husemann)
Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 15:34:43 +0200
Subject: E420 doesn' boot any more
In-Reply-To: <A5E49A0595FB4A489ED566217349B1470361D6@zaphod1.cogent-dsn.local>
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Message-ID: <1084282482.21765.33.camel@yellow>

Hi gurus,

I've got a problem with an E420 here. The machine has been used as part
of a SUN Cluster, which I has been disassembled.
Now, I'd like to install the machine from CD-ROM (using Sol 9 12/03), to
get a clean system...

But, the following happens every time I try to boot it:

==================/snip/====================================
{1} ok boot cdrom
Boot device: /pci at 1f,4000/scsi at 3/disk at 6,0:f  File and args:
Loading ufs-file-system package 1.4 04 Aug 1995 13:02:54.
FCode UFS Reader 1.11 97/07/10 16:19:15.
Redirected to slice: 1
Loading: /platform/SUNW,Ultra-80/ufsboot
Loading: /platform/sun4u/ufsboot
SunOS Release 5.8 Version Generic_108528-20 64-bit
Copyright 1983-2003 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All rights reserved.
WARNING: [AFT1] Timeout on System Bus in privileged mode from CPU1 Data
access at TL=0, errID 0x0000005d.fdd146db
    AFSR 0x00000000.88000000<PRIV,TO> AFAR 0x000001ff.80010010
    AFSR.PSYND 0x0000(Score 05) AFSR.ETS 0x00 Fault_PC 0x1022bd28
    UDBH 0x0000 UDBH.ESYND 0x00 UDBL 0x0000 UDBL.ESYND 0x00

panic[cpu1]/thread=10408000: [AFT1] errID 0x0000005d.fdd146db BTO
Error(s)
    See previous message(s) for details

===========/snap/=====================================

I've also tried to boot from disk in non-cluster mode, same result.
Diag-switch is true, diag-level is max, but I don't see any error
messages during POST.
Is this a hardware problem?? Should I call SUN support??
Also searched sunsolve and docs.sun.com, no result.

Hope anyone can help, thanks in advance!

Harald

-- 
============================================
Harald Husemann
Systems Engineer
Teammanager Unix administration and Configuration Management
Materna Gmbh - Vo_kuhle 37 -
D-44141 Dortmund, Germany
Phone:  +49-231-5599-8684


From rmckeever at earthlink.net  Tue May 11 10:27:36 2004
From: rmckeever at earthlink.net (rmck)
Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 07:27:36 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
Subject: Sol 8 Crontab question
Message-ID: <2256051.1084285657274.JavaMail.root@fozzie.psp.pas.earthlink.net>

Hi 

I have a cron job that I just want to rename a file with a date at the end:

01 * * * *  cp -p /opt/logs/perllog /opt/logs/perllog.`date +%m-%d-%y' ; rm -rf /opt/logs/perllog ; touch /opt/logs/perllog

The cron runs but names the file like so:
perllog.

What am I doing wrong? It works on my Red Hat system......

Rob


From ray at biomed.queensu.ca  Tue May 11 10:26:50 2004
From: ray at biomed.queensu.ca (Ray Pengelly)
Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 10:26:50 -0400
Subject: Switching form NIS+ to NIS+ in compatibilty mode
Message-ID: <20040511143028.488FF1E60B@sunportal.sunmanagers.org>

Hello everyone,

 

I inherited a NIS+ master and slave with a number of NIS+ clients and one
old SS2 running sunOS 4.1.2. The SS2 needs NIS+ in compatibility mode. The
NIS+ slave recently died and the SS2 hangs on startup looking for a NIS
server. My guess is the slave server was running in compatibility mode. I'm
waiting on parts to get the slave back up. In the meantime I was wondering
if I restart the NIS+ master in compatibility mode is it going to have major
effects? Can I just switch back later?

 

The other option is to setup one of the clients as a NIS+ slave in running
in compatibility mode just like the one that died.

 

Any help is greatly appreciated.

 

Ray

 

Ray Pengelly

Computing Support Technologist

Centre for Neuroscience Studies/

CIHR Group in Sensory-Motor Systems

Queen's University


From harald.husemann at materna.de  Tue May 11 10:49:24 2004
From: harald.husemann at materna.de (Harald Husemann)
Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 16:49:24 +0200
Subject: SUMMARY: E420 doesn' boot any more
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	<1084282482.21765.33.camel@yellow>
Message-ID: <1084286964.21765.57.camel@yellow>

<Original posting below>

Hi again,

thanks to: 
Mike (mikelist at sky.net), 
Terry L Moore <tmoore at redwood.rsc.raytheon.com>, 
Williams Shawn <SWilliams at nexstar.com>,
John Rushe (AXA-TECH-UK) <John.Rushe at axa-tech.com>,
Pablo Jejcic - Smartweb <pablo.jejcic at smartweb.rgu.ac.uk> and

Pascal Grostabussiat
<pascal at azoria.com>

for their quick responses,and special thanks to Michael Schulte for
calling me on my mobile and pointing me in the right direction, :-)

Some of you suspected a HW-failure, maybe a defective CPU - but,
fortunately, that was not the reason, :-)
The system was part of a cluster, and for this, it was equipped with a
qfe- and an SCSI-card. Well, it seems those cards leave some "traps" in
the OBP, even when you plug them out...
So, I did a "set-defaults" at the OBP prompt to reset the nvram to
factory defaults (thanks to John Rushe for the tip!), and voila, the
system boots! Now, the installation is working, :-))

Thanks to the list for the quick help,

Harald

  


On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 15:34, Harald Husemann wrote:
> Hi gurus,
> 
> I've got a problem with an E420 here. The machine has been used as part
> of a SUN Cluster, which I has been disassembled.
> Now, I'd like to install the machine from CD-ROM (using Sol 9 12/03), to
> get a clean system...
> 
> But, the following happens every time I try to boot it:
> 
> ==================/snip/====================================
> {1} ok boot cdrom
> Boot device: /pci at 1f,4000/scsi at 3/disk at 6,0:f  File and args:
> Loading ufs-file-system package 1.4 04 Aug 1995 13:02:54.
> FCode UFS Reader 1.11 97/07/10 16:19:15.
> Redirected to slice: 1
> Loading: /platform/SUNW,Ultra-80/ufsboot
> Loading: /platform/sun4u/ufsboot
> SunOS Release 5.8 Version Generic_108528-20 64-bit
> Copyright 1983-2003 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All rights reserved.
> WARNING: [AFT1] Timeout on System Bus in privileged mode from CPU1 Data
> access at TL=0, errID 0x0000005d.fdd146db
>     AFSR 0x00000000.88000000<PRIV,TO> AFAR 0x000001ff.80010010
>     AFSR.PSYND 0x0000(Score 05) AFSR.ETS 0x00 Fault_PC 0x1022bd28
>     UDBH 0x0000 UDBH.ESYND 0x00 UDBL 0x0000 UDBL.ESYND 0x00
> 
> panic[cpu1]/thread=10408000: [AFT1] errID 0x0000005d.fdd146db BTO
> Error(s)
>     See previous message(s) for details
> 
> ===========/snap/=====================================
> 
> I've also tried to boot from disk in non-cluster mode, same result.
> Diag-switch is true, diag-level is max, but I don't see any error
> messages during POST.
> Is this a hardware problem?? Should I call SUN support??
> Also searched sunsolve and docs.sun.com, no result.
> 
> Hope anyone can help, thanks in advance!
> 
> Harald
-- 
============================================
Harald Husemann
Systems Engineer
Teammanager Unix administration and Configuration Management
Materna Gmbh - Vo_kuhle 37 -
D-44141 Dortmund, Germany
Phone:  +49-231-5599-8684


From rmckeever at earthlink.net  Tue May 11 10:51:19 2004
From: rmckeever at earthlink.net (rmck)
Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 07:51:19 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
Subject: Summary - Sol 8 Crontab question
Message-ID: <22187009.1084287079250.JavaMail.root@fozzie.psp.pas.earthlink.net>

Thanks..... 
It was the escape....

Casper:
"You need to escape the % because cron reads it as a line feed and gives the
rest of the line as input to the script.
Like so:
cp -p /opt/logs/perllog /opt/logs/perllog.`date +\%m-\%d-\%
"

Rob

-----Forwarded Message-----
From: rmck <rmckeever at earthlink.net>
Sent: May 11, 2004 7:27 AM
To: sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org
Subject: Sol 8 Crontab question

Hi 

I have a cron job that I just want to rename a file with a date at the end:

01 * * * *  cp -p /opt/logs/perllog /opt/logs/perllog.`date +%m-%d-%y' ; rm -rf /opt/logs/perllog ; touch /opt/logs/perllog

The cron runs but names the file like so:
perllog.

What am I doing wrong? It works on my Red Hat system......

Rob


From rwichterman at nuventive.com  Tue May 11 11:36:17 2004
From: rwichterman at nuventive.com (Rob Wichterman)
Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 11:36:17 -0400
Subject: File Descriptors not closing
Message-ID: <20040511153353.KOW3344.imta01a2.registeredsite.com@rwichterman>

Our application exports multiple files at a time, by export we mean generate
the files in pure html and download them. The number of files generated can
be anywhere from 10 - unlimited number of html files.   The problem is when
it creates these files it is leaving the file descriptors left open until it
reaches the limit then we have to restart the application server to free up
the descriptors.  Is there any way we can close these on an OS level because
they should be being closed in the java code.  Or maybe even set a timeout
to clean these up after a minute or so.


From ian.vannman at aftonbladet.se  Tue May 11 11:34:26 2004
From: ian.vannman at aftonbladet.se (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ian_V=E4nnman?=)
Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 17:34:26 +0200
Subject: ldap.conf
Message-ID: <40A0F282.9070809@aftonbladet.se>

I need to change some settings in ldap.conf.

Specifically I'm changing it so that pam.ldap from PADL won't bind 
anonymously to the ldap-server.

When I have updated ldap.conf, how do I force Solaris to reread the 
settings in ldap.conf without restarting the whole server?

Yes, I'm a newbie.
/Ian


From adrian.gschwend at bfh.ch  Tue May 11 09:27:02 2004
From: adrian.gschwend at bfh.ch (Adrian Gschwend)
Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 15:27:02 +0200
Subject: port/process association
Message-ID: <pan.2004.05.11.13.27.01.829649@bfh.ch>

Hi managers,

I have a Solaris 8 box that seems to be rooted or otherwise cracked, and
it looks like it is abused as SPAM-relay. I do see from which port it is
sending the SPAM but I cannot associate a process to it.

How can I get that information on Solaris?

thanks in advance

Adrian

-- 
Adrian Gschwend
System Administrator
University of applied sciences
Biel, Switzerland


From adrian.gschwend at bfh.ch  Tue May 11 12:22:52 2004
From: adrian.gschwend at bfh.ch (Adrian Gschwend)
Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 18:22:52 +0200
Subject: SUMMARY:  port/process association
References: <pan.2004.05.11.13.27.01.829649@bfh.ch>
Message-ID: <pan.2004.05.11.16.22.52.47000@bfh.ch>

On Tue, 11 May 2004 15:27:02 +0200, Adrian Gschwend wrote:

Hi again!

> I have a Solaris 8 box that seems to be rooted or otherwise cracked, and
> it looks like it is abused as SPAM-relay. I do see from which port it is
> sending the SPAM but I cannot associate a process to it.
> 
> How can I get that information on Solaris?

thanks to all who responded fast as usual! Here is the summary:

The tool I was looking for is "lsof" and it is available at sunfreeware.
Thanks to Rick, Tony, Marcos (aka gandalf ;) and John!

Rick also proposed to get chkrootkit too (which is a good idea on this
box I fear...)

from Tery:
It is not unusual for crackers to mask their activities by replacing key 
utilities with modified copies of the same utilities.  These modified
utilities show everything but the activity of the cracker.  You have to
get a known good copy of the utilities you are using.  These can be used
off the installation CDs if you mount them on the computer.  The known
good utilities will show the relationships you seek.  Trust NOTHING off
the cracked box.
--

cu

Adrian


-- 
Adrian Gschwend
System Administrator
University of applied sciences
Biel, Switzerland


From Russell.J.LeBar at erac.com  Tue May 11 12:35:05 2004
From: Russell.J.LeBar at erac.com (Lebar, Russell J)
Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 11:35:05 -0500
Subject: UFS logging (JFS) option
Message-ID: <0EBFC22FDE33C84B97D546599FFC449101C9174B@STL-EXBE-I03.corp.erac.com>

According to SUN Blueprints Boot Disk Management it is not possible to enable
logging on the root (/) filesystem. However I went and added it as an option
in /etc/vfstab for / anyway. Interestingly, the mount command lists / as using
the logging option. Is mount lying to me or is logging actually enabled?

On a related note, is it possible to use logging with DiskSuite? I'm thinking
of situations where the system goes down hard such as power cutting out which
could leave both slices in a mirrorset with a corrupt filesystem.

Using final Solaris 8 hardware release and the 4/04 Solaris 9 hardware
release.

Thanks in advance!

--
Russ LeBar
Enterprise Rent-A-Car
UNIX System Administrator


From Russell.J.LeBar at erac.com  Tue May 11 13:24:24 2004
From: Russell.J.LeBar at erac.com (Lebar, Russell J)
Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 12:24:24 -0500
Subject: SUMMARY: UFS logging (JFS) option
Message-ID: <0EBFC22FDE33C84B97D546599FFC449101C9175D@STL-EXBE-I03.corp.erac.com>

Answer is logging can be used on /, mount is telling the truth, and the
logging option can be used with DiskSuite (put it in vfstab just like you
would a regular filesystem).

Thanks to the following for such quick responses:

Terry
Darren Dunham
Darryl Baker
Alex Madden
Rainer Heilke
Mike

  _____

Russ LeBar
Enterprise Rent-A-Car
UNIX System Administrator


> -----Original Message-----
> From: sunmanagers-bounces at sunmanagers.org
> [mailto:sunmanagers-bounces at sunmanagers.org]On Behalf Of
> Lebar, Russell
> J
> Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2004 11:35
> To: sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org
> Subject: UFS logging (JFS) option
>
>
> According to SUN Blueprints Boot Disk Management it is not
> possible to enable
> logging on the root (/) filesystem. However I went and added
> it as an option
> in /etc/vfstab for / anyway. Interestingly, the mount command
> lists / as using
> the logging option. Is mount lying to me or is logging
> actually enabled?
>
> On a related note, is it possible to use logging with
> DiskSuite? I'm thinking
> of situations where the system goes down hard such as power
> cutting out which
> could leave both slices in a mirrorset with a corrupt filesystem.
>
> Using final Solaris 8 hardware release and the 4/04 Solaris 9 hardware
> release.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> --
> Russ LeBar
> Enterprise Rent-A-Car
> UNIX System Administrator
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From RMcEwan at netopia.com  Tue May 11 13:57:08 2004
From: RMcEwan at netopia.com (McEwan, Ryan)
Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 10:57:08 -0700
Subject: CPU swap question
Message-ID: <F1F84A2E5F9EBD46A9BDB905EB5B1039048A1647@mxca1.netopia.com>

Does anyone know what is required to swap 2 750 Mhz cpu's in a 280R with 2
900 MHz cpu's from another 280R?  Is it as simple as swapping out the cpu's
or do you need to change jumpers?  Anything in the OS?
 
Would it maybe be easier to swap memory, scsi cards and hard drives to the
faster machine instead of moving cpu's?  I'm really trying to avoid a
complete machine reconfiguration as the Oracle machine (currently 2 x 750
Mhz cpu) is in a Veritas Cluster.  I would, however, like to get those
faster cpu's over to the Oracle box.
 
Thanks in Advance.  I will summarize.


From sloewenthal at gemini.edu  Tue May 11 14:09:11 2004
From: sloewenthal at gemini.edu (LOEWENTHAL Simon)
Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 14:09:11 -0400
Subject: Xsun runs at 100% after log out.  Login screen goes white, nowt
 displayed  - Solaris 8/U10.
Message-ID: <AOEOIBDLMPAFMBPDBDNOAEMACKAA.sloewenthal@gemini.edu>

Dear all sun managers,

When a user logs out of a Solaris 2.8 U10 the process Xsun starts running at
100%.  The screen goes white and no one can login on that monitor.  Remote
logins are fine.  This does not happen all the time.  It seems to be
intermittent.  It is not limited to one particular machine or account.

I noticed that /bin/ps shows that the process Xsun is owned by the previous
user ssa, whereas top says that the Xsun process is owned by root.

What I would like to know is why Xsun hangs after a log out and starts
running at 100% on the CPU?  Anyone had this afore?

  PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE  SIZE   RES STATE    TIME    CPU COMMAND
 12398 root       1  40    0   27M   19M run    104:35 98.03% Xsun

   ssa 12398   281 99   May 06 ?       105:35 /usr/openwin/bin/Xsun
:0 -nobanner -auth /var/dt/A:0-xyaiJa

Many thanks for any help.
Regards,
Simon.

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From barkhymr at nosc.mil  Tue May 11 14:56:21 2004
From: barkhymr at nosc.mil (Bob Barkhymer)
Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 14:56:21 -0400
Subject: A1000 not seeing new drives
Message-ID: <000001c43789$a7111ba0$2dacfdc6@nips.spawar.navy.mil>

Good afternoon Sun Managers,

I have a 420R Server with Solaris 8  and a A1000 Array attached. I just
added 2 more 36 Gig drives to the array and after running a reboot -- -r the
server came up and now I can no longer see the array. The A1000 array
contained Seagate ST336704LC (Single Ended Ultra-1 SCSI) 36 G drives. The
drives we added were Seagate ST336605LC drives (Low Voltage Differential
Ultra-3 SCSI). Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Bob


From jbaltz at omnipod.com  Tue May 11 15:06:54 2004
From: jbaltz at omnipod.com (Jerry B. Altzman)
Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 15:06:54 -0400
Subject: cron on sol8 dying mysteriously
Message-ID: <40A1244E.4060900@omnipod.com>

Fellow put-upon sysadmins:

I have an odd error: I'm trying to run cron on solaris 8 on an ultra-2 
system, and as soon as cron tries to run a job, it dies. truss doesn't 
give any real indication for this premature death, and the same script 
is run on another U2 without a problem.

Has anyone seen this behavior, and, if so, is there a known solution? 
I've tried the obvious (googling, sunmanagers, bigadmin) and haven't 
seen anything.

Of course I'll post a summary to the list.

Thanks!

//jbaltz
-- 
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Thank you for contributing to the heat death of the universe.


From David.Markowitz at ssplitronic.com  Tue May 11 16:05:36 2004
From: David.Markowitz at ssplitronic.com (David Markowitz)
Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 13:05:36 -0700
Subject: Support for multiple mice
Message-ID: <8A951663762E0D42977193FE60AA9B7F0B8DB5@xenon.sspsolutions.com>

Does anyone out there know of a way (or a plan) to add support for
multiple USB pointers (mice, etc.) to Solaris?  This is not currently
supported, but would be very useful for those of us with limited manual
dexterity.

AccessX is nice, but what I need is the ability to use my left hand to
hold down a mouse button while using my right to drag.  I used to do
this using the Sun Interface Adapter, which allowed a Sun mouse and a
PS/2 pointer at the same time.  MouseKeys doesn't do it, and I can't
even get it to work as mouse buttons (suggestions?).


From sreeredhat at yahoo.com  Tue May 11 16:16:43 2004
From: sreeredhat at yahoo.com (sreenath sarikonda)
Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 13:16:43 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: can anyone explain this me ?
Message-ID: <20040511201643.52246.qmail@web14803.mail.yahoo.com>

Hi Gurus,
         Even though this is a basic question I tried my best to answer it by myself.I also looked into forums which had questions related to prstat.Many suggested to use RMCmemtool's.But the readme suggests not to use those softwares on production machines.
             Below are the outputs of "  prstat -t oracle" and "  vmstat 1 5
My questions are:
        1) How come RSS be 100% and vmstat report 26 GB free.How should I interpret memory data given by this command.The main objective is "Capacity Planning"
          2)Can I rely on prstat command for %CPU usage by each user.
        3)Is there  a better way to exactly come up with how much oracle process uses memory in KiloBytes.( I read that ps gives memory in pages).I know RMC tools but I cannot install on our server.Also I checked pmap gives similar numbers.
            
 
I guess someone might have had this problem before.Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you,
Sree.
NPROC USERNAME SIZE  RSS  MEMORY  TIME CPU 
553    oracle  1003G 991G 100%   8:17.35 14%

36    root     124M  72M  0.0%   2:41.56 0.0%

1     daemon   2536K 1752K 0.0%  0:00.00 0.0%
_______________________________________________________________

vmstat 1 5

procs memory page disk faults cpu

r b w swap free re mf pi po fr de sr m0 m1 m3 m6 in sy cs us sy id

0 0 0 77267064 26474728 738 1939 1369 4 4 0 0 0 0 0 6 3688 1804 2641 30 10 60

0 0 0 75450216 25784200 0 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 311 172 259 6 0 93

0 0 0 75450216 25784200 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 425 263 329 1 3 96

0 0 0 75450216 25784200 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 168 62 161 0 1 99

0 0 0 75450216 25784200 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 225 152 212 0 0 100

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From ilya.birman at abnamro.com  Tue May 11 16:22:19 2004
From: ilya.birman at abnamro.com (Ilya Birman)
Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 15:22:19 -0500
Subject: very strange NIS issues
Message-ID: <1084306939.1542.52.camel@ilya-linux>

Folks,


Moved some old slave server form old NIS domain "OLD" to new NIS domain
"NEW" the usual way ( modified /etc/defaultdomain, ypinit -c, ypstart)
All maps are read successfully, everything work fine

1. When master server for Domain "OLD" was turned off some clients would
receive messages 

 ypbind[29507]: [ID 337329 daemon.error] NIS server not responding for
domain "OLD"; still trying

I thought it was very puzzling. tried the YPINIT again, caching demon
restart, etc. No luck.

2.Next deleted the /var/yp/bindings/"old" directory

Started getting the following messages: 

May 11 15:12:43 usess200ess30 ypbind[28175]: service not installed, use
/usr/sbin/ypinit -c


3. The only way to get rid of all odd messages was to change

/var/yp/bindings/"old"/ypserver file to point to master server for
"NEW"  NIS domain.

Does anyone knows how to successfully "UN INSTALL" the old domain from
theses slaves. 
It only occurs on 20% of the machines.

Will summarize

-- 
Ilya Birman


From ray at biomed.queensu.ca  Tue May 11 17:03:18 2004
From: ray at biomed.queensu.ca (Ray Pengelly)
Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 17:03:18 -0400
Subject: SUMMARY:  Switching form NIS+ to NIS+ in compatibilty mode
In-Reply-To: <20040511143028.488FF1E60B@sunportal.sunmanagers.org>
Message-ID: <20040511210657.A43BC1E591@sunportal.sunmanagers.org>

Thanks to Sal Serafino for his speedy answer.

I uncommented the EMULUP line in /etc/init.d/rpc and rebooted. The SS2
booted up as soon as the master came back up.

Here is Sal's advice:

All you have to do to set YP or NIS compatibility mode is to restart
rpc.nisd with the correct switches.  Edit /etc/init.d/rpc and uncomment the
"EMULUP" line so that you add the option "-Y" to the rpc startup.

You don't *need* to reboot, you can if you want to, but if not you must do
this to restart the service and all its descendants properly:

	/etc/init.d/nfs.server stop
	/etc/init.d/volmgt stop
	/etc/init.d/autofs stop
	/etc/init.d/nfs.client stop
	/etc/init.d/rpc stop
	Make sure vold is dead - kill it with ABRT if it didn't die!
	/etc/init.d/rpc start
	/etc/init.d/nfs.client start
	/etc/init.d/autofs start
	/etc/init.d/volmgt start
	/etc/init.d/nfs.server start

This will take care of the server.  On th client side, you will need to
change the name of the YP server in the startup.  Boot your client in
single-user and make the changes, exit to boot normally.  To undo this,
re-edit /etc/init.d/rpc on the server and re-run the startup scripts.

-----Original Message-----
From: sunmanagers-bounces at sunmanagers.org
[mailto:sunmanagers-bounces at sunmanagers.org] On Behalf Of Ray Pengelly
Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2004 10:27 AM
To: sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org
Subject: Switching form NIS+ to NIS+ in compatibilty mode

Hello everyone,

 

I inherited a NIS+ master and slave with a number of NIS+ clients and one
old SS2 running sunOS 4.1.2. The SS2 needs NIS+ in compatibility mode. The
NIS+ slave recently died and the SS2 hangs on startup looking for a NIS
server. My guess is the slave server was running in compatibility mode. I'm
waiting on parts to get the slave back up. In the meantime I was wondering
if I restart the NIS+ master in compatibility mode is it going to have major
effects? Can I just switch back later?

 

The other option is to setup one of the clients as a NIS+ slave in running
in compatibility mode just like the one that died.

 

Any help is greatly appreciated.

 

Ray

 

Ray Pengelly

Computing Support Technologist

Centre for Neuroscience Studies/

CIHR Group in Sensory-Motor Systems

Queen's University
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From Rich.Bonfoey at mail.tribnet.com  Tue May 11 18:53:44 2004
From: Rich.Bonfoey at mail.tribnet.com (Rich Bonfoey)
Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 15:53:44 -0700
Subject: Unable to fork
Message-ID: <2FB1D672CB958F4EB35381F4AC94816C2EE5CD@stamp.tacomanews.com>

Hello

We have a vendor in and is running a new process  on 450 test system.  The
following errors showed up in /var/adm/messages 

May 11 15:15:43 mike WChermdaemon: [ID 250203 user.error] Unable to fork
May 11 15:15:45 mike WChermdaemon: [ID 980060 user.error] Unable to execute
bloc
king task /wcenter/iptc2wc/ap_iptc2wc.sh
May 11 15:16:38 mike genunix: [ID 470503 kern.warning] WARNING: Sorry, no
swap s
pace to grow stack for pid 1312 (ls)
May 11 15:16:38 mike last message repeated 4 times
May 11 15:16:42 mike genunix: [ID 470503 kern.warning] WARNING: Sorry, no
swap s
pace to grow stack for pid 8081 (textprocmain.ksh)
May 11 15:16:42 mike last message repeated 20 times
May 11 15:16:42 mike genunix: [ID 470503 kern.warning] WARNING: Sorry, no
swap s
pace to grow stack for pid 26169 (textprocmain.ksh)

Vendor says the 450 has a problem .  I think its his process.
Any advice is appreciated

thanks

Richard Bonfoey
The News Tribune
Information Systems
Successfully Meeting the Business Needs of
The News Tribune through Information Technology


From raja.nagaraja at abs.gov.au  Tue May 11 19:50:48 2004
From: raja.nagaraja at abs.gov.au (Raja Nagaraja)
Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 09:50:48 +1000
Subject: MIBS for Disk I/O activity on Solaris
Message-ID: <CA256E91.0082FA8E.00@abs.gov.au>

Hi,
We have a SunFire 6800 with 3 domains running Solaris 8 connected to a IBM
FastT900 SAN. Does any one has come across a MIB library to get the I/O data
from disk effectively. We are looking for data on disk reads/writes etc and
collect the data through Cricket or Spectrum type of monitoring tools.

Any information on this is greatly appreciated.

Regards

Raja Nagaraja
Canberra, Australia




-----------------------------------------------
ABS Web Site:  www.abs.gov.au


From sridharapk at rediffmail.com  Wed May 12 01:03:46 2004
From: sridharapk at rediffmail.com (sridhara  pk)
Date: 12 May 2004 05:03:46 -0000
Subject: Recursive ACL on sub directories
Message-ID: <20040512050346.1137.qmail@webmail8.rediffmail.com>

  Hello managers,

I would like to know is there any way to set ACL on
directories and all its sub directories.Because I am able to only set the ACL
for the parent and traverse each and every subdirectory to set the ACL.

If
you have any solution for it please send me 

Thanks in advance
Sridhara


From d.matinyarare at piorin.gov.pl  Wed May 12 02:08:42 2004
From: d.matinyarare at piorin.gov.pl (David Matinyarare)
Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 08:08:42 +0200
Subject: performance problems
Message-ID: <6682A0A20A720942AC26337E5E5C03EA13BD63@www.iorin.gov.pl>

I have been trying the net but without avail for a full clear
information (explanation) of the fields in the "vmstat 5" output and
"prstat -a" output. Of late my system have been performing badly and ran
"vmstat 5". The output which I got is as follows:

procs     memory            page            disk          faults
cpu
 r b w   swap  free  re  mf pi po fr de sr f0 s0 s1 s2   in   sy   cs us
sy id
 55 0 0 7867392 1323736 7 89 2  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  9  536 1227  334 98
2  0
 53 0 0 7867760 1323816 0 0  2  0  0  0  0  0  5  0  7  625 1576  479 97
3  0
 51 0 0 7867760 1323784 0 0  4  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  5  558 1838  465 98
2  0
 52 0 0 7866312 1322960 18 210 4 0 0  0  0  0  1  0  7  671 2390  530 95
5  0
 46 0 0 7866440 1323152 17 201 4 0 0  0  0  0  1  0  6  927 1878  595 97
3  0
 43 0 0 7866480 1322856 8 104 5 0  0  0  0  0  0  0 19  808 2535  661 96
4  0
 36 0 0 7867096 1323104 33 370 4 1 1  0  0  0  0  0  9  964 2551  659 95
5  0
 42 0 0 7865824 1321944 8 140 8 0  0  0  0  0  0  0 13  673 2605  575 97
3  0
 37 0 0 7867248 1323056 0 0  1  0  0  0  0  0  3  0  7  661 2341  477 95
5  0
 34 0 0 7867248 1323040 0 0  5  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  6  671 2977  510 96
4  0
 24 0 0 7867248 1322864 6 0 51  0  0  0  0  0  1  0 58  961 1621  708 98
2  0
 21 0 0 7867248 1322680 9 98 24 0  0  0  0  0  0  0 77 1008 1067  634 98
2  0
 14 0 0 7867248 1322616 2 0 16  0  0  0  0  0  0  0 69  930 1155  660 98
2  0
 16 0 0 7866816 1322456 17 200 9 1 1  0  0  0  3  0 55  990 1589  737 94
6  0
 29 0 0 7867040 1322264 30 176 13 0 0 0  0  0  0  0 13  963 5145  830 95
5  0
 26 0 0 7866776 1321968 18 196 86 3 3 0  0  0  1  0 12  751 4172  637 96
4  0
 22 0 0 7867208 1322032 19 204 8 0 0  0  0  0  0  0  6 1013 4015  985 94
6  0
 13 0 0 7867120 1321888 8 100 8 0  0  0  0  0  0  0  3 1016 1907 1036 97
3  0
 13 0 0 7867104 1321368 317 100 2340 0 0 0 0 0 0  0 59 1102 1923 1086 96
4  0

Well there is a lot of processes waiting to run, that means the number
of CPUs (processors) is low. What about the "re" and "mf" fields? There
are page reclaim and small faults, then what? What clear performance
leak is it showing?  There is also the field under disk ..."s2". What is
this field telling me? Also the field "faults" in, sy, cs. Are they
surpose to be high as they are?

When I run prstat I get something of the nature, as below

 NPROC USERNAME  SIZE   RSS MEMORY      TIME  CPU

    55       xxxxxxxx        64G   63G   100%           5:21.02  69%

What does 100% mean here under MEMORY?

If there any of you could help me to understand the vmstat and prstat
out fields, then I would be very grateful. Reference to documents/links
are welcome also.


From saurabh at adobe.com  Wed May 12 03:53:01 2004
From: saurabh at adobe.com (Saurabh Pendharker)
Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 13:23:01 +0530
Subject: Solaris 8 CDE language pack problem.
Message-ID: <008c01c437f6$26411b20$680d280a@corp.adobe.com>

Hi,

I have installed Solaris 8 on Sun Ultra-10 machine (Sparc Architecture). Later on I have installed language packs on the same machine. But now when I try to change the language to any other language on CDE login screen, login screen is not appearing in the new language selected. For example, if I select japanese from menu option, login screen is appearing in english instead of japanese. On another machine it is working fine. 

Please provide me the steps to resolve the problem.

Thanks & Regards,
Saurabh


From Johnny.Koen at Investec.co.za  Wed May 12 05:58:10 2004
From: Johnny.Koen at Investec.co.za (Johnny Koen)
Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 11:58:10 +0200
Subject: apply 112438-03 patch without reboot
Message-ID: <D2D98C33B8B8474697434628E59DAAB543DFA2@pvbjhbex1.pvb.corp.investec.com>

Hi



I have installed the patch 112438-03 which creates the /dev/random
devices so that I can install openssh, but after installing this patch
you must reboot the server, but this is a live server. I saw on the net
that with the installation of 112438-02 that there is a script/way that
you can install the patch without rebooting the server. But all the
links are no longer valid.



Any help would be appreciated



Regards

Johnny


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From manojghag at rediffmail.com  Wed May 12 07:52:39 2004
From: manojghag at rediffmail.com (manoj ghag)
Date: 12 May 2004 11:52:39 -0000
Subject: One small Problem in sharing Storage between two servers...
 Please Help me 
Message-ID: <20040512115239.25403.qmail@webmail31.rediffmail.com>

  
Hi, All

I am facing one small problem in attaching the storage to second
sun server 
(I want to share or make available this D1000 Storage between two
Sun servers)

Please find the output for device information of our two sun
servers

Please consider that main problem our case is ....
We have Two Sun
Servers ( sun1 and sun2) with One D1000 Storage Box

we have attached  on -->
Sun2 <-- Server and it is working fine and I have created some volumns also on
that , but when we try 
to attach the Storage to Second Sun server --> Sun1
<-- 

But in this case it doesn't show the storage Disk attache to Solaris
server 2  ( Nor in fdisk or not in Format command also)
Storage  D1000 
                         /         \
/           \
                       /             \
                     Sun2
Sun1
 

We have Terminator attached to both the servers

other information is
as follows

( So please kindly look at it and tell me your comments for the
same)


-------------------------
sun2 Server output
------------------------
bash-2.03# /usr/platform/sun4u/sbin/prtdiag -v

System Configuration:  Sun
Microsystems  sun4u Sun Enterprise 420R (4 X UltraSPA
RC-II 450MHz)
System
clock frequency: 113 MHz
Memory size: 4096 Megabytes
========================= CPUs =========================
Run   Ecache   CPU    CPU
Brd  CPU   Module   MHz     MB    Impl.   Mask
---
---  -------  -----  ------  ------  ----
 0     0     0      450     4.0
US-II    10.0
 0     1     1      450     4.0   US-II    10.0
 0     2     2
450     4.0   US-II    10.0
 0     3     3      450     4.0   US-II    10.0
========================= IO Cards =========================

     Bus   Freq
Brd  Type  MHz   Slot        Name                              Model
---  ----
----  ----------  --------------------------------  -----------------
-----
 0
PCI    33     On-Board  network-SUNW,hme

 0   PCI    33     On-Board
scsi-glm/disk (block)             Symbios,53C875

 0   PCI    33     On-Board
scsi-glm/disk (block)             Symbios,53C875

 0   PCI    33   pcib slot 2
TSI,gfxp                          GFXP

 0   PCI    33   pcib slot 4
pci-pci1011,25/pci108e,1000       pci-bridge

 0   PCI    33   pcib slot 4
SUNW,qfe-pci108e,1001             SUNW,pci-qfe

 0   PCI    33   pcib slot 4
SUNW,qfe-pci108e,1001             SUNW,pci-qfe

 0   PCI    33   pcib slot 4
SUNW,qfe-pci108e,1001             SUNW,pci-qfe

 0   PCI    33   pcib slot 4
SUNW,qfe-pci108e,1001             SUNW,pci-qfe

 0   PCI    33   pcia slot 1
scsi-glm/disk (block)             Symbios,53C875

 0   PCI    33   pcia slot 1
scsi-glm/disk (block)             Symbios,53C875


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

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

ASIC Revisions:
---------------
PCI: pci Rev 4
PCI:
pci Rev 4
Cheerio: ebus Rev 1

System PROM revisions:
----------------------
OBP 3.23.0 1999/06/30 13:53   POST 1.2.7 1999/05/24 17:33




bash-2.03# df -k
Filesystem            kbytes    used   avail capacity  Mounted on
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0     106399   89352    6408    94%    /
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s6
1477587  828806  589678    59%    /usr
/proc                      0       0
0     0%    /proc
fd                         0       0       0     0%
/dev/fd
mnttab                     0       0       0     0%    /etc/mnttab
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s3      49723   31797   12954    72%    /var
swap
335992      24  335968     1%    /var/run
swap                  335992      24
335968     1%    /tmp
/dev/dsk/c0t1d0s7    35009161 28767416 5891654    84%
/export/home0
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s7    14697143 13910581  639591    96%
/export/home
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s1     759163  267830  430600    39%
/usr/openwin
bash-2.03#




---------------------------------
Sun1 Server
--------------------------------
login: root
Password:
Last login: Mon May 10
13:34:09 from free.elite.co.in
Sun Microsystems Inc.   SunOS 5.8       Generic
Patch   October 2001
You have new mail.
# bash
bash-2.03#
/usr/platform/sun4u/sbin/prtdiag -v
System Configuration:  Sun Microsystems
sun4u Sun Enterprise 420R (4 X UltraSPA
RC-II 450MHz)
System clock frequency:
113 MHz
Memory size: 4096 Megabytes

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

                    Run   Ecache   CPU    CPU
Brd
CPU   Module   MHz     MB    Impl.   Mask
---  ---  -------  -----  ------
------  ----
 0     0     0      450     4.0   US-II    10.0
 0     1     1
450     4.0   US-II    10.0
 0     2     2      450     4.0   US-II    10.0
 0
3     3      450     4.0   US-II    10.0


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

     Bus   Freq
Brd  Type  MHz   Slot        Name
Model
---  ----  ----  ----------  --------------------------------
-----------------
-----
 0   PCI    33     On-Board  network-SUNW,hme

 0
PCI    33     On-Board  scsi-glm/disk (block)             Symbios,53C875

 0
PCI    33     On-Board  scsi-glm/disk (block)             Symbios,53C875

 0
PCI    33   pcib slot 4  scsi-glm/disk (block)             Symbios,53C875

 0
PCI    33   pcib slot 4  scsi-glm/disk (block)             Symbios,53C875

 0
PCI    33   pcia slot 1  pci-pci1011,25.4/pci108e,1000     pci-bridge

 0
PCI    33   pcia slot 1  SUNW,qfe-pci108e,1001             SUNW,pci-qfe

 0
PCI    33   pcia slot 1  SUNW,qfe-pci108e,1001             SUNW,pci-qfe

 0
PCI    33   pcia slot 1  SUNW,qfe-pci108e,1001             SUNW,pci-qfe

 0
PCI    33   pcia slot 1  SUNW,qfe-pci108e,1001             SUNW,pci-qfe


No
failures found in System
===========================
========================= HW Revisions =========================

ASIC
Revisions:
---------------
PCI: pci Rev 4
PCI: pci Rev 4
Cheerio: ebus Rev 1
System PROM revisions:
----------------------
  OBP 3.29.0 2000/12/20 18:40
POST 1.2.8 2000/08/22 19:50
bash-2.03#
-------------------------
sun2 Server output
------------------------
bash-2.03# /usr/platform/sun4u/sbin/prtdiag -v

System Configuration:  Sun
Microsystems  sun4u Sun Enterprise 420R (4 X UltraSPA
RC-II 450MHz)
System
clock frequency: 113 MHz
Memory size: 4096 Megabytes
========================= CPUs =========================
Run   Ecache   CPU    CPU
Brd  CPU   Module   MHz     MB    Impl.   Mask
---
---  -------  -----  ------  ------  ----
 0     0     0      450     4.0
US-II    10.0
 0     1     1      450     4.0   US-II    10.0
 0     2     2
450     4.0   US-II    10.0
 0     3     3      450     4.0   US-II    10.0
========================= IO Cards =========================

     Bus   Freq
Brd  Type  MHz   Slot        Name                              Model
---  ----
----  ----------  --------------------------------  -----------------
-----
 0
PCI    33     On-Board  network-SUNW,hme

 0   PCI    33     On-Board
scsi-glm/disk (block)             Symbios,53C875

 0   PCI    33     On-Board
scsi-glm/disk (block)             Symbios,53C875

 0   PCI    33   pcib slot 2
TSI,gfxp                          GFXP

 0   PCI    33   pcib slot 4
pci-pci1011,25/pci108e,1000       pci-bridge

 0   PCI    33   pcib slot 4
SUNW,qfe-pci108e,1001             SUNW,pci-qfe

 0   PCI    33   pcib slot 4
SUNW,qfe-pci108e,1001             SUNW,pci-qfe

 0   PCI    33   pcib slot 4
SUNW,qfe-pci108e,1001             SUNW,pci-qfe

 0   PCI    33   pcib slot 4
SUNW,qfe-pci108e,1001             SUNW,pci-qfe

 0   PCI    33   pcia slot 1
scsi-glm/disk (block)             Symbios,53C875

 0   PCI    33   pcia slot 1
scsi-glm/disk (block)             Symbios,53C875


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

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

ASIC Revisions:
---------------
PCI: pci Rev 4
PCI:
pci Rev 4
Cheerio: ebus Rev 1

System PROM revisions:
----------------------
OBP 3.23.0 1999/06/30 13:53   POST 1.2.7 1999/05/24 17:33




bash-2.03# df -k
Filesystem            kbytes    used   avail capacity  Mounted on
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0     106399   89352    6408    94%    /
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s6
1477587  828806  589678    59%    /usr
/proc                      0       0
0     0%    /proc
fd                         0       0       0     0%
/dev/fd
mnttab                     0       0       0     0%    /etc/mnttab
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s3      49723   31797   12954    72%    /var
swap
335992      24  335968     1%    /var/run
swap                  335992      24
335968     1%    /tmp
/dev/dsk/c0t1d0s7    35009161 28767416 5891654    84%
/export/home0
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s7    14697143 13910581  639591    96%
/export/home
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s1     759163  267830  430600    39%
/usr/openwin
bash-2.03#




---------------------------------
Sun1 Server
--------------------------------
login: root
Password:
Last login: Mon May 10
13:34:09 from free.elite.co.in
Sun Microsystems Inc.   SunOS 5.8       Generic
Patch   October 2001
You have new mail.
# bash
bash-2.03#
/usr/platform/sun4u/sbin/prtdiag -v
System Configuration:  Sun Microsystems
sun4u Sun Enterprise 420R (4 X UltraSPA
RC-II 450MHz)
System clock frequency:
113 MHz
Memory size: 4096 Megabytes

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

                    Run   Ecache   CPU    CPU
Brd
CPU   Module   MHz     MB    Impl.   Mask
---  ---  -------  -----  ------
------  ----
 0     0     0      450     4.0   US-II    10.0
 0     1     1
450     4.0   US-II    10.0
 0     2     2      450     4.0   US-II    10.0
 0
3     3      450     4.0   US-II    10.0


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

     Bus   Freq
Brd  Type  MHz   Slot        Name
Model
---  ----  ----  ----------  --------------------------------
-----------------
-----
 0   PCI    33     On-Board  network-SUNW,hme

 0
PCI    33     On-Board  scsi-glm/disk (block)             Symbios,53C875

 0
PCI    33     On-Board  scsi-glm/disk (block)             Symbios,53C875

 0
PCI    33   pcib slot 4  scsi-glm/disk (block)             Symbios,53C875

 0
PCI    33   pcib slot 4  scsi-glm/disk (block)             Symbios,53C875

 0
PCI    33   pcia slot 1  pci-pci1011,25.4/pci108e,1000     pci-bridge

 0
PCI    33   pcia slot 1  SUNW,qfe-pci108e,1001             SUNW,pci-qfe

 0
PCI    33   pcia slot 1  SUNW,qfe-pci108e,1001             SUNW,pci-qfe

 0
PCI    33   pcia slot 1  SUNW,qfe-pci108e,1001             SUNW,pci-qfe

 0
PCI    33   pcia slot 1  SUNW,qfe-pci108e,1001             SUNW,pci-qfe


No
failures found in System
===========================
========================= HW Revisions =========================

ASIC
Revisions:
---------------
PCI: pci Rev 4
PCI: pci Rev 4
Cheerio: ebus Rev 1
System PROM revisions:
----------------------
  OBP 3.29.0 2000/12/20 18:40
POST 1.2.8 2000/08/22 19:50
bash-2.03#

Regards,
Manoj Ghag


From allen.wooden at harboreast.net  Wed May 12 08:56:27 2004
From: allen.wooden at harboreast.net (Allen Wooden)
Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 08:56:27 -0400
Subject: Firmware upgrade on A5000 arrays
Message-ID: <20040512125627.GA11502@mail.harboreast.net>

Hello all,

I need to upgrade the IB Boards on my 4 A5000's and I'd like some advise from
those who've gone through this. Currently the disks on these arrays are under 
Veritas VM control.  I've read in the firmware readme that the arrays need to be
quiet when I upgrade the firmware so I'm wondering if it would be sufficent to
just boot into single-user to do the upgrade and make sure the volumes are not mounted.

Or should I boot off CD so VM is not running period. and mount the boot drive (on a D1000) so
luxadm can access the firmware file.

Also, should I leave the arrays to be upgraded powered on or should I only poweron the array 
I'm upgrading at the time and leave the others powered off.

Thanks

Allen 
--
Allen Wooden
Harboreast Hosting Solutions
http://www.harboreast.net


From Daping.Xia at united.com  Wed May 12 09:26:23 2004
From: Daping.Xia at united.com (Daping.Xia at united.com)
Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 08:26:23 -0500
Subject: DCE client on Solaris
Message-ID: <H00032d526c77c89.1084368382.awhq6377@MHS>

Does anyone know if there is DCE client (preferred open source) can be 
running on Solaris?

 

TIA


From unixdocs72 at yahoo.co.uk  Wed May 12 08:46:48 2004
From: unixdocs72 at yahoo.co.uk (=?iso-8859-1?q?Tis=20Unix?=)
Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 13:46:48 +0100 (BST)
Subject: openssl
Message-ID: <20040512124648.12907.qmail@web25103.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>

Sorry if this is off post, but can't find much info on this -
This is not mystrong point by the way ..... So patience please :-)
 
 
I just compiled the latest version of openssl on my E420/Solaris 8
 
I got some unexpected things. I copied the old /usr/loca/ssl to /usr/local/ssl_old, the compiled the latest source from www.openssl.org which is 0.9.7m
 
In the /usr/local/ssl/lib directory I have these files -
 
ls -al /usr/local/ssl/lib
total 4020
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     other        512 May 12 12:46 .
drwxr-xr-x   9 root     other        512 May 12 12:46 ..
-rw-r--r--   1 root     other    1720548 May 12 12:46 libcrypto.a
-rw-r--r--   1 root     other     305788 May 12 12:46 libssl.a

But in the "old" ssl dir I had these files -
 
ls -al /usr/local/ssl_old/lib
total 14268
drwxr-xr-x   2 bin      bin          512 Mar 16 14:37 .
drwxr-xr-x  10 root     other        512 Mar 16 14:37 ..
-rw-r--r--   1 bin      bin      1516580 Aug 31  2002 libcrypto.a
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     other         14 Mar 16 14:37 libcrypto.so -> libcrypto.so.0
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     other         18 Mar 16 14:37 libcrypto.so.0 -> libcrypto.so.0.9.6
-r-xr-xr-x   1 bin      bin      1744004 Aug 31  2002 libcrypto.so.0.9.6
-r-xr-xr-x   1 root     other    1744004 Aug 31  2002 libcrypto.so.0.9.7
-rw-r--r--   1 bin      bin       296364 Aug 31  2002 libssl.a
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     other         11 Mar 16 14:37 libssl.so -> libssl.so.0
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     other         15 Mar 16 14:37 libssl.so.0 -> libssl.so.0.9.6
-r-xr-xr-x   1 bin      bin       959468 Aug 31  2002 libssl.so.0.9.6
-r-xr-xr-x   1 root     other     959468 Aug 31  2002 libssl.so.0.9.7

I was expecting at least a libcrypto.so.0.9.7 and a libssl.so.0.9.7 ..
 
Can anyone tell me why theses files weren't created in the new compile ? And what I can do to rectify this ? And explain to me what I should have installed after the new compile ? Is what it has done correct ?

Thanks in advance
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From pablo.jejcic at smartweb.rgu.ac.uk  Wed May 12 10:59:01 2004
From: pablo.jejcic at smartweb.rgu.ac.uk (Pablo Jejcic - Smartweb)
Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 15:59:01 +0100
Subject: Xfig and XSun
Message-ID: <00ad01c43831$a97b7590$cb03200a@BACO>

Gurus,
	OK, I have a weird one...or maybe just a problem of
compatibility...
	I got a new SunBlade2500 and installed it with Solaris 8, now I
installed Xfig (the same version I had running on a Ultra10 Solaris8)
but when I try to run it, I receive:

ld.so.1: xfig: fatal: libXi.so.6.0: open failed: No such file or
directory Killed

Now, checking for the file libXi.so.6.0 I found that it was in a
different directory, so I added that directory to the path of the user,
now when I run xfig I get:

ld.so.1: xfig: fatal: relocation error: file xfig: symbol
__register_frame_info: referenced symbol not found
zsh: killed     xfig


Any help/ideas will be very very appreciated!!!

Cheers!

Pablo.-
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From unixdocs72 at yahoo.co.uk  Wed May 12 10:24:50 2004
From: unixdocs72 at yahoo.co.uk (=?iso-8859-1?q?Tis=20Unix?=)
Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 15:24:50 +0100 (BST)
Subject: SUMMARY: openssl
Message-ID: <20040512142450.50598.qmail@web25103.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>

Thanks for your replies, some of you nailed it ... Although I had just re-compiled before getting all of your replies through with the "shared" directive and that created the .so files for me, which is what I was missing. But thanks anyway .....
 
Thanks to Matt Clausen, Rob Foehl and Kevin Inscoe for your reply and helpful document Kevin :-)
 
Cheers .....
 
Original post ---->
 

Sorry if this is off post, but can't find much info on this -

This is not mystrong point by the way ..... So patience please :-)





I just compiled the latest version of openssl on my E420/Solaris 8



I got some unexpected things. I copied the old /usr/loca/ssl to /usr/local/ssl_old, the compiled the latest source from www.openssl.org which is 0.9.7m



In the /usr/local/ssl/lib directory I have these files -



ls -al /usr/local/ssl/lib

total 4020

drwxr-xr-x 2 root other 512 May 12 12:46 .

drwxr-xr-x 9 root other 512 May 12 12:46 ..

-rw-r--r-- 1 root other 1720548 May 12 12:46 libcrypto.a

-rw-r--r-- 1 root other 305788 May 12 12:46 libssl.a

But in the "old" ssl dir I had these files -



ls -al /usr/local/ssl_old/lib

total 14268

drwxr-xr-x 2 bin bin 512 Mar 16 14:37 .

drwxr-xr-x 10 root other 512 Mar 16 14:37 ..

-rw-r--r-- 1 bin bin 1516580 Aug 31 2002 libcrypto.a

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root other 14 Mar 16 14:37 libcrypto.so -> libcrypto.so.0

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root other 18 Mar 16 14:37 libcrypto.so.0 -> libcrypto.so.0.9.6

-r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 1744004 Aug 31 2002 libcrypto.so.0.9.6

-r-xr-xr-x 1 root other 1744004 Aug 31 2002 libcrypto.so.0.9.7

-rw-r--r-- 1 bin bin 296364 Aug 31 2002 libssl.a

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root other 11 Mar 16 14:37 libssl.so -> libssl.so.0

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root other 15 Mar 16 14:37 libssl.so.0 -> libssl.so.0.9.6

-r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 959468 Aug 31 2002 libssl.so.0.9.6

-r-xr-xr-x 1 root other 959468 Aug 31 2002 libssl.so.0.9.7

I was expecting at least a libcrypto.so.0.9.7 and a libssl.so.0.9.7 ..



Can anyone tell me why theses files weren't created in the new compile ? And what I can do to rectify this ? And explain to me what I should have installed after the new compile ? Is what it has done correct ?

Thanks in advance

Tis


		
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From sun at oryx.cc  Wed May 12 12:22:30 2004
From: sun at oryx.cc (sunlist)
Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 11:22:30 -0500
Subject: [SUMMARY]  SunRay 1 boot problems /26D and /var/dt/Xerrors problem
In-Reply-To: <409716EA.9000909@oryx.cc>
References: <409716EA.9000909@oryx.cc>
Message-ID: <40A24F46.6070002@oryx.cc>

Hello Sunmanagers,

first I wanted to thank everyone who replied to my message, some of you wrote me 
back a couple of times.  Thank you!

I had quite a suggestions that I will highlight briefly.  The included:

 >>> make sure and run the install per the docs


Yes, I did this, and have them printed up


 >>> you need to search the archives.  This has been discussed several times


believe me, I know the wrath of this list for one who does not do his homework 
first and RTFM, search the archives, etc.


 >>> did you install patch 114880-03


in my original message, I stated that I had patch 114880-04 installed


Russ LeBar nailed it on the head when he sent me this though:

# ls -lAF /dev/sunray /devices/pseudo/sunray at 0:sunray
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     other          33 Apr 17  2003 /dev/sunray -> 
../devices/pseudo/sunray at 0:sunray
crw-rw-rw-    1 bin      bin      242,   0 Apr  8  2003 
/devices/pseudo/sunray at 0:sunray

===========

for what ever reason, the install did not/could not create a
/devices/pseudo/sunray at 0:sunray device. The install logs gave no indication that 
the install had any problems. I could not manually create it myself either.  But 
all the other pieces were in place, i.e. flat files updated, daemons running.

In the end, I was never able to create the entry in the /devices/pseudo 
directory, so I grabbed another disk pack and did a fresh Solaris 9 install.

Between the install document, and Andreas Hoeschler post that I found when I was 
searching the archives (a copy is below in my original message), I had the 
sunray software installed and I was logged into my Sunray in under an hour, from 
a fresh Solaris 9 system.



Jerry Kemp



ORIGINAL MESSAGE HERE

> I have picked up a SunRay 1 to play with in my at home lab.  I feel that 
> I am very close to getting it up and going, but I am stuck with an OSD 
> 26D error from the SunRay.  The full OSD square gives me the MAC 
> address, the DCHP IP address as assigned by the SunRay server, 100F for 
> a 100 Mb full duplex connection and at the bottom, the ip address of the 
>  SunRay server.  The 26D is in the bottom right corner.
> 
> I have also found this in the /var/dt/Xerrors file:
> 
> ======================================================
> 
> /dev/sunray: No such file or directory
> Graphics Adapter device /dev/sunray is of unknown type
> 
> Fatal server error:
> InitOutput: Error loading module for /dev/sunray
> 
> Mon May  3 22:45:49 2004
> error (pid 471): Server for display :2 terminated unexpectedly 1
> 
> Mon May  3 22:45:50 2004
> error (pid 471): Server for display :2 can't be started.
> 
> ======================================================
> 
> I do not have a /dev/sunray file/directory, and I am unsure how to 
> create it, or what install process should have created it.
> 
> I have also found (2) recent messages in the archives, which provided 
> some insight, but got me no further along.  One concerns a new patch 
> (114880-04) for srss 2.0 and another titled "Summary: Getting Sun Ray to 
> work" which I will post below.
> 
> I have spent a lot of time searching at docs.sun.com and doing 
> yahoo/google searches, and have found the documentation for SunRay's to 
> be some what sparse.
> 
> Thanks for any pointers or help.  I will summarize.
> 
> Jerry K
> 
> ======================================================
> Summary: Getting Sun Ray to work archive posting
> ======================================================
> 
> 
> Dear managers,
> 
> special thanks to
> 
> Jarett Stevens
> Lebar, Rusell
> Loukins, Jeremy
> Tim, Chipman
> 
> I finally got the Sun Ray to work with th followin approach
> 
>     cd /opt/SUNWut/sbin
>     ./utadm -D 192.168.1.0
>     ./utadm -r
>     ./utadm -A 192.168.1.0
>     ./utadm -c
>     ./utrestart
>     pntadm -P 192.168.1.0
> 
> Using
> 
>     ./utadm -a eri0
> 
> was not a good idea as it turned out. After getting the Sun Ray working 
> one can set the resolution with
> 
>     ./utsettings
>     ./utxconfig -r 1024x768 -s off
> 
> Works great. Unfortunately the setting of the resolution does not 
> survive a system reboot. But I can live with that for a while...
> 
> Regards,
> 
>   Andreas


From debbie at icus.com  Wed May 12 12:25:19 2004
From: debbie at icus.com (Debbie Tropiano)
Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 11:25:19 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: SUMMARY: 3rd party memory in a V880
In-Reply-To: <200405101443.i4AEhqoI096158@enterprise.icus.com> from
	"Debbie Tropiano" at May 10, 2004 09:43:52 AM
Message-ID: <200405121625.i4CGPJTr001707@enterprise.icus.com>

Hello -

Wow!!  Lots of good replies and only one out of office bounce
and one direct sales call (from a truly clueless idiot).

Anyway, the general consensus is that while Sun may say that
it'll void warranty, most have done it and been happy doing so.
One person mentioned possible difficulties with SLA support.

Debbie

Thanks to
Peter Hackett
David Harrington
Mike's List
Brent Mcdaniel
Christopher Dantos
Albert Drohan
Andreas eoeschler
Anjan Dave
Brent Killion
Andrew Rotramel
Iain Drummond
Vinh Cao
Terry Moore
Joe Fletcher
Bob Smart
Tim Chipman
JV
Will Chow
Soeren Schaper
Kris Hogg
Christian Drexler
Dave Warchol
Mike Ekholm
David Foster



My original message:
> To save some $$ we're looking at using 3rd party memory in a SunFire V880.
> I've never managed a system with 3rd party memory so was wondering if anyone
> had any comments about this (other than sales folks, of course .. please
> don't consider this a request for information).  I realize that the memory
> wouldn't be covered by a Sun warranty or maintenance contract.
> 
> We're considering Kingston, so specifics about that would be helpful.
> 
> Thanks in advance for any information,
-- 
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| Mommy to   Nathan b: 8/17/1995,   ^Sara^ b: 10/25/2000 d: 11/7/2000   &  |
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| people (He can't do that), but by summoning forth friends and neighbors  |
+ to ease the burden and to fill the emptiness."     -- Harold S. Kushner  +


From peacmen at nexaweb.com  Wed May 12 12:35:24 2004
From: peacmen at nexaweb.com (Peter Eacmen)
Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 12:35:24 -0400
Subject: APC Smart-UPS serial link with Netra X1?
Message-ID: <20040512163525.1773444586@omta10.mta.everyone.net>

I'm having a problem using an APC Smart-UPS with our Netra X1.  The X1 has
an RJ45 connector for serial link (much like cisco routers), and the
connector from UPS is DB9.  I made a connector to convert the DB9 to RJ45
according to the Netra manual.  This is where I think the problem lies.
These are the steps I took to try and verify communication:

1. I tried using the connector I made (RJ45-DB9) connector by hooking it up
to my windows machine, opening up a 2400/8/N baud serial link
(Hyperterminal), then on the Netra opening tip connection with same settings
and I was able to communicate fine back and forth.

2. I then connected the UPS into my windows machine with 2400/8/N serial
link (Hyperterminal) and I was able to communicate with the UPS fine (I send
'Y' it sends back 'SM').

3. I then connected the UPS to a different Sun machine with a normal DB9
serial connector, opened a tip connection and that worked fine.

4. However if I connect the UPS to the Netra using the RJ45-DB9 converter
nothing works, it is setup in the following way:

UPS(DB9F)->APC proprietary DB9 cable->my connector->RJ45 patch cable->Netra
RJ45 serial port (ttyb)

The pinouts I used for my connector are as follows (straight from netra
manual):

RJ45       DB9
------     ------
1(RTS)     8(CTS)
2(DTR)     6(DSR)
3(TXD)     2(RXD)
4(GND)     5(GND)
5(GND)     5(GND)
6(RXD)     3(TXD)
7(DSR)     4(DTR)
8(CTS)     7(RTS)

The cable provided by APC is the 940-0024C. It is a DB9M->DB9F cable.  The
pinout diagram can be found here:
http://ups.miem.edu.ru/Cables/9400024C.gif


Has anyone had luck using a Smart-UPS with RJ45 serial link?  It seems from
the diagram above that the APC cable uses what is called the DCD (Data
Carrier Detection) line, which does not exist in the 8pin RJ45 serial
connector.

The people at APC have been no help (just sending back knowledgebase
articles I have already found myself).  Some sites online say that I need to
disable login on ttyb, I have iterated over every possible setting for ttyb
using admintool and nothing helped.

Thanks in advance, will post summary.

-peter

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From rajibd at hclinsys.com  Wed May 12 09:17:01 2004
From: rajibd at hclinsys.com (Rajibd)
Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 18:47:01 +0530 (IST)
Subject: Firmware upgrade on A5000 arrays
In-Reply-To: <20040512125627.GA11502@mail.harboreast.net>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0405121843420.10922-100000@mailho.hclinsys.com>

Hello Sun Gurus ,

I have SUN Fire V880 server , with 8GB RAM , dual CPU . I was running
STOP+A Command and i got Ok prompt. 


I have given some commands like test-net etc. and go.
Suddenly my system crashed , with PANIC: cpu thread , bad trap ....

After restart , i didnt get any crash image in /var/crash/srims directory.
srims is my host name.

Where the crash image dissapered. I checkd /etc/dumpadm.conf it was ok and
enabled.

Can any one help me out , as i want to know the reason of crash,


Thanks ,

Raj D.
------



On Wed, 12 May 2004, Allen Wooden wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> I need to upgrade the IB Boards on my 4 A5000's and I'd like some advise from
> those who've gone through this. Currently the disks on these arrays are under 
> Veritas VM control.  I've read in the firmware readme that the arrays need to be
> quiet when I upgrade the firmware so I'm wondering if it would be sufficent to
> just boot into single-user to do the upgrade and make sure the volumes are not mounted.
> 
> Or should I boot off CD so VM is not running period. and mount the boot drive (on a D1000) so
> luxadm can access the firmware file.
> 
> Also, should I leave the arrays to be upgraded powered on or should I only poweron the array 
> I'm upgrading at the time and leave the others powered off.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Allen 
> --
> Allen Wooden
> Harboreast Hosting Solutions
> http://www.harboreast.net
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From val at research.telcordia.com  Wed May 12 14:51:01 2004
From: val at research.telcordia.com (Valeriy Glinskiy)
Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 14:51:01 -0400
Subject: LiveUpgrade question
Message-ID: <40A27215.5090609@research.telcordia.com>

Hi,

I'm trying to upgrade E3500 from Solaris8 to Solaris9 12/03 with 
LiveUprade. I installed packages SUNWlur and SUNWluu from Solaris9 12/03 
CD and created alternate boot environment "Solaris9".  I upgraded 
"Solaris9" environment from 1st Solaris9 software CD. No problem so far. 
But when I ran

"luupgrade -i -n Solaris9 -s /cdrom/sol_9_1203_sparc_2  -O '-nodisplay 
-noconsole'"

 to continue upgrade I got myriad of messages like the following:

"WARNING: /a/usr/dt/share/examples/motif/periodic partition has 
insufficient space to install the items selected.  0.1 MB additional 
space would be needed to install selected items."

here is how much space I have for "Solaris9" environment after upgrading 
from 1st CD
#df -k
/dev/dsk/c8t4d0s0    1993999   94572 1839608     5%    /a
/dev/dsk/c8t4d0s6    2271415  723665 1502322    33%    /a/usr
/dev/dsk/c8t4d0s3    3019663  200232 2759038     7%    /a/var

/a is root partition. I think this should be enough to accommodate Solaris9.
Any ideas?
Thanks

-- 
Valeriy Glinskiy


From markw at utig.ig.utexas.edu  Wed May 12 17:43:56 2004
From: markw at utig.ig.utexas.edu (Mark Wiederspahn)
Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 16:43:56 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: slow fibre channel, router, scsi tape
Message-ID: <200405122143.i4CLhuP24699@ig.utexas.edu>

FC router, scsi tape, poor performance

I have a 280R, solaris 8, up to date patches, with one channel
of a Sun dual 1Gb qlogic 2200 hba going to a Chapparal vfs226
fc-scsi router (test configuration). A tape library and a standalone
tape drive and some scsi disks are on on its 6 lvd-160 scsi channels.
These are AIT-3 and Exabyte M2 drives, Qualstar library.
San and multi-pathing software/patches are installed.

My question is about unusual performance limits. The
second half of the question is the interesting part:

If I attempt to saturate the channel with io, in a simple form,
dd if=/dev/zero bs=128k of=some-tape, I see 40MB/s to
a single drive. If I write to two drives, on separate scsi buses,
I see 2x22 MB/s. If I write to N drives, I see roughly 40/N
MB/s per drive. This is much lower than one would expect from a
1G Fibre channel, unless there were a -lot- of contention.

If however, I do even a bit of disk traffic to a scsi disk on
a different scsi bus on the fc router, I see 2x40 MB/s, up to
a total bandwidth of 96MB/s writing, or about 85MB/s reading.
(eg, 3x32MB/s, 4x24MB/s, and so forth). Originally noticed
using fsck, but tested with a C program with adjustable nanosleep();
the effect is immediate with even one raw disk read (of 512 bytes)
per second. The tape rates slow down within seconds of the disk
io traffic being stopped, and immediately increase when it is
started. iostat -x 5 is used to monitor the traffic.

Single stream results don't vary with disk traffic. Larger block sizes
(eg 256k) show faster rates (46MB/s), but the same effect. The effect has
been seen with the actual application (samfs) with "real" data,
with about 30-50% non-compressible data rate improvement.
Library vendor claims this is a Solaris platform oddity,
and recommended scsi bus hardware loggers to debug it.
The observed disk effect makes me believe the claim, and
because another user saw something similar.

forum.sun.com in the Storedge forum, has a similar post from about
a year ago with SDLT320 drives and 2G Sun HBA's and a Crossroads
router. He found that using a second FC port essentially removed
the 40/N limit. Another poster gave no details, but recently said
"me too". Search on "crossroads" for the thread.

thanks,
mw


From peacmen at nexaweb.com  Wed May 12 19:13:40 2004
From: peacmen at nexaweb.com (Peter Eacmen)
Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 19:13:40 -0400
Subject: [SUMMARY] APC Smart-UPS serial link with Netra X1
Message-ID: <20040512231341.3E93445BE2@omta10.mta.everyone.net>

The rule of thumb I found out was to never use any serial line except TXD,
RXD, and GND.  If you try to connect any of the others you run into problems
(since the DCD line does not exist in 8-pin rj45 serial).  If you connect
these three lines and it does not work then reverse RXD and TXD (I made this
mistake).  It is kind of confusing since the DB9 female connector from the
UPS is labeled RXD and TXD my first thought was to connect the RXD to TXD
and visa versa.  But this is not the case.

So the pin mapping for an RJ45 serial to the female end of an APC 940-0024C
(where the male end is plugged into actual UPS), is the following:

RJ45       DB9F (of the 940-0024C)
----       -----------------------
2(RXD)     2(RXD)
3(TXD)     3(TXD)
4(GND)     5(GND)

If you attempt to connect any other pins, you will run into problems.  And
you need to make sure that none of the other pins get shorted.  In hindsight
the above solution seems really easy, but its very easy to get confused with
the multitude of pinout diagrams that are out there.


Thanks to Thomas M. Payerle for links to the pinout diagrams.

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From OngCK at AP.NEC.COM.SG  Wed May 12 21:56:18 2004
From: OngCK at AP.NEC.COM.SG (OngCK at AP.NEC.COM.SG)
Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 09:56:18 +0800
Subject: Can't locatate Boot drive for second mirrored drive
Message-ID: <OF5C3E5988.F9D1FE6D-ON48256E93.000A41B5@nec.com.sg>

Hi gurus,

I have 2 EIDE drive of different capacity (8GB and 40GB) mirrored in Sun
Blade 100. i have done a installboot from the Pri disk(8GB) to the
Sec Disk(40GB).

When i try to boot up from the 2nd disk, it always show Can't locate boot
device. Any suggestions?

OK> boot pci at 1f,0/ide at d/dad at 2,0

Pls send any suggestions to my email and i will do a summary.

Thanks in advance
Chee Kiong
NEC Solutions Asia Pacific


From ghenry at cmi.univ-mrs.fr  Thu May 13 03:07:21 2004
From: ghenry at cmi.univ-mrs.fr (Gerard Henry)
Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 09:07:21 +0200
Subject: question about sun mozilla?
Message-ID: <20040513070721.GA28619@scr.cmi.univ-mrs.fr>

hello all,
i notice sun has released an offcial mozilla-1.4, fine for my users (junk contro, etc...)
but if i compare footprint memry between mozilla-1.2.1 and mozilla-1.4, there is a difference of 30 Mo (40Mo for 1.2.1 and 70 Mo for 1.4).
Anybody has noticed it?
i have to install it on a sunray server, but i'm afraid about ressources needed!i try mozilla binaries from mozilla.org (even some given by sun), but there are always trouble (especially printing).
What's happen with mozilla? we have to let it down on solaris machine? under linux, there aren't this issues...

thanks in advance,

gerard


From d.matinyarare at iorin.gov.pl  Thu May 13 03:36:14 2004
From: d.matinyarare at iorin.gov.pl (David Matinyarare)
Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 09:36:14 +0200
Subject: SUMMARY: Performance problems
Message-ID: <6682A0A20A720942AC26337E5E5C03EA1435D3@www.iorin.gov.pl>

Thanks a lot to all of you, especial Terry L Moore and Sreanath
Sarikonda.
Sreanath made available to me an explanation which he got from Bret.
>From what I picked up from all the mails which I got, most of you
pointed "man vmstat pages". As for "prstat" there is a mixed
understanding of the command output. Below are explanations, which I got
from Terry and Sreanath. These mails gave me an insight into the
intepretation of the vmstat and prtstat output.

I was walking in the same path as you were now.These group is a great
group.Below is the explanation of the prstat out put given by
Bret.(Thank you Bret). I make a fair guess that you require more cpu in
your system.I dont think it has any memory shortage.

Sreenath,

The problem is how prstat is summing the memory. With databases, shared
memory is used, which means that all the processes have this pool of
memory, a big chunk is defined by the app set aside for it's use. So,
every database process will attach to this memory. If you look at an
individual oracle process, it will have that it is using 2G of memory
for
example, but that is the shared memory. What prstat is doing is looking
at all those processes and adding as if each process is using a separate

chunk of memory, when actually, that is all shared memory. So, if there
are 100 processes attached to a 2G shared memory pool (cache), then
prstat may report that 200G of memory is being used, when actually only
2G
is being used.

If you want a true breakdown of memory, either pay a lot of cash for
something that breaks it down or use prtmem from the RMCmemtool package.

The problem with tools like top, vmstat and prstat and a bunch that
cost a lot of money is they report just about all memory always used.
This
is because the way Sun uses it's file cache. When you open a file, it
is kept in file cache for faster retrieval later. This file cache is
actually free memory that can be allocated at any given time. But some
tools see it as "used" memory. So they report the memory incorrectly.

Thanks,
Brent



David,
     vmstat output is unreliable in almost all cases.  It is useful
though it
pointing in the general direction of a problem.  You can then use other
tools to
nail down what is happening.  The one column that is very reliable in
vmstat is
the "sr" column.  This column indicates the "pages scanned by [clock]
clock
algorithm"(from the man page for vmstat).  The clock algorithm runs when
the
system is out of memory and must scan memory for pages that haven't been

accessed within a certain time period. If you see numbers in sr, your
system is
in a desperate need for more memory.
     s2 is a partition on one of your SCSI disk drives.  The column
represents
"the number of disk operations per second" (again from man vmstat).
Also from
the man page, "the number is the logical unit number".  What do you have
mounted
on slice 2 of your main SCSI disk?  You can use the "disks" option of
vmstat to
put exactly which disk in which column.  See the "OPERANDS" section of
the man
page under the "disks" paragraph.
     When I look at your output, I see two things.  First, your CPU is
tied up
with user processes. (us in range of 98% almost constantly).  So this
tells me
that you have some heavy duty user programs that are running, not a
system
problem.  I would suggest you look at your user processes one at a time
and see
which ones are the biggest hogs.
     Second, I see that you have most processes in the run queue.  The
system is
working them as fast as it can. They seem to be pretty demanding though.
I
don't see any blocked processes.  I don't see a lot of swapped
processes.  I do
see that you have almost 8GB of memory with about 1.3GB free.
     I wouldn't worry about re & mf so much.  They mean that in the
course of
doing its job, the OS went to look at some memory and it had been used
by
something else.  So it gets the data again.  It happens all the time.
     Where I get a bad feeling is that you have 63GB of programs in
memory and
only about 7.8GB of memory.  What are the big memory hogs?  Is you
system
swapping out to the disk (swap space) almost continually.  That will
slow the
machine WAY down.  If it is true, then you may be memory contrained.
More
memory might help that, but moving some of the heavy hitting processes
off to
other machines might help, too!  Maybe your lack of CPUs means that you
need
more CPUs in the form of other machines to handle the load.
     Directions?  Nail down which disk is getting the most use.  Take a
look at
"iostat 5".  Also consider using sar to capture some better statistics.
From
what you gave in the message, I only have about a 40% confidence that
anything I
said above is true.  Look some other places.  And good luck in your
hunting.
                     Terry


And my original question was:



> Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 08:08:42 +0200
> From: "David Matinyarare" <d.matinyarare at piorin.gov.pl>
> To: <sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org>
> Subject: performance problems
>
> I have been trying the net but without avail for a full clear
> information (explanation) of the fields in the "vmstat 5" output and
> "prstat -a" output. Of late my system have been performing badly and
> ran "vmstat 5". The output which I got is as follows:
>
> procs     memory            page            disk          faults
> cpu
>  r b w   swap  free  re  mf pi po fr de sr f0 s0 s1 s2   in   sy   cs
us
> sy id
>  55 0 0 7867392 1323736 7 89 2  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  9  536 1227  334
> 98 2  0  53 0 0 7867760 1323816 0 0  2  0  0  0  0  0  5  0  7  625
> 1576  479 97 3  0
>  51 0 0 7867760 1323784 0 0  4  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  5  558 1838  465
98
> 2  0
>  52 0 0 7866312 1322960 18 210 4 0 0  0  0  0  1  0  7  671 2390  530
95
> 5  0
>  46 0 0 7866440 1323152 17 201 4 0 0  0  0  0  1  0  6  927 1878  595
97
> 3  0
>  43 0 0 7866480 1322856 8 104 5 0  0  0  0  0  0  0 19  808 2535  661
96
> 4  0
>  36 0 0 7867096 1323104 33 370 4 1 1  0  0  0  0  0  9  964 2551  659
95
> 5  0
>  42 0 0 7865824 1321944 8 140 8 0  0  0  0  0  0  0 13  673 2605  575
97
> 3  0
>  37 0 0 7867248 1323056 0 0  1  0  0  0  0  0  3  0  7  661 2341  477
95
> 5  0
>  34 0 0 7867248 1323040 0 0  5  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  6  671 2977  510
96
> 4  0
>  24 0 0 7867248 1322864 6 0 51  0  0  0  0  0  1  0 58  961 1621  708
98
> 2  0
>  21 0 0 7867248 1322680 9 98 24 0  0  0  0  0  0  0 77 1008 1067  634
98
> 2  0
>  14 0 0 7867248 1322616 2 0 16  0  0  0  0  0  0  0 69  930 1155  660
98
> 2  0
>  16 0 0 7866816 1322456 17 200 9 1 1  0  0  0  3  0 55  990 1589  737
94
> 6  0
>  29 0 0 7867040 1322264 30 176 13 0 0 0  0  0  0  0 13  963 5145  830
95
> 5  0
>  26 0 0 7866776 1321968 18 196 86 3 3 0  0  0  1  0 12  751 4172  637
96
> 4  0
>  22 0 0 7867208 1322032 19 204 8 0 0  0  0  0  0  0  6 1013 4015  985
94
> 6  0
>  13 0 0 7867120 1321888 8 100 8 0  0  0  0  0  0  0  3 1016 1907 1036
97
> 3  0
>  13 0 0 7867104 1321368 317 100 2340 0 0 0 0 0 0  0 59 1102 1923 1086
96
> 4  0
>
> Well there is a lot of processes waiting to run, that means the number

> of CPUs (processors) is low. What about the "re" and "mf" fields?
> There are page reclaim and small faults, then what? What clear
> performance leak is it showing?  There is also the field under disk
> ..."s2". What is this field telling me? Also the field "faults" in,
> sy, cs. Are they surpose to be high as they are?
>
> When I run prstat I get something of the nature, as below
>
>  NPROC USERNAME  SIZE   RSS MEMORY      TIME  CPU
>
>     55       xxxxxxxx        64G   63G   100%           5:21.02  69%
>
> What does 100% mean here under MEMORY?


From hkocak at meteor.gov.tr  Thu May 13 03:45:24 2004
From: hkocak at meteor.gov.tr (=?iso-8859-9?Q?Hakan_Ko=E7ak?=)
Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 10:45:24 +0300
Subject: Patch remove problem
Message-ID: <000a01c438be$3ffbba20$dc19a8c0@meteor.gov.tr>

Hi managers,

An urgent question: I installed 108940-62 patch which causes the
systems to reboot after I power them up.

The problem is that I can not remove it. When I type
# patchrm 108940-62

the system crashes immediately.

Can somebody tell me how to remove this patch and what to do.
Thank you all.

Hakan


From Tufan.Sen at global-bilgi.com.tr  Thu May 13 04:00:42 2004
From: Tufan.Sen at global-bilgi.com.tr (Tufan Sen (TS))
Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 11:00:42 +0300
Subject: SUMMARY: Solaris 9 Mount Problem at boot time
Message-ID: <8FBA0AD291EE77419E934F5DFAB6F8FD011E0334@gbhalex01.global-bilgi.entp>

Hi all ,,

Our DBA sent us to the wrong direction :) The problem was super block
corruption. " fsck -o b=32 raw_disk " solved the problem.

Thanks to all..

STS

> -----Original Message-----
> From: sunmanagers-bounces at sunmanagers.org [mailto:sunmanagers-
> bounces at sunmanagers.org] On Behalf Of Tufan Sen (TS)
> Sent: Monday, May 10, 2004 9:01 AM
> To: sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org
> Subject: Solaris 9 Mount Problem at boot time
>
> Hi all ,
>
>
>
> I have a Solaris 9 Sun Fire 480 machine with data disks on an EMC
SAN..
>
>
>
> I'm having problems at boot time for mounting a disk which resides at
> EMC SAN. To boot I have to disable the associated vfstab entry , boot
,
> enable the entry then mount. Does anyone have any idea about this ??
>
>
>
> Thanks for your helps...
>
>
>
> STS
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From Szabadkai.Eva at malev.hu  Thu May 13 04:13:12 2004
From: Szabadkai.Eva at malev.hu (=?iso-8859-2?Q?Szil=E1gyin=E9_Szabadkai_=C9va?=)
Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 10:13:12 +0200
Subject: NIS+  error  message
Message-ID: <2498AB062812764899A12174698C387E074A26@fhbmsg02.malev.hu>

Hello Gurus,

the  following errors showed up in /var/adm/messages on Solaris8 :

May  5 15:24:01 fhbdbs04 login: [ID 722452 auth.error] user2netname: (nis+
lookup): Error in
file... is NIS+ installed?
May  5 15:24:01 fhbdbs04 login: [ID 326624 auth.error] n2a get_local_info:
open to get interface configuration: Too man
y open files
May  5 15:24:01 fhbdbs04 login: [ID 105279 auth.error] nis_cast: t_open:
/dev/udp:Too many open files
May  5 15:24:01 fhbdbs04 login: [ID 326624 auth.error] n2a get_local_info:
open to get interface configuration: Too man
y open files


Any ideas what to do in such case?

Regards, Eva


From d.matinyarare at iorin.gov.pl  Thu May 13 04:58:17 2004
From: d.matinyarare at iorin.gov.pl (David Matinyarare)
Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 10:58:17 +0200
Subject: Unable to log in using "Usr's last Desktop" after a restoration
 of the /usr slice.
Message-ID: <6682A0A20A720942AC26337E5E5C03EA1435D4@www.iorin.gov.pl>

When testing my restoration procedures, using "ufsrestore", I removed
the /usr/bin catalogue and then restored it from my backup tapes. I used
the procedures given on page 595 of the "System Administration Guide,
Volume 1 -February 2000. The restoration took a long time to finish,
almost 3 hours. When I wanted to logon using the Desktop, it kept
returning to the Desktop, without logging to the system. I can logon to
the system using the command line mode.


What could have gone wrong and how can I resolve the problem?


From OcallD at cogent-dsn.com  Thu May 13 05:18:57 2004
From: OcallD at cogent-dsn.com (Dan O'Callaghan)
Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 10:18:57 +0100
Subject: summary: console terminal settings
Message-ID: <A5E49A0595FB4A489ED566217349B1470361D7@zaphod1.cogent-dsn.local>

Thanks to all those that replied.

Special thanks to Kanellopoulos Angelos who came up with a simple
solution.
/usr/openwin/bin/resize
solves all the problems with associated with vi through a console
session.

Thanks all.

-----Original Message-----
From: Dan O'Callaghan
Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2004 10:31 AM
To: sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org
Subject: console terminal settings

I'm using a standard cde terminal window set to ddterm to tip into a
console port.

What is the correct way to get things like "vi" screen output corrrcet.

I've tried exporting the console session to vt100, vt220, dtterm,
etc....
Which is the best to use for a floating cde terminal window?

Thanks.
Dan
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From d.matinyarare at iorin.gov.pl  Thu May 13 07:03:51 2004
From: d.matinyarare at iorin.gov.pl (David Matinyarare)
Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 13:03:51 +0200
Subject: SUMMARY: Unable to log in using "Usr's last Desktop" after a
 restoration of the /usr slice.
Message-ID: <6682A0A20A720942AC26337E5E5C03EA1435D5@www.iorin.gov.pl>

Thanks a lot to all those who had their time trying to get what could
have gone wrong with post problem. I managed to sort the problem
straight somehow. After restoring /usr, I then went on to restore /
(root) as well. Though I am not quet sure whether such a procedure is
needed, If I only have the /usr partition corrupt and only want to
restore the /usr partition, not the root (/) partition. Well, but then
the problem disappeared. I am still testing my "disastor procedure
preparedness", so in case I get another easy, straight forward solution
will definately post it. On the other hand if someone out there has had
a similar problem and got a straight easy way to restore /usr partition
only , I would be grateful to have it.


From ravikanth_kn at yahoo.com  Thu May 13 08:11:36 2004
From: ravikanth_kn at yahoo.com (Ravikanth)
Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 05:11:36 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: network printers
Message-ID: <20040513121136.30401.qmail@web20023.mail.yahoo.com>

Hi 

How do i add network printers with Axis lp interface
to sun systems with Solaris 8 OS as network printers.

Please suggest.

Ravi


	
		
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From G.Bakalarski at icm.edu.pl  Thu May 13 08:26:47 2004
From: G.Bakalarski at icm.edu.pl (Grzegorz Bakalarski)
Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 14:26:47 +0200
Subject: query about recent Sol9  Rec'd patch cluster
Message-ID: <20040513122647.GC27598@burza.icm.edu.pl>

Dear All,

Machine V880, Solaris 9, lastly patched on March 10, 2004
(running kernel  5.9 Generic_112233-11)

Has any braveheart installed recently recommended cluster
of patches? Any caveaties?  Remarks?
I'm asking because there was kernel patch 112233-12 released 
recently, sd & sdd patches and also libprtdiag_psr patch.
I had some issues recently with performance and prtdiag also
after patching, so I don't want to go into troubles.

Thanks for any yes/no!

Kind regards,


Grzegorz


From ABradley at omam.com  Thu May 13 08:33:39 2004
From: ABradley at omam.com (Bradley Alan)
Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 14:33:39 +0200
Subject: Urgent PC Netlink Problem - 2 shares only visible as NT Admin
Message-ID: <469496EAAE8E3C4CBD31C9D670C747A10157A6F2@zactnxch00.omam.com>

Hi All,

I have a very strange problem with PC Netlink that I would appreciate help
with.
This morning the PDC fell over and another (BDC) server was promoted to be
PDC.

I have 4 servers running PC Netlink.  On all of them I did a "joindomain"
and entered the necessary details to point to the new PDC.  3 of the 4 are
working fine.  On the other one there are 2 shares whose contents are no
longer visible by the users - only by domain admins!
I have deleted and recreated these shares but they are still not visible.
If I run "net view \\<server>" on the Solaris server, I can see that they
are shared.  I have also tried sharing them under a different name.

Has anyone seen this before and can offer any ideas as to how to fix it?

Regards,
Alan.


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From benoit.audet at carra.gouv.qc.ca  Thu May 13 09:35:13 2004
From: benoit.audet at carra.gouv.qc.ca (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Beno=EEt=20Audet?=)
Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 09:35:13 -0400
Subject: NIC configuration problem with SunFire V480
Message-ID: <s0a3417f.095@SG01.carra.gouv.qc.ca>

Hi managers,

We just received a splendid SunFire V480 here, and I have performed a Solaris
8, hardware rev. 2/02 installation on it.  On the SunFire V480, there's two
onboard cards, which are "ce0" and "ce1".  These two interfaces seem to be ok
(I've seen both with the "show-nets" command at the PROM) and at the install
of Solaris 8, I had the choice for both interfaces to use.

Currently, I plugged the "ce0" (the lower connector on the back of the
machine) in a 100Mbps - full duplex port.  I tested the port AND the cable,
plugging it in the laptop I use as the installation console and I connect
without any problem.  However, once Solaris installed and patched with the
recommended patches cluster, I can't get this "ce0" NIC interface to work!

I tryed to force it at 100Mbps - full duplex (with the ndd commands, etc.),
but I can't get this NIC to connect.  I browsed the web a bit, but found too
much contradicting informations on this, and I'm starting to get a bit lost...
I as well saw something telling that Solaris 8, hw 2/02 was not a "goob"
version to use with V480, that I should use something like Solaris 8, but
5/03...

Any workarounds, ideas?  That would be fairly welcome.  As usual, I will of
course summarise!  :-) Thanks in advance!


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From SLAMET.FADILAH at SIEMENS.COM.PK  Thu May 13 09:20:16 2004
From: SLAMET.FADILAH at SIEMENS.COM.PK (Slamet Ahmad Fadilah)
Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 18:20:16 +0500
Subject: Urgent: Mirror Disk Needs Maintenance
Message-ID: <F1E32D168F89D5119BC300104B08D4D8CA8B0E@ISBS001E>

Dear All,
 
One disk of my disk array (D1000) is under status "Needs Maintenance".
 
Here is its metastat of the faulty disk:
---------------
d81: Mirror
    Submirror 0: d16
      State: Needs maintenance Wed 12 May 2004 05:02:54 PM GMT
    Submirror 1: d33
      State: Okay         Tue 11 May 2004 05:09:27 PM GMT
    Pass: 1
    Read option: roundrobin (default)
    Write option: parallel (default)
    Size: 35956494 blocks
 
d16: Submirror of d81
    State: Needs maintenance Wed 12 May 2004 05:02:54 PM GMT
    Invoke: metareplace d81 c1t2d0s0 <new device>
    Size: 35956494 blocks
    Stripe 0:
      Device     Start  Dbase  State        Hot Spare  Time
      c1t2d0s0       0  No     Maintenance             Wed 12 May 2004
05:02:54 PM GMT
 
 
d33: Submirror of d81
    State: Okay         Tue 11 May 2004 05:09:27 PM GMT
    Size: 35956494 blocks
    Stripe 0:
      Device     Start  Dbase  State        Hot Spare  Time
      c3t8d0s0       0  No     Okay                    Tue 11 May 2004
05:09:11 PM GMT
--------------
 
 
I tried to metareplace -e, but it gives error message:
 
#metastat -e d81 c1t2d0s0
Metareplace: isbrcomp1:  c1t2d0s0: No left space on device.
 
FYI, from command format, I can confirm that the size of slice 0 of disk
c1t2d0 is zero (0).
 
Any idea why? 
 
Is disk replacement is the only solution?
 
 
I got a plan as follow, please help me to verify it :
 
#init s
 
#ufsdump 0ucf /dev/rmt/0n /commonArea     #to backup first the /commonArea 
 
#umount /commonArea 
 
#fsck /dev/rdsk/c1t2d0s0 
 
#mount /dev/md/dsk/d81 /commonArea 
 
#/usr/opt/SUNWmd/sbin/metareplace -e d81 /dev/dsk/c1t2d0s0 
 
#/usr/opt/SUNWmd/sbin/metastat 
 
#/usr/opt/SUNWmd/sbin/metareplace -e d81 /dev/dsk/c3t8d0s0 
 
#/usr/opt/SUNWmd/sbin/metastat 
 
#init 6
 
 
 
Thanks a lot for your time.
I'll summarize.
 
 
Best Regards,
Slamet Fadilah
TAC2 RC, Siemens Pakistan, Ufone Project
+92 333 5243669
 <mailto:slamet.fadilah at siemens.com.pk> slamet.fadilah at siemens.com.pk


From egold at fsa.com  Thu May 13 10:06:34 2004
From: egold at fsa.com (egold at fsa.com)
Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 10:06:34 -0400
Subject: cfgadm issue - please help!
Message-ID: <OF085EEB7C.FF7836C7-ON85256E93.004B8BF4-85256E93.004D8159@fsa.com>

first thanks for try to help me.
can anyone tell me why im getting this error when running "cfgadm -c
configure c3" ?
How can I fix?

root at sunserver:/root# cfgadm -c unconfigure c3
root at sunserver:/root# cfgadm -c configure c3
cfgadm: Library error: failed to create device node: 20030003ba27ce82:
Invalid argument
failed to create device node: 20030003ba4e7c29: Invalid argument
Operation partially successful. Some failures seen

i cant seem to get c3 to be configured. i also tried the "-o force_update"
option but it didnt help.


This is a solaris 8 server with the latest patches, i built it from a flash
archive of another server.
I do have link lights on both hba's and they are connected into a Sun 6320
SAN.
The server is an E250.
I have mpxio disabled in /kernel/drv/scsi_vhci.conf.
the hbas are qlogic but im not sure what model.


another major  problem im also having is when i run vxinstall i get endless
errors like this:

WARNING: /pci at 1f,4000/SUNW,qlc at 4/fp at 0,0/ssd at w20030003ba27ce94,1 (ssd0):
        Error for Command: read(10)                Error Level: Fatal
        Requested Block: 3073                      Error Block: 3073
        Vendor: SUN                                Serial Number:
0020349510
        Sense Key: Not Ready
        ASC: 0x4 (<vendor unique code 0x4>), ASCQ: 0x88, FRU: 0x0
WARNING: /pci at 1f,4000/SUNW,qlc at 4/fp at 0,0/ssd at w20030003ba27ce94,0 (ssd1):
        Error for Command: read(10)                Error Level: Fatal
        Requested Block: 3073                      Error Block: 3073
        Vendor: SUN                                Serial Number:
0035411210
        Sense Key: Not Ready
        ASC: 0x4 (<vendor unique code 0x4>), ASCQ: 0x88, FRU: 0x0
WARNING: /pci at 1f,4000/SUNW,qlc at 4/fp at 0,0/ssd at w20030003ba27ce94,1 (ssd0):
        Error for Command: read(10)                Error Level: Retryable
        Requested Block: 3073                      Error Block: 3073
        Vendor: SUN                                Serial Number:
0020349510
        Sense Key: Not Ready
        ASC: 0x4 (<vendor unique code 0x4>), ASCQ: 0x88, FRU: 0x0
WARNING: /pci at 1f,4000/SUNW,qlc at 4/fp at 0,0/ssd at w20030003ba27ce94,0 (ssd1):
        Error for Command: read(10)                Error Level: Retryable
        Requested Block: 3073                      Error Block: 3073
        Vendor: SUN                                Serial Number:
0035411210
        Sense Key: Not Ready
        ASC: 0x4 (<vendor unique code 0x4>), ASCQ: 0x88, FRU: 0x0
WARNING: /pci at 1f,4000/SUNW,qlc at 4/fp at 0,0/ssd at w20030003ba27ce94,0 (ssd1):
        Error for Command: read(10)                Error Level: Fatal
        Requested Block: 3073                      Error Block: 3073
        Vendor: SUN                                Serial Number:
0035411210
        Sense Key: Not Ready
        ASC: 0x4 (<vendor unique code 0x4>), ASCQ: 0x88, FRU: 0x0
WARNING: /pci at 1f,4000/SUNW,qlc at 4/fp at 0,0/ssd at w20030003ba27ce94,1 (ssd0):
        Error for Command: read(10)                Error Level: Fatal
        Requested Block: 3073                      Error Block: 3073
        Vendor: SUN                                Serial Number:
0020349510
        Sense Key: Not Ready
        ASC: 0x4 (<vendor unique code 0x4>), ASCQ: 0x88, FRU: 0x0
WARNING: /pci at 1f,4000/SUNW,qlc at 4/fp at 0,0/ssd at w20030003ba27ce94,0 (ssd1):
        Error for Command: read(10)                Error Level: Retryable
        Requested Block: 3073                      Error Block: 3073
        Vendor: SUN                                Serial Number:
0035411210
        Sense Key: Not Ready
        ASC: 0x4 (<vendor unique code 0x4>), ASCQ: 0x88, FRU: 0x0




MORE INFO:

root at sunserver:/root# cfgadm -c configure c2
cfgadm: Library error: failed to create device node: 20030003ba4e7bf5:
Invalid argument
Operation partially successful. Some failures seen
root at sunserver:/root#


root at sunserver:/root# cfgadm -c unconfigure c3
root at sunserver:/root# cfgadm -c configure c3
cfgadm: Library error: failed to create device node: 20030003ba27ce82:
Invalid argument
failed to create device node: 20030003ba4e7c29: Invalid argument
Operation partially successful. Some failures seen


root at sunserver:/root# luxadm -e port

Found path to 2 HBA ports

/devices/pci at 1f,4000/SUNW,qlc at 4/fp at 0,0:devctl
CONNECTED
/devices/pci at 1f,4000/SUNW,qlc at 5/fp at 0,0:devctl
CONNECTED
root at sunserver:/root# luxadm -e dump_map
/devices/pci at 1f,4000/SUNW,qlc at 5/fp at 0,0:devctl
Pos  Port_ID Hard_Addr Port WWN         Node WWN         Type
0    10000   0         210000e08b041aa9 200000e08b041aa9 0x1f (Unknown
Type)
1    10100   0         210000e08b05b2c3 200000e08b05b2c3 0x1f (Unknown
Type)
2    10200   0         210000e08b042094 200000e08b042094 0x1f (Unknown
Type)
3    10300   0         210100e08b247a22 200100e08b247a22 0x1f (Unknown
Type)
4    10400   0         210000e08b0412a9 200000e08b0412a9 0x1f (Unknown
Type)
5    10500   0         20030003ba27ce82 10000003ba27ce82 0x0  (Disk device)
6    10600   0         20030003ba4e7c29 10000003ba4e7c29 0x0  (Disk device)
7    10a00   0         210000e08b137c37 200000e08b137c37 0x1f (Unknown
Type)
8    10b00   0         210000e08b040da9 200000e08b040da9 0x1f (Unknown
Type,Host Bus Adapter)
root at sunserver:/root# cfgadm -al
Ap_Id                          Type         Receptacle   Occupant
Condition
c0                             scsi-bus     connected    configured
unknown
c0::dsk/c0t0d0                 disk         connected    configured
unknown
c0::dsk/c0t10d0                disk         connected    configured
unknown
c0::dsk/c0t11d0                disk         connected    configured
unknown
c0::dsk/c0t12d0                disk         connected    configured
unknown
c0::dsk/c0t6d0                 CD-ROM       connected    configured
unknown
c0::dsk/c0t8d0                 disk         connected    configured
unknown
c0::dsk/c0t9d0                 disk         connected    configured
unknown
c1                             scsi-bus     connected    unconfigured
unknown
c2                             fc-fabric    connected    configured
unknown
c2::20030003ba27ce94           disk         connected    configured
unknown
c2::20030003ba4e7bf5           disk         connected    unconfigured
unknown
c2::210000e08b0418a9           unknown      connected    unconfigured
unknown
c2::210000e08b049ba8           unknown      connected    unconfigured
unknown
c2::210000e08b05b4c3           unknown      connected    unconfigured
unknown
c2::210000e08b068889           unknown      connected    unconfigured
unknown
c2::210000e08b130137           unknown      connected    unconfigured
unknown
c2::210100e08b247122           unknown      connected    unconfigured
unknown
c3                             fc-fabric    connected    unconfigured
unknown
c3::20030003ba27ce82           disk         connected    unconfigured
unknown
c3::20030003ba4e7c29           disk         connected    unconfigured
unknown
c3::210000e08b0412a9           unknown      connected    unconfigured
unknown
c3::210000e08b041aa9           unknown      connected    unconfigured
unknown
c3::210000e08b042094           unknown      connected    unconfigured
unknown
c3::210000e08b05b2c3           unknown      connected    unconfigured
unknown
c3::210000e08b137c37           unknown      connected    unconfigured
unknown
c3::210100e08b247a22           unknown      connected    unconfigured
unknown
root at sunserver:/root#



:/root# pkginfo|grep -i qlogic
system      SUNWqlc              Qlogic ISP 2200/2202 Fibre Channel Device
Driver
system      SUNWqlcx             Qlogic ISP 2200/2202 Fibre Channel Device
Driver (64 bit)
system      SUNWqus              QLogic Ultra3 Scsi, (Root)
system      SUNWqusu             QLogic Ultra3 Scsi, (Usr)
system      SUNWqusux            QLogic Ultra3 Scsi, (Usr) (64-bit)
system      SUNWqusx             QLogic Ultra3 Scsi, (Root) (64-bit)


/root# format
Searching for disks...done


AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:
       0. c0t0d0 <SUN18G cyl 7506 alt 2 hd 19 sec 248>
          /pci at 1f,4000/scsi at 3/sd at 0,0
       1. c0t8d0 <SUN18G cyl 7506 alt 2 hd 19 sec 248>
          /pci at 1f,4000/scsi at 3/sd at 8,0
       2. c0t9d0 <SUN36G cyl 24620 alt 2 hd 27 sec 107>
          /pci at 1f,4000/scsi at 3/sd at 9,0
       3. c0t10d0 <SUN36G cyl 24620 alt 2 hd 27 sec 107>
          /pci at 1f,4000/scsi at 3/sd at a,0
       4. c0t11d0 <SUN36G cyl 24620 alt 2 hd 27 sec 107>
          /pci at 1f,4000/scsi at 3/sd at b,0
       5. c0t12d0 <SUN36G cyl 24620 alt 2 hd 27 sec 107>
          /pci at 1f,4000/scsi at 3/sd at c,0
       6. c4t60003BA27CE820003F27DCCA00056740d0 <SUN-T4-0300 cyl 34137 alt
2 hd 96 sec 32>
          /scsi_vhci/ssd at g60003ba27ce820003f27dcca00056740
       7. c4t60003BA27CE820003F27DD2B00031AE7d0 <SUN-T4-0300 cyl 34137 alt
2 hd 96 sec 32>
          /scsi_vhci/ssd at g60003ba27ce820003f27dd2b00031ae7
Specify disk (enter its number): ^D


root# uname -a
SunOS fsasun23 5.8 Generic_117000-03 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-250


From choogend at library.umass.edu  Thu May 13 10:38:52 2004
From: choogend at library.umass.edu (Chris Hoogendyk)
Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 10:38:52 -0400
Subject: ipfilter on production servers
Message-ID: <40A3887C.1000100@library.umass.edu>

The world is getting nastier, and it seems that even with removing 
almost everything from inetd.conf, using tcp_wrappers, using ssh and 
turning off ordinary telnet and ftp, keeping up patches, etc., servers 
are still getting hacked.

So, I'm wondering how many sysadmins go to

	http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/


set up ipfilter, and get really strict, putting up rules to block 
virtually everything, whether it is coming or going. this on top of 
removing unused services that might be listening on ports.

most of my servers are:
	SUNW,Ultra-250
	Solaris 8 1/01 s28s_u3wos_08 SPARC

they vary significantly, with some webservers, an oracle server, a 
SunRay server, an ezproxy server, etc.

I'm in an academic environment, so traditionally we have not had network 
based perimeter firewalls.



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

Chris Hoogendyk

-
    O__  ---- Network Specialist & Unix Systems Administrator
   c/ /'_ --- Library Information Systems & Technology Services
  (*) \(*) -- W.E.B. Du Bois Library
~~~~~~~~~~ - University of Massachusetts, Amherst

<choogend at library.umass.edu>

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


From Rich.Bonfoey at mail.tribnet.com  Wed May 12 13:09:00 2004
From: Rich.Bonfoey at mail.tribnet.com (Rich Bonfoey)
Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 10:09:00 -0700
Subject: SUMMARY RE: Unable to fork
Message-ID: <2FB1D672CB958F4EB35381F4AC94816C2EE5DB@stamp.tacomanews.com>

Re-cap

Thanks very much to all that responded.  Most every one pointed to - you are
out of memory.  The process, textprocmain.ksh, turned out to not be the
problem , just an innocent bystander.  When I ran top lo and behold, here is
process consuming lost of cycles.  This is a vendor process and when I
pointed this out to them, they had launched it late yesterday.  Kill the
process and all was well.

Thanks again to all for all your help

-----Original Message-----
From: Rich Bonfoey 
Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2004 3:54 PM
To: Sun Managers (sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org)
Subject: Unable to fork

Hello

We have a vendor in and is running a new process  on 450 test system.  The
following errors showed up in /var/adm/messages 

May 11 15:15:43 mike WChermdaemon: [ID 250203 user.error] Unable to fork
May 11 15:15:45 mike WChermdaemon: [ID 980060 user.error] Unable to execute
bloc
king task /wcenter/iptc2wc/ap_iptc2wc.sh
May 11 15:16:38 mike genunix: [ID 470503 kern.warning] WARNING: Sorry, no
swap s
pace to grow stack for pid 1312 (ls)
May 11 15:16:38 mike last message repeated 4 times
May 11 15:16:42 mike genunix: [ID 470503 kern.warning] WARNING: Sorry, no
swap s
pace to grow stack for pid 8081 (textprocmain.ksh)
May 11 15:16:42 mike last message repeated 20 times
May 11 15:16:42 mike genunix: [ID 470503 kern.warning] WARNING: Sorry, no
swap s
pace to grow stack for pid 26169 (textprocmain.ksh)

Vendor says the 450 has a problem .  I think its his process.
Any advice is appreciated

thanks

Richard Bonfoey
The News Tribune
Information Systems
Successfully Meeting the Business Needs of
The News Tribune through Information Technology


From martynas at ti.com  Thu May 13 04:04:36 2004
From: martynas at ti.com (Buozis, Martynas)
Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 10:04:36 +0200
Subject: FW: Problems with SMCvim
Message-ID: <1DF5C012B611F24CA78530B31074F70C120A79@dfre2k02.ent.ti.com>

Hello

I have Solaris 9 were installed SMCvim with required packages from
sunfreeware.com . Alias vim executable ends with following error :

# vim
ld.so.1: vim: fatal: relocation error: file
/usr/local/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0: symbol gdk_font_equal: referenced
symbol not found
Killed


Here is more information about packages :

# pkginfo -l SMCvim
   PKGINST:  SMCvim
      NAME:  vim
  CATEGORY:  application
      ARCH:  sparc
   VERSION:  6.2
   BASEDIR:  /usr/local
    VENDOR:  Bram Moolenaar
    PSTAMP:  Steve Christensen
  INSTDATE:  Apr 28 2004 16:11
     EMAIL:  steve at smc.vnet.net
    STATUS:  completely installed
     FILES:      799 installed pathnames
                   5 shared pathnames
                  25 directories
                  15 executables
               16964 blocks used (approx)

# pkginfo -l SMCgtk
   PKGINST:  SMCgtk
      NAME:  gtk
  CATEGORY:  application
      ARCH:  sparc
   VERSION:  2.2.4
   BASEDIR:  /usr/local
    VENDOR:  The GTK Team
    PSTAMP:  Steve Christensen
  INSTDATE:  Apr 28 2004 16:16
     EMAIL:  steve at smc.vnet.net
    STATUS:  completely installed
     FILES:     2839 installed pathnames
                 268 shared pathnames
                 347 directories
                 135 executables
              209152 blocks used (approx)

{root at rubidium /}pkgchk -l -p /usr/local/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
Pathname: /usr/local/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
Type: symbolic link
Source of link: libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0.200.4
Referenced by the following packages:
        SMCgtk
Current status: installed

#


Can you tell me what I am missing ? Is it some sort of incompatibility
with native Solaris 9 gtk libraries SUNWGtkr and SUNWGtku ? How I can
fix this behavior ?


Thank you in advance for your advises.


With best regards
Martynas Buozis


From Chris.Cameron at NetThruPut.com  Thu May 13 12:16:33 2004
From: Chris.Cameron at NetThruPut.com (Chris Cameron)
Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 10:16:33 -0600
Subject: Network Tuning Questions
Message-ID: <200405131016.33700.Chris.Cameron@NetThruPut.com>

I apologize if this is a basic question, as it seems like something that I 
should know, but coming from a BSD background none of the things I'd usually 
look at to figure out what need to be tuned seem to be around.

Basically, what I'd like to know is, what determines how many established TCP 
connections a server can have? I'm curious because we're having a problem 
where we're reaching near 300 established connections and then connections 
start to pause, then drop (so established goes down), and then things kick in 
again, until it nears 300. This may be a symptom of some other problem 
however.

I'm reading through the "Solaris Tunable Parameters Reference Manual" right 
now, but what I'm reading isn't really giving me enough confidence to start 
changing things.

All I've done so far is changed tcp_time_wait_interval to 60000 (down from 
240000) in hopes of dead connections getting cleaned up faster. This hasn't 
made any noticeable difference.

If it means anything, netstat -m shows:

streams allocation:
                                         cumulative  allocation
                      current   maximum       total    failures
streams                   415       800    16041705           0
queues                   1168      2171    20144949           0
mblk                     2752     14097   318391005           0
dblk                     2749     14077 -2078473476           0
linkblk                    14       169         945           0
strevent                   48       169     6606586           0
syncq                      29       100        6586           0
qband                       0         0           0           0

2303 Kbytes allocated for streams data


If anyone can help me out, or point me to more documentation (or a book) that 
would make this clearer for me, that'd be much appreciated.

We're running Solaris 8 on a dual V240 with 4 gigs of RAM.

Thanks,
Chris


From fcd005 at email.mot.com  Thu May 13 14:50:35 2004
From: fcd005 at email.mot.com (chris dantos)
Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 14:50:35 -0400
Subject: Automount failure following power loss
Message-ID: <40A3C37B.6020705@email.mot.com>

Hello All:

Following a power loss that affected only client workstations, not the 
file server, two of the clients have lost automount privileges.
The error is the standard "permission denied".

Below you can see csarfl08-029 is working while 036 is not

csarfl08-029 root / 4 > cd /home/fcd005
csarfl08-029 root /home/fcd005 5 >
csarfl08-036 root /var/adm 4 > cd /home/fcd005
/home/fcd005: Permission denied




The clients have been rebooted, that didn't fix anything.
Automountd is running with no error messages
The clients are in the proper NIS netgroup
ypwhich yields the correct response
ypcat -k of the automount maps show that the clients can read the maps.


This is a Sol 8 environment, NIS, well patched and all clients were 
working well before the power loss.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

-- 
Christopher Dantos
Motorola Labs
phone 954-723-5915
 cell 954-608-7553
SKYTEL 2WAY 7235915 at skytel.com
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From thepallace at yahoo.com  Thu May 13 15:09:22 2004
From: thepallace at yahoo.com (jun aquino)
Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 12:09:22 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: mmu miss error 
Message-ID: <20040513190922.41393.qmail@web20608.mail.yahoo.com>

I have a Netra T1. The system crash with MMU error. How do I recocer this withour rebuilding the system.  The system is not booting right now. Pls advise. Thanks, JA
 
 
eset Control: BXIR:0 BPOR:0 SXIR:0 SPOR:1 POR:0 
Probing upa at 1f,0 pci pci pci 
Probing upa at 0,0 SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIe SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIe (256 Kb)
Loading Support Packages: kbd-translator 
Loading onboard drivers: ebus flashprom eeprom idprom SUNW,lomh 
Probing /pci at 1,1 Device 3  pmu i2c temperature dimm dimm i2c-nvram 
   idprom motherboard-fru fan-control 
lomp 
Probing Memory Bank #0 256 Megabytes
Probing Memory Bank #1 256 Megabytes
Probing Memory Bank #2   0 Megabytes
Probing Memory Bank #3   0 Megabytes
Probing /pci at 1,1 Device 7  isa power serial serial 
Probing /pci at 1,1 Device c  network firewire usb 
Probing /pci at 1,1 Device 3  
Probing /pci at 1,1 Device d  ide disk cdrom 
Probing /pci at 1,1 Device 5  pci108e,1100 network firewire usb 
Probing /pci at 1 Device 8  scsi disk tape scsi disk tape 
Probing /pci at 1 Device 5  Nothing there 
Probing /pci at 1 Device 6  Nothing there 
Probing /pci at 1 Device 7  Nothing there 
Netra T1 200 (UltraSPARC-IIe 500MHz), No Keyboard
OpenBoot 4.0, 512 MB memory installed, Serial #50738220.
Ethernet address 0:3:ba:6:34:2c, Host ID: 8306342c.
 
Environment monitoring: disabled
Executing last command: boot                                          
Boot device: disk  File and args: 
Loading ufs-file-system package 1.4 04 Aug 1995 13:02:54. 
FCode UFS Reader 1.11 97/07/10 16:19:15. 
Fast Data Access MMU Miss
ok 
Yahoo! Movies - Buy advance tickets for 'Shrek 2' 


From john.p.spurgeon at intel.com  Thu May 13 16:47:11 2004
From: john.p.spurgeon at intel.com (Spurgeon, John P)
Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 13:47:11 -0700
Subject: race condition: 'ps -o ppid -p $$' outputs ppid=1
Message-ID: <F116EC881E09A245957482093BEC57DE077F3D@orsmsx407.jf.intel.com>

I'm using Solaris 7 on IA and I've encountered a problem when trying to
use the ps command in a Korn shell script to obtain the parent process
id of the executing process. I'm able to reproduce the problem using the
two test programs below (test-a and test-b). As the "typical test
results" show, the ps command appears to suffer from some sort of race
condition that causes it to occasionally output ppid 1 instead of the
actual ppid. I'm running my programs on a server with 4 processors. I
suspect that the problem is more likely to be encountered on a
multi-processor system.

Does anyone know what's going on here? Is this really a problem with ps,
or is there some other explanation? Does anyone know of another simple
way to reliably determine the ppid from within a shell script?

John

Listing 1: /tmp/test-a
======================
#!/bin/ksh
for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
do
    /tmp/test-b &
done

Listing 2: /tmp/test-b
======================
#!/bin/ksh
ps -o ppid -p $$ | tail -1

Listing 3: typical test results
===============================
% /tmp/test-a
23157
23157
23157
23157
% 23157
1
1
23157
1
1


From fcd005 at email.mot.com  Thu May 13 17:21:19 2004
From: fcd005 at email.mot.com (chris dantos)
Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 17:21:19 -0400
Subject: SUMMARY:Automount failure following power loss
Message-ID: <40A3E6CF.9010408@email.mot.com>

Hello All:

This has to be summarized as a mystery.  Approximately 5 hours after the 
issue appeared it disappeared.

Thanks to Chad for taking the time to drop me line.


-- 
Christopher Dantos
Motorola Labs
phone 954-723-5915
 cell 954-608-7553
SKYTEL 2WAY 7235915 at skytel.com
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From john.p.spurgeon at intel.com  Thu May 13 17:19:34 2004
From: john.p.spurgeon at intel.com (Spurgeon, John P)
Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 14:19:34 -0700
Subject: SUMMARY: race condition: 'ps -o ppid -p $$' outputs ppid=1 
Message-ID: <F116EC881E09A245957482093BEC57DE077F3F@orsmsx407.jf.intel.com>

Dan Astoorian and Darren Dunham both explained what's happening. Below
is Dan's reply. Also, William Hathaway noted that $PPID is another way
to obtain the parent process id under ksh. Thanks.

John

-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Astoorian [mailto:djast at cs.toronto.edu]
Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2004 2:06 PM
To: Spurgeon, John P
Subject: Re: race condition: 'ps -o ppid -p $$' outputs ppid=1


On Thu, 13 May 2004 16:47:11 EDT, "Spurgeon, John P" writes:
> I'm using Solaris 7 on IA and I've encountered a problem when trying
to
> use the ps command in a Korn shell script to obtain the parent process
> id of the executing process. I'm able to reproduce the problem using
the
> two test programs below (test-a and test-b). As the "typical test
> results" show, the ps command appears to suffer from some sort of race
> condition that causes it to occasionally output ppid 1 instead of the
> actual ppid. I'm running my programs on a server with 4 processors. I
> suspect that the problem is more likely to be encountered on a
> multi-processor system.
>
> Does anyone know what's going on here? Is this really a problem with
ps,
> or is there some other explanation? Does anyone know of another simple
> way to reliably determine the ppid from within a shell script?

ps is returning the correct results.

What's happening is that the parent process, having kicked off all the
jobs in the background as it was supposed to, has exited before some of
the children finished running.  (Did you notice the shell prompt in the
middle of Listing 3?)  Child processes whose parents have exited are
inherited by pid 1, and ps is (correctly) reporting this.

If you want the parent shell to wait for all the children to complete
before exiting, add the command "wait" after the for-loop in
/tmp/test-a.

Hope this helps,

--
Dan Astoorian               People shouldn't think that it's better to
have
Sysadmin, CSLab             loved and lost than never loved at all.
It's
djast at cs.toronto.edu        not, it's better to have loved and won.  All
www.cs.toronto.edu/~djast/  the other options really suck.    --Dan
Redican


From I.Pease at esteem.co.uk  Fri May 14 05:13:22 2004
From: I.Pease at esteem.co.uk (Ian Pease)
Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 10:13:22 +0100
Subject: configuring stms
Message-ID: <E7F5BB5081C428429DFC1C3E7250C06F10DB69@exchange.ESTEEM.COMPUTERS>

Hi Gurus
Has anybody configured STMS on the V880 boot disk.
Version SAN 4.4 now supports boot disk's but I am unable to find any
information on how to configure it
Can any one help please
TIA


From Clive.Elsum at csiro.au  Fri May 14 05:59:33 2004
From: Clive.Elsum at csiro.au (Clive.Elsum at csiro.au)
Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 19:59:33 +1000
Subject: Help with DHCPMGR under Solaris 9
Message-ID: <B87D273029F05F47B8377B7A6CA40717177E93@exvic3-mel.vic.csiro.au>

Hi,

I have a problem with dhcpmgr.
I have the same problem on  both sparc and x86 running solaris 9.
I have applied the latest recommended patches and the J2SE recommended
patches.
I have successfully setup a DNS server (bind 9.2.3) and tested same
(nslookup dig).
When attempting to use dhcpmgr,  DHCP selected, I get to setup for 3 and
select DNS (domain is already included).
A "pop-up" window that has a stop sign with text "Unable to manage
defined hosts table"
I tried  using /etc/hosts under x86 but this failed to place the FQDN
into the tables.

I did the same procedure under sparc solaris 8 and all worked as
expected, no pop-up error messages, FQDN in tables,
DNS tables updated successfully.


Any help greatly appreciated and summarized.

Thanks in advance

Clive




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CSIRO Atmospheric Research
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From starcat524 at yahoo.com  Fri May 14 06:35:01 2004
From: starcat524 at yahoo.com (Sun Fire)
Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 03:35:01 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: E4500 system is slow after the migrate
Message-ID: <20040514103501.80669.qmail@web21202.mail.yahoo.com>

Dear Sun Managers,

I've an E4500 machine with Solaris 8 with the
following configuration.

Sun 8-slot Sun Enterprise E4500/E5500 (8 X
UltraSPARC-II 400MHz)
                                                    
Intrlv.  Intrlv.
Brd   Bank   MB   DIMMs   Status   Condition  Speed  
Factor   With
---  -----  ----  -----  -------  ----------  ----- 
-------  -------
 0     0    1024  8x128   Active      OK       60ns   
4-way     A
 0     1    1024  8x128   Active      OK       60ns   
4-way     A
 2     0    1024  8x128   Active      OK       60ns   
4-way     A
 2     1    1024  8x128   Active      OK       60ns   
4-way     A
 4     0    2048  8x256   Active      OK       60ns   
4-way     B
 4     1    2048  8x256   Active      OK       60ns   
4-way     B
 6     0    2048  8x256   Active      OK       60ns   
4-way     B
 6     1    2048  8x256   Active      OK       60ns   
4-way     B

Previously, this machine was running Solaris 2.6 and
system performance was fine. Recently, this machine
had been upgraded to Solaris 2.8 and the kernel
parameters that are brought over  from Solaris 2.6
settings on /etc/system of machine are as follows:

   set snooping=1
   set autoup=90 & set tune_t_fsflushr=15
   set bufhwm=8000
   set maxphys=1048576
   set ecache_scrub_enable=1, set
ecache_scan_rate=1000 & set
   ecache_calls_a_sec=100

Customer is complaining system is slow after the
migration. By right, Solaris 8 performance should be 
better than Solaris 2.6.

I would like to find from you guys what are those
parameters for and is it advisable to put in there.

Thanks in advance.

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From sanchiab at epic.co.uk  Fri May 14 07:21:18 2004
From: sanchiab at epic.co.uk (Sanchia Baker)
Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 12:21:18 +0100
Subject: Files disappearing and re-appearing
Message-ID: <6.0.0.10.0.20040514121623.02618d70@post.epic.co.uk>

Hi all,

We have just been experiencing a strange problem. We have samba set up on 
our solaris box and a couple of users were reporting problems of files not 
opening, or not being there, but on refresh were present.

The same thing occur on the actual box, through a unix login. Do an ls, and 
the files and sub-directories have disappeared, do another ls ( same shell 
, same place , same connection ), and they've re-appeared. There is nothing 
in dmesg, notice, messages, syslog etc everything else is working fine.

Has any one heard or seen anything like this before ?

Thank you in advance

Kind regards

Sanchia Baker
Senior Systems Engineer
email : sanchiab at epic.co.uk


From dinduman14 at hotmail.com  Fri May 14 07:12:21 2004
From: dinduman14 at hotmail.com (Dinesh Kelvin Paul)
Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 19:12:21 +0800
Subject: Transfering files
Message-ID: <Sea1-F785iTrHTTeEMY000126c6@hotmail.com>

hi gurus, i dont know if this topic is related but please help...

I have a Sun machine in my office which i use to connect to customerX Sun 
machine via dial-up connections. The customerX client Sun machine is then 
connected to the server which is in its LAN network. I would like to find 
out if it is possible to retrive a file from the server to my machine?

Else i could ftp the files over to the Client machine from the Server but 
how to i get this files to my machine? Is there like some Sun software which 
allows me to do that ?

Thanks for your help.

regards,
Dinesh

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From dirk.boenning at ccf.de  Fri May 14 07:42:52 2004
From: dirk.boenning at ccf.de (Dirk Boenning)
Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 13:42:52 +0200
Subject: DDS-4 on V440
Message-ID: <40A4B0BC.2030604@ccf.de>

Hello,

could anybody confirm/defirm that I could connect an external DDS-4 to the 
onboard SCSI from a V440. If it's not possible which HBA should I use (X 
Option).

TIA, Dirk.

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From ambarishmv at hotmail.com  Fri May 14 08:00:51 2004
From: ambarishmv at hotmail.com (ambarish mv)
Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 17:30:51 +0530
Subject: comman desktop problem
Message-ID: <BAY19-F16fnpaSvHCZ60001c044@hotmail.com>

Hello guru,

       we have E420 server after logging in to server using common desktop 
environment it will accept the username and password after 1 or 2 min again 
it will ask for login and password for my root account . in startover button 
i can select command line and login to the server. what may be the problem 
in the common desktop environment

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From aamirameen at rediffmail.com  Fri May 14 06:36:39 2004
From: aamirameen at rediffmail.com (Ameen)
Date: 14 May 2004 10:36:39 -0000
Subject: cannot create /var/adm/utmpx
Message-ID: <20040514103639.17636.qmail@webmail29.rediffmail.com>

  Hi All,
        I'm using one Sun Ultra 10 Server with Sun Solaris 5.8 is
installed and it has been shutdown due to some power problems and thus it is
not booting and it's throwing error holding 

INIT:cannot create
/var/adm/utmpx

Can u guys plz tell me what is the solution for this

Thanks,
Ameen.M


From cg98ah at yahoo.ca  Fri May 14 08:22:07 2004
From: cg98ah at yahoo.ca (Cathy Gong)
Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 08:22:07 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: is it possible to install Sun workshop 6 on solaris 9
Message-ID: <20040514122207.24094.qmail@web61308.mail.yahoo.com>

Hello Managers,
 
I want to install Sun Workshop 6(Forte Developer 6) on a sun enterprise 420R with solaris 9 operating system. I checked the relase notes, it seems like this version 6 doesn't support solaris 9. Has anyone successfully installed workshop 6 on Solaris 9?
 
Thanks a lot in advanced,
 
Cathy



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From Nick at Pettefar.com  Fri May 14 09:00:23 2004
From: Nick at Pettefar.com (Nick Pettefar)
Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 15:00:23 +0200 (MEST)
Subject: Sparc 8 Sun Gnome 2.0 Problem
In-Reply-To: <20040514091306.C4D6D1E57D@sunportal.sunmanagers.org>
References: <20040514091306.C4D6D1E57D@sunportal.sunmanagers.org>
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0405141436190.4775@st5.hq.eso.org>

One of our users has "done something" and now can no longer start Sun's
Gnome 2.0 on their Sun Blade running Solaris 8.  They login but then just get
a black screen for a few seconds and then get returned to the DtLogin screen.
They can login fine with CDE though.

This is becoming critical because they cannot run many of their apps under CDE.
I can run Gnome as root and it sort of works but doesn't read png files so none of the icons can be resolved.  I checked the .dt/startlog and it states:-

--- Fri May 14 14:03:41 MEST 2004
--- /usr/dt/bin/Xsession starting...
--- starting /usr/openwin/bin/speckeysd
--- Xsession started by dtlogin
--- starting /usr/dt/bin/dtsession_res -load -system
--- sourcing /home/user/.dtprofile...
--- sourcing /usr/dt/config/Xsession.d/0010.dtpaths...
--- sourcing /usr/dt/config/Xsession.d/0015.sun.env...
--- sourcing /usr/dt/config/Xsession.d/0018.xprint...
--- sourcing /usr/dt/config/Xsession.d/0020.dtims...
--- sourcing /usr/dt/config/Xsession.d/0030.dttmpdir...
--- sourcing /usr/dt/config/Xsession.d/0040.xmbind...
--- sourcing /usr/dt/config/Xsession.d/1000.solregis...
--- sourcing /usr/dt/config/Xsession.d/6052.starmenus...
--- starting /bin/true
--- starting /usr/dt/bin/dtsearchpath
--- starting /usr/dt/bin/dsdm &
--- session log file is /home/user/.dt/sessionlogs/st5_DISPLAY=:0
--- DTSOURCEPROFILE is 'false' (see /home/user/.dtprofile)
--- execing /usr/dt/config/Xsession2.Sun-gnome-2.0-fcs-10 with a /bin/tcsh non-l
ogin shell...
--- starting desktop on /dev/pts/6
/usr/dt/bin/Xsession[757]: 4414 Hangup
X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).

I have tried setting DTSOURCEPROFILE to true and false but it doesn't make
a difference.  I have tried getting rid of the .profile and .dtprofile files,
as well as .dt and the .gnome files but again it doesn't make a difference.
I have tried re-installing Gnome with a fresh copy from Sun but it is still the same!

Does anyone have any ideas?  I have searched the web to no avail but I don't
really know which direction to look.  Any pointers/info would be great!
This machine works fine with CDE but just won't run Gnome.

Regards,

Nick

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From stanb at panix.com  Fri May 14 09:06:29 2004
From: stanb at panix.com (stan)
Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 09:06:29 -0400
Subject: Collisions on 100M full duplex?
Message-ID: <20040514130629.GA20896@teddy.fas.com>

I'm seeing something from netstat that I don't understand.

packets errs  packets errs  colls  packets errs  packets errs  colls 
32136744 0     56716151 0     2490476 68777157 28    92928209 0     2554337
152     0     267     0     0      330     0     444     0     1     

This is on a SUNW,Ultra-5_10, using an hme NIC that is connected to a bay
networks switch. The switch, and the NIC are both confirming that they are
in 100M full duplex mode. The switch is not showing any collisions on this
port.

How can i gave collisions on a full duplex connection? and what is a
collision in the context of a incoming packet? I can see what it would bee
for an outgoing packet? But how can I determine a collision has occurs on
an incoming packet?

Thanks for educating me on this. I discovered it while troubleshooting what
turned out to be a unrelated issue.

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From SLAMET.FADILAH at SIEMENS.COM.PK  Fri May 14 08:45:08 2004
From: SLAMET.FADILAH at SIEMENS.COM.PK (Slamet Ahmad Fadilah)
Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 17:45:08 +0500
Subject: SUMMARY: Urgent: Mirror Disk Needs Maintenance
Message-ID: <F1E32D168F89D5119BC300104B08D4D8CA8E3C@ISBS001E>

Please find the original problem at the bottom of this mail.
 
Problem: 
One of sub mirror disks was under state "Needs Maintenance"
 
Summary:
1. metareplace  or metareplace -e as suggested by the metastat was useless.
2. metadetach-metattach were also failed.
3. init s, umount the respective filesystem, fsck it, also brought nothing
 
Solution:
The disk was not replaced by a new one. But "resyncing by force" the whole
slices of the faulty disk.
 
 
Anyway I am still doubtful why the command 'metareplace -e' gave me a
confusing error message "No left space on device"
 
Many thanks for sharing infos, particularly to Andrew Cogswell, Ed Rolison ,
Kulkarni Golvind, Rossman and Trevor Mc Lachlan.
 
 
Have a nice weekend,
Slamet Fadilah
 
-----Original Message-----
 
Dear All,
 
One disk of my disk array (D1000) is under status "Needs Maintenance".
 
Here is its metastat of the faulty disk:
---------------
d81: Mirror
    Submirror 0: d16
      State: Needs maintenance Wed 12 May 2004 05:02:54 PM GMT
    Submirror 1: d33
      State: Okay         Tue 11 May 2004 05:09:27 PM GMT
    Pass: 1
    Read option: roundrobin (default)
    Write option: parallel (default)
    Size: 35956494 blocks
 
d16: Submirror of d81
    State: Needs maintenance Wed 12 May 2004 05:02:54 PM GMT
    Invoke: metareplace d81 c1t2d0s0 <new device>
    Size: 35956494 blocks
    Stripe 0:
      Device     Start  Dbase  State        Hot Spare  Time
      c1t2d0s0       0  No     Maintenance             Wed 12 May 2004
05:02:54 PM GMT
 
 
d33: Submirror of d81
    State: Okay         Tue 11 May 2004 05:09:27 PM GMT
    Size: 35956494 blocks
    Stripe 0:
      Device     Start  Dbase  State        Hot Spare  Time
      c3t8d0s0       0  No     Okay                    Tue 11 May 2004
05:09:11 PM GMT
--------------
 
 
I tried to metareplace -e, but it gives error message:
 
#metastat -e d81 c1t2d0s0
Metareplace: isbrcomp1:  c1t2d0s0: No left space on device.
 
FYI, from command format, I can confirm that the size of slice 0 of disk
c1t2d0 is zero (0).
 
Any idea why? 
 
Is disk replacement is the only solution?
 
 
I got a plan as follow, please help me to verify it :
 
#init s
 
#ufsdump 0ucf /dev/rmt/0n /commonArea    #to backup first the /commonArea 
 
#umount /commonArea 
 
#fsck /dev/rdsk/c1t2d0s0 
 
#mount /dev/md/dsk/d81 /commonArea 
 
#/usr/opt/SUNWmd/sbin/metareplace -e d81 /dev/dsk/c1t2d0s0 
 
#/usr/opt/SUNWmd/sbin/metastat 
 
#/usr/opt/SUNWmd/sbin/metareplace -e d81 /dev/dsk/c3t8d0s0 
 
#/usr/opt/SUNWmd/sbin/metastat 
 
#init 6
 
 
 
Thanks a lot for your time.
I'll summarize.
 
 
Best Regards,
Slamet Fadilah
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From sudesh.shetty at wipro.com  Fri May 14 08:54:56 2004
From: sudesh.shetty at wipro.com (sudesh.shetty at wipro.com)
Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 18:24:56 +0530
Subject: ftp not working
Message-ID: <C646842B88184D4185FBDDDB6A16040579FA72@mum-vp-msg.wipro.com>

Hi gurus,
               I have an e3500 system. Now root is not able to ftp from any
other system whereas other users are able to do so on to this e3500 system. I
have checked the /etc/ftpusers file and root entry is hashed. Also i am able
to telnet to this e3500 system using root from other system but ftp does not
work. It gives me Permission denied message....

Can anyoune help me out?????????

Regards
SS


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From: rubanmails at yahoo.com (ruban dinesh)
Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 06:34:58 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Remove me from ur mailing list
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From: rubanmails at yahoo.com (ruban dinesh)
Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 06:37:31 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Remove me from ur mailing list
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From benoit.audet at carra.gouv.qc.ca  Fri May 14 09:46:20 2004
From: benoit.audet at carra.gouv.qc.ca (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Beno=EEt=20Audet?=)
Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 09:46:20 -0400
Subject: SUMMARY: NIC configuration problem with SunFire V480
Message-ID: <s0a49597.098@SG01.carra.gouv.qc.ca>

Hi fellow managers,

Many thanks to all who responded to my problem, and especially to Bob
Cummings, Nathan Dietsch, Johan Wilkstrvm David B. Harrington, Mike (at
sky.net...  ...don't know the last name!), Chuck (at yahoo.com, don't no yet
the last name!) and Daniel Buchner.

Most of you directed me to the link speed settings, sending me init scripts to
use for forcing speed and disabling autonegociating.  In fact, I had made
these settings since the beginning.

As well, some  told me that on the Sun Fire V480, we must configure and fully
install both ce0 and ce1 cards in order to have at least one working
properly...   ...but that doesn't worked for me.

I received some notes about installing patches, but like I mentionned in my
original problem, I had the latest recommended patches, with these special
patches mentionned in Sun docs.

I also mentionned that I did a check on the switch port configuration and that
was true.  *But*, the test I made was to put the cable in my RJ45 port of my
laptop, I forced the laptop to be in "100Mbps, full duplex" and the laptop was
working greatly.  So that was enought to tell me that it was working well.
However, at the end of the afternoon tomorrow, I was thinking about throwing
the V480 by the window, when I remembered an odd situation I had in the past:
I was then close of giving up when we realised that the network admin had
simply "mistaken" out port, disabling it and answering to our questions "yeah,
your port is OK"...   ...so I took a drop directly from another port on the
switch and guess what??  Oh yeah, the little lights came to life on the NIC!

This was different, because this time my laptop was working well and I was in
the right subnet.  I just picked up the network guy and told him about my
problem...   At first, he obviously laught at me, but when I showed him the
lights up when connecting to the other switch, his smile turned suddenly
down...  Of course, he didn't told me what was wrong, but at least, it's now
working.

So, that's it.  Thanks for all of you, once again!

Ben Audet

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Hi managers,

We just received a splendid SunFire V480 here, and I have performed a Solaris
8, hardware rev. 2/02 installation on it.  On the SunFire V480, there's two
onboard cards, which are "ce0" and "ce1".  These two interfaces seem to be ok
(I've seen both with the "show-nets" command at the PROM) and at the install
of Solaris 8, I had the choice for both interfaces to use.

Currently, I plugged the "ce0" (the lower connector on the back of the
machine) in a 100Mbps - full duplex port.  I tested the port AND the cable,
plugging it in the laptop I use as the installation console and I connect
without any problem.  However, once Solaris installed and patched with the
recommended patches cluster, I can't get this "ce0" NIC interface to work!

I tryed to force it at 100Mbps - full duplex (with the ndd commands, etc.),
but I can't get this NIC to connect.  I browsed the web a bit, but found too
much contradicting informations on this, and I'm starting to get a bit lost...
I as well saw something telling that Solaris 8, hw 2/02 was not a "goob"
version to use with V480, that I should use something like Solaris 8, but
5/03...

Any workarounds, ideas?  That would be fairly welcome.  As usual, I will of
course summarise!  :-) Thanks in advance!


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From andrew at dcs.bbk.ac.uk  Fri May 14 09:47:08 2004
From: andrew at dcs.bbk.ac.uk (Andrew Watkins)
Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 14:47:08 +0100 (BST)
Subject: Which RAID system (S)ATA or SCSI
Message-ID: <200405141347.OAA13100@rhea.dcs.bbk.ac.uk>

Hello folks,

I am about to purchase a new server with a raid storage system and I would like 
some advice to see if there are any many problems going for (S)ATA over SCSI.

The system is going to be small system 1 server (V240/V250/V440) and 1 RAID box, 
since money is a problem I am considering a ATA system since you can get a lot 
more storage for the money.

My two question is there a real difference between going for a RAID box full of 
(S)ATA disks or SCSI disk. I see that rpm on SCSI are 10,000 rpm over the 7,000 
rpm on the (S)ATA disk, but is that going to make a big difference!
And does a fibre-channnel make a lot of difference with the above setup as it 
is.


Possibe Storage Solution:
Sun StorEdge 3310	12x73GB Ultra160
Apple XRAID 		7x250GB ATA
EcoStor (SweetStor)	7x250GB SATA


On our new XRAID running (RAID 5) system I get about 70M per sec 
(machine not is use)

% timex -p dd if=/dev/zero of=/m/disk/tmp/newBigfile1gb bs=10240 count=100000
100000+0 records in
100000+0 records out

real       13.80
user        0.40
sys         9.10


Any comments,

Cheers

Andrew Watkins


From choogend at library.umass.edu  Fri May 14 09:47:36 2004
From: choogend at library.umass.edu (Chris Hoogendyk)
Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 09:47:36 -0400
Subject: [Summary] ipfilter on production servers
Message-ID: <40A4CDF8.3040700@library.umass.edu>

Well, it's not a statistical survey (there are probably plenty who don't 
use it, don't know what it is, and didn't respond); but, of those who 
responded, it was unanimous -- Use it.

	Steven.Haywood -- telstra
	shashank -- Oklahoma State
	paul greidanus -- Univ Alberta CA
	William D. Hathaway -- perfectorder
	Steve Michaels -- Johns Hopkins University
	William Yodlowski -- Rutgers
	Rich Bishop -- Drexel
	Rob McCauley -- Duke
	Mike's List
	Jon Lockley -- comlab ox ac uk
	dale poulter -- vanderbilt
	Scott.Kelley -- Disney
	Tim Chipman -- Ecopia Bio
	John W. Ballard -- U of Washington
	Neil Quiogue
	Jason Grove -- Systems West Virginia Univ
	peter bauer -- itserv de


Most of the answers were simple endorsements saying that they use it and 
it works. Several mentioned stringent policies of blocking everything 
coming in by default and then opening only what is specifically needed.

Obviously,