From wim.alsemgeest at tntpost.nl Mon Oct 1 02:37:32 2007 From: wim.alsemgeest at tntpost.nl (Alsemgeest, Wim (W.L.)) Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 08:37:32 +0200 Subject: errors in xntp server on a full_root_zone In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear admins, On a solaris 10 server I created a full root zone. I configured the /etc/inet.ntp.conf ===== ntp.conf======== # $Header: ntp.conf.stratum3,v 1.2 # # NTP Configuration file for BA server Stratum 3 # server 192.168.1.101 key 20 server 192.178.1.102 key 20 driftfile /var/ntp/ntp.drift =========================== After a restart of ntp the message file shows the following output Sep 28 10:04:00 svr1z01 xntpd[10676]: [ID 866926 daemon.notice] xntpd exiting on signal 15 Sep 28 10:04:04 svr1z01 ntpdate[16452]: [ID 999808 daemon.error] Can't adjust the time of day: Not owner Sep 28 10:04:04 svr1z01 xntpd[16454]: [ID 702911 daemon.notice] xntpd 3-5.93e+sun 03/08/29 16:23:05 (1.4) Sep 28 10:04:04 svr1z01 xntpd[16454]: [ID 904279 daemon.error] mlockall(): Not owner Sep 28 10:04:04 svr1z01 xntpd[16454]: [ID 272427 daemon.error] sched_setscheduler(): Not owner Sep 28 10:04:04 svr1z01 xntpd[16454]: [ID 301315 daemon.notice] tickadj = 5, tick = 10000, tvu_maxslew = 495, est. hz = 100 Sep 28 10:04:05 svr1z01 xntpd[16454]: [ID 953130 daemon.error] loop_config: ntp_adjtime() failed: Not owner Sep 28 10:04:05 svr1z01 xntpd[16454]: [ID 266339 daemon.notice] using kernel phase-lock loop 0041, drift correction 0.00000 Sep 28 10:04:05 svr1z01 xntpd[16454]: [ID 241925 daemon.error] configure: keyword "authdelay" unknown, line ignored Sep 28 10:04:05 svr1z01 xntpd[16454]: [ID 953130 daemon.error] loop_config: ntp_adjtime() failed: Not owner Sep 28 10:04:05 svr1z01 xntpd[16454]: [ID 266339 daemon.notice] using kernel phase-lock loop 0041, drift correction 0.00000 It looks like xntp dous not run in a solaris full_root_zone. Is there a way to fix this? Greetings, Wim Alsemgeest Wim.alsemgeest at tntpost.nl The information sent with this e-mail message is only for the strict use of the intended recipient. In the event that this e-mail message is incomplete in any way, the recipient is kindly requested to contact the sender of this message. It is not permitted to publish, copy, circulate and/or disclose any of this information to third parties without the permission of TNT. If you are not the intended recipient of and are in possession of this e-mail message, please notify us immediately, delete the e-mail message from your inbox, and do not use it for any purpose or disclose the contents of this message to third parties, or publish, copy or store this information on an information carrier. From anjum at qp.com.qa Mon Oct 1 03:23:38 2007 From: anjum at qp.com.qa (Ayaz Anjum) Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 10:23:38 +0300 Subject: migrating from lpfc to sfs on solaris 9 Message-ID: HI Guys I was running a test environment in order to formulate a procedure to carry out ' migration of san disks from lpfc to sfs drivers on solaris 9' I am using a LP 9802 hba On a fresh installation of solaris 9 (09/04) i installed lpfc drivers and then configured SAN disks. I then did a pkgrm on lpfc and added san foundation suite ( SFS drivers) I am not able to see the hba now with luxadm -e port command I could see two instances of emulex cards in /etc/path_to_inst "/pci at 1e,600000/fibre-channel at 2" 0 "lpfc" "/pci at 1e,600000/fibre-channel at 3" 1 "lpfc" I removed them and did a reconfiguration boot but still not luck. I have installed emladm utility, but its not detecting the cards. If i use emlxdrv > set_emlxs_all i get following ERROR: emlxs driver is not installed. I have tried to look for emlxs and concluded its only available for solaris 10. Any suggestions ? thanks Ayaz Anjum Systems Engineer , ITT/E6 Information Technology Department Qatar Petroleum P.O. Box 47 Doha, Qatar Tel +974 4405280 Cell +974 5862144 anjum at qp.com.qa www.qp.com.qa -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Confidentiality Notice : This e-mail and any attachments are confidential to the addressee and may also be privileged. If you are not the addressee of this e-mail, you may not copy, forward, disclose or otherwise use it in any way whatsoever. If you have received this e-mail by mistake, please e-mail the sender by replying to this message, and delete the original and any print out thereof. From kumaravelk.k at gmail.com Mon Oct 1 03:56:18 2007 From: kumaravelk.k at gmail.com (Kumaravel K) Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 13:26:18 +0530 Subject: Log of FTP connections in solaris 10 Message-ID: <607368490710010056l5e25567ah7e373e4f969d478b@mail.gmail.com> Hi All, I am using solaris 10, can any one tell me how to log all the incoming ftp connections in solaris 10. Thanks & Regards, Kumaravel K From santosh.mahajan at tcs.com Mon Oct 1 06:28:09 2007 From: santosh.mahajan at tcs.com (Santosh Mahajan) Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 15:58:09 +0530 Subject: Help Required Message-ID: Hello Gurus, Need your help, if anybody came across the problem I am facing My server is E3500 SPARC and OS is Solaris8 recently patched ( last month only) this problem was there earlier, I thought after applying latest patch cluster, should start working properly [ note : till July'07 system was working just fine ] Problem is whenever I reboot the server or try to login to server CDE session doesn't start and a window is popped up with following details: Action Required The DT messaging system could not be started To correct the problem 1) Change[ok] to return to the login screen ! 2) Select fail-safe session from the login screen's option menu & log in 3) Check to see that the hostname is correct in these locations /etc/src.sh /etc/hosts /etc/adm/inetd.sec For additional information, see DT user's guide Actually there is only /etc/hosts file available and entries are correct in it [ IP addr hostname ] Same problem was faced in last year also, but that time by executing: /usr/dt/bin/dtconfig -e /usr/dt/config/dtlogin.rc stop /usr/dt/config/dtlogin.rc start But now by doing this also same error appears Hope to hear you from all, will definitely glad to summarize the best working results Best Regards, Santosh Pandharinath Mahajan Tata Consultancy Services Mailto: santosh.mahajan at tcs.com Website: http://www.tcs.com ____________________________________________ Experience certainty. IT Services Business Solutions Outsourcing ____________________________________________ =====-----=====-----===== Notice: The information contained in this e-mail message and/or attachments to it may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, use, review, distribution, printing or copying of the information contained in this e-mail message and/or attachments to it are strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us by reply e-mail or telephone and immediately and permanently delete the message and any attachments. Thank you From anthony at fccl.co.uk Mon Oct 1 08:14:59 2007 From: anthony at fccl.co.uk (Anthony Firmin) Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 13:14:59 +0100 Subject: SunFire System Board Problem... Message-ID: We lost all three power supplies on a SunFire 3800 and the server died. These were replaced and power restored. This appeared to be the beginning of our problems. The server came to the OBP and an attempt was made to boot the domain (this is a single domain SF3800). The root disk started reporting lots of errors but then the system board appeared to die. Any attempt to run showboard or showcomponent just presented dashes for SB0. So, we ordered a replacement system board, powered off the grid, replaced the board and powered on the grid and all components. things are still not right though. When I run showcomponent it shows "SB0 has not been initialised". I have never had to initialise an SB when I have been replacing them before - can't find any reference to it in the platform manual either. When I run showboards, for SB0 it comes back as "skipping failed board". When I run showdomain the status for SB0 is "failed". Do you think I have been sent a bad board? Or is there something I haven't done. I am not trying to dynamically reconfigure the domain so it should be a cold swap of a component. Any ideas anyone? Cheers, Ant. From george.monappallil at rpfl.com Mon Oct 1 09:49:25 2007 From: george.monappallil at rpfl.com (Monappallil, George) Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 09:49:25 -0400 Subject: Discrepancy between mpstat/psrinfo and prtdiag output for cpus Message-ID: <50CEF36ACC0B0C4197EBCD31C18341480BDD3D@blaster.Platinum.root.rpfl.com> Hi all: on my SF490, my mpstat and psrinfo command show 4 cpus, while the prtdiag command shows only 2. Any ideas why ? # mpstat CPU minf mjf xcal intr ithr csw icsw migr smtx srw syscl usr sys wt idl 0 1 0 6 12 7 304 1 94 12 0 423 0 1 0 99 2 3 1 20 577 207 164 1 80 19 0 410 1 0 0 99 16 1 0 6 54 50 248 1 91 14 0 400 1 0 0 99 18 1 0 9 36 27 361 1 123 14 0 384 1 1 0 98 # psrinfo 0 on-line since 01/26/2007 21:14:35 2 on-line since 01/26/2007 21:14:05 16 on-line since 01/26/2007 21:14:35 18 on-line since 01/26/2007 21:14:35 # prtdiag -v . . . ========================= CPUs =============================================== Run E$ CPU CPU Brd CPU MHz MB Impl. Mask --- ----- ---- ---- ------- ---- A 0, 16 1500 32.0 US-IV+ 2.2 A 2, 18 1500 32.0 US-IV+ 2.2 Thanks in advance -G From bvithya at gmail.com Mon Oct 1 09:52:52 2007 From: bvithya at gmail.com (Vithya Balraj) Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 19:22:52 +0530 Subject: How to set the server name Message-ID: Hi Sun Gurus, I am in need of your help, I have recently installed solaris 10 as a virtual machine in my PC. Would request you to kindly let me know on how to make the server prompt with the server name.(ex: server1) # uname -a SunOS *server1* 5.10 Generic_118855-33 i86pc i386 i86pc # Currently: Last login: Mon Oct 1 18:22:50 from 20.6.25.160 Sun Microsystems Inc. SunOS 5.10 Generic January 2005 *#* but I need to prompt as below: Last login: Mon Oct 1 18:22:50 from 20.6.25.160 Sun Microsystems Inc. SunOS 5.10 Generic January 2005 *server1#* Please advice. Thanks -- Regards Vithya From tessy-db at excite.com Mon Oct 1 05:30:55 2007 From: tessy-db at excite.com (Tess) Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 05:30:55 -0400 (EDT) Subject: FCSM version mismatch Message-ID: <20071001093055.5BB798B312@xprdmxin.myway.com> Hi All, After installing the EMC powerpath s/w I get the below error messages:OS:Solaris 9 (Sparc) WARNING: fctl: ULP FCSM version mismatch; please upgrade FCSMWhat is the possible solution to this problem? ThanksTB The most personalized portal on the Web! Received: from [212.118.128.253] by xprdmailfe22.nwk.excite.com via HTTP; Mon, 01 Oct 2007 04:50:25 EST X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: ID = 88f3c8a0bcbe82d9e5241fa6f803b533 X-WSX: tessy-db at excite.com Reply-to: tessy-db at excite.com From: "Tess" MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: tessy-db at excite.com X-Mailer: PHP Importance: High X-Priority: 1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2007 04:50:25 -0400 X-Converted-To-Plain-Text: from multipart/alternative by demime 1.01b X-Converted-To-Plain-Text: Alternative section used was text/plain Hi All, After installing the EMC powerpath s/w I get the below error messages:Solaris 9 WARNING: fctl: ULP FCSM version mismatch; please upgrade FCSM What is the possible solution to this problem? ThanksTB The most personalized portal on the Web! From tessy-db at excite.com Mon Oct 1 04:50:25 2007 From: tessy-db at excite.com (Tess) Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 04:50:25 -0400 (EDT) Subject: No subject Message-ID: <20071001085025.6FE8D8B316@xprdmxin.myway.com> Hi All, After installing the EMC powerpath s/w I get the below error messages:Solaris 9 WARNING: fctl: ULP FCSM version mismatch; please upgrade FCSM What is the possible solution to this problem? ThanksTB The most personalized portal on the Web! From george.monappallil at rpfl.com Mon Oct 1 09:57:59 2007 From: george.monappallil at rpfl.com (Monappallil, George) Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 09:57:59 -0400 Subject: Discrepancy between mpstat/psrinfo and prtdiag output for cpus In-Reply-To: <49E041C0DCDEFE4BBCD70AEAEC2198F3050C55@blaster.Platinum.root.rpfl.com> References: <49E041C0DCDEFE4BBCD70AEAEC2198F3050C55@blaster.Platinum.root.rpfl.com> Message-ID: <50CEF36ACC0B0C4197EBCD31C18341480BDD44@blaster.Platinum.root.rpfl.com> nevermind guys. psrinfo -p gives me what I want to see. should have read the manpages before sending the question. -George ________________________________ From: Monappallil, George Sent: Monday, October 01, 2007 9:49 AM To: sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org Subject: Discrepancy between mpstat/psrinfo and prtdiag output for cpus Hi all: on my SF490, my mpstat and psrinfo command show 4 cpus, while the prtdiag command shows only 2. Any ideas why ? # mpstat CPU minf mjf xcal intr ithr csw icsw migr smtx srw syscl usr sys wt idl 0 1 0 6 12 7 304 1 94 12 0 423 0 1 0 99 2 3 1 20 577 207 164 1 80 19 0 410 1 0 0 99 16 1 0 6 54 50 248 1 91 14 0 400 1 0 0 99 18 1 0 9 36 27 361 1 123 14 0 384 1 1 0 98 # psrinfo 0 on-line since 01/26/2007 21:14:35 2 on-line since 01/26/2007 21:14:05 16 on-line since 01/26/2007 21:14:35 18 on-line since 01/26/2007 21:14:35 # prtdiag -v . . . ========================= CPUs =============================================== Run E$ CPU CPU Brd CPU MHz MB Impl. Mask --- ----- ---- ---- ------- ---- A 0, 16 1500 32.0 US-IV+ 2.2 A 2, 18 1500 32.0 US-IV+ 2.2 Thanks in advance -G From bvithya at gmail.com Mon Oct 1 10:23:52 2007 From: bvithya at gmail.com (Vithya Balraj) Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 19:53:52 +0530 Subject: How to set the server name In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Great, Thanks Sir, Now its working.. Thanks to everyone for guiding me.. Vithya. On 10/1/07, peter.van.gemert at accenture.com wrote: > > Hi, > > You use the PS1 variable to set the prompt for your shell. > > You could do something simple like: > # PS1='server1 # ' > server1 # export PS1 > > To have this prompt setup on each login you have to put these two lines > in your .profile. > > Greetings, > Peter > > > [Amersfoort, Netherlands] > > :wq! > > ------------------------- > > Peter A. van Gemert > Accenture Learning > > Solaris, Perl Education Specialist > > Fax +31 (0)33 455 55 99 > Mobile +31 (0)6 513 4 11 11 > Email peter.van.gemert at accenture.com > Aim PeterVolumeGroup > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: sunmanagers-bounces at sunmanagers.org > >[mailto:sunmanagers-bounces at sunmanagers.org] On Behalf Of Vithya Balraj > >Sent: maandag 1 oktober 2007 15:53 > >To: sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org > >Subject: How to set the server name > > > >Hi Sun Gurus, > >I am in need of your help, I have recently installed solaris > >10 as a virtual machine in my PC. > >Would request you to kindly let me know on how to make the > >server prompt with the server name.(ex: server1) > > > ># uname -a > >SunOS *server1* 5.10 Generic_118855-33 i86pc i386 i86pc # > > > >Currently: > >Last login: Mon Oct 1 18:22:50 from 20.6.25.160 > >Sun Microsystems Inc. SunOS 5.10 Generic January 2005 > >*#* > > > >but I need to prompt as below: > > Last login: Mon Oct 1 18:22:50 from 20.6.25.160 > >Sun Microsystems Inc. SunOS 5.10 Generic January 2005 > >*server1#* > > > >Please advice. > > > >Thanks > >-- > >Regards > >Vithya > >_______________________________________________ > >sunmanagers mailing list > >sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org > >http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers > > > > > This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain > privileged, proprietary, or otherwise private information. If you have > received it in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the > original. Any other use of the email by you is prohibited. > -- Regards Vithya GIS - MCS - Unix Computer Sciences Corporation Chennai. From Solaris-News at PointPub.NET Mon Oct 1 21:46:18 2007 From: Solaris-News at PointPub.NET (Sebastien Roy) Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2007 21:46:18 -0400 Subject: HP StorageWorks MLS 6000 Message-ID: <4701A2EA.4010607@PointPub.NET> Hi guys, Anyone here use a HP StorageWorks MLS 6000 on Solaris?! I try to connect is using SCSI, I can see the 4 drives under Solaris 10 but can't see the Media changer... anyone have an idea of what I'm doing wrong ? Thanks -- Sibastien Roy Administrateur de Systhmes Senior / Senior System Administrator PointPub Communications From nksarabu at yahoo.com Mon Oct 1 23:49:35 2007 From: nksarabu at yahoo.com (naveen kumar sarabu) Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 20:49:35 -0700 (PDT) Subject: vxvm disk naming issue Message-ID: <484458.55836.qm@web52905.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Hi SunGurus, I have a v890 machine running with solaris8,veritas 4.1. I have 5 internal disks 2 are OS disks mirrored with SVM. c0t0d0s2 c0t1d0s2 remaining 3 disks are configure in vxvm c0t[2-4]d0s2 but vxvm detected c0t1d0s2 as c0t3d0s2 and c0t3d0s2 as c0t1d0s2 below is info : bash-2.03# vxdisk list DEVICE TYPE DISK GROUP STATUS c1t0d0s2 auto:none - - online invalid c1t1d0s2 auto:cdsdisk datadg05 datadg online c1t2d0s2 auto:cdsdisk datadg02 datadg online c1t3d0s2 auto:none - - online invalid c1t4d0s2 auto:cdsdisk datadg04 datadg online c1t5d0s2 auto:cdsdisk datadg03 datadg online in the above output it is showing that c1t0d0 , c1t3d0 are the OS disks but originally it should detect OS disks as c1t0d0 , c1t1d0 bash-2.03# vxdisk list c1t1d0s2 Device: c1t1d0s2 devicetag: c1t1d0 type: auto hostid: s01tcrtapp1a disk: name=datadg05 id=1138096301.13.s01tcrtapp1a group: name=datadg id=1138076095.56.s01tcrtapp1a info: format=cdsdisk,privoffset=256,pubslice=2,privslice=2 flags: online ready private autoconfig autoimport imported pubpaths: block=/dev/vx/dmp/c1t1d0s2 char=/dev/vx/rdmp/c1t1d0s2 version: 3.1 iosize: min=512 (bytes) max=2048 (blocks) public: slice=2 offset=2304 len=286696320 disk_offset=0 private: slice=2 offset=256 len=2048 disk_offset=0 update: time=1189586595 seqno=0.44 ssb: actual_seqno=0.0 headers: 0 240 configs: count=1 len=1280 logs: count=1 len=192 Defined regions: config priv 000048-000239[000192]: copy=01 offset=000000 enabled config priv 000256-001343[001088]: copy=01 offset=000192 enabled log priv 001344-001535[000192]: copy=01 offset=000000 enabled lockrgn priv 001536-001679[000144]: part=00 offset=000000 Multipathing information: numpaths: 1 c1t3d0s2 state=enabled bash-2.03# vxdisk list c1t3d0s2 Device: c1t3d0s2 devicetag: c1t3d0 type: auto info: format=none flags: online ready private autoconfig invalid pubpaths: block=/dev/vx/dmp/c1t3d0s2 char=/dev/vx/rdmp/c1t3d0s2 Multipathing information: numpaths: 1 c1t1d0s2 state=enabled Please advice me what i need to do so that vxvm will detect the correct device names. 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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 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 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 _________________________________________________________________ 1.4) What should I keep in mind when posting to sunmanagers? * VERY IMPORTANT! Before you post, read the sunmanager's list policy, which is available at http://www.sunmanagers.org * 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". * 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. * 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. * 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. * 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. * 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. _________________________________________________________________ 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 an entire USENET hierarchy 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 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. 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Do not send add requests to the main address! For Web pages, see the answer to question 2.4. _________________________________________________________________ 1.6) Where are the answers to questions about old Suns and old versions of Solaris? Those questions and answers used to be in this FAQ, but since they're no longer frequently asked, they've been moved elsewhere. The FAQ as of late 2005 contained information about pre-UltraSPARC suns and versions of Solaris before Solaris 8, and is available at ftp://ftp.cs.toronto.edu/pub/jdd/sunmanagers/faq-2005. The FAQ as of late 2000 contained information about pre-SPARC suns, early SPARCstations, and SunOS 4.x, and is available at ftp://ftp.cs.toronto.edu/pub/jdd/sunmanagers/faq-2000. _________________________________________________________________ 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: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: The Sun Managers Mailing List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: _________________________________________________________________ 2. Getting Help Over the Net _________________________________________________________________ 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. Many anonymous ftp sites have partial collections of patches. 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 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. _________________________________________________________________ 2.2) * How do I get help migrating to Solaris? Start by reading the Solaris FAQ, maintained and posted periodically to comp.unix.solaris by Casper Dik . It can be obtained at http://www.science.uva.nl/pub/solaris/solaris2 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/ Sun has a programme for developers/companies to migrate to Solaris. It's documented at http://advantage.sun.com/partners/10moves/. _________________________________________________________________ 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 _________________________________________________________________ 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 are: * SolarisGuide - http://www.solarisguide.com * SunHelp - http://www.sunhelp.org * SolarisCentral - http://www.solariscentral.org * SunGuru - http://www.sunguru.com * SunFreeware - http://www.sunfreeware.com TechTarget has a search engine at http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com that also covers Solaris. Eric De Mund suggests the BigAdmin site run by Sun, at http://www.sun.com/bigadmin Alan Pae suggests Sun Country, at http://www.ilkda.com _________________________________________________________________ 3. Network Directory and Files Services _________________________________________________________________ 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" _________________________________________________________________ 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: Please enter the login password for root: {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: 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 . 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 3. Shutdown and restart any replicas of org_dir.domain.name. at run level O nisping org_dir.domain.name. nisdupdkeys domain.name. nisupddkeys org_dir.domain.name. nisupdkeys groups_dir.domain.name. 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 and Sun INFODOC ID 2213 for this information. _________________________________________________________________ 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 */ 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); } _________________________________________________________________ 4. Window Systems _________________________________________________________________ 4.1) + What Window system GUIs are supported by Sun? Sun's default window system for Solaris is CDE; Gnome is also supported. Sun's Java Desktop System and the Sunray software for Linux uses Gnome. _________________________________________________________________ 5. Disks, Tapes and SCSI _________________________________________________________________ 5.1) * What sector/head/cylinders parameters should be used for a hard disk? The format program can almost always figure this out on its own by querying the drive, but if you wish, you can specify your own in /etc/format.dat. 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 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 has an option to generate an appropriate format.dat entry. Finally, you can compute your own entry. 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. _________________________________________________________________ 5.2) * Can I replace an internal drive in a Sun with a higher capacity model? Yes, usually. If you purchase it from someone other than Sun, it is wisest to make sure that it is either a model of drive that is supported by Sun for that machine, or that it at least does not dissipate more heat than the hottest of the drives supported by Sun. The Sun Systems Handbook lists various drives supported on various models; you can query it on the web for modern Suns at http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/Systems. For systems which are not maximally configured (e.g. there are empty internal drive bays), it might be safe to exceed this limit a bit, but caveat emptor. Disk drive heat dissipation/power figures are available on the drive's datasheet, available on the drive vendor's web site. The most relevant figure is the wattage indicated for "Read/Write" or "Seek". Unfortunately, different vendors report this in different ways; read the vendor's documentation to see what this figure indicates. This figure is sometimes indicated in amps at 5V and 12V; convert to watts by multiplying the voltage by the amperage in each case, and adding the two together. _________________________________________________________________ 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. _________________________________________________________________ 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 . _________________________________________________________________ 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. _________________________________________________________________ 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 For more information about third-party CD-ROMS on Suns, consult the CD-ROM FAQ, maintained by Mike Frisch and Martin Hargreaves . 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/". _________________________________________________________________ 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 _________________________________________________________________ 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". _________________________________________________________________ 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 _________________________________________________________________ 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 ). 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 and Michael R. Zika 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 Brian Poole 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. _________________________________________________________________ 6. Resource Management and Performance Tuning _________________________________________________________________ 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 _________________________________________________________________ 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 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". _________________________________________________________________ 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 . Download memconf from http://www.4schmidts.com/unix.html _________________________________________________________________ 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. _________________________________________________________________ 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 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 _________________________________________________________________ 7. HTTP and Anonymous FTP _________________________________________________________________ 7.1) * How do I set up anonymous ftp on my machine? See the ftpd 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, such as 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". _________________________________________________________________ 7.2) + Where can I get a Web server for Solaris? The open-source Apache web server and related tools are available on the Solaris Software Companion CD, which is part of the media kit for the Solaris distribution. The contents of this CD are also available for free download at http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/freeware. Apache binaries can also be retrieved from the following sites and many others: * http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/freeware * ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/packages/solaris/sparc/ * http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html * http://sunfreeware.com The Sun Java System Web server is available for download from Sun at http://www.sun.com/software/products/web_srvr/home_web_srvr.xml; the Sun Java System Application Server is available for purchase from Sun at http://www.sun.com/software/products/appsrvr. _________________________________________________________________ 8. Consoles, Keyboards and Key Remapping _________________________________________________________________ 8.1) How do I make the numeric keypad on a sun 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 _________________________________________________________________ 8.2) How do I swap the CAPS LOCK and CONTROL keys on a sun keyboard? There are two ways to do it, one with xmodmap (for X11 only), and the other using keytables. Margarita Suarez 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 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 for the info on xkeycaps. _________________________________________________________________ 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 Sunhelp's UNIX serial port resources page, at http://www.sunhelp.org/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 has been updated with SSH support as Teraterm Pro, which is available from http://www.ayera.com/teraterm For newer suns which support ALOM, a serial or telnet connection to the ALOM is generally preferable. A pinout of the serial RJ-45 ALOM connector can be found in Sun's "Sun Advanced Lights Out Manager (ALOM) 1.6 Administration Guide". Thanks to Harvey Wamboldt _________________________________________________________________ 9. Sun models and OS Versions _________________________________________________________________ 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. In the following list, the specified OS is the earliest supported on the specified hardware. Some CPU modules may require later OS versions than listed. * Ultra 1 model 140, 170: Solaris 2.5 * Ultra 1 model 140E, 170E, 200E: Solaris 2.5.1 * Ultra 2: Solaris 2.5.1 * Ultra 5,10,30,60,250,450: Solaris 2.5.1HW1297 or Solaris 2.6HW0398 * Ultra Enterprise: Solaris 2.5.1 * SunBlade 100, SunBlade 1000: Solaris 8HW1000 * SunBlade 150: Solaris 8 5/03; Solaris 9 4/03 * 3800, 4800, 4810, 6800: Solaris 8HW0401 * B100s: Solaris 8 12/02, Solaris 9 4/03 * V100: Solaris 8 2/02 * V120: Solaris 8 10/01 * V210, V240: Solaris 8 12/02, Solaris 9 4/04 * V250: Solaris 8 7/03, Solaris 9 8/03 * 280R: Solaris 8 2/02, Solaris 9 12/02 * V440: Solaris 8 7/03, Solaris 9 12/03 * V490,V890: Solaris 8 2/04, Solaris 9 4/04, Solaris 10 3/05 * V880: Solaris 8 10/01, Solaris 9 4/03 * E2900,E4900,E6900: Solaris 8 2/04, Solaris 9 4/04, Solaris 10 3/05 * B200x, v20z, v40z: Solaris 9 x86 4/04 * v20z,v40z single-core: Solaris 10 x86, Solaris 9 HW 4/05 x86 * v20z,v40z dual-core: Solaris 10 x86, Solaris 9 HW 9/05 x86 * X2100: Solaris 10 x86 * X4100,4200: Solaris 10 x86 3/05HW1 * T1000: Solaris 10 1/06 * T2000: Solaris 10 3/05HW2 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, and /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 "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. _________________________________________________________________ 9.3) How do I find out a Sun's boot prom revision? Type "banner" at the prom, or type "/usr/sbin/prtconf -V" to determine the prom revision of a particular machine. Alternatively, grab Michael Cooper's "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. _________________________________________________________________ 9.4) * Which hardware/software is capable of 64-bit? Which is only 64-bit? How can I tell which is running? All UltraSPARC and SPARC64 (Primepower) hardware is capable of running in 64-bit mode; earlier SPARCs (HyperSPARC, SuperSPARC, etc.) are 32-bit only. Only some UltraSPARC-I, UltraSPARC-II, and UltraSPARC-II-i systems are capable of both 32-bit and 64-bit operation; later UltraSPARC systems are 64-bit only. Early UltraSPARC-I hardware (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//boot.conf and add the line: ALLOW_64BIT_KERNEL_ON_UltraSPARC_1_CPU=true All Sun Opteron hardware is capable of both 64-bit and 32-bit operation, but Solaris x86 on some Opteron models (X2100, X4100, X4200) runs in 64-bit mode only. Sun Xeon and Pentium-III hardware are capable only of 32-bit operation. "isainfo -kv" or "isainfo -b" will indicate whether a system is running in 32-bit or 64-bit mode. _________________________________________________________________ 10. Miscellaneous Software _________________________________________________________________ 10.1) My remote ufsdump is failing with a "Protocol botched" message. What do I do? The problem produces output like the following: ... 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 (or .profile) 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. _________________________________________________________________ 10.2) * Where can I get a C compiler for Solaris? Sun's "Studio" compiler suite can be obtained at http://www.sun.com/software/products/studio. 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 open-source GCC compiler and related tools are available on the Solaris Software Companion CD, which is part of the media kit for the Solaris distribution. The contents of this CD are also available for free download at http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/freeware Thanks to Eric Boutilier GCC binaries can be retrieved from the following sites and many others: * http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/freeware * ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/packages/solaris/sparc/ * http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html * http://sunfreeware.com More information on this topic is available at http://www.kevininscoe.com/geek/sun/compilesun/ Thanks to Kevin Inscoe _________________________________________________________________ 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 Bochs, 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 is available for various operating systems, including Solaris/SPARC, from http://www.sun.com/staroffice. OpenOffice is also freely available for Solaris x86 and SPARC from http://www.openoffice.org. From a PC/Mac, you can print postscript output to a file, and view the postscript on the Sun using docviewer or ghostscript/ghostview. Thomas Anders 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/. Another option (suggested by Thomas ) is a GPL-licensed command-line utility called "antiword". His mutt mailcap file is setup as follows: application/msword; antiword %s; copiousoutput; description="Microsoft Word Tex t"; nametemplate=%s.doc Antiword is available from http://www.winfield.demon.nl. _________________________________________________________________ 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" It's not OK because 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 '/^\///' and Stephen Kives _________________________________________________________________ 11. Miscellaneous Hardware _________________________________________________________________ 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. _________________________________________________________________ 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. _________________________________________________________________ 11.3) * How can I use an SVGA monitor on my Sun? Some older suns use a 13W3 video connector, which looks something like this: ----------------- \ O O ::::: O / ------------- A simple adapter will connect a Sun to a SVGA 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.) Similarly, adapters are available to connect Sun 13W3 monitors to PCs or newer Suns with SVGA connectors. Adapters are available from many vendors: search for 13W3 on Google. This and many other interesting facts about Sun video 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 _________________________________________________________________ 11.4) Where can I find alternate pointing devices for my Sun? Bert N. Sure 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 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". _________________________________________________________________ 12. Networking _________________________________________________________________ 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. _________________________________________________________________ 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/regauth/oui 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. _________________________________________________________________ 12.3) * How do I set my ethernet interface to e.g. 100Mb full duplex? The answer to this question assumes you have an hme ethernet interface; similar techniques should work for other ethernet interfaces; consult the man page for the ethernet driver (e.g. if you have an eri driver, "man eri") for more details. If you are not sure which ethernet driver is in use, "ifconfig -a" will tell you. For example, if ifconfig -a shows e.g. "hme0", you have an hme ethernet interface. All of Sun's ethernet network interfaces faster than 10Mbits are capable of negotiating with a network switch; if this is working, the ethernet interface will automatically choose the fastest supported setting. However, this may not necessarily work with some networking gear, or there may be some other reason to choose a slower setting, e.g. cat3 wiring. 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 _________________________________________________________________ 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 _________________________________________________________________ 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 _________________________________________________________________ 13. Electronic Mail _________________________________________________________________ 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 http://www.washington.edu/imap. An old, unmaintained Berkeley popd can be found at ftp://ftp.cc.berkeley.edu/pub/pop (not recommended), and Casper Dik's enhanced version of this 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. A faster alternative is the CMU Cyrus IMAP server, which changes the mailbox format to something that is more efficient. It can be found at ftp://ftp.andrew.cmu.edu/pub/cyrus-mail. The Courier IMAP daemon also takes a similar approach; it's available at http://www.courier-mta.org/imap. Finally, Dovecot takes an intermediate approach by using the standard mailbox format but adding some autogenerated index files; Dovecot is available at http://dovecot.org. If a commercial package is desired, there are many, including Sun's Internet Mail Server. See http://www.sun.com _________________________________________________________________ 14. Printing _________________________________________________________________ 14.1) + How do I get started with LP-style printing in Solaris? Printing is configured using the "lpadmin" interface, which is extensively documented. For a general overview, however, start with the basic principles of Solaris printing, documented at http://developers.sun.com/solaris/articles/basicprinting.html, and the Solaris printing FAQ, at http://www.freelab.net/unix/sun/solarisfaq/printfaq.html. More information about printing in Solaris is available at http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/printing/history. _________________________________________________________________ 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). Ghostscript and foomatic are bundled in Solaris 10. 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 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 _________________________________________________________________ 15. Misc System Administration _________________________________________________________________ 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 ) 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 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. _________________________________________________________________ 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 */ #include #include #include #include #ifdef FILENAME_MAX #include #include #else /* !FILENAME_MAX */ #include #include #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 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 (" ~ ", 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 _________________________________________________________________ 15.3) How do I manage services in Solaris 10 and later? Do I still make links in /etc/rc*.d? In Solaris 10 build s10_64 and later, Sun introduced the service management facility (smf) which makes /etc/init.d and /etc/rc?.d scripts "legacy". Management of the services is now done through svc* commands. The legacy init.d scripts are now specified as running in run-level "milestone". From the man pages: * /etc/rcS.d (milestone/single-user:default) * /etc/rc2.d (milestone/multi-user:default) * /etc/rc3.d (milestone/multi-user-server:default) Each service name is now named with a Fault Management Resource Identifier (FMRI) with the scheme "svc:". For example, the sendmail service would have be "svc:/network/smtp:sendmail". You can also abbreviate the FMRI by using the instance name (e.g. sendmail) or using the last parts of the service name like: * sendmail * :sendmail * smtp:sendmail To check all services in the machine, run "svcs -a". From the list, you can enable and disable services through "svcadm". To disable, use "svcadm disable [options] ". For example: svcadm disable svc:/network/smtp:sendmail or svcadm disable sendmail One useful option is "-t", to temporarily disable the service until reboot. To enable, use "svcadm enable [options] ". For example: svcadm enable svc:/network/smtp:sendmail Useful options are "-r" to enable the service including all dependencies, and "-t" to temporarily disable the service until reboot. Dependencies and other information on the service can be invoked via "svcs -l " As an alternative to using "ps" to check service processes, you can now use "svcs -p " to list the processes associated with the service. For further information, check the man pages on smf, svcs, svcadm and svcfg. Thanks to Neil Quiogue From pereblay at gmail.com Tue Oct 2 02:43:36 2007 From: pereblay at gmail.com (Pere Blay) Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 08:43:36 +0200 Subject: External array expansion for a SE3510 Message-ID: Hi, Maybe this is not the right forum to post this question, sorry if that is the case. We need to grow in storage space and we have a Sun Storageteck 3510 Array. In principle, ther eis the possibility to attach expansion SATA arrays to the SE3510, but when contacting SUN resellers i allways find the same answer: "SE3510 is out of catalogue" and they try to sell me newer arrays. We want to tkeep our SE3510 which is only two years old and grow from it. Do you know if there are third party SATA arrays compatible with SE 3510? Or somewhere in Europe to buy "out of catalogue" SUN products? Thanks! Pere Blay From ksonmez at oytek.com.tr Tue Oct 2 04:26:09 2007 From: ksonmez at oytek.com.tr (Koray Sonmez) Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 10:26:09 +0200 Subject: mailbox framework failure In-Reply-To: <20071002043003.8035BD28D2@dvp.cs> References: <20071002043003.8035BD28D2@dvp.cs> Message-ID: <96E68311E829E147865DC064BE1346CF3BA2E4@oytexc01.oytek.com.tr> Hello, in my system under /var/adm/messages i got below error? Does anybody have an idea? Regards, Koray Oct 2 09:02:36 solaris drmach: [ID 702911 kern.warning] WARNING: Mailbox framework failure: outgoing Oct 2 09:02:36 solaris drmach: [ID 109634 kern.warning] WARNING: reinitializing DR mailbox From G.Bakalarski at icm.edu.pl Tue Oct 2 04:53:49 2007 From: G.Bakalarski at icm.edu.pl (Grzegorz Bakalarski) Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 10:53:49 +0200 Subject: t3+ memory problem Message-ID: <20071002085349.GE23107@delta.icm.edu.pl> Dear All, My 5 years old T3+ array started to show the following message in syslog: Oct 02 10:47:33 WXFT[1]: W: Controller memory error: False positive detected for parity check Oct 02 10:47:33 WXFT[1]: W: Controller memory error: False positive detected for parity check Oct 02 10:47:34 WXFT[1]: W: Controller memory error: False positive detected for parity check Oct 02 10:47:35 WXFT[1]: W: Controller memory error: False positive detected for parity check Oct 02 10:47:35 WXFT[1]: W: Controller memory error: False positive detected for parity check Oct 02 10:47:36 WXFT[1]: W: Controller memory error: False positive detected for parity check Oct 02 10:47:38 WXFT[1]: W: Controller memory error: False positive detected for parity check Oct 02 10:47:38 WXFT[1]: W: Controller memory error: False positive detected for parity check Oct 02 10:47:39 WXFT[1]: W: Controller memory error: False positive detected for parity check Nothing has been changed since at least a year ... Is this serious? Is data safe? Is this cache memory or controller memory (operating memory)? Some more info: T3B Release 3.2.5 Thu Aug 24 02:10:28 PDT 2006 (192.168.6.29) Copyright (C) 1997-2005 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved. t3b:/:<40>sys stat Unit State Role Partner ----- --------- ------ ------- 1 ONLINE Master t3b:/:<41>sys list controller : 2.0 blocksize : 64k cache : auto mirror : auto mp_support : none naca : off rd_ahead : on recon_rate : med sys memsize : 128 MBytes cache memsize : 1024 MBytes enable_volslice : on fc_topology : auto fc_speed : 1Gb disk_scrubber : on ondg : befit Thanks for any advice! GB From dreyerja at uni-paderborn.de Tue Oct 2 05:36:16 2007 From: dreyerja at uni-paderborn.de (Jan Dreyer) Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 11:36:16 +0200 Subject: find/nfsfind failure ..Value too large for defined data type.. Message-ID: <47021110.6070500@uni-paderborn.de> Hi, running Solaris 10u3 I'm running into the following problem: -- snipp -- >/usr/bin/ls -l ./20070921_14310: Value too large for defined data type ./20070921_14309: Value too large for defined data type ./20070921_14125: Value too large for defined data type [...] >/usr/bin/sparcv9/ls -l total 6716 [...] -rw-rw-r-- 1 user05 104 363828 Nov 29 2076 20070921_14125 -rw-rw-r-- 1 user05 104 6928 Nov 29 2076 20070921_14309 -rw-rw-r-- 1 user05 104 234089 Nov 29 2076 20070921_14310 [...] -- snapp -- So far not a problem (though I do wonder, why a 32-bit application can't show these files). But I can't find a 64-bit version of find, which is used by nfsfind; nfsfind starts by cron weekly and bugs me with "Value too large" messages ... Any suggestions? Greetings Jan Dreyer From michael.fdo at gmail.com Tue Oct 2 08:53:15 2007 From: michael.fdo at gmail.com (Michael Fernando) Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 08:53:15 -0400 Subject: SUMMARY: SunFire x2200 M2 and VMware Message-ID: <21f7349b0710020553i79295cfex427f8c1f945da186@mail.gmail.com> Original Question: This is a VMware on Sun hardware question. Hope it isn't OT. I'm trying to install VMware ESX 3.0.2 on a SunFire x2200 M2. This sun doc http://docs.sun.com/source/819-6601-15/index.html#0_76573 says that "The Sun Fire X2200 M2 now supports the VMWare ESX Server 3.0.2 operating system. The OS requires BIOS v3B17, which is available on the Tool and Drivers CD v1.5. You can only install VMWare on systems with the SAS option." Now, SF x2200 comes with SATA drives. So, what is this "SAS option" here? Has anyone been able to install ESX on an SF x2200 ? Is there a BIOS option to make the drives emulate SAS disks? Yes, I have upgraded the BIOS to version 3B17 but I still can't make the ESX 3.0.2 install CD see any disks. -------------------------------- I received two replies. Thanks go to: Sandor W. Sklar (at Sanford edu) John Malick (at Star Systems Eng.) --------------------------------- Even though Sun Fire x2200 M2 comes with SATA drives (Sun.com's "Buy" lists only SATA options) one can purchase SAS disks, a PCI card and cables. The full component list http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_private/Systems/SunFireX2200_M2/components.html shows PCI-E SAS HBAs (two options), SAS drives (146G, 300G) and SAS Hard Disk Drive Cable Kit. (Search for the word SAS in the above URL) Many thanks to Sandor Sklar for pointing this out. As for VMware, I have a service call open with VMware tech support to find out exactly what configuration is supported. I have not heard back yet. From gary.brett at fidessa.com Tue Oct 2 12:03:41 2007 From: gary.brett at fidessa.com (Gary Brett) Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 17:03:41 +0100 Subject: ILOM, ALOM and replacement for the prompts Message-ID: <8F6A1F7544496D4B99418E5289D3B23D44E118@ukwdc-mail-1.eu.fidessa.priv> Hi Gurus I have two questions really, Firstly, does anybody know a way that I can replace the SC> prompt in sparc ALOM with something of my own? (I would like to put a more host specific prompt here) And secondly, I have been told there is absolutely no way this can be achieved with the ILOM software on x64/x86 based platforms, but that it apparently can be changed from ILOM to ALOM thus enabling the prompt feature as per question 1, does anybody know how this is done, I cant find any info on it Any help would be greatly appreciated Gary ***************************************************************************** ***************************************************************************** ********************************** This message is intended only for the stated addressee(s) and may be confidential. Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorised. Any opinions expressed in this email do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Fidessa. Any unauthorised disclosure, use or dissemination, either whole or in part is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, please notify the sender immediately. Fidessa plc - Registered office: Dukes Court, Duke Street, Woking, Surrey, GU21 5BH, United Kingdom Registered in England no. 3781700 VAT registration no. 688 9008 78 Fidessa group plc - Registered Office: Dukes Court, Duke Street, Woking, Surrey, GU21 5BH, United Kingdom Registered in England no. 3234176 VAT registration no. 688 9008 78 From lazyboy_2k at yahoo.com Tue Oct 2 12:53:45 2007 From: lazyboy_2k at yahoo.com (Chris cc) Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 09:53:45 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Sending ssh script output to a log file Message-ID: <943718.40103.qm@web62509.mail.re1.yahoo.com> Hi All, Is there a way that I can send all of the output of my below script to a logfile after it's executing so that I can debug it if there is a problem? #!/bin/ksh ........ # tar up $SOURCE_DIR/search directory on the source host cd $SOURCE_DIR tar cf $FILENAME search # Assign array set -A target_host_array serv1 serv2 serv3 serv4 # 4 element in the array typeset -i i=0 typeset -i array_index=4 while [[ $i -lt $array_index ]] do echo "" echo " -------- Processing ${target_host_array[$i]} ------- " echo "" # ftp'ing to the target host `ftp -n ${target_host_array[$i]} << END quote USER $USER quote PASS $PASSWD bin cd $TARGET_DIR put $FILENAME bye END` # login to the host & untar the file `ssh ${target_host_array[$i]} -l $LOGIN << EOF cd $TARGET_DIR tar xf $FILENAME ....... do whatever here ..... rm -r $FILENAME exit EOF` (( i = $i + 1 )) done exit 0 Thanks, -Chris --------------------------------- Need a vacation? Get great deals to amazing places on Yahoo! Travel. From bvithya at gmail.com Tue Oct 2 13:44:28 2007 From: bvithya at gmail.com (Vithya Balraj) Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 23:14:28 +0530 Subject: perl module installation Message-ID: Can anyone guide me regarding a perl module installation.. "Spreadsheet::WriteExcel" I have already installed all the prerequisties, except "Text::Balanced", Because when i tried to install, it throws the below error.. # perl Makefile.PL Can't locate *warnings.pm* in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/perl5/5.00503/sun4-solaris /usr/perl5/5.00503 /usr/perl5/site_perl/5.005/sun4-solaris /usr/perl5/site_perl/5.005 .) at Makefile.PL line 2. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at Makefile.PL line 2. # Please advice whether it needs a file warnings.pm, if yes from where I can retrieve it Thanks. Regards Vithya From diggerthelab at gmail.com Tue Oct 2 14:44:52 2007 From: diggerthelab at gmail.com (Paul Hunter) Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 14:44:52 -0400 Subject: Solaris 10 And T2000 bge Interface Message-ID: <37ed01ff0710021144w7a085dd6n93f7a7895febb53a@mail.gmail.com> How can I set all interfaces to 100 full for the onboard bge interfaces running Solaris 10? Thanks From Syed_Haque at freddiemac.com Tue Oct 2 16:24:57 2007 From: Syed_Haque at freddiemac.com (Syed E Haque) Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 16:24:57 -0400 Subject: rdist error mesages Message-ID: Mangers: I just encounter the following error message while trying to use "rdist" command between Solaris 10 servers (11/06 release): # rdist -f /fmac/sysadm/shl/distfile updating host hq4unxxxx rdist: connection failed: version numbers don't match I would greatly appreciate your input on this. Thanks, *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ Syed E. Haque Unix System Administrator, Sr. CNO-CTO, Freddie Mac Tel: (703) 450-3068 *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* From tanvirscna at yahoo.com Tue Oct 2 17:24:11 2007 From: tanvirscna at yahoo.com (Mohammed 10vir) Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 14:24:11 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Sun StorageTek 6540 - Drive Channel Degraded Message-ID: <98276.8256.qm@web37009.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Hi I have sun storagetek 6540, wokring fine from last one year but from yesterday I get a error "4th Channel Drive Degraded"... What is reason of this error? How its came? any ideas please... Thanks Mohammed Tanvir ____________________________________________________________________________________ Need a vacation? Get great deals to amazing places on Yahoo! Travel. http://travel.yahoo.com/ From cmcbas at sunguru.com Wed Oct 3 01:32:45 2007 From: cmcbas at sunguru.com (Bhaskar G) Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 22:32:45 -0700 Subject: How to kill all defunct process. Message-ID: <20071002223245.63721A30@resin15.mta.everyone.net> Hi *'s, How do we kill all the defunct on a sloaris10 system Server : 6800 OS : Solaris 10 regards From nitin.gizare at wipro.com Wed Oct 3 02:59:05 2007 From: nitin.gizare at wipro.com (nitin.gizare at wipro.com) Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 12:29:05 +0530 Subject: SUN ALOM port informaiton Message-ID: <4F36B0A4CDAD6F46A61B2B32C33DC69C0526BCE9@BLR-EC-MBX03.wipro.com> HI All I am interested to know on which port SUN ALOM works. Rgds Nitin The information contained in this electronic message and any attachments to this message are intended for the exclusive use of the addressee(s) and may contain proprietary, confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately and destroy all copies of this message and any attachments. WARNING: Computer viruses can be transmitted via email. The recipient should check this email and any attachments for the presence of viruses. The company accepts no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this email. www.wipro.com From pradeep.h.mishra at gmail.com Wed Oct 3 09:09:56 2007 From: pradeep.h.mishra at gmail.com (Pradeep Mishra) Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 18:39:56 +0530 Subject: Problem with using ttya as input/output Message-ID: Dear Guru's I have a Sun v880 server which I am trying to access through the TC(Terminal Concentrator) which I have tested to be working as other servers are conected on the same and are working. I Telnet to this box in which all the servers are connected thru the Serial rj45-db25p cables.However I am able to see the server booting and loading openboot but at OK prompt it stops and doesn't let me key in boot parameters. My keyboard doesnot respond on this screen the errors logged while booting show screen not found. keyboard not found. Keyboard not present. Using ttya for input and output. Probing system devices Probing I/O buses Sun Fire 880, No Keyboard Any help will be appreciated. Regards Pradeep From romeotheriault at gmail.com Wed Oct 3 09:29:56 2007 From: romeotheriault at gmail.com (Romeo Theriault) Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 09:29:56 -0400 Subject: Confused about Swap Usage Message-ID: <46cd475b0710030629g7e0413ces15fcd3a2a378f603@mail.gmail.com> Hello Managers, I am new {still}, to Solaris but now am having some trouble with swap usage and some Oracle databases. So I've started looking at how swap is used on the system and am now thoroughly confused. The problem I'm having is that some of our Oracle database processes are quiting processes saying there is not enough memory. We have a Sun Fire E20k. With what appears to be 65 gb of physical memory. (Does `prtconf | grep Memory` give you the physical memory in the system?) But my problem comes when trying to figure out how much swap space we have and how much is being used. The below commands are what I'm using but I'm getting different readings from the different commands. # prtconf | grep Memory Memory size: 65536 Megabytes For example: # swap -l swapfile dev swaplo blocks free /dev/md/dsk/d1 85,1 16 33560432 33560432 is telling me that all of my swap space is free, but when I look at the partitions with `df -k`, see below, it is telling me that I have two seperate swap spaces {/var/run, tmp} and that they are pretty much free as well. # df -k Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on /dev/md/dsk/d0 10327372 6060018 4164081 60% / /proc 0 0 0 0% /proc mnttab 0 0 0 0% /etc/mnttab fd 0 0 0 0% /dev/fd /dev/md/dsk/d3 10327372 7895897 2328202 78% /var swap 9423312 48 9423264 1% /var/run dmpfs 9423264 0 9423264 0% /dev/vx/dmp dmpfs 9423264 0 9423264 0% /dev/vx/rdmp swap 9424448 1184 9423264 1% /tmp /dev/md/dsk/d101 10327372 1645534 8578565 17% /opt /dev/md/dsk/d100 20655529 13092035 7356939 65% /home etc.... # cat /etc/vfstab #device device mount FS fsck mount mount #to mount to fsck point type pass at boot options # fd - /dev/fd fd - no - /proc - /proc proc - no - /dev/md/dsk/d1 - - swap - no - /dev/md/dsk/d0 /dev/md/rdsk/d0 / ufs 1 no - /dev/md/dsk/d3 /dev/md/rdsk/d3 /var ufs 1 no - /dev/md/dsk/d100 /dev/md/rdsk/d100 /home ufs 2 yes - /dev/md/dsk/d101 /dev/md/rdsk/d101 /opt ufs 2 yes - swap - /tmp tmpfs - yes - etc..... So it looks like most of my swap is free, but when I do: # swap -s total: 29697888k bytes allocated + 14074496k reserved = 43772384k used, 9143616k available It's telling me I only have a little over 9 gigs of free swap space. What is going on? How can I tell how much physical swap space the machine has and why does it appear that from `df -k` and `swap -l` that most/all of my swap space is free while swap -s is telling me I only have 9 gigs left. Thank you very much for any insight into this matter. -- Romeo Theriault System Administrator From mehran.salehi at kodak.com Wed Oct 3 09:38:35 2007 From: mehran.salehi at kodak.com (mehran.salehi at kodak.com) Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 09:38:35 -0400 Subject: IPMP and ZONES (Solaris 10) Message-ID: Greetings, With the concept of IPMP, you have a standby interface. In the zoneadm you specify the interface for that zone, in case of failure does that zone become disconnected or will I have to specify the standby interface too. Mike Salehi "Out beyond ideas of wrong doing and right doing, there is a field; I'll meet you there."-- Rumi From K.Gallagher at napier.ac.uk Wed Oct 3 10:04:12 2007 From: K.Gallagher at napier.ac.uk (Gallagher, Kevin) Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 15:04:12 +0100 Subject: replica server affect on NFS server response Message-ID: <46B5E20B689B544898158842ED2DA8EC076ED321@EVS1.napier-mail.napier.ac.uk> I have a Sun Ultra5 Solaris 7 Nis+ Master Server on subnet 64 at an off site location. I also have a similar Nis+ Replica server on subnet 50 at my site. I then built a SUSE 9.3 NFS data server running NIS Utils on subnet 222 at the same site as the replica. When I try to change the IP of the Replica to sunbnet 50, the same as the data server the NFS service grinds to a halt. I demoted the replica server to a client and then changed the IP. I edited hosts.org_dir and the local hosts and hostname.le0 on the replica. I had to change the IP of the replica back to the 50 subnet although I didn't make it a replica server before the NFS pages were served correctly again. I have to web servers on subnet 222 and were only affected because they couldn't mount nfs shares. Why would the data server hold any kind of association with the replica server? Also where would this information be held? Kevin Gallagher C&IT This message is intended for the addressee(s) only and should not be read, copied or disclosed to anyone else outwith the University without the permission of the sender. It is your responsibility to ensure that this message and any attachments are scanned for viruses or other defects. Napier University does not accept liability for any loss or damage which may result from this email or any attachment, or for errors or omissions arising after it was sent. Email is not a secure medium. Email entering the University's system is subject to routine monitoring and filtering by the University. From n.jethwa at runbox.com Wed Oct 3 11:23:13 2007 From: n.jethwa at runbox.com (Niklesh Jethwa) Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2007 16:23:13 +0100 (BST) Subject: Flash install Message-ID: Hi, I am trying to create a clone machine from a flash archive taken from a Solaris 10 build. Both machines are of the same architecture. What I want to do is boot the empty client from Solaris 10 dvd and use the flash archive stored on the other machine to install. I have created an nfs share for hosting the flash archive. I have also created a shared jumpstart directory with rules and profile files, as I need the disks to be layed out in a specific way. I have been having difficulty in trying to figure out how to install this flash archive with my custom rules and profile. Regards Nik From yatcilla at purdue.edu Wed Oct 3 11:33:58 2007 From: yatcilla at purdue.edu (Doug Yatcilla) Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 11:33:58 -0400 Subject: Gigabit ethernet on Sun V880 Message-ID: <20071003153358.GM24148@purdue.edu> Managers, I have an old Sun V880 running Solaris. Up to this point, we have been using the built-in fast ethernet/100Base-T copper ethernet (which shows up as the eri0 interface with ifconfig.) I recently discovered that the V800 also comes with a built-in 1000Base-SX fiber ethernet interface (I had mistakenly assumed it was for connecting additional, external FC-AL disk drives.) I don't know anything about 1000Base-SX and have only used CAT-5 cables for ethernet. As far as I can tell, I would need to buy a GBIC SFP Transceiver (about $150) and fiber cable ($50 for 10ft!) in order to connect that port to our gigabit ethernet switch (a Linksys SRW-2048) These days, it seems that copper gigabit ethernet is cheap and everywhere. As much as I doubt it, could I just get a commodity PCI gigabit ethernet card ($20-$30 or so) and use it on the V880? If not, I guess Sun sells more expensive copper gigabit cards. My question is do you think it be cost effective to use copper or fiber based gigabit ethernet in this case? Does anybody use gigabit ethernet with V880s or Sun servers of that vintage? Any problems? Thanks for your advice. Doug From stepchung at gmail.com Wed Oct 3 13:56:25 2007 From: stepchung at gmail.com (Stephanie C) Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 10:56:25 -0700 Subject: Disable or deactivate user account command syntax Message-ID: <6bdfa8ce0710031056u7d75db21vbedd886a0ab7448b@mail.gmail.com> Before posting this, I have googled and looked at sun doc. But can find the command line syntax how to temporary disable (or deactivate) users account on solaris 10. I need to temporary deactivate a user account on both global and zones on solaris 10. I don't want to delete or change password or set expired. I just want to disable/deactivate this account and will re-activate/enable at a later time. I have to do this with the command line not GUI (at root prompt). Please let me know the command how to do this and how to re-activate again. Thanks for your help. Stephanie From stepchung at gmail.com Wed Oct 3 14:09:14 2007 From: stepchung at gmail.com (Stephanie C) Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 11:09:14 -0700 Subject: SUMMARY: Disable or deactivate user account command syntax Message-ID: <6bdfa8ce0710031109w7802ea22y9e268d8e92d9ba19@mail.gmail.com> Thank you all. Why didn't I think about the passwd command. Stepahnie On 10/3/07, Imtiaz Uddin, Mohammed (GE, Corporate, consultant) < ImtiazUddin.Mohammed at ge.com> wrote: > > Stephanie, > > > How bout trying passwd -l ---> This will lock the account > > And for unlocking the account, passwd -u > > > Regards > Mo > > "Atleast I don't ask YENOM for this" > > -----Original Message----- > From: sunmanagers-bounces at sunmanagers.org > [mailto:sunmanagers-bounces at sunmanagers.org] On Behalf Of Stephanie C > Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2007 11:26 PM > To: Sun Managers > Subject: Disable or deactivate user account command syntax > > Before posting this, I have googled and looked at sun doc. But can find > the command line syntax how to temporary disable (or deactivate) users > account on solaris 10. I need to temporary deactivate a user account on > both global and zones on solaris 10. I don't want to delete or change > password or set expired. I just want to disable/deactivate this account > and will re-activate/enable at a later time. I have to do this with the > command line not GUI (at root prompt). Please let me know the command > how to do this and how to re-activate again. Thanks for your help. > > Stephanie > _______________________________________________ > sunmanagers mailing list > sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org > http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers From scottd at HanoverDirect.com Wed Oct 3 16:16:00 2007 From: scottd at HanoverDirect.com (Deiter, Scott) Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 16:16:00 -0400 Subject: Unable to suspend process's In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: We are in need of softwhere or a command that can suspend one or more jobs(processes) on a solaris 10 machine. We attempted to use renice but this did not relieve the load on the cpu. We want to suspend processes when our SLA's are jeopardized, and then release them at a later time. So far we have not found a method to accomplish this request. Scott Deiter System Administrator Hanover Direct, Inc. Hanover, PA Voice: 717-633-3298 Fax: 717-633-3101 From lolade14 at yahoo.com Tue Oct 2 07:33:32 2007 From: lolade14 at yahoo.com (lolade banjo) Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 04:33:32 -0700 (PDT) Subject: sunmanagers Digest, Vol 7, Issue 2 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <52067.30596.qm@web54606.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Can anyone tell me how to install screen on solaris its urgent that i know this thank you lolade --- sunmanagers-request at sunmanagers.org wrote